So as promised here's the second part of your valentines gift from me. Hopefully the next chapter will be up in a few days as usual. Enjoy!

We had been lying in bed, a tangle of arms and legs for a while when I heard Bella chuckle to herself.

"Do tell," I said, looking down at her smiling face.

"I was just thinking about how I'm not feeling tired yet," she laughed, "It took a minute before it dawned on me that I'll never feel tired again. Never sleep again, never dream again. That's really gonna take some getting used to."

"I'm so sorry, baby," I said, putting my face in my hands, "Just more things I've taken away from you."

"Hey," she said, pulling my hands away from my face, but I couldn't bring myself to look at her. "That's not what I meant at all, baby," she tried to assure me, "I have no regrets. I no longer worry about you being bored while I sleep every night and all my best dreams were of you anyway. I don't need them when I have the real thing right here."

I still wasn't convinced. I didn't think she was lying, I could see that in her eyes, but surely at some point she was going to realise everything that she had lost, all the things she couldn't get back, no matter what.

"It's not just sleep I've stolen from you though," I said, "At some point, you're going to realise everything you're missing out on and you're going to hate me for it. I can't stand the thought of you hating me."

"I could never hate you," she said with conviction, "Think about it. Is there anything I could do that would make you hate me?"

"Of course not," I assured her, "But you can't take away my humanity, that was long gone before I met you."

"Let me prove to you that I will never hate you," she said, "We can't go on like this, you believing that I'm going to hate you or leave at any moment. Tell me all the things you think you've taken from me. Let's get it all out in the open now."

As much as I hated the thought of voicing all my fears, I agreed that I couldn't really live in constant fear that she would leave me. I took a deep breath and pulled her closer to me. If I was going to do this and risk the chance of her realising she hated me, I wanted to feel her in my arms for as long as possible.

"You can't go back to your human life," I told her, "Your family and friends, you can never see them again. Plus, you won't really be able to make new friends either."

"I didn't have much of a life before you, baby," she answered, "My dad is gone and I haven't seen my mom in years. As for friends, I already told you that I didn't have any close friends, just a few acquaintances. Also, between you, and hopefully Carlisle and Esme, I'll have a whole new family. That's enough for me. You alone are enough for me. Next." I couldn't help but smile at how matter of factly she was taking all of this.

"You won't be able to stay in any one place for more than a few years, without staying hidden away from humans or only coming out at night," I added.

"So, we'll just have to travel a lot and see the world. Doesn't seem that bad to me. I've always wanted to see the world. I've never even left the country before."

"But we won't be able to travel around hot countries with a lot of sun. You won't be able to enjoy the sun any more," I said, sadly.

"We've enjoyed the sun together quite a few times in our meadow. We'll just have to find more isolated places everywhere we go, so we can enjoy the sun together. I'm looking forward to seeing myself sparkle actually," she grinned at me, "As for hot countries, we'll just have to explore those at night. Next." I shook my head at her. She had a comeback for everything, but I hadn't gotten to some of the bigger things yet. She could still change her mind about this life.

"You won't be able to have a settled career. Go to college, get a job, work your way up," I said.

"I've never had a set career in mind for myself. I thought about maybe teaching English Literature, either in high school or at university level, but that was only because I had to think of something to do with my life. It was never a vocation for me. Besides, you said that Carlisle is a doctor. He obviously manages it somehow, so I'm sure we could too, if that's what we wanted. Next," she said.

"You'll never change. You will always be just the way you are now," I said.

"So, I never have to worry about getting older, getting sick, dying. I'll always be young and beautiful. Sounds awful," she smirked, "Next."

"Never changing means you can never have children," I told her, thinking this was bound to be the one that got to her. I'd left it for last so I could keep her here with me as long as possible. I prepared myself for her to pull out of my arms.

"I've never wanted children," she stated, looking at me with nothing but honesty in her eyes. "I spent my whole childhood looking after my mother. I cooked, cleaned, made sure the bills were paid on time. I even gave her 'the talk' when she had a new boyfriend. I never wanted that for my adult life."

"Maybe you would have changed your mind when you got older," I argued.

"Well, now I'm never getting older so that's a moot point," she pointed out, "Besides, I wouldn't have changed my mind, I know what I wanted." I looked down at her in awe. She really was perfectly made for me. There seemed to be nothing she wanted out of life that I couldn't give her.

"Are you really sure? There's nothing that you regret about what has happened?" I asked. I had to be sure she really was happy.

"Well, there is one thing..." she said. My heart fell. I shouldn't have been surprised. I always knew there would be something she would resent me for. I braced myself. "I only regret not meeting you sooner, baby. Sorry, I couldn't resist teasing you," she giggled, leaning up to kiss me lightly on the lips.

Relief flooded me. Was it really possible that she could be totally happy in this life? Only time would tell, I suppose.

"Do you believe now that I am not going to hate you?" she asked.

"I'm trying, love, I really am," I sighed, "But it might take a while to sink in. I've never really been truly happy in this life, until I met you, that is. Even with Carlisle and Esme, I was dissatisfied with this life. That's why I left them, I suppose. I thought that maybe human blood could fill the void I was feeling. Now, I realise the only thing that could fill that void was you."

"I wish that we had met sooner too, baby," I crooned in her ear, "But you were so worth the wait. I've waited a hundred years, but I'd have waited a million more for you." I leaned down to kiss along her neck, her breath hitching at both my words and my ministrations.

"It hardly seems fair that I haven't had to wait at all," she whispered, as I continued kissing the soft spot behind her ear and pulling her up until she was straddling my thighs. Her hair fell like a curtain around her face. I moved from her neck and pressed my lips to hers, her tongue grazing my bottom lip, begging for entrance. Our tongues slipped over one another, deepening the kiss as I slipped my hands down her sides, cupping her bottom and pressing her core into my arousal.

She moaned into my mouth, sending a jolt of current straight to my groin. Grinding her centre on my length, trying to find some much needed friction, she flung her head back, pushing her perfect breasts into my face. I took one puckered peak into my mouth, swirling my tongue around it as my hand caressed her other breast, pinching her nipple lightly between my fingers.

Wriggling out of my grip, she slid down my body until she was facing my arousal. She licked her lips erotically, causing another jolt through my erection, making me even harder. She pressed her lips gently to my tip, before carefully parting her lips and swirling her tongue around the tip, tasting the liquid that had formed there. She lowered her mouth over me, taking me all the way in until I felt myself hit the back of her throat. I slipped my fingers into her hair, holding her head in place and guiding her over me. I didn't dare do this when she was human, but now that she was indestructible and I knew I couldn't hurt her, I was able to let go a little with her.

The feeling of her lips sliding up and down my shaft and the way her throat tensed when my tip hit the back of her mouth was almost too much for me to bear. When she moaned around my erection, the vibrations pulsed through me causing me to explode in a thick stream on her tongue, which she swallowed immediately, licking her lips as she climbed back up my body.

I grabbed her, kissing her quickly and deeply, still coming down from my high. I could taste myself on her tongue, and mingling with her flavour, it was intoxicating. She straddled me once again and her wetness rubbed against my already hard again erection, causing me to hiss into her mouth. Without breaking our kiss, she lifted her hips, lined me up with her entrance and lowered herself down over me, letting out a gasp when I was fully seated inside her. I would never get used to the feeling of her luscious heat surrounding me. She was tight, wet and warm and when I was inside her, I felt complete.

She rocked her hips and I felt my eyes roll back in my head at the sensations she was causing, before she began riding me, hard. She was lifting her hips up and down over my length, a delicious pressure building up within me. I enjoyed the fact that with her vampire strength she would no longer get tired and could keep going like this indefinitely. There were certainly some perks to her being like me.

Watching her use me to find her own pleasure, as her breasts bounced up and down in front of me, was so erotic that I knew I wasn't going to last much longer.

"Oh, God, baby. You're so god damn sexy," I groaned, "I'm so close."

Lifting her hands from my chest, she moved one up to cup her breast, rolling her nipple between her forefinger and thumb and her other hand moved to where we were joined, her fingers gently circling her clit. That was just too much for me and I could hold off no longer. I hissed her name as I emptied into her, just as she threw her head back in ecstasy, moaning inarticulately as her muscles clenched around me.

The next few weeks flew by quickly. Bella needed to hunt frequently as a newborn so we spent a lot of time in the forest hunting, and making love, of course. I could never watch Bella take down her prey without becoming extremely aroused. It was all I could do not to interrupt her feeding as I watched her swallow the warm liquid, but I managed to wait until she had finished each time before ravishing her.

Most of our clothes had been ruined, ripped to shreds in the heat of passion, now that we were both strong enough to literally tear our clothes off. We had taken to just staying naked when we were in the cabin to save our clothes, but that didn't help us keep our hands off each other.

Now that Bella didn't need to sleep or rest, we spend an inordinate amount of time in bed, though we did try to continue doing some of our activities from before – playing chess, card games, watching movies etc., but we usually didn't last long at any of them.

I also spent some time helping Bella get used to her new body and the strength that came with it. It took a while for Bella to be able to dress herself without ripping her clothes or open doors without crushing the handle, but after a few days she was able to concentrate and temper her strength enough to do most every day things.

"I don't know how you were ever able to touch me as a human," she growled in frustration one day, after crushing yet another door handle, "You always managed to touch me so carefully, never leaving a mark or bruise."

"I've had eighty-odd years practice, baby. I promise it gets easier," I reassured her, "You've only been a vampire for a few days. Soon, you won't even have to think about it. It will all just come naturally to you."

"Besides, I loved you so much from the moment our eyes met, that I don't think there's any way my body would have been able to hurt you," I continued, "That's why I've never been tempted by your blood. Even when I changed you, I didn't actually make a conscious decision. I was torn between wanting to keep you and having you hate me for eternity, but my body just acted of it's own accord and before I knew it, I had bitten you. It's like my body shies away from anything that could hurt you or take you away from me."

A few weeks in and she was really getting the hang of everything. She no longer broke things when she picked them up or tried to use them. Though her thirst has never really been much of a problem, she was beginning to realise when she needed to hunt and she didn't need to feed quite as frequently as she had at the beginning.

Her speed thrilled her and we often spent time before hunting, running and jumping through the forest. I had always loved running as a vampire, but watching her face light up when she ran was even better. We climbed trees, hopping from tree to tree through the forest, though she had been wary of that to begin with.

"I'm so clumsy," she whined, when I first suggested climbing trees, "What if I fall? I was always falling as a human, tripping over nothing, like that night we met in the alley."

"Well, I for one am glad you were clumsy, otherwise we might not have noticed each other," I said, "But, you're a vampire now. Vampires aren't clumsy. Even if you did happen to fall, I promise I'd catch you."

"If you weren't too busy laughing at the only clumsy vampire in history," she mumbled, "I'm a one off for everything else, so you never know." She stuck her tongue out at me as I chuckled at the thought of her being a clumsy vampire.

"Come on, baby, I promise you, I'll catch you if you fall. Besides you can't get hurt anyway. You don't really think I'd let you do anything I thought could hurt you, do you?"

"Fine," she grumbled at me, "You go first, so I can see how you do it."

After that she had taken to climbing trees regularly, her face lighting up with joy and laughter as we did it. I loved to see her laugh and the joy she had found in this life, even just in these first few weeks, helped me to rid myself of some of the guilt I felt at changing her. It wasn't gone completely and I still worried that someday she would realise all that she had given up, but I tried not to dwell on it for her sake.

Being so isolated where we were was a great thing, never having to worry about stumbling upon humans as we hunted, however, it also meant that Bella had never even smelt human blood. If she never smelt human blood, she was never going to become desensitised to it and never be able to be among humans again, so we tried to come up with a plan to get her used to it.

She worried about going into town, in case she slipped up and killed someone. She would never be able to live with herself if that happened and I was determined that she would have a clean record. We decided to start out small, so I was going to head into town for a while and pick up some things with human scents on them to bring back to her. That way she could smell the human scent without anyone close enough for her to hurt.

I had also decided that, although we hadn't gone about things in the proper way, for my time at least, I wanted to ask Bella to marry me. I wanted to bind myself to her in every way possible. If we had met when I was human, everything would have been very different, and though I definitely didn't regret anything, I wanted to make an honest woman out of her.

So with all that in mind, I left Bella at the cabin and headed into town. I felt the hollow pain in my chest as soon as I walked out the door. We hadn't been apart since the day she fell down the stairs, and even though I knew she was now indestructible, I still worried about leaving her alone.

I made my way quickly to some clothes shops, buying lots of clothes for us both, since we had destroyed most of them. I picked up jeans, t-shirts and jumpers for us both, along with underwear for myself and a few lingerie sets for Bella. I couldn't wait to see her in those. The store clerk looked at me with wide eyes as I set down the baskets, overflowing with clothes, on the counter in front of her. I tried my best to block out her lewd thoughts of me and the pictures of us in her mind. It had been a while since I had spent any time around humans and I had gotten used to the silence Bella brought to my life.

Whilst she was ringing up the clothes, I managed to swipe her scarf which was saturated with her scent. It would be perfect for bringing to Bella. I gave her a large tip to cover her missing scarf, despite the horrible thoughts still going through her mind. Then I headed in the direction of the local jewellery shop.

I didn't want to be away from Bella for too long, the pain in my chest slowly increasing the longer I was away from her and I knew it was the same for Bella, but I wanted to find the perfect ring for her. I searched through the whole shop, not seeing what I was looking for, until a beautiful ring, glinting in the light, caught my eye. It was a large, deep blue sapphire stone surrounded by smaller diamonds. The band was made of platinum and was encrusted with diamonds. It was perfect.

I paid for the ring, popping the ring box into my jacket pocket. I wasn't sure how or when I was going to propose, I just wanted to make sure I had the ring for when the time came. Happy with my choice, I headed out of the shop, stopping along the way to the car to swipe a couple of scarves and a hat from people sitting outside a coffee shop. I made sure to slip some money into their bags to make up for taking their things. I didn't want to steal peoples things but it was necessary to help Bella. Besides, I would make sure to bring the items back and leave them in the coffee shop's lost and found box later.

I stashed the ring in the glove compartment of the car before making my way into the house. I didn't want Bella to accidentally come across it and spoil the surprise. I also left the stolen items in the car until I was sure Bella was ready for them.

Bella jumped into my arms as soon as I walked through the door. I chuckled as I caught her, holding her up by her bottom and she wrapped her legs around my waist. She kissed me deeply and I felt the hollow feeling in my chest disappear completely.

"I missed you," she said, between kisses.

"Me too, baby," I told her, "I hate being away from you. I'm glad that I don't have to leave you to hunt any more." I sat down with her on the sofa, still holding her tightly to me.

"Did you get everything we needed?" she asked, nuzzling into the crook of my neck. We didn't seem to be able to get close enough to each other.

"Mmhmm," I answered, nodding as I slipped my hands under her shirt, caressing her back. Her hands fisted in my hair and I flipped her over so I was lying above her. Shedding my jacket, I carefully began opening the buttons on her shirt, I followed my hands down her body kissing the skin as I exposed it. After I pulled her shirt off her, she grabbed the hem of my t-shirt and pulled it over my head, running her hands over my chest and stomach.

As I leant down to kiss her, she scraped her nails down my back and I hissed at the feeling. Now that she was a vampire, I could fell her touch so much more intensely. As a human, I barely felt her nails, but now I could feel her digging her nails into my skin, making me harder than I already was. Quickly ridding us both of the remainder of our clothes, I settled between her legs and pushed myself inside her. She was still scraping her nails down my back, which just spurred me on faster.

"Oh, God, Bella, I love you so much," I hissed, continuing to drive into her, as I hooked my arm under her knee, bringing her leg between us and allowing me to enter her even deeper.

"I... love you too," she groaned, her panting getting quicker and quicker, "I'm close, baby."

"Come for me, Bella," I commanded, "Let me see you fall apart beneath me."

With that she shattered, screaming my name as her muscles clenched tight around me. Watching her come apart beneath me and hearing my name leave her lips was enough to send me over the edge, my head hitting her shoulder as I spilled into her.

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