Endings and Beginnings
Author's Note: I hope it is okay. I just want to finish this now, to be honest.

Still not edited much. Usually I'd go through and check everything (– plot, accuracy, spelling, grammar, the works), but for this whole thing, as long as I don't see any spelling mistakes at a glance, I'm done. Please enjoy.

Disclaimer: Twilight is not owned by me. Me not own Twilight.

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"So the voices I heard and the vision I saw…?"

Edward and Alice looked at each other and back to Bella, obviously worried.

"You heard something?"

"You saw something?"

"Y-yes." Bella stammered as she looked from Edward to Alice and back. "I think I heard … well, the rest of the family's thoughts downstairs." She paused and Edward and Alice exchanged another look.

"Hmm." Edward said at last. "If you don't learn to tune them out, I suppose so you would hear everyone. Your power is more that you share another's power though, so it's not really a power you can use by yourself. You can't turn it back on the other person either." He grinned at Bella. "So you can't use it on me."

"But using it when they aren't?" Alice asked.

Edward shook his head. "Don't know. What did you see, Bella?"

Bella frowned, looking away. "Myself."

Alice smiled. "Oh, good." Satisfied with the answer and oblivious to our confused looks at her, she disappeared downstairs without another word.

Edward raised his eyebrows at Bella amusedly, then took her hand gingerly. Bella blinked as the voices did not swamp her again, but realised the difference of feeling and guessed she was probably beginning to grasp how to use her power. The two followed Alice downstairs.

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Edward and Bella sat comfortably on the couch downstairs and he kept shooting her looks as though he expected her to do something. Bella rolled her eyes as he did it again. Did he really think that she could not see him?

"What are you doing, Edward?" She asked, meeting his eyes as he glanced at her again.

"I'm surprised."

Bella gave him a funny look. What did he mean?

"At what?"

"You didn't blame me for changing you." Edward said softly, as he looked away.

"Why would I, Edward?" Bella smiled at him although it was touched with a little sadness. "I did – and do – want this. It's just that I was worried about Renee and Charlie. You had to do what you had to do." She shot him a worried look now. "Unless you wanted to let me go."

Edward shook his head angrily, but didn't say anything as a thought suddenly hit Bella.

"How did you explain this to Charlie and Renee?"

Edward looked at her in surprise, then remembered that he had only explained the rudimentary details to her. As he explain, he watched her expression cautiously. To his continued surprise, however, Bella smiled slightly and, keeping a hold on her power, leaned against Edward with a sigh.

"Bella?"

"What about a 'body' for my funeral though?"

Edward hesitated. Bella was regretful her power didn't allow it work on the owner of the power either. She waited and finally Edward relented.

"We gave them a … dummy, you could say."

Bella gaped at him as she pulled away a little to look up at his face in disbelief. They had a model of her body?

"You looked like a mummy though, really. In all those bandages." Edward turned and put his arms around her, resting his head on her shoulder. "I'm glad you didn't scar."

Bella laughed now. "I doubt I would have, especially since you turned me into a vampire. That which reminds me." She stuck out her tongue at Edward. "I'm deathly thirsty."

Edward laughed and released her, standing up and taking Bella's hand, pulling her up.

"I'll show you how to hunt."

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"Are you sure I can be here?" Bella whispered to Edward, fighting down her thirst, as they approached the party that was dressed in black.

"Our family got invited anyway." Edward murmured back.

Suddenly he stiffened and Bella glanced in the direction Edward was looking in to see Jacob standing in black pants and a dark grey shirt with the rest of his werewolf friends. She covered her face more with the veil that Alice had leant her and put a hand in Edward's, sharing his power.

He did it. He changed Bella. I can smell her – even if she smells different.

Jacob began to stride towards us and Edward stopped. Bella froze also, next to him.

"Calm down, Jacob." Edward said quietly.

They could both Jacob was struggling to calm down, but after a while the composed and cool mask crossed his face again. The mask that Bella hated.

"It was to change her or let her die. I hope you have that clear."

Jacob's thought-voice was doubtful.

"You don't want her to die, do you? The werewolves will wait, they will not attack."

Jacob growled again. Edward continued to try his compromise.

"We will be leaving soon."

Jacob narrowed his eyes on Edward, but then jerked his head. Bella was alive, it was partially-true. This was something he would have to allow.

Finally, with bad grace, he nodded once sharply. Edward similarly jerked his head once, but frowned at Jacob before pulling Bella away. She turned back one last time to look at Jacob, wrinkling her nose at the smell a little bit, but smiled at him one last time, tearless but calling out the silent goodbye.

As she watched her 'body' in her coffin being lowered into the grave, she glanced up at Edward's still figure a little in front of her. Alice also stood a little in front of her, also in a veil. She smiled backwards at Bella for a while.

Bella watched Charlie, Renee and Phil, standing a little way off, as they solemnly and watched their only daughter being buried. She actually wasn't the only one this year and that was what made it even worse. All that loss of life.

Afterward, the Cullens stood next to the grave as everyone else left. Charlie lingered behind a while, then turned to talk to Edward. After all, this would be the last time. The Cullens were leaving – their excuse being they wanted to spare themselves from the memories.

"I'm sorry for your loss." Edward's voice was soft as he looked up at Charlie.

"I'm sorry also." Charlie replied. "Goodbye."

Bella followed him with her eyes as he left and then pulled off her veil.

"Goodbye, mum, dad." She whispered. "Goodbye, Isabella." She caressed the headstone.

Then the Cullens turned as one and left.

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The houses lights were turning off one by one and figures walked across the dark lawn and to the cars, loading the boots of the cars with some last items and getting inside.

As the last light went out in the house and the last person to go outside stepped out and locked the door, they went down the steps and took one last look around. Her eyes flashing its still-red colour in the slight light, she looked up and remembered.

A voice hissed to her from the car and she replied just as softly, slipping inside the car and closing the door smoothly. As the cars left quietly, leaving Forks, the person turned one last time and looked out the window.

Goodbye.

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Author's Note: End. Sorry if I drew it out at the end. I liked the image I had…

If you have any questions or things I have forgotten, feel free to ask or tell me. I felt the last two chapters have been pretty rubbish, to be perfectly honest.

Thank you for reading. Please review? It's nice to know people have read my stuff.

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