BEFORE YOU READ!
This is a summary of what would have happened had I continue with the story! This story is done! This starts off right after CH3.
Bella loses her hair after a week in chemo. It starts falling off in clumps before she realizes she has to shave it all. Her hand is shaky and she's scared and she's never had hair shorter than her shoulders. Half way through the cut she's crying on the bathroom floor covered in her own hair and Renee finds her, in a pile of unevenly cut hair and covered in snot, and buzzes off the rest. Her eyebrows are gone, her eyelashes, even down to the hairs in her nose. (She only knows because she begins to sniffle a lot.) Edward calls. He calls, and calls, and calls. But she's not strong enough to answer, or maybe she's strong enough to not answer.
Bella befriends the staff at the cancer center (where she is transferred to continue her treatment). The staff are the Quileutes including Emily and Leah. Jacob takes a liking to her, even if she's bald and dying and there's a chance that the relationship will only last three months. But Bella always refuses but always lets him stay by her side. (Because this is the most attention she's received from a man in years.) But she loves Edward too much to move on, if she dies she wants to die loving him and only him.
At the center, she meets Rosalie at a group session and they bond over the fact that they have neglectful shitty ex's. (Edward and Jasper.) Rose meets Emmett while she's on her last dose of chemo, then she might actually be free – cured, alive. Emmett strolls into the center, crying and scared because he's rolling his little sister in and she doesn't deserve this pain. And Rosalie's there in an instant, with an IV attached to her arm, comforting the giant.
Bella isn't sure what hurts more at times, the fact that it hurts to fucking breathe because chemo was so fucking painful or the fact that Edward wasn't there with her. She fights with herself a lot. She's angry, sad, lonely, and afraid. But she has help, she has friends and family. They help her breathe again, they make her realize she's alive even though she's dying. She's still living and will continue to live without Edward.
Eventually, Alice, Edward's best friend, calls Bella. Alice demands to know the reason for the split and Bella confesses that she has cancer. Alice is speechless, terrified and upset. Upset that Edward hadn't seen, that he hadn't paid attention, and that he wasn't there. She immediately flies to Florida to visit. Alice tells Bella that Edward's been a mess. (Edward's quit his job, sold the condo, his car, everything because he did everything for Bella, Bella, Bella. Alice is pretty sure he's been living off of dry cereal for the past few weeks.) Alice reveals that she told Edward about the cancer.
Edward shows up not too soon after. He begs and pleads. Bella doesn't forgive but she lets him stay, because he's Edward and she loves him and she's dying and she's allowed to be fucking selfish. It's bumpy and awkward, and they're learning about each other again. They fight and Bella yells but Edward takes it all because he deserves it and he doesn't deserve her. They're falling in love again, with the new people that they are, even if they never fell out of love in the first place. And it's scary because everything might end soon and Edward still wants to marry her even if he only has two weeks left and she agrees because she's selfish and she loves him. That's the only thing she's ever been sure about in her life. Loving Edward.
Before the day of the impromptu wedding she faints. Her stomach is failing, she's throwing up too much, something has gone horribly horribly wrong. She's strapped down in the hospital bed, rushing to the OR and Edward's by her side. Finally, finally by her side. He's crying, and he's beautiful, and hers and they were finally gonna get married. He tells her that she wouldn't dare miss her own wedding, and he loves her, that's the only thing he knows: loving Bella. She smiles and responds with:
I love you.
What was the promise?
Esme and Carlisle died in Edward's & Bella's first year of college. Edward took it badly, became very depressed, and eventually suicidal. Bella was able to convince him and eventually promised him that he wasn't ever going to be alone, because she would always be with him no matter what he did or what happened.
Thank you so much for this very short journey (well, half a year journey.) If you guys have any more questions regarding the fic, just message or review to ask and I'll try to update with answers.
FIN.