Ok this is the last chapter. I cheated a little and skipped the next few days. No pun intended but this story was going to the dogs and I wanted to get it finished. Hope you all enjoyed it, and I will be putting a little something on my profile for you to vote on my next main story. Love you guys for your reviews and I hope this lived up to your expectations.

~Amanda~

Chapter 19

Mary stood in front of the two story little white house. Behind her was a rusty old red pickup truck, and there was a cruiser parked in the drive way. Even though the Volvo wasn't there, she knew Edward was. She sighed. She had hoped to do this without him here. Yesterday was the newborn fight, and she figured he would want to spend it with his family.

The past week was a literal hell for her. Jacob moped around the house. Paul was mad at her for skipping out on the bonfire, and she had been trying to perfect her plan to get Bella back to Jacob. But it seemed that no matter what she did, something interfered. Mary glared at her phone as it started to vibrate again. It had been doing that since she hitched a ride into Forks with Sue a little bit ago. Alice had seen what she was going to do, and apparently didn't like it. Well tough for Alice.

Taking one more deep breath, she walked up the sidewalk and knocked on the door. It opened a second later, and Charlie smiled down at her. "Mary, what are you doing here so early?"

"I wanted to talk to Bella. Can I just go up?"

"Please, I don't know what's going on, but I heard her in there crying all night. I hope that boy didn't do anything to her again."

Mary grimaced. "No, I think this one was all Bella. I'll see what I can do. Thank you, Charlie, and have a good day at work."

He nodded to her, before grabbing his jacket and shoulder harness and walking out the door. Mary was stopped in the middle of the stairs by Edward. He looked pained, and hesitant, but she could sense a acceptance in his eyes.

"I know what your going to do." He told her. Mary nodded, and just stared at him with a stony face. The same one she learned off the pack. Edward seemed to deflate in front of her.

"I never wanted this for her....but she was always insistent. I wanted her to live a full human life. Get married, have kids. But I couldn't stay away. I love her, and my will power is wearing down. I can't deny her anymore." He seemed to take a un-needed breath and continued, "If you think this will make her happy. Happier than she would be with me, and stay human, then do it."

Mary reached out and touched his hand. "Edward, you are a good man. Any woman would be lucky to have you. But Bella, has a soul-mate already. There is someone out there for you. I think.....I think this will work, if you and your family stick around. I think...she would have been ok, if your family had stayed last time. She didn't only lose you, she lost a whole family."

He nodded, then disappeared. Taking a deep steadying breath, Mary continued up the stairs and walked into Bella's room. She was curled up on the bed, looking like someone had just ripped out her heart, then told her she only had hours to live. She was clutching at the bracelet on her wrist. Mary walked over and sat next to her. Gently putting a hand on her shoulder, she began to talk.

"Bella, I know you believe that this is the way it's supposed to be, but it's not. Your not meant to live as a vampire. Your meant to stay human, get married and have little babies. You can't honestly believe that you could just walk out of Charlie's life when he just got you back?"

Sniffles were heard, then Bella lifted her head to look at Mary. "I love Edward, Mary. Jacob will find someone else. I know you said he won't, but your visions can be wrong."

Mary shook her head sadly. Why was she so stubborn. Tactic change. "Describe your self before you came to Forks to me."

Bella looked confused but did so. "I had to grow up too fast, my mother, even though I love her, was more of the child. I never related to other people my age. I stayed in the background at school, got good grades, and that was it."

Mary nodded. "Didn't you ever crave to let loose, and have fun?"

"Yes, but I had responsibilities." Mary nodded again.

"I've seen how you act around both the Cullens and the Pack. I love the Cullens, you know that. Alice is my blood relative. But, they are stuck up. They look young, but once a vampire is changed, they are frozen how they were when they were changed. They are old fashioned, and just plain old. I know you, Bella. That is not the life for you. You value the small things. Family, love, all the things you should cherish. You would not be happy being surrounded by all that wealth. They just through money away. Yes, they donate, but the only things they cherish are the things from their human lives.

"When you come down to the reservation. I can see all the tension run out of your body. Your happy, and carefree. You have fun, and let loose. Isn't that what you want?"

"I love Edward. I want to be a vampire, and live with him forever."

Mary jumped up and clenched her fists. "Damn it, Bella! Do you even hear yourself?! You sound like a soldier who has been captured by the enemy. Your just repeating the same thing over again, but you never say what you really want to say! What is the real reason, you didn't chose Jacob, because I know damn well that you love him the same if not more than Edward."

Finally, she got a reaction. Bella jumped up too, almost towering over Mary, her eyes flashing in rage. "You want to know why? Because I don't want to let myself love Jacob just so he can up and leave me somewhere down the line. So I'm taking the safer road. Because I'm not brave, I'm selfish, and want to spare myself the heart ache. You told me once that sometimes the easier road is best, well, this is easier than watching the man I love fall in love with someone else, while I watch from a distance!"

Mary's eyes were wide, and Bella was huffing and puffing.

"Fuck! I'm going to kill that bastard! I told him, I told him this would happen, but does he listen to me, nooooo. He never listens to me. I'll have Paul brake his neck!" Mary turned back to Bella from her pacing and put a hand on each side of Bella's head.

"Trust me, Bella. Believe in what you see, it is the truth. Please, if there is a God, let this work." Mary mumbled the last sentence then looked deep in Bella's eyes pushing every vision that she had into her.

Bella sat on a wooden bench on first beach, Jacob in front of her with a engagement ring, "Bella, my imprint, my love, please marry me?"

Bella walking down the aisle and Jacob waiting. Carlisle was the officiator, Edward and some strawberry blond in the audience with the rest of the Cullens, the pack and Renee, Phil, Charlie, and Billy.

Bella in a hospital bed holding a little blue blanket, looking up at Jacob who was holding a pink blanket.

Bella sitting on the porch with Rosalie laughing while Jacob, Jasper, Emmet, and Edward played with two little black haired kids.

Bella watching as two little kids played with a russet colored wolf.

Bella watching as her kids went off to school then graduated then got married for their selves. All with the Cullens watching with smiles on their faces, and Bella hand in hand with Jacob.

Then it switched.

Charlie, Renee, and Phil were standing in front of a casket, the pack and Billy scowling at the woods in the distance. The Cullens were standing in the back of the mass, but Bella stood in the woods watching over her own funeral, not being able to cry.

Charlie's funeral not even 6 months later. He got careless at work since he had nothing to live for.

Jacob's funeral. 2 years after Charlie's. They say that werewolves are indestructible. But not even a supernatural force can fix a broken heart.

20 years later, Bella is standing next to 3 cloaked men, with red eyes. She is part of the Volturi guard. She can't deal with the heart ache she brings to Edward. Knowing that she is in love with a dead man and that she chose wrong. She punishes herself the only way she knows how. By killing what her true love, fought so hard to protect.

Both Mary and Bella were on the floor, sobbing. Slowly, Bella pulled away from Mary, and looked down at her left hand. She gently pulled off the beautiful antique ring on her left ring finger and handed it to Mary. Then she got up and ran out the door.

Mary smiled. Finally, finally everything would be as it should be. Now, to get Edward to give Tanya a chance.

The End