A/N: Ok guys, here is the second part to CH 16, and trust me....this is the one you guys have been waiting for! ;) Fate Lowe is my partner in crime and my faithful Beta! Be gentle...it's my first time.

Diclaimer: I own nothing but the plot and a 12 pack of Diet Coke.

Carlisle and Esme stayed for the whole party, which was surprising, but I wasn't complaining at all. I was elated that they were even here. Carlisle even rolled up his sleeves at one point during the party and got behind the bar to help out Jacob and Seth. It was actually kind of fun to watch him pouring shot after shot, flirting with the females. The patrons loved him. A few of the females that he had flirted with even asked Alice and I if he would be returning. We both laughed, but shook our heads, which earned us pouts from them.

The band had finally cleared out and Sam and Jared were collecting lighting equipment from the stage while Alice and Jasper cleaned up the bar. Seth and Jacob were bringing in cases of alcohol to replenish the stock as Esme and Carlisle we dancing around to the music that came from the portable stereo that Seth had brought it. Edward sat on the stage with me tucked in between his legs with my back resting against his chest. My head was resting against his shoulder as I watched Carlisle and Esme dancing. Alice had informed me that I worked entirely too much during the party while she was off having fun, so she said I could step-down from cleaning duties and relax. How nice. In actuality, she was actually giving me time to spend with Edward seeing as we had barely spoken two words to each other all night.

"Seth, could you do me a favor and run out to our car and retrieve the parcel from the backseat?" Carlisle asked throwing Seth his car keys.

"No problem Dr. C," he said placing a case of beer on top of the bar before catching the keys. He disappeared out the door two seconds later.

"Gee, thanks Carlisle. Leave me to put all the beer away," Jacob grumbled as he opened the case that Seth had abandoned.

"Oh hush pup! This was a favor for you," Carlisle said as he twirled Esme away from his body.

"Carlisle, don't call him that!" Esme chastised.

"Thank you Esme," Jacob said sweetly smiling at her.

I looked over at Alice as she winked at Jasper. He looked over at me and smiled.

'Am I missing something?' I thought.

Edward kissed the side of my head and I felt him smile against my skin, no doubt knowing from Alice's thought what was going on.

"What's going on?" I asked I turned my head to look up at Edward.

"You'll see," he whispered as he kissed my forehead softly.

Seth came through the door with a small package tucked under one arm while he shut the door behind him with the other. He tossed Carlisle's keys back to him and made his way over to the bar, setting the package down on top. I pulled away from Edward's arms and made my way over to the bar with everyone else trailing behind me.

"So how are we going to do this?" Alice asked, clearly excited about the contents of the package.

Jacob came around from behind the bar and grabbed my hands in his turning me toward him. I looked up at him in curiosity.

'Seriously, what is going on?' I thought. Jacob's face was clearly lined with so many emotions, it was hard to read them all. Guilt was there, but so was panic, relief, and sincerity.

"Jake?"

He opened his eyes and looked down at me, his eyes were glittering with unshed tears. "I'm so sorry about your pictures Bella," he whispered.

I took one hand away from his and cupped the side of his face. "Hey, it's ok. It was an accident. Sure, I was upset. I mean, I broke your jaw for fuck's sake, but I got over it," I said softly, trying to tell him with my eyes that I meant every word.

Jacob snorted at my words. "Yeah, I'm still having a hard time eating solid foods because of you," he said smiling slightly. I dropped my hand from his face and he immediately grasped it once again.

Everyone laughed, even Carlisle and Esme.

"It's just, I know what the photos meant to you and I destroyed them, maybe not literally, but they got destroyed nonetheless," he said.

Edward came up and placed a hand on Jacob's shoulder. "I think you should show her," he said.

"Show me what?" I asked looking between Edward and Jake. I heard the faint sound of ripping paper before I heard Jasper say, "Bella, turn around."

I turned from Jacob and Edward to look at what Jasper was holding in his hands. I felt Jacob's hands squeeze mine as he too saw what Jasper was holding. I don't think my mind was registering what was in front of me, but my heart did and tears just blossomed from my eyes and traced cold tracks down my cheeks. I looked back at Jacob who was also crying silently along with me and nodded his head. I squeezed his hands before dropping them and turned fully around to really look at what Jasper was holding up in front of me. It was picture frame, but it was what the frame was holding that really meant anything to me.

My pictures of Charlie and I.

From my graduation.

And they were perfect.

'How?' I thought taking the frame from Jasper's hands, staring at the photos through blurred vision.

I turned back around to Jacob. "How..." I cleared my throat. "How did you get these? I thought..." my voice trailing off.

"The day you, Jasper and Alice came here looking for property, Charlie called Billy and asked if I would come down and see him. When I got there, he gave me a key and told me that it was to a safety deposit box that he and Renee had put together for you. He told me not to open it unless there was an emergency and well, this was an emergency. He told me that all you would ever need would be in that box, I just wasn't aware of how much that statement meant until I opened it. I gave the key to Carlisle the night he and Esme left and told him to hold on to it. So after Felix left that night, I called Carlisle and asked him to retrieve the deposit box and hold it for me until I could get up there."

I nodded at his explaination. "So that's why you were gone all day Wednesday?" I asked clutching the picture frame to my chest like a shield.

"Yeah, I had Alice book my flight two weeks ago so I could get up to Alaska and open that box. Inside I found the photos. There was a note attached to them stating that Renee had the copies made after Charlie had passed and she thought that if something were to ever happen to them, that you would still have proof that Charlie loved you," he said, sniffling at the end, because he loved Charlie like a second father and I could tell just how much he still missed him. Even after all these decades.

"I had Emse blow the pictures up and frame them and asked her to bring them when they came down for the party," Jake whispered, smiling slightly.

I set the frame on the bar and threw my arms around Jacob's massive shoulders, hugging him as tightly as I dared. His returning hug almost put Emmett's bear hugs to shame, but we won'ttell Emmett that. It would bruise his ego.

We both silently cried on to one another's shoulders. Tears of sadness, tears of grief, and tears of happiness, at least on my part for having my pictures of Charlie back. After several sniffles we pulled back from one another. I was so giddy over the whole thing, I cupped his face in my hands and kissed him hard on the lips. I pulled back before he could think that the kiss meant something different, but when I did he was smiling and that's all that mattered.

Edward cleared his throat and I turned my head to see him smirking at me, then glared openly at Jake.

"Don't even think it mutt," Edward growled.

Jake just laughed and hugged me again. "Too late!" he said as he twirled me around laughing even harder.

"Put me down Jake. I'm pretty sure Edward would break more than just your jaw," I said laughing.

Jacob set me down and Edward all but yanked me into his arms, clearly not liking what Jacob was thinking.

"Why don't you just piss on her leg to mark your territory," Jacob joked earning a smack in the back of his head from Sam. "Ow!" Sam gave him a look that said, 'well, you deserved it.'

"Thank you Sam. You just saved my mother from doing the same thing," Jasper said.

Jacob looked at Esme, who by the way had a look on her face that said she was clearly thinking about still doing it. Jacob ducked his head. "Sorry Esme," he whispered. You know, for as big as Jacob is, he was scared shit-less of Esme. Funny and sad, but true.

I shrugged Edward's arms off and went over to Esme. "I can't tell you how much this means to me. Thank you," I said as I hugged her. She returned the hug saying, "Your welcome dear. Anything to see you smile again, though I see my son is doing a good job at that." I nodded against her shoulder and pulled away, only to hug Carlisle next.

"You don't need to thank me Bella. Esme did all the work; I just merely remembered to put it in the car," he said as pulled back and kissed my forehead.

"Hey, how come he gets to do that?" Jacob whined.

I looked back at Jacob and glared. "Because he earned it," I said matter-of-factly.

"Alright, I think it's time we all head out. Luckily the bar is closed tomorrow, so Bella, I will see you Monday afternoon," Jasper throwing Alice over his right shoulder.

"Will you need us again Bella?" Sam asked.

"No, not until the weekend, you know that," I replied with a smile. The wolves usually helped out on the weekends -- with the occasion of Seth and Jake coming in and lending a hand during the week -- but they came by nearly everyday for dinner. Sam and Jared said they couldn't get enough ofour signature wings. Little did they know, that I only cooked them for them especially. Shhh...it'll be our little secret.

Hugs were given and everybody filed out the front door. Carlisle and Esme promised to come down and visit more often now that they were back in the states, which excited all of us. I think mostly me, but who was I to complain. I walked back over to the bar and picked up the picture frame that housed my most precious memories of Charlie and I and just stared at it before moving behind the bar to hang in on the wall in the empty space in between the other photos.

Hearing the click of the dead-bolt brought me to awareness. I turned and looked toward the door where I saw Edward leaning casually against it. Arms crossed over his chest, left knee bent with his foot resting against the door and that sexy smirk plastered to his face. I suddenly realized that we were alone. Together. With no one -- Emmett -- to interrupt us. Oh, the possibilities that have presented themselves before us. I was all the sudden thankful for being the one to take the apartment above the bar. Alice and Jasper had an apartment down the street while Emmett opted to stay closer to me and was in the building across the street from the bar.

'Hmmm...what to do to pass the time?' I thought with a smirk of my own.

I came around from behind the bar and casually leaned my back against it with my arms folded across my chest, just staring at the God that stood by the door. Edward lifted a hand and pointed at me before curling it towards his body, signaling to me to come to him. I just shook my head and remained leaning against the bar. His eyebrows shot up and he once again curled his finger. I just stared at him and shook my head.

I lowered my shield. 'You want me? Come and get me,' I thought biting my lower lip.

I watched his eyes darken with hearing my thought; he pushed himself off the door and stalked toward me with slow calculated steps. Watching him move toward me with sensuousness and grace, my breathing hitched and quickened slightly. I couldn't wrap my head around what was about to happen. I wasn't scared, quite the contrary, I was anxious and eager. My body felt swollen with need and want for the man that was now merely ten feet from me and closing fast.

Before I could even blink his lips were on mine and I lost all thought as he wrapped his hands around my waist and pulled me into his hard body. My hands went automatically to his hair and Edward groaned as I tugged lightly on his bronze tresses. His fingers flexed and dug into my hips through my shirt, before he lifted the hem and splayed his fingers wide against my bare skin. I moaned at the contact and pressed my body into his more as our lips and tongues danced together. Edward's hands slowly moved to the small of my back before he lowered them inch by inch until his was cupping my ass. He squeezed slightly and lifted. I knew what he wanted and jumped, wrapping my legs around his waist. As soon as our centers touched, we both moaned at the contact. I could feel him firm and ready for me through both of our jeans and I moaned loudly at the thought of what he would feel like without any clothing between us.

'Delicious.'

Edward's lips pulled away from mine only to move them to neck, where he licked and nipped at my skin. My fingers pulled harder on his hair as I struggled to say the next words. "Edward.....bedroom....upstairs," I breathed as he continued to lick and suckle at my neck. He grunted at my words and moved us away from the bar. I felt my back hit the wall and I moaned again as Edward thrust his hips into mine, creating a delicious friction between our bodies. I moved my hands from his hair to his shirt and quickly started to undo the buttons of the shirt that stood in my way of getting to the flesh underneath. As soon as I unbuttoned the last button, I splayed my hands over the muscular expanse of his chest, relishing in the feeling on his skin.

Edward pinned me against the wall with his hips and moved his hands away from cupping my bottom so I could remove the offending piece of clothing. The shirt fell unwanted to floor behind him and he took the opportunity and quickly lifted my shirt over my head. My eyes locked with his and I nodded slowly at him, telling him to continue. His hands made quick work on my bra and it too was discarded to the floor at our feet. I watched as his eyes drank in the sight of my bare chest and I nearly came right then when his eyes locked once again with mine. They were black with hunger and want and need. At that moment, I knew my eyes mirrored his. Edward wrapped his left arm around my back gripping my waist tightly as his right hand came up and palmed my left breast. My nipple pebbled under his skin and I arched my chest into his hand, silently begging him to finish what we started.

His lips once again claimed mine as he moved us away from the wall and blindly started to climb the stairs while kneading the flesh of my breast. I was vaguely aware that we had entered my bedroom. My body was on fire and all I could do was feel. His lips and tongue moving against mine, his hands kneading my skin, our hips grinding against one another, my hands grasping his shoulders and digging my fingers into the hard flesh there. It was almost too much, almost.

My back made contact with the soft fabric on my comforter as Edward placed us in the center of my bed. He moved his arm from behind my back up to my neck where he cradled it. His other hand was still kneading the fleshy mound of my breast, every once in a while pinching and rolling the taut nipple between his fingers. My hands moved slowly down his chest until they stopped at the waistband of his jeans. I skimmed the back of my fingers of one hand back and forth across his waist as the other reached around and grabbed his ass, pulling his hips into mine.

"Bella..." Edward's voice was thick with need as he pulled away from my lips once again and moved down to the breast in his hand. His tongue drew wet circles around the hardened peak and I nearly screamed when he bit gently into my skin, my legs squeezing tighter around his waist.

All too soon Edward pulled away, slowly dragging his fingers from behind my neck and his lips from my breast as he sat back on his knees. My legs fell from around his waist, planting themselves on either side of him. He stared down at me as I stared up at him, waiting for his next move. Electricity crackled in the air and the truth of the moment was settling into my skin.

"Don't stop," I whispered, immediately missing the contact of his skin against mine.

He smirked. "I don't plan to."

He moved his hands down to the button of my jeans and flicked it open. The zipper came down next. The room was so silent, you could hear each individual metal tooth coming undone. I lifted my hips to assist Edward as he slowly pulled the jeans from my legs. My shoes and socks came next, followed by his, but he was still wearing his jeans. From my point of view, they looked uncomfortably tight with the hardness of his erection. I lay there in the middle of my bed, covered only in my panties, and gazed at him. He stood up on his knees and locked his eyes with mine as he moved with deliberate slowness to the button of his jeans. I moved my eyes from his to his fingers in awe as he slowly undid the button and zipper. I could see this erection straining against the fabric of his cotton boxer briefs. I licked my lips at the sight. He moved backward on with knees and stood at he end of the bed, my eyes following his every move. His jeans were open, but he made no move to lower them, so I sat up as he stood there and moved to crawl on my hands and knees to his awaiting figure.

I stood up on my knees and placed my hands on his waist for leverage as I swung my legs off the bed to stand in front of him. His gaze was dark and heated as he watched me slowly push thejeans down his hips. They fell unaided to his ankles where heslowly bent down -- his eyes still locked with mine -- and removed them the rest of the way.

We now stood facing one another, each only in our underwear, waiting for the other to move. His hands moved to my hips and slowly sat me on the edge of the bed. I crawled backwards to the center and laid back as he climbed onto the bed and moved to lay next to me on my right. He leaned on his left elbow and cupped my face with his right hand, turning my face towards himand capturing my lips once again with his. I moaned as his tongue slid into my awaiting mouth and tangled with mine. I rolled my body toward his and hitched my leg over his lip as he slid his in between mine. His thigh pressed against my core and I knew he could feel how wet and ready I was for him as I could feel his arousal digging into my hip. My hands flew to his hair and tugged as he moved his thigh up and down my core, spreading my wetness further and moaned into my mouth.

Edward moved his hand from my face down the side of my body. His fingers ghosting over my breast and down to my hip. He gently nudged my leg back a little and moved his hand across waist until it dipped down to cup my clothed core.

"Edward..." I moaned, pulling my lips from his as his fingers moved in slow circles before moving them up to the waistband of my panties. We locked gazes as he dipped his fingers below the waistband and moved down to my slick folds.

"Fuck Bella," he grunted as he parted my wet skin and traced my entrance with his middle finger. My hands tugged on his hair willing him to continue and all but died from sheer pleasure as he sank two fingers into my core. My hips arched into hishand as he slowly thrust his fingers in and out of my body.

'Oh god,'I thought as his thumb moved up to run against my clit. My leg pulled his hand further into me and he took the invitation and sped up the thrusting of his fingers. White heat began to bubble under the surface of my skin in the pit of my belly. This new sensation was foreign to me -- I had never had an orgasm before -- but it was so undeniably pleasurable that I didn't care and wanted more. I voiced my pleasure loud and clear.

"More..." I moaned and Edward curled his fingers and stroked a spot deep within me that I never knew existed. My body was shaking in pleasure as he tapped the tips of his fingers in rapid succession against the spot. The heat that bubbled under my skin began to race through my veins at an alarming pace and I started panting. My body felt like a coil being twisted, tighter and tighter until I wasn't sure if I could contain the tension any longer.

"Come for me Bella," Edward whispered as his mouth latched itself unto my left nipple. The feeling of his fingers working that spot and his tongue flicking my nipple sent my body alight with fire. My eyes closed and body exploded in pleasure as the tension in my body began to unravel. I moaned loudly, unable to contain myself as wave after wave of the most erotic pleasure swept through my body.

"Edward," I moaned as I clutched his head to my breast and my leg tightened around his hip trying to prolong this pleasure as long as I could. But all too soon the pleasure ebbed and I lay there panting as Edward's lips pulled back from my breast.

I stared up at him through lidded eyes. I felt drunk from passion and wanted nothing more than to feel him inside of me again, only this time with his hardness that he was slowly thrustinginto myhip once again.

"I want you," I said, biting my lower lip and he nodded his head slowly.

Edward removed his hand from my panties and slowly put them into his mouth, sucking my wetness from them.

"Mmmm, you taste so good," he moaned as he pulled his fingers from his mouth.

I removed my leg from his waist and laid back against the bed as he sat up. He moved so that he wasnestled in between my legs and slowly removed my panties, all the while locking his eyes with mine. He came back up my body and rested his weight upon his forearms on either side of my head. My hands moved to his waist and hooked my thumbs into the sides of his boxer briefs and slowly inched them down his hips. His erection sprang forth and lightly tapped against my core causing me to moan. I couldn't help myself; I looked down at his body and my eyes widened at the sight of him so hard and ready. I nearly came again at the sight. Edward took over and finished removing his underwear. This was it. Nothing stood in our way. No clothes, no Emmett, nothing, but skin against skin and I was panting from it.

Edward rested his forearms on either side of my head and stared down at me. All I saw was love and want and need and desire from his eyes and nearly moaned at seeing it.

"You're sure?" he whispered.

I dropped my shield. 'As sure as I would never want someone as much as I want you,' I thought.

Edward smiled and slowly ran his right hand down the side of my body. His fingertips ghosted over my breast until his hand stopped at my thigh. He lifted my thigh slightly and I felt the tip of erection pressing against my entrance.

"You know this is gonna hurt a little, right? I'll be gentle, " he whispered as his left hand cupped my face. He ran the pad of his thumb across my bottom lip, his eyes trained on the movement of this thumb, before he looked back up at me. I lifted my neck and captured his lips, moaning as his sweet tongue slid into my mouth. His hand slid back into my hair, anchoring my mouth to his.

Edward slowly slid into my body, inch by inch, until he met my barrier and stopped. He pulled his lips back and gazed down at me. I could feel a pressure deep within my core, but it wasn't as unpleasant as I had thought. My breathing picked up as I stared up at Edward.

"I trust you," I whispered as I brought my hands up to cup the sides of his neck.

Edward took me at my words and slowly thrust past my barrier. The pressure popped like the popping of a balloon, quick and effortless. It actually didn't hurt at all, but I still hissed at the invasion of my body and dug my fingers slightly into his neck. Edward paused, "Are you ok?"

I hand't known until he said something that I realized that my eyes were closed. I opened them to see Edward staring down at me, concern written all over his face, but concentration was there to. It looked like his mind was fighting his body not to move yet.

"Yeah, it's just a little bit overwhelming," I panted.

Edward smirked. "I know what you mean."

He leaned down and kissed me as he pulled out slowly before thrusting back in. My back arched off the bed at the pleasure I felt, tearing away from our kiss.

"Better?" he asked placing soft kisses all over my face.

"Oh yeah," I said nodding my head rapidly.

Edward never asked again as he pulled out once again only to thrust back in a second later. He wasn't slow, but he wasn't fast. He was perfect; he could read what my body wanted and gave it me. My hands moved from his neck to his shoulders as I lifted my legs to encircle his waist, inviting more of him in. That first thrust at the new angle I gave him tore a pleasurable cry from my lips and a loud grunt form his.

"Bella..."

"More..." I gasped as he continued to thrust unyieldingly into my body. His arms came around and circled my waist. He lifted me up as he sank back onto his knees, so that our chests were pressed tightly to one another's. Neither one of us moved. Our faces were inches apart, staring at each other as our bodies remained connected in the most intimate embrace. I didn't want to move. I wanted to stay locked together as we were right at the moment and never move again. The feeling of his body buried so deep into mine brought tears to my eyes; I don't think I could explain them.

A lone tear escaped its prison and trailed down my cheek. Edward leaned in and kissed the stray tear away from my face. He pulled back and smiled. I think he knew what the tears meant.

Absolute happiness.

One hand moved to my face as the other remained around my waist and he slowly lifted my hips up before pulling me back down.

"Oh god......." I moaned as my hands dove into his hair.

"Fuck..." Edward grunted and repeated the motion again, only this time my hips remained still and his thrust up towards mine.

Hours could have passed for all I knew as Edward continued to thrust into my body, but the white heat I felt before started to bubble under my skin once more. The coil began to tighten in my body and I knew I was close.

"Edward....I....I'm gonna..." I couldn't finish my sentence as Edward picked up his pace.

"Come for me. I need to feel you come," he grunted, not letting up on the thrusting of his body.

Well that seemed to do the trick. My body exploded once again in sheer pleasure as I screamed his name. My body contracted around his and that seemed to cause his thrusting to falter slightly. I could feel his body begin to pulse within mine and I watched his face as his orgasm ripped through him.

'Beautiful,' I thought.

"Bella...." he moaned loudly as his body spasmed and thrust one last time.

Our breathing was labored and ragged as westared at one another. I felt elated but exhausted at the same time. Who knew sex could be exhausting for a vampire? I didn't, but then again, I wasn't the average vampire.

Edward smiled at me as his breathing returned to normal. "You think I'm beautiful?" he asked laughing softly.

"Uh huh," was all I could say.

We stayed locked together as Edward lowered me back to the bed. "I love you," he whispered kissing my forehead before pulling back to smile at me again.

"I love you too," I said with my own smile, but then got a great idea in my head.

"What are you thinking?" he asked.

"You can't tell?" I asked.

"No, you're shield is back up," he said as he moved some of my hair away from my face.

"Well....since I've waited 80 years...." I trailed off running my hands through his hair.

"Yes?" he asked.

"I think we have some catching up to do," I said wiggling my eyebrows suggestively at him.

"Oh you're on..."

A/N: Like I said..it was my first time writing a full lemon, I hope it was ok. Review!