A/N I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING! I ONLY OWN THIS PLOT! Thanks to my beta Elena Rain, who also helped me write this opening scene.

Phil was on his way to the hospital. He had to make sure Bella didn't tell his secret. The last thing he needed was those stupid Cullen's getting in the way of his flawless plan. He heard a noise behind him so he turned about to look, but nothing was there so he turned back around. Phil gasped as three dark hooded figures appeared in front of him. "Wha-"

"Silence Vampire" Jane had some fun torturing Phil until Aro stopped her. "Do you know why we are here?"

Phil looked up at them in fear. "I don't even know who you are."

Aro threw his cloak around his shoulders revealing himself to Phill. "I am Aro and we are The Volturi. Surely you have heard of us."

Phil knew it was useless but he ran anyway.

Jane grinned. "I guess he does know who we are after all." She gave him a three second start before she used her powers to bring him down. "That is so much fun" she grinned as they walked up to Phil.

"You know the laws Phil. You openly told humans about yourself, what you are and what you can do."

"Wha-what about the Cullen's? They are vampires as well. They told that girl all about us."

Jane shook her head. "Sadly none of the Cullen's broke the law. She was able to find out for herself and the Cullen's are none of your concern."

"I'll never do it again. I promise. Give me a second chance."

"We don't give second chances." Jane said with a smirk.

With that being said Aro moved closer to him and with a swipe of his hand Phil was no more.

Over at the hospital Bella was sleeping when she woke up with a gasp. Edward was by her side.

"It's ok, it was just a nightmare." He soothed.

"Where is he?" she asked.

"Where is who?"

"Phil, where is Phil?"

"He's not here its ok."

"No, tell me where is he! I have to know."

"Bella, Bella, Bella, calm down, calm down." Edward soothed. "I don't know where Phil is. I haven't seen him in a long time."

"Edward, I just had this dream, but I don't know if it was real or not."

"What happen….incoming…."

Suddenly Alice burst through the door. "BELLA GUESS WHAT!" she squealed.

"What?" Bella asked.

"HE'S DEAD! THE VOLTURI KILLED HIM!"

"What? Who?"

"Phil! They killed Phil! He's gone for good."

"Oh….wonderful." Bella muttered.

"Why are you not jumping for joy? This is what we all wanted." Alice said.

"It doesn't change anything, Alice, my mom and dad are still dead, I'm an orphan. Why should I jump for joy?"

"Because at least you got justice for them."

"It doesn't matter, Alice, Phil is dead, that's great but it doesn't change anything. It's not going to bring them back."

"But Bella..."

"Alice, please just go home. I don't want to speak to anyone right now."

Alice sighed and left the room. Edward kissed her head and stroked her hair. He had no idea what to do or say, he couldn't bring back the dead. He sighed suddenly and said "Jacob is on his way in. If you don't want to talk to him I can have him leave."

Bella shook her head. "Actually, I'm a bit hungry can you go see if you can get me some food."

Edward sighed. He knew she was just trying to get him to leave the room. "I'll be back soon." He also knew she needed to talk with Jacob about what happen. Just as he walked out Jacob was wheeled in by a nurse. His arm was in a cast.

"Hey," he greeted.

"Hi." She answered.

Edward and the nurse left the room. There was an awkward silence between them.

"So um….how are you feeling?" Bella asked.

"I'm healing quickly. Carlisle is a real good doctor. What about you?"

"Same,"

"How is…"

"She's dead." Bella answered bitterly.

"Oh….I'm…

"DON'T….say sorry unless you really mean it."

"Look, you getting bitten, your mom dying, Bella, you have to believe me when I said that was never part of the plan. He was just supposed to get custody of you so he could tell you who you were allowed to date. He was supposed to forbid from seeing Edward and you were supposed to go to me."

"So you still wanted Charlie, my dad to die?"

"I didn't want him to die; I didn't want your mother to die, Bella I didn't want anyone to get hurt. I just wanted you."

"You knew Phil was a vampire and instead of telling me so I could protect my family were plotted against me and ruined my life."

"I had no idea Phil was going to kill your parents Bella, I swear. If I had, had any idea I never would have teamed up with him. Bella please believe me when I tell you I never wanted to hurt you."

"Yeah, well you did. You hurt me more than you know. Your father lived, my father saved your father's life and because of that my father is dead. If you had just told someone when you found out he was a vampire both my parents might be alive but instead you teamed up with him and now both my parents are dad."

Jacob just sighed. "Can you ever forgive me?"

"You almost got yourself killed trying to make things right. Because of that I'm going to give you a chance to make things right. I don't forgive you and I can't trust you but I'm going let you try to earn those two things."

"Thank you, that's all I ask. I'll leave you alone now."

Jacob turned and wheeled out of the room. Bella sighed. There was one thing that Jacob had to do in order for her to believe he was really truly sorry, she just hoped he knew what it was, and he did it.

A little later Edward walked back inside. Carlisle was behind him.

"How are you feeling, Bella?" He asked her.

"A lot better, when can I go home?"

"With any luck within the next hour or so."

Bella smiled. Carlisle gave her a quick check up.

"How are the scratches on your arm?"

"They don't hurt as much anymore, now they're just kind of itchy."

Carlisle and Edward chuckled. "That means it's healing but it doesn't hurt?"

"No, nothing hurts anymore."

"Good, then I was right. I'll go get the release papers and you can go home."

Carlisle left the room and Bella looked to Edward. "Did you hear?" she asked.

"Yes, I was standing right here."

She giggled. "No, I mean, did you hear when I was with Jacob."

"Oh, no, I went far enough away that I couldn't hear. What happen?"

"I decided to give him a chance. He has to earn my forgiveness and he has to earn back my trust and friendship."

"That was smart."

Bella shrugged. "He almost died trying to protect my mom and I, the least I can do it allow him to try and make things right."

Edward nodded. "You have such a loving heart, Bella Swan."

They shared a deep kiss on the lips. He moved his lips to her neck, kissing her.

She giggled. He laughed.

"What is so funny?' he asked continuing to kiss her neck between words. "Are you laughing at my kisses, huh? Are you, are you?"

"NO! Edward," she laughed harder. "You know that's my ticklish spot."

"Oh, so this spot tickles what about right here?" He gently laid her down onto her back and lifted her shirt and kissed her stomach. "Does this spot tickle?"

"Yes!" she laughed squirming around on the bed. "Stop!" Her stomach was her most ticklish spot and Edward knew that. She tried to push his head away but he took her hands and pinned them down to her sides.

"What about this spot?" he asked as he moved up to her ribs. Bella continued to laugh and squirm.

"Yes! Edward stop it!"

"Nope, I haven't gotten everywhere." He moved his lips and continued to place gently ticklish kisses to her sides. Bella just laughed and squirmed.

The more she laughed the harder her heart started to race which set off the monitors forcing Edward to stop. Carlisle came rushing in.

"What happen?" he asked going to check the monitors.

"Your son decided to tickle me." Bella answered as she caught her breath back and her rate slowed down.

"I wasn't tickling you; I was kissing you in your ticklish spots. There is a difference." He defended.

Carlisle chuckled. "All right, look, I know you're both happy that you're getting out of here. Bella but at least wait for celebrate till I un-hook her from all the machines."

Edward and Bella laughed. "Ok."

Carlisle shook his head and left the room.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to make that happen." Edward said.

"It's ok. I was actually having fun."

Edward smiled and kissed her head. "We can do it again later."

Bella nodded. She sighed and rested her head on the pillow.

"What's wrong?" Edward asked.

"I just realized, when I go home, I'm not going 'home, home' I'll be going to your house."

"If you want, I can take you to your house."

Bella shook her head. "No one is going to be there."

Edward sighed and kissed her head. Then he got an idea.

"I'll be back in a little bit."

He said. He got up and left the room. Bella looked a little shocked.

About an hour and half later Bella was able to leave the hospital. That's when Edward came back.

"Where were you?" she asked.

"Just doing something elsewhere."

"What kind of something?"

"Just, something for you."

"Edward, you know I hate surprises."

He shrugged. "Who said anything about surprises? Come on, hop on."

Bella sighed and climbed onto his back. Once he was sure nobody was around he took off running.

He stopped and set Bella down. She smiled when she realized he had taken her to their meadow. But there was more too it. There was a picnic blanket set up with some food and drinks, even a few electric candles.

"Edward this is beautiful." She said.

"I had some help; this is where I came after I left you. I wanted to set this up." He told her.

"It' perfect. Just what I needed."

They went over and sat down on the blanket. Bella ate as they laughed and talked. Once she finished eating they just cuddled in each other's arms, relaxing in the warm sun.

"Edward," Bella asked softly. "What…what's going to happen to my mother?"

"Whatever you want, did she ever discuss funeral plans with you? What she might want?" He kissed her temple knowing how hard this conversation was.

"She wanted to be buried next to her family, but that's all the way in Jacksonville."

"We can make that happen, if that's what she wants."

"It is what she wants, but it's not what I want."

"What do you want?"

"I want her to stay here in Forks so I can go visit her."

Edward sighed and kissed her head again.

"I know it's not what you want, baby girl, but it's what your mother wants. We need to respect her last wishes."

Bella shook her head as tears filled her eyes. "I never saw her a lot when she was alive and now I'm never going to see her again."

"Love, she will always be in your heart, and you'll always have the memories of her, and we can go to visit her whenever you want."

"It's not enough. I want her to be here with me. I want her to be alive."

Edward hugged her tighter. "I know baby, I know shhh, shhh."

Bella broke down and cried. Edward rocked her back and forth as she cried into his chest. He rubbed her back and whispered soothing words into her ear. He hated when she cried, what he hated worse was not being able to say or do anything to make it better.

A little later she stopped crying and wiped her eyes with the back of her hands.

"Are you ok?" Edward asked.

She shrugged. "I can't seem to stop crying."

"Baby, that's natural, you lost your mother and father and were physically attacked. You're allowed to cry. Not to mentioned betrayed by your best friend, Baby girl, you've been through so much in such a short amount of time. It would make every the strongest person cry."

"It just all hurts so much, Edward. It won't stop."

Edward hugged her even tighter. There was nothing he could say or do to make this better.

Later on that evening when they got home, Bella had went right to bed, which gave Edward some time to talk with Carlisle.

"Bella opened up to me a little bit today. She said her mother wanted to be buried next to her family in Jacksonville." Edward explained.

"I'm sure we can do that. I'll have to make some phone calls and see about getting the body transferred. But I'm sure we can make it work."

Edward nodded.

"Edward, how is she?" Esme asked.

"She's hurting and there is nothing I can do to help her."

"Being there for her is helping her, Edward. Showing her that she isn't alone is helping her. I know it doesn't seem like much but it's all any of us can do for her."

Edward sighed and nodded.

Suddenly a whimper caught his ears. He knew Bella was waking up. He rushed upstairs and into the bedroom. He was by her bedside and started to softly stroke her hair and hum softly to her. She settled back down and stayed sleeping. Edward sighed in relief. At least he could help her sleep, he had never felt more useless, or powerless in his entire life, and he hated every second of it.

A/N ok not the happiest of endings but this wasn't a happy chapter either. Next chapter is going to be the funeral so it won't be much better. But I promise there will be some fluff in between all the drama. Anyway, what do you think? Leave me your thoughts in a review.