* Bella and Edward's honeymoon will be on Isle Esme in this story just as it is in Breaking Dawn and there was still pillow biting but no bruises or moping around. *
Stephenie Meyer owns Twilight and thankfully she lets me play with her characters ;-P
Bella was more than excited when we got to the airport. I had yet to tell her the location of our honeymoon and she had been relentless in her pursuit of information.
"Please Edward? Just a little hint?" she asked as I handed our tickets to the gate attendant. She had seen that we were headed for Houston but knew that it was merely a stop along the way.
I simply shook my head taking her hand as we boarded the plane. She fell asleep just reached a comfortable cruising altitude and didn't wake until it was time to make our connection.
"Brazil?" she rasped sleepily as I led her through the international terminal.
"Just another stop along the way." I told her honestly. Esme's Island wasn't technically part of Brazil even though it was off the coast of Rio. Amazingly she didn't comment further.
She nuzzled her face into my cold chest and drifted off to sleep before the plane ever left the tarmac. She woke up about an hour before we landed and proceeded to question me again about our destination.
I hailed a taxi to take us to the marina where Carlisle had a yacht anchored just for trips to and from the island.
"Do you speak English?" I inquired of he driver.
"Pesaroso, eu falo somente o português" he smiled sadly. So our conversation would have to be in Portuguese then. The only problem with that was that Bella wouldn't be able to follow the conversation.
"No problem, Portuguese is fine. We are heading to the marina De Gloria." He was slightly surprised by me fluidity in his native tongue.
"Honeymoon?" he asked. His thought reflected Bella and I cuddled up in the backseat of the car. It was clear to him that we were blissfully in love.
"Yes, this angel allowed me to claim her as mine yesterday." I couldn't keep the smile from my voice.
He laughed and wished us an eternity of wedded bliss. If only he knew that that was just what we were going to have.
Bella seemed ill at ease on the boat ride over to the island. She kept telling that she was fine and there was no reason to worry but I could see the gears in her head turning. She was worrying her bottom lip constantly and her eyes were distant.
Her heart was beating so rapidly that I was beginning to worry about her health as I gave her the tour of the house ending in the master bedroom.
I finally reached my breaking point when her heart stopped beating for a second the started beating so fast it was like the flutter of a hummingbird's wings as she took in the big white bed in the center of the room.
"Bella love, talk to me please." I stroked my hair with one hand palming her cheek with the other. She tried to turn her head from me but I gently held it in place forcing her to keep my gaze. I smelled the tears even before they started to stream down her flushed cheeks.
"I'm afraid, Edward." she blurted after a few moments of silence. I was frozen. I had always knew that something was going to cause her to realize that I was a monster and leave me but I couldn't fathom what had made her finally see me for what I am.
"Bella, I won't"
"No, please listen." she told placing her palm over my lips to silence me. Pulling away slowly she lowered herself to sit on the corner of the bed.
"I want this more than anything else in the world, I always have. But now that it's finally here, finally about to happen, I can't help but be scared. It's a really big deal to me--"
"As it is for me." I interrupted. She shot me a glare and continued as if I didn't speak.
"And I just...I don't want to disappoint you."
"That's what you're afraid of?" I asked, not believing my ears. "Disappointing me?" she nodded slowly, wiping a tear from her cheek. "Bella, nothing you do could ever disappoint me. Just being here with you, alone, knowing that you are mine, I'm already the happiest man on the planet." Her cheeks flushed an even darker red and a lighthearted smile spread across her face.
"Do you have any idea how much I love you?" I asked coming to sit down beside her. I was not longer worried about her fearing me.
"Just a small idea…" she replied, and her smile grew wider. I brought my hands to her face, and stroked her hot cheeks cooling them with my icy touch.
"Of all the things you could be worrying about tonight, you're worried about disappointing me?" I asked incredulously. She nodded once.
"Well then let me show you just how wrong you are" I purred seductively. I laid her backwards on the bed gently moving to hover over her delectable body.
When Bella fell asleep in the big white bed, I was absolutely euphoric. I couldn't contain the smile that stretched across my face. Everything felt right. I was completely relaxed. I felt like laughing out loud. Sex was like running. Instincts took over the moment her lips touched my skin. My body knew what to do, and it was absurdly easy to keep Bella safe and fully enjoy the moment.
I had been worried that I would get carried away and injure her or forget her fragility and take her too passionately. I quickly realized that that could never happen. I shielded her from my strength, took care of her needs, and showed her my love and desire as we experienced the most exhilarating moment of our lives.
She pulled her body closer to me in her sleep. I had brought her to Esme's island where my cool skin would be a comfort to her, not something that would cause her to shiver.
I had lain beside her and watched her sleep many nights, but this night was the first of a new era. I was entitled to be here as her husband. No longer was I a boyfriend sneaking in and out through her bedroom window without her father's knowledge or permission. Her husband, I am Bella's husband. The smile on my face spread as wide as possible at the thought.
I reached over to stroke her hair only to find with a hand full of fluff. Bella was positively covered in white downy feathers; both of us were. I lifted my head to better see the situation. It seemed I had destroyed a pillow, or possibly two pillows. I smiled at the thought of my unconscious protective behavior.
I'd bitten the pillows to avoid causing my love injury. It proved just how much I cherished my Bella, even the monster inside me kept her safe.
Without even thinking about it, I'd destroyed the closest thing available in order to keep her whole and unharmed.
It was messy, though. Should I try to clean up? No.
Nothing would drive me away from my love on this night. I could clean up in no time after she woke up.
Bella slept with her arm draped over my chest. She mumbled my name a few times but her sleep was mostly silent this night. I passed the time by reliving the past thirty six hours, starting with the moment she reached the bottom of the stairs and looked up and saw me waiting for her and ending with the moment she fell asleep. She was mine. Forever. I wondered how long she would sleep. I wondered if she'd be ready to "try" again when she woke up. Perhaps she would want some company in the shower. One could only hope.
The next two weeks went by faster than any other time in my entire existence. Bella and I spent our days taking in the beauty and splendor of the island, but mostly we just spent them experiencing the pleasures that our bodies had to offer one another under the tropical sun. Our nights were even more pleasure filled.
By the time we had to leave the island to go home I had fully come to terms with Bella's transformation. Our love was eternal. She was the answer to all of my questions and the keeper of all of my secrets. There is nothing and no one that could keep us from our forever.
I longed for the days when she would be as strong as me so that I wouldn't have to hold back my passion from her. I wanted to give myself fully to her the way she gave me all of her, completely and without fear and I knew the only way for that to be possible. Bella had to become a vampire.
The entire family was gathered on the front porch to greet us when we arrived. Their thoughts ranged from sweet caring sentiments about our family finally being whole from Esme and Carlisle to down right vulgar perverse ramblings from my brothers.
"Hell yeah, Eddie! I can smell the sex from here. Good job man." Emmett's voice rang out mentally. I growled at him in warning. He just laughed and proceeded to welcome Bella and me home calmly all the while asking me about different positions and techniques in his mind. He was a master at being a pervert.
We sat with the family for a few hours telling them an extremely edited version of our time together on the island and they told us about all of the things that we had missed in the two weeks we were gone. Of course nothing of any real consequence had gone on; we did live in Forks, WA for goodness sakes.
It was nearly midnight when Bella began to yawn. She was playing it up quite a bit. She had napped for most of the trip home. I made our excuses to the family stating that she was tired from all of the travel and needed her rest.
I knew that she just wanted some time alone with me. Tomorrow would be a very long day for both of us and we just want to revel in our love for a while.
We spent the entire night wrapped up in each others arms cuddling under the blankets on our bed. Bell drifted off to sleep about three. I didn't move from her side until she woke at nine.
I darted downstairs and prepared her breakfast while she showered. She was going to spend some time with her father this afternoon and I was going hunting to prepare myself as much as possible for what I was going to do tonight.
Once I had dropped Bella off at her father's house I made my way to the forest where I had planned to meet Carlisle for a quick hunt.
I took down two mountain lions and a large buck. I was completely satiated when I made my way over to my father.
"Have you decided how you're going to do this son?" he asked quietly.
"Bella and I have discussed it and came to the conclusion that we'd like for you to administer her a large dose of morphine just after I bite her. I'm hoping that it dulls her pain and she's hoping that it will help he be quiet so that I won't know he pain." I sighed running my hand through my hair.
"I'd be more than happy to help." But I was asking about the actual biting. Are you going to stick with one bite to her neck or more than that?
We went through every possible scenario of bite patterns and decided on a plan of action. He also thought that it was best if he and Em were close by just in case I found that I couldn't stop once I had tasted Bella's blood. I agreed knowing that I would need all of the help I could get.
Bella had said her goodbyes to her father, who thought that we were leaving first thing in the morning for New Hampshire. She had promised him that she would write to him and call him every week. She knew that this was all that she could promise and made the same ones to her mother by phone.
Although I could feel the pain that knowing that she would never see her parents again the love and determination was rolling off of her in waves. She wanted me and everything that entailed. I was in awe of my beautiful wife.
I looked down at her with troubled eyes. I knew that this is what she wanted and if I were being honest I knew that this was what I wanted as well. To be with Bella for eternity was all that I would ever need.
I had convinced myself that I could do this and had everything all planned out but the moment her big brown eyes met mine all I could se was the pain that I was going to cause her.
I have never been able to bear the thought of seeing her in pain. She really wanted it, though, wanted me forever and who was I to deny her of what she truly wants when it is my darkest desire as well?
My family had left the house, only Emmett and Carlisle remained behind in case I was in need of them. They were waiting in Carlisle's study until I called for my father to bring the drug that would lesson Bella's pain.
"I'm ready," she whispered as I lay down upon our bed for the last time as a human. Her pulse was racing, her body tense with anticipation. No fear or hesitation in her expression at all, just unbridled love and passion.
I made love to my wife softly and gently making sure to draw out every moment of pleasure. I whispered my love for her over and over again.
I could feel that familiar tightening in the pit of my stomach that signaled the crescendo of our lovemaking. I forced myself to speak to her one last time before the passion reduced me to nothing but animalistic sounds.
"I love you Isabella, more than anything in this world. Thank you for giving me my soul back, for bringing me to life, for giving me heaven, right here on earth." The moment was upon and there was no turning back.
I inhaled unsteadily as I pressed my lips against her warm neck, taking in one last breath letting her scent fill me, I would not allow myself to smell her blood once it was flowing freely. I didn't think I would be strong enough.
Even though I held me breath the taste of Bella on my tongue caused the beast inside to roar. Her blood tasted better than anything I've ever tasted. My mind exploded at her flavor. She was better the ambrosia of the gods.
I fought with everything in me. I would not be that monster. I took just enough for her to get the proper amount of venom in her system and moved on to bite her ankles and wrists.
I quick pulled my t-shirt over her head. I threw my pants on and called for Carlisle. I did not want any one to see Bella's nude form.
He checked over the wounds that I had created on my love's perfect skin before injecting her with copious amounts of morphine.
Emmett's usual jovial thoughts were strangely gone replaced only with thoughts of comforting me and protecting his sister.
Once Carlisle ascertained that I had done everything correctly he left to get the others so that they could be here for me though what he referred to as the most trying time of my existence.
He knew firsthand from Esme's transformation the pain that I would experience over the next three days.
Emmett didn't follow our father like I thought he would. He propped himself up in the corner of the room by the window, watching the forest for any invisible threat.
He wanted to do something, anything to help us so he did what he does best. He protected us, silently standing guard over Bella and me.
Jasper took up residence in the opposite corner from Emmett. He too wanted to help. He sent out waves of serenity and hope as he stood sentinel.
I cradled my wife in my arms and hummed her lullaby in an attempt to comfort us both. She never screamed out in pain. Not once in the entire sixty four hour ordeal did she even move. I held her the entire time as she changed. Our family stayed with us, never leaving the room.
Rosalie was just as fiercely protective of Bella as her husband now. She sat on the foot of our bed with Alice. Her eyes stayed on Bella's face trying to determine if she was in any pain.
She often asked Jasper to feel Bella's emotional climate for her and her calmly reminded her that he could not feel physical pain only emotional and informed us all that Bella was feeling loved and wanted.
Carlisle and Esme sat curled up together on my couch. They were worried about me but never voiced their concerns. We passed the time by talking to Bella.
They told her story after story of our lives before her and made plans to do so many things together as a family once she awoke. I reminded her of all of the happy times that we had shared together and spoke to her about the journey that still lay before us.
Her heart stopped beating just after dawn broke across the horizon on September 13. Bella's birthday. It was surreally comforting for me that Bella's vampire birthday and human one were on the same date.
Jasper warned me that it wasn't safe for me to be holding Bella when she awoke and the whole family agreed with him. I removed myself from Bella and stood beside the bed. I was not willing to be separated from her by more than two feet.
Bella's eyes flickered open a few times as she took an experimental breath. Her eyes snapped open, she gasped loudly before jumping to her feet.
She quickly took in her surroundings assuring herself that there was no danger present. Her eyes locked with mine and an expression that I couldn't understand filled her newly crimson eyes.
"Edward, my beautiful Edward. I want to hold him and kiss him, show him how much I love him."
Her mouth never moved but I heard it all the same. I felt the crooked grin that she loved so much curl my lips upwards.
"I'm yours my beautiful Bella to hold and kiss as you please and I already know how much you love me." I told her smugly.
She was across the room kissing me before I could blink. Alice quickly ushered the family out of the room. I returned her kisses with all of the passion that I had previously held at bay then I took my time as I lay my wife down upon our bed for the first time as a vampire.
I just want to say thank you to all of you for reading, alerting, favoriting, and reviewing this story. You guys are wonderful and your kind words keep me going.
I am sad that this was the last full chapter of the story but I am excited to have been able to share this journey with you. I look forward to hearing what you all think. I miss this story already. *sigh*