This is the last chapter! But I am planning to throw in a really really short epilogue in a couple days. I can't believe I waited so incredibly long to finish this. But now I'm hoping I can concentrate some more on my other story, and hopefully I won't let myself get so behind in schoolwork anymore to write. But here is the conclusion. Thanks for all the people who reviewed, you truly kept me going, and it feels great to complete my first fanfiction.

I tried not to make this too much like Breaking Dawn, but it was hard since that is how I feel Bella's transformation should be like. So I'm really sorry if this sounds a lot like Breaking Dawn in some ways, I just couldn't change it.


Chapter 14 Adjusting

My eyes finally flew open, and all the unbearable pain I had been feeling for so long finally was gone. I gasped when I got my first real look at everything around me. It was all so clear. In fact all my senses seemed so much sharper and stronger. It was more than I had ever sensed in my life.

The field I was still in was beautiful, even now when the sky was overcast. I could clearly see every purple flower among the green grass and ferns. The purple colors no longer blended in with the green like I had remembered, but now it was a very distinct and separate color.

I could hear several animals running, eating seeds and grass, climbing, flying, squeaking and chirping, and even their rapid breathing and heart beats all at once. At the same time that I heard these distant sounds, I was able to hear quiet and anxious breathing from somebody right next to me. I could feel and even tast the heavy moisture in the air, and I somehow had a feeling that it was going to rain. But even with all this at once, it didn't overwhelm me, my mind was able to comprehend all these sounds and sights with no trouble.

I had been able to look and hear everything in my area in less than a second. Now I glanced over to see who was next to me. I could hardly believe my eyes as I took my first look at Edward in three days. Now I knew I had not been ever been able to see him correctly. I could not take my eyes away from his perfection.

I gasped as I felt his hand lightly touch my face, pushing stray strands of hair behind my ear. His hand felt so warm and soft, much different than I had remembered. At the same time my own gasp startled me a little. It startled me becuase of the way it sounded, not quite like how I remembered my own gasping. It also startled me because of how unnecessary it felt, but at the same time it brought out an intense dry aching thirst. I almost became lost in that thirst, but I changed my focus back to the feel of Edward's touch.

"How are you feeling," Edward asked gently in a slightly concerned voice.

"Better than I was," I murmured as I tried to ignore how strange my voice sounded to me. I also couldn't help but remember the intense pain that I was finally relieved from. The burning excruciating hell I had been living in, or in my case dieing in, for what seemed like years had been worse than when Victoria had been torturing me. After all I had been through this burning thirst felt like nothing, and was very easy to ignore.

Then I suddenly remembered my final human moments. "Are Victoria and Laurent gone? Where is Carlisle, Jasper, Alice, and Emmett? Did anyone get hurt? Where are we?" I asked my questions in one breath so quickly a human probably would not have understood me.

Edward chuckled at my sudden change. "Relax, everything is taken care of," he started in a soothing voice. "Victoria and Laurent have been burned down with that old barn." Then he added with an undertone, "Burning the barn wasn't even a problem because as I waited for you to wake up I could hear the family thinking about how they had been planning to destroy the old thing anyway, we actually did them a favor," he said with a smile.

"Carlisle went home after he was sure your change would be successful, so he could tell everyone what has happened. Emmett went with him." Edward's face became sarcastic, "Princess Rosalie was going to get angry if he stayed away from her for too long."

I smiled quickly, then realized he had not explained everything yet. I opened my mouth to ask another question, but Edward cut me off.

"Jasper and Alice are very nearby. After Jasper had calmed down they never left, because Jasper wanted to be close in case you needed his. . . help.

I knew what Edward meant by that, and wondered what they thought I would possibly do that would require Jasper's special ability to calm me down.

"They decided to leave us alone for when you woke up. Jasper thought it would help you get used to everything if there wasn't a bunch of people crowding around you," Edward continued. "Nobody has been hurt, except Victoria and Laurent of course, and we are about a six hour run away from home. Victoria took you quite a ways away," Edward finished, remembering my questions perfectly.

"Didn't my screaming worry anyone," I asked. I was pretty sure I had been yelling from the firey pain, or maybe I had just thought I was screaming. I had been so lost in the pain it was hard to tell.

"We were far enough away from people that they couldn't hear you with their poor hearing. That was why I had been listening to the thoughts of people within my range." There was a sad tone in his voice, and I wondered how hard it had been for him to listen to my screams of agony and not be able to do anything about it.

A brief break in the clouds interrupted my thoughts as I was bathed in a ray of sunlight. My skin began to sparkle at the same time as Edward's. I couldn't stop starring at my own perfectly healed glittering skin. Then as quickly as the sun had come it left again, leaving my skin pale and ghostly white.

"It's going to rain," Edward said. "You must be thirsty, and Jasper is surprised at how calm you are. We should probably hunt before all the animals take shelter from the rain and are harder to get."

For the first time since I woke up I looked at Edward's eyes and saw how dark they were. It must have been a while since he had last hunted. But as he said this I was reminded of my own thirst and I nodded and stood up.

"Let's run deep into the woods so we are very far from any people," Edward said. "Follow me."

Edward started running slowly, or maybe it only seemed slow to me now. Then he picked up the pace, and I was surprised at how easy it was for me to keep up. Trees were flying past me so fast that I knew if I were a human I would be getting sick right now. I felt a certain thrill as I ran, not too different from riding on a roller coaster, only it was better. I began to smell a different kind of scent, it didn't really smell good, but it was a bit appetizing because of the searing dry aching burn from my thirst. The smell made my mouth water with something different from saliva. Venom I guessed. My muscles tensed, and I felt excited, ready to charge towards the scent.

That was when Edward stopped. It took a little determination to make myself do the same, instead perusing the possibility to to help my thirst.

"Do you smell that?" he asked me.

I nodded, venom still flowing in my mouth, muscles still tense.

"Those are coyotes," he explained. "They are small, but taste better than deer. They will make a good first meal. You'll find you already know what to do, just let your instincts take over."

That was when I stopped resisting what I wanted to do. My legs flew underneath me, and I was running faster than before. I could hear Edward keeping up with me, staying quietly right behind me. As I was running the sky opened and the rain I had known would be coming poured down on us. It didn't make hunting any harder, I could still easily see and the smell was still strong.

I could see a small pack of coyotes just ahead, already trying to run from us. This only excited me more for some reason, and I easily jumped and landed on the closest one. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Edward land on the one closest to mine. After a small short struggle I was drinking. The blood wasn't as satisfing and it didn't taste as good as I had hoped, but it helped my thirst a little as I drank. As soon as his blood ran dry I found I still wanted more.

After we both had our fill of a couple more coyotes we decided it was time to head home. At the mention of home it finally hit me for the first time that the word "home" would probably be a completely different place from what I had been used to. I tried not to think about my parents too much, and instead focused on how this would mean I could stay with Edward forever. We would both stay frozen at seventeen together forever.

At first I had to follow Edward most of the way home, but as we got closer I began to smell a scent that was similar to Edward and even myself. The rain only diluted the scent a little. I could distinguish four different scents, probably Carlisle's, Esme's, Emmett's, and Rosalie's, since they had been here recently.

"Welcome home, Bella," Carlisle said with I smile as we entered my new home.

My new life, or what I should now call my new existence, was a little hard to get used to. One day I had been happily in my room getting ready for another day of summer and dreaming of becoming what I was now. But dreaming of becoming part of the living dead was different from actually becoming it, especially since I had not been prepared and it had happened so fast.

During the first week that I officially joined the Cullen family I had been on the news. It was very hard for me to watch. My teary father was describing my sudden and unexpected dissapearance. Then my mother appeared in an interview sitting next to Phil, as she talked about my personality. She described how smart, mature, and special I am. She just got finished explaining how she wasn't ever going to give up hope that I was still alive and she would find me before she broke into tears.

I had never had to endure such a hard thing in my life. I would have had tears running down my face the entire time I watched if that were possible for me. By the time the interviews were over I ran out of the house, crying tearless sobs. I didn't know how far I ran or how long. My legs never tired, my breath never became short.

Eventually I stopped in the middle of nowhere. I just needed to be alone and think. I would probably never be able to see my parents again. I didn't think I would be able to ever talk to them either, because my voice would sound so different. My only hope was to maybe write them a letter someday, in my hand writing, and let them know I was okay. They would just have to take my word for it and not get any real explanation of where I was, what happened, or why I couldn't come home. There didn't seem to be anything I could really effectively do to help with this blow.

I began to smell a familiar scent, and I heard fast running coming towards me. In seconds Edward had his arms wrapped around me, comforting me. His body now felt soft and warm against mine. We stayed like that for a while. Neither of us said anything, and I just stayed comfortably curled up in Edward's arms.

It wasn't until the sun had fully risen and we were both brilliantly sparkling that we decided to head home.

Even though the sudden permanent separation was hard to handle, I really was happy most of the time. I was able to be with Edward all the time, and now I wasn't in danger from him. He couldn't break me like a bubble and he didn't have the same danger of loosing control of himself. I spent every night with him, both of us in our own little world together.

I fit in with my vampire family very well. Even Rosalie was easy to get along with, now that I had become I vampire like her without planning to. We had both gone through very painful horrors to end up the way we were. I felt comfortable as a vampire, even more so than I had as a human.