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"You feeling better now?" Chris asked as he awkwardly made his way into her room, it was the first time in weeks he'd been inside. Jacob had now taken the larger bed and she was sleeping on a smaller twin size that paled comparison. Chris realized he was staring at the beds for some time and Bella was giving him an odd look. "I just asked because of what happened before not because I want to... you know... do that."

"Okay."

Chris sighed, "Not that I don't want to do that but I mean I don't think you want to... do that"

"Chris, what do you want?" She asked hiding her amusement by feigning annoyance, crossing her arms around her chest, and jutting her hip out.

"I want you to know that I know you broke up with me but I want talk about us because I think you miss me and I miss you, a lot." Bella shifted her weight from leg to leg, "So if you want to talk first I'll just sit here and listen."

He plopped down on the bed, folded his hands on his lap, and waited for Bella to speak.

She sighed and uncrossed her arms, running a hand down her face in exhaustion, "Chris, please, I really don't want to talk."

"Oh." He suddenly felt very stupid, of course she didn't want to talk he ignored her for so long she was tired of waiting, "Right. I'll just go."

He made a beeline for the door but she reached out and grabbed his hand, he jumped at the contact, partly because he didn't expect her to reach for him and because she was as cold as ice. He looked at her in confusion and she pursed her lips.

"I should elaborate." She took a step towards him and wrapped her arms around his neck, "I don't want to talk but I do want you."

"Smooth, Swan, very smooth." He complemented her but before she could she could kiss him he removed her hands from his neck and pulled away from her, "I do think we should talk though."

"You could be kissing me and all you can think about is talking to me?" She teased him.

He laughed nervously, "Yeah, um, can we sit?" He lead her to the edge of the bed and he sighed as she resisted, eventually she did sit but the scowl on her face didn't disappear, "Bella, I know you were afraid that day at dinner. I know you thought that what was best would be to stop our relationship before I left, to ease the pain. I'm not sure what's going to happen when I'm born, hopefully, I just go back to my own time, then again, I'm not even sure I'll remember you. But you were wrong to think that breaking up would be a solution.

"I want to spend every second I have left with you." He smiled sadly, "Because you are the best thing about my life."

Bella stared at him, her eyes brimming with tears that were a strange combination of happy and sad, "Chris, you are so wrong if you think I broke up with you because I didn't want us to be hurt. Once I knew who you were I knew that you weren't going to stay with me forever. There has always been that aching pain at the corner of my heart because as much as I love you and as much as I know that you are my soulmate, you aren't going to be at my side. Fate brought us together and fate is going to tear us apart."

"So you broke up with me because..."

"Because I was scared! Because my secret was out and I didn't know how to react. Piper is like a mother to me and Phoebe and Paige are like my cool aunts and I don't lie to them. I was afraid that if I didn't cut my romantic ties to you they wouldn't let me be a part of their family anymore. I was afraid they'd leave and you'd go with them." Bella's voice began to shake as she spoke her last sentence. She confessed feelings she didn't even know existed because she hadn't faced them.

That was the strange thing about Chris, he brought out a side of herself she could never come to terms with, a raw and vulnerable part of her heart that she couldn't share with anyone, not even herself, only Chris.

"You think we would abandon you? Pack up, leave, and never look back? My mom, my aunts, are not capable of that, do you really think they could be?" Chris asked incredulously but Bella didn't respond, "Isabella Marie Swan. I would go to hell and back, I would fight anyone, anything, until I was bloody and bruised just to spend a day with you. Look the Cullen's leaving, your own dad giving you away, it messed you up but you know why they left; to protect you. They were selfless enough to go away just to keep you safe but, honey, you need to understand something. I am a selfish bastard when it comes to you"

Bella laughed breathlessly, her heart tightening and her stomach turning, she felt like she was going up and down on a roller coaster and all she wanted to do was kiss away that stupid smirk Chris had on his face.

"Before I would have kept you in the dark, like I did with my identity when we first met, or I would have ran but now I can't. Any danger that comes your way or my way, I'll stay. Chris continued, "You have to know that maybe the right thing to do would be for me that get the hell out of your life to protect you but I would rather face the danger, fix the problem, fight the bad guy, die, together, right by your side. You're Bells it, you're everything."

Bella remained quiet for a moment, unsure of what to say. Maybe the best thing to do would be to kiss him and tell him to never, ever, let her be stupid like that again or just kiss him and forgo any speaking whatsoever unless it was soft whispers of love spoken into each others skin. Yet Bella didn't want to be the one to kiss him first because even if he was ready to fix things maybe he wasn't really ready to let things fall back into the way they were before.

Finally she spoke and the calmness of her voice shocked her, "How do you know exactly what to say to make everything better?"

He smiled and she swore that for those few seconds everything stopped and it was just him and her, and his beauty, his light, his love.

"Well, usually, I just stop and think, 'What would Bella say?' And I know."

"Chris, I'm scared, I always put too much faith in the men in my life."

"Don't worry I already have your heart, I'll keep your faith safe too."

Bella couldn't wait any longer, she moved her body closer to his and he mimicked her movements, their lips were so close so that when Chris spoke he felt his lips lightly brush against hers. He needed to be closer to her, he needed to consume her.

"If you asked me to stay the night, I would." He said gently, his words echoed in the room, a promise that he would stay the night and the next and the next until fate intervened.

"Really?" Bella asked, her voice trembling.

Chris finally brought his lips to hers and that was the only answer she needed.

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