Chapter Thirty Seven: The End......

A/N: it has been a while since my last update. I was sick as hell last weekend, and work is picking up. I have decided to finish this story, with a final chapter. I may write a sequel, but first I want to focus on finishing my other two incomplete stories. I appreciate all of the reviews, and adding this story as a favorite. I am glad you enjoyed it so much!

Edward and I got off the plane. I was excited as I waited for our car to arrive to take us to the Cullen boat dock. I was so excited to see what Edward had done for me. But honestly, the island was really only appealing because of what it meant, time alone with Edward.

Finally our car arrived, it was driven by a little old woman who started at our appearance. I assume she is in on what we are. I saw Edward tense, so I asked him in a low voice too low for her to hear, what was the matter. He told me I was correct, she knew or suspected what we were.

She drove us in silence to the dock, and her attitude improved when Edward told her in her native language that she was safe, and handed her an enormous tip. She called after us saying something, and Edward waved as we walked to the boat.

Edward made me sit down and put on a blindfold, until we got to the island. I felt it when we bumped into the dock and Edward tied the boat up. He then scooped me up and jumped onto the island and set me down on the beach. He told me to remove my blindfold and behold Isle Bella. I pulled the blindfold down slowly. The beach was the most beautiful white sand, the vegetation on the island was much more wild than Isle Esme, I think she landscaped that entire island!

I loved it. Off in the distance too far for human eyes was a high cliff. I could make out a cabin built with an overhang at the very edge. It was very swiss family Robinson! I was burning with excitement. But somehow managed to not let it show. I made a face like I was dissapointed.... "Bella? What is it? Is something wrong? I can change it, this island is more natural, I thought you would like it more that way?"

"Well, I was expecting a castle up there...." I went off making outrageous demands and speculating about replacing the white sand with gold dust, that was the tipping point!

He socked me in the arm playfully. "YOU BRAT! I thought you were actually disappointed! You are getting too good at tricking me Mrs. Cullen!"

I smiled at him positively beaming! I let him off the hook telling him how beautiful it was and how perfect it was in a more natural wild state. "Show me EVERYTHING!" I demanded. We spent the next two weeks going over every part of the island. It would have only taken a day but of course every new sight had to be christened...... After the second day, we just stopped getting dressed again. My favorite was the house was built on top of a cliff that had a waterfall. Edward had a pump bring water to the top of the mountain and the bedroom terrace overlooked the waterfall, and below it was a beautiful fresh water lagoon. We could jump off the terrace and land in the lagoon below.

Behind the waterfall was a little cave that was furnished simply and there was a tunnel that led down to the beach and out into the ocean.

And down on the beach was a tidal pool that Edward had dug out of the coral reef at high tide it was under water enough to let little fish swim in and out and at low tide it held the water and was like a giant aquarium! Of course it was already stocked with my favorite shark! He said that way we could spend less time hunting and more time, well you know......

I loved it. We were walking through the jungle and came upon a Puma! I was shocked! Edward smiled "Well, shark is good, but I still prefer the larger cats...." The Puma growled at us but it didn't run away and didn't attack. I walked up to it, it got down and began purring! I looked at Edward He was smiling, and he told me I was good at lying! "You got me a KITTY!?!" I asked shocked. "Yes, I got one sent here from the main land. It was part of a circus, but it was getting difficult for them to control, so I told them about our nature preserve here, and adopted it. I figured if you liked it we could keep it, if not and you wanted to eat it that would be fine too..."

I decided to see what it would do if I touched it. So I reached slowly and pet it. I scratched it behind the ears and it only purred louder. "We are definitely keeping it, is is a boy or a girl? I asked. "It is a girl, her name is Rosalita. I think it would be a good idea if you named her something else or if Rose finds out you have a pet with her name......" I laughed "Yeah, I see your point. How about Henrietta?" I suggested remembering Mr. Rodgers Neighborhood and the puppet he had Henrietta Pussycat. I loved that show when I was little.

"Fine with me she is yours, Henrietta it is!" He smiled and we turned to walk away, but Henrietta followed us! "OK, What does she eat? Maybe she is hungry?"

Edward took me to her little den. There was a machine that dispensed food into a feeding trough for her. And a water dish. There was a cabinet up high with a latch on it which he showed me had some treats for her. I grabbed a handful and sat down and she walked over and hut her head down on my leg. I fed her a treat and began petting her and she started purring again.

"I was thinking maybe we could start teaching her to hunt there is plenty of small game on this island, she was a captive since birth, so her instincts are going to be weak, but I think she can learn if we help her. A more natural diet will be more healthy for her."

I looked down at her and said "Do you want to learn to hunt kitty?" She looked at me like she understood. Here I was talking to a giant cat like she could understand! I laughed. "So I have no idea, how do we proceed?"

"Well first we need to start including raw meat in with her regular food, then we will slowly cut down her food and begin exposing her to other game. Then we will have to eventually let her get hungry and put her in a cage with something like a rabbit or something that is rubbed with her food and hope she figures out the relationship between live animals and food.

I looked forward to training her, and returning her to the "wild" So to speak. I never had a pet before, well, there was the fish, but after three fish and three quick deaths...... I was put off by the whole pet thing. But with Edward to help, I knew we could do it!

We left Henrietta alone in her cave chowing down on the food in her bowl, and I raced Edward to the beach. It was nice being alone with him and away from prying eyes. Walking around au natural on the beach in the sun was amazing. And seeing Edward sparkle was glorious!

We sat on the beach watching the sun set and my just lying back on Edward. "Life is pretty good Edward, you know, every time I think about how you didn't want to change me....."

Edward let out a soft chuckle "I know, it was stupid for me to let myself hold back. But as I have explained, it felt so right, so important to give in to you, that I couldn't trust my feelings. I was convinced I was only trying to justify what I wanted. I am glad you had the will to make what you wanted happen. I know Alice is too! She thought some pretty hostile things towards me when I made the family move away, little Alice even considered breaking away from the family to stay to be around you."

That is my Alice! "I really wish she did! But you know in a way, that might have been more painful? As much as I missed Alice, having her around reminding me of you? That might have been too hard....."

"That is why in the end she decided to leave with us. She saw that her staying in forks would have been too much for you."

We sat there as the sun finally appeared to drop into the ocean, and I got up and led Edward to the other side of the island and we resumed our positions, waiting for the sunrise.

"You know your shield is up, and I am dying to know what you are thinking about just sitting here in front of me..." I lowered my shield, and showed him all I was thinking about. My time in the guard, and plans for the future. Although now I was getting my mind around forever, so I did not feel any urgency for making changes or decisions I was still thinking about how long I would stay with the Volturi, and when as a Cullen, I would go to high school again, well, actually I never did actually finish high school, so I would be doing that as a vampire my first time. I looked forward to it now, it would be easy, with perfect recall.

So after a perfect month on the island, and teaching Henrietta to hunt, we decided to return to Italy.

But we took the scenic route. We swam! When Edward suggested it I thought he was joking! He showed me his wrist watch with GPS and told me about how it was storm season, and we would swim through some very rough seas, body surfing 200 foot swells. When he broke out the wet suits and waterproof back packs I decided he was serious.

We packed everything we would need when we made landfall, and after Edward I slipped into the ocean and we swam toward Africa. The swim was very nice, the water warm for most of our journey, and we didn't even need to hunt. The occasional hungry shark would swim to US! After we fed Edward would tell me about the different species of shark we dined upon, one time there was a pod of whales who swam by us, I wanted to swim with them but like the dolphins they saw us as predators and swam off quickly. But they were amazing, and so much bigger in person, well of course, but I mean bigger than you would expect. When we were about 500 miles from Africa a storm came up and it was terrible! The swells were huge! I was a little scared, but after body surfing down the face of one huge one with Edward and having the swell break over me and push me deep under the surface, a human would have been killed but me? Not so much! It was exhilarating. We spent a full day doing that. As we approached the coast, we had to swim the rest of the way under water. It would not do to have a boat discover us so far out.

Once we got to shore and walked up the beach and into the jungle Edward figured out where we were and we changed out of our now raggedy wet suits and into some tropical clothes and hiked down the beach towards civilization and a ride back to an airport to fly the rest of the way to Volterra.......

The End.

A/N: I hope you all enjoyed that, I left it kind of open, in case I get inspired to write more about this Bella's adventures, but if not at least I left it on a good note! I sincerely appreciate everyone who took the time to review, and all of you whom made this a favorite story. I have read so many fun stories on this site, that to give back really felt good. Thank you for reading, and if any of you run into Alice Cullen, tell her I love her...... (Unless she is with Jasper, he could kick my butt! I am tough, but I am not vampire strong!)