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Author's Notes: Hello darlings. I hope this chapter finds you all well. And then there was the last chapter. I just wanted to say thank you to all who reviewed last chapter. They were wonderful to read, and I hoped you enjoyed the sneak peak. I also wanted to give a big thanks to Calliso for reading over the final chapter anfd giving me such great feedback. And with nothing else to say, but a tear to wipe from my cheek . . . enjoy.
Final Chapter:Thirty-One
14 November/Saturday – Jasper's POV
After taking down several animals for my nourishment then disposing of their bodies, I lay back in the grass and watched as the grey sky floated above me. I always felt bad at taking some life, but I knew it was a necessary part of our world, both vampire and human. As I thought about the human race and their society as a whole, the most important human came into my mind and drove out every inane and impertinent thought, which didn't pertain to her.
It had been difficult lately with her pregnancy as of late, but I loved my Bella and each moment I spent with her had been its own eternity, however; I couldn't lie and say the time I had spent hunting wasn't nice. I knew Bella had been more irritated lately and little things set her off, especially any mention of weight. She was tired of being pregnant and not really having the ability of doing things on her own. I could never profess to know what she was going through. I may have been able to feel her irritation and her frustrations, but I had never been pregnant, and never wanted that experience. The thought made me shudder.
Her annoyance was understandable so I tried to make her life as easy as possible. Some days were more difficult than others, but being with Bella and having her in my life remedied any stress I may have felt. I also knew that BB would be here soon, and all of the aggravation felt by both Bella and me would be worth it.
I let the blood I had consumed earlier work through my body, giving me what I needed to sustain my existence. I went into my meditative process and let the soft sounds, and cold air around me pull away all the negativity I had been feeling lately. When thirty minutes had passed I opened my eye again and looked above. The clouds continued to roll over my head, and I felt peace in my soul. I knew my life was about to change drastically again but it was a vast change I welcomed. I turned onto my side, and brought my knees up to my chest. I inhaled deeply, taking in the smell of the earth around me. I could smell a storm on the horizon, and thought of my Bella. They tended to scare her, but it was something she never explained. I just knew that when the storms approached she would run into the comfort of my arms, and cling to me, not that I ever complained. As the first drop of rain hit the side of my face, I knew it was time to head home. I had taken this extended hunting trip on Bella suggestion. She knew the stress I must have felt, and wanted a day for me to relax. I didn't want to be far from her, but after she insisted for a while I finally gave in. The break had provided me with the peace, tranquility, and nourishment my dead body and soul required.
Before I reached the clearing of the woods, my phone rang. I thought it strange. Bella knew where I was, and said she would not require me today, and under no circumstances would she call to pester me (her words). I pulled my phone from my front pocket and looked on the Caller ID. It listed Alice's phone, and I mentally groaned. I loved Alice, and she was one of my closest friends, but I felt some trepidation in what she may have wanted. Then some unknown fear grabbed me, and I became even more nervous. There couldn't have been anything wrong. I let out a sigh, opened the phone, and centered my mind on what she needed.
"Yes, Alice?" I asked as nicely as possible.
"Jasper I know you are done hunting. I need you to come back right away." She trilled into the phone. My anxiety immediately rose, and my fears started to play havoc with my thoughts. Why was I needed at home? Had something happened to Esme or Carlisle? Had there been a slip or some kind of emergency? I knew the more time I spent speculating, the less amount of answers I would receive.
"Why do you need me to come back, Alice? I'm finished hunting, and was going to go see Bella." She was silent for a moment, and all I wanted to do was reach through the phone and hurt her. I knew this had something to do with her damn visions. Her silence was always a giveaway.
"It's Bella, Jasper. She needs you." Alice whispered in a small voice that didn't ring with her usual peal of bells. My eyes slammed shut at her name, and I couldn't think for a moment. My mind had gone blank, and fear took over my body completely. There had already been so many scares when it came to my angel, and I wasn't sure how many more my dead body could take. All I ever wanted for was for my angel to be happy and safe, but I guess fucking fate had different plans for her.
"What," I said in a harsh voice, not even trying to hide the emotions that ripped though my body wanting to tear me in two.
"She's about to go into labor, Jasper. She's been having back pains all day, not really realizing she was in labor. She's with Rose right now, and about to make their way home from lunch. I called you first so you could start making your way to her Jasper. I'm going to call Rose next and warn her about what's coming. I just wanted Bella to have the reassurance of knowing you're on your way." She said in an even smaller voice, which proceeded to make me feel like shit for snapping at her. I blinked back the irritation that gathered in my eye sight.
"I'm sorry for being unfair, Alice. Thanks for the head ups. I'm on my way now. If it isn't too much of an inconvenience could you please tell Bella that I love her and I know she is the strong kitten I love." It reminded me of all the times Bella would try to show me how mad she was by trying to be fierce as a lion, but coming off as a little kitten purring.
"I'll tell her." She said hesitantly. I knew it was difficult for Alice to hear these things, and I silently apologized for putting her in an awkward position. "Um, Jasper . . ." She continued and again I felt the claws of fear grab at my dead and almost broken heart. "I've seen several possibilities in regards to Bella and the baby. I'm not sure how to tell you this . . . but, um . . . some of them aren't good." She finished on a near whisper that could have been mistaken for the wind. My breathing increased, and I knew nothing could happen to my Bella. I wouldn't allow anything to happen to her. I could feel that my confidence was a front to hide my ever building anguish as I fell to the ground. My head fell into the fallen leaves and I knew more than anything I needed to be by my angel's side, holding her hand, feeling her pulse beat under my cold skin, but warmed by her touch.
"I can't deal with this shit now, Alice. Bella needs me and I need her. Please just keep your predictions to yourself and tell the future to kiss my ass. I love you Alice, but not your gift." And with that I hung up and ran to my car. I started the car and slammed the door shut nearly shattering the window.
"Calm down Jasper, Bella needs you to be strong." I cajoled myself. I took another deep breath that if I were human would have burst my lungs. I was about an hour's drive from the hospital, and prayed that I would be there in time. I knew Bella was strong, and she had my family there to protect and love her, but in times of her pain and anguish, she called for me and depended on me. I just hoped more than anything including my existence she felt no fear, and knew I would be there for her. "Don't you fucking take her from me." I yelled to the sky as the drops from above blurred my vision on the window shield. The venom started to pool in my eyes, as I raced even closer to my angel. "Please baby, I need you to be strong." I pleaded in anguish. My life just couldn't work without her. I punched the console out of immense anger and watched as the dust particles flew into the air from the force of the hit. I felt guilty for my outburst, but I could also feel as some of the stress left my tightly wound body. "I love you, angel." I whispered and tried without effort to clear the venom tears from my stinging eyes.
The rest of the ride was made in silence, with my thoughts a thousand miles away from me, centering on the one being that created the world I lived in, the world that would fall apart without her, my angel. The only sounds that registered were the drops of rain that pounded on the window, the leather on the steering wheel as my fingers tightened around it, and the labored breath that came from my lips.
I pulled into the Hospital parking lot, opened the driver door, and slammed it with all my might. The sound of the window finally breaking from the force of the impact assaulted my ears as I ran to Bella, trying to make my speed believable. I flashed by badge to the reception desk and went to the maternity floor.
"Jasper, I want Jasper." I could hear my angel whisper through her weak voice filled with pain. I turned the corner and finally found the room that held my hurting angel.
Rose already hearing me coming from a ways down, looked up as I entered the room and gave me a face that would have had a lesser man running right back out. "About time Jasper. Bella's been in labor for about an hour and the baby is almost here. We hardly had anytime from when the contractions really started to pick up until now. Carlisle and Esme are here, but they're in the waiting room. I didn't know if you were going to make it, and I was contemplating on ways in which to murder you." She said in all seriousness which I could feel coming from her.
"Rosie," Bella gently chided my sister, "I told you he would come." Bella gave me a weak smile as she reached her small hand out to mine. "He always comes. Plus I know that BB was waiting for him to arrive." She squeezed my now warmed hand as another contraction hit her hard. "Where the hell have you been Jasper?" My angel, turned demon in one second flat, yelled at me. "I didn't know shooting the shit was more important than me." I didn't know what to say, and I was too in shock to say much else. Bella never cursed, and it was something to hear her now.
"I . . . I'm . . .," I stuttered. Rose smirked at me, and I still didn't have anything to say.
The attending nurse approached me and gave me a comforting smile. "Could you please put these on, and wash up Dr. Hale?" I took the offered scrubs from her hands. Bella looked at me in alarm after her contraction finally passed, and I immediately turned to her.
"You just got here Jasper." She cried in a strained voice. "I'm sorry for being a bitch. Don't leave me." I bent down and moved some of her matted hair from her eye sight.
"I'm just going to change angel. Then I'll be right back by your side." She reluctantly let my hand go. I rushed to the bathroom and changed. I also washed the dirt from my face and hands from my hunting trip. I left my soiled clothes in the bathroom, and made my way to Bella's side again. She immediately grabbed onto my hand again as another contraction hit.
"It's about time Jasper." She grunted through her pain, and I wisely chose not to say anything regarding to me taking more time than she thought necessary.
"The baby's crowning . . . it looks like your crowning achievement is coming Bella." She glared at the doctor while she winced in pain. He immediately wiped the smile from his face as one graced mine. My angel still had the potential to be a demon when she chose, even in the middle of birth.
"Jasper . . ." She screamed at me, "stop laughing like some idiot here for a drug experiment, and help get this child out of me." I knew she wasn't really angry with me. If I had a baby the size of a turkey coming out of me I would also be beyond pissed.
"All right let's get her shifted up into position." Dr. Wakeman spoke to the other nurses in the room who were preparing for BB arrival. I could feel my own excitement start to mount. I had spent so much time talking to BB and falling in love with him or her over the last few months. We already had a connection, and with each kick I felt from BB, my love for him or her would soar. It would only be a few more minutes and I would finally get to meet Bella's little one.
"Jasper, I'm sorry for saying you were addicted to drugs . . . I didn't mean it. Please don't let them take the baby out. I can't do this . . . I can't." She began to cry and the tears of her pain and fear fell from her misty eyes. I reached out to her, and tried to take all of her fear and doubt away, replacing it with my love and devotion to her and BB. I grabbed onto her hand and brought it to my lips. I kissed each of her fingers and then placed on final one on the palm of her hand.
"Look at me angel." I softly spoke to her. "Tell me what you feel?" She closed her eyes, and a weak smile graced her face.
"Loved," She whispered for my ears only.
"Yes angel, loved. I know you can do this. I'm right here. Rose is right here. We both love you Bella. Papa Carlisle is waiting to meet BB, and he also loves you, angel." Rose looked at me with pride written clearly on her face. I soaked up the feeling and gave it to Bella, trying to make her feel anything besides her fear.
"Jasper's right Bella, I'm right here with you. I can't wait to meet your little baby. I know BB is also anxious to meet you too, honey. I know it's painful, but a few more pushes and BB will be here filling our ears with his or her precious cries."
"Okay Bella, you're going to start pushing on the next contraction." Dr. Wakeman told her in a soothing voice, not trying to stress her out before she even began pushing.
"I need you Jasper, don't let go of me." She pleaded as her green specks called out and captured me in her gaze.
"I'm here baby." Was all I got out before her contraction hit and she started to scream in pain. Her voice was already rough from her earlier screams, and I could only imagine how hoarse it would be before she was finally done.
"Okay Bella, I'm going to count to ten, and you are going to push for the entire amount of time. Jasper, please get behind Bella and brace her back. Rose hold onto her hand. Bella start pushing." He finished as Bella's screams intensified with her pain and I took as much as I could from her, giving my love to her in return. I could feel the venom prick my eyes with each sound that came from her ravaged throat.
"One . . . Two . . . Three . . . Four . . . keep pushing Bella, Five . . . Six . . . Seven . . . Almost there, eight . . . Nine . . . Ten . . ." The sadist finally proclaimed and Bella sagged with relief. Rose brought her cold hand up to Bella's cheek, and I could hear my angel sigh in comfort.
"You're doing beautifully, angel. A little more and you can have ten hamburgers." She gave me a weak smile.
"And just think Bella, you'll be able to see your feet again." Rose said in encouragement to which Bella actually laughed. It made me feel a little better hearing a happy sound from her in the midst of her turmoil.
"Here comes another contraction. Start pushing Bella . . . One . . . Two . . . Three . . . Four . . ." Bella screamed out even louder than before, and I thought I could hear her throat tear from the strain she put on it.
"Five, Bella come on . . . Six . . . Seven . . . Eight . . ."
"Nine, Ten." Bella finished in quick succession for her doctor and crashed back onto me. I brought my hand from her shoulder to her lower back, massaging her muscles, trying to give her anything I could. "I can't do this anymore Jasper. Please just reach in and grab BB. You know how much BB loves you." She said in her hysteria, and I tried not to laugh at the words because she looked like such a sad, heartbreaking picture. But even in my angel's pain, I had never seen her look as beautiful as she did fighting to bring her little one into the world. "Rosie, please just take my place. You are so much stronger than me." Leave it to my angel to speak properly while under the most intense pain of her life.
"Bella, I don't want to hear that shit. You are strong, and you can do this. One more push Bella and BB will be here, waiting to be placed into your waiting and loving arms. Now give us one more push, honey."
"Your amazing Bella, just one more big push and the baby should be here. Here's the contraction, now push sweetie . . . One . . . Two . . . Three . . . Four . . . Five . . . Six, Almost there . . . Seven . . . Eight . . . Nine . . . Ten. Okay Bella, I can see the head coming so no more pushing." Bella again sagged back into me and I automatically wrapped my arms around her shoulders. She wiped her head on the sleeve of my shirt, and I brought her closer to my body. I knew I was hard as stone, but Bella said it didn't matter, she found comfort in being there.
"BB's almost here, angel. Can you believe it, our little miracle?" She reached her tired hand up to my face and caressed my cheek with her sweaty hand, too tired to talk.
"Would you like to see, Bella?" Her doctor asked with a mirror in his hand.
"No," She screamed, automatically finding a second wind. I knew her to be squeamish. One would think her doctor already knew that fact. "Rosie, you look." She said with a soft smile on her gorgeous, flushed face. Rose looked at her in awe before she swiped back Bella's matted hair from her forehead and replaced it with her lips.
"Thank you Bella." She whispered before she left and stood behind the doctor. "BB's so beautiful Bella." And even though we knew she couldn't see anything beside BB's head, we knew that Rose loved him or her already and it didn't matter what BB actually looked like.
"Okay the heads out. Nurse Clark, suction the nose and mouth." As I heard the noise of the baby's passages being cleared out I knew it was only a matter of seconds before the baby would be pulled out completely and we would be blessed with the cries of something we had all been waiting to hear.
Dr. Wakeman pushed the nurse's hand out of the way, and pulled the baby out the rest of the way, and then for the second time in my long life I heard the most beautiful sound in my life, the wail from our miracle. "It's a little girl, Bella. Congratulations." Her doctor said in a humbled voice. I could feel the awe he felt in delivering the child. One would think that after the many babies he had delivered he would tire of the process and it would just be one delivery after another, but I knew this not to be true because I could feel his elation and sincerity.
"Cheyenne is so tiny and beautiful, Bella." Rose said in a shaky voice, her eyes were clouded over with her own tears. She looked at my angel, and her tears were just as prevalent as Bella's. The only difference was Bella's had the ability to fall from her eyes and grace her flushed cheeks.
Dr. Wakeman looked over to me while he held the baby up, and allowed Nurse Clark to clamp the umbilical cord. "Would you like to do the honor and cut Jasper?" I looked to Bella for permission, and she just gave me a lazy head nod. I waited for Rose to come back to her side before I took my place over the little girl that continued to cry, took the scissors in my hand, and gently cut her connection to her mother. The nurse took the umbilical to draw the core blood for later if BB ever required its use. Bella had read about the process and requested it be done. Dr. Wakeman wiped the baby off, wrapped her in a pink blanket that was warmed and placed the tiny bundle of human into my arms. I felt my own tears cloud my eyes as I looked down at Cheyenne. She had stopped crying, choosing instead to look back at me. Here was this two minute old miracle in my arms, silently looking into my face, and taking in her new surroundings, she was beyond the most precious and innocent thing in my life, and in that moment with her in the safety of my arms, I vowed to always love her more than any man could and protect her with my existence. I heard Bella whimper and looked over to her. She gave me the biggest watery smile she could, and as I reached out she nearly drowned me in her feelings of happiness. I walked her daughter over to her and placed Cheyenne in Bella's waiting arms. I was beyond honored that I was the first to hold her, but now it was time for her to meet mommy.
"Isabella, meet your little beauty. Cheyenne, meet your mother." I said in jest. My angel laughed and her eye sparkled. She grabbed her baby and leaned down to place her soft lips to her child's plush cheek.
"Look at her blond hair, Jasper. It almost looks like the same color as yours." She whispered and I knew she was trying to make Cheyenne mine in more than just heart and spirit. I could hear Rose sniffling from the sidelines watching mother and daughter. I could feel her own sadness, but above everything else, she was happy and content. "Do you want to hold Cheyenne, Auntie Rosie?" Rose looked scared for a moment at the actual chance of holding such a little person, but her love for Cheyenne overcame her fear, and she gently took her from Bella's arms. It amazed me how unselfish Bella was with her newborn.
"She's beyond gorgeous." Rose said through her watery smile. I leaned over Bella and moved her wet hair from her cheek. I placed my lips on her flushed ones and reverently kissed her mouth. Bella put more pressure into the kiss, and I allowed her warmth and love to flow through her into my cold body that she filled with life.
"Our little Cheyenne." She said in our kiss, my lips still pressed to her. It was a glorious moment to feel her swollen lip on mine as Rose cooed nonsense to Cheyenne. I placed one gentler kiss to her bottom lip before I pulled back and placed my forehead to hers.
Before I pulled my forehead from hers, Bella grabbed her stomach and tears of pain came to her eyes.
"Oww, Jasper something really hurts." Bella cried while she squeezed my hand that she had latched onto. Then before I could say anything to reassure or comfort my angel, the machines started to sound and Cheyenne's screams pierced the air around us from her fright. Bella's hand became limp in mine as the first scream of hers also stabbed the air, and mingled with her daughters. "Cheye, Jasper," Bella said through her labored breaths. I knew she didn't want her daughter to be scared and entrusted her care to me.
I reached over the bed and tenderly took Cheyenne from Rose's arms. I pulled her to my chest, and rocked her back and forth, trying to give her the comfort that I didn't feel. "I'm here, Cheyenne. I'm always here." I whispered into her little forehead as I placed my lips there. I couldn't see her for lack of my tears, and Bella's anguish. The baby must have heard my voice and recognized the sound over the loud noises of the room, as her loud crying wails became whimpers. I was amazed that I could give anything to the little human in my arms, yet alone the comfort she so obviously needed. Bella's yells sounded in the room again, and I instinctively brought Cheyenne closer to my chest, trying to shelter her from her mother's suffering. She had just been born, and deserved the comfort of her mother arms and love, but something was terribly wrong with my angel, and couldn't give Cheyenne the love that I knew Bella held for her daughter. Rose was by Bella's side holding her hand and trying to give her words of comfort that she probably couldn't hear over her pain and shrieks.
"There are complications, Nurse Clark. Get everyone out of the room, and have Davidson take the baby to the nursery." At the doctor's words, the woman whom he gave orders to came over to me and took Cheyenne from my arms. She immediately started to cry, and I immediately reached for her, wanting to stop her little screams and her fear.
"Please Mr. Hale she needs to be taken to the nursery and fed." She said urgently over the baby's screams. I could still hear Bella whimpering in pain, and all of a sudden I felt lost and alone with no clue as to what needed to be done or what was right.
"Take her please." I could hear my sister confirm in the back of my mind. Cheyenne's cries left the room as the unknown person took her somewhere that I also needed to be. I wanted to protect her. "Jasper," Rose demanded, and I looked over to her lost and afraid. "Come to Bella." I obediently followed her command. I reached out and took my angel's fragile hand into mine. I felt warmed by our connection, and realized for the first time that when I had placed my lips on Cheyenne's head I had also felt warmed, but it wasn't something I could think about now.
"Get them out of here, Clark." Dr. Wakeman shouted again, and I knew he was talking about us, but how could he honestly expect me to leave my hurting angel.
Bella shrieked again and I leaned over to my Isabella, kissing her on her forehead. "Please baby, I need you to be well. Please be fine, angel." I pleaded with her from my aching soul. I could feel myself dying with each scream that passed from Bella lips. I remembered my burning, and the utter agony I had felt while fire torn through my body turning it into stone, and utterly beautiful . . . a weapon to be used. But that pain couldn't compare to what I was feeling now, the greatest pain I had ever felt fell in comparison to watching my angel suffer in misery. I reached out to her pain trying to relieve her of it, and taking it into myself. Not even my gift could take away the anguish she was feeling, and I wanted to hurt myself because of my failure at not being able to help her, the only thing she had really ever asked of me.
I felt a hand press onto my shoulder as I kissed my angel again on her sweaty forehead. I wanted to feel our connection forever.
"We need you to leave Mr. Hale." Her doctor, Dr. Wakeman asked me with compassion but firmness. I could feel his urgency and all I wanted to do was scream at him to help her. I looked into his blue eyes that held so much concern, and all I felt in that moment was uncertainty. How could I leave my angel when she so obviously needed me by her side? How could I leave my angel in the unknown, making her scared as she called out for me to save her? And more importantly, how could I leave my angel in the hands of someone else who would never have the ability to save her as I could? All of these questions flew through my mind as I looked into the eyes of the man who had asked me to leave. "Please allow me to do my job and help Bella." He pleaded with me to understand and to relent, but he didn't understand the extreme amount of pain I felt in not being by her side, letting someone else being her savior, never being able to love her as completely as I did.
"I can't leave her, sir. She needs me. I know she needs me." I whispered trying to block out her screams that continued to rip my heart to pieces inch by inch.
"Jasper, it's time for us to step aside, and let them do their job. You know this already, son." I heard my father, and wondered when he had entered the room. Dr. Wakeman left my side and went back to attending to Bella. Carlisle's eyes were also clouded with venom, and I could feel that he wanted to be the one working on Bella, himself, but we both knew we were too emotional involved.
"She is losing too much blood." Her doctor yelled. "Give me o neg, 4 quarts now." He shouted. My father continued to pull me over towards the door as I felt myself crash at the words I heard next. Time didn't exist, and the only thing in my life that had ever mattered was slipping from that very life.
"Were losing her . . . She's crashing! Start a drip, 40 milligrams IV." Bella's doctor screamed and my whimpers of intense pain added to the melee that surrounded me. "Brown, I need you to intubate."
"Pulse is 78 and BP's 60 palp . . ." Some nameless face shouted in the circus that became my angel's room. "Pulse is dropping 65, BP's 40 palp . . . Decreased breath sounds . . ." Her doctor shouted over the hustle. "Pulse 30, BP's 17 palp . . ." The person yelled again. Venom obscured my eyes to the point where I couldn't see anymore. Every color blended together making it a kaleidoscope of shapes and images. Then as I heard the EKG machine start blasting, I knew it was the first time in my existence I had ever hated becoming a doctor because I knew what had happened. I didn't need to hear the screams of ". . . Coded . . . V-Fib . . . Internal paddles . . . Charge to ten . . ." Bella's screams had already stopped and everything had gone silent just like her shattered voice, just like her gut-wrenching cries, just like her breathing, just like her heart.
I felt cold arms wrap around me before I had a chance to fall to the ground. My heart hadn't beat like Bella's in over a century, but for some reason the silence of her heart was more final then mine. "Please father I can't lose her." I beseeched Carlisle in my turbulence, anyone who could save her. Then for the fourth time in my existence a tear slipped from my eyes and burned my useless skin as it fell onto the ground and disappeared.
"I have you son." Carlisle spoke into my ear trying to give me something that I wouldn't accept: his strength. All I wanted was for my angel to be fine and his strength couldn't give that to me. "Let them help her." He whispered again in my ear. All around me chaos ensued making me feel even more desperate by the moment, and making Bella not wake up. I tried to fight out of Carlisle's grips, but he held on, not allowing me go to my angel and protect her from the fated bitch that wanted to take her. "I love you Jasper. I love you more than life." My father whimpered into my ear while he pushed his love to me, making me finally accept something beside defeat for my angel. It was this more than anything that stopped me from fighting my father, and allowed him to pull me from the room, and away from the tiny figure lying on her bed surrounded by strangers she didn't really know.
"She'll be fine Jasper," I heard another familiar voice in my ear that I hadn't seen in a while, but loved all the same. He came into my sight and hugged me from the front, "no matter where she is . . . she will always know of your love and your need for her." Another tear slipped over my waterline and onto my dried lips.
"I know." I answered my brother as he pulled me to the door and further away from my fallen Isabella. "I love her more than anything." I cried my fingernails digging into my skin, trying to tear something.
Peter repeated the words I had spoke softly ten seconds prior, "I know."
And as I watched my angel, before she left my view for the final time, fall into a place that I could never visit, I let the words fall from my lips, the words I never had said to her, but should have uttered when I knew I had fell; not letting the fear of the unfamiliar stop me from saying the words that were eternally hers . . . "I'm in love with you, Isabella Swan."
Final Author's Notes: I know, very emotional ending. It was so very difficult to write, but how I always envisioned. The story started dramatic and so it ends on the same note. I hope despite the ending that you liked the chapter. It's a girl, little Cheyenne. Did many of you think that Bella wasn't going to have a girl? Did you like Rose's part in the process?
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