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Chapter 94 Plans

We continued to talk as though we were just sitting together, enjoying the day, my hands resting gently on her thighs as she sat on my hips, my body fully erect inside hers. I could not have been happier.

BPOV

We were both fully clothed, to all appearances we would have seemed to be just two teenagers laughing and spending time together . . . well, except for the light refracted off of Edward's skin.

I watched the rainbows dance over the woodwork of the gazebo as we talked and laughed together. Edward was remembering how determined my father had been to take me home with him, both in the hospital and again when he had come for my birthday. He was telling me about my dad's thoughts as he raced up the stairs toward our room the night of my birthday party, having heard me scream out Edward's name. At first, I clasped my hands over my face; knowing I was turning a deep shade of red, but Edward took my hands in his as he laughed. Telling me that Charlie had paused at the door just long enough to then hear the string of words that my husband let out, also calling out my name loud enough for him to hear.

"Edward! What if he had come into the room!" I gasped, realizing from the sounds Edward had made that my movements were doing interesting things to my husband as he lay under me.

"The door was locked, love. He would never have gotten that far, you know that," he assured me, a smirk covering his face as his hips rocked gently against me.

"Still!" I laughed, bending down to kiss his soft lips.

Mentioning my birthday had reminded me of how amazed I was at how thoughtful his family really was and how much I adored them. We talked about how funny Emmett was, always kidding us about having sex all the time and how right he was. We were, after all, out in the open enjoying an afternoon together, but we had been unable to be apart when we didn't have to. Preferring to remain connected whenever possible, even if we were not acting on it at the current moment. Just one of the perks to being married to a vampire, I though to myself. A human male would not be capable of having an erection indefinitely, and they would never have the control to just lie there and talk with their body fully sheathed in mine.

"Sweetheart, I just don't think it's a good idea for you to remain human much longer," Edward said, the conversation turning unexpectedly serious. "I can't risk loosing you, love."

"You don't want to have just one more child first? It would only take three or four months, sweetheart," I said quietly, staring into his eyes, my hands on his chest as I sat astride him.

"I think if you aren't pregnant by the time Masen is through nursing we should change you anyway," he said, staring intently at me, I'm sure to see if my face held any hesitation.

"Alright."

It was all I said, but he seemed to need more assurance. "Bella, is there any other human experience you can think of . . . other than dangerous ones, that you would like to have first?"

I thought for a long minute as I stroked his face and neck with the back of my knuckles and my fingertips, staring at his face as I tried hard to come up with any and everything I could think of that would be different as vampire.

"Everything I do now, I'll be able to do once I'm changed, won't I?"

"Yes, love. We will have to be careful around people you knew, other than your father and Jacob, and I have no idea how we will handle your mom and Phil. I hope you'll still want me after you change, want to make love with me, but of course that may take time," he told me, his eyes showing the pain that would cause him. He ducked his head and added, "I think you will be able to be with Masen right away, but since blood does run in his veins, I can't promise that either."

Masen . . . , I thought for a long minute. "Masen will be fine, Edward. Your family will tend to him if it has to be that way, but I think with his powers, he can make sure that I'll be able to be with him right away."

The look of a man being burned disappeared from my husband's face as he exclaimed, "Bella! I hadn't thought of that, love. Of course you'll be fine around him, he'll see to it!" He kissed me hard, his arms around me as he moved to sit up and I wrap my legs around his waist.

"See. Problem solved," I laughed, kissing his nose, his cheeks, his eyes. "The only other thing I want to do is travel. I really loved our trip back here from Forks and you mentioned other countries. I've never been to Europe."

"We have centuries to explore Europe,and the other continents, love. Anywhere you want to go."

I frowned, "When we were at the cabin in Yellowstone, you told me there were properties all over the world. I haven't seen a list of them yet, Mr. Cullen! Joint assets, right?"

He laughed harder than he had in weeks, holding me to him and purring, "Yes, wife. Joint assets. There is a list on the computer that you can see as soon as we go back into the house. There is a large estate in England, a chalet in the Swiss mountains, homes in Spain and Florence, town homes in Amsterdam, Paris . . ."

He went on and on, but all I could think of was the food in those places. Italy, France, Spain . . .

"Edward! The food!" I exclaimed.

"The food is all put away, love. I cleaned the kitchen after I made you lunch. Do you want me to make you more, or Alice said there were left overs in the fridge at their house if you're hungry . . . though I think we should get you some unripped clothing before we go up there," he said as he rocked his hips into mine creating some delicious friction with his body still rigid inside mine.

"No, no, Edward. That's not what I meant!" I told him as he stilled his movements, alarmed by how animated I was becoming.

"Food, Edward! When I think of traveling, I think of tasting the different cuisines . . . the food. I can't do that once I'm a vampire. I won't like human food, and I very much doubt that the deer blood in Europe had much of a different taste than it does here."

"Would you like to spend a couple of weeks in Europe then, traveling? We could leave this week and go wherever you want, love. I would love to see you eat enough to get some more weight on these bones of yours, and maybe sampling foods in other countries would do it!"

"You'd do that for me? We could go and take Masen?" I asked, somewhat amazed.

"He's nursing, Bella, so he can go anywhere with us," my husband looked timidly at me before he continued, "I gave him a bit of cut up chicken while you were asleep this morning, and he loved it. He did just fine eating it, he seems to do well with human food, at least for now he doesn't exactly have to have blood. Even if he did, I could bring him back a bottle when I go out to hunt."

"Really? We can really go? I mean, you want to?"

"Bella, I told you, I don't care whether we are at home or working or at college or vacationing, as long as we're together. Whatever you want is just fine with me, I'd love to show you the world. I think we should stay in the places that we already own, though, just because we might need more privacy than normal with Masen and all. The homes and apartments are all fairly near places that I can hunt as well," he smiled, "this time of year is not very sunny either so I can be out more in the daytime for sightseeing with you."

I was thrilled. Edward's hands moved to my hips and he appeared to be lifting me off of him in order to stand up, but I was having none of that!

"What are you doing, sweetheart?" I asked, my head cocked to one side as I feebly resisted his lifting me.

"Getting up, love. I thought you might want some food and we can go inside, and make all the travel arrangements together," he said looking at me like that was of course the next order of business.

"Edward," I ducked my head into the crook of his neck so that I cold whisper in his ear, "I thought you said you couldn't get enough of me?"

He immediately pulled back, cupping my face in his hands. "I can't. You know this, Bella," he said, seemingly alarmed that I would question it.

"Well," I tried to sound coy, "You seem up for it right now . . ." I stared at him for a long moment, he was still as only a vampire can be, but only for a moment. It took no coaxing. He kissed me passionately, lovingly as he held me to him, his kiss embodying all the feelings I knew he had for me as I moved my legs from around him so that I was straddling him as I pushed on his chest. He noticed that I was pushing on him, of course, to get him to lie down and he did as requested. I had recently discovered that circling my hips while he was inside me drove him insane, and that was just what I wanted to do. I saw his hand reach over to hold onto a part of the gazebo but I took his hand in mine, not wanting him to break the birthday present that Emmett and Jasper had given me as I knew he would when he found his release. Anything in his hands, other than me, became instantly ripped apart and pulverized when he came. He had already destroyed two headboards, three sofas and the carpet in Esme's living room on Isle Esme, and I really liked the gazebo!

~oooOooo~

EPOV

My sister was literally jumping up and down by the time we got to her house. She had Masen playing on the floor in the living room and dinner waiting for Bella.

"What a wonderful idea, Bella! We are going to have so much fun, I've seen it, and you are going to love shopping in Paris!" she squealed excitedly.

"So . . . you're coming with us?" Bella asked her, a confused look on her face. Alice stopped cold.

"Only if you want us to, that is," Alice replied with the saddest pouty look I had seen in years covering her face. Bella looked up at me smiling, and I shrugged my shoulders, my hands in my pockets.

"Whatever you want, love. The houses we own are large enough for all of us and it would give us babysitters, in case you wanted to spend some time alone with me," I smirked, staring at my feet.

"That's a wonderful idea! Alice, you really want to come? I'm going to try the food, you know, that's the reason for the trip right now, and you know you don't eat."

"Bella," she said in a long drawn out manner, expressing what could only be called exasperation, "when will you learn that we love just being with you. We can fake eating, it's no problem. Besides, it's fun to watch Masen eat!"

Alice grabbed Bella's hand and led her to the table so that she could have her dinner while it was hot. I walked into the living room to check on Masen, and Jasper challenged me to play Call of Duty. I warned Masen that it was a battle game and that daddy and uncle Jasper might seem upset, but we were only playing a game and not to worry.

He looked up at me, content with playing with the toys Alice had put in front of him, his thoughts telling me that he understood. My son was sitting in the middle of the rug on the floor playing. He was two weeks old. I had no idea what he would be like in a month, let alone a year.

"Jasper, can you take care of the passports for us?" I asked, my eyes never leaving the screen. Jasper always handled the paperwork, new identities, drivers licenses, passports, certificates. Whatever our current situation called for, whatever ages we were playing at the time. I knew that Bella could get the passport legally, but her name was now Cullen and I wanted one with that name on it for her, as well as one for Masen.

"Sure thing. How old do you want Masen to be?" he asked, pausing to look at me, "Because no one will believe he's a newborn."

"Eight months?" I guessed. That should give us some room in case he continues to grow at this rate for the time we were going to be out of the country. "Make Bella and I twenty one, just in case there is any type of problem while we're there," I requested.

"Done. By the way," he asked, giving me a sly crooked grin, "what brought all this on? Is this really about food?"

"It seems so. Bella seems to relate traveling to tasting the different cuisines and she can't do that as one of us. I'm going to change her soon, so she wants to do this first."

Jasper stopped playing, the controller still in his hands. He slowly turned his head to look at me, his expression one of complete astonishment.

"Edward, you just casually told me you're going to change her, you didn't even flinch. You're totally okay with it. What changed? You were so intent on her remaining human," he asked, amazed at how calm I was.

"I could never survive loosing her Jasper . . . and she wants this. She wants forever with me just as I want her, need her. I've stopped trying to control everything and realized that she has a right to choose, that's why I insisted that she see me hunt. I wanted her to have every bit of information I could give her so that she would know exactly what she was getting . . . and she wants me anyway," I said smiling from ear to ear.

"Well, damn. I'm glad you finally see it. All you ever had to do was read my mind and you surely felt the emotions that I felt coming from her. She really does love you," Jasper stated flatly.

"Of course I really do love him," Bella said as she walked in and stood behind the sofa, her arms around my neck and her warm lips kissing my neck. "Are you excited about going to Europe, Jasper?"

"I love it there, Bella. Everything except the shopping," he grimaced.

"Stop! You do too love the shopping," Alice said as she leaned over and kissed him, "There are always rewards for shopping with me!"

"In that case, darlin', shopping just became my new favorite thing," Jasper told her, his hand reaching up to hold her head against his. We all laughed like crazy at that idea, you had to love Alice!

We sat and all talked about where we would like to go and what we wanted to do. Alice suggested that since Bella had done such an excellent job of planning our trip to Orlando last fall, that whatever she wanted to do would be fine with them. I agreed with her and Bella seemed even more excited to plan the trip!

"We should see if Emmett and Rosalie want to come, she just loves Europe and I doubt she would be willing to be away from Masen long enough for you guys to take the trip anyway. My guess is that she'll show up and find us!" Alice mused.

"Of course call Rose and ask her," Bella said excitedly, "I don't want to leave anyone out, but I know Carlisle is going to have to work. He took off so much time trying to help find me."

"Don't worry about that, love. Esme and Carlisle will have fun just having the house to themselves while we're gone," I smirked. The blush that covered her face told me that she understood what I had meant and she tucked her face into my chest.

Masen made a noise, nothing loud or in any way a cry, just a noise. He immediately had my full attention, and if I hadn't been so amused and happy watching Bella's excitement over the trip we were discussing, I would have noticed the way he was staring at her chest. She had him in her arms in an instant, her hands running over every part of him to make sure he wasn't hurt, her face anxious.

"It's alright, love," I told her, smiling, "He's just hungry." It was obvious from the way he was nuzzling her breasts and rooting that hunger was exactly the problem, and what he wanted was obvious.

I stroked his cheek as she held him to her, "I don't blame you little guy, I'd be doing the same thing if I was alone with your mom." Bella glared at me. "What?" I asked innocently, eyebrows raised, "Well, I would."

"Let's go up to the nursery here, Bella. We have everything you need for him here as well, you know," Alice added as she ushered my wife upstairs.

"Good, now play. You have no excuse if I beat you. No distractions, brother," Jasper nudged me, handing me the controller to the video game we had been playing.

Bella was back down in an hour or so, she and Alice minus the baby. He had fallen asleep, and they had left him in his crib in the nursery and she didn't want to wake him. Alice walked in and turned off our game, lips drawn into a mock frown as she told us that was enough, that we needed to spend some time with our wives. She had a copy of some new Twilight movie. something about vampires, and I had to laugh as she popped it in the player and turned it on. Bella settled onto the sofa next to me and snuggled against my chest, so I guess I didn't care what else was going on. I could watch a stupid vampire movie if it made her happy. After all, I knew she loved vampires . . .

We walked home after the movie, Masen had woken up about the time it was over and we were both ready to be alone in our house. Alice had given Bella the second movie in what appeared to be a series of vampire movies. Since Masen was wide awake, we sat downstairs on our own sofa to watch it while Masen played laid in our arms playing with a rattle we had given him. We were trying to make him understand his own strength and quit breaking them or biting through them and he seemed to be getting the hand of it. I told him to be gentle with it, like he was with his mom and grandpa Charlie. That he understood.

The scene where the guy left the girl was excruciating. I couldn't watch. Bella put her arms around me and held me tight, using the remote to end the movie. I kissed her, hard . . . my tongue exploring her mouth and my arms tight around her. I had been so insatiable lately, I just had to have her all the time and I knew she must be sore by now, how could she not . . .

BPOV

"Edward, where is that futon you had in front of the fireplace for my birthday?" I asked quietly.

"It's under our bed, love," I quietly answered with her still stroking my back and playing with my hair.

"Well, I don't know how you feel about fire after what happened with your arm, but if having a small fire in the fireplace wouldn't upset you too much, I'd love to have one and bring the futon down here so we could sleep in front of it," I said as my hand moved down his chest and grazed over the bulge in his jeans, running my hand down and back up it like I knew that he loved, "I'm kind of in the mood for my favorite popsicle, if that's okay with you."

"Are you sure, Bella? I love just sitting here with you holding me. Sex is something we can do when we both want to, not just when I get crazy like this."

"Edward, that movie reminded you of leaving me . . . it reminded me, too. We have to let go of it, sweetheart. Both of us. You being here now is all that matters. We don't ever have to be apart again . . . ever. I love that you just need me this much. It means the world to me, it really does. I'm sorry this human body can't take you into it right now, I admit I'm a little sore. We won't have this to worry with once you change me, but for now . . . how about a reenactment of my birthday present?" I asked as I bit my bottom lip and looked pleadingly at him.

Edward as gone before I could walk over and pick up Masen to feed him and take him to his room. I had no idea that the futon could be made with fresh linens and a fire started so quickly, but by the time I came back downstairs it and a naked Edward were waiting for me. I had changed into his favorite blue gown, the one with no back that I had gotten for my birthday. I sat beside him holding him to me for a minute before kissing down his chest, across his stomach and taking him into my mouth.

His hands became fists at his side as my nails up and down his inner thighs. He rose to kneel in front of me as he laid me down on the soft covers and kissed his way from my neck downwards. I played with his hair and squirmed my way towards his body, trying to insist that he give me access to him but he refused to cover me, instead rolling us over so that I was now above him, his hardened length standing in front of my face. Perfect. If I could only concentrate, but his mouth on me was taking my breath in addition to all conscious thought.

My world stood still long before I was able to do that for him, my entire body shuttering in ecstasy. I had wanted to comfort him, but my husband knew my body so well it was as though he was playing a concerto on his piano . . . knowing exactly what notes to play. I couldn't move I was so utterly spent from just that one climax. He kissed his way up my body till he was facing me and his smirk showed from ear to ear.

"Stop," I said whining. "I can't help it if you do this to me," I pouted, unable to move. "Come here, you," I said kissing his cheek, his nose, his hair as I pulled his face toward my breast and felt him caressing one and gently kissing and licking the other. He looked up, silently asking me and I arched my back, encouraging him to nurse. He needed no more encouragement. The response was always the same, he came almost violently as soon as milk filled his mouth. He did not pin me down with his hips like he normally had, but moved to lie between my legs so that he covered my swollen core with fluid from his release each time, soothing me. It was just what my body needed, though I hadn't thought of it. I was able to take him in several more times that night as we rolled around on the futon in front of the fireplace. He brought me wine and cheese and fruit after a few hours, insisting that I needed to keep my strength up and stay hydrated, and he was right. Making love with Edward was exhausting, but it was the most delicious type of exercise I had ever imagined. He was an amazing lover, kind and gentle but hard and relentless when he needed to be. I could only hope that I satisfied him half as well as he did me because I knew that if I did, he was a content man.

~oooOooo~

I awoke alone in our bed upstairs, my hand touching something crisp that made a noise when my hand brushed over it. It was a note in Edward's perfect script.

Bella,

I had to go hunt, now, you know the reasons.

You were so asleep and so beautiful, your lips still smiling as you slept,

I didn't have the heart to wake you.

Jasper is with me and Alice is downstairs.

If you wake before I return, know that I love you and I miss you.

I'll be right back. I'm never leaving you,

Your husband,

Edward

Though he knew that I hated to wake up alone, how could you not smile at a note like that. I knew he needed to hunt, he lost a great deal of fluid yesterday . . . just remembering brought a stupid grin to my face and I was sure I was blushing. I couldn't believe I had asked my husband to fuck me . . . but I had . . . and it was only yesterday around this time of day.

I checked on Masen, and he was still sleeping so I showered and got dressed, knowing that Alice was downstairs and undoubtedly knew that I was awake. I found coffee already made in the kitchen and Alice looking over travel brochures that she had spread all across the kitchen counter.

"I thought you might like to see some of these. I try to keep abreast of all the latest things happening, you know. Is there any place in particular you want to see?" she looked at me inquisitively.

"Um, Tuscany, I think, in Italy and Verona of course, where Romeo met Juliet. Italy for the food, Verona for the romance," I smiled as I broke eggs into the pan, "Romeo and Juliet was always a favorite movie of mine and your brothers and it might be fun to go there."

"Oh, it would! We have, well, Edward has a place kind of in between those two sights. Maybe we could keep Masen for you and you two could explore Verona alone for a day. Would you like that?" she asked.

"I think I would, Alice. I hate the idea of being apart from Masen, especially in a foreign country, but I trust you with him, all of you," I told her as I put my plate of eggs and toast on the table with my coffee. "Let's see what Edward says about it," I told her, remembering that Edward had said there was a list of properties we owned on the computer. "Edward wants to stay at properties that you guys own and not have the baby in hotels and I guess that makes sense," I thought out loud, "I just need to see where those places are."

"Bella, you're going to flip! Some of those houses are amazing and they have been in the family for just years with caretakers and such and expenses every month and some of them we haven't been to in decades. Think of it as looking over the assets and making sure everything is in order!" she laughed.

Edward and Jasper returned and we spent several hours planning and discussing, Rosalie was on speaker phone with us so that she had a part in all of the plans. By the end of the day, Edward and I were going to Europe with his family coming along as well. The only glitch was my mother. She was arriving tomorrow and had planned to stay who knows how long. She mentioned something about a couple of weeks, but that just wasn't going to be possible. There was a big opportunity on the stock market on Thursday, Alice had for seen it and both she and Edward wanted to take advantage, in case we needed an extra few hundred thousand. I rolled my eyes at them both, but it was important to them so we were leaving Saturday. I hoped my mom would understand, though I wasn't sure what exactly I was going to tell her. I had to think of something or this trip would become permanent in that Edward and I would have to disappear . . . and I didn't want that just yet. I still hoped that I could manage the facade a few years longer, having absolutely no idea how I was going to explain Masen's growth in any kind of normal terms. I wanted her to know her grandchild and for him to know her . . .I just wasn't sure how I was going to make that happen.