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Chapter 33

Welding of Souls

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Leah POV

Jacob and Sam had agreed on meeting with the pack and the Cullens in the clearing at five o'clock in the evening for some last minute strategies and to make sure that everyone knew their roles. Edward and Jacob agreed as we headed back home (to the Cullen's house) that it was a miracle that Bella's scent had hardly altered. If anything, it had become more appealing to my entire vampire family. It was sweeter, and stronger than it had been before she was abducted and tortured by the nameless, heartless piece of shit that had managed to walk the earth for God knows how long before Bella snapped and removed his head.

Bella. I once thought of her as some spoiled, self-centered brat who thought of nothing and no one but herself. All I was able to see before the previous Saturday was a cold-hearted conniver who had two guys wrapped around her little finger, flaunting their emotions and using them to her advantage. Now I had gotten to know the soft-spoken woman whose heart had been torn between a close friend and a first love. All that she had ever really wanted for herself was a quiet and inconspicuous life with the people that she loved; and she wanted to be made strong and invulnerable like them so that she could spend forever with them. Who wouldn't want forever with their loved ones? No, Bella was not selfish, spoiled or vacuous; she was the opposite of all of those things. And oh, yeah… she's my sister! (Okay, so the DNA won't have come back for another ten days or so, but all initial markers would indicate…)

Bella was introduced to the supernatural rather violently at every turn. Edward told me of their meeting, and the near miss of the van on ice, and the back alley in Port Angeles, and then James and Victoria. Nothing ever seemed to come easily to Bella. I had come to think it was just my lot in life to struggle for everything I ever wanted, and then have it denied me, but I was changing my mind, and figuring it was a family trait. Shit, look at Charlie! Now, Bella finally seems to have all that she ever wanted, but she has had to kill a vampire and a werewolf within less than two whole days since she became… whatever it is that we are. I made a mental note to ask Carlisle and Edward to help us name our genus.

Vampwolf, or Werepire? Edward smiled at my inner musings.

"Yeah, I don't like those so much." I stated dryly. "It really is fortuitous that her scent appeals to you all even more strongly now, isn't it?"

"That is the family's hope anyhow. I hope that Carlisle is able to discover what makes the difference, and how she has retained her scent. The difference is nearly imperceptible. I would have thought that she would come to smell more like the wolves."

"Why, because she can phase?"

"No, because her body's first response to the venom was to trigger the chromosome and the change." Edward's expression was pensive, his brows slightly furrowed.

"I don't think that that is so. If that had been the first response, then she would have gone into anaphylactic shock, right?"

"Oh, I don't know. I don't know that we ever will, either." Edward sounded like he was bored with the topic suddenly as he reached for my hand. We had just gotten back to the house, and Jacob ran off to find Bella, while Edward led me swiftly upstairs to his room.

When we entered his room, Edward closed the door immediately, pushing me roughly against it. He leaned into me, resting the length of his body against the length of mine, and buried his nose into my neck, breathing me in. We stood like that for a while, saying nothing, just enjoying the quiet, and the nearness.

As his scent filled my lungs, I was immersed in his proximity, and my need for all things Edward, and only things Edward. I slipped my hands into his hair, and knotted my fingers into it roughly, pulling his head back so that I could look deeply into his eyes. He had made short work of a stray button buck on our return from the res, and now they were vividly, stunningly lutescent liquid pools of passion. My mouth began to salivate with the singular thought of kissing him permeating my mind.

Edward dipped his head towards me, his eyes fixated on my mouth as he claimed my lips with a searing kiss. We opened to each other immediately, pressing our tongues together, and we both groaned as we tasted each other, our mouths fully content to consume whatever their counterparts offered.

As our kissing deepened, I found that my body responded very quickly to the smallest of input. Edward shifted his stance almost infinitesimally, moving his hips just the lightest bit against mine, and it was like fire under my skin. Every ragged breath I drew pressed my breasts against his chest in a fluctuating pattern that tightened my nipples, and sent shockwaves of lust straight to my seeping punani.

Please. I begged without breaking our fiery kiss.

Edward began to tear our clothes off, not bothering to pull himself away from me, nor cease in consuming my mouth with a raw passion. In mere moments, I felt the last strip of cloth slip from between us, We were once again bare together, heaving bodies pressed against each other; all flesh and singing nerve endings.

Good lord, Leah! You smell incredible. I want to devour you.

Make me yours again; I need you! Fuck me, Edward. Take me now!

A feral growl broke free from his chest at my plea, and I felt his cock twitch against my stomach, leaking precum against my skin. The combined sensation of the rumbling of his growl, and the wetness of his emission clouded my mind with need. Want had left the building, thank you very much! I needed to feel him fill me. I needed him to take me and mark me. I felt the shimmering heat of transformation as my teeth hardened and elongated. Rational thought fled as I sank them deeply into his collar bone. My hips began to undulate against Edward's thigh as I sought some sort of friction for relief of the now painful demand that was making itself known throughout my body.

The taste of his venom on my tongue was driving me slowly mad with want and painful desire. I lapped at the jagged edge of the wound that I had created, and watched in rapt awe through hooded lids as it sealed over, leaving behind a pink crescent on his skin. My whole body flushed with joy at the mark that I had left behind on him. He was mine!

Please! I begged. "Please!" my voice was shaky, quivering with an all consuming, very real hunger to join with my love in the most primal of ways.

"Mine!" I snarled as I reached between us to grasp his weeping cock. I lifted my left leg around his hip, and dragged the head through my slit, and against my clit, allowing our seepage to combine and coat him before I placed him at my opening. "Stop being stubborn! Give me what's mine!" I whisper-yelled into his ear. I had no doubts that his whole family had heard my words, and knew what was going on, but I was beyond caring. I was a quivering mess of carnal desire, and wanton lust.

Edward gave in to my demand, ramming himself into me in one swift, forceful motion. My head fell back in relief as his cock filled and stretched me deliciously. Feeling him inside me was a feeling of rightness that words would never describe correctly. Together in this way, he and I made one complete being. Just the feeling of his most intimate appendage moving inside of my most private place was bliss. When his teeth clamped onto my collar bone again, and sank into my flesh; my eyes rolled back into my head. Only six strokes in, I began the spiral of a mind blowing orgasm that had my back arching and my whole torso twitching spasmodically.

Edward's hips began to piston against my own as every part of me clamped against him, my arms, my legs, my teeth, and my pussy as it convulsed against his thick shaft, trying to suck him dry. He slammed himself into me, and strained to press himself as deeply as he could possibly reach, the tip of his cock practically branding itself onto my cervix as his orgasm tore through him.

Edward pulled my right leg up and around his hip, holding me firmly against him by my ass, he walked across the room, and laid us onto the bed without ever losing our physical connection. He covered me with his body and began to kiss me again, sucking my tongue, and lips with his own. Soft moans escaped us both and filled the room as he began to move inside me again.

"Oh my God!" I whimpered against his lips. "It's too much! I can't… Oh, fuck!" I managed to strangle out against the tide of emotion and sensation that was surging through me, searing me with a white-hot desire, and welding my soul to Edward's.

What is this? What's happening? I asked silently, unable to get the words to escape my mouth.

This is why I couldn't tell you to leave. You are my mate. Every fiber of my being, every ounce of my soul is yours. This is your soul and mine… everything that makes us-us is being mated together. This is an unbreakable bond.

Tears began to stream down my face as his explanation washed over me. It rang true in every cell of my body, and every connection that I had felt with him up until that point felt gossamer in its wake. The depth of what we were sharing slammed through me with such simple clarity and beauty. Nothing in my life could have prepared me for this level of intimacy. Even sharing our thoughts could not hold a candle to what I was feeling. It was like I was feeling inside of him, through his eyes. I could practically feel what his body was feeling as he was pressed up against me, moving inside of me.

It is a strange thing to see yourself suddenly; through someone else's eyes. Our thoughts and hearts merged into one as our bodies moved against each other, claiming and giving love. I could see myself looking back at him with so much love and trust. I knew he was seeing the same. In this moment, as we inched towards a physical release, the union of our souls trumped everything I thought I knew about joy or pleasure. Every sensation… every emotion was amplified. I felt his happiness as my own. He felt the rush of my endorphins as his cock pressed against that place inside of me that made me groan in delectation.

This is so… Edward! We are so beautiful together!

I never knew that mating would be this amazingly intimate! I thought it was perfect before, but this is… Oh, God!

As our physical pleasure increased, and we neared the cusp of orgasmic release, words became unnecessary whether thought or spoken. There were no words for what was happening between us. What was ringing clear to me in that moment of truth was that old addage about a three chord strand not being easily broken... Edward was my imprint, and as such, there was an instant bond on my part. Edward had told me today that he knew I that I am his true mate, so he felt bonded to me. But we shared yet another connection... Edward's venom had changed me. I was not fully vampire, but it occurred to us through our shared thoughts and emotions that he was also my sire. The three chord strand that could truly not be broken. I had found everything in him, imprint, mate, sire... no wonder this bonding was beyond even his expectations! And in that moment of release, as we both cried out in ecstasy that neither of us knew existed separately, but together as one complete entity, we found it impossible to be without.

As we laid in each other's arms afterwards, I was reluctant for him to remove himself from me. I was spent, but not tired. I felt like I would not be able to walk for a week, as my muscles had transformed into jello, and my bones had turned into sponge. It wasn't until Edward slipped out of me to roll me over and spoon against me that I realized that he was still hard, and very erect. I was amazed. He laughed at my incredulity.

"Vampires don't need recovery time, love. We stay hard until we force our minds to something else. I could keep going indefinitely." He whispered very softly into my ear as he held me tightly.

"If I didn't feel like a living ragdoll right now, I would be very tempted to test that out! As it is, I can hardly move." I chuckled. "I don't know how much more pleasure I can take right now!"

I looked at his clock across the room, and was stunned to find that four hours had passed while we were cocooned in our love bubble. I thought about the final training/planning session that was going to take place later that day and shuddered. I really didn't want Saturday to arrive. I wished we could stay wrapped in our love spell forever.

"The world isn't just going to go away because we wish it so, sweetheart!" Edward whispered, shifting us slightly so that he could look into my eyes.

"I know. But can we just stay here together… in this perfect bliss until we absolutely have to leave?"

"Don't you want to talk to Carlisle, and find out what he has learned about the changes in you since everything happened?"

"Well, yes, yes I do…. But I want this more!" I gestured between us.

"We have to live a balance. This… connection that we have between us, this sharing of souls is the most wonderful thing I have experienced in my one hundred plus years, but it is unrealistic to think we can stay inside of this bliss forever."

"I know… really, I do! I just…" a gust of air left me forcefully as I sighed in my frustration. "Can we stay here like this for at least a few more hours?"

"Absolutely! Are your muscles adequately re-solidified?" he teased.

"Oh, I think you'll find that my recovery time has expired!" I grinned as he pulled me tightly against himself again, and began to kiss me until I felt dizzy. Losing ourselves to the conjoined being that our love created was indeed a worthwhile way to pass the time.

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