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A/N: Thanks to katmom and Angelinia, who beta this story.

Chapter Thirty-Five

The Wedding

The day after the visit from the Volturi, Bella returned to stay at Charlie's house. Her dad seemed pleased to see her, though he questioned why she had returned so suddenly.

"Alice was driving me crazy," Bella answered truthfully, though she only had to live through ten hours of Alice chatting at her about the wedding and not the seven days that Charlie thought she had to suffer through.

"I could imagine that would be tough on you," Charlie chuckled. "But just think how much harder it will be on you once your mom gets here."

Bella glared at her dad, who was utterly too pleased about this, "just wait, I'm sure Alice will have something for you to do..."

That wiped the smile off of Charlie's face as he realized the truth of that statement.

Bella went upstairs then to unpack her bag, Edward was there waiting for her, smiling as soon as she came into the room. They lay down in the bed for a little while, not thinking about anything in particular, just enjoying each other's company, however, after about an hour and half, they got up. They had made plans to meet Jacob and Sam at the clearing where the Cullens played baseball, among other sports.

"Do you realize that this is the first time that you've brought me here?" Bella said looking at the open area in wonder. Did they really play baseball here?

"Yes, I do realize that," Edward said, but they were both thinking of all the reasons why Bella should have seen this before which made them both shudder.

"It's about time you got here," Bella heard Jacob's voice, though she couldn't seem him when she first looked up. Realizing that he was the tiny dot on the other side of the clearing she was impressed that his voice could travel that far. A few seconds later Jacob and Sam were standing by them. Bella noted that though they had moved in superhuman speeds, they weren't nearly as fast as the vampires were (at least not in their human forms).

"Hey, Jake," Bella smiled and hugged him, they hadn't been able to see each in over a week and she missed her friend.

"Hey, Bells," Jacob smiled back before he moved to shake hands with Edward as Bella hugged Sam, who she might not have been that close to, but still considered him a friend. Sam nodded his head towards Edward. There was no hostility in his eyes but he was still reluctant to get too close to any of the vampires.

"So are you going to give us the details of what happened, or not?" Jacob questioned, looking towards Edward expectantly.

"Well it went as well as we hoped it would," Edward started, and then explained everything that happened. Sam and Jacob listened, both frowning in a pensive sort of way.

"I see," Sam said when Edward had finished. "Give me your honest opinion; do you think the Volturi will come back in the future? Pose a threat to you, and in extension, all of us like they had in the book?"

"It's not out of the realm of possibilities," Edward frowned. "And I can't give you an idea of how great the change is because I don't know. Without Aro being here, I don't know how he will take this news, but I would think that nothing will happen in the near future. It is likely that by that time we would have moved on to a different place..."

I didn't ask because I thought you were posing a danger to our town, Sam thought hotly, not actually directing it at Edward, but of course the vampire heard him all the same.

"I know, I didn't mean to imply that you were," Edward sighed.

"Sorry," Sam said annoyed. "As I'm sure you know, I don't like the danger these Bloodsuckers pose to our town, but I'm not only thinking about that! If they ever decide to fight you, you can count on us to be on your side! Even if Jake doesn't imprint on your daughter!"

Edward was surprised by this declaration, "Thanks."

Those stupid bloodsuckers are menaces, they should all be killed, Sam continued to them. "Just do me one favor, Edward," he said out loud.

"What is it?" Edward asked.

"Don't ask us to just sit back again," Sam said nearly growling. "Having to smell those freaking bloodsuckers... feel their presence all around town, it was driving all of us crazy."

"Don't worry, I doubt I'll ever have to ask you to do that again," Edward said his expression mirrored Sam's and the two knew that they had an understanding in this matter.

"Did the Volturi's presence have any lasting effect on anyone?" Bella questioned timidly.

Jacob and Sam frowned.

"We can't be sure yet," Jacob said, sounding as if he was willing this to be true more than believing that it was.

"However, we think that Collin, Brady and Seth..." Sam said and then he thought grimly, his sorrow coloring his thoughts, and perhaps even Leah. "They have all grown an inch in the last week alone."

"I'm so sorry," Bella frowned.

"This isn't your fault," Sam said to her firmly, though managing to look friendly as well.

"Then I'm sorry," Edward said. "We're the reason that they came here..."

"The way Jacob explained it, the only reason they came here was because you killed a filthy bloodsucker that particularly liked to hunt," Sam snarled, "I don't blame you for doing that."

"Not to mention by killing Victoria you've saved countless lives in Seattle and the surrounding area," Jacob added and Sam nodded his head. Sam left soon after that but Jacob stayed behind to talk about other things that had been going on in the last week.

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The weeks leading up to the wedding all seemed to bleed together for Bella. She was glad that she didn't have much to do with the planning of it; she left that mainly to Alice, though she knew that Esme, Rosalie and even her mom had some say in the matter too. She spent as much times as she could with her mom as soon as she got into town, meaning that Bella had to spend more time than she wanted in the discussion of her own wedding. She knew that soon she wouldn't be able to see her mom again and that made her sad.

On the night before the big day, Alice showed up at her house, grabbing her arm and took her away before Bella could even say a word to protest. However, when they got to Alice's Porsche, Bella was able to stop her (only because Charlie was looking out the door with an amused smile).

"What are you doing, Alice?" Bella grumbled, crossing her arms.

"Come on, Bella, or you're going to be late for your bachelorette party," Alice said pouting.

"Bach... Alice, no!" Bella said looking horrified.

"Come on, Edward is away with the boys for his bachelor party and I didn't want you to be by yourself," Alice said.

"But..." Bella said looking towards the door, where Charlie was still standing chuckling.

"Just don't be too late, Bella," Charlie chuckled.

"Traitor," Bella huffed, and then looked at Alice. "Well, I'm not going to have any fun!"

"Don't wait up, Charlie, Bella's going to be staying at our house tonight," Alice said, ignoring Bella's comment altogether and soon they were speeding off towards some unknown location.

"I thought you wouldn't want Edward and me to be in the same house..." Bella started to say.

"Of course I won't," Alice rolled her eyes, "the boys are already gone on their hunting trip and Jazz had his orders not to let Edward anywhere near the house."

"Fine, but where are we going anyway?" Bella asked.

"Well it wouldn't be any fun if I told you that," Alice said smirking and Bella groaned yet again. However, it turned out that they were just going out to a nice dinner with Esme, Rosalie, Renee and Angela (the vampires obviously not eating the food they ordered) and after which they stayed out talking about plenty of things that Bella found embarrassing and yet she found that she was having fun with everyone else.

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By the time that Bella got to dinner, Edward, Emmett, Jasper, and Carlisle were sitting in a forest near Canada, having already hunted their fill for the day.

"So, Eddie, are you looking forward to the big day?" Emmett questioned, just think, this time tomorrow you can kiss your virginity goodbye.

"That's not really the reason I'm excited about tomorrow," Edward said rolling his eyes, though he would be lying if he said he didn't think about that.

"Sure it's not," Emmett waggled his eyebrows.

"I'm just happy that it's finally here," Edward said truthfully. "It seems like I've been waiting for a long time for this day to come..."

"So you're not nervous at all," Jasper said raising his eyebrow with a smug smile.

"Well seeing as I can't possibly lie to you, yes, I'm a little nervous," Edward said.

"Don't worry, I know you're inexperienced and all that but Bella doesn't know..." Emmett started to say.

"I worry about what's going to come next," Edward said. "I don't know what it is; I suppose part of me always doubted that I would actually get here, to this day. I was so worried that another attack was going to happen and prevent us from having the happily ever after that I didn't really think about what's happening right now..."

"Um... you really must be nervous, you're not making any sense right now," Emmett said.

"I'm going to be married tomorrow," Edward said with a smile that showed a hint of being crazed. "And a little after that I'm going to be a father... I've been thinking about that... I've been waiting for it to happen, but I've never prepared for it."

"And you're worried that you won't be a good father..." Carlisle said smiling at Edward.

"Sort of... but it's more like I have no idea what I'm supposed to do," Edward admitted.

"You'll learn," Carlisle said.

"I don't understand why you're worried, it sounded like you were fine in the book," Emmett pointed out.

"The book is from Bella's point of view, and let's face it, she makes me sound perfect in everything," Edward said.

"That's true, and we all know how wrong she is about that," Emmett snickered. "Besides, you only got to see your daughter as a little girl, imagine when she's a teenage and she's hanging around the pup all the time..."

"Emmett," Edward growled at him.

"It's not easy being a father, and I only have... limited experience of that aspect," Carlisle said, "It's not something you can every really prepare for, but it can be the most rewarding and fulfilling experience in your life."

Edward didn't say anything, but he smiled at Carlisle, who was, in all but actuality, his father.

"Enough of this emotional baby crap. It's time to teach Edward the ways to please his woman..." Emmett said smirking evilly at Edward, who was now grimacing; his brother wasn't going to give him a break.

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The next morning Bella woke up to Alice's musical voice and no matter how much she tried to tune out her soon to be sister-in-law (or was it just plain sister?) she couldn't do it.

"Alice, what time is it?" Bella questioned getting up feeling very groggy, she wasn't used to sleeping without Edward and she found she didn't like it much.

"Seven, and it's about time you woke up!" Alice answered. "I have to get you dressed and do your makeup, thank goodness that you got a good night's sleep this time, it shouldn't be too hard to make you perfect... Still, standing here is wasting time, you're already cutting into the thirty minutes that I allowed for your human needs so if you don't..."

Alice kept talking but Bella tuned her out as she started taking care of her 'human needs'. Just like she expected, the second that her free time was over, Alice was all over her again, making sure every little detail was in order. Just like before, Rosalie helped Bella with her hair as Alice did something downstairs.

"So what happened with you keeping Alice under control?" Bella questioned Rosalie.

"Oh, this is Alice under control," Rosalie said smiling. "You should have seen how bad she was the time Emmett and I got married for the first time she knew us. Not that I minded much, I love Alice's weddings..."

"So she made you feel like you were a Barbie doll too?" Bella grumbled and Rosalie's response to that was merely a chuckle.

"You really have lovely hair, Bella," Rosalie commented, changing the subject. "It's a shame that we couldn't have the wedding in the sunlight though..."

"But having a glittering groom might freak out a few of our guests," Alice said. She was looking at Bella's hair critically for a moment, before nodding her head. "It looks like our Barbie's hair is done... (Bella blushed as she realized that she had been overheard) now I just need to work on the final touches."

"Bella...? Oh... Bella!" Renee said as she walked into the room and laid eyes on her daughter. Alice was again looking at Bella critically but also looking pleased.

"I believe I'm done!" Alice proclaimed.

"Bella, you look so beautiful," Renee said tears coming to her eyes. "I can't believe how grownup you are. You're not my little girl anymore."

"Mom, don't cry," Bella said, starting to feel a little teary herself as she realized that this would be one of the last times that she would be able to see her mom, perhaps ever.

"I can't help it, I'm just..." Renee said, unable to finish her sentence.

"Bella..." Charlie's voice could be heard and soon after that he was walking into the room too. He looked at Bella in awe for a moment before he smiled at her, his eyes both proud and sad at the same time. "Wow, kid, you sure look good."

"Thanks, Dad," Bella blushed.

"Charlie, don't forget to give her the gift," Renee reminded him, and Charlie blushed as he gave Bella the gift that included the sapphire combs that were her grandmother's.

"Renee, we really need to be going, or we're going to be late," Alice warned and the two of them left and Bella was left alone with her dad.

"I'm really going to miss you, kid," Charlie said softly.

"Dad, please don't, Alice will kill me if I cry before the wedding," Bella said.

"You're probably right," Charlie chuckled. "We probably should be going too."

"Yeah," Bella said, and walked downstairs with her dad. The inside of the house was decorated much the same it had been in the book, with the white blossoms hanging from gargling and white gossamer bows, it was truly lovely. However it wasn't where they were heading. No the house was only the scene of the reception, but the wedding was going to be held by the creek not too far from the house. Alice had decided to go with this knowing how often Edward had taken Bella someplace with nature in it when they spent time alone together.

As soon as they were outside they could hear the music and Charlie held out a hand to Bella. She took it, as she kept her eyes on the canopy of trees in front of them. She could just make out the gathering of chairs there and if she focused really hard she could see Edward standing next to Carlisle, Emmett and Jasper. The guests that had been invited to the actual wedding had been limited this time, so that only Tanya, Eleazar and Carmen (Laurent and Garrett were still unable to be so close to humans, not to mention wolves, so they opted to stay home). Then there was Billy, Harry, Sue, and Seth along with Angela and Ben.

Bella wondered why she didn't feel nervous about this at all as she reached the chairs and the music changed. Her eyes were on Edward and she couldn't wait to be married to him.

"Bells, it looks like we're up to bat," Charlie said. He looked like he had been overcome with emotions as he smiled at her.

She smiled back as she grabbed his arm tighter. "Just don't let me fall, Dad."

He nodded his head as they followed Bella's last maid-of-honor... Jacob.

"I can't believe you really made Jake do that," Charlie snickered as they walked carefully down the aisle.

"Well I wanted him to be a part of the wedding and that was the only available opening." Bella smiled as Jacob made a face at her when he turned around (he had obviously heard what they had said). The face only made Charlie chuckle more, but when he placed Bella's hands into Edward's she could feel he's sadness.

She couldn't worry about though, not when she was looking into Edward's eyes, about to realize the part of the dream she had for a year and a half. Edward's smile was breathtaking, his eyes showing the excitement that she was feeling. The vows were simple, and it suited them that way, they had already shown and said the multitude of ways that they love each other.

Tears of joy filled her eyes as she said, "I do."

And Edward smiled with relief and elation when he said, "I do."

It was merely a second after Mr. Weber pronounced them husband and wife that Edward and Bella kissed, neither one of them able to stop themselves any longer. It was Emmett, Jasper and Jacob snickering that made the pair pull apart. Bella blushed of course, but Edward just looked pleased with himself.

Then she was being hugged by all those present. Her mom first and foremost, then there was the Cullens, and the other vampires, the werewolves and her human friends. It was odd that even though there were only a handful of people there she still couldn't keep everyone straight as her mind was completely on her new husband.

A/N: So here's what I have for the wedding. I must say that I didn't really like this chapter myself, but it's all I could think of doing, I can only hope that it's better than I think it is. Next chapter, the honeymoon. I will say this now, this is a 'T' story and it's going to stay that way, so sorry to anyone that was hoping for more.