Edward

Next Day

Bella laid motionless in Carlisle's medical room.

Alice shut her eyes.

She sponge-bathed her.

"She shouldn't be this still." I told Carlisle.

"It's the morphine."

Alice slid a blue dress on Bella.

"Maybe I was too late."

"No, Edward. Listen to her heart."

Rosalie brushed out her hair.

Alice folded her hands over her abdomen.

Alice wheeled a basin of bloody water away.

Rosalie caressed Bella's hair.

She retrieved a brush on her way out.

Her Engagement ring sparkled on her right ring finger.

Alice looked to Jasper.

Emmet and Rosalie traded a look.

Carlisle held Esme's shoulder and stared solemnly.

Standing apart, Jacob.

I gazed intensely as Bella laid motionless in her new form.

Transfixed, I stepped towards Bella.

Her eyes opened, red crimson.

Bella

My eyes looked around the room rapidly.

I noticed dust mites dancing in the air, condensation on a vase, the word "Ever" in a poem, and the rough texture of the wood.

I focused on Edward framed by French windows and backlit with sunlight.

He reached out tentatively.

I raised my hand to see an oval ring with sparking diamonds.

I placed my hand in his.

And then up his arm.

As he rubbed my shoulder and caressed my face.

I turned my face into his palm.

I looked up at hm.

Edward was wearing a white button-up shirt.

He looked into my eyes.

"So beautiful."

A smile played across his face as I looked up at him with my now crimson eyes.

"We're the same temperature now."

Hand-in-hand, we faced our reflections in a full length mirror.

Edward watched me as I was wearing a cobalt blue dress.

As I turned to face him, I reached up and pulled him into a strong embrace.

He grunted.

"Hey, Bella, you're a lot stronger than I am right now."

I held him close.

I released my grasp and pulled back.

He grunted.

"It's your turn not to break me."

He grunted as I pinched his thigh.

"I love you."

"I love you." He told me.

We kissed passionately, our bodies leaning into each other.

"Renesmee."

Edward chuckled.

"She's incredible."

"Where is she? I have to see her."

"Wait. Wait. You need to get your thirst under control."

I grasped my throat.

"Yeah. You'll need to hunt."