LET IT ALL BURN TO THE GROUND

Emmet brought her body up to her bedroom and laid her down on her bed. The entire family crowded around her body no one was even breathing. Carlisle broke the silence.

"I want you all to come into my office."

They all followed him into his office with dark wood wall paneling and the huge oriental rug. Carlisle walked behind his huge wooden desk and pulled out a piece of paper and held it up.

"I found this the day after Tamara left."


Dear Family,
By now I am long gone. I want you all to know that I love you all more than you could ever imagine. You have made my life one hell of a trip.
I want every single one of you to look at your partners and cherish them every single moment of your life. I was fortunate enough to finally find love before I died. And yes by the time you all finally get to this letter I will be dead. I knew exactly what I was doing and I had no intentions of coming home after I left.
My life was great and that is because of you all. Please do not mourn me, I will always be with you. When you feel the breeze or the waves of the ocean that will be me.
Edward- I know what you are thinking, that if you would have never fallen in love and had a child then none of this would have happened. You are wrong, if I could die for anything it would be for you or anyone in this family. You have an eternity to love Bella and your daughter. Enjoy each moment and behave because I have never left you and I never will. C Carlisle- you are my father and you were the best dad I could’ve ever prayed for. I love you so much and I am sorry for any pain I have ever caused you. I know I haven’t been the easiest child to raise and put up with. You always made me feel loved and wanted. I love you and you were my other half.
No one is to take the blame for my death. Everything comes to an end someday. I love you all and please live through the ends of time happy.
Remember I will always be with you
~Tamara
P.S. Please someone let Jacob know that I love him and I will always be with him. Thank him for showing me true love before I died. Tell him I want him to be happy, this life comes with its ups and downs.

Carlisle set the letter down and everyone had their heads bent down. Renesseme started squirming against Bella’s hold and she set her down. Renesseme trotted out of the room unnoticed as Bella threw her arms around Edward.

"I am so sorry.” She whispered to him.

"She was my protector and when she was dying right in front of me I just stood there, the one time she actually needed protection I wasn’t there for her. She did all of this because of the choices I made."

"This is the path she chose and she believed in it till her last moment." Carlisle said

"She didn’t want you to get hurt. She wanted your focus to be on your family. In a way you could say that she was trying to show the strength you would need to protect your daughter. With her death she is passing the role of protection of this family over to you." Esme said

"I’ll never be able to be what Tamara was."

"No, no one will ever be like my daughter, she was one in a million." Carlisle said as his voice broke.

Everyone was silent till there was a loud thud from Tamara’s room. They all raced into the room and saw Reneeseme kneeling over Tamara’s body with her hand on her forehead.

"No Renesseme get down! Don’t touch her." Bella said

"No mommy I can help her."

Reneeseme placed her tiny hand back on Tamara forehead and Tamara’s body jerked again.

"Renesseme!" Bella cried as she jerked her away from Tamara’s body

"No… wait… let her continue." Edward said in a soft firm voice

Bella set Renesseme back down on the bed and she placed her hand back on her forehead. Tamara’s body jerked a few times and Esme gasped as she looked at Tamara’s body. Reneeseme touch was pulling the venom out of her body bringing her back to life.
The wounds on her body had purple venom draining out of the wounds streaming down her sides. Her chest slowly began to move. When Renesseme pulled her hand away from Tamara, Tamara’s body started twitching as if she was trying to wake up from a nightmare. Tamara’s eyes suddenly flashed open and she looked at all of us.

"Well I don’t believe it!" Carlisle said in a pleased voice.

"Tamara!" Esme cried as she wrapped her arms around her.

"How? What?" Tamara stammered

"It doesn’t matter! Your still alive!" Carlisle said as he pulled her off of the bed and pulled her into his arms. Tamara grasped on to her father and both of them held onto each other as tight as they could. Tamara pulled away from her father and Carlisle cupped his hand around her cheek and she smiled at him.

"Thank God, I thought you were really gone."

"So did I."

She looked around the room and met Emmet’s eyes. She pushed away from Carlisle and walked in front of him.

“Thank you Emmet, I wouldn’t have been able to fight without your help.”

“Like I said before Tamara…you are not alone in anything.”

“I finally understand that, thanks to you.”

Emmet beamed his boyish smile at her and she threw her arms around hugging him tightly. They may have been designed for each other but they were content loving each other as brother and sister. Tamara grabbed Emmet’s hand and placed in Rosalie’s with a smile.

“Tamara…” Rosalie began to speak.

“Yes?”

“I…Emmet...you… Emmet brought up a very good point after you left?”

“And what is that?”

“Emmet told us that you were willing to die for us but we just let you leave without a fight. How we only have valued you as a bodyguard and not as a family member. How we never told you how much we all love you.”

“I knew I was loved.”

“Yes well your father always expressed his love to you but none of us ever did.”

Rosalie walked over to Tamara and pulled her into a hug. Tamara froze in her arms in the eighty years Rosalie had lived with her, she had never even touched her. Rosalie was always shooting dirty looks at her when she and Emmet messed around.

“Thank you for keeping my husband safe…Thank you for keeping this family alive. Thank you for everything you have ever done for me even though I don’t deserve your love. Thank you so much and I love you.” Rosalie whispered in her ear.

“You are more than welcome baby sister.” Tamara whispered back as she pulled away.

“Tamara?” Jasper began but Tamara raised her hand to silence him.

“Ok guys seriously this is to much love for me. I love you all and I know you all love me. Ok enough with the thank yous.”

“You really like killing the moment don’t you?” Emmet joked from the side.

“Lets save the sarcastic comments after I’ve been alive for more than two minutes. Now where is Jac-”

"Jacob took off into the forest after you died." Edward answered her thought

"What! And you let him go! Oh God no!"

"What?"

"It doesn’t matter I just hope he hasn’t done anything stupid!"

Tamara took off into the forest heading towards my reservation at full speed. I had managed to write a note to my father and to my pack letting them know why I did the thing I was preparing to do. There was just no way I could live without her. There was no way I was even going to try.
I headed down the street towards the cliff’s that over looked the sea. I took my time walking down the street with a tear stained face. I felt like I was walking through fog and in the clouds all I could see was Tamara. Her ice blue eyes and short blond hair reflecting off the sunlight. Her pale white skin and perfect fanged smile shinning like diamonds.
I suddenly saw our wedding, she was in a white lace dress blending perfectly with her skin. Her arms wrapped around my neck. All we did was smile and stare into each other’s eyes with all eternity before us. My pack and her family suddenly one and the violence had ended.
The scene broke and brought me back into reality. I hadn’t quite decided if I was going to kill myself quickly by jumping off the cliff on to the rocks below or have a slow death by drowning myself. I guess I would decide when I got there.
I finally reached the cliff and looked down below, I could either jump to the right and hit the rocks or go to the left and hit the water. Or I could get a combination of the two and jump off the center point if the cliff.
The dark blue waves slammed violently against the huge jagged rocks below. I decided for the combo pack and inched my way towards the edge. I looked at my watery grave that awaited me.

"Jacob!" I heard Tamara’s sweet voice call out to me through the wind. I pictured her beautiful face and I couldn’t wait to see her in the next life. I closed my eyes and leaned forward.


HOW?

I felt something stone hard slam into me but I didn’t land in the water. I must have landed on the rocks but I felt no pain. I opened my eyes and I was looking at the ground, I was still on the cliff but how?

"Jacob! What the hell do you think you were doing!"

I turned my direction to the stone object that had knocked me away from my death. I focused my eyes and I took in Tamara’s face. Her spiked blond hair shinning in the sun, her beautiful ice blue eyes fixated on me.

"Jacob!"

"Tamara?"

"Jacob what in the hell were you doing?"

I forcefully pulled her into my arms crushing her against my body. I couldn’t believe it she was alive! She pushed away from me and slapped me across the face. I never fully realized how hard she could hit.

"Ow!"

"Jesus you almost gave me a heart attack! And that’s hard to do considering mine stopped over three centuries ago!"

"You were dead."

"Like that gives you an excuse to go kill yourself!"

"You would’ve done the same thing!"

She was silent but she kept glaring at me. She reached her hand up and pushed my hair away from my face. She stared into my eyes as if she was reading my soul. Her eyes were full of pain they looked like mine must have been when I saw her lifeless body.

"Do realize what you were about to do Jacob?" She whispered calmly.

"Yes I was going to see you."

"Damn it Jacob! If I would’ve been one second later…"

I laughed and pulled her against me.

"I thought you were dead, if I couldn’t be with you in this life then I was going to be with you in the next."

"You’re so damn dramatic Jacob."

"Part of my charm."

She kept staring at me with a serious look but I crushed my lips against hers ending her fury. All I could feel was relief as the life slowly returned to my heart. I leaned back and pulled her on top of me. She crushed her body against mine molding her every curve into my body.
We stayed in this position for hours till the sun went down. Eventually we got off of each other and sat on the edge of the cliff watching the orange sun disappear on the pink and yellow horizon.
I kept one of my hands entwined with hers and the other around her waist keeping her close to me. She had her head leaded up against my chest listening to my heartbeat when she looked at me with a smile.

"What are you smiling about?"

"You know we have a wedding to plan Mr. Black?"

"Ah yes that we do Ms. Cullen."

She cringed at my statement.

"What?"

"I prefer Mrs. Black."

"I do too."

I leaned down to kiss her but she pulled away. I looked at her confused.

"Jacob, have you told your father?"

"Umm…. No."

"You have to tell him."

I sighed I did not want to see him. After all her put my fiancé in jail for no reason. I looked down at Tamara and she had a stern look on her face obviously there was no arguing this. I agreed to speak to him but I didn’t care what he said. She agreed with my decision but she did want me to invite him.


FAIRY TALES CAN COME TRUE


I walked up to the front porch of my house and knocked on the door. I got the feeling that I wasn’t welcomed here anymore. I could hear my father wheel down the hallway and he opened the door.

"Jacob."

"Hey dad."

"Well I got your note and it’s nice to see you weren’t stupid enough to kill yourself."

"I’m sorry about that I was hoping I’d get back before you could see it."

"What do you want?"

"I just want to talk to you dad."

"About what? How you left for almost a year because you couldn’t handle Bella’s marriage. Or how you chose a vampire over your family? How you left school with her not coming home till morning? How you’ve been gone the last month without so much of a word from you? Leaving me a suicide note on how you wanted die over her?"

"There is no point in talking about any of those topics. They all tie to one specific source."

"Yea that vampire Tamara."

"Dad I just came here because Tamara asked me to. Normally I would spare us both the pain and not bother talking to each other but she asked me to do this."

"What is that?"

"She wanted me to invite you to a wedding in town on Thursday at ten in the morning."

"Who is getting married?"

"She is."

"And do I even want to know who the groom is?"

"Dad… her and I are getting married. You don’t have to show up but you can’t stop this. The treaty is out dated and we have learned to co exist. All my life you told me that the only thing you wanted for me was to be happy no matter what. Tamara is what makes me happy and I love her."

My father rolled his eyes and wheeled away from me. He stopped midway through the hall and spoke over his shoulder.

"Ten in the morning on Thursday?"

"Yea."

"I’ll be there."

"You will?"

I was confused, a month ago he was asking the police to shoot her. Yet now he was going to come to my wedding to her?

"Son, I may not like your choice but you obviously love her, so there is nothing I can do."

I hugged my dad and went to leave but as I opened the door Tamara stood there. She had on a more appropriate outfit today. A long black turtle neck that covered the wounds on her neck. She had on long black dress pants with heels. She smiled at me and then looked at my dad. I reached for her hand and pulled her in front of my father.

"Mr. Black."

"Tamara."

"I understand how you feel towards my family and me but I hope you will put that aside for your son’s sake."

"Tamara you must really love my son to break the treaty to see him."

"I really do."

She looked up at me with a smile; I wrapped my arms around her and kissed her on the cheek. My father actually smiled at us.
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Alice had listened to Tamara’s request partially. There weren’t any pink flowers but there were red roses draped every where. The left side of the church was filled with Tamara’s family and most of my community was on the right side.
Seth and Sam stood next to me on the altar. I watched as my people stared at the vampires on the other side. All my future in laws sat in the front pew smiling at us. Bella and Renesseme were standing on the opposite side of the altar waiting for Tamara.
The wedding march began to play and the doors opened. Tamara stood with Carlisle’s arm wrapped around her arm. I stared at the beauty she was as she walked towards me.
She had on a tight white halter dress that flowed into white lace down to her feet. I smiled at her as she reached the altar. Carlisle kissed her on the cheek and placed her hand in mine staring at me warning me to take of his daughter.

"I promise." I whispered to him.

The wedding seemed like a blur to me. We never took our eyes off of each other it was like the words the minister spoke meant nothing to us. Only our own vows to each other mattered.

"Tamara, do you take this man to be your husband to love and to hold, till death do you part?"

Tamara smiled at his question and snickers came from her family. She technically was already dead.

"I promise to love and to hold him for the rest of my existence."

"Jacob, do you take this woman to be your wife to love and to hold till- uh for as long as you shall live?"

"I do."

"Then if there are no objections to this union by the powers vested in me I now pronounce you man and wife. Jacob you may kiss your bride."

I pulled her into my arms and kissed her intensely keeping her close to me, I could hear Carlisle tap his foot reminding me that there were other people in the room. I pulled away from her lips but I never let my arms slide from her.

"May I introduce Mr. and Mrs. Black."

There were cheers in the room as we walked out of the church. All was right with the world. I had my wife and happy ending. Edward and Bella were together, Renessme was safe and the feud between our families had died out. It was the exact opposite ending to Romeo and Juliet. We were joined together and so were our families but not through our deaths but through our love.

So that is my story you now know the story of the werewolf who fell helplessly in love with a vampire. Who says the fairy tales you hear as a child are fake? I am still living mine.

THE END