Love Story 12/12 *complete*
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elvenavariTitle: Love Story
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avari_maethor
Summary: Their fates have crossed over the course of hundreds of years but never have they been able to be happy…until now. Jacob/Edward.
Rating: T
Disclaimer: Twilight is owned by Stepheine Meyer. The lyrics, one verse per chapter, are from the song “Love Story” by Taylor Swift, Miss Swift and her associated companies own the rights to this song.
Warning: This chapter contains character death.
Love Story
Chapter 12
Oh, oh, oh, oh
'Cause we were both young when I first saw you
200 years later…
Edward knew the moment it happened, or at least the moment Jacob got the call. His mind was flooded with images; some so strong he could feel the despair and anger that came with them through their bond. Seth Clearwater was dead.
Dropping the files he was carrying into the nearest inbox, never mind that it was the wrong inbox, he told the secretary that there was a family emergency and he was gone. Edward didn’t even bother with his car in the parking garage. He had to get to Jacob as quickly as possible and that meant running.
“Jacob!” Edward called as he threw open the door to their house in the woods. There was no answer but Edward knew his lover was still in the house. He could feel the pressure of Jacob’s mind on his own even though his lover’s mind was despairingly blank. Edward found Jacob on his knee’s under where the phone dock hung on the wall. The phone itself lay on the floor beside Jacob, its dial tone beeping in the silence. “Jacob…”
After Edward called his name a few more times Jacob looked up and met his eyes even as his own filled with tears. “Ed…Edward… S-Seth i-i-is…” Jacob’s voice broke and Edward wrapped his arms around his lover.
“I know…” He whispered. “How?”
“Sam s-said it was a-a ca-ar accident…”
“Jake, I’m so sorry. At least it was quick?”
“Instant.” Jacob then collapsed in sobs and Edward could only hold him as he cried.
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Edward knew it was coming, even before Jacob stated what he wanted to do. He had been dreading it; it was always painful to lose Jacob. But in the months since Seth’s death Jacob had been thinking about his own death and how tired his soul was more and more.
“I want to die Edward,” Jacob told him one night as they lay in bed. “Not right now… like this second or anything… but I want to stop phasing. If I stop that I’ll grow older until I eventually die.”
“So we would have around another eighty years together?” Edward questioned.
“Unless something happened like…” His thoughts went to Seth’s car accident. “Yeah.”
“Jake…” Edward sighed. “I know I’m being selfish when I say this but I don’t want to lose you. I know I’ve had you for 200 years but I want 200 more and everything beyond that with no breaks. I love you so much…”
Jacob buried his face into Edward’s neck. He breathed in deep letting his imprint’s scent calm him as nothing else could. “And I love you Edward,” he said finally. “But I’m tired… I know I don’t look old but I feel it.” Edward didn’t reply and Jacob left him to his thoughts by falling asleep. By the time the next morning came Edward had come to the only decision he knew there was.
He woke Jacob with a kiss, just like he did every morning. “I will wait for you Jacob, forever if I have to.”
Jacob gave him a smile. “I wouldn’t be able to deny you forever Edward. I know you think you have no soul but that no soul of yours calls to me stronger than anything else.”
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Over the course of the next eighty years Edward and Jacob continued their lives as they had for the previous 200. Every ten years or so they would move, more so due to Edward than Jacob now that the native had stopped phasing and was aging normally. The first time someone had asked if Edward was Jacob’s son, Jacob had laughed and asked him that night if he had ever been asked that while with Carlisle.
“More than I care to remember,” Edward answered with a smile as he ran his fingers through Jacob’s graying hair. Jacob hummed and started to cough. Edward frowned as he reached for the glass of water on the bedside table. Jacob had developed this cough about a month ago and his healing, even without phasing, had yet to take care of it. “Please see Carlisle?”
Jacob drank a bit of the water Edward had offered him before laying back down and smiling. “You’re being selfish again Edward. You know my time is getting close.” Edward sighed and nodded. He had begged Jacob to see Carlisle in hopes that his creator could keep his lover around longer, but Jacob refused each time. He was ready to die; he just had to get Edward ready for that.
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Edward stared down at Jacob’s frail form. He had never thought, in all their lives, that he would ever describe Jacob as frail… but here he was. Jacob started to cough again and Edward helped him to sit up to ease the strain of the cough. Deciding to try one last time…
“Jacob, let me change you.”
Jacob looked at him with tired eyes. “Edward… you know as well as I that that would defeat the purpose of me stopping to phase in the first place. Thank you, but no.” Edward opened his mouth to protest but Jacob cut him off. “I promise to find you when I am reborn. But you must promise me something in return.”
“Anything,” Edward said without really thinking.
“Don’t do anything rash in the meantime. It won’t do for me to be reborn only never to find you.”
Edward frowned, not because he hadn’t thought of that, because he had. He had entertained the idea of going to the Volturi and requesting they end his life. But then there was the matter of his soul… he didn’t care what Jacob said, he didn’t know if he could be reborn again now. That alone stopped him from thinking of going to the Volturi. “I promise,” he said finally.
Jacob smiled and fell asleep. Edward stayed by his side the entire night listening to his breathing. The next morning, just after the sun had risen, Jacob breathed his last. Edward screamed out his loss and soon after his family had gathered around him. He didn’t know how they knew, as he had not called them, but he was thankful that they were there.
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100 years later…
Edward had kept his promise to Jacob to not do anything rash but there were times he had thought about it… oh yes, quite a few times. He had moved many times in the hundred years since Jacob’s death. Each time he spent the first day searching the city or town he had moved to for any sign of Jacob. He was let down over and over again… until that day.
No, he did not find Jacob but he knew the exact moment Jacob had been reborn. Something tugged at him deep inside. It was like someone, or something was calling out to him. After thinking about it for a day he figured that something was Jacob’s soul. With a smile, Edward packed what he would need and set off to find Jacob.
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Now, Edward knew he shouldn’t give up easily. Fifteen years wasn’t anything to a vampire. But it was straining. He had searched everywhere! Every country he ever felt pulled to, but none ever presented him with Jacob.
Sighing, Edward pulled his car over at a small store somewhere in southern Germany. True he didn’t need to eat or sleep but it still felt good to stretch once in awhile and his car needed gas. The sign at the pump said that he needed to pay inside. Edward raised an eyebrow as the majority of places did not require that now but he shrugged and walked inside the small store… only to find Billy Black standing behind the counter ringing up another costumer.
Edward gaped at him for a moment but then realized if Billy was here then… then… Jacob must be too! Quickly he walked across the front of the aisle’s looking down them for any sign of his soul mate. He didn’t find Jacob in any of the vertical aisle’s but then realized there were some that went horizontal across the back. Edward had to keep himself from running to the back of the store. His sensitive hearing could pick up someone moving back there…
Edward walked around the corner of the first aisle and stopped. There, stocking shelves was a maybe sixteen year old Jacob Black. His black hair was cut short, as it had been in his past life after he had started phasing. He wasn’t as tall but was definitely nearing six feet. None of that really mattered though… this was Jacob! He had found Jacob! If Edward’s heart had still needed to beat it would have been beating out of his chest. He was just about to say Jacob’s name when he saw Jacob’s hands still and he turned slowly.
They stared at each other for a couple of moments before Jacob smiled. “I knew you would find me Edward.”
-THE END-
A/N: And that my friend’s is the end of my first Twilight multi-chaptered fic. I hope this ending didn’t seem rushed… I tried to pace it fairly evenly… I think. Well, only one way to let me know what you think, hit that little comment/review button and tell me!
I want to thank all my reviewers who have supported me over the course of this fic. Without you I probably never would have finished this. Thank you, all of you.
And just in case your interested… here’s a preview of my next Twilight multi-chaptered fic “The Right Words”. I don't know when it will be out yet, but keep an eye out!
“Fine… if that’s the way you want it…” Edward went to the door, pausing at the doorway as words from the strange book he had found earlier came back to him. They were only words but seemed quite fitting at the moment. “I wish the goblins would come and take you away.” He turned out the light. “Right now.”
Are you hooked yet? -grin-
Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Chapter 9 | Chapter 10 | Chapter 11
Author:
avari_maethorSummary: Their fates have crossed over the course of hundreds of years but never have they been able to be happy…until now. Jacob/Edward.
Rating: T
Disclaimer: Twilight is owned by Stepheine Meyer. The lyrics, one verse per chapter, are from the song “Love Story” by Taylor Swift, Miss Swift and her associated companies own the rights to this song.
Warning: This chapter contains character death.
Chapter 12
Oh, oh, oh, oh
'Cause we were both young when I first saw you
200 years later…
Edward knew the moment it happened, or at least the moment Jacob got the call. His mind was flooded with images; some so strong he could feel the despair and anger that came with them through their bond. Seth Clearwater was dead.
Dropping the files he was carrying into the nearest inbox, never mind that it was the wrong inbox, he told the secretary that there was a family emergency and he was gone. Edward didn’t even bother with his car in the parking garage. He had to get to Jacob as quickly as possible and that meant running.
“Jacob!” Edward called as he threw open the door to their house in the woods. There was no answer but Edward knew his lover was still in the house. He could feel the pressure of Jacob’s mind on his own even though his lover’s mind was despairingly blank. Edward found Jacob on his knee’s under where the phone dock hung on the wall. The phone itself lay on the floor beside Jacob, its dial tone beeping in the silence. “Jacob…”
After Edward called his name a few more times Jacob looked up and met his eyes even as his own filled with tears. “Ed…Edward… S-Seth i-i-is…” Jacob’s voice broke and Edward wrapped his arms around his lover.
“I know…” He whispered. “How?”
“Sam s-said it was a-a ca-ar accident…”
“Jake, I’m so sorry. At least it was quick?”
“Instant.” Jacob then collapsed in sobs and Edward could only hold him as he cried.
Edward knew it was coming, even before Jacob stated what he wanted to do. He had been dreading it; it was always painful to lose Jacob. But in the months since Seth’s death Jacob had been thinking about his own death and how tired his soul was more and more.
“I want to die Edward,” Jacob told him one night as they lay in bed. “Not right now… like this second or anything… but I want to stop phasing. If I stop that I’ll grow older until I eventually die.”
“So we would have around another eighty years together?” Edward questioned.
“Unless something happened like…” His thoughts went to Seth’s car accident. “Yeah.”
“Jake…” Edward sighed. “I know I’m being selfish when I say this but I don’t want to lose you. I know I’ve had you for 200 years but I want 200 more and everything beyond that with no breaks. I love you so much…”
Jacob buried his face into Edward’s neck. He breathed in deep letting his imprint’s scent calm him as nothing else could. “And I love you Edward,” he said finally. “But I’m tired… I know I don’t look old but I feel it.” Edward didn’t reply and Jacob left him to his thoughts by falling asleep. By the time the next morning came Edward had come to the only decision he knew there was.
He woke Jacob with a kiss, just like he did every morning. “I will wait for you Jacob, forever if I have to.”
Jacob gave him a smile. “I wouldn’t be able to deny you forever Edward. I know you think you have no soul but that no soul of yours calls to me stronger than anything else.”
Over the course of the next eighty years Edward and Jacob continued their lives as they had for the previous 200. Every ten years or so they would move, more so due to Edward than Jacob now that the native had stopped phasing and was aging normally. The first time someone had asked if Edward was Jacob’s son, Jacob had laughed and asked him that night if he had ever been asked that while with Carlisle.
“More than I care to remember,” Edward answered with a smile as he ran his fingers through Jacob’s graying hair. Jacob hummed and started to cough. Edward frowned as he reached for the glass of water on the bedside table. Jacob had developed this cough about a month ago and his healing, even without phasing, had yet to take care of it. “Please see Carlisle?”
Jacob drank a bit of the water Edward had offered him before laying back down and smiling. “You’re being selfish again Edward. You know my time is getting close.” Edward sighed and nodded. He had begged Jacob to see Carlisle in hopes that his creator could keep his lover around longer, but Jacob refused each time. He was ready to die; he just had to get Edward ready for that.
Edward stared down at Jacob’s frail form. He had never thought, in all their lives, that he would ever describe Jacob as frail… but here he was. Jacob started to cough again and Edward helped him to sit up to ease the strain of the cough. Deciding to try one last time…
“Jacob, let me change you.”
Jacob looked at him with tired eyes. “Edward… you know as well as I that that would defeat the purpose of me stopping to phase in the first place. Thank you, but no.” Edward opened his mouth to protest but Jacob cut him off. “I promise to find you when I am reborn. But you must promise me something in return.”
“Anything,” Edward said without really thinking.
“Don’t do anything rash in the meantime. It won’t do for me to be reborn only never to find you.”
Edward frowned, not because he hadn’t thought of that, because he had. He had entertained the idea of going to the Volturi and requesting they end his life. But then there was the matter of his soul… he didn’t care what Jacob said, he didn’t know if he could be reborn again now. That alone stopped him from thinking of going to the Volturi. “I promise,” he said finally.
Jacob smiled and fell asleep. Edward stayed by his side the entire night listening to his breathing. The next morning, just after the sun had risen, Jacob breathed his last. Edward screamed out his loss and soon after his family had gathered around him. He didn’t know how they knew, as he had not called them, but he was thankful that they were there.
100 years later…
Edward had kept his promise to Jacob to not do anything rash but there were times he had thought about it… oh yes, quite a few times. He had moved many times in the hundred years since Jacob’s death. Each time he spent the first day searching the city or town he had moved to for any sign of Jacob. He was let down over and over again… until that day.
No, he did not find Jacob but he knew the exact moment Jacob had been reborn. Something tugged at him deep inside. It was like someone, or something was calling out to him. After thinking about it for a day he figured that something was Jacob’s soul. With a smile, Edward packed what he would need and set off to find Jacob.
Now, Edward knew he shouldn’t give up easily. Fifteen years wasn’t anything to a vampire. But it was straining. He had searched everywhere! Every country he ever felt pulled to, but none ever presented him with Jacob.
Sighing, Edward pulled his car over at a small store somewhere in southern Germany. True he didn’t need to eat or sleep but it still felt good to stretch once in awhile and his car needed gas. The sign at the pump said that he needed to pay inside. Edward raised an eyebrow as the majority of places did not require that now but he shrugged and walked inside the small store… only to find Billy Black standing behind the counter ringing up another costumer.
Edward gaped at him for a moment but then realized if Billy was here then… then… Jacob must be too! Quickly he walked across the front of the aisle’s looking down them for any sign of his soul mate. He didn’t find Jacob in any of the vertical aisle’s but then realized there were some that went horizontal across the back. Edward had to keep himself from running to the back of the store. His sensitive hearing could pick up someone moving back there…
Edward walked around the corner of the first aisle and stopped. There, stocking shelves was a maybe sixteen year old Jacob Black. His black hair was cut short, as it had been in his past life after he had started phasing. He wasn’t as tall but was definitely nearing six feet. None of that really mattered though… this was Jacob! He had found Jacob! If Edward’s heart had still needed to beat it would have been beating out of his chest. He was just about to say Jacob’s name when he saw Jacob’s hands still and he turned slowly.
They stared at each other for a couple of moments before Jacob smiled. “I knew you would find me Edward.”
A/N: And that my friend’s is the end of my first Twilight multi-chaptered fic. I hope this ending didn’t seem rushed… I tried to pace it fairly evenly… I think. Well, only one way to let me know what you think, hit that little comment/review button and tell me!
I want to thank all my reviewers who have supported me over the course of this fic. Without you I probably never would have finished this. Thank you, all of you.
And just in case your interested… here’s a preview of my next Twilight multi-chaptered fic “The Right Words”. I don't know when it will be out yet, but keep an eye out!
“Fine… if that’s the way you want it…” Edward went to the door, pausing at the doorway as words from the strange book he had found earlier came back to him. They were only words but seemed quite fitting at the moment. “I wish the goblins would come and take you away.” He turned out the light. “Right now.”
Are you hooked yet? -grin-
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