FAGE 007

Title: His Waking Nightmare

Written for: Cullen Cousin

Written By: Abbymickey24

Rating: T

Summary/Prompt used: Loving a Cop

If you would like to see all the stories that are a part of this exchange visit the facebook group:Fanficaholics Anon: Where Obsession Never Sleeps, or add the C2 to get all the stories direct to your inbox. Check out my profile for the link to the community.

Thank you to my awesome beta emmzz75, she makes things so much prettier for you guys.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything related to Twilight, I just like to manipulate the characters to fit my needs.

Enjoy...

12 of 12

-HLN-

"How do you do it?" Katie asks.

"Do what?" Bella asks, glancing over at her sister-in-law.

"Look absolutely gorgeous at five months pregnant. I feel and look like a beached whale already."

Bella laughs and shakes her head. "You do not. You're just as gorgeous as I am. And if you don't believe me, look around. Half the guys on this beach are staring at you."

"And the other half are staring at you." Katie says, before they both take a look out from under their large umbrella.

Finding their words to be true, both fall into a fit of laughter that has more than one person smiling in envy at the obvious happiness and camaraderie the two women share.

And they are both happy, Bella especially. She smiles thinking about her life and glances around once again.

The beach is beautiful and the weather is perfect. This is where she and Carlisle were supposed to have been five years earlier. They would have laid out in the sun and swam in the ocean and enjoyed every moment of it, but Bella wouldn't change that they had to wait.

It was more special now. She and Carlisle were not only celebrating ten wonderful years together, but her brother and his beautiful wife were celebrating their fourth. A marriage that might not have even happened under other circumstances.

It had been five years since she'd been shot and while scary, it was the best thing that could have ever happened to her.

It took five months before she was ready to go back to work and she spent every day of that time with her husband, reaffirming her love for him. And in turn he showed her over and over again that he loved her, and was so thankful she was okay.

He was beside her at every doctor's appointment, stood back and offered his silent support while she requalified for work, he held her as she cried after going through the mandatory psychiatric sessions, and he was there with a listening ear when her new position didn't hold up to the hustle and bustle of the previous one.

They made it through it all though and now Bella couldn't imagine ever going back to being a beat cop. She loved her position as detective and knew Carlisle loved it even more.

"MOMMY!"

The voice of Bella and Carlisle's three year old son, Charlie, brings Bella back to the present and she looks up in time to get a lap full of seashells and sand.

Laughing, she says, "I take it your walk was a good idea."

Charlie nods before proceeding to tell her and Katie all about it and everything he's found. They listen with smiles on their faces as he talks, both enjoying the youthful exuberance.

As he starts to wind down a shadow comes to a stop and Bella looks up into her husband's face. His smile is a mile wide and she has no choice but to return it.

Their life is good, happy and full of love. Neither take it for granted because Bella carries the scar that reminds them every day, that in a moment it could have all been taken away.

-HWN-

Well, that is it. Cullen Cousin, I hope you liked it. Thank you to all who have read and reviewed. I appreciate it.