Sorry for the absence. I got lasik so took a night off editing for my eyes. My dog passed that night and I just couldn't edit this chapter. Doing my best to get back to the story but won't promise to be able to update as often as I was before. I have a lot going on the next couple weeks and just not in the right mindset to write.

Time begins to pass quickly as Ali and I plan my prefect wedding. Jasper and Peter are put in charge of location, finding and buying the perfect spot and I miss them like crazy but Alice and I are busy with our own plans. I'm surprised when the Cullen's want to help but gladly accept when Carlisle and Esme offer to track down a few of Peter's nomad friends. Carlisle is friendly with or has at least met all of them over the years. Rosalie takes charge of finding my perfect dress from the photo Ali and I have chosen and Emmett is taking care of what he describes as a "Fucktastic mix of awesomest tunes" to play through the ceremony and reception.

Before I realize it I'm standing on an small island, that's part of a three island archipelago in the Shetland Islands of Northern Scotland, called the Out Skerries and there is nothing at all on the island but a single automated lighthouse. This island is called, Grunay and it is now officially owned by the Whitlock family, along with Bruray and Housay. Those islands house a population of somewhere around a hundred people between them. Jasper says they've bought it for less than some people pay for a house but I'm still floored. It is wild and beautiful though and I love it.

All around the island boats are docked and the tiny space is quickly filled with other vampires, there are nineteen of us gathered and Alice brings me around to meet everyone, I say hello to the Cullen's and thank them for their help, I even give Edward a nod, which is all I can manage as I'm still angry with him for what he'd said about Peter. Then it's the Denali's, Eleazar and his mate Carmen, Tanya, Irena and Kate.

"It's a pleasure to meet you Bella. Jasper tells me you had a few questions for me regarding your gift. I'm happy to share my knowledge with you when there is a free moment to talk."

"Thank you Eleazar. It's lovely to meet you."

"It is lovely to meet you as well." He offers kissing my hand. "This is my mate Carmen."

We smile at each other as Tanya moves over, "My coven would welcome a visit with you and Peter if there isn't time enough here."

"Thank you." I offer trying to keep my smile in place. She's even more beautiful than Rosalie, so beautiful it almost hurts to look at her and she's been with Peter.

I feel a wave of concerned affection and boost of confidence as Jasper steps over to Alice and I, "Tanya." He greets her with a nod. "Peter will be here any moment Bella, you and Alice should go into the light house and get ready."

"Alright." I smile at him and turn back the to beautiful blond, "It was nice to meet you, I'm sure there will be more time to talk later."

"Of course." She smiles at me, "Then you can also meet my sisters," She waves at the other two beautiful blond women with her, "Irena and Kate. I believe you've already met Irena's mate Laurent." I smile at them, the striking man doesn't seem familiar.

"I'm sorry, I don't recall."

"You were human and it was a brief encounter." His voice is low, his tone cultured and I imagine he was changed in some distant past of French courtiers.

"Well I look forward to getting to know you, all of you." I smile politely at them as Alice leads me into the lighthouse to get ready. Rosalie is there waiting with my dress and to help fix my hair while Alice adds a bit of makeup to my eyes and lips and fusses with the bouquet.

"Garrett and Peter are here." Esme knocks gently.

"It's time!" Alice squeals and ushers Rosalie out before turning back to me for one last hug. "You look perfect, everything is going to be perfect."

I grin at her and take a nervous breath. I can't shake the feeling that something is going to happen to ruin this and I want to run out to Peter and rush the ceremony so nothing can take the moment. I don't, instead I take a deep breath and step back out into the wind. There are two groups of vampires standing apart to make a small aisle and at the front is, well I have no idea who he is but he's gorgeous as sin. He's a bit scruffy like Peter with longish straight dark hair and a little more than Pete's five o'clock shadow but not a beard, his jaw is sharp but his cheekbones, oh holy hell his cheek bones. My attention is pulled away from him when Peter takes a step forward so I can see him past Emmett and Jasper.

I'm Yours by Jason Mraz starts playing from a jambone speaker and I skip, literally skip like Alice does when she's excited, all the way down the aisle to him. I feel like my grin is going to crack my face but it's ok because his smile is just as wide and my heart aches with how beautiful he is, how much I love him.

"Peterpire." I breathe as I reach him, flinging myself into his arms.

He catches me up and spins me a little before setting me back on my feet and kissing me. I can hear a few chuckles but all I see is him, "Ready for this?"

I just grin at him and nod, "When you are."

Together we turn to the man, grinning at us, he winks and then composes himself and looks out at everyone else, "I'm Garrett and you're all here today to see my best friend promise his eternal love to this lovely little vampire. There is only one man who knows and loves the bastard more than I do so since Jasper thinks the little lady is good for Pete, I guess I'm here to marry them." I grin at him and there are a few chuckles from the others, Pete is pretending to glare but there is a smile tugging at the corners of his lips. "So unless one of you fuckers is dumb enough to challenge the Captain here and contest the marriage let's get on with it shall we? Right, good. So, please repeat after me, I take you as my partner from this day forward until forever ends."

"I take you as my partner, from this day forward, until forever ends." Peter I reply in tandem and as I reach for his hand he takes mine, squeezing it tightly.

"Peter." Garrett nods.

"Bella, darlin, I love you unconditionally and without hesitation. I choose you as my mate for all eternity and I vow here and now to never walk away from you, to never let go of the love we share. Because of you, I smile, I laugh and I dare to dream again. I love the human you used to be, the vampire you are and I will love the person you become in all the centuries we face together. I look forward with joy and wonder to spending my forever with you."

I swallow and nod as Garrett motions to me, "Bella?"

"Pete, I choose you as my mate for all eternity and I vow to fiercely love you in all your forms, now and forever. I will never leave you or doubt the enduring strength of our love. I vow to help you love life, to hold you with tenderness and to have the patience that love demands, to speak when words are needed and to share the silence when they are not, to agree to disagree on feeding from humans, and to live within the warmth of your heart and always call it home."

"These vows shared today, in front of family and friends, spoken to nature and each other are now etched in your souls. So as a symbol to each other and the world of this everlasting commitment and love, please now exchange your rings."

"I give you this ring as a physical reminder of my promise to you, as it encircles your finger let it always remind you of my devotion for as a ring has no end, neither shall my love for you, I choose you to be my eternal partner, my wife this day and forevermore." The ring he slips on is identical to the engagement ring, they slide together fitting perfectly, two eternities, mine and his, joined forever.

There is venom coating my eyes and I have to swallow to speak, "I give you this ring as a physical reminder of my promise to you, as it encircles your finger let it always remind you of my devotion for as a ring has no end, neither shall my love for you, I choose you to be my eternal partner, my husband this day and forevermore." His is a simple wide band of white gold but on it I've engraved Until Forever Ends. Peter can read the writing as I slip it on and he sends me a smile that melts me to my toes.

"Peter and Bella, by the power vested in me, by the great and mighty internet, and by the Whitlock law of these here islands, I pronounce you husband and wife, mated for all eternity. You may now kiss the shit out of each other." I laugh and bounce up into Peter's arms wrapping my arms around his neck, he holds me tightly, arms wrapped around my waist and we do exactly as Garrett suggests, kissing until Emmett is hooting and there are a few snickers from the crowd.

We pull apart and Garrett speaks up again, "If you'll all move back, Mr. and Mrs. Whitlock would please share their first dance." The music changes to I Don't Know Much But I know I Love You by Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville.

Jasper cuts in on the next song and then Ali, which amuses a few of the guests. Garrett claims me next and I hug him, "Thank you, that was, perfect."

"My pleasure Mrs. Whitlock. I look forward to getting to know the woman that's made the fucker smile like that."

I grin at the name but offer, "Bella."

"Garrett." He winks and spins me away into Peter's arms.

I laugh and lean on my tip toes to kiss him, "Jealous side coming out?" I tease.

"Mine." He growls and kisses me.

"Forever." I agree sighing happily.

He takes me around to meet the rest of our guests.

There are three other nomads here, the same ones Jasper had named when we talked about inviting people. There was Mary, her skin is milk chocolate but her mass of curly dark hair has shades of red in its highlights that frame her vibrant ruby eyes. Bill is English and a bit older in appearance, his frame is thin and wiry and he's a bit dour looking. Isaac, is, well he's adorable with freckles and moles, he looks about seventeen and has a wide happy grin.

I like all three of them, Mary has a dry humor and tells me stories of Peter and her running into each other in New Orleans and spending a few months together there. I wondered if they'd slept together but Mary cleared that up herself.

"Pete and I would go out, it was Mardi Gras time when we were there and everything was crazy, we'd dance and feed and then I met her, the bitch Camilla. I should have stayed with Peter, but she was beautiful." Mary shrugs, "Pete warned me about the south but I was never good at listening so it's not long before I followed her off to New Mexico where she went to college. Damn humans are fickle bitches and Camilla's moved on to some sorority whore not long after and I figure its time to get my sweet butt gone but I've been there a couple months and someones taken notice so I'm in a shit load of trouble when in comes Pete after me and the vampire near shits himself running off to his master and Pete gets me out before fucker comes back with an army, sweet man." She pats his arm sending him a grin, "If I were attracted to men even the slightest I'd have been tempted to claim him as my own a long time ago." She chuckles, "Universe must have got it right though since I've never seen him happy like this." I grin back at her and nod before leaning into him.

I don't expect Bill to tell me much but he goes into a recounting of afternoons spent on table tennis matches and discussions on books, I think he's maybe read everything ever written.

The bitch in my head is as happy as I am and only rears her ugly head when Tanya touches Peter's arm, insecurity floods me and with it her white hot rage. I struggle to keep the wall in my head up as I excuse myself from Bill and move over to them but Charlotte intercepts me with congratulations.

"Thanks." I'm almost in control of the bitch, it helps that Tanya has taken her hand off my mate and Jasper is flooding me with calm.

"You make a beautiful vampire." She smiles at me and I appreciate that she's trying, just like she had when she found me out on the beach when I was human and avoiding my own home. I remember it, remember being surprised she had sought me out that way.

"Thank you Charlotte."

"You make him very happy Bella, its good to see him so happy, he deserves it."

"How's Zach?"

She laughs and tilts her head, drawing my attention to her mate, he's dancing with Cassandra, "He'd love you if you were a double headed shrew with snakes for hair." At my frown she laughs again, "Vampires are a bit possessive. He likes Peter being mated."

"Right." I nod with a chuckle, "I'm a little familiar with the possessive part."

"Over Peter or from him? I used to hate how possessive he was, Zach only ever got that way with Peter and he tried so hard to suppress it."

"Peter and I are both pretty possessive I guess, it doesn't seem to bother him, sometimes I even think he likes it."

Charlotte smiles and nods, "I won't monopolize you, I just wanted to say how happy I was for you and Peter, we're sisters in a way."

"Thank you Charlotte."

Peter's not with Tanya anymore but I see Garrett with Kate, he looks enraptured by her and I grin.

"Exciting isn't it?" Ali asks from a little behind me, "You and Peter pledging your love and giving them a chance to meet in the process."

"That's what you saw, isn't it?"

Alice laughs, "Maybe."

"Oh, what?" I frown still watching Garrett and Kate, he seems shocked and intrigued and oddly excited despite an expression of mild pain.

"Kate can run this electrical current over her skin so if you touch her she shocks you. I'm guessing he asked to test it out." Alice laughs as Garrett shakes off the feeling and grins at Kate, then holds his hand out and spins her. As they dance I move my eyes around the room again and Alice flits off to talk to Irena.

"Bella?"

I turn to see Edward near us, "Yes?"

"Can I have this dance." I frown at him but shrug, why not?

Peter really doesn't like this though and it's only a few seconds before he's pulling me away from Edward and into his own arms.

"Don't ever touch her." Peter hisses.

"We're only dancing." Edward defends.

Before he can say anything else Alice is there and pushing Edward away, "Dance with me brother. Jasper is dancing with Mary and I love this song."

When the dance ends Chloe comes and asks Peter for the next, I answer for him with a resounding "No."

She glares at me but Pete just shrugs and wraps an arm around my waist, "Did you meet everyone?"

I nod, "I saw you talking with Tanya."

"Yup, Major warned me there were some very rip her face off and maybe cut me off even though its our wedding day vibes from you." He laughs. "So I'll avoid Chloe and Tanya and you stay away from Fuckward and nobody has to put pieces of themselves back together again. I do have to dance with Char once, I promised and she's family."

"So you can dance with Char but I can't dance with Garrett?"

"You did dance with Garrett. I didn't dismember him, I didn't even tell him to get his hands off you, hell I was positively polite, even let him have half a dance."

"Fine, go dance with Char." I roll my eyes. "I'm going to talk to Irena and Laurent, I haven't had a chance yet and I still can't find him in any of my human memories so I'd like to hear how he knows me."

"James." Peter shrugs.

"The nomad that tried to kill me?" I ask frowning and subconsciously rubbing my wrist, with its half moon scar.

"He was part of James' coven. Left when James decided to cross so many vampires to go after one human."

"How do you know?"

"Jasper, Irena and Laurent." He shrugs. "You should still go talk to them." He kisses my temple and is off so I make my way over to Irena and Laurent. I'm curious about his yellow eyes, had he always been a vegetarian or did he change for Irena?

Tanya comes over while I'm talking with them and grudgingly I like her, so long as she keeps her talons off my mate we can even be friends, the bitch in my head concedes. They tell me about Denali and Tanya again asks me to visit, Eleazar can help me learn about and even master my gift.

Kate and Garrett come over and I like her right away, maybe it's because Alice has already told me we'd be friends but it doesn't matter, she's kind and funny and has never slept with Pete.

I wander some more, stopping to talk with people and to dance with Emmett. As the sun begins to set I find Isaac. We've been introduced but it's the first I can stop and talk to him alone.

Isaac is full of energy, he doesn't bounce like Alice but his hands, arms, most of his body moves as he talks, very quickly, jumping around from one idea to another and back again so it's like we're holding two or three conversations at once.

"I was for sure a dead man, you know, and then in comes this crazy scary bad ass dude and he tears everyone up and then bites me. I guess he's never turned anyone else but he bites me and I live, I think maybe it's just to spite the fuckers, you know like killing them wasn't enough or something." I'm surprised by this bit of rambling, and want to spend more time with him because Peter had turned this energetic adorable man child.

The music changes again as night falls and everyone, even dour looking Bill, is dancing. We don't need the lights from the boats, just the music from Emmett's jawbone speaker as night falls and complete darkness surrounds us. Isaac asks me to dance and is adorably spastic in his movements and we start making up ridiculous moves together. Peter comes over and I think maybe his jealous side might be showing like it had with Garrett but he just grins and joins us making Isaac laugh louder.

It's the perfect night, I dance with everyone, talk with everyone and thoroughly enjoy every perfect moment. Alice insists on my throwing the bouquet and it's not just for single girls as Alice says vampires can have more than one wedding. I just laugh and agree so I turn around and toss it in Kate's direction. My aim is perfect of course and Alice and I are both grinning and chuckling like crazy people as we all congratulate her. Peter has caught on and makes sure my garter is aimed right at Garrett. Both of them look a bit amused by us and self-conscious when they peak at each other.

Then, with the sky just starting to brighten, we board our little white speedboat with its purple and white ribbons and Just Married sign and head off to celebrate in private.

Bella's vows are adapted from the movie The Vow.

Peter's vows are adapted from googling different wedding vows.