Bedward

Bedward is the het ship between Bella Swan and Edward Cullen from the Twilight Saga fandom.

Twilight
Bella moves to a town called Forks, Washington to spend time with her father. There, she sees a group of teenagers who her friend Jessica tells her are the Cullen's and Hales, adopted teenagers of Carlisle and Esme Cullen. They are all extremely beautiful and handsome, but act strange. Bella particularly notices how Edward is the most perfect looking out of all of them. When Edward first hears about Bella being a new student at school, he can read everyone's thoughts surrounding Bella, but he notices that he cannot hear her own thoughts no matter how hard he tries. In frustration he looks at Bella with concentration, in which causes her to blush and become shy, making Edward feel bad for looking at her so intensely, but he still can't read her thoughts even after trying so hard to. He then starts to feel like protecting Bella because Jessica's thoughts are fake compared to her words. Edward's first impressions of Bella is that she looks like someone who needs to be protected, and he feels strange that he feels this way. Bella's first impressions of Edward was that he was the most beautiful and perfect person she's ever laid her eyes on.

In Biology, Edward sees Bella entering the classroom, and is hopeful that he will be able to read her thoughts now. Since the seat next to Edward is empty, Bella will have to sit next to him. He hopes with Bella so close beside him, he will be able to read her mind now. He thinks about what to ask her and how to introduce himself as politely and charismatically as possible but, as soon as Bella walks in front of the heater, her scent instantly overtakes him. He has never been so drawn to someone's blood and scent before, and he immediately thinks of tons of different possibilities and outcomes in successfully drinking Bella's blood without getting caught. He begins to grow a strong hatred towards Bella for making him turn into such a "monster", and on the verge of risking so many innocent student's lives just because her blood is so appealing to him. He treats Bella meanly, sitting as far away from her as possible, giving her pained looks, and later trying to switch classes so he wouldn't have to be in the same room with her. He then thinks of ways to go and attack Bella afterschool but figures out that he is mad at himself, not Bella, for acting and being such a monster.

Edward then goes to Denali to get his mind off of Bella. But, he finds himself seeing Bella's face in the stars of the night sky, and whenever he closes his eyes, Bella can't seem to escape his mind. He thinks about moving away and never returning to Forks, but then realizes that he can't run away from his problems and leave his family.

Edward finally returns after lots of hunting, and speaks to Bella kindly and politely. He finds himself genuinely interested and curious about Bella, and his kindness doesn't have to be an act. His interest and curiosity in Bella helps manage his want and crave for her blood. Bella finds it easy to talk to Edward and finds him perfect and charismatic, but feels like he is hiding something.

Later, her friend Jacob tells her some legends that the Cullen's are vampires. Bella notices some strange things about Edward, such as super strength (pushing a van away and saving Bella's life), ice-cold skin, and super speed. After Edward saves Bella, and Bella insists on answers, he says it's best for the two of them to stay away from each other. Bella ends up dreaming about Edward and develops a strong crush on him and is strongly drawn to him and his irresistible charm. One day during lunch, Bella shyly makes eye contact with Edward and notices he is staring back at her, and sitting all alone instead of with his family like usual. Edward then winks at Bella and charismatically gestures her to come over with his pointer finger. Bella and Edward sit together during lunch and Bella feels like her heart will burst out of her chest from sitting alone with Edward and talking together. Later in biology, Bella gets sick and Edward carries her to the nurse and drives her home safe. One night, she is with her friends in Port Angeles when she is cornered by some thugs in an alley. Edward saves her and takes her out to dinner.

The waitress, who Bella describes as a beautiful model, flirts with Edward and pays no attention to Bella. Edward doesn't even notice the waitress as he only has eyes for Bella. Later, Bella brings this up to Jessica, and Edward hears. Edward tells Bella he doesn't remember the waitress, and he was only paying attention to her and found it cute that Bella was surprised by this. Bella tells Edward what she believes, that she isn't beautiful, but Edward tells her that she is the most beautiful and would wish for her to see the truth and how he sees her. Edward makes sure Bella is safe and has something to eat, he gives her his coat at the restaurant. On the way home, she asks him about being a vampire. She discovers it is true, but says that it 'doesn't matter' because she loves him anyway. One day Edward takes Bella to a beautiful secluded meadow, with a bunch of lovely wildflowers. On this date, Bella asks Edward why he "hated" her so much when they first met. Edward admits to the reason that he was so mean to her at first was because the scent of her blood was so appealing to him, and he was trying not to attack her. He had never been so attracted to someone's scent before and he couldn't control himself, so much that he had to go to Alaska for a few days to be away from the temptation. One night Edward stays over at Bella's house and Bella is nervous yet excited to have him stay in her room, just the two of them. Edward then tells her that he usually watches Bella sleep and Bells is extremely embarrassed at first, since she frequently has dreams of Edward and talks in her sleep.

Edward confesses that Bella said his name while sleeping multiple times, which encouraged Edward to not be so distant towards her. Bella is still super embarrassed and covers her face with her pillow, but Edward comforts her and admits that if he could sleep he would only dream of her aswell. At the Cullen's house where Bella meets Edward's lovely family, he plays the Lullaby he composed and wrote for Bella on his piano, the same lullaby he sometimes hums to Bella. This brings Bella to tears from how sweet and talented Edward is. They end up talking about Edward and his family's past.

Edward then politely asks Charlie, Bella's father, to have his permission to take Bella and his family to play baseball, as they are now dating.

When they are playing Baseball, a group of nomad Vampires comes and interrupts their game. The leader of these trio of vampire nomads finds out Bella is human and desires to hunt her. Now that James is tracking Bella, Edward becomes anxious and guilty for putting Bella at risk but makes his family protect and watch over Bella and her safety.

This causes Bella and Edward to separate in order for Bella, her mother, and her father to be protected from the vampires in all areas of the country.

James tricks Bella into coming to a ballet studio where he is waiting for her. James bites Bella, but Edward manages to suck the venom out while his siblings kill James.

At the end, Edward surprises Bella to the prom. Bella is upset and embarrassed at first since she isn't the best dancer, but Edward tells her that he doesn't want Bella to miss out on human activities because of him, and will do all the dancing for her. Bella tells him that she would have missed out on the prom anyways, and it wouldn't be his fault at all, but Edward insists on Bella having the best human experiences because he loves and cares for her. Bella ends up enjoying the dance, but only because she gets to spend it with Edward.

She begs Edward to turn her into a vampire because she loves and wants to be in his life forever, but Edward doesn't want Bella to suffer the true consequences of no longer being human. He kisses her and her neck, teasing Bella as if he were going to turn her into a vampire at the very prom. Bella doesn't give up on becoming a vampire even after Edward's disapprovals, but she realizes that moments like these with Edward are more than enough, and more than what she feels like she will ever deserve.

New Moon
Bella becomes upset because it is her eighteenth birthday and she is physically older than Edward (who is 17, yet technically 118). Edward gives Bella a very meaningful gift that brings her to tears, a CD of the lullaby (Bella's Lullaby) Edward wrote and composed for her. During Bella's birthday party Alice organized for her Jasper attempts to attack her after she got a paper cut. Out of reflex, Edward pushes Bella away in order to protect her. This causes Edward immense pain and guilt since he believes he only brings pain to Bella, and it is unnatural for a human to be with a vampire. Later, Bella notices that Edward is acting strange, and one day he tells her that he has to leave her, for her own good. He tells Bella he doesn't want her, which turns out to be a blasphemous lie, yet Bella believes Edward since she wonders why someone as perfect in her eyes would ever even give someone like her a chance.

When Edward leaves, Bella sinks into a state of depression where she doesn't talk to any of her friends or do anything but sit all day. She has horrible nightmares and wakes up screaming at night. During this time, she finds that Jacob can make her feel better, and she spends time with him, but the hole in her heart is still wounded. Bella finds that if she is about to do something reckless or dangerous, Edward's voice will speak to her, begging her not to. So she cliff-dives to hear his voice and almost dies. As she is drowning in the water, she sees Edward clearly and feels as if she's reached Heaven. Bella doesn't try to get out the water and realizes that she wants to die like this, with her vision of Edward, since she believes she will never get to see him again and there is no point to live without him. Alice, Edward's sister, has the power of seeing the future, and sees Bella jumping off of a cliff. But, Jacob rescues her and she lives. Thinking that she was committing suicide, Alice boards a plane for Forks, because she couldn't see Bella being rescued since a werewolf saved her.

Edward finds out that she did this and calls her house. Jacob answers the phone and Edward asks where Charlie is, and Jacob responds, "At the funeral", because Charlie was at a funeral for a friend of his who died. Edward thinks that Charlie is going to Bella's funeral, and goes to Italy, where he can ask the Volturi (the vampire elders) to kill him too. Bella goes to Italy with Alice, where she stops Edward from revealing himself to the humans just in time.

“Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night."
"Very dark, but there were stars—points of light and reason….And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason for anything.”    "―Edward to Bella"

"I would never want anything but him, no matter how long I lived."
' "The bond forged between us was not one that could be broken by absence, distance or time. And no matter how much more special or beautiful or brilliant or perfect than me he might be, he was as irreversibly altered as I was. As I would always belong to him, so would he always be mine." ' "―Bella to Edward"When they prevent the Volturi from killing Edward, he begs Bella for forgiveness, tells her that he loves her, had always loved her and always will, and promises to never leave her again. Bella forgives him entirely and becomes completely normal again, as if Edward had never left Forks.

Bella is still worried that if Edward doesn't turn her into a vampire she will continue to get older while Edward will be seventeen forever. She is also outraged that he refuses to turn her just because he wants to protect her soul.

Later, after his family votes in favor of Bella becoming a vampire, Edward agrees to do it himself if Bella will marry him first.

Edward says he won't ever leave her again, since they both realize they need and love each other too much, and when they're apart it only brings pain and near death experiences.

Eclipse


In the next few months, Edward visits Bella through curfew hours and then sneaks into her room at night. Bella still has her heart set on joining Edward and his family as a vampire. But, after some consideration, she decides that there is one thing she would like to do while human: have Edward make love to her. Edward immediately refuses her request, explaining that although he wants her as much as she wants him, he could easily kill her if he lost control. Bella insists that he would never allow himself to let that happen. Eventually, Edward agrees that they can "try", but she must marry him first. Bella reluctantly agrees, because of her parents' early divorce, and becomes Edward's fiancée. Moments before Bella's graduation, she realizes that the army of newborn vampires are under the control of Victoria and therefore will be coming after her. Having no other allies, since the Denali family will not help due to Irina's hostility towards the werewolves for killing Laurent, the Cullens and the La Push pack of werewolves join forces to battle Victoria and her army.

Before the battle, Jacob informs Bella that he will go in battle, intending to die since she won't love him back. Bella tells him to kiss her so he will think she loves him back, but as she kisses him, she realizes that she loves Jacob as well. She also recognizes that her love for Jacob has no comparison to the love she holds for Edward. She knows and makes it clear that it has always been Edward, and she will always choose Edward over Jacob.

Once the battle is over and Victoria and her army are defeated, Bella visits Jacob. She tells him of her decision to marry Edward, and stay with him for eternity, as she soon will become a vampire. That night, Bella breaks out in tears for having to reject Jacob and Edward comforts her. Bella later decides to let Alice arrange the wedding and be her maid-of-honor. Edward realizes how much she is giving up for others and decides to repeal his conditions except for the wedding, but Bella is determined to do everything right: marriage first, make love, and then become a vampire. At the end of the story, they agree to tell Charlie about their engagement.

Edward stands protectively in front of Bella while guarding the thirsty newborn Bree.

Bella later questions what she might go through if she does become a vampire, though she is still determined to be one.

Breaking Dawn
 "I opened my eyes and found his open, too, staring at my face. It made no sense when he looked at me that way. Like I was the prize rather than the outrageously lucky winner. Our gazes locked for a moment; his golden eyes were so deep that I imagined I could see all the way into his soul. It seemed silly that this fact—the existence of his soul— had ever been in question, even if he was a vampire."  "He had the most beautiful soul, more beautiful than his brilliant mind or his incomparable face or his glorious body. He looked back at me as if he could see my soul, too, and as if he liked what he saw." ―Bella to Edward Edward and Bella finally get married in a beautiful ceremony orchestrated by Alice. Edward and Bella ask Mr. Weber to change the words, "till death do us part" to the more appropriate "as long as we both shall live". At first, Bella is super nervous about everything and is fearful of what people think of her marrying so young. But, when she walks down the aisle and finally sees Edward, she suddenly sees the wedding in the beauty Edward initially saw for them, marrying and committing yourself to the love of your life. "In that moment, as the minister said his part, my world, which had been upside down for so long now, seemed to settle into its proper position. I saw just how silly I’d been for fearing this... He kissed me tenderly, adoringly; I forgot the crowd, the place, the time, the reason… only remembering that he loved me, that he wanted me, that I was his." After they are wed, Bella and Edward share their customary first dance during the reception. He comments on how "heart-breakingly beautiful" she is and frequently addresses Bella as Mrs. Cullen and his wife.

After their heartfelt wedding, Edward finally takes Bella to his surprise honeymoon location on Isle Esme, an island that belongs to Edward's mother. There, they have sex, but as Edward is a vampire and Bella is not, he accidentally bruises her all over. She doesn't mind, but he refuses to have sex with her again because he doesn't want to hurt her. Bella tries to make him, but he won't.

Finally, one night, she wakes up crying because she had a dream about them having sex and wanted it to be real. Edward finally agrees. But later, Bella finds out that she is pregnant with a rapidly-growing half vampire-half human baby, and Edward is furious because there are stories of such babies killing the woman carrying them.

Edward believes that they should abort the baby, but Bella already loves it and refuses. They find out that the baby needs blood, and Bella drinks some, which helps her for a bit.

Near the end of the pregnancy, Edward begins to hear the baby's thoughts, and when he hears that the baby "absolutely adores Bella", his hatred for it is replaced by newfound love. Jacob remarks that Edward could never hate anyone who loved Bella

Edward delivers the baby when Bella unexpectedly goes into labor.
(Edward was qualified to do this as he has two medical degrees.)

Bella names their child "Renesmee"
But, when she goes into labor, she has to have an emergency C-Section, which kills her.

Edward turns Bella into a Vampire
Edward injects Bella's heart with his venom and bites her everywhere so that she can become a vampire, but when she doesn't, Edward becomes distraught. During her transformation, Edward stays by her side, refusing to leave the room. Suddenly, she awakens as a healthy vampire.

Bella's first words as a vampire is "I love you" to Edward
"How many times had I stared at Edward and marveled over his beauty? How many hours―days, weeks, of my life had I spent dreaming about what I then deemed to be perfection? I thought I'd known his face better than my own. I'd thought this was the one sure physical thing in my whole world: the flawlessness of Edward's face. I may as well have been blind. For the first time, with the dimming shadows and limiting weakness of humanity taken off my eyes, I saw his face. I gasped and then struggled to find the right words. I needed better words."


 * ―Bella, upon seeing Edward for the first time after she finally becomes a vampire



After Bella's transformation is complete, she surprises everyone, including herself, with an extreme amount of maturity and self-control for a newborn; when Edward takes her out for her first hunt, they cross a human scent. Rather than going for the kill, Bella freezes and runs away, which amazes Edward. Bella is beyond happy to finally be Edward's equal and that he no longer has to hold back his feelings and strength for her safety.

Bella finally meets Renesmee again after giving birth, and has a heart felt moment meeting the baby she had with her soulmate and lover.

Bella and Edward feel blessed and realize how much of a miracle she is considering how she came to be. Bella, Edward and Renesmee are given a cottage as a gift from their family.

During the battle with the Volturi, Edward and Bella fight together.
When the Volturi arrive, Edward is to present the evidence due to his telepathic power that allowed him to access everyone's mind. Bella becomes so furious at the situation (having to watch Edward walk into danger while she is forced to stay behind and protect their daughter) that she immediately asserts absolute control over her shield.

Bella immediately asserts absolute control over her shield for the first time in order to protect Edward.
Though they and their friends manage to convince the Volturi that Renesmee is not an immortal child, her existence is still claimed to be threatening. When the confrontation is about to turn into a fight, Bella and Edward say goodbye to their daughter and hand her over to their most trusted friend, Jacob. Aro personally attacks Bella and Edward after most of his coven is destroyed, which results in his own destruction at Bella and Edward's hands. However this was just a vision from Alice, what really happens is that Alice and Jasper arrive in time to prevent the fight from breaking out and present two prominent witnesses (Nahuel and Huilen), who manage to end the confrontation peacefully. Because Nahuel is a full-grown vampire hybrid, Bella and Edward learn about Renesmee's eventual maturity.

Once the Volturi leave the Cullens, Edward and Bella are free to live their lives in peace with their daughter Renesmee.
In the end Bella learns how to remove her shield, and she shows Edward all of her memories of him, she then says, ''“Now you know,” I said lightly, and shrugged. “No one’s ever loved anyone as much as I love you.” “You’re almost right.” He smiled, his eyes still a little wider than usual. “I know of just one exception.” “Liar.”''

Bella removes her shield to let Edward read her mind.
Edward wants Bella to show him more memories of them and is surprised how Bella learned how to do this, since with Edward's special mind reading power, he can finally have access to Bella's thoughts, something he's always wanted to do ever since he met Bella.

Bella than says, ''“We have plenty of time to work on it,” I reminded him. “Forever and forever and forever,” he murmured. “That sounds exactly right to me.” And then we continued blissfully into this small but perfect piece of our forever."''

Children
Renesmee Carlie Cullen Edward and Bella have one child,their daughter named Renesmee Carlie Cullen. She is considered to be a miracle due to the fact that it’s impossible for vampires to have children.her name is a portmanteau of Renee, Bella's mother, and Esme, Edward's adoptive mother. Right before she is born her mother thinks she is a boy and comes up with name EJ (Edward Jacob) but just in case the baby is a girl she decides to name her Renesme, which she is revealed to be. Jacob Black imprinted on Renesmee, meaning that he found his soulmate in her. Due to her being a newborn when he imprints on her he acts as her protector and best friend until she comes of age. As she is half-vampire/half-human, her physical age is much older than her chronological age. At the end of Breaking Dawn, she is three months old but has the physical age of around 3-4 years. Her mental age advances even faster than her physical age. 7 years after her birth she'll stop aging and look physically like a 17-18 year old even though Chronologically she’ll be 7 years old. From a vision by her Aunt Alice it is shown that she grows into a beautiful young woman who accepts Jacobs imprint and becomes his mate.

Quotes
''“He would lean down suddenly and kiss me—his glass-smooth lips brushing against my hair, my forehead, the tip of my nose. Each time it was like an electric shock to my long dormant heart. The sound of its beating seemed to fill the entire room.”''

―Bella to Edward

"They have a name for someone who smells the way Bella does to me. They call her my 'singer'—because her blood sings for me."

―Edward to Bella

"The bond forged between us was not one that could be broken by absence, distance or time. And no matter how much more special or beautiful or brilliant or perfect than me he might be, he was as irreversibly altered as I was. As I would always belong to him, so would he always be mine."

―Bella on her and Edward's bond

''“Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars—points of light and reason….And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason for anything.”''

―Edward to Bella

"The light reflecting from the pavement of the square gleamed dimly from his skin. I’d never seen anything more beautiful—even as I ran, gasping and screaming, I could appreciate that. And the last seven months meant nothing. And his words in the forest meant nothing. And it did not matter if he did not want me. I would never want anything but him, no matter how long I lived."

―Bella to Edward

Fanon
Ships between Edward & Bella and Alice & Jasper are the two most popular ships in the fandom, and fans take the sides of 'Team Edward', 'Team Bella', and 'Team Neutral'.

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