With their wedding date quickly approaching, Bella and Edward have been testing their boundaries. Despite all the progress they have made, Edward is still worried. Emmett, sensing his brother’s apprehension has presented a solution to help ease some of Edward’s “tension”.

How far is Edward willing to go to ensure that he’s ready for the main event?

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WARNING: This story contains adult themes including lemons and nudity. There might also be some bustle between a certain sentient creature and an inanimate object.

 The almost manic whispers of the devil echoed through my ears..."Hypocrite... Hypocrite... Hypocrite..." My face paled. It dawned on me as clear as looking through a translucent window. I was as much of a killer as Edward was. WARNING - EXTREME VIOLENCE.  *Darkward & Darkella At Times*

Alice and Bella rescued Edward in Volterra…but you didn’t really think that Aro let them go so easily, did you? There is always a price…  ~ content warning ~

8-12-10 The Mind's Eye has been nomiated in the "Best Volturi" category in The Single Shot Awards, voting starts August 16...be sure to check out "The Token", nominated in the "Best Nomad" category.

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 1-30-10 SQUEEE!! The Mind's Eye received The Lamb's Choice Award in the I Get Off in Volterra Contest for which it was written! A huge thank you to everyone who r&r'd and voted. Hugs to the lovely and talented Sassenach Wench who is my deputy Muse and a most insightful beta!

From the Altered Lions and Sacrificial Lambs blog, hosts of the contest:

“Here we see a little Aro/Alice action, but not the way you would imagine. This story is so well written and so original that we couldn’t help but make it the Lambs’ Choice winner.”

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What would you do if you could change who you were and win the heart of the man you love? That was the question Bella Swan asked herself the day she left the Cullen home and ventured out on her own to Italy. Eight years later, the maid’s daughter is back with the sole purpose of winning the heart of the man loves, Emmett. However, things don’t always go to plan, sometimes love has plans of its own. Sometimes, just sometimes, the heart can’t decide what it wants.

Alice and Jasper awake in the same hospital, scarred, broken, and searching for meaning.  She gives him peace; he gives her joy.  They are each other's hope.

AH/AU/OOC.  Rated for graphic descriptions of wounds, language, and eventual sexual content.

SEQUEL TO 'DANCING WITH DEATH'

"But that was the joke. I was invisible. No one could neither see, nor hear me, if I didn't want them to. It just so happened, however, that I wanted nothing less from Bella. I wanted her to see me, just not yet."

 Do you ever get that tingling sentation going down the back of your spine? Making you feel paranoid, like there's someone watching you? The type that makes your heart rate quicken, your lungs stop working and makes you turn around quickly only to find that there's no one there? Well.... what if your pulse pounds, your breath hitches and your hair stands on end because there is someone there? What if you just can't see him? What if the predator lurking in the shadows was, in fact, invisible? What then?

Well, Bella, in the wake of everything else that's been happening to her, is about to find out.....

*WARNING: CONTAINS DARK THEMES*

What would happen if Bella and Edward’s second time wasn’t about Bella begging and Edward caving? Would they still find their way back to making love while Bella was still human? 

This story is a re-imagining of Edward and Bella’s second night of lovemaking, a week later in the blue room.  I wanted to explore what it would be like if they found their way back to each other’s arms as a conscious choice made from love and mutual respect, with lots of romance, playfulness, and passion.

Stephenie’s cut-away during the honeymoon left many of us extremely frustrated!  What exactly happened from that touching moment in the bay until morning, when Bella woke up with feathers in her hair? Did the rest of the honeymoon proceed smoothly?

No honeymoon is completely perfect—especially when the two people involved have never done anything like this before.  And especially when the couple is Bella and Edward, with all their unique problems.

Join me as I explore Edward's thoughts and feelings during his most intimate moments with Bella.  Watch these two grow and learn about each other as they fall deeper in love.  I hope you will agree that I have treated their love with the utmost respect and good taste that it deserved.

Aro held his hand out to me once again and nodded to me that I should take it. "Perhaps something can be done, but first you must hand me some insight," he said softly.

Excerpt from chapter 15   

In medieval London Bella Swan is captured by Henry, a centuries old vampire. He changes her at the young age of 15 and they travel England, befriending more vampires along the way. But when she meets Emily, her world crumbles around her and the shards of Bella's broken life fall at the child's feet. And what trouble will the Volturi's intervention create?

The plague of the immortal children is still upon the world, that much is certain.

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There was a girl. She loved a boy. And then she lost it all. Will her journey back to the place where it all began and ended light the path for forgiveness, or will it swallow her whole? A story about friendship, love and the true meaning of coming home.

Whenever someone dies in the world, someone else is born. Bella wants to dance in the rain with the strange girl on her lawn, the one with dark eyes and pale skin.

PG-13 for dark themes

A beautiful place, perfect for hiding from the big bad world, the secret garden is a sanctuary for young Alice and her new friend.