Edward, Bella and Alice are drawn into a no-win scenario in Volterra after Edward's attempted suicide-by-Volturi in the Palazzo dei Priori .  Aro confronts Edward to make an impossible choice, with Alice as Aro's unwitting accomplice.  How will Edward's choice affect his reunion with Bella, and what future can they hope to salvage in the aftermath?

Story begins in New Moon, during Chapter 21, "The Verdict," but enters the AU when Aro reads Alice's mind...

AU, but canon through New Moon, with canon pairings.

~*~ warning ~*~  story contains very dark themes, including a sexual assault in the first chapter.  if this subject is a trigger for you, please do not continue. 

If you are a survivor of sexual abuse and need assistance, please contact RAINN http://apps.rainn.org/ohl-bridge/

Disclaimer:  I do not own the Twilight series, nor any of the characters created by Stephenie Meyer. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

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Both damaged, Edward and Bella meet and the chemistry is instantaneous.  Will she still love him when she discovers that he is the criminal defense attorney that got her rapist acquitted just two days before her attack?  Can he forgive himself enough to give her justice?

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Best Secondary Character AH - Cynthia

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Bella takes a vacation to Hilton Head Island in South Carolina to meet Alice's new boyfriend, Jasper. Rosalie and Emmett come along, too, just in case Bella didn't feel like enough of a fifth wheel. With Jasper's roommate out of town, Bella has his nice big bed all to herself. Until Edward comes home in the middle of the night...

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Bella takes a trip to Vegas with her roommates Alice and Rosalie. After one wild night, Bella's life is turned upside down. A marriage certificate, a pregnancy, and a best friend in ICU send Bella and her friends into a whirlwind of emotions. Canon pairings and future LEMONS!

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After a tragic accident has left Bella without the man of her life, she has to decide if it's time to move on and give love a second chance. All characters are human.

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After her parents are killed in a plane crash, a young girl is rejected again & again by foster families for being too old. She wishes on a star nightly, but will she find what she seeks? Will the Cullens be that family?

NC-17 for later chapters. Warning" Violence, and sexual aggresion may be part of this story.

Winning Summary:

"I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I make tonight."  With that one hope Isabella Swan faces life as best as she can.  The tragedy of her parents' death, leaves her alone in a system where her age leaves her undesirable for adoption.  That is until one day two people come into her life offering her a chance at hope.  The Cullen family takes to Bella like a long lost sister.  What happens when Bella is taken from the Cullens by a lost relative?  Will Bella's hopes be destroyed?  What happens when fate steps in years later to reunite Bella with the one's she loved and who loved her so long ago?

Bella knew what she would say, "Don't you want to be my sister?"

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Bella comes to Forks as the overweight, excessively pale, book worm. No guy wants anything to do with her. Edward Cullen is the popular, smart, athletic, honor student who all the girls swoon over, despite the fact that he's never expressed interest in any of them.

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What if Bella really had a reason to have self-esteem issues? What if Edward had a secret that no one else knew?

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Oh," Jacob hesitates. "I just figured the way he acted around you the other night and how you were going to his party that maybe you guys were..." He trails off.

"Well, no." I clarify. "We are only biology partners."

"OH! I get," he nearly shouts. "Like benefriends."

"WHAT?!" I yell, "NO!" I pull the phone away from my ear and press the TALK button to end the call.

The phone rings again.

"No Jacob! That is NOT what is going on between Edward and I, AT ALL, you perv!"

"Bella?" Edward's voice asks.

Bella has always steered clear of men in certain life threatening professions. When she promises Alice she'll give them a chance, she fears her worst nightmares will come true.  Then she meets the man she thinks she is destined to be with forever, and doesn't worry about her fear again.  But when things in paradise change, can she maintain true to her promise to Alice, or will she run again?

*WARNING* This story contains graphic themes, including emotional abuse, physical abuse, rape, and infidelity in the first few chapters.  If these themes bother you, please continue to the next story.

not canon couples at beginning of story, but will be as the story progresses.

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Bella Swan is a writer for a Women's Magazine in Florida, a magazine that she writes the self help column for...Something she really wants to escape. The good news, she is escaping self help, the bad news, she's covering the lives of women behind sports stars...In Denver.

Here she meets three amazing women; the girlfriend, fiance, and wife to two players and the coach of the team, but what will happen when the team superstar, Edward, takes an interest in Bella?

Warnings: It's NC-17, so basically... Smut, Language.

AU. Based off the events in the beginning of New Moon. Edward did not tell the truth when he left Bella in the woods five years ago. Struggling to make a life without him, Bella finds herself still alone in an entirely different forest. But what happens if they are accidentally reunited? What was the lie that Edward told?  What will Bella do when she finds out?  Rated NC-17 for language and sexual situations

Edward is an underground fighter using the ring as an outlet for his pentup rage. Bella is a college dropout running from her complicated past. Their paths collide when Edward is beaten and left for dead. Rated M for LEMONS. CANON PAIRINGS. AH. OCC.

Bella’s reunion with the Cullens comes with an obsessive stalker.

Bella had the perfect life.  She was married to her longtime best friend, had a great job and a beautiful son…until a careless driver stole her happiness.

Edward was fulfilling his dreams.  His residency was almost over, he had a gorgeous fiancé, and he was ready to move forward, starting a family…until a devastating break-up and a health scare in his family shake his foundation.

See, sometimes, life doesn’t go the way you want.  Sometimes, things can happen that change the course you choose.  And most of the time, it takes courage to walk down the new path.

What if that new path started with a tee ball team?

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