When the Cullens move back to Forks, Edward decides to follow in Carlisle's footsteps and become a doctor. As he becomes more and more frustrated with his monotonous life, Bella is admitted with a serious illness.

Will he be able to resist?

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Single mom Bella is frustrated with how her life has turned out.  She finally gets the nerve to quit her job and open her own restaurant, taking with her some of her insane boss's best employees. 

Can she deal with the stress? What about her noisy upstairs neighbor?

As she struggles to be successful, raise her daughter, and deal with the pressures of daily life, can she finally find happiness and love for herself?

Edward couldn't bear to watch his beloved Bella being torn apart from the inside by his baby… so how might things have turned out for our favourite couple if he had taken the steps to ensure Bella’s survival, rather than let his spawn kill her. Very dark, Angsty little 'what if' story.

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A family is torn apart by the death of a beloved member.  Victoria came back for Bella but killed another before she was destroyed.  No one can deal with the grief of loss and they suddenly find themselves all on very different paths, but all essentially broken with no light to guide them.  

Can a chance encounter eight months later bring this family back together?  Can they heal?  Can they let the one they lost go and be at peace?  Can they learn to act on hope?

**Companion story to Acting on Faith by Oceanwaters2006**

**Also, props to Oceanwaters2006 for the Banner!!!**

**Warning - Dark Themes**

Bella went cliff diving, but it didn't turn out so well. She broke her back. A decade later, Edward reappears in her life on the same night she loses her best friend and husband to a freak accident. Now a graduate student in Women's Studies, Bella isn't thrilled to see him. But when the Cullens re-enter Bella's life, they bring change, hope, and a new joint project that will require all their expertises.

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Special Update:

For personal reasons (a ridiculously full teaching schedule and being recently put in charge of a bi-annual local conference and ongoing project), I am no longer able to reply to reviews and questions. But that said, I wanted to give a BIG THANK YOU to EVERYBODY for the wonderful feedback and kind words that have been sent my way since the completion of this story in August 2009. I do still check my messages about once every 1-2 weeks and read *every* review. I just have too many to reply to anymore, but I didn’t want anyone to think I was ignoring her/him in particular, or didn’t appreciate readers taking time to leave a review. Writing this story was tons of fun and I’m thrilled readers seem to enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed the chance to write it. I can’t tell you how flattering that is!!! As I used to reply to all reviews, I feel a little badly about this decision, but work has been requiring virtually all of my time since the new (academic) year began.

Best to all of you in 2010 and beyond!

"It’s him. I know it, and he knows it, and the whole damn place is going to fall to pieces if someone doesn’t do something about it." were the drunken ramblings of a man who came stumbling one night into Bella's ER. Now, five years later that one innocent encounter is coming back to haunt Bella Swan in a way she never dreamed.

Kidnapped and tortured, Bella is desperately trying to figure out who Edward Cullen is and why she's been thrown into the center of a twisted struggle for information she knows nothing about--- all while trying to make it out alive.

Unfortunately, this story is on an indefinte hiatus due to real life fail.

AU-Human, but Edward and Alice retain their mental gifts. An overly sullen Edward is swept off to the unlikely destination of Hawaii by his family after graduation. However, only Alice knows the reason why they are there-she's had a premonition that Edward would finally meet his true love. But when their destined meeting is ruined by unforeseen circumstances, can Alice make things right again? Or does fate have other plans?

Edward is a lonely vampire who has been waiting for over eighty years to find his soul mate.  His sister Alice has never been able to see his true love, but for good reason--she hadn't been born yet.  When Alice finally sees her, plans are made to finally make Edward's dream come true.

This is a different version of Twilight, and it's told from Edward's point of view.

A little lemony, but not too graphic.  Rated NC-17 for mature themes and language, and possibly for violence in later chapters. 

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Leah Clearwater is someone who has always been left behind. Her father is gone, her Sam has moved on and her body has betrayed her. Where is her happily ever after? When dawn broke the Twilight world changed, but not for Leah. Thanks to the Cullens she is stuck in limbo between barely a woman and sort of a wolf. Will she ever find a way to live in peace with the vampires she has come to blame for her unhappiness? Will an unexpected friendship save her when she finally finds love in the most desperate of circumstances? Can you ever truly be fixed once you've been broken?

Reclusive computer prodigy Edward Cullen needs a personal assistant and single mom Bella Swan needs a job. What happens when their worlds collide? Will Bella learn to trust the shy genius and will he be willing to open up to her as well?

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If you ask me to describe Quil in one word it'd be "Sexy-Quileute-Warrior-Man". Now I know, its not technically one word, so if your going to be picky, I guess I'd have to say "unattainable". I'm Claire: utterly average 16 year old, in love with Quil Ateara, a mystical sex god.

Excerpt from Those Chicken Breast Thingys:

I felt his warm arms encircle me, and although I was already sweltering in the heat, I didn't complain as he carried me bridal style to the water.  The whole thing felt so much like a romance novel cover— stud werewolf and olive skinned damsel— that I imagined myself momentarily clad in a flowing gown of some sort, heaving my non-existent bosoms to his chest. 

I got caught up in it all when the first splashes of cold water hit the small of my back.  I shrunk away from it, wrapping my arms around Quils neck tightly and pulling myself up higher, pressing my cheek to his.  His cheek was on fire, but it felt so natural on mine.  I realized that I had never had so much of my bare skin touching his and I felt my own cheeks blush hot.  I pulled my cheek away, scared that maybe he would be able to feel it, or somehow know with his werewolvy senses that I was more turned on then I had ever been in my entire life.

Humor/Romance/Drama.

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When Carlisle introduces Edward to a young coma patient, they discover that Leia's mind still works just fine. What would happen if the hospital is forced to disconnect her life support? Can vampire venom heal *everything*?