Summary:

 

All Isabella Swan ever wanted was to be noticed; to be remembered, to be happy, and hopefully, one day that someone could love her. But as a twenty-eight-year-old virgin with only one true friend, Bella has started to come to the stark realization that maybe she's just made to live alone.

***Tissue Warning***

Categories: AU-Human Characters: Bella, Edward
Challenges:
Series: None
Chapters: 37 Completed: No Word count: 160009

Summary:

 

Timing is everything. What if Bella arrived in Forks during the summer before Senior year instead of the middle of Junior year? What if Bella had spent the summer with Jake before starting school?  How would things have changed if there had been no Biology class with Edward? No incident with James?  No papercut on her 18th birthday? What if Edward had never left?

 

What If?  

 

Now a contributor to the Bella and Jacob Chronicles!  Thank you so much to Diamondheart for including this story in her amazing series!

Categories: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, AU Characters: Alice, Bella, Billy, Carlisle, Charlie, Edward, Embry, Emily, Emmett, Esme, Jacob, Jared, Jasper, Jessica, Lauren, Leah, Mike, Paul, Quil, Rosalie, Sam, Seth, Tyler
Challenges:
Series: The Bella and Jacob Chronicles
Chapters: 19 Completed: No Word count: 71718

Summary:

Competitive shooter Bella Swan had an Olympic gold medal and dreams of another before witnessing the brutal murder of both her parents.  Now living under a new identity as a high school student in tiny Forks, Washington, she must learn to cope with  the loss of both her family and her future.  When she meets the local math teacher and her older "foster-brother", Edward Cullen, things are complicated by an instant and unexpected attraction.

Warning: Some scenes, including the opening chapter of this story, describe graphic events and gun violence which may be upsetting to sensitive readers.  Please read with caution.

 

**Thank you so much for nominating Arms for Best Bella & Edward!! 

 

**Arms was featured on the Lemonade Stand!  For more info and other rec's, visit The Lemonade Stand by clicking the image above!

 

Categories: AU-Human Characters: Bella, Edward
Challenges:
Series: None
Chapters: 18 Completed: No Word count: 108309

Summary:

AU Post-New Moon. NOTE- AU Hybrid Vamps:

Banner by Mehek18

Set in 2010, the supernatural world is in a crisis unprecedented, its' very structure challenged by a force yet to be seen. As this new threat sends ripples of discord and panic throughout the ranks, a young vampire and her two children, twin beings as different as light and dark, struggle to remain hidden in the shadows; away from the world they belong to.

But not for long: Embittered by the desperate state his father left him, his mother, and his sister in five years prior, Tony Swan yearns for purpose; an opportunity to let out who he truly is. No more lies. No more veils. He won't have to wait long-as his sister grows normally, he inches closer and closer to adulthood, mind and body rapidly maturing despite the few years he has walked this Earth. And yet, throughout all this, one key fact remains forgotten by the young hybrid: fate's plan is never simple.

And in a world where monsters of human and marble flesh exist, how can it be?

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Pulling to re-write:

Well, technically not pulling, but definitely re-writing.

I’ve given it a lot of thought. I was actually going to do this once I got the 13th chapter of my main WIP out (So it wouldn’t that bad of a shock, after all I already warned of a hiatus on its way), but so far I haven’t been able to churn out anything that could pass as a chapter that’s “in- character” in regards to the present version of my fic. It’s just…not working. No matter how hard I try to write ch.13, I keep going back to my old copies of chapters one, two, and three and re-writing them. Hell, I’m already on ch.4.

I’ve looked at my early chapters, compared them to the most recent ones, and realized that the flow, the tone of the writing itself, doesn’t match. I had a completely different mindset when I began, still figuring things out, still not setting things in stone, and throughout the experience I learned a lot. More so if I hadn’t posted in the first place. A huge learning experience, I guess you could say.

It made me remember why I wanted to write this story in the first place, and that because I was under the impression I had to conform to a framework because it was fan fiction, I put what I really wanted on the back burner in order to write/focus on what I thought was supposed to be written/focused on.

And then I finally had an epiphany: I don’t have to follow any sort of guideline. I can write what I want to write. I don’t have to have the story closely tailored around Edward and Bella, or any of the other canon characters, I don’t have to write from certain POV’s in the first place because the truth is, my story, as someone commented after looking over a past chapter I’d written, is “not really about Twilight.”
And that’ s the truth. Resent isn’t about Twilight, at least, not completely.

To the person who commented, thank you, by the way. You know who you are.

Now, you may ask, “why post a wip in the first place?” well, the truth was, I didn’t think the fandom would still be around once I completed Resent. It was 2010, the twi-craze was already dying down somewhat, and I thought it would be risky to take my time and finish the story first before posting. I thought I was working on borrowed time. Plus, I wasn’t sure if the twist I had going with my main oc’s. would be received well.

The reviews and the fact that a good number of us are still here kind of blows those pre-conceived notions out of the ballpark, to my sweet relief.

What I said in past thread posts still stands: as long as the story is posted, it is not abandoned. Hiatus maybe, but not abandoned. The fact that it is still there means that I’m still a part of the fandom. If I ever decide to flounce, there is no way in hell that I would ever leave any of my writing’s unmonitored on the internet. If I ever decide to discontinue, you readers will be the first to know.

I’m leaving the current copy of Resent on ff.net, twilighted, and twcs for these reasons, and also because I know there are some who still enjoy re-reading the posted chapters. I’m sorry if this is upsetting. I know the update schedule for this fic has been somewhat tumultuous and nail-biting, especially with how things were left the last chapter, but I feel like if I don’t say something now, I’m going to end up posting something bland and soulless. Once I’ve written enough of the new version (or completed it) I’ll pull the old version and start re-posting.

I won’t hold it against you if you flounce, just don’t tell me that you are.

Again, I’m sorry about this guy’s, but my gut is telling me this is something I have to do.

 

Categories: New Moon, AU Characters: None
Challenges:
Series: None
Chapters: 12 Completed: No Word count: 81816

Summary:

After the Cullens leave Bella behind she must find a way to survive her pregnancy. Betrayed by the Denali, where is she left to go and what will she become?

Is it a price Bella is willing to pay?

Every choice bears consequences, positive or negative, and results of the consequences will change the course of their lives drastically. What will their consequences be?

Categories: New Moon, AU Characters: Bella, Edward
Challenges:
Series: Effects and Consequences
Chapters: 33 Completed: Yes Word count: 96247

Summary:

What do you do when the love of your life has no memory of you? Two years after they left her, Bella is back in the Cullens' lives. The only problem is that she doesn't remember them. A Bella and Edward love story.    

Categories: New Moon Characters: Alice, Bella, Carlisle, Charlie, Edward, Emmett, Esme, Jacob, Jasper, Renee, Rosalie
Challenges:
Series: None
Chapters: 34 Completed: Yes Word count: 116697

Summary:

"Bella Swan had become beautiful to me. The pain of that realization stung worse than venom ever could." NOMINATED FOR AN ETERNITY AWARD: Edward's Twilight, but not Midnight Sun. AU detours/missing moments. The slow burn begins with the flight to Alaska.    

Categories: Twilight, AU Characters: Edward
Challenges:
Series: None
Chapters: 25 Completed: No Word count: 145354

Summary:

Edward is a king in dire need of an heir. Isabella comes from fruitful stock. It should be a marriage made in heaven, right? Well, not quite yet... First, he has to convince her to actually become his queen. Sometimes, doing your duty brings unexpected rewards.

 

Lovely banner by laurachristen:

Categories: AU-Human Characters: Edward
Challenges:
Series: None
Chapters: 14 Completed: No Word count: 42924

Summary:

Isabella is a handmaid to Princess Jessica, Daughter of King Aro. When a knight from a neighboring kingdom wins his choice of bride, Sir Edward bypasses the princess and claims the handmaid instead. Isabella suddenly finds herself married to a man she does not know, and is tossed into the middle of political plots and scheming nobles. Her life is further turned upside down when she is unable to give her husband the one thing he must have.

"This is the hour of Forks' revenge. Volterra will fall to us for Aro's actions against your Queen, and no one – no one – who fights for Volterra will survive. We will not stop until every wall, every tower, every single structure in all of Volterra has been razed."

 

 

Categories: AU-Human Characters: Bella, Edward
Challenges:
Series: None
Chapters: 39 Completed: Yes Word count: 229617

Summary:

One person from Rosalie Hale's human past comes back to crash down all the walls she has built for seventy-five years, to destroy her marriage and pull her apart from her family.

Categories: Post-Eclipse, AU Characters: Emmett, Rosalie
Challenges:
Series: None
Chapters: 19 Completed: Yes Word count: 28837

Summary:

Don’t go into the woods . . . That is the simple rule in Forks and all obey. No one questions it, no one challenges it. No one goes into the woods. Except, I have . . .

There’s a lot of secrets in Forks and Bella Swan is about to stumble into the biggest one, altering her life and all those around her.  

 

 Huge shout out to Najo for all the help with my first proper banner!

 

Categories: AU Characters: Alice, Angela, Bella, Ben, Billy, Carlisle, Charlie, Edward, Embry, Emily, Emmett, Eric, Esme, Jacob, Jasper, Jessica, Lauren, Leah, Mike, Paul, Quil, Rosalie, Sam, Seth, Tyler
Challenges:
Series: None
Chapters: 9 Completed: No Word count: 42682

Summary:

Bella makes the decision to leave Phoenix forever after a tragic accident. Seeking a fresh start, she heads to the small town of Forks to live with Charlie. The cold numbness that has imprisoned Bella's heart begins to subside when she finds herself falling for the only person at Forks High School capable of tearing down her walls.

Canon pairings, AU for loosely following Twilight original plot. Some angst -- especially in the beginning.

Categories: Twilight, AU Characters: Alice, Angela, Bella, Ben, Billy, Carlisle, Charlie, Edward, Emmett, Eric, Esme, Jacob, James, Jasper, Jessica, Lauren, Laurent, Mike, Phil, Renee, Rosalie, Tyler, Victoria
Challenges:
Series: None
Chapters: 23 Completed: No Word count: 110901

Summary:

Edward leaves Bella alone in the woods after telling her he didn’t want her any more. As she is lying on the cold forest floor; Bella remembers three important things. Edward made a promise not to leave her, and Edward never broke a promise, and third it was her body, her heart, what right did he have to decide what was good for her? All in all Bella realizes that Edward was covering up his true feeling about her. Bella goes to bring Edward home.

 

Categories: New Moon, AU Characters: Alice, Aro, Bella, Caius, Carlisle, Charlie, Demetri, Edward, Emmett, Esme, Felix, Jacob, Jane, Jasper, Laurent, Marcus, Victoria
Challenges:
Series: None
Chapters: 18 Completed: Yes Word count: 57466