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:

 

A quiet, young editor meets a brooding man hiding under the façade of a charming entrepreneur and follows him into a mutual agreement. Watch the couple as they come to terms with an incomprehensible living arrangement and begin the journey to accepting a life together. Do relationships really last when hardships make it impossible to......

Categories: AU-Human Characters: Bella, Edward
Challenges:
Series: None
Chapters: 29 Completed: No Word count: 127026

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.

 

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

Summary:

Edward Masen has lived the life of a nomadic vampire, travelling with James and Victoria since he awoke as an immortal. His ability to read minds has had the unusual side effect of making him a vampire with a conscience. Despite the ridicule from his coven mates, he's confident he's making the best of his existence and doing what's morally right... until he stumbles upon a brown-eyed girl reading in a meadow in Forks. As he attempts to befriend her and learns more about the sleepy town of Forks, Edward finds there's a lot more to being a vampire than he ever thought possible.

Categories: Twilight, AU Characters: Bella, Edward, James, Victoria
Challenges:
Series: None
Chapters: 42 Completed: Yes Word count: 276627

Summary:

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What’s a girl to do when she determines that there aren’t any good men left?  She creates them.  Bella Swan was unlucky in love, so she started creating dream men in fiction.  She wrote about the kind of man she’d love to meet and fall in love with, and for the amount of time it took to write her romance novels, she felt like she had a love of her own.  It wasn’t real, but in her opinion, real love wasn’t something that was within her grasp, so the fantasy was better than nothing. 

One day, suffering from writer’s block, she went to the corner café for a change of scenery.  When a cowboy tripped over her purse, she was so captivated by his appearance, that she had inspiration for a new character in her latest book.  He walked away with only a few words in her direction, and all she had was the visual of his green eyes and wild hair to go on, but for her, it was enough to fuel her imagination.

The stars at night are big and bright…deep in the heart of Texas.  Life holds mysteries that one can never fathom, and maybe there’s such a thing as fate.  Maybe, every once in a while, fate gives a hand to a lonesome cowboy and a romantic at heart…sometimes with a little help from a rabbit.

AH/OOC.  Canon couples.  Rated NC-17 for a reason like always.  Saddle up…we’re going for a ride.

 

 

Categories: AU-Human Characters: Bella
Challenges:
Series: None
Chapters: 56 Completed: Yes Word count: 354691

Summary:

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Pediatric ICU night nurse Bella Swan blogs about her work experiences via "The Nightingale Journals." When Dr. Edward Cullen is named the PICU's newest Fellow, their immediate attraction to one another is undeniable. They are both trying very hard to maintain their professionalism, appreciating one another as colleagues. Despite this predicament, Edward is determined to get to know Bella; when he learns that she is writing a blog, he makes it his mission to read every entry to find out just what it is that makes nurse Swan tick. Epic banter and UST result. Will they ever be able to admit their magnetic draw to each other?

Categories: AU-Human Characters: Alice, Bella, Carlisle, Edward, Emmett, Esme, Jasper, Rosalie
Challenges:
Series: None
Chapters: 41 Completed: Yes Word count: 212767

Summary:

 

Bella Swan has a loving supportive family and friends, but life isn't always easy. When she finds herself pregnant without a significant other, she retreats to Florida to make sense of her life.

Love isn't always in black and white...

OOC

Special thanks to M81170 for the new banner and special thanks to ms_ambrosia for my new GIF, which is now on the Forum.  Virtual hugs to you both.

 

 

Categories: AU-Human Characters: Alice, Bella, Carlisle, Charlie, Edward, Emmett, Jacob, James, Jasper, Nessie, Other Character, Rosalie
Challenges:
Series: None
Chapters: 29 Completed: No Word count: 200321

Summary:

Seventeen year old Bella Swan is fascinated by the elusive and mysterious Edward Cullen. Will he be everything she dreamed of? Or more than she bargained for? And how will they find their way when one night changes everything?

Categories: AU Characters: Bella, Edward
Challenges:
Series: None
Chapters: 28 Completed: Yes Word count: 75114

Summary:

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Edward, homeless since age twelve is used to the gritty, hard life. Now twenty, his main goal is to make it in the world, and off the streets. What happens when a girl who seems to be broken beyond repair becomes his new shadow?

 

Categories: AU-Human Characters: Alice, Bella, Carlisle, Charlie, Edward, Emmett, Esme, Jacob, Jasper, Renee, Rosalie
Challenges:
Series: None
Chapters: 35 Completed: Yes Word count: 149789

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:

"Hush, little baby don't say a word. Papa's gonna buy you a mockingbird, and if that mockingbird won't sing, Papa's gonna buy you a diamond ring." A lullaby and an antique chest. Just what is the history of Bella's new house? Rated M for horror scenes.

Categories: AU-Human Characters: Bella, Edward
Challenges:
Series: None
Chapters: 19 Completed: No Word count: 109174

Summary:

   

 

 

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His question brought Bella back down from cloud nine. She glowered at him. “Bite me.”

A slow, wicked grin etched itself on Edward’s face. “I don’t think you’d want me to,” he whispered darkly, laughing silently at the irony of her insult.

-

“I know I smelled an open wound, Bella,” Alice said sternly. Behind her, Carlisle and Edward exchanged a look.

Bella scoffed slightly. “Believe me, I felt it,” she told her as she tried to stand.

-

“You don’t understand,” Edward said in a deadly tone.

Bella stared at him for a moment, a bitter expression overcoming her features. “There’s something for me to understand?”

 

-

 

 

“Fuck her!” she heard one of them call.

 

“Oh, I will,” the man above her answered.

 

-

 

Her smile faded after a moment when she realized something. “Oh, great,” she started grumpily, “we match.”

 

Edward grinned lopsidedly. “Indeed, we do,” he replied.

 

-

 

“You’re funny,” Edward said dryly. “I bet you wouldn’t be saying the same thing if you were the one who turned up missing.”

 

 

“Are you trying to scare me, Mr. Cullen?” Bella asked as she snapped a picture.

-
  
"Bella, listen to me,” he tried coaxing her gently.

“No!” Bella shouted, pulling her arms out of his grip. “I never want to see you again. Stay away from me,” she said through clenched teeth, and no matter what she did, she couldn’t stop the tears from falling.

 

-

He cupped her face with both hands while looking into her eyes. “If you don’t find me, who’s killed before, whose diet consists of blood, repulsive, how can I look at you in that way?” he asked her softly.

-

"What kind of man are you?!” Bella pushed and slapped his chest as she raged. She was becoming unhinged.

-
  
“Bella, don’t come,” her mother said weakly. “Whatever he says, don’t come—” 

“No! That’s not what you’re supposed to say!” a voice exclaimed in the background.

A tear escaped Bella’s eye as she listened to her mother’s cries as he hit her.

-

 

Edward nodded. “You’re safe now, Bella,” he told her tenderly as he softly massaged her cheek.

 

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It's cranky vampire Edward against angry, no shit-taking, possibly mortal Bella in the ring. Who will be the winner? Or will they both lose? Watch their journey to life full of drama, mystery, romance, and mythical creatures.

Twilight told with a strong, angry Bella, and a more controlled, bad tempered Edward. B/E, AU, canon pairings, lots of OOC

 

 

Categories: Twilight, AU Characters: Alice, Angela, Bella, Billy, Bree, Caius, Carlisle, Charlie, Demetri, Edward, Emily, Emmett, Esme, Felix, Jacob, James, Jane, Jared, Jasper, Jessica, Lauren, Laurent, Leah, Marcus, Mike, Phil, Quil, Renee, Riley, Rosalie, Sam, Tyler, Victoria
Challenges:
Series: None
Chapters: 28 Completed: No Word count: 221838

Summary:

A story about love, about death, about keeping secrets, and dealing with the consequences.  Bella and Edward meet at a hospital when she is diagnosed with a life threatening disease and he is recovering from knee surgery.  She confides her fears to him; he changes his life because of her.  This is a story about their journey through the confusion, awkwardness, pain, and beauty of first love.

Excerpt from Chapter 2:
“What are you most afraid of?”  Edward asks one last question.

“I'm not afraid of dying,” I answer truthfully.

“You're not afraid of dying?” he repeats, incredulous.

“No.  There's so much more.  I'm afraid of losing my hair but that's not my biggest fear.  I'm afraid of leaving my mom and dad all alone.  I'm afraid that if I survive, I'll never have children of my own.”  I yawn again.  Edward is quiet and I think for a moment that he's fallen asleep.  “Edward,” I whisper, in case he is asleep, “What are you most afraid of?”

“I'm afraid I'm falling for you,” he whispers back so softly that I'm unsure if I've heard him correctly. 

Categories: AU-Human Characters: None
Challenges:
Series: None
Chapters: 22 Completed: Yes Word count: 82940