Edward and Bella share a class at the University of Washington-and not much else. She's shy and reserved as she adjusts to her new life in Seattle. He's angry and isolated because of his upbringing in LaVerrot, a secretive, gated community. They're drawn together, but secrets of her past, and revelations of his pure lifestyle, threaten to keep them apart.

There is mention of sexual abuse and rape in this story. Please avoid if this is a trigger.

Abandoned by his parents, seven year old Edward is neglected and abused in his foster home and his only close friend, Bella, lives in Arizona for ten months out of the year.  It is only when the Cullens unexpectedly enter his life that he learns what it means to be loved and his wounded soul starts to heal.

When tragedy brings Bella to Forks for good, she comes hiding a secret too big to share, even with him.  Can these two tortured souls find happiness in a mad world of vampires and werewolves or are they already doomed by their own past?

WARNING: Strong language, underage drug and alcohol abuse, thoughts of suicide and suicide attempts, mental illness and child abuse.  Future lemons. Major angst.

All canon couples.

This is Edward's story.

Things were just starting to calm down for Emmett and Bella since the death of their parents, when the new kid James comes to town and shakes up Bella’s world.

 Her crush turned into love, his love turned into obsession. His obsession became Bella’s nightmare.

B/Jms at first then E/B

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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?

While hunting one afternoon, Emmett, Jasper and Carlisle stumble upon what appears to be a corpse.  When they learn it's a severely broken vampire, they take him home to do what they can to help.  But of course, fate has plans for this man.  Canon Couples.  AU.  DARK Themes.

Seth travels to Alaska to help Jake and Nessie settle in to their new home when they move away to attend school together.  A trip to the local corner store brings him face to face with Olivia, who suddenly becomes the centre of his world.

Unfortunately, things are not as cut and dry as they seem.  Olivia has been hurt in the past, and is having trouble moving on with her life.  She's in need of a gentle soul to help her heal, and Seth is her guy. But what happens when he is called to duty as a wolf by Jake to protect Nessie from a vicious vampire stalker hell-bent on making Nessie his own?

This is the story of how two people with hearts of gold find a way to love each other, while lost in a world full of people and other beings that don’t know the meaning of the word. 

Please Note: This story contains a scene of date rape, and descriptions of other violent events. 

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A violent attack senior year leaves Bella Swan ready to leave Forks behind and start a new life in Los Angeles with her lifelong friend, Jacob Black.  She begins to heal, finding a friend in her boss, Alice, but when Love comes knocking at her door wrapped up as the gorgeous med student Edward Cullen, Bella finds herself too haunted by the past to answer.

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Bella, broken and hurting, has escaped to Phoenix to live with her father and start anew. Forks at one time was her home and safe haven. She lead a simple yet privileged life. She had a best friend and dated the star athlete of Forks High. She thought she was in love, until so many things went wrong. Now she is trying to survive in the aftermath and live a semi-normal life. But she is hiding so many secrets. How long until Bella's past catches up with her? AU/AH

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Bella and her older brother Emmett share the same birthday, though they are two years apart. On Emmett's sixth, and Bella's Fourth birthday they are in a terrible accident. Both Charlie and Renee are pronounced dead at the scene. Months later a family adopts Emmett, they plan to come back for Bella in two weeks time. Two weeks later when they arrive to pick her up, they are told she has been adopted by another family, and that the orphanage is not allowed to give out names of adoptive parents. The family tries for years to find her, but have no such luck.

Meanwhile, Bella is living with Victoria and James, Who own a strip club. Victoria and James force all of the girls they have adopted to work at the strip club, and to have sex with any man who will pay. On Bella's 17th birthday the cops finally bring the operation down. And Bella is put back into the system, but no one wants a depressed and traumatized girl in their home. So she is put into a program called Project Hope, where foster families apply and are given children who know one else wants. She is sent to live with a family in Forks, Washington. She desperately wants to find her brother. But when her demons come back to haunt her will she be able to survive? Or will she end it?

Edward left Bella broken, but not alone. She still had her father, her mother, the pack and Jake. When a vengeful Victoria puts all her efforts into changing that, however, Bella decides to run before more damage could be done. But she soon realizes there is no way she can outrun a superfast vampiress bent on revenge. So...she stops running,... waits... and leaves it all up to fate.

NOW COMPLETE

Edward returns to Forks to find that Bella is stronger than he is. Their relationship must be redefined, but first he'll have
to catch sight of her. He's not the only one to track her down; Aro threatens the whole family when he uses Alice to get
to Bella and her troubled friend, Britt. EXB NM AU, MULTIPLE POV.

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