“Bella, I’m going to give you some privacy. I won’t go far, but I won’t listen either. I know you don’t want an audience, no matter which way you decide to go.”

Three years after his mysterious disappearance, Edward’s final words to Bella still haunt her every waking moment. For her parents, Bella tries to put the past behind her and start a new life but one phone call shatters her fragile new world. Bella must then choose between her new life and the potential heartache of her past.

All canon pairings. NO CHARACTER DEATH. This is an Edward and Bella story.

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After unexpectedly being given an antique desk and finding a letter written by Edward to his cousin over nine decades earlier in a hidden compartment, Bella, on a whim, decides to respond and starts them on a journey neither could have ever imagined. 

Perhaps there are some things we aren't meant to understand, just accept....

This story will eventually contain character death - NOT Edward or Bella.

On Bella's first day of college, she's seated next to mirror image of her dead mother. In her quest to find out the truth behind the resemblance, she's drawn into a world she never knew existed

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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When Bella Swan moves to Seattle to live with her father, she keeps her head down and her mouth closed about what brought her here. Edward Cullen dismisses her, thinking that no secret could be as horrific as his own.

But the dark shadows in Bella's life rival his, and put her in far more danger than he ever could. He could save her if he let her in.

Are either of them strong enough for that?

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In her junior year of high school, Bella Swan was days away from moving to Forks, WA.  Fate intervened, and she never made the move.  Now entering her second year at Emerson College in Boston, Bella is passionate, smart . . . and desperately lonely.

Meanwhile, Edward Cullen is empty after years of slogging through the charade of life.  In Alaska following his latest round of high school hell, he spends most of his time avoiding his family and their pitying thoughts.  Seeking a change of pace, he enrolls at MIT and makes his way to the east coast the summer before school begins.  When he catches the scent of his singer on the air, he follows it—and her—to his destiny.

This story is nearly finished, and I plan on updating weekly. 

Shelter is rated NC-17 for language, violence, and lemons.  Please don’t read if your momma still checks on you at night.

It's been five years. Five years and he decided to appear now? I had
come here to collect my racing thoughts and now all I could see was
blackness... takes place during New Moon

Edward is involved in a fatal accident, and is forced to say goodbye to his love and life, to Bella.

When Dr. Carlisle Cullen makes a rash decision, how will Edward come to terms with his new life, and the knowledge that Bella will always be just beyond his grasp?

"What value is immortal life, when I would give up forever to just touch her?"

All Canon after a little heartbreak.

Various points of view throughout.

Emily invites Bella to spend the last day of Spring Break with her. Bella does not cliff dive, but instead, dives into her own psyche. Emily and Sam are making it work despite the fact Sam maimed Emily. Bella decides to be as persistant with Edward as Sam was with Emily. Now the pesky task of finding a Vampire in a haystack. Will Alice's vision be a help or hindrance? Will Jacob follow Bella? Can she afford all this travel on her measly college fund and Newton's paycheck?

A woman awakes in a forest. She is lost, alone and has practically no memory. Three members of the Cullen family find her and take her to their home. But everything is not as it appears, especially not with the girl.  How can the little she knows to be true actually be possible?  It could be said that anything is possible when thrown into a world of myth.

Follow along as she travels on her journey to find, forgive and move beyond her past, all the while finding herself and something she never knew she was looking for.

This is mostly an E/B story though other loved and not so loved characters will be involved.

What if the first time Bella dreamed of Edward she wasn't really dreaming. Would their growing relationship be tainted by what had already occured?

Based on the 'that was the first night I dreamed of Edward Cullen' deleted scene from the Twilight DVD.

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Waking up naked in a strange bed is bad enough. Waking up naked and tied up in a strange bed is worse. Even worse than that? Waking up naked and tied up in the bed of the vampire who wants to eat you.  WARNING: DARK SEXUAL THEMES, VIOLENCE, GORE.

1st Place Readers' Choice winner in the "There Will Be Blood" contest.