Samantha Griffiths was a normal 18 year old girl, but now she'll never be the same. What will she do in our favourite heroin's shoes? How will she cope when fiction becomes her reality?

Edward finds Bella at a different time in her life. The bloodlust is almost uncontrollable. He wants to leave, but can't seem to pull himself away. They both seem to call for each other. What does this mean? Where does this put them for their future?    

A mosaic freely drawn from book and movie, wanders into AU as the story unfolds ... ....

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Showing is stronger than telling.  Forks was just like I remember it.  I felt the short little hairs on the back of my neck stand straight on end.  Cut your losses before they can become catastrophic.   “It’s not fair,” I say aloud.   The night wind swirls, lifting the fine surface powder from the tops of the snowdrifts, coating us in diamond dust.  

Moving to Forks, spending the last eighteen months of her childhood with a father she barely knew ... it seemed like a good idea at the time.

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A/N about the rating: The narrative in this story ranges between PG-13 (most of it) and R (occasional language and occasional non-graphic reference to mature themes). An isolated technicality in a late chapter has necessitated changing the rating from R to NC-17, however R is a much better measure of the farthest outer limit of what the reader will encounter in this tale.

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I never in my wildest dreams thought that something I wrote would inspire someone to make something like this.   I am so touched.  THANK YOU DD!