A chance encounter between high-class escort, Isabella Swan, and political hot-shot Edward Cullen sends both their lives into a tailspin. Lies, manipulation, deceit, and all-consuming obsession follow... but where does it all end?

That was the summer everyone stopped looking at me as Ben's little sister. Bonfires and beer. Sand and sun. We just kept climbing higher. None of us were ready for the drop.

Eating food, drinking beer, and watching football are acceptable ways to spend your Thanksgiving Day. Wooing your niece's insanely attractive babysitter, however, is not. EPOV

Bella wants to die, and almost gets her wish fulfilled when she gets hit by a shiny Volvo. She is left with serious injuries, and the only thing keeping her from dying is the person who hit her. All Human, Rated M for language, dark themes & violence.

WeLoveMobward contest winner 2017 - The town calls him "Berserky" who likes to wander into convenience stores, rip into beef jerky, and gnaw on the sticks. Touch him, you'll feel the consequences. Since his father's death, he hasn't been the same. I would know. I'm the only one with a good view inside his windows. Edward Cullen Jr. is my neighbor, and I remember I loved him once.

Waitress Bella wants nothing to do with her boyfriend's shady drug dealings. When he forces her to do him a favor, she finds herself on the wrong side of the wrong sort of people… all except one. M for a reason. 00s vibes.

It was a fantasy that never should've been a reality.

Struggling with form after an accident that almost cost him his life, a former motocross champion meets a single mom of one trying to cope with her own heartache. Sparks fly, but can they conquer their own demons to find love?

Missing chaps by April 1st to repost: The town calls him "Berserky" who likes to wander into convenience stores, rip into beef jerky, and gnaw on the sticks. Touch him, you'll feel the consequences. Since his father's death, he hasn't been the same. I would know. I'm the only one with a good view inside his windows. Edward Cullen Jr. is my neighbor, and I remember I loved him once.

He doesn't think about me. He doesn't think about our future or how his decisions will affect us. I'm second best. I always will be.

A story about falling in love with your charmingly idiotic roommate.

He's someone else's husband, and that alone should end all of my thoughts about Edward Cullen.

"When everything goes wrong, that's when adventure starts."

When faced with betrayal, Edward is forced to rebuild his life, but that's easier said than done once he realizes he's stuck between his past and his present. EPOV

Bella's clueless when it comes to men, especially her friend's boyfriend.

On the day of his sister's wedding, Edward might have something up his sexy sleeve for Bella.

There are people you get over. And then there's Edward Cullen.

He's my biggest secret, my favorite lie. But he's not mine at all.

In Edward's world, family meant everything. Caught in the crosshairs of loyalty, corruption, and love, Edward had a duty to fulfill. This is the whole story. Mob family- E/B

I knew better. But I also knew it wouldn't stop me. I was going to destroy her.

It's a mystery how possessions on a campsite vanish. Everyone's bewildered but Sam, a local. He knows how. He knows why. He knows a mute, young man living in the woods shouldn't be bothered. That's not what Bella witnessed, because just back there, when he said Hello, Bella was pretty sure the young man spoke to her. The mystery now is to find him.

No one touches Cullen. They keep trying as if winning his affection is a game. No one gets a chance with him. At least, that's what they think.

She seeks action. He wants peace. When marine biologist Bella Swan and retired surfer Edward Cullen find each other in Costa Rica in the middle of a conflict between environmentalists and turtle egg poachers, Bella might just get more than what she bargained for.

They say every pure intention ends when the good times start. Bella knew Edward's intentions were anything but pure when they started whatever this was. AH, AU FWard

Once upon a time, Edward Cullen was home to me. I just don't know who he is anymore.

It's about friends and growing up. It's about summer and laughter and music. It's about all the firsts. It's about the one boy you're never supposed to fall for. Ever.

Bella Swan eats, sleeps, and breathes Crosstown Concourse. It's home, work, and the love of her life. She has nothing in common at all with Edward Cullen, who has a job or 2 or 3 of his own, except Maggie, the niece they share, who's dubbed him the funcle because he's like a dad but cooler. It isn't a meet-cute when you've known each other forever.

Bella Swan is privileged, sheltered and unknowingly naive. Edward Masen is tough, rugged and street-smart. Their worlds are so far apart, their experiences incomparable. But when there's a spark, it can become a flame; a flame a fire. Can they overcome their differences and learn from each other? Or are they destined to burn? AH.

As a woman alone in a world gone wild, Bella couldn't trust anyone. It had been two years since a deadly virus was released in all of the world's major cities. The population is decimated. Modern society is a thing of the past. The things we do to survive.

Orthopedic surgeon Bella Swan encounters the last person she ever expected to see again on Valentine's Day no less. Can she remain professional with Major League pitcher Edward Masen given their pasts?

This summer was going to change everything. We just weren't prepared for how much.

First Responder, Edward, is just living his typical, normal life. Until an accident causes a young, scared Bella and her two year-old son to turn that life on it's head. Bella is on the run and needs help to keep herself and child safe from the dangers of her past and needs Edward's help to do it. How far would you go to protect someone in need?

Dire circumstances have forced Bella into a world of illegal alcohol smuggling and dangerous men. Luckily for her, that's the least of her problems.

If someone had told Isabella Swan three months ago that she'd start her senior year of high school with a pregnancy scare, she'd have laughed out loud. She had plans for her future—big plans, and none of them involved having a baby. Yet here she is, sitting in a bathroom stall at the Safeway with a pregnancy test in one hand and a Big Gulp in the other.

"I met this girl on Monday.." - Craig David

As this saint burns, so will burn my soul should I betray the oath of Omertà. I enter alive and will have to leave dead.

He's her warning. She's his sweet temptation. An addict always wants what he can't have, even if it will ruin him. "Speak of the devil and she shall appear. Who am I kidding? I'm Beelzebub."

Retired boxer-turned CEO, Edward Cullen, is about to face his biggest challenge yet when he is landed with his teenage daughter for the summer. With the help of his feisty PA, Bella, maybe they can find something to bond over? AH OOC.

Bella's night doesn't go as planned when she forgets an address and stumbles upon an injured stranger instead. AH

**COMPLETE** "So, I guess this is where our journey ends. Sorry, I dragged you all this way." - A Thanksgiving Short Story

She thought he was everything; He thought she hung the moon. Now, Bella and Edward face their toughest challenge in a race against time. Will love be enough? AH & NC-17 Cannon Pairings.

Two years ago, their son was kidnapped. A year ago, their marriage collapsed under the weight of their grief. Can Edward and Bella pick up the pieces of their shattered life when fate gives them a second chance at a family? E/B [AH/AU/MC]

"The town of Forks is typically synonymous with boredom, not serial killers."

Under the Texas sun, bicycle tracks follow booted footprints through the dirt. A copper-haired biker boy would tail the owner of those little boots to the ends of the Earth if only she'd ask him to. He just can't help but dream of a day when she'll follow him, instead. A wedding, some picnic chairs, and an old friend might just be the nudge she needs.

Sequel to "You're My Best Friend" Edward, Bella, and their babies...10 years later.

"It's just one drink." "I can stop anytime." "I'm just having fun." These were just a handful of excuses that he gave everyone around him. What will happen when the excuses run out, and his life walks out the door?

A night spent in the ER with an injured football player across the hall. Their chemistry is instant and it all begins with a raccoon/cat. 175 "chapter" drabble. 5 updates a day.

Maybe we were fooling ourselves, thinking we'd make it. In some respects, we have. We've created a comfortable life for ourselves and our beautiful children. If nothing else, they'll be our legacy. Proof that although we weren't destined to be together forever, we were always meant to create something worthwhile. Our love story is the same as many others. It was never meant to last

Sometimes, when you think it's the end, it may actually be the beginning of something wonderful. BxE HEA WARNING: Reviews may contain spoilers.

"The choices we make when we're young, decide who we will be when we're old, Bella. One right choice can change everything. One wrong choice can take everything away." When you meet your soulmate at the age of one, it pretty much maps out your entire existence, whether you want it to or not ... regardless of our choices, or any of the consequences, those choices might bring.

"Bella could feel herself falling over the edge of something amazing, the likes of which she could never have known without him." A story about facing your fears, and finding that person who makes you feel safe enough to let go.

Don't Think. Just say yes. Drabble-ish. Fluffy. AU.

It began as a not so funny prank on a single father of two. But somehow, Edward couldn't get that red leotard out of his head, or the girl in it. Maybe it was time to make a change.

There are dreams you build with people and there are people you dream of being with. Sometimes they come hand in hand, permanent; often they just co-exist for a moment in your life until it's time for you to make the choice - one or another, this or that, A or B, your dream or your love. This is the oneshot submitted to the Babies at the Border Compilation. Will expand soon.

Some superstitions are ridiculous and should be taken with a grain of salt. However, there are also some that a person should take quite seriously, especially given the facts. Call me superstitious, but a woman has to do what a woman has to do.

It's been two years, but Bella Can't seem to let go. Will a chance meeting change all that? O/S, ExB, "prequel" to Sparks Fly.

He shouldn't want to touch, but he did – every time she was in his bar. She should be focused on college, but he was all things dangerously sexy and charming. Who do you need, who do you love when you come undone? Written for Babies at the Border. E/B rated M

When Edward is forced into participating in this years office Secret Santa, will the grinchy CEO discover the true meaning of Christmas? Edward/Bella AH/AU [Oneshot] Winner of the 2018 Jingle All The Way Holiday FanFiction contest.

This was 1987; before the Internet, before Twitter, before Facebook – this was back when it was still possible for people not to know about things: big things - like bands, and little things - like G-spots. AH, ExB, with some other parings along the way.

She lives in a make-believe world of open roads and endless freedom to escape an addiction-riddled mother and a grabby older man with sick intentions. Adrift in a place of uncaring hearts, she makes her getaway. She finds a ratty old motel, late night smokes, a new life, and a boy with a past as clouded as her own. A boy with a dark gentleness too beautiful to ignore.

When two little girls were allowed to walk home from school one bright spring day nobody could've predicted the events that followed. The way two families were torn apart by the vendetta of a deranged man. Twelve years on, we'll watch as two girls stolen away from their homes at eight years old fight to take back their lives. If only it were as simple as escaping. M for violence.

Bella Swan never expected superstar Edward Cullen to wander into Walgreen's and she never expected him to change her life.

Behind every war is a story and behind every story are the people who shape the intricacies of relationships and failures. In a time when brothers and sisters, friends and lovers find themselves at odds because of an overseas war, six individuals learn that the world is not always black and white. AH. Full summary & pairings inside.

One night, successful businesswoman, Bella, stumbles upon Edward stitching up his bloodied face in the office. Edward is unfriendly and rude and people at Cullen Consulting Inc don't trust him. Soon, Bella becomes obsessed with figuring out what he is hiding from them all and when she finds out, she gets drawn into a world of danger, in which one wrong move will lead to death.

When video of the worst day of Bella's life goes viral, her pain and humiliation become fodder for an endless supply of memes and gifs. Internet fame brings her nothing but heartache until Edward Cullen, her celebrity crush, arranges to meet her. Is it a prank, or is Bad Day Bella's life about to turn around for the better? (Angst, twists, possible triggers - PM me if concerned.)

She wants a thrill and she finds it in the bad boy from across the tracks. Watch them intertwine themselves into worlds they never even belonged in; learning the best lesson there is ... we're all different, yet we are the same.

No one touches Cullen. They keep trying as if winning his affection is a game. No one gets a chance with him. At least, that's what they think.

"I am a troubled little sweetheart, dipping my nose in powdered sugar poison when Daddy isn't looking. He is Green, so green - all smoke and ash, my fire and flame. His love is warm chocolate chip cookies and ice cream cones melting on cobblestone streets." Pretty girls who refuse to be tamed, and boys that play with fire.

The day after Christmas, while the magic of the season lingers, two people meet and fall in love. And no, it's not absolutely perfect, as they soon discover. But whether it's fate, kismet, or simple serendipity that brought them together, they're determined to figure their way through the obstacles. After all, isn't that what love is all about? E&B. Frequent updates.

When time can't erase our wounds, even those we inflict on ourselves, we search for comfort, for the familiar. We go back to where we remember being happy. Entry for the TwiFandomNews Pick-A-Prompt contest. First place Public Vote, first place Judges' Vote, individual judges' awards, Monica03, Fixed In Forks, and Brwneyedgrl01, and winner of Best Use of Prompt, and We Want More.

Bella decides to study abroad in London her junior year of college. Edward never finished school and was just living his life. The two meet and at first, can't stand each other. But things get heated and they start to develop feelings for each other. But, 6 years later they aren't together anymore and Bella is left caring for their son. What happens when they finally meet again?

"I don't even realize that the air has gotten hazy. Or that it smells like skunk, or that amidst the clouds of smoke, leaning against the wall is Edward Cullen." - AH, E/B, Lemons.

Statistics say arranged marriages have a better chance at lasting. Is that still true if the couple is chosen by a group of experts and married on TV with at least one partner in it for the wrong reasons? A lost bet, the promise of money and a stranger for a bride. Will confirmed bachelor Edward Masen find a match made in heaven or hell? Inspired by the show Married at First Sight

After a broken engagement, Bella finds herself back in her hometown working for her sister and brother-in-law. Her past and present come full circle when she realizes her high school boyfriend, Edward, will be working with her. Their ending was explosive, causing Bella to keep a secret from him all these years. Is it better to know you're alive by living, or to keep yourself closed

He's the guy she's always wanted. She's the girl he shouldn't want. Bro code says you don't go for your friends' ex-girlfriends. It also says you don't go for their sisters. What happens when you breach the bro code? AH

He's my older sister's good friend. He is rugged, warm, and cool in his tweed peacoat. His sneakers are worn like he walked through a lifetime and just got back. All he did was walk through the door every morning. He knows things, but not about me. I am shredded with love.

Ed wasn't just rough 'around' the edges. He was 'all' rough edges inside and out. And after one night, me and the sexiest jerk alive were linked together forever. BPOV.

A story about a lonely girl, all crowded inside. My piece for the Fandom for Mental Health. Trigger warnings inside.

The wake of a tragedy—a school shooting—has far reaching consequences. Edward was living his life as though he had to make up for the four people who died in front of his eyes. Bella's life had been blown apart before it really started. Two strangers who happened to come back to the scene of the crime on the same day.

Edward Cullen is an alcoholic who hits rock bottom. One day, his sister Alice is handed a card – Only Call If Desperate & ALL Else Has Failed. She makes the call that will change her brother's life. His savior? Bella Swan. Complete

Ed wasn't just rough 'around' the edges. He was 'all' rough edges inside and out. And after one night, me and the sexiest jerk alive were linked together forever.

This could have been your typical high school romance. Boy meets girl. They fall in love. Live happily ever after. But when a deadly illness breaks out in Forks, students at Forks' High have to put the romance aside and do what they can to stay alive. Even if that means losing a few friends along the way. Rated M ExB

He was all she ever wanted, but growing up in a place where your destiny is not always your choice means making hard decisions. Will Bella accept her fate or fight for the man of her dreams? B/E - Rated M for lemons. My Entry for the Black Balloon Contest

In Edward's world, loyalty was the difference between life and death, money often corrupted the purest of souls, and trusting the wrong person could prove deadly. Caught in the crosshairs of love, family, and duty, which would he choose? 1st Place Judge's Pick by Hopesparkles

Entry for We Heart Mobward contest. Judges Hopesparkles's 2nd choice and FallingInLoveInDecember's 3rd choice. Every town has a weird family that everyone avoided. For the longest time, that was the Newtons. They largely committed petty crimes, but that's what danger looked like then. That was the biggest threat to our way of life. Then the Cullens came.

In Edward's world, loyalty was the difference between life and death, money often corrupted the purest of souls, and trusting the wrong person could prove deadly. Caught in the crosshairs of love, family, and duty, which would he choose?

Every town has a weird family that everyone avoided. For the longest time, that was the Newtons. They largely committed petty crimes, but that's what danger looked like then. That was the biggest threat to our way of life. Then the Cullens came.

With thousands of potential mates at your fingertips, finding a connection is just a swipe away. Sometimes you have to left swipe a lot of Mr. Wrongs to swipe Mr. Right.

"Baseball is 90% mental, and the other half is physical." -Yogi Berra

I would always remember him as a dangerously beautiful twenty-two-year-old, a sensual and affectionate lover who could put a gun to a man's head and pull the trigger. Why I couldn't forget him was no mystery. I was still in love with him.

If you have chemistry, you only need one other thing: timing. But timing is a bitch.

I know everything about Isabella Marie Swan - the girl is an open book - but what she knows about me could be scrawled on a flyleaf, large and untidy, and still have blank space below it. I flip back and forth between happiness at her lack of awareness guilt that she's so much in the dark. She never pushes, never questions. I guess I know she's afraid to ask.

The wind is hot, and I'm sticky and sweaty and need to go home and take a shower. I should be taking advantage of the fact that we're done early for the day, but I'm not. Instead, I'm sitting in my truck, waiting for the mom with the double stroller to walk by. I do this every day of the week and even though I worry I'm becoming a little creepy, I can't seem to stop myself. HIATUS

On opposite corners of Third Street and Beale, two lonely people fight to stay that way. Her scars are on the surface, soft on her skin and in her eyes. His run bone-deep, seeped in bourbon and blues. EPOV. *Complete*

On the cusp of her thirtieth birthday, travel blogger Bella Swan is ready to set down roots after a decade of being on the run. When the boy she (sort of) hated in high school crosses her path, Bella quickly learns that exotic locations have nothing on home-grown love. (All Human, OOC, Rated M *NOW COMPLETE*)

"I feel silly, and I feel vindicated, and I feel sad. I feel a lot of things, but what I don't feel is nothing, and I'm not entirely sure what that means." (Written in 2013 for the Fandom4LLS fundraiser.)

How many f**k buddies does it take to screw up a good thing? Two. Or maybe just one of them. Bella's never been great at math. AH.

One summer, we packed our bags and headed to Southampton. Meeting Edward Cullen was not in my plans, but it changed my life entirely.

Bella signs a contract with Edward to enter into a marriage based on financial gain. She's looking to take the easy road and instead finds a nearly impossible one she must travel on the path to finding herself, along with everything she never knew she wanted. This is the struggle of a broken little girl growing into the woman she's destined to be.

I was incarcerated for six years. Now I'm free, back in a town that hates me, and all I want is a piece of cherry pie from the chief's wife and a piece of ass from his daughter. Both are sweet enough to land me back in jail, but I'm Edward Cullen and I don't give a f**k! An ExB story that's worth doing the time for.

WRITTEN AS A O/S in 2011 for Fandom Against D/V. CONTINUED as short story in 2014. Edward and Bella, friends since high school, are very close. So close, that the line between friendship and something more is often blurred. Will they ever cross the line or will they always teeter on the edge of what could be?

Did you ever stop and look at your life and realise you aren't where you want to be? Did you ever chance look at someone else's life and wonder if their grass really is greener? AH

There's one thing on my grown-up Christmas list, and while it includes a number of specifics in varying degrees of dirtiness, it really all boils to the one thing I've wanted for a year and a half: a do-gooder with unruly hair and a Mister Rogers sweater, and a lifetime of nights that would land me squarely on the naughty list.

Head of promotions at a small Seattle radio station, Edward Cullen hesitates to think that he'd much rather just be dead-until his new intern, Bella Swan, makes him second guess himself. Learning to move on, learning to breathe, and maybe a little bit of falling in love. au/ah/ooc. m for language. one shot.

"Nothing, Edward. Not a word. You broke my trust and completely shattered me in the process. It's left us at a point of no return." There's always a reason why people do what they do. There's always another side to the story.

Our story opens with a frightened seventeen-year-old girl on the run- battered, starved, exhausted and nine months pregnant. How this is going to turn out is anyone's guess. Life never does know how to play fair.

She's fire. He's the wind. Wild girl. Relentless boy. Bella can't hold her temper and Edward can't hold his tongue. Childhood enemies meet again in the unlikeliest of places. Meet the Mate Entry by IReen and Michal

A girl, damaged and lost. A boy, scarred and rejected. "You are confined only by the walls you build yourself." - Anonymous

On a dreary Monday morning, he plowed right in to her life. Will she see him for who he is and let him in? ExB, AH

Cause she is fire. The hottest, deadliest kind of fire.

Their first encounter is brief, minute, insignificant, forgettable. At least it should be. Edward and Bella live very different lives, but a chance encounter forces them to reexamine everything they thought they wanted.

Describe yourself in three words. That's how I found myself beside the ocean, with sea salt tangled hair, sun kissed by a boy who showed me the answers. The boy in the shadows. The boy in the shade.

A mother's desperate attempt to make her son's last wish come true, and a father who thought he had lost it all. My entry for the Maybe HEA Contest. Second place public vote. Not enough Kleenex award. and Secret Keeper's, Cejsmom's pick.

Edward and Bella's romance was of the epic, high school variety and it was up to Bree Tanner to save it. Possibly.

Bella is drowning in a failed marriage when her husband's latest secret shows up on their doorstep. The town calls his murder a horrible tragedy, they call it sweet revenge. And that's enough, for now. But when a beautifully broken boy from Bella's past finds his way into her life, she refuses to tell him the truth about it all. Because this truth? It would ruin everything. B/E M

Edward Masen's future, for all intents & purposes, was as bright as the sun. He had everything, a home, parents that loved him, girls falling all over him, law school on the horizon, then with a single twist of fate, it all came crashing down making Edward question everything he's ever known. AH/EPOV.

The future was so bright, but we were blinded by the headlights. Now it's dark and we can't see, we only have our memories. Baby, please, let me pull you close to me, save us from this misery. ExB

She said, "I'm not standing by, to watch you slowly die / So watch me walking, out the door." A story based on the Paul Kelly song and told in three parts. For the lovely MagTwi 78.

Upon waking, there's a brief, blissful period in which you don't yet recall the sins of the night before, but eventually, you have to open your eyes. I'm Bella Swan, seventeen years old, cheerleader. This morning I woke up in the wrong bed.

It seemed like another lifetime. The girl and boy staring up at me from the glossy paper that held an image that I didn't need to be reminded of; it was imbedded in my memory, branded in my mind's eye for eternity, reminding me of what could have been, what should have been.

On the outskirts of Scottsdale, AZ, best friends, Bella and Alice, own a 1950s, vintage diner - Rockabella's. What adventures lie behind the diner doors where there's '50s music, tattoos, and two foul-mouthed children who'll show you to your seat? AH. OOC.

She deserves better than what I can give her. She deserves everything. AH

Despite Edward's best attempts, he and Bella aren't together. But every Friday, like clockwork, she ends up at his apartment in the early hours. This is a story about wanting, having and the messiness it entails. - ON HIATUS

Sometimes, no matter how strong you are, life deals you blows that are too heavy to carry on your own. Sometimes, no matter how fragile you feel, you're the only one who can help bear the load of another. Sometimes when strong and fragile collide, the world spins and sways.

Bella, one week into a housesitting job, has an unexpected, late night visitor. Written using WitFits. Short. Drama and romance, of course, but also...

Sometimes you have to stop thinking with your head and listen to your heart, follow which way the wind blows and dream with abandon. Because tomorrow is a brand new day, and who knows what it will bring. E/B. Fluffy as fuck, with some sweet salty love.

Friends are forever, boys are whatever - unless it's Edward Cullen. Then the gloves come off.

She walked out of his life three months ago. But he can't let her go. With the help of an unlikely source, he works to get her back. And in the process learns, even those closests to you, can work to hurt you.

A Teambella23 Fic: Freckled, sunburned, and scraped, our lives are lived barefoot and sandy, rolling under the baking sun and surfing the salty water—young, wild, and brave. Volkswagens, bonfires, and "You call that a pickup truck?" We were born into this, but we won't be like them. We're invincible. We're seventeen. We're smarter than that. What's the worst that can happen?

He once told me I stared at the sun too long. "You keep looking, Dimples, and you're gonna miss the one thing that rises and shines for you." He was right. (ExB. Rated M)

He told me once that he preferred brunettes, but his fingers were always playing with long, blonde strands. He could never make up his mind... until he did. And now that I'm back I don't think he deserves a second chance.

Edward always told me that I owned his heart even though other women filled his bed. Bad decisions and a broken heart always lead me back to the boy who ruled my world until I learned the fine art of letting go.

A story about a love broken by life. By lies and betrayal. By accidents and stupidity. A story about one boy and one girl hitting the bottom and climbing their way back up. ExB/AH Written based on WitFit prompts beginning July 17, 2012 .

She knew when she met him she wouldn't be able to deny him anything. Is that how she ended up pregnant at 16 and left to handle it alone? Bella raises her daughter with the help of her family... but what about the person who matters most? *On temporary hiatus*

She comes, she goes. She takes, she drains. Stealing a piece of me every time she leaves. Isabella Swan: beautiful, mysterious, intelligent. Total emotional car crash. And she just walked back into my life.

There's a difference between living and surviving. Edward Cullen? He chose to do neither. ExB. Rated M.

Sometimes I feel like I might drown in your memories. Their tendrils tug at me with the anguish of a greatest love. Some say that I will get over this, but I know I won't. No one ever really does.

There were a lot of words to describe my relationship with Bella Swan. I just never imagine that "over" would be one of them. Entry for TLS Angst Contest.

After a forced marriage filled with violence, Bella escapes from Edward with their unborn child. Almost four years later, Edward has found her and their daughter and he refuses to let them go.

Two broken people bound together by one tragic event.

Sometimes, the miracles we plead for come at a terrible price. AH, dark subject matter.

"It's the first time I realize that for all of the significance boy-Edward holds in my past, man-Edward is a stranger to me. The thought is at once liberating and heartbreaking, and I don't know what to do with it: how do you forgive someone who no longer exists? How do you hold a man accountable for a boy's carelessness?"

Bella once told me that there was nothing braver than a flower growing through a crack in the sidewalk. I laughed because she was always giving feelings to things that don't feel. If she was standing next to me, I'd tuck the dandelion behind her ear. Or she'd blow on it and make a wish. A hundred wishes. Or maybe just one.

A broken heart leads to a doomed marriage. A fateful decision leads to a rollercoaster ride of lies, deceit and revelations that test her morals, her heart, and her mind. Is it a second chance at true love? Or will her dark and looming secret ruin it all?

Flannel. Weed. Nirvana. One fall day changes everything. Five friends navigate high school, relationships and their futures.

He's a broken musician, haunted by the memory of her walking out on him. When he knows she's at his show, will he be able to make his one last chance count? Will his song tell her all the things she needs to hear? Will she listen? Can Edward win back his Bella before it's too late? O/S for the No Kid Hungry charity comp. AH, E&B, M for language

It's her last Olympics and nothing matters to Isabella Swan except one thing: A final gold medal. Until she meets long time admirer and snowboarder, Edward Cullen. Suddenly, she finds that her win isn't important without someone to celebrate it with. GOING FOR THE GOLD CONTEST WINNER. 1st place judge's vote. 2nd place public vote.

'That which does not kill us, only makes us stronger', at least that's what they say. Bella and Edward meet as children while on vacation. A lifetime of summers follow, and their relationship is tested beyond its strength. Full Summary Inside*

"As the days blurred by, his presence stirring up something inside of me, I couldn't decide who had affected me more. The storm. Or him." A story of finding passion when you least expect it. A collab from VampiresHaveLaws and SparrowNotes24. 1st Place Public Vote, 1st Place Judges' Vote and Judges' Pick in The Blue Watch Contest.

A celebratory night out and a one night stand to remember. She plagued his thoughts, however Edward doesn't read much into it. What happens when things become shockingly serious with the girl from the club? These things aren't supposed to last longer than twenty-four hours and the time frame just took a sharp left turn to forever. [CURRENTLY REVISING & COMPLETING]

Life happens. It passes us by in fleeting moments filled with unexpected encounters. It gives us choices to say and do the right thing. And chances to make it better, even when our choices were wrong. A short holiday story.

People can be as gentle and sweet as a summer breeze, or as mad and destructive as a hurricane's roar. To him, she was both.

Not me. That's who this girl is. She is not me. And for the first time, Edward wants someone who is not me. The tequila sits at the bottom of my stomach and begins to grow tentacles. I am tequila brave.

The fiercest storms are those that live inside us. "I've been lost for so long. Maybe I need to be found."

Former lovers lay it all out on the table. Taking shots never hurt this good. Entry for the Dirty Talkin' Edward Twific Contest

Everything I had done in my life seemed to lead up to this moment. The moment when I found myself bound inextricably to a man I didn’t love, trapped in a life I didn’t want. And if I left him, I would be entirely alone.

Love is a force without reason. It's a cycle you can't break. And it's never black and white. Sometimes it's gray... and all-consuming. Entry for the Mark Me Contest. (now cancelled)

Welcome to part 3 of the storm series. Sixteen years after Weather the Storm. Follow the Skip, Bella, and their kids - now older, wiser, and enmeshed in the family business. How will Edward cope with trying to teach Damion and Sonny the ropes, keeping Kylie out of trouble, and Bella happy? Does he still have what it takes to juggle all his duties? Mobward. OOC. AU. Romance/Humor.

He's the sweetest guy she's ever met, playful, and always courteous, but she's not into that. There's no chemistry between them. "That's fine, Bella, because you're wrong."

Bella & Edward were childhood friends before her mother took her away from Charlie right after their divorce. This story takes place when Bella moves back to Forks, is a new student at Forks High School and see's Edward for the first time in over 10 years. There will be some teen angst, sex, drugs and alcohol abuse. And there will be some lemons in the future. AH/OOC. COMPLETE.

In 1984, I went to the movies and fell in love with a boy kissing a girl over a birthday cake on a table. It's 2013 and that same boy is kissing me on a table...in my birthday suit. A Jake Ryanward O/S for Heather Maven's birthday.

Bella moves to Forks for her senior year. Edward Cullen proves himself as less than desirable from day one. But as Bella begins to see past the drugs, the mood swings, she finds the shadow of boy who had lost everything, including himself. AH/OOC

The Few. The Proud. The Strong. Returning Marine Edward Masino has spent the first years of his adult life embodying that motto. But as he moves back to the Brooklyn neighborhood where he grew up, he is introduced to a whole new code of ethics. He quickly learns that some rules cry out to be bent, but there are others that, if broken, will get him killed. *Edited to meet TOS*

Inspired by 'Do I Wanna Know' by Arctic Monkeys. There are certain truths you can only bring yourself to say at night, before morning comes and buries them back down. AH, ExB.

An asteroid's path toward the earth is almost certain, but Edward doesn't wait around for it. He runs after a devastating force much stronger, a girl he once fled from.

A poetic telling of an unfortunate seduction. Rated M for drug use and mature subject matter.

All he wants is a distraction. And a distraction is what he gets when a night out with friends leads to a steamy hook-up. Of course, sometimes things look different in the morning... but that's the trouble with one-night stands in locked down Boston.

December 22 is the only day I let myself think of you. I don't know if you remember, but I'd do anything to forget.

With too many secrets and a haunting past she'd love to forget, at seventeen, Bella is sure love doesn't exist. College dropout Edward Cullen can't seem to keep hold of love, or his music. A cottage, a lake, a tree, a muse, wrong choices, and heartache. How will these two cope with life and keep afloat? A daily word-prompt WitFit. Alternates between past and present. AH E/B

She'll lie and steal and cheat, and beg you from her knees. She'll make you think she means it this time, tearing a hole in you. But I still love her. I don't really care. A story from iambeagle and VampiresHaveLaws.

Tear open my chest. I'll try not to flinch. I won't make promises. You taught me that. I'm still losing what's left of my self esteem, and I'm still watching the slow fading of all my daydreams... This is a Dusty outtake for Kansas Special Olympics. skinny beats and squandered love. the dimmest stars and freckles she's always carried. gone, just gone and lost, just lost.

Love isn't blind- it just has something in its eye. Contest entry for the Happily Ever After TwiFic Contest.

Edward moved across the country, leaving behind his high school sweetheart and all the memories they'd made. As times get tough on the east coast, he decides to move back home to Forks with his three year old son for a fresh start. He never realized exactly what he left behind and how it could be his perfect future. Entry for the Happily Ever After Twific Contest

He drove a rundown 1973 El Camino, smoked like a chimney - and the few words he spoke were seldom to me. Entry for the Happily Ever After Twific Contest

You know those nights when you meet someone and they have you questioning the entirety of your existence? This was definitely one of those nights. Entry for the Happily Ever After Twific Contest

When you're meant to be in someone's life, fate has ways of placing you where you need to be. Bella and Edward save each other in more ways than one. M for a little bit of language.

A story of unlikely friends, a story of family, a search for truth and a search of self. "She's everyone else's Isabella, but she's only my Bella." "I write a poem about a boy and girl who fall in love in the eye of a tornado." AH E/B V/J

Bella always finds the wrong guy. The one who can't satisfy her, ahem, needs. The one who really wants her best friend, Rosalie. But even if she never finds the Right Guy, there's always a glass of wine and the sympathetic ear of Edward, her faithful barman.

She loves him. He loves her crazy. She's a hopeless romantic. He's just hopeless. She's afraid to let go. He won't let her. A story about a silly girl in love with a foolish boy. Here, forever is a lie. TeamBella23 - the realist and YellowGlue - the poet

When Edward is sent to live with her family, Bella has no idea that the path of her universe is about to be altered."Edward asked me once if I'd ever lost anyone close to me and I said no. Well, now I had." AH. Second season of our discontent entry: Judges' Honorable Mention, and Judge's individual pick by Rochelle Allison.

For years Bella has been building a garden inside herself, a dream world she'd love to open the gate to and walk right through. But she's trapped in the real world, and she knows that hope is nothing but fantasy and that friendships don't last. AH. Second season of our discontent entry and Judges' First place winner.

Skin grows back and wounds heal, but freedom only comes once. In a world confined by the effects of war, freedom is an illusion created by those with power. When the chance to escape is close enough to touch, how much would you give to reach it?

Married for Love, In a marriage for Appearance: He broke her heart on the night she had the biggest news to tell him. What will Edward do when he realizes Bella wants to move on. Fight for her, or let her go.

"Biggest regret?" That I didn't meet you first.

"I took a plane, flew across the country, knew what I was leaving and where I was heading, but didn't really know what I might find." Bella uproots her life in search of change. Her flight leads her to possibilities she never expected, all starting with the turn of a star and a blue dress. One door closes, another opens. Edward/Bella AH

"From very early on, I worried that the biggest thing in my youngest son's life would be the girl he could never escape. I thought it would be horrible for his story to be so ensnared with someone else's, such a tangled ball of yarn that it couldn't be unknotted. Bright, colorful, beautiful to be sure, but so hopelessly snarled in and around itself that it would never be freed."

Bella Swan is a naive fifteen year old, set to spend another kiss-less summer alone. Edward is new to town, and doesn't know a soul. Watch an unlikely friendship blossom over the simple task of painting a house. But for these two, nothing is simple.

Life is never perfect, the cracks always appear. "My Polaroid would show the face of a girl who has forgotten how to truly smile." Even the strongest of dreams can fail to become enough.

Part Two: How does the head of the world's most powerful crime family juggle being a father, husband, and boss? Surrounded by trouble, Edward tries to manage his organization while struggling to spend time with his children and wife, Bella. Sequel to Quiet Storm. EDITED TO MEET THE TOS. FULL STORY CAN BE FOUND ON TWCS, where you'll need to log-in. A few passages are missing

His fingertips trail along my collarbone, strong but gentle. They linger on my scar, on skin that's not quite numb. I feel like I did then, when I was standing in that tree, brave and stupid enough to jump. ExB O/S Contest entry for FicThisGIF

Bella is determined to get pregnant. What's the difference if she uses a high tech appliance or a crude flesh appendage, it's all just delivery systems, right? And here he comes now.

Life is boring but good. He buys the house across the street. Too many cats spoil his backyard. McCarty tells him they belong to the cat woman. He's a little thrown when he meets her. But he won't back down. And neither will she.

I know of three kinds of change: the kind that jangles around in your pocket, the kind that happens slowly, every moment of every day, and the kind that blows you away in an instant.

Bella's first encounter with Edward instantly leads to a mutual dislike. She is the new girl in town who has attracted more than one admirer and he's the boy who usually gets what he wants. So how will one evade when the other is set to conquer? AH.

He steals my coffee first, my virginity second and my heart third. College fluff. AH.

"An hour from now, when the snow falls again, it will be like we weren't even there. But we will remember." A story of unrequited love, and how the things we keep silent can hurt us and the ones we hold closest. E/B Rated M for themes of an adult nature.

In 1962 I find truth in bad boys, loud cars and cheap bourbon. Originally written for the 2011 FGB Compilation.

On our first night away at college, Bella Swan, thinking the room was her own, drunkenly stumbled into my bed. She was broken and I wanted to fix her. I loved her for four years before she left. Never did I expect her to come back, but she surprised me.

Bella wanted to fulfill a fantasy - to be groped inside a crowded train. She gets her wish and more, when a sex-starved ex-convict decides she's fair game. ALLHUMAN. Mature but with plot.

Just one night, just for fun, no strings and no expectations. Simple things never stay that way.

This is just your basic New York City love story. Crappy apartments, menial jobs, and low standards place Bella Swan in the pathway of love. Rated M. Canon couples with my usual OOC cast. AH. eventually E/B. Ficlet.

A collection of o/s taking place in and around Venice Beach, CA. Various POVs voices. Canon couples, AH. M for sex, drugs.

A smile, two bottles of wine, sweet kisses and great sex are all it took to make idealistic Edward believe he's met the girl of his dreams. When all his ideals and ambitions are crushed, is she still the girl for him? E & B

A seemingly simple love is more complex when it involves the male mind. The story of a boy and a girl, and a relationship told out of order. AH. Collection of drabbles. Ratings vary.

Bella's tryst with power made her infamous. Hounded and ashamed, she's back in Forks to start over again, but where do you find a clean slate when everyone who sees you already knows your biggest secret? AH, adult stuff.

A blizzard blows in and shuts down the City. Everyone prepares for a snow day, including Edward and Bella. They each have a life-changing decision to make, but will their sudden confinement cool their passion and force them to face certain truths? E/B,AH

How far would a man go for love? Far enough to get his shoes peed on by his girlfriend's dog. A story about stalking, courage, snow, warm sheets, new love, and Christmas's little miracles. AH/M. One shot written for FGB & randommama.

Bella must decide between the comfortable small town life she's always known, or the man who rode away with her heart two years ago. Written for Fandom Gives Back, antiaol & ciaobella27. Rated M. AU/AH.

Bella's dreams have a way of coming true. But what will she do when the man she dreams of appears in her life as a boy who is less than ideal? Will finding him mean losing her BFF, Jane? Does knowing the future change the present? Rated M for adult stuff.

Waterbeds can be sexy. Who knew? Edward and Bella, best friends to more-than-friends. Once a WitFit.

Sometimes, no matter how much you love someone, they won't love you back. Or maybe they just can't... right now. This is the WitFit plot "Curtains", novella-style.

Edward and Bella have a perfect, natural sort of magic. But what happens when they - unwittingly - take something that turns their spark into fireworks? Sexiness and silliness.

There is a fine line between what you believe to be right, and what you perceive to be wrong. "I was a poison, the worst kind of venom." Can love ever be enough to seal your wounds? AH. O/S for The Black Balloon Contest. Second Place Winner.

He said "always". She wasn't so sure. All-human. M for language. All the usual angst applies.

Isabella, infamous rich girl, meets Edward, the dark, mysterious guy from the wrong side of the tracks after an accident. Lost in the dense forest surrounding Forks together, they must survive complete isolation. Written for Gift Exchange.