A New Year's Eve car crash, some jammed telephone lines and a dash of fate bring Bella and Edward together for an evening neither of them was expecting. Throw in a couple of surprising twists and a few colorful friends, and they're in for an evening they'll never forget.

Edward is a 27-year-old alcoholic/addict struggling with his recovery. Bella is a 23-year-old who's moved back home after college. This fic chronicles how they meet, fall in love, and struggle with the complexities of their relationship. Not nearly as maudlin as it sounds (I hope).

With Valentine's Day gone and passed in the time Edward was away, he feels cheated that he never got to celebrate the day properly for the first time. So he decides to treat Bella to a belated Valentines.

A phone call late one night turns Bella’s world upside-down. She finds herself thrust into the role of single mom while trying to navigate her way through a new city, and dealing with the death of her best friend. With the help of a few new friends, Bella just might come to see that from tragic endings come new beginnings. Canon Pairings.

What would you do during a once in a lifetime event, even for a vampire? Go out and party, spend time with your family, be intimate with your mate? How about all of the above! Who would have guessed that that once in a lifetime event could change everything you know.

The last time this event occurred, they think was the time of the dinosaurs – it’s that rare. This rare occurrence causes a disturbance in the lives of all vampires and shifters and there is nothing, anyone can do about it, absolutely no one.

Can everyone learn to live again after their lives have been completely changed or will it be the cause of their destruction?

The tale of an affair gone horribly right. What happens when you're already married and you meet the person you were meant to be with? This choice will make or break Edward Cullen. Rated M for lemons and bad language.

During her freshman year, Bella Swan's mother forces her to join the Forks High band. Instead of the torture Bella was expecting, she actually meets the five people who will become the best friends of her life. But amid the flirting, jokes, and pranks, something unexpected happens to Bella. She finds herself unable to escape one devastating mistake and fears her life is over forever...at the age of fifteen. AU/AH.

One is not free to make mistakes in a small town like Forks. The tiniest misstep, the smallest indiscretion is fair game for the gossip mill for years. And the mistake I had made was certainly not a small one. I would never be able to escape the shadow of what I had done; and worst of all, absolutely everyone knew about it.

There will be no teen pregnancy or illegal drug use in this story. Anything else that could realistically happen in a high school setting is a possibility.

Finalist for Best Secondary Characterization and Best Action or Drama Story:

Three men... One had her. One has her. One wants her. What happens when the one who has everything he could want and more loses it? Can she over come her grief and confusion about wanting someone else? Will she give way to the man that gave her pleasure in the past or find out what she can have with someone new? AH/AU JBxBS, MNxBS, ECxBS

Life for Isabella Swan had never been easy. Growing up at the mercy of an abusive alcoholic father and mentally unstable mother had made her age far before her time.

One summer, after escaping the prison she called home, a blond haired man waltzes through the front door of a candy shop and right into her heart. What happens next is something neither of them could have expected.

Two years later, he is suddenly thrust back into her life and has something to say. What is a girl supposed to do when finds herself about to marry the nephew of the man who had both saved her life and shattered her heart? That summer stands between her and the life she always wanted.

Lies are told, mistakes are made, and hearts are broken. Will she get her happy ending after all, or will her saving grace destroy them all?

Living on the streets is hard for Bella Swan but not as hard as putting up with Edward Cullen when he drags her into his world of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll. She needs a lucky break and he needs an image make-over. Will they be able to help each other out before they kill each other?

1939. She is a human girl caught up in the aftermath of the Spanish civil war, broken, desperate and alone. He is a vampire, member of the Volturi’s elite Guard, but starting to question the lifestyle he has adhered to for centuries. What has Fate in store for them?

Oh, what a teacher he was! Through his hands and his mouth I discovered my body. Like a desert of stones and dust being suddenly drenched by rain, I was flowering

The two chapters comprising Carmen 'story, first published here as a future take, are to be included in the sequel to The Parachutist (Parachutist 2 - Our New World) currently being posted and therefore erased from here.

Told in two points of view, as Jacob, lying mangled and helpless in his own bed, becomes confused by Leah's approach when she abruptly decides to apologize for being entirely too confident in her attempt to handle a newborn vampire, leading her to realize new feelings she never imagined having for him.

"Our home belonged to them, the men who watched us as pieces of meat, slowly taking a part of our souls with them every time they did up their belt buckles" - An angst filled oneshot. Leah/Jasper. AU/AH

Edward Cullen is an anomaly as far as Bella Swan is concerned, defying all her preconceived notions about the whorishness of hockey players. Through incessant stalking and persistence, can Edward wears down Bella's resistence and teaches her to embrace her inner hockey hooker? A ridiculous love story.

Bella & Edward can't seem to get their timing right. College shelves their on-the-verge high school romance but it isn't as easy as picking up where they left off when they are reunited. Through The Lens Anonymous Contest entry.

What if the “talk” in the forest between Bella and Edward went differently? What if she wasn’t quite so slow, and actually acted like the intelligent girl she was characterized as? What if she sees through Edward’s lies about how he “doesn’t want her to come” and she fights back by pointing out what seems to be Edward’s Major Flaw? One-Shot!

In the interest of spending quality time with his siblings, and keeping them oblivious about the fact that he watches Bella sleep at night, Edward joins Alice, Emmett and Rosalie on a jaunt to a night club in Olympia. Fluff and fun!

Bella has always been the quiet, lonely girl who spends her Friday nights home alone with her nose in a book. But when she gets the chance to start over with new people in a new town in her senior year of high school, she discovers that she may not be that girl after all. AH, E/B.

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