This story is all human; meaning no vampires, no werewolves, and no magic. Nine lives with intersecting paths. One woman is married while in love with another, her husband isn't any better. Another woman is stuck with something she's never wanted. One brother is a cop, another is married to someone who is broken. Rated M. AH. Drabble fic. Warning in opening

When your brain tells you to give up, what can the heart do to change your mind? Will Edward give up on his feelings for his best friend? Or will Bella be able to make him change his mind? OOC, AH, Canon couples, Rated M for language and adult situations.

Hermione finally realizes that her relationship with Ron is over after talking to Harry. One shot!

As always: I don't own it! Enjoy!

(Sequel - Turnings) 7 years have passed, and Sookie lives vampire. Without the benefit of a Maker, she is caught having the man she loves and losing light. Her son, Rick struggles too. The son of famous parents, he searches for his path to manhood. Full Circle explores how one miracle leads to another

Edward Mason is the leader of Mason Corporations. Isabella Swan is set to take over leadership of Swan industries from her ill father Charlie Swan. He wants Swan Industries, she wants Mason Corporations, but their Father's have a different plan for the two to get what they want...how will they take it and how will it all work. SOME CONTENTS ARE FOR THOSE WHO ARE, AT LEAST, 17 AND OVER.

Eternity is never a certainty even for immortals. With death knocking on our door, we’ll love like no other for as long as we’re given. Tomorrow or eternity, we’ll be together.

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Bella Cullen was about to have everything she had worked toward until she lost the two most important things in her life. Vice president of the legal department in her family's business, she tries to bury her pain in work. All of that changes the day she meets a man that has obviously suffered from a serious trauma. Edward Swan is more than shy; he's scared of everything. Bella doesn't know what happened to the endearing man, but she vows to help him and his young daughter in any way she can, starting with hiring him as her personal assistant. Little does she know they'll soon become the driving force in her life.

They had acted swiftly; seeking justice for an unspeakable crime but eleven years later, her innocence was proven. Betrayed by those closest to her and broken beyond measure, Hermione Granger is once again asked to save those who revelled in her downfall. Would she once again step into battle and selfless sacrifice herself or would she chose vengeance and let magic do the rest?    

Edward thought that he would never find the love of his life. All of that changed the day when he thought he saw the girl that he thought could be his soulmate.  He knew for sure when he read it on paper.  Will Bella be able to live with Edward’s rules when he has a proposition for her or will she find the love of her life as well?

Twelve years have gone by since Paul and Bella walked away from La Push and reached for success. When they unexpectedly run into each other, the pack suddenly comes trickling back into their lives. Time changes people but can it change traditions? AU/OOC

Crown Prince Edward Anthony Masen Cullen is the heir to the throne in the small independent country, Gevalia. His life is all about duty, honor and pride for his country. However, he’s lonely, focused on his career. When his younger brother makes some poor choices, Edward is forced to fly to the United States to smooth out diplomatic relations and spend six months looking for a bride, with some pretty stiff stipulations by his mother, the Queen of Gevalia.

Isabella Swan is the oldest daughter and now owner of the Swan Family Bakery, Inc. 1897. She went to college to be a teacher but was forced to forego her dreams when her father was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. On a chance evening, a handsome stranger slips during a summer rain storm into her bakery and awakens something inside.

Who is he?

Where did he come from?

Why is she drawn to him?

All that is known is that Prince Charming is a real person and Bella is about to live A Modern-Day Fairy Tale. But will it end in a happily ever after?

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The summer of 2005 was the summer that changed Bella Swan's life forever. Sent to Ohio by her mother to attend a school for debutante girls not quite up to par, she meets Edward Masen, an apprentice. But is that really all he is? AH

After being left by Edward, I couldn't stand the thought of him controlling me even in his absence. I admit it was an act of defiance, but it was a decision that brought me more happiness than I'd ever thought I'd experience. New Moon AU/Canon

Edward Cullen, the Prince of the New York Mafia, only dreamt of becoming a concert pianist and being with his love Bella. Until his mother was killed in a car accident. With Bella missing and implicated in her death. He became the most ruthless person in New York. But remember there is always two sides to a story.

{CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION AS AUTHOR WORKS ON THE REST OF THE ORIGIN SERIES}

Edward Masen is a normal 17-year-old boy who dreams of becoming a soldier, but when tradegy strikes his family, his entire life changes. Edward is introduced to the supernatural world he had no idea even existed, and he certainly doesn't want to live in it.

It was during the month of March in the year of 1918 that the first signs of the influenza was revealed to the public, although no one ever imagined the damages this historic event would have on the American people.
One citizen in particular faces an irrevocable change that cause a chain of e...vents to unfold through the twentieth century. The price was to give up his old life, but he would later gain more than he ever thought he would.

A Pre-Twilight Canon story about the life of Edward Cullen

Some secrets will damage your reputation.  Others will ruin your social life.  But then there are secrets that will change the way the world looks at you, now and forever.  What would Edward be willing to do to keep such a secret?  And who will pay the price?

“I remember a shadow. Living in the shadow of your greatness.”
Asgard has two princes, both of them are talented and "capable" to govern, but to the throne can sit just one of them.

Summary: At eighteen Edward was sent to prison for a crime he didn’t commit. It’s now six years later, and he has been released four years early. His bail conditions have been set. He has to find somewhere to live and get a full-time job, both things he has found in a small sleepy town. All he wants to do is keep out of everyone's way and move on with his life. Will this sleepy town of Forks, Washington let him, especially when they find out why he was in prison?

To him, I'm his best friend in the world. To me, he is my world. Story written for FAGE 11. Edward/Bella pairing

Love conquers all in the end and sacrifices will be made… he didn't think he'd be repeating history to mend scars that should never been made in the first place.

Edward Cullen believed that his new assignment was a waste of time until he meets a woman who intrigues him like no other. Bella Swan's talents hold no bounds, yet she heading towards an impossible battle. Thrust into a world where friends and enemies are difficult to discern, they must work together to solve this case before the pattern shifts and everything is lost. 

How far would you go to accommodate your husband's secret sexual fantasies ? Bella has to decide while coming to terms with her own newly discovered sexual appetite. Explicit Language and sexual situations . O/S entry for Twikink 2015 that I have expanded.

"They told us we were too young to know what love was, but nothing could keep us apart." Bella and Edward are 16 and in high school when they get the news of an impending separation, but knowing that they can't be apart, they make a drastic decision that changes their lives forever. They leave the comfort of family and home for the road, all for true love. A collab between MarieCarro and cloemarrie

In the blink of an eye, your world can change. You can experience the greatest happiness … or succumb to the world’s worst pain, losing someone that had no reason to die …

Edward Cullen, a decorated fireman, after losing a woman in a deadly apartment fire, left his life and family in Seattle, trying to escape the ghost of the beautiful woman, the concert mistress of Seattle Symphony. He stayed away from Seattle, living in Boston, working as an arson investigator until his mother called him, informing him that she had cancer. Without a second thought, Edward moved home to help his family.

Dr. Isabella Swan, a renowned oncologist, specializing in women’s cancers, went through the paces of life. Her mother, an ovarian cancer survivor, was her impetus to become a doctor. However, she was closed-off and had been for many years … since the death of her twin sister, Angela, in an apartment fire. Bella focused on her job, working to forget the empty pain of losing her soul mate. Even eight years after her death, Bella was profoundly broken because of it. She never let anyone in … Until … a handsome, sexy man and a son of one of her patients … Edward Cullen …

Everything in her mind told her it was wrong, but in the blink of an eye, your world can change. You can experience the greatest happiness. Your life can come back to life, especially when you find your new soul mate … the Fire of your Soul.

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In Volterra, the Crown Prince chooses his future queen from the Collection. 35 young women from every province of the country, open to members of all castes, given the opportunity to be the newest chapter in the country's fairy tale. But Isabella Swan didn't want to be part of the Collection, all she wanted was to love a boy and have him love her in return. And Edward Masen was not that boy.

The Collection: A Twilight/The Selection Crossover

For those of you who have read The Selection Series, you will recognize the world of this story and some of the character types, but most of the plot will blend elements of the two series with original ideas, so it won't simply be The Selection plot with Edward and Bella. There will be things that will completely take you by surprise, I hope, and keep you entertained. This idea overtook me while reading the last book, which is the first time a series has done this since Twilight, so I wanted to play with it. Also, it felt right to post this the day before my 9th anniversary in fanfic. Thank you to all my readers, new and old, and my team, past and present, for sticking with me on this journey. 

Britain, 10th century:

Bella is captured by Vikings and brought with them to their homeland where her new fate awaits. Will she ever find happiness being a slave? Will it matter that she is given to Edvard, the chief of the village, to be his new bed thrall? On temporary hiatus.

A future take from A Woman of Conviction 

"Performing was always my strong suit. I could act my way out of almost anything. But I could never act my way out of this." Bella Swan is a woman who's afraid of being vulnerable. On a summer visit to her godparents house she confronts her demons while noticing some of the skeletons in the family's closet. Home is where the heart is in this story. All canon characters. E/B

I.M. Swan a best-selling author is on top of the literary world. After coming off her book tour for her latest book, she has begun her research for the next, a book on the Chicago Mafia. Spending hours in the library and courthouse, she is surprised to find out a most curious piece of information about the Don of the largest crime family. He is not the rightful heir to the family.

Aro Volturi planned and executed the complete destruction of the Cullen family. Wiping away any documentation or body of any evidence of the family from the face of the earth, or he thought so.

Edward Cullen was smuggled away with the aid of his faithful nanny, who kept him safe until it was time for him to take revenge for his family's death. Training and building a new, stronger family to take back what is rightfully his and executing the man who took his family from him.

One evening, as Edward is following one of Aro’s hitman, he witnesses him a young woman in the alley. Coming to her aid, he is mesmerized by her beauty and when he gets to know her, he is in awe of her intellect.

            Will Bella be able to survive with Edward’s help or will Aro get to her and silence her forever? E&B

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Sequel to Danger In New York. 

There is no such thing as freedom. 
Marie Cullen: I'm a killer, a criminal, no better than Edward or Carlisle or even Esme. I should feel bad for what I have done. I should mourn for the lives I have taken and probably turn myself in, pay for my crimes. But I felt none of that, I felt nothing in fact. It was them or us, there was no other choice and I made the right choice. I chose him.

Circa Buffy S04E11, Angel S01E10. Buffy puts on a brave front as everyone around her seem to have abandoned her. Betrayed by her friends and lover, she tries to figure out what The Initiative is doing in Sunnydale, and what is Project 3-14? Angel fights to stay away, but when Buffy's life is put in danger, he rushes over to Sunnydale to take care of business. B/A all the way.

The Cullen's are the most powerful family in the world. That doesn't mean they don't have normal issues as parents mixed in with the mob life.

At one hour of Dumbledore's army, Harry did a powerful spell that even Hermione hasn't known. From whom learn the "The Boy Who Lived" something like that, and why does he refuse to didn't give his classmates this skill?

PS (spoiler): This is the AU in a world where Lupine didn't teach Harry The Patronus Charm.

“You knew it was a one-way ticket.” That’s what she told herself again and again as she stared out the tiny portal at the rust-brown desert that stretched as far as her eye could see. Bella believes she's the final survivor of the Mars One mission, but there's a sound of footsteps in the corridor...

What happens when Bella goes for a job interview and meets a strange guy grabs her hand before calling her his wife.

Sometimes, love can happen from consuming the gingerbread made by a hopeful maiden, but when the time is right, love can grow even without the help of gingerbread. However a little gingerbread never hurts, right?

Have you ever been stuck in a situation that you couldn’t get out of? Have you ever been so desperate for love that you make the wrong decision? Have you ever felt so down and depressed that you hid yourself away and asked to die?

One-shot dealing with love, loss and depression.

Fate decides that two lost souls need a little boost in finding their soulmates.

After Bella confronts Jacob about his infidelity and evil plans to sell the companies, she chooses to spend her already paid Christmas honeymoon alone. She arrives at the cabin in the woods just as a horrible blizzard hits.

Edward finds out that woman he was supposed to marry has been lying their entire relationship. Not only was he betrayed by the woman he was going to spend his life with, but also his best friend and partner. Wanting to get away from everyone, he rents a cabin in the woods for Christmas.

What happens when he arrives at cabin number 5696 that Fate has worked her magic on the number? What surprises will he see in the little cabin? What happens when the roads are closed and there is no cell service?

Disclaimer: I don't own the characters names, but I do own the storyline

There was another to add to the company that night in the Shire, one no one expected. Isabella daughter of Elrohir Son of Elrond and Belvola. Will they accept Bella or will she hide the fact that she is both Elf and Dwarf.

Thorin/Bella

Going on horrible dates was something that Bella always did well at. Nothing made her happier then to see the back of a man as he fled to get away from her. She was having so much fun until she ended up on a date with the most chauvinistic man in New York. How could one date have gone so wrong? Now her little tricks maybe the reason she is forced to stay with a man she loathes.    

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What comes next is the second part to Resilience and Perserverenve. This is told in multple views, but follows Bella's first year as a vampire with the Cullen's after to drama and turmoil of part one.

Most houses are built for people to live in, but some are built to hide dangerous secrets. Swan Manor holds those types of secrets. Once Bella begins to unravel the intense underground world lurking just below her feet, she must decide if she is prepared to risk everything to set a certain someone free.

When Sue Swan dies and leaves her estate to her estranged niece, Bella discovers that there's something twisted in the sleepy little town of Forks. Contest Entry in the TwiTricksandTreats Contest

Stephanie Plum left Trenton, New Jersey  two years ago on Christmas eve. This year on Christmas day, her past returns with things she always wanted to hear.

Bella is now a member of the Volterra. Felix waits patiently in the wings for Bella to finally accept him as her one and only mate.  Bella/Felix AU

Disclaimer Twilight is the property of S. Meyer, as are its characters.

It’s the power of friendship and love that saves the making of the cookies and heals the heart.

"At Christmas, all roads lead home." -Marjorie Holmes

Can Christmas ever be a happy time of year again? Maybe it's too late for Bella. Maybe she ruined it for herself. Without Edward, it may have just been ruined for her forever. 

The Cut-takes will feature scenes from people who aren't main characters, scenes too short to make official chapters, scenes that occurred prior to the start of the story, and scenes that occurred between the prologue and chapter one. There's no specific order on the scenes and they will vary greatly in length. Read The Emotional Roller Coaster of Life first. AH. Rated M

The events of the New Moon movie, told through Edward's POV. Written for the winner of the 2009 New Moon Fandom Gives Back event in 2009, icrodriguez.

Summary: Bella Swan has lived a very secluded life. After her father's death, she decides to make a change. With a map, dart, and life insurance money to fuel the trip, she is off on an adventure. On this trip with her, we will see things through her eyes, and maybe find a new friend or two as well. AH. No heavy drama planned, but may change as the characters grow and talk to me.