Random Rita ~ When Edward Just Isn’t Himself!

 

 

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Good evenin’, ladies!

Friday didn’t get away from me this time LMAO!

I have two great COMPLETE fics to rec today so let’s get this party started!

While I love pretty much every genre in the Twilight fanfic fandom, vamp stories will always hold a special place in my heart, especially when they’re as well written, excitin’ and movin’ as The Keepsake by Windchymes!

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7562914/1/The-Keepsake

Some things you never forget, they just hurt too much to remember.

Rated: Fiction M – English – Romance/Hurt/Comfort – Bella, Edward – Chapters: 20 – Words: 165,561 – Reviews: 5,046 – Favs: 2,831 – Follows: 3,128 – Updated: Apr 16 – Published: Nov 19, 2011 – Status: Complete – id: 7562914

In this story, Edward never came back after leavin’ Bella in the woods. She fought her way back to a semblence of normalcy and is now goin’ to college.

One night, as she’s about to leave the library….

It’s almost seven o’clock and the library is almost deserted. They’ll be closing in ten minutes. Alex clears his stuff, offers to walk me out but I want to borrow one of the books so I tell him to go ahead without me.

I sling my bag over my shoulder, grab the book and flick through the pages as I walk, head down, between the stacks towards the Loans Desk. In the distance I can hear the Librarian’s voice; she’s giggling and even after just six weeks here I know that’s unusual, but before I can look up to see what’s caught her fancy my attention is drawn to the carpet and I stop.

My bookmark is lying on the floor.

I stare at it for a moment, knowing it can’t really be mine. There are probably hundreds like it.

I bend and pick up the strip of tan leather with its Celtic patterns of black dye. Some of the black is missing from the border around the edges, just like mine. Bewildered and confused I look absently at my bag. Had it been in there all along, only to fall out now? I shake my head, no; I’ve only had this bag since Christmas. I decide the bookmark probably isn’t mine. I turn it over and in the bottom corner see the tiny, faded single letter drawn in pen…B

It is mine.

My brain doesn’t know what to make of this. I try to build a connection, find a coincidence, something, anything that would explain it being here. I rub my thumb over the ridges of the pattern, making sure it’s real and not something I’m imagining.

Freaky, right? It gets even freakier!

“There it is,” his voice is as it always was – smooth, velvet. His eyes flicker down to my hand and back again to my face. “I think you’ve found my bookmark. I was hoping I’d left it here.”

He’s still smiling, politely, like we’re strangers. Like I’m a stranger. He holds out his hand, his long, pale fingers just inches from mine, but I can’t move. I’m like a deer in headlights. After a moment he reaches out and takes the leather strip from me, picking it up from the end so he doesn’t touch my skin, and then grasps it in his hand. “Thank you very much,” he says and turns to walk away.

What the everlovin’ fuck, you may well ask?

Read The Keepsake to find out *gigglesnort!*

~oOo~

Oh, and a huge shout out to Kitt {Tongue-Twied} for turnin’ me on to Sacrifices last Sunday in her comments!

Holy crap! I’m so lovin’ this fic and the last few nights have been loooong! I absolutely didn’t wanna shut down my computer and go to bed LMAO!

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3940174/1/Sacrifices

When Edward left Bella, he did so in the hopes that she would have a happy, human life. What would happen if she did just that, but it turned out that things didn’t go as either of them planned? Edward & Bella AU

Rated: Fiction T – English – Romance/Hurt/Comfort – Bella, Edward – Chapters: 59 – Words: 322,466 – Reviews: 5,884 – Favs: 3,820 – Follows: 2,869 – Updated: Dec 22, 2013 – Published: Dec 11, 2007 – Status: Complete – id: 3940174

So, it’s been ten years since Bella last saw Edward and the Cullens. She’s teachin’ English Lit and Creative Writing in college.  Imagine her surprise when three new students suddenly show up to take her classes!

While I crossed the registration barrier to head to the front desk and requested the most recent class rosters assigned to me, I had, for a fleeting moment, felt that I was being watched. It’s possible that someone did have their eyes fixed on me. There were literally more than 200 people in the commons area of the registration office. Every someone had to be looking somewhere. However, it was an eerie feeling, one that wouldn’t let go. Just then, I caught a whiff of someone that I hadn’t seen or heard from in some time. I thought to myself, this isn’t happening. You’re just not focusing. Get a grip on yourself!

I thanked the student employee who handed me my paperwork and was about to turn and head to my office when I saw a small, raven-haired beauty rush at me with almost Olympic speed. She grabbed me ever so gently before enveloping me into an almost rib-crushing hug. She released me, only to place a small kiss on my cheek. She had the biggest grin on her face, looking so happy, but then, just as quickly, her smile faded. A mixture of sadness and confusion spread to her beautiful, pixie-like features. She stood in front of me, looking exactly as she had when I had last seen her almost ten years earlier. Not since that horrible but fateful night…no phone calls, emails; no visits to let me know what had happened. She hadn’t even said goodbye. Still, I couldn’t help but look at her and mutter,

 “Hello, Alice.”

Intrigued? I certainly was!

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What fics have got y’all burnin’ the midnight oil?

Happy Friday, y’all!

Rita