Baroque City

by HistoryintheMaking

In a very different American society, Edward Cullen finds himself struggling to keep himself and those around him alive. In exchange for the fey's "medication," Edward trades them the lives of others. Except now they're asking for one of his own. M AU

1. Prologue

Story information:

Rated M for mature themes, violence, adult language and adult situations. Reader discretion is advised.

Setting: Alternate Universe (no duh :D)

Characters: Edward Cullen, Bella, and (hopefully) other Twilight characters.

Disclaimer: The characters belonging to Twilight are not mine. The faeries however and most OC's do belong to me. I'll keep a list going or something eventually xD

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Prologue:
UnAmerica

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America is not the America we know today. Close to a hundred years ago she was torn apart by nuclear war. States were wiped completely off the map. Slowly she has begun to get back on her feet. As the government began to gather itself, it realized that it needed to control the little population that was left. Thus the creation of city-states, one of them called Baroque City, where everyone who survived in the Tri-State area, the New England states, and some of Delaware, West Virginia and Virginia were relocated.

As the population began to increase, there was not enough room to hold families in Baroque. They wanted to move westward for more room and space, but the government had blocked it off. That was THEIR land; land for the rich businessmen who called themselves Congress. And they weren't willing to let any city-state stick their dirty selves in their yard.

Very un-American, right? Well there wasn't an America anymore. The government decided that the people were too irrational to vote, to even hold the democracy it once had. America was now a dictatorship with its Congressmen running the entire show.

In Baroque City we find a young seventeen year old boy named Edward Cullen. And he is dabbling in something very un-American - no! very otherworldly - as well.