After Dark

A Twilight Rewrite

'for unwritten memories.'

Preface

When you're swimming in a pool it's easy to feel calm. Even when you're not a really good swimmer it's okay. The side is right in view, the bottom isn't that far.

That's what being in a normal relationship feels like. The main stage is all lights and glamour, and when things go sour just remember: exit stage left everybody. No panic, start over with the next act.

Now take yourself out to the ocean. It's not so easy now, eh? Can't see the bottom, maybe you can see land but God knows hhow far it is, and if you're not careful the current will pull you out to see. Take it up a notch and imagine a giant tidal wave brewing. You can see it in the distance. It's huge, obviously a threat, ominous even. Yet you sit there for a half second and stare at it.

You stare because you aren't registering that your life is on the life. Then you panic and try to find land, but there's none to be found and you're just frantically trying to get out of this wave's path. You thrash furiously and even if you were a good swimmer you still can't evade it. It's coming down on you and all you've got left is to pray for a miracle.

It swallows you whole and you're pulled under. The stage isn't bright lights but laser beams that you must evade. The exit only opens to a trap door. Run out too fast and you'll plummet down.

This is what an abnormal relationship is. It''s scary and terrifying, sometimes you aren't sre whether it's all worth it. Heck you start to pray that you just don't die.

Maybe you will die though.

Maybe that will be your legacy. Maybe the only way for you to be on the map is to be wiped off of it.

Or maybe you don't die.

You find your bearings and right yourself up. Precious air fills your lungs as you breach the surface and calmly recall that you still know how to drift on your back. You feel so proud to have made it, joy at the fresh air. Suddenly it doesn't seem so bad as you pull yourself to shore.

Until the next wave hits.

This is not a simple relationship. This is not a simple lifestyle. Oh no, it's so much more than that. This is what it means to be part of the unnatural, to be the little lamb in a den of lions and still bare your teeth. It used to be me, that little lamb. Until he taught me how to become a lion. Until he pulled me onto dry land.

This unstable relationship/lifestyle montage was brought to me by none other than Edward Cullen. While it may not have been the easiet relationship I've had, it certainly had the greatest peaks.

All wrapped up in a nice little bow.

This is the story of thhe Lion and the Lamb.

I'lll let you decide who was which.

Hey guys! So I've been really frustrated with Twilight for years. Read all the books and watched most of the movies. I was not impressed. I hated it honestly. It had so much potential, it had original Ideas that I was like, 'Great! Run with it!' That really didn't go far and other themes that lived well past their expiration date.

So this, my lovelies, is my attempt at a rewrite.

Don't get me wrong, I too imaged a lovely Edward, and while Rob Pat might be my spirit animal Edward is not. So while I don't plan to add any OC's I do plan to liven up some of the characters. Y'know, ad a splash of colour?

While I'm not expecting to be an insanely good rewriter, especially because I'm rather rusty, I do want to try this. However I am only putting a few feelers out first just to see what people think of the idea.

Reviews please, if only to say you are interested.