Title: Celestial Convergence
Author: Lucidscreamer
Pairing: Carlisle/Edward (romantic slash pairing!)
Fandom: Twilight
Prompts: 1_sentence LJ challenge
Theme set: Alpha

Disclaimer: The Twilight Saga is the creation of Stephenie Meyer. This fanfic is an alternate universe based on the characterizations and settings as portrayed in the movie.

Author's note: I've split this into sections to make it easier to read. This first section is Carlisle's point-of-view. Part two is Edward's. The remaining two sections will alternate their POVs. This story is a companion piece to my drabble series "More than Yesterday and Less than Tomorrow". The two may be read independently, but I believe the reader will gain more by reading both this fic and the drabble series. Both this story and the drabble series are SLASH, featuring a romantic pairing between Edward and Carlisle. If this is not your cup of tea, please do not read this story.

Celestial Convergence

Supernova: Carlisle (1918)

#28 - Sickness

The Chicago hospital where Carlisle works is crowded with death as more and more people -- in what should be the prime of their lives -- are taken by the influenza.

#17 - Tears

Vampires cannot cry, but if it were possible, then the Masen family's plight might move him to tears.

#25 - Devotion

Elizabeth Masen knows she is dying (Carlisle can see it in her eyes), but her hand is strong when she clutches his and demands he do all that is in his power to save her son.

#11 - Name

His name is Edward, and he is so (beautiful) young; he should be out playing baseball in the September sunshine, not dying in a stuffy, crowded hospital ward.

#50 - Supernova

For almost three hundred years, Carlisle has thought himself unchanging, unchangeable, the routine of his life as steady as the cycles of the sun -- but Edward's advent into his life is a supernova after which nothing will ever be the same.

#33 - Fear

Carlisle has never made another vampire, isn't even sure he can do it now, but his fear doesn't stop him from stealing away from the hospital with Edward clutched in his arms.

#05 - Potatoes

He remembers his own transformation, cowering beneath a pile of potatoes, surrounded by the stench of rot and mold, as the excruciating pain scalded like fire and he expended every ounce of will to silence his screams.

#24 - Taste

Edward's is the first human blood he has ever tasted -- it is ambrosia and sin and completion -- and a part of him mourns that he will never taste it (taste Edward) again.

#04 - Pain

As venom burns through Edward's veins, as the young man screams and writhes in his arms, Carlisle holds him and wishes he could take away the agony.

#10 - Ears

Edward's rebirth is three days of thrashing limbs, twisting body, tossing head, his cries for mercy subsiding only when his ceaseless howls have stolen his voice; the silent screams that follow echo more loudly in Carlisle's ears than those that came before.