The Twilight Twenty-Five

Prompt 16: Sky

Pen name: SophiaAnne

Pairing (Character): Renee

Rating: T

Dawn's coming. Renee wraps her hands around the warm coffee cup and stares out the kitchen window, lost in thought.

Just a few more hours, and her baby's leaving. The pinks and golds of the first tendrils of light touch the sky as she wipes a tear from her eye. Bella, self-sacrificing Bella, needs this, a fresh start, a chance to be her age in a safe little place like Forks.

She has so many regrets about Bella, so many things she should have done differently. But today, today she'll do the right thing, smile, and let her baby go.

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The Twilight Twenty-Five

Prompt 17: Soft

Pen name: SophiaAnne

Pairing (Character): Edward

Rating: T

Animal flesh is soft. The animals he feeds on crush beneath his hands easily, from timid deer, to angry mountain lions.

Human flesh is even softer. He remembers this from a time he prefers to not dwell on. They're fragile, malleable, the equivalent of a child's play-doh under his fingers. He hasn't touched a human body in years now.

Until today.

The van hurtling on the thin ice, a girl in its path, her insubstantial flesh a heartbeat away from being mangled between metal unless . . .

Something harder intervenes. He moves without thought, hurtling himself in her path.

The Twilight Twenty-Five

Prompt 18: Sour

Pen name: SophiaAnne

Pairing (Character): Jasper

Rating: T

He sinks his teeth in, feels the geyser of blood. Warm, fresh, still propelled by the heart that's now slowing. It should taste divine.

But it doesn't. Curdled and sour, he lets the blood fall from from his lips, the liquid splashing across the once pristine bodice of the young woman's dress, as her lingering despair courses through his body.

"Jasper." Her voice is sharp. He tenses at the warning there. "Don't play with the food."

He meets Maria's eyes, then bows his head, lapping at the wound in a parody of desire, mind set. He's leaving. Soon.

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The Twilight Twenty-Five

Prompt 19: Stagnant

Pen name: SophiaAnne

Pairing: Emmett's mother

Rating: T

She shades her eyes against the sun and watches her son as he kneels by the milk cow, his touch gentle.

Her baby. The one who'd come early, so small they feared he might not live. Now such a big, strapping man. She needs to let him go, not let him languish here, caring for her, now her own Elijah's gone to heaven. He needs to be finding a woman of his own, though she dreads the day he'll leave her.

She steps off the porch and calls out, "Em? Your brothers want you to come bear huntin' today."

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The Twilight Twenty-Five

Prompt 20: Touch

Pen name: SophiaAnne

Pairing: Victoria and Riley

Rating: T

When she hunts, she craves the sensation, the stimulation of flesh beneath her hands. The quick kill is so unsatisfying.

Her prey quivers before her, a study in contrasts. She runs her fingers through his hair. Silky, almost baby fine. There's a hint of stubble on his cheek that would have abraded her flesh decades ago when it was softer.

She shivers at the thought. So much here to explore. She wishes she had time to play tonight.

"What's your name?" she whispers.

"Riley," he chokes.

The flesh of his throat is smooth beneath her tongue. Victoria bites.