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**Set after the motorcycle crash in New Moon.
Kaleidoscope
Every color hides a rainbow. Like Edward's eyes — black and blood red, so clear in their violent, triumphant rage. She wonders when she has ever seen him like this — awake and screaming. Of course, crippling pain and Vicodin tend to dampen edges, even the ones she longs for. New Moon AU.
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Pill number two takes her far above the beach. A flock of seagulls pass her, floating aimlessly, and she's caught up in their wake.
"Only ten percent of the matter in the universe is the stuff we can see," says the head gull, wheeling around the others. "Electrons, quarks, fermions, bosons, even light itself!" He raises a wing and the light radiates off of it in colors that hurt her eyes.
"Everything we can see, hear, feel, touch, think, smell...it's only ten percent of the universe!"
"What's the rest?" another gull asks.
The leader laughs and they swoop closer to the water, so she can smell the salt. "That's the funniest part! No one knows. Not the humans with their telescopes, not even us, skimming the skies. But you know what I think?"
"What?" She covers her mouth, because maybe she wasn't supposed to speak, but the head gull just opens his beak at her. She thinks it looks friendly.
"Souls, my friend. Ninety percent of the universe is just the weight of our souls." He laughs, a bird cackle like an old man's. "You just knew they had to be that heavy, right? Nine times heavier than your body. Ha!"
He raises his wing again and the reds and blues and violets sear her eyes.
She falls back to earth.
...
He has to physically stop himself, force himself to breathe, so he doesn't give in to the desire to phase. "Goddammit," he mutters to himself, as he finally regains control and continues to run.
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A/N: Thanks for reading!
