White Rhapsody

Ryuko Ishida

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14. LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE

Title: Almost
Team: Vampire
Challenge: Line Between Love and Hate
Words Count: 100
Rating: G
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Edward
Warnings: None.
Author's Notes: Meh.

I hate her – Isabella Swan, the new student the whole school has been talking about, the girl whom I have just met for the first time a moment ago.

Someone furiously honks me from behind, and I can hear the unforgiving swearing in their thoughts; I guess I can't blame them. I'm not being the greatest driver at the moment after all.

How can she make me feel so… so weak? So helpless that I have to run away when I have done nothing wrong? 'I hate her.'

And yet, her scent causes a fluttering, almost like falling in love.

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Title: Fine Line
Team: Vampire
Challenge: Line Between Love and Hate
Words Count: 100
Rating: G
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Jacob (Bella, Edward mentioned)
Warnings: None.
Author's Notes: Meh.

There's a fine line between love and hate. I've heard this expression enough times but never really thought about it.

This is useless, isn't it? Bella has already chosen who she wants to be with, and I shouldn't be surprise at her choice, either.

When Cullen left her, I thought I could bring her back. Foolish, really. She never was the same person after that – not the girl I had fallen in love with at the beginning.

So is it right to love her when I hate the fact that it was Cullen who brings out the best in her?

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Title: The One
Team: Vampire
Challenge: Line Between Love and Hate
Words Count: 100
Rating: G
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Jasper
Warnings: None.
Author's Notes: If I remember correctly, Jasper's 'creator' is a female, right?

Sometimes, I wonder if I should bear hatred towards her – my creator, the one who made me who, or rather, what, I am today. I know it was her who pulled me back from the gates of hell; who taught me the way of the hunt; who was there to guide me when I discovered my power of manipulating emotions.

She was the one who led me into a lifestyle I would one day find empty.

But she was also the one who gave me another chance at life.

And in a way, she gave me a chance to love.

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Ryuko: Happy 2008, everyone!