The "tip of the spear" - in the military, they are the front line; the initial attack that draws first blood. As a CACO in the United States Marine Corps, Capt. Masen delivers that leading blow, too. He's often faced with handling the collateral damage this life can bring. He's accepted that love & commitment aren't for him…until she opens the door.

This was 1987; before the Internet, before Twitter, before Facebook – this was back when it was still possible for people not to know about things: big things - like bands, and little things - like G-spots. AH, ExB, with some other parings along the way.

A vampire finds the true meaning of temptation, an innocent beauty with a siren's blood. Need and curiosity ignite endless possibility, but is she prey for the wicked or the answer to a prayer for salvation? When obsession has no reason and love knows no bounds, where do you draw the line? AU E/B Darkward Mature themes. Non-canon vampires. No sparkling, vegetarianism or venom.

It was just a long weekend in Vegas, so how did eighteen year old high school senior Bella Swan end up married to thirty one year old movie exec, Edward Cullen? This is the story of their awkward life. Rated M for future lemons.

High school is a raging screaming battle that's mostly in her head. She won't be happy until she has him, but hell if she'll ever tell him. She sees only deception in his deepest truths, while he doesn't know the falsehoods of what he reads from her actions. Someone has to bend or the other will break. AH E/B

High School Fictional. No one sends Bella into a tailspin quite like Edward Cullen... but can she make him hers? The ups and downs and all arounds.

Bella signs a contract with Edward to enter into a marriage based on financial gain. She's looking to take the easy road and instead finds a nearly impossible one she must travel on the path to finding herself, along with everything she never knew she wanted. This is the struggle of a broken little girl growing into the woman she's destined to be.

Bella begins working for the elusive and distant Edward Cullen who she discovers is hiding behind an elaborate charade to maintain his secret lifestyle. Bella is determined to find out the mysteries of Edward Cullen but with what results? AU, OOC.

Full-blooded vampires are born, not made and what vampire babies needs to be able to grow is breast milk and there for every vampire have their own breast-feeder. This is the story about Edward and his personal breast-feeder Bella and their life. -mature- -lactating fetish- -Possessive-ward-

Bella's parents die and suddenly her world is upside down. A beautiful, clearly insane man claims she's a wealthy heiress and he's her personal, very efficient butler and that she's his world. What's a girl to do? Inspired by Mei-Chan No Shitsuji.

In the words of Abe Lincoln, "The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend." Bella works for a man that makes her teeth grind. "My boss is an asshole," she cried.

Orphaned at 8, Bella Swan is placed in the care of her God Mother Esme Cullen. Heiress to Cullen Swan Enterprises, Bella grows up hero worshipping 17 year old joint heir, pseudo step brother and self appointed guardian Edward. ROMANCE ANGST DRAMA

A coming-of-age story about a girl who loves until it hurts like crazy. Bella's schizoid imagination and tomboyish, adventuresome drive keeps her above water, despite physical and painful life setbacks. Quiet and dark like the night, she's capable of unexpected displays, much like a shooting star-she's just waiting for the right moment to be brave.

When Bella's father gets remarried, an older stepbrother, Edward, comes into the equation. After the unthinkable happens, things take a turn for the worst with Edward's need to control her and to be loved by her. Mature themes/obsessed Edward. AH. Not exactly a love story, but a warped tale and study of obsession. Will have happiest ending as can possibly be.

Upon waking, there's a brief, blissful period in which you don't yet recall the sins of the night before, but eventually, you have to open your eyes. I'm Bella Swan, seventeen years old, cheerleader. This morning I woke up in the wrong bed.

Bella was laden with heartache. Edward was the only one who could've saved her. He didn't. Four years later, their worlds are forced together once again, and Edward's got one thing in mind. Atonement. What's he facing? A via dolorosa into the mind of a jaded girl and a sick man with an obsession. WARNING: MobWard/DoucheWard

Fifteen year old Bella's parents pass away, and she is left in the care of her step brother, the problem? he is obsessed with her and will do anything to make her his, story contains some violence and a dark Edward, I don't own twilight. No Lemons until later in story

Bella Swan is a writer that is on a trip of a lifetime. Edward Cullen is a famous actor, whose life is a blur of film-sets, hotels and screaming fans. A destined encounter and a battle of mind over matter erupt amongst sensual music and a shared longing.

"She's Audrey Hepburn, and he's Cary Grant. She's Marilyn, and he's James Dean. She's timeless elegance, and he's old grace. She's searching, and he's already found, already taken. She's sixteen. And he's twenty-seven. But that doesn't matter. Not to a girl in love. Nothing matters, then." Edward & Bella in the definition of a forbidden relationship.

What if Sookie met her fairy Grandpa as an eight year old, and Eric was appointed as her protector and her mentor in learning how to defend herself? What happens if she is trained for battle and survival when certain enemies hit Bon Temps? Eric/Sookie, early friendship. AU. OOC likely.

Shy and emotionally-overwhelmed Bella is discovered by kind and gentle, while also self-assured and controlling, Edward. He's studying medicine and chaperoning his cousin Alice, away from home at college, for his religiously-conservative aunt and uncle. Bella is the college student chosen to share Alice's apartment, but she won't be Alice's roomie for long if Edward gets his way.AH

Ten years ago, he walked away from her and never looked back. Living a life of success, excess and dark passions, he has never been able to fill the cold void his heart had become until a twist of fate brings her to him again. This time, he won't let go of her so easily...not even when the darkness of their pasts threaten not only their love but their lives. AU/OOC.

A Procrustean Bed- a standard or set of conditions, determined arbitrarily, to which everyone is forced to conform. But the question is... are there really any rules when it comes to the affairs of the heart?

Powerful and successful, Isabella Swan held the world in the palm of her hand. Unfortunately for her, so did Edward Cullen. Written for the "Forbidden Affairs" contest and placed third. OOC, AH/AU, E/B, Rated M for Language and Lemons.

Not me. That's who this girl is. She is not me. And for the first time, Edward wants someone who is not me. The tequila sits at the bottom of my stomach and begins to grow tentacles. I am tequila brave.

He white-knuckles his pen, dragging a line of ink across the page. I can guess which passage he's marking: "All things truly wicked start from an innocence." Hemingway wouldn't have known about us. No one does. Teenage E/B, AH, quasi-dystopian.

Bella wants to escape her small-town life and live her dreams in New York. What happens when a man almost twice her age makes her an offer she can't refuse? AH/M

Everything I had done in my life seemed to lead up to this moment. The moment when I found myself bound inextricably to a man I didn’t love, trapped in a life I didn’t want. And if I left him, I would be entirely alone.

He's a young but jaded musician writing lyrics for his band, and she's a naive, frustrated poet looking to break out of her shell; their words collide online. What happens when they meet in high school, unaware of their literary connection?

Edward and Bella meet at a summer barbeque. A story about - what else - falling for someone, hard. Once a WitFit.

Isabella had to deal with her overbearing mother all her life. What happens when Isabella meets Renee's new mysterious boyfriend? Will he change everything? What will happen to her relationship with her mother? -HIATUS-

Re-post: AU/AH Bella's only release comes in the form of distantly orbiting the life of Edward Cullen. As with any addiction, however, she's always left wanting more. "Mad is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else." [Ugo Betti]

Exchanging Companions is a popular TV show were spouses trade and live at another home for two weeks. When Bella/Jake and Edward/Kate trade places something happens that no one saw coming. What goes on behind closed doors if the conditions are right?

He knew what we were doing was wrong. But that didn't stop him from sneaking into my bedroom at night. The love we have for each other will destroy us in the end. And that day, two angels will fall. Incest. Bella/Edward. All human. Don't like, don't read.

He promised he'd be waiting behind that church; he promised he'd change her mind. But he broke a lot of promises along the way, didn't he? AH, B/E

Bella is just another sixteen-year-old girl searching for her identity. Coming from a broken family and living in the world of contemporary teenagers obsessed with pornographic images and violence, she explores the boundaries between simple pleasures and true love. AH, OOC, M for l&l

Childhood sweethearts, Bella and Edward were meant to be forever. That is until he got what he always wanted. AH, M

After the death of her father, Isabella Swan moves to the East coast where she meets dentist Edward Cullen. He's older, a father, and married. Sometimes, you can't tell your heart who to love.

Airport after airport, you travel around the world, but why? Is there rhyme or reason to it? When Bella's new career has her traveling and bumping into the same fellow over and over will she chalk it up to coincidence or will she want more with him? Englishward/Olderward/Skyward Written for the one and only Midnight Cougar!

Summary edited for FF TOS: Can psychologist & Dom, Edward, give Isabella the help she needs, when at 18 she still acts like a little girl? Contains adult themes & language. More information on those themes inside. Check my profile for other places to read this story. For some it will depend on your opinion as to whether you find it consensual/moral. AH/OOC.

A billionaire couple searches for their long lost daughter. A lonely, troubled young man finds and gives refuge to a homeless girl with no name. Paths are crossed and hearts are given, but you can't keep what was never yours.

What would you do if your dead best friend suddenly wasn't so dead anymore? After a life of abandonment, Bella finds her sanity slipping through the cracks, until this not so functioning adult receives a shock that may end up being deadly. *All human*

She loves him. He loves her crazy. She's a hopeless romantic. He's just hopeless. She's afraid to let go. He won't let her. A story about a silly girl in love with a foolish boy. Here, forever is a lie. TeamBella23 - the realist and YellowGlue - the poet

Edward and Bella are half siblings. Edward has been obsessed with Bella since they were kids. She leaves Forks but when she comes back, she doesn't know if she can get away from her brother's twisted ways again. Better summary inside!

When Bella accepts a ride home from Edward Masen one rainy afternoon, she feels an instant attraction to him. A crush. But as they start dating, Bella soon learns he has a deadly dark side to him, one where he won't let her go, and will push aside all boundaries to be with her. What is he hiding? Obsessed Edward. Lemons. Inspired by the movie Fear.

He wanted to be the most powerful man on earth. As far as she was concerned, he already was. Love. Longing. A decade of regret. Time changes nothing...or does it?

Just months away from inheriting a fortune and the family business, 17 year old orphan, Bella, is out of control – a wild child with a platinum card and a killer bod. Can Edward, as her legal guardian and CEO of Swan Publishing, rein her in and prevent her from ruining everything he's worked for? AH, OOC. Rated M for language, adult situations and dramatic plotlines.

Bella Swan is a naive fifteen year old, set to spend another kiss-less summer alone. Edward is new to town, and doesn't know a soul. Watch an unlikely friendship blossom over the simple task of painting a house. But for these two, nothing is simple.

Teenaged runaway Bella lands at a youth shelter run by Edward, who orchestrates her foster-care placement into his adoptive parents' home. The age difference makes for a very paternal E/B relationship, although E does dream of more, someday, and B would be happy for him to have it. Is that right or wrong? You decide, as all the usual suspects struggle with that ? too. AH, cc's

Numbers are often invisible obstacles. For Edward, a significant age difference between him and Bella dictates the confines of their relationship. Can Bella teach him that sometimes a number is just a number?

At ten, she was told he was her forbidden fruit, but now eight years later, she is back to have her forbidden.

Edward spends Saturday nights playing poker with the bachelors of Forks. He has the utmost respect for his new friend Charlie, but when Charlie's little girl comes home for the summer, it turns out she's not a little girl at all.

Life is never perfect, the cracks always appear. "My Polaroid would show the face of a girl who has forgotten how to truly smile." Even the strongest of dreams can fail to become enough.

Teasing, taunting, sinfully sexual; all words to describe what she does to him, and him to her. The desire to give in, and take. The need to release. If only she wasn't his step-sister. If only their parents hadn't gotten married.

Bella has loved Edward since she was eight years old. During her summer break, she decides to win his heart once and for all. But prior commitments prove hard to break, and the line between family and lovers is not so easily blurred. A tale of seduction, self-indulgence, and forbidden love.

For Beyond the Pale: The treaty left Bella his slave, but serving a vampire who demands perfection is a challenge. BxE VERY DARKWARD, Mature content, read at your own risk.

Edward is king of a dying race, his planet torn by civil war. Bella is abducted to become his bride. From college student to Queen... Can she learn to love this strange man and help save his people? AU/OOC, Rated M

Sequel to the story There Will Be Blood. Two years have passed. Bella and Edward are safe on their island but will the dark underworld of crime pull them back in? Rated M for language, lemons, dark scenes, and violence.

All-consuming, irreversible love. Edward, 25, frontman of band The Masens, falls hard.

Bella is sent to a vampire's castle. She thinks she is going to die, but Edward has other ideas. This story involves Edward's sexual domination over Bella, but is ultimately a love story.

AH-Nominated for an Indie TwiFic Award-Bella audits Cullen Hospital but there is something about her that can do what no one else can, bring the jaded Edward Cullen to his knees. Watch as Bella and Edward level each other in ways neither thought possible.

here it is, the sequel to Tongues, and Speak The Little Girl's Name. originally inspired by the the song, Tongues by Deathstars, and the Edward/Renesmee fic by Kimmydonn Empathy. Read and Review, oh and COMPLETE! as of Wednesday august 11th 2010.

Sequel to my Story Tongues. Edward & Carlie are back home. Edward is torn, between is loyalty to protect his family, and his need to protect himself. will his and Carlie's secret get out? will they be banished? or will their darkness spread.

Its a Songfic Lyrics by Deathstars. after the death, of someone close to her Renesmee. runs away from home. what lengths will Edward go to bring her back home? Edward POV. please read and Review.

She could only watch on helplessly as her acts crumbled down to nothing, temptation gnawing her inside out and lust threatening to swallow her up in flames.

It's been ten years since the summer Bella Swan's life changed. What will happen when she comes face to face with the reason for it? She went under once, will she go under again? AH ExB

I know of three kinds of change: the kind that jangles around in your pocket, the kind that happens slowly, every moment of every day, and the kind that blows you away in an instant.

There Will Be Blood contest Readers' Choice 1st Place Winner: Waking up naked in a strange bed is bad. Waking up naked and tied up in a strange bed is worse. Even worse than that? Waking up naked and tied up in the bed of a Vampire that wants to eat you.

She knew him before she met him, but he would always disappear in a sea of black before she could see him. A story about taking control and finding your place in life. AH ExB. Mature. Drabble.

He was my forbidden fruit. A man so close, almost too close, yet so far out of reach. He loved me, took care of me, but did not crave me the same way I did him. I wanted everything, yet had nothing. But things were going to change. I could feel it.

"An hour from now, when the snow falls again, it will be like we weren't even there. But we will remember." A story of unrequited love, and how the things we keep silent can hurt us and the ones we hold closest. E/B Rated M for themes of an adult nature.

Something happens to make Edwards inner monster come out, good Edward is locked away & forced to watch as his inner monster is in control. He has to watch as the monster becomes sadistic, blood thirsty & watch as he's after Renesmee. Lemons in the future!

Everywhere I look, something reminds me of him. Smells, words, colours, songs. For two years I've cried over him. The best thing that's ever happened to me. The love of my life. He left because we were hurting. Because I was in the shallows.

Bella wanted to fulfill a fantasy - to be groped inside a crowded train. She gets her wish and more, when a sex-starved ex-convict decides she's fair game. ALLHUMAN. Mature but with plot.

Edward, one of the highest ranking vampire's in Eygpt, is sent to get rid of an unwanted Child of the Night. What he finds is a beautiful immortal child with the most tantalizing blood he's ever tasted! He'll make her his, for eternity... Slightly dark

Bella defied the arrogant Edward. He will not forget her. She will be his sacrifice, he will make her his prisoner, and he will make her his, after all, he is the most feared. He is known as The Black Dragon. All Human. Dark. Medieval

AH. BxE. Bella Swan was adopted at the age of 6, along with 11 year old Edward Cullen. Ten years later, their parents die in a sudden car crash and Bella is left in the hands of a very controlling 21 year old Edward. Full Summary Inside.

Edward Cullen,25,the son of a Chicago mob boss. He is second-in-command, cold and dangerous. Bella Swan,18,small town girl who has just enrolled as a freshman at Northwestern. A story about how love can survive in the cruelest of worlds.Very OCC.Rated M.

Bella lives a life without passion. Passion is the only thing Edward has.

New Moon AU. Edward did more than just leave Bella in the woods five years ago. Time goes on as Bella struggles to make a new life without him. What happens when they are accidentally reunited? What was the real lie that Edward told? What will Bella do?

Bella prefers the virtual to the actual, but feels herself being tugged from the safety of her online realm into the world of a rough edged Edward. This time she'll write her own story. Collab with twistedcoincidence AH/AU

Bella Swan is a a 17 year old –average- girl in love with her guardian, the mysterious, rich, and possibly dangerous Edward Cullen. Is it something about her that repels Edward or does he have his own reasons for staying away?

In the spring of 1914, Edward Masen returns home to his loving mother and his five year old admirer but mysteriously disappears and is left for dead. Fourteen years later, Bella Swan crosses paths with a faceless stranger with the last name Cullen.

This is my take on Alec and Jane's story and how they became what they are. I've always thought there was more to there relationship than just sibling affection and this story explores that. Rated M for physical/sexual violence and lemons in later chapter

Blood is getting somewhat low, Vampires, are getting edgy, heads are rolling, and Renesmee is being anaughty girl indeedy with her little pill box, and syringes. takes place after Bad Things.

By pretending she is falling for Edward, Bella is fulfilling Esme's dying wish. But sexy, possessive Edward can read her mind. Will she ever get into his? Can Bella forget the pain of her teenage years, and can she resist his relentless seduction? AH.

11 years, since Bella divorced Edward. 11 years since he has last seen his beloved daughter Renesmee, now with her on the way, how will she have changed? how will she react to his current decrepit state? but more importantly how will she have changed?

Kidnapped at 17. Held hostage. Brought home years later, Bella is different. Are her feelings for her kidnapper the result of the mental affliction Stockholm Syndrome, or are they real? Love and deception aren't always black and white. AU-H, dark themes.

Edward's been a solitary vampire, hunting on the edges of society. He rejoins his family in Forks, ready to abstain and runs across a young woman praying. A choice must be made between one's heart, one's desires and one's soul. Darkward ExB AU

Edward and Bella were once high school sweethearts. Years later, their lives converge unexpectedly, forcing Bella to deal with and accept things she's long since tried to move past. This story started with "Trampoline", once a WitFit prompt.

Edward and Bella are engaged to be married. It is not a marriage of love, it is a betrothal. But can their relationship blossom in to love or are they destined to hate each other?

Sometimes, no matter how much you love someone, they won't love you back. Or maybe they just can't... right now. This is the WitFit plot "Curtains", novella-style.

Edward is adopted by the Swans at birth. How will Bella and Edward cope with their growing attraction when they think they are siblings?

Edward is a killer. But it can't be explained away by his vampire nature. He's just a sociopathic, human teenager. CAN I MAKE A LOVE STORY OUT OF THIS? ExB.

It was written law in Revolutionary France, "Should a man be convicted of a crime and sentenced to hang, he may be saved by a virtuous maiden who agrees to marry him." E/B, AU, AH

Edward Cullen: telepath, vampire, and psychologist. When a new patient ignites unfamiliar feelings in his soul, can he reconcile his past with his future? A la Midnight Sun. Warnings: Violence, lots of character death, and the usual. AU.

Edward is back in Forks, but something is very wrong. He's not the same as he used to be. "I feel like a savage, Bella. I'm trapped inside a body I can't control." ExB: lemons. dark/mature themes. vampires. OOC. "That's right, sweetheart. Scream my name."

Older darker dominant corporate Edward, hires privet investigator Jacob Black to follow his younger girlfriend, Bella around when she’s acting suspicious. Lemons, a dramatic thriller. Rated M.OCC/AU/AH