Stolen Moments
by vexatively
Challenge #36 : SUNSET
Title: Five Words
Team: Human
Challenge: Sunset
Word Count: 100
Rating: G
Characters: Edward, Renée
"You must be Bella's mother."
She turned around; her brow furrowed. Normally, she would have to explain a few times that it was Bella-not-Isabella, or that it was mother-not-sister. Even to the smart ones. But, as she looked into his eyes— would Bella have called it butterscotch or ocher or both?— Renée realized that, just maybe, he can see through disguises as well as her.
"My name is Edward Cullen."
His gaze shifted to her daughter's unconscious body. She could feel the tie between their souls, tangible.
And her sun's light faded (fades) away into nothing with these five words.
Title: Ethereal
Team: Human
Challenge: Sunset
Words Count: 100
Rating: G
Character: Edward
Just before the sun decided to sink, and succumb to the in-between (twilight), a streak blurred in the horizon. The manifestation of color reflected on un-skin and Edward thought that people might— just might— mistake him for…
Ethereal. Celestial. Angelic.
Of course, he knows better.
He was running again, the closest he would ever come to flying. Edward hesitated as he imagined that, yes, he was flying and his legs don't have to continuously pump against the hard earth.
It's the closest thing he'll ever know.
It's the only thing he'll ever know.
He will never get his angel's wings.
Title: Fair Price
Team: Human
Challenge: Sunset
Words Count: 100 (plus a bit)
Rating: G
Character: Edward
Sleep was robbed from him.
It was a fair price, Emmett thought, in exchange for strength.
It was a fair price, Esme thought, in exchange for life again.
It was a fair price, Alice thought, in exchange for seeing her family's future.
It was a fair price, Carlisle thought, in exchange for helping others for eternity.
It was a fair price, Jasper thought, in exchange for Alice.
Rosalie tried not to think.
He hadn't understood, not really. So he tried to dream, the only way he knew.
But now, he has a whole different type of dreaming.
He watches Bella sleeping, laughing, stumbling, blushing.
Sun-rises not -sets.
He calls it hope.
Title: Afterlife
Team: Human
Challenge: Sunset
Words Count: 100
Rating: G
Character: Edward
"I know… I'm back again. I'm coming here more and more often now, and for a purely selfish reason, I admit."
He paused, sunset setting his hair aflame, and took a deep, wholly unnecessary breath. Force of habit.
"I have to say; when you died, I wasn't quite sure that there was any type of redemption, absolution for mankind. No afterlife. I mean, if there were some higher force, why would good people like Carlisle become vampires? Hence, it was simple. There was no God.
"But I know better now. See, Mother, I love an angel.
"Her name is Bella."
Title: Dread
Team: Human
Challenge: Sunset
Words Count: 100
Rating: G
Characters: Jacob/Bella
Author's Notes: Pre-Eclipse Battle
"What's the worst that can happen to me, Bells?"
I inwardly feel torn between emotions-- each vying for attention; each of them so unbearably right.
It took me forever to realize it. It'll probably take another to say it. But… I love (love!) him.
"Come back," I whisper hoarsely.
Jacob leans down, feigning… feigning that what? He couldn't hear me? Still a jerk, despite it all.
"Come back, Jacob. To me."
Grinning like the wolf he was, he bounded off.
I couldn't be more hyperaware of the clamping dread at the pit of my stomach.
Paris falls.
The sun sets.