Outtakes and drabbles from the Sleepers, Awake universe.

What do you get when you combine a summer roadtrip to Chicago, an evening alone, a simple game of poker, and two online friends who have been dying to get their hands on one another? What about when those online friends realize that there might be more to their relationship than they originally believed? Add best friends, roommates, girlfriends, and drunken rugby players to the mix, and you've got yourself a hearty helping of Playing For Keeps, best served steaming hot. ExB/AU/All Human/LEMONS!

Suave, charming, rich kid Edward Cullen has been pursuing Brooklyn bartender Bella Swan for months now, but has never gotten in--until tonight. Will it be everything he expects? Entry for Texts from Last Night Contest. AH. OOC.

 Overweight and underappreciated, Bella has stalled at life. When the chance arises to compete on America's favorite weight loss game show, will she take the opportunity to change her life and find love in the process? *EXPANSION OF THE ONE-SHOT*

Six years ago, Edward left Bella for her own good and entered his own personal hell.  Returning to her was never an option, and thinking of her was an indulgence he didn't deserve.  Now, with her bestselling novel "Dusk," about a human girl who falls hopelessly in love with a vampire, Bella Swan is a household name.  Her story, her image, assaults Edward at every turn, until he can no longer ignore the obsession he has never been able to forget.  He searches her out, determined to prove that his love, his lust, his regret, is so powerful that he will never push her away again.  Can Edward convince Bella that he deserves a second chance, or will Bella remain tied to the fame, fortune, and men of her new life?

"We're family. We stick together - family is an inseparable thing." When a new dog arrives at the Little Paws Animal Shelter. She receives more then just a human family. Crackfic. Fluff.
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Edward is in love with a woman that isn’t good for him. Some might think he chose this life, but what if he hadn’t? Higher powers could be at play, drawing him in, making him unable to ignore the call of the Siren.

Originally written for the Age of Edward Contest.  1960's Cold War.  Edward is a graduate music student, who hides his telepathic abilities.  When they are discovered by the NSA, he is sent to find the double agent in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.  His most obvious suspect is a certain brunette who is the embassy's librarian and is impervious to his mind reading.

AH.  Rated M for lemons

"I can't understand," I said. "I can't bear this." I strode out the back door, walking away from my curious and worried family, hearing them ask what was up with me.

Jasper's POV during Breaking Dawn when Bella first opens her eyes as a vampire. Two-shot, reviewer request.

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Isabella Marian Navarre, otherwise known as Maid Marian is engaged to marry the next King of England, but has other plans for herself.  She longs for freedom and the free agency to choose her future, so she runs away with the help of her friend and companion Alice.  On the way to their new life, they are nearly attacked in Sherwood Forrest, but Robin Hood's Merry Men save them and take them back to their little village to care for them.  The things Bella learns shape her into one of the greatest Queens and leaders of her time and the things she teaches help to form a new world for the people of her country.

Bella Swan is set to get married to Jacob Black. What happens when she leaves him before the wedding and disappears? When Bella shows up in her Childhood town, she meets a mysterious man, Edward with a shady past. But Bella has her own worries. Jacob is on the hunt for her. He doesn't care what he has to do to track her down, he will find her. Bella becomes smitten with this mysterious man...but he is hiding a terrible secret. One that is based on Complacent lies.

They were both on an old, rural, logging route learning to deal with the hand that was dealt to them.  Edward Cullen was dealing with the horrors of his past, whereas Bella Swan was trying to move forward the best she could.  One of the worst storms in North Carolina brought the two of them together.  Can Edward teach Bella how to trust again, and can Bella teach Edward he is worth more than he thinks?  Loosely inspired by The Rescue.

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