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    Six years ago, a teenage girl was left heartbroken and alone in the woods. But her fate had long since been decided, and revenge is a dish best served ice cold. Sometimes, you need to be lost in order to be found. Very much an Aro/Bella story.

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    In which the now-24 year old Bella Swan is anonymously kidnapped from her mundane human life and delivered to the Volturi, only to find the answers to questions she’d never asked. Claimed, bitten and mated, Bella must now navigate her newfound immortality alongside a very mercurial vampire Master. And he just might be obsessed with her.
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    This story is dedicated to the incredible Lysandros_s, who's work 'The Coronation' inspired me to write this entire thing in the first place ♥️

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    26 Feb 2026

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    I think I read first ~10 or 20 chapters last year, need full reread.

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    This work isn't hosted on the Archive so this blurb might not be complete or accurate.

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    A year after graduating from Forks High School, Bella Swan is living a dull life as a waitress in a coffee shop. When an unusual stranger suddenly appears in town and begins frequenting her work she finds herself immediately drawn to him but it isn't until he starts to charmingly establish himself as an irreplaceable figure in her life that she discovers he's not quite human. AU.

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    06 May 2026

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    Very cute Aro/Bella. Complete. Lots of banter.

    She never dated Edward, meets Aro working at Forks diner, who is in town visiting Carlisle.

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    Bella leaves Volterra under the explicit expectation that she will eventually be transformed into a vampire, and this time, Carlisle Cullen follows through.

    What happens when Bella is summoned back to Volterra, and begins embracing her own inner strength and power in a world far more dangerous and intricate than she ever imagined?

    This fic is broken into two parts:

    Part One - The Rising Dawn - COMPLETE
    Part Two - The Shadow Hour - COMPLETE

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    09 Apr 2026

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    After her near death experience of almost being crushed by Tyler’s van on the school parking lot if not for Edward’s interference, Bella is hellbent on finding out what he is. Armed with an array of ludicrous theories and the stories Jacob had told her during their trip to La Push she begins her online research, which is where she makes the acquaintance of an interesting stranger.
    Aro hadn’t expected much when he’d decided to browse vampire myths online to brush up on current trends and perceptions - and he certainly hadn’t expected to find Bella.

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    The one in which Bella meets Aro in an online forum on vampire myths while doing her research and all hell breaks loose.

     

    **NOTE 04/24/23 - STRANGE APPETITES IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION, VERS.2.0 COMING SOON; THIS INCLUDES REWORKED CHAPTERS 1-8 WITH ADDED POVS AND A NEW CHAPTER (9)
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    02/02/24 - Chapter 1-2 have been reworked
    02/04/24 - Chapter 3 has been reworked

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    05 Apr 2026

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    “I’m on a pilgrimage!” Alina said. “It’s just… it’s what we do! All the eldest and most staid of my sisters have done it. We get restless, and we know it’s time to fall, so we come down here and we find the thing that completes us, whatever we lack that has left us feeling so out of sorts. A purpose. And I came down here, and everyone immediately seemed so certain of my purpose, of what I could do, and who I came here for. You all handed me the instructions on your doorstep. So I thought it would be easy!"

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    Alina isn't a Sun Summoner, but a fallen star. The only problem is, no one knows that fallen stars are a thing that exist - least of all the Black Heretic.

    [A sort-of-but-not-really Stardust AU].

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    05 Apr 2026

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    GOAT fic