ext_10122 ([identity profile] anythingbutgrey.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] crack_van2008-06-09 05:06 pm

5 Times Bella Swan Did Not Kiss Jacob Black (And One Time She Did) by flowers4ophelia (R)

Fandom: TWILIGHT
Pairing: Jacob/Bella
Length: Mid-length one shot.
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] flowers4ophelia
Author Website: Sara's fic tag
Why this must be read:

Okay, so maybe I have a love for five things fics. This is my second one this month and it won't be my last. I love them. And this one is just fabulous. Sara presents us with five distinct scenes -- each one wonderful, and tragic, and complete, but they all fall together into something truly fabulous. I have re-read this fic many times, because it's Sara at her very best -- wonderful prose, great characterization, and taxi cab sex. Everyone's a winner.


He loves her so much it could almost make him sick if he were still in his other form now. He wishes it was something his body could just reject because it can't handle it, but it is just going to stay in there like poison and burn.

It is the first time he has ever wished he did not love her. It won't be the last.

Weeks later he is trying to get rid of it even though he knows it's not just going to be that easy. When he hears she is back and safe it is like he can finally breathe again for the first time in days and all of his senses besides the pain and fear screaming like a constant, high-pitched dial tone in his ears return, cool colors coming back into his vision, and all he wants is to see her and wrap her up in his arms. But Edward Cullen is back, too, and there is still a panging ache left of her inside him, a tumor that can only get worse. She calls. She calls and calls and calls and he says please, mouthing it to himself when he hears the phone ring. He doesn't call her back.

But before long that will all have to be over because she'll say with shock, "That's none of your business" and he'll know this is going to hurt, oh it could hurt really bad, but he has more to lose by staying away than by trying. She needs him, he'll realize, and he's the only one who can do this, who can try to save her from this. He will fight in a fight that he is almost absolutely sure to lose and come out of bruised beyond recognition, and he will do it smiling and never showing how much it hurts as long as he can help it. For her.

So after fighting with himself for way too much wasted time, he will finally let it show how much he misses her and say, "Come and see me." Smile and wink.

(To the surprise of both of them, the risk will pay off.)


5 Times Bella Swan Did Not Kiss Jacob Black (And One Time She Did)