Tea Time Tuesday Presents:
Hey there, lovelies,
Mischievous M here for another awesome Tea Time Tuesday. This week I present you with a special one-shot. You see, it's not like the previous ones I've featured so far. It's a non-canon piece, and written by one of the GLoSP founders, The Letter. Now, you know I don't do anything that isn't an Edward and Bella pairing, behind the scenes or up front, but this little one-shot right here got past the gates. "The Letter" is a Bella and Peter pairing, something you wouldn't normally find, but it may as well be just as good as any and that's saying something coming from me. It's also an All Human piece, so if that's right up your alley you should definitely check it out.
Did I mention it was a winner of the Summer Lovin' Contest on Rogue Fanfic? Yep, it sure was.
Besides that it also won 'Best Alternate Universe All Human' in the Single Shot Awards.
In the author's own words:
Peter and Bella spend a summer together, seven years later, Bella thinks back of that summer long gone by and the love she lost as she reads a letter she never sent him.
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I felt defeated again, not heartbroken, just defeated. I was always trying to get a grasp on my life and the men in it, but never succeeded. Questions infiltrated my mind, questions I didn't want to hear or think of. Was there something wrong with me? Why did they always hurt me? Why wasn't I enough? But the biggest question was : Why can't I give my heart fully? I knew it was a silly question. One I shouldn't be thinking at all. The answer was simple. I gave my heart once and I had never gotten it back.
Getting into my bedroom, I bent down to retrieve the little box I kept hidden there. I needed some connection to a time where I was perfectly happy and full of wonderful dreams for the future.
For years now, I had been swimming through muddy waters, trying to find that feeling I had felt only once in my life. An emotion so powerful and pure, nothing ever came close. My true love.
Taking the letter out of the box and laying it down on my bed, I ironed the letter carefully with my hands, before picking it up gently and reverently.
I fingered the charm bracelet he had gotten me that summer and played with it absentmindedly as I read over the letter for the umpteenth time since I wrote it.
Peter, my love,
It has been exactly six days, four hours, eleven minutes and thirty two, oh make that thirty three, seconds since I last saw you and I'm already missing you like crazy.My heart feels empty without you. It almost seems as if I left all of me behind and now it's waiting for me to come back to you so I can claim it as my own again.
I listen to Faith Hill and Tim McGraw as they sung about their love and I wonder if you remember that night in your pick up truck. Do you remember us singing to that song as we drove down to the lake? I can't stop thinking about that night. The night we laid it all out there. Whenever I close my eyes, I can see you again. I can see you at our lake, looking at me like you did that night. Your beautiful blue eyes see right into my soul as you hold me tight, and make promises of a future. A future that's brighter and more beautiful than any star gracing the midnight sky above us.
I can still see you standing by your truck, just like when I first laid eyes on you. I can even feel the excitement and small tingle of fear again, just from memory. The draw I felt towards you was instant, and more powerful than anything I had ever experienced before.
I can remember us in your father's shed, where you gave me the best gift in my life, yourself; in return I gave myself to you as well. At that moment in time, we were completely one; heart, body and soul.
Every part of me craves to be with you again and believe me, my love, I will find a way to be reunited with you again. Whether it takes me a week or a decade, I will experience your love again.
I miss you.
With all my heart,
Bella Marie Swan.
Holding the letter to my heart, almost feeling the written words seep through my skin and into my heart, I closed my eyes and let my mind wander back to that time.
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If you didn't shed a tear, or at least sigh, then what the hell?
Just kidding. But you'll really shed a tear once you read it.
Out of the "hundreds" of non-canon stories I've read, this one tops them all. It has such sweet scenes of summer love and also the real life angst too that balances it out. Not to mention, it also made me cry like a baby. All throughout the one-shot. If there's any non-canon one-shot I could rec, it would be this one.
Don't forget to leave Shirley007 some love in an awesome review. She deserves it. Tune in tomorrow for Wicked Wednesday!
Love,
~*~ Mischievous M
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