Girls asked him about his relationship with Isabella Swan all the fucking time. He never knew what to say. What was Isabella to him? A childhood sweetheart, an accomplice, a confidant? His best friend? His only friend? The love of his life? The one that got away? To quote Orson Scott fucking Card: an echo of himself at his time of deepest sorrow?

BD AU. In the blink of an eye, Jake's actions injure newborn Nessie irrevocably, breaking her spine. Sixteen years later, they meet again. Now a paraplegic, Nessie must choose between the sweet, goofy guy she's in falling love with and the monster that mauled her as a baby. Because all roads lead to Rome, to a place where "Jake and I are bound like Bert and Ernie."

Alice Brandon is asked a question by her daughter. The answers involve a girl of 19, and her dreams - including her long-lost dream of Prince Charming, in the form of the elusive, sophisticated and roguishly handsome Jasper Cullen. Lots of E/B.