Paws
& Art held their second banner one shot competition. There were about 15
anon entries; read them all on their site here: Paws & Art 2.0
I won it last year with ‘Rumour
has it’ but this year I made an unusual choice for me. There were 65 banners to
choose from with lots of cute wolf boys paired up and even a couple with three
characters. So you would think any of those would work for me with a history of
writing wolf boy slash and threesomes. But, I chose this banner. In a neat
idea, each entrant ‘won’ an individual copy of their chosen banner.
banner # 65,
artist dontcallmeLeeLee
I like challenging myself and
writing different pairings; especially in one-shots, where you can get away
with a lot of things because they need to be short. To me, Edward looked
beseeching and Leah suspicious. What was he asking her? And the plot bunnies
were off.
I have often argued that the
ending of Breaking Dawn gave Bella everything she wanted and didn’t really deal with how those things affected
others. Bella loved Jake so Bella got Jake in her life; imprinted on her
daughter so that he can never leave.
Ugh. I shudder just to think about it. A vampire mated to a wolf? The tribal
alpha and their next chief living with vampires? His sworn enemies? She would
probably be a neuter like most hybrids and never be able to have children. The
end of the Black family line? None of it made sense to me given the book build-up
to that point.
So, what if Renesmee imprinted
on a different wolf? What if she did it for a reason?
Embraced BD,
AU, Leah/Edward
Trigger warning: death of a character in childbirth.
(man... what is it with me killing Bella this
month? I’ve done it twice. giggle)
It ended up getting equal third
place and I was pretty happy with that. Leah is not a popular character and
pairing her with Edward was a risk, as well. Especially in a wolf centric competition.
And it was anonymous, so no-one knew which story was mine. I love that!
