Innocence Is Dripping Red by EchoesOfTwilight

Innocence Is Dripping Red by EchoesOfTwilight
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5480253/1/Innocence_Is_Dripping_Red
Word Count: 9,277

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MF’er says: Where do I even begin? A few months ago, during one of the WC’s I was participating in, we all took our turns after the round was finished with giving teasers. I was lucky enough that night to have gotten my first ‘taste’ of EchoesOfTwilight‘s Darkward.

After reading that teaser, even without knowing the premise of the rest of the one-shot, I couldn’t wait to see the rest of what she was working on. Until the night she posted it, I had absolutely no idea what the concept would be, but when she took a few minutes to explain what I could expect, that just made me even more anxious to read it. EchoesOfTwilight has created a scenario in which Edward is so unfulfilled with his existence that he can no longer find pleasure in anything. He’s found a very creative way to reignite the passion within him, hence the nickname: Voyeurward.

The truth was I was bored, and forced to borrow the passions of others because I could muster none of my own.

I moved amongst the crowd, letting their thoughts fill my mind as the cloud of smoke and sex and human flooded my senses. Yes. This was what I needed to build my excitement, so that when I took down some poor excuse for a human on the rain-dampened streets later, I would have these adopted memories of carnal pleasure to drive my bloodlust.

Bloodlust. It’s like any other desire, really. Consuming, delicious, passionate…and dissatisfying if exercised with the wrong victim.

For a vampire, it is all connected. Blood and sex, want and need. I had only ever sampled the first course. Dinner, without dessert.

It’s during one of his nights spent in search of some excitement that he first encounters Bella and is stricken with need he’s never experienced before.

It was so very different, picturing myself with someone instead of simply eavesdropping on an encounter. So much more primal…and infinitely more satisfying.

Bella’s lips on mine…her hands on my skin…my hands gliding over the mounds of her breasts, down the soft skin of her stomach…touching her, then licking my fingers to taste a liquid sweeter than blood…

EchoesOfTwilight has such an excellent way with words and manages to throw in canon quotes at the least expected times. Everything is woven together perfectly and leaves you wanting more (trust me, I’ve been begging for more since she posted).

“Want…you…so much…never before…” I breathed between kisses, my mind spinning with the feeling of them.

My first kiss.

That quote just… Rawr. Killed me. And beyond that? Oh yeah… he growls. GROWLS. But, I don’t want to give away too much because there is just so much brilliance here. Let me finish by saying that this one-shot will pull hard at your panty strings and leave you begging for more (just like me and so many others)… If you don’t take the time to read it and leave her some love, you’re missing out on a truly wonderful piece.