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  1. Rec 68

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    After three days on the run, 14-year-old Maelle is found at a gas station and taken to Forks Hospital. She has no intention of telling anyone who she is.

    Dr. Carlisle Cullen is supposed to treat her, not become invested. Esme Cullen is supposed to offer kindness, not start building a home for a human child. But Maelle has nowhere safe to go, and the Cullens have never been good at walking away from someone who needs them.

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    17 Sep 2026

  2. Rec *

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    “Sorry to call so late, Doc.”

    “Chief Swan.” Dr. Cullen’s honeyed timbre trickles through the tinny speaker and carves its spurs into the tender workings of the cavity beneath Charlie’s lungs. “How may I be of assistance?”
     



    Charlie Swan is a man of routine. Steak and cobbler with Bella at the diner on Thursdays, baseball and beer with Harry and Billy on Sundays, the rest of his time split between fishing and paperwork. Typically the latter.

    The arrival of Forks' new chief surgeon throws a wrench in the works in every sense of the phrase.

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    15 Sep 2026

  3. Rec 67

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    The scent of Charlie’s blood in the back of Carlisle’s throat refused to fade.
    He held the animal closer, felt the twitching of its warm body slowing as he drank, but it didn’t help.
    For the first time in his long life, the deer’s blood did nothing to satisfy him at all.
    Carlisle tried not to dwell on why that might be.

    Carlisle and Charlie's beginnings. A journey that threatens to break them. A love that sews them back up.

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    12 Sep 2026

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    There are men turning up dead in the woods, and Chief of Police Charlie Swan has a job to do—figure out what, or who, left the poor bastards torn up as they are. Chief of Police Charlie Swan is too old for this mess. Too old and too sick of this shit to pretend Forks is just a sleepy old rural town anymore. Between the gruesome corpses and the quiet, unsettling doctor Cullen who shows up like a statue in pressed slacks, lying through his teeth, Charlie’s got more questions than answers—and no one seems too keen on giving him either.

    Charlie’s trying not to notice how his breath catches when the doc gets too close. He’s also trying not to notice how the bodies keep piling up, unsolved. Neither effort is going particularly well.

    And if one more person tells him it was a bear, he’s going to shoot something. Probably not a bear.

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    11 Sep 2026

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    Carlisle has been thoroughly ashamed of his nature since the moment a pang of hunger jolted him awake in some London back alley. He has spent every moment since trying to atone for his existence. Though he is satisfied most days, he is even more ashamed - even more terrified - of the specific, gnawing bloodlust that follows dark-haired backwoodsmen.

    Somehow still reeling from the loss of his wife 20 years ago, Charlie Swan realizes he's also managed to lose his only daughter. Frantic to explain the sudden and bizarre turn of events that ripped Bella from him, Charlie decides to risk losing what little he has left by playing investigator. But vampiric laws have powerful enforcers, and there might be good reason for Charlie to stay in the dark.

    tldr: Carlisle's gay ass is so repressed that attraction and bloodlust are tied inexorably. Charlie gets closer to Carlisle and finds more there than answers.

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    11 Sep 2026