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1. Gilding the Lily by songbirdnarratives

   Fandoms: Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer, Twilight Series - All Media Types  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   25 Apr 2023

   Tags

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   • Carlisle Cullen/Bella Swan
   • Bella Swan
   • Carlisle Cullen
   • The Volturi (Twilight)
   • Renée Dwyer
   • Alternate Universe
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • the hurt/comfort is going to be so real
   • Religious Guilt
   • Carlisle but cooler and better and appropriately traumatized by his experiences
   • Bella Swan with a Backbone

   Summary

   New York City, 1838. Carlisle Cullen, fresh from the Volturi court, lands ashore seeking redemption in a new land. Miss Isabella Swan, wistful but complacent, has just unhappily launched into the jockeying field of upper crust New York families seeking to establish legacies. Who was Carlisle before he was a doctor, a patriarch, untouchable? AU.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   5,583

   Chapters:

   2/?

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

   47

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