Taking a cue from Bedelia, I've decided to post my fanfic flashfics. Thimbles has started a weekly fanfic flashfic blog. She allows fanfic or original fic, so anytime I participate with some fanfic, I'll add it here.

The rules are to write 100-200 words within 24 hours. Each week a new prompt is posted.

This week's prompt was: i45 dot tinypic dot com/ 96jaer dot jpg (Copy and paste this to see the image, but close the spaces and add periods in place of the word "dot".)

This one is Bella.

Hot water splashes over sparkling porcelain. She removes her clothing slowly—not on practiced-purpose, but because this is how sadness moves her.

It's been forty-six years since she's last seen the woman she called mother.

The sudden silence one might expect as she cranks the faucet off doesn't come. She can hear her husband's whispered "I love you" from behind the door. She can hear murmurs from below, and crickets from the garden as if they reside by her feet on the tile.

News came via Jacob tonight: Peaceful. In her sleep. In a chair. Book in her lap.

A shuddered breath. Bella steps into the tub. Even she is aware of the grace of each movement, each bend of limb. She sinks into heat that would scorch her human body, but warms her now like an embrace.

Edward had held her close, lips to her temple, as the news was delivered. But that wasn't enough. She couldn't cry. Not tears.

He'd followed her up the stairs to the bathroom door. "I'll be right here, love."

She lets the water envelop her, hair wafting. Accompanied only by murky childhood memories, she remains under for hours.

She has immersed herself in tears.

A/N: Thanks for reading.

Have a great weekend!