Twilight drabble: Gravity fails
Aug. 2nd, 2011 04:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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herumtreiber Rating: R
Characters: Bella, Jacob; Jakeward implied
Word count: 306
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight, Stephenie Meyer does. Nor do I make any money from this writing.
Notes: The famous cliff scene, albeit with a different reason for Edward's disappearance from Bella's life.
Bella falls.
Jake can’t believe that she’d dive off the cliff. Immediately he jumps after her. Going down, the feeling of weightlessness in those scant seconds before he hits the water - that’s nothing new to him. He’s felt it before when he jumped with Quill and Embry.
There was another time he felt as if he was free falling, a moment his mind desperately tries to evade for it changed everything. It remade his world. It’s the reason Bella despairs.
As his body hits the water, Jake closes his eyes for a second. The hard impact of the ocean means nothing to him but he frets about Bella. In a corner of his mind he recalls his imprint’s words about staying with the Denali coven, but the thought eludes him as he swims downward, intent on catching her.
A corner of his traitorous mind thinks it might be better if he just let Bella stay down there. It would be kinder for her, in the end.
Nevertheless, Jake grabs her hand and pulls Bella upward, to the surface of the roiling sea.
As he swims ashore tugging her lithe body, he recalls the moment when Edward left Forks. How the vampire confessed to him he couldn’t deal with the stress, the constant lies he had to make up so Bella wouldn’t freak.
When he reaches the beach, holding Bella’s inert body on his arms, Jake recalls when gravity failed him. The moment the pull of the earth vanished as he imprinted on the vampire.
Jake concentrates on bringing her back to life. She coughs and lays a pale hand on his arm, muttering, “You should have let me stay there a while longer, Jacob!”
Jake answers, trying for levity, “Sure, so you could talk with the fish?”
Because what can he do, when gravity fails?
