A Breach of Protocol

Jane/OCC

Disclaimer: If I owned Twilight there would be a book on Jane, Benjamin and Tia, and Kate and Garrett would be major couples, and Bree and Diego wouldn't have been killed. Need I say more…?

Chapter 1 Jane's Secret

I felt him strong arms wrap around my tiny frame my head pressed lightly to his chest. I looked up into his face my fingers lightly traced the contours of his granite skin. My hand fell to his dark hair. I saw sadness in his blood red eyes.

His lips pressed a smooth kiss to my forehead, as if to say don't worry.

"Jane…" his deep voice rang through the nearly silent room. If one could call it that. It was exactly 20ft long by only 5 wide. It was a hallway behind a wall. It led nowhere but rather it kept things as they were.

Safe…

"Leo if they find you they will destroy you." my voice was a faint whisper of doubt. My eyes followed my hands memorizing him, as if it was the last time I'd see him. His hands gently brushed mine aside and held them tightly to his chest.

"Jane they won't find me, I have my gift remember…" The reminder of his ability to defer all gifts with the ability to detect was useful now.

"I know" I said "But they're getting suspicious, if anything happened to you, I…" I wasn't sure how to continue, so I let the words hang there for a long while. His face full of understanding met mine.

"Jane, I would do anything for you. I'd die a thousand times." In my mind I understood the meaning of his words but another part of me pondered. But Leo you only get one, one death.

I didn't ponder long soon after his words were spoken his lips met mine. There was a fire in his kiss I hadn't felt before. Fear? I truly had only seen him afraid one other time; when he was being confronted with death, when he was being confronted with me.

3 months earlier

"How much longer should we give them, sister?" Alec asked. He turned his head to the west trying to hear the screams coming from the clearing.

"Another 35 minutes" I said in my usual dry tone. The Cullen's were not finished yet. The dirty work had only just commenced.

Alec looked like he wanted to contradict me. He had been hoping for a fight. He had been hoping to tear and burn. And people thought I was the sadistic one. Truthfully I could never stand destroying vampires, but I was always made to watch or torture them. In response I tried to keep it cool and look like I was unaffected by each scream of terror each cry or mercy. Sometimes I wished I could block my ears, but I knew that wouldn't help; the screams I heard in my head, when I burned them, were my own.

"I'm thirsty" said Alec suddenly breaking my thoughts. "And seeing as this will take a while I think I maybe I could…?" he trailed off forming his vague question

"Go" I said. He turned to leave, but when I didn't follow; I felt his gaze land on my shoulder.

"Jane are you coming with us" Felix and Dmitri had taken off when I said go but Alec waited for me. It wasn't like me to not go hunting before an assignment.

"No," I said "I'm not thirsty right now" He hesitated. It was true I wasn't thirsty but I had another reason for staying.

"Okay, Jane if you say so…" He was confused but he didn't ask for my reason.

That was good because truthfully I didn't know the reason.

He was gone in a matter of seconds in a minute he had caught up to Dmitri and Felix.

I knew he was right it's not like me to stay behind, but somehow I felt like I had to be here.

The rustle of the leaves behind me caught my attention. I took in a deep breath, inhaling the scents around me. There was nothing in the bush. Then it rustled again, I faced the sound in an instant crouching down defensively. I stared at the bush, and heard a scream.

"God, that burns, stop, stop, please…" The voice was deep and perfect like a vampires but it was coming from nowhere. I couldn't see it or smell it. I stopped torturing the invisible being.

"Show yourself." My voice rang out sharp and commanding. Slowly a vampire stepped out of the bush. He was tall and young he must have been no older than 15; he was shaking. His eyes were the startling red color of a newborn. I could see his apprehension of me. He looked like a man, condemned to die. It was then I realized two things.

First the threat of death that loomed over him was very real.

Second I wanted nothing more, at that moment, than to prevent that threat from becoming true.

"What's you name?" I asked. The question seemed to relive him for reasons I didn't know.

"Leo" he said.

Leo, it sounded like an angels name; I felt like I had to save him. I felt for the first time in my long life complete.

"Are you one of the army sent to attack the Cullens?" I knew the answer before I asked, but the words left my lips anyways.

"Yes" he said. There was a tone in his voice I couldn't explain, but I didn't have time for questions; Alec and the others would be back soon.

"You need to hide" I said "Do what you did before; just don't let anyone find you." My tone was somewhat softer now I don't know why I found myself speaking like that, like I cared. I shouldn't care

"But why should I listen to you…? Who are you?"

But I did

"Just do as I say or I'll torture you again" The threat of pain stiffened him and made him leave quickly. I couldn't understand the bitter unpleasant taste I now felt in my mouth from threatening to scare him into doing what I wanted. I couldn't care. I hoped I wouldn't.

It was a breach of protocol to save one of the newborns; it was a breach of my heart not to save him.

Leo, the man who feared only death and occasionally me.

Present

Now his eyes looked exactly as they had that day. His face however was smiling at me. I knew he would never tell me all his fears about death or being discovered, but for now I was content to let him leave those thoughts to his own mind. We sat curled into each other talking and memorizing for a few more minutes or maybe it was hours. I felt the air grow cool as the night began to take over.

"I have to get back…" I said "Aro will be wondering where I've been" He didn't ask me to stay he knew the answer. He kissed my forehead lightly.

"Go hunting tonight" he said "I'll be waiting, for you" his hand grasped mine tightly. No matter how hard he tried to keep it in his, I always slipped away.

"Okay," I said see you then. I stood up on my tip toes gracefully trying to reach his face. He met my kiss. It was sweet this time no sadness. But I knew it was only a matter of time. Leo could only stay my secret so long. Quietly I slipped from his hidden room and headed back to the castle. Darkness was beginning to cloak the night, just as the dark fabric of the cloak I wore hid me.

A/N: So what do you think? I'll definitely add more of what happened after she told him to hide in future flashbacks, but so far how do you like them? Do you think Jane's too OCC? Is anything I wrote completely wrong story wise or grammatically? I'd appreciate you calling attention to either; if so Please Review. ;)