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It was the middle of the night, a full moon was high in the sky illuminating the spot where a fierce battle was taking place between a deer and a... human? At least that's what it looked like. But in actuality, the human, who was not a human at all, had the deer firmly in his grasp as he sucked the animal dry.
As he finished off the animal and tossed the carcass aside, he opened his eyes to the night sky above him, revealing warm butterscotch eyes. The still night was suddenly pierced with a high pitched screech as metal crunched against metal. Noting the noise was not far away, he ran towards the sound with blinding speed.
He couldn't believe his eyes as he came across the scene in which the sound had resonated from. Two cars had managed to wrap themselves around each other and were indistinguishable from the other. He was disappointed to note that there were no sounds coming from the inhabitants inside the mangled wreck, including no heartbeats, which meant no life. No one had survived the terrible collision in front of him, but thankfully, no blood had been spilt as it seemed all had died from internal injuries. He didn't know how long he had been standing there, just looking onto the scene with sadness, until he felt a presence join him.
"Alice." He greeted sadly. She didn't say anything in response but simply gathered him in her arms for a hug.
As the two turned to leave the tragic scene, their acute hearing picked up a faint sound. They turned towards the noise. Strangely, it was coming from the accident in front of them. Alice didn't hesitate as she ran towards the vehicle the sound was coming from, and found a small toddler strapped into her car chair in the back seat. The child still had her eyes closed, but as Alice moved forward, she picked up the faint heartbeat of the child and realised that the child was simply knocked unconscious, not dead like they first thought.
"Jasper!" Alice called to the man behind her urgently. Jasper didn't need to be told twice as he ran to his wife's side. Jasper froze as he pinpointed that the noise was coming from the small girl. Jasper fought to control the bloodlust as he reached in to collect the girl into his arms. As she was still young, her blood was not emitting a strong fragrance, but the floral scent was still there and he thought to hold his breath to be on the safe side.
"What do we do now?" Alice whispered to him, though both were unsure why as there was no one around to witness them.
"Maybe we should take her to see Carlisle?" Jasper suggested as he looked down at the angelic face of the unconscious child in his arms.
"Or maybe we could just leave her here? I'm sure someone will come across the accident eventually." A new voice spoke up as he joined the group.
"That could be ages away! She could die, Edward." Alice argued as she turned to her brother with a scowl on her face.
"And that's our problem because?" Edward shrugged.
"I thought you didn't want to be a monster?" Alice questioned as she stared at him incredulously. Edward immediately felt guilt gnaw at him as he realised what he was suggesting did mean that he was a monster. How could he even think that it would be ok to leave this girl out here to die?
"Well I guess that's settled then." Jasper spoke up, feeling Edward's changing mood. "To the house we go."
Jasper led the way cradling the small girl to his chest as the three of them set off towards home.
A/N: So I know this has been done a thousand times, but I wanted to try my hand at it. Kind of really have only one scene that I really want to write - so any suggestions are welcome!
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