Author's Note: This is my first fanfic so please be nice, also this story takes place before Schools out forever but after The Angel Experiment and after New Moon.

Disclaimer: I am not Stephanie Meyer nor am I James Patterson.

Max POV.

I was soaring through the night air, feeling the wind rush against my face and I closed my eyes for a moment and took a deep breath. It felt great to be this high; free from erasers, just me and my family. I glanced back at my flock to see them holding on pretty good, but we had a bad day, of course, so we were pretty wiped from just barely escaping those nasty erasers.

Nudge came up next to me and opened her mouth. Here we go again, I thought to myself before she spoke, "Max? Can we rest? I'm so hungry and tired and I think I'm going to pass out if we don't take a break soon because today we were attacked by those stupid erasers and I'm still hungry. Can we go to a restaurant just once? Do we still have enough money? I hope we do becau-" She was cut off when I held up my hand and sighed.

"OK, guys let s land down below in that alley. Make sure no one sees us." I said in my Oh-So-Awesome leaderly voice. The flock nodded and we tucked are wings in and landed silently in a dark backstreet. I was about to step out into the street when I saw Iggy put a finger to his lips and say quietly, " Wait, I hear someone coming, three, four people?"

Quietly as possible, we pressed ourselves flat against the alley wall when 3 shadows appeared around the corner. After what seemed like eternity they turned to walk away, but right then Total decided to sneeze, loudly. I glared at Total and Angel clutched my hand and looked at me with troubled, blue eyes.

"Max?" she whispered.

"Yeah, sweetie?" I asked trying to keep the anxiety out of my voice.

"Their thoughts, they are so mean. I don't like it. I think they wanna take our money. They want to hurt us." she said, sounding scared.

Anger flared inside me. Who would dare to even think to hurt my baby, my Angel?

That's when they turned the corner and smiled evilly cracking their knuckles. I knew even alone I could take them easy, but with all of us, they didn't stand a chance…unless they had guns or something. Angel squeezed my hand and I squeezed it back reassuringly.

One of those bozos smiled when he saw us "Well, well what do we have here?" he said, still grinning.

"Uh, can you be less creative?" I sneered. He opened his mouth to say something no doubt unpleasant when I heard faint graceful steps and someone cough lightly at the entrance of the alley mouth. The guys' heads swiveled to see the most freaking handsome guy I had ever seen. He had the palest face; even paler than Iggy which is I know, hard to believe. He looked to be around 17ish to18ish with bronze hair and around the same height as Fang.

I turned to see Fang glowering at all of them, Nudge and Gazzy explaining everything to Iggy in hushed voices…and looked down to see Angel staring straight into the bronze haired boy's weird topaz eyes. Him doing the same thing. Both of them looking utterly shocked. The boy recovered quickly he turned to the gangsters. Then there was a flash of white, but my raptor eyesight was able to track the bronze haired guy backhand the three gangsters a few feet. I swear I heard some bones breaking. Then they were running, terrified looks on their faces.

Edward POV.

I was driving in my Volvo in Seattle. I just finished hunting when I heard their vile thoughts.

Jackpot. I bet we can take their money in a jiff. Those kids wont know what hit 'em I guess today's our lucky day. I'll grab the oldest girl. She seems like the leader. We take the money and get outta here.

I clutched the steering wheel hard remembering a similar event when they tried to hurt Bella. I wasn't going to let it happen to some other helpless person. I turned around and raced toward where I heard their thoughts.

I screeched to a halt, got out of my car, and ran. I rounded the corner to see them standing in front of a bunch of kids, 6 to be exact. Standing closest to the gangsters was a blond haired girl holding hands with a small girl clutching a small white bear to her side. I tried to read her mind when her eyes shot up to look into mine. That's weird I thought and she smiled. I noticed nobody but that small girl saw me, so I coughed trying to sound human, so all attention would come to me. Then I heard, trying to sound human? It was the little girl again then it hit me…something was different with her she seemed to almost…read my mind. Then we looked at each other in shock. I had never met someone who had the same power as me and stranger, she wasn't a vampire or a werewolf. A vampire? I never heard of that before. Her thoughts floated into my mind.

I ignored her best I could trying not to think about what I was. I looked back at the 3 men and moved fast pretty sure the children couldn't see me. I backhanded them almost lightly but hearing bones break when they were thrown a few feet. We got to get out of here quick. Before the cops come, one of them thought. They all ran as fast as they could, clumsily away. I would NOT let them get away with this; I would follow their scent, easy, and make sure that they don't hurt anybody ever again.

I sampled the air with my tongue to make sure to zip out of there fast if someone was bleeding or hurt but all seemed okay, so I took a deep breath and looked around. I noticed all of them were dirty and their clothes torn. I knew if Esme saw this, her heart would ache.

"Whose Esme?" the littlest one, the mind reader asked me. I narrowed my eyes at her.

I was about to answer when the oldest looking of the group said "Who are you?" Clearly suspicious. I listened in on her thoughts if he attacks us we U&A, ok? Angel? Can you tell everyone? She gave at tiny nod and told everyone. With her mind.

Recovering form shock, I said, "My name is Edward…Cullen. Yours?"

She shrugged, pondered for a moment, and said, "My names Max."

She turned around "Let's go guys." They all nodded and started walking when I caught their scent; they smelled almost like…birds? They probably didn't have much money so I said, "Would you like me to help you to some food?"

Max glared at me. "No." she said almost angrily. He's probably just an eraser or something .

They almost ran to another alley. After a minute, I decided to follow them; they were different. When I rounded the corner they turned, there was nothing there. Their scent had stopped. Well, there goes my plan for following them. I turned and went home to tell Carlisle what I saw today.

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