Chapter 1

The room I was sitting in was dark except for a small lamp on the other side of the room. My father had summoned me here, for this is his room. I sat in silence, waiting for him to give me my assignment that I probably don't even want to do.

"Are you familiar with the Cullens?" he asked me in a deep voice. I looked up at him, though I could not see him clearly.

"Yes," I replied plainly. I couldn't be sure, but I think he smiled.

"You must go and live there. I will be there in a few weeks to pick you up and destroy the Cullens," he said. I nodded and stood up ready to leave. "But when you go, we must give you a reason to go." I looked at him slightly confused. "I have a few ideas." With that, I knew it couldn't be good.

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I don't really know where I was going at this point. Father said to run to the Cullens, but I wasn't expecting him to shoot at me. Already he had hit me in the shoulder and my leg. I don't think I was going very fast limping, but I couldn't stop. I know he'd kill me if I stopped. My eyes were blurry from the blood loss and I felt one of his bullets enter my other leg. I stumbled for a moment, but then I ran into something hard. And big.

"Who are you?" the man asked looking down at me. He must be Emmett, judging by his size. I was too dizzy and out of it from the blood loss that I didn't say anything. The gunfire stopped and I sighed in relief as I sank into unconsciousness.

Emmett's POV

I didn't really know what to make of it. Here I was, looking to see what the gunfire was, and now I have a bleeding human in my arms. I sighed and picked her up. She was so light it was disgusting. As I walked into the house, Alice was already there.

"You knew she would be coming didn't you?" I asked not surprised. Alice nodded and took her from me, taking her up stairs.

Dawn's POV

I think I was conscious, but I really couldn't be sure. I felt myself being passed to someone with smaller arms and then I felt myself on a bed.

"Carlisle," the girl shouted. I heard a man enter the room and put something on a table next to me. "She's been shot several times by the looks of it." I opened my eyes just to see the man shake his head. He sat in a chair next to me, and first looked at my shoulder wound.

"These aren't very deep, so they shouldn't be too hard to mend," Carlisle said. I couldn't tell if he was informing me, or Alice. I closed my eyes and sighed. I felt him start pulling out the bullet in my shoulder and I screamed. I didn't feel like staying conscious for the rest of what he was going to do to me, so it didn't talk long for me to concentrate and fall asleep.

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I don't know when I woke up, but I could tell it had been a while since I was conscious. I looked over and saw myself in a hospital with a tube connected to my wrist. I looked around the room and saw I was alone. I guess I should've expected as much. It's not like someone would care about a little stray like myself anyway. I rolled my shoulders and winced. I looked at my shoulder and saw it was neatly bandaged. I sighed and sat up ready to rip out the IV and get out, until the door opened. I looked over and saw Carlisle walk in.

"Oh, so you're finally awake I see," he said smiling. I was about to shrug when I remembered my wounded shoulder. "I have a few questions I'd like to ask you, if you're up to it of course."

"I'm fine," I said semi-honestly. He nodded and sat down on a chair next to me.

"Where are your parents?" he asked. I sighed and looked at him.

"I don't have any. They died several years ago," I said, which was true, in a way. He nodded and wrote a few things on his clipboard he had.

"Why were you being targeted?"

"I'm not really sure, but I'm glad I'm not dead," I answered.

"You practically almost are. Your heart isn't the best in the world and your body is having trouble producing blood cells. It's very peculiar," he told me. I bit my lip, hoping he wouldn't find out my true race.

"It's genetics," I said plainly. After all, it's not like I was going to tell him I was a half-breed.

A/N: Well, there you have it. It's interesting no? R&R!!!

-VDG