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Chapter 14

Carlisle POV

The news seemed to be spinning on the television, and I knew I wasn't the only one who thought so – Alice's eyes were wide, and Rosalie was clenching her fingers around Emmett's knee on the sofa.

'Vampire,' Jasper said, drawing me out of my horror and slamming down a newspaper in front of me. 'No doubt about it.'

'Another four disappearances,' Rose said, standing up to turn off the TV with a wince, 'a Caucasian teenage boy, an Asian mother of two, an elderly woman from Dallas and a... a six year old boy – African.'

'Nothing in common,' I murmured, flicking through the newspaper. 'You're right, Jasper, they're random killings, and with no incentive or vendetta, I'm going with the vampire theory.'

'We should go check the place out,' said Alice.

I nodded, 'me and Jasper will go.'

'Yeah, 'cause you guys won't stand out at all,' Alice rolled her eyes, 'why don't me and Ez go? We'll just look like a couple of nosey women!'

'No way,' I shook my head, glancing over at Esme, who was sitting sketching on the other sofa, and didn't seem too eager to be involved.

'Carlisle's right,' Jasper agreed, 'the vampire that did this could be hanging around – if it catches our scent, God knows what it could do!' Alice mumbled something that sounded suspiciously like Sexist chauvinistic masochistic... 'We'll go now,' he added, ignoring her and nodding to me, 'should I call Edward?'

'No,' I sighed, 'leave him to Bella, she's dying locked up in that house without him!' I started to walk to the kitchen, and heard Esme stand up and follow me.

'Be careful,' she whispered, when I stopped by the unused cooker.

'I will,' I turned around and smiled back, as she walked forwards and wrapped her arms around me, closing her fingers around the back of my shirt. 'The vampire, if it is one, will be watching for interference, and if it gets any worse, the Volturi will turn up, and we don't want them anywhere near us while Bella's still human, so don't get involved!'

'It's because of the Voltrui that I'm going – we need to get this cleared up before they feel the need to come and check it out!'

'I know, I know,' she murmured, kissing my cheek and allowing her lips to brush my ear as she added, 'I just can't risk losing you.'

'I know,' I smiled weakly, 'I know exactly how you feel.'

#

Seattle was swarming with police. Jasper and I blended in with the onlookers, though every once in a while, and eye would linger slightly too long on us before flitting back to the police.

'They've found something,' Jasper murmured, nodding at a group of police who were all leaning over something.

'C'mon,' I gestured, pushing lightly through the crowd and stepping over the police tape around the scene, followed by Jasper. 'Excuse me – I'm a Forensic Pathologist, I was told there was a body,' I invented, hearing Jasper groan behind me.

'Dr Smart?' the officer grunted.

'He couldn't make it – I'm Dr Pullen.'

'Pullen? Alright...'

I looked at Jasper with a meaningful expression on his face, and an overwhelming feeling of confusion overwhelmed me. The officer squeezed his eyes shut, looking a little dizzy, and shook his head, 'right... Dr Pullen... go right in.'

'Cheers,' Jasper smiled, nodding to me, and we stepped over another layer of police tape to where all the officers were crowded around the body – if you could call it that. I groaned at the sight of it – I didn't need a closer examination to know it was vampire. The skin was a greenish white – completely bloodless. But the corpse was... mangled... too, which would suggest something a little different.

'Jasper,' I gestured over, and he turned away from the officer he'd been talking to, and hurried over.

Knowing my chain of thought immediately, he pushed a few cops back and knelt down beside the dead body, his fingers lightly tracing the tears in the skin. 'Newborn,' he muttered, looking up at me with a pained expression on his face.

'Where did you find the body?' I asked an officer nearby.

'Crammed in a dumpster – it was set on fire, totally burnt out, but the body seemed to get off pretty likely.

'Indeed... messy...' I sighed, nodding to Jasper, and we retreated quickly, 'definitely newborn.'

'That would be my prognosis,' he grimaced.

'Come on, let's get out of here.'

#

Esme POV

'Ez, can I talk to you?'

'What is it, Alice?' I looked up from my computer, where I was running through encrypted police reports.

'What's going on with you and Carlisle?'

'What do you mean?' I narrowed my eyes, opening a new software link and starting a decryption program, my fingers skimming the keys at super speed and typing in an equation for the Seattle Missing-Persons online encrypted information. 'That should do it...' I murmured, flicking back to the Citrix and hammering in the code I had received, and downloading the software onto a USB for future use.

'You're acting... weird.'

'Alice, the amount of times you've told me that, I could make a film out of it.'

'I'm serious, Ezzie, you guys need to get things sorted out properly!'

'I totally agree.'

'Oh Rose, not you too!'

'And I know just the place,' Emmett grinned, linking his arm through Rosalie's and pulling out his cell phone.

Two Days Later – Isle Esme...

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