***Disclaimer: all belongs to Stephenie; I just wanna play with her toys.***

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Her teeth sank into the crispy, fried skin and tore into the dry meat. The avulsion exposed a purplish vein that lay flattened and empty against the torn muscle. She yanked the fibula away, leaving a strip of tissue hanging. When her lips curled around the tibia, she gently sucked the flesh from the chicken bone. As she released the leg, her tongue caught the grease pooling at the corner of her mouth.

She was already an amazing predator.

"Edward, never seen you so interested in food before," Charlie said. "Want some?"

"Thank you," Edward replied. "I'd like a breast."

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A/N: If you want to read more drabbles, my entries for the Twilight Twenty-Five (a community that challenges writers to produce twenty-five one-shots &/or drabbles) are also posted on Fan Fiction.