Full Moon

This was getting old; Edward had been trying to talk Adam out of his little vendetta for over an hour and Adam had not swayed an inch.

"I'm afraid your time is wasted Vampire", Adam had not stopped smirking the entire time we had been stood there, "once we get the scent of our target there is no stopping us; we must destroy it or die trying". The blonde girl, Claire, stood silently beside Adam, her eyes locked with mine for a short second and she winked once, filling my mind with anger. Adam looked up into the sky; I hadn't noticed that the sun had set; the moon was now rising in the sky, a bright, perfect full moon.

The red-haired boy, Leon, followed my gaze towards the sky and his eyes widened, a huge grin spreading across his dirty face. He touched Adam's arm and Adam nodded slightly before turning his gaze to Edward and I, "It is time we left you, unless you want to leave your family with two less fighters?" He looked between Edward and I, reading our anxious expressions, "I thought not". He began to turn, to walk back into the shadow of the forest and I growled and leaned forward, "No!" Adam turned to face me, a look of shock on his face, "You want to stay here while we turn?" Leon grinned and rubbed his palms together, he obviously wanted some sort of confrontation.

Edward was by my side in a heartbeat, he placed a hand on my shoulder and leant in to whisper in my ear, "We should let them go. Their thoughts are more animal than man, we can't reason with them"

I scoffed, "Let them go? They'll just come back again"

"Yes", Edward's velvet tones drifted into my head, "But they are not scared"

"They should be"

"I know. But they're not, which makes me think that the two of us are no match for them; we should regroup with the family and fight, if we must, when there are more of us"

I looked into Edward's honeyed eyes and sighed; it felt wrong letting them just walk away like that, but, there were more of them and I really did want to destroy them and so I would wait for a more opportune moment. Adam smirked once more and then the four of them dashed into the forest. I saw the girl, Claire, tear something from her body, as if she was ripping her clothes off and I smelt the scent of raw meat as the remainder of her flesh drifted to the ground.

Edward and I walked home quickly; we didn't think that the wolves would attack tonight but we would feel better once we could actually see Renesmee. The house sounded too quiet when I leapt over the river, following Edward. We stepped through the door and saw the entire family, including Jake, arranged around the dining table. Nessie was sitting on Jake's knee, who was playing with her hair absentmindedly. She was constantly touching his hand; her forehead was puckered, probably worrying about those retched wolves. Rose sat next to them, she was tracing the grain on the table, completely preoccupied by the swirls and shapes in the wood. Emmett sat next to her, he looked completely freaked out; his hands were balled into huge fists and his eyebrows were knitted together in the centre of his face, I guessed that he preferred to be in the thick of things rather than sitting around waiting. Carlisle was pacing behind them; I could see he was walking continuously faster as he paced back and forth across the room. Esme was sitting opposite Emmett, her arm around a statuesque Alice.

Edward sat down in the chair next to her, "Alice? Let me see", she shook her head furiously, pinning her lip into a thin line. I sat down in the chair next to Edward, and Nessie reached out her hand, I touched it as she replayed the few hours I'd missed. I saw Nessie and Jake messing around in Alice's room and I saw Alice return home looking terrified. The scene then seemed to fast-forward to the family gathering around Alice as she explained that Jasper had ran away. Nessie showed me that Alice had had a vision then but she hadn't told the rest of the family what it was of; this must be what Edward was trying to make her show him now. Renesmee loosened her grip on my hand but continued to hold it across the wooden table.

Carlisle stopped pacing and looked at Edward, "Did you stop them?"

Edward's eyes dropped to the table, "No"

"Why not?"

"They didn't seem threatened at all, well, perhaps a little when Jasper was there but when he left-"

"I see. And there was no way to stop them?"

"No. They were about to transform, I couldn't risk it"

"Of course not. You did the right thing coming home"

Alice looked at Edward then. She sighed and closed her eyes, I guessed she was replaying whatever vision she hadn't told the family about. Edward concentrated for a moment and then spoke, a sound of shock in his tone, "Alice. Why?"

Her lip trembled, "I don't know, that's all I saw". Esme rubbed Alice's back therapeutically whilst the small pixie shrunk into her adoptive mother's arms.

"But he was doing fine, at least I thought-"

Alice cut Edward off mid-sentence, "He was! And he was even getting used to Nessie"

My first guess was that they were talking about Jasper, but what could he have done; surely he wouldn't go off to hunt in the middle of our confrontation with the werewolves? Edward stood up and moved next to Carlisle in one fluid movement, he spoke quietly although everyone in the room could still hear, "Jasper has… fed. On human blood. Alice saw it when Jasper had already ran, she couldn't have stopped him"

Esme gasped, "But why? I knew his desires were strong but to actually kill someone?" She slouched in her chair slightly. Something in what Esme had said stuck with me, his desires. Wasn't that what Elliot had said in the woods? Yes. He said he wanted to know what mine were.

"Carlisle", I asked him because, out of anyone, my adoptive father -in-law would know about this, "The gifts, that the werewolves have, can they be anything?"

He frowned, speculating for a moment where my thoughts were going, "Yes, I suppose. Why do you ask?"

"The blonde male, Elliot, said that he'd wondered what my deepest desires were; before I raised my shield I had felt the urge, no the need to kill them, all of them, and he'd said that my desire was to protect my family"

"And you think that maybe Jasper-"

"No!" Alice's chime-like voice cut through our conversation, "That is not his deepest desire! He's not a monster!"

I tried to word my response carefully, so as not to upset Alice any further, "I'm not saying that, I'm just saying-"

"You're wrong!" Alice leapt from her chair and darted towards the front door. At that exact moment the door opened and Jasper walked in, his eyes a deep ruby red.

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