Note: This is just to let you know what's happened with Edward and Bella before this story takes place: Edward and Bella got married and Edward changed Bella on their 'one month honeymoon'. Her gift is her perceptiveness which basically means that she notices things that people usually don't bother to realise. It's been six years since the change and Bella has graduated twice. Currently, Edward and Bella are at their sophomore year in college. I hope you enjoy the story! The POV sort of goes from character to character when necessary but mostly stays on Bella's POV.

Disclaimer: All characters belong to Stephenie and Stephenie ONLY. The only characters that are mine are Claire and a bunch of others she meets along the way. NOTE I don't mean Quil's imprint, the two-year-old, this one is original.

Carlisle's POV:

The Mercedes came to a stop and Jasper got out of the car first. It's been a long while since he last hunted, and finally he would be able to let his instincts go. "I think it's best to wait until we're up in the mountains, Jasper. Take caution."

Jasper growled impatiently. I've never seen him act like this when we weren't hunting. He was always the first one to let his instincts deplete his self control when we went hunting with the rest of the family. We hiked up the trail and kept watch for any other hunters that might cause clash and stopped at a point where we were enveloped inside a multitude of large trees. Suddenly we got a whiff of something sweet and delectable. I paused, that was no animal blood.

I turned to Jasper but it was too late, he was already running towards the sweet aroma, his self control astray. I ran after Jasper and threw myself after him, trying to pin him down, but he fought against me. His lip was curled back to show a pair of white, sharp teeth and he tried to flip me over to bite at me instead. He was snarling and growling loudly, it echoed off the forest floor.

"Jasper get a hold of yourself! Calm yourself, find your self control!" I shouted over the growling and snapping. He stopped snarling but he was breathing heavily, he was trying so hard not to go after the smell. I loosened my grip on him but didn't let go. "Sorry Carlisle," he said weakly. I nodded as to accept my apology and averted my eyes to a pile of leaves. Out of the pile of leaves was a small, pale hand that was oozing out blood from the wrist. Fresh blood.

I let go of Jasper and slowly made my way to the pile of leaves. I removed most of the leaves to find a small girl, probably thirteen or twelve and she was covered in cuts and bruises. The cuts were made recently. Her hair was long and dark red, a hairstyle exactly like Bella's and a hair colour exactly like Edward's. I lifted one of her eyelids to find chocolate brown eyes like Bella's used to be, they was blood shot. I checked her pulse on her wrist and her neck and turned back to Jasper.

"We should bring her back to the house."

Jasper was sitting on the ground with his face in his hands and facing away from me and the girl. He looked up from his hands but did not turn around. "I don't know if that's such a good idea, Carlisle. If you bring her back you'd have to change her and Edward wouldn't be too happy when he comes home to find a little vampire running around the house," his words were sarcastic and joking, but they had an urgency to them.

"She's dying, Jasper. I can't just leave her here to let someone else find her this way," I said calmly, removing more leaves from the girl's body. My phone rang and I opened it to see Alice's name on the caller id. Alice probably already saw what I was planning to do. I answered the phone to explain but Alice beat me to the punch. She didn't sound like her jumpy and happy self.

"Bring her back Carlisle," she said quickly. Her voice matched Jaspers, for they were awash with urgency. Jasper heard this and shook his head quickly. I've never seen him disagree with Alice before. "Jasper doesn't think that that's a good idea, Alice." Alice huffed and started again.

"No, you don't understand! I had a vision, bring her back now!" Jasper looked alarmed and so did I. What could she have seen that would make her want me to bring this girl back home? "Okay Alice, me and Jasper will bring her back as soon as possible." I closed the phone and turned back to the girl. I picked her up with one hand, wiping off all the leaves with the other. She was still unconscious.

Jasper got to his feet. "You don't know what you're doing, Carlisle! I know that you're going to bite her…" I held the girl with both hands and was already starting back the opposite direction. "I'm doing what I feel is best Jasper. I'll bring her back to the house, you go hunt." I didn't turn around to look at Jasper's face but I knew he was frozen in place, gawking after me while I ran off with a teenage girl in my arms.

I ran to the Mercedes and placed the girl in the back seat. I wondered what had happened to her. Who did this to her? Why would they leave her there in the forest, covered with leaves? I wondered what I might do once she's changed, what information do I have of her to make her apart of the family? If the young one had parents, would they be looking for her?

I got to the mansion in minutes and found Alice waiting for me at the front porch. We managed to get a new house when Bella joined our family six years ago. It had a wide porch with three stories and a fireplace in almost every room. It was a fire hazard but a lovely one; it also suited the climate nicely. Alice ran up to the Mercedes to get a glimpse of the girl but I stopped her before she could open the door. "There's too much blood, Alice. Why don't you set up the guest room?"

Alice looked disappointed but ran back into the house. I opened the door too and picked up the girl with both arms. Her eyes were finally open but they were blood shot, just as they were in the forest. I gave her a smile, "It's going to be okay. I'm Dr. Cullen and I'm here to help you." She stared at me with a pained countenance. She was probably hurting all over, emotionally and physically.

I swiftly ran to the bedroom on the ground floor to find Alice, Esme, Rosalie, and Emmett sitting by the large fireplace that Alice had set up. I ignored their bewildered expressions and set the girl on the four-poster bed. She was unconscious again. Her bronze hair was spread out over the large white pillow and the blood from her neck was leaving a dark red stain on the pillow sack.

I turned back to my family. They were all staring at me. Alice and Esme looked worried, Emmett looked like he was trying to figure something difficult out, and Rosalie looked frightened. "We have to make a decision, and quickly. We don't have much time; she's lost a lot of blood."

Emmett made a face and covered his nose with his right hand, his left hand holding Rosalie's hand. "Well that'sobvious. I would be able to smell the blood from miles away!" Alice rolled her eyes to me and folded her arms across her chest. "You need to change her Carlisle. You can't let her die, she's so young!"

Rosalie stood up, yanking her hand from Emmett's grip. "That's exactlywhy you can't change her! She's too young; do you know what misery she'd go through if she was a vampire at this age? How old is she anyway? Ten?" Rosalie didn't wait for an answer as she stormed out of the room, flipping her long blonde hair on her way out.

Emmett stood up to get closer to the girl. I stopped to him before he could get to the girl. "Careful Emmett, there's too much blood!" I said calmly. He didn't say a word but pointed at the girl's pants. One of her pockets had a square lump in it.

I carefully moved my hand to her jean pocket and pulled out the square shape. It was a red wallet with plastic flames forming the name "Claire". Emmett was right behind me, looking over my shoulder. I quickly opened the wallet to find a fitness center membership card and a high school student id. I looked at the student id and under the picture was a characterization:

Clarisse Gregory

9th Grade

Female

Student Number: 3874564

The card said it was from Juneau Douglas High School. She was only fourteen years old; she looked small for her age. "Alice, you said you had a vision. What was it?" Everyone's eyes were on Alice and she took an unnecessary deep breath. "I had a vision about how she was attacked, and she needs to be changed, Carlisle."

"How was she attacked, Alice?" Esme asked in her motherly tone. Alice just shook her head and nodded towards Clarissa. "It's the right thing to do," she said.

"What about Edward and Bella, shouldn't we tell them?" Emmett asked? I groaned. I forgot about them they were coming back from Forks in four days. "Never mind that now. We need to change Clarissa now. Emmett, hold her down."

A/N: Hey, sorry about the short chapter, I don't know if I'm actually going to make a bigger one than this but I'll make sure to work on the second Chapter just to make it fair. Thanks for reading R&R please!