AN: Here's chapter 10! The start of Bella practicing with her powers! I hope you all enjoy!

Thank you to Somah for beta-ing my story for me! I really do appreciate all the help!

As we all know, I do not own. Bummer.

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Chapter 10: Answers

The next day, Edward and I went hunting, leaving Renesmee with Jacob and the rest of our friends and family.

Before we left, I caught sight of Zafrina.

"Hey, Zafrina," I asked, getting her attention. Would you mind coming hunting with us?"

"Sure, Bella," Zafrina said, a curious look on playing on her face as she glided over toward Edward and I.

"Thanks," I smiled at her as we turned to leave.

After we reached a herd of deer several miles away from the house, and took down a few mountain lions several more miles away, we sat down together in a little clearing, enjoying the time to just relax and let go of everything. It was a surprisingly dry day, with a few sun rays peeking out between the puffy white clouds.

I don't know how long we sat there in silence before I finally got up the courage to ask Zafrina my questions. It was, after all, the reason why I had asked her to come with us. Edward sat next to me, silent, letting me do the talking. He knew that I had wanted to talk to Zafrina privately, away from everyone else, about her power.

She could see the tension on my face as I was deciding on how to ask her. I was grateful when she spoke first. Looking to Edward with a silent question before actually speaking, he nodded, so she continued.

"There's something you want to ask me, isn't there, Bella?" she asked.

"Umm, yes, there is," I said, still unsure how to ask exactly, clearing my throat - an old human reflex of uncertainty.

"What is it? You can ask me anything," she encouraged. Edward patted my back and looked at me, telling me to go ahead with his eyes.

"How does your power work exactly?" I didn't mean to just blurt I out like that, but I did.

She smiled and laughed at my directness. Edward chuckled at my side also, he never knew what to expect out of me. I felt even more embarrassed, if I could still blush, I would have been extremely red.

"I just want to understand how it works, so that I know what to do and expect when I use it." I clarified in almost a whisper.

"I'm sorry, Bella," Zafrina said, settling down from her laughter. "That was rude of me. Of course, I would love to help you out as best I can."

"Thanks," I nodded.

"I'm actually not quite sure how to explain it right," Zafrina started, thinking really hard about what she was going to say, and how.

"Just explain the basics. No need to get technical right now, she's just learning," Edward offered, reading Zafrina's mind.

"It just comes so easily for me now," she nodded at Edward and looked at me. "I've been able to do it for as long as I can remember. It's always been easy for me. I'm not sure how it will be fore you, of course. Like Eleazar said, everyone's different. You may be able to do what I can do, but it may happen differently for you than it does for me. Does that make sense?"

"Yes," I nodded. "I understand, but I would like to try anyway. To know how you do it, that way I can see if it works the same for me or not."

Zafrina nodded and thought for a little while longer.

Edward was oddly silent beside me, listening to her thoughts. Occasionally nodding to himself and "humph-ing" and "aww-ing " when he must've heard something interesting.

After a little while, Zafrina finally looked up at me, smiling. She must've had a good thought. Edward nodded to her again, wrapping his arm tighter around me, pulling me closer to him.

"I'm not entirely sure how to explain in words what I do," Zafrina started explaining again. "But I want to see if I can show you first, and try to explain that way."

I thought about that for a second. "Show me?" I asked.

"Yes, love," Edward answered. "She wants to see if her power works on you if you pull back your shield. I can help explain if you want me to, since I will be able to see better that way also."

"Oh, umm… Okay, I guess we can give that a try," I said, a little skeptical if this was going to work or not. But, then again, I already know that Edward, Jasper and Eleazar's power works on me when I pull my shield down, why wouldn't Zafrina's?

I easily pulled back the elastic shield and opened my mind to everything, and everyone.

"She's not going to show me anything bad, is she?" I thought, and at the same time letting Edward know that my shield was down.

The only time that I had ever seen Zafrina's powers at work was when I saw them through Renesmee; even then I was worried about what she was showing my daughter when I wasn't watching. Renesmee had always called them 'pretty pictures', and the vision that Edward had described to me about the rain forest seemed harmless, but I was still skeptical as to what she was capable of.

Edward turned his head to me in surprise; I couldn't help but smile at him. I love catching him off guard like that, it's so much fun!

"You'll be just fine, love," Edward responded, quickly regaining his composure as he hugged me closer to him. "Don't worry, I'll be watching also." he whispered in my ear, placing a kiss on my temple.

"Ready when you are," I told Zafrina, she was looking confused at Edward's reaction to me. I couldn't help but chuckle at them both.

"Alright, Bella," Zafrina said. "Here we go."

Suddenly, I wasn't sitting with Zafrina and Edward in the meadow anymore. Instead, I seemed to be sitting on a white beach, the sun just coming up over the horizon of the ocean in front of me, with no clouds in the sky and no one else around for miles.

"Edward?" I asked, nervous to suddenly be alone on this beach.

Without warning, Edward was sitting next to me, just like he had been in the meadow.

"I'm here, love," he chuckled. "How do you feel?"

"Weird," I exclaimed, honestly. I wasn't going to lie; this was very strange to me to see this on my own.

"This feels real, and looks real - especially with you now sitting next to me. But I know that I shouldn't think that it is real, I know that it's not," I explained.

"I know exactly what you mean, love," he said, turning his body towards mine and placing both of his hands on either side of my face, pulling me in, giving me a deep kiss.

"Do you know what this place reminds me of?" he asked when our lips parted.

"Mmm… Our honeymoon!" I smiled, closing my eyes, reveling in the slightly faded memories. When I opened my eyes, I scanned the beach and the ocean - everything looked so familiar and right. Smiling a huge smile at my husband when my gaze landed on him.

He laughed and gave me my favorite crooked smile; I was completely dazzled, as always. "Yes, love. Our honeymoon! But we can't, not here," he stated, shaking his head lightly at my smile.

"Why not?" I asked as I attempted to climb on his lap, wrapping my hands through his hair, and leaning in for another mind-blowing kiss.

"Because this isn't real, Bella," he said, grabbing my hands from his hair and slowly scooting away from me, looking into my eyes. Just like he used to do when I was human. I frowned, placing my arms across my chest, I thought we were over this.

"And I'm sure that Zafrina wouldn't appreciate watching us," he laughed as I pouted.

"Oh," I exclaimed when I realized what his words meant, I had forgotten that this wasn't real. "That's right, I forgot. I'm sorry." Edward chuckled beside me.

"That's okay, Bella," I heard Zafrina's voice coming from nowhere. I looked around, confused.

Before I could do anything else, the beach scene was gone. We were back in the meadow, in the same positions we had been in on the beach. Zafrina was now sitting with us again, giving me a crooked smile of her own as she was fighting off laughter. I looked down to my lap in embarrassment at my behavior.

"No need to be embarrassed, love," Edward said in my ear, kissing my temple as he lovingly stroked my arms. "You were just caught up in the moment, that's all." I nodded, looking up at them both with an apologetic smile.

"So what do you think, Bella?" Zafrina asked, still quietly chuckling to herself.

"That was amazing," I said, regaining my composure to the task at hand. "How did you do that though?"

"I think a good way of explaining the 'how'," Edward started, lost in thought again. "Is to compare it to Jasper's power."

"What do you mean?" I asked, even more confused now.

"Well, when she focused on you, or both of us," Edward continued." It seemed like a wave was sent out of that picture; first to just you, and then to me as well. Just like how Jasper sends out a wave of emotions."

Zafrina nodded. "That does make sense. I can focus on just one person, or a whole group of people at once. Showing everyone the same scene. Of course, when I do that, everyone is in the same position they were in before, and can see each other too, as you saw. Most of the time, when I cover a whole group, I show them nothing; making them blind. That way they can't see each other, and know where they're at," she continued explaining.

"So, you just think of a picture, or think of nothing, or darkness, and it just happens like a wave," I clarified for my own understanding. "Is that right?"

"Yeah, that seems about right," Zafrina agreed, nodding her head at me.

"Okay, I think I've got it now," I said. "Do you mind if I give it a try?" I asked, looking at them both apprehensively. I wanted to try out my powers and see how they work. I was happy that I wasn't getting pestered about this anymore, that I could do this on my own time.

"Sure, Bella," Zafrina willingly agreed. Edward nodded at my thoughts.

I put my shield back up, and expanded it out to cover both Zafrina and Edward. Turning it into the brick wall was easier this time that it had been before. All I had to do was think of my shield being a hard, impenetrable wall, when I felt it harden around us.

I turned to Edward and smiled. "This is getting easier every time I use my shield!" I exclaimed.

"That's the point in practicing, love," Edward chuckled. Zafrina gave a little laugh at my exclamation.

"Whenever you're ready, Bella," Zafrina said, regaining her composure as she sat up straight, looking at me, preparing herself for whatever I would show her.

"Okay, here goes nothing…" I let out a breath to concentrate.

I could see her and Edward's lights, and taste their individual flavors, along with seeing their strings connected to me and each other - I knew that was from my other power. I noticed that the string that was connecting Edward and I wasn't really a string at all, it was more like a thick, unbreakable chain. Whereas the connection between Zafrina and I, and to Edward, was like that thin string that connected Emmett and Garrett; that of friendship - easily breakable.

"Hmm… Interesting," I thought out loud.

"What is it, love?" Edward asked. "I can't read your mind right now, please tell me what you're thinking, or seeing," he begged.

Edward always hated when he couldn't read my mind.

Zafrina also looked confused. She also wanted to know what had caught my attention and distracted me.

"It's just the connections that I'm seeing between all of us from my other power. I can see the strength of our bonds, along with our connection…" I started to explain.

"Like Marcus?" Edward interrupted, deep in thought about the old Ancient's power and my own explanation. "You can see each relationship, and how strong or weak they are?" he asked in disbelief.

"Yea, I guess so," I admitted. "I guess they are connected, since I can also break some of those bonds, just like Chelsea can."

"That's probably why Eleazar thought it was only Chelsea's power that you had, and not Marcus' also, because of what you can do with that ability," Zafrina interjected thoughtfully.

"Plus, Marcus can't do anything with his power, he just sees it," Edward added to Zafrina's comment.

"Seems that way," I admitted thoughtfully, more to myself than to anyone else. "It's actually pretty cool though. But, I'll have to explain it another time. Right now I really want to practice with a power I can actually use!" I smiled, getting back on track to the task at hand.

"Okay, love," Edward agreed. "Let's practice."

Zafrina nodded in agreement, preparing herself again for whatever I was about show her.

I closed my eyes, focusing on Zafrina's light and flavor. I didn't want to be distracted by the connecting strings again.

I thought about the same beach she had showed me; the white sand, the sun rising, the clear blue sky overhead. Sending the scene out to her light.

"Whoa!" I heard her exclaim. I opened my eyes to see what happened, she was staring out with a blank face, her murky-red eyes open wide and strangely blank.

"Everything just went black," She mused, absently looking around.

"What? Really?" I asked, panicky. She frantically looked around in the direction of my voice.

"Yes, it's strange," she exclaimed.

"Is that what you intended, love?" Edward asked, confused not only by my expression, but also by Zafrina's obviously confused thoughts as well.

"No, I was thinking about that beach that she showed us," I admitted nervously. "Why didn't it work?"

"I don't know, love," Edward said, looking back to Zafrina, who was still looking around frantically.

I closed my eyes again, focusing on her light and giving her sight back.

"Thanks. That was really weird, Bella," Zafrina exclaimed once she had her sight back. I've always wondered how it felt when I used my power on someone. Now I know what it feels like to be blind." she chuckled.

"But that wasn't what I intended for you to see," I said, scared as to why it didn't work right.

"Maybe … you can't show pictures like Zafrina can, love," Edward explained. "Just like what Eleazar said before, how no two powers are the same because no one thinks the same. It could be possible that the only thing that you can do is to blind people."

Zafrina nodded at his explanation. "That does make sense. Especially considering all the other things that you can do."

"You've got a point," I finally admitted. "It is pretty cool that I can even do that, though." I chuckled.

They both chuckled with me at my statement.

We continued to sit there in the meadow, chatting aimlessly, enjoying the company.

After a few more hours, Zafrina stood up, ready to head back to the house, and to her sisters.

"Well, what do you say we head back now?" She asked, turning back to face Edward and I.

"You're right, we have been gone all day already," Edward answered, as we also got up from the ground.

"Thanks for allowing me to come hunting with you, this has been really fun!" She smiled at us.

"You're welcome!" I smiled at her as we joined her leaving the meadow. "Thanks for your help, too."

"Any time, Bella. All you have to do is ask and I'm here for you," she said as we ran towards the house.

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