She closed the door on her past and her heart, if she had one, raced a mile a minute. My future with him is still so unknown, will I ever trust him again, Bella thought to herself.
Alice materialized next to her and held her shoulders "Are you okay?" Being that Bella had been alone in her journey as a vampire for over a century now, only having heartbreak after heartbreak before her, Alice knew even if Bella didn't show it, that Bella hurt most of the time.
Bella never talked about her emotions anymore, save with Carlisle and only sometimes when she herself couldn't bare it anymore. She stiffened and let go what she thought of Edward before. "I'll be fine," Bella stated and continued on a different topic, "How are we going to try and figure out my plausible gifts?"
"Well, if Edward said what was true, you could ultimately make Edward forget he ever had a pact with the Volturi, you could make yourself forget Edward tried to kill you. Bella if what Edward says is true, your gifts are far more powerful then any other I've ever encountered. We must see if we can train you to open up to your gifts, maybe because of who you are they are dormant."
"Because of who I am?"
"You are such a great and loving person, Bella. You would never want such powerful gifts for yourself, to use on others." Alice hugged Bella lovingly. Bella stiffening, contact was something she still wasn't use to. It set her skin ablaze when anyone or anything touched it. She was so used to being alone.
To that Carlisle walked in, "Bella, I believe that Edward is right. I know it may seem far fetched with how long it has been since your transformation, but a powerful gift like your own needs to grown and mature before you will ever see it. I think it is time we begin to practice with it."
Day after day Bella would practice with Carlisle and Alice, for several months they were doing absolutely nothing, save for staring at each other and sometimes just conversing casually. One fine morning, however, about a week after Edward left, Bella entered Alice's mind, listening to her thoughts, though mostly she was humming a song to herself. "I DID IT!" Bella yelled excitedly.
Alice looked at her "All you did was enter my mind. Make me do something!" Alice gave her a playful jab. Bella went back into Alice's mind and thought of something she wanted, something Alice would never normally do. She flinched slight as she thought of something that would be completely against Alice's will and placed it in her mind. Alice started walking towards Bella, around the same time Jasper entered the room, for precautionary measures. Alice stopped inches from Bella's face and kissed her right on the lips, passionately. Alice's mind was blank and Bella released Alice's mind. Alice backed up a foot or so and said "That is something I never want to experience again!" Jasper had a sly grin on his face. Carlisle was adjusting his stance to pretend he didn't see anything.
Bella looked at Alice apologetically "Sorry, I just wanted to make you do something I knew you would never do in real life."
Alice looked at Bella, "I wasn't talking about the kiss, though good choice in what you wanted to make me do. When you made my body act against its will, my entire body was at your beck and call. It felt like I did not own my body but was a mere bystander inside of it, and on top of that I couldn't see anything that was going to happen while you were working on getting me to do something against my will. It was as if, I didn't even have the gift of foresight. My brain was so blank!" Alice gave a little chuckle. Jasper took Alice's hand and gave Alice a peck on the cheek.
"I believe we have trained enough today. Bella, I know you will be working on this all night, but I think you should not focus on the manipulation of others until you have mastered your telekinetic abilities. Why don't you try and rearrange your room without touching anything."
Thus, began Bella's obsession with rearranging her room.
Several Months Later:
"Bella, get out of my head! I know you don't want me to kill the deer for you! Now let's go, we have to hunt!"
You made that last part up, Emmett. I never asked you to kill anything for me! Bella was playfully bantering in his head.
Emmett gave a loud chuckle. Bella only wanted to see what Emmett was thinking, it was obvious all he cared about was food at this point. Emmett and Rose had moved in to the spare bedroom next to Bella and Alice. They liked England fine, but missed their family too much. "Half a century is long enough without you gang!" Emmett said when they came back. Rose missed her family too but she was a bit fussier about showing it, "I would not have minded staying a few extra millennia." She gave Emmett and sweet peck on the cheek, and winked at Alice and Bella.
Bella had only seen Edward once more and he was more distant then previously. It seemed like he was straining to be around her, as if every inch of him was under some other control. There meeting was brief, to which Edward said he was ready to start his removal from the Volturi. Bella tried to ask what made his mind up, but Edward didn't answer. When Edward left, Bella locked herself in isolation for days, only Alice and Carlisle saw her and it was seldom. Carlisle would ask her to talk to him, in a worried fatherly tone but Bella wanted nothing to do with her emotions towards Edward at the present. Alice would try to cheer her up with new clothes or other materialistic things, even going so far as to buy Bella a new car, to which Bella took the keys and handed them to Rose later as a Welcome Home present. Alice didn't mind, she knew Bella was going to even before she bought the car. A new car is a new car, Alice said to herself as she bought the Lexus IS F in electric blue.
Most of the time Bella locked herself in her room, and rearranged her room with her mind, while she sat on her bed, which moved several times with her still on it. Once she rearranged her bedroom to look exactly like Edward's room back in Forks had looked without realizing it she quickly stormed out of the room in a fit of emotions and everyone who was near suddenly felt light headed and disoriented, to which Rose shouted "BELLA STOP IT! YOU'RE BEING A BABY!" Drawing Bella out of her funk after realizing she was hurting others.
Emmett was packing up the cars for the hunting trip with Rose and Jasper. Bella was packing her luggage in her room with her mind. She was trying to train herself to multi-task with her mental gifts so she could accomplish more. Carlisle said it was so she could use her strengths and her mind in a fight. Bella didn't want to think about fights.
Carlisle walked into Bella's room, "All set?" he asked politely. Clothes and some music players whirled past his head on there own and settled themselves into Bella's luggage. "Bella, were going hunting, not on a vacation." She turned around to face her vampire father "I know, I just want to be left alone. I'm secluding myself with music and books. I don't want to accidentally go into someone's mind or anything like that." Carlisle embraced Bella's shoulders "Everyone knows you don't do it on purpose Bella. You're still trying to master your gift. It's gotten better," Carlisle added. Several times Carlisle and Alice were both doing things they never thought about doing, such as making human food, or cleaning Bella's room.
"What does it feel like when my gift tells you to do something?" She asked Carlisle.
"Like the only thing I have control of is my thoughts, my muscles are all under your control, I couldn't even try and move if I wanted to. It's like all your free will has been stripped of you."
While in training, Bella could barely penetrate someone else's thoughts, now she can implant false memories, destroy old ones and see anyone's thoughts at any distance away. All she has to do is concentrate, and there she is inside someone's mind. She can be undetected but she can also make herself known. The thought of going into Edward's mind was off limits Carlisle insisted.
"Carlisle..." Bella began but soon she had faded, another vision was taking over her.
Bella was pinned to the damp earth ground, she was trying to break lose but couldn't get out of his grasp. Edward was no longer a vegetarian and had not been for well over a century, his strength was paralyzing to Bella. "Bella, why don't you trust me yet!" Edward screamed.Bella cried "You told me not to! You said not to trust you! Why did you say that to me and then beg for my trust?!" Edward growled at her and slapped her in the face "Shut up! That's a lie!"
Bella squirmed against him, "Please stop this, Edward. I know you don't want to hurt me!" Edward's eyes faltered from their aggressive hatred to the soft loving he always felt for her, but he regained his composure fast "Bella, my sweet Bella. Do you want me to show you my undying love?" Bella tried harder to free herself without her gifts, she couldn't show him anything.
"I only want to show you how much I still love you, Bella. STOP SQUIRMING!" Edward's voice was cold and harsh; he was snapping the buttons off her shirt.
...I can't use my powers, Bella thought to herself, that's what he wants. He is going to tell the Volturi and then what will happen to me? Bella went limp in his arms, as he ripped off her shirt, and exposed her pale skin to him. She was straining to keep her power under control; she didn't want Edward to figure it out.
Edward kissed her hard on the lips and whispered "I'll always love you, I promise I'll never hurt you on purpose," in her ear as he stroked her neck with his fingers.