Twilight saga Eclipse Fanfiction

Transitionals: Eclipse

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Chapter 4

We got back to Forks with just enough time for me to catch eight hours of sleep. I was tired and so were the little girls. For this reason. Anna and Cissy went and stayed with the Cullens at their place, while Edward and I went to my house.

School did not go too well. I think all of my teachers decided together to make school life even more dreadful. Three of my classes started with pop quizzes based on information that we hadn't studied yet. PE of course was PE, and my other classes decided to double the workload.

By the end of the week, I still hadn't had any time to look through the stuff Toby left for me. I needed to get that done, a part of me was ready to see if Jasper would go through it for me while I was at school. I'm sure if I asked he would. But I didn't want to chance there being anything in there that was only meant for my eyes.

I dragged myself to bed every night planning to read a few pages of the papers from Toby's cabin, but I always fell asleep before I could.

So when I woke Saturday morning I sadly knew I needed to spend the day going over the papers and looking through Toby's briefcase.

I sat down at the kitchen table and started with the stack of papers. As I ate, I scoured over details of hundreds of problems throughout the Rebellion. List upon lists of problems and then Toby's suggestions of how to fix them. It looked like the entire Rebellion was going to have to be swept through. We would have to rescreen everyone to be sure they weren't really working for the undermining.

One thing was for certain the leaders of the Rebellion needed to go through the people they were trusting with important information. Apparently, Toby and his parents had reasons to believe there were some spies among the higher ups in the Rebellion.

I didn't know who I should give this information. Ruby was supposed to get the briefcase, but these stacks of paper were left for me.

Sure my family's name was a respected name in the Rebellion but that didn't mean mine was.

No one, at least no one in a high position would listen just to my word. I knew these papers came from Toby but there was no proof. The people I would accuse would be believed instead of me.

Grandpa Ray had some leeway amongst the Rebellion but not even he could convince our leaders that some of their "most trusted" men were spies for the undermining.

It wasn't until I got to the things in Toby's briefcase, that I knew just how bad our situation was.

Toby had gone and gotten information from the deepest pits from the undermining. Gathering information that if they ever found out he had, would place him as the Undermining's top man on their most wanted list. This I realized must have happened.

It wasn't just me and my gifts that had brought the undermining to our home that night. They had to have known Toby had this stuff. It made sense now.

Toby took so many precautions to make sure this information would get to the right people and not fall into the wrong hands. It also explained why Toby and the other men in the legacy line hadn't been able to stop the attack.

I naturally had so much faith in Toby but it wasn't just him who had the power to fight the Undermining. Technically we all could. But he and his dad, granddad, every man along the legacy line had the same power as those members of the Undermining. They had the base magic of the other world.

I had assumed that Toby who had been placed as the head of our family just had been caught off guard. That surely must not have been the case. He used the time he had to make sure I would have everything I would need to protect his family, the Rebellion, and the information he had gathered. He wasn't caught off guard he simply ran out of time. Using what he had to secure everything else.

The sound of knocking on the front door surprised me. Edward would have just come in, and I wasn't expecting him until later today.

Cautiously, I went to the door. A quick peek showed Ruby standing on my porch. I opened the door. "Ruby, I thought I was going to have to call you when I was done."

Ruby gave me a soft smile. "I'm sorry for barging in like this but I really need whatever Toby was going to give me. I was hoping you had it ready for me."

I shook my head sadly. "I've only had a chance to skim through it. Toby coded a lot of the information, and I haven't even had a chance to attempt decoding it. He wanted me to go through it and gather the data so I'd have it too, before passing it on to you and Turner."

Ruby sighed. "Alright, would you mind at least talking over some of the things with me. You see I've come across some information and I think whatever is in Toby's stuff for me, will explain what I found."

"Of course," I told her and gestured for her to follow me into the living room. We sat down on the couch. "Do you mind if I ask you something first?"

Ruby motioned with her hand for me to go ahead.

I folded my hands in front of me, resting them on my lap. "Going through all this stuff Toby left, I can't help but notice how much I didn't know. There's so much stuff here, that I didn't even have a clue about."

Ruby took her hand and placed it on mine. "Bella, your life has always been so difficult. Your uncle never saw fit to tell you or some of the other cousins about most of the information he came to find. When Toby took over he decided to tell some of the cousins his dad hadn't told. Toby didn't tell you about a lot of things because he didn't want you to worry about them."

She tightened her grip on my hands. "Toby never wanted you to think you had to try to solve the Rebellion's problems. He knew you'd eventually see how useful your powers would be to the cause of defeating the undermining, whether he told you or not. The fact of the matter is though, he never wanted you to be pressured into helping."

I shook my head. "I don't understand Ruby. I know my powers can help defeat the Undermining, I've known that for years, I was planning to help take them down."

She tried to interrupt but I couldn't let her.

"I want to help, I've always wanted to help, but I never understood how bad it was."

Ruby sighed deeply; she ran her hand through her hair. "Bella I can't tell you what your cousin had planned or even what he was thinking, but I know that he never wanted you to help."

"Why not, I have the power to stop them."

"No you don't," Ruby snapped at me.

I didn't know what to say to that. My power was the ultimate defense, of course I could help defeat the Undermining.

Ruby closed her eyes. When she opened them her gaze was soft but piercing. "Bella you might have a useful power, but that doesn't mean you can take on the Undermining. You've heard about the first and only time the Rebellion raged war on them."

I nodded, slightly hurt that Ruby didn't believe in me.

"It is one thing to have the power Bella, it is entirely another thing if you have the ability to use it to bring down one's enemy." Ruby gave me an apologetic look. "Let me try to explain better. You obviously have the gifts that can help stop the undermining, eventually you might even have the physical strength to take them on. Bella, you need to understand that you don't have the mental strength."

I went from upset to furious in an instant, and I had a mind to tell her so.

Ruby didn't give me a chance. "Bella, you have dealt with so much in this past year, but all of this is taking its toll on you. You have taken on so much responsibility." She lifted her hand to stop me from interrupting. "You have done everything Toby has asked of you, and he unfortunately had to ask more of you than he ever wanted to.

"Bella, you've been entrusted with information, that's more than he ever wanted you to have to do for the Rebellion. He never planned for you to have to fight, because of everything else you have to deal with. All of this is causing undue stress which is making your transition harder on you, which is going to make your first year or more, difficult. "

Ruby took a shuddering breath to calm herself. "All Toby ever wanted when it came to you, was to make sure you transitioned as easily as possible."

I shrugged trying to keep a hold of my temper. "Well regardless of what Toby wanted, I now need to help."

Ruby shook her head. "No, you don't."

"Yes, I do!" I snapped. "They want Cissy and Anna. I can't just sit back and let other people protect them; that's my job." By the time I was done I was standing glaring down at her.

Ruby lifted her hand cautiously. "You can't even use your physical shield." She continued keeping her words soft, and soothing. "You can't properly work your mental shield. Bella," she sighed my name quietly. "I know you feel like you have to take care of the girls…"

"I'm their guardian! Of course I have to take care of them. It's my job."

Ruby shook her head slowly. "You can't take care of them, without taking care of yourself first. You chose to wear your ring to keep the hunters from finding you through their signs. That was a good choice, and you knew it meant you couldn't protect the girls with your shields. You agreed to let others protect you and the girls since you can't."

I was regretting that decision every single day. "Once I finish the transition I won't need the ring anymore and I can use my shields again."

Ruby's gaze became stubborn. "You do realize that you'd have gone without using your shields for a while before the transition is over. Your control won't be as good as it once was. Your mental shield will be as if it's had no training."

"You make it sound like there won't be time for me to train my shields once I'm a vampire," I grumbled irritably.

Her look softened. "You're the one who's gone through all the stuff from Toby, you tell me."

My mind whirled thinking about all that I had gone over, everything I've read. It was made painfully clear that Toby had run out of time, I was starting to think maybe I was too. If that was the case why was she waiting? Maybe things would just be so much easier if she was changed now.

No. No one would agree with her if she tried to insist she be changed before finishing the transition.

"What did you want to talk about?" I finally asked. The silence was becoming too much to handle.

Ruby immediately became serious, the sudden change in her demeanor actually frightened me. "I've been going through as much information as I can about Carlos. Trying to find just how much he might have passed on to the Undermining."

That sounded like a daunting task. "How is that going?"

The grimace that spread across her face caused me to shutter. "When going through his work I found an alarming pattern of how information has been leaked."

I didn't understand, a part of me didn't want to.

"I searched through hundreds of thousands of documents, Bella, and it's alarming to find just how deep Carlos is in the undermining."

Really patted the seat beside her. Once I had sat down, she handed me a piece of paper she retrieved from her bag.

It was a record of a legacy line.

"When I went through all the documents found what's been leaked, I found a connection with these names," Ruby explained.

My hands tightened on the paper. "These people were the ones who were leaking the information?"

Ruby nodded once. "Carlos' family has been spying on us for the Undermining since the beginning. That one time we attacked, his family was close with our leaders. But that's not even the worst part."

I didn't see how could get any worse.

She took the paper from my hands and turned it over, and pointed to the man at the top of the page.

I felt all the blood drain from my face. It couldn't be. They are at the top of the page, at the top of this legacy line, was the man who had led the takeover of the Other world.

How had this information slipped past the leaders of the Rebellion? How did it slip past my family's knowledge? They never would've let Carlos or his family get as close to us as they had if they had known.

Ruby took my hand and squeezed it comfortingly. "I take it there was nothing of this in Toby's things."

All I could do was shake my head. I had already thought that all I had read today was too much, but my mind just couldn't comprehend this.

A loud sigh brought me out of my thoughts. I turned her Ruby.

She gave me a supportive smile. "Then I guess there's only one other thing I need to talk about." She pulled a small piece of paper from her pocket and handed it to me.

I turned it over and found two words that I did not want to deal with.

Blue Skies.

Ruby took both of my hands in hers. "Everyone in the Rebellion knows that Blue Skies is the undermining's end goal. We just don't know what their plan is."

I knew what their plan was. I hadn't known all the details until I had finished going through the briefcase, but before Toby had died he had told me how world domination (what everyone else from the Rebellion believed was Blue skies) wasn't the whole plan.

He had made me promise not to tell anyone unless told otherwise. I couldn't tell Ruby without getting permission.

"Ruby, I can't tell you what I know yet. I need to talk with someone else first."

Ruby could respect that. She got up. "Please hurry Bella. Everyone knows that Blue Skies is bigger than simply control the entire planet. If it has anything to do with what I found, then I really do need to know."

"What exactly did you find?"

Ruby shook her head. "Sorry Bella, I can't risk putting you in any more danger than you already are."

I rolled my eyes. "Seriously?"

Ruby nodded. "I had no intention of telling you exactly what it was that I had tracked down, even if you had told me about Blue Skies. Like you I can't divulge information without certain permission."

Something clicked in my mind. "Grandpa Ray."

Ruby's face said it all. "I took this to him first. To be honest I'm surprised he doesn't know about Blue Skies, seeing as you do."

I shrugged. That would most likely change once I got back from my now necessary trip.

"I guess I'll be going. I'm serious Bella, hurry with getting your permission."

I promised that I would as I walked her to the door.

Ruby turned back to Bella after exiting the door. "I promised I wouldn't tell you the details of what I found, but I never told Grandpa Ray that I wouldn't tell you my theory."

A grin pulled the corners of my mouth up.

She grinned back at me before becoming serious again. "I think the Undermining is controlling the Rebellion."

I relaxed slightly. "They're not, but they are trying." I was glad to see that maybe whatever she had found wasn't as bad as I had originally thought.

Ruby's eye's narrowed. "How can you be so sure? Was that in Toby's stuff?"

I nodded. "Toby says that there is a reason that the leaders of the Rebellion only meet with a small group, and never outside of the Other world."

Ruby shook her head. "I can see that you know a lot more than Toby ever wanted you to."

"Toby didn't have many options. His attempt to keep me out of the affairs of the Rebellion, actually made me the perfect person though to give all this stuff to. Everyone, I know from the Rebellion, Toby's positive is on our side. I don't know any of the spies for the Undermining, like the rest of you do."

Ruby's eyes widened slightly at the comment and I knew she wanted to ask just how many spies were people she worked beside and thought she could trust.

"I better get going," she said after a moment to decide whether or not to ask.

I nodded and she headed for her car.

Author's Note

Well, that was a very interesting conversation.

Did any of you guess that Carlos' whole family was working for the Undermining?

Why do you think no one knew about it before Ruby found the information in the old documents?

Where do you think Carlos is?

Who do you think Bella is going to go meet?

Any theories about what Blue Skies really is about?

I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and are looking forward to the next one.

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