Twilight Saga Eclipse Fanfiction

Transitionals: Eclipse

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Chapter 10

Alice was especially patient with me throughout the school day. I knew she was wanting to talk with me. What about? I wasn't sure; there were plenty of topics that she could be wanting to talk about.

Thankfully though, she didn't interrogate me during the car rides to and from school. I had a feeling from her sympathetic looks that the first topic up for discussion was my break down.

I really didn't want to talk about that.

It appeared to be inevitable though, as soon as we walked into the Cullen home.

Esme wrapped me in her arms once I had stepped inside. "I'm here if you want to talk," she whispered in my ear.

I gave her a small smile, hoping it didn't look like how I felt. My body was filling with dread, and I just wanted to go crawl into Edward's bed.

I was drained.

Rose came down the stairs then, Cissy a step behind her.

Cissy squealed with excitement when she saw me. "Auntie Bella!" She leaped off the bottom step and I flinched as she soared straight towards me.

Edward snatched her out of the air. "Maybe Emmett shouldn't be teaching you to connect to birds."

Rose shook her head and groaned. "If vampires could have heart attacks, I would have had one earlier."

Esme took Cissy from Edward and settled her on her hip. "I've already set Emmett straight and Anna has explained to Cissy that grown ups are the only ones who connect to animals."

"I'm too small, no more birdies." Cissy grinned up at me and I smiled back at her. She was such a good little girl. Always listening to us when we told her not to do something.

"How are you doing?" Rose asked, placing a hand on my shoulder.

I shrugged, unable to meet her gaze yet. I had left her and Emmett to console Anna, who was more than likely inconsolable. I could only imagine what they had gone through last night.

Then the one person I really hadn't wanted to see came down stairs. She was being carried by Jasper, and she looked like she hadn't slept at all."

Anna snuggled closer to Jasper, burying her head against his shoulder.

We all took a seat in the living room. Only Carlisle and Emmett were missing.

"Edward explained the mess with the Ley lines."

Okay, so Emmett was at home. He took a seat beside Rose after stealing Anna from Jasper.

I glanced from Jasper to Emmett to Anna, who had immediately snuggled closer to Emmett once he had sat down.

"What's wrong with Anna?" There was something else besides just being upset about last night.

Emmett brushed at Anna's curls. "Anna's been running a fever off and on all day. It started last night."

"Carlisle thinks she just worked herself up and that's why she is feeling so hot," Esme explained quickly.

Anna glanced at me, her gaze pierced me. She wasn't some little girl who had worked herself up. No, she was a sick little girl.

I got up from where I was sitting beside Edward and took Anna from Emmett. She pressed her hand limply against my cheek.

It was as I had thought. Her powers were sick. While having an illness breakthrough the immune system and attack a person's magic was rare for an adult, it was common in children. It was like having a cold, but it couldn't get so severe that it put the child in danger.

Health wise Anna would be fine in a few days, but she wouldn't enjoy them at all. For someone as active as Anna, staying in bed to get better, was never acceptable.

Edward took Anna's other hand and rubbed it with his own. "What is it, Love?" He asked me.

I gently settled Anna on my lap, reclining a bit so she'd be more comfortable. "Anna's powers have an infection, but it's okay, I can send my dad out to get her some medicine." I hurried to reassure Rose and Esme. Both of them had been alarmed by the idea of Anna being sick because of her powers.

Anna gagged in complaint at the idea of having to take medicine. I wasn't looking forward to having to fight with her to take it.

"Maybe, Anna should go back to bed," Esme suggested. When I nodded she got up and took Anna back upstairs.

"So," Alice paused nervously; probably wondering what might upset me. "Edward told us about the meeting with Rohl."

I nodded, encouraging her to go on.

"What can be done?" Jasper asked for her.

That was a good question too bad there wasn't a precise answer.

"We need to find the Ley lines before the Undermining does, and when we do, we need to protect them." I shook my head, letting my eyes fall closed. "The only problem with that though is that the Rebellion needs to be completely rescreened. Toby has sufficient evidence that the Undermining has spies all throughout the Rebellion."

"So even if we find the Ley lines we might be leading the Undermining straight to them." Jasper grimaced. "Did your cousin leave you a list of people you can trust?"

I nodded and sighed. "He did but that list is small, not very big at all."

"So you're saying we don't have enough people to spare," Emmett clarified.

I nodded again.

Edward ran his hand over my hair and I relaxed under his touch. "How long will it take to screen everyone?"

I didn't have a clue. "I don't know, anywhere from a few years to a few decades. The process is extensive, and there's not very many who we could trust to begin the screening. We are basically starting all over, and it took centuries to build the Rebellion we have today."

Jasper sent calm and peacefulness towards me, trying to help me relax, and I was more than thankful. "So what do we need to do?"

"We need to track down Marlowe."

A voice echoed through the living room, startling all of us.

Edward, Jasper, and Emmett leaped to their feet, crouching in front of their mates. Edward placed himself protectively in the space between Esme and me.

"Easy," the voice spoke again.

The air froze throughout the room dropping so low, I was actually affected by it.

Edward caught my shiver, a look of worry in his eyes. He knew the cold didn't affect me, and yet suddenly it was.

"Enough, show yourself," he yelled.

"I mean none of you any harm, especially young Bella." The voice softened, I struggled to hear it over Edward's and the other men's warning growls.

"This is merely an after effect of my powers." In the next second a man I had seen in hundreds of pictures appeared in the Cullens' living room.

He had his hands raised, palms out and away from his body.

"Why did that affect me?" Alice's voice trembled. When I turned to her I saw her arms wrapped tightly around her, just like mine were.

The cold I had felt, she had felt it too.

I turned back to Rune, the second most famous person of the Rebellion, after his brother Rohl.

Rune glanced at Alice curiously, before lowering his hands. "You were born into the Other world."

It wasn't a question; simply an observation.

Alice nodded slightly. "Yeah, but I don't remember the other world."

Understanding flashed across Rune's face and he nodded. "The Other world is so deep in your family's history you didn't even know you belong to its culture."

Alice's gaze dropped to the floor. "I don't know if that's true or not."

"She doesn't have any memories of her human life," Jasper finished for her, his voice and gaze showed his wariness of the stranger in their house.

Rune's eyes widened in surprise. It was clear he was intrigued by Alice's memory loss, but any one of us could see Alice didn't want to talk about it with the stranger.

"So Bella and I were the only ones to feel the cold?" Alice asked quickly.

Rune nodded, politely giving up on his curiosity; at least for now. "I'm part of the two percent, because of that my powers aren't compatible with each other, so they have a negative effect. While it doesn't affect me, it does others. If both of my powers are active a cold settles around me, spanning a few meters. Anyone from the Other world will feel it."

I rubbed my arms, noticing Alice was doing the same. "I don't mean to be rude, but I would very much like to not get sick, so if you wouldn't mind…"

Rune nodded and the room slowly went back to the correct temperature. "My apologies, again I wasn't meaning to cause anyone harm. I'm just running errands for my brother."

"And who exactly is your brother?" Emmett snapped.

"More importantly who are you?" Jasper added.

Rune offered his hand to Jasper, only to lower it when Jasper didn't offer his. "My name is Rune, and my brother is Rohl?"

Emmett raised a curious eyebrow. "Rohl, and Rune?"

Rune chuckled softly. "Yes."

Jasper glanced at Edward, then to Alice. When they both nodded he turned to me. "Can we trust him?"

I grinned before nodding. "If Edward and Alice are sure that he is who he says he is, then I'm sure."

Jasper turned back to Rune, but I knew his words were for me. "Do you have any way to test him?"

I couldn't help smirking. "I do actually."

Rune motioned for me to go ahead.

"When the battle was over, you and your brother fought hard to keep the Rebellion going." I crossed my arms. "What did you do?"

Rune offered a smile. "While my brother went off to find the leaders that had survived, I stayed with the people and convinced as many as I could, not to surrender. If I hadn't, what was left of the Rebellion would have."

"How does that test him?" Emmett grumbled.

Rune and I smiled but I let him explain. "Rohl is older than me by two years, but because the way our magic works, and how close we look to each other, we were able to pose as twins. Then, just to add to the confusion, we may have advertised that he was the one to stop the surrender and I was the one to cause the rebuild."

Jasper relaxed slightly. "Clever," he offered genuinely, before carrying out the introductions. I blushed deeply when he nodded in my direction.

Rohl was an old family friend, but not very many of the Higginbothams had ever met Rune. While famous for his actions after the great battle, not much was known about the second brother.

"So you are running errands for your brother?" I found myself asking once the introductions were done.

Rune took a seat, nodding appreciatively to Esme before turning to me. "My brother finally saw fit to tell me what the Undermining was really planning; he also told me about Marlowe, and asked if I'd go find him. To make this long story short, he wasn't where Rohl said he would be, and it looks like he hasn't been there in years."

Marlowe, wasn't in Greenland anymore? Why would he leave? Then again why would he stay, he wasn't hiding from the Undermining, they thought he was dead.

"He's on the run but I can't get to him." Rune shook his head gravely. "Rohl thinks that either the Undermining found out he was alive, or one of the Rebellions' spies did."

"Either way, someone is after him," Jasper guessed.

Rohl spared Jasper enough of a glance to answer his question with a nod, before turning to me. "Rohl hoped that maybe in the stuff from your cousin, there would be an explanation for Marlowe's disappearance."

I hadn't seen one, in fact, there wasn't any indication that Toby even knew that Marlowe was still alive.

"I take it that you haven't seen anything." He sighed, shaking his head absentmindedly.

I tried to offer him some comfort. "But I haven't gone through everything yet. I really haven't had much time to do anything but skim over some stuff."

"Then there might still be some hope." Rune clasped his hands in front of him and bowed his head. "Oh," he sat up and pulled something from his pocket. "I heard Toby's daughter was needing this."

I fought the desire to roll my eyes by shaking my head. I got up and took the bottle of medicine from him. "Thank you?"

Rose glanced from the bottle in my hand to Rune. "Is that the medicine for Anna?" When I nodded she glared suspiciously at Rune. "How did you know that Anna needed that?"

Rune wasn't perturbed by her fierce gaze. "It's one of my powers. I know what people need."

Emmett grinned widely. "Sweet, you have two powers like Bella?"

"Yes, but unlike Bella who is part of the three percent, I'm part of the two percent." Rune shrugged offhandedly.

Jasper clasped his hands together and leaned forward. "You've mentioned the two percent twice now, what is the two percent?"

Rune glanced at me, curiously.

"I'm still telling them about the Other world. We haven't come anywhere near the power percentiles," I explained.

Rune nodded in understanding and turned back to Jasper. "For the most part when children gain their powers, they either receive a parents power or a compatible gift with a family member. But, about three percent of children gain both of their parents' powers." He glanced back at me. "Bella is part of that three percent; technically I am too, but Bella's and my situation are very different.

"You see Bella had a higher chance of getting both of her parents' powers because they are compatible with each other."

So the two percentile is where the powers aren't compatible," Esme surmised.

"Exactly." Rohl paused and glanced at each of the Cullen. "Now, there is also the one percentile. So rare that it can go centuries without adding another child to it; and it's where a child gains two gifts but they are the exact opposite of their parents' gifts."

Rune's excitement was catching throughout our group. He had everyone paying rapt attention. I knew all of this and yet I couldn't help being drawn into his words as much as the others.

"This rarity only has a chance, when the parents' gifts can be considered opposites, and the gifts that the child gets are compatible."

Emmett's eyes narrowed with disbelief. "If the parents' gifts aren't compatible how would the kid's gifts be, if they are opposite of the parents. That doesn't make any sense. If the mom has water powers and the dad has fire, the kid's would be both of the powers and still opposite one of the other."

Rune actually laughed at Emmett. "That's a bad example, and I highly doubt those sort of powers would even work for the one percentile. But I'll try to explain it to you."

He scratched his head thoughtfully. "So the mom can control water and the dad control's fire." He chuckled lowly. "I guess the child could get ice and smoke."

I stifled my laughter as I watched Rune attempting to figure it out.

He shook his head. "That just doesn't work, and frankly I've personally never met a child in the one percentile. I can't honestly say I understand how it really works. It's just one of those things that we know does exists."

Emmett nodded, though I could see that he was bummed about not knowing. I could imagine that Carlisle would have been disappointed too.

"So if one of your powers is to know what people need, what is your other gift?" Alice asked curiously.

Rune grinned, clearly, he liked his other gift better. "I can teleport."

"Sweet." Emmett's disappointment vanished under excitement. "How far?"

Rune shrugged carelessly. "It depends on how much energy I want to use. Safely, without pushing to my max energy, I can travel halfway around the world. Any further and I'd max out my energy and cause an energy blast large enough to alert the Undermining."

Jasper glanced towards Rune thoughtfully. "So you had already teleported into the house when I asked what we needed to do?"

"Yes, but my cells were still coming together so you couldn't see me yet." Rune nodded to himself. "And since I know your next question, yes I can speak to people even when all my molecules, cells, etcetera, are all scrambled. It's one of the unexplainables about magic."

He sighed and got to his feet. "I suppose I should be leaving now."

"What should we do about Marlowe," Edward stopped him from leaving.

Rune glanced at the ground, his face tight in thought. "Rohl and I will have to discuss it, at the moment though there isn't anything you all can do." He turned to me, but we all knew his words were for the Cullens. "Help Bella with everything that she was given, get through that information as fast as you can. It very well might be the only information we can fully trust."

He tried once more to leave but Rose stopped him this time.

"Rune," she addressed him quickly. "Do you or your brother know why the Undermining want Anna and Cissy?"

This was a question we were all wondering, each of us fearing the answer.

Cissy glanced up curiously at hearing her name and I couldn't help thinking that she shouldn't be here, just in case Rune had some sort of idea, even though his brother didn't.

Esme got up and scooped Cissy into her arms. She gave me a quick understanding smile before heading upstairs.

Rune watched her go before turning to Rose. "Honestly I have no idea why the Undermining wants the two little girls. Their powers aren't rare or advanced to a point that they need them. They have people with those gifts, who are stronger and far more powerful."

Edward wrapped his arms around me, pulling me closer. "So you think they only want them so that they can coerce Bella?"

Rune shrugged. "I don't know, but that is the only idea I can come up with that seems logical. I'm sorry." He had already started to vanish when he stopped once more. "Whatever the reason, I don't need to tell you to keep the girls in your line of sight always. Take care of them. All of them," he added, his gaze landed on Edward who nodded.

Rune offered me a little smile. "Good luck getting the little one to take her medicine."

I groaned once he had left. Taking the bottle I glanced up at the ceiling.

"I've got this," Emmett said confidently. He snatched the medicine from me and headed up the stairs.

I leaned back in my seat, my arms crossed over my chest and I waited for him to come down in defeat.

It didn't happen that way though.

After a moment we all heard Emmett ask where Anna was. I closed my eyes to focus on my hearing.

"She's was just here," Esme offered.

"Where could she have gone?" Emmett's noisy attempts to find Anna followed his question.

"Anna."

I opened my eyes after hearing Rose's scolding tone.

Anna was slinking down the stairs.

"There you are!" Emmett cried as he stopped at the top of the stairs.

Anna screamed and raced down the last steps. She dodged Emmett's arms at the very last minute, shocking Emmett. Even when she was not feeling well, her powers gave her enough warning to get away from a speeding vampire.

I got up to help him, but Edward pulled me onto his lap. "Let's give Emmett a chance to redeem himself."

Emmett glared at Edward and shook off his surprise at Anna. He was too late though.

Anna was hiding between the wall and the couch, out of Emmett's reach. He'd have to pick up the couch Edward and I was sitting on and set us gently down so he wouldn't ruin Esme's favorite couch. Anna would be certain to get away from him.

Emmett tried anyway.

Anna took off as soon as he had the couch high enough for her to crawl away.

Jasper and Rose seemed to debate helping Emmett, while Edward and Alice were both enjoying his inability to catch a human, whether she was an other world human or not.

Anna raced across the room, stopping suddenly; overcome with a coughing fit.

Rose got up and grabbed Anna. The fun was over.

Anna tried in a desperate attempt to break free, but that was only resulting in tiring her out.

Rose took the medicine from Emmett and headed for the kitchen to give it to Anna.

I took Edward's arms and moved them from around me so that I could get up. I had a feeling that Rose wouldn't be able to get Anna to take the medicine.

Anna might not feel good, but she was stubborn when it came to medicine. She didn't like it. There had only been a few times where she had to take it; the times when she hadn't been with her mom. Tessa's magic kept her family in perfect health, something Anna and Toby had loved.

"Here, let me try," I offered.

Rose held out the little medicine cup and I fought with Anna.

She had her lips clamped shut as tight as she could. This battle was taking its toll on her but she held on diligently. In all honesty, it was taking its toll on me too.

Esme took after as soon as she noticed my frustration. She handed Cissy to Rose and I couldn't help grimacing as she tried almost every attempt in the parenting books to get Anna to take her medicine.

Jasper decided to try next. I assume he tried to use his powers to help him, but Anna didn't budge.

She curled herself into a ball which Jasper first tried to coax her out of. When that didn't work he carefully unwrapped her arms from around her knees and sat her on the counter again.

Anna tried again to curl in a ball but Emmett picked her up. He had her sitting on one of his arms while the other wrapped around her middle. Even tag teaming like that they weren't able to get her to take it.

I fought back the desire to just pry open her mouth and pour it down her throat. I knew that course of action was never appropriate. I could never treat Anna like that.

"If you take your medicine, we can go shopping on my computer." Alice tried to bribe her; the only course of action Esme hadn't tried.

Anna thought about it, but I knew she was bluffing. I groaned as she shook her head. Her curls bounced limply.

"Please, Anna," I pleaded.

The door opened, and I watched as Carlisle stepped cautiously into the kitchen. "Is everything alright here?"

I glanced from Carlisle to Anna. Glad to see the sheepish look on her little face. Hopefully, that meant that Carlisle would be able to get her to take her medicine.

Edward held out the bottle for Carlisle to take. "Anna's powers have an infection and we can't get her to take her medicine."

His words made Anna, sink lower, trying to hide in Emmett's arms.

Carlisle gave Anna a sympathetic smile and took the bottle from Edward. He then took Anna from Emmett.

I couldn't help myself. I followed Carlisle up the stairs.

He took Anna upstairs to her bedroom. He didn't stay there long; only long enough to grab her pajamas. He then took her to the bathroom and helped her change into them. He then helped her sit on the counter.

Esme stepped passed me in the hallway and handed the measuring cup of medicine that we had attempted to give her, to Carlisle.

He dumped it back into the bottle, shook it up and then remeasured out the proper amount according to what was in the instructions on the bottle.

Esme and I shared a glance before turning back to watch Carlisle.

I couldn't figure out why she took it, but all Carlisle had to do was hold it up to her lips. Anna pouted, but not even a second later she sighed and drank the clear liquid. She gagged dramatically after swallowing, making a point to stick out her tongue in protest to the taste.

Carlisle merely grabbed her toothbrush and preceded to help her brush her teeth.

Anna stilled, as he carefully helped her. She hadn't had help with her teeth in a long time. She was clearly confused by his help, and whether or not she wanted it. She knew how to brush her teeth on her own, why would she need help now?

I, on the other hand, wasn't confused by Carlisle's actions. I knew exactly what he was doing for her.

Esme and I smiled as he put away her clean toothbrush and picked her up.

He carried her back to her bedroom, grabbed one of her many picture books, and laid down with her on her bed. He looked huge on the small bed. Any normal person would have thought he was uncomfortable; he should have been.

I watched from the doorway as Carlisle read to Anna. His voice, calm and sweet, lulled her to sleep quickly. Her cheek rested against his chest while one of her hands fisted around his shirt. I knew for a fact Carlisle wasn't going to dare break her little hold on him. He'd stay there all night with Anna. He wouldn't even budge until she woke up.

His care for her sparked thankful tears in my eyes. I brushed them away. I had plenty of reasons to cry, this wasn't one I wanted to waste my tears on.

Author's Note

Okay everyone, I know that this story started off with a bang. We jumped right in with a purpose, and now the story is sort of dwindling. I really hope I'm not boring anyone.

What did you guys think of Rune? Was he like anything you were thinking about? Did any of you even remember his name from that one time I mentioned it? How many of you thought he and Rohl were the same person and I forgot about already naming him Rune in the second chapter?

Any guesses out there about what the Undermining want with the Girls? How about guesses to how Toby knew that the Undermining wanted his children?

So I would just like to let you all know that the ending of this story is going to be a little different from the book. I'm curious to see whether or not you guys can figure out how it is going to be different. So send me your best guesses and if you guess correctly I'll dedicate the chapter that the changes take place to you, and anyone else who guesses right.

See you tomorrow for the next chapter of Transitionals CPOV.

Looking forward to your thoughts,

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