Twilight Saga Eclipse Fanfiction

Transitionals: Eclipse

Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or any of the other books in the Saga, they belong to Stephenie Meyer. I do use some phrases, dialogue, and some descriptions from the book, though, they all belong to her.

Things are going to get interesting in this chapter, so I hope you like it. Before we can start though I have another question that needs to be answered.

Question: Are Anna and Cissy living at the Cullens house now? For the most part, the girls do spend more time at the Cullens' house more than Bella's. The reason for that though is because of Anna. Anna is very understanding about responsibilities and she knows that Bella hasn't figured out how to balance all of her old responsibilities (Taking care of the girls and Toby's companies) with her new ones (All the stuff for the Rebellion.) Anna wants to help her Auntie. It is her thought that if she can take away some of her Aunt's responsibility Bella's transition will slow down. This all will be better explained (Hopefully) in this chapter, but I hope this helped.

This chapter is dedicated to everyone who is still sticking with me and these stories.

(Author's Note below will explain the long wait for the updates. There was serious reason.)

Chapter 15

I never would have thought that a camping trip would be so insightful, and more importantly helpful to me.

After all the angst I've been dealing with, it was nice getting to spend most of the evening laughing.

The wolves had set up a bonfire for us on First beach. They were already cooking up the food before we even got there. Sam and Emily were watching the younger wolves while they cooked, making sure they didn't chow down without Charlie and the girls and me.

We didn't get to sit down and eat when we first arrive though.

As soon as Cissy had caught sight of the water she had taken off, at a speed, I could only hope to reach at the moment.

Rose had dashed off after her immediately and spent most of the evening chasing her away from the water. I couldn't help laughing at her antics.

"Oh, you think that's funny, Bella?" Rose glared over at me as she carried Cissy back to our group.

I twiddled my thumbs together innocently. "Oh no, I know how dangerous it is out there. I really appreciate you taking care of Cissy for me. You're doing a fantastic job."

Rose huffed teasingly and sat back down beside Emmett. This time, she handed the scrambling toddler to him.

"Come on, let's take her to the tide pools," Leah suggested as she threw away her trash.

Cissy clamped excitedly. "Let's go, I wanna go."

"I don't think I'm ever going to get used to that," Jacob muttered beside me.

I turned to him curiously. "What do you mean?"

He gestured to Cissy with his hand. "She's one, still a baby and she talks, too well."

I couldn't help think that he changed what he had originally thought of saying, but decided against questioning him. "It's just the way our people are?"

"And yet all the kids in our tribe grow up like any normal human. We don't have any super genius kids like your cousins."

I nudged Jakes shoulder, barely moving him. "It's the difference of being immersed in the other world culture and not having physical ties to it. The magic of the Other World works in ways we don't really understand or can truly comprehend. The magic continues as long as you live within it. The farther you get from it, the less you work with it, the less it works.

"I don't know why, but given what we know, Your tribe pulled away from the Other World, and so the magic stopped working for it. Obviously, your immortality is gone." I placed my hand on his arm. "You're not so far gone that you don't have any of the magic. Just look around, some of you can still shift."

Jacob patted my hand. "Come on, you've got some little ones waiting for you."

I glanced towards the group that had formed that was heading for the tide pools.

"Please Auntie Bella, Please go with us?" Anna clasped her hands under her chin and her lower lip stick out in her classic puppy dog pout.

With everything that had been going on in the past who knows how long, I couldn't even keep track anymore, I couldn't remember the last time I had really gotten a chance to spend with the girls.

I got up from my seat, and Anna and Cissy yelled happily together.

Anna ran and slammed into my legs, Cissy right behind her, thankfully at a normal speed. I held one of their hands while Edward had one of his hands on my lower back keeping my steady.

The path to the tide pools was hard for me to handle during the day when there was at least a little bit of grayish light. The sun was starting to set though now, making it harder for me.

Anna tried her best to help too, but Cissy was so excited that she was bouncing, tugging on my arm.

We finally made it to the tide pools though.

Leah happily pointed out everything we could see in the different pools. All the while Anna was flooding her powers through me, showing all the watery like feelings she was getting from the new things she was seeing.

I laughed as she went from one person to the next showing it off. I spared a glance to Jasper. He smiled back at me.

"She's so happy."

I didn't need Jasper's gift to know that Anna was happy. She loved exploring, learning new things.

"She used to do stuff like this all the time with her parents." I sighed, remembering all the trips. "They always made time for trips like this at least once a month."

Jasper sense my change in emotion of course. "If that's the case then we should too."

I agreed readily. "Yes, from now on we make sure to do stuff like this. No more hiding in the house."

"Hey." Jasper moved to my side. "No one thought you were hiding Bella."

I rested a hand over my heart. "But that's what I've been doing." I gestured to Anna and Cissy. "They crave my attention. Cissy may have spent most of her life now, with all of you in her life, but Anna's life has always been filled with me being there."

Jasper put himself in front of me. He rested one hand on my shoulder while one Edward's was on the other. "You have so much you need to take care of, there's no shame in asking for help, or accepting help."

I chuckled softly, closing my eyes. No doubt really confusing them "I know that, and I know I can't change what's been done. I'm just saying I've made up my mind to change what I've been doing. This time with the girls is precious. If Toby and Tessa could make time, then so can I. No more delegating. Anna and Cissy are my responsibility and while you all love babysitting them, I want my time with the girls."

Jasper ruffled my hair, as he turned away to go back and join Alice he said, "that doesn't mean you were hiding."

I brushed my hair out of my face.

"Come on Bella." Edward offered his hand and I accepted it willingly.

I could tell that it was pointless to argue my words. I felt like I had been hiding.

After the attack, while I was still in Phoenix, I was staying with one of my uncle's friends. He and his family had taken us in, seeing as he had been one of the first people on the scene, and Anna trusted him. He and his wife had helped me with the girls, they had given me the crash course to caring for an infant; everything I would need to know. They supported me through the worst moment in my life, but they were guiding me, they didn't do everything for me. I had to juggle.

When we moved in with dad, he supported me, helped out whenever he thought I needed it. It was different, but still acceptable. I had willingly allowed Esme to take care of the girls at night, it was helpful, there was no doubt about it. My transition couldn't handle the ups and downs all night long. Which meant the amount of time I was getting to sleep wasn't enough to sustain the energy needed for the transition.

The fact of the matter was, if Esme hadn't stepped in and taken care of the girls for me, I would have been an energy time bomb, my lack of energy would have caused an energy blast big enough to bring the Undermining to Washington whether they knew it was me or not.

It was everything that followed afterward though.

Anna and Cissy are my responsibility, I'm their guardian, and yet I've put other stuff before them. Toby's businesses, the Rebellion, fighting Hunters and the Undermining. None of that should come before them. Protecting them yes, but nothing else.

I glanced at my ring. I was putting their protection now in the hands of others instead of using my own skills and abilities, just to protect myself from the Hunters. I could dodge the Hunters using the same technique we were using before the ring blocked them.

How was that not hiding? I let the Cullens teach Cissy how to crawl, walk, talk, practically without any help from me, while hiding behind work, trainings, meetings. I hadn't done any science projects with Anna.

Well no more. No more hiding. Whether any of the other Cullens saw it as hiding or not, I was done. I wasn't going to let fear of failing them keep me from them any longer. Things were changing. I wanted my time back, I wanted my time with the girls back. Most importantly I wanted the bond that I had with Anna back.

It broke my heart knowing that she was giving me the space I thought I needed, but all the while she was still there supporting me. She was trying to help by easing the stress of all I had to do. She willingly, even though she'd rather have me care for her, was letting Esme and Rose see to all of her needs. Whenever she wanted something or needed help she went to them, or one of the other Cullens, before coming to me. And so far she hadn't needed to come to me for help since she had gotten sick.

I sighed, Anna really was far too mature for her age. For crying out loud she wasn't even in school yet and she was already mothering all of us.

That's what she was doing right now. She was mothering, she was lending us all her happiness to distract us from everything we were worrying about. I wonder where she learned that from, I thought sarcastically.

Sleeping on the ground was never fun, but Anna and Cissy had both begged and pleaded with me to sleep with them, and the two little monsters wanted to rough it; as Jacob had called it.

So of course when I woke up first, I decided to wake the two of them up. They squealed loudly as I tickled them. It was all fun until Cissy accidentally ripped the tent after connecting to a rock and tumbling backward into the side.

We help Sam and Emily clean up the campsite but then we had to hurry back to the Cullens' house so Alice, Edward and I could get ready for school.

Charlie had to head to the station, so after a quick good morning, he left.

"Do you really have to go to school?" Anna pouted as we walked into the house.

I rolled my eyes. "Yes Anna, as I've said over and over again this morning, school is…" I paused. Edward and the other Cullens were on guard, some stiff, others ready to strike.

"Edward, what's wrong?" I placed my hand on his upper arm.

He took in his hand and squeezed gently. "Someone was in the house but they're gone now."

I gently tugged at his hand until he faced me. "Someone?"

"The same person who tried to get into your house," Jasper answered. "I'm going to check it out, you all stay here with them."

He darted around the first floor quickly then up the stairs in a blur. He was back in only a matter of seconds. His eyes darted to mine and I made sure he knew just how I felt about him trying to keep this from me.

He sighed. "The scents the strongest in the girls' room and yours, Edward."

A dark chuckle escaped my lips. "Great, the girls' room and the one I'm in the most. Whoever this is couldn't get into my house so they came here."

"Bella relax, please you're only going to stress yourself out." Edward tried to cup my cheek with his hand but I pushed it away.

"What do they even want? They knew they wouldn't be able to come in here, while we were here, but what's the purpose of coming to an empty house."

"You really think they wanted an empty house?" Emmett asked me uncertainly.

I threw my hands up with exasperation. "How would I know Emmett? Why else would they come inside when no one was here?"

He wisely remained silent.

I brushed at my hair, pulling at the ends.

"My shirt's gone!"

We all turned to see Anna at the top of the stairs.

My eyes narrowed. "What did you say?"

Anna's eyes welled up with tears. "My favorite shirt is gone."

I managed to control my speed with great difficulty as a stormed up the stairs. I hurried as fast as I could without triggering my vampire speed, but it still took longer than I wanted to get to the girls' room.

I grabbed the laundry basket expecting to find it almost full like it should have been, but it wasn't there were items clearly missing from it, including Anna's favorite shirt that Esme had helped Anna make. I went to Edward's room to check his laundry basket. I was missing a few things too, including the top I had worn the day before yesterday.

I slammed the basket down on the floor. "The person was a vampire, right?"

Edward nodded.

"He was collecting your scents," Jasper voiced the truth none of us could deny.

I headed back down the stairs knowing that I needed to run. I needed to control the fury that was building inside of me, I needed to let it out before it caused more damage. We definitely weren't going to school today.

I was out the door and halfway to the river before Edward tried to stop me.

"Bella please, you need to calm down." He reached for me, but I pulled away. I was too angry to be comforted.

"Calm down! My family is being hunted. Anna and Cissy are wanted by the Undermining, a vicious psychotic vampire bent on revenge, and now this!" With each word my voice raised angrily.

"We will keep the two of them safe and…"

"It's my job to protect them! I'm the one who is supposed to keep them safe; but I can't, not with this stupid ring." I grabbed my ring pulling it off my right hand. Edward surprisingly wasn't fast enough to stop me from chucking it.

He was able to run and catch it before it was lost in the woods. They could have found it if he hadn't caught it, but it would have taken some time; even for them.

I growled in frustration. Desperate for some sort of release I curled my right hand into a fist and crashed it into the closest tree. Not hard, I didn't want to hurt myself after all, but when my fist made contact with the tree, it went through the bark.

I heard an audible snap and pain spread through my hand instantly. I wasn't able to worry about that though.

What I had thought was going to be a simple punch to the tree, turned into much worse. My fist left a gaping hole in the tree, and as I jerked my hand free, I uprooted it. I was going to be crushed.

Something hard slammed into me from a different direction than I was expecting, and we crashed to the ground. It would be obvious to be hit by the front, by the tree, or for Edward to come from the back. I was definitely not expecting to be hit from the side.

Cold strong arms, definitely a vampire, held me tightly. I heard the sound of the tree I had uprooted slam into the ground, and flinched, burying my head against my savior's neck.

I didn't know how long we stayed there on the ground, it felt like hours but it probably wasn't even a minute. My hand finally couldn't be ignored anymore and I whimpered at the pain.

"Sh, Bella," Carlisle whispered soothingly. "I need you to tell me everything that's hurting before I can move you."

"Just my hand." My voice shook and the tears I had been trying to hold back started to fall. My hand was killing me. It had to be broken, then there were some pieces of wood lodged into my skin when I had pulled it out of the tree.

Carlisle brushed his hand over my hair, gently comforting me. "Alright, let's go inside and take a look at your hand.

I was lifted into his arms as he got up. After shifting so I was more comfortable, I buried my face in his chest, soaking in the comfort, and the safety; thankful for the fact I was still alive.

Author's note.

Be honest, who guessed Carlisle was the one to save her from the tree? He actually wasn't my first choice but I decided to change to him. Who do you think I originally had saving Bella? And no it wasn't Edward either.

Now that Bella's strength is in, what do you guys think is going to happen next? Who's going to help her train her strength? Will she be able to control it? Will it affect her as much as her vampire speed did?

Before I sign out this time, I want to explain the long wait for an update. Back in April last year, I realized that I gave out some information that wasn't supposed to be given yet. Because of my mistake, I actually caused a huge problem with my timeline that needed to be corrected before I could post another that could make it worse.

For the rest of 2018 I had been working on fixing the problem with the timeline, cleaning up the mess and getting it back on track with how it is supposed to be.

I feel terrible that I didn't catch it before posting the chapter, but when I found the mistake in April I knew if I didn't fix it now I'd have more problems down the road.

So thank you all for your patience with this series.

I would like to give you all a little something as a thank you gift. So, if at least one person can guess the information that I gave out too early, which caused all of these problems, I will give you all a SNEAK PEEK 500 WORDS from Transitionals: Breaking Dawn, at the end of the Next Chapter of Transitionals: Eclipse. The problem is somewhere in Transitionals: Eclipse (Hint: passed the first three chapters.)

If no one guesses correctly I'll still post the SNEAK PEEK but it will be at the end of the last chapter of Transitionals: Eclipse.

Thanks again for your patience, I'll see you sometime next week,

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