Twilight Fan fiction

Transitionals

Disclaimer: I do not, nor will I ever own Twilight. I have used some sentences directly from the book, I don't own them. They were originally and forever owned by Stephenie Meyer.

Okay everyone I promised it would be up before the end of Monday, so here it is. I'll let you all jump into it now. Hope you like it.

Chapter 15

Little hands were patting my cheeks, but I couldn't get my eyes to open.

"Wake up, Auntie Bella. Not time to sleep."

I recognized the little voice but my brain didn't want to tell me who it was.

"Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!" The little voice was getting annoyed.

"Someone needs a nap," another voice said.

"She already had a nap today," the words were out of my mouth before I realized I could speak.

A loud sigh beside me, startled me enough to pry my eyes open. I looked into Edward's eyes. The worry there disappeared turning into relief.

"You need to stop doing that to Edward. All that anxiety isn't good for Jasper."

I turned to the sound of Emmett's voice and found him pointing in Jasper's direction. I glanced that way and found Jasper staring at me. He looked, well, horrible. I hope I didn't cause that.

He looked remorseful. His eyes held pain, regret, and guilt. His shoulders were hunched as if expecting someone to start yelling at him. Why would someone yell at him?

I glanced around the room and found myself in the Cullen's living room, on their white couch. "Why is it, I tend to wake up on your couch and can't remember how I got there?"

Emmett's laughter filled the room. A few of the others smiled, but a couple still looked at me with concern. One certain little girl was glaring at me.

"What's wrong Anna?" My voice sounded groggy to me. It made me wonder how long I was out.

Anna opened her mouth, and I immediately prepared to be yelled at.

Rosalie gently picked Anna up, and cradled her in her arms, humming something I didn't recognize. Anna calmed instantly, relaxing in her arms.

"Anna gave you her extra energy. She's not a very happy three year old right now." Edward whispered the explanation so Anna wouldn't hear him. He brushed his hand over my hair giving me a worried look. "Are you alright?"

I tried to reassure him with my smile. "I'm fine, just tired. What happened anyway?"

His eyes narrowed, giving me a confused look. "What do you remember?"

I tried to sit up but he wouldn't let me. I rolled my eyes and reached my hand out palm up. He handed me an information box. Quickly, I checked what had happened.

Both of my shields had been in use together for roughly ten minutes. That didn't make any sense, I shouldn't have been able to support that for so long. My brain wasn't that strong yet. Training both of them, is one thing, but using them together was completely different. I can't let that happen again.

Searching for what exactly had triggered my physical shield was the first step to figuring this out. It would appear the sudden emotional breakdown was the key point. I had been overloaded with strong emotions, when I had started thinking about my family.

Since my physical shield is powered by my emotions it had reacted to all I was feeling. My mental shield had reacted when I got mad though. How was I supposed to train my mental shield, if the emotions used to work with it could set off my physical shield?

"Bella, sweetie, do you remember anything that happened?" Esme knelt beside Edward, patting my knee gently.

I pushed myself up, using my elbows to hold my upper body up off the couch. "I remember everything. All the emotions caused my physical shield to react and my two shields together," I paused shaking my head. "I didn't know that my shields could react that way. Trap me inside myself." I sat up fully, I needed to think, and I couldn't do it laying down on the couch.

"That's what happened? That's why we couldn't get you to respond?" Edward's eyes widened in panic. He instinctively wrapped me in a hug.

"I'm fine." I needed him to calm down, I didn't want all the crazy emotions to affect Jasper. "I should check my percentage and energy level," I said trying to change the subject.

The room was surprisingly quiet.

I glanced from one person to another, getting more nervous with each face. A feeling of calm helped relax me, but it vanished suddenly. I turned to Jasper quickly, wondering why he had stopped.

He gave me an apologetic look, and that's when I realized he was blaming himself for what had happened. It wasn't his fault, how was he supposed to know that would happen. It was a good idea, he couldn't have known that what happened, would happen.

I smiled at him. "It wasn't your fault Jasper."

He shook his head. "I was the one influencing your powers. I shouldn't have done that emotion. I should have known that that was a bad idea. Of course you'd start thinking about your family."

I stopped him there. "I never said I thought about my family."

"You didn't need to, there was only one logical reason for that much pain."

He had me there. "It still wasn't your fault. Testing to see which emotions affect my shield was a good idea, we didn't know that it would cause my physical shield to react, but I should of. I know my shield…"

"Don't. You. Dare," Alice hissed. She glared at me then at Jasper. "We could sit around playing the blame game for hours but that doesn't help us. Bella's fine, we're all fine, it's over with. Besides, we have other things to worry about."

My nerves were back, and this time Jasper let the calm wrap around me. I gave him a thankful smile, which he returned.

Edward handed me the information box; it was already showing me my percentage.

Forty nine point nine.

"When was the last time it increased?" I was afraid of the answer.

"Yesterday, just after you passed out," Carlisle answered.

Yesterday, I glanced at a clock and grimaced. I'd been out for a whole day. There's no way my percentage didn't increase while I was unconscious. That didn't make any sense.

"That's not the only weird thing," Alice said taking in my confused look. When I met her eyes she continued. "Your energy levels are normal. What's going on Bella, this doesn't make any sense? Not based on what you've told us."

I shook my head, this didn't make any sense. My percentage shouldn't have stopped increasing and my energy levels should not be normal. Now that I think about it, I didn't even know what had brought my levels back to normal. They had been lower than normal even since the incident with Tyler's van, now all a sudden they're back to normal.

"I need to know what happened after my physical shield reacted, once I had both shields up." I turned to Carlisle.

He glanced at the others briefly before turning back to me. "We couldn't get you to respond to us. It was like you couldn't hear us. I was monitoring everything that was happening, using the information box. You mind couldn't handle the pressure of using both shields at once." Concern filled his eyes. "It was trying to shut down."

I nodded, that's why my mind had started working slower.

Carlisle nodded towards Edward, then Jasper and Alice. "The three of them were trying to get through to you, but nothing worked until Anna suggested your ring. She was able to use her powers to get through once you had the ring on.

"Your energy levels, were dropping while your percentage was increasing steadily until you stopped shielding. After you passed out your percentage increased one final time, then your energy level stabilized."

I shook my head back and forth slowly, thinking of an answer but coming up blank. "It's impossible. A percentage doesn't just stop increasing like that."

"And the Energy levels?" Eleazar prompted.

I shrugged. "Stabilizing energy levels the way you described is possible with healing energy."

Their puzzled expressions should have been encouragement enough to continue my explanation, but my mind was no longer thinking along those lines.

I turned to Rosalie who was holding Anna in her arms. She was still humming even though the little girl in her arms had fallen asleep. "Rosalie, I need to know what Anna's been sensing lately." I reached out for Anna.

Rosalie handed her to me, careful not to wake her.

Edward had his arms around the two of us before I could even set my hand against her skin. He helped support Anna with one arm and set his free hand against her cheek. I rolled my eyes, always wanting to know everything as soon as possible.

I ignored that thought and focused on what I was feeling from Anna.

There was the danger sensation from the Denali sisters, and a sense of change. Something about our lives or at least one of our lives, was changing. I wouldn't be able to see whose life would be affected until Anna woke up. She was too young to pick out the people affected by change without touching them.

I knew I wasn't the cause of the sensation. Transitional creatures can't cause a sensation of change, since we were constantly changing. Once we had finished the transition we'd be able to, but not before that time. This change wasn't about me, otherwise it would be a different sensation. At least this explains why Anna didn't want me to touch her, it would have made it harder for her to focus, at the time.

"What is the other sensation?" Jasper asked, his voice slightly louder than normal, making me realize the question had been asked more than once.

I chuckled softly, embarrassed. "It's change. Something is changing in one or more of our lives."

"Well, you're constantly changing," Emmett suggested.

I shook my head. "Transitional creatures can't give off a sense of change until after they've completed the transition."

Kate took a careful step forward. "Can you find out what the change is about by doing what you did before, to figure out our danger sensations?" She pointed to her sisters and to herself when she mentioned their sensations.

"Anna has to be awake for that, but it won't work for this sensation. Sensing change is difficult, and she's too young to register the sensation the way the adults with her powers can." I gently passed Anna back to Rosalie. "She'll need to touch the person to match them to the change sensation."

Rosalie glanced sadly down at Anna. "Should we wake her then?"

"Is this really important?" Carmen asked.

I turned to her, surprised to find Cissy in her arms.

When no one answered her, she continued. "Isn't the mystery of Bella's energy and percentage, more important?"

Rosalie nodded hopefully, not wanting to wake Anna. "Carmen's right isn't she? Bella, isn't that more important?"

All eyes were on me. "There is too much information that we're missing."

"Well, let's talk it out." Rosalie sat down on the couch. "You can start by explain what healing energy is."

Everyone else took a seat. Edward sat down on the couch and pulled me onto his lap.

I rested my head against his shoulder, and sighed. "Healing energy is rare, it's rarer than psychics. People with that power can use energy to heal, for all different health reason. From stubbing your toe to stabilizing energy levels."

I rubbed my forehead. "I only mentioned the healing energy because that's the only thing that could stabilize energy that way, besides a family connection."

"Family connection?" Rosalie prompted.

I groaned. "Another type of power is called connectors. People with these powers can connect themselves to different things. They connect their power to a block of cement and now they're as hard as cement, making them strong. Connect to bird and they can fly. You get the picture."

"So what happens when they connect their powers to a family member?" Tanya asked thoughtfully. Understanding what the family connection was, based on its name.

"Connectors are automatically connected to family, and they're connected to all of their family."

"Why the added emphasis there, Bella?" Emmett halted my explanation with his question.

I glanced at him thoughtfully. My expression showing how much this idea meant to me. "A lot of people underestimate the strength of family ties. That old saying, 'you can't choose your family' it's wrong. Of course I know what it's really saying, you can't choose what family you're born into. But you can choose your family."

I motioned to all of them. "Look at all of you guys. You choose to be a family. You've adopted each other."

"So even adopted family members are connected to a connector?" Eleazar asked.

I nodded. "Every family member is. Whether they were born into the family, married into it, or were adopted. They're all connected. Since all family is already connected, connectors can create a family connection.

"A family connections is a defensive connection. It protects the group connected from a dangerous situation."

Jasper cleared his throat making everyone turn to him. "So there's defensive connections and offensive connections?"

Of course he'd be the one to ask that. "Naturally, it depends on what the connector has connected to, and how they use the connection though."

Jasper nodded, understanding what I meant. "I think it's time to wake Anna." Rosalie glared at him but he continued. "We don't know what caused Bella's percentage to stop increasing, and what stabilized her energy levels. We know what can stabilize energy now, but we have no guarantee that one of them is what helped Bella. But what if whatever Anna is feeling is important."

"Jasper has a point," Carlisle added. "We've come to a halt with whatever happened to Bella. We can only guess at the moment. Anna though has information that we could possibly be needing."

Rosalie sighed, nodding in agreement after a while. She gently shook Anna awake. "Come on Sweetie, you need to wake up."

Anna rubbed her eyes, before turning in Rosalie's arms to go back to sleep.

"Nap time is over kid." Emmett swept Anna out of Rosalie's arms.

Rosalie hissed at him. I couldn't hear the noise but I could tell by the look of her face, what she had done. It was a good thing I couldn't hear, that meant Anna wouldn't have been able to hear it either.

Anna laughed, despite the sudden sweeping motion of being taken from Rosalie. She giggled and wrapped her arms around Emmett's neck.

He gave a quick kiss on her cheek. "Hey squirt we need your help."

She bounced in his arm excitedly. "I love to help."

"Good we need you to figure out what is changing?" Emmett said handing Anna off to Esme.

Anna shook her head. "It's not your mommy."

Rosalie snatched Anna back from Emmett. "It's not?"

"No. Not you or you or you…" Anna continued pointing to each of the Cullens. She then glanced at me. "It can't be Auntie Bella." She pointed to the Denalis. "Maybe them."

Anna slid out of Rosalie's arms and walked carefully to Tanya. She was wary of the Denali sisters, especially since we didn't explain what exactly their danger sensation was about.

Tanya smiled at her. She reached her hand out for her to take.

Anna took her hand and closed her eyes. She dropped her hand and went to Irina who had her hand already stretched out towards her.

Anna shook her head. She stopped in front of Kate and my heart skipped a beat, something that the vampires didn't miss.

Honestly I wasn't scared of Kate. I knew she wouldn't hurt Anna. What I was afraid of were my powers. Could Anna taking Kate's hand, trigger a reaction in me that could make my shields do what they did before. The very thought sent a shiver through me."

Edward gave me a gentle squeeze, trying to comfort me. "Kate won't hurt her."

"I know, but I don't know what will trigger what happened before." I turned my head so my face was against his chest. "Could the knowledge of what she can do trigger an emotional reaction from me?" My voice was hardly louder than a whisper.

He ran his hand over my hair. "Nothing's going to happen."

I wasn't sure why he thought that. Maybe Alice saw it. I nodded and listened, waiting until it was safe for me to move.

"Not Kate."

I turned back to the group. Kate caught my eye and I gave her an apologetic smile. She waved it away with her hand and smiled reassuringly. I was glad I hadn't offended her.

We watched as Anna took Eleazar's hand. She shook her head and moved over to Carmen, who was still holding Cissy.

Carmen held the baby in one arm and lifted Anna onto her lap with the other. She hugged the two of them while Anna set her hand on the woman's cheek.

Anna sighed and turned to me. "Not her, Auntie."

We all sighed.

"We'll check Charlie tonight." I promised.

"Not Uncle Charlie." Anna shook her head sadly.

I couldn't stop my curious glance. When Anna didn't explain I turned to Edward.

He smiled, but it didn't reach his eyes. "We called Charlie yesterday. You came but he didn't know what was going on. He couldn't explain it."

"How did that go?" I don't know why I asked, I already knew Charlie would have freaked out.

Esme was the one who answered. "Your dad was worried about you. He was really surprised about your percentage. When he couldn't explain it he called someone he thought would know?"

"He never said his name, just a code word," Emmett said. He grasped his chin, stroking an imaginary beard. "I wonder why."

Anna giggled, from where she sat. She still hadn't moved from Carmen's lap. She must have gotten close to the woman while I was unconscious. She smiled at me. "He called Grandpa Ray."

Eyebrows raised is surprise all over the living room.

"That was the famous Grandpa Ray, we were told about?" Tanya asked, her eyes shockingly wide.

I had to know. "What did Grandpa Ray say?"

"He didn't have any idea." Edward fiddled with a piece of my hair, trying to seem bored, but I could tell he was worried. "He also said he'd try to come up this way, but he didn't know when he'd be able to."

"Uncle Carlos no help either." Anna added.

I turned back to Anna. "What do you mean?"

"Uncle Charlie called Uncle Carlos," Anna explained.

"He didn't know anything either," Rosalie add.

Anna yawned reminded all of us that she was tired. We all turned our attention to her. She ran her hand over Cissy's cheek, lovingly but her little body froze.

My heart started beating faster, worried that something was wrong. Anna's sudden change could mean anything.

Eventually Anna relaxed. She glared down at her baby sister, but I could tell she wasn't mad at her just slightly annoyed. "So you're the one messing with me."

I couldn't help the sharp pang that went through me. Toby used to say that, all the time, seeing as the fact our cousins like teasing and tormenting each other.

Thankfully only Jasper and Edward noticed my pain. It was too bad though that I couldn't hide it from them, seeing as Jasper could feel it and Edward could read Jasper's mind.

Rosalie got up and took Anna into her arms. "What do you mean Anna? Is Cissy the one who's giving off the change sensation?"

Anna nodded and I got up. "Now that we know who it's about, let's see what it's about?"

Jasper got up from his seat. "Just like before?"

I nodded once. "We'll need Cissy though."

Carmen handed me the baby and I moved to go sit back down beside Rosalie.

Anna set one of her hands on Cissy's cheek while the other held my hand. She focused on the sense of change, and Jasper boosted the strength of the feeling, sending it back to us twice as strong.

Anna closed her eyes and started breaking down the sensation. There wasn't much to it. Strength, life, and energy.

Anna and I sighed at the same time. I shook my head while Anna slouched, leaning back against Rosalie.

I met the others' curious eyes. "Cissy powers are coming in."

Emmett laughed. "Great, what are her powers?"

I shrugged. "We won't know until they start making themselves known." I glanced at Anna. "She was about five months when her powers started coming in."

Carlisle tilted his head to the side thinking as he glanced at Anna. "And Anna and Cissy's powers can come sooner than the others in your family because they're part of the legacy line right?"

I nodded. "That's right." I tightened my hold on Cissy who had slept soundly through this whole thing. I was not looking forward to trying to teach the baby how to control her powers. To this day I still hadn't figured out how Toby had been able to teach Anna when she was so young. At least I would have some help, whenever the time comes.

Author's note

Alright this chapter is written. Please let me know if you guys see any mistakes. I tried my best to catch them, but sometimes I just can't catch mistakes in my own work. I think it might because I know what it's supposed to say, so my brain skips over minor mistakes thinking that it was written correctly.

Wow so the four month old is getting her powers, what are your thoughts on that? Any ideas what her powers might be? Or when we might see them?

On a side note, are any of you excited about the possibility of meeting Grandpa Ray?

This was fun to write and I hope you guys like it.

Later,

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