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.

It is time to get some answers. But you'll have to read to find out which questions I answer.

Chapter 17

"Uh, Bella? Should this baby be doing that?"

I hurried into the living room, fearing the worst. Anna and Rose were right behind me.

Emmett and Jasper were sitting in the living room, their video game forgotten as they stare at Cissy laying on her back in her playpen.

I watched Cissy, wondering what she could possibly be doing to make Emmett nervous. I didn't see anything wrong. She was babbling to herself softly, every once in a while she'd kick her legs, nothing out of the ordinary.

I turned to see if Emmett was playing the boy who called wolf, but it was clear he wasn't. Out of the corner of my eye a saw movement in Cissy's playpen. I turned back to her fast enough to catch the movement.

The only possible way for me to explain what was happening was that her little body was vibrating.

"She's going to be a little speed demon once she starts crawling." Kate sat down beside the playpen.

Emmett set his controller down and joined Kate on the floor. "Awesome, a baby with super speed."

Ugh, a baby with super speed; that didn't sound like a good idea. How would I catch her?

"Don't worry, we can catch her for you." Edward kissed my cheek as he passed me to join the others by Cissy's playpen.

I rubbed my temples. "You know sometimes I think my mental shield has a hole in it."

Alice laughed beside me. "Silly Bella, we all knew what you were thinking then, it was written clearly on your face."

Of course they knew. My mom had always called me her open book. For a quick second I felt the familiar ache of guilt, but then it vanished.

Jasper.

I looked around the room but before I could find him Kate grabbed hold of my arm.

"Come on Bella, it's time to go work on your shield," She said, dragging me out of the house and towards the back yard.

We had been working on my shield for the past few days, but we hadn't gotten anywhere. The training sessions had taken a turn no one had really planned on doing. Kate would try to shock someone and I'd hopefully block it.

So far it only worked some of the times. Edward was the only one willing to receive shock after shock. Everyone else were trying to come up with a better plan.

My mental shield blocks both Edward and Eleazar's powers, but trying to block them from reading the other's mind and powers, hadn't worked at all. The prospect of someone getting hurt seemed to motivate my shield to work but only sporadically.

Anna clutched one of my hands, while Edward took the other.

"Alright, are the two of you ready?" Kate asked, holding a hand out towards Edward.

I glared at the hand. "I don't like this." It was how I had started each of these sessions.

Kate rolled her eyes. "We know Bella, the others are trying to come up with a better plan, but until they do, we continue with this. You need to train your powers." Her eyes turned thoughtful; whatever she was thinking about brought a low growl out of Edward.

"Kate, I wouldn't do that if I were you." His voice was velvety smooth, making his warning sound deadly.

Kate smirked at him, making it obvious that she wasn't going to listen to his warning. She turned to Anna and I saw red.

I could deal with Edward volunteering, he could handle the effects of Kate's powers; Anna couldn't.

"Don't you dare touch her," I hissed.

Surprisingly Kate smiled at me, before turning to Edward. "Can you hear Anna?"

He shook his head. "I don't hear a thing, but you shouldn't goad Bella like that. We don't know what will set her powers off."

"We know her mental shield reacts to her emotions, every time she gets mad her shield works." Emmett held up the information box he was studying.

"But we don't want both of her shields to react though," Carlisle reminded him.

Before anyone else could say anything all of the vampires turned to house.

"What's wrong?" I handed Anna over to Rosalie just in case I needed my hands free.

Rosalie shook her head, not sure what was going on. "Someone is driving down our driveway."

Out of the corner of my eye I saw Carlisle nod in Edward's direction. He headed back inside, with Eleazar right behind him.

A few minutes later the rest of the vampires relaxed.

"It's just your dad?" Edward told me while he wrapped his arm around my waist. I relaxed in his embrace, while I wondered why Charlie was here.

I tried to go inside but Edward had me tightly in his arms. "They're coming outside."

Less than a minute later Charlie walked out with Carlisle and Eleazar.

"Uncle Charlie!" Anna yelled, squirming in Rosalie's arm, trying to get down. Rosalie set her down and she ran over to Charlie.

Charlie lifted her into his arms.

"Guess what Uncle Charlie?"

Charlie laughed. "What little Belle?"

"Cissy's fast."

Charlie looked around until he found the baby in Carmen's arms. "Has she already started crawling?"

My eyes widened in horror. "Goodness no." I was seriously dreading the day Cissy learned to crawl. "Cissy's powers appear to be super speed."

Charlie laughed. "Won't that be fun?"

I decided to change the subject. "So what brings you out here, dad?"

He help up a small cell phone. It was one of the secure lines for the rebellion. My eyes narrowed in confusion. Who was trying to get a hold of me?

Thankfully he didn't toss the phone at me, he knew I didn't have any hand eye coordination at the moment. He held it out for me and I took it. There was only one number in the phone records for this device.

I quickly dialed the number Grandpa Ray would expect me to call. Counting each ring, I waited for him to answer on the eighth one.

As was normal, he answered my call on the eighth ring. "Good afternoon Isabella."

"Afternoon," was all I could say. I was confused, and slightly worried about why he was trying to get a hold of me.

There was a soft chuckle on the other end of the phone. "Isabella, if this conversation was anything to truly worry about, we'd be having it in person."

This didn't calm me though. What Grandpa Ray believed needed to be worried about and what I worried about were completely different.

He sighed when he realized I wasn't going to answer him. "Isabella, I've been studying the information box I have that's connected to you, ever since you're father called me."

Now I was really nervous.

"Isabella Marie, if you can't calm down I'll talk to someone who can." Grandpa Ray spoke sternly.

Great he had middle named me, as my cousin Daymen would say.

"I'm looking at your information box as we speak, I can see that you're upset. Now calm down or pass the phone to someone else." His voice calmed with each word until it was sympathetic.

I took a deep breath, letting it out slowly. Thankfully Jasper helped me with his powers.

"Someone is influencing your emotions." Grandpa Ray's comment surprised me.

"That would be Jasper. But how did you know that?"

Another laugh came over the phone. "Isabella I can read this box better than anyone. I can read the differences of the recordings of your emotions; the ones where you are in control and when someone else is controlling them."

I didn't even know that was possible. "There's a difference in the recordings?"

"A subtle one, but enough for me to tell when someone is controlling your emotions."

"Can the box tell when someone is controlling Bella?" Jasper asked, knowing that a vampire would be able to hear him even though he didn't speak directly into the phone.

"There's ways that the box can tell us that, yes."

"But that's not what you called to tell us, right?" I asked, wanting to know the specific reason for the call.

Another sigh. "No that's not why I called. I want to talk to you about your recent brain activity. Is the area secure?"

I turned to Anna. She smiled before scanning the area for any danger.

Edward searched for any unexpected minds. "There isn't any danger near us."

Anna confirmed his words with a single nod.

"We're good to go Grandpa Ray."

Edward took my hand and led the way inside the house were we could all be comfortable.

Edward and I sat on the love seat, with Anna on his lap. Emmett, Rosalie and Kate were sitting on the floor beside Cissy's playpen. Carmen set her back inside it before sitting beside Kate on the floor. Carlisle Esme, and Eleazar sat on the couch. Charlie sat on one of the chairs, while Irina sat on the matching one. Tanya perched on the arm of her sister's chair. Jasper sat with Alice on his lap, in front of the love seat. No doubt so he could better control my emotions should Grandpa Ray's news upset me.

I took the phone and put it on the speaker, that way Anna and Charlie could participate in this conversation. "Go ahead Grandpa Ray, you're on speaker."

Grandpa Ray's laugh rang out of the phone. "Whatever works." He laughed again before getting on with the reason he called.

He started off by explaining the purpose for this conversation to the people who didn't know. "I've been keeping an eye on Bella, especially her brain activity, in hopes to figure out what's going on."

"And did you find something?" Carlisle asked hopefully.

"Possibly. I still haven't figure out what caused her energy to stabilize and her percentage to stop increasing, oh why she was unconscious for so long, but I may know what's going on with her shields."

We all shared hopeful looks. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could figure out my shields, then I would know how to train them.

"Well don't leave us in suspense," Charlie yelled at the phone. His behavior surprised me. I've never seen or even heard Charlie be disrespectful to an elder.

Grandpa Ray wasn't offended though in fact he laughed. "Calm down Charlie, I know you worry about Bella."

Ah that made sense. I was still getting used to my dad taking care of me. I had to remind myself that that wasn't just my job. That it was okay to let people to take care of me. That was going to be a hard to get used to.

"I've been examining all the information I got from the box. Checking every detail that changes with each second. If you would, could one of you set a box to check Bella's emotional recordings, while another checks her brain activity, and another checks her mental shield."

Jasper checked the emotional recording, while Carlisle checked brain activity, and Charlie checked my mental shield.

"We're all set over here," I announced.

"Good, now, look for the times were Bella has control over her shield, even if it isn't very strong. Check those times and then check those times with the other two information boxes. See what's going on with her emotions and her brain."

Charlie, Carlisle and Jasper gathered in front of the fire place and checked all three, just like Grandpa Ray told them to. We waited as the three of them conversed quietly. By the time they were done, every vampire and of course my dad, were staring at me.

"What did I do?" I asked nervously.

"Your shield is purely defensive," Emmett answered me.

I raised an eyebrow curiously. "Care to explain further."

Jasper was the one to reply. "We were wrong. Your mental shield isn't connected to your emotions. When you want to protect someone, that's when it works. The stronger the need to protect is, the better control you have."

"Every time you were able to use your shield, we thought it was because you were angry; and that emotion was strong enough to support your shield." Carlisle looked like he was trying to grasp everything he had just learned. "The reality of it though was that you were determined to protect the people around you. That's why your shield was so strong whenever Kate got too close to Anna, during the sessions."

I thought about this, trying to wrap my brain around it. The way to get my shield to work was to want to protect people. No that wasn't true, 'the stronger the need to protect is, the better control you have.' That's what Jasper had said. It was the need to protect, that's how it works.

If only I had known before. The thought was in my head before I could block it.

I heard someone sigh but I was so lost in my thoughts I couldn't figure out who it was. A second later Jasper tried helping me. It didn't work.

"ISABELLA!"

I jumped at the loud cry.

"I can see what you're feeling young lady. Now cut that out, and let's get back to what we were doing."

Snapping out of my daze, I realized Grandpa Ray was the one who had yelled my name.

I laid my head against Edward's shoulder and nodded.

"He can't see you nod your head over the phone Bella," Emmett teased me, making me smile slightly in embarrassment.

Grandpa Ray answered, as if I had spoken out loud instead of simply nodding. "Now that we figured that out, you know what you have to do to train. Focus on your desire to protect, you have plenty of people to help motivate you. And Jasper should be able to help you, now that he knows how to."

"Thanks Grandpa Ray, now at least we know what to do." Charlie walked back to his seat, taking the phone from me.

"No problem. I plan to keep an eye on Bella, I'm still curious about all the other stuff that happened."

I groaned, great, now I had someone else checking up on me. I couldn't handle all the attention.

"We'll let you go Grandpa Ray. We've got work to do." Alice said goodbye to Grandpa Ray and dragged me back to the back yard.

"All right lil' sis, protect Alice."

"No Emmett!" Alice and Edward yelled at the same time, Emmett launched himself towards Alice and me.

Jasper and Edward sped toward us, trying to catch Emmett.

I shot my physical shield out, so it would react instinctively. Sadly all three of them hit my shield and was thrown backwards.

Emmett sat up, shaking his head as if to clear it. "That was awesome!"

"Emmett, we're trying to train her mental shield, and you can't attack anyone's mind." Kate shook her head before stalking towards Alice and me.

Is it wrong that I was able to protect Alice better than I could protect Edward? He is my mate after all. If I could protect any of them it should be him. But that wasn't the case.

Kate hadn't succeeded in shocking Alice, each time I blocked her. Yet my shield was still behaving sporadically whenever Edward was the willing guinea pig. Even my dad was protected all the time, but he was human after all. Getting shocked wouldn't have been good for him. Despite knowing that he still volunteered.

But none of that bothered me more than Anna volunteering. She hadn't been shocked thankfully, but it was easy for me to be protective of her. She was my younger cousin, and she was so small. And then there was the fact I couldn't let anything else happen to one of my family members.

The others were still weary of my lack of control. Jasper was the only member of the Cullens who had the excuse of being busy. He was slowly, and carefully trying to build the intensity of my feelings. I could already tell that it was working; it was getting a little easier to use my shield.
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Sunday evening we were back in the back yard. The sun had already set, but it wasn't very late yet. The cool night air didn't bother me so we were outside working.

Alice bounced to my side, a mischievous grin on her face. "Bella I have an awesome idea."

These words sent shivers down my back for some reason.

Jasper laughed, sensing my emotions. "Calm down Alice, you're scaring her."

Alice's smile faded, before she perked up. "Bella, Edward and I are going to fight."

My eyes widened in shock. "Why?"

She merely laughed at me. "Because Edward will be able to read my mind and know what my moves are before I make them."

I could see where she was going with this. "I don't know how well this will work but we can give it a try."

Alice squealed with glee and quickly ran to a spot a few yards away from me.

"I so hope this works," I heard Emmett says somewhere behind me.

Edward gave me a quick kiss on my cheek before following Alice. I was suddenly distracted with memories of our almost first kiss.

"Focus Bella, you don't want Edward to hurt Alice right?" Jasper stepped up to myside.

I found his words silly. Edward couldn't hurt Alice, if this worked out he wouldn't be able to read her thoughts, but she'd still be able to see his future. I knew he was teasing me anyway.

Despite knowing that, I listened to his words. I focused on Alice, trying to force my mental shield around her. The distance was a problem, but Jasper tried to make up for that by increasing the power of my feelings. I had to admit that it was getting easier and easier to work with my shield. The more Jasper worked with me the more I became used to my shield.

Eventually I was able to put my shield around my best friend. Edward nodded to her, signaling he couldn't read her thoughts, and she launched herself towards him.

It was harder to keep the shield around the right person, once they were fighting. I slipped a couple times, and the shield ended up around Edward.

I still couldn't support my shield for long. After about five minutes, I was done. I couldn't keep it up any longer, and I was beat.

Jasper caught me as I staggered and Edward was beside us a fraction of a second later.

"Enough, that's it for tonight." He gently took me from Jasper, lifting me into his arms.

Carlisle nodded his agreement as he walked towards us. "You need to rest Bella. You should go home and go to bed."

Going to bed sounded wonderful. I could imagine climbing into bed and falling asleep as my head hit the pillow.

Author's note

Hurray, they know how to help Bella with her shield. And as far as I know we only have one more chapter before the fun begins. Hopefully nothing changes that.

So we got to talk to Grandpa Ray, did that make you more excited to meet him?

Just curious, which training do you guys like better, Kate and her powers, or fighting against Edward? Do any of you guys have any other ideas about training?

Here's the question I'm really interested in hearing your thoughts. What do you think about Cissy? Does she really have super speed, or is it something else?

I hope you guys liked this chapter. Also if you see any mistakes, I'd love to know, so I can fix them. And if there's something you don't understand or are unsure of, feel free to message me your questions.

Until next time,

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