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. There are just some descriptions and dialogue that I can't bear to change and or leave out. They were originally and forever owned by Stephenie Meyer.

Alright, it's finally time to see what the Undermining has planned, what will they do to get Bella's attention. I know I'm excited. I hope you all are too.

Chapter 22

I rested my arm over my forehead, glancing up at the ceiling. The clock on the bedside table said it was three, but without a window in this basement bedroom, I had no idea if it was early morning or afternoon.

I groaned as I got up, it gave me the feeling that it was too early to be up. Sadly this whole adventure was messing with my sleeping habits.

Walking into the main room, I found Jasper and Alice sitting, leaning over the coffee table. Alice was sketching another picture.

I sat down beside Jasper, looking over his shoulder at the picture.

This one wasn't of the security room. This room showed a modest and comfortable living room. The ceiling slanted gently, with dark wooden boards supporting it. The walls were slightly darker, while the carpet floor was lighter.

From the angle of the picture you could see the corner of a tv hanging on the wall, and all the different system and boxes that went with it, were underneath it on a stand. Two couches wrapped around the oval shaped coffee table which sat five feet in front of a stone fireplace. The room was more masculine, and it had a slight rustic feel to it.

Jasper felt the anger that was boiling inside me. He turned away from the picture to stare at me. "What's wrong Bella?"

I tried to get ahold of my anger, but it was hard. "That's Toby's safe house." My fury was evident in my voice.

Alice gave up on the picture, her eyes flashing to me. "How many people know about this safe house?"

My face twisted into a sneer. "Less than twenty, and only three of them were family members. That's his most secure house."

Alice was off the couch immediately. She had the cell phone to her ear. There was a soft buzzing noise, and her lips were moving rapidly, but I couldn't make out what she was saying.

Jasper gently set his hand on my shoulder. My anger dulled, but his calming influence couldn't completely get rid of it.

When Alice finished her phone call, she handed me the phone. "Call Charlie, Bella. Tell him that Carlisle is getting tickets for everyone. He thinks we all should be together."

I nodded and took the phone. It rang four times before it was answered.

"Bella?"

"Yeah dad." I sighed, "we've got a problem."

"Carlisle's on the phone with Esme, he had called earlier letting us know James got away. Did Alice see where he's going?

Just thinking about where he would go made me want to scream, or cry. "Yeah."

"Well, where is he Bells?"

"Alice saw him in Toby's safe house."

"Which one?" I knew that he had heard the pain in my voice. He no doubt already had an idea forming in his head.

"The top secret one."

His groan didn't surprise me. He knew what that implied. "Only thirteen people knew about that one right?"

"Including himself and three family members." I rubbed my head, feeling a headache coming on. "There's only nine people who could have told James where to find that place, and I can't believe that any one of them would do that."

"We didn't think anyone would betray us, and yet someone did." Charlie reminded me. "And we may just have to think about the fact that it might be more than one person."

I knew Charlie was thinking like the cop he was, but there was no way I could believe that more than one person had betrayed us. That thought was unimaginable.

"Um, I'm supposed to tell you that Carlisle is buying everyone tickets. He wants you all to get to the airport as fast as you can."

Charlie seemed to recognize the fact that I needed to end this conversation. "Okay Bells. Are you at Toby's house?"

"Yes."

"We'll be there soon, Bella. Don't drive Jasper crazy."

My dad knew how to make me feel better. I laughed but I wasn't the only one. Alice's soft tinkling laughter merged with mine. When I turned back to them, I found Jasper smiling, well really, smirking at the table.

"So everyone's going to meet us here?" He asked after calming Alice and himself down.

I nodded. "Charlie has a key, and Anna knows how to get down here. So we can just wait down here for them."

Jasper and Alice nodded.

The only problem with waiting for the rest to join us, was the waiting part. I sat on the couch, my feet tapping and my hands fiddling with the pencil Alice had used to sketch her picture. I had understood my dad's warning he had given me, but I had known that there wasn't a good chance I would listen. I couldn't help my fidgeting, even though I knew it was affecting Jasper.

He tried to help me, keeping the mood in the room calm, relaxed.

After about an hour of our silent waiting I snapped. The pencil in my hand broke, the noise startling me. I carefully set the two pieces down and went to the wall with the electronic controllers.

I turned the screen on, the wall set the screen to an appropriate size for a tv and I turned on the news. Honestly I didn't want to watch tv, but I needed something to keep me busy.

The news was normal, nothing strange or unexplainable on it. Good, that meant the Undermining was behaving.

Sadly I hadn't really been in much contact with the Rebellion since moving to Forks. Carlos would give me an update every now and then, but I hadn't taken the time to call any of the contacts I knew. I didn't really have the time to check in with the Rebellion, but I felt like it was my job, what with how Toby was no longer around to do that.

At least the news was normal. Any oddities in the human news in Phoenix, usually were caused by the Undermining. Phoenix was the Undermining's back yard after all.

An hour later Alice's phone went off. She answered the phone, but didn't speak. She was grinning, so obviously she knew who was calling, and if that was the case, she probably knew what the call was about.

"We'll see you when you get here." With that said, she hung up the phone and turned to Jasper and me. "They're just about to board the plane. Carlisle was able to get everyone on the same one. They should be here just before noon."

I sighed, exhaling the breath I had been holding. Edward and the others would be here soon. Once we were together again, we'd take care of this problem. Until it was taken care of, I couldn't go back to Forks, but at least we'd be together.

The relief I felt just from that one thought, was short lived. Alice and Jasper had stiffened and they both stared up at the ceiling.

"What's wrong?" I whispered, half expecting them to shush me.

Alice answered in a normal voice, so I knew no one was in the house. "The phone's ringing."

We waited silently, waiting for whoever was calling to stop; but apparently they had no plans to.

Jasper moved towards the stairs, leading the way up them.

Once upstairs I hurried to the phone, with Jasper and Alice behind me. According to the caller id the caller was anonymous. That wasn't very helpful.

Alice and Jasper shared a quick look before they both nodded for me to answer the phone.

I took the phone and held it to my ear. "Hello," I made a point of changing my tone of voice, trying to disguise it.

"Bella."

I nearly dropped the phone.

Jasper and Alice gave me worried looks. They didn't recognize the voice on the phone, they had never heard his voice before.

The voice on the phone couldn't be real though. Toby was dead, Carlos had said so. He had told us that only Cissy, Anna, and I had survived that night.

"Now listen very closely Bella," a voice I didn't recognize said. "I understand how this might seem to you, but surely you must know how easy it would be for us to fake your dear cousin's death."

I shook my head trying to clear it. There was no way that Toby was alive, I would have known, Anna would have known, we would have known.

"We're sure little Anna was able to identify who James worked for, so you know who I'm representing. Yes?"

"Yes," I snapped, letting my voice filled with rage. Jasper tried to calm me but I ignored him.

"Now, now Bella, let's try to keep this civil. We wouldn't want James to hurt Toby, now would we?"

"That's not Toby, he died that night."

There was a soft chuckle on the other end of the phone. "Oh Bella, you've seen Toby fake his death before." Before I could answer, the friendly voice continued. "But if it would make you feel better, talk with him. Go on," he urged. "Ask him a question."

'Careful,' Jasper mouthed to me.

I nodded turning so my back was to the wall and I was facing him and Alice.

"Do you remember that day I broke my arm, Toby?"

Toby's voice came over the phone, sounding tired, and pained. "Which time Bella?"

"The first time." I shrugged, rolling my eyes, not believing for a minute that I was really talking to Toby.

"You fell off a swing, but it was a clean break so it didn't take long for it to heal. That was the first time Tessa took care of you, it was also the first time I met her."

His words surprised me slightly. For a second I wavered on whether it could really be Toby on the phone.

Jasper sensed my uncertainty.

"Did that convince you Miss Swan, or would you like me to make it perfectly clear, who you were talking to."

The man's threat unnerved me.

"Toby always has a way to keep his family safe from deceit. Why don't you ask him for your code word?"

I grimaced but I knew what I needed to do. I had to be sure, just in case there was a small chance that Anna and Cissy's dad could really be alive. "What's the word Toby?"

"Time." Toby's voice answered using the tone of voice I expected. He was upset about having to answer in front of his enemies. It was one more example that I could be wrong, but I still wasn't going to believe it; not yet.

"I must say, that was rather easier than I expected." The friendly voice said. "Finding you, getting a hold of a phone number that you'd be sure to answer. But I think you know why it was so easy."

His words were implying that he was working with the person who had betrayed us.

Jasper placed one hand on my shoulder the other one was holding Alice's hand. He was trying to establish calm.

"So Bella, you know what we want." The voice was light, a false friend.

Jasper sent me confidence, in an attempt to help. "Yes."

"Good, you're the only family member left alive who knows about Toby's top secret safe house. Come alone, five o'clock sharp, if you want to see that Toby's girls are reunited with their father. Do you understand?"

"Yes."

"Do you think you'll be able to get away from your friends?"

'Not even,' Alice mouthed.

"I'll do anything for Toby." That was honest enough.

"We'll know if you don't come alone, Bella."

"I understand."

"Good, now tell your cousin goodbye for now."

The moment of truth, it was time to see whether or not it was really Toby there.

"See you soon, T." I had never called him T, over the phone. I only used it when it was just the two of us, and he had already pointed out there wasn't any way for someone to over hear us. Now I just had to listen for his reply.

"Don't come Bella." The Toby impersonator pleaded, before the phone hung up.

"Relief is coming off you in waves Bella. Is it safe to say that wasn't your cousin on the phone?" Jasper asked hopefully.

I nodded. "If that had been the real Toby, he would have known that I wanted him to call me my secret nick name. The name only he knew he called me. It could be guessed, but from my reaction to the name, and my interactions with Toby they wouldn't have known he called me that."

"And that would be?" Alice asked softly.

I met her and Jasper's gaze. "Izzy."

Jasper hurriedly ushered us back into the basement after that. He paced the length of the longer walls. "So we know where they are, and of course what they want. We also know they don't have Toby." He thoughtfully rubbed his chin. "How long does it take to get to Toby's safe house?"

I hadn't been there in years so it took me a moment to remember. "It's about an hour away."

He nodded, thinking hard. "If the others get here around noon, we'll only have a few hours to come up and perfect a plan."

"But if we have one ready to tell the others when they get here…" Alice grinned, catching on to what her husband had been implying.

"Then there may be enough time," he finished.

I went to the controllers stretching the screen out so there was more room to work with. I set three pads up and split the screen into three, so we could all work side by side and see everything.

"Let's get to planning."

Author's Note

This is driving me crazy. I final figured out how I wanted to say everything, but it took so long. I literally felt like I was just dragged around these past days trying to write this.

Anyway, I hope you guys liked it.

What were your guys' thoughts on the phone call? I know James wasn't the one who called, but it just didn't work out for him too. Don't worry though we do see him again, and he will get to talk with Bella about a certain Pixie's life.

For all of you creative thinkers out there and all the people who have guessed other important details correctly, I've got a challenge for you. If you're willing to except the challenge, you just may figure something out before the characters in the book do.

So for all of you willing to take that challenge. There is information that James gives Bella in Twilight that is very important. Using that information and pieces of information that you get from Bella's thoughts in this fanfiction, you will learn something before Bella does. Sorry, but I can't give you any more information, otherwise it will be too easy. I look forward to seeing if anyone figures it out. I sure know Alice didn't see it come.

Be prepared for the upcoming fight with the Undermining,

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