Twilight Fan fiction
Transitionals
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I hope you like this chapter, which is dedicated to all of you readers.
Chapter 17
Edward's POV
Things weren't going well. We couldn't ignore the fact that Bella had to train her shields. Every day after school for the rest of the week we'd work with Kate, and attempt to have Bella shield me from the attacks. While the others tried to come up with a better plan.
Carlisle and Eleazar paid extremely close attention to Bella's information box so they could make sure Bella's shields don't try to work together at the same time. No one wanted want to deal with that again.
Bella hated how her training secessions have turned out, but sadly using Kate's gift and provoking Bella seemed the only way to get her mental shield to work. On top of that, it seemed to work without causing her physical shield to react too. It's the best we could do.
"Uh, Bella? Should this baby be doing that?"
Bella rushed out of the kitchen as fast as she could after hearing Emmett's curious call. Anna and Rose followed her, the three of them forgetting the cookies that had just come out of the oven.
Esme waved me off. She and Carmen would finish up before joining us in the living room.
When I entered the living room, I found my siblings, cousins, and Bella and Anna, watching Cissy who was laying on her back in her playpen.
She was kicking her feet at speed far faster than should be possible.
Kate took a seat beside the playpen. "She's going to be a little speed demon once she starts crawling."
"Awesome, a baby with super speed." Emmett was far too excited about that.
Great, now that we know what Cissy's gift is, we can focus on caring for Bella's. We really don't have to worry about Cissy until she becomes mobile. Jasper.
It can't be a good thing for a baby to have super speed. She could hurt herself.
Things just got so much more interesting in this house. Tanya
We are going to have to make sure Cissy is never alone. If Bella's going to struggle with speed, how much more trouble will a baby have? Esme.
Why did she have to have super speed, she could get hurt. Unless of course if that is her ability wouldn't her eyes adjust so she could actually use it. Please let that be the case. Rose
Anna and Cissy's gifts are so different. Charlie made it sound like the gifts were supposed to be compatible throughout their family. Then again, if Toby has the magic of the other world, I suppose the girls' gifts are compatible with their dad's. Alice.
Did we hear Kate right? Cissy is showing signs of super speed? Carlisle asked silently as he and Eleazar joined us downstairs.
I nodded once to answer him.
Cissy power, the signal I'm getting from her seems far more complex for a simple gift as speed. Eleazar shook his head thoughtfully.
Poor Bella she looks terrified of the very idea of Cissy running. Then again from what we've heard, she's not going to have an easy time once she has to start working on her own speed. Irina was right, Bella didn't like the idea of Cissy having super speed.
"Don't worry, we can catch her for you." I gave her a quick peck on the cheek and joined the others by Cissy's playpen.
"You know sometimes I think my mental shield has a hole in it." Bella grumbled.
Alice laughed. "Silly Bella, we all knew what you were thinking then, it was written clearly on your face."
That was definitely true. It was pretty easy for us to read what Bella was feeling from her face. I was thankfully getting much better at it. I needed to be able to read her face since I couldn't read her mind.
Kate jumped up to her feet, when we noticed Bella's thoughtful look. It was clear she was thinking about someone from her family, so she was ready to distract her. "Come on Bella, it's time to go work on your shield."
We all headed outside, even though Kate and I were really the only one helping Bella. Anna always came because she wanted to help, though we didn't let her. She was solely there for moral support. The others watched and worked on coming up with a better solution to training Bella's mental shield.
When we had her try to block Eleazar's and my gift it never worked. Using Kate's gift worked better, but only occasionally.
"Alright, are the two of you ready?" Kate reached her hand towards me and I braced myself.
"I don't like this," Bella grumbled like she had before every other session.
Kate rolled her eyes in annoyance. "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." 'Maybe if she had a little more motivation, or better motivation she could figure out how she was able to use the shield last time.'
"Kate," I tried to warn her, "I wouldn't do that if I were you."
She smirked at me before turning to Anna.
"Don't you dare touch her." Bella's voice was low and dangerous.
"Be very careful," Carlisle warned lowly so Bella hopefully wouldn't hear him.
Kate didn't seem to notice his warning, instead she turned to me. "Can you hear Anna?"
I checked and 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 studied the information box in his hands. I wonder why it's only when she gets mad.
"But we don't want both of her shields to react though," Carlisle reminded him.
The sound of a car driving on our driveway stopped all other comments. We all turned towards the house, and I listened for the thoughts of the driver.
"What's wrong?" Bella asked as she passed Anna to Rose.
Rose answered her. "Someone is driving down our driveway."
I'm going to go meet whoever it is, Carlisle let me know silently.
I nodded and he left. Eleazar followed after him to be safe.
I still wasn't getting anything from the driver, so hopefully that meant it was Charlie. Now that I knew that there were technically other people with the ability to shield their minds though, I knew I couldn't chance it.
"It's Charlie," Carlisle confirmed for us.
I wrapped my arms around Bella and relaxed slightly. I was glad it was him, but I couldn't help worrying about why he was dropping by especially since he hadn't mentioned coming over and he hadn't called.
"It's just your dad?" I let Bella know. She tried to move, most likely to go inside but I stopped her. "They're coming outside."
As soon as Charlie came to the backyard Anna squealed. "Uncle Charlie!"
Rose set the squirming girl down, and we watched Anna run over to Charlie. He lifted her into his arms.
"Guess what Uncle Charlie?" Anna bounced with excitement.
Charlie laughed. "What little Belle?"
Anna grinned at him. "Cissy's fast."
Charlie searched for Cissy. "Has she already started crawling?"
"Goodness no," Bella gasped in horror. "Cissy's powers appear to be super speed."
Charlie laughed, his thoughts amused by Bella's worried tone. "Won't that be fun?"
"So what brings you out here, dad?" Obviously Bella was trying to change the subject. She definitely didn't want to have to worry about Cissy or her gift.
Charlie held up a cell phone. I glanced at Bella hoping to get some sort of understanding of what was going on. She took it from him quickly, glancing at it briefly before calling someone.
Whoever she was calling answered on the eighth ring. "Good afternoon Isabella."
"Afternoon," Bella replied.
A brief and quiet laugh came over the phone connection. "Isabella, if this conversation was anything to truly worry about, we'd be having it in person."
That didn't calm Bella, she was still worried about whoever she was talking with.
The man sighed. "Isabella, I've been studying the information box I have that's connected to you, ever since you're father called me."
Ever since her father had called him? Could he be referring to when Charlie talked with Grandpa Ray? Was this the famous Grandpa Ray?
"Isabella Marie, if you can't calm down I'll talk to someone who can." Whoever it was–whether it was Grandpa Ray or not–spoke with an air of power as he growled.
Grandpa Ray middle named her. Anna gasped in her mind.
So it was Grandpa Ray on the other line. I couldn't help but wonder if this was his true voice or if he was disguising it again.
"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." Grandpa Ray spoke calmly and sympathetically.
Bella tried, she really did, but she wasn't able to without Jasper's help.
"Someone is influencing your emotions." We were all surprised by his comment.
How could he have known that? Echoed in everyone's thoughts.
After a moment Bella replied, "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 couldn't believe it. Could he really tell that Bella wasn't in control of her emotions?
Who knew that was possible. Kate.
The box can actually tell a difference of who is in control of her emotions? That doesn't make any sense. Rose.
Remarkable, what else can the information box do. Eleazar
If he can tell if I'm manipulating her emotions could he tell if someone was controlling her, with the information box? Jasper.
Interesting. Carlisle
Just when you think nothing else could surprise you. Alice.
Now that is amazing. Tanya.
We need to learn how to read the information box as well as he can. Emmett.
To think, that one piece of equipment is so important to Bella's life that it holds practically everything about her inside it. Esme.
That small tool is so useful, and yet I can't help but worry about what would happen if it were to fall into the wrong hands. Carmen.
Unbelievable, simply unbelievable. Irina.
"There's a difference in the recordings?" Bella gasped.
Grandpa Ray replied quickly. "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 what we all wanted to know.
"There's ways that the box can tell us that, yes."
"But that's not what you called to tell us, right?" Bella asked, though it wasn't much of a question.
Another sigh. "No that's not why I called. I want to talk to you about your recent brain activity. Is the area secure?"
Bella glanced at Anna. She scanned the area, as did Eleazar, Jasper and I.
Unable to sense other gifts, emotions or thoughts, we could deduce no one else was around.
"There isn't any danger near us."
Anna nodded in agreement.
"We're good to go Grandpa Ray."
It would be more comfortable in the house for Bella to discuss with Grandpa Ray. That way, she and her dad and her cousins could sit in the comfort of the warm living room.
We all took a seat in the living room spreading out so we could all see one another making it easier to discuss the situation at hand.
Bella put the phone on speaker, so that all the humans would be able to hear Grandpa Ray. "Go ahead Grandpa Ray, you're on speaker."
Grandpa Ray laughed good naturedly. "Whatever works." Once he had calmed his laughter he explained the reason for his call. "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 was more than ready to have some answers, preferably ones about her shields, but he'd take anything. He was worried almost as much as I was about Bella's transition.
"Possibly. I still haven't figure out what caused her energy to stabilize and her percentage to stop increasing, or why she was unconscious for so long, but I may know what's going on with her shields."
Now this was definitely the news we wanted to hear.
"Well don't leave us in suspense," Charlie surprised all of us by his demand. Grandpa Ray didn't seem surprised by his behavior in fact he laughed at Bella's dad. "Calm down Charlie, I know you worry about Bella. 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."
It was easy enough to find three information boxes. Jasper set one to check Bella's emotional recordings, Carlisle was monitoring brain activity, and her dad checked her mental shield.
"We're all set over here," Bella let Grandpa Ray know.
"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 together and followed Grandpa Ray's instructions.
"Well look at that." Charlie's voice was gruff with shock and hardly louder than a whisper.
"We've had it wrong the whole time. It's not her emotions that cause the shield to react. It's her need to protect." Carlisle glanced at Bella, his words–much like Charlie's– were hardly loud enough for us vampires to hear.
I gazed at Bella proudly, thrilled to finally know exactly what was going on with her gifts.
Bella mistook our gazes for ones of worry. "What did I do?"
Emmett answered her. "Your shield is purely defensive."
She didn't understand what he meant. "Care to explain further."
Jasper explained it for her. "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. 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."" Carlisle was relieved that we final know what was causing Bella's shield to react. It would make our lives less stressful knowing that her emotions don't control both shields.
Bella fell deep in thought and I couldn't help but grimacing as we waited for her to grasp everything.
Her emotions are turning depressing again.
I sighed, knowing the reason for her depression. I grimaced when Jasper mentioned that his gift was struggling to work on Bella. Her shield wasn't up which meant her sorrow was strong.
"ISABELLA!"
Bella jumped and to be honest I did too, when Grandpa Ray yelled her name.
"I can see what you're feeling young lady. Now cut that out, and let's get back to what we were doing."
Thankfully Bella seemed to snap out of it. She rested her head on my shoulder and nodded.
"He can't see you nod your head over the phone Bella," Emmett teased.
Grandpa Ray went on with his explanation. "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 picked up the phone.
"No problem. I plan to keep an eye on Bella, I'm still curious about all the other stuff that happened."
That was true for all of us.
Bella groaned. Whatever was troubling her though didn't get a chance to be acknowledged.
"We'll let you go Grandpa Ray. We've got work to do." Alice said goodbye and then proceeded to drag Bella back outside.
"All right lil' sis, protect Alice." Emmett rubbed his hands together and charged at Alice. What was he thinking.
"No Emmett!" Alice and I yelled together. He ignored us of course, and Jasper and I had to try to stop him.
We didn't make it in time and the three of us slammed into a solid wall before being thrown backwards.
Emmett sat up, shaking his head vigoriously. "That was awesome!" Too bad Anna's plan didn't work. If Alice's thoughts had disappeared Edward wouldn't have come after me, so clearly a physical attack can't shock Bella's mental shield into reacting.
So that was what Emmett was trying to do.
Kate glared at Emmett, shaking her head. "Emmett, we're trying to train her mental shield, and you can't attack anyone's mind." She headed for Bella and Alice, leaving Emmett behind
Now that she understood what she needed to trigger her shield, Bella was doing a much better job. While her shield still acted sporadically, especially when she was trying to shield me, it was working flawless whenever she was shielding her dad or Anna. Kate also hadn't been able to shock Alice either.
Jasper stood off to the side, slowly working with Bella, helping her intensify her feelings. It helped her get a better feel for her shield.
I couldn't help but be proud if Bella seeing her handling her shield with an ease she had once thought impossible.
Sunday evening Alice decided to try something new. "Bella I have an awesome idea."
Bella did not seem thrilled, in fact Jasper laughed at what he was feeling from her. "Calm down Alice, you're scaring her."
Alice's smile faded for only a moment. "Bella, Edward and I are going to fight."
I don't know why Alice thought it was a good idea to phrase her words that way.
Bella's heart rate picked up and her eyes widened with fear. "Why?"
Alice laughed at her. "Because Edward will be able to read my mind and know what my moves are before I make them."
"I don't know how well this will work but we can give it a try." Bella agreed after a moment of thought.
Alice squealed with delight and ran off to a spot where we could wrestle.
"I so hope this works." Of course Emmett wanted it to work, he was always complaining about how I was cheating. It wasn't like I could turn off my power though.
I gave Bella a quick kiss before facing Alice.
"Focus Bella, you don't want Edward to hurt Alice right?" Jasper said, catching me off guard. Had I distracted Bella? I decided against glancing her way and possibly distracting her more.
It took a moment but Bella did manage to get her shield around Alice. She launched herself in my direction happily.
The fight didn't last long, but longer than I thought it would. Bella shield had slipped from Alice a few times but she managed to get it back around her. It was an amazing accomplishment.
The shield slipped again after five minutes into the fight, and out of the corner of my eye I saw Bella stagger. The fight was over, and I rushed to Bella's side. Jasper caught her before I could.
I carefully took her from him and settled her in my arms. "Enough, that's it for tonight."
No one argued with me.
Carlisle stepped up to my side, his gaze on Bella. . "You need to rest Bella. You should go home and go to bed."
She didn't make any comment, and I hurried off to get Bella some place comfortable.
Author's note
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