Twilight saga New Moon Fanfiction

Transitionals: New Moon

Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to New Moon or any of the other books in the Saga, they belong to Stephenie Meyer. I do use some phrasing, sentences, and descriptions from the books, though.

Alright, it is finally time to for some real action. This chapter is going to be the start of the major problems for this book. I'm no Edward but I'm going to go ahead and say that you all are thinking about the Hunters. At least most of you are probably wondering if they aren't really the big problem.

The answer to that of course is no. The Hunters aren't the biggest problem. Remember this fanfiction series is a retelling of the original series. So since this is the retelling of New Moon, we all know what, or should I say who the biggest problems are. There's two of them. The first will be reintroduced (be reminded of) in this chapter. You'll have to wait a little longer for the others though.

I hope you all enjoy this chapter.

This chapter is dedicated to anyone who has told me their thoughts on the traitor. Via the poll, PM, or in a review.

Chapter 15

What I wouldn't give for one day to just relax and not have to worry about anything else. I just wanted to forget about everything, for even a brief minute. School was getting harder as the semester progressed. I couldn't understand how normal people could handle senior year.

I was spending less and less time helping the others with the Hunters. I was needing my time to work on my school work and the companies I was supposed to be running.

Carlos, bless his heart, every free moment he had, he was working with some aspect of the companies.

The two of us were attempting to work over some of the legal stuff today. I really didn't understand what was trying to be said in the documents though. I doubted if Carlos would ever get me to understand the "legal talk."

"Bella, maybe we should stop for the day." I heard Carlos sigh over the phone. "You're not comprehending any of this."

I groaned. "I'm sorry. I'm trying, I promise."

"Are you alright, Bella? You sound exhausted."

His concern filled me with appreciation. "I am exhausted. Senior year, you know."

"Ah," there was a muffled sound of uncertainty on the other end of the line.

I closed my laptop and sat up. "What's up Carlos?"

"It's nothing, just forget about it."

Like that was going to happen. I was suddenly curious. "Tell me Carlos. I'll just pester you until you do."

He sighed loudly. "Really Bella, it's nothing. You'd never agree, and it's wrong on so many levels for me to suggest it."

"Suggest what?"

He groaned loudly. "Honestly Bella, I was just thinking about how much responsibility you have. I was going to suggest letting someone else deal with the companies, but I know that wasn't what Toby wanted. SO. FORGET. IT." He ground out the last three words, putting an end to the conversation.

"Yeah, I could use the help, but Toby put me in charge." I decided to try to lighten the mood by teasing him. "So you'll just have to deal with helping me out like the Cullens."

The fake groan I heard from him made me laugh. "We'll try again another day Bella. Go do something that's fun. Go relax."

"That sounds wonderful. Maybe I'll take a nap."

He laughed before hanging up the phone.

I got up from sitting at the bar in the kitchen. I stretched before stuffing my laptop in my backpack.

A white hand took the bag from me, and I glanced up in time to see Edward disappear from the room with my bag. He reappeared a moment later.

"Would you like to go to the meadow?" Edward ask as he wrapped his arms around me, pulling me against him.

The meadow sounded perfect. "I'd love to."

His perfect crooked grin spread across his face.

Being together just the two of us sounded like a dream. With everything that was going on, the only time we really had to be alone was at night. And I sleep through most of that time together.

"Are we going to run there?"

Edward shook his head. "Running through the woods wouldn't be smart. Alice says the meadow is safe though. So we'll just have to spend little time in the surrounding area."

I was glad that the meadow would be safe. I wasn't exactly happy with having to hide inside.

The car ride to the meadow was peaceful. Edward held my hand as he drove, but neither of us felt like we had to fill the silence with chatter. I really loved how we could enjoy sitting in silence; just being together was perfect for us.

It didn't take us long to get to the meadow once we had parked the Volvo at the trail head.

Edward led us to the middle of the meadow. We laid down on the grass, ignoring the fact that it was slightly wet; that wouldn't bother either of us.

I was relaxed almost instantly. The small noises from the forest around us was lulling me to sleep. With Edward laying by my side I knew I would be safe, should I fall asleep.

Edward was on his side leaning on his arm; his elbow propped himself up. His free hand was brushing at my hair and face, creating a soothing pattern. He started humming my lullaby.

Everything was perfect.

I didn't know how long we had been there in our own little peaceful world, it could have been minutes or hours.

Edward moved into a defensive crouch quickly; startling me. I sat up as someone jumped through the ferns on the other side of the meadow.

My mind put the name to the face a second later.

Laurent hurried towards us, stopping ten feet away, as he took in Edward's posture and warning growls.

Edward straightened and motioned with a jerk of his head that Laurent could come closer.

Laurent nodded and ran the short distance to our side. I didn't understand what was wrong until the pack burst into the meadow.

Edward took a step towards Sam and the others wolves. "It's alright, he's a friend of ours."

Despite his words, Edward pulled me towards himself anxiously. My hands went straight to his hair trying to calm him. He didn't relax his stance, but he did seem to be a bit calmer than before.

I couldn't figure out what Laurent was doing here, but by the looks of it he didn't want to be here. I suppose it could be because of the pack, but something else seemed to be bothering him.

I tried to be patient as Edward calmed the pack down. I focused on the two new wolves, wondering which ones had turned.

"Laurent is still new to our diet. You can't expect his control to be as strong as my family's."

Sam and the rest of the pack glanced at Laurent who was surprised that Edward was talking so calmly with them.

"He doesn't know but we'll explain it to him."

Paul growled.

Sam snapped warningly at him, before turning back to us.

"There is another coven who hunt like we do. We consider them our family. It would be appreciated if you would add them."

Edward nodded. "Come back to our house, and I'll get you what you need."

Sam's large head glanced at the other pack members, obviously pondering Edward's invitation to come over.

"How about you and Jacob come by the house? The others can go back to protecting La Push."

So Jacob was a werewolf now. I couldn't help wondering what his opinion of all of this was. Did he think we were his enemy like Paul?

Jared, Paul, and the new gray wolf headed for the trees, while Sam and the russet colored wolf walked towards us. I was surprised to find that I thought Jacob's fur color seemed appropriate.

"We need to retrieve my car, but you are more than welcome to head on to the house." Edward glanced at the wolves before turning to Laurent, letting him know he had the option as well.

Laurent glanced at the two remaining wolves. "If you don't mind the company, I think I'd prefer to stay with you and your mate." He spared me only a quick glance.

Edward nodded and gestured for him to follow us. I was pulled up into Edward's arms a second before he took off.

I couldn't help but notice the urgency in Edward's movements. He was moving faster than normal and he seemed on edge. That wasn't a good sign.

When we got to the car, he had me in the passenger seat and buckled before I could blink. Laurent got in the backseat, and Edward slid into the driver's seat.

I grabbed for Edward's hand, giving it a comforting squeeze. "What's wrong?"

Edward shook his head and he sent a warning glare through the review mirror to Laurent. "Not here, we'll talk about it when we get to the house."

It wouldn't do me any good to argue. I sat back and tried my best to not go crazy with worry.

The trip back to the house took half the time than the original trip to the trail head.

Sam and Jacob were already standing as humans with the rest of the family in the back yard.

Sam handed something to Carlisle. "Thank you, we'll add them to the treaty."

"Thank you. I'm sorry I didn't think to mention them to you before now." Carlisle replied.

Sam shrugged. "No harm done, thankfully." He and the others turned when they heard our approach.

"Laurent," Carlisle nodded to our guest. "What brings you here?"

Laurent glanced nervously at Sam and Jacob. His gaze turned to the little girls before landing on me. "I do not feel comfortable talking about that with the humans around. I don't know how they will react."

I opened my mouth to express my right to know what was going on, especially after how protective Edward was behaving. Whatever it was, sure seemed to have something to do with me.

Alice shook her head, stopping me.

Esme took Cissy from Emmett, and reached her hand out for Anna. She glanced sympathetically at me. "Come on Bella, you haven't eaten anything in a while. You're probably starving."

My traitorous stomach chose that moment to growl.

"Can I offer either of you something?" Esme asked Sam and Jacob.

Sam shook his head, but Jacob agreed readily.

Edward kissed my forehead gently. "Go eat Bella. We'll talk about this later. It'll be easier on Laurent, this way. He just doesn't want to upset you."

I sighed and followed after Esme, and Jacob.

Like most often than not, Esme had me sit at the bar while she cooked for me. There were times she'd let me help her cook, but that was usually when I wasn't tired or upset.

Jacob sat down beside me, while Anna and Cissy were sitting on the counter. Esme gave the girls some sliced bananas to keep them occupied.

I sighed and turned to my old friend who had always seemed like my little brother. I'd never be able to call him little again. He was huge.

"So what's knew," I found myself saying.

Jacob laughed good-naturedly. "I just recently started turning into a giant wolf. And boy does Hollywood get things wrong."

Esme and I laughed. It was a good thing Hollywood got things wrong. The entire human world wouldn't be able to deal with knowing the truth. Some, possibly could, but not everyone.

"At least they know about your kind," I teased.

He shoved my shoulder playfully, carefully so he wouldn't push me off my chair and into the wall on the other side of the room. Edward wouldn't have liked that. "Your kind isn't cool enough to have its own movie."

"Yeah, and the Wolfman is so cool."

He puffed his chest out. "You know it."

I shook my head. At least it appeared to be that Jacob didn't hate me.

"Hey, I was meaning to ask you something, the night of the bonfire. You fell asleep before I could."

I glared at him, causing him to chuckle.

"I was curious about the other world."

I nodded, letting him know he could ask his question.

He rubbed the back of his head with his hand thoughtfully, as if nervous. "Well, I was just wondering. You know about our legends, and how they've been passed down to make sure they are remembered. I was just wondering, how come there isn't any legends about being a part of the other world? Wouldn't there be a legend about something as important as that?"

I shrugged. "How would I know any of that?" I laughed, but cut it short when I saw Jacob deflate. It was really troubling him, not knowing that.

I rested my hand on his large shoulder. "It's not uncommon Jacob." I scrambled to find a way to explain.

"It's just like any other type of heritage. You go far enough back in your family line and you find another race you didn't even know you were a part of. If that wasn't passed down, you wouldn't have known that."

"But that seems like it's an important part to our lives. Why wouldn't we have put it in our legends?"

Why would he think I'd have the answers to these questions? "I don't know Jacob." I quickly tried to come up with a few ideas. "Maybe the chief of the tribe fell in love with a mortal and decided to give up his immortality to be with her."

Jacob shifted on his seat so he was facing me. "Would that make their children, humans then?"

"No, yes, sort of. The children would be mortal still, but they could still pass along the magic of the other world. They might not get any powers but their children could. The tribe after all passed on the shape shifting power."

Cissy at that moment started crawling along the counter.

I hurried out of my seat and plucked her off the counter. "We do not crawl on the counter top. You could have fallen and hurt yourself."

"Sorry." Cissy laid her head on my shoulder. Her adorable baby voice made it impossible to be upset with her. Everything she said sounded too cute.

I sat down in my seat, with Cissy sitting on my lap.

Jacob stared off into the distance. I doubted he realized he was staring at my cousin.

"Hey Bells," he finally said. "Would the Undermining still know about the tribe since we come from the other world?"

I doubted he could have come up with a harder question. "I don't really know. You see before the Undermining took over, a lot of information, only our leaders had. They were very discreet with what they had. The leaders were careful not to give away too much. They did their best to be respectful and considerate of others' privacy."

"I take it the Undermining isn't like that." Jake interrupted.

I rolled my eyes. Understatement. "Any way, it's not like we get every bit of information about everyone in the world. We are alerted to dangerous situations. If it's not a serious threat, it's not on our radar."

Jacob narrowed his eyes, looking confused. "But I was told that your kind can track its people."

I nodded. "There's multiple ways of that." I brushed at Cissy's curls while I tried to figure out how to explain this.

"Our people keep a track, a basic set of information on each other, as a precaution. But it is possible for people to slip through the cracks."

My mind went straight to Alice. She had obviously slipped through our information center. If anyone in our kind had known of where she had been, they would have saved her from that horrid place. No one would have left her in the asylum.

Jacob nudged my shoulder. "You can't slip by them though."

I gave him a 'duh' look. "The heads of the Undermining make sure that anyone who helped start the rebellion is watched. They don't go on a killing spree or anything, they just keep updated. Now if they start becoming a nuisance," I pointed to myself, "then they go berserk."

Jacob laughed politely at my attempt to make a joke. "Just to clarify, are they or are they not watching the tribe."

I sighed, shaking my head. "I doubt they are getting any information about the tribe. But they probably know about the pack, because of the Hunters, and since you're hanging out with me.

Jacob nodded and Esme set a plate in front of both of us.

"Do you want any Cissy, or Anna?" Esme asked the girls.

They glanced at each other before shaking their heads as fast as they could. The no doubt had eaten already, then of course they had been snacking on bananas.

Jacob wolfed down his food at an alarming speed. He had thirds before I had finished my own plate.

"You need to work on your table etiquette," I mumbled under my breath.

"I heard that." Jacob went to shove his elbow into my side, only to be stopped by Edward.

I grinned up at Edward. He smiled back but it didn't reach his eyes. Whatever Laurent had told him, had really upset him. Or maybe it was the stuff that hadn't been said.

I handed my plate over to Esme, and led the way out of the kitchen. The fact that Edward was letting me lead the way worried me. I passed the others in the living room who were watching me carefully. My nerves alerted Jasper, and then Edward snapped out of whatever funk he was in.

We were in his room, and I was gently set on the bed in a matter of seconds.

"You are safe Bella. Nothing, and no one is going to hurt you. We'll make sure of it."

It took me a moment to realize his words were more to calm himself than to explain to me what was going on. Whatever was going on now was worrying Edward. He needed to take this time to calm down, otherwise I'd never hear what the problem was; at least, not from him.

Edward pinned me against the bed hovering over me to keep his weight off of me. His lips captured mine and I was more than willing to wait for him to calm down by kissing him.

Time was completely lost to me, but that was normal. I usually forgot something while I kissed my love. It normally was the ability to breathe, or my surroundings.

Eventually the demand of the kiss relaxed, slowing to a deep delicate touch of our two lips.

Edward kissed the tip of my nose before moving to lay beside me. "I'm sorry, I got carried away."

I couldn't help chuckling softly. "I didn't mind. You can get carried away, whenever you want to." I liked this new step to our relationship, for fleeting moment I wondered how far it would go.

From the look of Edward's serious gaze, I'd bet it wasn't going to get much farther; not until I wasn't as delicate.

I sighed, and snuggled closer to him. I'd take what I could get. "Are you ready to tell me what happened?"

Edward nodded, simply. He wrapped his arms around my waist, holding me to himself. "Laurent came as a favor for Victoria."

Flaming red hair, and devilish glowing eyes filled my vision. James' mate was the new threat. But why was Laurent helping her. I thought he was settling in nicely with Irina. Was he just pretending?

I tried to sit up, but Edward's steel arms made that impossible.

"Sh Bella, I won't let her come anywhere near you." Edward misunderstood my panic.

I met his gaze, with a startlingly angry one of my own. "Why did Laurent come? If he was helping Victoria, he's…"

"He came to warn us," Edward interrupted what would have been a decent tirade. "She called him, asking for a favor. Laurent had spent time with her, Bella. He knew her, knew her tactics. He hopes that if by doing the favor, she'll leave him and more importantly Irina alone."

I froze under his gaze; relieved and slightly worried. If Laurent was worried about Victoria going after Irina to get what she wanted from him, then she was definitely a terrible person.

"What did she want him to do?"

"He was just supposed to find out how heavily protected we have you. He's going to tell her, we don't let you out of our sight." Edward smiled, which helped me to relax. "He's not going to bring up the wolves. She'll learn about them without his help anyway; most likely," he amended.

"So now that I have the abridged version. What aren't you telling me?"

Edward's face didn't give away anything. "Victoria, blames you for the loss of James. She believes that I was the one to kill James."

"Well, she's half right. I vaguely remember that day but I'm still sure Jasper helped you."

Edward shook his head slightly amused by my attempts to lighten the mood. "She feels it's fitting to kill you. A mate for a mate. Not that she'll ever get the chance.

"Laurent has reason to believe she'll try to use the girls to get to you. So for the time being we're going to have to keep a close eye on all three of you. But that's normal."

"Do you think Victoria is going to force Laurent to help her more?" I didn't want any harm to come to him, especially if he really is Irina's mate. She couldn't lose him, no one should have to lose their mate to violence.

Edward sighed softly. "I don't know. Laurent seems to believe that she won't force him to. He willing accepted to do her a favor, and he thinks she'll stop at that. He doesn't owe her anything; the gesture of good faith may look favorable to Victoria. I'll be honest though, I didn't really get a good view into Victoria's mind. I was far more focused on James' thoughts, to even bother with hers."

"You're not going to give me the details are you?" He knew what I was meaning.

He smiled but it was clouded by his worry. "I'd rather not Bella, Laurent didn't give us the finer details, but he couldn't exactly keep his thoughts from me." He shuddered slightly, having to close his eyes to calm himself.

I ran my hand through his hair, and like before he calmed. "Okay, I won't ask. I trust you. Just remember I'd like to know what's going on, even if you strip it to the most basic form."

Edward nodded his understanding. "Alright, you know the basics. Now you should really get ready for bed."

The idea of going to sleep wasn't pleasant. It didn't take a genius to know I was missing a lot of information. I would deal with it though. I knew the just of it. Victoria wanted me dead, and she'd sink as low as using my younger cousins to get at me. That fact alone was sickening. Hopefully my mind wouldn't dwell on it and I wouldn't have nightmares.

In a sort of daze, I managed to change for bed. I remembered laying down, but I didn't remember falling asleep. I was certain though that I had heard Edward humming.

Author's Note

I'm sorry if this wasn't what you expected thanks to the author's note above. And I know that you probably wanted to know what exactly was said, but unfortunately the conversation with Laurent can only be read during the Cullens' POV of Transitionals: New Moon. I know, that wont be ready for a while.

I'm sorry about the long wait but that's just how the story works out. It's why I write both Bella's POV and the Cullens' POV.

Now for Questions.

First, who thinks Jacob is wrong and that Bella's kind (the other worlders) would be awesome characters for a movie?

We're getting pretty close to the end of the book, so any more ideas about who the traitor is? If you feel like it, you can find the Poll on my profile page. You can choose up to three people.

How cute is Cissy?

Do you guys have any theories about what's going to happen next?

As always if you guys find any mistakes in the story please let me know. I'm always shocked and embarrassed when I look back at the chapters and see what I've missed, so I appreciate the help.

PS.

Saturday will be the year anniversary of when I started this fan fiction series. In honor of the year anniversary, I will be posting a big surprise on Saturday. I'm not going to tell you what it is, but I will say that it will get posted sometime on Saturday but it could be as late as 11 pm my time. So if that happens, some of you might not see it until Sunday.

Keep your eyes out for Victoria,

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