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Transitionals: New Moon

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It's time for trouble, and that's saying something, because we only have four chapters, and the epilogue before Bella's POV for this story is over. I can't believe we're almost done.

This chapter is going to be exciting and I hope you all like.

I would like to dedicate this chapter to everyone you has favorited this story. Every person who has done that has inspired me to continue. To know that there are people out there who like what I have written, is exciting. I can't thank you all enough.

Chapter 18

Alice managed to get us on flight to New York, which was leaving in twenty minutes. It was a good thing that my briefcases was in the car. Now it wouldn't so strange when we got on the plane. It never looked good getting on a plane without any luggage.

Alice bought herself a decent hand bag that could work for a business trip. She filled it with notepads, post it notes, and pens.

We made it to our gate as the final warning for boarding was being issued. We heard to the plane, and slipped into our seats quietly.

Alice took my briefcase from me, and started writing a bunch of scribbles on the paper. If I didn't know any better I'd say she was writing in short hand.

"What is that?" I whispered.

"Shorthand," she replied.

I stared at the confusing mess. "What exactly are you doing?"

Her hand didn't stop writing. "I'm checking every scenario. I'm not sure what happened, so I'm getting ready for anything."

"I know this might seem to be a shocker, but Alice, I can't read short hand."

Alice still didn't let up on her writing. "I know Bella. I'm just jotting down everything that can happen, then I'll actually write out the notes for you. I'm just saving time by doing it this way."

"Okay." I sat back and let Alice work on that without any more distractions from me. But since I had nothing to distract me, my mind swirled with depressing thoughts.

I had only been in control of Toby's companies for a little over a year, and I might already be destroying his hard work. Making sure his companies were safe, had been his first step to making sure the companies would survive. If we lost the security from this one partner, we could lose the other two partners from Rome. That was half of our foreign security team.

If I screwed this up, the board would be all the more interested in removing me. I knew it would be hard for them to, Toby had made sure of that; and Carlos would help with the legal aspects of it. I was still worried though. Something like this could possibly wind up destroying everything Toby had created to make sure his girls had a secure life, financially.

When the plane landed in New York, we had to run to get to our next flight.

Alice, bless her heart had done what she could to get us to Rome as fast as possible, but that meant we were chancing missing our connecting flight. At least our second stop we would have a three hour wait.

I tried to remain calm on the flights, but it was just too easy to think about all that could go wrong.

All the worry kept me from sleeping. I dozed a few times, but that definitely didn't help matters.

As the last plane left the runway heading for Rome, Alice was still writing out a script for me. She was writing them up for every scenario that was plausible. I had already gone through the ones she had already written.

"Bella you really need to try to sleep. It'll be after midnight by the time we land in Rome." Alice gently chastised me.

If I could sleep, I would be. But I personally didn't want to voice my worries to the people on the plane with my sleep talking.

Alice giggled softly. "You'll be fine Bella, just try."

I forced myself to relax in my seat, but it was futile.

The plane landed just after midnight.

Alice found a hotel close by, for us to stay at. I didn't try to argue that it was far too fancy and expensive for one night. There wasn't any time to waste.

We checked into our room, kicking off our shoes, simultaneously. I headed for the restroom, to take a shower, hoping that the water will help. Alice got out my laptop to email the company. She would let them know that we were here to talk over what happened.

The hot water didn't help as much as I wanted it to. My insides were all knotted up and my nerves were shot.

When I stepped out of the restroom, I found Alice sitting on the bed. She had just hung up her phone.

"I called Jasper to let him know we got to Rome."

I was going to ask her how everyone was, but a pair of deep blue pajamas sitting on the bed stopped me. "Where did those come from?"

Alice laughed and got up from the bed. "We didn't bring any clothes Bella. During our lay over, I called and order a few bags to be brought here. I went and grabbed them while you were in the shower."

She shook her head. "Like I could let you wear that to an important business meeting."

I glanced down at my jeans and t-shirt. That wouldn't be appropriate, especially with these people. If I had any shot of saving this partnership I had to look the part.

"Go ahead and sleep Bella, a car is going to pick us up tomorrow."

I turned to Alice sharply. "You already got a message back?"

She nodded. "The heads of the organization are in Florence this week, so they offered to send a car, since we already flew out this far."

"That's thoughtful of them." I turned back to the bed and changed into the pajamas. They were soft, and silky smooth. I didn't know how the fabric could have calmed me, but I was calm enough to at least think about sleep.

I climbed under the covers and Alice joined me. "I'm no Edward, but at least you have company." She said as she wrapped her arms around me in a hug.

I laid my head on her shoulder and let her comfort me. "So how was everyone?"

Alice shifted so I would be more comfortable. "Edward's a long ways behind us. He just got to New York. He couldn't get an earlier flight."

That wasn't part of the plan. Edward was supposed to be able to meet us here. "What happened?"

Alice sighed. "There weren't any open seats on the next flight. He'll have to meet us in Florence."

I nodded and had her continue.

"Jasper and Anna were the only ones home, the others were in La Push helping out."

"Is Harry going to be okay?" I had to ask.

Alice nodded reassuringly. "Since Carlisle was able to work quickly, he was able to save him, his enhanced senses were needed to save him though. He wouldn't have survived if they had taken him to the hospital."

I was thrilled that Harry was going to be alright.

"So, what are Jasper and Anna doing since it's just the two of them?"

"They've been working with Anna's powers. They've finally sorted through enough to get to that night." Alice's voice grew darker. "Any day now they'll be able to find the person who betrayed your family, and we'll take care of them for good."

I couldn't wait to see justice done to the person who had brought about my families death, but I couldn't deny the fact that I was scared. Not just because I had trusted the person and was afraid who it was, but because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to stop the Cullens from killing him or her. I knew for a fact they all had at one point wanted them dead. Small parts of them probably still did.

If I asked them to, I'm sure Emmett and Jasper would kill the person for me, and that scared me the most. I was terrified that I wanted death more than justice.

Someone was shaking me. I jerked awake, almost hitting my head on Alice's head.

"Come on Bella, we need to get ready to go, now." Alice threw back the covers and dragged me out of the bed.

I groaned but hurried through my morning routine. I showered, washed my face, and brushed my teeth as quickly as I could. I changed into the business suit Alice laid out for me. Once I was dress she started pinning my hair up into a neat bun.

"Okay, Bella. They have a hotel ready for us, and I've already purchased clothes that we can pick up at the store after the meeting today."

I rolled my eyes, but followed Alice down to the lobby. She checked us out and we headed to the parking lot. When we stepped out of the front doors though we were greeted with a surprising sight.

A black car with windows tinted so dark you weren't able to see in. even my advanced sight had difficult. It made me wonder just how much Alice could see through it.

A man in a dark suit stepped towards us. "Miss Swan, and Miss Cullen?"

"Yes," I replied swiftly.

He nodded to each of us. "I was told to drive you around while here. I'm supposed to take you to your meeting now." He opened the driver's door and pressed a button and the back door open.

We stepped towards the door, but he stopped us. "I have also been instructed to make sure all of our measure in our agreements are met. I need to confiscate your phones."

I grimaced mentally as I pulled out my phone and gave it to him. Alice did the same.

He took a phone from inside of his jacket. It looked like the one Duke had been testing. "This phone is programmed to call my bosses. They said to tell you that if you had any questions to call them. The phone will not work though if you try to anyone but them."

I took the phone. "Thank you. Is there anything else?"

He shook his head and held the door open for us. "That is all, should you need anything during the ride, you can use the control panel to contact me up front. The back is sound proof, so you will have to use the call bottom if you wish to talk to me."

I thanked him before climbing into the back seat.

Alice slid in after me and our driver shut the door.

Now that I was actually headed for the meeting, I started freaking out.

Alice sighed, mumbling something about not going to get Jasper when we had the chance.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry." I was regretting not having Jasper here too.

Alice took my hand in hers and gave it a gentle squeeze. "Everything is going to work out Bella. We'll talk with them, and I'll see what needs to be done to keep this partnership."

My arms flung themselves around Alice without any conscious thought from me. "Thank you Alice. I'm so glad you had Jasper hack into the computers and hire you to be my assistant, because let's face it, I couldn't do any of this without you."

Alice shook her head. "Bella, you would have survived just fine without me. It would have been a rocky start, but you are a strong young woman. You would have figured it out soon enough."

Alice's words brought tears to my eyes, but they also brought a peace in me. If Alice was that confident, then I could at the very least be half as confident in me as she was.

I settled back in my seat and relaxed.

The ride was nice. I could hardly tell that the car was moving, even though I knew we were speeding down the Italian countryside.

Alice was sitting in the seat across from mine, going over all the information we needed to know, while writing a list for me at vampire speed.

She smiled at me and started to close the laptop. Before she had it fully closed she froze. Her eyes glazed over and I realized she was having a vision. Horror crossed her face and I couldn't help the panic that was building in me. Whatever Alice was seeing, it was bad.

Alice returned to the present, gasping for breath. She ignored my worried questions as she started rummaging in her bag. She pulled out the cell phone we had been given to use, and flipped it open.

"Alice what's going on? You're scaring me."

After a second of looking at the phone she crushed it in her hand.

I gasped. "What did you do that for?"

Alice meet my gaze. "Bella, listen very closely, we're not heading to meet one of your business partners."

I glanced at the powder that used to be our phone. I shook my head, confused, and looked back at Alice. "What are you talking about?"

"Bella, we're in trouble. We're heading to Volterra, and members of the Volturi guard are waiting for us."

I shook my head, hoping I had misunderstood. "No, that… that can't be right. How would they know to wait for us?"

Alice's face contorted in anger. "How did the Undermining and the Hunters know? Bella someone told them."

My brain snapped into overdrive. "Carlos was the only one who knew about the problem, but he told us not to come."

"Think Bella," Alice demanded. "Carlos knows you. He knows your character. You wouldn't leave this problem for someone else, and Carlos knows it. He set this up Bella. He set us up. He's probably been doing it from the start. After all he knew you were going to Chicago he could have let the Hunters know that."

She paused before she groaned and hit her head with the palm of her head. "Hunters go through the legal system."

Understanding hit me in the face. "Carlos is one of the lead lawyers for the Rebellion. After the Hunters have gone through information, Carlos and the others in the legal system take them away. Carlos could smuggle them out of headquarters. And no one would notice a few missing Hunters."

Alice grimaced. "Come on Bella, we need to get out of here." She punched the window to knock out the glass. We were both shocked when her fist bounced back sharply, the glass unscathed.

"That is not possible." She brought her knees to her chest and kicked the door. It should have been forced open, ripped from the car by the force, but there wasn't even a dent.

"No human car could stop a vampire," she hissed.

I grimaced. "We're not in a human car Alice."

She glanced at me worriedly. "There's only been one time where I've seen a vampire unable to be free of a container as simple as this."

"Grandpa Ray built a car that could be used to move vampire criminals safely without a possibility of them escaping during travel. He had the car destroyed because he worried that the Undermining might find out about it and abuse the technology." I shook my head, closing my eyes. "Carlos was supposed to destroy the plans."

I turned to Alice, forcing my eyes open. "I'm so sorry Alice. We're trapped, and no one knows where to find us."

Author's Note.

I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry. Don't hate me. Just remember the next chapter is going to be up tomorrow. I know that was a terrible spot to end, but I promise the next chapter will be uploaded tomorrow.

So what do you think is going to happen next? Do you think any of the others are going to realize something is wrong? How do you think this is going to play out?

Ok, you know who they think the traitor is, but until it is one hundred percent positive, I'm going to ask you. So who do you think the Traitor is? Is it really Carlos? Is there anyone else helping him if it really is him?

Who do you think is going to come to their rescue? Who do you want to save them?

I hope you guys liked this chapter.

Watch out for the Volturi,

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