I just thought I'd let you know that Bella's gift is going to be a big part of this one and I am extending it.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Twilight.

Chapter .16.

"Oh, Mum, I'm so sorry. Do you want me to come to Jacksonville, I could get on a plane tonight and be there soon." She was still crying but she was trying to calm herself down.

"No Bella, you have school and your father to worry about, you stay in Forks. I have some friends who are putting me up for the next few nights and I don't want you seeing Phil while he's like this, but thank you honey." I could hear a few people in the background talking to her. "Anyway Bells, the nurse has just told me that the doctor will be coming out to talk to me soon so I'll call you back later or in the morning. Stay safe honey. I love you."

"And you mum, I love you too." She hung up and I hoped to God that she had her friends with her. Jasper put his arms around me as a tear fell down my face.

"He'll be alright Bella, I'll call Carlisle and get him to keep an eye on Phil condition. He'll do everything he can." I nodded and pulled away from him.

"Why are they doing this?" I asked Eleazar.

"Laurent said he was helping a friend avenge the death of their mate, he told me I wouldn't come into contact with anyone and I wouldn't have to kill anyone, I was just a post man. When I smelt the blood on the letter I knew some of the killing had already been done and I didn't agree with it but I had already said I would do it and Irina begged me to help so as to get along with her mate. I did it for my family." He rested his body against the wall and lowered his head in shame.

"You don't have to justify yourself Eleazar, I understand that you didn't know who it would hurt." I wasn't angry at him anymore, I was tired. "Jasper, do you think they're going to kill me?" Jasper growled at my words and I held his hand to comfort him. He took my face between his hands and kissed my lips lightly.

"I will never let that happen Bella, I promise, you will come to no harm." He kissed me again and turned to Eleazar with wondering eyes.

"What is it?" He asked as Eleazar stared at me.

"I can't read her." His voice was a whisper as he continued to stare at me.

"What does that mean?" I asked.

"I have the ability to sense the type and strength of talents of gifted vampires, yet I cannot sense anything from you."

"Maybe that's because I'm not a vampire." He smiled but shook his head no.

"I can also sense the gifts that humans would possess after being changed, but from you I sense nothing, or more correctly I can't get through to try and sense what your gift is, which means your blocking me." Jasper gasped and when I looked at him he was grinning.

"Blocking you how?" I asked still not really getting this conversation.

"You have a gift Bella." Jasper pulled me into his side and kissed the top of my head.

"Yes a very powerful gift, I don't find very many people that can block me, could Edward read her mind?"

"No, it frustrated him to hell but she was always a blank slate to him." They were both smiling at each other, personally I didn't know why this was such a good thing.

"Look I hate to break this up but my step-father is in hospital dying and I'm really not in the mood to talk vampire crap I just want to sleep." Eleazar nodded and Jasper apologised. "Don't be silly I was just wondering if you guys could wrap this up until another, more appropriate time."

"Of course but I would love to help you expand your ability. By how thoroughly you're blocking me I can tell your ability has great potential." Eleazar spoke as he positioned himself to leave.

"Yeah, sure, why not." Eleazar said one last goodbye to us and then departed silently through the window.

"Would you like me to stay tonight Darlin'?" Jasper asked as he pulled me into his arms. I wrapped my legs around his waist and snuggled into his neck, drinking in his scent. It was like leather but sweetened down with cinnamon. It was lovely, like the most perfect and intriguing perfume that I would want to smell everywhere.

"Obviously. You should know by now Jasper that I want you here every night." I felt the happiness wash over him and onto me and it made me smile.

"Good, because I wasn't planning on going anywhere." Jasper pretended to leave after I told Charlie about Phil. He tried his best to comfort me but it was a bit awkward so I just excused myself and told him I was really tired, which I was.

I got a shower and made my way into my bedroom with just a towel wrapped around myself, forgetting that I would have Jasper waiting for me. I almost jumped out of my skin when I saw him.

"Sorry darlin' but I thought you were expecting me." He was grinning and trying unsuccessfully to not look at my body, which was barely concealed beneath the undersized towel (Charlie tried doing the laundry and he shrank everything he washed).

"I know I just forgot, could you turn around while I get dressed please." He smiled and turned his face to the wall, standing so then he couldn't see me. I quickly dressed in a tank top and shorts and grabbed him, swiftly turning his body around. I pulled his face down to mine and caught his lips in a heated kiss.

We fell back onto my bed, our lips still locked with passion. My hands found his hair and I pulled his face closer to mine.

He wrapped my legs around his waist and pulled me up to sit on his lap. His hands found my hips and he gripped them while caressing the exposed skin beneath his fingers. Just that smallest of touches made me moan into his mouth. I felt the grin on his lips at the sound I had made as he took my bottom lip into his mouth and sucked it lightly.

"You are supposed to be tired and trying to get some sleep not enticing me with those orgasmic sounds." He trailed soft, wet kisses from my lips, up my jaw to my ear. He stopped to nibble on my earlobe which made me moan even more before he started trailing his beautiful kisses down my neck.

"Well you have to stop kissing me first." Unfortunately, he did exactly as I said and stopped kissing me. "You no fun." I said as I mock glared at him and stuck my tongue out. He laughed at my childish ways and kissed me softly before lying me down under my covers and cuddling my waist.

I snuggled into his chest and sighed, almost falling to sleep as soon as my eyes closed.

"You get some rest beautiful, you need it." He kissed my hair and breathed in my scent.

"Okay. Night Jazz." I spoke through the ever growing slumber and I was surprised that my sentence even made sense.

"Goodnight Bella."

Jasper and Eleazar began trying to help me expand my gift, which proved harder than they thought it would be. I had to tap into the vampire part of me before I could find the will to reach the gift properly and even then it was seriously difficult because I could never grasp it properly. Eleazar said that I just needed to be in a dangerous situation and it would show itself if I needed it, like if someone threatened Jasper, or something.

We worked on it more than anything now and Jasper began taking notes on his laptop of everything that was going on while Eleazar tried his best to train me.

There was only once when he got close to sensing me. He said that before he senses any gifts he can feel the essence of a person's mind, like their mental aura. He said he could just begin to feel mine before my shield snapped back into place.

What I was better at was shielding others. By the end of the day I really wanted to kill Jasper and Eleazar because of how they got me to use it but I have to admit it really did help.

"You know Bella," Eleazar started as he began pacing a circle around me and Jasper. "There's a second element to my gift. I can use it to infiltrate other vampires mind and turn the pain that they have inflicted to all of their victims back onto them." I thought for a second not entirely understanding what he was saying.

"How?" I asked as he watched Jasper.

"The after essence of their victims is stained on their mental aura, I can tap into that and reverse it. Bella I think you need to see someone you love get hurt before you can really grasp your gift and put it on someone else." Eleazar looked at Jasper and Jasper nodded. "Are you sure Jasper? It will hurt."

"This was a long time coming my friend." Only a second after Jasper spoke was he on the ground and screaming. He sounded like he was in so much pain.

"Eleazar don't you're hurting him."

"That's the whole point Bella, you have to see this, you have to force yourself into tapping into your ability so you can protect him." Jasper's screams got louder and longer, he was hurting so badly and I couldn't do anything about it.

I started to feel the warmth in my muscles, it spread through my veins and hit my heart and I couldn't control myself. I ran, full force, towards Eleazar. He barely had time to react before he was being thrown into a tree.

"Stop it." I screamed my words in his face and a snarl followed them. My inner vampire wanted to rip Eleazar's throat out for what he was doing to Jasper and I almost came close, but Jasper made me stop my attack.

"Bella, please, help me!" His words were screamed at me and I could see he was in terrible pain. I ran to his side and held him, pushing the hair out of his face and kissing his forehead. "Help." He whispered as he gritted his teeth trying to stop himself from screaming with me so close.

"Jasper, I'm sorry, I can't." He whimpered and the screaming started again.

"You know Bella, some vampires have died from the pain that I caused them using this part of my gift. And I know that Jasper has caused a lot of pain to many people, he could die if you don't help him." My eyes flew back to Jasper's face. His features were contorted in pain and I wanted to scream and cry and generally hurt Eleazar, but first I wanted to help Jasper, because I couldn't lose someone I loved again.

I started to see red and that's when I felt it. It was like an elastic band wrapped around my mind and I started trying to stretch it. I held on to the warmth that was invading every cell in my body and I pulled as hard as I could on the band, trying with everything inside me to help Jasper. I could feel it moving but it never left my mind. It was like a blanket that was made to fit me perfectly but it was elastic so it could stretch.

I could see it making its way to Jasper and finally cascading over him, covering him and making him safe. And I could now feel him better than I had ever felt him before. It was like he was now inside my consciousness, like he was now a part of me and as long as I was protecting him I would always know where he was.

I turned away from Jasper, who was now sitting up and panting heavily. I looked at Eleazar and he was smiling.

"I didn't think you would do it." And I could feel the astonishment coming from him. As well as awe and wonder.

"What are you so in awe of?" I had to ask.

"How did you know he was feeling awe Bella?" Jasper stood up and I made sure to keep my blanket over him.

"I can just feel it." Eleazar smiled and his feeling of wonder intensified.

"Bella, could you put your shield over me please." I looked at Jasper and unconsciously stood closer to him, protecting him. " I promise Jasper will be alright." I took his word, because I knew Jasper trusted him.

I extended my blanket and it stretched easily over to Eleazar. The second it hit his mind I could feel him as well and I don't know how I knew, but somehow I knew that Eleazar's ability was called ability identification and there was no pain part of it. They lied to me.

"You never caused Jasper to be in pain, you can't even do that so why did you pretend?" I asked, completely outraged. I could have killed Eleazar, I almost did, because of them pretending.

"We pretended because we knew that you wouldn't be able to find that part of you until someone you loved was in danger. And we wouldn't put anyone in actual danger so we had to pretend. But Bella, how did you know about my gift?" I couldn't answer his question. "Okay, new question, how do you feel when someone is under your shield?" At least I could answer this one.

"It's like they become a part of me." I answered and he grinned.

"It makes sense." Jasper was looking between us and I could feel that he was a little confused.

"Why are you confused Jasper?" I asked and he looked at me with wide eyes. Something he'll have to get used to.

"What are you two talking about?" Jasper asked and I could see that his question was pointed more towards Eleazar.

"I may not be able to sense Bella, but I am still good at working out abilities even when I can't feel them. I can see now that Bella is not just a shield, she can copy or use another person's ability when they are under her protection, it is like she's taking payment from them, they get to lend her skill so she gets to lend theirs." I nodded. What he was saying felt right, it made sense to me.

"So Bella is even more powerful than we originally imagined." Jasper said, highlighting the one thing that I had never thought.

"Yes, a lot more powerful."

Eleazar left a few days after we had shed some light on my ability. He told me to keep practicing with Jasper but Jasper didn't like me being able to use his ability and know his emotions, so I tried not to put my shield over him.

Instead I used it on people at school, once I was even able to cover the entire cafeteria, but it hurt my head so I stopped. I was glad that none of the completely human people could tell what I was doing but the wolves could feel it. They said it felt like someone was touching their minds. I didn't like that analogy.

Two weeks after Eleazar left Jasper was desperate for a hunting trip. He was going away for the weekend and so I was under wolf protection but I was glad when on the Saturday I got a minute alone while going to the grocery store. I was glad to finally get a minutes peace while on my way home, when my truck broke down. Yep, it just up and broke and I was left stranded in the middle of an empty road.

I got my phone out my pocket and tried dialling Paul's number but I couldn't get a reception. After fifteen minutes sat in my truck I decided that walking was my best option.

I didn't like the feelings I got as I stepped out my truck and began the long walk towards home. I felt like someone was watching me, and not someone nice. I upped my pace as the feelings got stronger and I was almost to the point of running when I smacked into something.

It appeared in front of me so fast that I didn't have the time to stop before I was smacking right into it. Thankfully I didn't go tumbling to the ground I just took a few unsteady steps back. When I looked up I can't say I was surprised to find Laurent standing in front of me.

"Hello Bella." His voice was smooth and I saw him glance behind me. I didn't turn. Instead I reached out with my new sixth sense. It only took a few seconds for my shield to hit her and I knew that she was exactly 7.3 feet behind me.

"What do you want?" I asked as I retracted my shield and brought it as close to myself as possible.

"We want you."

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KV =D