Bella's power by fanfiction author (booksvooks .txt) 📕

with a single white rose.
"This is wonderful, Esme. Thank you," I exclaimed. "Is the rose from your garden?"
"Yes, but that was Edward's idea," she replied, smiling sweetly and ruffling his hair. He swatted her hand away, but grinned back.
I really was hungry, and so I tucked in. I was starting on the muffins when Alice and Jasper walked in.
"Sleep well?" Alice asked with a smile.
"Very well, thank you." I grinned back at her.
"Am I missing something?" Edward asked.
"All in good time," Alice replied, with a wink at me, that Edward could see. "Come on, Jasper. Let's go and find Rosalie and Emmett, and leave these two alone." I waved them off with a mouth full of muffin, as Alice pushed Jasper toward the stairs.
Edward rolled his eyes at them. "If you've eaten enough, Bella, what shall we do this morning?"
"I'd like to take a walk. Mmm, these muffins are delicious."
Edward picked up two more muffins. "Can't have you fainting out there, miles away from food," he said cheekily, flashing his crooked smile. Lifting me out of the chair, he took the white rose and pushed it into my hair. I clasped the arm he offered me, and we walked along the river to the same fallen tree we had sat on the first time I had visited his family. I was trying to work out the best way to tell him the real reason behind Eleazar's visit, when he broke the silence.
"Are you okay, Bella?"
"I'm fine, Edward. Why?"
He lowered his head bashfully. "You were talking in your sleep."
I gave a guarded "oh," as I was unsure what he had heard.
"Nothing coherent. I only picked up odd words here and there, but they puzzled me."
"What did you hear?" I asked, yielding to the inevitable.
"Power and help. They don't sound so good together." I was relieved, and saw a way to broach the events from the day before.
"That's sort of what we need to talk about. I was worried about the electricity business with your family. Knowledge is power, so they say. I wanted to know more about it, but it takes two."
"So," he growled warily, "who was your number two?"
"The obvious choice, Edward. Who was the one most likely not to kill me?"
"Carlisle," we said in unison.
"What happened?" he asked eagerly, his thirst for knowledge outweighing any concerns he may have had for my safety.
"Please hear me out and don't interrupt until I've finished, okay?" Edward agreed, though his forehead creased in worry. "We tried more skin contact and it hurt." Edward made to interrupt. He looked angry. I shook my head. "It hurt Carlisle," I explained.
"What? How?" I raised my hand for him to let me finish.
"He talked it over with Eleazar."
"So, that's why they came." I glared at him, and he zipped his mouth shut.
"Eleazar goaded me and I hurt him, while only holding his hand." Edward's eyebrows rose, but he said nothing. "Eleazar says I have a power, but I'm not able to control it because my emotions are all over the place. He's sure I will gain control with practise and some help." I reached over and unzipped his mouth for him.
"Awesome! We touch all the time, so how come you don't hurt me?"
"I think because I don't want to, and partly because we don't have much contact."
"But I hold your hand," Edward said, reaching for it to prove his point. "That's all it took with Eleazar."
"I also said he goaded me. I wasn't in control, and I lashed out."
Edward bristled. "What on earth did he do to get you to lash out?"
"He threatened to bite Carlisle's finger off."
Edward laughed out loud. "I guess that explains your sleep talk—almost."
"Almost?" Now I was worried.
"Yes, I was quite amused at the phrase lucky Edward." I blushed and tried to brush it off.
"It was just something Eleazar said."
"You have to explain, Bella. Why would Eleazar say I was lucky that you could hurt vampires?"
I sighed. "Because he believes that, when I learn control, I will be able to choose to inflict pain or…um…pleasure."
Edward took a moment to process that thought, then he smirked and asked, "How can I help?"
"At least to start with, you can't. That's why I went to Carlisle. You must know that you would always be my first choice?"
"It's different with us," Edward stated, understanding perfectly.
"Eleazar thinks I should start with Jasper, to help with my emotions." Edward nodded, seeing the sense in that. "Alice and I have a little plan…"
"Alice knows too?"
"Carlisle wasn't going to chance anything going wrong." Like him killing me. "So Alice was there to cover my back, and I think that's why Carmen accompanied Eleazar. I'm sorry I kept this from you, Edward. It was just something I had to do for myself."
"That's what you were doing with Emmett at lunch that day."
"Yes, but he ran off too quickly."
"Not fast enough for my liking. Alright, whatever Alice's plan is, I'm in."
We fell into a routine. Edward would pick me up in his Volvo for school, while the others arrived in either Emmett's jeep or Rosalie's convertible. Alice and Jasper joined Edward and me at lunchtimes, leaving Emmett and Rosalie alone on their old table. After school, the four of us would drive and run to our meadow for a couple of hours, working on controlling my power.
Of course, we worked on causing pain so I could pay Emmett back, but we also practised being able to touch them without any effect, essentially switching my talent off. That particularly pleased Carlisle, who turned up whenever his shifts allowed. I also insisted that we sometimes concentrated on the differences between my power, and what went on between Edward and I. I found I was now aware of Edward entering a room, even if I didn't see him.
Jasper and Alice would often run home from the meadow, while Edward made sure to get me home in time to cook Charlie's dinner. On Saturdays, Edward would come over and we would catch up on school work. On Sundays, if Charlie went fishing, which was most weekends, we would meet up in the meadow again.
This had been going on for a few weeks, when one day at school, Jasper pulled me to one side. "Bella, can I talk to you?"
"Sure." I was surprised, Jasper had never approached me alone before. "I've got a couple of minutes."
"We're aiming to shock Emmett with a little pain," Jasper said, and I nodded in agreement. "But Eleazar believes you can choose to use it to give pleasure as well…"
"I think he's right." I felt myself begin to blush, not realising that it was not all me, until Jasper spoke.
"I would like to ask you a favour. Alice is so obsessed with pranking Emmett that she has not been…close for a while." Jasper seemed a little embarrassed, but continued. "Even at night, she's searching for futures she can't possibly see, trying to work out if you're ready. She's so distracted that she's not even succumbing to my emotions. I wondered if you'd be willing to try something for me?"
"Anything, Jasper. You've helped me so much." I smiled at him, pleased that he could feel how happy it made me to be of service to him.
"I think that if you tried to send pleasure, it might get Alice in the mood." Jasper obviously picked up on my worry about what that would do, adding, "I'd take it from there. Take Alice, I mean—well away."
I considered his request. Wouldn't Alice see what we were doing? "Okay, Jasper, but you will have to decide at the last moment and help me with the relevant emotions. I'll go along with it and see what happens."
A few days later, in the meadow, I had zapped Alice with enough power to give her a headache, and she celebrated by hugging me. Over her shoulder, I caught Jasper's eye, and he gave a wink and a big grin as he sent me a strong wave of happiness and joy. Making sure my hands connected with Alice's neck, I relaxed and thought nice things as I channelled the emotions. I guess it worked a treat, as Jasper had pulled Alice from my arms and disappeared before I could blink.
I overbalanced, suddenly not having Alice to cling to, but of course, Edward was right there to hold me.
"What happened, Bella?" he asked. "I know you and Jasper set that up, so tell me why."
"Jasper just wanted to spend some quality time with Alice," I answered, as I turned into Edward's arms and kissed him. It felt so good. Edward buried his fingers in my hair, pressing my lips more firmly to his. I felt his hips begin to push toward mine, and wound one leg round the back of his.
He pulled away. "Bella, stop," he gasped. "Stop before I hurt you." He held me at arm's length until my breathing, and his, returned to normal. "Okay, that's enough for today. Let's get you back to Charlie's." He swung me on his back, and we almost flew back to my truck.
"You'll be the death of me, Bella Swan." I heard him mutter.
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Emmett's POV
I couldn't understand why Jasper and Alice were spending so much time with Edward and Bella. They drove off together every afternoon, and Alice and Jasper disappeared most Sundays, too. I tried to get Rose to at least sit with them at lunch, but all she'd say was, "Let the freaks sit together."
It was nice spending time with Rose, but I missed guy time. Rosalie could fight as well as any man, but I couldn't brawl with her because I'd always let her win. Wrestling with Rose was nothing like scrapping with my brothers—thank God. I shook my head to erase that image from my brain. Rose was rubbish on the Xbox, too.
They wouldn't hunt with me. Jasper had come along a few times at night, but even Carlisle didn't seem to be around as much. The last time that I got Jasper away, I asked him what they had gotten up to while they were gone. He said that it was girl stuff.
Then today at school, Bella had sidelined me.
"Hey, Emmett." She beckoned me to stoop down nearly to my knees, so that she could talk in my ear. "Do you want to know what Alice and Jasper have been doing?"
"Hell, yeah! You know about that?"
She tapped the side of her nose and winked. "Do you know the meadow Edward takes me to?"
"Sure."
"Meet me there on Saturday at noon." Bella scurried off to her next class.
Why, I wondered was she going all Secret Squirrel on me? I considered whether to buy a black cloak and a rakish hat for our meeting.
Bella's POV
As soon as Charlie left for work, Edward and I got stuck into our school work so that we would be finished in plenty of time to get to the meadow by noon. I drove down the one-ten, parking at the end of the pavement.
We hadn't been in the meadow long when Alice and Jasper arrived. Alice pointed out which direction Emmett would arrive from, and she sprayed the area, and me, liberally with perfume, before they all hid among the trees. I settled down on the ground, pulling a sandwich, a bottle of water, and a book from my backpack. Alice had said Emmett was running late, so I started on my lunch, getting stuck into 'Little Women'.
Even though I was expecting him, I still jumped at Emmett's loud, "Hey, Bella."
Emmett's POV
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