To Live Again (Twilight)

🗯️6: Training🗯️

It was quite an accident when they found out some interesting things about Bella. They were things she herself didn't guess or expect.

It was a month after graduation and everyone was concentrating completely on practice and protection. But they were also careful not to do it anywhere Victoria will have access to or can see them.

They had a month to solve Victoria problem or she would have to find some excuse for not going to college the same year. So they were hurrying along as much as they can. But the ball was in that bitch's court, so to speak. They can't do anything without her coming forward and attacking or even showing her face around.

They deduced that she had a gift that was helping her evade the wolves somehow.

It was in one of those practice sessions that they found out something. Bella and Jake were mock fighting when out of nowhere Paul jumped out at her. They always did this one on one when practicing with Bella, though differently with the imprints. Bella was so startled that she closed her eyes and brought her arms up to protect her face out of instinct. She suddenly felt so weak when she felt a thud as if someone fell down. She brought her arms down and saw everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at her. She looked around to see Paul atleast five feet away from her as if someone knocked him down.

"What happened?" She asked as weakly as she felt.

"You just used some invisible... Something and knocked Paul down." Jake answered still dazed not knowing what happened himself.

"Jake," she called him and he looked at her this time. "I think I am going to faint." She said and he moved forward to catch her and support her and that was the last she knew before everything was black.

***

Bella woke up and found that it was dark outside and the second thing she noticed was that the pack was in various states of sleeping around her. She decided she wouldn't disturb them and got a glass of water before she went back to sleep.

The next time she was up, it was light outside and she was feeling a lot better than she did before fainting. She noticed that Emi was cooking and some of the pack left for a patrol.

"So... What happened?" She asked as she made herself comfortable on the couch they put her on.

They told her what they told her yesterday but she was too faint to hear or remember anything. She got a contemplative look on her face but before she could get trailed off her stomach made it known that she was hungry.

Paul dropped her home after breakfast making a promise to come pick her up before dinner again. Today, it was Jake in the woods around her house. They always made sure to keep the guards random.

She thought about the incident the whole day even while spending time with Charlie.

Jake noticed that Bella was a little too lost in thoughts since she woke up that morning. He wanted to know what she was thinking about. She had that look on her face, the one she got when she was sure she knew what it was but was confirming it again and again. He knew she would speak to them all soon enough but he was still curious to know.

"Bells, we are here." He called her out when she didn't get down ten minutes  after reaching Sam's.

"Oh." Was her eloquent reply before she got out. "Let's talk." She said and he nodded and knew the ones inside would call others over.

As they made themselves comfortable, Bella sat and got ready to talk to them. She sat beside Paul though she didn't talk to him.

"First off, Paul, you are an ass." She scolded him. "But it helped make a discovery."

"What is it Bella?" Sam asked.

"Its a good thing actually. You saw how Paul was thrown off when he jumped me?" She asked and they nodded. "Its my shield which reacted when I was panicking." They had a look of confusion on their faces.

"Remember that I told you I was attacked in Phoenix?" They nodded. "Let me make this clear." She took a deep breath. "Edward, as you know, is a mind reader. He can read everyone's surface thoughts. But he was never able to read mine and Carlisle explained that it may be my gift. Keeping out mental gifts of others. That the gifted person is called a shield. There are two types of shields, one is mental shield and the other is physical. There are, according to his books and accounts many variations of them but basically they are the core of the shield ability."

"You think you are both." Leah said as realization dawned on all of them. Bella nodded her head.

"I think it was what threw Paul away from me when I wasn't prepared for his attack and I panicked not knowing what to do."

"Well at least, we found her gift." Paul said awkwardly with a shrug when others glared at him for jumping her.

"I am still angry at you too." She added and he looked liked a kicked wolf.

***

Paul broke it up with her the next week when Jake's sister Rachel came to visit Billy for the summer for the next two weeks.

It seems he imprinted on her. She was happy for him.

"I imprinted on Rachel." He said.

"Did you approach her?" She asked him. He shook his head. "I wanted to break this up before I went to her. It wouldn't be fair to any of us." She agreed with him on that. It wasn't like they didn't know this was going to happen. But it did hurt a little. They made themselves comfortable in the relation they had for the little while they had it.

Rachel was told everything by her brother and Sam and inducted into the pack on bonfire night that weekend.

Bella told her what kind of relation she had with Paul right of the bat and they agreed never to bring it up in their relation. They became good friends but nothing as strong as she had with Emi.

She was soon included in the practice and training.

Bella sometimes felt extremely glad and thankful when she was alone or reading a book home in the warmth of her bedroom, that having a police officer as a father had many perks. Few of them being able to shoot a gun, knowing basic self defense and by basic, near mastery in Charlie's terms and knowing if anything weird was happening around her.