Every Time It's You 22

“So do you want just seeds or actual plants?” Rosalie asked Isabella as the pair walked around a gardening store. They had spent the night in Rosalie’s garage working on one of Rosalie’s project cars. Rosalie had enjoyed the time explaining to Isabella how gasoline engines worked but she mostly liked when Isabella talked to her about the many different vehicles she had discovered on her travels. It made Rosalie sad that she never got to meet her counterpart from Isabella’s dimension because it seemed like they would get along great.

“I would prefer plants however with the unknown situation we are involved with it wouldn’t be smart to buy a bunch of plants that we need to take care of.” Isabella would have loved to bring a few live plants home but didn’t think they had the time to properly take care of them with a newborn army on it’s way.

“Well they have seed containers that have the fertilizer and soil with them you just have to plant and water. They are like starter plants so you don’t have to worry about just planting a seed and hoping it will grow.” Rosalie had seen Esme use them with her garden.

“I would like to find a new type of flower for my Tanya.” Isabella said.

Rosalie motioned to a section of the store that was dedicated to flowers. “These are all the flowers they have in bloom. They have seeds of course for ones that aren’t in season.”

“This one is beautiful what is it?” Isabella picked up a white flower with various designs of purple and yellow.

“That is a butterfly Iris.” Rosalie read from the card in front of the display.

“This one is perfect for Tanya. Do they have a book with information on how to care for it?” Isabella always tried to get books on how to take care of the plants she acquired for Tanya. It was silly to give her something and her not able to make it grow.

“I’m sure they have books on how to take care of most of the plants. If not the store employee would be able to tell you.” Rosalie said.

“Good then let’s get some seeds for these.” Isabella went to the wall of the store that seemed to have all different packets of seeds. She found a few that were familiar but most were not. “I think I’m going to get a bunch of different packets and then get some gardening books on how to grow them.”

“If they don’t have the books here then you could always look online and we can have the books delivered to our house.” Rosalie told her.

“That’s a good idea.”Isabella would like to see what other things she could find on the internet for gifts for her coven and the queens. Picking a few of the seed containers Rosalie had told her about Isabella decided she had enough to keep her wife happy. “That should be it.”

“Then all we have to do is pay then we can go home.” Rosalie said.

“Oh yes this dimension uses money.” Isabella set her basket down on the floor and pulled out a small box.

Rosalie watched in fascination as Isabella scrolled across a screen on the top of the box and tapped on the screen. The box flashed a blue light and when Isabella opened it it was filled with hundred dollar bills. “How did you get all that cash?”

“I always carry precious metals with me to each dimension. You never know when you are going to need to pay for something. Last time I was here I stopped at a jewelry store and traded a gold bar for some cash. The lady was even nice enough to throw in a necklace for my Rosalie.” Isabella told her.

“You carry gold bars with you?” Rosalie asked in disbelief.

“Well not just gold bars. Each dimension considers different metals and jewels valuable. In less technological advanced civilizations they value gold the most.” Isabella never understood that as gold couldn’t really be used for many purposes.

“So you just carry random metals around with you everywhere?” Isabella nodded so Rosalie asked another question. “Where do you keep it? I mean I know you keep a lot of stuff in your jacket but there is no way you can carry that much stuff without everyone knowing.”

Isabella pulled some cash out of the box she was holding, closed it and tapped the screen three times. The blue light flashed twice and when Isabella opened it again there was a gold bar inside. “This device is able to shrink small objects down enough that you can store them in it.”

Rosalie didn’t think she understood correctly. “This can actually shrink things?”

“Yes.” Isabella stood next to Rosalie and showed her the box again.” It’s called something that you don’t have the proper words in your language to translate. How it works is you see all the options on the screen. When I want the gold bar to disappear back in storage I simply select the storage option and the item is immediately shrunken down and stored. When I want to make something bigger, let’s say a diamond I simply select jewels, then diamond and it becomes regular sized.”

“That’s amazing.”” Rosalie picked up the diamond and noticed it was perfect. You would have never known that it had been shrunken down. “Do they make bigger versions of these devices?”

“They do, however I don’t have any with me. I found this in the dimension with the robots. That’s how I got them home to my Rosalie.” Isabella explained.

Although it was amazing to hear that bigger versions existed Rosalie was saddened to not have access to such technology. “I hate to sound like a broken record but you don’t have an extra one of these do you?”

“I don’t. However I am willing to give you mine as I can easily get another. I just need to get something to put my stuff in. Unless you want what’s in it already.” Isabella didn’t keep all her money for different dimensions with her. Nor did she keep all of her metals and jewels with her. The device could only hold so much.

“I would love that. Do you think when we get back you could show me what else you keep in there?” Rosalie was getting excited at the prospect of seeing what different things Isabella kept as essentials for her travels.

“Sure.” Isabella didn’t mind spending more time with Rosalie. If she was honest with herself Rosalie was the only one she really liked in this dimension. That wasn’t saying she didn’t like Tanya and Bella. It was just hard to be around Tanya as she was a constant reminder that she was away from her own mate. Bella she didn’t know that well as it seemed the girl wasn’t comfortable around her. Isabella found that to be normal with each dimension she visited. Most other versions of herself couldn’t wrap their minds around meeting another version of themselves. The others were either resentful at not having the gift to travel or extremely excited about learning everything they could about their shields.

“Let’s go pay for this stuff and get home. The wolves will be there soon.” Rosalie said.

Isabella waited until they paid and were back in the car before she spoke. “I am very interested in seeing how the wolves preform.”

“Have you been around many shifters before?” Rosalie asked.

“I stayed with elephant shifters for a few days. They were nice and accepted me after I offered them the healing medicine.” Isabella had been planning on visiting them in the future. “When I met the jaguar shifters I had nothing to offer them so to earn a conversation with their chief I had to fight the best warrior they had. I won and was treated like an honored guest after that. I spent some time there training them on proper ways to kill a vampire. They are the ones who shared the pain medicine for the wolves.”

“So you have trained shifters to fight vampires?” Seeing Isabella nod she asked.” Why would you do that?”

“As you know not all vampires are kind and fair. I believe all creatures should at least get a fighting chance if they are attacked.” It was Isabella’s policy to train any that came to her with a pure heart. It was easy to see when someone was just wanting to gain power and the many like that she had turned away.

“Are you going to help train us to fight the newborns?” Rosalie would gladly learn anything Isabella had to teach her.

Isabella shrugged. “I’m not a member of your covens so it wouldn’t be my place to be the leader of the training. Besides I think Liam and Jasper are the ones who have the most experience out of all you.”

“Yes but I have a feeling that you have more experience in battle than all of us combined.”Rosalie noticed that Isabella used the phrase all of you.

“Even though I have been in many battles even in my human life it doesn’t give me the right to have any role of power in your groups. I am simply a guest. If asked for my opinion I will give it but I will not take over training.” Isabella knew what happened when an outsider took over training. The respect for the groups best warriors went down and most of the time the warriors themselves lost some of their self esteem at being bested.

“Well then will you train me on my own. I have been working on my gift and have made progress but I still don’t know how to properly use my daggers.” Kate had been away so Rosalie hadn’t had a teacher and had been relying on videos and books to learn basic techniques. She was nowhere near a level she was comfortable using them against an enemy.

Isabella sighed. She really wished she could tell Rosalie no. “I will train you but you still have to participate in the group training. Learning to work with the others is just as important as having to work by yourself.”

“Thank you Isabella.” Rosalie was now really looking forward to training. She had worried that she wouldn’t really benefit from what the others were going to be teaching but having one on one time with Isabella would make her better than training with the group.

“It’s no problem. Even if I will be protecting you on the battlefield it would be good for you to know how to protect yourself.” Isabella’s main job may be keeping Tanya and Bella alive but that didn’t mean she was going to leave the rest of the group on their own.

“I know that I feel better with you fighting on our side.” Rosalie had already been planning on having her and Emmett stay close to Isabella when they were facing the newborns. It would take some effort to get her husband to not rush off into battle. She would have to figure out a way to keep Emmett close. Maybe while she was training with Isabella she could find out something Isabella could do that Emmett would think was cool enough to be involved with. Rosalie was sure Isabella hadn’t even shown them a tenth of the things she could do and one of those thing would probably be enough to hold Emmett’s attention. As she drove up the driveway to their home Rosalie hoped that her mate wouldn’t be overly confident to the point of getting killed. She shook that thought away. Isabella wouldn’t let that happen. She had enough faith in her friend that she knew Isabella would do all she could to keep everyone safe. Rosalie bet that if she wanted to Isabella could take care of the whole army by herself.