What Happens?
Jacob stops by Bella's room to try and help her figure out just
what he is, because he can't tell her but it's okay if she works it out on her
own. When he leaves, Bella has a dream and works out exactly what he is. But
when she plans to tell Jacob what she's figured out, she learns that another
tourist has been abducted and now it looks like Jacob's pack might be in on the
disappearances.
Thoughts as I read:
Considering this chapter is called 'Intruder' I'm guessing that
someone is paying Bella a visit. It's been a while since a strange boy came to
hang out in her bedroom. I wonder if it will be Jacob come to explain to her
just what's going on, without Sam Uley to influence him, or perhaps someone else
has decided to come hangout in Bella's bedroom.
Upon waking to the strange scratching sound, Bella's pretty
certain that it's Victoria come to kill her. But why would Victoria need to
scratch on the window when Edward was about to just super speed his way in there
whenever he felt like it. My money is on it not being Victoria.
And I'm right; it is Jacob come to visit. The noise has been
coming from the tree that he decided to climb in order to gain entry. Nicely
done, Jake. He manages to make it in through the open window but he's still not
quite the old Jacob and this upsets Bella. She's understandably upset at being
woken up in the middle of the night, frightened half to death and all by someone
who has spent the better part of the last fortnight avoiding her.
Jacob is rather shocked when she tells him to get out, especially
as he was planning to come here to apologise, but also probably because Bella's
way of rejecting his apology seems to be to try pushing him back out the window
he just came in through. That's it Bella, kill him.
We're reminded of the fact that Jacob is hot, not hot
hot, but actually physically warm to the touch. And he's huge, massive actually.
The thought of all this hits Bella and she kind of collapses which worries
Jacob. The following conversation reminds me of the conversations between Bella
and Edward from the last book. For the amount of sense that they make when they
talk to each other here, they practically could be Bella and Edward!
Jacob, it would appear, has come to apologise but he still can't
actually explain what's going on. So why even bother coming then, Jacob? He does
tell her that he has a massive secret that he can't tell anyone and that he
hopes Bella might understand what that sort of thing feels like. She does,
except these things being massive secrets, she can't say anything back.
"Can you understand that I might have the same kind of…
situation?" He was struggling again, seeming to fight for the right words.
"Sometimes, loyalty gets in the way of what you want to do. Sometimes, it's not
your secret to tell."
And then Jacob gets kind of annoyed because Bella apparently
already knows the secret because Jacob already told her, or something. Basically
he can't tell her, but if she figures it out all by herself then it
allows her to know but keeps him safe because he won't have told her.
So they start retracing some of their first conversations
together, going right back to the Quileute legends that Jacob told her about.
But Bella can't quite tease out the memory of whatever it was that he told her
way back then. Jacob's rather peeved that the one story which stuck in Bella's
mind was about the vampires; this is supposed to be about him now and she's
still just thinking of Edward, even now!
Bella then goes to begging Jacob to run away with her so they can
escape from whatever he's now a part of. Obviously, it's not as easy as all that
though. He needs to leave Bella to figure this all out by herself and get back
to the guys; they're incredibly cool apparently. Also it's not safe for Bella to
hang out with Jacob any more; where've we heard that before?
Then it's time for Jacob to go, he tells Bella to come see him
when she figures it out, and then adds cryptically 'if you want to'.
This is clearly significant. He prepares to head out the window but stops and
gives Bella a massive hug before he goes. He's really desperate for her to
figure out his secret. You'd think he'd come up with some other way of helping
her along. Like perhaps writing it out in code, or leaving a picture of a
werewolf in her room or something.
Once he's gone, Bella falls asleep and wanders into a new dream.
There's the forest again but it feels different and Jacob is there telling Bella
to run. It's the dream she had after Jacob's story first confirmed that Edward
was a vampire. But instead of an obviously vampiric Edward showing up, Jacob
turns into a red-brown coloured wolf. Funnily enough, it's the same wolf that
helped rescue Bella from the vampire in the forest the other day. I wonder if
this is a clue.
Right before she wakes up, screaming again, she registered that
the eyes of the wolf are exactly the same as Jacob Black's eyes.
Coincidence?
And now she remembers and we get nearly a page of text rehashing
their conversation on the beach back when they first met. The Quileute legend
that said they were descended from wolves. Jacob's a werewolf.
Then Bella says what we're all thinking:
What kind of a place was this? Could a world really
exist where ancient legends went wandering around the borders of tiny,
insignificant towns, facing down mythical monsters? Did this mean every
impossible fairy tale was grounded somewhere in absolute truth? Was there
anything sane or normal at all, or was everything just magic and ghost
stories?
Bella does kind of wonder why she's so baffled by this revelation
when she long ago accepted the existence of vampires. I'm confused too. Learning
that her friend is a werewolf is apparently a huge shock to her.
And she figures out that Jacob's not in a cult, oh no, he's in a
pack! And she has to go see Jacob right now to make sure her suspicions
are correct. She's on her way out the door when Charlie catches her and gives
her some bad news. A wolf was apparently spotted shortly after a tourist went
missing. Now a group of people are getting together to go shoot the wolves. I'm
sure Bella wouldn't mind if they shot Sam Uley but she's a little worried in
case Jacob gets caught in the firing line.
Charlie's heading out to go shoot him some wolf too and Bella
decides that maybe she doesn't want to go out after all. Maybe going out and, I
don't know, warning your friend, might be a good idea. But she's torn,
after all, it looks as though the vampires might have been the good guys, at
least the ones she was friends with weren't going out eating tourists, unlike
her new best friend.
Bella is confused.
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