In Which Necessary Plot Develops
Bella returns home to a phone message from Jake begging forgiveness. Charlie is all for Bella forgiving and seems to be back on his matchmaker kick. Bella grumbles this off and starts laundry and discovers some of her clothes are missing. She assumes it was Alice, per one of her kidnapping plots until Edward shows up and reveals there is/was a vampire lurking about.
Hey, chapter 9 and we have a plot. I bet Bella becomes the Damsel in Distress.
Edward gets Emmett and Jasper to come by and search the house while he takes Bella back to the Vampire Manor. Alice insists it's not Volturi or Victoria near the house. Emmett and Jasper return and announce the all clear. Seems whoever came by snuck past their defenses, stole some of Bella's clothing and left without doing anything else.
Edward takes Bella home and they set watches.The next day Charlie goes fishing and Bella calls Jacob to forgive his outburst. Jacob and Edward work out the details of a new truce to protect Bella over the phone: The werewolves will start to patrol Charlie's house while Bella works to get Charlie to spend more time at Billy's for their own safety.
SumUp: C+
The chapter is fine, but it's short and exists solely to introduce the new threat and have some kind of setup between Jacob and Edward. I'm not sure why Bella/Meyer is dragging this out, we know how it ends and it makes Bella into a really manipulative, cold-hearted person.
Charlie has just about lost all his paternal points with this constant Jacob cheerleading.
Edward is still driving the perfectly patient boyfriend bus.
Am I the only one who's figured out that Victoria is sending vampires to test the werewolf / Cullen border? Or that the clothing will have Bella's scent on it? Doesn't that seem like an obvious sort of set up?
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