T.03.10 Scent

In Which Bella Finally Gets A Helmet

Edward leaves Bella alone at Charlie's so that Jacob can come check out the house. A nice touch: Jacob has to drag his clothing around with him as a werewolf or he'd be naked. At least Meyer paid some attention to that little detail of her borrowed monster mythos. Must be hell on the shirt budget, though.

So Jacob checks out the house, manages to cut himself and do the fast heal thing again. I'll spare you the tedious details, Meyer clearly doesn't want us forgetting this key point, so I'm betting Jacob will get hurt in the climactic battle with Victoria and her newly created army of vampires. Sorry to spoil that for you, Meyer is painting by numbers, here.

Jacob finishes his sweep, invites Bella to a bonfire and leaves.
Edward returns with the mail (she got into Dartmouth).

Bella and Edward realize that the missing stuff was for her scent. I was actually shocked, because I thought for sure they'd already come to this conclusion way back when Bella first noticed it missing. I guess I'm a few steps ahead. Edward calls Carlisle and the two put together the fact that the Seattle crew is composed of new vampires (told you). Now at this point the Victoria connection is obvious, but Edward keeps thinking the Volturri are involved. I find it hard to believe the average reader is going to buy that for a second, but whatever.

Bella and Edward go back to Vampire Manor so she can get her motorcycle. She plans to give it back to Jacob to sell, but Edward has bought her a helmet and a jacket. He's also bought himself a big motorcycle, but we don't really get much of a description. All I have to say is good grief, the girl really has been tooling around with no helmet or jacket. Does Washington NOT have a helmet law? Actually, I don't think Bella has a motorcycle license anyway, so she's all kinds of illegal. Good going, Meyer.

Instead of riding, Edward stuffs Bella's bike into the back of the Volvo (what?!?) and drives her to meet Jacob.

SumUp C-

This is really getting tedious. Jacob and Edward together are ludicrous and this ponderous trudge to some kind of action is boring. I don't understand why they haven't made the Victoria connection. I don't understand why Edward is playing this disinterested, patient boyfriend routine. I actually understand Jacob, but it's been drawn so thin that I don't really care anymore. Somebody DO something!