The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide (64 page)

• Bella and Jacob spend the afternoon on the beach talking

Quil has imprinted on a two-year-old; Jacob explains that it’s not a romantic thing—more like gravity; Bella wonders when Jacob will see someone and imprint; Jacob tells Bella that he’ll only ever see her

• Jacob finds out that Bella intends to become a vampire very soon

Jacob tells her she’d be better off dead; Bella leaves, angry and hurt; she goes back to Alice’s slumber party

• Edward returns in the night

He is not angry; he trusts her judgment, and she can see Jacob whenever she likes; Bella says she doesn’t think she’s welcome in La Push anymore

• Bella goes home; Jacob has called to apologize, but she won’t call him back

• Bella’s bedroom seems unusually tidy, and some of her clothes are missing

Edward comes and smells that a vampire has been there; Edward takes Bella to his house and has Emmett and Jasper check the vampire’s trail; Alice has not seen the intruder; Bella is frightened again

• Bella calls Jacob and he apologizes profusely

• Edward talks to Jacob, tells him about the unknown vampire in Bella’s room

Edward and Jacob agree to work together to protect Bella

• Jacob comes to Bella’s house to get the scent of the vampire

Bella wonders why Jacob wears so little clothing; he explains the problem of clothes and phasing

• Jacob accidentally cuts his hand with a knife; it heals in minutes

• Bella gets an acceptance letter from Dartmouth

• Bella mentions the missing clothes to Edward

Edward realizes the
intruder took things with Bella’s scent, as evidence of having found her

• There are more newspaper headlines about killings in Seattle

• Bella decides to go to La Push for a bonfire party

Edward drives her to the boundary line and hands her off to Jacob

• Bella and Jacob go to the bonfire

The wolf pack is there, along with Billy Black, Old Quil, and Sue Clearwater

• A council meeting begins; Billy Black recites the Quileute history:

Spirit warriors defend the Quileute land; Taha Aki, the last Spirit Chief, was betrayed by the evil Utlapa; Taha Aki and a great wolf joined; the cold ones came to Quileute land; the third wife sacrificed herself to save Taha Aki; the yellow-eyed cold ones came and made a treaty with the Quileutes

• Billy notes that the sons of the tribe now carry the burden of their ancestors

• Graduation is near; Bella is not ready to change

Edward doesn’t want Bella to become a vampire just because she is afraid; Edward reiterates why he wants Bella to stay human; Bella explains her problem with getting married

• There are more headlines about killings in Seattle; the Cullens wonder what they should do

• Jasper relates the story of his human years and his vampire life

• Jasper recognizes the killings in Seattle as the result of a newborn army

Jasper thinks that perhaps the Volturi are encouraging someone to destroy the Cullens’ coven

• The Denali clan refuses to come help because the werewolves killed Laurent, who was involved with Irina

• Alice makes preparations for Bella’s graduation party

• The Cullens feel they must go to Seattle to take care of the problem

Edward goes hunting to be strong; Bella is dropped off to spend the afternoon with Jacob

• Bella invites Jacob to her graduation party

Jacob tells Bella he loves
her and wants her to choose him over Edward

• Jacob kisses Bella; she punches him in the face and breaks her hand

Charlie laughs when he hears that Jacob kissed Bella

• Edward is angry; he tells Jacob he must wait until Bella asks him to kiss her

• They both vow to keep fighting for her—and to not fight fair

• On the night of graduation, Bella realizes her missing clothes and the newborn army are connected—the newborns are after her

• After the graduation ceremony, Bella tells Edward what she has figured out; Edward is stunned

• Bella goes to dinner with a proud Charlie

• Charlie drops Bella off at the Cullens’ graduation party

• Bella attends the Cullens’ graduation party

Alice has transformed the house into a nightclub, and all the Forks High School seniors show up; Jacob, Embry, and Quil arrive; Jacob gives Bella a gift he made—a silver bracelet with a hand-carved wolf charm

• Alice has a vision—she tells the family and the pack that about twenty newborns are coming to Forks to kill Bella

The Cullens are outnumbered; the pack agrees to coordinate with the Cullens

• The Cullens are confident now that the wolves are going to fight beside them

Bella worries about Jacob, worries that everyone is in danger because of her

• Bella concludes that Victoria must be behind this

• Late at night, the vampires and werewolves meet to
learn how to kill newborns

The wolf pack has grown to ten members; the vampires and werewolves are wary of one another; Jasper explains and demonstrates the newborns’ strengths and weaknesses

• Edward and Jacob discuss how to best protect Bella

Jacob will carry Bella to a secluded spot; his scent will mask hers

“
IN THE DEAD SILENCE
,
ALL THE DETAILS SUDDENLY FELL INTO PLACE FOR ME WITH A BURST OF INTUITION
. S
OMETHING
E
DWARD DIDN’T WANT ME TO KNOW
. S
OMETHING THAT
J
ACOB WOULDN’T HAVE KEPT FROM ME
… I
T WAS NEVER GOING TO END
,
WAS IT
?”

—Bella (
Eclipse
, Chapter 3)

• Edward notices the bracelet and charm Jacob gave Bella and asks if he can give her a charm, just a hand-me-down

• Edward muses about listening to the pack mind

Leah Clearwater is one of the wolves now—the only female; she makes everyone miserable; Edward is surprised to learn about imprinting

• Bella informs Edward that she must be with him during the fight

Bella asks Edward to sit out the fight

• The wolves and vampires undergo another night of training and instruction

Bella feels guilty about her selfishness

• After ensuring that Charlie will be safe in La Push for the weekend, all the Cullens except Edward go hunting; Bella spends the night with Edward

Edward gives Bella the hand-me-down charm, a heart-shaped crystal that was his mother’s

• Bella worries about what she will be like as a vampire, fearing that she will only be interested in blood, that she won’t want Edward the same way she does now

Bella wants to be physically intimate now, but Edward resists—it’s too dangerous; Edward swears they will try after she marries him; Bella thinks he is worried about his virtue; Edward admits he would like to leave one commandment unbroken

• Edward shows Bella the wedding ring—the ring Edward’s father gave his mother

Bella hesitantly tries the ring on; it fits perfectly; Edward is exultant

• Edward gets down on one knee and asks Bella to marry him

• Alice sees that Bella is going to marry Edward

Alice is hurt because Bella
wants to go to Las Vegas to get married

• Edward takes Bella to the clearing so the newborns will find her scent

She falls and scrapes her palm; she smears blood on rocks and ferns

• Jacob comes to carry Bella to the campsite

Jacob thinks Bella should ask him to kiss her—he’s sure he’s a better kisser than Edward

• Bella tells Jacob that she has asked Edward not to be in the fight

Bella is afraid that if anyone gets hurt, it will be her fault; she’s worried about Jacob; Jacob asks Bella when she’ll admit that she loves him, too

• A frigid storm hits the campsite

Inside the tent, Bella is freezing, and Edward cannot warm her; Jacob comes into the tent to act as a space heater; he crawls into the sleeping bag with Bella; Edward is furious and jealous, but he sees the necessity of keeping Bella warm

• With the wind howling outside and Bella finally asleep, Edward and Jacob discuss Bella, and their competition for her love

Edward asks about the legend of the third wife that Bella mentioned in her sleep

• They forge a tenuous truce for the night

• The storm ends, as does the truce between Edward and Jacob; Jacob leaves

• Bella and Edward compare their top ten nights; Jacob can hear them; he howls in agony and runs off

Bella feels terrible that she has hurt Jacob; Edward goes to bring Jacob back; Bella realizes she has also hurt Edward

• Bella talks privately with Jacob and apologizes for all the pain she has caused him

Jacob apologizes, too, and says he can redeem himself by letting himself get taken out in the battle; Bella begs him to stay with her; she asks him to kiss her

• Jacob kisses Bella; the kiss is eager, nearly violent; Bella resists

Jacob urges her to let herself go; Bella
does
feel love for Jacob; she kisses him back; she envisions what might have been

• Jacob leaves cheerfully for the fight; Edward returns and hears from the pack mind what has happened

Bella is miserable

• The fight begins; Edward narrates as he hears the action through Seth’s mind; everything sounds positive until Edward senses danger

• Victoria and Riley walk into the campsite

Seth attacks Riley while Edward takes on Victoria; Bella watches the battle, listens to the metallic snaps and tears, gasps and hisses; Riley flings Seth into the rock wall; Seth falls, limp