the funniest parts of midnight sun
with spoilers obviously
when Edward first smells Bella it takes him two pages of inner monologue before he thinks of holding his breath
apparently vampires can run so fast they donāt leave footprints in snow just like LotR elves and this is physics nonsense
Edward listening to a CD ofĀ āviolent musicā
āa word Iād never said before in the presence of a ladyā ajlskdflj
Alice to Jasper:Ā āI know you love me. Thanks.ā
āAnd then my conscience smote me.ā
āShe was offended by my teasing. I must have done it wrong again.ā
theĀ ādazzlingā moments from the original book are Edward fruitlessly trying to frighten people by baring his teeth I canāt deal
when Bella points this out he thinksĀ āIām losing my edgeā
Edward worries about whether Bella thinks heās pretty
Bella wears a shirtĀ ācut low enough to reveal her collarbonesāĀ
Edward literally thinks the sparkling will horrify and disgust her
āI avoided the wordĀ āsexā because she didā OH GROW UP
āIt was enlightening and alluring to watch her in her elementā IS THE INTRODUCTION TO A PARAGRAPH OF HER MAKING CHEERIOS
the book. includes. a car chase.
during the car chase they knock off the side mirrors and EMMETT AND JASPER LOOK OUT THE WINDOWS SO EDWARD CAN READ THEIR MINDS AS REPLACEMENT SIDE MIRRORS this isnāt stated in the book but I like to imagine they stuck their heads all the way out like happy dogs
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The human Jacob AU that no one asked for but I canātĀ stop thinking about
Ā° The books are the same up to the movie theatre with Mike and Jake (except there are no mentions of SamāsĀ āgangā because it isnāt a thing, Embry is still hanging out with Jacob and Quil, Jake isnāt afraid heās next)
Ā° Jacob and Bella have a little laugh at Mikeās expense but make sure he gets home safe.
Ā° Jacob doesnāt getĀ āmonoā and drop off the face of the earth, he and Bella just keep getting closer.
Ā° and so, Jacob is with her when she find the meadow and Laurent finds her
Ā° in my version of events Laurent did not decide to suddenly side with Victoria because that makes absolutely no sense. He had no trouble ditching her and James in the first book and has supposedly found a partner in Irina who is friends with the Cullens so why would he be doing Victoria a favour and scouting the area?? make it make sense.
Ā° no, instead, Victoria located him and started asking questions about the Cullens and he, trying toĀ dissuade her from going against them, tells her what heās learned about them since coming to stay with the Denalis. Aliceās visions, Edwardās mind reading, he lets it all slip in the ernest belief sheāll decide it isnāt worth going after Bella, after all evasion is her heightened power; she should cut her losses and run.
Ā° after talking to Victoria, Laurent decides to warn the Cullens, he has a bad feeling after their talk and suspects she wonāt give up so easily.
Ā° he finds the house empty which is peculiar, they seemed so invested in this little human and who do you think he runs across in the meadow but that very human accompanied by a friend.
Ā° he tells her about his talk with Victoria but there is a menacing undertone to everything he says. He is trying not to kill humans for Irenaās sake but as his eyes can attest to, heās had some slip ups, and, really, she does smell delicious.Ā If she is no longer under the Cullenās protection then there would really be very little harm in draining her and thereās only one witness to take care off. It might even be a mercy because if Victoria gets her hands on her she would not make it quick, heād do it as painlessly as possible.
Ā°Ā all of this is said aloud because the reader has no insight into Laurentās mind otherwise and he seems like a person whoās inclined to give the occasionalĀ monologue
Ā° he tells her to run, before he changes his mind
Ā° meanwhile, Jacob is freaking the fuck out. As soon as they reach the road Bella guns it for her truck while Jacob just keeps up a continuous stream ofĀ āwhat the fuck. what the fuck. what the actual fuck. theyāre actually fucking vampires? what the fuck. oh, god, dad was right.Ā What The Fuck.ā
Ā° after that the whole story comes out, how Jacob was actually the person who helped her figure it out, how she had envisioned spending eternity with Edward and how, now that heās gone, she hasnāt just been robbed of the person she loves but of what she had come to accept as her future. She has never been able to confide in anyone about the whole story so she tells him everything, right down to what actually happened when she got injured in Phoenix. Itās not like theyāre coming back, it doesnāt matter if she tells Jacob.
Ā° Jacob is understandably on overload, Bella drives him home and he says he needs some time.
Ā° this is when Bella starts trying to reach Jacob but heās unreachable. Heās processing a tremendous amount of information and needs some time away from the madness of Bellaās life.
Ā° Bella starts to get restless. Jacob isnāt talking to her, she feels isolated and she needs to see Edward. She jumps off the cliff.
Ā° I kind of want Sam to be the one who sees her jump and who fishes her out of the water tbh. He doesnāt have Charlieās number so he calls Jacobās house.
Ā° Jacob promptly freaks out.
Ā° he brings Bella home, Harry Clearwater has had a heart attack.
Ā° Jacob is frightened for Bella after her jump but he also needs to be there for his dad right now and Seth is so young, Leah seems different after she lost her dad too. He needs to be there for them.
Ā° Thereās also the fact that the girl heās in love with is in love with a vampireĀ but staying away from Bella did not give him the clarity heād hoped for. Itās still a mess.
Ā° Alice arrives, she doesnāt need blind spots in her visions to go and knock some sense into Bella. Yes, sheās alive this time but she saw her voluntarily jump off a cliff into a raging ocean. Before she left she was a mess talking about how Bella tried to commit suicide and she had to go ensure she wouldnāt attempt it a second time.
Ā° When Jacob rolls up to the house and sees Alice there it feels as though his insides have turned to ice. Are they all back? Is he losing Bella before he ever really got to tell her how he feels?
Ā° Alice leaves to let Bella explain the situation. She tells him only Alice is back and why she came to visit.
Ā° Jacob is a mess, this whole thing is a mess, but heās left with the feeling that he had when he saw Alice was there. He needs to tell Bella how he feels.
Ā° They have the almost kiss in the kitchen. Jacob is still dumb enough to answer the phone in someone elseās house, he still tells Edward that Charlieās at the funeral.
Ā° Alice returns, frantic. They have to leave for Volterra. However, Jacob doesnāt basically beg Bella to let Edward kill himself and stay with him. Once he understands that Bella is serious and Edward literally is going to try to get himself killed because he thinks Bella is dead he understands that the only way she can live with herself is if she tries everything she can to stop him from succeeding.
Ā° Instead he is the voice of reason:Ā āBella, listen to me, Charlie is about to come home to an empty house after burying one of his best friends. He will be beside himself with worry and this note is bullshit, youāre a horrible liar. Tell him youāre staying with Alice tonight because youāre going to Seattle together in the morning, thereās a sale or some shit that she wants to drag you to. Tomorrow night you call him and tell him your car broke down, you have to stay in Seattle while they order the parts for you. It might be a few days. Thatāll buy you some time.ā
Ā°Ā āAnd call me when you land or, I donāt know, I might worry too.ā
Ā° It feels like tearing his own heart out but he lets her go. He doesnāt beg her to stay.
Ā° The events at Volterra play out the same way they did but Charlie isnāt left to deal with the same amount of shit he was in the original.
Ā° When they return Jacob comes to visit her, she fills him in and, let me tell you, he has a few things to say.
Ā°Ā āI canāt believe youāre just going to get back together with him. Bella he lied to you, manipulated you and left you. His sister can see the god damn future, if you think he didnāt know how this would affect you then youāre wrong. And he still did it. Maybe heās telling you the truth and he did it because he thought it would be better for you in the long run but heĀ made that decision without you. If you just take him back then you are essentially telling him that was an okay thing for him to do and it just wasnāt.ā
Ā° Jacob is so angry at the Cullens and really, what heās saying isnāt wrong. The angrier he gets the more Bella can feel her own anger flaring to life, it had been buried under the sheer relief of finding Edward alive, the euphoria of being told that he still loves her. Now she feels indignant; how dare he just make this decision for her, how dare he not take into account her own feelings on the matter, how dare he prioritise his own concerns over hers, and how dare the entire family just go along with it. They allĀ left her.
Ā° She drives herself over to the Cullenās house to have a talk with them. The vote stays the same, the āif you donāt want me, then Iām not going to force myself on you, whether Alice is willing or notā part definitely stays in. However, Bella, after having taken the vote has a few choice words for all of them.Ā āYou all left me. I have spent months trying to learn to survive without you and it didnāt go all that well. I want to join you, I really do. But I donāt trust you anymore. You all made an enormous decision for me, without my say so. Youāve now made another decision that I was a part of and even though we donāt all agree, we all got a say. Itās going to take time for me to learn to trust you again, in the meantime all I have to say is this: you will never make a decision regarding me without my input again. Never.ā
Ā° She also talks to Alice separately, discounting Edward she feels the most hurt by the fact that she would have left her.
Ā° Since Jacob is now the only person outside of the Cullens who she can actually talk to about her life, she tells him about her talk with them, including the vote.
Ā° Jacob has an understandable freakout regarding the fact that Bella has definitively chosen to become a vampire. This is definitely not what heād thought would happen after he and Bella had their last talk. And because heās an impulsive teenager he brings Charlie the motorcycle, hoping that Bella will be grounded and get some distance from Edward and maybe even change her mind.
I have a lot of thoughts regarding the continuation of the series but itās already a mammoth post so idk, i might do a separate post about Eclipse at some point.
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