Lionnara- I can see why you'd say that. It gets more disturbing in my opinion when you think about the fact that Bella and Jacob could have had sex (with Bella doing it out of pity for one night), produced Bella's daughter, and he would have ended up imprinting on his own kid. After all, the author did say he sensed the egg inside of her.
Reviewer no Kage- He did especially with how Bella treats him through the series until the last book. In my opinion, she played with his feelings too much and made it seem like he had a chance. Would have been easier if the books ended with Bella having both of them, but even if she could have two husbands, someone would end up being killed at the end of the day.
New Moon was a boring ass book with the only thing good in it being Jacob. That's pretty much all I have to say. Well besides if it were anyone else or any other series, we probably wouldn't see Jacob again or he'd be there every once in a while since in my opinion he serves no purpose than to be eye candy and a 2nd unnecessary love interest when it's pretty clear who Bella isn't leaving Edward thus giving people false hope he was a possibility. She put herself in dangerous situations just to see "Edward" for goodness sake.
"Charlie, I'm worried about Bella," confessed Jacob one afternoon. Bella was up in her bedroom, hopefully not doing anything except reading or homework.
"What's the matter?" He asked.
"She...she's gone crazy," He then told him about how the teenager was constantly doing particularly risky things that could have easily gotten her killed if not for a combination of luck and Jacob being there to save her. Charlie was distressed hearing such things about his child and was glad Jacob had come along and told him. Jacob agreed with him that it was most likely due to Edward leaving her that caused her to act this way. There was only one thing to do now: get her to therapy and fast before it was too late.
When Jacob left, he went upstairs to find his daughter about to hang herself. She was standing on a chair with a string of Christmas lights around her neck and trying to get it around the ceiling fan.
"Bella!" He shouted before he realized that was a bad idea. Startled, she nearly fell over and he caught her before she could fall and crack her skull on the dresser.
"D-dad! I was just..." Bella didn't get the chance to finish her sentence when he began yelling at her.
"Are you crazy?! You...you...!" He wasn't quite sure what to say himself to his only child. If he had been any later, he would have walked in on his kid's corpse hanging from the ceiling fan and all this over a boy. He knew that guy was no good though deep down he found it silly his child would try killing herself over a boy especially him.
Bella on the other hand didn't care what her father thought or even heard what little he said. Right now she was too busy listening to her beloved Edward's voice as he was the one telling her off. Ever since she discovered the next best thing was a hallucination of her boyfriend, she put herself in these kinds of situations that resulted in her near death, the only way Edward even bothered showing up even if he wasn't real. She couldn't tell her father that. He'd just think she was crazy!
"I can't believe I almost lost you," said Charlie once he found his voice. "How could you do this to me? To yourself!"
"I wasn't going to die," She said and leaving it at that. Like I said, she didn't want him thinking she had lost her mind. She was merely going to pretend to do it and quickly take it back so the vampire would appear once more.
"You weren't going to...what?" He said confused and furious at the same time. "You were going to prank me or something?!"
"Sure. You got me," She said this in a somewhat sarcastic tone which wasn't intended and luckily her father didn't pick up on it.
"If that was a prank, it was a sick one! I'm taking you to a therapist! Jacob told me that you were constantly trying to get yourself killed!" Bella mentally cursed Jacob. "It's clear now you need the help. I won't have my child dying over some bull!"
"And Jacob told you that too, right?" snapped the young woman. "That I was trying to kill myself because Edward left?"
"No. I figured it out on my own," He frowned and unwrapped the lights from around her neck. "And no more school for you. You might jump in front of a car. Again."
"That was an accident!"
As it turned out, making Bella go to a therapist was a horrendous idea. A few people had told him on her way there, she swerved and just barely missed them during the time she was on her way there. Another reported her going down the opposite lane and nearly creating an accident if she hadn't switched back to her lane. He then drove her himself and even then was bad as she unlocked her door, opened it, and tried to jump out of the car. She even tried getting a rabid raccoon crossing the street to bite her, but it ignored her. When she was finally in the therapist office, she'd try picking a fight with the man or ask him to rough her up for just a minute or two.
Charlie hung on tight to the belief that he could get Bella to normal, but he failed every time and she refused the help she was being offered. There was one thing to do now. Well two but that was illegal and he didn't feel like losing his job just to force Edward back to Forks. In the end, he had Bella committed to a mental institution. Jacob wasn't a fan of the idea, but if it kept her from being stupid, he'd go along with it for now. It'd give her time to think and she got out, maybe their relationship could go somewhere. If Edward came back, he'd lie, the vampire would leave, and he'd have Bella all to himself. Selfish yes, but at least he wouldn't leave the poor girl.
In New Moon, Bella does some stupid crap to get "Edward" to appear like jumping off a cliff and some other things. I know she doesn't do much of it around Jacob (I think), but I only had it that way for story telling reasons.
And it just occurred to me that given how way after Bella jumps from a cliff, Alice comes along because she thinks Bella could be dead because she saw her jump. If she actually got thrown into an asylum, there'd be nobody to save Edward and he'd die unless someone else went after him. Now that I think about it, what was everyone else doing? Did they not know Edward was trying to get killed besides Alice and maybe Jasper? Plus Bella herself would probably get crazier seeing she can't do anything dangerous or dumb to see Edward again.
Next scene involves something revolving around Charlie's reaction to Jacob transforming. If you're not okay with boyxboy, don't read it. Just a head's up.
