Bella Swan: I'm really sorry about last night. That couldn't have been easy on you.
Edward Cullen: It definitely won't make my list of top ten evenings.
Bella Swan: You have a list?
Edward Cullen: All 10 I spent with you.
[smiles]
Edward Cullen: Number one is when you said you'd
marry me,
[beat]
Edward Cullen: Mrs. Cullen.
Bella Swan: [small laugh; then] This is the 21st century. I at least want to hyphenate my name.
Jacob Black: [sounding both angry & torn] You're marrying him?
Bella Swan: [takes a step towards him] Jake, I...
[after a moment looks at Edward]
Bella Swan: You knew he was listening!
Edward Cullen: [shrugs; softly] He deserves to know.
[Jake walks away]
Bella Swan: [calls after him, walking towards him] Jake, stop!
Edward Cullen: [grabs her arm] Bella, let him...
Bella Swan: [to Edward, just as loud] Don't!
[turns back, chases after Jake]
Bella Swan: Jake, stop!
Rosalie Hale: [hearing Bella coming towards her] Go blather to someone else about the joys of becoming a newborn.
Bella Swan: [stops; eventually continues towards Rosalie] Ok. Rosalie, I don't understand what I did to make you hate me so much.
Rosalie Hale: [softly] Hate...
[smiles sadly, shakes her head; looks at Bella]
Rosalie Hale: I don't hate you.
[pause; looking back outside]
Rosalie Hale: I don't particularly *like* you but...
[looking down]
Rosalie Hale: Bella, I envy you.
Bella Swan: [surprised; barely a whisper] What?
[beat]
Bella Swan: That's ridiculous.
Rosalie Hale: No it's not. You have a choice. I didn't. None of us did. But you do and you're choosing wrong! I don't care how miserable your human life is.
Bella Swan: My life is not miserable.
[comes up to her side, leaning on the railing, looking out]
Bella Swan: I mean, it's not perfect; but nobody's life is perfect.
Rosalie Hale: Mine was
[beat]
Rosalie Hale: absolutely perfect.
Bella Swan: This wasn't a choice between you and Jacob. It was between who I should be and who I am. I've always felt out of step. Like literally stumbling through my life. I've never felt normal, because I'm not normal, and I don't wanna be. I've had to face death and loss and pain in your world, but I've also never felt stronger, like more real, more myself, because it's my
world too. It's where I belong.
Edward Cullen: So it's not just about me?
Bella Swan: No.
[pause]
Bella Swan: Sorry...
Jacob Black: [Introducing Seth to Bella] Bella, this is Seth Clearwater. Newest member of the pack
Bella Swan: [shaking Seth's hand] Hi.
Seth Clearwater: Newest, bestest, brightest...
Jacob Black: [finishing Seth's sentence] And slowest.
[grabs Seth into a headlock]
Jasper Hale: [to Bella, voice shaky w/ emotion] I thought what Maria and I had was love.
[beat]
Jasper Hale: But I was her puppet. She pulled the strings. I didn't know there was another way...
[smiles a tiny bit]
Jasper Hale: till I found Alice.
[beat]
Jasper Hale: Now, she'd seen me
coming, of course.
Alice Cullen: [suddenly at his side, light & playful] You kept me waiting long enough.
[beat, Jasper laughs a little; in full Texas drawl]
Jasper Hale: My apologies, ma'am.
[Bella smiles at the exchange]
Jasper Hale: I don't know what I'd have become without her.
Alice
Cullen: Shhh...
[smiles reassuring]
Alice Cullen: You'll never have to be that again.
[beat; eventually moves closer & they kiss tenderly]
Alice Cullen: I've decided to throw a party.
Jasper Hale: After all, how many times are we going to graduate high school.
[Edward scoffs]
Angela: A party at your place?
Jessica: I've never seen your house.
Eric: No one's ever seen their house.
Edward
Cullen: Another party Alice?
Alice Cullen: It'll be fun.
Bella Swan: Yeah. That's what you said last time.
[Alice slumps back, has a vision]
Bella Swan: [trying to distract her from Alice] Hey Angela.
Angela: Yeah?
Bella Swan: You need some help with those?
Alice Cullen: They'll be here in four days.
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: This could turn into a bloodbath.
Edward Cullen: Who's behind it?
Alice Cullen: I didn't see anyone I recognized... maybe one.
Edward Cullen: I know his face. He's a local. Riley Biers. He didn't start this.
Alice Cullen: Whoever did is staying out of the action.
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: They must be playing with the blind spots in your vision.
Jasper Hale: Either way, the army's coming and there aren't enough of us to protect the town.
Jacob Black: Hold up. What damn army?
Dr. Carlisle Cullen:
Newborns. Our kind.
Embry Call: What are they after?
Alice Cullen: They were passing around Bella's scent. A red blouse.
Jacob Black: They're after Bella? What the hell does this mean?
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: It means an ugly fight. With lives lost.
Jacob Black: [looking at his pack
mates, then back at Carlisle] All right. We're in.
Bella Swan: No... you'll get yourself killed. No way.
Jacob Black: I wasn't asking for permission.
Jacob Black: Charlie said you left town.
Bella Swan: Yeah, to visit my mom. Why?
Edward Cullen: [with an ironic smile on his face] He's checking to see if you're still human.
Jacob Black: [beat; talking to Edward] Look, I'm here to warn you... If your kind come on our land again...
Bella
Swan: [confused] Wait, what?
Jacob Black: [looks at Bella, then back at Edward] You didn't tell her?
Edward Cullen: Just leave it alone, Jacob.
Bella Swan: [to Edward] Tell me what?
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: Jacob. Do you think Sam would agree to... an understanding?
Jacob Black: So long as we get to kill *some* vampires.
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: Jasper?
Jasper Hale: They'll give us the numbers. The newborns won't know they even exist. That'll give us an edge.
Dr. Carlisle
Cullen: We'll need to coordinate.
Bella Swan: Carlisle! They're gonna get hurt!
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: We'll all need some training. Fighting newborns requires knowledge Jasper has. You're welcome to join us.
Jacob Black: All right. Name the time and the place.
Bella Swan: Jake, you don't know
what you're getting yourself into.
Jacob Black: Bella, this is what we do. You should be happy. Look at us, working together. You are the one who wanted us to get along, remember?
Bella Swan: Jasper? Are you sure there's nothing I can do to help?
Jasper Hale: Well just your presence alone, your scent, will distract the newborns. Their hunting instinct will take over, and drive 'em crazy.
Bella Swan: Good, I'm glad.
[Jasper nods and begins to walk away]
Bella Swan: Hey,
[Jasper turns around]
Bella Swan: how do you know so much about this?
Jasper Hale: I didn't have quite the same upbringing as my adopted siblings.
[Rolls up sleeves and shows Bella his arms, which have bite marks on them]
Bella Swan: [Hops off Jeep] Those bites are like mine.
Jasper Hale: [with a
smirk] Battle scars. All the training the Confederate Army gave me was useless against the newborns, but still, I never lost a fight.
Bella Swan: [he walks away; after a beat she follows him] Hey, this - this happened during the Civil War?
Jasper Hale: [smiles] I was the youngest major in the Texas Calvary, all without having seen any real battle.
Bella Swan: Until...?
Jasper Hale: [suddenly serious] Till I met a certain immortal... Maria.
[enters a flashback]