Chapter Eleven: There can be only one! Or two. Definitely not three.

Jacob really isn't taking to the whole "kill Bella and her devil spawn" plan. Everyone else in the pack (sans Seth, who has a hero worship thing going on with Edward) is getting pumped up for gametime, but Jacob continues to struggle against Sam's commands.

You see, nobody can dispute the Alpha's commands. But then a thought occurs to Jacob: hey, wait, wasn't he basically the Alpha by birthright? He chose not to take the position, but it was totally his if he wanted it. Screw you Sam!

And just like that, the chain of command is broken, and Jacob doesn't need to listen to Sam anymore. Sam is in shock, and wants to know why Jacob would choose evil morally ambiguous sparklepires over his good morally ambiguous pack family. Sam and Jacob have a quick little Q+A session for the benefit of the reading audience.

Q: You want to fight me, Jacob?
A: No, not really.

Q: Are you planning on taking the pack over in some other manner?
A: Nope.

Q: Are you breaking the pack into two? You are tearing me apart, Jacob!
A: Nah, just going my own way. You're still Alpha of everyone else.

Q: Well, Jacob, thanks for your time. I hope to have you back on the show soon!
A: The pleasure was all mine, Sam!

Basically, Jacob doesn't think anyone should be killing innocent people, even if they're innocent sparkly undead people. So he runs off to warn Edward psychically before the pack can get there.

But there's a new hitch! It turns out that someone else is following behind him, wanting to be a member of the Team Jacob pack. It's everyone's favorite spunky little werewolf, Seth! Jacob is pretty pissed off to have someone tagging along with him, but Seth refuses to go back and kill Cullens with Sam's pack.

One thing both Jacob and Seth notice immediately is just how quiet it is in the new pack. It seems that different packs can't hear each other, which makes perfect sense -- but wasn't really something anyone ever had to worry about before. Jacob still wants Seth to go away, but concedes that this isn't really the time to be dealing with that issue. They need to warn Edward, and fast!

So the two of them start thinking thoughts like "we come in peace" and "the other wolves wanna come kick your ass," hoping he'll pick up on them. When they reach Cullen Manor, Edward is waiting outside with Emmett and Jasper, waiting for the details. They don't take kindly to hearing that the rest of the pack wants to kill Bella, so there's some snarling and growling and the like. Carlisle and Esme are out, meaning the Cullens are separated and extra vulnerable, which would be dangerous if there were any chance whatsoever of this coming to violence, which we know won't happen because we're reading a Stephenie Meyer book and Bella loves all of these people and would be sad if they fought, so they won't. Yeah, that was a run-on sentence, but I was justified.

I don't think you want to read about Seth and Jacob running around in circles for several pages, so we'll skip that. Guess what? The pack doesn't show up to attack, at least not yet. Eventually, Jacob peaks inside and sees that Bella is pretty much in full-on hospital mode, complete with all the scary monitors and beeping things and IV tubes and such. Jacob makes the very astute observation that Bella is probably doing worse.

It would be very brave of Meyer to kill off her main character during childbirth, so I wouldn't be worried Jacob: it's safe to assume she won't, and that everything will turn out just okay. Relax and enjoy the ride!