Belle Morte should definitely be doing the evil speech thing. She's sent out her minions to pick up Peter and Becca. Edward is being as blank as possible but he's thinking about the logistics because Peter is at soccer practice and unprotected. Peter will be a good assassin one day but he's still only twelve. Becca, on the other hand, is at least inside a house so as long as no one invites the vampires in, she's protected. But what about when the babysitter leaves to pick Peter up? That would be the time to make the snatch.

And he's almost as horrified as he is relieved when he sees Peter being brought in, horrified because he's relieved. Because it was before the end of practice so Becca must be safe in the house. And one of the other soccer parents will have called to warn Adam the babysitter.

So maybe Edward and Peter will be killed but at least Donna and Becca, the two weaker members of their little household, will be safe.

And then Adam arrives, with Becca in his arms, believing Adam when he tells her that there's nothing to fear. And if any of the nasty vampires scare her, all she needs to do is shoot them with her little water gun. Which he has filled with holy water for the occasion.

(Or, have you seen those water guns that are shaped like animals, so the animal is spitting the water? They don't shoot very far, but I can just see the cute little blond girl scaring off the vampires with her plastic water-spitting parrot.)

And Adam is still being a casual laid-back college student. Edward wonders how he never noticed the utter certainty, the confidence and the edge of danger, that the casual response implied. Because before he'd thought that Adam had been completely fooled by his Ted persona as most people were, but now he thinks that Adam had seen him as he was all along and simply hadn't cared.

There's a big show down and over the course of it, Belle Morte doesn't so much change as our perspective of her changes, because she's not just evil, she's also hurting, and she wants her lover back.