This is my first fan fiction piece so I really hope that you will enjoy.

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Thank you - Merkima

Aleyssa angrily shut the door behind her ignoring the footsteps that drew nearer. She knew it was Alric. If it was not because he was not the only 'person' in the house, it was because of his earthy scent that was mixed with the blood of a deer. "Disgusting," she thought to herself as her mind drifted to the flea infested four-legged animal that was supposed to be food, " how creatures of such power could lower themselves to that of a vile cowardly vulture." Alicia had barely finished her thought when the door flew open. A tall mustachioed man stood at its entrance. Dark hair fell over a pale forehead and a usually cool countenance was disrupted by a fierce frown. His clothes were matted with mud and forest herbs. His face and body was stained with drying blood.

Aleyssa looked at him and laughed. "Quite the hunter aren't you?" she mocked sarcastically. "Enjoyed your meal?"

Alric stared out of piercing black eyes at his wife. Her long black hair framed the curved features that made up her face and touches the tops of her swelling breasts. In a high skirt and chemise she looked stunning. If she was anything it was beautiful. Alric regarded her and acknowledged their bed behind her. Only one thought entered his mind but now was not the time for that especially when she looked fit to kill. He fixated his mind on the present situation.

"Yes in fact I did" he responded, "There's more than enough for you downstairs."

Aleyssa's eyes flashed green with indignation.

"Oh yes" she purred mockingly "Then after that I'll finish me meal with a bottle of B positive True Blood!"

She quickly grabbed the bottle of blood that was on the night-stand near the bed. It ironically enough served as Alric's midnight 'snack'. She threw it at him. It crashed on his bare feet. The blood spilled everywhere and the shards of glass etched themselves into his skin. Alric grimaced but the glass quickly ejected and his skin healed.

"What is wrong with you, woman?" Alric yelled in a thundering tone. "Haven't you everything? Money, riches….."

Aleyssa cut him off.

"You must be joking". Aleyssa burst into an asinine laugh that was quickly replaced with a vicious whisper.

"I am forced to reside in a home that stifles my nature. I am forced to be subjected to the airs and mindlessness of these Stanford witches who are my neighbors and supposed 'friends' and expected to be one of them no less. And worse I am forced to sleep with and love a pussified vampire!"

The last statement caused a reaction from Alric, what she had hoped for.

In an instant he was at her. His mud caked fingers grasped her shoulders and bared his fangs. Aleyssa simply watched him, her green eyes searching. He wouldn't hurt her. He loved her. That was his weakness since they had met 80 years ago.

"All I want is blood Alric." She gasped as she felt his hand loosen. "Human blood." Aleyssa closed her eyes and licked her lips. "fresh from the neck."

Alric released her, stunned. He couldn't understand. Their kind was finally being accepted. Friendships and even more could be made between human and vampire. They were no longer a secret, no longer a myth or a rumor to be twisted by the minds of fiction novelists yet she (Aleyssa) still longed to return to those days of secrecy and murder.

"Don't you miss it Alric?" Aleyssa caressed his face carefully avoiding the blood. "The hunts, the kills, the screams for mercy? "

"No," he answered solemnly looking down "All those innocent people" Alric clenched his face, retracting his fangs. "No."

"You liar" she mocked. "Remember the little girl…."

"Aleyssa you are testing me. Have you no morals?"

Aleyssa looked at him incredulously then laughed. Morals m'dear? You are 400 years older than me yet so naïve! Morals are for the living. I…We are dead."

She walked over to a large Victorian style window that overlooked the manicured garden and the other similar homes of the Taron community. Aleyssa pushed open the window and climbed onto its ledge.

"Where are you going?" Alric said to her, his voice miraculously devoid of the emotion that threatened to stake him.

Aleyssa smiled at him. It was a strangely angelic smile that certainly paralleled her motives.

"I think that I am going to pay Eric Northman a visit. I have been meaning to for quite a while…You remember him right?"

Alric visibly shook. Aleyssa smirked and tilted her head.

"Of course you should remember him. After all he is….was your best friend. That is, before you nearly staked him to death and all for little ol' me too.

Aleyssa showed her fangs and smiled.

"Nothing to say dear?" Well bye-bye hubby. See you soon….maybe. "

With that Aleyssa jumped out of the 3-storey window, landed gracefully on her feet and sped the 365 miles to Bon Temps.