It was late, the festivities of Godric's return still was going about, he sat in a cushioned chair near a fire place starring at the flames as each flicker hypnotized him making him think of his past, his past in which he was not so kind to humans. Things were different, way different. For a vampire who was ancient or close to ancient, Godric had seen many changes in the world and society. People had come to learn about vampires and at first didn't accept them, but at this day and time society had grown to somewhat understand them and live their lives normally.
"I have arranged an AB negative human for you" Eric walked toward Godric with a slight worried look upon his ageless face. "You need your nourishment, I know that the Fellowship of the Sun had nothing to offer"
"Thank you Eric, but I am not hungry, these days I need little blood" Godric assured Eric with a small smile.
"But you were locked up" Eric stated with a hint of anger. "You ne-"
"I assure you Eric that I am fine" Godric turned back to the flames of the fire place and began to stare again. "Please go enjoy yourself"
"I haven't seen you in years, I want to speak with you, to see how things were before you let those People capture you so easily"
"I am fine, I will speak with you before you go back to Bon Temp, but at the moment I need time to myself to think things over, I need to start a revolution of some sort"
"A Revolution?" Eric asked with puzzling eyes.
"Yes between our Kind and Humans, now go speak with the others and enjoy yourself"
Eric walked away from his maker, he could sense that things were not right.
Walking into another room Eric found himself over hearing an argument between two women, when realizing that the women were Sookie Stackhouse and Bill Compton's maker, Lorena a smirk formed on his face.
"Did you know that Mister Compton hit me over the head with a 52 inch plasma television"
"He did" Sookie questioned, then looked to vampire beside her. "You did"
After three minutes of Sookie shouting and Lorena getting all wound up Sookie was slammed down back against a table. Like a terrible wind Godric rushed in, Godric's hand came around Lorena's throat.
"Retract your fangs"
Lorena's fangs slid up into her gums.
"I neither know nor care who you are, but I am the authority of this area, of this nest. Do you understand"
The vampires in the room went silent their eyes frozen on the scene before them.
"Yes Sheriff"
Godric's hand left her throat and the silence of the room was interrupted by Lorena's quick exhale. Bill grabbed Sookie into a protective hug, Jason, Sookie's brother just just watched and ready to move if necessary to protect his sister.
"You seem to know her, please escort her out" Godric demanded calmly. "I want you gone out of my area before dawn."
Later that night while vampires were talking amongst each other speaking with Godric saying their hellos and stating how thankful they were for his safe return, a young man walked in without being seen. He walked to the center of the room where most of the vampires were located along with Sookie. He stood there for a second then unzipped his heavy coat to reveal silver chains, spikes and a bomb.
"Nobody move" He shouted historically.
"I don't think you want to do that dear boy" Cooed a young woman's voice coming out from the closest hallway. "It would be most unfortunate if you even touch the lever to release that contraption you have strapped upon your back and chest"
Sookie watched eyes opened wide to see a young woman or should she say girl walk out of the dimly lit hallway. The other vampires feeling like two interruptions were enough just stood there looking as well, but a little angry, but not scared of the young man that was a weapon to their kind. They thought he was a joke.
The girl was clad in a cream white silk dress that loosely hung from her pale thin shoulders, though cut low over her chest there was no cleavage, just pale creme like skin, the girl could not be more than 19 years old in age. Sookie though that the woman could pass for a statue. Her eyes trailed up to the woman's face, to her lips, eyes and cheek bones. Cat like eyes, liquid liner traced the upper lids of her the woman's eyes with feather like eyelashes, blood red lipstick that matched the girls long wave infested locks.
The woman grabbed the human weapon that could go off at any moment by the wrists and slung him against the wall holding her grasp on him tightly. The Boy just looked up at her in shock of her speed and of her presence.
"You will leave this place" She cooed, glamouring him. "But first you will not pull any triggers you have on your person, this weapon strapped to you shall not go off"
The woman dropped the boys wrists and they fell to his side with a stiff thud, his eyes were still locked upon her.
The silk fabric of the white dress did not make a sound when the blood red, red headed woman swiftly turned around. Her lips parted with a slight smile and with a raised thick nicely sculpted eye brow she looked into the crowd.
"Estella" Eric whispered with a kind smile.
"What?" Whispered Sookie.
"Yes my name is Estella" She stated without emotion, Her voice filled the air once again, her eyes never left the crowd before her, but was aiming toward Sookie's question.
"Eric" it was more of a Whisper.
Her shoeless feet walked over to Eric, it looked more like a dance step, she indeed was graceful.
"It has been a while" She whispered placing a small hang upon his neck. Eric closed the gap between the two and placed a pleasant kiss upon the woman's cheek, she returned the jester, but quickly left a peck on his lips.
The crowd of vampires began to whisper.
"Where is Godric, I must see and speak with him" She demanded. "The letters I have received tell me that he was captured by-"
"You should have come down to save him, he is fine now no thanks to you" Sookie shouted. "If you care about him that much why were you not here sooner?"
"Sookie" Bill shouted scolding her.
Estella's dark blue eyes fell upon Sookies, emotionless she remained.
"Quiet foolish human, do not speak of what you do not know"
The vampire crowd remain whispering and eyeing. Sookie looked at her once again with apologetic eyes.
"He is fine Estella" Eric assured her. Eric placed a hand upon Estella's cheek moving her head to face him once again. "I assure you"
Blood tears formed in her eyes, they tricked down her stone face, Sookie though that they would stain if left there for too long. The woman turned her head so the rest of the crowd would not see her.
"No need to cry my child" Whispered Godric who was now at her side. "we have much to talk about, you, Eric and I"
Godric finger tips wiped her blood tears away.
All the guest gasped at his intimate touch, who was this vampire?
"Godric how did this happen, how has a group such as the fellowship of the sun capture you and burn my clan down to the ground" Her eyes had yet to meet Godric's.
"your clan is gone?" questioned Stan, it was more like a shout. "Sheriff how can we stand for such human behavior, we should go after them all, kill them, or at least scare them into leaving our kind alone"
"They are just as bad as we once were"
"Yes" Estella agreed. "But I will not allow it to happen again, to any clan to any vampire, after hearing any other news about the fellowship destroying any other clan I will put a end to this group for once and for all"
"No" Godric stated full of authority. "You will not do anything without my consultancies"
"But Godric, they are jeopardizing our existence"
"Estella, if there comes a time in which we have to force them to stop we will"
Godric had finally said her name, it had been years since she had heard him say her name.
The three vampires, Godric, Eric, and Estella walked out of the room to talk a bit, when they would finish they would tell the other vampires what they had discussed.
"Bill who was that woman" Sookie asked still shaken up from the earlier events of the evening. She sat down on a black leather couch, Bill sat beside her and placed an arm around her.
"That was Estella, Godric made her" Bill closed his eyes and inhaled.
"Really?" Sookie's eyes went big. "It looked like her and Eric had a moment there."
"yes really" Bill continued to explain. "Eric and Estella are somewhat siblings, vampire sibling, they share a maker"
"Eric seemed just as happy to see Estella as he saw Godric in the basement of the church"
"They all care for each other very much and would do anything for each other"
"So Eric does love?" asked Sookie, realizing that the question she had just asked probably wasn't a good one.
"Why of course any vampire is able to love, why ask" Bill frowned curiously.
"He denied that he knew the feeling of love nor understood it"
Eric and Estella followed their maker to his room of choice, which when he opened the door was clearly his bedroom, an intimate, private room, where any vampire or human rarely saw. Black leather curtains covered the windows, his walls were maroon, artifacts ranging in all ages dresses the furniture, a big king sized bed was placed against the wall with a white confuter draped over it, piled on top were red cushions that ranged in all sizes. They all stepped in gracefully and stood there awaiting for their maker to speak to them.
"Godric how were you captured by the fellowship?" Asked Estella breaking the silence, she needed to know answers. "I mean you are stronger than most vampires"
"You are right, I could have killed everyone of them in seconds, but I chose not to, for If I had, It would have made our kind's situation even worse"
The strap on Estella's gown fell down her shoulder, Godric's eyes found her pale statuesque skin, his fingers instantly came in contact with her skin next, slowly he pulled the strap back up to the her shoulder. It had been years since he had truly touched Estella. Estella jumped from Godric's touch.
Eric just smirked. A chuckle escaped his lips. Dark calm eyes met Eric's, his chuckles stopped.
"Now you must tell me what all went on in Atlanta" Godric demanded, not showing that he was flustered from touching Estella's skin. "Please sit and tell me, on the bed is fine"
"I rather stand"
"Please sit Estella, you looked to be exhausted"
Estella sat down on the most left corner of Godric's bed and just looked up to him, her eyes finally making contact with him and never leaving. It was like he was seeing through her, everything she was feeling from the nonexistent heat that would be flooding though her body to the blood tears about to form in her tear ducts.
"The fellowship, they caught the mansion on fire" The tears were here again, at the corners of Estella's eyes, she brought her hands to her eyes and wiped the blood tears smearing the black make-up from her lids. "It was five o' clock in the morning, there was hardly anytime to move and take cover, three survived, I included"
"Who?" Godric asked. "Who else survived and where are they now"
"Lula and Nikko" Estella muttered choking back tears that were drenching her porcelain cheeks. "They are on their way, but had to make a quick stop in Savannah to tell Iris, more like a warning, the fellowship left a note of warning"
"Why did you leave what was left of your clan" Godric frowned, then placed his hands on Estella's wet cheeks.
The soft skin of Estella's hands made it around Godric's wrists.
"They told me to leave and they would go south to Savannah, I told them about how you were captured by the fellowship and they knew you were my maker" Her words stopped, she had said it, it was so intimate between a maker and his vampire. "They knew I desperately needed to see you" words once above a whisper were now a whisper. "I needed to see you"
"Eric call upon Iris" Godric commanded. "Tell her that things will be okay and not to move on with any attack until we all come together and have a meeting about it"
"Now?" Eric asked hurt a bit. "What about the Revolution you were talking about earlier, we all could use some catching up,"
"Revolution?" Asked Estella, her eyes squinted into a slit, she stood off the bed and let go of Godric's wrist. "A revolution? What sort of revolution and may I add this revolution shall not accumulate casualties of our kind"
"Nor will it accumulate human kind"
"Godric" Eric sighed.
"Go call Iris, I need to speak with Estella alone, the talk of revolutions will come at a later time."
Eric slowly walked out of the maroon colored room and down a quiet place outside the house.
The atmosphere thickened once Eric left Godric's bed room, It was thick and unusually warm against both Godric's and Estella's skin. The stood there breathing each other presence in. Each vampire's finger tips tingling from their desires to touch one another, to know that they both were really there and it was not some sort of illusion.
"It has been too long" Godric whispered as he sat on his bed. He faced the wall before him staring. "I would like to know what you have been doing with yourself for these past few decades we have lost contact, though I would also like to know how my earlier situations made you want to finally come see me"
Estella sat down on the bed once again, but beside her maker, she inhaled then looked toward Godric.
"As you know, I myself am a Sheriff over a designated area" She stated, feeling a bit annoyed. "I was busy with my clan, but you, yourself didn't try contacting me either, we both are just as guilty"
"But why did you show up now?"
"For a vampire who has lived for 2000 years and is a maker of two vampires you should know, the answer is simple"
"Is it?"
"Yes, how could it not be, I love you Godric and you know it, I owe you everything, you saved my life that night I was attacked 400 years ago, you changed my life"
"I made you a monster, I was a monster back then, we are all monsters now, but things are going to change"
"You were not a monster you were a gentle kind creature who saved my life, that night and the other nights I can not forget them, and will never forget them for those memories replay themselves over and over in my head, to the point that I can never and will never find myself a man to stay with me eternally" Estella paused. "I have yet to have made a vampire myself, though I have lived for 400 years"
Estella grabbed her makers face by the cheeks to face her, a move not even Eric would dared to have done.
"Look at me" she hissed. "Look at me while I am talking to you, you look into Eric's eye when he speaks, yet you wont even glance at me"
"Don't touch me like that again" Commanded Godric.
"Yet you can touch me as you please" Estella shouted. "You have become somewhat of a Sadist over the past years or more like now, do you even know how you made Eric and I feel when we found out that you chose to go with the Fellowship freely, you are clearly suicidal"
Estella jumped to her feet like a predator and rushed out of the room quicker than the wind during a thunderstorm. A meeting with the tonality of a winter day was not a good place to start catching up. Her pace slowed when she came to the room where her maker's clan was enjoying a party to celebrate the homecoming of their sheriff. The vampires were standing chatting amongst each other holding glasses full of red liquid. Quickly looking at a mirror in hallway she fixed her make-up then walked in.
"Oh! how this celebration is a bore" Shouted Estella. "Liven up dead things, your suicidal sheriff is back"
Estella walked to the stereo system that was playing a serene cello melody, what she wanted to be playing was a loud song with electrical guitar, but she had to go with whatever was on a radio station, thank goodness they were in Texas for she found a song that fitted her needs for loud music, she cranked it up to the fullest.
"Now this is more like it"
It was sad really, she was showing her age, not her real age 400, but the age she was when she was made vampire, the ripe age of 18.
Eric was outside conversing with Iris, an old vampire in south georgia with a clan doubled the size of Godric's plus his put together.
"Yes Godric is back." Eric stated through the phone. "I am fully aware that lula and Nikko are either on their way or already in your area"
"Yes they arrived two hours ago and we have received the warning message"
"Godric orders no moving forward with any actions against the Fellowship until we call a meeting"
"I will take action in my turf as I please if necessary"
"Take action if you must, but you will not have our alliance"
Eric disconnected the call. Standing outside he just stood and looked up at the dark navy sky, the star were bright and twinkling like flickering candles. There was a gentle breeze that cooled down the hot humid summer night.
"These stars are the same" Eric turned to see Godric, he had the same apathetic look upon his face from earlier. "I have been alive for 2000 years and these stars have yet to change, each time of looking up into the night sky I still get the same feeling, the feeling of bliss, that nature has made such a lovely picture before us"
"The stars are the same" Eric agreed.
"She's not the same, Estella"
"I have noticed"
The loud music was still being blasted, the red head vampire was still in-composure yet she moved about freely to the beats of the drums and the strums of the guitar. Her long locks were moving about in such a manner that if it was a normal human being they would have been taken to be a fool. Her straps to her gown falling low upon her arms almost exposing her chest.
The Vampires in the room just stood watching, some moving as well but most just starring. Though knowing Underling, a man who love good music with a great beat and guitar, he didn't move he just stood against a wall watching, thinking about the best way he could convince his sheriff to plan an attack on the Fellowship.
When the song ended the red headed vampire flipped her hair out of her eyes and sat down to collect herself, though not to the break of tears yet, the young woman was already feeling the weight that they caused. Being alive for so long you would think a mind grew numb to emotions, but instead they just heightened and became even more clearer and unbearable.
A woman with curled loose blond hair approached the woman, Estella, sitting down slowly. She extended her very alive hand out toward her.
"Hello, I'm Sookie"
Estella just ignored her.
"I'm sorry about earlier" She cleared her throat. "You are right, I was foolish to speak of what I didn't know"
Breaking her stair, Estella finally spoke. "It is alright, not everybody knows better"
"Excuse me" Sookie asked.
"Yes you are excused"
Estella got up once again and headed down a hallway toward the stairs to find Godric. She was possibly thinking about apologizing.
"Estella" A man spoke with a southern accent. "Please forgive Sookie for speaking out"
"Bill!" Sookie shouted.
"Bill is that you?" Estella asked. "Why yes it is"
Estella turned and smiled at Bill.
"Now if this just doesn't show my age then I don't know what will, I have not seen you since Eric thew that dreadful party in 1935, now don't you look different in your modernized clothing"
Bill smiled. "Still dressing in silk gowns I see"
"Oh of course only the finest and with a body like mine why would I pass it up"
Sookie stood there with her mouth open agape looking dumbfounded. Was this woman for real, so conceded.
"This is Sookie"
"Oh dear girl you will have to excuse my absent minded response from minutes ago, oh course I have many things on my mind" Estella held out her hand. Sookie held out hers.
"I'm Estella" she introduced. "Now are you and Bill lovers" Estella chuckled.
"Yes" Sookie blushed. She kept on thinking 'How does a woman go from being so cold to somewhat charming in seconds'.
"How wonderful, finally you tossed out that old cat of yours, she was a bit insane for my taste" A wide grin extended upon Estella's lips.
"Lorena was actually here today" Sookie interrupted blurting out. "Godric actually forced her to leave"
"She was?" Estella's rich laughed escaped her lips again. "And he did, oh course he never likes interruptions, he is basically in a frenzy at the moment of me showing up all random like, if the sun doesn't kill a vampire, memories will"
"Good thing you did show up or that boy from the Fellowship could have done some major damage"
"Yes good thing I did" Estella began to walk up the stairs. "Well I best go find Godric, it was nice meeting you Sookie and seeing you Bill. Oh and Sookie you must come and see me before you leave this dreadful excuse of a celebration, I have tons of dresses and gowns that I would love to get rid of, things just accumulate over time you know, plus they would look better on your body type"
"What a nice woman" Sookie smiled.
Bill let out a laugh.
"Godric" Estella called out. "Godric we need to talk some more, I'm sorry"
As Estella came to the last step on the stairs before they hit hallway she suddenly heard and sensed the weapon boy's presence, she flew back down the steps and grabbed him by the neck.
The clan of Vampires just stood there again, like nothing was really happening, they just didn't take it seriously.
"I told you to leave" She was angry, probably to the point where she wasn't going to be merciful. "Do not even think about pulling any trigger you have" Her fangs began to extend out.
Slamming the boy against the wall she tried glamouring him, but he would not look into her eyes.
Her fangs grazed the soft warm flesh of his skin. She felt him tense up. Her lips rose up off his skin then came back down biting him. After taking a couple of swigs of his blood she felt something strong rip her off of the human weapon.
Godric had her by the neck.
"You are so foolish" Estella hissed. "He needs to die or he will pull the trigger, he is a weapon Godric, sent by the Fellowship"
"I'm not the foolish one my child" his voice chimed. "We can not just go about killing humans if we feel threatened by them"
"Threatened?" shouted Estella ripping herself from the grips of her makers stone hands. "I think not, but be my guess if you want a human with a weapon strapped upon his back walking around your home, you are indeed the foolish one"
The human weapon, being only somewhat weak after Estella had drank from him grabbed a silver steak that was in his back pocket, quickly he moved to Godric and stabbed him in the stomach. Godric fell back. Then he pulled a trigger.