This fic follows True Blood up to the end of season five and starting here on after I will be adding things from the books, like certain characters and a few bits and pieces of the story line from there. It's what the show originally intended to do after all.~ You don't have to have knowledge of the books for this fic.

Moon of Silver

Prologue

The world would go on. It had to. This wasn't the first disaster to happen and it sure wasn't the last. Not if people continued to hold so much hate in them. Definitely not if people, or vampires for that matter, were going to let religion destroy them. There was already a high violence rate among those who disliked vampires being among humans. The damage was ten fold now after the True Blood factory bombings.

Yet, behold the world was not completely damned. It seemed that other companies were trying their hand at a forever-selling product like synthetic blood. It was very similar to what happened with Coca-Cola. Sub-markets grew to try to surpass the original for the money. After the bombings these companies came out to try to push their own product while they didn't have the bigger one in the way.

It seemed the damage the Authority had done brought a lot of new things to light for the humans as well. When what seemed to be Steve Newlin turned into some woman on live TV it was only natural for shifters to make themselves known. Though they had pushed very strongly that turning into other humans was not something they could do naturally and that it had very high risk if any shifter did manage to do it. It was important for humans to know this to cause less trouble. They had gained better acceptance than the vampires ever managed even.

The world was a mess, but it was nowhere near as rocky as right after the disaster. Things were settling and becoming easier to deal with for both humans and vampires. In between the two it probably would never be the se again on a personal level though. Vampires did good by seeking out the new brand of synthetic blood at least.

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Sookie was surprised when Eric showed up at her home. The place she lived that Eric apparently owned now. That was the only reason he managed to sneak up on her and causing her to jump up from where she had sat on the couch.

"Why so startled?" There was the all too familiar smirk on his face as he asked before he entered the room completely.

"You were the last person I was expecting to see," though it was far from true and she actually had wanted him there for once. After what had happened with Bill and they realized he wasn't coming after them Eric had kept his distance. He did it for Sookie, not himself. He knew she preferred to recover from the emotional things on her own. She had to grieve and get it over. Literally. She had seen Bill seemingly die and in her eyes that's exactly what had happened. He was dead to her. Deader than he had ever been.

Silently, she went into the kitchen to heat up a bottle of blood from the fridge. Though Eric and Bill both had practically been out of her life for the past year Jessica was still around. Sometimes Jessica needed someone around more sane than Pam and Tara, Sookie fit that better than anyone. Of course there's blood in the house then.

She brought the bottle into the living room and handed it over to Eric. He didn't even bother to hide the disapproval, but he knew it was only in Sookie's nature to try and be a good hostess and was being polite by getting it.

"This taste like shit. I'm so glad I'm not living off of it anymore."

"It's all I can afford. The price of True Blood is outrageous since it is imported," one factory that got up and running wasn't cutting it. Still, True Blood did get sold despite the prices. The vampires with all the money from their long lives of investing like Eric did wouldn't be caught with Red Stuff. It was mostly bought by baby vampires now. Business had been booming for Red Stuff until the past two months when Japan resurrected the True Blood factory. True Blood was still having a hard time financially and getting the product going again, but it still managed to build on what was lost. The United States was next in line for a new factory. Needless to say over seas products were way too expensive for a waitress. Jessica hadn't complained much and never bothered to buy her own True Blood. She was also in the same boat with the money situation as Sookie. Bill didn't bother to leave her anything. He wasn't exactly to kind about her leaving him and his beliefs.

This was exactly why Red Stuff was the only thing in the house for a vampire, besides Sookie herself. She knew that thought had crossed Eric's mind when he gave her a side-ways glance as he finished the bottle off. Instead he places the bottle on the coffee table and sat down on the couch, "I haven't heard much from you."

"What would you care to hear?" She tried to keep the bite of her words out of her voice, but she couldn't say she wasn't at least a little upset that it took them this long to sit down and talk more.

"That you are alive and well to start with."

"Here I am. Alive. Better than I was..." she sat down next to him and glanced
up to let her eyes meet his.

He showed concern, she at least could tell that if nothing else about him at the moment. "You know that. I'm sure you've been secretly checking up on me. I also know there is a reason for you being here other than to let me know you are still around."

"Don't you know so much."

Sookie frowned back at Eric as he laughed about the reaction. As much as he did want to do more than 'secretly check up' on Sookie he did have other reasons for being there at her house.

"Have you been watching the news?"

He didn't care much for it, but it was useful, especially when left in charge with what he had dealt with when not checking up on his former lover.

"When I care to," which wasn't much anymore since -

"Following the Church of Lilith?"

Since that.

"No," definitely not that. Sookie couldn't stand to hear about the rising vampire church. At least the followers have stopped forcing other vampires to feed on humans and they are not creating as much chaos as before. They were certainly along the same lines as The Fellowship of the Sun now, "I say let the Fellowship and those psycho vamps take care of each other and stay out of it."

"That's what the new vampire council thinks to do. We are trying to make peace. Not that fanatics understand the word."

"Are you the new vampire king of Louisiana then?" For all Sookie knew Eric had always been the most powerful sheriff so why not put him on charge?

"I don't wish to. Too much work, but if that's what the council decides I will take the role. I am acting it now until the summit."

"Summit?"

"It's... like a convention. Happens every year. This year it will be a bit different for obvious reasons.

"We are going to discuss what vampires are going to do about this Lilith mess. Things of that nature. Then there's something like a party..."

"That's why you are here?" Nothing about the vampire world should surprise her anymore, but it was.

"Yes. I want you to come with me."

There it was. The real reason he was there. Sookie knew this request wasn't for a date or anything close to it. Eric wanted a favor. Eric always looking out for Eric first. Chances were that Sookie wouldn't even know what the real reason for the favor would be until they were already in too deep.

"Why don't you just get Nora to go? You know, your sister?"

"Are you jealous?" It was very clear that Eric enjoyed that fact. He knew Sookie was jealous just by the way she had asked the question.

Sookie was trying to reason otherwise with herself. She was upset just by the fact she was now alone. It had been that way for so long, so why did Bill have to go and change that? She was wondering of the worst part about the over all fact was that she was wondering why Eric wasn't making her feel any less alone.

"And I am going to a vampire summit for what?" While it sounded interesting she had about all she could handle with bad things happening. What of something went wrong! Then again these were the 'good' vampires. The ones not associated with Lilith. Or Bill. "No Lilith?"

"There will be someone to represent them. They have a slight say in what happens."

"Who?" The worst part about the new vampire church was the fact they had their wonderful 'spokes person' which just happened to be Bill Compton. Bill had such a way with words that there were even idiotic humans who would give themselves up for sacrifice.

Manipulative bastard.

"There will be other humans too if that eases the fact that it's for vampires," Eric added to bring Sookie out of her own thoughts and deliberately ignoring the question.

"Yeah, fangbangers," she wasn't even focused on that problem anymore. What if it was Bill there? What if she did see him? She went so long forcing herself to think of him as nothing, but she did love him and she did know he wasn't himself. That wasn't him. It couldn't have been. Even Eric was set on saving Bill, surely he would know there was something wrong.

Sookie had to wonder of Eric only seemed to have given up to help this new vampire council or Louisiana. That did come first over one vampire, didn't it? He had to save many verses one.

"We should talk about this later. We have time," it was like Sookie had just froze up in her own thoughts. Eric knew she wasn't going to pay attention now that she seemed more concerned about rather or not Bill was around while she was. Though what was the difference in them being in a big place with hundreds over others verses him living right next door; or at least as close as next door gets out there?

Eric stood before Sookie realized he had actually spoken. She reached her hand out to grab his. While she didn't want him to leave her she knew it wasn't right. It was wrong of her to have pushed both him and Bill away and then expect Eric to be right there when things went wrong. Then there was Nora; Sookie wasn't even sure what was going on there.

"Sookie?"

"Later is fine," she let go of his hand and nodded. "I work tomorrow, but you can come by after."

"I'll be here."