Was watching Strange Love last night and a thought came into my head; maybe Sookie thought that she was never going to see Bill again after saving him and Bill just left Bon Temps without giving the waitress a second thought. This takes place in Season 1 and its AU so if any of the characters are a little off its because I'm not following the format of the show, several events will be jumbled up, changed or not included; will try to make the characters as authentic to the best of my abilities ^_^
Do Not Own True Blood in any way, all belong to Alan Ball and Charlene Harris
New Mind, New Life CH. 1
The Tribunal consisted of an old parking lot with vampires as far as the eye could see, ranging from the elegantly dressed to the most ordinary looking vampires with a common factor of fangs ascending as each of the prisoners receive their punishments. The Magister sits on the center of the parking lot having just sentenced a vampire to two months of the loss of their fangs for feeding off the human of another, calls in the next case.
"Eric Northman, Sheriff of Area 5, bring me your murderer". Eric drags Bill by the arm quickly moving him to the center of the tribunal to await his fate.
"Believe me, Bill, I don't like this anymore than you"
William Compton, you have been charged in the murder of a higher life vampire. How do you plead?
"Magister, I am guilty."
"Before I make my ruling, elaborate the circumstances of this case"
Tensely turning around at the audience, Bill began to tell his story. "Very well, Longshadow was the bartender at Eric's nightclub in Shreveport; The bar had been infiltrated two nights ago by undercover cops who were going to charge the vampires there with non-consensual feeding of which I only drank from the synthetic blood that night. Eric, Pam and I were about to escape as we came across Longshadow in the back alley at first appeared to have been feeding off one of the human bartenders; but at closer inspection, there were two other bodies nearby of young girls that had all their blood drained of which their scent had been all over him. Later, I confronted Longshadow about what had happened at the alley after I caught him again about to rape the same human that I saw him with earlier, we struggled for a while and in a moment of pure rage, I grabbed a nearby piece of wood and staked him."
The entire Tribunal had gasped at Bill's story as Pam and Eric rolled their eyes in disgust as they had to relive this story over again.
Laughing at what he just heard, the Magister flew his cane up in a raised voice "You killed a higher life form for the sake of a pathetic human! You broke an ancient and fundamental law, decreased our numbers at a critical time in our history...very bad, very very bad".
"Magister, I had no other choice; besides, he was stealing from Eric"
As soon as Bill had stated that Eric was being robbed, the Magister immediately knew that there was more to the case than a vampire murdering another in order to defend a helpless human. "Sheriff"
"Magister its true; Longshadow was a thief and a liar. There had been women gone missing from Fangtasia over the past few months that have turned up days later with their blood drained, bringing to the attention of the human law enforcement, he was ruining my business.
"The business part, that is serious offense"
"My sole purpose at Fangtasia that night was to find and glamor any humans that could have exposed Longshadow, it was discovered that the human bartender had been Longshadow's accomplice, tell him Eric"
"Yes, Bill is a procurer to the Queen of Louisiana and was there only because I needed his help"
"To protect your wealth"
"To protect my wealth, yes….Magister, the human exposure is very valuable in Fangtasia"
"Humans exist to serve us, that is there only value"
Without a second glance, Bill had said what may had been his death sentence; "There are those among us who think differently"
A wave of shock had hurled in the Tribunal as the Magister began to show a limited patience, "Are you questioning my authority? I am the Magister, I was trained in the Inquisition and I am the Judicator for every vampire territory in North America...As the humans you love more than your own kind would say...BACK YOUR SHIT DOWN!
Feeling insulted without given a chance to explain, Bill tries to walk up to the Magister but Eric gets to him before he did something regretful.
Already made a decision for the appropriate punishment, the Magister makes his decree "Well you haven't bored me, that works in your favor; and you seem to be obedient to your sheriff"
Eric makes his defense glancing at Bill and back again to the Magister "For the most part; when it matter, yes he is"
"The usual sentence is 5 years in a coffin chained with sliver. Which time, your body will be leather and stick, you will probably go insane. However, I'm feeling very creative."
Bill gave a quick stare to Eric who was ready to set the chains of Bill who knew that his fate was sealed; What does it matter, death by the silver chains seems an appropriate punishment for one who has killed mercilessly for many decades.
A red 1963 mustang convertible drives up pulling about a few inches from Bill, which stops Eric from getting the chains ready, "According to our records, you have no nest, prefer to consort with humans; you have lost your sense of priorities. William Compton, you owe us a life."
Bill turns around to see a young girl forcibly getting out of the trunk of the car; his senses began to be distorted by deciding the choice of punishment to receive. She is so young; I can't do this to her for any faults that she may have, no one deserves to die like this. As he went closer to the car, Bill got a better look at the young girl realizing the circumstance that he was now in.
"It can't be...I know this girl"
That's pretty much what I got so far, REVIEW PLEASE!