This is something that has been running around my head - AH/AU
Sookie sat there wondering if she should really go and meet Eric for coffee or not. She said she would but could she really do it?
She hadn't seen Eric in 12 years, since he dropped her off at Jason's house and told her he still loved her and asked for a kiss goodbye. It was less that a month before their wedding. The whirlwind wedding that he had planned for her but never happened. They sat in silence for hours while he took her from his house in Houston, the charming little house that should have been their house. The 6 hour drive had been the longest and saddest in her life and she honestly thought she would never see him again. She refused kiss him then - it was too hard to even look at his face. He broke her heart even more that day with his declaration of love, more than he had 3 days earlier when he said the wedding was off because it didn't feel right. He offered to take her back to Bon Temps but she wanted to be with Jason in New Orleans. Thankfully Jason was at work when they got there because he would have kicked Eric ass. Instead his wife Crystal opened up the screened door to let Sookie in and glared at Eric while he dropped off Sookie's suitcases on the front porch.
Stupid fucking Facebook - she knew this was totally her own fault that she was in this mess now.
A six moths earlier, Sookie was asked to do some digging around Facebook for a project at work. She was one of the youngest IT managers at Merlotte's Oil and they always turned to her when they felt the needed to "connect" with the younger generation. She snooped around for a few days creating an test account under a fake name. There wasn't much there, the rig worker's had setup their own page to plan social events when they were back on dry land and they could probably use the site for requiting new grads. And like everyone else, she snooped around for old friends. It was then she found him. There was just that hint of information. A single black and white picture of him with his guitar. That he was still living in Houston, and that he was "in a relationship". It was the only glimpse she had even had of him for 12 years.
She could have just left it at that and for months she did. But she was stuck home alone for the 3rd week in a row while Bill was off on another business trip. Sookie she was feeling blue, there wasn't much right now to fill her evenings. Using the fake account, she friended him - and waited to see what happened. Within minutes he respond within Facebook.
"who are you?"
She sat there - did she really want to do this?
"It's an old friend from Bon Temps, looking for some closure" she carefully replied
Eric accepted her friend request in what seemed like an instant. There was his profile, all the details, completely exposed to her. His life, his job, his friends. Years of photos and his life with his girlfriend Debbie. She clicked around his life. Her computer chimed and she had a new message.
"k... what now? why now? Not that i am complaining..." came Eric's reply
She lied to him and herself. "No real reason - I was doing some research for work on social networking and did what everyone does on Facebook - look up people you know. That's why the fake name, I had no intention on using the account."
"ahhh i c..." came his reply. She sat there, not really knowing what to say next.
Another new message appeared from Eric "do you use msn messenger at all? facebook messages suck when trying to have a conversation... "