Green eyes stared off into space as the girl stood there halfway finished with cleaning the wine glass in her perfectly manicured hand. The dish rag was still inside the glass as she stood there, the glass now completely dry from the length of time that she had forgotten about it. A touch to her shoulder sent her flying but the glass never broke and a scream was never heard. The racing beat of her heart filled the ears of the two vampires occupying the room, but nothing more. Looking up, she met the eyes of the one person she wished it wasn't right now and she bowed her head quickly to apologize. He knew the routine, she would zone out, remembering the past and everything that he and his progeny worked for would be ruined. He looked at the vampire across the room as she watch the human carefully. Both, were waiting for the girl to break down and start crying but it never happened. Instead, the human girl reached for the wine glass that now rested between the figures of the vampire nearest to her and set it up on the rack where it should have been. A slight smile gave them leave to turn from her and focus on opening Fangtasia. Eric and Pam couldn't tell you why this girl meant so much to them now, but they certainly hadn't planned for it.

She was nothing more than another mere wounded human at first. Pam would tell you that she had seen such complete hopelessness in the girls eyes that it was almost impossible not to spare her. Eric wouldn't tell anyone anything. He refused to admit that he had helped the poor girl and it was almost as if Pam had done it all herself. Thankfully, Pam took responsibility for the girl and was usually the one who comforted her when she was in her 'states'. They weren't as frequent as they had been two years ago, but they still happened and it was unnerving to both vampires. Mostly because they had both at one time or another shared their blood with her, so they felt her fear and her pain. They were however still not privileged to the story of how she came to them and why she had been in the middle of nowhere. Lack of communication on the girls end made it hard for them to figure anything out the past two years, but Eric was starting to think they might have a way to get to the girl now. She was, he hoped, just an ordinary human so that Sookie could break into her mind and figure out what it was that happened to her so two years ago. With the blonde, it would be easy getting into the girls head, the hard part, and most annoying would be getting Bill Compton to bring the girl into Fangtasia to appease Eric. The other vampire was way too possessive of the human that he 'owned'.

He looked around as the vampires and humans walked into the bar and started on their nightly routines. It was never any different and sitting this chair and making sure that everything was running was at times a bore. His gaze moved to the bar, a place for the humans mostly, as they sat there and continued to drink themselves into a stupor. Ginger and the other human were doing well to take care of them, and it was oddly nice that incompetent blonde now had someone to help her. His eyes watched the limber female as she smiled and took orders, gave people their drinks, and went about what she was there to do with not even a sound. All the regulars knew that she wouldn't speak to them, but he had to admit that when new men entered the bar it was mildly entertaining to watch them try and fail to get her to speak to them. An almost unnoticeable smirk appeared on his lips as he watched yet another failed attempt to get her name. When would they ever learn to give up? In a way however, they weren't much different then the vampire and his progeny, the two of them were still working on a way to make the girl speak. They didn't know her name either, and simply called her human. It worked, she answered to it, but as he thought about it the idea started to bother him a bit. It had been this long and they still didn't know what she called herself. When he had spoken to Pam about this, she assumed that it went along with why she didn't speak. Her name was part of her past and she didn't want to bring it up. Eric on the other hand was tired of this. They took her in, they helped her, they protected her now. He needed her name. For some reason it was something he was sent on and before he went down to rest tonight, he would get her to tell him what it was.

The thing about Fangtasia was that there was rarely a time where Eric had to stop a fight. Vampires knew better and humans were here to get on their good side, not to mess with them. However, there were a few times where the humans were getting out of hand and this was one of them. It was about time that he went into his office when he felt it. Eyes flashed to Pam and he knew that she did as well. Both vampires took only a second before they searched the crowd for the human that they had unfortunately, in their opinion, taken fondly to. Eric caught her first, back against the wall with a human male trying to get her to agree to leave with him. Looking at the male, he noticed that he was really new to the bar, since everyone here knew better than to make a move on her, human or not. It was almost depressing watching the man overpower this girl who had no way to call out for help. Part of him actually thought she may have lost her voice after the incident. If she had screamed enough and it helped her none at all, her brain could have tricked her into thinking that she had none left to use. What had happened to her? "I suggest you step back." Eric growled, not wanting to have human blood on his hands today. The male looked up and his eyes widened almost as if he'd seen a ghost. Eric watched the human jump back a few feet and rolled his eyes as he started to apologize to him about making a move on the girl. A hand was held out and Eric watched with a invisible smirk as she moved toward him like a good pet and allowed him to push her to his side without even a slight hesitation. In fact, she moved the second his hand was out for her to take. "I wouldn't try this again. This human is mine and I don't take kindly to people touching what's mine." he continued, fangs revealing themselves and the male fell to his knees. Grabbing the girl by the elbow, he led her into the office while telling Ginger to take care of the bar herself. Pam followed the two into the back office, the bar would be okay without her for a few minutes.

An uncomfortable silence filled the office as the two vampires stared at the girl and green eyes stared at the floor. There wasn't much that she could do right now, her voice was still not with her and even the girl knew that this was taking much longer than it needed to. She had been going long enough without letting them know anything, and she was amazed that nothing had been forced from her yet. Taking a deep breath, she lifted her eyes up to meet Eric's and gluped. He was sitting behind his desk just examining her face and every in of the girl wanted to shrink back and disappear from his sight. The feeling of his gaze made her shiver and was so intimidating that the human had to fight back tears, even though there was absolutely no reason for her to cry. She wondered if they could feel her fear, feel how terrified she was when she was in the room with the two of them like this. They had to have been able to right? That was what happened when she drank from them, a connection of sorts. Green eyes never left Eric's as she waited for what he was going to tell her. Already she could tell that he was in no mood to deal with anything today, there was an annoyance in his eyes that she had learned to spot a while back. Something didn't feel right though, and she didn't know what it was. There was a tension in the air she couldn't explain and she had no idea where it had come from either. "You're done for the night. I am in no mood to deal with insolent humans so that you're not bothered."

Nodding she started to turn around and leave the office, but the girl didn't get far. "Human." He called, dragging the word out enough so that she knew something was coming that she wouldn't like. Pam and Eric had never allowed anyone to drink from her, and they hadn't either, so she wasn't too worried about that. The girl wasn't sure what was coming for her, but the sinking feeling in her stomach told her that she was done hiding from them. Speaking was something that she just couldn't do right now, she had tried before but it hadn't worked. People around her had learned to read her lips because she had been attempting when nothing came out. Staying a mute wasn't her choice, she just couldn't seem to fix it. However, there were things that she could tell him that didn't include her opening her mouth. "I want your name human, and I'm not letting you leave this office until I get it."

It took her a moment to turn around, they way she did it was almost as if she was in slow motion. Eyes were wide when she met his again and she didn't know what to do. Her name was a part of her past and she had been working to try and get rid of anything that reminded her of it. The idea of hearing her name called over and over, would bring back all those memories wouldn't it? "You'll write it if you won't speak it. Either way, you're going to tell us." The words entered her ears slowly and almost created a fog around her. It was hard to breathe the more she thought about it and almost didn't notice when Pam was at her side with a notepad. "Her hunny, maybe finally letting something go can help you over come it." She said quietly, and put a hand on her shoulder. Pam had become like her older sister. Never before had the brunette seen Pam be genuinely nice to anyone but Eric, but here she was treating her so very well. Taking a deep breath, she let it in slowly and she reached for the pen that Eric was holding out to her. Slender fingers moved slowly as she wrote, almost as if she was unsure of what her name was anymore. Looking up at Pam when she was finished, the female vampire smiled down at her and nodded lightly. Shaking hands passed the piece of paper the male in front of her as he looked it over and then caught her gaze yet again.

"Please to meet you...Ileana." The way he spoke her name sent shivers down her spine and she would have fallen from it if Pam hadn't caught her in time and held her up. She gulped again, caught in the gaze of the first person to utter her name for a long time.

Note:

Before we really get started, I just wanted to let anyone that might read this know that I don't really intend to keep too closely to the storyline of True Blood. Up to season three maybe, but I really don't want to work insomniaEric into the story that I have already planned for. Not only that, but a lot of things are worked around him and Sookie, and since I don't want have to add Sookie into the picture all the time, I'm just going to work around things like that.

Sookie will come in here and there, but I think that a lot of this will kind of be in it's own setting, away from the True Blood that's on TV. I will be bringing in Sookie, Eric, Tara, Sam, and all of those characters as the story goes on, but be aware that I don't plan to follow it exactly. The time frames will be a lot different and I may just change the outcome of some characters, skip things that happened in the series, and stuff like that. I want an Eric and OC relationship to develop here, though not so sure how deep of a relationship as of yet, so I don't want to have to create a fight for her acknowledgment as time goes on because he is getting more and more attracted to Sookie like in the show. Yes, there will be some attraction there but because I was never a huge fan of them, I don't want to write about them.

That being said, I don't have a Beta editor or anything like that, so I may skip some mistakes that I made when I run over my story and check it for problems. If you catch them and think they are extremely bothersome to how the story reads, please do send me a message of some sort and I'll be happy to go back and change it for you and make it easier for others. I have no problem doing that.

Also, I love to hear input and ideas. I have a general idea where my story is going, but I can't tell you that I have all the bits mapped out in my head. If you have an idea that you think will go well in the story and want me to add it, let me know and I'll see what I can do and if it will fit. If it does, I'll give you a shout-out the chapter that your idea comes out. Also, input is loved and forever will be loved. If you want to review my story please do so. If you don't really want it out there, you can send me a message. Either way, I'd love to hear from anyone that does read this and want to hear what you have to say; good or bad. Please Enjoy!