I know most of you guys ship Sookie and Erik, and believe me, I love seeing those two together (in the books as well as on TV). But I thought it was time for a little Sookie & Alcide romance… It takes place right after season 6. Hope you'll like it ;)
"What? They want us to let those cadavers drink our blood?!" Someone yelled at Sam. It was a good thing Alcide and I were still in the bushes. No way he lets a vampire come near him.
"We should go home… I sense this isn't going to bring us any good. I had enough blood suckers in my life." Alcide whispers. I was holding his arms, trying to make myself taller to see what he saw. Looking at his face, it wasn't anything good.
"Alcide, what's happening?" And why would anyone let vampire drink there blood? Especially in Bon Temps. It's not like they're big fans of them here.
"Sam want's everyone on town to pair with a vampire. So that vampire has food and the human has protection against the hep - Vamps." Sometimes, dating werewolf has his perks; I would have never been able to hear that from here.
"What? He can't be serious?!" I think I've been bitten enough in my life. What did dating a vampire brought to me? Other than great sex and troubles of course. I do not deny being in love with two vampire, at one point in my life. But, like I said, it didn't bring me any good.
"Let's go home. I don't know what's on Sam's mind, and I don't want to know." Letting my mental wall up isn't easy, especially in such a crowd.
"Excellent." Alcide putted a protective arm around my shoulder as we headed back to the car. Where did Sam found such a stupid idea? He hates vampires! How could that have changed? The crowd behind us was starting to yell louder. That didn't bother me too much, but the fact that they're thinking even louder than they were talking, that did. Shutting my eyes, I let Alcide walk us towards his car while I try to shut everyone's thoughts down.
"Sookie?" As Alcide stopped I opened my eyes. Next to his car was standing Bill. I hadn't seen him in a while, other than on TV for his book.
"Bill." I said trying to sound as normal as possible. Alice knows that Bill was my first everything. And even if he never said it out loud, I know he doesn't like him because of it.
"I figured you heard what Sam said?" His deep dark eyes looking at me like if he was trying to charm me, even knowing it wasn't possible.
"Sure, like if I'll let anyone of your species bite me!" Alcide barks out. Can't say its big love between them.
"Too bad, doggie blood is my favorite." Bill replied teeth out.
"Bill, if you came here to see if we could be your blood banks, I'm sorry but the answer is no." I tell him gently squeezing Alcide arm to keep him calm. His eyes already had turned gold and I didn't want him to change in the middle of the parking lot. Wouldn't want to give any human a bad opinion on wolves. And the people of Bon Temps already think's I'm a freak, for dating vampires, what would they say if they knew that my new lover is were-wolves? Or worse, if they knew that I'm half fairy. Not that it matters, but I would like to keep some dignity in this city.
"Actually, I just came to offer my protection. You don't have to give me a drop of blood. Just wear a plaster on your neck of wrist to make everybody think so. That way they'll know you're under someone's protection." Well, it is a generous offer. I don't know many vampires that'd turn down my blood.
"Who says we need protection?" Alcide asked, surprised by his offer. His thoughts were going so fast I couldn't follow, not that I was trying.
"Maybe you don't wolf, but Sookie is going to need some. Especially with all of those vampires that are purchasing there next meal before dying from Hep V." Great, more vampires in town.
"I can protect her by myself." Alcide said, his eyes back to their normal color.
"Sure, a wolf and a fairy against a nest of vampires… Sookie will lose all of her light before you both lose your life. Excellent idea." Great, I was feeling like if I wasn't even a part of this conversation anymore.
"What if we said we'd think about your offer?" After all, it's a good deal. He just wants to protect me, like he always did.
"That's fine with me. Jason probably will be under Violet's protection?" Jason! Well, I haven't seen him in a while.
"I guess so. Those two are inseparable." I tried to visit him, but he always was too busy to actually talk to me longer than a minute. After that he would close the door right in front of me and leaving me outside. After he did that like four times, I stopped going over there.
"Call me when you decided to accept or decline my offer." Bill looked at me one last time before vanishing. I hate it when they do that. Can't they just walk towards the woods and vanish in there? They would look more human.
"Do you think Erik is going to make you the same offer?" Alcide asked as he opened the passage doors of his car. Erik? Taking about vanishing, I have no idea of where he is.
"Probably not. Now let's go home, before we fall on someone else." He walked around the car before taking his seat behind the wheel and drove away. Far away from Bellefleur's, the new Merlotte. Maybe we would have done it any other way, if we had knew what would happen there that evening.
When I woke up the next morning, Alcide wasn't next to me anymore. But by the smell that came from the kitchen, I knew he was probably just making breakfast. Stretching my way out of bed, I putted on my robe before heading towards the delicious smell.
"Good morning!" Alcide said smiling when I walked into the kitchen. Isn't it great, to actually be able to find your man in the kitchen, cooking actual breakfast in front of the window while the sun is covering him of light? I walked towards him and kissed him gently.
"Good morning!" I say smiling. How strange is that, my mind always knew that I should be with Alcide, but my heart always was elsewhere. And now that my mind won, my heart can't even image being with someone else. Not even a blond hot Viking looking like a god.
"Someone is in a good mood this morning!" He said taking me in his arms. My head on his shoulder, I was looking through the window.
"I know. I woke up on the smell of bacon. I have to admit it would have been even better to find you shirtless. But that doesn't go if you make bacon!" Shirtless, not to mention completely naked in my kitchen. Alcide was thinking about the exact same thing, he was picturing me cooking naked.
"I would never cook naked only wearing red shoes!" I said giving him a punch on the shoulder. Alcides mind may be harder to read than a human's, when he's thinking that loud, I can't help but hear it. Or in this case, see it. Especially when he's touching me.
"What? I think it's an excellent idea. In fact, I should go buy you those red heels…" Laughing it away, I took a seat around the table waiting for him to finish the bacon. Putting on the radio, I smiled because I knew the song they were playing.
"So, have you been thinking about what Bill said yesterday?" He sighs. It's not like if there was something like a perfect timing to ask you boyfriend if he wants your ex-boyfriend to protect you from potential crazy vampires that would love to suck all my fairy-human blood out of my body. Besides, that would mean that your actual boyfriend and werewolf isn't able to protect you on his own, which I never said.
"News flash!" They shut down the song right in the middle and just before Alcide would answer me. "It is announced that 3 more humans passed away from yesterday's attack. The responsible vampires haven't been arrested yet. If you just joined us, know that the little city of Bon Temps has been attacked yesterday evening by a handful of vampires, that may be infected with hep V. Six people died of the attack and several are still fighting for their life. Let's all hope that this attack isn't the first of multiples. We'll keep you update on the situation. In the meantime, don't get out after the sun goes down and remember, do not open the door on people you do not know. It was Roger Brooks with the 8 O'clock news." I stared at the radio, still trying to process the information. Bon Temp, attacked? When? Where? How? Why? Alcide immediately stopped the cooking and faced me. The same questions went through his mind.
"What do we do first? Call Sam or Bill?" Alcide asked me. Apparently, we were going to accept Bill's offer. Not that we had much choice now.
"I'll call Bill. You call Sam and ask him everything he knows." After all, he's the new mayor. If he doesn't know, who will?
Of course Bill was sleeping and I left him a message on his voicemail. He would hear it in the evening. When I came back in the kitchen Alcide was putting to plates on the table.
"So? What did he said?" I asked him ignoring the plate full of juice bacon. I wouldn't be able to eat anything until I know. "Vampires, a dozen of them. They attack everyone at Merlottes, or should I say Bellefleur's?" I could tell it wasn't pretty and that he obviously wasn't telling me the bloody side of the story. Palm up, I invited him to let me see. Rolling his eyes, he took mine. He was hiding me part of the story. The first humans who died, died dismembered. The vampires were famished! Alcide stroke my back while he was telling me story, silently. It was weird, because with Alcide, I didn't felt like a freak, and because he didn't thought it was any weird to follow his thoughts.
"Any one we know?" I ask him when he was done.
"One of your grams friends, but for the rest, nobody you were close too." Being close too. I felt like I was close to everyone in this city.
"Any names?" He was still holding me in his arms, like if it would be less hard for me to hear those names that way.
"Annabell Stark. JB Du Rone. Castor Miles. Mimsy Rose Taylor. Eddie Booth & Marylin Booth." I froze recognizing one of those names.
"Which one?" Alcide asked me stroking my back. Trying to remain strong, and not to fall down and starts crying I inhaled his smell.
"JB Du Rone. I went to school with him. He was one to only kids that didn't saw me as a freak." He sure wasn't the smartest kid, but he was one of the sweetest. He was kind of like my brother, only well, that we weren't blood related.
"I'm sorry Sookie." He said.
"Do you think there still in Bon Temps?" If those vamps are still here, I wouldn't be surprised to see some vampire hunters in time soon. Since the world knows about hep V vamps, they grow.
"They could. But they could have left town right after …" You know what, for once, I wasn't going to try to fix things. For one, I don't know those vampires, and I don't want to get involved in it.
"Too many people died here lately."
"I know." Too many, they were too many. Grams, Debby Pelt (even if I had too…), JB, my parents (so they tried to kill me, they were still my parents…) Tara (well her human side died…) Dawn. I felt like I was carrying the whole world on my shoulder. I felt like thinking about anything else than that. Or even better, stop thinking.
"Alcide?" I looked up at him trying to put all of my emotions and thoughts into my eyes. So that he would understand what I wanted, what I needed right now.
"Sookie?" Putting both my arms around his neck, I started to kiss him. He closed his eyes, still not understanding where I was going to. My one hand was going down his shirt and started to unbutton it. "Now? You're sure?" I could tell he was already in the mood, because he was picturing is in bed already, or to be honest, on the kitchen table.
"Help me shut down my brains. Let's celebrate life instead of morn." Celebrate life. Maybe it wasn't the right time, but we sure needed to.
Any thoughts? Any advice maybe? For those who doesn't know me, I'd like to tell you that English isn't my native language so I know I make mistakes and hope you won't mind. But try writing in another language (like French ;) ) it's not that easy ;)
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