Story Details ~ This is an AU story blending bits and pieces of TB seasons and plots. This will not be an S/G/E story at all. I took some liberties with S1 and S2 in order to create the plot. Eric finds out about Sookie before Bill arrives in Bon Temps when he is called to court by the Queen and she demands he help her to move V. This story picks up when Godric agrees to guard Sookie long enough for Eric to remove the threat. I merged the S2 plot so that Eric makes his request on the same night Godric was supposed to turn himself in to the Fellowship. This story will be mostly from Godric's point of view as he decides to continue his undead life instead of meeting the sun.
Updates will be every few days or weekly. All mistakes are my own, there will be no major OC's, and I own nothing. Please review so that I can decide if I should continue with this or not. Thank you.
I had spent the last several decades contemplating my existence. I have walked this earth for over two thousand years. I have seen civilizations rise and fall, humans convert from one set of religious beliefs to another, from writing on papyrus to machines printing words on paper. I had gone from watching live plays in the most exquisite of European cities to the dumbing down of society by way of television. Two thousand years of endless night was enough, I was ready to move on to the next life and I hoped that the being responsible for all creation could forgive the sins I had committed in my short yet brutal human life and the even graver sins I had committed in my long and maddening vampire life. I was prepared to turn myself into The Fellowship of the Sun. I knew what Steve Newlin had planned for me. I was to burn on a cross at dawn and I welcomed it. In fact, I craved it. I wanted to flake away from this existence. I wanted to sacrifice myself to make amends for all I had done over the centuries.
Unfortunately, my child, my Eric, my greatest accomplishment, had other plans for me. The night I was to arrive at the Fellowship's Dallas headquarters Eric had called me. He was in need of my help. My child had not required my assistance in centuries so his distressing phone call was a surprise and enough to pique my interest. He had multiple problems within his state which also was not surprising considering the child Queen, Sophie-Anne that was on the throne. It is said that she had staked her vampire husband in order to secure the throne for herself over a century ago but she had hidden her crimes well enough that there was nothing the Magister could do. And instead of Sophie-Anne befriending Eric she only found ways to anger him. Most recently she had begun dealing our blood in her own state in order to pay off the large sum of money she owed the IRS. And now she was attempting to force my child to help her with her little scheme. That was not the only problem my child had with her. It had come to his attention that she was attempting to poach a human in his Area. While he was at court he had heard whispers of a Telepath that was living in a small town. Sophie-Anne had intended to send her best Procurer to secure the girl by any means necessary and she was attempting to do so behind my child's back.
Luckily for the telepathic human my child reached her before this Procurer had and now he was bringing her to me to guard. Obviously I would not be meeting the sun this day or in the near future if I was to become responsible for a human. And from what my child told me, this human, Sookie Stackhouse was quite the handful.
"We had a deal Godric, you were to come to the church tonight. I don't appreciate it when people break promises. I will retaliate and you will be filled and killed by God's holy light." Steve Newlin threatened me from the other end of the phone.
"Unfortunately, Mr. Newlin something more important than your cause or mine has come up. I ask that we come to some sort of understanding between our kinds. Not all vampires are evil just as not all humans are virtuous. You know this sir, just as well as I do."
"I will not form any kind of alliance with your kind, my Jesus won't allow it, you Satanic creature of the night." He slammed the phone down. I should have known better. One shouldn't attempt to fix or reason with insanity.
I picked up the phone from my office and called to Isabel, my second. "Please, come to my office." Within seconds she was at the door, I welcomed her in and she took a seat.
"Yes, Sheriff." She bowed her head to me out of respect for my position and for my age.
"I will be leaving the nest for a few days, possibly weeks. I will remain in Dallas but most likely only be available by phone. Please heighten security around here; I feel Mr. Newlin may be planning something against our kind."
"Yes, Sheriff," she motioned to leave, "Can I ask what you are doing away from the nest?"
"It is nothing you need to be concerned about. I will tell you of it when I return but now I must go." I stood up from my desk chair, closed my laptop and placed it in its protective sleeve before following her out of the office. I had no need to pack any bags because I was meeting my child and the telepath at one of my private homes. As I made my way to the garage, Stan stopped me.
"Sheriff, I want to take those damn Fellowship clowns out. We're more powerful, we shouldn't live in fear of them."
"You will stand down and not shed any unnecessary blood. Am I understood?"
"Yes, Sheriff." Stand bowed and moved out of my way. I picked up the keys to the car I chose to take, The BMW Alpina B7. It had been specially fitted with tires that could not be punctured, bulletproof glass, and could reach speeds of up to almost two hundred miles an hour if need be. With the Fellowship after us and a psychotic Monarch after the telepath I thought this car was the best option. I climbed in and placed my laptop case and cell phone on the seat next to me before pulling out of the garage and away from my nest. For the first time in decades I felt as if I had a true purpose on this earth. Thanks to my child I was actually feeling hopeful. If I could save this one human's life; it was worth me continuing to live this existence of endless night for just a while longer.
It was a short drive to Victory Park from the nest. My private residence was a modern condo in the South Tower at The W Residences. It was small enough that I never felt lonely when there yet large enough to have company when the need would arise. This Miss Stackhouse would be my first human visitor. I was unsure of what the human would want to have stocked in the kitchen so I requested that the grocery delivery bring a little bit of everything but to focus on Southern American cuisine. I pulled into the private parking garage and walked to the private residence elevators at a slow, human pace. I'd become so accustomed to fitting in with humans that I found I actually enjoyed doing things are their pace when I was able to. By taking the private elevators I would not have to deal with anyone in the lobby. I had insisted Eric do the same when he arrived so that they would be no evidence of him bringing the telepathic human to me to protect.
When I reached my floor the grocery delivery service was just arriving off the main elevators. "You must be here for me." I smiled at the young human that had a rolling cart full of bags from a few local grocery stores. "Please, come in." I opened my front door and allowed him to enter before me.
"Where would you like this sir?" He asked.
"You can leave the bags on the kitchen counters. I will put them away." I told him. I pulled out my wallet when he handed me the bill and paid him in cash, letting him keep the change.
"Thank you sir, enjoy." He smiled. He obviously did not realize that I was a vampire. After he let himself out I did do something at vampire speed, I put the groceries away as quickly as possible. Ice cream and gelato in the freezer, all cold stuff in the refrigerator, which had only had a stock of blood in it before putting the human food inside. The dry goods and non-perishables when in the pantry. I then checked the guest bathroom to make sure that it was stocked for human use. I realized I had forgotten female bath products so I called to the spa to have some delivered. They arrived almost as fast as I had hung up the phone. The attendant arrived with a variety of Kelly Van Gogh products, the ones she had recommended on the phone and I directed her to the bathroom so that she could organize them. When she was finished I paid her, another human that did not realize I was vampire.
I still had time before my child and the human would arrive so I did something I had not done in over a year; I hired a donor from the menu. I hired a male as a female could easily cause me to become filled with both lust and bloodlust. Not that I hadn't also bedded males in my long time on this earth but I was ultimately attracted to women. After I finished my meal I showered and changed into more suitable clothing. I chose linen pants as usual but I put a fitted tee-shirt over them. The shirt exposed the tattoos on my arms but tattoos so common on humans these days that I doubted the human would bat an eyelash at them. I poured some donor blood from a bag in my refrigerator into a wine glass and decided to wait for Eric and the human on the verandah since it was such a wonderful night to be outside.
I smelled her the second she entered my home. She was sweeter than most humans and still untouched by a man. I thought about the most likely reason why; she could hear thoughts and if I were to reflect on the things that I had thought when in bed with a woman I could imagine why she would not want to hear them.
"I still don't understand why I have to hide out in Dallas," I heard the human whisper to my child. "What about my grandmother and my brother and my job?"
"Because the vampire you are staying with is quite possibly the most powerful in all of the country, if not the continent. Nobody will attempt to take you from him as it would be suicide." He whispered back to her. "Your family is safe and under my protection and slinging beers at a backwoods bar isn't exactly a career, now please behave." I could sense the annoyance rolling off my child in waves. He was also aroused and intrigued by the human.
"Out here, my child." I called out to him from the verandah. I turned to look at both him and the human as he stalked towards me. His gait reminded me of a lion, slow and purposeful steps. The human next to him had to be a foot shorter, she was shapely but by no means fat. Her blond hair bounced as she walked, and she was in a light yellow dress that reminded me of what the sun looked like. "You must be Miss Stackhouse. I am Godric, welcome to my home." I gave her a quick yet very real smile.
"Nice to meet you, Godric. Please, call me Sookie." She smiled. Her demeanor changed drastically when speaking to me versus speaking to Eric. I wondered why that was as most women fell at his feet without any effort on his part.
"Very well, Sookie. Can I offer you a drink?"
"Yes, please, that would be wonderful." She smiled at me again. I walked passed both her and Eric to go inside. "I'll have a gin and tonic if you have it." She called out from the patio. I changed course from the kitchen to the wet bar. I quickly mixed her drink and brought it back to her, I also brought Eric back AB donor blood and refreshed my own.
"Please, have a seat." I motioned for her to take a seat on the cushioned couch on the verandah and I took a seat in a chair across from them. "Now, tell me, are you truly a telepath or is Sophie-Anne even more insane than we originally thought?"
"I am a telepath." She took a sip of her drink and placed it on the small table between on seats.
"Can you hear us?" I asked.
"Nope, ya'll are just big empty voids. It's really peaceful actually." At her words both Eric and I let out a sigh of relief. If she had heard us she would probably run screaming from the building. I had not had one sexual thought in the last year yet the second I smelled her and saw her all I could think about was devouring her in every way possible and I was almost certain my child had the same feelings.
"Who has Sophie-Anne sent to procure her?" I asked Eric.
"Of all vampires, Bill Compton." Eric chuckled, "As if I'm to believe that he of all vampires chose to mainstream in small town Louisiana." I knew the young vampire my child was speaking of. He and his Maker left nothing but death and destruction in their wake. She had an appetite for the macabre and her child had definitely taken after her. They were known to massacre humans and then fuck their carcasses and each other in the pools of blood leftover.
"It is very fortunate that you were able to step in when you did. God only knows what would have happened to Miss Stackhouse had she fallen into the hands of Mr. Compton or your Queen." I commented.
"Oh my, Bill Compton, as in old Jesse Compton's relative? His house is right across from the cemetery next to my Gran's. I've got to go back, I can't leave her there alone."
"Sookie, we've gone over this, my child, Pam is guarding your Gran now. No harm will come to her, you have my word."
"But she can't be there during the day and I doubt she's gonna want to babysit my Gran every night." Sookie argued.
"As of right now Bill Compton has not yet made an appearance in your town. Once he does we will reevaluate the plan."
"Let me show you to your room so that you can get settled while Eric and I catch up on a few other topics." I suggested. I took Sookie's hand and led her down the hallway to her bedroom. It was a fairly simple room with dark wood furniture and some black and white photographs I had taken at the last turn of the century. "The bathroom is the next door over. I took the liberty of stocking it with what I thought you may need. If you require anything else please let me know." I smiled. "Please, make yourself at home." I said before leaving the room.
I joined Eric back on the verandah, "She has a warrior's heart. Very similar to a young Viking I remember saving over one thousand years ago."
"She is stubborn like that Viking too." He laughed.
"She also has a valid point; we cannot keep her locked away in a gilded cage forever. What are your plans for handling the issue with Sophie-Anne and the Procurer, Mr. Compton?"
"I currently have my best vampires glamouring the entire town into forgetting all about Sookie Stackhouse's peculiar psychic abilities. Pam has successfully glamoured both the brother and grandmother into believing that Sookie is on vacation, same with her two closest friends. The bar she worked at, Merlotte's is owned by a shifter, he agreed to this and agreed to be glamoured as well. He has a thing for our little telepath. He threatened me, it was cute."
"I see, so when Mr. Compton arrives to town nobody will confirm Sookie's abilities. That, my child, is very smart. He'll go back to the Queen and tell her that she's just a normal girl, excellent."
"Exactly, so I don't see you having to put up with her presence for more than a week or two, Master."
"She may stay as long as needed. I will enjoy the company." I told him taking a sip of my blood.
"All of a sudden I don't doubt that." He paused, "Do you intend to claim her as your own?"
"I have never taken a pet before nor do I plan to start the habit of it now. But I would enjoy courting the human if she would allow it." Eric began laughing hysterically. "What did I say?"
"You intend to court a human girl as in date her, woo her, and do more than use her for a feed and fuck. That's priceless, you really don't think like a vampire anymore." He continued laughing, "I hear they like flowers and jewelry and sappy movies about love and babies."
"I am glad that I can amuse you, my child." I patted his back. "Now on a more serious note; what do you intend to do about Sophie-Anne demanding you sell blood for her?"
"That is simple; I intend to usurp her if she doesn't back down off her demands."
"You will assume the position of Monarch; I thought you didn't want that?"
"I don't but I also don't intend to make my state a V den either. I have worked too hard to keep the vampires in my area safe from harm for her to fuck it all up. As it is she's raised what we all owe her. Soon she will run out of other people's money and then what?" He leaned in close to me and began whispering in my ear, "Sookie is unaware but her brother has been taking V and her friend, Lafayette is a small time dealer. I have dealt with both through Pam." I only nodded in understanding. I did not believe Sookie to be a threat as I didn't smell any vampire blood in her. My child's scent was strong on her but that was only because they had traveled in close proximity to each other.
"Will you rest here this day?" I asked.
"No, I have to return to Louisiana before my absence is noticed. I have it on very good authority that Sophie-Anne has bugged my club and my office so it will just be you and the human." He gave me a quick smirk and the human he was referring to joined us on the verandah. She had changed from her yellow dress into a white tank top and what looked like pink pajama shorts. "I should probably return to Louisiana now." He looked to Sookie, "Please, don't give Godric any trouble. I promise to keep you both apprised of any changes."
"I know I was a total pain in the ass during the trip here but I just wanted to say thank you for everything you're doing. I really appreciate it." Sookie threw her arms around Eric and hugged him tightly to her. I could feel the shock coming from him but he quickly recovered and wrapped his arms around her, kissing her forehead and patting her hair. If I had witnessed any other vampire behave that familiarly with her I would have growled and most likely ripped them to shreds. I could not help the jealousy that I knew Eric felt coming from me, he quickly let her go. "Goodbye, Sookie, Godric." He bowed his head and took flight from the verandah.
"Holy crap, he can fly?" She watched as he disappeared into the night sky.
"Each vampire has a special gift, his is flight."
"What's your special gift?"
"I have more than one."
Sookie picked up her old glass from the table and brought it inside to the kitchen. I followed her at a leisurely human pace as I did not want to scare her. Other than Eric and his child, Pam she had not been in the company of many vampires and I did not want to make a bad impression. I watched as she cleaned the glasses we had used. It was obvious she was thinking about something so I did not want to interrupt her but I couldn't help but wonder what it was she thought about. It seemed as if the simple process of washing three glasses soothed her.
"Forgive my total ignorance but ya'll sleep during the day right?"
"Yes, I am old so I don't feel the pull of the sun as strongly as a younger vampire would and I also rise before it sets."
"This whole place is windows, do you have a coffin in your bedroom?" She asked. I couldn't help but laugh a little.
"Come, I will show you my room so that you can see that I do not sleep in a coffin." I motioned for her to follow me upstairs towards my personal quarters. She followed cautiously. When we reached the top of the stairs I led her down the small hallway that led to my bedroom, bathroom, and office. I opened the double doors to my room and allowed her to enter before me. The room was also floor to ceiling windows but they had special tint on them that did not allow the light of the sun to harm me. The glass was also so strong that not even the weight of five elephants could shatter it. My room was simple, a large King sized platform bed made of dark wood and a matching chest of drawers and armoire that hid a television behind its doors. The bathroom was modern and opulent but also sparsely decorated. The only artwork to be found were some odd paintings from Salvador Dali.
"But there's windows up here as well," she broke me out of the trance I found myself in.
"The glass in this entire building is safe for vampires. The sun cannot harm us through it."
She walked curiously around the room, running her delicate fingers across the dresser and then the headboard made of wood and leather. She also patted the sheets. "These are the softest sheets I've ever touched." Eric hadn't told me much of the telepath's background but one could only assume that she grew up with very little luxury in her life. "This is the most peaceful place I've been in my entire life. I can't hear anything and it's wonderful."
"I can imagine that living a life having to hear everything that everyone around you is thinking could become stressful."
"Yeah, it's been one big curse. Knowing that what people say to your face and what they're thinking in their head don't always match up. I try real hard not to listen but sometimes I can't help it and the worst is when I answer questions that somebody didn't actually ask out loud."
"Well I am glad that you can find peace here. We all deserve to feel peace in our existence."
"Eric was right; you don't act much like a vampire."
"Please explain to me how a vampire is supposed to act?" I asked her. I was curious what she thought of our kind as I found that we were savages.
"Well for one ya'll have really normal names. And Eric walks around in tank tops and track pants and you're dressed like you just came off a cruise ship. And I heard on TV that all ya'll do is seduce innocent girls in order to drink their blood. And you haven't tried to do that hypnotizing thing either."
"How do you expect us to dress, in black capes and silk vests? And there is no longer a need to seduce or glamour a human into giving us their blood when willing donors are in vast supply. And our names, well you can blame that on our human parents that gave them to us."
She began blushing at my words, obviously embarrassed. "I'm sorry if I offended you. Sometimes I have this really nasty habit of putting my foot so far in my mouth I end up choking on it."
"You far from offend me, Sookie. Actually I find you have quite the opposite effect on me." These words caused her to blush even more. Her cheeks were filled with the most glorious shade of pink a color that would now be cataloged in my mind for all eternity. "Come, I will show you the rest of my home." I first took her to my office that had book shelves filled with books in several different languages. I was sure she could find something to read if the mood struck. Then I showed her the other guest bedroom on the first floor as well as where I had put everything in the kitchen.
"So what should I do during the day while you're sleeping?"
"There are two restaurants on the bottom floor and a spa upstairs as well as a pool. Feel free to use any services you may want. If I didn't purchase something you like you can call down to the front desk and they will acquire it for you. I fear that human foods have changed much since the last time I ate it. There is also a laundry service if you need it and a car service but I ask that you remain on the hotel property for the first few days, just until we know that you were not followed."
"Did Eric give you any idea of how long I'll be staying?" She asked.
"A week or two," as I said it I realized that, that gave me a week or two to make this human not want to leave my side. I could not explain why I wanted to keep her but it was a feeling so deeply rooted within me that I could not ignore it. Of course I would never keep something that did not want to be kept. "Are you hungry or tired, I am sure this has been a very trying day for you."
"I'm getting tired but I don't want to be rude and go to sleep when you're still gonna be awake for a few more hours. I've never been the guest of a vampire before, are there certain rules?"
"There are no rules, dear, Sookie. If you are tired then you sleep. There are certain behaviors expected of a human when accompanying a vampire around other vampires but that is not something you have to worry about this night. We will discuss it if the need arises."
"Oh, Eric already explained all that to me… He said if you were to take me anywhere that I had to pretend to be yours and not speak unless spoken to and only after you approved of me speaking."
"That would be correct to an extent; I am Sheriff of this Area but I do not condone the belief that humans are beneath us in any way. And if it ever comes to my attention that a vampire has treated a human poorly I am quick to rectify the matter. But I would still advise that you err on the side of caution and defer to me when we are in public for the time being."
"What does it mean to be a vampire's human?"
"In your case it would be as a safety precaution as you are not actually mine. What it means is that a vampire claims you as their human so if another vampire attacked you, touched you, or attempted to feed on you there would be retaliation against the offending vampire."
"Well I don't want to be claimed, I want to be my own person. I mean, how's it fair that ya'll can claim a human but they can't claim you back?"
"That is a valid argument, Sookie and I agree but I also do not believe you fully understand the relationship a vampire and their human has. To claim a human does not only offer protection to the human but in most instances means that they are in a committed relationship. Think of your last human boyfriend, I am sure that you placed a possessive pronoun when referring to him, yes?"
"Considering I've never actually had a boyfriend, no I haven't, but I've heard other people say my boyfriend or my girlfriend so I get what you're saying."
"Well consider our age, we have never been referred to as somebody's boyfriend or girlfriend and I do not know that we could refer to a human we were with as such. So we say my human. I am sorry if this term offends you but we cannot change it overnight. I am also sorry if I touched on a sore subject when I spoke of a previous boyfriend."
"No, no I'm not offended at all. It's just with my little disability I've never been able to get passed the first date. You know when you're sitting down to dinner and you can hear your date thinking about your breasts and what he'd like to do to them it makes dating real hard."
"Maybe you could consider dating a vampire since you are unable to hear our thoughts?" I suggested and her cheeks took on that beautiful shade of pink once again.
"Well Eric's definitely not an option because I don't have to read his thoughts to know what he's thinking; it's written all over his face." We both laughed at her words knowing that what she said was completely true.
"Eric can be rather forward in his techniques." I agreed with her. "Please forgive his behavior; he is used to women falling at his feet."
"I find him funny; he reminds me a lot of my brother, Jason. Well, a smarter and more deadly version of Jason." Sookie began yawning and stretched out her perfectly sculpted body. "I think I'm gonna head to bed, if you don't mind." She walked over to me and wrapped her arms around me just as she had my child earlier. I wrapped my arms around her and breathed in her scent which caused my fangs to descend without me having any control over them. She put distance between us with the sound of them but did not let go of me. She looked at my now protruding fangs curiously. "May I?" I curtly nodded and opened my mouth so that she could touch them. She ran her small finger over my fangs cutting herself in the process. She offered her lightly bleeding finger to me and I licked it. The second her blood hit my mouth I realized something very dangerous. Sophie-Anne was not only after her for her telepathy but her blood as well. Sookie was part fairy. She leaned in and kissed me on the cheek. "Good night, Godric." As soon as she went to her room I quickly text Eric this new development. We would have to be even more vigilant than I originally thought.