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I wanted to write another perspective of this first chapter of the new season, and I'll do the same with the rest of episodes so I really hope you enjoy this short story.

Turn! Turn! Turn!

Eric POV

Sookie had rejected me, not only me, but also Compton although I couldn't have cared less.

She made her decision. She decided she would be better off without us, without vampires, but ultimately I was convinced that she was just scared and shocked by what had happened in the last days.

When Sookie returned unexpectedly from the fairy realm I felt it. I had waited for so long for her to come back that when I felt her presence again a sense of excitement and relief invaded me completely.

"We have to clean this mess up before the Authority appears and we have more problems." Compton was so scared that I could even see the fear in his eyes, but it was something else. "We should warn Sookie." Just then I felt a pang of pain that I had not ever felt, but after checking I had no visible injuries that could explain the pain I knew it wasn't me, it was Sookie.

"Sookie…" We said both at the same time and left everything we had between hands to go to her house. Compton went to the front door and I opted for the back and before I could walk a few feet away I heard him screaming and I knew the Authority had already arrived.

"Fuck…" I mumbled but instead of helping him – I knew I couldn't – I decided to follow my way to Sookie's.

All was dark when I arrived but I could hear her talking with another person and then a shot.

"NOOOOOOO!" Sookie's voice rang through the house and a second later I heard someone with a gun. I walked into the kitchen quickly and saw Debbie Pelt – a woman who had been part of Russell Edgington's court – carrying a shotgun and pointing it straight to Sookie. I knew she was going to shoot, she was nervous and her hands were trembling. She had a wicked smile on her face – she was a psycho after all – but I was fast enough to put myself in front of her a moment before and the shot hit me completely.

"AHHHHHH!" I yelled with all the strength I could and I took advantage of Debbie Pelt's doubt to snatch her the shotgun and hit her strong enough to leave her unconscious. "Sookie…" I mumbled trying to regain my strength and getting out the bullet from my stomach. "Sookie, are you okay?" She did not answer me and all I could hear was her sobs.

"Eric…" She looked at me with tears in her eyes as she held the body of her friends between her arms. "Eric, please, please, you have to save her." Save her? What she was asking me exactly? "Sookie, I can not…" At that time Lafayette ran down the stairs and walked into the kitchen. "What the fuck happened, Sook? And what does Eric fucking Northman doing here?"

"Eric, please, you have to save her." Just then I felt Pam's presence and a second later she appeared in Sookie's kitchen. "Pam!" I was still pissed off at her and did not want to see her.

"Eric, please…" I cut her off before she could keep talking and focused on Sookie.

"Eric, please, you have to save her. This is not her fault." The tears did not stop flooding her eyes and falling down her cheeks. "Please! We don't have time, Eric."

"I will." Pam said surprising me.

"What?" Sookie asked confused. "Why would you do that, Pam?"

"Yeah, why, bitch? This is all your fault. Fucking vampires!" Lafayette did not stop talking and swearing without looking at either of us as he held Tara's bloody hand.

Sookie rose from the ground and the first I saw was that she was completely covered in her friend's blood. "Eric, Tara does not have to die for something that is my fault…" But her words were interrupted when I heard noise behind me and saw by the corner of my eye that Debbie Pelt had risen from the floor and had the gun in her hands again.

"Bitch! I should have killed you when I had the chance." She was pointing directly at Sookie but I wouldn't let her. I was going to come between them when I heard a shot and saw Debbie Pelt lying on the ground with half of her head destroyed and the floor covered with blood.

When I turned around I saw Sookie holding another shotgun in her hands and she was trembling.

"Sookie, give me the gun." She was shocked and unable to react so I took the gun before she could shoot again. "Sookie, look at me." It took her a few seconds but finally got to focus on me and she relaxed slightly. "Sookie, I want you to listen to me carefully, alright?" She nodded and kept looking into my eyes. "We gotta go. We have problems and we can't stay here, do you understand?"

"NO! What about Tara?" And she turned around quickly to see her friend as Lafayette held her tightly. "I can't leave her here, Eric, and I won't."

"I will turn her." Pam said suddenly. Sookie, Lafayette and I stared at her but she remained in the place without moving a muscle. "If this serves for you to forgive me, then I will." I hesitated for a few seconds but when I looked down at Sookie I knew I couldn't refuse. "I'm sorry, Eric. Really, I'm so sorry for all that happened and I can't stand the fact of not seeing you again. I beg you to forgive me. I will kneel if necessary…" She began to. She began kneeling but we had no time for this.

"Do it, Pam. Sookie and I are leaving." I said no more and grabbed her arm to get her out of the house.

"Eric, where are we going?"

"We have to go before they come looking for us."

"Who?"

There was no time to chat and much less to explain what was going on so I carried Sookie and put her over my shoulder as I had done on other occasions and grabbed her hard before flying.

I did fly as far away as possible until I realized that we were a few miles away from New Orleans and I stopped long enough to land near some shipping containers in the harbour.

"Eric, let me go!" I put Sookie on the ground but I had to hold her a second later when she began losing her balance. "Have you gone completely insane? What the fuck you think you're doing? You took me away from my home in the middle of the night! And what about Tara?"

"Pam will take care of her," I said quietly. "Sookie, if I took you away from Bon Temps has been for good reason, so stop complaining." Maybe I was a little rough with her but I was still pissed about what had happened earlier that night. Sookie rejected me and I hadn't forgotten it. "We have to hide now."

"Hide? Why? Why are you so scared? What happened? Where is Bill?" So many questions, so little time to answer them. "Eric, are you listening me?"

"We have to look for some clothes for you that don't have blood on them and other fluids before anyone smells the scent of blood and comes looking for us." I grabbed her arm again and led her into a darker area where the containers seemed to occupy all space. "Here, take this." I gave her my jacket and she pulled it on rapidly while was still trembling. "Now I need you to listen to me carefully, okay? Things will get a lot worse. Bill has been arrested by the Authority when he was leaving the mansion."

"Arrested?" Her eyes opened wide and I could not help feeling betrayed by her concern for Compton. "Eric, what are you talking about? Who has arrested Bill and why?"

"There's no time for that, we have to disappear soon." Sookie pulled away from me and stood looking at me. "Sookie, what do you think you're doing? We gotta go!"

"I won't go anywhere until you tell me what's going on, Eric." As usual Sookie had to be stubborn in the worst situations. Why had I decided to take her with me? It would have been much easier to leave her in Bon Temps and the Authority took care of her. "I'm waiting, Eric."

I rolled my eyes and put myself in front of her. "The Authority came looking for us and took Bill because they are pretty pissed. They were looking for me too but I escaped and…"

"You abandoned Bill?" She cut me off.

"Yes, Sookie." I replied firmly. "I abandoned Bill to get to you because they would have taken with them one they realized your scent was everywhere. I had to protect you."

"Protect me from what?" The stubbornness always seemed to be present in her. "My best friend was shot 'cause she tried to save my life and she's now missing half of her head, Eric." She breathed for a couple of seconds and went on. "I don't know if vampire blood is enough, I have no idea whether Pam will be able to turn her and Lafayette… Oh God, Lafayette. I can't believe I left him alone with Pam and…"

"She won't hurt him, Sookie." But I was sure it was not what she needed to her at the moment.

"She's my best friend, Eric!" She yelled and the echo of her voice was heard everywhere. "I don't care what the Authority or whoever else was doing at Bill's house, 'cause all that matters to me is that my two best friends were at my house and Debbie Pelt's dead body is still on my kitchen floor while her blood is probably spreading everywhere." She began mourning again and I wanted to comfort her but we had no time for this. "This is all your fault. I've become a fucking magnet for trouble for you fucking vampires." She sobbed and muttered at the same time and I could barely stand it.

"All that does not matter now, Sookie! The only thing we should worry about is to get out of Louisiana as soon as possible." I would not lose more time arguing with her and if I had to take her by force I would. "It's not about you or me, Sookie," I tried to soften the tone of my voice but I did not know if I was getting the desired effect, "there are so many problems around us that they will chase us wherever we go."

"They're not my fucking problem, Eric!" She started walking in the opposite direction but she stopped suddenly when we heard a loud explosion and I saw flames from a nearby street. "Sookie, stay here!" Although I was sure she wouldn't.

I went until I saw that it was a car and I can't see survivors so I decided to get a little closer.

What the hell was going on?

There was only one car and no damage anywhere else. Someone had planned it, but who?

"Hello brother, I've missed you."

That voice. I would have been able to recognize her anywhere.

"Nora?"

"Eric, I'm so glad to see you again, it's been ages since the last time." She smiled at me and I could not believe I was seeing her again.

"Nora, what are you doing here?"

Godric and I had been alone for many centuries before he decided to turn Nora and she left us when she became part of the Authority. No one but us knew of our connection and if someone would find out we'd be really screwed.

"I'm here to help you, Eric, what did you think?" She came up to me and kissed me passionately but suddenly her kisses were no longer enough. I longed for kisses and caresses of another woman, another woman who was screaming at me. "You have no idea how much I've missed you, Eric." She was still in my arms but I was the first to pull away. "But we have no time to catch up, I have to get you out of here before they come after you."

"How did you know?"

"The Authority was going to arrest you?" And she rolled her eyes. "Eric, I am aware of their agenda, I knew it was going to happen so I volunteered to go to Bon Temps but when I leaned the King of Louisiana had been arrested I knew you had escaped. I've been looking for you and I knew you'd do the same, I knew you'd attempt to leave the state and the quickest way was by sea, so here I am."

"And the car on fire scene?" I asked trying to understand what was happening. "You could have called me, my phone can not be traced."

"But mine does." Obviously she was right. The Authority did want to have controlled their own people and I knew it was something they did very well. "Eric, I'm here to help you so stop asking me questions and let's get out of here before they come looking for us."

"There is someone else." I wasn't sure if it was a good idea to tell Nora about Sookie but I had no choice if I wanted her to help me, both of us actually. "Come with me." I said and traced Sookie's smell to the same place where I had left her. I was surprised that she listened to me and didn't move, it was not like her.

"Sookie, you can come out now." She appeared from the shadows as if she were a ghost and placed herself in front of us while kept glaring at me. "Sookie, this is Nora."

"Who is her?"

"She will help us."

"What?" Both of them asked at the same time.

"Eric, I never said I would help a human." Nora was not too fond of humans, beyond feeding on them, so I was not surprised at all by her comments. "What are you doing with her? Is she your human?"

"He'd wish it!" Sookie exclaimed and I couldn't avoid rolling my eyes. This would definitely be more complicated than I thought. "Eric, I won't go anywhere. I want you to take me home. Right now!"

"Will I have to carry you like a sack of potatoes again, Sookie?" I asked no more and won't expect an answer before we started walking towards the harbour.

"Let's go before they find us with her screams." Nora was very pissed off but I did not have time to worry about the feelings of either of them so I walked away without saying a word. "I can't believe you're this to me, Eric," Nora whispered low enough so Sookie did not hear us. "Bringing a human was never part of the deal."

"What deal? Until five minutes ago I had no idea you were on your way to Bon Temps." I glared at her because it was the truth, she wasn't even able to tell me. "You better have everything ready because I won't go with her, do you understand?"

Nora stared at me for seconds as we walked. "Why do you care? She's just a human. The Eric Northman I know does not care about humans, only fucks and feeds on them. What has changed?"

"That's none of your business!" I shouted whispering.

We reached an open area of the port on which stood a large group of vampires who were glad to see Nora. One female, the leader, kissed both her cheeks and gave her an envelope.

"Since the human was not part of the deal we've had to make some changes." She handed me the envelope and pulled out our passports. "It's the only way to escape undetected. You will have to disappear forever and never come back, forget your life and focus on the new. These are your new identities."

I opened it and arched an eyebrow when I read the name written on it. "Ike Applebaum?" It was absurd, no one would believe my name was that. "Really?" I heard Sookie chuckled and gasped a second later after reading her new name.

"Grace Clark?" She hissed the name and it was me who chuckled then. "Is this a joke? I'm not going from Louisiana and much less with this name. Besides, I'm not a vampire, why do I have to go? Nobody will be looking for me, you," and she glared at me, "you've been the one who's gotten me into this mess. Why do I have leave everything behind just because of you?"

Before I could react someone was attacking us and all vampires Nora was friends with were just piles of guts on the ground.

"What the hell is going on?" I roared but when I turned around I saw that we were surrounded by guards of the Authority.

"DO NOT MOVE A FUCKING MUSCLE!"

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