Title: Proposition

Rating: T

Pairing: Eric/Pam and Pam/Bill

Summary: For Secrets4theunderground's contest. After Eric kicked Pam out she goes to Bill and gets and interesting proposition, but will she accept and if she does how will Eric react.

Disclaimer: I do not own anyone or anything from True Blood!

AN: This is my first time really writing a True Blood story and I was asked to enter this contest so I am. This is the introduction chapter and the next one will be the rest of the story and a lot longer than the start. I hope you all liked this.

Eric's POV-

I never thought that Pam would actually stay away. I know I ordered her to leave, but by all rights it had been a heat of the moment decision based on anger due to the fact she had disobeyed a direct order. I had told her not to make and attack on the witches and yet she had. She had needed to know that her act of defiance would not go without consequences. Plus the fact Sookie had been inside of the building did nothing to calm my outrage at her lack of listening to and obeying orders. She could have killed her and I thought banishment would be a suiting punishment for her crime. It is not as if I had expected her to stay away forever, maybe a decade or two at the most.

It had been three months since her banishment and I hadn't heard a word from Pam other than the night a week after I told her to leave she had come back to Fangtasia in order to gather her things. I had tried speaking to her, but she wouldn't listen. My Child had always been stubborn that way since the first time I had met her. If Pam felt she had been wronged then the person who wronged her would either be dead shortly after or if it were someone such as me, she would simple pretend I did not exist. I would admit there had been a time I found it amusing, but now it simply served to annoy me. At least I knew she was alive and had not gone to greet the sun. Apparently she was staying with Bill or that is what I had been told by Jessica who had become the unofficial messenger between the three of us.

As I walked around the bar I had to remind myself that I needed to hire someone to replace Ginger. Pam had taken her when she left and while I could've stopped her, I let Pamela have this. Ginger is the only human I have seen her actually care for and I couldn't be bothered to take care of the mentally damaged human when I had so much on my plate already. So yes, I would let Pam have her human pet and I would get another one eventually when I could be bothered to do so. It was better not to have Ginger around anyways. She had never been extremely helpful even when she had had full use of her mind. Sometimes I had to wonder if Pam saw the little human as a pet more than an actual human, though Pam thought of human's as pets so to her there really is not that much of a difference.

It wasn't odd that I missed my Child. We had been together for centuries and to sever a tie as strong as ours would be cause for loneliness, but I had thought that having Sookie around may take away any lingering regrets I had about the situation with Pam and yet that was not the cause. If anything having the fairy around only reminded me of what I had lost. I did not understand my infatuation with Sookie now that I thought about it. She was everything I hated in a woman. She needed a man to complete her where as my Pamela did not need anyone. She could stand on her own two feet wearing her nicest pumps and still kick your ass without help from anyone else.

Sookie was so whiny if she did not get her way and usually I would have snapped her neck a long time ago. Pam would complain of course, but in a teasing manner before she handled whatever the problem was on her own. I should have seen it before now that she had been the only one in the group during the witch hunt that had really been using their head. Bill and I had been too consumed over what could happen to our precious Sookie we were not seeing the picture clearly. If we had been then we would have realized that one human life wasn't worth risking our entire species. Well it may have been to Bill, who seemed to hate what he was, but I was Eric Northman and I never would have let one human, especially a female cloud my judgment. I should've realized that Pam was doing the smart thing and not trying to take away my happiness as I had thought at the time being.

Footsteps on the floor caught my attention and I looked up to see Jessica the baby vamp heading towards me holding an envelope. I recognized the seal as Bill's and knew the message much be from him. I wondered why he would send her when he could've sent a human carrier, but the inner workings of his mind were not my concern. It was apparent he had a message for me. I nodded politely at the redhead who smelled faintly of Jason Stackhouse. What was it about Stackhouse people us vampires seemed attracted too? At least with Sookie I could've blamed the fairy blood, but Jason was just another clumsy human, yet what should I expect coming from a girl who had dated Hoyt?

"Bill wanted me to bring you this." Jessica did not meet my eye as she handed me the envelope. Why wouldn't she meet my eye? "Remember I am just the messenger and you are not supposed to shoot or stake the messenger."

Her comment caused my eyebrow to go up in amusement. This must be some message if she feared my retaliation. I slid my finger under the slip of the envelope before pulling out the card inside. My eyes scanned the message before I felt the card slip from my fingers and to the floor. This could not be happening.

Your presence is requested at the wedding of Bill Compton the king of Louisiana and his bride to be Pamela.

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