PART ONE

Prologue

She had flashed straight to Faery and to the palace of her family, where her daughter and son in law ruled the realm. She knew she couldn't be followed by anyone back home and all she wanted, all she needed, was something to make the pain go away. Of course, once she saw her daughter, she became a blubbering mess. This latest crisis was the icing on the cake, she was tired of being targeted, of him being targeted. "I feel this is for the best, if we were to forget everything, to move on with new lives. I mean, if everyone else was to remember, like our friends, our family, fine. But for him and me? I think it is for the best. I…I am a strong woman but even I…have limits and I think this is what will save us both. Even if…..even if it means separating."

"You want to take the past, your memories away? And dad's? you would become strangers and leave the rest of us in a weird situation. Unless you decide you want to alter everyone else's memories." Aurora sighed as she took her mother's silence as an answer. "How would I be explained, then, if he forgets you, you…you wouldn't know who I was….not really…."

"Find me a way to selectively alter the memories of us and our friends and family. Fill the holes in with filler, whatever…..but perhaps it would be best for us all not to-"

"No. I want to remember." Aurora said as she shot to her feet. "And I won't allow you to go through this, I just….its crazy!"

Sookie's magic flared up with her anger and bitterness, a shield forming around Aurora, who resisted fighting her own mother over this sensitive subject. "You think this is what I want? To give up a life I do love, to give up everything I wanted, everything I fought for? But it is for the safety of everyone and I would prefer no one to suffer anymore, or worse. I know where to find the magic I need and if you won't allow it, I hate to do this but-" Sookie waved a hand and her daughter was knocked out, placed in a deep sleep. As was the rest of the palace. Racing from the room, she saw sleeping faeries, including Aurora's hubby Blaze, slumbering on the ground. Reaching the library, she allowed her magic to guide her to the book she needed, the incantation she needed. And once the book was in hand, she began to cast the magic, tears in hand, the winds whipping. She saw she could pick and choose who would be affected by the magic and she made it so everyone, save for her friends and family, would forget who she really was, what Eric was and what they had once been what they would cease to be in a matter of moments.

Chapter 1

The word had spread fast once Pam had reunited with her maker upon his return to the bar. He clearly was in no mood and had angrily ordered the patrons from the club under threat of draining. That was a good incentive for the vamps and humans alike to hightail it from there. Once alone, Pam pressed him for information and once he had revealed what Sookie was planning to do, she shook her head.

"I thought she put those dumb decision days behind her. Guess I was wrong." Pam said. "So apparently there's nothing to be done?"

"Unless she decides not to go along with it, I suspect in a matter of time, I , at least will not recall even meeting her. I think perhaps she may spare you and the rest from the magic, I don't think she wants to have any of your minds affected. But….the castle home…its somewhat of a mess." he said, bitterness in his voice as he paced the office.

"Again?" Pam sighed. "Its hard to get humans there, glamouring them to fix things up and what not but I suppose its gotta happen…consider that done but onto more important matters….." she trailed off as a chill wind filled the air, the lights flickering. They both recognized the hint of magic in the room and knew it had to have come from only one person.

"Before I lose…her….and incase you don't…..Pam….please. Do what you can to try to fix this. No matter what I may say or do or however I may change. Sookie changed me and without her….you know." he didn't have to go into detail and Pam took his hands into hers as the wave of magic overtook them, she feeling relieved as she was left with her memories intact. But seeing the dreamy expression that her maker had for a fleeting moment, that was enough to worry her. And sure enough, he started to speak and not of Sookie, but of the business, asking what the take was this evening, rounding the desk and sitting in the seat behind it, unconcerned, unaware that something had been taken.

"Sookie… " Pam started to say and as hard hearted as she still could be, Pam was having trouble coming to grips with that had happened, what Sookie had had happen. That she too was now unaware of their involvement, that they were both strangers to each other…..Pam found herself in a rare moment of heartbreak.

"Pardon?" he asked as he started poring over the nights takings, brow furrowed as he met her gaze and saw she looked upset. And unable to help herself, Pam told him what had transpired, from the past few nights up to now. "You were despondent and wanted to get rid of that part of you you hated and she did it….but she was so hurt…she wanted to forget….everything. And made you forget too. Apparently she wanted to give us all a chance for a good, better and safer life. But I think she may have made things worse. And she doesn't even know now what she has done." Pam went on to recount his past, and present existence with the faerie that he himself had had a hand in at making part vamp.

He blinked at her for a moment and then started to laugh. "You have a imagination unlike anything I have ever known…come on, you know I could and will do better than some barmaid. A human one at that…and hybrids they aren't possible, they don't exist. Whatever your game is, its amusing but its going to be dawn in a few hours and I would like to put this to bed." he nodded at the paperwork awaiting him. Pam was not about to let this go but she knew she needed to get to the one person she knew had the power to undo this. Or so she hoped.

Chapter 2

Everything was fuzzy to her, she felt like there was holes in her memories, like something was missing. She also didn't know just where home was, and that was certainly disconcerting. Confusion was her name right about now and she knew she had let Jason and his family move into her farmhouse but why that was, she knew not. Something was wrong, very much so and she felt empty inside, scared. It was with a scream she saw the woman land in front of her, her hands on her shoulders and looking at her with concern. She knew who this person was but couldn't bring herself to remember the name. it was as if things were being stolen from her memory by the moment.

Pam sensed something had went wrong. Of course it did, it was their lives, wasn't it? Things always went awry and it would seem that Sookie was losing more than the memory of just her love, but everyone she knew….everything she knew. Pam suspected within hours, the girl wouldn't; know a thing about anything. Terrified eyes looked back at Pam and she knew that it was a very rapid brain drain that had gone wrong. She had meant well but Pam still swore under her breath at the stupidity of the actions by the waitress. Grabbing her by the arm before she could run off, she also noticed that clearly, the girl didn't know what she was, what she could do. "Listen, Sookie….I am a friend, family, actually. And I don't want to hurt you but you did something incredibly stupid and-" she was cut off by the arrival of Aurora and Blaze, both looking at the scene with concern.

"She knocked me and the rest of the palace into sleep so she could do this…and it seems that it hasn't worked out like was supposed to."

Pam flashed her fangs. "Supposed to? Like you wanted her and him to forget? She is definitely worse off than my maker is, he at least remembers everything else but she…..she's losing everything she had in that head of hers."

"The spell has gone wrong, it backfired on her for some reason, memory magic is a dangerous thing and she has basically turned her brain into a sieve…everything is draining from her, everything she was….she's nothing but a scared little girl now. But I do know of a way to undo this. The only way that is can happen and I wish there was another way but she got over her head in this magic from what one of the elders back in Faery told me."

Blaze raked a hand through his wavy brown hair, his icy green eyes looking somewhat desperate. "It sounds simple but yet it may be the biggest challenge that they have ever faced. They have to reconnect in every way possible." Blaze looked almost red-faced. "And I mean every way. Or this is going to be their fate. Lost to each other forever. Memories never to be regained."

"Somehow this seems worse than the amnesia crap." Pam sighed

"It really is…..they wouldn't lose just memories forever, but everything…..and since they don't remember each other, they….they don't remember me. Because I was a part of them and as such….kind of a snowball effect."

Pam still had a hold of Sookie, who looked positively terrified at the vampire holding her. "Look, if you…if you want money, I don't have-"

"You have more than you could ever imagine and I am gonna help fix this. Its too close to dawn but tomorrow night, you and I are going to pay a visit to a mutual friend."

"I am not going anywhere with you!" protested Sookie, though Pam ignored her.

"Keep in touch…I will bring her to him tomorrow and-"

"That may not be wise. Gone are the memories and as such, the feelings he had for her. You may well be feeding her to the wolves with you good intentions." Aurora said, concerned for the welfare of her mother.

"I have known him longer than you have faerie queen." Pam snapped, and thought she cared for Aurora deeply, she also had no patience when it came to helping the one she was closest to in her life. "He won't harm her. If I ask it, he won't. as long as I am around, she will be fine. You trust me, right?" she waited for a response and when she got a pair of stiff nods, Pam flew off, Sookie in tow. Off to the palatial mansion that was also now foreign to the addlebrained Sookie. With any luck, Pam thought to herself, this time tomorrow, they could have this over and done with. But that, she knew, was truly, very much, a overambitious thought

"You have all of two days to get them together. After that….no amount of faerie magic can bring them back to where they were and I suppose she will have what she wanted, to keep them both safe from each others troubles and their combined troubles." Aurora shouted, knowing the vamp could hear her perfectly well. Time was certainly not on their side. Yet again.

TO BE CONTINUED