Chapter 1

Mini Prologue

"You have everything you need for the assignment, correct?".

"Yes"

"What is your name?"

"Margaret Smith"

"Occupation?"

"Waitress"

"And your true objective?"

….

One Month Later

Sookie Stackhouse walked into Merlotte's for her opening shift with a pep in her step. "Morning" she beamed at the two figures standing behind the bar. "She and that vampire must have made up" Arlene murmured to Lafayette who was pouring himself a shot of tequila. "Mmmhm" he responded lackadaisically. Sookie approached Sam's office to get her apron when she heard voices on the other side of the door. The blonde halted, this time focusing in on the thoughts of the two on the other side. She seems normal, it was Sam. I don't think I'll have to worry about her ending up dead or worse- show up whenever she feels like it. Sookie rolled her eyes, she knew Sam must have smelt her listening in on them judging by the passive aggressive comment. It was strange though… Sookie couldn't read the mystery girls thoughts. "Time to see what's going on" she said to no one in particular as she opened the door to reveal her boss and a young girl sitting across from him. They both looked up at her, Sam feigning surprise while the other girl was, also feigning surprise?

"Sookie-"

"Sorry I just came in to grab my apron"

"No, no it's alright. I was just talking with Merlotte's possible new employee".

Sam smiled at the girl across from him warmly, the young girl returned the smile and stood, extending her hand out to Sookie. "I'm Margaret, it's nice to meet you" Margaret, formerly known as mystery girl beamed. Sookie took the girls hand in hopes of reading her thoughts but there was nothing. She had never met a human who's mind she couldn't read. This girl clearly wasn't a vampire and even if she was another supernatural Sookie would still have been able to read her thoughts. Margaret's smile seemed genuine though so she wouldn't really worry about it for the time being. "It's nice to meet you too, I hope we can become good friends".

"Likewise".

It turned out Margaret had in fact gotten the job at Merlotte's and she indeed had become good friends with Sookie, as well as everyone else in the bar. It was still strange to Sookie that the girl had no thoughts but at the same time it was such a nice break from keeping everyone's thoughts out of her head. It had now been three weeks since she had started working with the newbie when she decided to invite her out.

"Hey Margaret, what would you say to a girls night out tonight" Sookie looked over at said girl who was filling ketchup bottles. "What do you have in mind?" she smiled curiously. "We could get drinks at this French restaurant I've been dying to try!".

"Hm that sounds like fun".

"Great! I'll pick you up around 8 then".

Margarets POV

I had just gotten home from my shift at Merlotte's, frantically cleaning up all of my files and things that would say 'She's not who she says she is'. After I got that all squared away I looked in my closet to see if I had something clean to wear. Luckily for me, the only thing I'd really worn was my waitressing uniform so I had a couple things to choose from. I hopped in the shower to unwind and clean myself up but my mind was anything but clear at the moment. I had been in Louisiana for a month and had made no progress in my assignment. It was true I had no pending deadline, but it was frustrating that I had made no progress. I stepped out of the shower, wrapping a towel around myself. I dried my hair and put on some makeup, at that time I heard the doorbell ring "shit". Time must have gotten away from me, I threw on my robe figuring Sookie could just hang out for a few minutes but before I got to the door I noticed the time on my clock. It was only 6:50, I pulled out my Whalther P99 from my purse and approached the door. "Who is it?" I ask flatly, "Could I talk to the homeowner please?" a meak female voice came from the otherside. I opened the door to be met with a very skinny scantily clad woman with short blonde hair and heavy eye make up. "Hi there miss!" she gave me a tooth smile which made me feel a little uneasy. "My names Ginger and I'm an employee at Fangtasia down the road in Shreveport. I'm just going door to door to hand out our flyer" she explains as she hands me said paper. I look down at it and can't believe how ridiculous it looks. On it is a pair of fangs with the red lettering Fantasia dripping with blood, how cheesy. "Any way I'm here to reassure that we welcome everyone, dead or alive. Ah! As long as they're over the age of 21 of course!" her smile turned a bit nervous and at this point I was uninterested.

"Thanks but uh… I don't think this is the type of place for me".

The womans face looked a little disappointed but it lit up again as something dawned on her, "You don't know unless you try it! Some people come just to talk with the vampires, get a little insight on their experience of history. If you like stuff like that, it's perfect! We have vampires from 50 years old-heh- all the way to a 1000 years!" she beamed. It hit me then, maybe I would find what I was looking for sooner than I thought. "What's your name?" I peered down at her. She was only an inch or two shorter than her but that wasn't important right now. "It's...Ginger ma'am" it looked like she actually had to remember what her name was, the byproduct of getting glamoured so many times no doubt. "Well, Ginger. I want you to tell your employer that you did such a good job of swaying me to come to Fangtasia" I smiled. "Y-you mean it?! Oh that's great!" she jumped up and down, very pleased with herself. "Now I'll see you real soon, but I have to get ready. Bye now" I shut the door on her before she could respond. Looks like I have a change of plans, I picked up my phone and dialed Sookie's number.

"Hello?"

"Hey Sookie! I didn't catch you at a bad time did I?"

"Oh hey Margaret. No I was just getting ready. What's up?"

"I didn't want to tell you this but I've already tried that French place before and I got really bad food poisoning. Ever since then I've just haven't had the stomach for it".

"O-oh. Then why did you agree to go?"

I kicked myself, I never was good at making excuses.

"It was just- I was so excited to get to go out with the first friend I've made since moving here. I hadn't really heard 'French restaurant' as much as I heard 'go out for drinks'. I didn't realize what you said until now".

"Well that's okay sweetie. I'll just go with my boyfriend, he won't mind since he doesn't eat food".

I froze, Sookie's boyfriend was a vampire. It would explain why I never saw him since I haven't had a closing shift since starting at Merlotte's. She interrupted my thoughts before I could register a response.

"We can still go out though! Your pick" I could hear her bright smile through the phone.

"I just got a flyer for a place in Shreveport. If you come to my place I can drive us" and as an afterthought "You should bring your man too! I'm sure he would like it there too".

"Would you be okay with that? You wouldn't feel like a third wheel?"

"No! Of course not, I would love to meet him and I'm sure he would fit in this place for sure".

It got quiet for a second before Sookie responded "This place… wouldn't be called Fangtasia would it?".

She seemed a little perturbed so it was up to me to do some convincing. "It's totally okay if you don't wanna go! I can try it out another time" I tried to sound as innocent and helpless as I could and it seemed to work. "No… no we'll go. I'd rather be there with you instead of you going out on your own. It can be pretty intense there".

After a few minutes of chatting she hung up and I quickly changed into my dress. I needed to look like vampire bait, so hopefully this will do. It was a scalloped off the shoulder navy lace dress with gold underneath and faint glittery sparkle. With that I wore a nude open toed heel and small gold plated choker. I then dabbed a specially formulated perfume behind my ears and on my wrist.

My theory of being vampire bait was soon tested as I opened the front door to see Sookie and her boyfriend walking a few steps behind her. He came to slow stop I made eye contact with him, and then his fangs popped out. He turned his head quickly and popped them back in. I turned to Sookie who hadn't noticed as she came up and hugged me. "Wow you guys look great" I smiled.

"Back at you! Wow you look-" she quickly did a once over on me "-hot!". I couldn't contain my laugh "Thanks Sook". "Oh! Margaret, this is my boyfriend Bill Compton" she turned to the man who was standing at the bottom of the steps. "Nice to meet you" he looked up and quickly looked down at the ground. So angsty. "You guys ready then?" I smiled.

We ended up taking Bill's car, we listened to Garmarna a Scandinavian group. Sookie complained about it and put on some hick station. I actually liked what Bill had on but I had to play along. I did see Sookie as a friend but I noticed over time she had some annoying quirks. Soon we were at our destination, it didn't look like much on the outside. The place looked like an old shopping mall that was merged together into Fangtasia. We got out of the car and approached the entrance, there was blonde vampire bouncer who seemed to show interest in our group. "Well, I certainly didn't expect to find you two back so soon. Finally paying us another visit?" the blonde tilted her head slightly. That's when her eyes met my indifferent ones, she walked around Sookie and Bill to stand in front of me "And who is this yummy looking morsel?". Bill was at my side in an instant "She is with us Pam". Pam arched her brow and looked at Bill "Is she also yours? I didn't think Sookie was the sharing type". "I'm not anyone's" I finally interjected. "Would you like to be?" she eyed me up and down hungrily. The bait is definitely hooked. "Sorry you aren't my taste, but you know palettes change every seven years so maybe I'll give you a call then" I said as I felt Bill pull me along into the club. "Don't worry about Pam, she's just weird" Sookie yelled over the loud music. We sat at the bar when I saw a familiar face, Ginger. I blinked to see if my sight was betraying me but it wasn't she had an even more revealing outfit on than before. I looked around the bar and eyed a blond man with shoulder length hair sitting on a...throne? I snorted reverting my attention to Sookie who was talking to Bill about something. I got up to go dance, maybe find what I was looking for. Luckily Sookie joined me so I wouldn't be dancing awkwardly by myself. We talked while we danced about simple things, work, life, what have you. It was then the blond man came up to us "Good evening ladies". He looked to Sookie, "I have to talk to you. In private" he glanced at me and back to Sookie "Eric I'm kind of busy-". Eric looked back at me, I could feel he was trying to glamour me but he wouldn't get very far. "You don't care that leaves you alone do you?" he was charming I did give him that, I'll play his game though. "If she doesn't mind, then I don't" I deadpanned.

At that time, Bill had approached us "Ah Bill, never far behind. Come we need to talk".

With that I was left to my own devices, I looked around again and then went to the restroom. I locked the stall behind me I opened my purse to get a picture of who I was looking for and then exited the restroom again, I quickly found ginger and pulled her aside to a place when nobody could see us. "Oh hey! It's you" she smiled brightly. "Yes it's me" I smiled back. I took out a little notepad writing a note down for her: I need to ask you something and I want you to write it down for me. Nod if you understand. She looked up and nodded a little bit of uncertainty in her eyes "So what's it like working at a vampire bar?" I asked as I wrote down my question and handed it to her with the picture of the man. Do you know this man? She nodded and wrote down her answer. Ya his naim is Longshadow he was a bartender. "It's different but I wouldn't change it for anything in the world". I wrote down my response Where is he?

I dont no.

Don't lie.

"I'm not" she said out loud.

I gave her a death glare to shut her mouth. She must have been glamoured, it didn't matter. I had other methods of getting information. "Thanks for the insight" I smiled and walked away. I was met by Bill and Sookie who were followed by the big tall man. "We should go" Bill said. I eyed Sookie who looked a bit shaken and then up at the blond tree, who didn't bother paying me any mind. Which on my part was definitely a good thing.

Bill dropped Sookie off first which seemed a little strange but I didn't really care. As we drove down the road Bill finally spoke to me for the first time that night. "So, Sookie tells me she can't hear your thoughts?" ah there it is, that's why he wanted to get me alone. I had heard about Sookie's ability the first week I started working with her and she even admitted it was a little weird she couldn't read my mind.

"I guess not. Is that not common?"

"No it isn't" he said sternly.

"Are you human?"

I blinked "I'm as human as they come".

"I know you can't be glamoured. Eric might not have noticed but I did".

This time I was really surprised, no vampire has ever been able to tell that I couldn't be glamoured.

"How did you...?" I looked at him curiously.

"Your body language, you didn't go rigid"

"Ah...well why do you think nobody else noticed?"

"Because to everyone else your just a human. Cattle.

I probably wouldn't have noticed either, had Sookie not told me about you"

"Well I guess being cattle is a good thing" I chuckled softly.

We stopped in front of the small house I was renting. Before I could open my door, Bill was one step ahead of me already waiting for me to step out. When I did he closed the door and pinned me to his car. "What are you and why are you here? It was your idea to go to Fangtasia, why?" he snapped, his fangs popping out. I sighed, this game was getting boring.

Bill's POV

This girl was playing at a very dangerous game. Eric would kill her without hesitation if he knew she was snooping around his bar. I would kill her if she had ill intentions towards Sookie. This girl, she smelled delicious but I had to refrain from that for the time being. She was strange, even now in her predicament she had a bored expression on her face. "I don't mean anyone harm. I'm just looking for one vampire. It seems he is-was an employee of Fangtasia". She was talking about Longshadow, the vampire I killed to save Sookie. Which means she's also look for me, I had to get rid of her. I bit down on her and tasted her blood which in fact was as delicious as I thought. Then suddenly I felt a sharp pain in my groin to my shock. When the pain subsided I heard the front door of her house open I quickly reached the open door only to be met by her. She was holding her neck wound "Look I see why you don't trust me, but it has nothing to do with you or Sookie. I was sent" her eyes began to droop and her breathing became labored. "I was sent...to find this vampire and kill him. Just him. I really consider her a true friend and I would never think of hurting her". I knew she was telling the truth but by that time she fell towards me as I caught her. I had to do something that I really didn't like, give her my blood.

A/N: Hi everyone! This is my first True Blood fanfiction on this account I hope you guys like it! The timeline of this is a little skewed, so it's safe to say nothing is really in order. I also apologize if my grammar is shit. I'm a little sleep deprived and have had the idea of this story for a while so let me know what you guys think! I would also like to say I'm terrible at uploading in a timely manner but I will get it done!