Bill POV

Having to face with any kind of trouble in Louisiana, which affects vampires. That was also a part of the package deal when I was named to be the new king of Louisiana.

And boy, were the vampires of Louisisana in trouble...or pile of shit as Nan would say.

Being king and an AVL member at the same time is hard, trying to keep the balance between the king who controls his subjects with a strong hand and the friendly, civil war veteran who poses as the spokesman of the vampires of Bon Temps...for the last 13 months I managed to keep this balance.

But this time, how should I make a decision? It's clear that Antonia is a big, if not the biggest, danger to our kind and must be liquidated as soon as possible. But with Nan's whining about the AVL's reputation in my ear, it's hard to think...

Well, there's no time for delay, Antonia and her host body need to be taken down immediately...in a way we can be sure that she disappears at least for another 400 years...

"Fire killed her 400 years ago. We can only hope that it works again."

"Blowing up Moongoddess Emporium is not a 21th century solution."

Maybe but Antonia is not something that has anything to do with the 21th century...

"Blowing up Moongoddess?"

Ahh, Sookie, not you, too...

"You're fucking our whole agenda up the ass!"

Idiotic woman!...if we don't finish Marnie, there won't be anything to fuck up in the ass at all...

"God, I hate her"

Out loud. I know you've heard that...

"Bill, you can't do this! Tara and other humans are in there."

Shit! Everything is falling apart!...I have to push this through without any distraction...

"Well, they bet on the wrong horse. It's too bad."

I would have never said that out loud, especially not in that manner...but Eric sounds about right.

"I've summoned Jessica. We'll secure the windows, silver ourselves and go to ground. Pam, you'll stay here"

At any other time I'd reject Pam's company but now her bloodlust and eye-for-eye philosophy, which I'm sure she learnt from Eric, can come handy.

"I'm so in."

Thank heavens she's not in the mood to disobey just to set at defiance as usual...I hope Eric knows that my order applies to him as well, even if I didn't say it out loud...

"If Tara hadn't warned me about the hotel, Eric would still be a zombie and you'd be dead!"

...And I'm grateful for that but...

"My kind is still in danger. I can't risk potential genocide just to save one human, just because she's your friend."

In the past I would have done that gladly...but now, with the responsibility of these vampires' lives in my hand I just can't...

"Lovable, isn't he?"

What the hell is that supposed to mean?...or every remark that Eric Northman adresses to me?...I didn't miss the Eric in his old ways who never failed to express his lack of loyalty to me, to be honest. On the other hand, it means kess things to be worried abou!...

"At least let me help...

What is up with with this girl?...she just jumps in the niddle of hell and tries to solve everything, it has always amazed me...but still I can't let her risk her life..for us..again...

"Last time you helped you got shot and almost died. Stay away from there Sookie, because tomorrow night we're gonna finish Marnie once and for all."

"And if innocent people die?"

"It's war. It happens"

Good, for once I could convince her. At least she won't be a cause to worry about in the middle of the fight! Although I can never be sure that she won't appea rout of nowhere to save the day.

Sookie the defender of the poor and inocent...