Disclaimer: This all takes place after Dead Reckoning. I hope you all enjoy it. It is my first story so be kind. All characters/themes were borrowed from Charlaine Harris.

Two months passed since the demise of Victor Madden. I have not seen Eric or any of "my" vampires. The first message I received was a package in the mail by messenger. I was excited that Eric sent me a present as he often did in the past and I happily signed for the package.

I hurried to open it and was shocked to find inside the ceremonial knife from Rhodes that unknowingly at the time by me; had married me to Eric. There was also a brief message in the package stating that my marriage had been dissolved.

I was crushed.

I could not believe he would dissolve our marriage in such a way. He could at least have had the decency to do it in person. I knew that there was a possibility that he would have to set me aside due to the contract his maker Appius Livius Ocella made with the Queen of Oklahoma prior to his final death, but I assumed that Eric, the epitome (word of the day) of "Vampire", would find a way to circumvent such a contract. Well we all know what they say about assuming anything.

As I now stood in my dark kitchen, I thought back to all of the things I experienced since I met my first vampire; more than most have experienced in an entire lifetime. I once thought I was the only freak in the world with my "disability" but after I met Bill a whole new world opened up to me. I met all sort of supernatural beings, visited various other states outside of Louisiana, and even discovered my true heritage.

The last few years although exciting as they have been; came at a great personal cost. My grandmother had been brutally murdered, I had been staked, raped, tortured, and now once I just started to acknowledge my marriage to vampire Sheriff of Area Five in Louisiana, Eric Northman, I find myself cast aside for the second time by a vampire that I loved.

I had spent the last few hours crying my eyes out since I received the ceremonial knife and divorce papers. I also now found myself holding a knife to my wrist. What did I have to live for. I had lost so much in my short life and now the one person who I thought I could always depend on no longer wanted me.

Then suddenly, I caught sight of a faint glimmer of light in the woods though the kitchen window. I wiped my eyes with the back of hand trying to clear my vision and looked again. The glimmer was still there. I cast out my mental net to see if I could sense anyone. I did not pick up on any beings vampire or otherwise in the area. I decided on a whim to go check it out. As I trudged through the woods and got closer to the source of light it seemed to grow in size and brightness.

The next thing I knew, I was standing in front of the portal I discovered in the woods behind my home only a couple of months ago.

The last time I was standing in this very spot, the portal was only a small slit. At the time I was joined by Sam and Jannalynn and we shoved the dead body of Sandra Pelt though it; something that I still felt guilty about. The sounds that I remember coming from the other side of the portal still sends chills up my spine.

Now the portal was about seven feet in height and four feet wide. The next thing I knew a shadowed form of a man grew out of the portal. My heart started to race and I turned to run back to the farmhouse.

Then suddenly I heard a vaguely familiar voice call my name.

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