Disclaimer: I don't own them they belong to Charlaine Harris. Well except for my orginal character he's mine.

"Sookie I know we haven't been talking to one another….." I rolled my eyes at my not so best friend as she went over what she wanted to say to me in her head. I don't even think she realized she was broadcasting her thoughts to me. After her joining up with the fellowship of the sun I really didn't trust her anymore. That cult she had joined up with had nearly killed me and I prayed for her kids sake she would wake up and realize how much danger they were in.

I sighed to myself and glanced at the clock above the table I was wiping down. It was 8 o'clock and the sun was due to set in about an hour or so. Got to love the summer time, would have loved it even more if I had gotten to stay outside and get a tan instead of being coped up in doors all day.

Oh well it was the price that would be paid to keep a roof over my head. I finished the table up and went to go gather my things and clock out. I waved good bye to Sam and began to make my way through the door.

'Please let her show up I drove all the way out here to meet her and she's ditched me. Great just great! Just freaking great. Alone once again on a Friday night.'

The random thought struck home. I had just been thinking the same thing. I would be going home to an empty house tonight popping in left over's from the night before and watching some old Carey Grant movies. Amelia and Octavia were out at some witch gathering. I turned and tried to pick out the voice not that it was hard to do. The bar held maybe ten customers nine of whom were regulars. Alone was one man that I had never seen before sat at a table in the corner.

He wasn't overly built but you could tell the guy spent time working out. He looked to be in his late twenties. He had bright blonde hair
gelled into neat little spikes, with the most amazing green eyes I had ever seen. His hands drummed nervously on the side of his beer, I felt a need to go over and comfort him. Carefully I made my way over to his table, he looked up at me with a grin which slowly faded when he read my work shirt.

"I'm good I don't need a refill yet."

He went back to playing drums with his beer. I debated whether to just go and leave him to wallow in self pity. The thought of being alone changed my mind for me.

"I'm not here to refill beer. I just wanted to say hello your new here and in Bon Temps it just rude to ignore a stranger." I smiled at him as he looked at me in surprise then in embarrassment.

"Sorry I didn't mean to be rude. Why don't you have a seat I'm suppose to be meeting someone but it looks like they ditched me. It's put me
in the mood to be a jack ass it seems." I sat down at the offered seat and beamed him my award winning smile and held out my hand.

"I'm Sookie Stackhouse" He paused for a moment then shook my hand. I felt something electric shot down my arm. His touch was something that suggested passion yet danger at the same time. I wanted to jump him then and there. This was not my normal behavior. But I pulled my hand free and tried to clear my head. He seemed almost weary of me, almost as if he could sense I was different from normal humans. Funny I thought he was kind of different too.

"I'm James Hunter. Nice to meet you Sookie. Would you like a drink?"

"No thanks I'm okay. It just seemed like you could use someone to talk to."

"Of course. What kind of idiot would turn down the pleasure of talking to a beautiful lady. So you work here? It's a nice place."

"Yeah it's okay."

We continued the small talk for what seemed like only a few moments. I learned that he was from New Orleans and had driven down to meet a blind date from the internet. James worked as a night security guard at a bank and other than his cat named Angel had no other family. A lone soul just as I was, well not completely alone. I had Jason still. But at the moment we were not on speaking terms. He had used me for the last time.

James seemed really sweet and for once I thought I might have found a normal human male that didn't know I was a freak.

"So Sookie what do you do for fun around here?" He grinned at me and waited for my answer. I wanted so many things in this life. Maybe I was not as ruined for human men as I had thought. Maybe this once I could posses something and try to be normal. James didn't have to know I could read minds and maybe I could block him out. Maybe just this once things could be different. Hey why not I've slept with two vamps, and a shape shifter I was so sure I was running out of mystical creatures, maybe I could try my hand at something new.

"Um Sookie are you okay?"

"I'm fine James I'm sure there's something we could do together." And like that I had a date with something new.