I was surprised that I actually woke up after that. Well surprised might be the wrong word, but stunned. I was at first not sure if I was alive or dead. Hey, I don't know all there is to know about life after death. My body was in still pain, not as much as I had been though. I believe someone had given me some kind of drug, because I was feeling drowsy, not quite awake. My eyelids wouldn't open, and I didn't force it. There were voices in the room, I listened to them, tried to understand them. It took me a while to figure out who was in the room with me.

"We found nothing by the house"

That was Pam, Eric's second in command.

"I didn't think you would find anything" Eric said, he sounded weird, as if he was tired, I'd never heard his voice sounding like that.

"You're hurting" Pam stated.

"Pam, why don't you go and make yourself useful in the bar" he said.

"Why won't you tell her then?" Pam said calmly. "And put an end to this."

If I had been awake and not under heavy drugs, I would have frozen.

"Pam" he said dismissively.

"I'm just tired of your moping and sulking, I wish you would become the old Eric. Telling her might just get things back on track again."

There was a long silence, and I guess Pam got impatient as she said.

"I'll go then."

I let myself drift into the darkness again, it wasn't that hard to just let go and loose all conscience.

I woke up again some time later, and the pain was really bad. Normally I would not be able to bear it, but it seemed Eric was close and that made me calm, but believe me, I was fighting hard not to scream for more drugs, I wanted them real badly.

"It hurts" I said weakly.

"Sookie?"

"Please... please..."

"I could give you my blood, you would heal..."

"No, no, I don't want that." I gasped, it was getting bad.

"Dear one, it'll take long for you to heal this way." he said. "You have taken it before."

"No..."

"Stubborn woman" he said, I could tell he was angry, but I felt he was concerned.

"Eric... I'll loose more of my humanity, I can't..." I whispered.

"Very well"

I felt drowsy again, I think someone was giving me something for the pain so I could get some sleep. I don't know how long I'd been out, but suddenly I felt another presence in the room. I was awake, and still not. Must be some kind of supe, since I couldn't pick up on thoughts coming from this presence. I felt a pair of hands on my cheeks, they were warm but I did not know who they belonged to, neither could I open my eyes to see, my eyelids just wouldn't open.

Then suddenly, I felt like my body was on fire, my bones seemed to be mending together and it hurt like hell. I didn't know what to make of it, either someone was trying to kill me or trying to heal me. Either way, the pain was excruciating and I think at some point I started to scream. Then I blacked out again.

And yet again, I woke up, feeling a lot better. I was lying between dark blue silk sheets, in my underwear might I add. I was still a bit sore, but it seemed I was on the mend, and had gotten a boost to it. I looked around the room, it was dark though so I gathered it was evening or perhaps late in the night. The door opened and Eric's second in command walked in.

"Ah, you're awake" Pam said indifferently and sat down in a chair by the bed.

"What day is it?" I asked.

"Thursday, are you feeling better? You do have some colour now."

"I guess. Pam, where am I?"

"Eric's house. It is best that you stay put here until we find whoever were behind the assault."

"Amelia, she doesn't..."

"I've told her, she went to live with that were she's dating. And your boss knows as well. I didn't know if I needed to tell your brother."

"No, that's fine." I said.

Pam sounded a bit bitter, she and Amelia had been dating for a bit but when it all came down to it, Amelia wasn't really into girls. I felt a bit sorry for her though, since she really seemed to like my room mate. And well, I thought of Pam as sort of a friend, I didn't know if she regarded me as one.

"Pam, how come I... healed up so fast?"

"Felipe de Castro sent a healer here." she said. "It's a very painful procedure I hear, I've never experienced being healed since she can't do it for vampires. You were in such bad shape that it was necessary. I believe Eric pulled in some favours as well to get her here. They gave you a blood transfusion as well, you lost a lot of blood."

"Oh" was all I could say to that.

"Where is Eric?" I asked a after a moments silence.

"He's out trying to find the ones responsible for almost killing you. We haven't found anything yet however."

She paused and looked at me.

"He was in pain you know. He thought you were going to die that night when he got to you, I've never seen him like that."

I closed my eyes, this was exactly the stuff I did not want to discuss, or hear.

"Pam, just let it go." I said weakly. "I don't wish to discuss this."

"Well, one of you are going to have to, and I think it's pretty clear that you need to tell him how you feel. You know he feels... Strongly for you."

"It's the blood bond, and perhaps the fairy blood also." I said

"No. It goes deeper than that. He was acting weird before the blood bond around you, and I do not think it was the fairy blood either."

"Just don't, okay? I can't deal with this right now... I...Why are you so anxious about Eric anyway?"

She raised an eyebrow.

"Because, he's no fun nowadays. He used to be carefree and now he's just plain boring. And he's been that way ever since you two were alone in your house. He's thinking too much. It makes life here very dull, and it never was like that in the past. I just think that if you just told him off or let him in, then things would get better around here."

"Pam, Eric cares for one person, and one alone, and that is Eric. And I'm not... I can't be in second place like that. It just doesn't work like that... It must be something else that bothers him, because I know I'm not his top priority, nor does he care that way about me."

She actually rolled her eyes.

"You know, he's been putting his ass on the line for you I don't know how many times, how is it that you still think he thinks of himself as more important than you?"

I stared at her.

"You're going to have me explain this for you?" she said and frowned.

"I don't... I think you've misunderstood this" I said.

"No. I don't think I have. It is so obvious that..."

Suddenly, the door opened. Eric always seemed to be interrupting us when Pam decided she would try and get me to finally confess to him. She didn't look a bit taken aback, she just got up and left the room, saying nothing.