"Really, I should punish you for this." My child paced the floor running his fingers through his long hair. He'd spoiled is child to the point where she was hardly phased by his threats. She only stood there, arms crossed with one of her long, thin fingers tapping against her own skin.
"Eric, it was a mistake. I already apologized." Pam barely argued. "I don't know what you want from me? Should I drain her dry and feed her to the alligators or better yet how about I beat her senseless and drop her on her grandmother's door."
"Did you glamour the shifter?" He asked.
"Of course and the rest of the town as well. I even went by her Grandmother's house and glamoured her." She looked thoughtful, "Which by the way, Sookie has a cousin, named Hadley… Isn't that the Queen's new pet?"
"Surely there is more than one girl named Hadley in all of Louisiana." I interjected.
"Yes but I seem to remember Sophie-Anne talking about rescuing some drug addict and Sookie's cousin was or according to the grandmother, is a drug addict."
"To make up for this," Eric pointed to the couch where the human slept, "incident, I'll need you to go spend some time with the queen. If Hadley is the same Hadley you will glamour her into forgetting she has a cousin."
"Excellent, a vacation to court. Oh how I love court, I can eat a real fucking meal there." Pam chuckled.
"You will leave at first dark."
"That still doesn't solve the issue with the human before us." I reminded him.
"I'll go pack and leave this little issue to you." Pam smiled. "Great to see you again, Godric." She raced off out of the office.
"You really do spoil her," I commented.
"And where do you think I learned that from, Master?" He retorted.
We stood there silently watching the human sleep. While she did smell similar to a fairy it was faint and until I could speak with her myself I would reserve my opinions on who or what she was. "It will be dawn soon; we need to move her."
"So we're not going to kill her?" He asked.
"Not yet, maybe not at all."
Eric and I decided to take her to one of his safe houses as far away from town as possible. We chose his empty estate he rarely used because it was over twenty miles from anything. That way if this creature escaped during the day we would find her long before anyone else did.
Because of my age I would stay up until she woke. The bleeds would not affect me nearly as much as they would Eric, whom as an old vampire was still over one thousand years younger than me. If I could not glamour her myself we would have to reevaluate what we were to do with the girl.
"You have no other vehicles here?" I asked him looking at the Corvette with only two seats.
"It wasn't like I was planning to have anybody else in the car with me tonight." He told me.
"You fly back to the house; I will drive the human." I told him. He gently placed her in the passenger seat and handed me the keys.
"You remember how to get there?" He asked. "I'm going to stop to pick up a bigger car and then grab her some human items."
"Very well, I will see you soon." I nodded in agreement. When she woke she would most likely want a shower and something to eat so Eric's plan was a good one.
I peeled out of the parking lot and drove towards the highway. Once on the interstate I increased the speed to over one hundred miles an hour. My reflexes were fast enough that driving at this speed was no danger to myself or the human. The house was over an hour away but at the speed I was traveling it would only take half that time. It was the back roads that would take longer.
After fifteen minutes on the highway I pulled off the exit and headed down the back country roads. It was the night before a full moon and I could sense the wolves in the woods. The more pure blooded the wolf the easier it was for them to shift when it wasn't a full moon. I knew my child had a decent working relationship with the Shreveport pack, so much so that he allowed them to use his property to shift and hunt when needed. I was surprised they took him up on this offer because the vampires in my area did not have the same sort of relationship. I had attempted on many occasions but Stan couldn't seem to keep his opinions or his attitude to himself. So every time I took ten steps forward he did something to force us twenty steps back.
As I was driving I could feel the heart rate of the human increase; she was waking. "Who are you?" She looked at me startled.
"I am Godric."
"And where are you taking me, Godric?"
"To one of my child's homes so that we may talk." I told her.
"You barely look old enough to have your own apartment let alone have a kid; seriously… What the hell is going on?" She was becoming agitated.
"Are you truly a telepath?" I asked.
"Unfortunately." She told me. "Wait are ya'll some secret government agency and you're gonna use me to interrogate terrorists or something?"
I couldn't help but laugh. That was hysterical and unfortunately could be her future if humans found out that one such as herself did in fact exist.
"No, I can promise you that I am not from your government."
"Why can't I just go home?"
"We will talk more when we reach our destination. It has been a long night for you and I am certain you are too tired to understand all that has happened."
"Oh no, you don't get off the hook that easy, buddy. I want answers and I want them now."
"I apologize but I have none for you at the moment."
She huffed and crossed her arms. After a few moments she started sneaking glances in my direction. Every few seconds she would look towards me and then look away. I noticed her hand had settled on the buckle to her seatbelt. I hoped she wasn't stupid enough to attempt an escape out of a moving vehicle but one could never tell what a human was thinking.
"I would not do that if I were you." I warned her.
"Do what?"
"Attempt jumping out of a moving car. Especially on a night like this one."
Of course she didn't take my advice; she unbuckled her seatbelt and quickly opened the door launching herself out of the car. I tried to keep ahold of her but when I realized my strength would surely rip her arm out of its socket I let her go. I heard the thud of her body on the ground before I even stopped the car.
I jumped out of the car and followed her scent into the woods. She truly was a feisty one. The force of her hitting the ground alone should have been enough to stop her but she somehow got up and was able to run into the woods.
It only took seconds for me to locate her but I was going to let her lay in the bed she'd just made for herself. I watched her from the bushes as she limped through the woods, cursing to herself every step of the way. She was nursing her arm and bleeding from a few wounds that probably came from hitting the gravel road but she was determined to get away.
This was almost becoming a game for me. I hadn't stalked prey in centuries and I found that I was enjoying it. I watched as she continued to limp aimlessly through the woods. It was night and she was injured she would never find her way out but that didn't stop her.
"Damn it," I heard her yell as she gashed open her leg on a fallen tree. As the smell of her blood from the fresh wound filled my nose my fangs ran down and I was being consumed by bloodlust. I was about to race towards her and consume her but a text from Eric stopped me. He'd come across his own abandoned Corvette and was heading towards us.
I had been so consumed by her and her scent that I hadn't even felt my own child approaching through the bond. I looked up from the trees and watched as he flew overhead and landed right in front of the girl.
"Miss Stackhouse, what am I going to do with you?" He purred to her.
"Holy crap, you can fly!" She yelled stumbling backwards and falling onto the same tree that had just cut her leg open.
"Running was very stupid, do you have any idea what kind of creatures lurk in these woods?" I asked her as I approached.
"If ya'll are gonna kill me just get it over with. I'm tired of running and I ain't gonna beg for my life again." The fear I smelled coming off of her did not match the words coming out of her mouth but with humans they rarely did.
"Come, we will help you to the car." I told her as I offered my hands to help her up. After a brief moment she took them and started walking through the woods between Eric and me.
"Will ya'll just tell me what you are because I know it ain't human?" She asked.
"I already told you, we are vampires. That is why we glow, that is why you remember Pam biting you, and that is why I can fly."
"You mean to tell me ya'll are like really real?" She asked. "How is that even possible?"
"You read minds, how is that possible?"
"I wish it weren't."
Eric and Sookie had driven back to the house in his Corvette and I followed closely behind in his Range Rover. Once we reached the house he opened the garage doors and we both pulled in beside each other.
We entered the house through the door from the garage which required an access code and drop of blood. Without both there was no way in and no way out. He made sure to make Sookie very aware of that fact.
"The windows you see are made of glass that not even the weight of five elephants could break. It is completely shatter proof and the light coming through will not harm us during the day. So if you choose to attempt another escape breaking the windows would not be a viable option for you." Eric told her.
She looked through the glass curiously, "Are those wolves in your yard?"
"Yes, they are. They will attack you so please also keep that in mind."
"Wonderful." She rolled her eyes.
Eric handed her a couple of bags from Target. "There are a couple of changes of clothes, a toothbrush, hair brush, shampoo, and other necessities. Should you require anything else we will get it for you at dusk."
"What, no dungeon?" She asked.
"No, no dungeon. I am putting my trust in you. I will allow you complete access of my home while we are at rest. Please do not make me regret this decision."
A few minutes later Eric showed Sookie to her room and left her alone to take a shower and change. He had instructed her to meet us in the living room as soon as she was finished.
"What are your thoughts?" He asked when he returned.
"In the woods I couldn't decide if I wanted to drain her dry, rob her of her innocence, make her one of us, or all of the above." I admitted.
"You too?" He chuckled. "But you are my sire so I will gladly let you keep her if that is what you want."
"Have you attempted to glamour her yourself?" I asked.
"No but Pam's didn't work."
"I will try when she returns but from what I remember of fairies, which is what I think she is, they cannot be glamoured. It is part of their defense against our kind."
"I know one thing; we can't let her return to her life. Not after tonight." He said.
"Maybe we could keep her as a pet?" I suggested.
He looked surprised at my comment. I understood because neither of us had ever been the kind to keep a human as a pet. Many vampires did we just chose not to. "We?"
"You caught that, did you?" I smiled.
"What would it be like divorcing humans that share time with their children? You get her in Dallas half the month and I get her here the other half?" He laughed.
"I had not thought that far ahead and she would have to be willing."
Our conversation as stopped by the topic of our conversation walking into the living room. "I hate to be a rude house guest but do you have any gin? I could really use a drink."
"As a matter of fact I do have alcohol." Eric smiled at her. "How do you take your gin?"
"With tonic and lime."
"I will get that for you." Eric rushed away and only a moment later came back with her drink and two bottles of blood for us.
"Thank you," she smiled taking a sip.
"Please, have a seat." I requested. "Now tell us about yourself."
"Not much to tell really. I've been living in Bon Temps my entire life. My parents died when I was about seven so I moved in with my Gran. She's the only one that ever understood my telepathy, she said it was a gift not a curse." She took another sip of her drink. "Then when I was eighteen Sam hired me to work in his bar and I've been there ever since."
"I'm sorry to hear about your parents. I lost my as well." Eric commented. "They were killed by a pack of wolves."
"Mine were killed in a flash flood on a bridge."
"When did you realize you could read thoughts?" I asked.
"My earliest memory was from around five. My parents were barbequing and I heard my mom saying she was afraid of me; that I wasn't like other kids. I answered what was inside of her head instead of what was coming out of her mouth. After that she took me to a bunch of doctors but none of them had any answers. After that she always kinda stayed away from me."
"That must be hard not knowing what do answer and what not to answer." I stated.
"Now that I'm older it's easier than it was. The thing is what most people say versus what they think are usually two totally different things." Eric handed her a fresh drink, "Like people in town; they're real nice to my face but they all think I'm nuts."
"Why do you choose to live in a town where people think so poorly of you?" I asked.
"It's not like I have a whole lot of options. I barely made it through high school with all the thoughts coming at me so college wasn't really an option. Sam's the only boss that hasn't fired me after a week of work, and my Gran needs me. She's getting older and the farmhouse needs a lot of work."
"You could take classes online," Eric suggested.
"I wish! We can't even afford cable let alone a computer and internet access. The only time I've used a computer is at the library but they only let you use it for twenty minutes at a time." She took a sip of her drink and sighed, "I'm scared as hell of ya'll but it's really peaceful being around you because I can't hear a damn thing in either of your heads."
"That's probably for the best," I laughed. Sookie looked directly at me and blushed. Once I had her eyes in mine I decided it was a good time to attempt to glamour her.
"Sookie, look into my eyes," I couldn't feel any sway over her. "You will forget that you met Eric and I, you will go home to your family as if nothing tonight had occurred. And if you are to ever come across another vampire you will not under any circumstances tell them what you are."
"I'd really love to go home after forget this ever happened but ya'll brought me here and it doesn't seem like you're letting me leave." She said.
"Pam was right, she can't be glamoured." I sighed.
Eric and I both looked at her completely baffled. She was definitely part fairy; that much we now knew. I just had to question what a half-blooded fairy was doing in the middle of Louisiana when their race had left his earth centuries ago.
"What's a glamour?" She asked.
"As vampires we are supposed to be able to erase parts of the human mind. For some reason it does not work on you." I told her.
"I would like to extend the offer of employment to you." Eric startled both Sookie and I with that statement. "I have many humans in my employ through various business ventures and I would like you to read their minds for me."
"What, you want me to be like a lie detector test for you?" She asked.
"In a sense." He nodded.
"If I agree can I go home?" She asked.
"Unfortunately that is not an option at the moment considering humans do not yet know of our existence but if you prove yourself worthy of our trust then you will be allowed to visit home with one of us as your escorts."
"Do I have any other options?" She asked.
"They're becoming less and less since you can't be glamoured. If I didn't find you intriguing I would have killed you by now. If you don't accept this offer that could be your only other option as we can't take the chance of just sending you on your way."
"So basically it's die or work for you?" She asked. "Since I can't go home where am I supposed to live? How am I gonna pay my bills?"
"You will live here with me and I will pay you a handsome salary along with benefits."
"You mean like vacation time and insurance?" She asked. "Wait, I can't live here with you. I'm not gonna be some built in whore or meal."
"Yes, you will have insurance. Vacation time will have to be discussed considering it's not in our best interest to let you run off on your own anytime soon." Eric told her. "And while I would love to drink from you and fuck you until you can't see straight I've always liked my women willing so you will not be my built in anything."
"Don't you go talking nasty to me like that; I'm a lady and you'll speak to me as such." She said with conviction. "How could you possibly have enough employees to keep me employed for any length of time?"
"You are accepting this offer?" I asked her.
"Do I really have a choice? I don't much feel like dying anytime soon and I've never had a job that offered benefits before."
"We would also like to extend the offer of a formal education. I understand your issues with attending live classes but there are many that can be done online."
"This is like a really fucked up version of My Fair Lady." She laughed and after thinking about it we both joined her.
"You are right, it is." I agreed.
"Where'd the other vampire, Pam go?" She asked.
"To New Orleans. After speaking with your Grandmother this evening she found out that your cousin Hadley might be living with a female vampire we know in New Orleans."
"Hadley, wow. Last I heard of her she'd left rehab. We thought she might be dead." She looked thoughtful, "Wait, Pam didn't eat my Grandmother did she?"
"No, we knew she would worry about you not coming home so Pam glamoured her." Eric admitted.
"Ya'll can't just go around making people forget stuff; that's not right."
"We do what we must." I told her.
We spent the next hour explaining to her what it was like to be vampires. As each few minutes passed she became more and more comfortable with us. We agreed that we would take her to see her Grandmother for dinner on Sunday so that she could explain to her what had happened. If things went badly we could always glamour the old woman.
Sookie was starting to drift off to sleep so Eric carried her to her room and placed her in bed. As promised he didn't lock her in there. We just went around the house to make sure that everything was secure.
He retired to his office to email his day-man and I went to the library to do some research on fairies. I also called my Second, Isobel to let her know that I would not be returning to Dallas for a month. I wanted to make sure that Eric had everything under control before I left. That was if I chose to leave. I had yet to tell my child but I was growing tired of being a Sheriff. I hated the politics of it all and Dallas vampires were unruly compared to other areas. They treated it like it was still the Wild West; not willing to evolve even slightly to fit in with the times.
"I gave Bobby a list of things to pick up for her. He'll drop them off right before first dark. I figured it would be her first test. If she attempts to escape then we truly can't trust her word."
"Would you not attempt to escape if creatures of the night were basically holding you hostage?" I asked.
"I would do everything in my power to try and get away but most vampires wouldn't offer her employment and a free education either." He commented. "I thought seventy five thousand a year plus company paid benefits would be fair?"
"She will also need a laptop and cell phone. And a company car but those things can come in time after we know she won't run." I added.
"Of course." He agreed. "I'm going to shower and then bed; the dawn will be here soon."
"I will check on her before joining you."
Eric nodded before leaving the library. I logged off the computer and headed towards Sookie's room. I quietly snuck in to check on her. I could tell by her breathing patterns that she was sleeping. I walked towards her bed and pulled her blankets back over her body and kissed her forehead before moving to leave. I stood there and watched her a few more minutes before Eric walked in. "The water was getting cold," he placed his large hand on my shoulder.
He was wearing nothing more than a fluffy blood red towel. His perfectly sculpted body was exposed… The reason for why I chose to turn him was right before my eyes. That was something humans would probably never understand about vampires. Our lines of sexuality were not so black and white. There was no gay or straight or bi. Most of us found both men and women to be appealing. Eric as a Viking warrior before becoming vampire had bedded only women but once he became what he is now he began to explore everything. First with me and then with other men as the years progressed.
"I'm rock hard just looking at her." He whispered. "I want her, more than I've ever wanted anything in my entire existence."
"I know, I can feel it." I reached behind me and snaked my hand inside his towel. His breath hitched as I began stroking his rock hard member. He placed his hands on my shoulders as if to steady himself. "I feel for her everything that you do." I continued to stroke him, gently tugging his marvelous length, harder and harder as I felt his pre-cum paint my palm.
"Do you think she'll agree to let us share her?" He asked.
"I think it will take time but I have hope for it. I could smell her arousal in the woods and again in the living room tonight."
I could feel Eric's throbbing cock in my hand as he began thrusting into it. "I need you, Master." He begged as his blunt fingernails dug into my skin. I turned to face him and lifted myself up so that I could kiss his lips. I cut myself on his exposed fangs and he deepened our kiss pulling my blood from me. As I peeled off my shirt I shut Sookie's door and we made our way to the living room. This coupling was no way about being gentle it was going to be completely animalistic in every way.
I gave my child what he wanted I bent over the couch; he massaged his own blood on his hard dick before entering me from behind. I grunted with the force of his entry but it didn't hurt; in fact it turned me on. His hand found its way to my throbbing member and he began stroking me in rhythm with his own thrusts. I took his free arm and bit into his wrist drinking his blood down as he leaned over me and sank his fangs into my neck. As we drank from each other we got closer and closer to exploding until finally neither of us could take it anymore and we found our release.
"It has been so long, Godric." Eric whispered as his limp body draped over mine.
"Too long." I agreed.
"Now if only we could get Sookie to join us," Eric's statement pulled us both back into our reality. The sun was rising and we needed to go to our day's rest.
