Do You Know Me?
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Chapter Two
I jerked back into my seat. Godric was looking at me shocked, like he hadn't expected himself to act like that. His hand came up to cover his mouth and with and with a click I heard his fangs retract.
"I apologize. I feel very hungry and you are very tempting." I felt a little flattered until I realised it was more of a food compliment. Like saying a steak smells mouthwatering when you are the steak. For the first time he cast his eyes to his lap. Jeez even this I wanted to apologize for.
"Here," I passed him the blanket I had been clutching in my hand, "you should try and warm up," and as I passed it to him his fingers brushed mine and he was freezing. I don't think it was just regular vampire freezing either. Jessica never felt this cold, not that we had much physical contact. I automatically rubbed his arm to create some heat and then along with it being pointless I realised it was probably highly inappropriate to be touching him, he was a big deal of a vampire, so I'd heard. I regrettably put hands back on the steering wheel and focused my attention on my next move. Although I did peek at Godric who was rubbing the spot I had touched him.
Okay so, drive home. Phone Jessica? Yeah, I'm sure she'll know what to do.
I felt the draft on my face and realized I had left my window down, I quickly rolled it up and put the car into gear. Godric looked panicked as the car started to move and grabbed my wrist which was rested on the gear stick. I jumped at the contact however wasn't bombarded with thoughts like I was most people. I knew I could get a read on vampires if I tried hard enough and now obviously wasn't the time.
Note to self, try to get a read on Godric at some point to try and figure out what the hell is going on!
"It's okay Godric, nothing to worry about. You're safe." I tried to sooth him, I had no idea if he was actually safe. There could be some huge powerful vampire after him and I had no clue, but right now in this car with me, he was safe. I was human after all, no threat from me.
He seemed to relax at my words. Well at least I'm helping I mused. His hand slid from my wrist and I nearly whimpered at the loss of contact. I coughed trying to disguise whatever that was, this seemed to startle him more. What had he been through to make him this afraid?
I reached out for his hand which was tugging at the blanket on his lap and held it, just trying to help I reminded myself. I was undeniably attracted to him and was lying to myself if I thought holding his hand was just for his benefit.
A few minutes later were were pulling up to the entrance of my drive. When my grandfather built this house he wanted to make it as private as possible and the drive was actually very secluded by trees. We pulled up to the front of the old farmhouse which I lived in with my Gran until recently. A serial killer in Bon Temps if you can even believe. Rene something, boyfriend of Arlene who I work with at Merlotte's. He had a grudge against vampires after his sister became intimate with one. He killed her, two other girls from town and then my Gran. He had been looking for me when he found my Gran at home instead. I don't regret my decision to become friends with Jessica and Gran would never blame her, even though Jessica blames herself for it. Gran had been like a mother to Jessica as-well, after her parents disowned her for what she had been forced to become. Rene had been arrested after he came at me in the car park of Merlotte's the following night. Thankfully Sam was there at the time and had saved me from that fate. Now we had extra lighting in the car park.
I sighed and cut the engine.
Godric asked "You live here?" To which I answered yes.
"Alone?" he asked. Again I answered yes, leaving out the information about my Gran, wouldn't want to scare him even more.
"So, I do not live here?" he asked. At this I giggled. "No, you don't."
He frowned and then asked, "Where do I live then?" I stopped at this, did I know?
"I know your child lives in Shreveport. I don't know if you live with him, near, or somewhere completely different."
"My child?" he asked, shocked.
"Yes, your child. Eric. Big, tall, blonde. Hard to miss. Don't you remember him?" I asked, how could he not remember his own child?
"No, I don't remember anything." he said, looking at our entwined hands which were now in his lap.
"Well that's going to be an awkward reunion." I muttered. "Let's go inside." I said, he was now running his fingers over my hand and I had to get him stop, it was very distracting and we were running out of time until dawn.
I removed my hand from his and his returned to the blanket. I got out of the car and walked to the front of it, expecting him to meet me. Godric however, was still sitting in the car staring at me through the windscreen. He couldn't have forgotten how to open a door could he? I went around to his door and opened it for him. He still sat there.
"Well come on, we haven't got all night." he exited the car warily and wrapped the blanket around his shoulders as I closed the door and locked the car. As I turned back to the house I felt his hand slip into mine. I glanced over at him and he was staring at the house like he could be walking into a trap. He had one hand holding the blanket together over his chest and the other squeezed my hand.
I flinched, "Hey, not so hard." I squeezed back.
He looked down at our hand as if he needed to look to register it. He apologized and rubbed his thumb over the side of my hand. I probably enjoyed that more than I should have.
I started towards the house, Godric in tow and once I got to my door, unlocked it with the key attached to my car keys that were still in my free hand. As I entered the house I felt Godric's hand slip from mine.
I turned back to him, wondering why he had let go and saw him standing on the other side of the door frame staring back at me. Oh right, vampire's need to be invited in.
"Please come in Godric," and in an instant he was by my side, hand clutching mine again.
I toed off my shoes and that's when I noticed he wasn't wearing any of his own, his feet were covered in blood and dirt and he didn't even seem to care.
I sat him down in one of the chairs in the kitchen. "I'm just going to grab some things from upstairs, I'll be right back down."
I hurried upstairs to grab a bowl for his feet and some soap. I dug around in the cupboard under the sink and turned around to head back downstairs with what I had gathered when I nearly dropped them.
Godric was standing in the doorway looking at me.
"Jeez, you scared me!" I said, my hand covering my racing heart. His eyes darkened and I realised he was hungry. There were still some TruBlood's that I kept in the fridge for Jessica.
I pulled him into the bathroom and sat him down on the toilet seat lid, filled the bowl with warm water and put it near his feet.
"Put your feet in there to soak, I'm just going to be a minute so sit tight this time okay?" I asked, he nodded and stared at his feet in the water.
I high-tailed it downstairs and to the fridge, pulled out an AB negative and placed it in the microwave. As it warmed up I tapped my foot, this was all getting really weird. I planned to clean up his feet, maybe stick him in the bath while I called Jessica? He did need to warm up. The microwave beep snapped me out of my thoughts and I quickly took it out, replaced the cap and shook it.
When I returned upstairs Godric was still sitting in the same place and still staring at his feet in fascination. As fascinating as I'm sure they were his head snapped up when I came back into the room. He eyes the bottle in my hands and I took off the lid and handed it to him. He took it and drank it down quickly, making a face while he did it. Jessica told me they were nothing like the real thing. Hopefully she didn't know too much about the real thing.
I took the bottle from him and he grinned at me, it was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. I then made a start on cleaning up his feet. I grabbed the soft sponge and soap, rolled up his trouser legs and cleaned them up the best I could, turning the water an awful colour in the process. I noticed the blood were from cuts which had healed but had left faint pink marks on his feet. I dried his feet off as carefully as I could then emptied the bowl and started the bath. Once the bath was full took the blanket from him and folded it.
"That's for you, I'll go get you another TruBlood while you get cleaned up." I drew the line at cleaning his feet. As I was closing the door, I saw him stepping out of his trousers.
I hastily made it downstairs, trying to get the image of his rear out of my head, nice as it was, it would be just a little awkward.
I grabbed my cell from out of my pocket, sat at the chair Godric had previously sat at and pulled up Jessica's number in my contacts. As I pressed call I tried to figure what I was going to say. Apparently there was no need for that as her phone went straight to voice-mail. I tried several more times and left one very distraught message for her to call me back.
I paced the kitchen pulling at my hair. I needed help. I decided to look up the next vampire I knew of who could possibly help. After finding the number in the yellow pages I called Fangtasia, terrified to even speak on the phone.
What was I going to say? "Oh hi, I found your maker, do you want him back?" I think not.
"Fangtasia, the bar with the bite. Pam speaking." Oh no, not her! I thought I was going to wet myself right there in the kitchen. Well my bathroom was certainly occupied.
"Umm..." Come on Sookie, put some courage behind this.
"I have some information a Mr. Eric Northman needs to know. It's urgent, please may I speak with him." There we go, that wasn't so hard.
"Mr Northman is currently unavailable." she replied. Well this is going to be hard then after all.
"It's in relation to someone very close to Eric." I tried.
"And who may that be?" she asked.
"It's concerning Godric." I heard a hiss over the phone.
"How dare you phone here. I should come over there and rip your throat out just for mentioning his name. Your insolence will not be tolerated, do not phone here again." and with that she hung up.
I wanted to cry. What the hell was going on? Had Jessica been misinformed on who this boy was?
I headed upstairs to change and put my phone on charge and then went back downstairs to heat up another TruBlood. As I passed the bathroom I heard splashing and chuckling. Well at least someone's enjoying themselves.
As I waited for the TruBlood to heat up I stared at the clock. I had been almost two hours since I found Godric. I was exhausted.
The microwave dinged and I shook the bottle out as I climbed the stairs. I knocked on the bathroom door.
"Godric Hun, are you done in there?" I called out.
I heard another splash and a muffled "Sure."
I opened the door and walked in, only to be greeted with a very wet, very naked Godric standing in front of me. My eyes got wide as I took him in, then I snapped my eyes shut and held the TruBlood out for him. He took them but did not let go of my hand.
He pulled me closer and I took my hand from his to cover my eyes also, afraid that I'd peek.
I heard a chuckle then felt his hand pull mine away from my face. I opened my eyes and saw his face, he looked puzzled.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
"You're naked!" I exclaimed, way too loud.
"Yes, my trousers were covered in mud. Should I put them back on?" he asked. Shoot, I should have gotten him something to change into.
I spun round and dashed across the hall to the spare room and grabbed a pair of Jason's sweats out of the bottom drawer. I headed back into the bathroom and gave them to Godric who was still standing in the middle of the bathroom except he now had an empty bottle which he handed to me as I handed him the sweats. He put them on then and I sat him back down on the toilet seat lid to towel dry his hair. As I ran the towel over his head I swear I heard him purr.
I drained the tub and walked Godric into my room. The sun would be up in just over an hour and we still had no plan. Where was he going to rest for the day?
As we approached my bed Tina hissed at him and to my surprise he hissed right back. She shot off the bed and out the door.
I smacked his arm. "Don't scare my cat!" he did look genuinely sorry as I said this.
I climbed onto the bed and he sat himself down, cross-legged in the middle.
"What do you remember?" I asked.
He frowned as if trying to bring up memories that weren't there. "I just remember running down the road you found me. It was like I was born there." he explained. I didn't know what to reply to that so I asked him a more urgent question.
"Where can you rest? I don't think I have anywhere suitable in the house and I can't get a hold of Jessica."
"I can go to ground, do not worry. Who is this Jessica?" he asked.
"Just a vampire I know." I explained. I let out a really big yawn.
"You're tired." he noted. "Yes." I replied.
He scooted further over to the other side so I could climb under the covers. "Do you mind if I stay here until dawn, I feel safe with you." He said.
"Of course." I turned out my lamp and closed my eyes but I knew he was still sitting up staring at me.
"You can lie down if you want." I offered. I felt him slide under the covers not to close but as I finally drifted to sleep I felt his hand slip into mine.
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