As the smoke cleared from the nest, the grizzly scene of the bomb's aftermath could be seen. While most of the vampires in the area had moved to avoid the bomb and grabbing the people/humans nearest them, some were not so fortunate. Later a body count would say that the bomb and subsequent gun fire from the Fellowship members outside the nest had taken the lives of 15 humans including the bomber and 3 vampires. Plenty more were left injured just like Jason who had been too close to the detonation. He had been pulled down and away from the bomb by Stan and Ling who had been nearest him, but the shrapnel and concussive force had left him with some deep lacerations and internal bleeding. He was barely conscious as the two vampires checked him over.
"Ling go and pursue the enemy. I will help Jason," Stan ordered and the female vampire rushed out of the nest. It was not that Stan did not trust Ling to help him with Jason, it was more the fact that she did not have much experience with dealing with injured people. Stan did however, as in his human life and early vampire life he was the one who dealt with the injured in his maker's castle in Romania. His kink with slaughtering humans was more of an insult as it was his maker who had the true kink for it whereas he just went along with it to survive until he was released.
"Jason, can you hear me?" Stan said to Jason, who barely nodded as it hurt too much to really move.
"You have too many injuries to move you to safety without further harm happening and it will take too long for emergency services to get here. I would not normally offer but if you take my blood it will heal you. I can smell you have done V before but this is not like that and ten times stronger in effect. The down side is that I will be able to feel your emotions, tell where you are at, sense if you are in danger, and you may have dreams about me. I believe however, this is the best option we have right now, so will you take my blood?" Stan asked and Jason once again nodded his head. Stan dropped fang and bit into his wrist and brought it to Jason's mouth to let him drink. As Jason drank Stan could feel his blood working to heal Jason, and though he will not admit it to anyone, it was a rush (a bit sexually arousing) to feel what Jason was. Stan also noticed that Jason's scent change as he drank. While before Jason smelled good to vampires though not as good as his sister, now his scent was just like a male version of his sisters. This seemed to justify Stan's earlier prediction about what Jason was, and if he would hazard a guess Jason's ability was now much stronger. Feeling that Jason had had enough of his blood, Stan pulled his wrist away and helped Jason to his feet.
As Stan was healing Jason, Sookie felt like she was buried under a ton of bricks. She opened her eyes which she had closed before the bomb went off to see the body of Eric Northman on top of her shielding her. While she was grateful that he shielded her, he was currently crushing her.
"Eric get off me, you weight a ton." Sookie groaned out while trying to dislodge Eric. He slid off of her but as she sat up she nearly threw up at the damage she saw around her. Sookie wanted to call out for her brother, but as she looked around she noticed Eric was on the ground in pain. However, what was worse was that lying next to him covered in more wounds and unconscious was Godric. Based off of how damaged he looked, he must have tried to shield both her and Eric.
"Oh my God, Godric!" Sookie cried out rushing to the vampire sheriff who had saved her so frequently. Suddenly, Eric was at her side no longer seeming injured looking at his maker.
"Sookie, there is too much silver in his wounds. I would pull them out but some are too deep. We need to get them out so that he can heal." Eric stated concern laced in his tone. After hearing the vulnerability in Eric's voice, Sookie did not hesitate and began to work on removing the silver from Gordic. She was able to get a majority of the pieces with her hands, but there were two shards dangerously deep close to his heart that she could not get.
"These pieces are too deep Eric, what should we do?" She cried out. She wanted to help but all of the thoughts of the humans in the room were screaming at her in their panic was not helping.
"You are going to have to suck them out of him Sookie. I will keep you safe while you do this. I am sorry there is no other choice." Eric stated. That had been his plan to get his blood into Sookie when he felt the shrapnel hit him. Now, however, it would be his maker's blood in her system and he was strangely ok with that. Sookie groaned that it was gross but bent down to the first wound on Godric's chest which was on his right pectoral muscle. As she started sucking on the wound to get the silver out, she noticed that Godric's blood tasted differently than Bill's. Compared to Bill's blood, to Sookie Godric's blood tasted so much richer and sweeter like a perfectly aged wine (she had accidently swallowed a mouth full of Godric's blood). After a few moments, she got the silver out of the first wound and quickly moved to the second one. If she had looked up, Sookie would have seen the look of pure lust on Eric's face as she worked to help his maker.
Just as Sookie removed the second piece of sliver, Godric regained consciousness and slowly sat up looking at Sookie in wonder. He looked around him a surveyed the damage caused by the bomb, deeply saddened by the loss of life. He stood slowly and helped Sookie to her feet as well.
"Are you alright," he asked her even though he could feel the small amount of his blood in her system healing her.
"I am fine Godric. Are you okay? You got hit by a lot of silver." Sookie said and Godric smiled at the compassion in her voice. After reassuring her that he was fine, Godric moved to check the rest of the nest while Sookie called out for her brother. As she called out, she saw Stan helping Jason to his feet. Stan nodded to her and told her that her brother would be fine. That calmed her down, but her calm did not last long as Bill charged in her direction.
"What have you done," Bill growled at her and instantly everyone froze.
"What are you talking about Bill?" Sookie asked fearfully not liking the look that Bill had on his face.
"You have had another vampire's blood. It is all over you lips." Bill declared.
"I was only trying to help. The silver was too deep for me to reach with my fingers," Sookie said trying to defend her actions. She was not ashamed of helping out but it seems that she had inadvertently crossed a line.
"Whose blood is it?" Bill demanded, but before Sookie could respond Eric approached her from behind and draped himself over her protectively.
"Now Bill, Sookie was only trying to help me. While it is true that you no longer hold monogamy over her emotions, I don't see what you are so upset about. She performed an act of compassion for me and has asked for nothing in return." Eric drawled out staring Bill down. Sookie wanted to refute Eric's claim that it was his blood now in her system, something told her not to correct him.
"You tricked her into drinking your blood. I can see where your injuries were and you could not have been in any danger you manipulative bastard." Bill growled out at Eric. This caused Sookie to shrink away from him and further into Eric's surprisingly gentle protective embrace. Eric snarled at Bill because Bill had the gall to growl at him in such a manner as Eric was his superior.
Godric and Isabel who were standing in the center of the wreckage, gained everyone's attention and directed the survivors to proceed to the Hotel Camillia. The hotel had been informed of the situation and would accommodate the survivors. The survivors started walking out of the nest solemnly, the vampires faces vacant of any expression while the humans were in tears from their grief. As Sookie Eric and Bill made it outside, Bill made to grab Sookie to lead her away to his rental car and drive them to the hotel. However, neither Sookie nor Eric seemed pleased by this and Sookie moved away from Bill as Eric moved to stand between them.
"Eric she is mine and I will escort her to the hotel," Bill snarled at Eric. Sookie saw that there was space left in the vehicle that was taking her brother to the hotel and she quickly scurried over to the vehicle. She got in, shut the door and locked it. No sooner had she done that then Bill appeared at the door. He demanded that she exit the vehicle and join him in the rental car that he was using. She told the driver, who happened to be Stan, to drive to the hotel completely ignoring Bill. After they were a good distance from the nest and for sure far enough away that Bill would not be able to hear them Stan looked in the mirror at Sookie.
"Now, I am no expert about relationships and I am by no means a fan of Mr. Compton, but do you think it was wise leaving him at the nest like that?" Stan asked. From the emotions that he was feeling through Jason and Jason from his empathic ability he could tell that Sookie was angry and afraid. Ling who was in the passenger seat turned around to look at her. Jason not saying a word draped a comforting arm over his sister's shoulder.
"No it probably was not a good idea to leave like that but I would rather not stand there and be use as a game of tug of war between two vampires. Plus this is just another thing to add to my growing list of male pissing matches that I have seen. You would think that being a combined age of over a thousand years old, they would have matured enough to act this way." Sookie said in exacerbation. Ling laughed and Jason and Stan just smiled supportively. They drove in silence for a while, the vampires not really needing to talk and the humans too tired to talk. When they were in sight of the hotel, Sookie asked Stan if he or Ling would be willing to grab her things from her room that she shared with Bill. She did not want to share a room with him after what she learned tonight happened in their room with his maker. Sookie said that she would be spending the day with her brother Jason as they both needed the comfort of family. Both vampires agreed and Ling volunteered to get Sookie's things, before Bill got to the room. Sookie handed over her room key just as they pulled up to the Hotel Camilla. The four of them got out of the vehicle and headed into the building. Ling ran off to get Sookie's things while Stan went to get three rooms for them.
As this was happening, Bill, Eric, Godric, and Isabelle arrived at the hotel. Bill and Eric made a beeline for Sookie while Godric and Isabelle went to speak to the hotel managers. Godric did pause briefly however, to examine the emotions that he could sense from Sookie. He curiously found that in addition to her general distain for how Eric was behaving, there was a good balance of exasperation, fondness, and annoyance. She seems good for Eric. Sookie seems to be the type to challenge him, which is good for him. Sookie has gained his favor even though she does not know it and Eric will never let her go now. She is both similar and yet different to Pamela. Pam caught his interest by her devious mind and thirst for life. Godric thought before Sookie's emotions turned to betrayal and fear when she looked at Bill. I will not feel at peace if I leave this world with her in distress.
Godric returned to his duties as sheriff of the area while Bill was trying to convince Sookie to join him for the rest of the night. Eric was merely watching the show and adding fuel to the fire hoping to get Sookie to verbally renounce Bill's claim on her so that he could swoop in and claim her for himself. Jason and Stan were off to the side of the conversation silently placing bets on what would happen, which was interesting since both could feel the emotions in the room with Jason's power. Stan was tapering Jason's ability with his blood so that the young man was not overwhelmed by it.
"Sookie, please come back to the room. It has been two days since we have gotten to be with each other," Bill began. However, that was the absolute wrong thing to say to Sookie.
"William Compton, for the last two days I have been held prisoner, nearly raped, and been in an explosion. The last thing that I want to do is cuddle up with a person who is not even man enough to tell me that he cheated on me with his maker. I am going to spend the rest of the night and tomorrow with my brother. If you so much as approach me in that time period, I don't care how much it hurts me I will shove my foot where the moon don't shine on you are we clear?" Sookie exploded and everyone in the lobby was stunned. Bill made to reach for her hand in an imploring gesture, but the moment he did Sookie brought the hand he was reaching for right across his face. The said hand happened to be sill coated in some of the silver dust from the shrapnel that she pulled from Godric so the slap burned Bill a bit. Before Bill could do anything more, Ling returned with Sookie's things and the Stackhouse siblings went up to their room. Jason was happily going to bed $500 richer after winning a bet against Stan.
Dear Readers:
I was going to write this section a one whole chapter but I need to rework the next part which will take some time. I did want you to be able to read what was already set, so I hope you enjoyed.