I do not own True Blood or any of its characters. If I did Godric wouldn't have made me cry by dying (I hate him for making me love him than dying)! I do own Jade and Golden and my friend DanaIsis owns all the juicy stuff that will happen lol. -Redashrose
I knew that Eric was a trouble making ass but this was just going overboard. "You want all three of us going to Dallas?" I asked in disbelief.
I couldn't help but worry; why would Eric want me to go too? It's not like he knew of my abilities right? There was also no way Bill would approve of Sookie going to Dallas—and an even less chance that my sister will approve of me going.
"We'll go," Jade and Sookie said at the same time, not even letting me gat a word in edgewise.
"What?" I asked, shocked that they both had up and agreed without us talking about it together.
"No you are not," Bill said with no room for argument. "You nearly died last night and Golden would be defenseless if something were to happen. We are not going to Dallas, Sookie."
Ok, now I know I should be flattered that these people care about me so much, and I guess I can understand how young and defenseless I look. Hell everything about my appearance screamed innocent and vulnerable; I was barely 5'3 and my long, strait mahogany colored hair and dark blue eyes only made me look even more fragile. Jade's 5'6 frame, accompanied with her pale blonde hair and icy blue eyes made her look like someone you didn't wanna piss off—I had always envied that about her.
But I wasn't flattered that Bill was treating the three of us like damsels in distress—apparently neither was Sookie.
"Bill, we can make up our own minds," Sookie said slowly and defensively as she eyed her boyfriend.
"I will pay all of your expenses of course," Eric said, his expression jaded and annoyed. "And yes. I will release your friend."
"And I want five thousand dollars," Sookie demanded cockily, looking Eric in the eye.
"Sookie, what are you doing?" Jade nearly whispered nervously into her ear.
"I missed a lot of work and we need a drive way" Sookie said as she turned to us.
"Your human play things are getting overconfident," Eric stated, looking none too pleased with us.
"They will take ten thousand," Bill said, almost smirking. "And I will escort them."
"I don't think so." Clearly Eric wasn't use to negotiations or not getting his way. "No."
"Yes," Jade retorted in disagreement to Eric's response as she folding her arms across her chest.
"Ten thousand and Bill will come with us or it's a deal breaker," Sookie said smugly, knowing Eric couldn't refuse.
It took Eric less than thirty seconds to agree by calling his little secretary to make the arrangements. It was enough to make all four of us smirk. "You three have surprised me and that's a rare quality—in breathers."
I gave a look of dislike as I looked at the smug, blond haired vampire.
Sookie continued on, saying what I was thinking, "you disgust me."
As if it was the most obvious opinion in the world to have about him—it probably was.
"Perhaps I'll grow on you," he smiled that annoying half smile of his, looking at Sookie from the top of his eyes.
"I'd rather have cancer," she spat at him, practically hissing at the oversized vampire.
"We need to leave immediately," Eric said to Bill as if Sookie hadn't spoken; completely ignoring her comment.
"And so we will," Jade said pleasantly. "But you better understand one thing: my sister and I are only going to look after Sookie—"
"Well that and we need a bit of a change of scenery," I added, half lying.
"So you better not try pulling any crap on us while we're there or so help me God I'll make sure you wish you died when you were suppose to," Jade demanded, her voice dripping with venom "Got it?"
Wow, I didn't know Jade had it in her to threaten Eric; I was under the impression that she might have even had a crush on him. It wasn't like her to threaten him or anybody really.
"Feisty," Eric said with amusement in his voice. "But I assure you all will go accordingly and everything will run smoothly."
"Well for your sake I hope so," my sister said with false sweetness.
"I will make the travel arrangements," Bill said before Eric could rebut. "But I will need your credit card number."
"Of course," Eric stated. "If there's anything else you three will need to know I will make sure you're updated on the plans."
Sookie nodded and we left.
"Varför har ni överens om att låta oss gå?"(1) I asked Jade in Swedish so Bill and Sookie wouldn't understand.
"Jag hade till, VI har varit i Louisiana alltför länge,"(2) Jade replied, looking straight ahead.
I sighed, "hur länge kommer vi att behöva hålla ser över våra axlar Jade?"(3) I asked, tired from tonights events, absolutely drained and ready to go back to sleep.
"Till dess att sådan matriser, mest sannolika,"(4) Jade admitted through her teeth.
"Have I ever told you two how annoying it is when you speak Swedish in front of me?" Sookie stated more annoyingly than asked.
"It's not our fault that our mother learned the language and yours didn't," I stated with a shrug.
"Where did she even learn that language?" Sookie asked.
"We don't know," Jade lied as we neared the cars. "A friend probably."
We each got into our own respectable cars, and drove home. "This will be a good thing. It gives us the chance to go somewhere new—"
"Again," I muttered under my breath.
"See a new state—"
"For the fiftieth time," I said annoyed.
"Well Golden, it's not like you were complaining when we where escaping his grasp now were you?" Jade said, clearly getting angry.
"I'm sorry," I let out a breath. "It's just that I'm tired of running. I'm sick of making new friends just so I can say goodbye to them a few weeks later. And I'm defiantly not happy with the fact that the only reason we're doing this is because I have a power that I don't want."
"I know," Jade said sympathetically. "But it will be alright Golden. Just try to look at this as a new experience. We will go back to Louisiana as soon as it's over."
"Promise?" I raised an eyebrow as I looked over at her in the driver's seat.
"Promise, and who knows? Maybe you'll even meet a guy there," she said hopeful to cheer me up.
I scoffed "Yeah, like that's ever going to happen."
Translations
(1) Why did you agree to let us go?
(2) I had to; we've been in Louisiana too long.
(3) How long are we going to have to keep looking over our shoulder Jade?
(4) Until that bastard dies, most likely.
