This chapter (and chapter 3) contains slight spoilers from True Blood Season 4. Chapter 3 will be posted soon! Enjoy:

Chapter Two: Upsetting Reunions

Sookie ran as fast as her legs could take her, looking back only once to make sure they were not after her. Her breaths came out in pants as she ran along the little dirt path that led her back to her house from the cemetery. She wasn't sure how everything happened when it did; it all happened so quickly. She had been talking to her Gran's grave, and then Claudine came again and offered her an escape.

Lord knows she needed an escape.

Her heart was broken, and she was alone. Bill, her first love, had betrayed her. So many of her relationships were severed or destroyed because of him. He had taken everything from her, and if it weren't for Eric, he would have taken her freedom as well.

She left with Claudine, her "fairy godmother" to go to Fae and live among people who were like her. These people also had a "disability" that she suffered from- telepathy. But most importantly, these people hid from vampires; the bloodthirsty creatures who roamed the night. That was just where she needed to be.

Sookie began to feel guilty for leaving her friends and family behind, and attempted to leave. The Fairy Queen Regent, who told her she was not permitted to go, forcefully stopped her. She told Sookie that after vampires drank large quantities of her blood, they were able to walk in the sun briefly and also enabled one to enter Fae. She saw Sookie as a risk to all faeries, and wanted her to be contained.

After a very heated discussion between the two ended with Sookie blasting the Queen's face with her "microwave fingers", Sookie took off and dived into the pool that was considered the portal to different worlds all the while panicking that she was going to have yet another supernatural creature hunting her. Once she landed back in the cemetery, she sprinted towards her home, hoping that the faeries didn't follow her. The last thing she needed was another supernatural creature trying to kill her.

Sookie finally reached her home. The 150-year-old Stackhouse home looked a lot cleaner than she remembered. MaryAnn, the maenad, had trashed her home and Sookie still hadn't found the time or the energy to clean it completely.

Sookie ran up the stairs to her front door, remembering that she hadn't locked it when she left to go to the cemetery. She tried to turn the knob, but it wouldn't turn. She pushed the door, and jiggled the knob, but it still wouldn't give. Sookie began to panic, and wondered if the faeries had used some kind of magic to lock her out of her home. She stepped away from the door and looked around her front yard frantically searching for potential threats. When she saw no one, she walked down to the shrubs in front of her porch to find the spare key. Sookie looked under the rocks in the mulch and found her hidden key, but she then sensed someone come up behind her. She spun around quickly and saw that her ex-boyfriend, Bill Compton, was walking cautiously up to her. He was only 5 feet away from her.

"Sookie?" Bill asked. His eyes showed surprise and wonder, as did his voice. Sookie's brows furrowed in confusion at his tone, but her face quickly became stoic. She refused to show him her heartache anymore. Her feelings shouldn't be wasted on him anymore, anyways.

"Bill, I told you to stay away," she told him hotly.

"Where have you been?" he asked, ignoring her previous statement. He began walking towards her again; eyes still filled with wonder and curiosity, and held out his hand to her, hoping to touch her.

Sookie walked backwards from him, her face showing only disgust, and turned to walk up her porch steps to her front door. Bill grabbed her arm then and turned her around to face him. He looked at her and desperation and longing filled his eyes. "Do you know how worried I've been? Where were you? I couldn't feel you through our bond. I-".

Sookie attempted to jerk her arm from his grasp, but he wouldn't let go. She felt her hands tingle and warm as her anger grew. "Where I've been is none of your concern Bill Compton. Now get your hand off me! You have no right to touch me!"

"Sookie please, I beg you, forgive me. I know that the demise of our relationship ended only a few months ago, but I still love you and I think it is time that we-".

"Wait, what?" Sookie no longer cared about Bill holding onto her, now she only cared about what he had just said, "What do you mean we broke-up a few months ago?"

Bill looked taken aback by her question; "You've been gone for over two months now. I haven't seen you since you rescinded my invitation from your home… Sookie, where have you been?" He stared deeply into her eyes, as if the answer laid in them and as if he were still entitled to know.

Sookie took his distraction to her advantage and jerked her arm from his grasp and quickly walked up the last two steps she had to take to get on her porch. "I told you Bill, that is none of your business."

"Sookie-".

"You heard her, Bill, that's none of your business."

Bill and Sookie looked over his shoulder to see the Sheriff of Area Five, Eric Northman, standing only a few feet away from them. His wore dark denim jeans, a black t-shirt, leather boots and a leather jacket. His face showed no emotion, and his eyes were only on Sookie. His eyes slowly traveled down her form, going from her eyes to her tanned legs, and back up again. He couldn't believe that she was now truly standing before him. He saw Sookie shiver, but wasn't sure if it was because of him, the situation she was currently in, or the cool fall night air. He noticed that she was wearing a sundress; the same dress she wore the last time he saw her. Interesting.

"You're not wanted here, Eric," Bill said hotly, and turned his back on his Sheriff to gaze at Sookie once again.

"It doesn't seem like you are welcomed here, either," Eric retorted, and gracefully walked towards the two. He came to stand in front of the first porch step and looked up at Sookie. "It has been too long Miss. Stackhouse".

"Not long enough", she spat, and walked towards her door.

"Sookie, we are not finished here", Bill said and walked up to her. Sookie spun around and glared at Bill. "No, Bill. We are. We are finished. I want nothing to do with you. You are a liar and a manipulator and you do not deserve to know anything about my life. You used me for your queen and your own personal gain, and I will never trust you again. I want you off of my property and out of my life. For good".

Bill took a step back from her, stung by her harsh words. He had been hoping that she would want to at least speak to him now that so much time had gone by; but time had only gone by for him. He nodded solemnly, cast his eyes downward, and walked off Sookie's porch. He had taken a few steps toward his home across the cemetery before he turned around and said softly, "Please know that if you need anything, I will be here for you. You can count on that."

Sookie shrugged and looked at him indifferently, "No, Bill. I can't do that. And I won't."

Bill's eyes looking down at his shoes once again, walked away from Sookie, secretly hoping that their separation would not be for long.

Sookie watched Bill retreat into the woods, and once he was out of sight, she turned her attention back to the other vampire who was standing in front of her home. She wanted to hate him, she really did, but she couldn't. She had never been able to. She felt a pull towards him and an attraction that was there even before he tricked her into drinking his blood. She stared into his ice blue eyes not knowing what to say. She didn't want to fight. She was tired. Drained. She wanted to go to bed, but most of all she wanted to be held. She wanted to feel loved again. She didn't want to be alone anymore.

As if reading her mind, Eric smirked at her and asked, "So, are you going to invite me in?"