Hi everyone!
I am so glad to see that my little story is followed by many of you. Here comes a new chapter. I should warn you that Eric is a little out of character in one scene but I wanted to stay true to the movie for what happens. I hope you'll still like him.
I'll try to post the updates regurlarly, as I told some of you. The story is completed, so I just have to post the chapters ;)
And so you know, lemons are coming soon! :D

Thank you again for reading!

Pam and Sookie just stood by the door.

"What happened again?" Pam asked Sookie, a hand on her hips.

"She let me die!" Cataliades shouted in the background. "If I die, Eric will die with me."

Sookie walked back to fireplace holding her broom and her bucket.

"I'm a cleaning lady, my work is to clean up" she retorted back angry and upset. "Is that clear?"

Since she was finished cleaning the ground floor, she went to the stairs and Pam suddenly appeared in front of her.

"I forbid you to come and clean my room!" She warned Sookie.

"Alright, just move out of my way."

Sookie went upstairs, desperate by the grubbiness of the castle. She opened a first door and realized it was the bathroom. It was desolated by dirt.

"Are all Vampires like you both?"

"That's not my bathroom!" Pam shouted from her bedroom.

"Well that doesn't mean it has to be that dirty" She whispered to herself.

As she cleaned every space of the room, she suddenly caught a glimpse of herself in the mirror. Her face was still badly swollen but then she realized that since she woke up she hadn't heard a single thought. Her headache was completely gone too. It seemed that Vampires had no thoughts. Sookie exhaled with sadness realizing that she would have to bear the ugly face forever. She dried a tear from her cheek and went back to cleaning the whole floor.

When she was finished, she opened a window and could see the trees and the woods from the height of the floor. The sky was deep blue and the sun was shining. It was surprising that Cataliades could protect Pam and Eric from daylight. But then again, it was all ruled by magic and nothing in the Dead Castle was normal.

When she looked down, she noticed that Sam the dog was watching her back.

"Hey Sam!" she called out and he barked at her moving happily his tail.

Sookie spent the rest of the day washing clothes and put everything in order.

Soon enough it was night and Sookie started to feel tired. She had made herself a bed from an old mattress that she'd put close to the fireplace. Pam had disappeared in her room so Sookie was alone with Cataliades.

Pam had brought her some food in the early evening. After eating some dinner alone, Sookie went to her little bed to lie down.

Hours later, Eric came back in the Castle. His clothes were tattered and his flesh was burned. He sat on the chair that Sookie had let in front of the fireplace.

"You stink of burned flesh" Cataliades told him. "If you don't watch out, you will completely burn, even with my spell." His arm of flame grabbed then a log that was placed right beside him and put it on his little bed of embers. "Look, Sookie put some logs for me. It's nice, isn't it?"

Eric leaned forward and opened his torn white shirt. "This war is terrible." His voice was low and sad. "The Kingdom is destroyed up to the border of Arkansas."

"I've always hated wars. Everything is so unstable."

"I was attacked by my fellows."

"Old Vampires?"

He shook his head. "No they were rogues. But they were turned by ancient Vampires."

"They will all regret afterward. They won't be able to control them long."

"They don't care anymore." Eric said tired.

"Shouldn't you go to the meeting with the Queen today?" Cataliades reminded him.

"Yes I know." Eric stood up. "Can you prepare warm water for my bath?"

He walked to the stairs and passed by the little mattress where Sookie was sleeping deeply. He stopped at her feet and stared at her in silence. She was lying on her side, her face peaceful and beautiful. Eric studied her fine features and recognized instantly the girl from the street. He knew that the curse Freyda had spelled on her was meant against him. She'd seen them together that day in the street.

He turned around and disappeared upstairs.

Next morning, Sookie woke up and went upstairs to the bathroom. She watched in the mirror hoping some changes but her face was still swollen. She shrugged and took a shower. When she was ready, she went downstairs and noticed money on the table.

"Eric put it there so you can buy some food."

"Oh" she said surprised by his thoughtfulness.

She decided to go to a place where nobody would know her and turned the lock on the red side. She opened the door and found herself in Shreveport. It was a beautiful day but as she walked in the streets, she noticed damaged buildings and public notices on the walls. They were all about the war with pictures of the Vampire King from Arkansas. She could see fear in people's eyes and she realized that the Dead Castle was after all the best place to hide.

She didn't take long to buy her food because her headache was back as soon as she was close to Humans.

When she went back inside the castle, she took a glass of water and sat on the chair in front of Cataliades.

"Are you feeling okay Sookie?" he asked with concern.

"Yes, just tired." She was in fact completely exhausted by the voices that had entered her mind and the silence in the castle was a great relief.

Suddenly a door was slammed upstairs and footsteps came running downstairs. Sookie stood up and saw Eric coming to her, wearing only a towel around his waist, holding a pink shirt in his hands.

"Sookie what have you done?" He asked her showing her his shirt.

"Just some cleaning?" she said realizing that something might have colored his white shirt into pink. "I'm sorry."

"Sorry? SORRY?" He repeated despaired. "I told you to calm down with the cleaning!" He sat down on the chair. "I'm going to be humiliated!"

"It's not that bad" Sookie tried to ease him. "That color will suit your eyes." She tried some more.

Blood started to bleed from his eyes and nose and ran down his body.

"It's useless if I'm not going to look good in it. What people will think of me?" He said holding his head between his hands. Dark shadows were growing around him and started to reach the flames.

"Eric, stop!" Cataliades pleaded him.

Pam appeared from the stairs.

"Oh not again…" she exhaled. "He's invoking the dark spirits. Last time it happened was five hundred years ago when he left a stupid medium."

"Eric please, calm down. If you don't like this shirt, you can still put another one." She added putting her hand gently on his shoulder. But in the contact of her skin, blood filtered out of the pores of his skin.

Sookie felt anger and humiliation rise in her.

"Very well! If you want to bleed out, fine! But it's just a shirt! I've never been pretty and I never complained! How can you be so self-centered and superficial?!" she shouted at him. "I'm tired of this place! It's not a castle, it's an asylum!" She turned around and went to the door opening it to the woods.

Outside it was dark because of the rain. Sookie ran into the woods and then stopped under a tree. She looked down and started to cry. All the feelings that she had kept hidden from the day she had discovered her curse, were suddenly coming out to the surface. She cried all her pain out and the rain washed the tears from her cheeks.

She felt something warm and wet hit her arm and as she opened her eyes, she saw Sam the dog staring at her with worry in his brown eyes.

"Oh Sam, thank you. You're the kindest of dogs" she said crying some more.

The dog sat close to her and waited for her to calm down.

"Sookie!"

Pam's voice came from the castle.

The dog nudged Sookie.

"Yes Sam, I heard."

She stood up and walked between the trees. The sky was dark, it was almost night now and it was still raining.

"Sookie, there you are" Pam said with apparent relief. "You have to do something. Eric's blood is starting to reach Cataliades."

"What now?" She asked herself as she entered.

As she stepped inside, she could see Eric's blood smearing Cataliades who was trying to escape the red thick liquid from touching him.

"Sookie, Help me!" Cataliades pleaded again.

"This castle is a nightmare. Pam, help me take him to the bathroom."

They both grabbed him by the arms and went upstairs. Half way on the stairs, Sookie heard something fall and as she looked back she noticed that Eric had lost the towel around his waist. She fixed straight ahead and felt her cheeks burn with embarrassment.

As they reached the bathroom she let Pam with Eric and went back downstairs to wash the trail of blood that he'd left behind.

When she had cleaned up all the blood from the stairs and the fireplace, she warmed some blood and went upstairs with the bottle of blood.

She knocked at the door of the bedroom and opened it.

She saw the inside of Eric's bedroom for the first time. The walls were all covered by charms and amulets of all sorts, moving and tinkling. There were no windows, just a King-size bed in the middle where Eric lied.

"I brought you some blood. It will help you heal."

He shook his head, his eyes still closed.

"Okay, I put it on the nightstand. Drink it while it's still warm." She said kindly.

She turned around and walked back to the door.

"Don't go" He said with his soft voice. "Sookie."

She moved away from the door and walked back to the bed.

"Do you want to drink your blood?" she tried again.

He shook his head. She looked around and found a chair that she brought beside the bed and sat down.

A charm hanging right above his head started to turn around, tinkle and sparkle.

Eric opened his eyes and fixed the charm.

"Freyda is looking for me, she wants to know where I live."

Sookie fixed at the charm surprised.

"I'm going to tell you the truth Sookie. I'm running off. All these amulets and charms are only spells to protect myself from her because I'm hiding from her."

Sookie stared at his face and slowly realized that deep inside him, he was like a young boy.

"I really would like to know the reason why Freyda is chasing you." Sookie told Eric.

"There was a time when I was married to her by contract and I ran away before the end of the contract."

Sookie exhaled.

"Now that the war is declared, the Queen summoned me to her Castle, both as Northland and Northman."

"Eric, Northland, Northman, how many names do you have?" Sookie asked amazed.

"As many as I need to live as a free man."

"Mmmh" Sookie understood his reason. "Do you have to meet the Queen?"

Eric nodded.

"Well, it's not complicated, you will still meet the Queen!" She exclaimed.

"What?" Eric opened his eyes and stared at her astonished.

"You have to meet her and tell her to end this war, this foolish war. And that you don't want to be part of it."

Eric exhaled. "Sookie you don't know these Vampires."

"But it's the Queen! She has a duty to protect her people!"

Eric jumped straight in his bed "Sookie, I have an idea! You will meet the Queen!"

"What?" She was dumbfounded.

"Yes! There's a ball tonight at the Castle! You will go there and tell the Queen to stop the war and maybe even the High Pythoness will forget about me too!" He said with enthusiasm.

"The High Pythoness?"

They both left the bedroom and Sookie went to the bathroom to change her clothes. She put on a silver and white long dress that Pam had given her. She braided her hair up and thought that her swollen face made her look ridiculous even if the dress was beautiful.

She went downstairs and Eric and Pam were waiting for her.

"Okay I'm ready." She said with confidence.

She went to the door and as she turned the lock on the green color, Eric appeared from behind.

His mouth was just above her ear and he took her hand in his putting on her forefinger a ring just like his, with a little red crystal.

"This ring will protect you, so you can come back to us safe and sound." He whispered to her ear.

She turned her face to look up at him suddenly nervous.

"Everything will be fine. I'll be there too but in another appearance."

He opened the door to her.

"Now go Sookie, good luck!" he said.

She stepped outside and found herself in the street of Baton Rouge in the middle of the night, a car was waiting for her.

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