I continued to stare at my reflection. When I wake up or return to whatever is left out there, is this what I'm going to look like? And what about her…me….the human Sookie?

"Sookie. Your way out is near, why worry about something behind you? Move forward dear."

No answers to my questions. I took one more quick glance at the form behind the barrier and then turned around. As far as I could tell, there was one more shield I had to get through. This one appeared to be pulsing, alive almost. I walked toward it, confident that my hands could conquer anything.

As I reached the shield, I stopped abruptly. It was red, and when I touched it with my fingertips it was hot and I started to feel warm all over. From that brief moment of touching I received a flashback; "Well aren't you sweet." I reared back. This feeling of being home came over me and my eyes got teary as I realized this was Eric. The bond. Our relationship. Our love, if that's what it was. I collapsed to my knees as I remembered the anguish in his voice when Niall had popped us away. The pain that had put me in this weird mental state. How could I destroy the bond? How could I do anything else to hurt Eric when he had already done so much for me? Countless times he had saved me –

"But at what cost, Sookie? He has kept things from you. Forced you into a so called marriage. How do you know he even wanted you; you could have just been a possession. I bet he didn't even tell you about his constant propositioning from the Queen of Oklahoma. He was bound to leave you. All that you're feeling is based on a lie. Think about it, Sookie. You need to let go of the past, and welcome your future and who you could become. Being around vampires has caused you nothing but pain."

Somewhere, in the back of my mind I could feel that Niall was trying to manipulate me. And for what, I couldn't be sure, but he had still struck a nerve. Eric had kept things from me, but I knew he felt for me on some level. Or at least I thought so. But what about this Queen of Oklahoma? When was he going to tell me about that? Was he ever? Would he have left me to fend for myself, leaving me vulnerable to Felipe? I would have been defenseless and become a slave to some other vampire monarch. In his deceit Eric was basically going to leave me to vultures. As this realization dawned on me I felt the light begin to start pulsing in my hands as my anger reached a whole new level. I was so tired of being the Southern Belle and it was about time I stopped letting my emotions control my actions, because Niall was right. All that leads to was involvement with vampires and excruciating pain and heartache. Vampires had caused me to lose my Gran, the normalcy of my life, countless hospital trips. I was done. Maybe some good had come with Eric. But I was so blinded by my rage at the prospect of him leaving me for some beautiful vampire queen that I was blasting through the last wall before I could blink.

It didn't shatter at first, it started as a small crack that began to spread until it covered the whole pulsing shield. I welcomed the changes that were about to come from me taking control of my life. With this final thought my fist lit up in a blinding yellow light and I punched into the cracked wall, shattering it for good. As the shards of my destroyed bond with Eric fell around me I felt a sharp pain in my heart and a flood of emotions that didn't seem like my own; depression, worry, fear, awe, anger, hurt, and pain. That brief moment of feelings was the final time I would feel Eric in the bond.

I turned around and looked back at the walls I had already broken through. My eyes settled on my human form in the distance, the light surround it was dimming rapidly until I could see it no longer. I felt absolutely nothing as my humanity disappeared. I didn't feel any emotion at all. The only feeling I had left was the energy pulsing through my body. And that was enough, because I was done with silly human emotions. They only got in the way.

It's short, but as I was writing this it felt right to have it end here. I'm rusty so if it doesn't sound right or there are major mistakes/moments where you were just like "what?" let me know. Thanks for reading/reviewing.