Chapter Three:
I was half way to the club, when Tracy called me again to give me a change of directions to a different club, so about time I got there it was eleven o'clock and the club was Fangtasia. A vampire bar, I had heard about it, but I wasn't to sure about going in it. Bill seemed like a nice vamp, but that didn't mean they all were. But Tracy and her friend Kera convinced me it would be okay and so I went. What a big mistake that would prove to be.
We walked up to the door where a tall blonde female vampire stood checking i.d.'s. She was very pretty, with blue eyes, pouty lips, and well of course fangs. She was dressed in a black tight latex dress with high heels. When I got ready to show her my i.d. I noticed she was looking at my rather peculiarly. Looking at my i.d. she said my name with a bit of familiarity.
"Satine Stackhouse... Hmmm pretty name."
"Thanks," I replied.
"No, thank you." She responded while handing me my i.d. back and letting us in the bar.
When I walked in it wasn't what I was expecting. I could definitely tell the vamps from the homo sapiens, but the people themselves were dressed in very gaudy clothing of black and red, leaving nothing to the imagination. My purple blouse had to be the only girly color in here, making me noticeable. The walls were a metallic grey, adorned with many movie posters of vampire films. To the left there was a section of plush leather couches grouped together. On my immediate right was a little store to buy Fangtasia merchandise and farther down from there was the bar. In the absolute center was the dance floor and around it was several tables and chairs. In the very back of the bar was a stage, which some vamp sitting on what looked to be a throne, seemed very bored. To the left and right of the stage were two leather booths and to the right of the right booth was to two doors. One that led to the restrooms and one that was restricted to employees only.
We went over to the bar and was greeted by a short, muscularly slim asian vampire covered in tattoos. I ordered a redheaded slut, and the bartender winked and gave my a fanged smile while handing me my drink. With drinks in hand the three of us found an empty table and sat. We talked and took in the scene, this place was definitely no Merlotte's, a bit more alive, ha, if I could say so myself. I was growing a bit bored, when all of sudden the song Bleed 2 Feed came one, oh the irony I know, but I couldn't resist the chance to dance.
(Bleed 2 Feed is blasting from the speakers and many people and vamps included are on the floor dancing to rhythmic bass of the song)
So you want to live forever, don't ya I feel your pressure drop and when I bite the right side of your neck you never want me to stop
What can I do to get over you I'm on a main vein search
and I think I'm getting closer baby
I gotcha shaking like the back of the church shake it shake it shake it shake it
And I was truly shaking it, my hips were swinging back and forth and my fingers were running through my hair. I dipped down low and wiggled my way back up and when some guy tried to come up from behind to dance with me I quickly turned around and lightly pushed him, bouncing my shoulders up and down and shaking my index finger at him as if to say no. I was really enjoying myself now until it felt like someone was watching me, I turned around towards the stage and almost lost my breath.
The vampire I had seen earlier was sitting on his throne and behind him was the female vamp that had let me in, and they were both looking directly at me. I quickly turned towards Tracy and Kera who had also caught my line of sight and kept dancing, but I couldn't help but glance at the stage every now and then. His long blonde hair, bright icy blue eyes, tight black jeans, and a tight black muscle shirt. He was the vision of a Greek God, Adonis perhaps in the flesh, cold flesh, but nonetheless flesh! I was still dancing with my back to the stage when Tracy whispered to me that he was coming my way.
'What! OMG!' I thought.
I turned around to see and was abruptly faced with a very muscular and prominent chest. He caught me off guard and when I looked up at his face I couldn't think of anything to say. I've never been nervous around guys but this one completely took my breath away.
"Dance with me." He said, not asked, but commanded, and although he was the sexiest thing I'd ever laid eyes on I didn't know him to be grinding on all up on him.
"Oh, I would, but I uh have to go to the restroom," I quickly replied. That was the most stupid lie ever, but I quickly walked around him to the hall leading to the restroom and once inside I took 3 deep breaths and counted to thirty beating the butterflies in my stomach, before I returned to the bar. On my way out I bumped into a chick going in, accidently knocking shoulders.
"Hey! What were the hell your going!" She yelled, but I was no longer in the hall outside the bathroom door....
The music in the bar was beating, but muffled in the bathroom. I was in a bathroom stall, the very last one to the left, placing a brown cardboard box behind the toilet. After making sure no one was in the bathroom I climbed under the locked stall door, checked my hair in the mirror and walked out back into the bar. I was joined by a short stocky man by the bar and we both exited out of the bar. We walked around the back to the alley and got into a black sedan that was parked. Less than less than ten minutes after pulling off there was an explosion in the club and I could see the smoke and orange flames from my side view mirror....
I was quickly brought back into the present and found myself slumped against the hallway wall. I looked up at the chick I had just ran into and she was looking down at me as if I was crazy.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" She asked.
"Uh, nothing, just a major case of cramps." I lied.
"You better hope those vamps don't get you, they'll take it from anywhere they can get it." She said and walked into the bathroom.
I quickly got up and went back into the bar where my Tracy and Kera was walking over to me from the the table, but instead of walking to meet them I went directly to the stage. I walked up to tall, blonde, and sexy, stepping between these females who were kneeling down and groveling at his feet. Looking into his icy eyes, before I could speak he said, "what makes you think you can just walk up here to me?" Was he mad because I didn't dance with him but instead ran off?
"I need to speak to who ever is in charge at this bar?" I said, "is that you?"
"Possibly, tell me what it is you need to discuss and I'll tell you if I can help, but if your looking for a dance then you'll have to look elsewhere." He replied.
"No! Look this is very important, we all are in danger?" Why was he being such a smart ass? Any other day I would have liked it in any guy but not today and not right now. I walked up the steps of the stage and stood directly in front of him. I ignored the comments of the girls behind me and leaned over and whispered in his ear as fiercely as I could.
"Somebody is going to bomb the bar, we need to get out now!" I felt him tense up next to me and he turned his head to look me in my eyes.
"How do you know this?"
"Just trust me, a woman with short dark hair and a red hand bag should walk out from the bathroom in two minutes, meet a short stocky man and leave the bar. Their car is parked in the alley behind the bar, it's a black sedan, okay? Five to six minutes after they drive away this building go kaboom!" I said all that as fiercely as possible and turned my head toward the bathroom hall. As I had just said moments before the dark haired chick came out and met the stocky man at the bar.
The female vamp the was behind the blonde went to talk to the bartender and they both went back towards the bathroom. The dark haired chick and stocky man hadn't noticed because they had already turned to leave and was walking out the door. I turned back to the blonde who stood up and told me to follow him. As we were walking down the stage Tracy and Kera came up to me, but I reassured them that everything was okay and that I would be staying a while longer. I even gave them a wink s they'd think I was going home with the blonde, eventually I won and they said goodbye.
I was waiting for the kaboom, but it hadn't came yet, instead the blonde and I walked through the employees only door, down the hall and into and office. It was adorned with off white walls and a mahogany desk upon which a nice Mac laptop sat on. There was a leather love-seat against the wall on the right, a door on the left side and file cabinets behind the desk up against the back wall. It looked, strangely normal, human I guess. The blonde sat in the chair directly behind the desk and motioned for me to sit in one of the chairs in front of his desk and so I did.
We sat in silence for five minutes, him looking at me and me letting my eyes wander but always coming back to rest on him. Once again the bomb I foresaw never went off and instead the female blonde and the asian bartender walked in.
"Did you retrieve it?" The blonde asked.
"Yes, it is in the swamp, the human had packaged it in with some scented flowery stuff, it is why I could not smell the C4 and how she was able to get in the bar." The female blonde replied.
"And the two assailants?" He asked
"I have detained them," said the Asian vampire.
"Very well," the blonde replied. "I am Eric Northman, the owner of Fangtasia and vampire sheriff of area 5, this," he said pointing the female blonde, "is Pam, my partner, and the other is Chow my bartender."
"It's nice to meet you all, I, um, my name is Satine Stackhouse." I said confused by the sheriff part of his introduction.
"Satine Stackhouse," Eric said, my name slithered from his lips like a snake on silk sheets; I shuddered at the sound of his cool voice, he's so bravado, I liked it.
"What my colleagues and I would like to know Satine is how you came to know about that bomb?" He continued.
"Oh, um, okay, you won't believe me but I can see th-"
My statement was cut short or rather off just as the office door flung open and Sookie and Bill barged in.
"Don't say another word Satine!" Sookie yelled. "Get your stuff we're leaving, now!"
"Bill, Sookie," Eric said, "I'm so glad you can join us, Pam, Chow, leave us."
With that Pam and Chow walked out leaving the four of us in the office, and Sookie to turn on me.
"Sat, what are you doing here?!" She yelled.
"I was just going out, didn't you get my note?"
"Yeah I got it, what made you come here?"
"Tracy and Kera were coming here, and so this were I met them."
"As nice as the family reunion is, Satine and I were talking." Eric interrupted, "now what are you?"
"I'm a s-"
"No Satine." Sookie yelled cutting me off yet again.
I was starting to get really pissed off with her and so I stood up from my chair and yelled back.
" Dammit Sook, I can take care of myself! I'm a seer, watcher, whateva you wanna call it, but basically I can see the future!" I spoke out loud so Eric could hear me, but I was glaring at Sookie.
"Hmmm interesting, you see what your sister hears, and she hears what you don't see, very interesting." Eric remarked.
"No, Sook sometimes see images from people she's hearing and I always hear what's being said in my visions." I replied.
"Can you see a vampire's future?" Eric asked.
"Do you have a future to see?" I answered back.
He gave me a stern look, one that chilled me to my bones. I was being a bit bitchy, it's not his fault Sookie can't get a life, and I shouldn't take out my frustrations on him.
"I dunno, I've never tried to look into a vamps future, but if I could see their future I'd imagine that I'd go into a coma or something." I said
"Why so?" Eric asked.
" Sensory overload, you know?" I simply replied. "You live so long and the normal mortal dangers don't really apply to you anymore, so I guess there's less chances of death, and more opportunity for life. But then you don't look forward to anything or plan anything. I mean visions are subjective and they're based of what the person is going to do. Once a person changes to a different path, their whole life changes. I think a vampire's future isn't subjective, but rather objective, making it to predictable, therefore it's as if there is no future.... just an existence."
"Interesting, in my lifetime I've heard of seers, but never has one crossed my path," Eric replied.
"And you don't have to worry about this one crossing your path again!" Sookie grabbed my arm in an attempt to pull me to her but I yanked it back.
"Sook what is wrong with you?" I asked.
"Sat you don't know Eric, he just wants to use your gift."
"Well, that's not gonna happen because I don't plan on letting it" I responded, but I was fully intending on coming back to see this God that walks the earth.
'You forget I can hear you?'
'Whateva'
'I'm trying to protect you'
'Okay whateva you say Sook'
"Sookie is right Satine, you should listen to her" Bill finally spoke up. His southern charm was about to get annoying.
"I appreciate your concern Bill and your sentiment Sookie, but so far he hasn't done anything to me" I said, wondering why Eric wasn't trying to defend himself.
"Thank you , miss Satine, and because I appreciate your generosity this evening and keeping my bar from being destroyed, I would like to return the gesture," Eric stated.
"Oh really? How so?" I asked as the heat inside me rushed to my cheeks and I felt my face go hot.
"Are you free this coming Monday night?"
"NO!," Sookie yelped
"Are you asking me out?" I asked.
"NO!," Sookie yelled again.
" Depends on if your free," Eric responded.
"ye-" Sookie cut me off, "NO!, because your going to be busy!" She yelled, "Bill can you please?"
"NO!" I yelled hearing my sister's silent request of Bill.
But at the moment there was nothing I could do as I felt Bill hoist me over his shoulder and with vampire speed race me out through what must have been the back door and out to his car with Sookie trailing quickly behind us. Bill quickly placed me in the backseat of his car as Sookie got in the passenger side and he in the driver seat. We drove away from Fangtasia and out of Shreveport back to Bon Temps, and I was giving Sookie the silent treatment.
'Sat, I'm doing this because I love you. Eric is a lying manipulative vampire bastard who fucks fangbangers and throws them to the side once he's satiated he fuck and thirst needs. He doesn't care about anyone but himself, fangtasia, and being sheriff. All shit that's vampire related and won't include you.'
'Whateva' I replied.
'I'm serious, Eric has been trying to get with me since Bill took me to Fangtasia, and not that he sees you he thinks he can-'
'What! What does he think? Oh, you don't know do you?' I yelled at her
'Well... No, but-'
'EXACTLY, YOU DON"T KNOW!'
'Sat, he's using you to get to me!'
'Sook, why does everything have to be about you?!'
' It's not I ju-'
'I'm done with this conversation Sook.'
I resumed showing her the silent treatment and as soon as Bill pulled up to a stop in front of the house, it dawned on me that I had left my car at Fangtasia, SHIT, now I really couldn't go anywhere.
'Bill is going to pick it up tomorrow night, alone!' Sook spoke into my mind.
Without answering her I got out of the car and went inside the house, running up the stairs to my room without saying goodnight. I tried to go to sleep but I just couldn't, all I could think about was the vampire, Eric Northman.
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A/N: FINALLY we get some of Eric, right?! I know, there's a lot more him, as I'm sure you'll be reading about it, lol!