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Chapter 3
Sookie showed up around 11 pm. She came in, sat at the table, and started crying. I could hear her from my room upstairs. I came down, and hugged her from behind. She cried, and sobbed, and I held her.
"He's missing. Bill is missing. I know he lied to me before he left, and now he's gone. What if hes dead? I don't want the last conversation we had to be lies." She was so hurt. "Some Were came into the bar tonight, and tried to attack me. If Sam, and Bubba hadn't been there I don't know what would have happened. Pam showed up about an hour ago, and told me Bill was missing. I just left. I left them there to deal with the mess."
"Just focus on the good, focus on what made you happy with him." I moved to make her some tea.
She had her head in her hands, it looked like she was trying to hold her skull together.
"Sookie, I can take some of your heart ache away." I reached out, and put my hand on her shoulder.
She dropped her hands, and looked at me. She was thinking it over.
She shook her head, "No. Thanks though, but I need to work through this."
I nodded, and made her tea. She had moved to her bedroom. She hadn't even changed, she'd just crawled into bed, I set her tea next to her coffee from this morning, and crawled in behind her. She was normally opposed to affection, so I stayed above the blanket, and just cuddled her while she sobbed. Eventually she went to sleep, and I did too.
Around 3 am I was woken by someone staring at us. I sat up to find Eric in the chair in the corner. He had notice me sit up.
"When did you get here?" I whispered.
"About an hour ago, you two looked like you needed the rest." He replied.
"Sookie does. She's not eating. I'm worried about her." I was watching her sleep.
Eric stood and came over to the bed. "She needs to wake. We have to talk." He turned, and left the room.
"Sookie." I gently shook her. "Honey, Eric's here, he says you need to talk." She opened her eyes, and sat up.
"Okay, I need to shower first." She grabbed some clothes, and went into shower. I could hear her start crying.
Fucking Bill Compton better be dead. If he wasn't I may kill him for what he was doing to Sookie. Not many humans are as kind, and generous as her. I went to find Eric. He was sitting in the kitchen.
"Hello." I said.
"I did receive your message, I just, there has not been time." He said.
"It's okay. Really." I replied.
"Pam, and Chow are outside." He was staring at the table thinking hard about something. Something was really wrong.
"They have to wait for Sookie. She may not want to see anyone else yet." Not my house, not my decision.
I busied myself with making some more tea. I needed to do something. There was too much tension for me to sit still. I heard a crash, and Sookie yell, and then a few minutes later she was standing in the kitchen.
"Pam, and Chow are outside." Eric said.
Sookie walked to the door, opened it, and mumbled something. Chow, and Pam slowly made their way through the house. They were analyzing everything they could see. Vampires are weird. Sookie came into the kitchen, and sat at her small table. Eventually Pam, and Chow came in and sat. I placed some tea in front of Sookie, and moved back to the counter.
"Sookie Bill isn't just missing, he's been kidnapped." Eric was watching her closely. "He went to meet a woman vampire named Lorena, and he has been taken."
Sookie didn't respond.
"We think that is why the Were tried to take you last night. Bill called me to inform me he was coming back this evening, but he didn't make it. His coffin was taken before he could be put on an Anubis flight. You are probably in danger, and if not yet, you will be. Lorena will torture him, and he will eventually break. Now I need to know what Bill was working on. He was hiding it from us as well, and this could be a great risk to us as well. Not just my job, but my life."
Why is it when shit goes wrong, it really goes wrong? Why can't it ever be a flat tire, or something easy peasy to fix?
Sookie was still staring at her tea, "Bill didn't tell me he was coming back."
Eric looked at me for help. I shrugged. It was Pam that responded.
"He was coming home to set you up a financial account, and then leaving you. He didn't want you to know."
Sookie started shaking. Eric gave Pam the deadliest look I've ever seen.
"How would his coffin have been stolen? That doesn't make sense. Anubis boost about their strict security? How do you even know he's still alive?" Sookie asked.
Chow was the first to respond, "There was a small fire that broke out while the attendants were signing out his coffin. It had been presented as another vampires coffin, and with the fire, they didn't investigate it any further."
So a fire purposefully set as a distraction?" Sookie asked.
"I think so. We don't have any real proof though." Chow responded.
"Lorena has been staying with the King of Mississippi. He has a entourage of humans. We need you to go to Mississippi, and see if you can learn anything by listening in on the humans. I have a Were that owes me a favor, that can take you." Eric said.
I was watching Sookie. I could feel she was about to lose it. This was a lot of information to take on top of everything else. She looked to Eric.
"Wait? You said king?" She giggled. "Of Mississippi?"
"Yes, correct."
That was all it took. She started laughing, and crying. She was hysterical. She stood, and walked to the cabinet She started making herself some coco. She was still laughing. I locked eyes with Eric. I was trying to convey that Pam, and Chow needed to leave. Sookie sniffled, sat down with her coco, and looked back to Eric.
"Pam, Chow, Leave us." Eric said while looking at Sookie. He learned across the table, he spoke very quietly, if I hadn't have actively listened I wouldn't have been able to hear him. "I know Bill told you what he was working on. I know that if its lost, we could all potentially die. If I have to torture you to find out what you know, I will. I don't want to, but I will."
Sookie jerked like he had slapped her. I have to admit, it pissed me off for him to threaten her.
"Bill didn't tell me anything! Do you think I would sit here, and protect him after everything he's put me through?" Sookie asked.
"Yes. I know you will go, and find him. I know you still love him. Yes, I do think you would protect him. You are an honorable woman, even if Bill is a dishonorable man." Eric said.
"Well, I still don't know what he was working on. He's been ignoring me for weeks. Torture me if you want, but it wont get you anything, but a useless telepath." Sookie said.
Eric looked to me, and I stared daggers at him. He could stop being a dick at any time now.
He nodded. "The Were will be here tomorrow. Sookie. Do not trust him. He is still a Were." He stood, and nodded towards me, and left the house. He went out the back door instead of following Pam, and Chow. I assumed this was so I would follow.
"I'll be right back Sook." She nodded
I walked out onto the screened in porch, Eric was waiting for me.
"What the fuck. Would you really have tortured her?" I asked.
"The fact that I would have tortured her, should impress upon you how fucked we are." He replied.
Eric was right. He really wouldn't have even suggested it unless it was absolutely necessary to know what she knew. It still made me angry. He stepped closer to me.
"I do not want you to go with her. This is not for you to deal with." He said.
"I couldn't. I have work with Ludwig. No offense but I really want more for my life than Fangatsia waitress." I said.
He smiled, "Even if the job comes with perks?" When he said perks he grabbed my waist, and pulled me into a kiss. It had been almost a week since he'd kissed me. I had almost forgotten how amazing it felt.
"Well, now that you mention it..." I smiled, and kissed him again.
"I must go. I have business to attend to. I will see you soon." He said. I watched him walk out of the porch, and shoot into the sky. I stood there for a minute to revel in the joy of him, and his scent. I walked back into the kitchen, and Sookie was still at the table. I didn't know what to say.
"So, can I stake him now?" I asked.
She looked at me, and for a second I thought she would scream. Instead, she started laughing. She laughed, and laughed, and then started crying.
"Why is everything such a mess?" she asked me.
"I don't know. I really don't." I walked over and put her mugs in the sink. "Okay Sook, you need to eat. I don't care if its a cookie, or some eggs, but eat something."
"I really don't know if I can stomach food yet. Just give me a while, and I will eat I swear." She said.
I walked over, and kissed the crown of her head. "If you need anything, I'll be upstairs." I said.
I left her alone with her thoughts, which was probably the most dangerous place I could leave her.
