Author's Notes: Thank you to every single one of my readers! I am glad you are all enjoying my story! I am a very happy camper right now. Ha-ha.

Now: Some of you had the question as of how often I will be updating. To be honest, I don't know how many times I will update…but I will tell you that I will update ATLEAST once a week. But I will possibly be doing more than one chapter a week. So for instance, you might get 7 chapters in one week and then the next week you might only get 1. It depends on how quick I write the chapters. So don't get discouraged! You will be seeing Eric and Sookie at least once a week! So enjoy that piece of knowledge! Ha-ha.

Also, the beginning chapters were almost the same dialogue as the show. I hope this didn't upset anyone. To where I wanted to start in my story, it was absolutely necessary that I do that.

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XOXO—SharaMoon

It's been a week now since I've been in Faery and its been amazing. That is not an understatement. I had everything I could ever need. Clothes and food and the best of all, the sense of family. It was simply wonderful how this place has helped me with my grieving for Bill. Not that I don't still feel sad, but it's not ruling my life either and I was fine with that. I could wrap it around my head that he betrayed me and I could live with it. I could move on. I would move on. Even if it killed me.

I met another cousin the second day. His name was Claude and he was Claudine's twin. He was the total opposite of her though. Where as she was kind hearted, I sometimes wondered if he had a heart at all. Ok, that was harsh. Claude just didn't seem like the kind of guy that really liked getting to know people and he had a bad attitude. Of course he was amazingly handsome. His body was sculpted nicely, his hair was the same color as Claudine's' and was long. All the women in Bon Temps would swoon if they saw him, but of course, to many women's' disappointment, he was gay.

"I have a strip club in Shreveport." He told me that evening over dinner.

"Oh?" I tried to sound politely interested, but really I didn't care.

"Oh yes, but I had to come back here, you see." He wasn't looking at me.

"And why is that?" I asked.

"Because we were to come here to help you with your emotions." His voice wasn't angry, but I could hear the bitterness in his words. He doesn't like to have to do things for other people, I picked up. I watched Claudine elbow him in the stomach.

"Its alright, he is just being honest. I'm glad he can be so open about his feelings." I shrugged.

I saw out of the corner of my eye that Claudine gave him a reproachful glance and he sighed.

"Its not that I don't care about how you feel." My bullshit meter just beeped. "It's just that I am very busy. I am trying to become a model." No shit?

"Well you can certainly become that. I mean, you are a very handsome man." At my words he seemed to lighten. Good I made him happy.

"Thank you." He whispered softly. I smiled.

On the seventh day I was with Niall in the garden. He is a very busy man, so I haven't seen him as much as I would have liked. No matter how I was feeling about what happened with my Gran's actions, I still wanted to get to know him. He was a very nice man and he did seem to care about me a lot.

"So, you must know my brother right? You know I have a brother?" It was a question that has been bugging me since he told me about our family's past.

"Oh yes. I know your brother." He said but didn't say more.

"Are you ever going to meet him?" I pressed.

"No, I do not think so."

"Why is that? What's wrong with my brother?" I started to get protective, like I always do with Jason.

"Your brother is not the same as you Sookie. It seems that the essentials passed over him. He shares our blood, but all that has done for him is to attract lovers for himself. He could never fully understand our connection and I really do not think that he would care much anyway." Niall shrugged.

I kept quiet. I wanted to defend Jason but I knew my brother and so did Niall it seems. Jason was the type of guy that would make demands of this relationship and of course he wouldn't be able to keep his mouth shut either. I sighed.

"Back to you though, Sookie. How are you?" Niall eyed me intently. He always wanted to know every little detail about my life.

"I'm fine. I mean, I'm still hurt but I know I can get through this. And as much as I love it here, I know I need to go home. I have a job." I truly felt sad saying it, but another truth was that I missed my home, well what was left of it and my friends.

"I knew you were going to say that sooner or later." I looked up in time to see him smile at me. "You are never one to let anyone else fully take care of you. I understand that."

"I'm independent." I shrugged. "Gran raised me to be self confident and to get things for myself. They may not be the best things that other people can afford, but its right for me."

"What of protection?" He asked.

"Huh? I never actually thought about it to be honest." I stared at the ground.

"I know someone who can keep an eye on you." I thought I could hear amusement in his voice. I looked up at him. "You know him, I believe."

"Who?" I asked slowly. A normal human wouldn't be of any use to me. They would be killed probably as soon as I stepped foot in my door. I would be better on my own if that happened.

"Well Claudine and Claude of course could help as well." He said thoughtfully. He was ignoring my question.

"Who were you talking about?" I pressed.

"Eric Northman." And my heart sank.

"You know Eric? Why haven't you told me?" My voice going through hysteria. "I don't want his help Niall. He is to blame as much as Bill for getting me into this mess and grief!" I tried to keep my voice level but it really didn't work.

"My dear child. I have been watching you very closely and I know that Eric had nothing to do with Bill's secret life." He shook his head.

"Oh please enlighten me then. He was the one that dragged me to Russell, kept me locked in his basement, tricked me into drinking his blood and a lot of other things that I really don't have time to talk about." My head hurt just to think of them all.

"Even though they seem like horrible things to you Sookie, I know he did what he thought was best. He has never lied to you, but has told you the brutal truth of how your world works."

"His world! I would have been fine out of the loop of vampire politics, he dragged me into it!" I folded my arms across my chest.

"No, as I remember, you went to Bill. You dear Sookie, wanted to go to Fangtasia. You put yourself into Eric's hands and that is what you have to realize. No matter how brutal he can be, he has always tried to keep you safe, no matter how you look at it."

I couldn't believe my great-grandfather has watched me so closely, to know exactly everything that has happened. I didn't want to fight so I let it go. For now.

"I don't think I could trust him, Niall." I whispered.

"Sookie, one day you will have to make that giant leap into trusting someone else again. I know you are hurting, but never trusting anyone will be your biggest downfall. There is good in people and I know there is good in Eric Northman, even if he doesn't believe it himself." Niall said with the hint of a smile.

"How do you know there is anything good in him?" I asked stubbornly. He was as good as a nuclear bomb in my mind.

"Because he saved my life once." Niall said casually.

To say the least I was shocked.

"Ah, how did he do that?" I stared at my grandfather with wide eyes. There was no way Eric Northman ever saved a fairy.

I watched him inhale deeply as if this was a story he doesn't like to remember.

"I have told you I had enemies. At the time I was weak and I was captured by our own kind who handed me over to the vampires. It was in the midst of one of the vampire and fae battles. We were divided on each side. In a matter of speaking there were three groups. Our Fairies, my enemies, and the Vampires. I was captured once, held against my will by vampires who wanted my blood. Our blood is intoxicating, of course. Vampires can't drink it straight. I watched a few of them go mad with bloodlust when they did and I watched them kill each other." I looked up and saw Niall was smiling slightly. He liked the idea of vampires going mad from his blood. I cringed. "They found a way to delude my blood and they took more. I was on the verve of death, when two vampires came to me. They knew I was powerful, but they knew what my blood could do to them. They had no use for it as they saw. I am speaking of Eric and Godric." He grabbed my hand and held it. "I noticed the maker was pretty old but his child was rather young. A few centuries old. I hid my scent as best I could. Even knowing they could still smell my blood, they did not react the way all others did." Niall sighed. "The young one told me they were going to help me out. I did not understand why two vampires would help me when this war was between us all. Godric said this was a war for idiots." I watched him chuckle. "He said he did not want to be in a war that did not serve any purpose to him. He did not care what everyone else did. I was thankful for that, more than I could tell you." He paused as if something was going to happen. "Of course, the Godric you know and the one I know were far different. He kept to himself; believed that there was no humanity for vampires. So he told me he didn't do this out of the kindness of his heart, because as far as he saw it, he didn't have a heart. He told me I would have to be in debt to him, until he decided to call on me. And I took it gladly." Niall stopped.

"Did you ever pay off your debt?" I asked cautiously.

"Alas, no I did not." He turned away from me. It was silent for awhile before Niall said anything else.

"Eric was unhappy with the fact I had to be in service of his maker. He did not think it was right for just helping me out of a cellar. I watched Eric ask his maker why he made that choice. From his questions, I knew Eric still had humanity in him; that his maker's words did not touch him fully. He still believed he had a heart." Niall smiled. "Godric never told him anything in return, but ignored his questions."

"Eric has changed now, he doesn't feel anything." I said stubbornly. "Godric got to him." I looked down at the ground unable to meet my grandfather's eyes.

"Even you know that was a lie you just told. You saw him shed tears and beg his master to stay, did you not? He has always tried to keep you safe and you know it. There is a heart left in him after all."

"How did you…?" I couldn't think of what else to say.

"I was not there to watch you that time." He laughed. "But Claudine was. She told me what she saw. I am very glad that Godric finally saw he had humanity in him. I am very sorry he is gone." And to my astonishment, my grandfather shed a tear for Godric.

"Aren't you mad at him for making you swear you were in debt to him?" I asked.

"Oh no child. He was a vampire. I knew how vampires think. He wanted something in return for going against his own kind to help me. Maybe he thought I could give him something no one else could? I do not know and I will never find out it seems." He shrugged casually.

A lot was swimming through my head. I couldn't pull my mind off the fact that Eric asked Godric why my grandfather had to pay a debt to him. Eric was still young, that's how I put it. But I saw his tears he shed for his maker on the hotel roof for Godric. I watched him plead for him to stay. He even rescued me from the fellowship, but that was to find his maker all in the same. I can't lie to myself that he doesn't care…for some people, but did that really include me? That I was not convince of.

"You shall go home tomorrow, if you wish." He told me quietly and I just nodded. I couldn't stay here forever. I had a life, a job and friends that I needed to see.

"Go inside and get some rest. I have to make an important phone call."

"You can call people from here?" I asked astonished.

"Oh yes, I have my ways. I will see you tomorrow night before you go." He smiled at me and I just had to smile back. I got up and walked back to the castle. I couldn't help think that I was going back home into the hell I escaped from.