It was maybe four in the morning. Godric had been staring at Sookie for the last few hours. She had fallen asleep long ago. He told her to sleep and regain some of her strength before she went home. He was supposed to have woken her up an hour ago but he didn't want her to leave. He was enjoying staring at her, and listening to her talk in her sleep. Sookie was having very unsubtle dreams. She had definitely been through a lot in her life time, mostly loneliness. But there was a lot of teasing and even though those things seemed so petty to someone like Godric he knew for a human, and most certainly for Sookie, that they were enough to want to die. Sookie still seemed unbroken though. Yes she was hurt but she still stood tall and strong. He smiled, he wanted to spend the rest of his time here with her. He wasn't one for human companions but he could have one for the time being. After all it was a vacation of sorts. He sighed and rolled over on his back. He closed his eyes and tried to think of all the things he could do with Sookie. Then he remembered that she's still a child, her family would not be very happy with her staying out all night. She would have to sneak out, he looked over at her. Would she even want to do that?

Godric sat up and placed his hand on Sookie's back. He gently shook her, she didn't budge. He shook her a little harder this time, still no movement. He leaned in to her ear and whispered.

"Sookie, it's time to wake. You must go home soon."

"Hmmm…." She moaned and turned over to face him. Her eyes weren't open but she was listening.

"Come on, I'll get your clothes together." Godric sat up and made his way off of the bed.

Sookie sat up and watched Godric move about the room picking up all of her pieces of attire. She didn't want to go home. She wanted to stay with Godric. For the first time in her life she felt a sense of belonging next to him. Godric noticed her staring at him and he walked back over to the bed, dropping the clothes next to Sookie. He stood there and watched her watching him. It looked as if she was about to start crying. He crawled back into the bed with her and pushed her back down onto the pillow from which she just arose. He lied next to her and cuddled close to her ear again, wrapping his arm around her.

"My dearest Sookie, what is the matter?"

And then without further warning she began to cry. All her nightmares coming back and flooding her head, all the shit she would have to go through in the morning at school, the idea of not being with Godric. It was all too much. She was scared and tired, and she didn't want o feel lonely anymore. Why should she have to, she had Godric right? Fear struck her, he was a vampire, vampires didn't want anything to do with humans. They thought they were just good for a good fuck and feeding, nothing more. That was what Sookie figured she was to Godric. That's why he got up to go and fetch her clothes. He wanted her to get the hell out already.

Sookie couldn't believe how she was acting. She had never been so weak in her whole life. This was horrible. She was acting like this all because she couldn't be in the arms of some boy vampire. She couldn't believe herself. Godric sat up and looked at Sookie who had ceased the uncontrollable sobbing but had her eyes closed to avoid looking at him.

"Sookie what is wrong?"

He bent down and laid kisses all over her face, licking her tears away. She smiled, some of her worries beginning to dissipate. If he didn't want anymore to do with her than he wouldn't still be kissing her like that.

"I don't want to go home."

"Why is someone there causing harm to you?"

"No." Sookie shook her head and started the crying again.

"Sookie look at me, you have to stop crying. I can certainly make you happy but if you continue to cry like this it'll take me forever. Now tell me what is wrong? Why don't you want to go home?"

"It's nothing, just stupid human stuff. You shouldn't be bothered with it." She sat up and began crawling off of the bed but Godric grabbed her arm and shoved her back into the pillows.

"Explain."

"No, it's nothing…it's…embarrassing."

"I won't ask you again."

"I…I just don't want to leave you."

Godric sat up a little straighter. She, a mere human, the very same creature he had so mercilessly been slaughtering the last two thousand years, didn't want to leave him. Most humans were all to eager to leave a vampire's presence. He didn't understand it. He had been hoping she would say something like that all night. He brought his hand up to her cheek again and caressed it. He leaned in and planted a soft kiss on her lips. Then he locked his eyes with hers to bore down into them. He wished she could see all the things that he had done to her kind. He wanted her to know what he was, what he could do to her. If she could still find herself longing to stay with him after that then it would be a miracle and she would definitely be worth spending the rest of eternity with.

"Sookie if only you knew of the things I've done. I'm a monster you shouldn't be with someone like me. I'm so happy that I'm the one that has taken your loneliness away, but you need to understand that…"

"Godric I know what you're capable of."

"No you don't." He laughed at the innocence, she was very naïve.

"Yes I do." She said stubbornly. Godric gave her a sad smile.

"Then why aren't you running?"

Sookie stared at him as he looked away. He was sad and she wanted to capture all of his sadness in a jar and lock it away in the back of her closet with the rest of her skeletons.

"Godric please…I want to stay with you." He looked back at her and smiled.

"I was never going to make you leave if you didn't want to. In fact, I don't want you to go home yet either. I was merely suggesting that maybe you should look a little deeper into my heart before you go giving me the key to yours."

Sookie smiled and laid back down. She opened her arms and beckoned for him to lay on her. She wanted to hold him. They laid there like that for awhile before Sookie realized that the clock showed it to be seven thirty in the morning. The sun had been up for awhile now. Godric sensed her worry.

"Eric's bedroom is light tight. I'm safe."

"Oh."

She smiled and hugged him even tighter. Her Gran was not going to be happy but she would figure something out. She just felt so good and she didn't want any bit of this to end any time soon. She tapped Godric's shoulder to see if he wanted to play a little bit more before he fell asleep, but he didn't budge. He was already out. She relaxed and listened to the quiet hum of the air conditioner circulating air through the vents as she slowly began to follow suit with Godric.