Sookie was standing in a dimly lit room, with a bad feeling in her stomach. That witch had told her to come alone, and she had, because she couldn't risk Sam or Jason ending the way Eric had, but now she realized it had been a bit stupid. The plan was to get a vampire with her so they could glamour the witch or something, but Ilayna had been ahead of her and asked to meet in the daytime, eliminating that option. Now she had stepped into the witch's territory, unarmed and alone. She'd have to have faith, hope everything would work out fine.

- I am glad you came, Miss Stackhouse. But then, you didn't have much of a choice, did you?-

It was the witch, Ilayna, a short dark haired woman wearing a green shirt and dark green suit pants. She had dark brown eyes who shine strangely and a disturbing smile. That was when Sookie heard "knowing as I have your two boys locked up in my basement... And how much fun they were... almost sorry I don't get to kill them... yet". Sookie tried not to get distracted by these thoughts from the witch's mind and asked her, as calm as she could:

"What do you want form me?"

"Just to have some fun... And make you pay for ruining my revenge." She said coming closer to Sookie. With a movement of the witch's hand, she bound the blonde to a nearby chair with metal chains and got her face up close.

"I hear that there is an interesting community of supes in the area of Bon Temps. And you, Miss Stackhouse, seem to be in the center of all the things that happen."

"I don't know what you're talking about." Sookie said, holding her head high. Right now, the important thing was that she wasted the witch's time, so she the backup from vampires was possible again.

"Oh, I think you know perfectly well what I am talking about. You, Miss Stackhouse… or should I call you Sookie?" she laughed "are going to tell me about all the vampires that you know in the area, where they hide, which are their charges, etc. and also about all the weres around. Where they hide, who are the leaders of the packs…. You know, those little things."

"And why in hell would I tell you all that?" The blonde said, infuriated by Ilayna's arrogance. "A lot of people like you have tried to use me for their own purposes and it has never finished well for'em."

"Well, it looks like I'll need to give you some motivation, don't I? Don't move, dear, I'll be right back." The witch said her voice filled with sarcasm.

When she came back, Jason and Sam were with her. They were chained like Sookie and had dried blood on their faces and arms. The witch dangerously put her long hand in Jason's neck.

"I like this one specially" she said "I'll enjoy breaking him…"

"Don't listen to her, Sook!" Jason said.

"Quiet!" Ilayna said, beating Jason with another chain that had flown from the other side of the room to complete her mistress' wish. Jason hissed in pain and Sookie felt her anger growing. But she needed time.

"OK, OK, I'll tell you want you what you wanna know, just stop that!"

"Excellent choice. And I would advise you not to lie, seeing everything that's at stake, dear Sookie."

For the next few hours, Sookie told the witch about Bill and Eric, about Fangtasia and about Alcide and Debbie (which were the only werewolves she could think of) until first minutes of twilight arrived. Then it was Sookie time. Using the sparks of her hands, she freed herself and knocked out a very confused Ilayna. Then, she proceeded to free both Jason and Sam.

"Let's get the fuck out of here!" said Jason.

"No!" her sister replied "If we leave her now, she will come back, and even more pissed off. And we need her to fix Eric. Let's just tie her with these dirty chains so she can't do her hand thing."

"Let us do that." Sam said, always the gentleman.

"Good, I'll contact Pam so they can come help us."

And there it was, before the witch came to, Pam and Chow were in the room a bloodthirsty look in their eyes.

"Is this her?" Pam asked "She the one that attacked Eric?"

"Yeah." Sookie said "Can you glamour her? Maybe erase her memory a bit, too?"

"When I'm this angry, Miss Stackhouse, I can do anything."

The witch put up a good fight. She resisted the glamour for a whole thirty minutes, where she wouldn't for the life of her undo her spells. But eventually she gave out, undid her spells and forgot all about Bon Temps, Sookie or even her trying to get revenge of the Sombres using baby Alex. The vampires left her driving north, without a clue of what she had done the last week.

Another enemy down, Sookie thought, wondering how much peace she would get until the next one. At least the defeat of this one had been quick and clean, and there were no losses to regret…. Or so she hoped. The truth was that she was really anxious about seeing if the forced counterspell from the witch had worked on Eric. There was no reason for it not to, but still…. The thought of going to her house and finding Eric in the same way she'd left him, unconscious, in pain….

No, he would be ok. He had to.

When they arrived there was no sign of the blood vampire. Sookie started to get worried. What if a vampire hater had taken him while he was weakened? What the counterspell hadn't…..

"Sookie, glad to see you're back. I'm sorry but I drank all the true blood you had, I was really starving when I woke."

There he was, in all his Viking splendor. The same Eric Northman, with the same deep voice, acting as if nothing had happened. Sookie breathed with relief. And suddenly she decided not to think anymore and she was in his arms, and she was kissing him. It was a gorgeous kiss (long, sweet, perfect) and Eric responded enthusiastically.

"Well, this is an interesting turn of events." Eric commented when the kiss finally ended "May I ask why?"

"I was so afraid of losing you…. I decided one should enjoy those people that matter while they can, instead of doing nothing and then regretting all the time they've lost."

"Couldn't agree more, Sookie, I couldn't agree more."

Sookie knew there would be nothing usual about whatever Eric and her could have in the future. A vampire and a mind reader, brought together but a witch and a baby. She didn't care.

In that moment, wrapped in Eric's arms, every evil seemed meaningless, every devil useless.

She was happy.

THE END

A/N: I know I suck at endings, but I didn't want to leave the story unfinished. Please don't flame excessively, I'm doing what I can! Hope you enjoyed the story as a whole! Waiting for thoughts ^^ You know you want to review!