Author's Notes: Hello again my dear and awesome readers.

Another chapter for you to sink your teeth into! I wanted to give a shout out to Fairyblood who gave me the idea for this creature at the bottom of this page. You will see what I mean when you get there; don't want to ruin it for anyone.

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Sofia's POV:

So my morning wasn't any better than last night. I wasn't surprised that I had dreams about a certain male vampire who I desperately wanted to erase from my mind. I couldn't believe he only lived like forty-five minutes away. It was too close, much, much to close.

Did I say anything though? No, I hid from myself and I hid from everything that always seems to transpire against me. I couldn't open my mouth about it to anyone, simply because I wasn't ready.

Sookie came back the next day and I went to work with her, to make sure she would be ok and because she wanted me to 'meet the neighbors'. I have never done this kind of thing before. I haven't been in a room full of humans in quite a long time. Why doesn't this sound like fun?

Sookie worked the night shift Monday and she said that I shouldn't worry about the people in the town. They might be a little crazy, but everything should be fine. That is what she told me, and she couldn't have been more wrong.

As soon as my feet touched the wooden floor of Merlotte's all heads snapped and turned at me. I could almost hear the murmurs. I already had my barriers up so it didn't bother me in the slightest, but a lot of the older women were looking at me as if I was a sin because all of their husbands or boyfriends couldn't stop staring in my direction. Great-absolutely great.

I stepped up to the bar and looked to my left only to see Jason sitting there.

"Get this lady a beer on me." He hollered at the bartender.

"You really don't have to do that Jason." I answered him, smiling slightly as he pushed his arm over my shoulder.

"I'd like you to meet Hoyt and his girlfriend Jessica." He motioned to the two sitting beside them.

I looked at the two and I knew immediately that Jessica was a vampire; it was more than obvious as I saw her true blood in hand. I sighed and sat back, hoping that she wouldn't ask what I was.

"Excuse me?" She said softly. Oh, too late. "What…are you?"

"I am Fae." I answered; best answer for people who didn't understand.

I watched her process that over before nodding to herself. She smiled at me and returned to her bottle of blood as I grabbed the beer off the bar. I am going to need oh? Forty more of these? Yeah, yeah I am.

I looked up to see a man staring at me slightly. His eyes were wide and he was leaning against the back of the bar. I was guessing he was the manager. In all my years of being an assassin I knew he wasn't all human, so that leaved me only a few options. He was either a were or he was a shifter.

I smiled slightly, raised my beer up to him in toast and then downed what was left in the bottle. Jason hooted for me and I smiled ever so slightly.

The man came over to me and held out his hand. "Sookie told me she had a new roommate, Im Sam Merlotte."

"You're the one who owns this place huh?" I answered, raising my hand and shaking his once.

"That I do." He smiled brightly and gave me a look over, but unlike all the other guys it didn't seem like he was checking out my body, more like making sure I wasn't a threat.

"Not here to hurt anyone." I said softly.

His eyes went wide. "You're like…Sook?"

"Yes, I am, but I didn't use my abilities. I could see it in your eyes." I said, smiling just a bit and he returned it. "I'm here to protect Sookie."

He nodded. "She's an important girl to us."

I looked over in time to see Sookie laughing with one of the cooks in the back, I smiled. "She seems like it."

"It was nice to meet you…" He said, trailing off.

I should just were a tag that states my name, everyone wants to know it.

"Sofia Preston." I answered. "And you too Sam."

He turned and walked back to his office. I sat back in the seat, only to be brought into a rather funny conversation with Hoyt, Jason and Jessica. That was until a rather mean bitch came up and knocked a drink onto Jessica's lap.

Jessica stood up, shocked. She stared at the woman who had a smile on her face.

"Go back to hell where you belong, leech." The woman snarled.

Jason and Hoyt stood up in protest and looked at the lady. I stared at her in shock. We're people really this mean?

"Miss, you need to leave." I found myself saying.

What? Shut up! Don't get into this! I scolded myself.

"Well excuse me fangbanger!" The lady stumbled. She was drunk. "You go to hell too." And she swung at me.

I leaned away from her punch quickly and gripped her forearm and before I knew it I was walking to the door with her in toe, screaming over at everyone for them to help. I ripped my hand from her arm as soon as we were outside.

"Go the hell home." I said. "You have no right saying anything about anyone. That girl you spilled a drink on is a person, just like you and just like me."

"Fuck off." She answered.

"No, honey, you fuck off." I turned away from her and headed back into the bar.

I had no idea what came over me, but as soon as I got inside there were people cheering for me. I shook my head and took the seat where I was before and looked at Jessica. She seemed so embarrassed.

"Don't worry about people like them. They have no lives and just want to make the world worse." I patted her arm lazily.

She gave me a small smile. "Thanks Sofia."

"No problem." I answered.

I shouldn't have done that. I really shouldn't have. Now I just brought more attention on myself. Ugh! Why would I do that?

I could have sat there forever beating myself up over shit that I should and shouldn't have done, but my night just got ten times worse. The room went silent, you could have heard a pin drop and then there were murmurs again. Something told me I shouldn't turn around, that when I turned around my life would just be hell again. I didn't listen to my brain and I turned in the chair only to have my heart drop once again.

Eric strolled into the bar with his hands in his pockets. Pam was behind her in a very pink outfit and smiling at the patrons who were casting her evil looks. Something told me that they were here before and no one liked it.

Eric's head snapped up and his eyes found mine as if it were meant to be. I swat that idea away quickly as I tried to turn my eyes of his, but I was captured; captured in the blue hues. I groaned internally.

"Well, well, Sofia Preston we meet again." He stepped close to me.

"So it would seem." I answered and gripped Jason's beer out of his hand quickly. He protested until he saw me take a swig of the beverage. My eyes caught him smile slightly before asking for another beer. I turned back to Eric who had narrowed his eyes at the beer in my hand.

"Do you always steal drinks from other men?" He asked suddenly, and I nearly choked on the next swig.

"Nope, I really don't." I told him before standing. "But it looks like I needed more and his was just right there for me to take."

"I see." Eric said, narrowing his eyes further before looking over at Jason. Jason ducked his head and sipped the beer, not meeting Eric's eyes.

I turned away from him and headed to the back where Sookie was. There was only one reason he could be here and that probably meant he wanted to talk to Sookie. The only problem was I couldn't find her as I turned around the corner. I sighed in defeat.

"She isn't back here." I told him, knowing that he was behind me. It was as if I could sense him where ever he was, but that made no sense. I never had his blood.

"Who said I came to talk to Sookie?" Eric whispered huskily and I froze on the spot.

"Why else would you be here?" I said, still not turning around to look at him.

"I wanted to see how you were holding up after your attack last night."

I groaned and turned toward him. "I'm fine and I really didn't need your help anyway. I would have gotten them."

Eric smiled; a more relaxed one than I have ever seen. My emotions started to fly once again. Does he really have so many different personalities? I had no idea who he was or what kind of person he was. He just keeps throwing me curve balls.

"That isn't what it looked like." He answered.

"I can handle myself." I said stiffly.

"Sure you can." He teased me, stepping close again.

Too close for my comfort as I was pressed back against the wall with his hands on either side of my head. I took a deep breath and glared at him.

"This is inappropriate." I bit out.

"Couldn't agree more." He answered, nodding to himself.

"Then why don't you move?" I asked.

"Because I don't want to move?" He made it sound like a question before he chuckled.

Why on earth was this happening? Did god really spite me that much?

"Eric, move." I whispered and looked down.

"We need to talk." He said and caught me off guard.

"About what?" I looked up at him.

"Things." Eric answered shortly, before moving away from the wall. I hid the fact that I was disappointed by it. "I will come by Sookie's tomorrow night. Too many witnesses here."

He turned spinning on his heels before stalking out of the hall and out of the bar. My hand automatically went to my heart, making sure that it was still inside my body. It was beating so hard that I was sure it would have escaped somehow.

I turned to my left to see Sookie leaning against the wall. I quickly recovered myself, but she saw my lapse in emotions and she eyed me sadly. She knew something was going on. Thank God that I was much stronger in the mind reading abilities, or she would have known exactly what I was thinking.

"You ok?" She asked, walking toward me and putting her arm on my shoulder. "Eric can be a bit rough with people; I hope he didn't bother you too much."

"I am not afraid of him, Sookie." I answered automatically. "I could kill him in minutes." Though, I would never do that.

Her brows furrowed in confusion. "So what's wrong? You want to talk about it?"

My heart was beating again so fast, begging me to have a friend to talk to. I needed one, more than I thought I did. I needed a friend.

"No, not right now at least." I said, casting my eyes down. "It's hard to talk about."

Sookie gripped my shoulder in comfort. "Well, if you ever want to talk to someone about anything at all, I'm here for you."

"I know you are." I said softly, smiling.

"Let's get out of here. We can go home and watch some girly movies on TV." She smiled brightly, taking off her apron.

"Are you sure you can leave?" I asked.

"What? Oh yeah, of course. I'll just stay extra time tomorrow night." She answered. "Besides, my feet are killing me."

I laughed softly and followed her out of the bar. We reached the car but I had a feeling to look over my shoulder. I saw a man standing in the shadows of the tree lines. His face was beautiful, that I couldn't deny. He had long dark hair that was pulled back by a leather strap, and dark eyes. I watched him slowly, hoping I wouldn't need to attack, because I forgot my weapons.

He turned on his heel and left and I sighed in relief. I got into the car and we headed back to Sookie's home. We did what she promised; we popped in a movie because we couldn't find one on the TV. Sookie even upped the ante and got ice-cream out.

I asked her where Bill was too, to see if he would be coming over for this girl's night. She told me he was away for a few days, on business. One day I would have to ask what his business was about, I knew that for sure. I needed to be a better guardian I guess and step into more things instead of leaving questions. I nodded and went back to the movie.

It was fun and something I totally needed. A girl's night, that's what she called it. I could get used to laughing and talking with Sookie for half of the night, it was rather fun and something I never did before. Sookie was slowly becoming the best friend I desperately needed.

The next night was a rather exciting night at Merlotte's. Sam was down a few waitresses that night, so instead of just sitting there I helped pitch in. Sookie taught me the ropes and I was becoming good at it.

"You know, if you keep up the good job, I just might hire you." Sam laughed, handing a beer over to one of the patrons.

I smiled at him. "It is rather fun. Learning stories from the people that come into the bar."

This was true; a lot of the people were really drunk and began telling me different kinds of stories. I laughed with them as they got to the good parts. It was a rather nice place, Merlotte's I mean. When people got past the whole negativity of things; some of the people were actually really nice to talk to. For the first time in forever, I felt like I had a place in the world.

Sam, Jason, Hoyt, Jessica and Sookie, they were all really nice and enjoyed talking to me. I found out that Jessica was actually the child of Bill, Sookie's vampire boyfriend. Jess also worked at the bar at nights as a hostess. I learn new things every day.

I looked up, smiling after talking to Terry Bellefleur and happened to look out the window. My smile dropped from my face as I saw the same man from last night staring at me. His head was cocked to one side and he was looking directly at me. That didn't sit well.

I watched as a smile curved on his lips, showing me deadly pointed teeth. A flash of red in his eyes gave me a warning.

Shit.

I dropped everything that I was doing and went over to Sookie, grabbing her forearm in my grasp and tried to make it look natural. I proceeded slowly around the corner to where the man couldn't see. Sookie stopped fixing her apron and looked at me confused.

"We have to leave." I said shortly, before sprinting in a run toward the back.

Thank God Sookie had the right idea and didn't protest. I pushed her into the passengers seat of the car and ran to the trunk. I threw it open and grabbed my swords out of the back, looking everywhere as I did so. I slipped into the driver seat and handed her the swords. I was smart enough to bring them this time.

I turned on the car and gunned the engine and went as fast as this beat up car could take me. Sookie was asking questions, ones that I didn't answer. I was too busy looking over my shoulders to see if we were being followed. I heard a bang to my left and I looked just in time to see a giant black and red tail come swooping down against the driver's side.

The car turned and then flipped over. We went down over an embankment and we kept tumbling. I threw myself out of the driver's seat and slammed Sookie's head down as the glass from the windshield broke. She was screaming her head off and I couldn't blame her. I felt the glass cut into my arm and felt the metal of the roof start to cave in as the car kept tumbling down the hill.

Finally after what seemed like forever, the car rolled to a stop.

"Sookie?" I shook her, because she stopped yelling twenty rolls ago. "Sook, are you ok?"

She coughed and leaned her head up. I looked and saw there was a gash on her forehead. "Yeah, Im ok, but oh," She looked at the interior of her car. The metal of the roof was caved in and surrounding us. "My car." She said horrified.

"Don't worry about it; we got bigger things to worry about." I said.

I gripped her seat belt and used my sword to cut through the material. After she was free I grabbed her waist before leaning up and kicking out the remaining glass from the windshield. I held her tightly and climbed through the mass of metal. We touched the ground and I gripped her tighter, limping over to the trees where we could take shelter. The pain in my calf was horrible and I looked down to see that I had a piece of the metal roof sticking into it.

I dropped Sookie on the ground and leaned over to grip the metal and rip it from my leg. I dropped it to the ground before looking at Sookie. She was trembling slightly and was looking around for the beast that attacked.

"Eric's on his way." She said lightly. "I can feel him."

I nodded and tried not to let that bother me. He had her blood then and she had his. I shook my head and crouched down. I heard the beast's wings flapping, but I couldn't see it through the trees. There was a loud landing, the ground rumbled below our feet.

I heard Sookie gasp and before I could jump over and cover her mouth she screamed. "What the hell is that?"

I closed my eyes and groaned as the beast turned its head at us. A gust of wind was pushed out of its nostrils. Well, no point in trying to hide now. I stood up and looked at the beast. It was big, probably around fifteen feet long and ten feet tall. His scales were black and red and his razor sharp teeth were barred in our direction.

"Well at least it's not the type that breathes fire." I said shortly, grabbing my swords in front of me.

"What the fuck is that?" She yelled louder, closer to hysteria.

"That is a Were Dragon. It comes from another dimension called Draginmiro." I answered swiftly, pushing Sookie through the trees and stalking around the beast.

"And what is it doing here?" She asked.

"Simple, it's here to kill us." I answered. Sookie gasped, I was expecting it. I turned my head to see her confused. "It drinks from our light, Sookie. It drains fairies to gain strength; the dragon absorbs it." She gulped thickly. "So whatever you do, don't use your light."

She nodded fast before turning with another gasp. I followed her lead and looked. There on top of the hill we just tumbled down stood Eric and Pam who were looking at the dragon. I was too busy looking at Eric and I didn't see the tail come swishing down in front of us. Sookie and I went flying across the field and landed in front of the dragon. Eric took a step toward us, I noticed.

Sookie screamed as we came face to face with big red eyes. The dragon growled low and then out of nowhere werewolves stalked from the trees. I groaned as they ran toward Eric and Pam.

This Were Dragon knew what he was doing. He must have seen Eric and Pam yesterday and knew they would show up to save Sookie, so he must have conned these weres to come and aid him while he drained us. Smart and versatile this dragon was, much to our disadvantage.

The dragon attacked. I grabbed Sookie's collar to her shirt and yanked her behind me. She stumbled and grabbed my shirt tightly and bowed her head against my back. I forced my blades in front of me as the dragons open mouth barreled down on us. He was strong, very strong and I found myself skidding backwards as I held him off.

"Run Sookie." I commanded and she did as she was told, running to the side.

I put all my focus back on the creature in front of me. My arms began trembling from trying to hold him back; I twisted my blade in my hand and sliced against the thick scales. He was still a were, and the blade did what it was supposed to do. It cut deep into his nose, bleeding a bright blue color. I took my chance and flipped backwards, before turning and slicing under his chin. The dragon screeched loud, so loud I noticed Sookie covering her ears as she knelt on the ground.

The dragon took a swipe with his claws at me and I avoided it. They were too sharp and would slice into anything like butter. I twirled around and sliced into his raised hand. The beast growled in frustration. I took a chance, and ran toward his chest. I thrust my sword into his thick skin and I cursed at myself because I missed its heart.

I groaned out and tried to dodge the beast but I wasn't swift enough. His tail came flying around and somehow hit me in the stomach. I went flying across the field and hit the ground hard. The air rushed out of my lungs and I tried to catch my breath quickly. I looked up to see Eric attacking the wolves that just seemed to keep coming. He was holding his own though.

Sookie wasn't. She tripped as the Dragon turned around at her. I started to run, only to be knocked to the ground by a were. We tumbled and I gripped the sword and ran it through his heart quickly. I needed to get to Sookie.

It was like slow motion as I jumped off of the were that started to turn to a man. I watched as the beast raised its claws at Sookie and I saw the horrified expression on her face. I made my feet move quicker, there was nothing I could do though. There was no way I could kill the beast before it swung, so I did the only thing I could think of.

I threw myself protectively in front of Sookie and took the hit for her. I shut my eyes tight as I opened my mouth and screamed silently from the pain. Almost immediately my back felt very wet and I found myself on the ground in front of Sookie, holding her head down to protect her from another swing.

The second was worse than the first and this time, I couldn't hold out, I screamed from the sheer pain as the beasts claws raked down my already torn back. Sookie's eyes met mine and she had tears flowing down as she looked into mine. I didn't cry, I never cried even though it hurt so badly.

"It's fine. I'm fine. Relax…I'll save you." I told her, but my voice sounded off. It didn't sound like me at all.

Sookie's face started to blur in my vision and black started to take over. I fought against it and looked up. Eric was staring at me, shock clearly etched on his face as he broke a wolf's neck. His eyes held mine and he gave me strength. It was like before when I pictured him in my head, he gave me strength to not give up.

Adrenaline was a great thing, that's all that I could think of. I gripped Sookie in one hand and the sword in the other. I turned quickly, throwing Sookie away from me as I attacked the dragon. I connected with his claws and cut off his hand swiftly. It fell to the ground and the beast roared out in fury but I didn't think. I kept swinging.

This is what I was supposed to do. Protect Sookie, the adrenaline from that gave me power to do so and Eric's face gave me the strength to not give up.

I sliced away, creating giant gashes all over the beast's body. His teeth came down on my arm, but I didn't feel the pain. With a war shout I brought my sword to the beast's red eye and shoved through, blinding him on one side, he dropped my arm immediately.

The beast stumbled, using his tail to swing at me again. He managed to hit and I flew through the air. I twisted and back flipped before landing heavily on my feet. My vision was blurry but I kept going, I had to finish this. Sookie had to be safe.

I shoved the sword through his arm and began to saw it off, but he moved, throwing his giant hand down and crushing me to the ground. I couldn't breathe as the beast leaned over and opened his large mouth; probably to take off my head. I did the only thing I could think of.

I used my remaining strength and teleported in the air above him. I brandished my sword before coming down on top of him and slicing the beast's head off clean. The dragon crashed to the ground and did not move.

I breathed heavily, panting deeply. It was as if I couldn't get enough air into my lungs. I looked up at Sookie who had tears in her eyes. There was blood on her hands as she looked at me. It wasn't her blood, it was mine.

I stumbled toward her, before my legs couldn't take it anymore. Sookie grabbed me in time and we dropped to the ground with her holding and crying over me.

"Sofia! Talk to me! Stay awake!" She screamed, moving my bangs out of my face.

She was crying for me, she really was. I managed a weak smile, but the darkness was coming in quick. Sookie's voice soon took on a vibrating affect and soon I couldn't hear her much. It was muffled. I couldn't even feel pain anymore, but I could feel the blood rolling from my back and onto the grass below me. I saved her and that was all that mattered. Somehow, I knew I would live.

Eric's POV:

She killed the dragon; a half fairy slayed a dragon by herself.

I was beyond shocked, but she didn't come out unscathed. She was bleeding too heavily; I could smell it, her thick sweet blood in the air. I didn't like it, there was too much coating the air. I managed to kill the last Were that was holding me back before I bounded down to them.

Sookie just caught the girl in her arms as they tumbled to the ground. Sofia's sword still dangling in her limp hand.

I watched Sookie holding the girl's back as if to stop the blood flow. Sookie pulled her hands away to only see that they were dripping in blood, her hands were trembling and I watched her force them onto Sofia's shredded back. Sookie' repeated the process before stopping, looking at her hands and started to cry heavier. The assassin's blood dripped down Sookie's held up arms.

Sookie was bawling for the girl to hold on. "Sofia, open your eyes! God, she is bleeding so much! Eric, please, help her!"

I stared at Sofia's limp form longer; something in my mind clicked.

An image of a girl, still a child, who was being attacked by fairies.

I leaned over the assassin, who was barely alive. Her heart was beating slowly. I had to make a decision now, because if she lost any more blood she would either die or be turned into a vampire.

"Don't forget me!" A girl shouted at me as I walked away. I looked over my shoulder to see the girl waving and smiling in my direction. I smiled at the girl.

I shook my head, grabbing the girl from Sookie's grasp before pulling her into my lap. I turned her over before biting into my own wrist. I forced it into her mouth and let my life essence seep into the girl who looked so familiar to me and now I knew why.

I saved her again.