Pam regarded the carton of blood sitting on the bar suspiciously.

"Your human dropped it off a few hours ago," Nora said absently, still flicking though the vampire bible.

Pam nodded and sniffed it, "Have you had some?" she asked Molly who was sitting nearby, tinkering with a phone.

"I'm not hungry," she replied.

Pam raised an eyebrow, "Like hell you aren't," she retorted, "you're still healing," she reminded her, putting the carton down in front of her, "drink," she ordered.

Molly glanced up at her, "What about you?"

"I'm a big girl," Pam drawled, "I'll survive."

Molly glanced at Nora, before taking the carton.

"You should drink some too, you might need it," Nora commented, still flicking through the pages of the bible.

"Who died and made you my Maker?" Pam snapped, "I don't take orders from you."

"Eric always said you were stubborn," Nora muttered.

Pam narrowed her eyes, "He never said a word about you."

This time Nora looked up and was about to reply when the sound of Pam's phone ringing cut her off; turning her back on Nora, Pam answered.

"Thank God," Jessica gushed sounding relieved, "Bill was having some kind of nightmare or something even more real than that, but he couldn't wake up from it," she explained in a rush. "And he just…passed out with his eyes wide open, I mean, what the f*ck – have you ever seen anything like this? I mean, is he sick?" she continued, without waiting for Pam to reply. "Or maybe he's having that thing Terry Bellfleur has…P…T…PTSD or something? Or maybe he's just hungry…yeah, maybe he just needs a pick me up." She sniffled, "I need to find him some food…" she mumbled, before hanging up.

Pam hit the redial button, cursing as she went straight to voicemail.

"Where are you going?" Nora called out as she strode towards the door.

"Out," Pam spat over her shoulder, only to come to an abrupt halt as Nora appeared in front of her, blocking the exit.

"No you're not," Nora told her, "there's something I need to verify and I need you to stay here so that you can tell Eric where I've gone."

"Tell him yourself," Pam replied, attempting to get passed her.

Nora blocked her again, "Look, I get it," Nora snapped, "you don't like me and, quite frankly, I don't like you all that much either. But Eric loves you, you know? The only reason he never told you he had a sister inside the authority is because that knowledge could have gotten you killed," she explained, moving to block Pam as she made another attempt to leave, "but I knew of you. He spoke of you often and fondly. You're what he's most proud of."

"Jessica might be in trouble," Pam said after a moment, trying not to be affected by Nora's speech.

"And I'm sorry for that," Nora replied, "but right now, we're all in trouble and Eric would never forgive me if I let you walk out of here."

Pam gave a sullen nod as she stepped back, watching as Nora disappeared into the night.

The tense silence that followed Nora's departure was broken by the sound of Molly zapping herself, followed by a stream of words Pam never would have expected the younger vampire to know.

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A/N: Jessica's phone call is taken from her 'Vlog' in case you were wondering...