Patrick entered Godric's home and saw his sister asleep in the living room on the sofa. He gave a determined nod and picked up the vampire and carried her to his van. He locked her inside the back of the silver locked van and drove back to Shreveport. He had arrived at Godric's place a week ago and had seen his sister slowly get worse. She could barely move because she had no energy to move because she spent it all crying. He was finally fed up. His sister was in pain and the only way to get rid of it was to make her confront it. So he was locking her and Eric in his van and they would stay in there until either they made up...or she killed him. He arrived at Shreveport the next day at lunch time and went inside and nodded to his accomplice Ginger as he carried the heavy Viking out to the sun tight van. He and Ginger put a few crates of Tru blood into the van and then he placed the silver barriers on the van and parked it in the back car park. Now all they had to do was wait.
Eric woke and gasped when he saw the beautiful brunette opposite him. She was paler than normal and looked ill as she lay in a blanket on the bench seat. He smiled gently and then saw the Tru Blood, he opened a bottle and while the brunette was still out, he poured it down her throat in bits. It took him two hours to make her drink three bottles and the slight colour returned. He lay on the other bench and waited for her to wake. He smiled slightly when her eyes fluttered open.
"Eric?" she muttered and he smiled at her.
"This was not me" he said and she looked around and then growled.
"Patrick!" she shouted and they heard her brother chuckle.
"Let me out of here this minute Patrick" she demanded.
"Not until you two work this out. You were almost dead Keely. I almost lost you once and I will be damned if I lose you for good" her brother replied and she huffed.
"Let me out human" Eric said and Patrick openly laughed.
"You've get even less of a chance than her. I love her, you...you I could very well live without" he replied.
"Patrick this isn't funny, let us out" Keely said.
"Sorry Kel" he said and she huffed and went and sat on the other side of the truck.
"Keely I..." Eric began.
"Shut up Eric. I do not want to hear your excuses. Just stay away from me and maybe he'll think I killed you and let us out" she replied coldly.
"Keely, I'm sorry" Eric said and she looked up and glared at him.
"I don't care. You made me and Pam. You said you would never put us second to anyone and guess what? You did and to a fucking fairy Princess too, and even worse. A fucking fairy that used to belong to Bill sodding Compton" she snarled angrily and he sighed.
"I didn't mean to. I didn't remember my own parents" he said and she looked at him.
"I'm sorry you lost your memory Eric but that does not in any way excuse what happened. I don't care what you do or say now. I just don't" she said and he looked at her.
"Keely..." he began and she looked at him.
"Do not talk to me. I do not want to listen" she said and he sighed and sat on the ground on the other side to her. The sun came up and forced the two to sleep three times and each night was spent starting with asking Patrick to let them out before the rest was spent in silence.
"What's that noise?" Eric asked and Keely gasped when she realised it was her phone. She grabbed it from where it was hiding under her bench and smiled.
"Jess thank God. Where are you?" the brunette asked.
"In Fangtasia, wondering where you are" the redhead replied.
"I'm in the back parking lot in a van. Patrick and Ginger locked me and Eric in. You have to come and get me out of here" Keely said and Jessica gasped.
"On my way" she said and hung up. Keely stood and pulled on her jacket and looked at her maker.
"Release me" she said and he looked at her, stunned.
"What?" he asked and she looked at him calmly.
"Release me" she said and he gave her a sad smile.
"I can't" he said and she glared at him.
"Bullshit! You can release me anytime you want" she said and he looked at her.
"That's my point, I don't want to" he said and she narrowed her eyes at him.
"You replaced me easily enough, why not just release me and go back to your fairy?" she spat and he stood and looked at her.
"I didn't want to forget you Keely. I love you, I just forgot I love you" he said and she gave a cold, humourless laugh.
"That's exactly what I wanted to hear. Release me" she ordered and he sighed and shook his head.
"No" he said and she growled at him.
"You broke my heart, you replaced me, you forgot who I was, you didn't even try and make me stay and now you want to keep me here with you when I hate you?" she asked and he looked at her.
"You hate me?" he asked and she looked at him.
"How can I not?" she asked and he looked at her. Keely sighed and rolled her eyes and then sat in her seat and waited for Jessica.
"Keely?" they heard Jessica's voice ask.
"In here, how do I get out?" Keely replied.
"Patrick is in Fangtasia with Pam and Ginger. I'll get gloves and let you out" Jessica said and then a few minutes later they heard chains clinking together.
"Come on Kel" Jessica said when she got the doors open. She sent Eric a furious look and then held out her hand and helped Keely from the van.
"Release me" Keely said and he looked at her.
"I can't" he said and she growled and then she and Jessica ran off. It took Eric all of about 2 minutes before he knew what he had to do. He looked in the direction Jessica and Keely had ran and sighed.
"As your maker, Keely Scarlett Adams-Northman, I release you" he said softly and felt the connection waver. It was up to Keely now. She had to return the connection as time went on or the connection would vanish.
Keely gasped as she felt the connection she had with Eric waver. He'd done it. He'd released her. She was free...but then why did she feel worse than she had before?
"Are you ok?" Jessica asked when Keely stopped and turned around, facing the way they'd ran.
"Yeah, I'm ok" she said and they smiled at each other and ran ahead. The two sighed as they stopped outside Keely's human home. They could hear their families together.
"It isn't worth it" Keely said and grabbed Jessica's hand.
"What?" the red head asked and Keely sighed.
"We're free Jess. From them, from their torment, from Bill and now I'm free from Eric. They are not worth it" she said and Jessica looked at the brunette.
"So what now?" she asked and Jessica shrugged.
"I say we get our own place here and then we can start over" Jessica said and she nodded.
"Good idea" she said and followed Jessica to Bill's manor. Keely went to Jessica's room and then to the bathroom where she took a long, bubble bath as she listened to Jessica crying and telling Nan, the woman that represented them on T.V, about her issues with Hoyt and Jason Stackhouse, who was cute but about as sharp as a spoon. She got out of the bath as she scented Bill and then went to Jessica's room to change into a pair of simple blue jeans, a black tank top with a loose, pink top that fell over on shoulder along with a pair of Jessica's pink flip-flops. She lay on the bed beside Jessica, held down with silver chains as Bill, Nan, Jessica and she waited for the day to go by so they were safe from being effected by the stupid witches that were really beginning to piss her off.
"I almost hesitate to ask but least there be more surprises is there anything else I need to know?" Nan asked and Keely saw Bill looking at her and Jessica, sadly as they whimpered and held hands through the burning agony of the chains.
"Only that Northman is missing" Bill replied and she froze.
"Eric's missing?" she muttered and Jessica shrugged.
"What? How?" Nan asked.
"Last we spoke you were about to show him the True Death" Nan said and Keely forced away another whimper.
"I changed my mind" Bill replied calmly.
"What a decisive Leader you've turned out to be" she replied sarcastically and Keely rolled her eyes.
"We'll have to cancel tomorrow night" Bill said and Keely frowned.
"What's tomorrow night" she muttered and Jessica sighed.
"Some Vampire party to show we're sweet and kind" Jessica muttered back and she nodded.
"Cancelling is not an option" Nan replied.
"What is so important about this event that you're willing to risk your life and mine to…?" Bill began.
"There are factions within…" Nan replied.
"Factions within what? The AVL? The Authority? Unless you tell me, I cannot agree to…" he said.
"Right now, crews from CNN, VTV, Fox News and bloggers from across the country are already outside the hotel waiting. What would you have me tell them?" Nan demanded and Keely held tightly to Jessica's hand as the redhead whimpered as she thought of Jason and Hoyt. Keely knew that Jessica didn't love Hoyt that she loved Jason but Jessica had never been able to hurt anyone. So she understood that her sister needed support but first they needed to get through this.
"I didn't think it was possible but you actually make me long for Queen Sophie-Anne" Nan said and Keely ignored the two arguing like infants as she tried to comfort Jessica.
"Are they always like this?" she muttered and Jessica looked at her.
"Pretty much, sometimes they're worse" she said and Keely sighed.