Author's Note: Well, it's been a while since I've updated anything! I've been on study leave for more than 2 months for my private exams since term break and once I returned to school, I had to catch up on the new modules for another set of exams. Even my december is full or at least till Christmas week. Enjoy!

Chapter 6

"Leksy? Where are you going? The car's this way," Sookie said and she nodded.

"I know. Why don't you guys go off first?"

"You're staying here?"

"God, no! I'll be fine. Really. I'll hitch a ride back with somebody if I need to," she smiled, reassuring Sookie.

"All right then. Call me later?"

"For sure."

She waved them off and once they had driven off, she stopped waving and sighed, raking her hand through her hair.

Fuck this…

Everything was fine before. Why the hell did things have to start getting worse? She didn't hate nor blame Bill, but ever since he showed up and Sookie got involved with him, things were really becoming a shit storm of bad things. She had managed to detract the Vampire Sheriff's attention from Sookie's gift, but she knew he wasn't that stupid and sooner or later if she didn't continue to prove that she was good at reading people, then Sookie would be in more shit than she already was.

She was tense and if she went with Sookie and Bill, even they would notice it. She knew it wasn't Bill's fault but the coincidence just didn't sit right with her. So many things just didn't add up as of yet. An ill feeling lodged itself in her chest, but her own abilities didn't extend to visions of the future. Sure, she was able to predict many things, but that was only because she knew how her friends and others would react. It was simple behavioral analysis and psychology.

She was omniscient and at the same time, she wasn't.

She didn't like not knowing things and that seemed to happen quite often recently. Things just didn't seem to bode well.

"Mom… please watch over me and give me guidance…" she murmured, touching the pendant on the chain around her neck.

Even though it seemed foolish to pray to someone who was already dead and gone, her master… no, her mother had said that she would always be with her and she believed her because she was no longer who she was. She had been given a new lease on life. So long as she could feel, she could believe that her mother was with her and in her heart.

With one last sigh, she began her long walk home. She hadn't had much time to herself since she returned and she liked being around others but not when she herself had much to think about. She needed some time for herself so that she could return to the others as her normal self.

Just a moment.

Sometimes, people were complicated. Be it humans or vampires or even fairies… They were still complicated. She understood them, but it didn't mean that she didn't feel like her mind wasn't being fucked with at times.

She would still be able to protect Sookie, Jason, Tara and the others from future troubles, wouldn't she? She chuckled at her brief doubt in her ability to protect her loved ones and at her naivety at wishing for things to go back to the way it was before. Things were going to change and she would need to adapt if she was going to continue to protect them. There was no way to go back once the wheel of change began to move.

She could only hoped that the bonds she had forged would still remain because that was what she treasured very much.

A bright light appeared from behind her and she turned around to see a car coming in her direction and slowed down till it came to a stop beside her and a young man was inside. He was average in the looks department, but what the hell.

"Need a ride?"

She smiled. "Sure thing."

"Hop right in."

She opened the car door and got into the car, knowing what she had gotten herself into. Sex was another way to get her mind off of things.

She got out of the bed to find her phone and found that Tara was calling her. She answered the phone while getting dressed.

"Tara? What happened?"

Her eyes grew wide when Tara told her that Lafayette had given Jason V. She winced when Tara said that she'd been with Jason in the hospital and had to stay and watch as the doctor drained the blood from his penis with a large syringe without any anesthesia.

"That's gotta hurt," she grimaced as Tara ranted about how she was having trouble getting the whole scene out of her mind.

Once she was dressed, she got discreetly grabbed her things and left the place, walking back home.

"Well, you do have that weird interest in medical things and gore movies, but I guess seeing the guy you love have a large syringe draining blood out of his penis is a bit too much for even you to handle, huh?" she chuckled. "Please, tell me that you threw away the rib eye he used. I'm a loyal customer at Merlotte's."

Tara assured her that she burned the damn rib eye, making her laugh even more. "Yeah, I was a little busy earlier but I'm on my way home now."

Tara said she was gonna give Lafayette a real good scolding about dealing V and to Jason of all people when morning came. "All right. Well, I'll see you tomorrow and we can have a drink while you vent."

Tara laughed a little before she hung up and she kept her phone. What the hell? Now Lafayette was dealing V? Was she in the Bon Temps she remembered or what? Maybe she entered an alternate dimension or something where shitty things happen.

She reached her street but decided to check on Sookie first and knocked on their door only to see Adele.

"Gran? Did I wake you?"

"No, I was already awake."

"Sook got home all right?"

"I don't think so."

She raised a brow at the odd comment.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, she's upstairs and I think she got into an argument with Bill when he brought her home earlier. I couldn't hear what it was about though since I am old. I came down after Sookie went to her room."

"That bad? Maybe I should have accompanied them."

"Nonsense! You always take care of Sookie and Jason. I don't expect you to be their guardian all the time."

She smiled. "Maybe."

"I'm already so thankful to the Lord for giving my grandchildren such a wonderful friend and for giving me another child I can love as my grandchild."

"Thanks, Gran."

"I know that even if I tell you that you don't have to always be protecting them, you'll still do it. When I die, I know that I can count on you to keep my rash grandchildren grounded," Adele smiled, holding her hands.

"For sure… But I can't imagine you not being around and not being able to eat your food anymore."

"Leksy…" Adele said in surprise before smiling. "When I think of the girl you were in the past, I'm always amazed at how much you've changed since then."

"Yeah, I guess."

"I'll be counting on you, Leksy."

"You know you always can."

"Maybe you could talk to Sookie tomorrow during breakfast?"

"All right. Then goodnight, Gran."

Adele gave her a hug. "G'night, sweetie. Have a good rest tonight."

"Will do."

She left the porch and walked next door to her own home. She unlocked her door and walked in, heading up to her bathroom to shower. Once she was done washing all evidence of her earlier activity, she got dressed and flopped down on her bed. She was lost in thought as she stared up at her ceiling that her mother had painted for her to resemble the starry sky they had looked up at when they left those people. It was a vision of freedom.

Today she would rest and tomorrow, she would talk to Sookie, try and find more information on the murders and have a drink with Tara. Yup, she was a busy person.

She turned on her side and looked at the photograph of her and her mother, taken from before she gained emotions and she smiled. "Goodnight, mom."

Sookie woke up and went down for breakfast, seeing Gran on the phone. Leksy came in and glanced at her when she saw Gran acting weird while talking on the phone. She shrugged, not knowing what it was about and poured herself a glass of orange juice as Leksy sat down beside her. She handed the jug to Leksy who poured a cup for herself and sipped it.

She realized that Gran was talking about Bill and his appearance at the meeting for his speech. Gran was very excited about having him there.

Leksy seemed a little troubled and she was worried since her friend was usually in high spirits every day and bounced back from everything.

Gran finally hung up and she thought it was suspicious the way Gran seemed to quickly end the call.

"Phone's been ringing early today," she said, drinking her juice.

"Oh, everyone is excited about meeting the town vampire tonight," Gran said, plating 2 eggs onto her plate. "Good morning, Leksy."

"Morning, Gran."

"I didn't hear you come in last night," Gran said.

"You went to bed early. You didn't want to hear me come in."

"Well, I just thought I would give you two a little privacy," Gran said, returning to the stove to fry up more eggs.

"Am I really a lost cause that you gotta pin all your hopes for me on a vampire?"

"Well, he seems like a very nice man," Gran said and slid the eggs from the pan onto Leksy's plate.

"He's not," she said, cutting into her food in agitation before Gran joined them at the table with the phone.

"He's not nice?"

"Or a man."

"Oh, goodness, did you two have a fight?"

"No. Kinda," she said and set her fork and knife down. "I don't think Bill and I have very much in common. He doesn't think like we do, he doesn't feel the way we do if he feels at all," she said, shoving a bite of food in her mouth.

"Well, I know that if I had a chance to know somebody who'd experienced the world differently, I'd see it as a blessing and that it's not something to be scared of. Or hate," Gran said before the phone rang again.

"I don't hate him," she said, swallowing her food. "I just don't want to be his girlfriend." She drank her juice and glanced at Gran when she didn't answer the phone. "Er, the phone's ringing."

"Machine will pick it up," Gran said, looking a little said. "Leksy, what do you think about all this?"

"Leks? You all right?"

Leksy looked up from her food and nodded. "Yeah, I'm all right."

"You sure? You're pretty quiet today."

"I'm sure. I just couldn't sleep well last night."

"You were alone, weren't you?" she asked and Leksy laughed.

"Well, I was alone in my bed but I was in somebody else' bed before that."

"We're at the table, young lady," Gran chided half-heartedly as seen by her smile.

"My bad, Gran," Leksy smiled, returning back to her normal self. "But honestly, my opinion on all this is that Sook can do what she wants, but I don't think vampires are all that much different when it comes to emotions. I mean, they were once human. They grew up as humans, didn't they? Just because they drink blood and sleep around a lot, doesn't mean that they don't feel. You have to take that into consideration, Sook. And Gran, you're pushing all your excitement over the meeting onto Sookie and it's making her feel that you just want her to get close to Bill because of it."

She sighed before Gran held her hands. "I'm sorry, Sookie. I didn't think you'd feel that way. If you don't want to have anything to do with Bill, then it's okay, but I just don't want you to act rashly because he's a vampire and there are things he does that we wouldn't do."

"Yeah… I'm sorry too, Gran."

"There, now we're all made up," Leksy said cheerfully. "I should be a psychiatrist or something! I'm good at this!"

They laughed.

"I'll drop you off at work today. I need to buy something and then I'll head back to Merlotte's," Leksy said and she smiled.

"Thanks, Leksy."

"No problem."

Author's Note: Please review! I hope to update before or by Christmas!