Life Is Just A Game
A/N I do not own anything Ch and AB do, thanks.
Chapter 7
Life is just a game and we're a bunch of fucking pawns. Eric starts to wonder what the point of all this is if everything is going to turn out the same in the end? Fate cannot be changed, it finds away. If this is true than Godric will die in about 2 hours and there is nothing he can do but play the part he was intended to.
Fuck Kat and fuck that.
Bill thought about the woman in the other room and Eric's reaction to his questions. What is this human woman to Eric? In all the time that the Queen or he has known him, Eric has never been this enthralled by a human? There is something that is different about this Sookie but he can't decipher it and it may warrant further investigation if nothing more than to irritate Eric.
As the meeting is conducted Eric's mind wanders and he tries to think of a way to talk Godric off the edge. His pleading with Godric last time did not go so well and he wonders how he can change it to make a difference.
His childe sat in the corner watching the meeting with vacant eyes and Godric felt sad and miserable. Soon he would leave this world, leave his childe alone and that worried the elder vampire. He had seen enough in his two thousand years and nothing held any interest for him anymore. He hoped that Eric would adapt and learn to treasure human existence much like he has. Life would go on when he was gone and Eric would go on as well.
It puzzled Godric some as to why he could smell faerie in the room. He doubted if anyone else could smell the scent as he was older than all the room. The last time he came across a faerie was during the faerie war when they were all but obliterate. Godric tuned back into the meeting and told Nan that he would like Isabelle to be his predecessor.
As the meeting broke up and Godric signed the papers Nan had brought, Bill wandered around the room passing by the bedroom a couple of times. He could hear the heartbeat of the human in there and knew that she was awake and probably listening. He stepped in front of Eric and blocked his way.
"Since you deemed it necessary to have the woman in the other room while we conducted business I would like to question her on behalf of the Queen" Bill smugly said.
"No, she has nothing to do with this Compton" Eric said steel in his voice.
"Oh but she does. She has been listening this whole time and now she knows vampire business. You will let me speak with her or you will be held in contempt and there will be a trial" Bill ordered and Eric felt defeated. There was nothing he could do but agree. Why had he been so stupid and let Sookie stay.
"Eric the roof twenty minutes" Godric said as he made his way out the door. Everyone exited the same time but Bill and Eric.
Eric went to the bedroom and opened the door but Sookie was not there, she was gone. Eric searched the bathroom but found no trace of her and began to panic. He checked the balcony but she was not there, he did however notice a ladder to the left that went up to the roof, could she have gone up there? Why?
"She is not here. She must have slipped out the door earlier" Eric said.
"I heard her heart beating in here" Bill said flabbergasted.
"Maybe you were hearing things. I must leave on urgent business" Eric said and zipped out of the room.
Eric slowly climbed the stairs to the roof not looking forward to what was to come. He still had not found an argument strong enough to bring Godric back from the ledge so to speak. He could not see Sookie but he sensed her somewhere near.
"Godric don't do this" Eric pleaded.
"It must be done" Godric replied sad look upon his face.
"Then your childe will come to. Without you, what is there to live for?" Eric implored blood red tears running down his pale cheeks. He had fallen to his knee's as sorrow took him over.
"Nooooo" Sookie yelled as she came racing from the other side of the roof.
Godric's fangs popped down but receded when he realized that there was no danger. This human woman was crying. When the wind blew by Godric he smelt the scent again and knew that the woman had been in the suite with them.
"Sookie go" Eric ordered her away but she would not budge.
"No. Don't do this either of you. Please" Sookie cried. She didn't want Eric to die when she was just getting to know him. She didn't want Godric to die either for he had saved her and her bother.
"You ask so much of me, to stay in a world that is cruel and cold. You are faerie you know how cruel the world could be" Godric said eyeing the woman.
"Sure the world can be cruel but there are also beautiful things in it that make life or unlife in your case worth living. Please don't give up. Stay for Eric he needs you" Sookie pleaded, freshtears ran down her cheeks. She could see the sky start to lighten and her worry spiked.
"Sookie don't say things you don't understand. Go back to Jason and Hadley and go home" Eric ordered not taking his eyes off of Godric. His grief was overwhelming him.
"You can't mean that Eric, not after everything that has happened. You can't mean that" Sookie cried out.
Godric watched the scene unfold before him with interest. Why was Eric pushing her away when he could sense that Eric had feelings for this woman. Maybe his time on earth shou last a little longer if only to help Eric and Sookie find their way. For the first time in a very long time Godric saw hope and it was coming from the vampire and faerie in front of him and in this he was surprised.
"Eric off the roof " Godric commanded using the force of being Eric's maker to get him to obey. Eric slowly got to his feet and bowed his head.
"Don't look so sad" Godric said with a small smile and started following Eric as he walked backward towards the stairs.
"What are you doing?" Eric blurted out not so eloquently but hope shown in that outburst.
"There is work to be done" was all Godric said but it was enough to make Eric smile.
Sookie watched as Godric and Eric started toward the stairs. What was she getting herself into?
"Eric, what's a faerie?" Sookie asked as she headed towards the stairs a few steps behind.
No one noticed the other human on the roof but she noticed them and wondered what a faerie was as well? Maybe Sophie Ann the vampire she met last night would know. Hadley liked Sophie Ann, a lot.
TBC
