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I woke up with dead weight on top of me. Eric had his arm across my stomach. I pushed Eric off of me and he didn't stir, I don't know why I kind of expected him to. I looked at the clock on the night stand. 1:00. Wow. I really slept in.

I noticed a piece of paper underneath my cell phone on the stand as well. Bella, you passed out so I didn't get the chance to tell you that I should awaken just before sun down. I made arrangements for a flight on Friday. Take off is at six am so we will arrive shortly after four. I should wake up shortly after we get to town. I ordered a car for you to drive, it will have a back to put the travel coffin in. Make yourself at home. Yours, Eric it said.

I stretched and noticed how sore I was. I got up and made my way to the bathroom to shower.

Once I was done, I looked into the mirror. I had a few hickeys all over my body and the bite mark on my neck looked fresh.

I wrapped the towel around myself and went back into the room. I grabbed a shirt from the dresser and put it on, it went past my knees.

I walked back over to the bed and picked up my phone. 4 missed calls Gran twice, Sookie once and finally dad.

I called Gran first. "Bella? I was kind of worried, you didn't come home last night" she said.

"Sorry Gran. I stayed with Eric" I told her.

"Okay dear, I am going into Marthaville to help a friend of mine. She just lost her husband" she said.

"Oh I'm so sorry Gran" I said.

"It's okay, I gotta get goin, I'll talk to ya later. I won't be back until Thursday. Goodbye Bella" she said, hanging up.

I called Sookie next. "Bill is alive Bella! He buried himself in the graveyard by the house after getting my messages" she said.

"Oh that's-" I started.

"But I gotta go, I'm at work" she said, hanging up.

Finally I called Charlie. "Hello" he said.

"Hey dad, you called" I said.

"Oh. Yeah. I just wanted to make sure you got a ticket" he said.

"Oh, not yet but I will be bringing someone with me" I said, nervously.

"Oh you mean Sookie?" he asked.

"Um, no. A guy" I said.

"You've only been there a few weeks" he said.

"I know dad and I didn't really wanna bring him but he really wants to go so we'll be there Friday night" I said.

"Okay, do you need me to pick you up at the airport?" he asked.

"No Eric arranged for a car" I said.

"So am I going to like this Eric?" he asked.

"I don't know, probably not. Not many people do" I said.

Before he could lecture me, I told him I had to go and hung up.

I looked over at Eric, he looked so peaceful, kind of like he was dead, which I guess he is. I watched TV and ate some till he woke up just before the sun set, just like he said.

"Evening, lover" he said walking over and kissing me, he was still naked.

"Evening. Can I ask you something?" I said.

"Of course" he said.

"Do you feed on fangbangers?" I asked.

"Not in a couple weeks, when I realized I had to have you as mine" he said.

"Okay" I said smiling.

"So are you? Mine?" he asked, referring to last night.

"Only if you are just as much mine" I said.

"Then you are mine" he said with a smug smile.

His phone beeped on the dresser. "I have to go to the bar" he sighed looking at a text. "Pam will kill me if I don't go there tonight" he told me.

"Okay, I can call a cab to take me home" I said, not wanting to burden him.

"Don't be ridiculous, I will take you home but first, let's go back to bed for a bit" he suggested. I smiled and pulled his shirt over my head.

Three hours and many orgasms later, we pulled up to Gran's house.

"I'll call later" he said, kissing me.

"Mmm k" I said, getting out and walking inside.

I heard laughter from the kitchen. I walked in and saw Bill with "fangs" growling at Arlene's kids. Sookie and the kids were laughing hard. They all turned and looked at me. Bill took the fake fangs out of his mouth.

"Bella, how nice to see you this evenin" he said in that southern accent.

"What's going on?" I asked as I walked to the fridge.

"Arlene has a date with a guy from her church, I'm watchin the kids for her" Sookie said as I poured myself a glass of iced tea.

"Hey Coby, hey Lisa. You guys having fun with Aunt Sookie and Bill?" I asked. They nodded.

"Did you know Bill is a vampire Bella?" Coby asked excitedly and I smiled.

"Yes I did" I said as I turned to go upstairs.

"Bella!" Sookie hissed.

"What?" I asked turning back to her. She grabbed my arm and looked at my neck.

"Did Eric bite you?" she asked.

"Yes and you are certainly not one to judge" I said ripping my arm out of her grip.

"Bill tells me that Eric is dangerous, he could hurt you" she said.

"Really? And did Bill tell you that when you drank his blood, it made you attracted to him? Eric did" I hissed, not in the mood.

She didn't even give what I said a thought, "Eric is a great liar Bella. I don't know what he wants with you but it can't be good" she said.

"You are such a hypocrite. You got all mad at Tara and Sam for having an opinion on your relationship when you do the same to me. To top it all off, I was the only one who kept my opinion to myself about your creepy boyfriend and I was the one who was there for you when you thought he died" I said before leaving.

I went upstairs and locked my door. My phone rang. "Do you need me? I sensed your upset" Eric said and I smiled, instantly feeling better.

"No, it was just a fight with Sookie" I told him.

"All right, well I need to get back to work. The accountant found sixty thousand dollars missing" he said.

"Wow, I am sorry" I said.

"It's okay, but I gotta go" he said.

The next day at work, I walked into Sam's office as he was picking up some pills off the floor. I bent down and started helping.

"Sam, I know I just started but I forgot I have a wedding in Washington, I'm a bridesmaid" I said.

"It's no problem Bella, with Amy now we got enough waitresses. When is it?" he said.

"This weekend" I said guiltily.

"Like I said, it's no problem Bella" he said looking up at me, noticing the marks on my neck. Makeup covered the hickeys but not the bite.

"I would tell you, you are an idiot but something tells me you probably won't listen" he sounded defeated.

"Probably not" I smiled.

Later that night, Eric called a couple hours before I got off. "So I will work it out with Bill and arrange for your cousin to come read my employees to find out about the missing money. I imagine that you want to be here so..." he said.

"You imagined right" I said.

"Then I will be there when I'm done with Compton" he said, hanging up.

A little over an hour he walked in, looking gorgeous as ever. After my shift ended less than an hour later, he flew me to Fangtasia.

Sookie and Bill arrived shortly after. I was still mad at her for last night, so I didn't say anything when they entered. She didn't try either, just sat down.

"Pam, Longshadow and I are partners at this club and we recently noticed that sixty thousand dollars has gone missing from our books. Bruce is our accountant" he said, speaking to Sookie, since I knew all this. He put his hand on Bruce's shoulder, who is crying.

Sookie read him after demanding they go to the human police and found nothing, the same with every other human that works there.

Until she got to Ginger. "She didn't do it but she knows who did" Sookie said. "Who who's gonna kill you? What's his name?" Sookie asked the blonde. "It's blank, like her memories been erased" Sookie said.

"I don't know anything, I swear" Ginger said to Eric and Pam.

"She's been glamoured" Pam said.

"It's a vampire" Sookie said, stating the obvious.

Next thing I knew, Longshadow had jumped from behind the bar and grabbed Sookie's neck. Ginger started screaming and I was frozen.

"Ginger, enough" Pam said, shutting her up.

"Thank you" Eric said, as they watched my cousin get attacked.

Longshadow loosened his hold on her neck and bared it, he was about to bite when Bill staked him in the back.

Longshadow projected blood from his mouth then imploded into a bloody mess.

Ginger vomited and I collapsed, before I hit the ground, I saw Eric blur over to catch me. I passed out as soon as his arms were around me.

I came to in Eric's office. He was talking to Bill.

"What were you thinking killing a vampire for a human?" Eric asked.

"Sookie must be protected" Bill said, sounding strange.

"Now that sounds like an edict, but it couldn't be because I would know about that" Eric said.

"What if it was Bella?" Bill asked.

"Then I would have subdued him and dealt with it later" Eric said.

"If I hadn't did what I did, would you have let his disloyalty stand?" Bill said, obviously desperate.

"Whatever I would have done to Longshadow, I would not have done in front of witnesses, especially not vampire witnesses. Not smart Bill, not smart at all" Eric said.

There was a long pause. That was when I made myself known, I moaned rolling over.

"Don't move to fast lover" Eric said, helping me sit up.

"Is Sookie okay?" I asked.

"Yes, she is in the bathroom with Pam. Go see to her while I finish up with Bill" Eric said.

I left the office and walked to the bathroom. Sookie was cleaning herself up as best she could.

"God, Sookie. Are you okay?" I asked.

"Yeah, are you? I saw you pass out" she said and I nodded.

"I'm sorry" we said at the same time. We laughed.

"Sorry I overreacted" I said.

"No you were right; I have no right to judge. I'm sorry too" she said.

Pam came in with a leather dress. "Put these on" she said, holding up the dress.

"Oh, thank you but I'm fine really. I'm just gonna dry out my hair and be on my way" Sookie said.

"You're not going anywhere, Eric and your boyfriend aren't nearly done talkin just yet" Pam said.

Sookie turned to face Pam. "Is Bill in some kind of trouble?" Sookie asked.

"That's for the boys to figure out. Right now you need to change out of your clothes" Pam told her. Pam then turned to me.

"Bella, it is so good to see you again. You look delicious in your uniform. We will have to go shopping soon. I must get to know my makers girlfriend" she said.

"Well I hate shopping but for you I suppose I will go with you" I said and was shocked to see her smile.

After Sookie and Bill left, Eric invited me back to his house.

"Pam, why don't you come with us? We can watch movies and stuff" I said. I noticed Pam looking at Eric, he nodded.

"Okay, sounds like fun. Let me go get my purse" she walked into the office.

"Lover, I was hoping for some alone time" Eric said.

"Well, I wanna get to know Pam, she is your family" I said. Eric smiled.

"I appreciate that" he said.

We ended up watching chick flicks and gossiping about celebrities until Eric had enough.

"I am going to go into my office and work on some things for a while" he said, he kissed me before he left.

"Finally! I thought he was never going to leave" Pam said.

"Oh, I wasn't aware we were trying to get rid of him" I laughed.

"Well, we can't very well talk about him with him in the room" she said.

"Ah, okay. Let me guess, you want to tell me I'm not good enough for him and I'm not saying I am but I think I make him happy" I said.

"No, I didn't want to say anything like that. I think you are good for him, he has not shown emotion in all the time I have known him but when you collapsed I saw worry cross his face. It is quite amazing" she said.

"Oh, well thank you" I said.

"I wanted to talk about the sex" she said. My eyes bugged.

"What?" I asked, sure I had heard her wrong.

"The sex? Is he making it good for you? I mean I prefer women but Eric was always pleasurable" she said. Now I knew Eric had an extensive sexual history, I don't know why this didn't occur to me before now.

"You've had sex with Eric?" I asked.

"I'm so sorry, was I not supposed to tell you that?" she said.

"No it's just Eric told me that you prefer women, I guess I just didn't think about it" I said.

"Oh, I am sorry" she said.

"It's okay, Pam. I know Eric has been with a lot of women, it's just new to me. My previous two boyfriends were both virgins" I said.

"The wolf and the cold one?" she asked. I nodded.

She started cracking up. "What?" I smiled.

"That teenage douche is a hundred year old virgin?" she laughed as I joined her.

"Well I don't know if he still is a virgin but he was" I said.

After a few more hours of talking, I fell asleep on the couch.


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