Okay I'm sooo sorry for updating this chapter! I had a huge writers block and also some issues happened that kept me away from updating. Also I had trouble on how to explain what Rubi is. I had my original idea but then I changed it because it wouldn't make sense so I had my back up plan and had to do some research on it and it fit her perfectly! I kind of had to tweak the information a bit it. So once again I'm sorry for the long wait to the readers that are following this fic. Now I present chapter seven Rubi's Secret. I hope you enjoy!

-Eve

Chapter Seven: Rubi's Secret

The young girl carried her bags out the door while another girl begged her to stop.

It had been three weeks that Rubi had left the Hospital and two weeks that she took for resting and gathering her strength. The sun's heat wave created a nice shade of tan on both girls. Rubi wore a strapless green shirt with thick russet shorts. Sookie wore a yellow dress also showing skin. Each time that Rubi threw a bag in the trunk Sookie took it out. Rubi held the top of the trunk open with a frustrated look. She turned to Sookie and pulled her bags away from her and threw them back in the trunk. She slammed the trunk with a loud thud.

Sookie begged Rubi to stay but each time she tried to open her mouth Rubi would beat her to the punch and say something crude and hurtful. Both of the girls were on war with each other, well mostly Rubi, ever since the incident. Sookie tried to see through her saying but all were gibberish to her because half the time she didn't understood what she said. Sookie began to cry and Rubi stopped herself from getting in her car.

"Tell me where you are going?" Sookie cried. Rubi scratched her arm in guilt. "Why are you leaving?"

"Sook, I'm going to California." Rubi said and she got of the car. "I have to go back home and make the arrangements for the funeral." Sookie listened as Rubi explained, "I have to tell…my associates about what happened and I have a feeling they are not going to like it."

"You are going to tell your Hunter friends about what happened?" Sookie said in tone that made Rubi freeze.

"What do you know?" Rubi said giving up. She was tired of fighting with Sookie. She was tired of hiding. She was tired of everything.

"How long have you…?" Sookie wanted to ask but she wasn't sure if she should.

"Let's go in the house and I will tell you everything you want to know." Rubi said. Both girls walked back into the house. Rubi sat next to Sookie on the couch when they entered the living room.

"What do you know?" Rubi started. Rubi knew Sookie either had her own connections or fished it out of her mind either way she wanted her to come clean.

"I had to find out who was the man that died and why you reacted so violently. I asked Bill to check you out." Sookie confessed Rubi's brow went up. "He found out that you were part of a group that hunted down evil and the main creatures you hunt are Vampires. So we pulled the dots and realized that the house that Russell burned down was a Head Quarters for you guys. I also found out that your parents were killed by a Vampire in California when you were just thirteen. Sebastian," She paused when Rubi's hand clutched into a fist. Sookie took her hand with her hand and undid the fist, "he took you in. He showed you how to do everything? Like kill and all right?"

"He was my father." Rubi began, "he showed me how to kill and how to stalk my enemy. I became a killer the moment I agreed to be Sebastian's tool. At first he treated me like any other student of his; straight forward with the criticisms and regular harsh training. Then he realized my full potential he found out of my telepathic powers when I was thirteen. I kept it from him for some odd reason and he took me under his wing. I became his daughter then." She smiled when she said daughter.

"He helped me amplify my power so that I can use it as a weapon and for defense. From what he told me I was the first person that he knew that broke into a Vampire's secrets, his mind. I was eighteen when I first read a Vampire's mind. Of course I fucked up a couple of hundreds of Vampires before I got in their minds." Rubi gave a cold laugh it made Sookie shiver. "Now I can go in and out without doing any harm to them."

"Sebastian was so proud of me when I grew into the perfect killer." She turned to Sookie with a cold smile. "I was the perfect tool." She said it with a sarcastic tone.

"What happened?" Sookie wanted to know more.

"You are what happened. I found out you still lived in Bom Temp that I had to reconnect with you. To be the perfect killer you can't be tied by emotions or it will cloud your judgment and make the kill more difficult to happen. At that time I took a mission to kill all Vampires there. The contactor said that the Vampires there were evil and were killing each of you. I took the case because one it allowed me to kill the bastards and two it gave me a chance to see you. Of course Jackson and I played nice or tried to. We had to make sure that we didn't kill any innocents Vampires. My group we only kill evil and if we killed an innocent Vampire no matter how much we hate them there would be dire consequences.

We had to play it cool and figure out who was on the kill list. When I found out you were getting married to Bill I thought he Glamered you but then when I peeked into his mind he truly does love you. I never felt so much love in a Vampire. I knew killing him would be a mistake I would deeply regret. The other Vampires were fine such as Pam, Jessica, and Eric. There were few Vampires who were naughty. So Santa's elves came early and gave them what they deserved." Rubi sighed feeling her body light with everything laid out on the table.

"What is the organization called? Please don't let it be that one group that Jason joined few years back." Sookie said. Rubi laughed a real laugh.

"Oh please those morons? They tried to hire us for their 'army'. We don't work with anyone else but our own." Rubi smiled. "My organization is called the Protectors. I know nothing flashy or exotic but we keep to our name and protect the innocents."

"Oh. Well what are you going to tell them?"

"The truth of course what do you want me to say?" Rubi sighed, "They will know what to do and keep alert. They would probably send some people here to protect the people in Bom Temp and search for Russell. In the end Russell will meet the True Death." At that moment she sounded like King Bill. "They won't like the fact that we might work with Vampires but they will suck it up."

"Can I come with you?" Sookie suddenly said.

"To California?" Rubi said when Sookie nodded. "Why?"

"It would give me a chance to see what it is like." Rubi shook her head laughing at Sookie's excitement.

"I'll call in the private jet." Rubi pulled out her phone and ordered to have the jet over for five people. When the conversation was over Sookie asked why she told the other person on the phone to prepare for five people. "I'm not going to let you go to California where majority of the people are Vampires. You are going to need protection at night. So you can bring Bill and Jessica. Before you ask, Bill can tell my people more about Russell and what to expect and Jessica could learn how to fight from the best."

"Who's the fifth?" Sookie asked counting with her fingers.

"Pam, I need to talk to her and I can't allow him to interrupt. So in a way I'm kidnapping Pam." Rubi gave a small laugh. "We will leave in a few hours so call up your fiancée and your bride maid because you're going to California Sookie Stackhouse."

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It wasn't like Pam to leave without a word. Eric walked over his desk where a note was left. It was in her writing. The paper still had the fresh scent of the ink. Eric knew it wasn't written that long ago. He read over it several times before crushing it in his hands and threw it into the trash can. He didn't believe that she would leave without personally telling him. When she came back she had to tell him why she left without going to him first.

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The small group arrived at LAX airport without a problem. The ride to California was peaceful with few arguments and few crude comments from Pam and Rubi. The girls: Sookie and Jessica giggled when they saw the limo parked outside in a deserted area from the air port. It was a few feet away from the actual airport. Rubi poked her head out of the plane with her black sunglasses that covered half of her face. The sun was setting. She missed the cool breeze of her home. The sky was various layer of colors the result of the sunset.

The group walked over to the limo and the chauffer opened the car door for them. Jessica and Sookie thanked the man with a cute smile. Rubi embraced the chauffer as he welcomed her back home. Rubi thanked him and got in the car.

The chauffer took the group to a mansion that was covered with flowers and large gates. The gang gawked at its beauty. There were flowers of all kinds glowed from their shower of water that they had received not long ago. The trees where tall and huge, they made the small path way leading to the house. In the center of the path way were two stairs both leading to big silver doors. The Vampires stayed still when Rubi and Sookie passed through the gates with ease. There was that force again. They couldn't pass. Rubi turned around allowed them in with her words. The barrier opened up and the force was gone.

"I'm sorry we had a Witch create a barrier around the whole perimeter. We like to train outside and don't want to be caught off guard or be disturbed by…well we just want unwanted guest. The barrier allows any sort of good inside." Rubi explained as they walked up the path. "My father Sebastian had her made the barrier not to let in any Vampire inside even if they were good for the children's sake. The children are all grown well some of them. Don't worry they are taught to be respectful to everyone even Vampires." Rubi opened the silver door for the group. Sookie and the Vampires entered.

The entrance was just as beautiful as the outside. The floor was onyx with white crystals creating a symbol, the curtains were made from expensive silk, and the stairs were long and full and in the center covered with a light cover. The windows were opened letting the California breeze slip through freely. There were doors everywhere. Doors on each side and even more doors throughout the house not one room there was no door except for outside were it was free to roam around. It was fun to open each door but it was easily to get lost. Rubi remembered where each door led to. She knew the kids would be outside, the teenagers inside on the second floor for their rest. The bottom floor was mostly where the adults were.

A young woman came through one of the doors. She had a scar on her neck from an attack, her eyes were brown and they had a glow when they hit the light in a certain angle, her hair was short and to the side. She wore a tight brown leather pants with a knife attached to her left thigh, she wore a shotgun behind her back, her white shirt was tight against her light cream skin, and on her right fit arm was a tattoo of the symbol that was embedded on the floor in the entrance. The girl looked them narrowing her eyes at the Vampires. Rubi crossed her arms with a soft smile.

"I'm home." Rubi said to the girl. The girl loosened her guard and gave Rubi a brief hug. "I'm glad to see you too Ally."

"I was wondering when you were coming back. Who are the Stiffs?" Ally pointed with her eyes at the Vampires.

"They are friends listen I need you to gather everyone." Rubi pulled Ally to the side.

Sookie and Jessica walked around the area they were in. Each door they opened it lead to a different world. One door had a living space, another hand a library, and another had a dining area. Pam and Bill were on their guards because they knew how the Hunters worked. Even though they can trust them it didn't mean that they can loosen their guards just one bit. With their eyes they took note of all the openings and where traps could be. Sookie and Jessica came back gossiping about what the other floors might have.

"I'll take you guys to your rooms." Rubi announced when she and Ally were done talking. They walked up the stairs to the fourth floor where the rooms where. Rubi stopped at the end of the hallway that had the guest rooms. "Okay I hope you like your rooms I had them made to your likings. Wow I sound like one of those rich people." Rubi laughed as she opened the first door. The room was gigantic. Even the room had more doors. "Sookie and Bill this is your room." Sookie and Bill entered and looked around.

"Thank you Miss Nightingale." Bill said with a nod. Rubi felt weird being called by her last name. It brought memories from the past. She managed to smile and welcomed him. Rubi closed the door behind the couple and took Jessica and Pam to the other door.

"You're not going to pair me up with Pam are you?" Jessica began to pout.

"What's wrong with me?" Pam said in a cold manner. "You liked our time together at Fangtasia remember?" Pam eyed Jessica and looked at her up and down. Jessica brought her hand up to her face. Rubi imagined Jessica's face turn red from what Pam reminded her.

"Don't worry Jessica you are getting your own room but Pam is rooming with you." Rubi winked at Jessica when pouted. Rubi stepped close to Jessica and kissed her forehead. "Don't worry she won't do anything." Rubi promised her with that Jessica felt at ease and entered the room. In the mind of the young Vampire she was surprised that this was her room. Her room was almost like a house. There was a living area, a plasma screen TV on the wall, a bookshelf filled with books, movies, and just about anyone a teenager would love.

Rubi took Pam's hand and lead her back into the hall way and opened the door. "This is my room." The room was filled with books that were from the Viking area to the present, there was a fireplace on the end of the room, couches where made from the finest materials, and the bed was big enough to fit ten people. "You tormented Jessica a lot." She laughed. Pam grinned as Rubi found it funny.

"What were you talking to Ally?" Pam asked.

"I just need to gather everyone to talk about what happened."

"Where is your friend?" Pam had a tone.

"I don't know Jackson is probably having a hard time as well. He disappears time to time. I guess right now he needs to be alone." Rubi sighed. She let her body fall on the bed. She stared out the ceiling. The stairs made shapes in her mind. Pam fell next to her.

"Do you love Eric?" Pam's question caused Rubi to cough. The question caught her off guard. Pam was looking at her when Rubi turned her head towards her. "Don't say you don't because each time you caught him with Sookie you get cold and distant. When you are with him you seem to change. You look at him with eyes that had known him for a long time longer than me. When you went to the hospital you had a blood type and yet read minds. You are not a Fairy are you?"

Rubi lifted her body up and steadied herself with her elbows and went deep in thought. "I fell in love with Eric the first time I saw him." Pam's eyes opened when she spoke in the language that Eric taught her. Her pronunciation was clear and perfect. Rubi looked at Pam with an emotion that Pam never saw on her. Rubi's face had no emotions but her eyes were windows to her feeling. "You want to know what I am." It wasn't a question since Pam would have asked if she didn't say anything. Rubi inhaled deeply and then let the air out.

"You're right I'm not a Fairy. I'm something else." Rubi played with cover that was under her body. "I'm still human though. I don't posses any magical powers besides reading minds. I'm not a Witch. Of course I'm not a Vampire. My kind is not well known to anyone because we are rare. We are rare because it takes a grand toll of mental strength to keep coming back."

"Come back from what?"

"Death." Rubi got up and sat up, her long hair wanted to make a barrier when she looked down. Each time it did Rubi pulled her hair back. "We are called Old Souls. We come back to the living every couple of years or so depended on how much knowledge we gathered so can be complete and move on to the next level. On my case though I came back to get the knowledge but also my revenge each time I came back I got better at fighting, hunting, and killing. I took what I learned and put to use on protecting the innocents. I felt like I was obligated to do so because I couldn't protect my own people. " Rubi felt her wall chipping with each word that passed out of her mouth.

"We are not well known because no one knows that we exist. You can find us in some text books but there isn't a lot of information about us. We are rare because of what we become. We are also called Reincarnations."

"Why were you chosen?" Pam sat up straight gathering the information that was being given to her. "How do you keep coming back?"

"I don't know that answer. I just remembered waking up and seeing a face that wasn't my own mother. I was young probably sixteen when I found out what I was. I remember from my past life I always remembered at that age. I don't why though. I hate one thing about being reincarnated s that I never live long. I only live past my twenty-eighth birthday." Rubi laughed nervously her body began to shake. After a few moments she gathered her composer.

"The process is not easy." Rubi began to change the subject, "It's like your whole body is floating in the air and very peaceful. That is probably my most favorite part. Because in those few minutes I feel myself being recharged and ready for my next life."

"How did you die? Your first death I mean." Pam's question didn't catch Rubi off guard. In her past lives she never had anyone to tell her struggles when her world went into hell. Rubi was happy to tell her about it. Rubi thought she would be the only one to know the truth but with each life she lived she realized that fighting the world alone would only get her killed.

"I was twenty-eight when I died. After Russell attacked the village and killed Eric's parent's…"

"Wait. You knew Eric when he was human?" Pam interrupted then apologized.

"Yes trust back when he was human he was sweet, kind, and generous." Pam wanted to laugh at the face that Rubi made. In her face were a smile and the look of a person in love.

"Eric, sweet? Oh I would have died to see that." Pam said sarcastically. "Tell me everything from the beginning when he was sweet till the point you…died."

"When I was Viking I was called Cecil. My mother was a very delicate and didn't want me to fight. So anyways I fought Eric's father and I won. Then Eric followed me to my secret place where I go to have some alone time. There we had a small confrontation and we had sex. It was the most wonderful sex and he was my first. So after that we were a couple lasted a couple of weeks till he slept with another girl. After that I just grew angry at him and left him. I started to hang with this group of young Vikings.

He got jealous and heard rumors that I slept with one of them and he ended up going in between every female legs he could get. I got extremely mad that I was going to cause trouble but that's when Russell came. I heard my people cry out for help. I saw my brothers being killed and innocent people being ripped into shreds by him and…and his wolves. I never saw a single man kill our strongest fighters ever. What really got to me was that he had no mercy for the children. He killed them all." Rubi's eyes began to gleam with tears.

"When Russell got what he wanted his wolves and him disappeared. Later I knew that Eric's parents were killed. I vowed to him that I would kill the demon that did this." Pause, "I blamed him for being so distracted by the whores of the village but we managed to get along and rebuild our village again. Then we met another group of Vikings and we joined with them. The new Viking leader did not like the fact that I was a fighter. He had his ideas of women which I hated.

One night he stripped me my clothing and whipped me and tortured me saying I was the devil that I would cause trouble in the village. I wasn't accepted. He wanted to make me an example to woman that wanted to fight and have their own higher status. I was raped by him in front of everyone. I never felt so alone in my life. Eric didn't know what happened he was in battle. When he came back I couldn't look at him I wasn't me. Sure he heard rumors that I slept with the King and he hated me for it. So I was alone.

So one day I challenged the King of village into duel. The poor fucker oh I enjoyed kicked that mother fucker's ass. I won and everyone saw. After that I was back. I felt whole and free. That very night the King found me and tried to rape me again for showing disobedience. I felt his hands touching me but I just as I was about to turn around and fight he slapped the butt of his sword on my head. He threw me to the floor and held me down. I just laid there trying to get up. One of his hands grabbed my head keeping me down as I began to squirm. I felt his disgusting hand running over my ass then in between them. My arms tried their best to pull myself up but his hand pushed my face to the ground causing loud ringing in my ears and flashes of light appear in my vision.

He raped me again. I blamed Eric for it because he promised to protect me but he didn't. He left to battle leaving me, hating me, and wishing I was dead because of what the rumors had told him. After the rape I grabbed a small sword and went crazy." An eerie smile appeared on Rubi's lips and her whole features when dark with rage.

"I killed him but before I did I made sure he witnessed the pain that he put me through. I sliced off his dick then his balls and shoved them down his throat. After that I grabbed the dagger and shoved it inside him echoing his words that he told me while he rapped me. I loved his screams. I enjoyed the pain that I caused him. In a way I rapped him with his own small sword." She giggled.

"Then when I got bored I sliced his fucking throat. I knew I would have been killed by the other members from the King's village but the people that survived from my village helped me escaped. They sent me off and I went on the run. Eric never knew what happened and I made our people swore not to tell him. I glad that they kept their promise. So I joined a new village that accepted me as a fighter. I went to battles and had my share of being a hero. Then that's when I saw Eric for the last time before I died. He didn't see me though. He two of his fellow friends from the village he was in came passing by trying to merge our village but the Queen of the village convinced her husband not to because she did not want the same to happen to her own sisters what happened to me.

Eric went home confused and insulted. I wanted so bad to call out to him but I was close on figuring out Russell's location that I went quiet.

I found the castle that Russell lived and took out many of his guards. When it came to Russell and me it was a long battle. One I remember it very vividly. I was going to kill him when one of his wolves came from behind me and pushed me away. I killed the mangy mutt but Russell got a hold of me. He drained my blood but he found it amazing that I didn't die. Then grabbed my sword and pierced it in my heart. You'd think that Russell would stop there huh? Well no. He took out my heart and fed off it as if he wasn't full. Then he spat the blood on my face. Then I felt my body drifting away into the darkness, my thoughts faded, and my body began to shut down." Dark Rubi quickly changed to Normal Rubi. Pam felt sorry for the poor Soul that went through all that.

"I will kill that bastard of Russell. He would never touch you I promise. I will not let you die."

"Or us." Sookie's voice came from the door way. Rubi and Pam turned around and saw the Sookie, Jessica, and Bill outside the door. Rubi's spirit quickly went up to guard her. "Don't shut us out Rubi because I know you. Every time you shut yourself you become distant and I can't let you fight this alone. I don't think Pam would either or Eric." Sookie kneeled down cupping her friend's face.

"Rubi you may have your reasons for fighting alone but you have friends, yes I do consider you as friend that wants you to get past this. I will do all of my power as King of Louisiana to help you on getting your revenge." Bill smiled. Jessica had red stains all over her face. How long where they standing there?

"We heard everything." Jessica spoke trying to hold back another set of tears.

"Rubi let us help you." Pam went behind her and embraced her resting her face on Rubi's shoulder.

Rubi broke down in tears hugging Sookie and sobbed. She wanted their help but if she accepted their help would it make her vulnerable?

"Don't tell Eric please." She choked, "if you don't tell Eric I will let you help me."

The group looked at each other no one answered or said a word. They all agreed. Eric would not know. This would be their secret.