Chapter 7
I fell through the book landing right on Sookie's door step stumbling slightly on the stairs though that was better than landing on my arse like last time which was saying something in particular. Last time it had hurt this time it just jarred my legs more than I would have preferred though. I just shook my head and tried to get my head to stop spinning like I was in a tornado and get the feeling of just getting off of a roller coaster and tilt-a-whirl at the same time, man that feeling always sucked and I don't know why I got those on occasion sometimes. When it gets bad is when I end up throwing up or when I end up being thrown back by the force of whatever was wrong with me but it only happened on occasion.
"Who the hell are you? You can't just show up out of the blue and just stand on some random person's door step and think you can just stay." Came an angry voice from behind me which of course I turned to look and saw someone close to my age maybe a little older with blond hair and brown eyes though smaller in height of me but that didn't bother me that much.
"I am Selene Nox. I do apologize for just appearing like this, I don't know how I managed to get into this dimension I just appeared here and I had a massive headache and my head was spinning thus making it hard to actually try to move when my head feels like I am moving when I am not. I didn't want to stay, Sookie, I just got here." I said as I looked at her with confusion on my face wondering if she was able to hear my thoughts.
"Well, now it's good to know your name. What do you mean you just fell through into this dimension? A person can't just fall into something that is unheard of. That sucks with headaches. Now wait just one minute how can you know my name I haven't given you my name." she said though I didn't want to freak her out to much in regards to the fact that I knew her every thought and everything that has happened in every book, almost.
"I would like to know how I managed it myself then if I figured it out I would be able to go back to where I belong but hey, guess what I don't know how…yet. Though one day I will manage to fully understand the ability. That's what I thought at first till of course I became a vampire but that doesn't mean very much concerning my dimension hoping ability that I have. It does but I will manage without any problems but it isn't like it is too horrible now. I know you in many ways though I can read minds and the fact that I can access your memories." I said though I wasn't really sure if it was true with her yet but as I looked at her I pushed my mind to attempt to access and reach her mind which was when I touched her mind and freaked out though it wasn't outwardly seen that I could see her mind and I started to go through her memories as well.
"Hey! Stop that! I can feel you doing that!" Sookie said as she sent some mental force Selene's way as Selene explored but soon pulled out ashamed that she had even entered Sookie's mind though she couldn't help it she had actually enjoyed the exploration and she couldn't help but smirk.
"I am sorry I didn't mean to enter your head so forcefully though I thought it wouldn't hurt that much, If it did, I do apologize. I didn't know how that would work with a mind like yours before." I said in all honesty.
"Really? Did you say that you were a vampire? However I can still hear your mind but it can't come all the way through like a normal human's mind, though I shouldn't be able to hear a vampire mind either." She said, a strange look came on her face that made Selene wonder what she saw.
"Yes really. Usually, until recently, I wasn't open to human thoughts or being able to hear them completely I could vaguely guess what they would say without using the ability. They have just started to show on their own part now that I became a vampire. Yes I am though I am not what you would say a normal Vampire, not like your Bill or Eric or even Pam." I said genuinely.
"Why don't you come in and talk. Do you want anything?" she asked opening the door for me to enter though I walked normally but didn't want to speed walk like the other vampires did almost every time either.
"Sure. I am good I ate before dropping through the dimension which I am still wondering about myself. I can tell why Eric and the other vampires like you so much, despite the smell of your blood." I said as I sat down on her couch as she went into the kitchen to grab a bottle of water and came back in.
"I still don't understand though the whole dimension thing though wonder how that occurs though. I am expecting to have a ride from Bill and Eric, I have a job with them in Dallas, it pays well but it is a job none the less." She said and that was when it dawned on me.
"Do you think I could come? I mean I wouldn't need the plane ride I could just run there to Dallas and meet you there. I am not allergic to the sun like your Vampires though I do require blood but I can live off of animal blood however human blood is preferred though I can survive off of the animals. I would be able to better assist you." I said getting excited at the idea but then I could feel her doubt rolling off wondering if it was in her right to say yes when she didn't know how Bill or Eric would take that with adding a strange new Vampire in the mix.
"I would have to ask Bill and Eric before I personally could say yes but then again it could help us too rather than hinder us in this regards. So…when did you start reading, well hearing thoughts?" she asked curiously.
"You can always ask and we can communicate more or less efficiently regardless of telepathy so that it would be easier too. I started hearing human thoughts more clearly since just recently, you're the first person I could actually hear clearly but with practice I think it will get better over time." I said hoping I could get better quicker.
"Well I could always help you, I find it fascinating that someone else has this ability! I have never met anyone else who could use telepathy like me and be able to see memories either though." She said excitedly at the very thought of being able to hear someone else through brain waves and I didn't blame her and I would want that too, if I hadn't been able to communicate with someone who also could hear you either.
'So what are your plans in Dallas? Are you going to try to find someone in specific or to try to figure out something?' I asked telepathically, though easier but a little sluggish but it came out clearer then the first time I tried to push into her mind to read her thoughts.
'Hey you're kind of getting the hang of it. Well Eric wants me to figure out something with the Fellowship of the Sun which is kind of like a cult thing believing that Vampires are horrible and cruel.' She said back excitedly and that was when there came a knock on the door which ended up to be both Bill and Eric at the same time.
"Well, this is interesting. Who is this Sookie? I didn't think you were going to receive any visitors this late at night. Who are you?" Eric asked bluntly looking down at me darkly.
"Don't you dare take this visit of mine out on Sookie mister rough and tough and all dark and moody. I am Selene Nox. Sookie was just as shocked as you are by my visit and for me as well." I said darkly glaring at him though I tried to pretend not to be a little afraid but then again I wasn't sure how this would play out.
"Don't push me child! I could snap your neck if you push me to hard." Eric growled at me and I glared at him my eyes burning a blue violet.
"Go ahead and try me Eric I would love a challenge right now." I said getting up from the couch so quick that it made Sookie blink but it didn't faze Eric though it made Bill blink.
Eric growled and lunged at me, the next thing I knew was that a bright light flashed from both of my hands flinging Eric back and sending him into the kitchen. Though after that I just stood there watching him struggle to get up from my apparent light blast that I gave him which was saying something. I was shocked by my sudden attack that I wasn't sure how I managed to do that attack in the least I just was trying to explain it to myself when Bill decided to get in front of Eric, who managed to get up and lunge at me again to prevent him from attacking.
"We don't have time for this Eric if we have to catch the flight. Sookie why don't you get your bags and then we could go catch the flight." Bill said as Sookie stared at me with a large question mark on her face which I didn't blame her I had several questions to because I was confused by what just happened.
How did that happen when I don't even know how those powers came about…but then why was I getting those visions of my mother's past, my past too? I was totally confused at how these things were going and I would like to know why those memories or visions were coming about and what the meaning of them truly meant. However, Bill was right, they were needing to catch a flight to Dallas, and I was going to run there and not worry about it since the light of the sun didn't bother me like them. Plus I knew that I wasn't affected and wouldn't die by the sun but I wondered what would destroy my kind of Vampire as well.
'Are you still going to Dallas? Because it would help immensely if you could go and help out because if you use your special abilities it would be nice to have on the side for during the day.' I heard Sookie who was on the second floor ask me.
'Of course I just won't take the flight I would have a problem with Eric and possibly Bill and I don't want the run anyway.' I told her still glaring at Eric who still wanting to attack me which, to my surprise, could read their minds as well.
"You smell real good. What are you? Do I know who you are?" asked Eric who looked suspiciously at me.
"First off I am a vampire, just different compared to you, though. I have speed and strength and command but I am a newer type of vampire a newer breed. Plus I don't know exactly why I smell good to you though if I think of it I have to be something similar to Sookie before I turned." I said thinking but I wasn't sure that it was true but with similar abilities, why not?
"So you're a vampire? How strange you're not like us though but yet you have similarities like us. Do you burn up in the sun?" asked Bill who looked at me with curiosity. He walked over and examined me like I was a science experiment which is weird to me and that was something I didn't want right now.
"Yes I was just turned maybe two weeks ago roughly. I do not I can't burn up in the sun like you guys do, I am not affected like you are in the sun. It is nice to walk in daylight and in darkness and I don't have to sleep either." I said and I could tell that he was thinking about using me to protect Sookie.
"Eric we should bring her along, if she comes she would be able to protect Sookie during the day when we are asleep and we could give her a break at night when we awaken. It would be a good idea to do so." Bill turned to Eric with this idea and he had this strange look in his eyes that meant he was thinking.
"I know you don't trust me Eric but it is a good idea then you both wouldn't have to worry about her I could keep tabs on her and then we would have a better chance at doing whatever job you have to do and you wouldn't have to worry about Sookie." I said trying to persuade Eric to let me go on the plane though it would be safer with me to go then without eyes and the strength and speed I could provide during the day light that they couldn't give her which I could easily do and it wouldn't be such a big ordeal to me, it would be almost fun.
As they landed Amber was freaking out on the landing, not only was she back in the United States but that would mean that she would be seeing Gerard again and she would be able to talk to him maybe if he would allow her to. She knew that he was still very unstable with the vampire abilities that Selene had given him and that he was most likely freaking out about how Selene had turned him, though she needed to see him regardless. Maybe she could help him with this new ability, she would be wrong on that and that she wouldn't be able to help him except cause problems with him and his previous girlfriend Lindsey (Lynz).
"Well maybe we will be able to talk to Gerard when we get there. Ha, maybe he is with Lynz and that he needs his space though." Said Frank smirking slightly his eyebrows moving up and down indicating that he could be doing something else rather than just talking with Lynz.
"Oh for heaven's sake Frank he maybe with Lynz but I doubt that he would do anything with her yet. I doubt he would go that far regardless of how far apart and the length of time they haven't seen each other that would lead them to doing that." Ray said playfully punching Frank in the arm making Frank punch him back lightly.
"Well he could but then again Ray is right he wouldn't do that with Lynz until he is ready and I know he has been talking a lot about going forward with her, he just never gave a time frame with it." Mikey said shouldering his bag on his left arm.
"Even if he was with Lynz I just hope that he is safe and that he wouldn't do anything overly stupid with her." Amber said as she grabbed her bag and glanced at Frank who looked at her oddly.
"Do you honestly know more than we do about our dear Gerard? It is kind of weird that you said that making me believe you know what is going on with him then what you are offering up." Mikey said a little bluntly.
"It is not my place to tell you what is going on with him, if he wants to tell you that is his business it is not mine and if he wants to tell you that is entirely up to him to do so and I will not offer up any secrets that he might have shared with me to you. You will need to ask him when you see him." She said a little harshly then what she wanted to but that didn't seem to relieve Mikey any.
"Mikey, your tired just give him a rest will you? We all are stressed out and the fact that you are accusing her of secrecy that she may not want to share is what she is not going to give unless Gerard wishes. She is right, Gerard will tell us when he feels it necessary." Ray said pulling Mikey with him as they walked away leaving Amber with Frank who had snuck up behind her and put some plastic spiders in her purse to freak her out.
"So do you think he is ok Amber? We are all just worried for him but Mikey did talk to him." Frank said watching Ray and Mikey walk to the exit where a car was waiting for them.
"He is fine he just probably is stressed and with Lynz as Ray said just talking though and that he probably just wanted to see how she was after being away so far away. I know, I am worried about him too but he should be strong enough and wise enough to eventually be ok, just needed time to think.
"Yeah maybe. I just think there is a bigger picture to this whole thing then what is being offered up and I think you are not telling us but I don't like accusing people of something when it could just be you made a promise not to. I respect that." Frank said as they followed Mikey and Ray.
"Thanks Frank, at least you and Ray are the ones that actually feel that way I am just getting tired of feeling like I am the one everyone doesn't offer anything to or that they are just accusing of something that is not mentioned." Amber said re adjusting her bag.
Gerard was running to the airport though it was daylight he was happy to find out that he wasn't affected by the sun, which Selene probably knew but since she wasn't near enough to tell him that and he didn't blame her since his reaction was horrible and she had left right after. Well and even when he reawakened it probably was best that she wasn't there at the time and he would eventually have to ask her for her forgiveness down the line but until then he had to get to Amber. He needed to get her out of the state and find a remote place somewhere in the middle of some forest to save her from Lynz though she, Lynz, always seemed to be able to find him. That was when he saw his gang's flight land right on time and he hoped that Amber was with them, that they hadn't just left her there but then again, if they had left her, she would have been safe in Australia.
He waited outside then when he saw them walking towards the car that they would have taken to get home he saw Amber talking with Frank which was a good thing too and then he was glad he was wearing plain clothing and wasn't standing out and covering himself to look different. He rushed and grabbed Amber and took her so fast that Frank didn't see it happen and Amber was shocked for like three minutes wondering what was going on.
"Gerard? Oh my gawd we were all worried about you and Mikey is freaking out and blaming me for everything and the fact that he thinks that I know something, even though I do and they want to know what is going on with you. You need to talk to them soon." Amber said in a rush though she knew that he heard her even though there was a lot of wind but with vampire hearing it didn't bother them as much since they were able to hear everything.
"I will down the line Amber but until then I can't risk it with them right now, their lives matter a lot to me and I don't want to put them at risk from the other humans knowing what I am and right now you are at risk from everyone if they find out what Selene and I are right now. I have to find Selene soon, I have so many questions about our abilities that I have no idea what we are capable of doing and I do need to apologize to her too." Gerard said finding the boarder of Canada and finding an area where it was closed off with an abandoned log cabin which was obvious with how the grass around the cabin was untouched for many years by how long it has become.
"Well you better let them know soon because Mikey seems to have some instability right now and it would be nice for him to know what is going on with you. I told him that you would need to tell him personally tell him. I couldn't because I could see where it would be something that is on the hush hush." Amber said as she looked at the cabin being put down gently by Gerard on the ground. She worried that he would forget that she was something that was weaker than he was now since she was a human which she was glad that he was gentler a little.
"I am sorry I had to bring you up here I needed to protect you from Lynz and I didn't want you to be involved with her she would try to harm you if she knew anything about you and right now I can't let that happen not now not ever. She would destroy you." He said walking up to the cabin and opened up the door, thankfully it was unlocked and he would have to get some food for her to eat too. Gawd why was life just becoming harder and harder.
