Disclaimer: I do not own True Blood or any of its characters; if I did I would be snuggled up with Eric
Chapter Seven
Groggily I opened my eyes and winced at the pain in my face even though it was fading fairly quickly thanks to Eric's blood, I took in my surroundings and realized that someone else was in my underground cell, there was only a dim light from various candles outside of the cell but I recognized him very quickly, Godric.
He was even more gorgeous in real life, he was sat cross-legged in the corner staring at me, he was wearing white linen pants and a matching top which was open enough to easily see the tattoo's around his neck line.
"Godric" I stated unnecessarily, when I finally regained the ability to speak coherently
"Yes, how do you know of me human?"
"I-I work for Eric, as his PA, we came to Dallas to help find you, but I was caught off guard" I replied sheepishly
"Ah yes, Alexander Williams Eric told me of you last year, Pamela thinks you make Eric less grumpy" he said after a few seconds contemplation.
I chuckled before wincing in pain "I can smell my child's blood in you now that I think about it. He never mentioned that he'd claimed you" he seemed upset that Eric would keep something like that from him.
"Eric hasn't claimed me, he's never had my blood, and after a few threats to my life he started giving me a few mouthfuls of his blood to keep me safer. It didn't help much today"
Godric nodded "I take it they will all be charging in here at sunset?"
"Yeah, may I ask you two questions?" I didn't want to make him angry being a 2000 year old vampire
"You may" he seemed bemused at what questions I could possibly ask him.
"Why did you let them do this to you? I'm not naïve, you could leave here anytime you wanted and my second question is how you are awake at…?"
"A quarter to five in the afternoon?"
"Yeah" I deducted that I'd been out cold for about ten minutes after I was punched in Newlins' office.
"I'm awake because of my age, I can choose whether or not to succumb to the dawn, I do feel mostly compelled to sleep between eleven and three when the sun is at its strongest, and the first question is harder to answer"
I was fascinated by Godric, but I wasn't kidding myself like the vampires of Dallas, Godric had not been kidnapped, it was impossible for a bunch of bible thumping humans to kidnap a 2000 year old vampire.
"I'm tired of this existence, the things I've done during my life are…deplorable. The FOTS would have tried to kidnap another of my area if I had not given myself to them" tears came to my eyes as Godric answered my questions, Eric had told me a few of the things he and Eric had gotten up to over the years so I knew he wasn't a saint, but it would be impossible to live for as long as he'd done without doing some damage to others. But then I remembered something the FOTS had obviously not told Godric.
"They murdered Farrell yesterday" I said softly.
Godric's head snapped up and I could clearly see the anger swirling in his grey eyes but his body language was calm.
"Why would Eric send you, even though you consume his blood regularly you are human and therefore fragile"
"I have two gifts, I would have used one of them except for the fact that the man snuck up behind me and I had no chance to retaliate" he did something that I could tell Eric had copied from him which was raise one eyebrow with a slight disbelieving look in his eyes.
"With your permission?" I asked not willing to hurt Godric without his consent, he nodded slightly and without thinking about it and wimping out I let loose my gift on the guy I had a major crush on.
Godric immediately clutched his head and his fangs sprang out, I was so surprised that I let go of my gift and he almost immediately let go and looked at me in wonder.
"How long can you keep that up?"
"I've never tested it extensively, but in working for Eric I've used it up to half an hour on someone, the thing is with humans they start bleeding from their noses and pass out. I've never had to use it on a vampire for long"
"You mentioned two gifts"
I didn't even think about not telling Godric about my telepathy, he seemed like a naturally trustworthy person.
"I'm also a telepath, I can read human minds with no problems, were's are a bit more difficult but readable and vampires are entirely blank to me" Godric had a look of respect in his eyes as he said
"You are indeed a very powerful person Alexander; didn't Eric also mention another telepath, a woman?"
"Yes, Sookie Stackhouse, unfortunately she grew up resenting her telepathy and as consequence of that, her gift is weak when it comes to control"
It was odd about how for the next three hours Godric and I talked, and talked, and talked we seemed to get on like a house on fire and I was dying with curiosity about whether Godric was opposed to entering a relationship with a man, a human man. But from what I could tell, he didn't see me as an idiot like most vampires saw humans.
"It is sunset, Eric is awake, he will be here soon" said Godric in the middle of our discussion about the different uses of telepathy. One thing we had skirted around was Godric's suicidal tendencies.
At that moment a very big, bald man walked into the cellar, my gut told me he was the one who had punched me.
"Aw, damn! I was hoping you'd be vamp chow by now" the first thought that I saw in his head was that the Newlins had put me in here for Godric to kill to make him more repentant than he already was.
The man leered "at least I got to cop a feel while you were out cold" I blanched feeling sick that he had touched me whilst I was defenceless. In the corner of my eye I saw Godric stiffen and if I wasn't mistaken a low rumbling growl was coming from his direction.
I barely thought before using my power on the man, from his thought's I knew he was called Gabe, he fell to the floor screaming and clutching his head with his legs twitching.
I stopped when Godric put his hand on my shoulder; it had been about a minute. Godric stepped forward reached through the bars of our cell and snapped Gabe's neck.
"Thank you" I whispered shaking as I recalled Gabe's memories of touching me.
Suddenly I heard screams from upstairs "Vampires!" "Demons!" I rolled my eyes at the predictability of it all.
Godric helped me sit down back in 'our' corner; it would be a while before we were found anyways. "Tell me about your childhood" surprisingly we hadn't talked much about our pasts in the last three hours.
"Well, I was pulled out of kindergarten for torturing a boy for stealing my crayon, and for the rest of my schooling career I had private tutors which is how I graduated early. I have a second cousin who is a witch, and my parents worked for vampires so I lived in a very liberal and accepting house. I have no siblings but I always wanted an older brother, Eric is without a doubt my older brother these days"
Godric listened intently to my quick rundown of my childhood, he chuckled at my comment about Eric before saying "I can feel my child getting closer to our location, I will let him open the door to our cell, I have no desire for more silver burns today" he nodded towards the silver plated bars keeping us in. I hadn't noticed the burns on his arms from where he'd snapped Gabe's neck, but they had nearly disappeared now.
I could also feel Eric's proximity to us just before he nearly pulled the cellar door off its hinges and ran vampire speed over to our cell.
Pam, Isobel and Stan weren't even two seconds behind him.
A melee of voices began speaking all at once I only managed to understand two words: Alex and Godric.
Sookie being the practical one stepped over to Gabe's corpse and fished the cell key's out of his pocket before opening the door for us, Pam and Eric immediately began checking me over for damage whilst Stan and Isobel began fretting over Godric repeatedly asking him if he needed blood.
The next half an hour was a mystery to me as Eric made sure that Sookie and I were guarded by the cars by Tony and Jerome whilst everyone else went back into the church, but from what I gathered only three or four humans were killed and there were no vampire casualties whatsoever.
Sookie immediately hugged me when we were 'safe'
"I'm so sorry, I got your message and told Jerome but he was nearly caught and we had to leave quickly, we had to wait until sunset until we could do anything. And I have no idea where Bill is"
Jerome's thought's immediately caught my attention, I saw Lorena, Williams' maker entering the hotel and going to Bill's room whilst Sookie was busy fretting over me in the lobby.
How am I going to break this to her? I thought as she caught sight of her brother and ran over to hug him.
