Half way through her glass of Godric's and Eric's blood, someone zoomed from the door and to the seat next to her.

"Oh my god, you must be Cristinana." A girl beamed in a Southern bell voice. Cris looked at her like a deer startled by headlights. Another girl came up to the table smiling, "I'm sorry if she startled you she does it a lot to people." She replied in the same accent as the other girl, Cris didn't say anything to them. A man walked up to the table a short time later, Cris could smell the Vampire in him.

"Are you Cris?" He asked in a deep southern accent.

"I am. Who are you?" She answered.

"My name is Bill Compton," He answered. "This is my betrothed Sookie and this is my child, Jessica." He introduced them.

"Nice to meet you all," Cris tipped her head. "Please sit. I suppose you are the ones Eric and Godric wanted me to meet."

"Indeed we are." Bill replied.

"So, how did you get tangled up with Eric and Godric?" Sookie asked.

"They bled me a few days ago." Cris said finishing her blood.

"And you're already drinking blood?" Jessica asked looking at the empty glass.

"Yeah, it's Godric and Eric's blood. Really quite delicious." Cris told her waving at Ginger to come over.

"Yes, Cris?" Ginger smiled.

"Do you have any tea here or is it just blood and alcohol?" Cris asked her.

"Uh, yeah we do have tea." Ginger nodded.

Cris smiled, "I'd like a cup of tea extra sweet." She told her. "Would you all like something?" she asked others at the table.

"Uh, yes, I'd like a bottle of O positive Tru Blood." Bill told Ginger.

"I'm okay." Sookie smiled.

"A bottle of A and B positive, please with a glass," Jessica said.

Ginger wrote the orders down on her little pad, "So O, A and B positive Tru Blood and a cup of tea with extra sugar, with an extra glass." She relayed back.

"Right." Cris nodded.

"Ok, I'll be right back with your orders." Ginger said going back to the bar.

Jessica whipped her head back around to Cris, "So how old are you?" she asked.

"Um," Cris became uncomfortable. "I don't know." She whispered.

Sookie leaned forward, closer to Cris, "How do you not know how old you are?" Cris strugged.

"Bill, is it possible for a person to lose their memory when two Vampires turn them?" Sookie asked looking at Bill in shock and confusion.

Bill shrugged, "I'm not sure. Someone being turned by two Vampires is very rare." he said.

"Oh my god." Sookie said turning back to Cris.

"So, where do you sleep?" Jessica asked. "Bill makes me sleep under the stairs."

"I sleep in my own room at Eric's house." Cris replied as Ginger set her hot tea in front of her. "Thank you." She whispered to her. Ginger smiled at her.

"I can hardly imagine having two makers. Bill alone sucks ass." Jessica groaned.

"Jessica." Bill snapped.

Cris laughed at the situation, "Its fun. I enjoy their company." She said. "Godric is very calm and soothing, he impresses me. Eric is soothing in his own way that I also like and he's interesting, all around the airs that they have I like very much."

Sookie grimaced, "I can't see anyone like Eric like that."

"He's something to get use to. It's easier to know him with Godric around. He seems to open Eric up more." Cris said watching Eric walk across the room from his office to the bar. She looked back through the open door of his office and saw Godric sitting by Eric's desk looking at her. A smile touched his lips when their eyes met.

"So, Jessica how old are you?" She asked the red head.

"Im seventeen." She replied mixing her blood together.

"How long have you been a Vampire?"

"7 months." She replied.

Cris snorted, "What's so funny?" Jessica asked. Cris shook her head, "Nothing."


Cris and Jessica spoke for a good hour, but soon a headache pressed against Cris's temples. Rubbing her temple she tried to figure out where it came from. She relaxed her mind hoping it work.

"Oh god I can hear her thoughts." She heard Sookie's voice in her head, then the pain of the headache went away. Cris looked over ar her confused, she gave expanding her mind to Sookie's a shot.

"Why is she looking at me like that? Shit, does she know that I can hear her thoughts? No, she can't she's a Vampire. But if she was I wouldn't have heard her thoughts, what is she?" Sookie's thoughts flooded Cris's mind.

"How do are we hearing what we're thinking?" Cris thought. Sookie's eyes widened hearing it in her mind.

"You can hear my thoughts?" She thought back to Cris.

Cris nodded her mouth dropped open slightly.

"Oh my god," Sookie whispered. "How is this happening?" Sookie asked.

"I don't know. I'm sorta scared." Cris told her.

Sookie reached out and touched Cris's hand, "You're so warm. Vampires are usually cold."

"I know."

"Can you hear anyone else's thoughts?"

"Like who's?"

"Uh, try Ginger's."

Cris moved out of Sookie's mind and jumped to Ginger's.

"Damn, vamps always slappin' my ass. Worse than humans and Eric don't pay me enough."

Cris laughed, "Yeah, I can. She's tried of people slapping her ass and Eric not paying her enough." Sookie laughed too.

"Ok, try a Vampire's."

Cris hesitated a bit, but picked Jessica's mind to check out, "Man, this isn't fair. She gets the cool makers and I'm stuck with Bill, plain old Bill Compton."

"Jessica is upset that I have Godric and Eric and she has and I quote 'Plain old Bill Compton.'"

"Oh my god, you can hear human and Vampire's thoughts. That's awesome." Sookie gwaked.

"You can't hear Vampire thoughts?" Cris asked confused.

"No, I can't. I'd have a better chance of hearing a rock's thoughts." Sookie told her.

"Great now, I'm more of a freak." Cris pouted pulling her hand away from Sookie and crossing her arms over her chest.

"What are you two doing?" Bill asked.

"Staring contest," Sookie lied.

"For a half hour," Jessica said raising an eyebrow.

"She's a Vampire. She doesn't have to blink if she don't want too." Sookie defended.

"And you blinked a lot." Cris said adding to the lie.

"I did not." Sookie protested.

"Did too."

"Not."

"Did."

"Not."

"Did."

"Stop it!" Bill demanded.

Cris stuck her tongue out at Sookie, "I won." She mouthed. "Whatever." Sookie mouthed back.

"Good pick up on the lie, Cris."

"Thanks, Sookie." Cris smiled.


Fangtasia was closed and everyone but Jessica, Bill, Cris, Sookie, Godric, Pam, Eric, Ginger, the bartender and bus boy left. Eric, Godric and Pam joined Cris, Sookie, Bill and Jessica at their table.

"How long did it take for you to finish the first glass?" Eric asked Cris pouring some of his blood in the same glass as before about half way before giving it to Godric to do the same.

"About 20 minutes." Cris said taking the glass from Godric and drinking some.

"Why are you two giving her your blood and not Tru Blood or someone else's blood?" Sookie asked.

"The blood from a Maker, or Makers in Cris's situation, is much better for the child," Bill explained. "It nourishes the child among other things."

"Then how come you didn't do it for me?" Jessica snapped.

"Well, I uh…" Bill stuttered trying to find the words to explain his lack of sharing his blood with Jessica.

"Now, Bill, Vampire breeding rules state that the first year and a half the blood a Vampire child should receive should come from their Maker to ensure everything goes right and nothing comes up missing or undeveloped." Eric said taunting Bill.

"I know that, Eric." Bille replied snidely. Eric gave him a sly smile.

"Huh, Eric?" Ginger whispered, looking rather afraid. Eric rolled his eyes to her. "What, Ginger?"

"The bar is $49.58 short." She told him.

Eric slammed the palm of his hand to the table, "Then I guess it's coming out of your paycheck." He yelled.

Cris's heart fluttered with fear and concern for Ginger, she worked so hard and dealt with so much in Fangtasia. Cris was positive with a quick look to her thoughts that it wasn't her fault the bar was short.

"Eric," Cris barely whispered, fears of him yelling at her all too real in his state and with her heart feeling so shaking and afraid, her hands shook from her lap. Eric didn't look at her, everyone else did though, but he still looked at Ginger like he wanted to disintegrate her with his eyes. Cris tried calming her nerves and her shaking heart and hands, before speaking again.

"Pappa," She mumbled. Eric's eyes blinked in confusion a few times before he turned to look at her. Cris gulped as his heavy gaze settled on her, "Det var inte hennes fel att ribban var ont om pengar." She said to him.

"Cris, what are you doing standing up to Eric. He maybe your Maker, but that own stop him from doing something bad to you. Something not even Godric can protect you from." Sookie said to her, but Cris blocked her out of her mind.

Eric's lips became firm with anger as he raised an eyebrow at Cris, everyone seemed to be waiting for him to fly off the handle with her, to hit her, anything and something. It made the room unbearable tense. The only one that seemed to enjoy it was Pam.

"And why do you think that, Cristinana?" Eric finally spoke and Cris winced a bit.

"I…I just…just do," She stuttered, her lips becoming dry.

Eric leaned closely to Cris's face, making her gulp a little hard and drop her gaze to the floor.

"Cris, tell me what you know about the bar being short money?" He commanded.

"I know that Ginger wasn't the one that shorted it."

"Did you do it?" Eric accused her.

The accusation made Cris's eye twitch a little bit and a low quiet growl come up from her throat. She eyes closed as a snarl formed on her lips. "You accuse me of stealing money when I have not moved from my seat since you put me here?" she hissed looking Eric dead in the eyes.

"You break my command?" Eric hissed back.

"What command?" Cris snapped. "You commanded me to stay in this seat, I have. You command me to tell you what I know of the money gone from the bar, I told you. You are the one that failed asking me why I know and how I know who actually took it."

Eric's hand shot out and easily wrapped around Cris's throat, "Are you challenging my authorities, child?" He yelled.

"I am questioning you authority." Cris said unaffected by Eric's hand almost crushing her throat.

"Then who did it? Who took the money from the bar, if you are so smart?" Eric challenged Cris.

"Lalo." Cris answered. Eric's eyes snapped to the bus boy, who froze at the table he was cleaning.

"Tyson, take Lalo to the basement." He ordered the bartender. Tyson grabbed Lalo by the arms and took him to the basement. "Maldita perra, debo matar a!" Lalo screamed in Spanish as he was dragged away.

"Eric, låt Cris gå nu. Hon har gjort vad du ville ha henne också." Godric spoke finally, breaking all the tension as he did. Eric released his hand from Cris's throat and settled back into his seat.

"Cristinana," Godric looked to Cris. "How did you know that Lalo took the money? You couldn't have seem him take it somewhere you're sitting."

"I read his thoughts when Ginger said the money was gone." Cris confessed.

"What, you can read minds too?" Jessica asked upset by it.

Cris nodded, "I found out this morning I could when you were in the shower and Eric and I were talking. I heard Eric's thought on something we talked about." She said. "I also found out I could do something else while you two were asleep."

"What else did you learn?" Eric asked, still mad.

"This," Cris said, disappearing and appearing on the other side of the room, then she popped back into her seat.

"Holy shit you're a jumper!" Ginger proclaimed.

"A what?" Sookie asked.

"What she just did, from one side to the other and back, is called Jumping. I had an ex boyfriend that could do that." Ginger explained.

"When you did it this afternoon, where did you go?" Eric asked.

"Well first I was standing by your guy's room trying to figure out how to go past the door without you hearing me and I said I wished I could go to the living room, the next thing I knew I was there. Then I tested it by going to the basement, got there. I was so excited I popped into Ireland…"

"Ireland?" Bill questioned.

Cris shrugged, "All I could think of. But it was raining there, so I came back. Then tried California, you know California has some great people. Love the sun too lots to do in it. Finally I popped back into the living room, then back to my room where I fell asleep again." She finished telling them.

"You were in the sun and it didn't hurt you?" Sookie asked astonished.

"Yeah, it was really warm. I like it." Cris nodded.

"That's not fucking fair." Jessica complained starting to cry. "Why does she get to do all the fun stuff?"

"Because she's a 5,000 year old Lobein that can do any damn things she wants." A voice called from the door.

"Iason, what brings you back?" Eric asked.

"I saw little miss thing over there pop into Ireland on my way home." Iason replied.

"5,000 years old, you look no older than Jessica." Sookie stated.

"She has the body of an eighteen year old because that's the age Godric and Eric turned her. She had the mind of a 15 years old, at times. But everything else is at 5,000 years old." Iason explained to her.

"Okay, what's Lobein? And how does she look like this for 5,000?"

"A Lobein is an ancient tribe member from the stone age. She looks young because every 100 or so years she dies like a human, but comes back as someone's though remember everything of the past lives. But now that's also a Vampire she will never age or die again."

"Did you know about her being able to jump place to place in a second?" Eric asked irritated.

"I did and she can do so much more than that. But I can't tell what they are, you have to learn them on your own like she does." Iason said. "Now I've said what I said, now I leave again."

Iason left and Eric and Godric turn to Cris, "We are talking about all this when we get home." Eric warned her.