Alcide drove slowly following her from a distance his eyes watery and burning from the pepper spray but he managed to make it to her house without driving off the road, he pulled his car into the woods on the other side of the cemetery and walked the path to her house. His plan was to wait for her to realize he had text all of her friends canceling her dinner party and then he would pounce on her when she least expected it, he watched her from the woods pacing and biting her nails he couldn't believe how much she had changed since he saw her last her hair was longer and she gained a few pounds but what bothered him most was the strength he could see in her eyes.

His Sookie wouldn't have dared to pull out a can of pepper spray let alone actually spray him, she carried herself with so much confidence as she walked away from him in the grocery store it took all his strength not to put his hands on her then but what fun would that have been. Finally he saw the panic set in her as she looked out the window for the hundredth time this was it he had her right where he wanted her, Alcide took a step from the woods behind her house but stopped suddenly when he heard the gravel crunching under the weight of a truck that was pulling up the driveway.

He stepped back into the brush crouching down out of view as he watched Eric Northman walk up the back porch and knock on the door, he couldn't hear what was said between them but his anger pulsed through him as he watched her laugh with Eric as the got into the truck. Alcide followed them to the restaurant fighting the urge to ram his car into the back of the truck and drag her out like a rag doll, he watched Eric open the door for her and pull out her chair while she smiled like an idiot the entire time his chest pounded as he pictured taking a knife and making that smile permanent how would Eric like her then he wondered.

It was easy staying out of sight just like Sookie to watch the front door while he snuck in the back he was always a step ahead of her at least that hadn't changed, when he walked through the crowded restaurant he caught the movement out of the corner of his eye "that bitch" he said to himself walking directly over to the table. She was kissing him her lips were on his and she was enjoying it that was it she was going to pay somehow, he stood waiting for the two of them to separate not wanting to make a scene in front of all of these people so he cleared his throat and waited for the two of them to separate.

Sookie giggled as she apologized to him thinking he was the waiter and he couldn't help but smile as the expression on her face changed to horror when she realized it was him, his anger was boiling over and he didn't dare move a muscle for fear that he would wrap his hands around her throat and squeeze until her neck snapped. "Alcide wow man how nice to see you" Eric stood from his seat and held out his hand for him to shake it, he couldn't move as he played out several scenarios in his head the first involved tearing Eric's arm off and beating him with it before turning to Sookie and fucking her while everyone watched as he treated her like the whore she was.

The second one involved him taking a little walk to his car and coming back and blowing her brains out in front of her precious Eric, he knew back in high school there was something going on between them but she denied it every time "once a whore always a whore" he thought to himself. Alcide gathered his thoughts and settled on plan c he lifted his hand shaking Eric's while still staring at Sookie, "yeah sure nice to see you too and here with Sookie just like old times" he smiled at Sookie as she fidgeted nervously offering to end her date with Eric but of course the cocky blonde prick brushed Alcide off so they could continue their date.

Alcide turned and walked toward the door seeing red he fought the urge to drag her with him again, he turned back blowing a kiss at her one last attempt to make her anxious enough to end their date but it back fired as he watched the two of them order their food and continue their conversation. By the time Alcide pulled his care into the woods behind Sookie's house again he couldn't control himself anymore thoughts of them together kissing, Eric touching her, her smiling at him, "that fucking bitch" he screamed into the night, before he knew it he was standing in her living room his blood boiling as he waited for her to return from her date but as time ticked away the thoughts of them together were getting worse.

His hands grabbed at things around the room tearing and crushing them as he walked room to room but still he saw them together in bed where he stabbed them over and over on the couch where they kissed and touched before he saw them in half, it seemed like hours before he felt calm and when he looked around the house he laughed at the damage he had done. Alcide could hear the gravel crunching as they pulled onto the driveway as he ran from the house and into the woods, he waited watching the two of them lurk through the house her crying and him playing the knight in shining armor.

Eric wrapped his arms around her and the site of him touching her was almost too much to bear, Sookie was his she always has been and that would never change he was tempted to step form the woods to let her see him and take things from their but he sirens in the air told him it was better to wait. Alcide could hear Sheriff Andy as he brushed the two of them off and he nearly laughed when he asked if they had any evidence proving he was the one responsible that was Andy he was never much of a cop even in his younger days, Sookie yelled something at the sheriff and stomped off into the house where Alcide hoped she would stay for the night alone but again he underestimated Eric.

He watched from the tree line as Sookie gathered her things and Eric helped her into his truck he could see the sadness in Sookie's eyes as they pulled away but it wasn't enough he wanted her in pain, he had been following her for years and done everything he could to keep to himself the men she took home and fucked were peons the never stood a chance when he showed up. The first one didn't even try to protect her when he snuck into the house surprising him in the shower while Sookie slept he cried begging for his life and offering her to him for his freedom, Alcide beat and tortured him for him for his weakness until he was sure he would never step foot near his Sookie again.

The next two were a little more creative number two even put up a fight but smelling Sookie's perfume on him only made it all the more easy for Alcide to pound on him, number three swore they were just friends when he questioned him in the bar but when he watched the two of them go up the stairs together and the noises the moaning was just too much. That was the first time Alcide had ever killed and he swore he would let Sookie go after that but when the phone call telling him she was home living in her grans house and talking to Eric, He had to come Sookie was his they were still married and no matter how many woman he fucked he always thought of her, smelled her, tasted her and only her.

Alcide waited for Andy to pull away before he crept back into the house where he spent the next couple of hours straightening up it would need to be in order if they were going to live their together once he got rid of Eric, fixing what he could he threw the rest of it in the garbage or hauled it away through the night. Early the next morning he sat on the back porch working out the kinks in his plan he knew he needed to be ready for Eric the cocky blond wouldn't just let Sookie go he would have to kill him first, Alcide had no clue where Eric lived and he could only imagine what the two of them where doing together and he did over and over for the next couple of hours.

His temper was getting the best of him and he needed to keep himself busy until Sookie came home again, he moved his car further into the woods grabbing a duffle bag from his trunk tonight was the night he would get his Sookie back he told himself as he showered and crawled into the cot in her attic. Alcide slept for most of the day hoping she would come home alone at some point in the day feeling confident enough in her little alarm system to let her guard down and then he will have the element of surprise, night fell quickly and it was the sound of crickets chirping in the open field behind the house woke him and seconds later he was infuriated that she hadn't been home yet.

He had no clue where Eric lived now but he remembered the house his father lived in when they were younger, Eric's father was hardly ever home and his mother had left years before so his house became the hot spot for parties through their teen years. He would never have allowed Sookie to go to the parties but he had gone to all of them and even hooked up with Eric's sister Pam a couple of times before he and Sookie were married, he was sure he could find out where Eric lived with just one phone call but then someone would know what he was up to and that never works out good so Alcide dressed quickly and jumped into his car heading for the house in Shreveport.

The house looked dark but not empty with a well-kept garden in the front and an in ground pool in the back it was a gorgeous home and it looked like it had been built onto since they were younger, Alcide walked quietly around the house looking through the windows as he went. He made to the back of the house peeking through the down stairs window to the right of the house it was Eric's as a teen and that was where he saw them, his arm wrapped around her tightly and her head snuggled on his chest they slept holding each other close like they had been together for years.

Alcide stood watching as the night went on and he could picture them together in his mind Eric touching her, kissing her, her wanting him his fist clenched tight and everything in his body told him to go inside and do what needed to be done but that wasn't the plan. She needed to learn a lesson to suffer he wanted Sookie to be his but he wanted her to obey him bend to his will but so much had changed in her could he still control her like before or would she make him kill her, he looked back through the window and watched Eric slide out of bed and he knew it was now never.