Well, I just want to say that I hate Bill Compton, I don't want to see this character ever again 'cause he's not the hero but I don't think he's gonna be a great villain.
I just hope Eric kills him slowly. :D :D
Here is the new chapter. Enjoy.
Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Eric POV
The first thing that appeared on TV were the images of some of the factories of synthetic blood after being bombarded.
Compton's idea was well received and they all seemed eager to start working. Everybody but me. I knew I couldn't trust the pathetic excuse of vampire that Bill Compton was but I never imagined his betrayal would come to the point of turning himself against humans and to strictly follow Sanguinistas beliefs of the rest of members of the Authority.
Everyone was totally insane and the scene before me was not getting better when they had a naked man chained on the conference table.
"An excellent plan," Salome said with emotion in her voice. "Very soon there will be nothing but dust and debris, and humans and the world will be ours again." Yeah, an excellent plan, I thought sarcastically. How could they believe they'd get to convince other vampires? Even in our own race we vampires faced Sanguinistas for their ideals but I still hadn't met a single vampire who was willing to reject human blood. "Things are changing much faster than any of us would have imagined, and everything was possible thanks to our newest member, Bill Compton." Everyone seemed so excited that I'd have thrown up if I could. The situation was getting me sick and I didn't know how long I could go on standing it.
"The synthetic blood has kept us away from our true nature for so long," Nora continued with the speech Salome had begun, "but now it's time to go back to what we are." Nora looked at me for a second before continuing with it. "Humans have dominated the world, they believed they could exist until the end of times, that their god would protect them, but their god doesn't exist. There is only one god and her name is Lilith."
"Praise Lilith." Compton was beginning to sound like them and I would have ripped his head off at that moment.
"Praise her," said the rest in chorus.
The human on the table did not stop screaming through his gag and shake desperate for an escape. He wouldn't get it because since Roman and Dieter were killed things had changed, there was no respect for humans and it bothered me the idea that Sookie continued trapped and surrounded by bloodthirsty vampires.
"Now that our plans are working we can be sure it'll only be a matter of time that humans bow down to us, begging us not to kill them and in return they will give us their blood." Russell Edgington and his stupid follies. The problem was the other vampires in the room – including Bill Compton – were more than willing to follow whatever decision he was willing to take. "Lilith is on our side, she's always been," Salome continued, "but we were blind. Roman's ideals were clouding our minds but nevertheless we managed to see beyond. We have seen the truth and we've done it through Lilith's eyes." This whole religious crap about Lilith was starting to become repetitive.
"And now we must honor Lilith with blood," and automatically our eyes turned to the human lying chained on the table. They launched at him like hungry dogs and I did the same but every drop of blood that entered my mouth was spit near the big puddle that had formed around his body.
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"Eric, what happened?" I had cleaned myself the blood before returning to Sookie. I didn't want to tell her what had happened during the meeting because we already had enough worries. "Are you okay?"
"We gotta get out of here." It was what Sookie had begged me from the start but I didn't think the situation will lead to many problems. "Sookie, listen to me carefully, okay? We can trust no one, not even Bill, so this conversation – every word – must not leave this room. Do not talk to anyone but me, understood?"
"Yes, Eric, I understand. But what's going on?" How could I explain it without scaring her even more? "Hey, I know things have been wild since they drank that blood, even you were out control, but the effects are gone, right? You are the same and saved me so sooner or later…"
"They won't give up, Sookie." I replied coldly. "Have you been watching the news?" I asked her aware of what was happening. "Tell me Sookie, have you seen what's going on?"
"If you mean those terrorist attacks against Tru Blood factories…yeah, I've seen it. But what has to do with us?" I approached her until we were face to face and looked into her eyes. "They are not terrorists, Sookie, soldiers have been sent by the Authority to do it." A slight smile appeared on her lips and began shaking her head. "No, that's impossible."
"It's not impossible, Sookie, it's exactly what's happening!" She shook her head again while chuckling. "Eric, are you insane? Synthetic blood is the future for vampires, is what has allowed you all to live among humans without being feared, why would the Authority destroy Tru Blood factories? Their power supply? Their future?" I knew it was hard to understand but we didn't have much time to explain. "Sookie, it's the truth. You know you can trust me and I wouldn't saying all this if it weren't true."
"What you say makes no sense, Eric." She sat on the bed and buried her face in her hands. "If synthetic blood disappears then humans will consider you monsters again, bloodthirsty savages, don't you think? You are free now, and don't kill people to feed, why lose all that?" Sookie thought the same way as me but unfortunately we were alone in this. "I don't get it, Eric. Roman believed in pacific coexistence between humans and vampires, what has changed?"
"Everything has changed."
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I had been watching Molly during the days following Edgington's failed execution and I knew she had nothing to do with what happened. Salome took care of everything and she was just used as a pawn.
So I was waiting for her.
When she walked into the room to put a briefcase I grabbed her by her throat and put her against the wall, one of the few places where we couldn't be seen by the security camera.
"Let me go!" She hissed through her fangs.
"Save it, I'm much older than you and might kill you before you could utter a word." I looked at the security camera and back to Molly. "We need to talk."
"Then talk."
"Alone. I don't care they can only see us but I want to you and me, okay?" Molly nodded, retracted her fangs and pulled out a small remote control from her pocket and turned off the camera.
"We have thirty seconds before the camera actives again. What do you want?"
"I have to get out of here but my DNA is not registered, I can't leave with no more." I had searched for other possible ways to escape but it was impossible, much less taking Sookie with me. "I need your security level."
"I can't. Salome changed it, I don't have level 1 access anymore to move freely. I tried just now but they didn't give any explanation. Guess Salome doesn't trust me. We're screwed." Yeah, she didn't know how right she was. "Listen, I have no idea what's happening or the plans they have," and looked me straight in the eye, "but there may be a way out."
"How?"
"With this." And she handed me a needle.
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"I have an idea, why not destroy the Tru Blood factories and start a civil war?" I asked Compton as I rolled my eyes. "Praise Lilith! Is not that the solution to everything? Any madness is justified as long as made in the name of Lilith."
"Eric, what did you want me to do?"
"Shut the fuck up, Bill! For example." I would have saved a lot of trouble if I'd killed him when I had the chance but I knew Sookie would have hated me for it. "Do you realize what you've done? You turned us into a target, you turned us into ruthless killers."
"I did it for Lilith." I was tired of hearing the same phrase over and over and over again. "We are vampires, Eric, we can not give up our nature. Blood is life for us and humans are our sustenance.
"What are you going to do then? Kill them all?" Bill Compton was showing he was a real jerk and I hated myself for having trusted him. "Humans will persecute us with stakes, silver or fire, anything that serves them to kill us."
"No, not if we're quicker than them. We will feed from them until we get the control."
"Will you do the same with Sookie?" I asked, knowing that was one of his weaknesses. "Will you treat her in the same way? Will you drink her blood until the last drop and then you'll throw her body as if she meant nothing?" His eyes were fixed on mine but I had no idea of his intentions. "Help me to get out of here. We can leave if you're willing."
"How?"
"With this." And I showed him the needle in my hand.
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"Give me a minute to understand this, okay?" Through our bond I knew Sookie was overwhelmed by everything was happening but we didn't have time to do therapy. "You talked to Molly and she's gonna help us to get out of here, right?"
"Right."
"Okay." She frowned and kept talking. "Then her idea to escape from here is a needle."
"It's much more than that, Sookie. We have to get Salome and Nora's blood to access the elevator. It's the only way." I grabbed her by her shoulders and looked into her eyes. "I talked to Bill and despite following all that stuff about Lilith he is willing to help us."
"Really?" From the tone of her voice I knew she wasn't convinced. "Sookie, I don't like the idea either but we won't be able to escape alone without being seen, you understand? Molly will come with us, she's also worried about what's happening."
"She's not the only one." She muttered and hugged her tightly against my chest.
"I will take care of you, Sookie. I promise."
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"It should be easy to let yourself go like that." I murmured when I saw Nora leaning against Lilith's urn.
"It is. I have something to believe in, Eric." She stood up until we were within inches of distance. "I missed you so much."
"Godric gave us something to believe in, Nora. He united us as a family."
"Godric did not understand what Lilith could come to mean. He refused to believe in her and tried to make me see she was just an illusion." I hated seeing my sister so attached to these crazy people, following the same Sanguinista Authority beliefs, plotting and betraying in the way she had done it. "But we're together now, Eric. All the fear, the pain and despair have vanished. Now the world will be ours."
"We will become monsters, Nora."
"We are not monsters, Eric. We are privileged. You, my Viking, has been chosen by Lilith. Her blood has united us again after so long." She smiled me slightly as she continued looking into my eyes. "I still remember the first time I tasted her blood," she said softly as she looked to the urn. "Salome brought me here when Roman was underground and made me see a new world. The feeling was wonderful, as if I could do anything and I haven't stopped thinking about that day until I drink Lilith's blood once again."
"Her blood is powerful, Nora."
"It is."
"And I want to be able to see the world differently, I want to have the power, I want to believe, Nora."
"I can help you."
We walked through the meeting room and left to the entrance of the building where the elevators were. As Molly had assured me there was no one waiting so it was the perfect chance.
"Where are you taking me?" She hummed happily until she saw Molly and I immediately had her against the wall, sinking a needle to leave her unconscious and take her from there.
"What are you doing with her?" Sookie asked when I made a sign to come out. "Eric, we can't take her with us."
"I won't abandon her here. Where is Bill?"
"We can't wait for him." Molly interrupted as she took the blood sample from Nora to enter the elevator.
"Here I am." Sookie and I watched at him as Molly was taking care of opening the elevator. I was carrying Nora in my arms and Sookie was at my side. I was going to keep an eye on both of them and couldn't wait to leave this filthy place to never return again.
"Then it's time to go," I said but when the elevator doors opened I saw Salome accompanied by a guard who was pointing at us with his weapon and seconds later we were surrounded.
"Fucking traitor!" I hissed while glaring at Compton while one of the guards grabbed Nora and got away from me. I automatically put myself in front of Sookie because I was not willing to let them to put a hand on her. "I'll kill you for this, Compton." I murmured as we passed by his side and I was going to keep my promise.
Sookie POV
At first I refused to believe everything Eric had told me but when I saw the explosions in the factories of blood I knew something serious was going on. But vampires destroying their food source? It made no sense until Eric explained me the situation.
Members of the Authority were so fucking obsessed with Lilith and all that religious shit that they would be able to do anything. I had seen them killing more than twenty people in a bar in New Orleans, I knew what they were capable of, but I never imagined they'd reach beyond their own limits in this way.
"Are you sure this is gonna work?" I asked Eric before he left to go find Nora. He would convince her to go to the main room to get her blood and leave. "What if she doesn't trust you?"
"She will."
"How do you know?" I didn't trust Nora, that wasn't new, but the idea of Eric risking himself so much made me feel panic. "Eric, what happens if someone finds out? It's too risky."
"It's the only way, Sookie. Trust me." Eric had said those words many times and every time I had trusted him I got alive of the most complex situations, but I had a bad feeling now. "So why Bill is not here? You said you had convinced him, why hasn't he appeared yet?"
"We don't have much time," Molly said as she walked back and forth. I wasn't sure of her age but she seemed to be restless. We all were and I was dying to get out of this madhouse. "Eric, it's time."
Eric disappeared and we were alone.
"Thanks for doing this, to help us." I told her to break the silence. "Eric trusts you and we have this opportunity thanks to you." Molly was about my age, but I didn't know when she was turned, but at least she seemed to have her head in place. The Sanguinista beliefs of the Authority hadn't effect on her and that was a good sign.
"Don't sing victory until we've escaped." She answered, leaning against the wall by the elevator. "Salome and Edgington are obsessed with Lilith's blood, they believe she is the only savior. A god and when Roman died I knew we were all in big trouble."
"Roman kept sanity, right?" I had no idea how things worked in the Authority, now I wasn't interested, but never before vampires had attempted to conquer the world in the way they were doing it now. "I don't know what's going on but I'm in the midst of all this madness and all I wanna do is to get out of here and they leave me alone."
Molly chuckled and rolled her eyes. "Do you think they will give up even if you get out of here? Things are not so simple and Salome and Nora are obsessed with Eric. He's a very powerful vampire and have him in the Authority's side would mean a great advantage."
"Eric won't give up."
"Maybe. But as much as your vampire boyfriend is able to fight he won't get to change anything." I wanted to say that Eric was not my boyfriend but I didn't think it was relevant at the time. "The Authority has many ways to make others to follow their rules. With an army at their service they will be able to do anything, there is no law to stop them now 'cause they're the ones who dominate everything. The American Vampire League is under the orders of Salome and Edgington and Newlin is doing a great job convincing humans that all is well."
"Everything's a lie, isn't it?"
"Everything is a lie." She agreed and I felt a twinge of pain. I knew the world was gonna change sooner or later 'cause vampires would rise against humans if no one prevented.
But everything went to hell when Salome and her soldiers came around us because of Bill. He had betrayed us, after all we had spent together and he finally showed his true colors.
When Eric accused him of betrayal I couldn't agree more and I'd have been slapped him or spit in his face if I had the chance.
But now our future and our lives hung by a thread that was about to break.
I looked at Eric through the corner of my eye as they took us to the cell without knowing whether I would return to Bon Temps or die at an unknown place in New Orleans. I couldn't stop thinking about Jason, my friends and how much my life had complicated since Bill Compton stepped into Merlotte's. I loved him, I did 'cause he was the first man who treated me like a woman but I never thought he would betray me the way he had done. I looked at Eric's eyes and saw fear and worry in them.
This couldn't mean the end. Eric and I still had too many outstanding issues to resolve.
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