Dorian had a bag stuffed over his head for almost three hours now. He didn't know how he was going to get out of this. He deeply missed Eleanor. He wished that he was by her side again. He chuckled at how he first met Eric...anyone would say that it was frightening for a newcomer.

~1998, Dallas, Texas~

Eleanor held his hand tightly into her own. "Godric will love you just as I do."

Dorian shook his head. "But what if he hates me? You told me that you didn't ask your maker's permission to turn me so to say."

"Eric will release me once Godric forces him to," Eleanor assured him. "Besides I didn't turn you so I didn't do anything wrong."

"You're lying to your family to protect me, Ella. What if-"

Eleanor crashed her lips onto his, shutting him up for a moment. She shivered as she felt Eric calling her. They pulled away as they leaned their foreheads against each other.

"It's him, isn't it?"

"He...I don't love him. You know what he did to me. He took my life because of some reason that he will never tell me. I belong to you."

The door whooshed open and Eleanor chuckled at Godric's face. He stared at Dorian for a moment, then turned to Eleanor. "You've come back."

"For now," Eleanor replied.

Godric sped forward, engulfing her in his arms as he whispered, "I thought we lost you for good."

"Not you at least."

"Have you spoken to him?" Godric asked as they walked inside of the house.

"No. I don't expect to either so if he's here, tell me now, Godric."

"He's gone. I haven't seen him since he left to go look for you," Godric informed her. "Which was in 1945 in Germany when you were helping us track down the werewolf. Now who's your progeny?"

"Dorian...he doesn't remember his life so I'm here to help him."

Godric shook hands with Dorian as he said, "Welcome to my home. No matter what my son may say, you're family-you're blood, Dorian."

"Thank you."

"I will try to help you find who you were as well. All you need to do is ask."

Surprise flickered across Dorian's face for a moment as he replied, "Thank you so much, Godric. This means a lot to me coming from you. I've heard so much about you from Ella."

"So what shall you have to drink this evening?"

Dorian shrugged, lying through his teeth, "In all honesty, I don't know what kind of blood I like yet. The last one I had was sweet and-"

"Sour like? That's B Negative. I think I have some left in the fridge. I'll send someone to get it for us," Godric answered.

After Eleanor watched Godric leave them, she whispered, "See? I told you that he would accept you as his. He gives me space when I need it and trusts my choices so if I really do love you then I trust you just as much."

"You love me?" Dorian questioned, his voice surprised.

Eleanor's elegant eyebrows furrowed as she answered, "Of course I do. I love you."

They kissed each other passionately until Dorian was thrown from her and into the wall.

"YOU," Eric screamed at Dorian as he held him up in the air by his hand around his throat. "Who the fuck are you?!"

"Eric-"

"QUITE, ELEANOR!" Eric roared at her. He sniffed Dorian before his eyes widened. "She turned you...YOU TURNED HIM WITHOUT MY PERMISSION!"

"Fuck you," she hissed. "I don't need your permission."

"You do when you turn another-"

"I didn't turn him," she blurted out, in order to save Dorian's life, knowing that Eric was choking the life out of Dorian. "I don't know what he is, but he is mine."

"Ella," Godric said to her. "Why did you lie?"

"To protect him. I love him, Godric. He means more than anything to me...I just wanted him to be accepted by you and everyone else."

"The Authority," he choked out. "They're...t-they're..."

"Stop it," Eleanor shouted at Eric. "You're killing him!"

"Strangling him to death would be a kind death...but I'm not a kind person."

Eleanor roughly shoved Eric away from Dorian, she managed to move him into the wall behind them. Dorian coughed violently as he fell to the ground. He let Eleanor comfort him since he knew that it wasn't her fault.

"It's okay," she whispered in his ear. "I'm here. I won't let them hurt you, remember?"

He nodded weakly, rasping out, "It's not your fault that your ex-lover can't seem to keep his hands off of me. I'm irresistible it seems."

Eleanor chuckled then embraced him tightly into her arms. She helped him to his feet. She looked between Eric and Godric, telling them softly, "I think that coming here was a mistake after all."

"No, don't leave, Ella," Godric told her.

"You lied to me," she whispered. "You said that he was-this is why I didn't want Eric here. I know better than that."

"Don't disappear again-"

"Why not? It's clear that I don't belong here anymore. I'm happy with Dorian...let's go. I'm sorry, Godric, but I won't risk his life."

Eleanor and Dorian sped out of the house as fast as possible. Once they arrived at the airport, Eleanor's eyebrows knitted in confusion as Dorian took out two plane tickets for midnight.

"Did you know that this would be a disaster?"

"Yes."

"Then why go?"

"Because it meant a lot to you," Dorian answered and took out their passports and tickets to Paris. "I love you just as much as you love me. I'll always love you...no matter what actually."

~PRESENT~

Dorian blinked at the blinding white light shoved in his face once they took off the bag over his head.

"Bad idea taking off the bag if you ask me," Dorian reminded them.

"You've returned," the blonde woman from before said. "Did you think that we wouldn't find you?"

"Honestly, I kind of did, blondie...how's the underworld lately, Nan?"

"You were given a mission, Maliko," Nan reminded him. "Kill the progeny and bring her to us."

"Yeah, well, I kind of got side-tracked with that, seeing as how they think that I don't have my memories and all that."

Nan chuckled. "How did you pull that off?"

"So I'm plan B, huh? What happened to the first guy?"

"Eric Northman killed him when he turned Eleanor...he always gets in the way-"

"I know that. You already warned me ten years ago."

"You're a good actor."

"I had a good teacher...so after I give you her body. They promised me what I wanted."

"And you will receive your payment, Maliko, keeping doing what you're doing. The Authority wanted an update on your mission. They've been waiting for a long time for this day."

"So have I."


Eleanor rolled her eyes at Eric then stopped when she felt something in her chest.

"Did you-"

"Godric."

Eric grabbed her hand, the both of them running to where Godric was in the church. His voice echoed in their heads, I'm here, my children. Down here.


TBC...

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