A/N: I keep forgetting to put this in when I upload chapters so here goes:

I don't own a single one of Charlaine Harris' characters. If anyone would like to sue me, please feel free. I have a couple of cat dishes and an awesome walkman from 1993 that you can have. I may also have a glue gun somewhere… But seriously, please don't ;)

Chapter 10

Eric's POV:

As my beautiful Bonded danced with the King I mentally barked commands at my Child and my Investigator.

'Bill! Move to the east side of the area. Place yourself between Sookie and bulk of Felipe's guard. Pam! Get behind her and stay close without drawing attention. I'll take the north point. If anything goes wrong, destroy every single motherfucker in this place to save her.'

'Understood', Pam and Bill replied and walked casually but quickly into position.

I counted every opponent and calculated counterattacks to every possible offensive strike on myself, my minions and my bonded. I relayed exit stratagies and contingent plans in case of unexpected situations. The three of us discussed battle plans and important targets. My superior mind planned for every contingency… except for the one the King had in mind.

Felipe's voice sounded in my ear as clearly as Sookie heard it in her own, "You are so many things, my delicious girl… but you should have told me you that were a fairy princess!" I saw the bracelet as it flashed through from Felipe's mind and into Sookie's.

Freyja, NO! 'NOOOOOOOOOO SOOKIE!'

I flew through the crowd, flinging and pummeling shifters and vampires to their final deaths. I clawed and kicked and decapitated any and all obstacles between me and my Bonded. Pam and Bill had seen and heard the images from Felipe's mind as surely as I had, and their screams of fury echoed my own. The ballroom became a bloodbath at our hands, but there were just too many bodies in our way…

My Lover caught my maddened gaze and reached out to me with terror in her eyes. "Eric! ERIC!" she screamed. Ten more beings were shredded in an instant, but I was not fast enough to save her.

Victor flashed behind Sookie and slammed the Fairy Bangle onto her outstretched wrist. I ended countless lives in that second - the second that I watched my Beloved, my World - my Life - explode in blinding white light. And then she was gone.

The very foundations shook with my roar of fury and anguish.

A/N: Sorry this chapter is so short, Eric demanded me to tell you just how royally pissed off he was. Hehehe.