*Here it is, the last chapter. I hope you enjoy :)*

Many people approached Brody to congratulate her on having Godric back. She answered them all politely, but was watching Godric constantly. Brody spotted Isabelle crying outside and went out to comfort her.

"I'm so sorry Isabelle." She hugged the vampire. She knew that Isabelle had a lot of love for Hugo and upon discovering that he had been the traitor, she had dragged him to Godric. Godric being the kind vampire he was, spared Hugo's life. Brody guessed he had done this primarily because of his affection for Isabelle, and secondly because of his empathy with human beings.

"I cannot believe I did not see it."

"You can't? I mean, I should have realised there was something wrong when he never wanted to touch me. I just tried to be considerate because people's thoughts shouldn't be open to me."

"You are not to blame."

"And neither are you Isabelle. This one is entirely on Hugo." Isabelle wiped the blood tears from her face.

"You must be glad to have Godric back."

"It's such a relief, but I think he's avoiding me. I gave him time for everyone to speak to him, and when I see him sitting alone he spots me and then walks away."

"I'm sure you're imagining things, he loves you."

"I don't doubt that he loves me, but I think he's hiding something from me."

"I'll see what I can find out for you."

"Oh, Isabelle, you don't have to do that. You've been through enough tonight."

"I need to keep occupied."

"Okay." Brody grasped Isabelle's hand affectionately for a second before they both turned and walked back into the house.

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Brody was standing in the corner of the vast sitting room of she & Godric's home. There were people everywhere, congratulating her on her engagement to Godric, and celebrating his return. Aside from their contact when Godric had first come in, he had not spoken a word to her since. As she had told Isabelle, she had the distinct feeling he was avoiding her, and that worried her in a way she'd never had to doubt herself around Godric. She was trying to give him his space at the moment – he was now talking to Eric, and Isabelle was hovering close to him. Suddenly Isabelle burst out uncharacteristically:

"Godric, how could you!" Brody stepped closer to the scene. She was sure she was the only one that had really heard as she was the only one concentrating on them.

"Isabelle, calm down."

"Didn't you stop to think about your nest? Or your fiancée?"

"I admit my judgement was a bit clouded."

"Clouded?"

"What did you do Godric?" Brody asked quietly, nervously.

"The Fellowship didn't take him. He offered himself as their sacrifice." Isabelle put in before Godric could speak. Brody felt oddly heavy for a few seconds, which got even heavier and the next thing she knew she was laying on the floor with Godric, Isabelle and Eric hovering over her.

"Brody are you alright?" Isabelle asked.

"I'm… I'm fine." She sat up slowly, aided by Godric, whom she shied away from for the first time in memory. "I just need a minute." She was helped to her feet and she pulled away from the three vampires, not daring to look at Godric. She moved quickly to the bedroom she shared with Godric and used her power instead of her hands to close the door. It was always easier to do when she was emotional. She gulped for air, and realised her face was covered in tears, and that choking sound was her sobbing. She sat on the edge of their bed and held her arms around herself while she sobbed. She heard the door open and then close. There was a hand on the back of her neck and she didn't flinch as she knew it was Godric – she would know his touch anywhere.

"I am sorry you had to find out like that."

"I don't think you intended for me to find out at all Godric." Brody wiped her tears away with the back of her hand.

"I did, I just didn't quite know how to say it."

"You're two thousand years old and you still cannot lie efficiently."

"I didn't want to hurt you." Brody jumped to her feet.

"And you don't think going to get yourself killed was going to hurt me? Do you have no idea how much I love you?"

"I love you too, but it was something I had to do."

"Something bigger than us?"

"They were going to take one of us eventually, I offered myself so that one of my underlings would not be harmed."

"You know that if you died then I would thusly die too."

"You would not." Godric's eyes flashed angrily.

"You should have thought of that before you ran off to offer your life to those assholes!"

"Do you really want to know why I offered myself to them?" Godric looked quite fierce at the moment, but Brody was too emotional to be afraid.

"Why then?"

"I did it because I received a threat on your life." Brody was quiet for a few seconds.

"They were going to take me?"

"Yes. They thought that by taking you, would provoke me, and thusly bring vampire bloodshed into the open. I must admit that they would have been right."

"You should have told me."

"I did not want to frighten you."

"Then we could have faced it together Godric. We are equals."

"I know we are."

"You must promise me you won't do anything like that again."

"Sacrifice myself to protect you? I will promise no such thing."

"Godric, like I just said, if you die then I die too. I wouldn't outlive you by long."

"Yes, you would." His eyes flashed angrily.

"You ARE my life. You are a part of me, and there is no going back now. If you die then I die. Don't you love me enough to stay alive for me?" Godric grasped her face in both of his hands.

"Never question how much I love you."

"Then promise me."

"I cannot promise that."

"If you die Godric, I will kill myself. I don't mean to sound melodramatic, but I will."

"I will not allow that!" He shouted angrily. His normally serene front was slipping.

"If you are dead how will you stop me?"

"You must live on. Even if I do not."

"You don't understand Godric. Just as you would sacrifice yourself for me, I would sacrifice myself for you."

"You will never have to."

"And nor will you." After Brody had said that there was an explosion and Godric threw his arms over her head. They looked at each other and ran into the living room. The devastation was horrifying. The windows had all smashed in the blast, there was blood on the walls, and people were screaming.

"Isabelle, are you okay?" Brody rushed over to her.

"Yes I am fine." She started looking among the injured to see who she could help. Brody watched Godric watch the scene with a pained expression on her face. She knew him well enough to know that if he were a crier then he would be crying now.

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"They wanted you to meet the sun and you were willing?" Nan Flanagan asked Godric disbelievingly. They were in a hotel room at the hotel Carmilla talking to Nan. Godric was sitting on a sofa with Brody and Isabelle to Nan's right, and Eric, Bill and Sookie were on the sofa to her left.

"What do you think?"

"I think you're out of your mind. And then I hear about a traitor."

"Irrelevant, only a rumour. I'll take full responsibility."

"You bet you will."

"You cold bitch." Eric commented.

"Listen, this is a national vampire disaster. Nobody at the top has any sympathy for any of you, and me least of all. Sheriff, you've fucked up, you're fired."

"I agree. Isabelle should take over, she had no part in my disgrace."

"Godric, fight back!" Isabelle urged and Brody took his hand and squeezed it. Godric looked at Brody, with a look that told her he knew what he was doing.

"She's a bureaucrat, you don't have to take shit from her." Eric was outraged.

"You want to lose your area Viking?" She threatened Eric. While they quibbled Brody whispered to Godric:

"What are you doing?"

"Trust me." He gave her hand a squeeze.

"I'll need you to sign a few forms, and then you won't be the Sheriff anymore."

"That is fine. Godric got up to follow Nan out of the room. He mouthed "I'll be back" to Brody and left.

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It was a couple of hours later when Brody was lying in the hotel room bed when Godric returned. He looked weary, and that didn't comfort her at all.

"Godric?" She sat up. He sat beside her on the bed and held her against his chest. One of his hands made its way up to her face to gently stroke her cheek.

"Do you know what this all means?"

"What?"

"I'm no longer Sheriff, which means I am no longer tied to this area. You and I can go anywhere, and do anything we want."

"Really?" Brody sat up to look at Godric's face.

"We can really spend forever together, doing whatever we wish."

"Godric that sounds perfect."

"I want to take you to all the places in the world I think you should see. I think you'd love Eastern Europe."

"We can really just go and do that?"

"Absolutely. But we must do something first."

"Anything." She smiled at him.

"You must marry me."

"I suppose I could do that." She teased him and he rolled his eyes.

"It's going to be a long forever." He commented, pulling her close again.

"As long as I'm with you, the longer the better." Brody smiled into his chest. They both soon fell asleep in each other's arms, prepared to face the next day, which would be the first day of the rest of their lives together.

The End :)

*I hope you enjoyed my story, I have a few more TB fictions, let me know if you think I should post them up :)*