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Title : Dark Blue Lousiana

Genre : Drama, Romance.

Disclaimer : I don't own the characters infortunately. They are the property of HBO and Charlaine Harris ! I own my OC, Ava Cole.

Note : Here is another chapter ! I hope you'll enjoy it !

Chapter 9 :

What a jerk, that was all Ava could think at this moment. Eric Northman was such an arrogant vampire, he was really getting on her nerves. She should have never gone to Fangtasia that night, she wouldn't have met him and she surely wouldn't be in this situation now. She sighed because she felt everyone's eyes on her. However she didn't show any emotion, she was too proud to give them what they wanted, explanation. She decided to continue eating her dish, not paying attention to all the customers.

When Sookie came back inside the bar, Ava could see that something was wrong. Sookie seemed sad, very sad. The young waitress looked at her friend and moved her hand asking Ava to come. Ava stood up and followed her friend.

- « Sookie… »

- « It's awful Ava ! Bill's going to a tribunal because of me, because he was protecting me, this is so unfair ! »

Ava sighed, she didn't know what to say.

- « It's going to be okay Sookie. Vampires are civilized, aren't they ? So they'll understand. »

- « I wish I could be sure about that. »

- « Trust me Sookie, I know that Bill will be alright. »

- « Is it one of your vision ? »

- « No, but an intuition, and you know me, I'm always right. »

Sookie let out a little laugh and hugged Ava.

- « Thank you. Anyway, I want us to talk about your vision. I don't know when but we'll have to understand what's happening. »

Ava smiled, Sookie was so kind, Ava couldn't ask for any friend better.

- « Don't worry for me. »

Ava left before Sookie could answer. She didn't want Sookie to bother Sookie. She would have to resolve the question of her visions alone, well maybe she'll ask for Eric's help but right now she didn't know.

Ava decided to leave , she now felt a little bit tired. When she left, Sookie was leaving too. The two friends were now walking to their cars.

- « I'm going to stay at Bill's. I'll be safe here. »

- « You know, you can stay with me Sookie. »

- « No, thank you but I really need to be at Bill's. »

- « I can understand, but call me if you need something. »

At home, Ava couldn't find sleep, she was tired but it seems that something kept her awake. This was frustrating. She decided to leave her bed, she found herself in the living room on the sofa. She glanced at a box, inside of it, she had put her grandmother's book inside of it. She decided to take a look at these books, she hoped that reading could help her finding sleep. The first book was an old history book

about the Civil War. her grandmother had always been fascinated by this. Ava then found something strange, well it wasn't strange but she was surprised. Indeed she had just found her grandmother's diary. She didn't know that her grandmother had been writing a diary, she couldn't imagine her doing this. She then thought about reading it, but she didn't know what to do. It was her grandmother diary, something personal, but she wanted to learn more about her too. She sighed and decided to start reading it, somehow she knew that she had to read it.

While reading the first page of the diary, she knew that she had made the right choice. It wasn't so personal, her grandmother talked about everything. Ava smiled when she read something about her grandmother's meeting with her grandfather. It was really something. However, suddenly, something caught her attention. Her grandmother wrote about a dream that she had made, a dream that came true. Ava couldn't believe it. This just couldn't be true. How in the world was that possible ? She readed more and realized that her grandmother was writing about some vision of the future, of the past that she had. She learned that her grandmother started to have them when she was twenty-five, this was just so strange. Ava thought about herself, she was twenty-five too, she had dreams, and had one vision. This couldn't be coincidence. She was like her grandmother. She sighed. Something was strange with her and now that she had learned that her grandmother was like her, it was time to try to understand what was happening. She had to understand and solve this mystery and if these visions were true, she even could use them to help finding the man who had been killing all these women. She laughed, she was going crazy, this couldn't be possible !

Ava suddenly heard a sound coming from outside, like something was trying to get her attention, she sat up and headed toward the window where she saw the same old wandering cat that often came to get something to eat. She saw him jumping from the window and leaving. She tried to watch him but she couldn't see anything however she caught sight of a shadow next to her car. Her heartbeat speeded up, she saw this shadow slowly moving in the direction of her house. This was like a bad horror movie, the poor little girl alone in her house watching someone approaching the house, staying petrified. Ava saw this person arriving dangerously close to her porch. There was no time to waste. She took a chair and went to her door in order to block the door. She then took her phone to call the police but nearly let her it fall to the floor when she heard this someone trying to enter. She became panicked, her hands were shaking. She was glad that she had put this chair to block to door, she tried to calm herself, panicking wasn't making it easier, another bang on the door made her heart skipped a beat, this person was definitely determined to enter. Ava dialed the number of the police, she was a little bit relieved when someone answered her but her attention was focused on the door, hoping that the person wouldn't be able to enter. On the phone, the person who answered her told her that she had sent someone, and that everything was going to be alright, but this was taking too long. Ava decided to run upstairs; she knew that her father had kept a gun, she found it, took it and loaded it. She went back downstairs, and pointed the gun on the door. She was shaking and was on the verge of tears, but suddenly she heard the faint noise of the police coming and it seemed that the one who was trying to enter heard them too, she heard this person running away. She fell on her knees, crying, this was just too much. When she heard footsteps on her stairs and when she heard Sheriff Bud Dearborne calling for her, she was relieved. She stood up and opened the door the gun still in her left hand.

Ava was now sitting in the passenger seat of the sheriff's car. He had convinced her not to stay at her home tonight, it was too dangerous. Ava knew he was right and when she left her house, she looked at the old bench of the garden and saw the old cat sitting quietly on it, staring at her. She couldn't help but think that she owned this cat her life, after all if this cat hadn't made noise, she wouldn't have looked outside and would have never seen that someone was going to try to enter inside of her house and who knows what he had in mind for her. The simple thought of what had happened made her blood ran cold. Suddenly she heard the sheriff telling her that they were at the police station, she was safe now. The sheriff told her to call someone, she, at least needed a place to stay for night. She didn't know who call, she didn't want to bother Sookie, her friend had already enough trouble, she knew that the waitress wouldn't mind but she couldn't annoy her with her own problems. Ava didn't have many choice, she decided to call Lafayette, maybe he could help her or at least offer her a bed or a sofa to sleep.

When Ava called Lafayette and told him what had happened and asked him to stay at his house, he immediately accepted. Lafayette was at the police station faster than you could have said it. Ava was glad that she could count on him.

The morning came very quickly and Ava hadn't been able to sleep. Lafayette had proposed her a sleeping peel but she had refused it. She had too many things on her mind and knew that a sleeping pill would only confused her more than she was. Indeed Ava wanted to understand who could have wanted to enter her house, was it the same person who killed Dawn, Maudette and Adele Stackhouse ? Ava didn't know but if this was the same person, she was in a great danger just like Sookie was, but if this was another person, this was more and more dangerous.

It was now midday and Ava decided to let Lafayette alone and to return home. Ava was afraid to go back to her house, but she had to do this, plus she wasn't going there alone, the sheriff had kindly offered her to go with her. At home, the sheriff looked everywhere in the house and found no one but he noticed that someone had forced the lock. He advised to change the lock and then left after Ava locked the door. Ava sighed. she was afraid to be alone in her own house. She then saw the old cat at the window, he was trying to get her attention again. Ava opened the window and the cat entered and went directly to the sofa. Ava couldn't help but smiled at this scene. She sat beside the cat and stroked.

- « You know what, thank you. I may sound crazy, but I think you've saved my life last night. Maybe you're like my guardian angel. Anyway, what do you think of becoming my cat ? »

The animal purred and looked at Ava. She thought she was was crazy, talking to a cat but something inside of her told her that this cat understood everything. While stroking the cat, she suddenly noticed that her grandmother's diary wasn't here anymore. She realized that her aggressor may have taken it. She stood up and decided to search for it and to search it something else was missing.

Nothing else was missing. This was disturbing and strange. Ava didn't understand. Why did this person take her grandmother's diary ? This probably had a link to what was written in it, but who would need this ? After all, Ava was the only person who was concerned by this. This was probably the key to understand what was happening to her. Suddenly, Ava heard her phone ringing, it was Sookie. Her friend wanted to know if Ava could come to Arlene and Renee's engagement party. Ava refused, she wasn't really in the mood to party, sure she needed to relax but not like that. Plus the waitress didn't know about what had happened last night to her, so she decided not to tell Sookie about her misfortune.

It was now dark. Ava had changed the lock in the afternoon and locked the door too. She even put a chair to block it just in case. She sighed and sat on the sofa, she didn't know what to do, she was too afraid to try to sleep now, she was afraid that someone would try to enter in her again again and who knows what to do. At this moment, she would have given everything to have someone to protect her, someone like a vampire maybe. Her thoughts strangely drifted to Eric, maybe he would be able to protect her. What was she thinking, Eric Northman was a selfish arrogant vampire who could care less if something happened to her, well he would probably dislike the fact that he had lost a toy but that was all.

Ava slowly felt herself go to sleep, she didn't want to but her body was too exhausted to resist. She just hoped that everything was going to be alright. However, someone or something had other plans for her. Ava woke up from another vision and this time again she had seen a murder. A woman was being strangled. It was just horrible and too much for Ava. She couldn't control it and it was really making her crazy. She wanted, needed to sleep and she couldn't. Plus, the only thing that could have helped her with her visions had been stolen from her. This couldn't be worse. Ava sighed, and stood up. She wasn't going to stay here complaining, she was going to do something. First, she decided that she needed someone to protect her from the person who tried to enter her house, she couldn't ask the police, she couldn't only ask one person for this and this person was Eric Northman, she knew that she was going to play a dangerous game, but she just didn't have any other choice. In order to understand what was happening to her, she hoped that Eric would be able to help her, after all if he wanted to use her, he would help her.

Ava put a short and a little black slipover and decided to drive to Fangtasia. She wasn't going to call Eric because she knew that her would come here and she really didn't want to let him enter her house. Before opening the door, Ava looked outside to be sure that no one was waiting for her.

Fangtasia was closed, this was just fantastic but Ava wasn't going to go back to her house. She decided to knock. Strangely, she wasn't afraid to be here alone, she felt safe. Suddenly, the door opened, revealing Pam.

- « We're closed. »

- « I know, I want to see Eric. »

Pam smirked, she didn't expect Ava to be here, well who would have thought that Ava would come to see Eric ?

- « I'm sure he'll be delighted to see you sugar. »

Pam let Ava entering and guided her to Eric. He was sitting with a redheaded girl, she was rather pretty Ava thought. When this girl saw Ava, she seemed excited.

- « Can I drink from her ? »

The girl looked at Eric who smirked, he was amused by this situation.

- « No, Jessica. »

Eric then stared at Ava, while the girl named Jessica seemed disappointed. Ava wondered who this girl was, well she was obviously a vampire but there was something else about her.

- « Anyway, what a lovely surprise to see you there my dear Ava. I'm glad that you came back here, you were probably missing me.»

- « In your dreams Eric, I didn't really want to come back here but I had no other choice. »

Eric laughed. Ava was a little bit frustrated, he was always so cocky and well there was no words to describe him.

- « Don't be so touchy because I'm sure that Jessica here would just love to taste you. »

- « You wouldn't dare. I'm sure you'd rather drink from me than give me to someone else. »

- « Try me »

Eric was now standing right in the front of her, so close to her.

- « I… »

- « I knew it. Now come on, tell me why are you here ? »

Now, it wasn't time to be proud.

- « I.. Well I need your help. »

Eric raised an eyebrow, this wasn't what he had in mind when he had seen Ava standing here. Ava on the other hand was only worried about this.

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