Mid morning, two days later, as Eric and Sookie walked the halls of the Sanctuary awaiting the return of their protector Elle.

Unhappily, Eric turns to Sookie his wife asking her "What did ask of Lilith?" Sookie stopped dead in her tracks tells him "You will have to wait until Catharine turns 18 to find out Eric."

Stopping mid stride and turning, Eric looks at her with raised eyebrow, his eyes closed to slits and his face was blank asking min a matter-of-fact tone, "You asked her to turn you on that day Sookie..." Looking at her stone-faced "Didn't you," He asked in disbelief

Sighing Sookie shoulders slumped forward her and her face was completely relaxed as she looks at Eric telling him "You figured it out."

Rounding on his wife Eric asks Sookie in a silvery tone, "Why ask her?" He looks at her displeased said in a soft spoken tone, "Sookie I would have done it anytime you wanted."

Sookie looked at him seeing the frustration in his face and smiles at him brushing his cheek saying, "I know that Eric.. Both you and Bill have fed from me Eric despite what the old stories say... it's not pleasant its not like a dream..., not at all because you can't compel me to think its something its not Eric!"

Eric puts his arm round his wife telling her "All right love I understand"

"No.. I don't think you do... I always want to think of you as my beautifully handsome Viking... not a monster" Sookie explained in a sotto tone.

Eric told her "Later today we head back to Bon Temps."

Sookie puts her hand on her belly correcting him telling Eric "We four are going back to Bon Temps... Eric"

Raising his eyebrow Eric looked displeased stating "Four!"

Putting her hands on hips looking at him pointedly Sookie tells him, "Elle is coming with us Eric!"

Eric tries to protest saying "I do not want-"

Sookie cuts him off mid sentence getting more annoyed by the moment, "Eric can you put the queen in her place if you have to...?" Moving her hands from her hips over her belly protectively Sookie asks in a brittle tone, "Can you act without risking the stake Eric...?"

Frustrated Eric's eyebrows form a near perfect liner line with a knot in its center as his lips start to pout saying "no!" Calming herself Sookie states to Eric matter-of-factly, "That's why Elle is coming and she is our daughter's protector Eric."

Sookie kisses Eric softly on the lips telling him with a sarcastic smile "It never hurts to stack the deck... lover."

"Using my own words against me dearest Sookie" Eric asked chidingly. Calling down the hall in a voice to low for Sookie to hear Eric said, "Elle, we leave at sunset." Just as he called out Elle calls back to him "see you then Eric Moving down the hall in a blur Elle appears in front of the happy couple saying "Eric you and your family have the protection of the full council."

Elle turns to Sookie saying with silvery tone a mischievous grin, "Your right about one thing Sookie..., the dark gift it's more fun from a woman!" Winking at Sookie, Elle sashays away to her room her hips swaying from side to side in a confident strut.

Twilight later that evening Eric, Lilith and Sookie await Magnus in the main hall by the door. Magnus walks up to the group saying, "I can have a car take you to the airport!" Speaking for the group Sookie tells Magnus "That would be fine and thank you for your hospitality!"

Looking down the hall Elle calls out to Nikola her voice had a distinctive threatening undertone to it as she said, "Still lurking in the shadows Tesla!" She looks past Magnus to the shadow of the main office saying, "You will never risk the council's vengeance to satisfy your own scientific curiosity!" Her gaze focused on the center of the shadow when a low disembodied scream echoes down the hall, "If you do, I will be waiting!"

Magnus looks at Elle saying "Stop!"

"Don't worry Magnus!" says Elle in a honeyed tone looking at Magnus with a smile "I haven't hurt anything but Tesla's pride!"

Almost as an afterthought, Magnus asks to get a sample of Lilith's blood for study as she asks Elle, "could I have a sample of your blood?" "For scientific study"

Elle looks at Magnus saying, telling her "I just chided Tesla, Magnus."

Magnus looks at her saying "I had to try!"

Standing by the front door Elle uses one of her claws to cut open her own hand smiling Lilith said, "Watch closely Magnus!"

Flicking her arm sideways some of Lilith's blood lands at the base of a nearby shrub, she says in a dead toned of voice, "watch closely!" All of them watch as the plant withers and died within seconds. Elle looks at her one time host saying in a thin flat tone, , "Nothing will grow there... ever again Magnus" Lilith looks at Magnus saying in a curt tone, "Burn that plant, and the soil it's the only way to keep my toxin from spreading."

Regaining her composure after Elle's' display Magnus calls Bigfoot over and explains what needed to be done.

20 minutes later Magnus asks them "May I drop you at LaGuardia Airport!"

Eric replies, "very well we did take a private flight out here."

Eric whips out his cell phone dialing Fangtasia

Pam picks up the phone saying "Fangtasia how can I help you!" In a voice to low for ether Magnus or Sookie to hear Eric says "Pam listen very carefully have Thalia & Felicia find Amanda Broadway... bring her to me..., preferably alive!"

Looking slightly annoyed, he said, "You know what Thalia thinks of humans!"

Changing back to a normal tone of voice Eric says Pam we will be arriving at the Shreveport Regional Airport in three hours, have the guest rooms at Fangtasia made ready!

Sookie looks at him saying "don't be ridicules Eric, give me the phone!" with phone in hand Sookie tells "Pam, have someone go to the house and have my guest room made ready...!" In a whisper, Sookie says softly, "Pam my guest is an Ancient One, older then Thalia. Meet us at the airport we will be getting in about eight o clock we will be the Anubis terminal!

Elle just smiles and says thank you

8:00 P.M. Shreveport Regional Airport three hours later, Pam awaits her three passengers at the Anubis Airlines arrival gate. She sees Eric first followed by Sookie and a brown-haired woman she has never seen before! However, her vampire sense tells her who ever she is she is "Very old"

Sookie looks at Elle asking politely, "may I tell her your true name Elle, Pam can be trusted!"

Elle tells her "all right Sookie."

Sookie looks at Pam saying "Pam meet Lilith, Lilith Meet Pam!"

Pam was about to say something then froze dead in her tracks asking in a tight & tremulous tone, "Did you say L-Lilith!"

Sookie says in a silvery tone, "Yes Pam I said Lilith!

Pam mouths the words "Garden of Eden!"

Lilith shrugs her shoulders saying sarcastically, "P-l-ease it wasn't all it was crack up to be!" Looking deep into Pam's eyes, she winks slowly saying in a husky/raspy voice "To answer your question Pam I am over 9000 years old..."

Pam headed outside in a blur of motion to get the car!