It was like trying to learn a brand new language when you did not even understand the one that you were speaking. One moment I had lost all hopes of ever having a father again – the only true one that I had ever know was dead and gone and my real one was a dead beat – and now all of a sudden it's like my eyes have been opened. Though I cannot fully understand what is going on, though I cannot hear what they are saying, I know what they mean because he is showing me images in my head. All of the things that he and my mother did, every little thing that made him fall in love with my mother and everything he did to make her fall for him. How he even came to see me when I was in the nursery when I was just a newborn and how he has been watching over me ever since. He knew from the moment he had laid eyes on me that I had the light deep inside of me, how he could read mine and how I could – somewhat – read his as well. All he could do was smile and try not to make a racket that would make the nurses know that there was someone in the nursery, holding one of the smallest babies to live.
Though Claude did not seem like he could be more than twenty years old, he had a much longer life that I. A much richer life and a powerful life that came crashing down around him. Power that had filled around the people that he called friends and family and surrounded them all. That is why he has not always been there to protect me- why he and his family are now living here on this planet. There was a war going on in their world, one that split the Fae's right apart, one that he knew had been coming since before I had been born. I had been born in the time where faeries were trying to produce others as fast as they could, because they were a dying species, and it finally came down to breeding with humans, which is how I was born. So when he heard wind of a war coming, he knew that it would be best to hide me away, to protect me. Which is why all visits had ended, he knew that it would have been for the best to keep me out of the light, because he thought it to be better if I was hidden from all of the Fae's. They would have taken me away from my mother and kept me on their world for the rest of all time.
But now, now it was a different time, a different place. We were safe – for now – is what he said, that we could finally have the relationship that he had intended for me all along. From what I could see in his mind, he had planned on staying and behind a father to me all along, how many times he came to visit in the middle of the night to catch up, how he worried about me when he was away. And most of all, how many times he wanted to come and see me, to help and protect, when he could not allow himself to be seen with me. I could tell from all of the looks that I was getting that I was not welcomed, which I fully understood, but I knew that each and every Fae in that place was a family member of some sort. They all hated me, some most likely would have wanted me dead if they thought that they could get away with it, and all I could do was drink down my freshly-warmed True Blood and stare into my newly found fathers eyes. They looked scared for me and somewhat for himself.
" Why didn't you tell me the first night that we met, about everything right then and there?" I questioned as I tried not to draw attention to myself.
" You were not ready to hear about it then, you had the father that you wanted – that you needed – and I was not going to come in and take it all away from you just because I wanted you back in my own life. Godric was a good man, the man that you needed in your life, I was not going to take anything away from him either." Claude said with a warm smile on his face. " He did a wonderful job bringing you into this world as well."
" I wish you could have met him, he was the most wonderful man that I have ever known. I think that you would have really liked him." I said with a true smile.
" I do not know of any Progeny that would not say that about their maker. There is too deep of a bound for them not to love the one that made them." He said with his smile fading, I knew that he could read into my mind as I thought of Godric and his maker, of Nora and Godric.
" No, there are many times where the Progeny will try, sometimes even succeeding, and kill their maker out of pure rage and hatred for their maker." I whispered.
It was brutal to think about, even worse to know that it really happened. I never got to see it, thankfully, but I know that it happened from both Godric and Eric. Nora would never be able to admit what she had done, would not even fathom to think about it once I was made, but I have heard it all from both my brother and father. But it was mostly Eric who told me the story about what had happened that night. About how Nora had nearly put a stake right through our father's heart and ended it right then and there. Sometimes, I know that we all had wished she had, it would have been easier on us all if she would have done it. Epically for Godric.
From what I know, it was one of the nights where they were all fighting with one another back in England. Nora was trying to stick up for herself saying that they needed more and more power, always a power hungry girl she was. Godric had had enough for her antics for the night and started to scold her which started a fight that Eric could not side with either on. Nora and Godric were fighting one another, flinging one another across the room. Godric to scold, Nora to kill. She must have known that she would have never been able to out fight Godric, he was older and he had all of the fighting knowledge from before he was turned to that exact moment, he knew every style of fighting that there was. So for Nora there was only one way to win this match, it was to out-wit our dead father. So that was what she did. While Godric was hovering over the girl and asking if she had enough of this foolishness, she accepted defeat – or that is what Godric believed.
As Godric finally let out one of his smiles, the one that allowed you to know that you were finally out of trouble, he gave his hand out for the girl to grab onto which she took with a fanged smile and as he brought my sister up and tried to wrap her into a welcoming and forgiving hug, she showed the wood, that she had taken from the broke up table. Eric had only caught a glimpse of it before jumping into the way, nearly ripping Nora's arm off and sending her through two whole rooms to protect Godric from meeting the true death. Godric did not get angry at the girl for what she had done to him, did not scream or scold anymore, he simply released her. Let her fend for herself in the world from then on out. They did not speak for years after that and that is the blurry part of my past, I do not know how or when Godric and Nora finally got back together and finally settled their differences. Or if they really ever did.
" You have lost many who have been so dear to you, my daughter." Claude said as he took my hand and lead me away from the bar. " And for that I am sorry."
" It's not like you had anything to do with it, when it is someone's time, it is their time." I shrugged as I looked at the girl that was hanging from a thin bar ten feet off of the ground.
" Sygin?" Someone said from behind and as I spun around all I could do was smile.
" Jason?" I screeched as I stretched out my arms and dragged him into a hug. " How did you get in here?" I asked with a smile going from one end to the other.
" I was out partying with a judge from work and Andy and I guess we wound of here. A better question is how the hell did you get in there. I mean the last thing that I knew you guys only hung out in Fangtasia."
" Well I guess that you could say that I have grown a little from then. How is everyone?" I asked with a smile, he knew who I wanted to know about.
" Oh Sook? She's going alright, I mean she has a lot of shit going on right now, but nothing that is out of the ordinary when it comes to weird freaky shit." Jason's smile faded. " Now where have you been lately, I mean I was pretty worried that they Obama's had gotten you or somethin'"
" No- no, I was being held in a different place by my own kind trust me when I say that you really do not want to know any more than that." I said with a wink as I looked around. I tried not to think about it so that Claude would not be able to see it. I did not want him to know about that just yet. " So where did your little friends run off to, I mean I know that I have not fully explored this place yet, but I mean it cannot be that big where you can lose two big southern guys like them." I said with a chuckle as I looked around.
" Oh, my dear, you would be so surprised." Claude said as he patted my back lightly. " Care to introduce me to one of our guests?"
" Oh, sorry, Claude this is one of my friends from Bon Temps, Jason Stackhouse and Jason, this is my birth father, Claude Crane." I said as they shook hands, but Claude looked stunned.
" Stackhouse, are you related to Sookie by and chance?" Claude said lightly.
" Yeah, she's my sister, what's it to ya?" Jason's face automatically changed into his big brother look as he glared over at Claude.
" She and my family go back as far and I know." Claude said with a smile. " I would love to be able to see her once again."
" Jason?" Anyone person said, a girl with blond hair in two pigtails said as she put down her tray of drinks.
" Hadly?" Jason said as he hugged the girl
" Imma get going, I think that if I stay through one more round of meet and greets that I will be hunted down by my family." I said with a faint laugh as I hugged Jason and Claude lead me out.
" You will come back once again, will you not?" Claude said with a smile as I went through the curtains and into the long field.
" Of course I will, I need to know more about you and about everything that I have missed, I mean it's not everyday that you meet your birth father and find out about a secret fairy bar." I said with a smile.
" Isn't that true?" Eric's voice called from the end of the field.
" Don't shoot him with the magical light, he may like that way too much. He has this thing for faeries." I said with a smile as I turned to face my brother.
" What have I told you about leaving, epically now when there are people that are out there hunting us down like life stalk, sister? Do you understand how dangerous it is to be out here alone, how you could have died?" Eric hissed as he was in front of me within a second.
" I needed to get out of that place, it was starting to feel like a cell, like the one that they held me in when you and Nora were gone for so long. I could not stand it Eric, I felt like I was being trapped in that place. I needed to get out!" I pleaded with him with my eyes.
" Well you should have told me – told someone – about it before you just ran off like that! I was worried sick about you and just to find out that you wondered into someone else's bar in the middle of a field, one that no one else can see either! I mean that all sounds very off if you are asking me! No, you should not have left Fangtasia and that is where you are going back to right now." Eric said as he grabbed onto my arm.
" Eric! Stop it right now and let me explain to you! Eric please! Eric!" I screamed as he grip started to get harder and harder. He was mad.
" No! I have had enough for your foolishness, now come back home before I force you back home." Eric scolded, he sounded like Godric.
" No Eric! I am not yours to boss around and I will not be treated like am I one of your baby vampires. Now let me go!" I screamed as I tried to get away, pulling my arm as hard as I could from his grip and getting no where with it.
I looked back to see Claude, he looked so afraid of the man that had killed his own sister, but also there was so much pure rage in there as well. Something inside of him that was coming from his core and bursting through his every pore. But there were others that were now around him as well, all of them looked either shocked or scared, but all also had the ager coming from them as well. It was something that was showing on all of their faces but also inside as well. I could see their light as they could see mine, it was so beautiful, so strong and full of life and power. And all at once they all raised their hands and my heart dropped to thee ground, it was filled with both pride and fear. They were going to try and protect me, they really all did care when it finally came down to it, but they were also protecting me from the one and only sibling that I had left.
" No!" I screamed as I could see the light shooting from their hands and blocked it from hitting Eric by shoving him to the ground, his grip slipping.
The light hurt a hell of a lot more than I thought that it would. I could feel it from one end of my body to the other and every inch of my body that was in between. I could feel with every sense of the world what the sunlight would feel like to a vampire. It was like someone searing your body with a hot iron and then starting to peel it off with a peeler. I knew that once they started to hit me that they instantly stopped, I was not their target, but it felt like a thousand years had passed before they finally stopped. I could no longer feel any part of my body, my eyes had rolled into the back off my head, my body went limp. They last thing that I can remember is hearing two screams coming from different ends of the field, one of them was Eric's voice, the other was Claude's.
But there was another voice coming through much louder, clearer as well. One that was chiming through and sounded heavenly compared to all of the others. All I could do was smile and listen to every word that the man was saying, though I could not see him, I could feel him. His warmth felt nothing like the light that came from the Fairies, it felt soothing to my dying body. It felt loving and caring as it wrapped itself around me. I knew that he was there once again, that he was there to collect me finally and bring me back to him. It was finally time for me to meet my maker once again.
" Sygin . . . Sygin, my daughter, you have to go back. You need to go back to your brother now. He needs you more than you understand." Godric said lightly, his light filling around mine.
" No Godric, can you not see that I want to be with you now, I need you." I pleaded with the voice.
" Not now, when the time has come I will collect you like I did all of those years ago, but right now you need to go back to your brother. Eric needs you." Godric said as the warmth started to fade from my body.
" Godric! No! But I need you right now! Please, just take me with you!" I cried out as I tried to follow the light.
" No, you are needed on Earth, in Bon Temps. Your path is not done yet." I could hear the voice fading.
" Godric!" I screamed as I came two in the field, with Eric on one side and Claude on the other, both starring at me.