"OUCH!" I screamed as Amelia ripped the duct tape off my mouth. I looked at her and said "brace yourself" and ripped hers off.

"Son of a bitch! Why are werewolves trying to kidnap you?" She yelled and rubbed her mouth where the tape had probably ripped pieces of skin off.

"Oh God I'm so sorry to drag you into this, I didn't know they were after me! I would have never put you in danger on purpose! I'm so sorry!" I blurted the words out and prayed she wouldn't leave me with the other two who were driving. I started untying the rope off her wrists and she grabbed mine and did the same. Stupid guys obviously didn't think we would be strong enough to get out of them.

"It's ok, it's ok! I believe you, but we have to get out of here now! Think Amelia, think!" She seemed to be searching her brain for something.

"Ok I think I've got it!" She said.

"Well hurry up!" The other two men were slowing down and the one in the passenger seat was unbuckling his seat belt to reach the back with us.

"Rota vado obfirmo quod werewolves somnus , subsisto is car quod nos ero solvo." Amelia was chanting and when the last words left her mouth the car screeched to a stop and the men slumped over snoring.

"Thank God you're a witch! Let's get out of here!" We jumped out of the back and looked around trying to get a feel for where we were and which way to run. We were surrounded by nothing but woods and we were on a long gravel driveway. About 100 yards down the gravel drive I could see a log cabin.

"Oh no, I think we were almost at our destination, we've got to run!" I grabbed her hand. "This way!" We took off in the opposite direction of the house and scrambled into the woods.

Amelia was running and trying to get her pants buttoned at the same time. I figured I couldn't possibly set myself to rights since my leggings were ripped wide open and hanging down my leg and my dress was covered in blood. I guess I wouldn't be winning any prettiest kidnapping victim contests today.

"You know they're going to be on us in no time, they're Weres too." I told Amelia, never slowing down.

"What are we gonna do? I can't think of a spell right now, my mind is too rattled!"

"We need them to lose our scent, throw your clothes off." I was already pulling at my torn leggings and I threw my dress over my head and dropped it. "Alright we've got to keep moving"

I noticed once I had on only my bra and panties that it had started raining and I was glad for it. Maybe it would help disguise our scent. After we had run for a little longer, we came across a large thicket of bushes and decided to hide in them to catch our breath. We sat curled up together inside the bush trying to think of what to do next. I pushed all my fear and anxiety through the bond and tried to reach out mentally to Eric. I knew it would still be a little longer before he woke up but I prayed it would be soon enough.

"I smell something sweet, and scared!" Laughed a gruff voice getting closer to our hiding place.

Amelia almost shrieked and I clamped my hand over her mouth to keep her quiet.

I knew at any minute they would find us and we were surely dead.

"Come out, come out, wherever you are! Don't worry sweetie we just want to talk, Burt and Harley just got over excited, I understand why you had to get rid of them, but we won't hurt you." This was another man speaking, he was yelling this through the woods, he still hadn't found us but he could smell that we were close by. This clown was also a really bad liar.

I heard their voices get farther away while we sat there huddled together in the rain. It felt like it was an eternity that we were there, but I guess it was more like an hour. We had layed down as close to the ground and each other as possible, but the steady rain and chilly weather was really starting to hit us since our adrenaline had stopped pumping so hard. I looked at Amelia and her lips were slightly blue. If we couldn't get out of here soon we were going to be in bad shape. My brain was foggy because I was so cold and scared, but I tried to use my extra sense to check and see how far away other brains were. I didn't sense anyone close by so I leaned back down to Amelia.

"Amelia, we have to try to get out of here or we're going to freeze." I whispered to her.

"I'm really cold Sookie, I don't think I can run anymore. My legs feel like jell-o." Amelia hadn't even lifted her head up.

"I know honey, I know, but we have to try to get back to a road so we can get help. We just need to go a little further." I tried to encourage her, but between the cold, the pain in my stomach, and draining so much energy earlier, I didn't know if I had the fight left in me either. I drug myself to my knees and pulled her up.

"Are you ready? We need to be quiet and move as quickly as we can without making too much noise. Take my hand, but if they grab me then let go and run as fast as you can and don't stop" I said looking straight in her eyes. "I'm sorry you got caught up in this" My eyes were filling with tears again.

"Hey, it's not your fault that these crazy ass Weres decided to kidnap us, beat us, and almost rape us. There's no excuse for that, no matter what their problem is with you. By the way, I'm not leaving you here so don't mention it again." She weakly gave me a little smile. I knew from her thoughts that she was being sincere and I vowed to myself that I would get her out of this no matter what.

"Let's go" I whispered and we were slinking through the woods trying to move quickly. I was so cold and tired and my whole body ached.

"Look, there's a paved road up…." WHAM! Amelia fell to the ground and one of the men were jumping on her and before I could help her I was grabbed from behind.

"Get off me you piece of shit!" Amelia was fighting with her attacker and had landed a great right hook on his jaw.

"You're gonna regret that bitch! I'll make sure to take my time torturing you!" The man hauled off and punched her in the face and then rib cage. I screamed for him to stop but instead he pulled out a knife and started slowly pushing it into Amelia's stomach, smiling the whole time. He had only punctured the skin when I lost all control.

"I'm the one you want you big pussy! Why don't you pick on someone your own size, you have to hit women that are half your size! I bet you have a really tiny dick too!" I spewed every foul thing I could think of at him hoping to distract him from my friend. It worked too because he came over to me and ran the knife in between my boobs and down my stomach.

"Once they're done with you, I'm gonna gut you like a fish" he growled at me.

Although I should have been scared out of my mind, I felt the biggest surge of rage that's ever filled me. I opened my mouth to spew more hate at the man when I felt a gust of air blow past me and faster than I could blink my eye, Eric had taken the man and twisted his neck almost 180 degrees. As I was watching this, the man who had a hold on me was jerked off me and thrown into a tree where a branch impaled his chest. It was Bill behind me.

Eric scooped me up and his eyes were glowing with all the rage he felt. "My love, what have they done to you? I will make them suffer in ways they can't even imagine." His voice was the scariest thing I've ever heard. "You're freezing, and you're almost naked. Did they touch you?" His anger was palpable; it made my blood feel like it was boiling. "I can smell them on you. I swear to you I will kill every last Were scum involved in this!"

"It's ok honey, I'm ok. Please Bill, help Amelia!" I cried

Amelia was still lying on the ground where the man had beaten her and she looked terrible. I ran over to her while Bill looked at her injuries. She looked so hurt and cold; I didn't know how much damage was done to her. I scooped her in my arms and bawled.

"Bill please give her some blood! She saved my life and it was my fault she got hurt, please hurry!"

Without thinking twice, he bit into his wrist and held it to her mouth while he held her.

"Amelia dear, drink from me. You're going to be alright." Bill said to her softly.

Eric had picked me up and cradled me in his arms. I didn't even realize he had bit his own wrist until he pushed it in my mouth. I held onto him for dear life and drank like I was in the Sahara and he was a water fountain. After a few more seconds, I already felt much better and unlatched from him.

"Thank God you guys are here. I thought they were going to kill us." I whispered to Eric and Bill.

Amelia was looking better by the minute; the bruises and swelling on her face were fading and her lips were starting to pink up. I saw the skin around the puncture wound seal together and blend back in with her skin color.

"Who has done this to you? What happened?" Eric was pacing in the woods, mad as hell. He pulled his shirt off and pulled it over my head. Bill looked down at Amelia almost naked and pulled off the jacket he was wearing and wrapped her in it.

Amelia and I explained how we were abducted and I cried while telling him about the men trying to rape us. He was holding me against him and we were both pumping rage through the bond.

"That fucking Were bitch will pay for this. I will rip her from limb to limb and then heal her and do it again!" Eric screamed.

"As tempting as that sounds Eric, we need to refrain from killing anymore people right now. At least until we find out who else is involved in this." Eric looked at me like a proud parent.

"She's right. That is good thinking Sookie." Bill chimed in, still holding Amelia.

"Very well, let's go pick their brains" Somehow I didn't think Eric had the same idea of picking their brains that I did.

With Eric carrying me and Bill carrying Amelia, we ran back through the woods at vamp speed towards the house. Eric stopped abruptly when he smelled blood, and looked down to see my dress that I had thrown down earlier. "You did that witch?" He asked Amelia and nodded towards the dress.

"Yep, Sookie kept that bastard from doing God knows what to me and I wasn't going to let him hurt her." She smiled over at me.

"I never realized I could like a witch; well done." That was pretty high praise coming from Eric.

When we reached the wood line right outside the property, Eric and Bill sat us down and said to wait for them. They crept up towards the house and then vanished out of eyesight. I was shaking again from my nerves and the cold when I heard screams and crashing in the house. About a minute later, Bill came out and told us to come in. We walked in the house and I saw three faces I had hoped to never see again. Tied to chairs with rope; there was Sandra, her mother, and father. They just glared at me with hatred and fear in their eyes.

"You stupid bitch, I'll kill you!" Sandra shot off at the mouth without thinking that there were two very angry vampires just feet from her. Eric started to walk towards her, until I told him to stop.

I walked up to her without saying a word and punched her in the face as hard as I could. I could tell by her face that it hurt and it gave me a deep satisfaction. Sandra's mother chimed in and yelled "Don't you touch her!" Before I could do anything about her, Amelia had walked up to her and slapped her with a closed fist.

"That's for one of the many hits I took today bitch!" Amelia's words were venomous.

"All we wanted was to know what happened to our daughter!" She cried. "I thought there was something off about you when we met you in the restaurant that day, so Sandra snuck up to your house one night last week. After searching your property, she found a very faint trace of Debbie's scent at your front door. Why won't you tell us what you did to her? Why would you harm our precious daughter?!" She was sobbing and I snorted at her ridiculous description of Debbie as precious.

"You snuck around my house? You came to my work; you tricked my brother into thinking you were a friend looking for me, and then almost killed him! Then you have me kidnapped, along with my friend, and we get beaten and almost raped because you think I'm guilty of something against your precious fucking sister?!" My voice had become more shrill until I was screaming at them.

"I know you did something to her you little cunt! You should have just told us the truth and taken your punishment!" That was Sandra, always the idiot. I was so enraged right now I could hardly see straight.

"Yes I killed her! That psycho was jealous of me for being friends with Alcide while she was engaged to another man! She picked a fight with me the first night I met her and set my jacket on fire, then tried to kill me while nobody was looking during a Were fight. A fight in which I was helping the Weres! Then when I get home that night, she's sitting in my kitchen with a gun and tries to shoot me! If my boyfriend wouldn't have taken the bullet for me, I would be dead! So yes, I grabbed my shotgun and killed her!" My heart was racing, but I felt no sympathy for them. "And it felt fucking amazing too!" That wasn't true, at the time it disgusted me but right now I just wanted to hurt them even more.

Her mother and father were sobbing and Sandra was crying but looking enraged.

"I'll make you pay for this! I'll never let you get away with this! I'll take away everything you love in life for what you've taken from me!" Sandra said

"You already have! It wasn't enough that Debbie made my life hell for no reason, but then you almost kill me, my brother, and my friend to get revenge for something I had to do in self defense! You're all really fucked up in the head!" I walked over and slapped her again as hard as I could. "I do believe you however that you won't ever let me or my loved ones live in peace."

Her expression changed, knowing that she shouldn't have said that.

"What do you want me to do with them lover?" Eric asked calmly. "You wouldn't want to hear what I have to say about it, so I'll let you decide."

I looked at Amelia and said "what do you think?"

"If it was me and my family she had tried to kill, I would kill them all myself" Well at least I didn't have to worry about her hating me for what I was going to do.

I looked at Eric and Bill. "Drain them." I said calmly.

After a moment's hesitation from Eric while looking at me shocked, they both turned around and the last thing I heard was the sound of fangs running out.

Hope you guys are enjoying the story! I have lots of ideas swirling for how to finish this book and start the next. I won't be doing plots that were already used in the books, I did however want to rewrite this scene from the first time I read it in book 6. I thought the way Sookie just let the Pelts go was ridiculous. Even she isn't that dumb or forgiving, so this is what I had always pictured in that scene. Hope everyone sticks with me to see where life is taking Eric, Sookie, Bill, Pam, and the rest of Bon Temps!