"Eric, you fool." I craned my head around to get a glimpse of who had said it when I saw a woman with dark hair, and fatal pale skin. Her eyes were on Eric, which I didn't like one bit. "You're protecting a human."

"Bill sent you, Lorena? You? To kill me?" He sounded downright hurt, "I'm insulted." He made sure that he was standing right infront of me so that I she couldn't see me, and in the process also blocking her from view. Even if she couldn't see me, I knew she had to smell me.

"Shows how much he thinks of your skills don't you think?" Lorena teased, her lips rising into a bloody red smile that sent a shiver down my back, and not the good one. "Actually his reason for not coming is that he wanted to visit, Pam. Wanted to catch up a bit."

Eric laughed, not the soft, gentle one he did with me. No this one was rough, scratching up his throat and bubbling out with rage. "Don't you see Lorena, he's been trying to get rid of you for a long time. And now, he finally has. He's sent you to your death." His hands clenched into fists, his knuckles turning even whiter then I thought possible.

That wiped the smile off of Lorena's face, she fingered the necklace that lay in between her breasts. "Bill loves me."

"That's what you keep telling yourself." Eric stated, "Are you ready, because I can't possibly wait another minute to end your pitiful undead life."

Lorena stood up straighter, the beauty wearing off her face before my eyes. Her expression hard, she snapped two of her lean fingers. "Did you think for one second I came alone?"

Eric sniffed the hair, and shrugged as if he wasn't worried. "I'll deal with them in a few seconds, that's how long it'll take to end you"

The woman smiled, and she looked down beside Eric's leg where I had poked my head out from. "All of this for a human?" The gears in her head finally began to roll. "You aren't human at all, I can smell the blood...what are you?" She snarled, that was the question wasn't it ?What was Sookie Stackhouse? Everyone wanted to know, and many would find out, and most wouldn't.

"None of your damn business." I snapped.

"It's going to be a joy when I finally get to kill you." She said sweetly.

"Too bad you'll never get the chance." Eric said and lunged for Lorena. I couldn't believe that he was risking his life for mine. We'd known each other for only a short time that I didn't believe he would do any of this for me.

Every thing seemed to happen in a blur. Lorena pinned against a tree by Eric. I was on the ground, sitting exactly where he put me. On my far left though, three vampires sprinted out of the thicket of the trees and their sights were on me. I didn't know what else to do, I saw Eric turn around to face them but instinctively my hands rose in front of my face to protect my self fruitlessly when something big happened. Bright light sprung out of my hands and hit each of the vampires. And the light didn't stop, the vampires screamed, and hollered but they stayed in place, until they turned into dust. I lowered my hands and looked down at the ground, three dead vampires at my feet, dead by my hand. I looked at my hands, in shock. What just happened?

Lorena had stopped fighting Eric and was staring blankly at me, "I know what you are...but...but they're extinct the Fae are-" Her life ended there, blood spurted out of her stop not stopping or healing. Eric staked her. He wiped his hands on his pants and picked me back into his arms. Then we were back gone.

"Eric where are you taking me?" I asked.

"Fangtasia, I have to make sure that Pam is okay. She isn't answering any of my calls."

That surprised me, "You haven't called her though."

"Masters and their lineage can call out to each other." Another tidbit on Vampire's to tuck away.

I felt the anxiousness rolling off of him as if it were visible, "Eric, she's okay. You have, what, how many of your vampires at Fangtasia? And Pam can handle herself."

"Yes, she can but as her master I'm to protect her."

I didn't say anything after that. I knew anything I said wouldn't console him until he saw Pam for himself safe and unharmed.

Fangtasia was busy, people were going in and out laughing, stumbling, high off of their adrenaline high of being near vampires without being killed. Eric pushed and shoved most of the patrons out of his way that were too drunk or eye to see Eric stalking through with a trail of rage behind him. I just stuck to Eric's side like glue holding onto my purse like a life saver.

"Where is Pam?" He asked the bartender. I tall skinny man with long hair and cold eyes.

"She's in the room with some girl." He said, and his lips twitched as if he wanted to smile.

"Which room?" Eric asked in a voice that said 'I'm only going to ask once'.

"The one she always uses." The man shrugged like he wasn't shaking that bottle of Vodka in his hand like he was having a seizure.

Eric tugged me with him as he went to the room Pam was using, I couldn't' keep up with him and my arm was beginning to hurt from the tight grip he had on my wrist. Finally we stopped in front of a door that was painted pink. He didn't bother knocking instead he kicked the door open. Pam was there alright. She lay in a circle with a silver chain covering her wrists and neck. A tall, blonde was standing infront of her chanting. She broke out of it as the pink door crashed into the door.

In a flash Eric had the woman in his grasps, his long fingers digging into her neck. "Did Bill send you?"

The woman nodded, "He told me to put a spell on Pam, so that you couldn't communicate and then he was going to come and take her but he hasn't come since I didn't send the text."

Eric smiled menacingly like a predator, he was a predator. "Mhn, now would be a fantastic time to send it don't you agree witch?"

The witch nodded, "Yes, yes, oh my god I'm so sorry." She reached into her pocket and pulled her phone out but without thinking I reached out to her thoughts and I snatched the phone out of her hands.

"She's going to tell him the plan didn't work. She did a blood oath, she has to tell him the truth or she dies." I was so thankful for my ability to hear people's thoughts just then.

The witch's eyes grew wide, "She's lying!"

Eric didn't hear a thing she said, he just focused his eyes on her and said, "Sleep." The girl fell on her head on the ground and I jumped two feet in the air when I heard a crack.

"Is she dead?"

Eric shrugged, and bent down beside Pam "Take these chains off of her please. I can't do it."

I didn't know why I hadn't done it sooner, I took the chains off of her body. She wasn't awake, though, she was a still and stiff as the dead. My heart slowed, and my knees began to weaken. Oh, please don't be dead, dead. Not because of me.

Eric called her name, "Pam wake up." Just as he said her name her eyes shot open. She scrambled to her feet and her face was stricken with fear until she realized who she was in the room with. She looked down at the fallen witch and kicked her with her four-inch stiletto heel.

"I can not believe I got tricked by a puny little witch." She exclaimed.

"I'm just happy you're alive, I thought the worst when you weren't answering my calls." He said relieved, I looked up at him and saw the brotherly love he had for Pam as if it were visible. I wondered how he had met Pam, why he turned her. Losing her would probably devastate him.

"All my fault."

"Don't do that, Pam." He ordered, "Pack a suitcase we have to leave."

"Someone's after the girl?" Pam guessed.

"Bill Compton." He said with distaste.

Pam's beautiful face turned, "We're running away from that?" He voice clearly thought he wasn't worth much to be running away from. I disagreed, when I closed my eyes I saw his face. And it almost brought me to tears thinking he may do ill to my family.

"Come on Pam, you know very well that it's just not Bill. Someone is puling his strings, and they're very interested in Sookie." Eric said coolly, with an undertone of menace. If Pam didn't start packing immediately Eric was going to blow.

Pam recognized that tone very well since she turned on her heel out of the room. To get backing was my hopeful guess leaving Eric and I alone. He didn't say anything just stood there motionless like a beautiful greek statue. I wanted to keep my mouth closed but words spewed out. "Eric I'm sorry, I'm sorry about all of this. This isn't fair to you and Pam. You shouldn't-

"Shut up Sookie."

Oh that shut my mouth all right, my eyes narrowed in on him and i didn't know how sparks wasn't coming from my eyes. "Excuse me?"

"I don't think I've known what true happiness was before you came into my life. Thought I was content with what I had in life but now I know. I'm not. I've fallen in love and if you think I'm going to give all that up just because of Bill Compton and his pathetic witches you're stupid."

"It's amazing how you can insult my intelligence and be so sweet at the same time, Eric." I said looking up into the bluest eyes I ever saw.

He smiled, the gentle one he always had just for me. "Nothing else to say?"

"Oh, Eric...I fell for you at first sight."

"I think you fell in love with my glorious body."

I laughed, the first time today and tipped onto my toes to kiss him, over and over until finally he reluctantly pulled away. "We have to go, Pam is on her way back."

I rested my head on his chest, it was cool there and it didn't bother me that his heart wasn't beating. "Where are we going?"

"To my Maker."

"Thought he lived with you?"

"He moved back into the castle, Godric likes having his peace."

"How is he going to feel when we ruin it?"

Eric snorted, confident that his Maker wouldn't be upset. "Godric will do anything for me, as would I for him."

"I'm ready." Pam said from the doorway, she'd changed into a pink sweater and jeans, with heels to match. She looked more like a Barbie then a Vampire. I didn't dare say that to her though.

"I'm not" I said to myself, of course Eric's ears heard me and he squeezed me in reassuringly.