A/N: I'm guessing no one is all that interested in the Eric & Willa scene, so I skipped it...

"Where's Nora?" Eric asked, walking back into Fangtasia and dragging the dark haired woman from Burrell's mansion behind him.

"She had to verify something she found," Pam replied, getting to her feet, "who the f*ck is she?" she demanded, gesturing towards the cowering woman.

"Pam, Molly, I'd like you to meet Willa Burrell," he said easily.

"You kidnapped the Governor's daughter?" Pam demanded.

Molly looked up from the phone she was still tinkering with, "Please tell me you didn't…"

"She has information that I need," he explained, "at least she'd better," he threatened, towering over Willa.

"I'll tell you everything I know, I swear," Willa promised, cowering away from him.

Pam put her hands on her hips, "Promise me you are going to kill her."

"That all depends on how useful she is," Eric replied, thrusting Willa into one of the booths. "The Governor and his security won't be far behind us," he added, moving a chair in front of the cowering human. "I want you to pack up anything you feel nostalgic about before we leave Fangtasia for good. Is that my phone?" he added, glancing at what Molly was working on.

She looked up sheepishly, "Er…"

Eric waved a hand dismissively, "Forget it, I don't care, just put it back together," he ordered, before looking over to where Pam stood, arms crossed as she watched him. "Pam?" he questioned, coming over to join her.

"If you can't promise me that you'll kill her, can you at least promise me that she isn't another Sookie?" she asked in a low tone, avoiding his gaze as she realised how ridiculous she must sound.

Eric tilted her head up with a finger under her chin, "Nothing is more important to me than you," he told her seriously, "and when this is all over I look forward to proving that, in the meantime you'll just have to trust me."

She nodded and he kissed her forehead; she made to walk off but he pulled her back and kissed her firmly on the lips.

"Better," he said with a smirk, before sauntering back to where Willa was sitting; Pam hid a smirk of her own as she went to collect a few things.

She returned a few minutes later, box in hand, to find Eric looking subdued and waiting for her by the bar. She glanced over to where Molly was standing guard over Willa before joining him.

"We have to take her with us," Eric said in an undertone.

"Why? What did she say?"

"It's complicated and she's the only leverage we have," Eric explained patiently.

Pam glanced over her shoulder, "She's also a liability," she commented.

Eric reached out and squeezed her hand, "None of this is ours anymore, kalila, Burrell already took it and we have nothing to negotiate with, we have nothing to fight him with. All we have is her. The world is changing and we have to change with it."

"F*ck change, can't we just kill her and be done?"

Eric smiled at her words, "We will never be safe until we have stopped Burrell," he told her seriously, "this is going to get out of control unless we put a stop to it now."

"My hero," she muttered sarcastically and he smirked.

"As long as you'll always be my lady," he replied easily, kissing her on the cheek as he straightened. "Let's go," he ordered, motioning for Molly and Willa to join them as he picked up Pam's box and led the way out of the bar.

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A/N: Hopefully will have some more up tomorrow, thanks for the reviews/follows/favourites x