Chapter 10:
We take the elevator up to the second story where Ryan, Stan, Kaity, and Naomi were waiting for us and all of them rushed to hug me once the doors were open.
"Jeez, guys, can we get off the elevator first?" I ask in between laughs, giving all of them a quick hug. Once we were all off the elevator , I introduced Sookie and Eric to my family. They all exchanged awkward pleasantries and showed Eric to his coffin. Apparently, Hot Topic started selling coffins and they set one up for Eric. Once he was situated, the hugs and questions commenced.
"Zoey, you don't know how worried we all were." He says as he gives me a brotherly hug once we are alone. Ryan and I were always close, he was eleven months older than I was, so we went through everything together. He looked the same, but different, he still wore his wire rimmed glasses in front of his deep brown eyes, he is wearing his usual band t-shirt and jeans, and his hair is still the deep brown color of his eyes. But now he is more muscular, his eyes hold more seriousness, and his hair is longer than he usually liked to keep it.
"I know, I'm sorry, I was worried about you guys too."
"So, any news on the…" telekinesis? He asks/thinks quietly and slowly.
"Well, Eric knows, or he has an idea about it…" I begin slowly, "and whenever I use it I get really tired afterwards."
"How did he find out?" He didn't sound very happy.
"He made me angry and I accidentally knocked over a bottle. I still can't control it very well."
"Is that all?"
"No," I say weakly. "He took my phone and I made him drop it…"
"Zoe, you have to be careful about this, I don't want vampires after you along with…." His voice fades and he looks away.
"Who?" I ask, my voice rising a bit.
"I don't know…" he says in a defeated tone. All I can do is nod and give him another hug.
"I'll be more careful and I'm going back to Bon Temps with them."
Ryan nods "I think that would be best. Just be careful"
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After more hugs and conversations with everyone else, they take Sookie and me up to the roof. You could see the whole area practically and it was depressing and amazing at the same time. We all stood there in silence watching the zombies stumble about in the streets below us. The silence is broken with a load gunshot that causes me to jump sky high. "Holy Fuck!"
"Still a little jumpy, Zoe?" Stan laughs, taking aim at another zombie with his sniper rifle.
"Yup," I say weakly and glance over at Sookie, who just as unnerved as I am. Stan takes another shot and successfully hits his target in the head and bits of brain matter, skull, and blood flies through the air, painting the surrounding objects red.
"So that was your handiwork out in the front lawn of the house?" Sookie asks Stan.
"Not just mine, Neyky and Ryan as well." He says as he hands the gun to Ryan.
"It's how we pass time," my brother chimes in as he takes aim and successfully annihilates the head of another zombie. "Would you like to try?" Ryan offers her the gun."Sure." Her voice wavering a bit from surprising herself as she takes it from him. I'm shocked as well. Ryan helps Sookie hold and aim the gun which leads to success of another zombie brain annihilation.
"Good job," my brother says to her and gives her a light pat on the back causing Sookie to jump a little in excitement and she mutters thanks as she hands the gun back to him. "Zoe, what about you?"
"Okay," I say and take the gun from him. I aim, take my shot, and successfully blow the brains out of a zombie.
"You still got it, sis." He says as he takes the gun from me.
"I know," I say, doing a fake brush off on my shoulders, "do you expect anything less from me?"
"Of course not," he says and laughs.
We continue to shoot the heads off zombies and talk amongst each other for an hour until we decide that we shot enough heads for the day. We join back up with Kaity and Naomi inside the mall and they give us a grand tour of their new home. We make food in the food court from the various restaurants that were stocked before the zombie infestation. Once we all finish eating we check out the various shops and I pick out things that I'm going to take back with me to Bon Temps which range from posters to gaming systems since I don't think I will be able to recover anything from my apartment..We finish looting the shops and head back up stairs to rest before our excursion.
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I am awakened by Eric nudging me with his foot. "Get up. I need to talk to you."
"Alright," I mumble and climb out of my sleeping bag to see everyone else is asleep. "What time is it?"
"5:30; we need to leave before dusk and I need to talk to you." Eric says walking out of the room and down the hall to another room.
"About what?" I ask as I walk into the new room. I claim a seat at a table.
"I think you should drink my blood." He says, nonchalantly, as he takes a seat on the opposite side of the table.
"Why?" I ask, slowly, giving him a confused look.
"Because if you are in danger I will be able to sense it and your strength would be increased. It's just a safety precaution."
"But Sookie has had your blood before, so can't you still sense that with her?"
"No, the effects wear off gradually."
"Then why didn't you ask Sookie?"
"Because Sookie is Bill's and she won't do it."
"Did you ask her?"
"No."
"Then how do you know?"
"Why does everything have to be an argument with you? I'm doing this for everyone's safety." He growls impatiently and angry. I blush and look away. I didn't know what to say. I want everything to go well, but I didn't want Eric to have a bigger hold over me.
"Fine." I finally say, looking at Eric. "How do we do this?"
"Stand up." I do what he says as he disappears from view and I feel his long arm snake around my torso and he pulls my back towards his chest. I hear a sickening rip and he brings his over wrist into view and brings it towards my face. "Drink." I grimace and he brings it closer, "Drink, the wound is closing." I close my eyes and put my mouth on the wound and begin to drink. After the each pull, he gasps in pleasure and his manhood grows hard until it is poking me in the middle of my back, so I stop and try to wiggle free from his grasp. "Don't be like that lover," he whispers in my ear and clutches me tighter.
"Eric, let go of me." I say and try harder but he spins me around to face him. His eyes are filled with desire and he presses his lips against mine in an amazing kiss. I manage, somewhat reluctantly, break the kiss before anything else can escalate. "Eric, we need to wake the others and get going."
He gives a reluctant sigh, balances me on my feet, and hands me a bottle of water. "You need to get the blood out of your mouth." I nod and do what I was told. After a couple of swishes with the water, Eric and I go to wake the others and leave to save Bill. . I was going to have a long mental conversation with Sookie about this.
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A/N: Hey everybody, Sorry it took so long with this chapter. I'm having a hard time writing what I want to happen to where it all makes sense. I was going to make this the chapter where they do get to Bill but I'm still having trouble figuring out how that was going to work. I wanted there to be zombie killing action, fire and some other action-y stuff but so far I'm drawing a blank… I had multiple drafts for the closing of this chapter but I decided to go with this one. Again, I hope you like it, I love getting reviews and seeing people favorite my story, it makes me feel special :D