Co-Stars

Chapter 10- Strange Behavior

Sookie Stackhouse is a big time actress lost in the fame & fortune. Eric Northman is her new co-star and he hates her personality, naturally they butt heads and seem to hate each other, but will working together change that? Will it change her? Rated M.

I only own the movie, the idea for this story line and any characters not mentioned in the Southern Vampire Mysteries or True Blood (& yes there are True Blood characters mentioned).

If I ever mentioned Eric's brothers name, I don't remember it. I couldn't find it anywhere in my notes or documents so I'm re-naming him(if I hadn't then….well now I'm embarrassed) Early upload!

EPOV

By the time I was sitting on my plane to Sweden I was ready to crash. The day had been busy and my mind wandered from the interviews to the photo shoot and then over to the meet and greet and I hardly remembered saying goodbye to everyone.

I was asleep until half an hour before we landed in Sweden; I went straight from the plane to baggage, to the car, to the house. Lizbeth threw her arms around me the second she got the door open, sobbing frantically, talking fast in Swedish about this and that. My head spun.

"Lizbeth, calm down. It's okay. Just take a deep breath." I tell her once she finally releases me. She nods slowly taking deep shaky breaths, her eyes blood shot and tears still slipping down her cheeks. My first priority was putting her to bed. Once that was done and I knew she was completely out I walked the house.

It was trashed and I wondered exactly when the last time she cleaned was. I started with the kitchen which was the messiest and moved throughout the house, cleaning up the living room, the dinning room, the hallways, the bathrooms and finally I got to change in the guest room where I'd be staying. Once I got settled I called the hospital to check on Mikael.

He had been in a head on collision with a drunk driver and as of right now was still in a coma. I find out he's stable and looking better now and that they hoped he might wake up soon. They were more concerned about Lizbeth's mental health then anything.

When I got off the phone when the hospital I dropped back on the bed, already feeling a headache forming on the front of my head. Then I heard the front door crash open and kids screaming for their mother.

I shot up out of the bed and ran down the hallways, cutting them off before they could wake up their mother. "your mom is sleeping." I told them, both of her sons looked up at me indignantly and pushed past, screaming for their mother once more.

Cecilia was silently, looking up at me with wide blue eyes, her blonde hair was parted down the middle and framed her chubby face, "hi Uncle Eric." she said in perfect English. I smiled at her but spun and grabbed the back of each of the twin's shirts.

"Henrick, Alexander, stop." I all but growled, "I said your mother is sleeping and I am in charge so shut up, go change into something clean and come out to the living room. Got it?"

Their nanny gasped shocked at my words I'm sure. They were spoiled brats and needed to put in their place, not up on the pedestal that these kids were on. Both looked at me challengingly, I raised a brow as the door opened and the other two boys waltzed in. both stopped when they saw me.

"Uncle, mom didn't tell use you were coming." Michael said, halting in the door way with his younger brother Peter beside him. They were the oldest.

"Well I'm here, please get changed so we can go out to dinner and let your mother have some peace and quiet." Michael nodded and demanded that Henrick and Alexander go get changed, asked the nanny to help Cecilia change and then he and Peter went to change.

Once we all packed into the car I asked Michael where he wanted to go and he directed me to the small diner, we took up two tables, I sat with Cecelia, Michael and Alexander, and the nanny sat with Peter and Henrick.

It was a relatively peaceful evening. Cecelia told us about all of her school things, chatting in both English and Swedish, she was proud of herself. The last time I'd been here she wanted to learn English. I'd taught her while I was there, but now she was speaking it rather fluently.

We chatted for a few hours afterwards, walking around the park before returning home. Alexander and Henrick weren't behaving in anyway, and they woke their mother up almost as soon as we walked through the door. I could already tell they were doing to grate on my nerves and I wasn't sure if I was ready for that.

Soon after we got home the twins left to go to a friend's house to stay the night, and I was complaining. Michael and Peter were in their room doing homework and Cecilia was bathing and then going to her reading homework. I was left with Lizbeth who was plopped on the couch watching a movie.

She seemed to have calmed down a great bit since she'd gotten some sleep, but I could see that her eyes were still rimmed red and blood shot from all of her crying. Eventually she went back to bed and the nanny left. I went to bed soon after, to prepare myself for the hell that was sure to come in the morning.

And it did.

I woke up to Henrick and Alexander screaming their heads off, Michael and Peter were trying to shut them up, and Cecilia was crying because Henrick had hit her over the head with a book.

All of them fell silently when I finally made it out of my room in a pair of sweat pants, half awake, my eyes narrowed angrily, "Henrick, go to your room and bring me your phone, computer and cable box. Do it now. Michael, can you get Cecilia some ice for her head? And Alexander, go into the living room. Peter, can you make sure everything Henrick enjoys is removed from his room and brought to mine, and then I don't care what you do."

I walked back down to my room, pulled on a shirt, ran a brush through my hair, pulled it into a pony tail at the nape of my neck. I finally dragged my ass into the kitchen, made some coffee and stole an apple from the counter. Peter came out and told me he put everything in my room and locked the door. I thanked him, already knowing I'd have to move it elsewhere in the house.

Peter then slouched off to his room, Cecilia was in her room holding ice to her head and reading a book, the 10 year old girl looked precious and she looked up at me with her wide blue eyes and a small smile on her face, "Hi Uncle Eric!" she said cheerfully, bouncing over to me and giving me a hug.

I gave her a half hug, and she showed me the book she was reading. Harry Potter. She made me sit in her little chair and told me all about the first few books, I stayed silent even though I'd known all about the books because I'd read the series twice, and she told me all about it. And then she started talking about the movies and what she did and didn't like.

Eventually she got dressed and we walked out to the park with the twins who had plans to play Ice Hockey were meeting up with friends at the park. Cecilia wanted to go play and Michael wanted to work on his art project, I wasn't really sure why Peter tagged along, I wondered if it had to do with Lizbeth's finally leaving the house.

The rest of the time I spent there was filled with similar chaos and eventually Alexander also lost his things and the only thing either of the twins left the house for was school and Hockey.

By the time I was packing to leave Mikael was back in the house, doing well, and Lizbeth had regained some of her fleeting sanity. Mikael was happy to spend time with me for some reason and a little disappointed I was leaving so early. But I promised I would come back sooner then before and finally left.

When I touched down in Louisiana I expected Sarah to let me get settled but she wanted me to come in for some unknown reason so I was walking around on set when I passed Sookie leaving Lorena's trailer.

I could just barely make out what Lorena was saying, "no wonder Bill dumped you. You can't do anything right. I bet you couldn't even fuck him right."

"No, I just wouldn't open my legs for him every time his cock got hard. But I bet you he wasn't thinking of you while fucked you." Sookie growled, spinning and sloppily slamming her fist into the make-up artists face.

Lorena screaming in pain as I watched Sookie clutch her stomach, her face paling as she fell to her knees and vomited all over Lorena's shoes, only to pass out a few seconds later. Lorena instantly shut up about her nose and began freaking out about her shoes.

I ran to Sookie's side and rolled her over, trying to wake her up but that wasn't happening. Claude came over and helped me get Sookie out to the car by opening doors for me and directing me to the hospital.

Her eyes cracked open momentarily while I was carrying her through the doors of the hospital, Claude and Thalia were trying to wake her up by calling her name while Pam ran off to go find a nurse.

Once they determined Sookie was dehydrated and had a case of food poisoning I finally calmed down. Everyone stuck around for a few hours, but when Sookie wouldn't wake up they headed home to get some sleep, I slouched down in one of the hospital chairs to wait, telling the nurse I was her boy friend so she'd let me stay.

I guess I fell asleep because the next thing I knew she hissed in pain and I sat up instantly, my eyes meeting hers, relief flooding through me, "Oh good, you're awake." She nods at me while I cross the room to help her sit up.

"What happened? Can I have some water?" she asked her voice raspy.

"You fainted, and let me get a nurse." I told, and after I helped her getting comfortable I went to find Nurse Brenda. She came in asked me if she knew who she was, when her birthday was, who I was and where she was. She got all of the answers right, and the nurse deemed that she was okay.

"Alright, I'm going to let you have some time with you're boy friend, but he only has 15 minutes then you need to get some rest." She said, giving me a pointed look before she left the room.

"What happened? Did I really punch Lorena?" I nodded, "is she pressing charges?"

"No. You hardly hit her. She was more concerned about her ruined shoes then her nose. She won't be on set anymore. What did she say to you?" I asked, even though I already knew I wondered if she'd tell me, I doubted it.

"It's not important." She waved her hand dismissively, "I probably shouldn't have hit her though. It was a really stupid thing to do but she was just pissing me off." She closed her eyes in obvious pain.

"Yes well, you can't undo what has been done. I'm going to let you get some rest." I tell her, talking quietly as I moved toward the door.

"Hey wait!" I stopped and turned to look at her, "how's your brother?"

"He's good. I'll tell you more about it later. Get some rest Sookie." I gave me a warm smile and then stepped out of the room, the glass doors automatically sliding shut behind me as I made my way out of the hospital.

Pam was sitting on the couch waiting for me when I stepped through the door at 8:30, "how is she?"

"She woke up; she doesn't have any signs of memory loss or anything. The nurse said she' be in the hospital for two more days." I sighed, dropping down onto the couch beside Pam as I ran a hand over my face. I was exhausted.

"Well that's good. How's your brother and Lizbeth?" she pulled her feet up onto the couch and stared at me.

"My brother woke up about 6 days ago, came home two days ago. He's doing better. Lizbeth is as sane as she was before the crash. I don't know how anyone is going to handle that woman when my brother passes away." I mutter the last part mostly to myself. Pam reaches over and laces her fingers through mine and gives my hand a little squeeze, "before I left he asked if I would take Cecilia after he passes." I whispered.

Pam moved closer and wrapped her arms around me, trying her best to comfort me. I leaned into her hug and let out a long, deep breath. My brother was suffering from pancreatic cancer, and he was already giving up the fight. I didn't blame him, I was sure he was tired from the three year fight with it. I was shocked when he came out of the coma, and even more when he came home walking and smiling.

The kids were ecstatic and soon I was free to come back and finish filming. But not before Mikael made the request for me to take Cecilia, he had even talked it over with Lizbeth, who agreed because it would thrill Cecilia to come live with me, and I wouldn't mind.

Eventually Pam pulled away and we went over to the set, filming as many scenes as possible without Sookie, which wasn't many so we mostly sat around doing nothing until Sookie was cleared to come back to work.

A few Friday's later Sarah said she wanted to get a change to mingle with the locals, so she found a bar and decided we would all go. Pam, Thalia and I were up in Pam's room, we knew Sarah wouldn't really go through with it. Or at least we thought she wouldn't.

"Hey, we've got an hour to get ready, the bars about 30 minutes away from here." Sookie said, suddenly appearing in the doorway, my mind had wandered a bit so I figured that she probably had walked over to the door, and not suddenly appeared.

I went to change, pulling on a pair of pants and my shoes. I stepped out of the door and tugged my shirt down over my head, when I finally had it on I noticed Sookie was staring at me, her mouth parted and her eyes glued to my chest, "Enjoying the view?"

"Maybe." She answered softly, spinning and skipping down the stairs quickly. I chuckled and followed her down stairs where Pam and Thalia were already waiting.

"Maybe after dinner we should go somewhere fun. Have a night on the town." Pam suggested with a wide smile.

"Maybe." I shrugged walking out to the car and pulling open the passenger seat door. Sookie bounded over to the drivers seat and said something to Thalia, who shrugged and got in the back with Pam.

When we pulled up I examined the bar momentarily and watched Sookie out of the corner of my eye. Something wasn't right with her, and I was going to figure it out.

I. "I have to make a call, I'll be right in." she told us as Pam, Thalia and I made our way toward the door.

Pam and Thalia shrugged, walking away without another thought, but I stopped and fixed my eyes on her. She was lying but started dialing a number on her phone and smiled at me. She hit call and pressed it to her ear waiting.

"Hey Claudine." she said, "just calling to check in on everything. Call me back." I watched her with a raised eyebrow, busted. That call was not important; in fact she could have made it at any time. She sighed, her shoulders slumped and walked toward the bar.

It was filled with country music, families filling booths, a few rowdy football watchers and waitresses in black and white uniforms. The atmosphere was friendly and relaxed and I found myself enjoy it immensely as Sookie slid into a booth beside Pam and I sat on her other side, across from Steve.

I watched as Sookie forced a smile on her face and examined the bar, to the others it might look as if she was just glancing around. But I knew she was looking for someone. Her eyes lingered on a table with two men in orange road crew vests, one finally turned to talk to the waitress and I noticed his eyes were the same color as Sookie's. She was from Louisiana, maybe it was a brother, she shrunk down as soon as he turned.

"Good evenin' ya'll." I glanced up from the menu I'd been staring blankly at to see the waitress from the other table standing at our table, she had bright red hair and a nice smile, her eyes landed on Sookie and widened slightly, she winced, "what can I get ya'll to drink?"

She looked over to me and I got a soda, much like everyone else, but Sookie asked for a Bud Light the waitress, Arlene(I'd finally gotten a glimpse of her name tag), bounded off and quickly returned with our drinks. We asked for a few more minutes and she politely walked off again.

The next time she came back she was pointedly looking everywhere but at Sookie, and Sookie was returning the favor. Everyone placed their orders for food and then she bounced away again. Sookie was drinking her beer like it was the last thing on earth and she kept getting more. She obviously didn't want to be here, and I was clearly the only one who noticed. Eventually everyone ordered a beer or two and the waitress was trying to steer clear of our table as much as possible.

Sarah and Steve left early and I went to sit beside Thalia so we had more space. We stayed for another hour, and then Thalia and I went to the bathroom before we left. When I came back out the man from the table was standing next to Sookie, looking down at her and Pam looked confused.

"Does Gran know you're here?" I heard the man ask, Sookie shook her head no, looking frightened and guilty.

"Sookie?" I called, the man spun and backed away from the table and me, his eyes didn't look frightened, just unsure.

"Yeah?" she answered softly, downing the rest of her beer, and then she stood up and wobbled a little bit. I almost reached out to grab her but she steadied herself and said, "I'm ready to go have fun, what about you Pam?"

"Yes." Pam said, sounding excited, she slipped out of the booth behind Sookie, smiling now. I

"Sook, you can ignore me, but don't ignore Gran. She misses you." Sookie shrugged, trying to appear like she didn't care but guilt and sadness shown through her eyes when she looked up at me and asked me to drive. I take them to a bar in Shreveport, after dropping Thalia at the house, and they set right to drinking and dancing.

Both end up pulling me out to dance with them but Pam leaves to dance with another woman and Sookie pulls my body flush against hers, dancing on me during a particularly slow song, her arms go around my neck and I help her stay on her feet by wrapping my arm around her back.

She smiles up at me and giggles, pushing herself up onto her tip-toes and she leans in and kisses me forcefully, closing her eyes and moaning, but she pulls away before I can do anything else, "I've wanted to really kiss you for a long time." She whispers, the song changes and she breaks away from me to go dance with Pam.

A little while later they started Karaoke, and I pulled out my phone to record it, Sookie and Pam would be in for hell in the morning, especially after the wake up call I knew Thalia was planning on giving them.

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