Title: Tasty.

Chapter 11: Familiar Taste of Poison

Sookie is a writer for Tasty magazine, Eric is a big time super model that eludes every interview. Eric and Sookie knew each other through their siblings when they were younger. Sookie has to get an interview with the man before she fly's to her hometown to live in her old house. It doesn't go as planned, but when she finds he too returned to Bon Temps will she be able to get her interview or will she end up like the others?

Rated: M

Warning, nasty nasty things happen in this chapter, kinda. Plus some ass kicking! :D

PS-Sookie has been in New York with Valeria for a week and a half, so this is two days after where I left off with Eric's point of view!

SPOV

"Sookie, go away." Valeria grumbled, rolling over her now red and black hair spilling over her face, but I can still see that her grey eyes are open, "why do I have to get up? It's 7 am."

"Because we need to get to work, I have to finish up my article on Eric's interview and you have spying to do. Up." I give her a hard shove and she spills off the bed with a squeak.

As I'm walking out she yells out, "that's a real nice way to treat the person you're living with, for FREE." I shake my head and pour myself a glass of orange juice, Valeria comes out a few minutes later in a pair of black skinny jeans, a Vampire Diaries shirt, a pair of converse and a jacket, pulling her hair into a high pony tail.

I grab my bottle of water after setting my now empty glass in the sink, shoulder my purse, toss Valeria her keys and we walk out the door, down the stairs and onto the streets of New York.

"Can we stop for breakfast?" Valeria asks outside her favorite bakery, I nod and she crosses the busy street, I rush after her and into a tiny little bagel shop. Inside she pulls me into line abruptly, and after we get our bagels I notice we're following Bill and Quinn down the street.

I eat my bagel and follow her in silence, we follow the two all the way to some shitty busted up old building and she pulls me down an alley way, something I would normally flip out about, but with Valeria I was safe.

We head down the back alley, and finally back onto the street heading for Tasty. We get in the elevator at 7:49, I sigh.

Valeria sits down on my couch when we enter my office, I sit in my chair and we get to work. The article is taking forever for me to finish, polish it off, and make it shinny and worth something.

I try to ignore the want to call him, to hear his voice; I have to work hard so I can finish it before tomorrow. Besides Eric's interview I had a few articles on stupid celebrity gossip that my boss wanted me to find the real story of. Meaningless garbage.

My door opens and I freeze in my work, Quinn enters the room and gives Valeria a disapproving look, "that's highly unprofessional."

She gives him a sparing glance, "so is sexual harassment." And then she goes back to her work.

"Can I help you?" I snap, Quinn's attention turns to me, "Well?"

"I was just here to drop this off." He tossed the paper on my desk, stared at me for a minute, and then left.

"Creep." Valeria comments, I roll my eyes and continue writing until 3pm, I print out copies and with Valeria behind me, I take them to my boss. Or well that was the plan, but she had her door locked.

I gave the papers to her assistant and Valeria and I headed down to lunch, "Val, do you mind if I head home?"

She gives me a concerned glance, but nods, "I'll walk you home."

"No need." I mumble, grabbing my stuff and heading out the door before she can argue. It's not a long walk back, and all I do is not think. I'm tired of it, but when I pass a tabloid stand with an old one, of me crying in Valeria's arms in my office, because someone had somehow gotten in my office without me knowing.

I stomp past the stand and move quicker toward our apartment, I usually don't make a habit out of being out in public much anymore. I run up the stairs and into the safety of Valeria's apartment.

I've been staying with her while I finish up my work, she usually hangs around my office because she's jobless, occasionally she does the mail for Tasty but she is actually private security and a body guard so it helps.

I sleep for 4 hours until Valeria comes back and decides were doing karaoke, I groan but she insists. I protest that I can't sing, nothing could make me sound decent. Nothing.

"Oh just get over it Sookie!" she says with a huge grin, pulling her karaoke machine out of her room and plugging it in.

She hands me the microphone and flips through CD's, she lets out a small "ahaha" and puts in one of the discs.

"We sing together then!" I say, she shrugs and grabs a mike, "alright?"

"Fine." She smirks and evil glint in her eyes and a devilish grin on her face.

"My hands are searching for you. My arms are outstretched towards you I feel you on my fingertips my tongue dances behind my lips for you. This fire rising through my being burning I'm not used to seeing you. I'm alive, I'm alive."

I surprisingly find myself getting into singing, because I like this song, its still shocking and as I sing along it doesn't bother me that I'm making Valeria sounds twenty times worse then she is, I also realize she's faking bad singing.

"I can feel you all around me thickening the air I'm breathing holding on to what I'm feeling savoring this heart that's healing. My hands float up above me and you whisper you love me and I begin to fade into our secret place."

"The music makes me sway the angels singing say we are alone with you I am alone and they are too with you. I'm alive, I'm alive. I can feel you all around me thickening the air I'm breathing holding on to what I'm feeling savoring this heart that's healing.""

"And so I cry the light is white and I see you. I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive. I can feel you all around me thickening the air I'm breathing holding on to what I'm feeling savoring this heart that's healing."

"Take my hand I give it to you now you own me all I am you said you would never leave me I believe you, I believe I can feel you all around me thickening the air I'm breathing holding on to what I'm feeling savoring this heart that's healed." We sing a few more songs before I tire out and go get us drinks.

Valeria keeps singing, I realize that she usually sings when she's had a long hard day, when something really bad happens. My suspicions are confirmed when I reenter the living room and the guitar opening of "Familiar Taste of Poison."

I sit silently on the couch and listen.

"Drink the wine, my darling, you said take your time, consume all of it but the roses were only to drain my inspiration. The promises were spoiled before they left your lips and..."

"I breathe you in again just to feel you underneath my skin; holding on to the sweet escape is always laced with a familiar taste of poison. I tell myself that you're no good for me I wish you well, but desire never leaves I could fight this til the end. But maybe I don't want to win."

She probably doesn't even realize that I'm in the room, not that she's going to care if I am or not.

"I breathe you in again just to feel you underneath my skin; holding on to the sweet escape is always laced with a familiar taste of poison."

"I don't wanna be saved, I don't wanna be sober I want you on my mind, in my dreams behind these eyes and I won't wake up, no not this time."

"I breathe you in again just to feel you underneath my skin; holding on to the sweet escape is always laced with a familiar taste of poison."

"A familiar taste-." The microphone drops from her hand and she stumbles toward the couch holding her head, "Sookie…can you go get my medicine? I left it in my bag in your desk."

"Yeah." I say, quickly jumping up to get my shoes, office keys and a sweater. I run down the stairs, out the door and rush down the road. I never really found out what Valeria took medicine for, but I knew that if she didn't get it she'd freak herself out and faint.

I rushed up the steps to the building, we luckily don't live to far from the office, I flash the guard my badge, rush into the elevator and then into my office. Why had she left her medicine here? She never left her stuff here.

I quickly unlocked my desk drawer and retrieved her bag slinging it over my shoulder before I slammed the door shut and made to run out the door, but Quinn's body covered the whole frame and the door fell shut behind Bill and locked.

My stomach dropped.

"What are you doing here this late Sookie?" Quinn asks a wicked smile on his face.

"I'm getting my things." I reply, trying to keep my voice strong.

"Nobody else is here this late." Bill points out, my heart jumped into my throat and I backed toward my phone, Quinn and Bill walked closer to me, "Just us and the guard downstairs. 5 floors downstairs."

Oh god, oh no, oh god no. I feel like I'm going to puke, Quinn and Bill are on either side of me; both grab my arms and move me to my couch, no.

I try to shake one of them off, I just need one arm free but it doesn't work they're both too strong.

"You're just as pathetic as your little friend Valeria. Just as easy."

"What the hell did you do to her?" I snarl, meeting Quinn's eyes, finally able to spea.

"You'll see soon what we did." They shove me onto the couch releasing my arms at the same time. I lash out, kicking at there knees and swinging at Bill's face. They stumble back and I run for the door, I don't make it because Quinn's hand is fisted in my hair and pulls my back, slamming me into my table.

I don't scream, or cry, or do anything they want. I fight, I fight like hell biting and kicking at them. They can't get a grip on me, but Quinn does get a grip on my shirt and it rips like paper, but I don't stop even as they drag me back.

They still don't have me pinned when my door opens and Valeria enters with the last three people I'd expect to see, Eric, Pam and Alana. And Valeria has a gun, "Don't fucking move." She growls, I hear the gun cock, and she points it at Quinn's head.

Quinn just laughs, until Eric yells angrily and his fist connects with Quinn's face as he grabs for Valeria's gun, he knocks it away and Bill dives for it, so does Valeria, I don't know who gets it but Alana yanks Bill back and tosses him into a wall.

The rest I don't remember because the last thing I see is Quinn falling toward the table, and me and I scramble away as a gun fires and I close my eyes and curl up by my desk, I knows there is more fighting but I don't watch.

After a few minutes a warm hand wraps around my arm and gently pulls me to my feet, followed by a second warm hand on my back leading me into the hallway. "Sookie are you alright?"

I don't recognize the voice right away, so I assume its Alana. When I crack my eyes open she's kneeling in front of me tugging a sweater off and holding it out to me. I take it silently and pull it over my head.

A few minutes later Valeria and a woman I didn't remember seeing come out, Valeria leading a bloody Quinn in cuffs toward the fire exit, the other woman with Bill following her. Valeria's bag is slung over her shoulder.

"Let's get you out of here Sookie." Alana helps me up and leads me over to Eric who wraps his arms around me, kissing the top of my head. I lean into his side as we follow Pam and Alana out.

Eric takes me down to a limo, lets me slide in and then curl up into his side watching Alana look over Pam as if she had been the one Quinn and Bill had attacked. Which maybe they had, Pam was never one to pass up a fight with anyone.

Looking closer I notice that Pam has a light bruise on her jaw and blood on her hand, Alana has a nasty bruise on her arm and a bit of blood on her mouth, "what happened?" I whisper, fearing looking up to see how bloody Eric was.

"Bill and Quinn got caught, and they'll be punished. Just not in court." Pam replies, "are you okay with that?"

"I don't give a fuck about what happens to them, as long as they don't get the chance to do anything horrible like that again." I mutter angrily.

Pam smiles, leaning over and brushing a piece of hair from my face, "that, Sookie, is what I hoped to hear. Go ahead and rest now. You look tired."

Songs aren't mine. (duhh :D)

Flyleaf-All Around Me

Halestorm-Familiar Taste of Poison.

Next chapter up soon~! :D