I haven't updated in over seven months and I have not in any regards forgotten about this story. I've been very uninspired lately which has led over into my hectic life. I think I'm finally starting to put something concrete together for the next chapter.

It's a little smutty which is where my concern comes in because this story unlike so many of my others has never been about sex or smut tendencies. It includes sex but it's more about the evolution of the characters of Eric and Sookie. Also, it includes a little mystery.

This is where my question comes to all my faithful readers. For the next chapter, would you like to see Sookie and Eric engage in some sexual activities and maybe see some tenderness out of Eric or rather see them working together to find Jason's killer? Hit that review button and let me know what you think so I can get the next chapter out and churning.

I want to thank all of you for the tremendous support you've given this story which was my first foray into True Blood fanfiction. And since you've all been more than accommodating, here's a teaser for the next chapter.

XOXOXO Sam

I wet my lips, slowly, dragging my tongue across the seam of my lip. His bright blue eyes stared a hole into me as though he could see down to my very soul. My action had been enticing to him which was not what I had been going for. What was I supposed to say now? I had just given myself over to him, not to mention had sex with him while I was supposed to be looking for my brother's killer.

Jason. Just his name or the thought of him caused a painful tremor in my chest. I closed my eyes, willing to block out Eric and thoughts of my brother which had almost reduced me to tears. I didn't want him to see me like that. That would have been the utter humiliation and he might even think I was crying over him and not Jason, which of course I wasn't.

Bill had become a monster seemingly overnight, Jason had been murdered, and now I had just succumbed to Eric. My simple and well structured life of having a boyfriend and just being a waitress at Merlotte's was gone, although how simple could I say it was when Bon Temps was overrun with vampires and I had been with several of them?

I ran a shaky hand through my ringlets of blond hair and finally raised my eyes to him. I took a deep breath and let it out before trying again. "That shouldn't have happened, Eric. I'm not blaming you because I was equally responsible but I really did come here because I need your help with finding my brother's killer. That's the only thing on my mind right now and I let the grief overcome me and I seeked comfort in the nearest person which happened to be you."

That was a lie.

Eric's mouth twisted into a smirk. "I know why you came here, Sookie. You may have not come here for that but you got what you wanted. Me."

My mouth opened in disbelief. I wisely stayed silent and said nothing because what could I say? He was partly right.

"Do you regret it?"

"No," I whispered. "But Jason is the reason why I came."

He played oblivious to my brother's name and steered our conversation back towards what had just occurred not ten minutes before. "Will it happen again?"

"No. Never again."

His blue Nordic eyes seared into me, he roughly took my hand and pulled me into him and said, "That's where you're wrong, lover."