Don't own SVM/TrueBlood, they belong to Alan Ball and Charlaine Harris.

Lot's of dialogue, next to zero action. Sorry, but if it helps, the next chapter is going to get crazy...

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Aya and Godric were laying naked on the floor of the basement. Both of them basking in the afterglow of their intense lovemaking and first blood exchange.

"Not that I'm complaining," Aya was the first to speak, she tilted her head on Godric's chest so she could see his face. "But what the hell? I tell you what I am and that's your first reaction?"

Godric laughed, "That is my first reaction to pretty much anything you say, love. What you are makes no difference to me, other than knowing how much more I need to protect you."

"I'm not as fragile as I look." Aya muttered.

"Perhaps not, you were able to keep up with my more...feral side. I didn't hurt you, did I?"

"Nope, I'm right as rain." Godric looked confused at the term, Aya forgot he didn't always get modern analogies. "You didn't hurt me. By the way, we're laying on a concrete floor in a room filled with very dangerous weapons and the twins will be back any minute."

"Stupid reality." Godric smiled, "Always interfering with our world." They were both silent for a few moments, completely happy to just be with each other, even if it was on a cold, hard, concrete floor. The spell was broken when Godric's cell phone started to ring out a Swedish children's song. Aya groaned and reluctantly stood up so Godric could retrieve the phone.

"I am here my child." Godric said into the speaker then listened as Eric told him about his talk with Sookie and plans for the following night. Aya picked up the shreds of her tank top, there was simply no saving that shirt. She pulled on her denim shorts and stole Godric's button down, the buttons were ripped off, but she could still tie the ends together and roll up the sleeves to form a somewhat suitable cover. She looked up when she heard her name enter the vampire's conversation.

"...Going with us as well... We'll discuss that in person, meet tomorrow as soon as the sun sets... Alright, make Pam, Herveaux, and anyone else you can think of watch her property." The call ended without a goodbye, typical of vampires. Aya tossed Godric his jeans.

"Problems?" She asked while picking the remnants of her shredded clothes and trying to make the room look like they had never been there.

"Nothing that we can't handle. It's going to be dawn soon."

"I know." Aya worried her bottom lip. "You can stay down here, there's a cot in the closet and I'm the only one who know the password to open up these doors."

"That will be nice. Tomorrow night we are meeting at Eric's house at first dark and then leaving for Jackson." Godric paused and tilted his head as if he was listening to something upstairs. "The twins just got home."

"Good." Aya walked to one of the closets and pulled out a folding cot. "It's not very comfy and there are no blankets."

Godric sat on the cot and grabbed Aya's mid-section, pulling her into his lap playfully. "Dear one, I have spent a large part of my existence spending the day in a pile of dirt."

Aya laughed, "Well then, welcome to the Ritz-Carlton." She kissed him lightly on the lips. "We are going to have to talk, you know." Aya was suddenly serious. "About what I saw."

Godric made no response, but stiffened slightly and pressed his lips briefly into a hard line, it was the closest thing to nervousness Aya had ever seen him portray.

"You want me to be like you." She said quietly and moved off his lap so she was facing him with her legs crossed pretzel-style on the cot.

"If I was a human man," Godric began slowly. "I would dream of marrying you because that would guarantee you would be mine for the rest of my life. As it is, I dream of turning you because that would tie you to me for eternity." Godric looked at Aya and saw that she was staring at him open-mouthed, with wide eyes, and barely breathing. "I have frightened you."

Aya shook her head and breathed deeply. "Overwhelmed me. How many others have you turned?"

Godric lifted one corner of his mouth, "Only Eric." Godric leaned forward and kissed her chastely. "There will be time to discuss this later. You are exhausted and I am beginning to feel the call of the sun."

"Okay." Aya nodded and stood up then spun suddenly and got on her knees in front of Godric who looked at her questioningly. "Godric, I...no.. let me start over. You are my gravity now. I don't know how that happened or why, but I need you to know that. You have the power to completely destroy me." She looked down, Godric lifted her chin and kissed her passionately.

"I swear on my own blood to never do so. Aya Khalisi, I will love you because I can see now other way to live now."

Aya nodded again and pulled back hesitantly then hurried for the door, making sure it was locked securely before going back up the stairs. She was truly exhausted, the night had been an emotional and physical roller coaster ride and her bed sounded heavenly. She had been hoping to collapse as soon as she got to her room was instead greeted with the sight of Aiden and Laura both in their night clothes laying on her bed.

"Ugh, you two! Let me put some clothes on." Aya rolled her eyes and moved into the adjoining bathroom to pull on a pair of sweats and a t-shirt. She then returned to the room and jumped onto the bed and laid down between the twins.

"He made you cry." Laura observed, sounding obviously worried. Aya wiped her face, she had barely registered the tears falling before she left the basement.

"They're the good kind of tears." Aya assured her niece.

"He's crazy for you, you know." Aiden said. "Like stark raving coocoo for cocoa puffs crazy."

"You can read his mind?" Aya asked, she thought for sure Dirazen had once said something about vampires being next to impossible to 'hear'.

"Normally it's just, like, white noise. But when we got back and just a few minutes ago he was broadcasting extremely clear, it's a little scary actually. Do you love him?"

"I do. Very very much." Aya smiled. "Now let me sleep!"

"He's going to get Dad back?" Laura asked.

"Yes." Aya answered.

"Can we stay here for a while?" Aiden asked.

"Yes, just please shut up and sleep." Aya sounded angry but was glad to be there for the twins. She sometimes forgot how young fifteen actually was, they needed a parent too keep away the nightmares and she was what they had for right now.

"Sookie." Eric very gently shook the sleeping blonde in his arms. "Sookie, lover, wake up."

"Notyourlover." Sookie mumbled but opened her eyes and rolled away from Eric. "What's wrong?" She asked.

Eric smiled widely, not something people got to see very often. "Nothing. I just need to make a call before retiring for the day. Incidentally, is there a place here for me to sleep?"

"He used to use the guest bedroom closet." Sookie motioned to the downstairs bedroom.

"I'll be right back." Eric left the bed and went out the window, landing in the yard. He dialed Godric's number, after what he had felt in the Fangtasia basement he was worried about his maker. It took a few rings, but Godric did pick up.

I am here my child. Eric smiled at the familiar and comforting phrase.

"Godric, I told Sookie about Compton. I'm staying at her home in Bon Temps for the day. Pam is safe and healed. Russell married Sohie-Ann and killed the magistar, that's going to be annoying to clean up. I promised Russell I would be at his home tomorrow night."

You plan to take revenge then?

"Yes, of course. I finally have him." Eric's eyes glowed with the prospect of finally avenging his family's murder.

I will be with you. Dirazen Khalisi is being held and tortured by the king.

"What would Edgington want with him?"

Their family is not human, they are the last of a very ancient race I've only heard stories about. Because it is her brother, Aya will be going with us as well.

"Master, I intend to kill him tomorrow night. After one thousand years I will not let anything get in my way." Eric said tersely, trying to make a point without actually saying he didn't give a damn about the Khalisi family and didn't understand Godric's obsession. Then he realized something. "You intend to turn her, don't you?" Eric felt a jolt of jealousy, of course it was common for a vampire as old as Godric to have more than one child. However, Godric had never made any mention of wanting another besides Eric.

There was a pause on the other line. We'll discuss that in person. Meet tomorrow as soon as the sun sets.

Eric knew that was the end of the conversation. "Not the bar, my house in The Haven. I need to find someone to keep an eye on Sookie while we're away. I feel...very protective of her. She shouldn't be left alone."

Alright, make Pam, Herveaux, and anyone else you can think of watch her property. Godric hung up, there was not anything else to say until the two vampires met face to face. Eric quickly made calls to Pam and Alcide Herveaux, within five minutes he had arranges 24/7 supernatural security for Sookie.

Dawn would be approaching very soon. Eric returned to Sookie's bedroom through her window and found her laying on her back, just barely awake.

"Eric." She said quietly.

"Yes." He said and joined her on the bed, putting one arm around her.

"I'm sorry."

"What could you possibly be apologizing for?" Eric never ceased to be surprised by the girl.

"For treating you like I did. For not trusting you and calling you a big jerk."

"You never called me that."

"Well I thought about it and that's just as bad."

Eric squeezed her shoulder lightly, "You are most definitely forgiven. Compton took advantage of your innocence and planted a false idea of me in your head."

"Mmmmhmmm." Sookie nodded and wiggled closer to Eric. "You're not a beast at all."

Eric was about to reply, but saw that Sookie had once again fallen completely asleep. He kissed her forehead and retreated to the closet she had indicated. Sookie was almost his and very soon he would finally fulfill his father's dying command; the viking rested very well that day.