Well, here's the last chapter of this season. I've been thinking about writing more chapters but I'll do without a title 'cause I'll name them later, when I know them.

I'm not sure what's gonna happen in the next season but I'll do my best to keep with this fic on my own way.

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Save Yourself


Eric POV

The pain was unberable but I knew I had to overcome. It wasn't time to break down and let the fear or pain took hold of me. No, Sookie needed me. Pam needed me and I had to do whatever was necessary to save them both.

"Eric, are you okay?" I was staring at Sookie's beautiful eyes while she stroked my cheek. I was lying on the ground, surrounded by darkness and with Sookie next to me. "What's going on? What's wrong with Pam?"

"I have to save her." I said no more. I couldn't see Nora anywhere but I knew she was close. "What is it?" I asked when Sookie kept looking around. I got up from the ground and placed myself beside her. There was something strange about this place, the smell was different.

"I dunno, but I feel like I know this place but I'm sure I'd never been here before." I had the same feeling but we didn't have time to do research, we had to return to the Authority and end with this madness. "You feel it too, don't you?" She asked and I nodded slightly but I suddenly extended my fangs.

"What is it?" Sookie asked alarmed and clinging to my arm. "Eric, what is happening?"

"Stay here." I mumbled looking into her eyes to let her know I was serious.

"Eric!" She yelled and before I could stop her she was running after me. Was she completely crazy? Why could she never listen to me? If I had told her to stay hidden was for a good reason.

"Oh Miss Stackhouse…you don't know how long I've been waiting in the dark for you to show up." Russell was in front of her before I could get her out of the way so I hid so he wouldn't see me. "It wasn't very smart of you to go out at night." Edgington had his fangs fully extended and blood all over his face. He had fed very recently and gave off a faint glow so he had probably found a fairy somewhere. Perhaps that explained this place was so different.

"You're a fucking psycho and you'll get what you deserve sooner or later!" Sookie was scared, I could feel it through the bond, but she was stubborn enough to pretend that she wasn't afraid.

"Don't somebody ever told you that you should respect your elders?" I couldn't help rolling my eyes. Russell always had to be ironic, even in the most desperate situations, but the fact that Sookie was distracting him was a plus for me. Russell was so high on fairy blood that he was stupid enough to think he was invincible. "It's a shame that I have to kill you, Miss Stackhouse…" he kept talking and moving at the same time. It wasn't the moment yet, only a few more seconds. "I could keep you and drink your delicious blood every night, enjoying the freedom of walking in the light of day…" If Russell believed that he would put a hand on Sookie he was too crazy. "I hadn't seen sunlight for the past three thousand years but your blood," and he took a few steps toward her. I didn't understand why he hadn't caught her yet. "Your blood made me feel free!" It was the moment when he lunged hisemlf at her at full speed but I caught him before.

Sookie starled when she saw me catching Russell but I already had a tree branch stuck into his chest when she realized that I had Edgington exactly where I wanted him. His time had come and this time nothing and no one could stop me.

"This is your fucking end," I hissed with fangs fully extended as I looked into his eyes.

When I stuck the branch tree deeper his whole body began glowing and I thought the fairy blood would be able to save him but then his face began to warp and I knew nothing was going to prevent his death at this moment.

"Fuck!" He shouted seconds before to explode and turn into a pile of guts on the ground.

Sookie and I looked at each other. I felt free because I finally took my revenge with Edgington but Sookie seemed to be in shock. I couldn't blame her for being face to face with a psychopath like Russell Edgington.

"Sookie, look at me." Her eyes were fixed on the remains on the ground but I didn't want her to keep watching. "Sookie, it's over. Russell is no more." It was as if my words had effect on her because the next thing she did was to kneel on the ground and began mourning. I wasn't sure if she needed to be alone or needed me to hold her but when I knelt next to her she just threw herself into my arms and kissed me passionately.

I couldn't believe what was happening, after so long longing for Sookie's kisses and finally I felt that passion again and the warmth she always gave off. We were united as we had been when she took care of me during my amnesia, united not just by the blood bond but by the deepest love.

"It's finally over," she whispered when our lips parted but our foreheads were still touching. "Russell is gone, he's gone forever." She kept repeating the same thing over and over while she smiled with tears in her eyes.

I might have stayed in that forest forever while I had Sookie in my arms but we had work to do.

"What is that smell?" I heard Nora showing from the thicket of tress and walking towards us. "It smells delicious and it's everywhere." I knew Nora's senses would eventually on Sookie. "She smells amazing…my mouth is watering."

Nora ran toward us to get Sookie but I stopped her before she got her.

"You can't touch her, Nora." And I was dead serious. I wouldn't let her hurt her. "Sookie is prohibited for you."

"But she smells like the most incredible thing I've ever smelled, Eric. Her blood is calling me." She turned around again to go to her but I wouldn't let her do it. "Listen to me carefully, Nora. She doesn't concern you, okay? If you approach her, if you hurt her I assure you that I will rip your fangs off."

"How can you resist it?" She asked, with her eyes wide open as she inhaled the delicious smell of Sookie.

"Practice. You'll resist too. Godric taugh us well, Nora, but you've been too busy climbing positions in the Authority." I wasn't convinced that she was able to control herself. "Nora, swear on Godric. Swear on Godric that you won't harm Sookie."

She rolled her eyes and hesitated for a moment but she finally did it. "I swear on Godric."

"Father would be proud of us." Nora nodded and we both came back to where Sookie had hidden. "Sookie, you can come out, everything is under control."

"What about her?" She asked from behind the tree where she was hiding. "She wants to drink my blood, I don't trust Nora."

"She won't hurt you, Sookie. I promise."

Finally Sookie showed up and I extended my hand for her to walk toward me.

"What do we do now?" She asked as I hugged her against my chest. "Is everything over?"

"No, we still have to deal with a few issues."

We flew to her house and Tara was already there waiting with Sookie's brother. We went in and began discussing the situation. Nora and Tara didn't know each other but I warned my sister not to hurt Tara because she was part of the family now.

"What the fuck are they doing here, Sookie?" I hated him to talk to his sister in that way but it wasn't time to teach manners to Jason Stackhouse. "The fucking vampires don't mean nothing but trouble, Sook, haven't you learned anything?"

"Jason! Don't talk that way. They are here to help us."

"What?" He asked pissed. I didn't want to use force but I would if I needed it. "To save Bill Compton? Your boyfriend?"

"He's not my boyfriend anymore…" Sookie protested but was interrupted by her brother. "That's not important, Sookie! I don't care what has happened between you two but I'm glad it's over 'cause it wasn't good. Vampires are demons and they should return to the hell they came from." I couldn't help laughing when I heard his words. Jason pretended to keep his sister away from vampires but that would never happen.

"Jason, Eric and I…"

"I don't wanna know!" I laughed again because the situation was too surreal. "What's so funny, fanger?"

"Blood bag." I replied playfully.

"Leech."

"Meat sack."

"Enough!" Sookie cut us off. "Jason, I'm sorry but this what I have to do, Eric and Tara and…Nora," she said vaguely, "are here to help us end with this sensless war between humans and vampires. Don't you understand? We must return to the Authority to rescue Bill…" Rescue or kill him, any option was valid for me, though I preferred the last one.

"Bill? Sookie, Jessica told me what's going on, Bill has gone mad and it was him who started all this."

Sookie looked at me for confirmation so I quickly gave it to her. "It's true, Sookie. Bill's lost his mind and he's preparing the armies of the Authority for the war against humans." Sookie knew this would happen but never imagined it would be her loved Bill Compton who would take it out. "Bill drank Lilith's blood and he believe his vampire god is real, she's brainwashing his brain because she only seeks chaos and anarchy."

"What can we do?" Sookie was straight to the point.

"We need to get back to the Authority." Nora interrupted and I nodded.

"What! Sookie, are you insane? You can't go back there." Jason got up and sat down next to his sister. "You almost died in there so I don't think you're even considering do it again."

"Jason, I have to." She said no more.

"If anyone can get sanity back to Bill and convince him that his god is not real…it's you." I whispered because although I hated to admit it Sookie was the only one able to save Bill Compton.

"Alright."

"And you owe Pam." Tara added glaring at Sookie.

"And Jessica." Sookie said. "We have to rescue Jessica too."

We had a plan so we should return to the Authority and kill all the vampires we met along the way.

"Are you sure about this?" Nora asked as she was sitting in the truck with me. I drove while Sookie, Jason and Tara were in the back tied and gagged. It was the only way to get in without suspicion because Compton and Salome would be waiting for us.

"It's the only way."

"They thought we were dead when the lost contact with us, when they see us they'll think we are traitors."

"We are." I said no more. It was the truth.

A guard approached the driver's window and looked at us both. "Chancellors, it's a surprise to see you again. When we lost contact with the car we thought an attack had occurred."

"We had some problems," I said with a smile, "but nothing that we couldn't take care of." The guard went to the back of the truck to take a look. "What's all this?"

"Food and a traitor." No further explanation but I couldn't kill him or all alarms would activate and we'd be surrounded by guards in a matter of seconds.

"The blonde one smells amazing." He muttered.

"Yeah," I nodded with a smile. "And she's mine." I hissed to make that clear.

"You can come in, Chancellors."

"Thank you."

Luckily our blood still allowed us access to any part of the building so we went down in the elevator while Jason was preparing his weapons for the impending attack.

"Do it." I told Tara turning around slightly. She pressed the button on the remote control and security cameras were deactivated, when the elevator doors opened Jason shot at the vampire behind the big desk but not before she pushed a button and all safety protocols activated.

"We have to move fast." Nora and I left to the great room and hid in the ceiling until several guards came looking for intruders. I looked at Nora and saw that she already had a stake in her hand. She was ready to attack, we were both, so I jumped on them and ended with them at vampire speed while Nora took care of the rest.

"It was fun," Nora murmured while we made sure there weren't more of them. "Now what?"

"We have to open the cells to get Pam and Jessica." Nora and I discussed the best way to do it without being caught but at this point I didn't care. The guards and probably Compton and Salome already knew we had gotten in and what was going on. "I think if we could do this…"

"Eric, let me do it, I know how to do it."

"But with this button you could open the doors and…"

"Eric, do you think you know this better than me? I designed it, I know what I'm doing." I turned away and left her to do it and when we left the cells were opened. We couldn't see anything because Jason had destroyed the security cameras but the system was turned off.


Sookie POV

When Eric and Nora left I couldn't stop looking at him until he disappeared through a door. I wanted to say to him a lot of things but unfortunately it wasn't the time or the place.

Jason was going to stay in the main room to kill all vampires who appeared as Tara and I were leaving to go find Pam and Jessica and get them out of the cells. I had been locked up in one of them for longer than I'd like to recognize but I had no idea how to get there. I'd been always unconscious or too worried trying to find a way out so it was like a maze to me.

"Watch it, it's slippery," Tara told me when we had to step over a puddle of blood and guts from one of the guards Jason had killed. It seemed to be one of the gateways to the cells but I couldn't be sure.

It was so weird to be in this place again, especially without Eric by my side. Being locked in the cell was a feeling I never wanted to experience again in my life but when Eric sitting on the bed beside me things didn't seem so terrible.

Now I was following Tara, she hated me 'cause I convinced Pam to turn her, but what else could I do? She was my best friend, she risked her life to save me and all she got in return was a shot in the head by a junkie psychopath named Debbie Pelt. It didn't seem like a good deal so when Pam showed up at my house that night I could only beg her not to let her die, to turn her into a vampire so she at least had a chance.

Did that make me a selfish?

Maybe I was wrong and it wasn't the right decision but then I couldn't think clearly. Besides, I wasn't the only one. Lafayette was seeing his cousin's body in a pool of blood and when I looked into his eyes I knew somehow he was also agreed that Tara was turned into a vampire.

Yes, she would never be the same person again, she would probably hate us for the rest of our lives but at least she would have a second chance.

Also, things seemed to have improved, or at least that was what I wanted to believe. Tara had risked a lot coming with us to this place to save her maker. I didn't understand the relationship between maker and progeny but I was sure it was a much stronger bond than the one Eric and I had shared.

"Are you sure this is the way?" I asked but I didn't expect her to respond. I knew Tara hated me for having condemned her to be something she would never have chosen.

"I can feel Pam. We're close." She replied coldly.

I wondered if someday she would be able to forgive me for what I did, if she'd understand my motives, yet selfish, that let Tara to continue with her life in a different way.

Would that be enough so she didn't hate forever?

"I know it's not the best time but I wanna you to know that I've been pretty worried for you, Tara." I muttered waiting for her to turn around and threaten me with her fangs fully extended. "Things have been very strange and I know you probably hate me right now but you have to understand that I did what I did because I thought it was the best. I just wanted you to have a second chance to do everything you hadn't been able to do with your life and…"

"You're right, Sookie," and I stood there with eyes wide open as she was staring at me. "This is not the best time."

"I just hope one day you be able to forgive me." I said no more and started walking until she was behind me.

For some reason I was beginning to be aware of where I was and I knew the cells couldn't be far away. Tara was back in front of me, walking faster and perhaps feeling Pam harder. I didn't know if the bond worked in that way but I was sure Tara wouldn't be so convinced if she wasn't able to feel Pam.

"Sookie?" I heard Jessica's voice when we turned a corner and we found them then.

"Jessica, you okay?" Jessica nodded, grinning, obviously happy to see us, and when we heard a snap I knew Eric had gotten off the security system and the cell doors could be opened.

"Come on, what are you waiting for?" I asked when Jessica didn't move. "The bars are silver…"

"Oh, I see." I opened Jessica's cell door and I was going to do the same with Pam's when Tara did it before I could stopped her and she burned her hand but didn't seem to care about it. As Pam left the cell she and Tara kissed passionately and I stood there with my mouth hanging open. I did not expect that kind of greeting from neither of them.

"I knew it!" Jessica shouted when she saw them and I looked away to give them some privacy.

"Come on, we gotta get out of here." I said and we left in a hurry from that horrible place I never wanted to see in my whole life.

"Where's Eric?" Pam asked as we walked to the main room.

"He's taking care of everything." I didn't think of anything else to say, well, I wasn't sure if I should explain everything or was something Eric should do. "We gotta get out of here quickly."

I knew Jason would be ready to fire when the doors opened and someone suddenly appear so before appearing I told him we were coming.

"Jason!" Jessica practically threw herself into his arms but Jason didn't even touch her. I didn't know what was happening with my brother but he didn't look the same. Maybe he had some sort of revelation about vampires, I had no idea, but he was pretty cruel when told Jessica that he could never love a vampire.

"Eric!" Pam whispered when saw her maker and hugged him with all her strength.

"Hello, I'm so glad to see you." Eric kissed the top of her head but pulled away from her quickly. "We haven't much time." He pushed the elevator button and his blood opened the doors. "You all must go now." Eric added when Pam, Tara, Jessica, Nora and Jason were in the elevator and we were off.

"Eric, what the fuck are you doing?" Pam exclaimed when her maker didn't walk into the elevator.

"What I have to do." He said no more, and when the elevator doors closed he took my hands in his. "I know I have no right to ask this but we know what we have to do, Sookie. You have seen him as I do, you know he is no longer the same person."

"I know," I murmured nodding. Between Bill Compton and I had nothing but I hoped to help him in some way. "I hope you're right when you said that only I could save him. Although my feelings for him are no longer the same I don't want him to die just for have drunk that stupid blood."

Eric smiled slightly at me and we melted into a passionate kiss as we were surrounded by blood and guts everywhere. It wasn't the most romantic scenario but at least we were both expressing our feelings.

"Come on."

Eric and I toured the building until we arrived to the bedrooms. He luckily knew the area better than me so when we walked into his bedroom and saw nothing we went straight toward Salome's.

"What do you think it happened to him?" I asked. I didn't know what effects had that blood on vampires but Bill seemed to have completely lost his mind while Eric was able to be under control. "I remember that night in New Orleans, everyone seemed to be high, even you, but Bill…I can't explain it, I think it was different for him."

"Bill needs to see reality, Sookie. Drinking that blood, whether Lilith's or not, and living in a nest has turned him paranoid. He's no longer able to distinguish right from wrong, he just wants blood and doesn't care what he has to do to get it. He will unleash a war against humans and humans will respond. Every vampire will be annihilated, although he doesn't follow Bill Sanguinista's beliefs. Vampires will become a threat again and that's not what most of us want." Eric was staring at me and I knew he was telling the truth.

"Okay, I get it. But what if we can't stop Bill? What if we do but a war breaks out anyway?"

"We'll go step by step." He said no more, and when we got to Salome's room and Eric opened the door the first thing we found was a white dress on the floor covered in blood and guts. Bill obviously had killed Salome and he was about to drink a vial of blood.

"Don't!" Eric shouted and Bill turned around.

"I knew you'd come back," he hissed looking at Eric. "I'm surprised you did once you were free. But bring her…" and he looked at me with a gesture of disgust. What was all this shit about?

"Bill, you have to stop, do you understand? What you're doing is crazy, a war is not the solution." Eric had told me that I'd have to use any strategy to change his mind but honestly I didn't think it was going to work, not after seeing what he had turned into. "We're just trying to help you. Why don't you let us to help you? I'm worried for you, we both are," I added looking at Eric but I knew he didn't care about Bill.

"You mean nothing to me." He hissed and it was like a knife against my heart. "I just had to play my role, make you believe that I was ever in love with you, but the reality is very different, Sookie." Tears began flooding my eyes but this was not the time or place to let myself go by my emotions. I had to stay calm as Eric had told me. It was hard but I had to make the effort.

"Bill, I know it's not you who's talking. It's the blood, the blood that you haven't stopped drinking and is driving you insane." With Eric beside me I felt I could say anything 'cause he would be fast enough to prevent Bill to attack me. "Come with us and we'll help you."

Bill laughed and I knew I wasn't having any success in convincing him. I was doing everything I could but it still didn't seem to be enough.

"You think you're going to convince me with nice words, Sookie?" He didn't move but his eyes terrified me. It wasn't the Bill Compton I knew, that man was gone and in his place was this version of him that spoke harsh words to hurt me. "I've finally seen the light, after so long living in the dark, feeling guilty for being a vampire and apologizing to others for my nature…I have finally realized that they were the wrong, not me. I am what I am and you're nothing but an abomination." Eric glared at him when he heard his last words but just then Bill drank the whole vial of blood and threw it to the floor.

"No!" I screamed but it was too late.

"This is what I am."

I didn't know what was happening but suddenly Bill started bleeding everywhere and I had seen enough vampires dying to know exactly what was going to happen.

"Eric…"

Eric simply held me tight against his chest as Bill became a huge pool of blood on the floor. All he ever had been was gone and would never return.

I cried and cried but I felt comforted in Eric's arms. I hated Bill had died but I hated him for what he had said, his words full of poison and rage at me. It was not the Bill Compton I had met.

"Are you okay?" Eric whispered against my hair.

"It's over," I muttered.

"Sookie…" Eric said my name softly and when I looked at his face I saw that he was looking at the pool of blood so I did the same.

"What's going on?" Suddenly the blood was moving and I had no idea whether it was real or just something I was imagining, but when Bill appeared naked and covered in blood I knew a horrible thing like this had to be true. No one could have a nightmare so frightening.

For a few seconds we were paralyzed, not knowing what to do but when Bill, or whatever that thing was, opened his mouth with fangs fully extended a wounding sound was heard everywhere.

"RUN!" Eric yelled and we got out of there as fast as we could.


Well, this was the original season and I'll work on my own chapters since now, so any ideas? Thanks a lot for supporting this fic.

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