Hi everybody, so I am beginning bring in some elements from this new TB season 5. Not everything, but be warned for some spoilers!

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An Invincible Summer

Chapter 12

Sookie

Sookie had just buckled up and resting her head on the headrest, a small smile on her lips. Her body was still tingling with pleasure. Then the shot rang out. She jumped about a mile out of her seat and then her eyes quickly searched for Eric. She then spotted him, relief surging through her system at seeing him. He was behind the car, frozen. He then sunk to the ground and all the relief she had felt turned to dread.

She screamed and unbuckled her seatbelt, cursing it and the fucking door. She ran out of the car just as Pam ran out of the club. Sookie saw him, bleeding on the pavement, Pam sobbing over him. He was seizing in pain and Sookie couldn't focus on anything but him. She rushed to the other side of Eric and tore his shirt away, how she didn't know.

She found the bullet hole and placed her mouth over it and sucked for all she was worth. Eric groaned in pain and clenched his teeth. "Sookie," he croaked out.

Sookie continued to suck hard on the hole, but she couldn't find the hard metallic object near Eric's heart. She sucked and sucked, but nothing came out. "Sookie, it's dissolved," he groaned as he gently pulled her up to him. Sookie looked up, releasing her mouth from the wound and asked, "What does that mean, baby?"

"It means it's dissolved into his bloodstream and is coursing through it," Pam said as bloody tears began leaking out of her eyes. Sookie looked to Pam, knowing her tears were serious. Sookie reached across and slapped Pam, hard. Her fangs immediately popped out and Sookie extended her wrist to her, telling her to bite into her wrist.

She immediately did, not pulling on the wound, knowing every drop was meant for her maker. Sookie quickly put her wrist to Eric's mouth, urging him to drink. She sensed a crowd forming around them of patrons and other vampires and she was feeling uneasy having Eric so vulnerable in such a public place.

"Pam, the crowd," she said as she ran her fingers through his hair as he drank. Sookie wouldn't let anyone get too close and she knew Pam wouldn't either. Pam stood and snarled as viciously as Eric had earlier, hollering out that the bar was closed and to get the fuck out. She stood off the last remaining vampires, ready to attack anything that moved another inch in their direction. Sookie asked, "Eric is it better?"

As he drank he nodded, never breaking eye contact with Sookie as he drank.

She pushed their bond to feel it.

"Claude!" she screamed. She knew he could hear her. She only hoped that he would come with Pam and Eric here.

Sookie screamed, "I can ensure your safety Claude! I need you," she sobbed out as she felt Eric pull away from her wrist. She checked his wound, but it had not healed yet. What the hell did that mean?

Pam was back to kneeling next to Sookie and Eric once again. "It's helping, but it isn't healing as it should. I think he has been blood poisoned."

Sookie asked, "How do we heal it?"

Pam shook her head, "I am not sure. I am going to call Ludwig."

She pulled out her phone and clicked a button as Eric hissed in pain. "Eric? Honey? How do you feel? Are you alright?" she asked.

She tried to check the bond to see how he was feeling, but he had shut his side off. "Turn it back on. We agreed not to do that in Rhodes. I need to feel what you feel. Please," she ordered.

Eric inhaled sharply, and shook his head. "No, what's the point of both of us feeling like hell?"

"Goddammit Eric! Let me feel. I can help. Please."

Suddenly Claude was there. Pam bared her fangs and Sookie shot her across the parking lot before she got the chance to attack him.

"Sookie, I can't linger. I heard your call, but I can't be around two vampires at once," he said, looking panicked toward Pam.

"Pam, I called him here. Maybe he can help, so control yourself," she commanded.

Pam looked between Sookie, Eric and Claude in disbelief, but remained away from the fairy.

"Can you help him Claude? What do you know about this?" she asked, pointing to the wound.

Claude examined Eric from a distance and said, "A gunshot wound? He should heal on his own."

"No, apparently it has dissolved into his bloodstream. What do you know about that?" Sookie asked him, losing patience, even though she knew Claude was probably as confused as she was.

"I cannot help in this way. I do not know what animates a vampire or how their anatomy works. I am sorry cousin," he said, not really looking sorry at all as he stared at a suffering Eric.

Sookie swore and looked to Pam who was speaking rapidly into the phone to Ludwig presumably. She then looked down to Eric's face, who was still watching her with a silent intensity, realizing that he had been trying to get her attention.

Eric

Eric went down looking for the perpetrator, but all he saw was a black van speeding away with men it wearing what looked like... Obama masks? He was distracted because Sookie was screaming. Had she been hit? No, he felt in the bond that she was just shocked and terrified. For him.

He now looked up into Sookie's desperate and determined face as she tried to find a solution. He knew Ludwig would know, but she was bond sick. Incapable of logic or reason. The once healthy and open bond that they shared was now in jeopardy and closed off to her, and she wasn't responding well. Not at all.

"Sookie, Sookie," he said quietly, trying to get her attention. She was muttering incoherently to herself and probably to Claude. He reached his hand up and cupped one of her cheeks and she focused in on him.

"Sookie. We need to get inside. And then you can call Ludwig to meet us there."

Sookie nodded and said, "Shouldn't it be in a home where other vampires can't come in?"

Eric considered it. It wasn't ideal to have him vulnerable in a place where other vampires could come and take advantage of the situation. But it would be really hard for them to move them so far with Eric so weak.

Sookie cradled his head in her lap, running her fingers through his hair. "Claude, take him to our home. I know you can do it."

Claude, looking as apprehensive as Eric felt, opened his mouth to protest, but Sookie cut him off and said, "If you want me to trust you, then you will take him back and then come back for me."

Claude looked Sookie over, then turned his gaze to look on Eric, slowly extending his hand for Eric's. He then extended his other hand to Sookie and said, "I can take you both."

Eric gave a relieved sigh, and looked to Sookie who also looked relieved. She grasped Claude's hand just as Eric did and then Eric felt a pulling sensation, followed by a sensation similar to that of a human appendage falling asleep. Pins and needles Sookie had once called it.

Suddenly the pain came back in a painful rush, and they were in Sookie and Eric's living room once more. Eric frantically searched for Sookie, and when his eyes fell on her, she was scrambling to get up and move towards him.

She grabbed his hand and said, "Are you alright?" she asked, checking to see if there was any healing done to his wound. It was unhealed and the same.

Sookie grabbed the phone and called out to Claude, "Claude thanks but you better get outta here before Pam gets here. I ain't blastin' her for you and I won't let you hurt her neither."

Claude nodded and said, "Will you be safe?"

Sookie nodded as she finished dialing and propped the phone between her shoulder and ear and grabbed throw pillow from the sofa.

"I'll be fine once I get Eric healed. Now go," she said as Pam answered speaking to her, frantic for news on her maker.

"Pam come to our home," she ordered then clicked the phone shut. Claude gave one final look towards Sookie, and Sookie was able to catch a stray thought that he had. She growled at him and said, "Get out. Now!"

He looked ashamed and said, "Sookie-"

But Sookie once again cut him off. "I said get out."

With that he left in the typical explosion of golden light and Sookie, who was shaking in fear and also rage. Eric looked at her curiously, wondering what Claude had foolishly thought to make Sookie so mad.

Eric tried to send his curiosity and some calm through to Sookie, but she looked toward him and snapped, "Now you wanna use the bond. Well you can't keep your calm feelings to yourself."

He nodded and said, "Sookie, I am going to be fine. Please calm down. Ludwig will be here momentarily and all will be well."

"Did you see who did it?" she asked, beginning to calm down at his words.

"It was humans, in Obama masks."

Sookie looked confused and said, "Did you recognize their scent?"

He shook his head, and immediately began wondering about this new threat. Had they gotten to other vampires? He would need to figure this out as soon as possible.

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