Eric stood chained to a wooden stake and Bill, surrounded by dead guards and wood, ready to burn.
"Any idea how to get us out of this one your majesty?" he asked.
"You could summon Pam and Keely" Bill replied.
"You could summon Jessica" Eric shot back and Bill scoffed.
"Oh so you'd sacrifice my progeny's but not your own, very un-kingly of you" Eric said.
"I liked you better when you were brain damaged" Bill commented.
"Besides Jessica isn't speaking to me, haven't seen her since we killed Marne" Bill said.
"Same here. I think Keely was right, we lost them because of Sookie" he said and then scented the aforementioned blonde.
"Sookie" they both said and turned and saw her running towards them with Tara and the other good witch, Holly.
"As your friend Lafayette would say, what goes around comes around bitches" Lafayette said as he appeared from behind a tree.
"Lafayette…Marne. Please don't do this" Tara begged.
"After all they've done to you, you protect them?" he asked.
"Killing Bill and Eric isn't going to make any of that go away" Tara said and Bill and Eric looked at her.
"Revenge will never bring you peace" Eric added, smartly.
"There can't be peace until there is justice for me, for Antonia and for all the women you tortured and burnt for centuries!" Lafayette shouted and Eric and Bill looked at him, calmly as Eric saw another blonde shaking salt around.
"Marne what will this serve? There are millions of us and there are more being made every night. You cannot win" Bill said.
"I'm already dead Vampire, thanks to you. I have nothing left to lose" Lafayette said and Sookie scream and Bill and Eric began to panic slightly as the wood around them flared up.
"Sookie! It's still Lafayette!" Tara shouted.
"I can't just stand here and let them die!" Sookie yelled back over the roar of the flames and then used her magic to send Lafayette flying back a few feet as Tara screamed. Bill and Eric felt the heat of the flames and began yelling. Eric saw Sookie, Tara and Holly casting a spell as the fire began burning their skin making them scream as ghosts appeared from the graveyard near Bill's manor. They both gasped and moaned when the fire went out leaving them with painful charred skin. Eric watched the ghosts vanish and blinked a few times.
"Excuse me" Eric interrupted as the three women fussed over Lafayette.
"We're feeling a little crispy over here" he said and they helped them down and then into Bill's manor before Tara left to take Holly and Lafayette home.
Keely sighed as she sat in the living room of her and Jessica's new apartment in Hyde Park. They had been living there for a week now, after purchasing the apartment with their saved money and a little help from Pam. Keely looked up at Jessica entered the living room in her Halloween costume of a sexy version of Little Red Riding Hood, consisting of a corset, stockings, heels, a tiny skirt and cape.
"Go, leave me here alone" she said dramatically and Jessica laughed.
"I did buy you a costume. You don't have to stay in. Patrick invited us to his Halloween party. You don't have to stay long but it's better than being here alone" Jessica said and she smiled.
"I'm joking Jess, go on. Go give Jason a heart attack, have fun" she said and Jessica smiled and they hugged and then Jessica left. Keely finished wanting her favourite movie to watch on Halloween and then saw the costume Jessica bought her draped over the back of the other sofa and sighed. Her brother was having a Halloween party as was Merlotte's and Fangtasia and she wasn't sure which one would be worse. Merlotte's were Sookie worked, Fangtasia were Eric worked or her brother's party where all of his guests would know her and then avoid her at all cost now that she had fangs. She sighed and grabbed the bag and went to change into it. She re-touched her natural curls and then slipped the sky blue dress over her head and then pulled the white underskirt up her legs, followed by the white stockings and then put on the white apron and tied it around her waist before putting on the headband with the black bow on it and then the heels. She finished it all off with a bit of clear lip-gloss and then picked up the fluffy, cuddly white rabbit and sighed as she slipped on a pair of cute, black heels by Louboutin and looked in the mirror.
"What am I doing?" she muttered and then left the apartment, ignoring the whistles from the guys having a party next door and then hailed a taxi and told him to go to Fangtasia. She got there and sighed when she saw the people in costumes outside and saw them looking at her. She ignored them and walked into the bar, ignoring Chow as he silently opened the door for her. She walked in and then looked around and spotted Pam and walked over to her laughing.
"Barbie?" she asked and Pam looked at her.
"I have been called Barbie so many times it isn't funny so I thought fuck it" she said and Keely smiled as Pam looked at her.
"Alice in Wonderland?" she asked and Keely laughed.
"Jessica picked it out. She got Little Red Riding Hood and went to give Jason a hard-on and a heart attack" she said and Pam laughed as they sat down on the platform and began talking as the patrons stared at them and danced as they bought drinks.
"Eric been back yet?" she asked and Pam sighed.
"Yeah but nothing's changed. He comes in, gets what he wants and leaves. We've barley said a word to each other all week" she said and Keely sighed.
"I'm sorry Pam. I should have asked you if you agreed with me, rather than pulling you into it" she said and Pam shook her head.
"No, I'm glad you did. I mean he knows where we both stand now" she said and Keely nodded.
"Yeah and now it's up to him to choose if he wants Sookie or…or us" she said and Pam nodded.
"I'm scared Pam" she said and Pam nodded.
"So am I. I've been with Eric for 100 years. I've watched him seduce supermodels and Princesses and spit out their bones when he's finished. How can someone named Sookie take away?" Pam asked and Keely pulled her to her feet and they went to the office and sat on the sofa and held hands as they cried softly.
"I've had him for 3 years and I've seen a total change in him since when he turned me and now. Something changed in him, I don't know if it was seeing Godric or the witches but I'm scared too. I can't be on my own Pam, I don't know how. Bill has been to see us almost every night to make sure we're ok but I don't think that Eric would do that. I mean I know I said that I never wanted to see him again but I didn't think he'd listen to me, I just thought he'd not come and see me for a night but not a week" she said and they both cried softly, the blood staining their faces.
"Pam what if he's really listened and gone and doesn't come back? What if we really did lose him to Sookie?" she asked and Pam sighed and they hugged each other tightly, crying softly.
Eric looked at Bill and Sookie and smiled softly.
"Thank you for saving my life" he said and she nodded.
"It was my turn" she said and he nodded.
"You are welcome to stay Eric" Bill said and he nodded.
"Thank you, but there are something's I need to do" he said and they looked at him.
"I have two girls that need me and one that I need to win back before I truly do lose her forever" he said and they nodded.
"We understand" Sookie said and he kissed her hand and then got up and went upstairs to change out of the robe Bill had given him. He changed into the blood clothes he'd been wearing when Lafayette/Marne caught him and then began the run to Fangtasia.
"Chow, where is Pam?" he asked the man behind the bar.
"In the office with Keely" Chow said and Eric was stunned but pleased and then raced for the office, ignoring the people in costumes. He paused as he got near the door and heard the two girls talking.
"Me and Jessica got into night school" he heard Keely say and smiled softly.
"You did? That's great, what are you going to study?" Pam asked.
"Well Jessica was thinking of Politics, you know so she can work with Bill and I don't know yet, I mean we start on an introductory course next week and then after a month of different things, we can choose what we wonna study and go from there" she said and he smiled.
"Jason and Hoyt, now that Hoyt is ok with Jessica being with Jason, are going to help us decorate the apartment and er…then I'm going to find a job. I mean Sam offered me a job at Merlotte's but I can't even bare to think of Fairy Princess right now and working with her...well she'd end up as my lunch break so I was thinking of applying to the café near the apartment, hopefully the boss is ok with a vampire barmaid and if not well, there are other bars" she said and Eric sighed.
"Why don't you just work here?" Pam sighed.
"I can't Pam. I mean I know that I said I couldn't be alone but I can't work with Eric either. I just need time to figure everything out and find what I want for myself. I love Eric and someday maybe we will get married but just not yet" she said and he sighed.
"I understand, don't be a stranger ok" Pam said and he smiled and hide in the storage room, a few feet away as he heard the two walking towards the door.
"I won't. if he comes tell him that…tell him I hope he's ok" he heard her say and sighed and closed the door as they walked out and he almost groaned when he saw her in the short, sexy Alice in Wonderland costume and wanted to laugh when he saw Pam's Barbie costume.
"Don't leave" Pam said and Keely turned and looked at her.
"What?" she asked and Pam smiled.
"You're all dressed up for a party, you might as well have one while you're here" she said and Keely grinned.
"Why not" she said and Pam laughed and Eric followed them silently to the main bar and smiled when he saw Pam change the song and then watched his two greatest loves dancing and smiling and laughing with the few vampire friends they had and he looked up and laughed when Jessica walked in with Jason and they all began laughing and dancing together. He smiled softly and then turned and went to the office, grabbing a load of working and then running for the apartment he never used where he started working, after calling the bar Keely had been talking about and asking his friend who owned and managed the place to give Keely a job, on his bills and such for Fangtasia.
Keely sighed as she danced with her friends, glancing at Eric's empty throne. While it hurt to know she wasn't with Eric right now, she knew it was the right thing to do. Hopefully soon the hurt would fade and she would be able to become the woman she'd wanted to grow up to be before she could go back to Eric and start their life together. She had Jessica and Pam by her side and she knew Bill wouldn't let them go out into the world alone at just 3 years old. So for now she just had to concentrate on her studies, getting a job and becoming an asset to the Vampire community everything else would soon follow, including the time when she could finally become Mrs Eric Northman.
I have had mixed reviews about this story so unless I get some positive reviews for me to keep going, then this will be the last of Eric and Keely