Author's Note:
Hey guys, here's a new chapter for you all. Thanks to my amazing amazing beta MoonWoolfRunner! I wrote this as a response to those of you who seemed concerned this was no longer a Sookie/Godric story. I assure you it is! Enjoy!
Sookie POV, Present Day
I couldn't help but mentally laugh at the situation. How is it that a girl like little old Sookie Stackhouse could end up in a hostage situation involving a vampire, this many times in the past two years. Here I found myself, hog tied and thrown over the shoulder of a werewolf, being carried into the bowels of some vampire's house, only this time I couldn't play damsel in distress; I had to fight my way out.
After what seemed like a maze of hallways and a long flight of stairs downwards, Jermaine set me down on a damp concrete floor. I listened as he locked the door behind me, so I knew he had placed me in a cell. As I heard his footsteps trail away from me, I used my net to make sure I was alone.
There were two guards patrolling the lower floor, with four more walking around on the floor above. Beyond that I sensed multiple voids that suggested a nest of vamps up on the upper levels, but knew it was probably safe to open my eyes.
I peaked one eye open first, to find that I was in a locked room, so it was safe to look around. While I couldn't move much, I could at least sit up against the wall. There was a pile of book in a foreign language to my right and a cot to my left. A bucket sat in the corner farthest from me and I positioned myself so I could watch the door. I had a feeling that this was a room they used often for their prisoners, and suddenly a thick fog of smell hit me in the face.
There was blood on the walls and the floors and there was definitely enough of it to mean the person they had in here before me was a goner. I closed my eyes. This didn't look good, but I had to do something. I focused all my energy into not being scared. I could do this somehow, I just knew there was something I was missing.
I took deep breaths as I recast my telepathic net to get a better feel for the guards rotation. So far, no one had even bothered to come by my room and I was guessing it was only because they thought I was still passed out. While part of my mind kept an eye on the men, I tried to refocus my energy into broadcasting what I could into my connections with Godric and Eric.
In my mind I pictured us all sitting here in this room, and I tried as hard as I could to show them this room; I needed them to smell what I smelled, hear what I heard and see what I saw. Soon, there was a dark void taking over my mental picture.
I tried to shake it, but for some reason it didn't seem like the bad kind of void, but like a warm blanket. I tried to bring back the picture; Godric needed to see this room! But the blanket covered everything eventually. Then there was nothing.
I saw myself in the darkness. I called to them
"Godric! Eric!" and in response there was nothing.
I cried louder, I needed them to hear me
"Godric! Eric!" and then I heard it.
"Sookie? Is it you Sookie?"
It was Godric's voice, but it sounded so heavy and so far away
"Godric!" I called to him
"Sookie!"
He slowly came into focus.
He looked tired, and scared.
"Godric what's wrong? Why do you look so scared?"
"Sookie, you've been kidnapped, Eric and I have been worried about you, but we couldn't come to you. The sun is still up my love."
A streak of red appeared on his face. He grabbed me and pulled me close.
"Godric, I know I've been kidnapped, but you shouldn't be scared! You're a two thousand year old vampire sex god! You can handle this!"
He laughed lightly and I saw his fangs peaking out from under his lips. I kissed his tear away and licked up the blood gently before I felt a tear streaming down my own face.
"Sookie you are something magnificent." His thumb stroked my cheek lightly swept up the tear. "But I'm afraid it isn't so easy for Eric and myself to defeat the enemy at hand. We believe we know who it is who's taken you. We got your signal that you're in Topeka."
"I sure am. I've been trying really hard to show you exactly where I am. It's an old stone house with vines all over it, and no windows and..."
"It is as I feared."
Godric pulled away from me and for the first time I was starting to get really worried.
"Godric I was trying to show you the room. I don't know how this is happening or if this is real, but I need to show you."
I closed my eyes and pictured the room I was in. When I reopened my eyes Godric stood in front of me and around us was the room I was in.
"I know this room. I know it too well in fact." Godric's voice sent a ripple through the illusion of the room. The walls shook slightly and I frowned.
"Are you seeing this? You know the room I'm in?"
"Yes my love I know it. I don't know how you're showing it to me, perhaps it is one of your powers?"
His voice had lost the happiness it had had when I saw him last. He sounded detached, and that scared me.
"I think I brought you here. I don't know how and I don't care I just need you to see this.. to tell me that somehow we can fix this!"
I shouted, and I don't know why I did. The walls rippled again and Godric snapped his head to look at me.
"I want to tell you that."
He looked away again and walked towards the pile of books, running his fingers along their spines. He signed and then nodded once to himself.
"I am telling you that; We can fix this Sookie I promise you. For now, I need you to stay quiet and make sure no one comes in here. Eric and I will come to you."
The tears were streaming down my face now. Godric quickly vamped over to me and kissed me roughly, his fangs cutting my lip. He pulled back with dark eyes and looked at me, his fangs lightly tipped in my blood and his own lips parted softly. He kissed me again and I felt him draw on my blood. We needed the connection, we needed each other.
Godric pulled away again to cut his wrist open and held it up to my lips. I drank slowly and the room began to glow, the walls of my room faded away and there was only the blackness again, and the glow got stronger and stronger, until the bright light encompassed us and I felt the warmth of it on my skin.
Then, in the blink of an eye it was over and Godric was gone. I opened my eyes and looked around the room again, there was no trace of Godric anywhere. In the back of my mind I went back to my net and saw that the guards hadn't heard anything and were still making their typical rounds.
I closed my eyes again and focused on the warm energy that I felt bubbling in my stomach. The bubbling rose upwards, filling my chest and my arms with the heat and power of the glowing room. I channeled the heat into my hands, continuing to breathe deeply. Suddenly, I felt the bindings around my hands rip apart and I could free myself.
I opened my eyes and let the power go slowly and it buried itself back in my stomach. I untied my feet and sit back up against the wall watching the door.
It was only a matter of time until the shit hit the fan in this place, and I was going to be ready.
Godric POV, Present Day
I had been sitting in my chair staring at a picture of Sookie, Eric had clipped out for me from a local newspaper when it had hit me. It was as if she was calling to me, through space and time to come to her; I had to go. I closed my eyes and I saw her there calling out to me in the darkness.
"Godric! Eric!"
"Sookie is it you?" I couldn't believe she was there in front of me with her beautiful golden hair and sapphire blue eyes.
"Godric!"
She came closer to me and I almost dropped to my knees in happiness. She was there, in front of me. I could hear her heartbeat and smell the hint of peaches and magic that seemed to emanate from her pores.
"Sookie!" I called out in ecstasy.
"Godric what's wrong? Why do you look so scared?" Why was I scared? She had left me, my light, my joy. To live without her was unacceptable and I had not fully realized such until now. It was this time without her that was going to break me.
"Sookie you've been kidnapped, Eric and I have been worried about you but we couldn't come to you. The sun is still up my love." I cursed us in that moment. We were worthless as her protectors if we could not walk among the living in the day.
A tear escaped my eye and stained my face. Another side effect of our undead condition that I cursed in this moment. To show such weakness was yet another thing I found unacceptable. I grabbed and pulled her close to me, I needed her heartbeat echoing within me.
"Godric I know I've been kidnapped, but you shouldn't be scared! You're a two thousand year old vampire sex god! You can handle this!"
My fangs snapped down when I thought of her warm pink body flushed from our love making and I saw her body underneath mine in that instant. I laughed, partially at her naivety and partially because, up until a hundred years ago I would have felt the same way. She kissed my cheek and licked my tear and in that moment my dead heart beat for the first time in two millennium, though I do not believe she felt it as I did.
"Sookie you are something magnificent." I gently ran my thumb across her cheek to collect the tear that had fallen on her cheek and licked it up. The essence of her beauty was perfectly encapsulated in that tear. She had no idea what she had just done to me, and she also had no idea how truly gruesome the battle to rescue her would be. "But I'm afraid it isn't so easy for Eric and myself to defeat the enemy at hand. We believe we know who it is who's taken you. We got your signal that you're in Topeka."
Her smile hit me in my very core. I knew she had tried hard to send us any information at all from such a long distance.
"I sure am. I've been trying really hard to show you exactly where I am. It's an old stone house with vines all over it, and no windows and..."
I knew the house. I had spent more time in that house than I was willing to admit to Sookie in this moment, and I truly feared the odds we were up against.
"It is as I feared."
I broke away from our embrace to try and regain my mental composure. If I was to succeed, the battle plans would have to be formulated in this moment.
"Godric I was trying to show you the room. I don't know how this is happening or if this is real, but I need to show you."
I was intrigued by her ability to broadcast even the simple name of the city she was in from such a great distance, but I was wrong to underestimate Sookie's amazing abilities.
Suddenly the darkness around us transformed into the room from my nightmares. The musty cell that had been home to Eric and myself for months following our previous encounters with Athenia, but I knew I could not show my fear.
"I know this room. I know it too well in fact." My voice was heavy, and showed more of my true emotions in that moment than I intended it too. I watched as the walls around us rippled in the wake of my statement.
"Are you seeing this? You know the room I'm in?" It seemed as though even Sookie was shocked by her abilities.
"Yes my love I know it. I don't know how you're showing it to me, perhaps it is one of your powers?"
I was in awe of her power as it grew everyday. Niall had no idea how truly special his granddaughter was. However my mind was elsewhere; I was beginning to fear the worst for us and I remembered my life before I met Sookie. The darkness that used to fill me was beginning to resurface.
"I think I brought you here. I don't know how and I don't care I just need you to see this.. to tell me that somehow we can fix this!"
Sookie's voice broke through my haze and rippled the walls around us again. I refocused on her and saw the light in my life again. I wanted to be the man she needed me to be.
"I want to tell you that."
I looked over at the books that had filled my life while I was here last. I ran my fingers along the spine of the pages I had become so familiar with over the years and internally vowed that I would be that man she needed me to me; I could not fail her.
"I am telling you that; We can fix this Sookie I promise you. For now, I need you to stay quiet and make sure no one comes in here. Eric and I will come to you."
I would gather Eric and some other allies and I would somehow get to Sookie and save her. I knew this to be true.
I kissed Sookie again and my elongated fangs cut her luscious lip. When I felt her blood there was the primal being within me, clawing to come to the surface and take her, but this was neither the time nor place to act on such feelings.
I pulled back and saw the blood as it bubbled on her lips. I took her lip in between my lips and took her life force into me. It made me feel whole again and alive through her love for me; It was truly a magnificent thing.
I broke our kiss again and broke my own skin, needing to give her my essence in exchange for her gifts. When my blood hit her lips the room around us dissolved and was replaced with the fire, passion and intensity of a thousand burning suns that enveloped us and brought me back to the love I felt for Sookie.
When I opened my eyes again Sookie was gone, and I felt the void she had left in my heart once more. I saw Eric giving me a puzzled look from across the room and I know I had been mysteriously silent for a decent length of time.
I nodded once to reassure myself that I could save my Sookie, our Sookie.
"Eric, I saw our Sookie and I know where she is. Let's get to work my son"