Sooo.. I'm back. It's been a long, long time since I last posted, but after a bad case of writer's block I've decided to finish the story. Thank you to everyone who commented on the last chapter way back when, there were some great suggestion there. I used bwtawny and kerriki's suggestions – thank you so much for getting me back on track!

I hope there are a few of you still with me who want to finish the story.. Here's a brief summary so you don't have to go back and read everything to be able to follow the last few chapters:

Sookie meets Godric at Fangtasia, avoids getting killed by an angry Eric, saves Godric from meeting the sun, and ends up bonding with him. She finds out that she is part fae and has an ancient royal great grandfather in another realm. She discovers her sparks and Eric teaches her to fight. Several vampires attempt to acquire Sookie, but the three of them manage to fight them all off, including Sookie beheading Victor and saving Eric's life. She bonds with Eric and it looks like the three of them will be living happily ever after..

But of course that doesn't happen. Here's what happens instead:

Looking back, I should have known much earlier that something was very wrong. Godric had been acting strange for days. He was withdrawn and irritable, which was very out of character for him. Whenever I'd ask him what's wrong, he'd avoid the question and distract me somehow, usually by kissing me. It didn't help that his mood was affecting both Eric and me through the bond, so that after three days the tension and frustration in our little household had reached a boiling point.

Godric and I were in the middle of another meaningless argument when all of a sudden his whole body went rigid. His eyes were blank and unresponsive. It was if he had turned into a statue. He stayed like that for several minutes, while I frantically tried to snap him out of his coma-like state.

I was just about to call Eric when I heard a loud crash from down the hall. Maybe unwisely, I ran towards the hallway and right into a massive wall of muscle. Before I could understand what was going on, the intruder picked me up and threw me over his shoulder. As he walked towards the living room, I could see our previously solid reinforced front door in pieces.

The intruder dropped me unceremoniously at Godric feet and spoke to him in a deep, low voice. I couldn't understand the words, but Godric obviously could. His eyes and body seemed to have been released from their frozen state, but he didn't speak or take his eyes of the terrifying man in front of him.

I just stared slack-jawed at the intruder, not knowing what to do or say. He looked oddly familiar, though I knew for sure I'd never met him. If I had, I'd remember; he was not someone I'd be able to forget easily.

The feelings I was getting from Godric were overwhelming; fear, anger and happiness all in one. I had no idea what to make of it. The man kept on talking to Godric, who stared at him mesmerized. I was frozen in place, with no idea what to do next.

After what seemed like an eternity, but probably was only 10 or so minutes, our bizarre little scene was interrupted by Eric barging into the room. He must have felt both Godric and my distress and rushed home from Fangtasia as fast as he could. Eric took one look at us and got down on one knee.

"Appius, it's so good to see you," he said with his head bowed, shocking the hell out of me. For one, Eric does not bow to anyone. Secondly, it was so not good to see this Appius, whoever the hell he was.

Appius turned and spoke to Eric, who was respectful and reserved in his responses, though I could feel the rage inside of him.

"We will leave you now with Godric," Eric finally said to him. "You two have a lot to catch up on."

Eric put his arm around me and nudged me to leave with him, but I was hesitant. I didn't want to leave Godric alone with this deranged maniac. It was only when I heard Godric thoughts directed at me that I realized that I had no choice.

"Go with Eric, Sookie. Get as far away from here as you possibly can. I will be a danger to you now. Go! Now!"

"Who the hell was that?!" I blurted out the moment we were safely in Eric's car.

"Godric's maker."

That's where I recognized him from! I'd seen his face in flashes when I'd bonded with Godric. He had told me that his maker was still alive, but that they hadn't seen eachother for centuries. I guess I knew why now, Appius was horrible. He sure wasn't going to be Maker of the Year anytime soon.

"Godric said that he would be a danger to me," I told Eric.

"He said that?"

"Well, he thought it. When I didn't want to leave him alone with that psycho. He told me to get as far away as I can."

"He's right. We have to leave tonight."

"No! We can't leave him here with that monster!"

Eric took his eyes off the road to look at me. "We have no choice, Sookie. Appius is unpredictable and dangerous. He could order Godric to kill you and he would have no choice but to obey."

"But why would he do that? What's the point?" I asked, eventhough it was probably too much to expect an ancient vampire to be sane and rational. I mean, this was somebody who had been killing people for food and fun before Jesus' time. He'd probably slaughtered tens of thousands of people. One more certainly wouldn't make any difference to him. Even if it was his child's bonded.

"Appius was never a reasonable man. But in the past millenium he's gotten progressively worse. More bloodthirsty, irrational and deranged. It's the reason Godric has distanced himself from him. His mind keeps deterioating and it's making him act in ways that endagers everyone around him. The international vampire league detained him when we first decided to come out of the coffin. He was too much of a liabilitiy. I have no idea how he managed to escape. He's insanely jealous of anyone Godric is close to. I'm amazed he didn't kill us when he had the chance."

Great. My boyfriend's dad was an ancient vampire with dementia, who had basically lost his mind and could order his child to kill me whenever he saw fit. Why could my life not be boring for once? I could so do boring for the next couple of years.

"What do we do?"

"We run."

We left the same morning, me in first class and Eric in a coffin. We flew to Munich and drove from there. Eric said that we had to keep moving. If Appius wanted to find us, he could get Godric to track us easily. Our only hope was to keep moving long enough for Appius to be apprehended, either by the IVL or by the vampire assasins that Eric had hired.

So we kept moving. We drove through Austria and Italy, taking a ferry to Greece. We spent a few day moving from island to island, before crossing the Aegan Sea to Turkey. We planned to spend the day resting in Istanbul, before driving on to Cappadocia. Eric said that it was a magical place and that I would be safer there than in most other places.

The adventage of the bonds between me and Eric and Godric was that we could feel him when he got closer. We had felt him for a few hours in Naples, but the bond got weaker after that and by the time we were on the ferry neither of us could feel him anymore. It took us by suprise then, that when we woke up at dusk in Istanbul it was to the sight of Godric and Appius sitting on the couch of our hotel room.

So, anyone still with me? What do you think?