Hey, hey, everyone.

A little late here in the Netherlands but anyway, here is a new chapter.

I hope everyone will enjoy it.

We are nearing the last chapters, by the way.

Two more chapters + an epilogue.

And after that a sequel.

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XxX Emmetje

The Other Telepath

Chapter 19

Trying To Save People

Elysa was driving as fast as she could why Bill sat completely shocked and motionless beside her.

'Bill?' He finally looked at her. 'Are you okay?'

'Yeah, I'm fine. Just shocked.'

'Yeah, here is another one.' She started slowly to freak out. 'Oh God. None of this is okay. This is crazy. And what I did! I don't even know how that happened! I can't have another power! I just can't. Oh, God. I'm going to call Eric.'

'No!' snapped Bill. 'We're not going to turn Eric.'

'Bill, he might be our only solution and this is his area. He needs to know what is going on!'

'So he can find out that you've another power and use that for his own selfish things too?'

'Don't talk about him like that, Bill! He knows more about my powers then you do and not once – not once, Bill Compton – has he tried to use any of them besides my Telepathy.'

'You mean you can do more then reading people's minds and moving things with your mind?'

'I can do way more then just that. We need to call him.'

'No, we need not. We will go to Lafayette's place and talk to Tara. She has been under Maryann's influence. Maybe she can be some help to us.'

'I still think we should call Eric.'

'We are NOT calling Eric!'

'Why do you suddenly have such a grouch against him, Bill? What on earth did he ever do to you? Ever since we returned out of the church from the Fellowship you do nothing but complaining about him and hating him. He lost Godric and the only thing you can think about is hating him and hitting him!'

'He used you. He will stop for nothing to be the only man in your live.'

'He knows I've boy friends and he respects that.'

'He doesn't like it that we're so close.'

'I am closer with Dean then with you and you don't see those two hating each other.'

'Your Vampire friend has a girlfriend.'

'And Eric claimed me. I'm his and no one else's. He has that on every one else. He feels me, senses me, knows my emotions…'

'Made you attractive to him.'

'Every single girl is attractive to him, Bill. I found him hot even before I had his blood so that doesn't count.'

'You hate him.'

'Hated, Bill. I hated him, not any more. And I promised Godric I would watch over him for him. And that I would take care of him for him.'

'You promised something to a dead man where you had no bond with.'

Elysa gave a hard pull on the wheel and Bill hit his arm hard against the side of the car. 'I promised him something when he was about to meet the sun and I keep to my promises, Bill. Even when the person that I promised it to is dead. And I did have a bond with him. It is just something you don't understand. You have never understood the bond that Godric and Eric had or the friendship and the loyalty I felt for Godric. And if you keep acting like this then you never will.'

Bill was annoyed and angry and she could read that in his mind and in his eyes. 'We're not calling Eric!'

'Fine! Have it your way! But if something goes wrong again then we will have it my way and we will call in Eric and be sure I'm not going to lie for you to him about why we hadn't called him earlier!'

Bill looked even more annoyed and angry outside and Elysa hit the gas once more. They needed to get to Lafayette's place and fast.

Elysa and Bill stepped out of her car that was parked not that far away from Lafayette's place. He was standing outside and talked to some girl.

Suddenly Bill shot away and he was standing right before them. The girl hurried away as fast as she could and Elysa hurried towards them. 'Talk to your boy Eric. He is the one who got me pushing this shit.'

She had no idea what they were talking about but Bill's face told her enough to be quite sure that he was even more angrier with Eric then he had been before.

'Bill, retreat your fangs. Now.' Bill did as she said and Elysa turned towards Lafayette. 'Where is she?'

Lafayette signalled towards his house and she walked in, followed by Bill (who was invited in) and the owner of the place himself. Tara's mother, Lettie Mae, was there too and Tara was tied up in a chair.

Elysa knelt down before the dark girl that she had known for almost her whole live. 'Tara?'

Lafayette took a place next to Lettie Mae who had taken a few steps back when Bill had entered and Elysa stared at Tara's eyes. They were as black as the night.

'Tara, what happened to you?' She touched her face but the dark woman nearly bit her.

'You get the fuck out of here, you stupid clod. Or I will kill you.'

'We're losing her, El.'

Elysa put her bag down and laid down her hands on Tara's shoulder. She closed her eyes and entered her mind. Darkness. There was only darkness. She sought further and suddenly saw a flash of Maryann dancing by a fire.

Her eyes shot open. 'That image. I've seen that image before. In my dream. You were there. You were part of the ritual. When Sam had been captured and when they tried to cut out his heart. When he screamed for help but when nobody came. You were there. It was real.'

'You can seen inside her head?' asked Lettie Mae.

'Stop trying to get in my brain,' snapped Tara.

Elysa was absolutely shocked and didn't know what to do. Her eyes were just big while she stared down at Tara. 'It was real. It wasn't a dream. It was a vision.' She closed her eyes. 'What else was real then?'

'Elysa.' Bill put a hand on her shoulder and looked concerned at her. 'What did you see?'

'At first nothing. I saw and heard nothing. It was all dark and black. And then I searched deeper in her and I saw only one image. She was part of a ritual where Sam played a part in. They were trying to cut his heart out and sacrifice it.'

'Elysa, focus. Please. She is still in there. Somewhere deep down but she is still there. You've got to bring her back. Please, just keep trying.'

Elysa looked at the two other black people and then at Bill. 'What am I suppose to do? I learned that it is dangerous if I go to deep in someone's mind. Not only for that person but also for myself.'

He put both of his hand on her shoulders. 'I've all trust in you. You've got to go further inside her mind then you ever had before.'

Elysa's eyes filled themselves with small tears. 'I don't know if I can.'

'Come on, El,' begged Lafayette.

Elysa signed and kneeled down again. She put her hands on both sides of her head and Tara stared at her with her black holes instead with her eyes. 'You still haven't decide to kill yourself? I am surprised with your fucked up live.'

'Lately my live hasn't been that fucked up. Now shut up and let me do what I can do best.'

She closed her eyes again and entered her mind once more. More pieces of the memory of the ritual flashed before her eyes. People who made music, all with eyes like hers. Maryann dancing by the fire and vibrate in a way that wasn't possible for a normal human being. Daphne who brought the bull mask towards Maryann. She hadn't had those strange black eyes. Then darkness again.

Elysa opened her eyes again. 'There is something I can't cross. She has been under some kind of spell. I can do a lot but I ain't no witch. I've no experience in spells.' She looked at Bill. 'We should…'

'No!' Bill snapped again at her. 'I will glamour her.'

'Glamour her?' asked Lettie Mae shocked.

'It might help.'

'I don't want to get her hurt and she will get hurt if she stays like this. Just like us. You can give it a try but I still think we should call Eric and tell him what is going on. He is older and has more knowledge about things.'

'He had no idea about the creature that attacked you.'

'That creature was Maryann and we know that now. And Godric no idea what it was either and he was twice his age. Something's even old Vampires don't know about but he does know more about witches and spells and he is way more years of experience in glamouring people then you.'

Bill's eyes darkened. 'We are not calling Eric.'

He walked towards Tara and placed one hand on her shoulder and the other one on her face. Lafayette and Lettie Mae grabbed hold of each other's hand and Elysa gave Bill a dark look.

Why was he so desperate to not let Eric know what was going on? He had fallen for their lie that nothing happened between them during their stay together during the day after Godric died and that besides sleeping beside each other in Eric's bed, they hadn't touched, kissed or had any contact at all. She had read in his mind that he had fallen for it but yet still…

He didn't like it one bit that she and Eric were getting closer and that they now had something that united them: their sadness and grieve about losing Godric. 'If he only knew the whole truth.'

'Tara.' Bill had started to glamour her. 'Tara, you can feel my influence, can't you, Tara? Don't fight it. Let me in, Tara. Let me in. You don't have to be afraid. I can help you. Just let me in.'

It didn't work. She was still fighting.

'What if you do it together?' asked Lafayette suddenly.

Elysa hurried towards Tara and freed her from the chair. After that she took hold of her from behind and held her hands while closing her eyes and trying to enter her mind.

'Tara, let Elysa in.'

'It's is not working.'

Lettie Mae and Lafayette had taken a seat and were waiting but with concern.

'Tara, you've got to do exactly as I say.'

'I am not your fucking slave.'

'Tara, if you ever want to listen to a white man, this will be it,' said Lafayette. He sounded almost desperate.

'Jesus, please. Jesus,' begged Lettie Mae softly. She was praying.

'Let Elysa in.'

Suddenly there was a change in her mind and Bill said: 'El, now!'

Elysa pressed her hands harder against Tara's hands and closed her eyes even better. Finally she saw something else the darkness again. She saw the whole ritual. She saw Eggs fucking her from behind while the ritual was busy. She heard Maryann saying the spell. She saw how Tara was eating a pie where blood came out.

That pie had been one of the keys to get the control. She just knew it.

She saw how Sam was pushed on a big rock, ready for his heart to be cut out. She saw how Eggs hit Tara and how she laughed. She saw again the ritual and she saw how Tara threatened her own mother in Elysa's house. How she attacked her there because Maryann ordered it.

And then suddenly all the darkness was gone and she heard her thoughts again. She stepped out of her mind and felt how Tara was trembling.

Bill let out a relieved sign and let the dark woman go but Elysa didn't. She just hugged her.

'Oh my God.' Tara looked at Elysa with tears in her eyes. 'I am crazy. I am really crazy.'

She started to cry and Elysa hugged her more tight. 'No. No. It wasn't you. It wasn't you.'

Tara's tears became worse and Elysa gave her a lovingly kiss on her head. 'You're free now. Everything is over. You're free.'

At then the dark woman saw her mother. 'Oh! Momma.'

Elysa let her go and Tara stumbled towards her mother. 'I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I am so incredibly sorry.'

Tears started to fall over Elysa's eyes but they were from relieve and joy and somewhere deep inside of her from sadness because this reminded her of the conversation that Godric and Eric had had. How they had said goodbye.

She wondered if Eric now felt her emotions and knew what she was thinking of.

'I knew it wasn't you, baby. I knew it wasn't you.' The two embraced and Elysa slowly stood up. Lettie Mae grabbed her hand. 'Thank you. Thank you so much. I can't thank you enough. Neither of you.'

Bill gave her a small smile and Elysa stumbled towards the door. 'I need some air.'

She walked outside and Bill followed her. She stayed where she was and slowly looked at her.

'I've known Tara her whole live. Every single trace of her was gone. There was nothing but bad memories and the ritual and the spell. And darkness.' She shook her head. 'There is so much else in the world that we don't know about. There is so much else in our world other then Vampires. I thought for so long that Vampires and I were the only ones that could hypnotize people and control them.'

'No offence, Elysa, but humans are shockingly deceptacle. They're vulnerable for almost every single thought manipulation.'

'Maryann is causing this all. She eats people's heart. It is disgusting. And she keeps wanting more and more. She wants theirs souls. I've known from the moment I first met her that she wasn't a human being and her thoughts… That spell she keeps repeating over and over in her head, it is the same as what the people that she has under het control keep saying.'

'What spell?'

'Lollo Bromios, Lollo Dendrites, Lollo Eleutherios, Enorches…'

'Bacchus?'

'Yes. Do you know it?' Bill walked slightly away from her and she followed him. 'Bill? I've seen that look on your face before and to be honest, I like it even less then Eric's grin when he is up to something that involves me or when he is flirting with me.'

'I read about some ancient creatures many years ago. But I assumed it was just a myth. But I believe Maryann might be one.'

'One of what?'

'I think she is a Maenad.'

'Those immortal creatures that were followers of the God of Wine Dionysus in the Ancient Greek myths?'

'Yes.'

'I read about them. How do we kill her or at least put a stop to her power?'

'I don't know. But I know one Vampire that might.'

'Eric?'

'No. Not Eric. The Vampire Queen of Louisiana. If I want to make it before daylight then I must leave now.'

Elysa nodded. 'Alright. You go on.'

'I promise I will be back my morning.'

Elysa nodded again. 'Then you should go. My help is much more needed here and I can be of more use then with you by some Vampire Queen that I will probably only make angry. Besides, I left everyone before and look what happened.'

Bill was silent for a moment. 'Do you think you can do what it was what you did to Maryann again?'

'I don't know. I don't even know what I did so let alone that I can do it again.'

Bill nodded slightly. 'Alright. Keep your friends safe. And by all means, you stay the hell away from your home.'

'I will. And it is hardly my home anymore.'

'Promise me.'

'I promise.'

Bill took a step towards her and she knew what he was planning to do so to prevent it she hugged him closely. 'Be careful and come back soon.'

She let him go and they stared each other in the eye before he ran of and left her all alone in the dark.

The day had reached the borders of Bon Temps again and Bill hadn't returned yet. Elysa was still inside in Lafayette's house together with Tara, Lettie Mae and Lafayette himself. Tara was pacing around and wanted to get out to get Eggs.

'Tara, stop pacing. You need to get some sleep.'

'We have to go get him.'

'And we will. As soon as Bill gets back. He might have some information about how we need to deal with Maryann.'

'He might have some information? He might not. And Eggs needs to get out now.'

'Tara, it is just too dangerous.'

'How many times did you put yourself in danger for the man you love?'

'I haven't exactly found him yet.'

'What about Eric then? And Bill? How many times did you put yourself in danger for them?'

Elysa didn't had an answer on that one.

'How does it come that you get that option and I don't?'

Lettie Mae spoke up. 'Baby girl, it is better this way.'

Suddenly there were screams and Lafayette and Elysa looked outside. 'Oh shit,' said Lafayette. 'They are coming for you.'

He walked away and Tara turned towards Elysa again. 'I finally found a good, strong and beautiful man in my live who loves me. And you all want to keep me from rescuing him because you're afraid I might get hurt? How do you think I will be when we wait here and something happens to him?'

'I ain't letting you back to someone who beats you,' said Lafayette who walked into the room again but this time with a gun.

'He did what?'

Tara turned towards her mother. 'It wasn't him. It was Maryann. And her influence.'

'She didn't throw the punches herself, now did she? No. Now sit down and shut the fuck up.' Lafayette pointed his gun on her and Tara sat down. 'Elysa, in my back pockets there are some handcuffs.'

Tara looked shocked. 'No.'

Elysa grabbed some cuffs out of his pockets and her eyebrow shot up. 'These are all fury.'

'Yeah? So what?'

Elysa laughed slightly. 'Nothing.' She gave him the handcuffs and took the gun from him over.

He handcuffed Tara and attached her to his table. 'I will never forgive you for this. You're just jealous because I found love and you never will, you fucking freak.' Lafayette gave her a dark look but didn't say anything.

'Baby, it is for your own good.'

'You too. You don't want me to be happy because you never were.'

'I only want you to be happy.'

Tara looked at Elysa. 'And you've got to settle for a dead man.'

Elysa put her arms over each other. 'This is not helping you to get me on your side.'

Someone screamed again and everyone looked towards the windows again. Lafayette looked at Elysa. 'I'm going to the front porch and try to make sure that devil woman doesn't come here.'

'You think she will?'

'All I know is that if it is supernatural and it wants you, you don't ain't wait for it to come to you.'

He opened the door and walked out. Elysa thought for a moment and grabbed her bag and walked after him. But when she got outside she didn't see anything or anyone. She signed and sat down on a bench while Lafayette stayed where he was with his gun ready to use it.

'Are you sure you don't just want to sit down?'

'Yes.'

Elysa signed softly and grabbed her phone. She knew Bill would kill her but she needed to contact Eric. She had found out after their night together that by a miracle she suddenly had his mobile number in her own mobile.

Perhaps she should text him. Her mobile trembled because she had him on quite mode. 'A text from Bill. From five hours ago.' She rolled her eyes. 'I've got to get myself a new phone. Perhaps I can get Eric so far to pay it for me. He still owns me a pair of underwear.' It had left her mouth before she had realised it but she didn't notice it because she was reading Bill's message.

'You are working for Eric?'

'Sometimes. I promised him I would sometimes help him with certain matters.'

'And what is with he owns you a pair of underwear?'

'Long story. Great, Bill isn't coming back until tomorrow.' She closed her phone.

'I don't think we can expect him to save us then, now can we?'

'No, we can't. As soon as it is dark I'm visiting Eric at Fangtasia and tell him what is going on. Bill can walk straight to hell.'

'Do you think he can help us?'

'He is older then Bill so yes, I do think he can. I wanted to contact him as soon as I realised something wasn't right but no. Bill didn't want that because he fucking hates him.'

'Why is that?'

'One word.' Elysa raised her finger. 'Competition.'

'Between him and Eric? About you?'

'Yep. That trip to Dallas has changed a lot of things between them and between us three.'

'You slept with him, didn't you?'

Elysa pulled a face towards him. 'With Bill? Eew, no!'

Lafayette rolled his eyes. 'Not with Bill. With Eric.'

'Absolutely not. My relationship with him has changed but we did not have sex.'

'What did change between you two then? Something Bill isn't happy about and doesn't understand. Something you blame him for.'

Elysa looked away with tears in her eyes. 'I don't want to walk about that, alright? It still hurts.'

Lafayette was silent for a moment. 'How was it? Inside Tara's head?'

Elysa signed. 'Like there was no limit. Like anything could happen and… It probably would. And you could feel your insides expending. But there was also an empty cloud where everything was rotting and it was at the very center of your being. And you don't want that ever to stop. Ever.'

'Damn. That doesn't sound nice.'

'It wasn't. Believe me, with everything that I normally hear and see it was not nice.'

'Damn, girl.'

'Yeah. Lafayette, please. Just sit down.'

Lafayette signed and grabbed a chair and sat down beside her.

'So? How is your leg?'

Lafayette raised his leg. 'Better then ever before.'

Elysa raised her eyebrow. 'Well, then it has healed very quickly. How did that happen?'

'Eric made me drink his motherfucker blood, that is how it happened.'

'Really? Join the club. He tricked me at this very moment three times into drinking his blood.'

'Someone needs to slap that bitch.'

'I have. Twice. And kicked him in his manhood.'

Lafayette grinned. 'Well, just look at you.'

Elysa gave him a small smile. 'So tell me. Did you have any dreams about him?'

'How the hell do you know that?'

'Let's just call it experience. What kind of dreams?'

Lafayette softly shook his head. 'It is like he is always in my head. And I had sex dreams and they were all kind of nasty and…' Elysa's eyebrow went even further up while she looked at him sceptical. 'And fantastic. Which freaks me the fuck out because I hate that motherfucker. More then you ever know.'

'Oh, I've been there, Lafayette. Believe me. I've been there.'

Suddenly the door went open and Lettie Mae ran out crying.

'Oh hell. What now?'

They both stood up and turned towards Tara's mother. 'What?'

'I can't stay there in with her. The things she says are breaking my heart. I will keep card while one of you goes in there to sit with her. She can't hurt you like she is hurting me.'

'Oh yes, she can.'

'You aren't going to shoot yourself, are you?'

'Show me some respect boy. I was the one who taught you how to shoot a gun. When those white boys on your school gave you trouble.'

'Yeah, but that was a bibi gun you used to shoot cats.'

'You shot cats?'

'Only when they went to the bathroom in my yard.' She held out her hand towards Lafayette.

'Alright then.' He gave her the weapon but as soon as she had it she pointed it towards them and loaded it.

'Tara, baby, I've got the gun!'

'Oh, you are so not really doing this.'

'Go and unlock her handcuffs.'

'Hell no.'

'Go!' She pointed the gun up and shot. Lafayette immediately crawled into a corner and hid himself.

Elysa's eyes flashed angry. 'Have you gone nuts? He was shot recently!' She kneeled beside him and put an arm around his shoulders.

'You go unlock Tara.'

'So she can go back to Maryann? I don't think so! You've seen what it was like there. You've seen the evil. And you're sending Tara back into it? What kind of mother are you?'

'I've got a chance to win my baby back for real. The lord works in mysteries ways.'

'More like crazy.'

She pointed the gun on them again and Elysa signed while turning to Lafayette. 'Keys?'

'Inside my pocket. But I… I… I can't move.'

Elysa took the keys out of his pocket and walked inside. 'You're a fool for doing this, Tara.'

'Wouldn't you have done the same if it was your true love who was in trouble?'

'Probably but right now you've got use your head and not your heart.'

She unlocked her handcuffs and the two walked outside again. Lafayette was shaking like a mad man and looked absolutely terrified. 'What the hell did you do to him?'

'Nothing.'

Elysa kneeled down beside Lafayette again and tried to make him relax.

'Tara, baby, go. And don't you ever forget that I did this for you.'

Tara ran towards Elysa's car but stopped there. 'Elysa, I need your keys.'

Elysa grabbed the keys out of the pocket in her shorts and threw them towards her. 'You're being a fucking idiot. After everything we did and after how hard we tried you're only getting yourself killed.'

Tara didn't say anything but ran towards her car, stepped in and drove away. Elysa hurried back towards Lafayette and tried to get him to calm down.

'Why does he keep shaking like that?'

'Because he is traumatized!'

'Well, so am I.'

'You're being crazy! That is what you are!' She lowered her voice. 'I've got a plan. I'm going to do something and I need you to move fast. Grab the gun when she drops it. Can you do that?'

Lafayette nodded once and Elysa put her voice on normal volume now. 'It's gonna be alright. She is not going to shoot you.' She looked at Lettie Mae. 'Can you please lower that gun, Mrs. Thornton? It is freaking him out.'

Lettie Mae looked doubtful but then lowered the gun towards the ground. Elysa took her chance and made a dismissing sign with her hand.

Before Tara's mother could react, the gun was out of her hands and on the ground. Lafayette grabbed it while Elysa grabbed her bag and the two ran towards his car. 'We've got to get Tara.'

'What about your plan to see Eric?'

Elysa bit her lip. 'Good question.'

'So what are you going to do?'

'First we will get Tara out and then we will go to Eric.'

'You mean you go to Eric. I can never face that guy again.'

'Fine, I will go to Eric. But first we've to get Tara out.'

They sat in silence for a while and Elysa shot a look at the gun he was holding. 'I can hold that for you if you like. It will make it slightly more easier for you to drive and not get us killed in a car accident.'

'Nobody ain't pointing this pistol but me. And on a person.'

'Lafayette, are you sure you are okay?'

'Nope.'

Elysa felt her hands tremble and wondered if Eric now felt her fear and her worry. Probably he would.

'Lafayette, I need you to suck it up. I can not do this alone and defiantly not with you too traumatized to shoot a gun.'

'I know.'

'We need to get in, get Tara out if that isn't too late already, get the hell out and go towards Fangtasia to ask for Eric's help.'

'Yep.'

'Maryann is going to give us some trouble and you know it. If she dares to try anything you've got to shoot her or it will be your end. And I can't do this alone.'

'I will.'

Elysa heard his voice trembling and felt fear coming up even more. 'I mean it, Lafayette. You've got to shoot her.'

'I will.'

'No, you won't. You can't do it. You are still traumatized. Give me the gun.'

'Nobody else shoots this gun but me.'

Elysa signed and knew that when the time would come, he probably wouldn't be able to shoot it. 'Lafayette, I will just warn you already. If something goes wrong – and it is meant to go wrong – then I am quite sure that if anything happens to me you aren't only going to get an angry Bill over you. And I don't think Eric will let you walk away alive and well again. So please, get a grip on it. Even if it is just for now.'

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