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chibichibi98: There will be some view changes over time since Charlotte now knows.
ff13: I'm sorry for making you cry! D: I sweetened you guys up with the picnic before dropping the bomb. I'm getting that answer a lot but they're not sure lol there really is no proof that she is an Angel since she one used her powers a handful of times, but it's a good guess.
Ann4ever17: I made myself sad watching that scene while writing. I wish the writers would've shown more of Godric and his background and how he escaped his maker and all that.
grapejuice101: :( Godric.
wabi-sabi1090: That's a good guess, but it's not connected to religion. He is asking about God since he is gonna die and doesn't know where he's gonna land since he's done a lot of bad things over the years. That power came from emotion, she didn't want to see Godric die and she wanted to give Godric peace of mind. The glowing is from the heart singer like Godric said, because if it was just because she was an angel, everyone would see the glow. That's as much as I can give lol. I'm not saying yes, but I'm not saying no. It's all a mystery that Charlotte needs to solve.
AutumnKrystal: So many possibilities lol I cry every time too :(
Supernatural4life: Thank you! Here is the update!
Marine76: You will see why I had to kill Godric.
Sillygabby: It's a giant tease, but it's better than just saying what she is because she knows has to find out what she is and the fact she has to deal with the heart singer deal.
jesskalynn4: Breaks my heart whenever I see or read that part.
Wolviegurl: Here is more!
aLeXaNdRaSaInSbUrY: Thank you. I hope you continue to enjoy the story! Here is more!
Beauty422: it is important. Charlotte is worried because she doesn't want anyone to die. Charlotte was making a friend, since he is kind to her, she is kind in return. Unlike Eric lol.
Anonymouscsifan: Thank you for reading it and crying with me :), sadly I did not have tissues lol.
VampireElf: Oh man. When you sent the first review and I read it, I just waited for you to read chapter 24. I crushed your hopes :( I'm sorry.
SomebodyWhoCares: Sorry!
Guest: Thank you so much! I was a wreak writing that scene and was dying of guilt when writing the picnic scene.
The ideas in this chapter have come from Singerdreamer42's brilliant mind and I want her to have all the credit because she helps so much and her ideas spark new scenes for you guys to read and enjoy :) so thank her!
Charlotte gripped the shirt in her hands tightly as she wondered the halls, not noticing where she was walking to.
She stopped and looked next to her. It was the room Eric was in. The door was open, so she moved toward it and pushed it open with the tips of her fingers.
She looked inside to see Eric hunched over shirtless and the room looked to be a mess. She walked over to him slowly.
"Eric?" she called out, her voice was still shaky.
He lifted his head, but did not look at her. He had many lines of blood tears on his face and chest, his eyes were a bloody red. "Godric is gone."
"I know." Charlotte choked back a sob as she tensed her jaw. "I'm so sorry, Eric."
He said nothing as he sat there.
Charlotte put Godric's shirt on the chair behind her and grabbed Eric's chin lightly.
He looked at up at her tear stained face, bloodshot eyes, and her shaking lower lip.
Charlotte remembered something Ivy used to do whenever she cried when she was a child. She kissed his tears that where on his cheeks, and he leaned into the kisses, closing his eyes as she did.
Charlotte went to move away when Eric grabbed her hand, pulling her back face to face with him.
Eric moved closer together until their lips were a split hair apart, and the humming in his head was going crazy.
When she drew in a breath, he pressed his lips to hers. It was soft and timid at first, but it grew until he was lying in top of her on the bed. His hand went to her hair and tugged on it slightly. He pulled away and looked her over. When he saw she was fine, his fangs lowered.
"Can I touch them?" she asked in a whisper as she looked into his eyes.
Eric nodded.
Charlotte placed two of her fingers on them, and slid them down slowly. Eric watched her as he enjoyed the feel.
"Eric?" Eric opened his eyes as Charlotte spoke again. "Can I stay here tonight? With you?" Tears came up into her eyes again as she lowered her hand. Tonight she had lost a friend, but Eric lost his maker, his father, his brother, his son…
"Why do you want to stay here?" Eric's voice was gruff.
"I need someone to hold me, and I know you feel the same. Even though you won't admit it." She ran her hand threw his hair. She liked his hair, and it's as smooth as it looks.
"Fine." He purred as she continued to run her fingers through his hair. "Do you have anything to change into?"
"I just have Godric's shirt…" Charlotte paused as she pressed her lips together. "And I don't want to ruin it…"
He nodded and started to remove her shoes. He laid down with his head in her neck, breathing in her scent.
There was a moment of silence when Eric spoke up in a whisper.
"Was he in pain?"
Charlotte could feel more tears land on her neck as her own rolled down her face.
"No." Charlotte took a slow breath. "He was at peace. I made sure of that the best I could."
Eric squeezed her closer to him. "Thank you."
Charlotte could only nod as she held back sobs. "He deserved peace."
Eric squeezed her waist. Godric did deserve peace, he deserved it over a thousand times.
Hours later, Charlotte got off the bed as Eric slept, and went back to her room.
Sookie stopped her when she saw her with Godric's shirt and a sad look on her face. "What happened?"
Charlotte tapped the crystal, to signal that she was gonna show her everything.
Sookie saw as Charlotte watched Eric and Godric on the roof, him sending Godric away, Charlotte trying to get him to not meet the Sun, her hands glowing the same color as Godric did when he met the Sun, and what happened with Eric.
Charlotte kept the part of heart singer away from Sookie, not wanting to explain what it was since she really didn't understand it herself. "I'm just gonna pack now."
Sookie nodded as she watched her friend walk to her room with a frown.
Charlotte played with her hands as she sat in the car with Jason on her left and a sleeping Sookie on her right. She kept thinking about what Godric said, her connection to Eric and the kiss they shared.
Charlotte was ripped from her thoughts when Sookie gasped and jumped up, making Charlotte jump a bit towards Jason from the sudden movement.
"Whoa! What are you dreaming about?" Jason asked since he too jumped at the sudden movement.
Sookie just looked at them and called Bill's name. She turned around and saw his coffin there. She sighed and placed her hand on it.
"This kind of reminds me of the bus ride back from All-State." Jason said as he looked out the window. "Nothing looks exactly like you left it. Know what I mean?"
Sookie shrugged. "I've never been away before."
Charlotte looked out the window with a small frown. "Something seems different to me though. I can't put my finger on it though."
"Yeah." The Stackhouse siblings agreed with her.
"The hell?" Jason mumbled as he spotted something odd.
They passed the welcome sign to see it had been tagged saying 'fuck off' and 'Bone Temps' with a giant penis drawn next to it.
"That's real classy." Charlotte muttered as they continued.
"Look at that guy." Jason patted Charlotte's arm as he pointed at the window.
There was a man slamming his head into a pillar of a building. Then a man yelling at a woman to let him go.
They watched them from behind them until suddenly they crashed into something, making the car stop.
Sookie screamed as two bodies broke through the windshield.
"They just ran out in front of me!" explained the driver, who quickly ran out the car to check on the people.
The trio followed suit. They saw a couple all bloody, beat up, and laughing.
"Are you alright?" Sookie asked carefully.
They looked at the trio with complete black eyes that made them all take a step back.
"Hey, what the hell is wrong with your eyes?" Jason asked them, but they ignored him and started to walk away laughing.
"Wait, where are you going?" Charlotte yelled to them.
"We're going to find Sam!" the woman took her shirt off and threw it to the side.
"It's almost time man!" they ran off laughing once again.
The trio all looked at each other.
"What the fuck?!" Charlotte grumbled as they watched the couple continue running.
When night fell, Eric opened his eyes. He expected to see pale skin and some black curls, but was just greeted with the hotel pillows.
Eric got to his knees quickly on the bed and looked it over, only seeing blood from his tears on the pillow.
Eric slowly placed his head onto the sheets and sniffed. He sighed as the smell of lavender, vanilla, tears, and something unknown was on it. He took a bigger whiff, making sure it really was her and he hadn't driven himself insane.
He moved toward the pillow that she used as she held him and he held her in return. It smelt even stronger than the sheets.
He wished he knew a way to bottle the scent, but he knew it still wouldn't be the same.
He got off the bed and called to have a jet ready for him to go back to his area.
He packed a small bag and thought about bringing the pillow with Charlotte's scent. He scrunched his nose and stood up, ignoring the pillow.
He did not need to act like some fool, lusting over a pillow over all things.
Charlotte, Jason, Sookie, and Bill were currently in the Compton house freaking out over what they saw earlier.
Jason was trying to reach the sheriff's office. "This is Jason Stackhouse. Just want to let y'all know a couple a folks got hit by a car up on the square. But they… they ran off."
"Ask them what the heck's going on all over town." Sookie whispered to her brother.
"Oh, and if somebody could call me back and tell me if we've been attacked by terrorists or what." A beep on the phone made Jason curse. "Fucking answering machine at the sheriff's office."
Once Bill was completely out of the coffin, Sookie attacked him. "Bill, there's something seriously wrong in Bon Temps. I can feel it."
"Well," a coy voice said from the top of the stairs. "If it isn't the vampire, and his vampire lover." There was Maxine Fortenberry, Hoyt's mother, but she had the same eyes the couple did.
"Sookie, look at her eyes." Charlotte pointed to Maxine's eyes.
"Ah shit." cursed Jason.
Maxine burst into a fit of mad laughter.
"Momma, come back here!" a familiar male voice called from the next room.
Maxine started to walk down the stairs as Jessica and Hoyt ran out of the room Maxine was just in.
Jessica sighed in relief. "Thank God you guys are home. She's gone, like, totally bat shit!" she pointed to Maxine.
"What the devil did you-" Bill started.
Jessica threw her hands up. "I had nothing to do with it, I swear!"
Hoyt ran passed Jess and stepped in front of his mother, who was pushing him slowly down the stairs as she walked. "At first we thought it was just a reaction to her new diet pills, but then we saw that practically the whole town has these eyes!"
"How long has she been like this?" Bill asked Hoyt slowly, trying to figure it out.
"Since last night." answered Jessica.
"And I will be," Maxine puffed her chest out. "For as long as it takes for Him to get his offering."
"That sounds… not crazy at all." Charlotte muttered.
"That just sounds all kinds of fucked up!" Jason stepped back.
"She keeps going on about Sam Merlotte and how they're going to offer him to God." Hoyt said as his mother pushed him away. Everyone in the room froze, what the hell was going on to the people in town?
Maxine's eyes set on Jason. She licked her lips slowly. "How about you offer yourself to me, Jason Stackhouse?" she then threw herself at Jason grinning from ear to ear with her creepy black-filled eyes. "Come on, you dirty monkey." She grabbed Jason by the shoulders and tried to pull him into a kiss.
Jason screamed as Bill held Maxine back.
"Does she ever calm down?" Bill held her at arm's length away, scared of what she might do.
Hoyt rubbed the back of his neck. "Well playing the Wii helps her focus, but I wouldn't call it calm."
"We should still try it." Charlotte spoke up. "Unless anyone wants to get lustfully attacked by Mrs. Fortenberry." she pointed out.
Everyone looked at each other and dragged the woman to the living room, where she quickly started to play Dead Space, laughing evilly as she killed monsters. "I'm gonna crack open your fucking skull, bitch!"
Bill watched Maxine. "So she says God is coming?" he turned around to look at the others. Charlotte was sitting on the armrest of the couch, Jessica was sitting on the other couch with Hoyt staying next to her with his arms crossed, and Sookie was standing next to Charlotte.
"She also says that everyone is at Merlotte's, waiting to get Sam and take him to Maryann's place." Hoyt stayed looking at his mom until Sookie spoke.
"Maryann's? Where's that?"
"Uh, well it's uh- your house." Hoyt looked uncomfortable as he scratched the back of his head.
"What?" Sookie gasped.
"Yeah. They're gonna cut that boy open and serve him up like bar-b-que!" Maxine laughed evilly.
"Hoyt? Has anyone been attacked by claws recently?" Charlotte asked, remembering the bull human that attacked Sookie.
"Well, I heard Arlene say that that poor woman you found in Andy's car had her back scratched up pretty bad. And then I also heard somebody say that Daphne had some kind of weird scar on her back." Hoyt answered.
Sookie raised an eyebrow. "The new waitress at Merlotte's?"
Jason popped up next to Charlotte. "There's a new waitress at Merlotte's?" he looked interested until Charlotte hit his arm.
"We should talk to her." Bill looked to Sookie.
"She's dead." Hoyt's words blew them away. "She had her heart cut out just like the other woman."
"Oh my." Sookie gasped.
Jason clapped his hands, gaining everyone's attention. "I'm going to Merlotte's and find out what the hell is happening on my turf." Jason started to walk to the door.
Bill stopped Jason. "Jason, if this is the same creature we think it might be, you do not want to go anywhere near it, trust me."
"Jason, listen to Bill. It almost killed your sister." Charlotte got up and stood next to Sookie.
"Listen, I'm not going to just stand here and let that thing ruin my town."
"Jason," Sookie walked to Jason. "Now would be one of those times to use your head."
"Oh, I am." Jason got a determined look in his eyes. "I've never been so clear my whole life. This here is the war I've been training for."
Sookie went towards Jason but Bill stopped her. "Sookie, we know Jason can take care of himself."
Sookie hugged Jason. "You take care of yourself, you hear?" Jason nodded. "You drive straight to Merlotte's, and get in as fast as you can. And don't go into the woods by yourself."
Jason laughed. "I won't."
Sookie grabbed his shoulders. "I mean it."
"I know." He kissed Sookie's forehead. Then he left the house.
Sookie spun around quickly. "And where's Tara?"
Hoyt started to think. "She's been partying hard over at Mary-" Sookie stormed off. "It's just something that people say. Party over at Maryann's."
"It's fine, Hoyt. Charlotte let's go, we gotta get over there." Sookie grabbed her white purse that matched her white cardigan and yellow sundress.
"Right." Charlotte sighed as she grabbed her keys and put them in her jean shorts what were slightly covered by her burnt orange belted top.
Sookie went out the door first and Bill, ever the gentleman held the door for Charlotte before leaving.
They went into Sookie's car and drove their way towards her house. When they drove to the front of the house, they paused when they saw what looked like a giant statue.
They got out the car slowly, looking at the statue.
"What in God's name…" Sookie stopped speaking as she tried to figure it out.
Charlotte made the mistake of breathing in and gagged. "I don't know but its rotting."
Music was heard coming from the house. The door was wide open as they walked in.
Charlotte gasped as she saw the way the house was just dirty. It looked like a tornado of dirt, vines, and flowers came through the house. A lot of things were broken.
Bill went to the kitchen, Sookie stood in front of the stair case, and Charlotte walked to the living room. Everything was caked in dirt. She could hear Sookie call Tara's name. Bill walked into the living room as Sookie's cell went off.
"Lafayette, where is Tara?" Sookie spoke into the phone.
"She with me." Lafayette answered her. "I need to know when you gonna be back in town."
"Look at this mess." Charlotte mumbled as she and Bill looked at the floor and the couches, Sookie walked in talking on her cell.
"I'm here in what used to be my living room." Sookie said as she looked around.
"Sook, you gonna have to get up out that house now." Lafayette warned Sook.
"Is Tara okay?" Sookie asked.
"I ain't half as worried about her as I am about you up in that fucking house. Get out. Run!"
Charlotte turned around to ask Sookie a question when she saw a bull faced mask thing. Bill saw it as well and alerted Sookie.
"Be right there." Sookie hung up and grabbed Bill's wrist. "Come on!" Charlotte right at their heels.
They would have made it out the living room but Maryann stood there smiling, in their way. "What are you doing in my house?"
"This is not your house." Sookie spat as she glared at Maryann.
They stepped back every time Maryann took a step towards them.
Bill stepped in between the women and Maryann. "I strongly suggest you remove yourself immediately."
Maryann didn't look scared. "My, you've found yourself quite the specimen. But there is nothing stopping him from one day leaving you cold."
Sookie glared at Maryann. "You don't scare me."
Maryann grew angry and slammed Sookie onto the wall by her neck.
Sookie saw flashes of something running and attacking her in the woods and then facing Charlotte before it was threw back into some trees. It was the bull-thing!
Charlotte got in between them and pushed against Maryann's chest. "Let her go!" a purple light shined from her hands and threw Maryann across the room and onto the couch.
Bill quickly pinned her. "Charlotte, take Sookie and leave!" he then bit Maryann's neck.
Charlotte was helping Sookie off the floor as Maryann moaned loudly. "Yes! Ravage me!"
Bill pulled away and started to shake. Sookie called out to Bill as they both ran over to him, catching him before he fell.
"What have you done to him?" Sookie panicked, seeing black blood on his lips and foam.
Maryanne laughed and stood in front of them, but Sookie quickly getting in the way. She touched Sookie's face. "What are you?"
"None of your business!" Sookie put her hand on Maryann's face, and a purple light came from her own hand.
Everyone was shocked as Maryann was thrown back a bit, looking shocked as well.
"Come on." Charlotte helped Bill up with Sookie as they ran outside to the car, with Maryann's crazy laughter behind them. "Sookie, get in the back with Bill." She took the Keys away as they got into the car and drove away from the house like a bat out of hell.
When they made it safely away, Bill started to throw up with Sookie worrying over him. "Bill?"
"I'm alright." He reassured the women.
"You not alright, Bill! Look at you! You're sick." Charlotte hands tightened on the steering wheel. "None of this is right."
Bill went right back to throwing up.
"I'm calling Eric." said Sookie.
"I will not turn to Eric!" Bill brought his head back into the car.
"We need to get you to Dr. Ludwig!"
It got quiet until Bill spoke. "What-what happened back there?"
"Well, apparently Maryann is a crazy bitch who lives in Sookie's house now, and you attacked her." Charlotte stopped at a stop sign and looked at the mirrors to see if Maryann was following them.
"That's not what I'm talking about." Bill groaned. "I'm talking about the lights. What did you do to her?"
"I don't know, I swear!" Sookie told him. "But it was Maryann that attacked me in the woods. Even though I don't have a scar, I could still feel her there on my back when she was touching me."
"I will kill her." Bill growled.
"Good, but how?" Charlotte turned around to look at him.
"If Tara is under Maryann's influence, maybe she can be of some help to us." Bill groaned.
"Right, so we're going to Lafayette's?" when Sookie nodded, Charlotte turned right, towards Lafayette's house.
"Give me your wrist so I can heal." Bill told Sookie, after which she gave a small hiss.
The drive felt forever, but Bill felt better after having Sookie's blood.
They stopped at Lafayette's house and got out the car, suddenly Bill disappeared to stand in front of Lafayette as he held the shoulders of the woman who wanted to by V. "Oh, you are leaving." He lowered his fangs, scaring the woman into leaving. He turned his glare to Lafayette.
"Hey, look, slow your row. It ain't even me." Lafayette raised his hands in defense. "Talk to your boy, Eric. He the one got me pushing the shit."
Charlotte and Sookie quickly ran up to where the men stood, not having heard the conversation.
"Where is she?" asked Sookie quickly.
Lafayette pointed inside and they ran inside. "You can come on in." he told Bill, who nodded and walked in.
A woman, Tara's mother was pacing in front of a tied up Tara. They walked around her and saw she had the same black eyes everyone had.
Sookie put her hand on Tara's face, where a bruise was. "Tara? What's happened to you?"
Tara jumped, like she was going to bite her fingers. "Get me the fuck out, you stupid cunt, or I will kill you."
"We're losing her, and we don't know what to do." Lafayette sat down across from Tara.
Sookie put her hands on Tara's shoulders and closed her eyes. "It's all… dark. Nothing."
Tara's mother stepped forward. "You're seeing in her head?"
"Stop trying to rape my brain." yelled Tara.
"I can't see or hear anything. It's not her. It's… She's gone."
"Sookie, don't say that." Charlotte touched Sookie's arm.
"She's in there Sook! Just keep trying!" Lafayette looked so stressed out.
Sookie spun around. "I know, but what am I supposed to do?"
"You have to go further into her mind than you ever had before." Bill said to Sookie calmly.
Sookie looked scared, but she turned around and kneeled in front of Tara with her hands on her shoulder again.
Tara noticed the gauze that had two blood stains on Sookie's wrist. "You tried to kill yourself? I don't blame you with your fucked up life." Tara said coldly.
Pictures of people playing music and Maryann dancing kept flashing in Sookie and Charlotte's head, and then it stopped.
"I can't." Sookie shook her head. "There's something I can't cross. An abyss."
"I will glamour her." said Bill.
"What?" Tara's mother stepped in between Bill and Tara, worried for her daughter.
Bill put his hand up. "It may help."
"I don't want to hurt her." Sookie looked up at Bill.
"If we leave her like this, who knows what harm may come to her, or us."
Charlotte pressed her lips together before moving toward Sookie. "Sook, just try it." She tried to convince her. "Please, do it for Tara."
Sookie looked her in the eyes and nodded.
Bill helped her up, and then walked towards Tara. "Tara," he called softly. "You can feel my influence, can't you Tara? Don't fight it. Let me in Tara."
Bill signaled Sookie to go behind Tara and try to get in her mind once again. Sookie kept trying but it wouldn't work, she wasn't letting Sookie in.
Bill grew annoyed. "Tara, let Sookie in!"
Sookie was hugging Tara now. "It's not working!"
"Tara, you are safe here," Bill grabbed her face. "You have to do as I say."
"I'm not your fucking slave girl." Tara spat at Bill.
"If there was ever a time to listen to a white man Tara, now would be the time." Lafayette commented.
Tara's mother started to pray.
"Let Sookie in!" Bill tried glamoring her again. "Sookie now."
People dancing naked, Tara having sex with a guy, them eating something that looked to have blood, Sam tied up, the guy slapping Tara, The bull mask, Tara slapping her mother, all entered Sookie and Charlotte's mind.
Charlotte gasped as it came flooding in. She tried to block out the link when Tara's eyes returned to normal.
Bill let go of her face.
Tara looked around her. "Oh, my God." She looked like she was about to cry. "I'm crazy. I'm really crazy."
Sookie hugged her head to her chest, telling her she wasn't, that it wasn't her.
Charlotte sighed in relief to see her friend safe.
Tara looked over at her mother and jumped into her arms. They cried and hugged tightly.
"Oh! Mama! I'm sorr… I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Mama." Tara cried as her mother held her.
"I knew it wasn't you, baby girl. I knew it wasn't you." Her mother cried happily. She grabbed Sookie's hand. "Thank you."
Sookie wiped her tears. "I need some air." She placed a hand on Charlotte's arm to tell her to stay as she and Bill walked outside.
Tara let go of her mom and saw Charlotte. She quickly ran over and they hugged.
"I'm so glad you okay!" Charlotte sniffed, tears rolling down her cheeks. "We were so worried for you."
Tara shook her head. "I'm sorry. Everything just went all crazy."
"We know." Charlotte laughed.
Tara turned around and looked at Lafayette, who waved. She attacked him in a hug too, but pulled away. "Eggs, I got to go get Eggs."
"Eggs?" Charlotte asked with a small frown.
Lafayette held her back. "Lock the door."
Charlotte quickly went over and locked the door.
A real kiss!
The idea of Eric waking up and smelling the sheets was Singerdreamer42's idea.
Next time, Eric gets to speak to the queen and finds something out.