Note from Me:

Sorry if this one (A) Wasn't very good or (B) wasn't long enough, but really I tried my hardest. I was going to try and wire some weres and shifters into this chapter but I thought it would be difficult to go back and change the last chapter as well as this one and try and drag it on more and more – frankly, I thought you might get bored of it xD

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Chapter 23: Eric

Although the past small events had passed so slowly, suddenly everything sped up.
Pam flitted over and pushed me out of the way, and it would have been to my temperament if I hadn't of seen Venus. It was almost as if at that one moment, something had awakened in her.
She looked even more powerful than Godric, even with the silver chains burning her skin and she looked like a completely different person.

Venus looked over at me as if she had never seen me before, and yet somewhere in those eyes I saw worry vanish. Venus crouched quickly to the ground, pulling a long metal peg out of it and jumping behind the maenad. As the maenad was caught aback by these sudden events happening, Venus shoved the metal peg straight through her and pulled its heart out through the hole.

The maenad fell to the ground and Venus stood there, heart in hand and stared down at the body pitifully. Her eyes moved up to me and for a moment I considered bowing before her, she looked so much like a Queen. I stared up into her crystal blue eyes and she stared down in to mine, and somehow straight through me.

'Eric..' her voice had taken on a very old accent, one that I only recognised faintly as Old Latin, but I only recognised some words.

'Sit electus. Is vadum concero vobis' Venus spoke as fluently as if it was her mother Tongue.

I found myself unable to pull my eyes away, as she turned and stepped unsteadily toward me – dropping the heart unconsciously - and fell to her knee in front of me. She leant forward, her hand lightly resting on the side of my face and her mouth beside my ear.

'Ego vadum exsisto vigilo, Eric. Servo suus tutus. Lamia.'

And with that, she fell onto me, her hand dropping from my face as she relaxed into slumber.
As the humans regained control of themselves, I stood and picked Venus up. Though she always seemed to be embarrassed about that, she really was light as a feather. She seemed too tired to fight about it and I smiled down at her. It had been a long time since I had smiled for anything but bloodshed, except for Sookie. But that had been 'nipped at the bud' a long time ago.

'Pam, dispose of the maenad's body...' I said as I began to walk. Pam flitted to me and grabbed my arm, turning me slightly.

'Eric, are you not worried about what just happened even a little?' she said boldly 'Did you just see her?' she made a gesture to Venus 'That was not normal, and don't you think this was all kind of...'

'I know' I interrupted 'But look at Venus, she's exhausted and I can hardly question her right now –I doubt she even knows what just happened, let alone remembers it.'

I looked down at Venus, and then shifted her in my arms. 'Pam, clean up this mess.'

Pam grimaced. She crossed her arms over her chest again, and then said 'Must I clear this body up? Can't those pesky human police clear it up for themselves?'

I shot a glance at Pam and then grinned at her, 'It would be fun to watch the torment on their faces as they tried to figure out who and what it was... but it would cause too much trouble'

Pam sighed in a sulky kind of way and then went off to clear up.

I looked down at Venus, her hair moved lightly in the breeze. She seemed so small and weak, and yet the way she had looked and spoken – she seemed so different now.

'You need blood' I spoke quietly, to only her 'Mine to heal, a human's to regain strength.'

Venus opened her eyes slowly, slightly, and looked up at me, pleading with her eyes. I ducked my head down quickly and put my face very close to hers. She flinched a little then blushed deeply, looking up at me shyly.

She put her arms up and around my neck, pulling me down and kissing me. I cannot say that I wasn't surprised, because I was. When she pulled away, she smiled at me and I at her and then she snuggled down against my chest.

'All's well that ends well' I smiled, and began on my way to Fangtasia.