A/N: I am sooooo sorry for not posting this. I had a big week. Signed up for college, years later than I wished. But I did it! I'm so happy! The nerd in me missed learning and this is the best thing ever for me. Passed the entrance tests with flying colors, no extra classes! Woot! I get to save a few thousand there.

Any way. Sorry. The bad news. I have been on a week long vacation and I am just now getting to the story. Posts will be slow, unless I can get more encouragement. I work a full time job at night and will start classes on the third. So as I said, lots more to do in my life, less time to write. But I am working on it tonight and tomorrow. I have the next few chapters written but I have hit a snag. I really want to throw in Kathy's story line here and use this time without Sookie. But I've written the next few chapters ... a lot. Write. Delete. Write. Etc. You know how it is. My muse has pointed out some things for in the future of the story. And as thus, I have gone to a new aim. But here is this long delayed chapter. Please do review and tell me what you think.

"Outside."

"We have to bring him in."

"Are you insane? Why?" Bill demands.

"If he dies, it will be too easy on him."

"You want us to go get him and bring him inside? Really?" Sookie asks, not sure he was mentally safe.

"Eric, do the world a favor and let that little fuck fry."

Eric lets out a huff, rolling his eyes a bit. "I'll go out there myself."

"Fudge," I groan while turning to look at him as he sat up.

Eric and Bill hissed at each other. "I'll get him," I huff, waving Sookie off.

I rushed out the door, heading for him. Ew. He looked like a flaking log in a fire.

"I'm here to bring you in," I say while crouching down by his head.

"Ah, thank you, pumpkin."

"Shut it," I snap, grabbing him under his arms and dragging him lazily toward the door.

He grunts and makes loud cries as I drag him over the blacktop. Sookie was at the door to meet me with the silver chains they had used on Bill. Eric was healed. Once the door shut with us, Russell sighed in relief. That is, until Sookie put the chain around his neck. He cried out and grunted viciously. Eric had rubber gloves on, taking him and the chains from us.

I sighed, leaning against the counter while Eric bound the chain tighter around Russell's neck then connected it to the pole before his thrown. Russell was groaning away.

"You're a fool not to kill him."

"Killing him won't solve anything," Eric spoke up.

"No but it would keep him from killin' us," Sookie says as they all stand facing Eric and Russell.

I glanced at Bill and Pam. They had the bleeds, blood running from their ears. Eric's had just started. Eric looks pointedly at Sookie as he finishes tying Russell up.

"Oh, he won't be doing any more killing."

"Eric, who the fuck are you right now? He killed your family. Rip off his fucking head."

"Do not listen to them," Russell says as he looks toward Eric. He sounded nasally. "I shall reward you handsomely."

Russell lifted a finger to run it along Eric's arm. Eric gave a sneer before thrusting a punch against his middle. Russell grunted, slowly lifting his hand to his mouth. He spit into his hand, a fang dropping to his flakey, ash like skin. Ew.

"Well, that's humiliating," Eric mocks. "I'll take that."

He took the fang from Russell's hand, dropping it into his pocket.

"Sookie, come and hold these chains together."

I sigh, looking away.

"Eric, I'm going to the back to sky rocket your electric bill," I call.

His eyes flick over to me. "Tighter, Sookie." I roll my eyes before leaving, not paying one bit of mind to them. I was in the chair to behind his desk, humming as the power in the room surged, I was stretched backward with my hand shoved into the wall. The cover for the socket lay on the desk with the screw.

Eric was in the doorway, slowly putting his phone back into his pocket. I flick my eyes to him before looking at a poster on the wall and continuing my humming.

"Sky rocketing my electric bill?" His brow was annoyingly quirked at me.

He was leaning against the doorframe. I pause my humming, letting out a small grunt of pain as I get a surge too big for what I was expecting. My eyes squint, glaring at the floor before I get control again.

"Yes," I mutter before looking back at him. "I am in need of my connection. But it would be idiotic of me to go find one of my own or a fairy ring right now. So all I can do is pull in more power to pathetically fill the void."

"You gave me your blood."

I say nothing. Brows lifting as if waiting for his point. He steps in slowly, looking over the way I lounged in the chair, one foot on the desk.

"Some call it job security," I tease.

"Really?"

"Without a boss, who is to sign my checks?"

He lets out a chuckle as I give a wide grin. "Sookie is watching over Russell. Are you going to stay up with her?"

"No. I'm so freaking tired," I mutter while rubbing my eyes. "I planned on passing out on one of the couches so Sookie can wake me when she needs to."

He pushes my foot off the table, giving me a look to challenge me to put it back. My eyes hardly look at him as I pull from the wall. A hissing sound came from the socket along with my slightly reddened hand.

"Greatest day ever," I grumble while closing the door to the back.

"Kathy," Russell calls. "Release me and I will give you anything you could ever want."

I pause, rubbing the side of my face while yawning. The long couch was a bit from him, in clear view of Sookie on the throne and Russell on the pole.

"Yeah?" I mutter, glancing over the bar and not him.

"Yes."

"So.." I look toward him now, thinking. "You would give me my sight back?"

"Yes."

"My mother?"

"Done."

He was getting a bit excited. "Never let Mvli find me?"

"I don't know who he is, but I can keep you from any and all."

"Never let a vampire drink from me."

He frowns a bit. "I would let no vampire feed from you."

I roll my eyes. "Russell, you are bad at lying. Besides only going back to my realm would cure my sight until I come back here. My mother would kill herself before you could even smell her. And Mvli already knows how to find me."

He does a growling hiss at me. My eyes roll as I flop onto the couch. "Sookie, wake me up after a while. I need some sleep to jump start my healing."

"Sure, Kathy," she says while looking sadly at me. "You sure you can sleep out here?"

I wave vaguely at her. "Yeah. Only thing that will wake me is touching me or something. I'm so drained I could sleep though a tornado."

"Alright."

I groaned, sitting up and rubbing at my face.

"Kathy?"

"I'm up," I mutter with a lazy hand lifted in the air.

"It's almost sunset," she says as she looks over her magazine at me. "Did I wake you up?"

I glance at her through my hair. "No. Just not able to sleep more."

"Alright."

"Hear that?"

I glance at Russell. Sookie hardly even spares him a look. "That's my wolves coming to rescue me."

"Are you sure you're not hungry?" Ginger asks after putting down the now empty crystal urn that Russell had been carrying.

My brows lift. What the…. "I could make you a peanut butter and butter sandwich. No?"

Sookie shook her head. Ginger glanced at me. "Oh, hey there, Kathy," she says happily. "Want some food?"

"Ya. A peanut butter sandwich. Nothing else on it."

She smiles again before setting the rag down. The door to the bar opened with little warning. Light streamed in across Russell. Ginger screamed, jumping as a male stepped in.

"Alcide," I chirp.

Sookie hops up happily going to meet him as he stepped in more.

"How did you know to come for me?"

"Here because Eric called me," he says. "Said he needed my help with something." He shifts, glancing at Russell for hardly a moment. "Promised to settle all my dad's debts."

Sookie lets out a small sad smile at him. "Oh."

"Why? You in trouble again?"

I hop up, stepping toward them. They were flirting in the oddest way. "I need a drink."

"Ging-er…" Sookie looked oddly at the bar.

"Oh, she went to the back to make me a sandwich. She'll be a bit. She never remembers where everything is," I state while walking behind the bar. I poured a glass of water for myself while Sookie and Alcide sat at the bar.

"Can I get a beer?" Alcide asks as he looks to me.

"Me too."

"Um, sure," I say with a small laugh.

I turned from them, opening the cooler to get two beers. "Hope you don't mind the kind. Just the first I grabbed."

"That's fine," Sookie says with a smile at me.

I rub my face again after they took the beers. "I just can't wake up."

"Everything alright?" Alcide asks as he looks to me in the tight shirt. "Last I saw you, you were in the van."

I give a nervous laugh. "Uh, yeah. Sorry. Long fang," I motion at Russell. "Was able to track me. So I went back to make it harder for him to find Sookie."

"That's brave," Alcide says with a small smile.

I wince a bit. "Yeah. Not the smartest moment. I should have just taken off in another direction."

"You're fine now," he says with a pointed look.

"Eh," Sookie says with a shrug. "In a way."

Alcide turns to face her as Ginger comes back with my sandwich on a napkin. I beam, taking it and thanking her.

"So, what do you want me to do while I wait for the boss?" she asks without looking to the two on the other end of the bar talking.

"Go on to the back and make sure boss is fed."

"Fed?"

I roll my eyes and push her to the back. "Ginger, you and I both know you like it."

She gives a chuckle before rushing to the back again. Not long later all of the vampires came out. Eric was pulling on another pair of gloves. Sookie avoids looking at them all.

"Good. You're here," Eric says while crossing to Russell. "Your truck out front?"

"Yup."

Russell groaned while Eric roughly took him from the pole before dragging him by the chain around his throat toward to the door.

"Let's go. Got a lot to do."

Nobody else said much. I sighed, rolling my eyes.

"Sookie, stay here. Pam will protect you."

Sookie stood up facing Bill. "Feel better protectin' myself. Since I now know I'm basically vampire crack. Kathy."

She heads toward the door with me a few steps behind. She stops and turns around to look over the vampires. " By the way, I rescind the invitation to my house for all vampires present." Her eyes were hardest on Bill. "So don't even think about following me home."

She whirls on her feet heading out. I pause, glancing back at Eric and Pam.

"I'm going to take her home. But if you need me, give me a call."

"Kathy."

I glance back at Eric, he had his eyes on me for a moment before looking back at the vampire in his grasp.

"You come with us."

"But Sookie and Godric-"

"Will be fine. Let her take your car."

"Eric," I grumble, hip cocking out. "What good am I?"

"I need you to help us."

I huff throwing my hands up in the air. "Eric, come on."

His look was unwaving. The door opened behind me. "Kathy?"

"Here, Sookie," I say with a toss of my keys to her. "I'll get it from you later."

"You sure?"

I give one last glance at her before sending a dark look at Eric. "Yeah. Boss is going to pay me over time."

"Alright."

The door shuts as she leaves us. My arms cross over my chest as I wait for what he wanted.

"So what help am I?"

He drags Russell behind him toward me. "I thought you would like to see this."

"What is this?" I ask as he lightly takes my upper arm with his other hand and leads me out.

"The last of Russell."

I glance up at Eric. He wasn't looking at me. It really is odd, the way he knew that seeing this will let me move on. The thought of an easy death was nothing for him.

"I'm done now, right? My dad's out of debt. You leave him and my family alone," Alcide says from behind the wheel of his truck, ready to leave us all at the construction site.

Bill and I stood around Eric, who only gave a nod at Alcide. Russell lay in the small pit, concrete slowly filling it. The control in my hand.

Alcide glanced to me. "I wish you the best, Kathy."

"Thanks, Alcide," I say. I give him the warmest smile I could. "For everything."

He gives me a small smile before turning to shift the truck into gear and driving off. Russell was pathetically laying with the silver around his neck and yelling. It was so close, the concrete. It was only a few minutes from covering him fully.

"Just kill me, Viking," Russell calls angrily. "Take your fucking revenge."

I passed the control for the concrete flow to Eric, moving to stand between Bill and the steady flow of concrete chute.

"That was the original plan," Eric says calmly. "Then I was thinking, how do I know beyond the shadow of a doubt that you won't find some sort of peace afterwards?"

Russell chuckles at him. "Heaven. Oh, dear."

"I can't bear the thought of you finding any redemption what so ever."

"Wrapped in silver, encased in concrete," Bill says. " You wont be going anywhere for at least a hundred years."

"A hundred years, that's nothing to me. That's a nap," Russell laughs.

"That's 100 years with no escape from your grief," Eric points out. "No escape from the knowledge that I took what you love most and you will never get it back."

"No chance to see that which you love in an afterlife," I speak up, leaning on the chute a bit. I was smirking as I watched. No matter how wrong with was, I found a small enjoyment in it.

"A hundred years during which you will go mad," Bill states. "Madder even than you are now. And you are as mad as a fucking hatter."

"A hundred years for me to plan out how I am going to kill you all!"

"Have fun," Eric bites out.

I look away, looking toward the sky. I wonder why I haven't heard from Godric….I couldn't bare to look at Russell. It suddenly felt so wrong. Everyone deserved a form of peace. There was no peace in this.

"You will regret this," Russell laughs darkly at us.

"Maybe," Eric says. "But right now it feels fucking good."

I cross over to hug him, hiding the sight of Russell being buried alive. Eric gave one click and the concrete started flowing faster. Russell grunted and groaned, hand lifting as it to ward it off. I pressed my face to his chest, wishing the sound gone.

"This is wrong," I whisper.

I look up as the sound of Russell's fight stops. Bill held a hand out toward Eric to shake. Eric does not let me go, but holds out a hand to shake.

Bill moved at vampire speed with his other hand. Eric growled as silver was slapped over his wrist.

"Bill!" I cry out as Eric pushes me away.

"When fate presents itself with such a grand opportunity one must take it."

I screamed loudly as Bill stuck Eric hard enough to send him flying. Right into me. My head smacked the sided of the other open hole in the ground with Eric landing on me. Oh Nalu! Bill had the chute turned to our hole quickly filling it with concrete. Eric was gasping and grunting. I was in and out of it, the hit so hard that I felt the wet of blood in my hair. I could hear nothing beyond my gasps of pain, the splatter of wet concrete and Eric's cries.

I was gasping hard for air now. "Help!" I screamed after sputtering for air.

I did the only thing I could think to. I fought to see straight, aiming my hand toward the chute. I couldn't get a good aim on it. All or nothing, Kathy. I shot with the strongest bolt I could muster. A flash of light lit the area before the concrete quit flowing over us. The strike had hit the chute hard, frying the controls and moving the thing off of our hole.

"Eric," I gasp, my face just clear of the concrete.

My hand grasped his shoulder. He groaned as I must have caused the hand with the silver on it to shift. I reached down, eyes shut tight to the pain in my head. I felt sick as I found the wrist with the silver.

"Eric," I mutter, hand over the silver. "If I get this off, get us out of here."

He gave a loud cry as I ripped the silver off. We were out of the concrete not long later. Too fast for me. My head swam as I quickly turned to the side and threw up. Ugh, peanut butter did not taste good a second time. Eric was rubbing at the wound on my head. The spinning stopped as quickly as the pain did. He must have put his blood on it. I sighed, resting my head in my hands. Never again.

I stepped from Eric, shifting my weight to pick some more of the concrete from me. We had found a hose and tried to get what we could off. But it was clear. My jacket was ruined and I would have to get my hair fixed by a professional or Pam.

The door to Sookie's house was thrown open by me, Eric was steps behind me.

"Did you tell her that you were originally sent by the Queen of Louisiana to procure her, because of what she might be?" Eric asks as Sookie looks at us with surprise. Bill looked surprised as hell.

I leaned against the door looking at Bill with a pissed look, twirling the silver cuff he had used on Eric. Eric looked right at Bill. Sookie slowly turned to better see Bill who dared not move from just inside of Sookie's house.

"What?" Sookie asks, not sure if she should believe it.

"I did not know why she wanted you," Bill says, not meeting her eyes. He slowly turned to look at her. "As I grew to know you, I purpously kept you from her."

"Were you ever gonna tell me?"

"I hoped to someday. I swear it."

Eric moved away toward the steps, looking out at the yard before speaking.

"What about you letting two psychos beat her within an inch of her life so you could feed her your blood the night you met?" Bill shifted about, not willing to meet Sookie's pained and probing eyes. "Think she'll forgive you for that?"

"Oh, my God," Sookie says painfully. It was all falling together now. I sigh, shifting from the door to give them a bit of space.

"Sookie—"

"Is it true?"

Bill looked pained to answer, not looking at her again. It was true. His actions made it all clear.

"Yes."

Sookie was near tears. "He tried to silence Kathy and I tonight so you would never know." Eric picked a piece of concrete from his ear, flicking it way. "He doesn't wanna protect you. He only wants to protect himself."

Bill shook his head, opening his mouth to speak. "Get out of my house," Sookie says with a tearful look and ready to kill.

"Please!" Bill cries out, grasping at the frame of the door. Bill fought hard to not get thrown out.

"Don't ever come here. Don't ever call me. Don't ever talk to me. Ever. You manipulated me into falling in love with you," Sookie almost sobs.

"It is who you are, not what you are I love and will love always, until I meet the true death," Bill says quickly. He was crying now.

"Love?!" Sookie sobs out. "You don't even get to use that word. I resend my invitation."

"No!" Bill cried before getting thrown from the house. He lands in the walk to the house, grunting as he slowly goes to stand. I stood next to Sookie, glaring at the man on the walk. Eric leaned against the pole by the steps.

"I want my phone back."

Bill looks toward Sookie hurt in his eyes. I lightly touch her arm as I step toward the stairs a bit.

"I don't ever want to see you again, Compton," I call as he goes to turn. "I have done nothing to you."

He sends me a look, meeting my eyes hard. I send him a dark look. "I would stray far from him, Kathy, for your own safty."

"Safety?" I snort, hands going to my hips. "You almost killed me tonight! Just because I knew what Sookie was? Don't you dare tell me about anyone's well being. Your love comes with pain to all around you!"

He looks down, slowly turning to march off toward his home.

Sookie turns on Eric then.

"You too. Get the fuck off my porch and out of my life."

"For the record. I would have never given you to Russell."

"Go back to hell where you came from, you fucking dead piece of shit."

Eric rushed to the door, looking down at her. "I'm sorry to see you suffer like this, but I thought you had the right to know."

Eric took off, leaving me to my fate with Sookie. I turn from watching Bill leave. Sookie was in tears. I didn't dare step towards her.

"I had never known any of that," I whisper, meeting her eyes.

She stepped away from the door, reaching for the small table by the door. She sniffed as she held up my keys. I give a small, sad smile as I step closer to take them. She lets me pull her in for a hug.

"I am sorry, Sookie Stackhouse. I am here for you."
"I know, Kathy," she sniffs, pulling away. "I just want to be alone right now."

"Sure thing, Sookie."