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Chapter 26: Make It Without You- Andrew Belle

Sookie POV

Sookie woke up alone and stretched. She still didn't feel so hot, but she was hungry. She walked down to the kitchen and looked through the cabinets and pantries. She was happy when she saw saltines and 7Up. She grabbed a glass of the soda and a sleeve of the crackers and headed out to the living room.

Jason was on the Xbox and Sookie lay on the couch munching her crackers, watching him play. Over his shoulder he asked her how she was feeling, but she only shrugged and continued nibbling on her crackers.

Sookie searched the area for Eric and Pam and couldn't sense their voids anywhere near her. Odd. She stretched and sipped at her 7Up.

She checked the time and decided she had time to go to her house in Bon Temps to chat with the fairies. Eric wouldn't be happy, but she needed to do this. This was who she was. Sookie sat up and asked Jason, "I am going to go get dressed, do you want to come with me to talk to Claude and Preston? I think they missed you." Yes, she shamelessly slipped in a compliment, but she knew it was probably true, anyway. And it would be a good thing if Jason came so if Eric freaked out on her she could say she at least had Jason.

She ran up the stairs and threw on some clothes and brushed her teeth and washed her face before going to get Jason who was calling someone.

"Who are you calling?" she asked as she walked toward him. He hung up the phone and replied, "Eric and Pam, but they didn't answer. Ain't that weird?" he asked looking at his phone as if he was going to get an explanation from it.

Sookie looked at the phone also, wondering where Eric was.

She held her finger up and ran to kitchen looking for a note from him. She looked through the entire house, specifically their bedroom and came out empty handed. Where the hell is he? she wondered. Should she be panicking now? Sookie poked to see where he was, but because their bond was so premature, she couldn't sense anything.

She breathed in and out and paced the living room. Out of everyone, Eric was being the most cautious. Sookie knew he wouldn't do anything stupid. As she recalled her earlier panic about the windows, Sookie resolved not to panic until she needed to. She shouldn't work herself up until there was something she needed to.

She turned to Jason, "We will go see Claude and Preston and if neither of them aren't back by the time we are, then we will panic." Sookie reached for Jason's hands and they popped right into her old living room. She smiled as she looked around her and called out to the fairies. They both walked in from the kitchen and she walked to them and hugged them along with Jason. She was still getting some strange vibes from them that she had the other night, but they weren't nearly as strong as last night.

"So, much has changed since we left Sookie," Preston said, clearly digging for information about Eric. Sookie gave him a look and was about to sneer back at him, but Claude cut her off asking, "Yes, especially regarding your abilities. What have your advancements been?"

Sookie, Claude, Preston, and Jason all talked about everything she was now able to do. Then they spent a half an hour in the yard displaying her new abilities. Sookie then told Preston and Claude she expected to return to training with them once she and Eric felt the timing was right.

Claude and Preston raised eyebrows at her, but she ignored them. Eric worried for her. She could bitch and moan about how controlling and high-handed he was, but those were negative ways of saying that he cared for her. Eric cared for her so deeply. And he worried for her every minute of every day.

A lot worse could be said for a companion. If Eric wanted to obsess about her safety, well then she would let him. She would be worrying about him as well. Speaking of which, it was time to go back home to him.

She told the fairies she would be in touch and she grabbed Jason's hand and teleported them back to home. Sookie felt the area with her mind and found that neither vampires were back. She felt her heart flutter nervously, and once again popped around the house looking for a note of some kind.

By the time she was back at Jason's side she was in full panic mode. Eric would never go so long without contacting her. She grabbed the phone off the charger and called Fangtasia. The line picked up and she heard Ginger shrieking in the phone, which caused Sookie's heart to plummet to her stomach.

Sookie had no time to calm her down. She hung up the phone and dropped it. She popped to Fangtasia and ran to the still whimpering waitress. She gave her a rough slap to shock her and barked out, "Where are they!" Ginger began to cry and Sookie raised her hand again in warning before words began tumbling out of Ginger's mouth.

"I don't know... the bar was destroyed by the time I got here and I haven't seen Eric or Pam since...Chow checked the tapes and Russell Edgington and Bill Compton were responsible. The last thing on the tape was Pam and then Eric being trapped and taken by the other vampires."

Sookie was frozen in terror. What if they were hurt? How long had all this happened? She was trembling in an odd combination of fear and rage. She felt her possessive streak come in fully. Eric was hers. Nobody...NOBODY...touched what was hers. She paced in front of Ginger and her actions didn't seem to soothe the twitchy and nervous waitress.

Sookie popped away to her home again, where Jason was waiting pissed that she had left.

"Sook, never leave like that again." She silenced him with her hand and said, "Eric and Pam have been kidnapped and I am going to find them. Come if you want, I don't care." Sookie ran up to Eric's exercise room and grabbed stakes, silver chains, and grenades and packed them in a messenger bag. Once she felt prepared she ran back downstairs and Jason was waiting for her holding his hand out.

"Nobody messes with Pam," he said fiercely.

Sookie grabbed his hand and popped to Bill's home. It was one of the places she was going to search first. If Eric and Pam weren't here she would move on until she found them. She would search the whole fucking world and then move into the next realm and the next. She would drag Eric out of Hade's underworld if she had to.

Sookie felt a vampire presence inside the home and she stormed up the steps, not waiting. Jason was right behind her as she blasted the door away and moved inside. Bill was sitting at his desk in his office, an amused expression on his face. She snarled, "Where the fuck is he Bill?" She stalked close to him and pulled a wooden stake out of her pocket, showing him she meant business.

He looked at her amused, as if she was child putting a big show on for the adults. It only upped her anger to a murderous level. She asked again, "Tell me, you crazy fuck. Where is my bonded? Where is Pam?" Bill snarled at the word 'bonded' but he then composed his features and said, "Sookie, once Eric is out of the picture, all this nonsense can end and you can be mine again. I requested that Russell be quick with their deaths if that makes you feel any better."

Sookie had enough. She popped in front of him and rammed the wooden stake into his black, evil heart. He looked at her in shock and whispered, "Sookie?" before exploding in a fountain of blood. Sookie was covered in his remains, but she didn't wait to see the rest of it fall. She needed to find Eric.

She passed Jason, who looked from what had been Bill to Sookie with wonder, fear, and intimidation. Sookie moved into the foyer and focused once again. She was a tracker. She could track anyone and anything. The only times she had ever done so was within her property limits, but she would find Eric and Pam.

Sookie closed her eyes and pictured Eric. She pictured him and Pam together. She suddenly had an image of some kind of abandoned brick building. Sookie almost blacked out in rage and terror. She knew where Russell was. She had rescued Bill before from the confines of the slave quarters on Russell's old grounds. That was when she had completely abandoned any semblance of sanity.

Sookie popped and felt for them. She found all three in the building and she felt queasy. She couldn't hold off though any longer. She heard the unmistakable sound of Pam screaming as she neared the door, and she thought she would throw up. She stormed in and Russell was in front of her as soon as she opened it.

He smiled like a maniac and said, "It's been too long Miss Stackhouse. Please come in and make yourself comfortable. I am in the middle of something... well someone, but I will be with you momentarily. I have to say I am surprised to see you here. I expected Bill to be taking his time with you."

He turned back to Pam and she whimpered as he approached. Sookie growled as she studied Pam, who was bleeding, bruised, and many of her body parts were twisted and bent in angles not at all natural.

She was in obvious pain and Sookie ran towards her, Jason right behind him. Sookie and Jason were suddenly flung across the room and slammed against the wall though. Russell made a 'tsk-tsk' sound at them and said, "Now, Mr. and Mrs. Stackhouse, I said I would be with you in a moment. I thought you would have enough patience and self-control you two. Where are your manners?"

Eric could be heard in the next room snarling and growling now that he realized that Sookie and Jason were indeed here, and being slammed around by Russell. Sookie quickly recovered and her hands immediately began glowing dangerously. While she wasn't nearly as deadly as Claude or Preston, she thought she could hold her own.

Jason was still wheezing on the ground, gasping for breath. She glanced over her shoulder, but quickly refocused her gaze on Russell, who seemed to be mesmerized by her glowing hands. He smiled at her and said, "Stunning, dear."

Sookie popped in front of Pam and said, "Come near her and I will pour your remains down the garbage disposal so you can join Talbot." Russell gave a grief-stricken roar and charged, but Sookie grabbed Pam and popped her over to Jason. Jason had already cut his arm and as Sookie dropped her, he held his arm over her mouth and stroked her hair, urging her to drink.

Sookie then faced off with Russell and said, "You will regret messing with my bonded and his child." He snarled and looked positively feral. Sookie shot at him and he dodged each deadly blast, the walls and broken furniture exploding upon contact. Russell ran around after her, but she managed to evade him each time.

Even though she was able to keep from him effectively, she was having issues getting to him as well.

"Well Miss Stackhouse, I have to say I am impressed with your abilities. Now that I observe you in all your Fae glory, I notice you covered in quite a bit of blood that isn't your own. Would this be your first love, Mr. Compton? Pity. He was a fine co-conspirator."

He was trying to faze her, but Sookie was in the zone. She only needed Eric and Pam. And Russell Edgington happened to be in her way. She popped faster and faster around the room. At one point she popped in the corner with Pam and Jason and got them both out of the slave quarters and back. She wasn't gone long enough for him to even stop whirling around looking for her. She grabbed a grenade out of her bag and threw it at him as she popped to where she sensed Eric.

Sookie choked back a sob at seeing Eric. He was barely recognizable. Every inch of him was covering in blood. Even his hair was matted down by it. She rushed towards him, but Russell rammed into her and growled low in his throat. "He is mine Miss Stackhouse. I will never let you have him back. At least not in one piece, that is."

Sookie's rage reached an unprecedented level and she was bodily emitting a dull glow that was getting brighter and brighter. She vaguely heard Eric screaming for her to run, but she ignored him. She was focusing on Edgington and the internal pressure building, coursing through her veins towards her hands.

Russell looked unconcerned and intrigued by what was happening. The last time Russell had encountered her, she was at her weakest and most vulnerable. She had been poisoned by Bill and his blood. She had fought who she was. Now she was embracing her Fae heritage. She was embracing her healthy relationship with Eric. She had Jason, she had Pam. She had everything she ever imagined she would need.

The pressure in her was ready and Sookie knew that whatever was going to come out of her was waiting for her to release it. With a scream and blinding light she released everything that she had been feeling in the past few hours. Anger, sadness, rage, worry….everything came out.

A force field of power exploded around her and Eric and Russell and his den of sick fun exploded. Russell was writhing in the ground in pain and Sookie wasted no time going to him. She wrapped a silver chain around his neck and hands and turned him over.

"I would do to you everything you did to Eric, but you don't deserve another minute outside of whatever hell is waiting for you. Say hello to Talbot for me," she said as she plunged a wooden stake into his heart. He gasped in pain and exploded.

But once again she didn't wait. She turned to Eric, already cutting her wrist open.

Eric POV

Eric couldn't believe what was happening in front of him. He had always known that his Sookie was more than a pretty face. Right now, she was a warrior. He had never seen one who could be considered on the same level as he was as a warrior. She exceeded him.

As he watched her in action he fought against the painful restraints. He willed his broken and bleeding body to heal. Every time Russell was able to get in a blow, he felt like his heart would explode from the worry and the pain.

Sookie suddenly was in front of him and she looked like she was going to fall into tears t the sight of him. Suddenly she was thrown against the wall and Eric felt ill He called out for her to run, to leave him, but she seemed to have developed a hearing disability.

He watched in as she seemed to freeze in anger. He could sense from their bond that she was going to lose control and he knew he couldn't do anything to stop it. Not that he wanted to. Russell was right. She was stunning.

Sookie flared a bright golden and then blinding white light before everything around her was destroyed by a force field of pure light and energy. Russell was thrown violently across the room and the foundation of the small building rumbled in protest.

Sookie moved on autopilot towards Russell and chained him up like she was hog tying him. She then whispered something to him before plunging a stake in his heart, ending the existence of one of the most powerful vampires in existence.

In a state of shock, he didn't even notice that Sookie had approached him until she had forced her cut up wrist into his mouth. Her blood pooled into his mouth and he began pulling immediately on the wound.

Sookie began to shake and Eric forced himself to stop from drinking. Sookie was pale and clammy. Tears were running down her face but she continued to urge him to drink. Eric stood up as quickly as he could and, leaning on each other, they made their way out of the now unsteady structure. Once they were clear of the door, they both collapsed on the ground.

Pam POV

Pam watched in horror as the building seemed to sway and shake. Her maker and Sookie came out and both collapsed to the ground. As she rushed to their side, Pam saw that while Eric was in bad shape, really bad shape, Sookie was in way worse shape.

She was too pale. Way too pale. Pam had a war going on inside of her. Her maker or Sookie? She looked to Eric, who looked terrible, but he seemed to be getting better. Sookie was getting worse. Was she seizing or just shaking incredibly hard?

Pam ran to Sookie's side and picked her up, "Sookie? Sookie? Can you hear me?"

Sookie slowly opened her eyes, "I need Claude, and Preston," she whispered weakly.

Sookie grabbed Eric and Jason, still in Pam's arms and used the last of her energy to teleport them back into their home. Once she was certain they had all made the trip, Pam's eyes looked over Sookie, whose eyes were now closed. Her heartbeat was also weak. There was a rattle in her throat that seemed to indicate she was struggling to breathe.

Pam had never, never concerned herself with human health, but she was certain that Sookie was barely hanging onto her life now. If she didn't, Eric would not survive either. She was sure of it. Pam was frantic. She went to Eric and opened her veins for him. She clutched him to her and fed him her blood. It helped and he seemed to come to himself.

Over her shoulder she screamed for Jason, who was bawling next to Sookie, to call Dr. Ludwig. Jason grabbed at the phone and dialed the number that Pam screamed at him and sobbed into the phone that Sookie needed a doctor. He dropped the phone, which Pam hoped meant Ludwig was on her way.

She focused back to Eric, whose eyes were now open and bright with pain. But it wasn't physical pain. He could feel Sookie struggling for life. And now between the two vampires in the room, there was not enough blood.

He was so weak he could even drop fang yet. Tears streamed Pam's face as she realized how dire their situation was. She called to Jason, "She said she needed the fairies. Call them Jason."

Jason summoned something in him and they were there with them. Pam knew they possessed cloaking ability. Even so she would need to keep Eric and herself in check. They were both starving for nutrition to their bodies. But right now Sookie needed more help.

Preston and Claude immediately went to her and Jason, encasing them in a soft glowing bubble. Pam could feel Eric's terror that they were taking her. She tried to soothe him, but she was terrified of the same thing happening. But she knew that neither of them could interfere if this is what was saving Sookie. Sookie's light seemed to be getting brighter and brighter and suddenly the bubble seemed to pop and the fairies and Jason seemed to collapse from their efforts.

Suddenly Ludwig appeared and moved to Sookie immediately. Ludwig grabbed her up, which if not for the serious situation, would have looked rather funny.

She laid Sookie on the couch and after checking various parts of Sookie's body she began pulling things from her bag. She barked for someone to come and assist her, so Pam released Eric, who she knew would now live, and went to her. She had taken some medical classes in the 60's and she knew she would be more adept at helping her. She turned to Jason and said, "Get Eric as much bagged and synthetic blood as you can find."

Jason nodded and rushed to the kitchen coming back with armfuls of bagged blood. Eric took the first one he could get his hands, never letting his eyes wander from Sookie. He sucked four and a half bags down greedily. He then slowly pulled on the fifth and stood, almost completely healed. Almost.

Sookie, however, didn't look any different, but her heartbeat had at least picked up and wasn't so erratic. Pam and Ludwig worked as quickly as they could, but they couldn't give her any bagged blood. Jason had shouted that she didn't have a blood type.

Pam thought he was being an idiot, but Ludwig nodded that she understood and apparently had encountered similar scenarios in her medical practices. She looked between Eric and Pam and stated, "One of you should replenish your blood as much as possible to feed the little girl, or she will die. Currently she is in a dormant coma. The longer she is down, the least likely it is that she will wake."

Eric stepped forward, still gulping down the blood. Between bags he said, "I will be giving her my blood. Do I start now?" Ludwig looked him over skeptically.

"You are the best option? You can barely stand." Eric growled and finished off another bag. "I can and will be doing this for her. So hook me up doc." She paused only momentarily before grabbing a needle and sticking Eric's vein. The blood moved slowly towards the line in Sookie's arm, not wanting to leave the ailing vampire.

Pam anxiously ripped open bag after bag of blood for Eric to suck down as he gave Sookie blood. Sookie didn't seem to change, and Eric was now choking back sobs as he drank the blood, eyes trained on Sookie, looking for any change.

Sookie's color began to slowly improve and the doctor sighed in relief, but Eric was still not calm. He had sucked down about fourteen bags of blood at this point. But he didn't stop. Pam grabbed his arm and began to reach for the line that went into his arm, but he snatched his arm away and growled low.

"Vampire, you have done what you can do for now. What you need is rest. Your blood needs to rest." Eric shook his head and he sat next to Sookie on the floor and stroked her hair and face, placing gentle kisses all over her face.

"Eric, please listen to reason. Sun is almost up and you have lost lots of blood. Eric you will die. And Sookie will have no chance then. Rest, please."

Eric looked between Ludwig and Pam and asked in a broken voice, "Can I move her to our room so I can stay with her?"

Ludwig nodded and Eric gently hooked his arms under her knees and upper body. He carried her, not jostling her at all. He knew Pam, Ludwig and Jason were all trailing him. Ludwig had IV's and her medical bag in hand. She was not leaving either patient.

The fairies had gotten up off the floor as they watched the vampire donating blood and went to lie outside on the lawn chairs near the pool. Jason said something about the rising sun helping the recover from what they had done for Sookie. Pam didn't really give a shit.

She was worried only about her maker and his bonded.

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