All Hell Breaks Loose
Chapter 29 Breakfast at Tiffany's
Sookie had sucked in her breath the second Patrick and his friends had stepped inside. The other two men were about the same age. One was Caucasian with hair the color of burnt cinnamon and a bit of a belly. The other was tall, African American and a scar on his left eyebrow.
"This way to the bar," Patrick said and lifted one foot to step off the welcome matt and followed with the other foot.
"Not possession," Sookie said.
"What does that leave us?" Arlene asked as she set down the mugs of beer and the two warmed up bottles of Tru Blood.
"A spell of some kind," Sookie said and shrugged. "You might have to ask Holly about that." She took a sip from her beer.
"I will before she leaves," Arlene said and quickly replaced her fear with her good customer service grin. "How are your beers and your uh blood?"
"Great," Jason said after he had finished taking a gulp that left a foam mustache on his face.
"Good," Steve said. "Just the right temperature."
"Tastes good," Jessica said. Sookie knew she was lying since she hated the taste of Tru Blood.
"What happened to your teeth?" Arlene asked when she noticed the missing teeth.
"Some sickos tore it out of her," Jason said. "She has to wait about three months before they grow back."
"So there is no chance you can bite me?" Arlene's smile grew in size.
"No," Jessica and pointed at Steve. "But he can."
Steve took the cue to smile and let his fangs extract.
"Oh." Arlene took a step back. "I'll go check on y'all's food."
As soon as she had left both Jason and Jessica broke down into giggles. Jessica even held up her hand and Steve shrugged before giving her a high five.
"Really?" Sookie asked.
"That was kinda funny," Jason said. "The look on her face when Steve's fangs appeared."
"Almost the same as your face when I showed you my fangs for the first time," Steve said as his fangs retracted. "I do feel a little bad about scaring her like that."
"She deserved it," Jessica told him. "She has always been giving me the stink eye when I worked or tried to cover her eyes so I wouldn't glamour her, kept her distance or made her fingers into a cross form whenever my fangs came out."
"I guess I'll be meeting more like her in the near future," Steve said and stared at his bottle. "And probably the distant future, considering I'm near immortal." He took a long swig from his bottle.
"How can you stand that stuff?" Jessica asked.
"I try to adapt my taste buds to it," the younger vampire said. "I've been doing a lot of adapting. "
"You probably don't want to drink from people."
"No, I don't." Steve said and continued to stare at his bottle.
"We all do when big changes hit you," Sookie said softly, knowing what she was going to say to the vampire might not be what he wanted or needed to. "Loosing Gran created a hole in me. I wasn't sure if I ever recover. I still not sure if I will ever heal, not completely." She looked up when she felt Jason reach out and grab her hand. "Then there was the fire. I'm have been adapting to those changes."
"I had to adapt a year ago," Jason said. "When Sookie left for that other dimension and everyone was looking for her and I had to accept the fact that she might be dead and I was alone and I was taking care of the folk in Hot Shot and then when Felton and Crystal took me prisoner and…" He trailed off as he stared in his beer.
"I freaked out a little bit when I first became a vampire," Jessica said. "I cheered up almost immediately, but I was still freaked out at first."
"I do appreciate this," Steve said.
"Okay here they come," Arlene said as she returned to the table with the plates. "One double cheese burger and fries for Jason and one catfish and fries for you, Sookie." She set down the plates. "Do you have enough ketchup for your fries?"
"Got plenty," Jason said and held up the full bottle that was on the table.
"Thank you, Arlene," Sookie said as she looked over her plate. There was batter fried catfish, steamed broccoli and fries and a small little dipping bowl with tartar sauce in it.
"We got some bottles of malt vinegar," Arlene brought up. "If you want to eat it English style." Some customers liked the vinegar with the American version of Fish and chips.
"Tartar sauce is just fine," Sookie said.
"Well you know the drill," Arlene smiled at them before she glanced up at the sound of the door opening. "You gotta get a load of Breakfast at Tiffany here."
Sookie looked up and saw the shortest vampire she had ever seen. She knew by the paleness of the skin the girl, or actually woman considering how long she might have been dead, had. She could see why Arlene called her that. The vampire had her dark hair put up in a stylish updo with the tiara like comb set in. She was also wearing the little black gown with the slit, the dark ballroom gloves that came to her elbows and the heels. She had a few ropes of pearls around her neck and wore the same style of sunglasses as Audrey did in the movie. The only thing missing from the look was the signature cigarette holder.
She was not alone. She came in with four people, two men and two women and one of the men and one of the women were both vampires. The female vampire had her bright blond hair styled into pigtails that poked out of her habit like headdress and wore a hot pink baby doll dress with white trim. The male vampire wore a white puffy poet shirt and dark purple velvet jacket with matching slacks and dark boots. The female human wore a light blue halter-top and matching mini and was sucking on a lollipop. The male human wore an orange shirt, tan leather jacket and khakis and brass goggles on the top of his head.
"Interesting group," Jason commented before turning around.
"Why are they all dressed like that?" Jessica asked.
"Please don't come to my section," Arlene whispered through clenched teeth. "Bad enough there are two vampires in here already."
"Hey," Jessica and Sookie snapped at once.
"Oh God," Arlene said and spun around to face them.
"I don't mind since I did bring this down upon myself," Steve said while frowning at her. "But could you not follow that up by taking the good lord's name in vain?"
"Oh sorry," Arlene said and plastered on a fake smile when Holly Golightly's mini-me and her entourage sat themselves down in the table next to Sookie's group. "Hello and welcome to Merlotte's home of the famous burger Lafayette. Can I start you with something to drink?"
"Do you have O positive in the form of Tru Blood?" the small vampire asked. Not only was she short but she looked about as young as Godric was.
"No all we got is A and B both positive and negative," Arlene said while trying to maintain her composure.
"Oh pooh," the little vampire said. "I'll take an A negative then."
"I'll also have an A negative," the male vampire said.
"Make mine A positive," the female vampire asked.
"Dirty martini with three olives please," the man said.
"I'll have a cosmo," the last member of their party ordered.
"Oh and can I have a little straw with my Tru Blood?" Mini Audrey asked.
"Sure," Arlene said and sketched it down before hurrying away.
"She was fast," the male vampire said. "I hope I don't have coffin breath." The others in his group chuckled at his little joke.
Sookie tried not to focus on their party and only her food and her own problems. She wondered if she should talk about the repairs on her house or about Russell, Bill and Eric. Lucky for her Jason became captain of the conversation and brought up his favorite movies including the Back to the Future Trilogy and the others were talking about them as well.
Sookie let her mind wander and she couldn't help but listen to the minds of the humans in the next booth.
Small town is pretty quaint although stereotypical The woman thought. Not surprised that the people here are racist as fuck. I doubt they can even make a decent cosmo.
Man I got a huge craving for fries, the man thought. When the waitress returns I'm gonna ask for a huge plate.
I hope we find who Izzy is looking for or the ones looking for her. The woman pulled out her lollipop. It was one of those dumdum types. I hate staying in these catpiss towns for long.
Someone playing Trisha Yearwood? Has been a while since I heard one of her songs. I am going to get one of those Ipod things and go through all my CD's and then download any that I—why does it feel like someone is listening in? I aint even talking just thinking but it's like someone at the next-
Sookie tried to quiet it down but it was too late. The guy was whispering to the others and the turned around to look at them.
"So which one of you can read minds?" Mini Audrey asked.
"How do you-" Jason had started.
"Why would you think that?" Jessica had cut in.
"One of us heard," the female vampire said and nodded at the two humans in their group.
"That would be me," Sookie said.
"Fascinating gift," Mini Audrey said. Her eyes fell on Jessica and Steve. "Two baby vampires. Are they not adorable."
"Madame one of them is the enemy," the male vampire said.
"Not anymore," Mini Audrey said. "Reverend Steve Newlin so nice to finally meet you now what you sleep during the day. You are even more handsome face to face then on TV."
"I thank you," Steve said. If it were possible for vampires to blush he would be doing that.
"Are they the ones who are looking for us?" The female human of the group asked and pointed at Jessica and Steve with her candy.
"That depends on who you are," Jessica said.
"You might have heard of me," the little vampire said with a wink. "My name is Ismene."
Happy Year Everyone.
