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grapejuice101: There's more!

SomebodyWhoCares: Eric will come back soon, I promise!

wabi-sabi1090: Charlotte sees Jessica as someone who needs a fun aunt in her life, or a girl friend to hang out with so she is filling out that role. Charlotte is like that thanks to Ivy's upbringing, thankfully.

Ann4ever17: Well thank you lol hopefully that stays true when shit hits the fan soon.

Ash88: We find out something about Charlotte's past in this chapter I think.

ff13: I like what you did there lol. I love those sites, they have so many lovely things! Though they are pretty pricey, they're so cute lol. I think if Ivy and Adele would've met, they would've gotten along lol. The note may have seemed sweet, but Charlotte is panicking because Eric knows now. Now he knows that he can claim her as his because of the heart singer thing.

Beauty422: Bill and Sookie should be together, though the show is fucking it up.

Marine76: Thanks!

VampireElf14: There's gonna be a lot more EricxCharlotte moments coming up.

Anonymouscsifan: Happy I could make your day! Lol Ivy loves to tease and she is something else. You'll find out soon!

Sillygabby: Bill is bothered by Eric and Charlotte kissing because he does care for her like a brother. Charlotte is his little sister in his eyes and he's known Eric for centuries so he's worried for her.

Wolviegurl: more Charlotte/ Eric scenes coming real soon!

Blood Mistress Misery: Thank you! Get ready for the surprise!

Ry PenDragon: Bill's upset because that his sister in his eyes. He doesn't want her hurt. I agree, Eric does need to move his ass lol. Enjoy the chapter and the lovely surprises inside!

Eric quickly flew back to Fangtasia and used his speed to get into his office, where Pam was waiting.

"What happened?" Pam asked as soon as she spotted Eric.

"We need sanctuary!" Eric started to pace.

"Oh, my God. What have you done?" Pam gasped as she looked at Eric's blood spattered form.

"I staked a vampire." Eric clenched the crown in his hands, his father's crown. "The lover and heart singer of Russell Edgington."

Pam didn't know what a heart singer was but she ignored it and focused on Eric killing Talbot. "Are you insane?"

"Where CAN WE GO?" Eric yelled at Pam.

"A-a human home would be safest! We've both been invited to Sookie and Charlotte's."

Eric threw that idea quickly away. "NO!" He pointed the crown at her. "That is out of the question."

Pam started to panic. "You never panic, should I be panicking?!"

Ginger walked into the room, giving Eric a perfect idea. "Ginger, perfect. Where do you live?" He asked her sweetly.

Ginger looked between Pam and Eric. "Across the river in Bossier. Why?"

"We need your house." Pam cut her off. "Now-ish."

Eric took off his shirt, as he got ready to clean the blood off his body.

"Is it because of the V feds?" Ginger asked.

Pam and Eric looked at each other in shock. What did she mean?

Eric quickly put on a black tank as Pam changed into her pink track suit.

They went out to the club area to see the place filled with SWAT team looking men with a dark figure sitting in a car in the middle of them.

The figure stood up and made their way over to them. They saw it was Nan.

"I'm sorry, Miss Flanagan, but the bar is closed." Eric knew she wasn't here for drinks, but he might as well play along.

"Thank you, I already ate." Nan stated dully. "Tru Blood only, of course." She stated to humans that worked for her. "You can't stay out of trouble, can you?" she asked Eric. "The VRA is two states away from ratification. I should be kissing ass in Oregon, not cleaning up after you in fucking Louisiana!" she spat.

"Oh, I promise, there is nothing amiss in my area."

Nan snapped at Eric. "Shut up! You're making my head hurt." She motioned the officers behind Eric and Pam. "Officers." One of the men stood next to Eric. "Silver him." Nan smirked.

Eric felt a burning pain on his left shoulder, making him groan in pain as he fell to his knees, with Ginger's scream bouncing off the walls.

Charlotte hissed in pain as she walked up the stairs.

The adrenaline in her system from the fight was gone now. All she felt now was pain in her back, stomach and ribs.

"Charlotte! Oh, my God!" Sookie ran down the stairs towards Charlotte.

Charlotte whimpered slightly as she felt someone try to grab her waist and end up brushing against her ribs.

"Sookie, she may have fractured her ribs." Bill told Sookie.

"What are you doing just talking to me, give her some of your blood!" Sookie panicked.

Bill quickly bit into his wrist and pressed his wrist to Charlotte's lips.

Charlotte only drank until she could no longer feel the pain in her body.

"So much better." Charlotte sighed happily. She looked up at Bill and Sookie. "So, going by the noises I heard, I can say we're good?"

Bill looked embarrassed while Sookie blushed.

"I'm going to go shower now. I really need it." Charlotte started to climb up the stairs quickly, jumped over her broken door pieces, got her pajamas and went to shower.

As Charlotte was showering, her thoughts went towards the note Eric sent.

He said they needed to talk soon, and he knows about the heart singer thing.

"Fuck!" Charlotte muttered.

Knowing him, she was going to see him real soon.

Eric sat in a chair in front of another chair.

Pam was leaning against the bar.

Nan came out from the basement with an annoyed look on her face. "The basement's clean."

"I told you there was nothing." Eric hid a smirk.

Nan glared at him as she walked forward. "It's been wiped."

Eric shrugged his shoulders. "Well, I'm a Virgo. I like to be neat." He gave her mocking smile.

"Your screeching fang-cushion of a barmaid, who's been glamoured so much she can't even remember her own last name, does know that no one ever goes down there with so much as a mop and a promise." She glared down at Eric as she leaned against the back of the chair in front of Eric. "Suddenly it's as sterile as an operating room."

"It doesn't prove anything."

"If only we had a Magister to decide that." Eric tensed up at her words as he slowly looked up at her. She noticed. "Relax." She chuckled. "It's not like you killed someone."

Eric narrowed her eyes at her. What was she playing at here?

"Just need your official statement." Nan took an earpiece from one of the humans and sat down in front of Eric. Two officers placed something on each side of her. "Webcams." She informed him as she noticed Eric's confused look. "They're for the Authority."

The camera heads turned to Nan as she looked into the camera at her left and spoke into her earpiece. "Members of the Authority, it's Nan. Can you hear me?" Some mumbling was heard from the earpiece. "Good. As the regards to the disappearance to our Magister, last known whereabouts this…" she looked around disgusted. "Dump in Shreveport, Louisiana. You have before you Eric Northman, Sheriff of Area 5."

The cameras swerved Eric's way. He gave the camera on his right a look, knowing someone he knew was watching him.

Nan grinned. "Smile for the cameras Eric." Eric just continued to look at the camera. Nan rolled her eyes. "You may speak now."

"There's a pattern." Eric started. "The Turks told folk tales of shape shifting jackals at the fall of Constantinople. The Aztecs were decimated by disease from the Conquistadors' war dogs. Each time, there's been wolves fueled by vampire blood." Eric leaned forward. "I nearly found him in Augsburg in 1945. His wolves were in the service of the Wehrmacht. He disappeared after the war, and I… I thought he finally met the true death. Now he's returned."

Nan leaned forward now, intrigued by Eric's words. "Do you know why?"

"In times of conflict, Russell Edgington inserts himself into the affairs of men."

Nan's eyebrows came together. "To what end?"

"He claims it's to prevent humans from destroying the planet and themselves." Nan rolled her eyes at Eric. "..And thus our food source."

"But Tru Blood changed all that. Humans are no longer food for us." Eric sighed, tired of all this talking. "The Great Revelation-"

"Russell opposes the Great Revelation. And he doesn't want to coexist with humans." Eric cut Nan off, his annoyance of her showing in his voice. "He wants to subjugate them."

"The Authority will not-"

"Fuck the Authority!" Eric yelled, making Nan shut up. "Russell's words. Verbatim."

More voices came from Nan's ear piece. "This is why he killed the Magister?"

"No, he killed the Magister because the Magister defied him. He kidnapped Queen Sophie-Anne because she refused him. Now, if the Authority or the AVL stand in his way, well…" Eric pressed his lips together and gave a look to the camera.

"These are treasonous allegations." Nan narrowed her eyes slightly. "Why didn't you report this?"

"Oh, I should have." Eric growled. "But the Authority has existed for only a few hundred years. My history with Russell Edgington goes back nearly a thousand."

Pam's eyes widen at those words.

Nan looked interested again so Eric continued. "My family was massacred. All of them, by wolves. I managed to kill one and I watched him change into a man at the end of my sword." He started to get angry, but controlled it. "And these wolves, they're the same. Sweden, Germany, here." Eric looked to the camera now. "With all respect, I did not report Russell Edgington to you because I want him to die at my own hands. I have waited a thousand years for this."

The cameras shifted to Nan as more voices came from her earpiece. "Yes, yes I understand." She looked confused. "I'm flying immediately to Portland. Thank you." She took off the earpiece.

"What?" Eric sat up straight. "Is that it?"

Nan sighed as she crossed her legs. "The Authority will review your statement against the frankly, strong possibility that I've lost an entire night's worth of air time promoting the VRA in order to listen to a load of bullshit." Pam and Eric shared a look before looking back at Nan. "But, some do believe in a fair hearing." She scoffed. "Americans."

She stood up and turned to leave but Eric stopped her. "Miss Flanagan." She stopped and turned around. "Russell Edgington is a threat to our very existence."

"But he is a King." Nan clenched her jaw. "One who just donated half a million dollars to the same American Vampire League you say he's trying to bring down. Weird." She said in a sarcastic tone. "Bring in a few spare coffins for Sheriff Northman and his…" she looked over at Pam. "Whatever you are." Pam just raised an eyebrow at her. "You're on lockdown, until the Authority makes its ruling." Then she left with a few of the soldiers.

Eric turned to Pam, noticing the look she had on her face.

She wanted to talk.

Charlotte towel dried her hair as she walked out of the bathroom and towards her room.

She dressed for the temperature outside. She had on cuffed denim shorts that ended at the middle of the thighs, a grey vintage shirt that had a distressed black batman symbol and the words 'Wow!' and 'Zowie!" on it, and her black chucks.

She put on her wedding ring necklace that she had put the cracked crystal on it as well since the fight with Debbie broke the chain, and Godric's bracelet.

"Sookie?" Charlotte called out as she walked down the stairs.

"Living room!" Sookie called out. Charlotte walked towards the living room and saw Sookie looking through a scrapbook. She noticed the shirt. "I like the shirt."

Charlotte touched the shirt. "Thanks, it was Jake's. I got him this shirt during one of our dates" She smiled at the memory. She looked at the book in Sookie's hands. "What are you doing?"

"Oh," Sookie showed Charlotte the page she was on. "Gran's scrapbook. It has newspaper clippings over the years of the family."

"That's cool." Charlotte said as Sookie handed it to her. "I don't have any of that."

The phone rang and Sookie picked it up quick as Charlotte continued to look through the book. "Hello?"

"It's Hadley. What are you doing in your house? I told you to leave Bon Temps. They're coming for you."

"Well, they came, they gave it their best shot, and we're still here." Sookie answered. Charlotte shot Sookie a 'who is it?' look and Sookie answered 'Hadley.'

"Oh, come on, I'm begging you." Hadley pleaded from the other line. "You and Jason are the only family I got left."

"Where are you?" Sookie asked into the phone.

"Oh, well… Uh. Well, Sook, do you think you could come to the aquarium in Monroe? I got someone I need you to meet."

"Be right there." Sookie hung up and turned to Charlotte. "How do you feel about going to the aquarium?"

"The aquarium?" Charlotte shut the book and placed it on the table. "Sure, but let's go in my car."

Sookie and Charlotte made it to the aquarium in one piece.

Sookie had to drag Charlotte to where Hadley was since Charlotte wanted to see everything around the place.

"Where is she?" Sookie muttered as she looked around.

Charlotte pointed Hadley and a small brunette boy looking at some stuff in a small tank. "I think that's her."

"Hadley?" Sookie called out to her.

Hadley turned around. She noticed the women and spoke to the little boy. "Okay, stay right here. I'll be right back. Okay." She walked over to Charlotte and Sookie.

"Oh my God, is that…?" Sookie was open mouthed while looking at the little boy.

Hadley started to fidget with her fingers. "I took him out of day care. His daddy doesn't know." Sookie gave her a look. "I haven't seen my son in over a year!"

"Sweetie, you're gonna lose him for good if you don't bring him back."

Hadley ignored Sookie's comment. "Did anyone follow you?"

"What? No, we weren't followed." Charlotte told her calmly.

Sookie grabbed Hadley's arm, annoyed. "Okay, whatever it is you're not telling me, now is the time."

Hadley ripped her arm out of her grasp. "Okay, okay." She sighed to calm herself down. "Shit. I screwed up. I got involved…" she looked around. "With a vampire."

"It's okay, just calm down." Charlotte tried to calm her down but Hadley shook her head.

"Her name is Sophie-Ann." Hadley continued. "She's the vampire Queen of Louisiana."

"Are you kidding me?" Sookie asked her. She remembered Bill talking about the Queen before.

"I-I told her things. I told her about you, and the powers you got." Hadley looked ashamed.

"Why would you do that?"

Hadley crossed her arms nervously. "I didn't think anything of it, but then she suddenly started to get interested. And now I think with Russell Edgington is interested in you two, and shit! It's my fucking fault."

"What do they want with us?" Sookie pointed between Charlotte and herself.

"They don't think like regular people. I don't know why they do half the things they do. You guys need to just get out of Bon Temps, please." Hadley begged.

"I'll find some place to lay low. Why haven't you left?" Sookie asked Hadley.

Hadley's eyes quickly traveled to the little boy. "Hunter, sweetie?" she called out to him. "Come say hi to your aunt Sookie and her friend." She turned to Sookie and grabbed her hands. "Sook, I need to know if he's like you." She whispered. "Please. If he is, I have to protect him." She then called Hunter over.

Sookie gave Charlotte a look and Charlotte nodded.

Charlotte started to build a wall in-between their connection, a small trick Ivy had taught them how to that while they were in the hospital.

Hunter walked towards her, looking unsure. 'Who is this lady? Where's Daddy? Why isn't he here?'

"It's okay, we don't have to talk." Sookie spoke softly to him. She moved him softly towards some benches. "Come on."

Haley came over next to Charlotte and started to bite on her thumb nail.

"So…" Hadley looked at Charlotte, still looking nervous. "Your Eric's?"

Charlotte scrunched her nose. "No, I'm no ones."

Hadley frowned. "It seemed like you are, with the way Eric spoke about you. He seemed worried."

Charlotte chuckled. "Eric? Worried? I don't believe it."

They didn't say anything else as Sookie and Hunter talked in their minds.

Sookie looked over to Hadley and Hadley cried out. "Oh sweet lord, no!" she went over to Hunter and took his hand dragging him away. "Come on, we have to go."

"No, no, no!" Hunter screamed.

"Wait! Where are you taking him?" Charlotte asked when Hadley ran passed her.

"I got some friends. The less you know the better. Come on baby." Hadley dragged Hunter away.

"She knows! She knows!" Hunter yelled until he was out of their sights.

"What the fuck just happened?" Charlotte asked Sookie.

Bill was resting under the house when he could feel water hitting his cheek.

Bill blinked his eyes open and saw trickles of water flowing through the cracks of the floor.

'What in the world?'

Bill reached up to the handle that opens the small door in the floor of the closet. He pushed it up a bit and saw there was sunlight.

Bill looked at her hand in wonder that was on the handle, and saw it wasn't smoking.

Bill pushed it open and poked his head through. He looked around and saw he was in the middle of a lake.

The birds were chirping, the sun was out, and there were flowers everywhere.

He looked at his hand again and noticed not only was he not burning, he was wearing all white clothes. They reminded him of Godric's clothing.

Bill took a step out of the hole and placed a foot on the rose petal filled lake, and his foot did not fall through the water. He kept walking until he reached the soft grass.

He looked around some more and noticed that it was a graveyard with lights and more flowers.

When Bill turned completely around, he spotted a brunette woman in a soft pink dress looking at him shocked.

"No, it's impossible." She muttered as she looked Bill over.

"It's daylight." Bill walked closer to her, amazed that he wasn't burnt to a crisp by now.

"How did you-" she started but swallowed her words. "You killed her!" she started to run away.

"No! Come back!" Bill called out to her.

"No!"

Bill used his vampire speed to tackle her to the ground. When he pinned her down, he caught the most delicious smell from her.

He couldn't control himself as his fangs released and he was ready to bite her when she lifted her hand.

Bill was thrown back twenty feet by a familiar light.

She stood up and walked over to Bill, glaring at him. "You killed Sookie."

"No, I haven't."

"You took her blood." She looked at him in disgust. "I could see it in you."

"I love her!" Bill yelled.

"You think you do." The woman spat, hatred in her eyes. "You only want her light."

"No." Bill retracted my fangs, showing her he was not a danger to her. "She is safe. She's alive, I swear to you I would never harm her."

"Leave her alone, vampire. We will protect her."

Bill narrowed his eyes at her. "How have you ever protected her?"

She raised her chin. "We have. Believe me. Now leave her alone!" she disappeared in a flash of light.

Bill stared opened mouthed at the spot she was in. "Wait! How come I'm still here?!"

"Because of how much blood you have taken." A soft voice called from the trees.

"Who goes there?" Bill walked toward the trees. "I will not hurt you."

"I know you won't, Mr. Compton."

Bill looked around the tree and what he saw shocked him.

There was Charlotte.

Her eyes were closed, her hair just as curly as before, wearing a stunning pale-taupe and pale-pink degradé feather-light silk-chiffon gown that flowed around her. A gold necklace strung with a dazzling array of Swarovski pearls and crystals hung around her neck.

"No need to stare, Mr. Compton." She patted the spot next to her. "Come sit."

"Charlotte?" Bill didn't move. "Your-your accent's gone." Her accent had changed to a soft English one.

She laughed and opened her eyes. "I'm not Charlotte." Bill looked closer and saw she had light brown eyes, like gold. "My name is Marigold."

Bill finally took a sit next to Marigold. "I'm sorry for mistaking you, but you both look so much alike. Like twins."

Marigold smiled, even her smile mirrored Charlotte's and the shine in her eyes as she smiled. "I know you have questions, questions about what Sookie and Charlotte are. You may ask them." She said kindly.

"How- never mind. Do you know what they are?"

She nodded. "Yes. Sookie is a faery, or at least a faery human hybrid, but Charlotte…" her eyes grew sad. "She's much more than just a faery. She's a breed between Faery, human and something else."

Bill was shocked. "How… how do you know this?"

Marigold placed her hand on Bill's cheek. "Because I'm her mother…" She said before a flashing light blinded Bill.

Eric couldn't sleep…

He was already having the bleeds as he sat at his desk.

A loud hiss came from the travel coffin as it opened. Pam was inside, now awake.

Pam spotted Eric and her smile disappeared. "Did you sleep at all?"

Eric took a rag that was already covered in his blood and wiped the blood from under his nose. "I'm fine."

"Are the guards still outside?" Pam asked as she got out of the travel coffin.

Eric nodded. He looked at his phone.

No new text messages.

She hasn't answered him. She couldn't have been in danger though, He would've felt it.

Eric placed his phone back down.

"Pam, whatever the Authority decides, I will not allow you to take any responsibility." Eric looked at Pam to see her give him a normal annoyed look.

"You didn't kill the Magister."

"But politically, I'm a much leaner scapegoat. Who's easier to pin it on?" Eric raised both hands. He tilted the left one down first. "A Sheriff in your custody?" then lowered the right. "Or a king who might be anywhere?" Eric leaned back into his leather office chair. "And if they search Russell's estate, they'll find the remains of his heart singer."

Pam looked at him confused. "There it is again, that word. What does it mean?"

Eric thought of Charlotte as he explained. "A heart singer is like a soul mate supposedly. Only vampires have heart singers. The story of the heart singers goes back so far that not even Russell knew when and where it came from. It's also very rare. Talbot, Russell's lover was his heart singer." He stopped thinking if he should tell Pam about the glow and humming. "The way a vampire can tell that they have found their heart singer by the glow they have and the hum when they are near."

Pam gasped as she put the pieces together. "Glow? Hum? Does that mean…" she made a motion of curls to her hair. "Snow White?" Eric nodded. "Do you have feelings for her?"

Eric looked at her. "Now is not the time for personal life questions." Pam just grinned, already knowing the answer. "Say nothing."

Pam sat on the desk with a sad look on her face again. "What did he do to you?" she asked about Talbot.

"Nothing, but he was the nearest thing to Russell Edgington's heart. He HAD to die."

Pam's face grew soft. "A hundred years I've been with you… Why did you never say anything about Russell or your family?"

"Because you didn't need to know." Eric told her plainly. "What good would it do to share my pain with you?"

"You didn't need to carry it by yourself."

"I am not weak." Eric held back a growl. "I was a sole survivor. The burden is my alone." He looked away from Pam to the phone, wanting a sign from his Snow White.

"We lived through so much for so long. It can't end this quickly." Pam's sadness was very apparent in her voice.

"Everything ends, even the immortal and things that had yet to begin." Eric thoughts returned to Charlotte and her safety. "If I cannot go on, I need you to do two things for me." He looked at Pam and saw her nod. "First, I need you to keep Charlotte safe. Second, you must make a new vampire…" Eric saw the look of shock once more on her face. "It is your time to be a maker."

Pam cried into Eric's chest as he held her, running his fingers threw her hair.

After she stopped crying and re-did her makeup, Pam and Eric went back to the club area, waiting for this to be over.

The door opened and in walked Nan.

Nan spotted Eric's tired form. "You look like shit."

"Well, I feel fantastic." Eric mumbled sarcastically.

Nan unfolded a piece of paper. "The ruling is as follows: The Authority disavows any knowledge of our interview, your statement or, indeed, this ruling itself. None of this ever happened."

"What?" Eric mumbled again.

Nan handed Eric the paper. "Missing royals, dead Magisters, it's a political tar baby no one wants to touch. Not with the VRA this close to ratification."

Eric read the paper in disbelief. "Russell will not stop killing." He said as he turned to Nan. "What if the human public learns of it?"

Nan smirked. "That's why you're going to take care of it. Quietly, discreetly, and most important of all, completely off the books. You wanted revenge, it's yours."

Eric couldn't believe it. "What resources are you going to give me?"

"None." Nan took back the paper. "We're not getting near it." She walked away.

"How do you expect me to kill him? He's three times my age!"

Nan just turned around slowly with a normal un-amused face. "Listen, you whiny little bitch!" she stomped towards him. "The only link between Sophie-Ann, Russell and the Magister is you. You brought us this steaming pile of shit and you're going to make it go away. Bring me his fangs, or I will have yours."

She then left, taking all the soldiers with her.

There was a knock from the door and Charlotte opened it up slowly.

"Bill?" Charlotte opened the door fully and put her gun into the waist band of her shorts. "Please, come in." Bill gave Charlotte a tight hug. "Um… hi to you too?"

Bill moved away. "Sorry." He spotted Sookie on Jason's couch. "Sookie!"

"Where have you been? I've been calling you for hours." Sookie showed him the calls on her cell phone.

Bill looked nervous. "I don't know how to explain it. It felt like I was away only for a few minutes, and suddenly it was pass eleven."

"You mean you over slept?" Sookie frowned, she never knew vampires could do that.

Charlotte went over his words. "No, he said he it felt like he was away, not asleep. So where did you go?"

"Did you visit the Queen again?" Sookie asked as Bill sat down.

Bill looked befuddled. "The Queen? Why-"

"Do you know the Queen of Louisiana?" Sookie asked quickly, cutting him off.

"Well, yes but I was her subject." Bill looked at Sookie. "Why?"

Charlotte sat down on the big lazy chair. "We met up with Sookie's cousin, who said she was with the Queen, and that the Queen was working with Russell to come after us and anyone like us."

"Do you know anything about that?" Sookie asked.

Bill sighed as he sat down next to Sookie. "I think I know why they're after you two."

Sookie's eyebrows came together to give him a questioning look. "Why didn't you say anything?"

"I only learned of it today. I'm not entirely sure what it was, or how I even got there." Bill looked down, like he was reliving the place they had no idea he was talking about. "Wait, it was because I had drank so much of your blood." He pointed between the women. "I know what both of you are."

MARIGOLD!

We finally got to meet Charlotte's mother, and found out that Charlotte is faery, human, and something else, but what else?

Pam knows that Charlotte is Eric's heart singer and Eric plans for her to keep Charlotte safe if something happens.

We're getting closer to finding out what the other part of Charlotte is soon!

Hope you guys enjoyed it!