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This is a slight horror chapter, skip to next chapter if you
don't like vampires in action.
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Eric's POV
Godric shook Orion's hand thanking him for his quick thinking.
"Orion, thank you so much my friend,"
Godric made a brief phone call to the Vampire Authority regarding the prisoner; I could hear Godric arguing quietly for a few minutes before hanging up the phone with an air of frustration.
"We have the Authorities orders Eric, if he refuses to help us find Sebastian they've ordered us to remove his fangs. If we refuse they'll send someone more persuasive to get the information. I hope he cooperates, this isn't the sort of police work the Authority should practice."
I nodded but didn't say what I felt. I didn't mind yanking the jackasses fangs if it gets us Sookie back, but I knew Godric abhorred this type of interrogation.
"Godric it's up to him, if he's smart he'll tell us what hey knows, I don't think he wants our interview replacements if refuses to talk."
I put on thick silver gloves before I chained the prisoner to the walls. Godric was right, if we didn't get him to talk the Authority would send someone worse to interview the prisoner.
After I checked his chains again I gave him a smirk,
"Do you have any idea how much trouble you're in prisoner, you have multiple murder counts against you, and a kidnapping charge, you're lucky if they don't stake you on live TV. The Supernaturals and the humans want your head. Your only hope is to tell us what you know."
The red headed vampire grinned at me and laughed,
"I've had over 500 years of conditioning to keep me from breaking under duress. Sookie is part of my nest so go to hell. The only thing I regret is that you and Godric didn't die, but Sebastian we'll return to finish you both. Face it your Authority is toothless against us."
I shoved a metal bar with swivel arms into the vampire's mouth to hold his jaw wide. Metal clamps on either end of the device were fitted over the vampire's fangs. With a push of a button the prisoners' fangs was yanked out by the root.
The vampire snarled at me, and then started swearing but I shrugged,
"It seems you're wrong, you're the toothless one, my fangs are still pearly white. I advise you to answer my questions, because our replacements will be less restrained. They'll yank body parts and silver capped them so they won't grow back. One last time where is Sookie?"
After a few more minutes Godric motioned me to follow him. Godric stilled my hand when I turned to close the sound booth cell. I left the door open, as he requested. I didn't know what Godric planned but he wanted the prisoner to hear our conversation.
Godric gestured toward the cell,
"To continue serves no purpose. He's too well-conditioned to take anything we can legally do."
I considered our situation,
"You're right Godric, he'll never tell us anything, he'd die first."
Orion looked at the prisoner thoughtfully, "Sookie's warning saved a lot of people tonight. However fifteen in attendance died. Supernaturals and Humans are determined to rescue her and to put Sebastian's head on a pike. If they get their hands on the prisoner it won't be pretty."
I turned up my radio, I concerned about at the news broadcast,
"I just heard that the Chicago leader of the Were's died during the attack. The prisoner is lucky the Were's didn't get him instead of us; they'd maul him during questioning. Two human politicians were killed as well; one's in a coma. "
Godric looked at the vampire's cell,
"The attack is on international news already. Agencies will be queuing around the block to question him. I'll call and coordinate to arrange his removal to a secure facility for his own protection. We gave him a chance to talk to us; it's out of our hands now."
Godric then held up his hand signally us to cease all conversation. Now I understood what Godric was doing. He hoped we've scared the prisoner into talking rather than face the other Agencies. We told him the truth; the other agencies would treat him a lot worse than I would.
The sound of laughter drifted from the vampire in the cell.
"Ah you're worried about my safety; you should worry about your own Godric. As for Sookie you're too late, she is ours. I'm not afraid of jail, I've served my purpose. This is just the first stage of a new reality. "
Godric turned to the vampire and asked him quietly, "What do you mean?"
The vampire grinned shaking his manacles,
"My Master told us that if captured to pass on a message. Phoenix Exorior, It has begun, the unworthy shall fall and we inherit the day. Tota nocte illa factus est! Now that my message is done, there is nothing more to say."
The vampire quickly bite his own tongue out to keep from telling us anymore.
Orion looked at the grinning vampire in horror. "I don't think offering him any deal will help."
I shook my head as the vampires wound started to close,
"No that guy's riding the martyr train. We'll have to find Sookie another way. His Latin sucked, it was barely understandable."
Godric wrote down a few notes on his Ipad,
"It's Latin for Phoenix Rising and all day becomes night. Beyond that I've no clue what he meant behind those phases. However I don't think he'll explain. Nothing says end of a conversation more than someone biting off their tongue."
We showered the prisoner before moving him to an isolation cell then changed his clothing.
We were at a loss, the prisoner didn't fear death and there was nothing we could offer that he wanted. As requested, Godric arranged the prisoners transfer to a joint human Supernatural prison on the other side of Chicago. He'll remain in protective custody.
I read online that the this prison housed Supernaturals convicted of crimes against humans, and humans who harmed Supernaturals. It was created after the crisis. It's jointly controlled by the humans and the Supernatural community.
It was daybreak and we'd done all we could. We'd given our statements and turned over custody of the prisoner to the vampire authority. After all that we only had a few Latin phases to show for our efforts. What was Sebastian trying to tell us with that message?