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Encroaching Darkness, Fading Light
Chapter thirty-seven - Druid-napped
Pulling up in the Stackhouse's front driveway, Carla killed the engine, leaning back in her seat.
She let out a long sigh.
In the space of forty-eight hours she had lost her partner, learned she was in danger from an impossibly ancient vampire and had just killed her brother-in-law.
She relaxed all her muscles, for which felt like the first time in an age.
The sun was only poking the top of its sphere above the horizon, the rest being concealed below the trees around the house as it slowly crept down.
Carla was still holding on to the steering wheel, taking a moment in her own company to put on a brave face.
Carla closed her eyes and hugged herself, trying to resist the urge to cry and release all this pain.
It felt like her world was crumbling away.
Gods knew if she'd ever see Eric again.
"...Don't fret... Eric's not gone... have faith..." Carla raised her head and turned to the source of the words.
Godric was sitting next to her, looking just as he did on the day he had burned on the rooftop in her arms, but more bright than before, like his skin had an intense white light underneath it.
"...How?" was all that Carla could manage.
The vampire smiled.
"...You absorbed my light, your new abilities are helping me to communicate with you" Godric explained.
"...Your light?" Carla asked, in her thoughts, but then she remembered, when Godric had burned, the blue light that his body had produced scattered into blue dust which danced over her skin.
He had been watching her from then?
Without warning the front door of the house was thrown open and a shape sped out, it paused on the front door step.
There was a distinct spraying sound and then a high pitched scream.
Godric dissipated into the air next to her.
Carla turned to look at the source of the scream and stepped out of the car instinctively.
Tara was under the porch screaming, before she turned and rushed off into the woods.
Sookie and Lafayette ran out of the house after her, calling after Tara.
"Carla! Help us!" Lafayette called at Carla, snapping her out of her transfixion on the part of the brush where Tara can disappeared into.
Carla morphed into a cat, her go to form, and rushed off into the woods following the vampire's scent.
She wasn't really sure what she was doing, she left like she wasn't completely there at the moment, her mind distant and her body just following the orders of others due to the lack of their usual master.
She caught up with the vampire, she was way ahead of Sookie and Lafayette by now and Tara looked back at her, the look in her dark eyes was mostly animalistic, her face mostly emotionless.
Carla morphed back into her human form, and Tara didn't move.
"Tara…" Carla sighed.
"Please don't call them…" Tara fought back tears.
"I am… so sorry…" Carla stepped closer, but Tara stepped back.
"Please…" Tara choked back tears. "I don't want to hurt you"
Carla shook her head.
"You won't hurt me Tara, I can stop you if you try, just… let me help you, I won't tell Sookie, I swear to you" Carla took another step towards the baby vamp, and this time she didn't step back.
Tara nodded.
"Where do you want to go?" Carla asked her.
"I am so fucking hungry" Tara gasped, now in full bloody-teared crying mode.
"Let's go to Merlotte's, Sam can get you some true blood" Carla morphed, rushing off in the direction of the bar.
Carla heard the footsteps of the vampire behind her and didn't run at full speed so that she could keep up. Carla heard the distant calls of Lafayette and Sookie as they clomped towards the area where they had been standing a few moments ago, which was now deserted.
Carla morphed back, seeing Sam walk across the car park to his trailer, behind her Tara came to a halt, breathing deeply.
Sam heard them immediately, and began sniffing the air and coming closer.
Carla stepped forward into the car park, with Tara close behind.
"Sam, we need your help" Carla said, the shifter came closer.
"What the hell happened?" Sam asked, looking at Tara's bloodied face and her extended fangs.
"She's hungry, she needs to feed, do you have any true blood?" Carla asked.
Sam nodded. "Of course come in to the bar, I'll get her some" Carla turned to give Tara a reassuring smile and then followed the man into the bar.
At this point the sun was edging closer to the sky and so Tera had to rush inside to get out fo the sun's rays.
Moments later Tara was draining another true blood bottle to add to her collection of empty bottles in front of her, which had now reached eight in total.
Sam placed another pack on the floor, unscrewing the top.
"Are you sure you don't want me to call anyone and tell them that you're here?" Sam asked Tara.
She shook her head and snatched the bottle from his hands, beginning to gulp it down.
"Sookie? Lafayette?" Tara shook her head.
They were all sat in the kitchen on the floor under the cover from the gradually rising sun outside.
"Sam, you can't tell them about this, you can't tell them either of us are here" Carla explained, standing up in front of the sitting Tara and kneeling Sam as Tara began her next true blood bottle.
"Why not?" Sam asked, glancing between the two of them.
"You just need to promise me, please" Carla begged.
Sam sighed and then nodded after a moment of thought.
"Fine" Sam agreed.
Tara placed her final bottle down on the floor, and then began to dangerously sway in her seat.
Her eyes fluttered for a few moments, she was about to pass out.
Carla kneeled down and grabbed her back, preventing her from falling backwards.
"Tara?!" Sam said.
Carla looped one arm under her legs and picked her up.
"We need somewhere light tight to put her" Carla told Sam.
"Well what's wrong with her? What just happened?" He asked, confused, worried for Tara.
"I don't know, but she'll need somewhere to rest for the day" Carla said, just hoping the woman was okay.
"Uhhh" Sam thought out loud. "The walk-in, it's light tight" Sam assured her.
"Alright" Carla carried the baby vampire across the kitchen and waited for Sam to open the door to the walk-in for her. She gently placed her body down on the hard ground, propping her back up against the corner of the room.
She walked back out into the kitchen, closing the door behind her.
Sam came walking back into the room with a sign written on a piece of cardboard reading 'Danger! Out of order! Keep out!'.
He cello-taped it to the walk-in freezer.
Carla ran her hand through her hair, pulling her sodden fringe off her sweaty brow, it was a hot night, the hottest for a long while and on top of the fact that Carla still felt abnormally hot, probably due to the fairy blood still coursing through her.
"Thank you for this, Sam" Carla said, glancing at the man. He shrugged.
"Tara's a friend, it's no problem" He made his way back to the office.
Carla followed.
"Listen, if you want me to leave I'm fine with it, I assume you're pissed off with the fact I bunked off my last two hours of work on Halloween and I don't blame you, I am a terrible employee" Carla shrugged.
"You're right, you are a terrible employee, you do good work when you actually stay for your hours, but your attendance is shocking" He looked up from his desk at her, a small smile on his face.
"I know the more and more I say it the less and less it means anything, but I am sorry" Carla admitted, shrugging.
"What happened to you Carla? You were a sweet girl when you came here, now you're stone cold and a bad apple, don't tell me you started something serious with Eric Northman? That agreement you made with him in exchange for help with Mary-Ann didn't lead to something more long term?" Sam asked. "Plus you have this dark past which you had to cover up by changing your identity, I mean I wouldn't even know you're real name if Sookie hadn't told me the basics"
"You know, I've started to ask myself the same thing. I fucked up Sam, what can I say, I did so much to protect Sookie from her own vampire threat that I didn't notice I was slowly sinking into my own vampire related danger..." Carla sighed, thinking back to what she had said to Eric.
She was right, he had fucked up, big time, by leaving Russel alive, but she couldn't help herself. She loved the vampire and now she had lost everything she had made over the time she had been here.
"Carla? Are you okay?" Sam asked, stepping closer to her.
Carla had begun to cry, and she had not even noticed it. She took in a deep breath.
"I've lost him… I've lost him and there's not a damn thing I can do about it, I am such... a fool, I can't believe myself... I" Carla choked out, with tears dripping down her face, rushing from the corners of her eyes.
Sam wrapped his arms around her, and patted her on the back.
"Shh… shh… it's okay" Sam gently moved his hand in circles on her back, hugging her gently, comforting her with his friendly embrace.
Sam allowed her to sleep in his trailer for the night, while he slept in the bar, he was very much a gentleman. Carla promised to be gone by the morning.
She woke up very early, or so she thought, a glance at the clock told her it was seven in the evening.
She pulled herself out of bed, quickly dragging on her clothes and heading for the door.
Once she made her way out of the trailer and around the front of the bar, she saw Alcide's truck parked outside.
She had second thoughts about going inside, instead deciding that she might just turn around and go to the address he had given her to follow Russel's scent.
Before she could turn and leave, the bar's door swung open and Alcide came rushing out towards his truck, followed by Sookie, he was looking at the ground but as he got closer, he noticed her standing there.
Carla didn't move.
Alcide jogged over.
"Carla!" Alcide and Sookie said at the same time.
"Hello" Carla mouthed.
"Right, both of you are going to explain what the hell is going on here" Alcide told both Sookie and Carla, standing by his truck.
Sookie glanced at Carla, as did Carla at Sookie.
It was time to tell the truth.
"I wasn't there when it happened, but I was there for the aftermath" Carla began. "Sookie came home from Bill's on Halloween, she came into the kitchen and Debbie was there, she had a shot gun"
"I asked her what she was doing, and she told me that she should have done this a long time ago, she was aiming the gun right at me, I was backed up near the cupboards and Tara got in the way at the last minute, she took the shot" Sookie explained, taking over. "I got the gun, and…" Sookie tailed off.
"Tell me" Alcide said, looking at Sookie.
"She killed her" Carla told him.
"And neither of you were going to tell me?" Alcide asked.
"I was, I just didn't know how…" Carla was cut off.
"You were going to make me go and search for her?" Alcide asked, more looking at Sookie, but glancing periodically at Carla to.
Sookie nodded.
"You loved her and I wasn't sure what you were going to do, Alcide I am so… so sorry!" Sookie said desperately, tears beginning to make a path down her cheeks.
"Shut up!" Alcide growled, smashing his fist into the side of his truck, full of anger.
"I know it's not my place or the time, but I need to know, I need to know if you're going-"
Carla cut Sookie off.
"Whatever he decides to do, we deserve it" Carla said.
Sookie went quiet.
Alcide strode around his truck and got in the driver's side, speeding away from the bar.
Sookie began to sob and Carla gave her a hug, patting her on the back, letting Sookie cry into her shoulder, as Sam had done for her the previous night.
Things were now much more complicated.
Carla left for home to clean herself up and change her clothes, afterwards she planned to make her way to the address Alcide had given her.
Thankfully Sookie had not asked what had happened to her after they lost each other in the woods the previous night, so she managed to avoid the whole subject of what happened to Tara.
She rushed up the stairs and got in the bathroom for a quick blast of hot water and then pulled on a pair of light blue jeans which ended just above the knee and a white vest. She acquired a wooden stake from the garden shed that was usually for gardening, and carried it with her for when she found the vampire and a torch just in case she had to make her way into somewhere which was not internally lit.
She slipped out of the house, but left her car in the driveway, finding it easier to get around without driving that around, especially in the early morning.
Carla flew most of the way, arriving at the high-rise parking lot as it turned one in the morning.
She touched down inside the floor which Alcide had specified on his note, finding it easy to get in as the sides of the place were open on the upper floors, with only a concrete guardrail to prevent cars fall out.
She noticed the debris on the floor immediately and made her way to it.
The indent in the floor was quite deep, about the size of a fully grown man in the foetal position.
Something glinted in the rubble around the tunnel, she made her way around the edge to kneel down next to it, picking it up in her hand.
Silver chains, which still had chunks of cement stuck to it as well as blood.
Just what she needed.
She morphed into her cat form, taking several long inhales of the blood on the chains, making sure not to taste it. She really didn't need any sort of connection with Russel, especially as he had already had her blood.
She got the scent, turning to follow it towards the stairs, down, she treaded slowly, making sure to continually inhale and analyse the air to make sure she was still on the right path.
At the bottom of the building she followed the trail all the way to where the scent disappeared and instead was replaced by a faint trail of car fumes.
Carla continued to follow the fumes until they got onto a main road, and the smell blended with lots of other scents in the air, many other motor vehicles were among them.
She continued following the road, wandering down each exit to see if she could locate the scent, but turning back once she realised that they had not turned in that direction due to the lack of it.
It took her at least three and a half long hours, as well as taking many wrong turns, she also had to keep morphing back or taking cover to avoid prying eyes of car drivers and pedestrians as they came along the main road she was following.
The scent finally turned off towards a graveled path that was old and unkempt. There were many weeds poking out from underneath the gravel itself and the lawns were full of many different species of plants all highly overgrown and swaying gently in the night's breeze. The drive way up to the building was also surrounded on one side by tall hedges which was equally overgrown.
Carla followed the path up to the old crumbling building at the end of the driveway, morphing back into her human form.
The place was huge, most of the windows were either completely obscured by grime or missing altogether, ivy was climbing its way along the front of the building, clinging onto every crack and refusing to let go, strangling the very walls of the building into submission.
She walked up the few steps to the front of the building, pulling the doors open, noticing the broken chain and mangled padlock on the floor beneath them.
Someone had definitely been here, someone strong enough to bash a padlock to a pulp.
She wrapped her hand around the stake she had brought, ready to search the place. She made sure to follow her nose, momentarily morphing into her cat form, slowly tracking the scent to ensure she did not lose it or go in the wrong direction.
She was lead to the lower sections of the asylum, knowing that the basement and the morgue would be the easiest place for a vampire to survive, it was obvious he would choose this place, being light tight and the deepest part of the building.
Carla immediately found herself heading down the closest staircase, following old and faded signs on the hospital's walls as well as her nose.
Slowly stepping down the stairs, making sure to watch her feet and avoid any obstacles ensuring she was as quiet as she possibly could be.
Russel was not only faster than her, he was stronger, depending on how far he had gotten to healing himself after his ordeal, surprise may be one of the only things she would have on her side, and so she made sure to preserve it with great importance.
Stepping slowly into a large room, littered with hospital screens and old beds lacking their bed clothes as well as an overturned table, a smell hit her nostrils, hanging heavy in the air.
Rot.
Carla turned her light beam towards a bloodied screen which was almost completely shredded, flashing over a pale shape on the ground, she angled it down to inspect the shape.
It was a severed hand.
Stepping closer, the smell became more and more intense. She side stepped around the screen to look down at a pile of bodies, covered with rats, bloodied and pale, their eyes dead and soulless.
Carla looked away.
Russel was here.
The bodies were fresh, must have only been eaten in the last day.
Voices and footsteps from the corridor.
Carla ran to the corner of the room, backing up behind a screen. She switched off her flashlight and crouched down as low as she could, remaining still.
The footsteps entered the room, filling through slowly, there was more than one, two, and three… five.
A light beam flew around the room slowly as the steps came ever closer.
Carla felt a sleek, small body against her shoe, it ran over her foot and then away, causing a noisy clatter as it ran across the floor towards the bodies.
It was a rat, the light beam followed it closely, before focusing on the screen which hid the bodies.
Carla heard a long inhale, as if someone was sniffing the air.
There was also the sound of a man whimpering, the people stepped closer to the screen, moving the shredded strands out of the way so they could see what was inside.
Carla couldn't see their faces, as they were facing away from her and it was too dark to see their outlines very well either.
"Good lord in heaven" A very familiar voice said, one she knew she didn't have to hide from.
Carla stood up from the corner, stepping out noiselessly.
"Sookie?" she asked.
The light beam swung around and there was the sound of hissing, growling and producing fangs.
The beam landed just below her face, so she could see.
"Carla? What're you doing here?" Sookie asked.
"She's here looking for Russel, same as us" Eric stepped forward, so he was half in the light beam.
"Are you alright?" Sookie asked.
"Fine. What are you doing here? I thought you'd be gone by now?" Carla asked, looking the vampire up and down.
"There was a change of plan" Bill muttered, showing he was here also.
"Who else is there?" Carla asked, turning on her own flashlight to look at the group.
A man was standing behind them someone she didn't recognize, the one who was making small whimpering sounds, this man was holding Sookie's hand, which must have been how they got there, she was un glamouring him somehow.
"Well, looks like it's a party" Carla joked, turning around and heading out of the door, which then led down further into the morgue, which was written in white on the wall.
The rest of them followed, with Eric catching up to walk beside Carla.
"Are we still in this ridiculous fight?" He asked in a low whisper.
"To be honest, I do not wish to speak about it right now, I thought I'd never see you again and I can't say it is any less than a disappointment that I have to" Carla muttered back, glancing back at Sookie who nodded, indicating she was going in the right direction.
She continued to walk down the corridor.
"The truth of the matter is that, if Russel does not kill me, the authority will" Eric said back, ignoring her spiteful comments.
Carla knew she should be throwing her arms around the vampire, knowing that mere hours ago she felt as if she was in pieces, her life itself shattered and mangled simply because she had lost him, everything seemed to be collapsing around her.
But instead she found herself full of hate from the fact that he had indeed never left and the fact that her pride prevented her from saying sorry and reconciling especially when he had made such a momentous mistake in the first place.
"I doubt that very much, if we find Russel down here, the authority will no doubt reward you for your efforts in bringing him in, considering a mere mention of his name or a single picture of his face would spell outrage and revolt by the humans" Carla didn't look at the vampire, she just kept walking forward.
"But there is still the case of who released Russel to begin with, we now know it's a female member of the authority and this could spell serious complications, there's something planned and it's within the very authority itself" Eric muttered, keeping in step with Carla easily with his long stride.
They turned down another long corridor which sloped even further down.
"Well, who did you tell where you buried him? Alcide knew" Carla suggested.
"Not him" Eric answered.
"Did you tell your sister?" Carla asked, she saw him raise an eyebrow out of the corner of her eye.
"No, I did not" He told her.
"What about Bill?" Carla glanced to the side, and caught Eric's eyes, but she quickly looked away again before she became enchanted by their sparkling pale brilliance.
"I trust him" Eric said, in his low and husky tone.
"Do you now" Carla scoffed.
"In any case, I will ensure that Russel does die this time, even if I meet my own end" Eric assured her, maybe it was his way of apologising?
"Very well, could have saved us all the trouble and done it a year ago, but I won't keep bringing it up" Carla replied.
"How did you know Nora was my sister?" Eric asked.
Carla glanced across for a moment, gauging his understanding.
"I've been told you have friends in high places, the only friends that would risk their lives to save you are siblings" Carla told him, looking away again. "I want you to know I am not interested in trying to compete with someone else, if what this is, is going to last, it will have to only be me in your sights" She explained.
He nodded.
"Then the same needs to apply to you as well" Eric said, maybe hinting that he knew about the kiss with Alcide? A twinge of guilt emerged within her.
"I shall" she agreed, maintaining a straight face, or as much as she could, also trying to remain emotionally neutral in the situation.
"If i survive" Eric muttered, so sure he was going to perish.
Suddenly the sniveling and whimpering became louder and the man whose hand Sookie was holding clutched his head.
"Oh my god, I am so sorry, oh my god, I just can't take this, I can't do this, I am so so sorry, I need to get out!" The man turned on his heel and ran back down the corridor, taking a wrong turn into a room at the end of the hall.
"We're being watched" Carla muttered, looking up and down the corridor for proof of this.
Sookie called after him and followed him, where a loud scream sprung from the room he had entered. Carla turned her head to look after them, as did the rest of them.
Eric and Bill rushed after Sookie to find out what the commotion was about.
Carla turned back around and headed down towards the opposite direction, morphing in mid step and following her nose.
She quickly turned into one of the rooms at the end of the corridor, her eyes immediately brought to a bed in the corner of the room, covered in blood, as was the floor, with body parts littering it as well.
"Well, it took you long enough" Russel muttered, not meeting her eyes, relaxing on the bed, his eyes closed, wearing a pair of hospital pyjamas.
Carla morphed back into her human form.
"I could say the same to you" She joked about his time in the ground.
"Mrs. Thompson, how surprising, I definitely did not expect you to be honouring me with such a personal visit" Russel met eyes with her, pretending it was somewhat personal.
"Well, I can't say I am here for a social, but I am definitely going to enjoy our time together" Carla smiled sadistically, wandering closer to the vampire.
"Oh really? How flattering" The vampire smiled his insane smile right back at her.
The others strode into the room behind her, stakes in hands.
"What an infernal racket you people have been making" Russel said, addressing the others.
He took some short sniffs of the air.
"Ms. Stackhouse, always a pleasure" He smiled, meeting the waitress's eyes.
"Fuck you, you psychotic piece of shit" Sookie bit back.
Russel coughed painfully, apparently his body was still weak, lucky for them.
Eric walked closer, his hand tightly gripping the stake that was in it.
"Hello old friend, do you remember me?" Eric grinned widely, showing his extended fangs. "We're here to finish what we started" He told Russel.
"Well, as my great love Talbot used to say, when we were buck hunting…" He looked up at Eric, his gaze piercing right into the vampire's eyes. "Give it your best shot"
There was a low snarling from behind them and Bill was pulled from his feet, and dragged away out of view.
Sookie ran off around the corner, following where Bill had been dragged off to.
There was a heavy thumping sound from behind them in the opposite room, where many body freezers were opened and werewolves jumped out in their wolf forms, protecting Russel.
One headed for Eric and another for Carla.
Carla morphed, just as the wolf jumped at her, it pushed her onto her back, its jaws almost at her throat.
She placed both paws on the sides of its face, extending her claws into the creature's head to ensure it could not reach her.
The were was young and very weak, obviously it was not on V.
She rolled over, so she was on top as the were underneath her whimpered in pain.
Carla brought her heavy jaws down on the creature's throat, crushing its air way and leaving it to choke to death, morphing back into human form in a growing pool of its own blood.
She turned her head and saw Eric throw his were off, where it collided with the wall and there was a heavy snap, the sound of its back breaking on impact.
Carla noticed that Russel was gone, the bed was empty and there was no sign of him.
The sound which accompanied Sookie's use of her fae powers sounded outside the door, along with a blast of bright light which shone through the open door way to the room.
Carla rushed outside and saw Russel had been blasted back and now had his back against the opposite wall. Sookie was thankfully not harmed and Bill threw down the were that was on him, having broken its neck with his hands.
Eric fell upon the ancient vampire, one hand holding the stake that was over his heart, the other around his chin, making sure that he was looking straight into his eyes at the end.
"Look at me, I want to be the last thing you ever see" Eric growled, about the finish him.
Bill placed his own stake against the blonde vampire's back.
"He dies, we die, if we take him back alive, there's a chance we don't have to die" Bill growled to the vampire.
"Unlikely" Eric growled back, his eyes still on Russel.
"But not impossible" Bill told him.
Carla growled at Bill, warning him that if he harmed Eric, he would be next.
It earned her an intense glance.
"Maybe you're ready to die, maybe you're bored after a thousand years, but you do not make that decision for me" Bill assured him.
Eric finished his growling, putting his fangs away.
Russel had a look on his face, as if he had won.
Carla morphed back to her human form mere moments before a team of black riot suited vampires shot into the room.
"Freeze!" Their leader ordered, with many lasers from their guns now flicking around on Russel's chest. "We will take over from here" The vampire told them. Russel slowly raised his hands in surrender.
The soldiers cuffed Russel in silver, about to walk him out.
Carla stepped back into the room, standing next to Sookie.
"Are you hurt?" Carla whispered to Sookie, who looked back at her and then down at her own body.
"No, I don't think so" Sookie said, crossing her arms over her chest.
Russel was being led out of the room by two vampires, one either side, their guns handy, held to his back.
He pulled away from them as he walked past the squad leader.
"You better hope you are not around when I am fully restored and oh, I will be, 'authority'?" Russel spat on the floor. "What fucking authority do you have? Given to you by what? Lillith? You idiots! You are no better than humans with your absurd magical thinking! There is no Lillith!"
The squad leader propelled his fist into the vampire's face.
"That is blasphemy" he told Russel, a wide grin on his face.
The vampires forced him to continue walking.
"You're worse than humans! You may as well be praying to leprechauns or unicorns or the motherfucking Kardashians!" The vampire continued yelling as he was dragged down the corridor towards the exit of the building.
"Humans are here" The squad leader glanced between the two women present.
"Doug led us here" Sookie corrected him.
Carla looked across at Sookie, giving her a look to silence her.
"We found them in a van outside Shreveport" Bill told the vampire. "We took the van to get here with them in"
"You could have covered that much distance by yourselves much faster, than by driving" The squad leader informed them, as if it was obvious.
"We needed another human because he remembered coming here before, Doug" Bill explained before Eric could open his mouth.
Bill, the expert liar, as always.
"They know too much" the squad leader glanced between them all.
"Nothing that a little glamouring won't take care of" Bill assured him.
"Do it" The leader ordered, leaving the room.
Eric came over to Carla, looking her straight in the eyes.
"Carla" Eric went through the motions, he placed his fingers under her chin, and stroked his thumb across her cheek.
"Yes?" Carla asked, pretending to be under his influence.
"You will forget everything about this night, all of its events, you'll forget everything about me and about Bill, you will leave this place as quickly as you can from the moment I release you, then when you reach your home, you will forget this place and everything about its existence. Do you understand?" Eric asked.
Carla nodded, her vision fixated on his pale eyes. "Of course" She said, sounding empty.
"I love you" He mouthed, blinking down at her.
She didn't react, but sent him a mental message through their link.
'I love you too' it told him.
"Go" He ordered her, and she jogged away down the corridor following his orders, the vampires moved out of the way for her as she made her way out of the building and stopped down the gravel path, hiding in some overgrown bushes by the side of the driveway to wait for Sookie.
Carla kept low and remained out of sight and tried to make very little sound, not wanting to be spotted by the vampires who were guarding their trucks outside the building.
She heard the snap of a twig behind her and swiftly turned her head around to see who was there.
There was no one, just more overgrown bush and scrub and beyond that just indistinguishable darkness.
Carla looked back up the driveway, assuming it was nothing.
Moments later the familiar sound of a vampire in vamp speed shot behind her and she felt a needle enter her neck with a rough sharp scratch.
The plunger on the syringe that was attached to the needle was pressed down just as fast as the needle had pierced her flesh and suddenly, her muscles completely relaxed, unable to function.
Her eyes drooped and her breath escaped from her lungs in a quick sigh.
She fell backwards, onto something cold and only slightly padded, then she felt her feet leave the ground completely as the sound of the vampire's unnatural speed transported her away.
Then her eyes closed and her senses diminished into nothingness as she passed out.
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Thanks for all the continued support and to all those who have already reviewed, followed and favorited this story, all of you are so nice, you make me want to keep writing!
So, next chapter we will see another old face from a long time ago now, people have already guessed who it is, so those who haven't can look forward to the surprise :D
Just FYI Sookie won't be around for a while, considering where i am taking the story, it was moved away from Bon Temps for the moment, but it won't be long until they are back.
+With the addition of the 'mental connection' with Godric which Carla has, it sort of the same as Eric's and Nora's, they have visions of him, he talks to them, but no one else can see him, obviously Eric and Nora can see him, it is sort of like Carla is his progeny, but not quite. Might also make it so she can use his powers, but i don't want to make her too overpowered, so to speak. Regardless let me know what you think, do you think it would be cool if Carla could use Godric's powers from the time he was a druid? Before his turning. Keep in mind his specializations were primary Elements (so casting, like Rob) and Transformation secondary (Carla's main ability). Do you think that Carla having Godric hallucinations is a good addition? They may be few and far between, but i will be sure to use them where i feel necessary.
P.S Sorry i was late by a day with the update, i forgot yesterday, thankfully i remembered today though so it's all good, i hope you enjoy the 6000 word chapter and i hope it makes up for it being a day late, if you see any annoying spelling mistakes please do not hesitate to PM me and tell me, i did read through but it is possible i missed a few!
Thanks for you continued support again! Have a great day!
Until next time,
-Shad out :D