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Where Love Will Lead
Chapter 38
Eric
Eric landed in front of Sookie's former place of employment. Merlotte's, the local Bon Temps watering hole, was buzzing. Eric made his way inside and immediately spotted Lafayette peeking out from behind the back kitchen window. Eric heard him swear and he headed back to the window.
On the counter in front of him there was reeking fried food and a steam that separated him from Lafayette. "One of the men I was looking for," Eric leered at Lafayette.
"What you want? All yo' ass bring is trouble," Lafayette said, turning back to the grill.
"I heard you put a spell on Sookie's car that caused it to crash," he said, not attempting to hide his anger.
Lafayette looked to him, his face paling if it were possible, and Eric only stared him down. "It...It happened so long ago. I was angry and me and Sook, we moved past it."
"It is far too easy to be granted forgiveness by my lover. I don't care if you moved past it. I haven't and I won't. Threaten or harm her again and I will kill you. This is no threat. This is fact," Eric stated.
Lafayette nodded, his eyes still big as saucers. He didn't dare break gaze with Eric. Eric said, "Good. Now, I have another matter to discuss with you. I may have a favor to ask of you. Help me and I will be in your debt, and as you know I always repay my debts."
Lafayette nodded and said, ""Uh huh."
Eric smiled and said, "I will be in touch. Now, I need to speak with Sam. Where can I find him?"
Lafayette gave him a curious look and said, "Back office."
Eric nodded and gave Lafayette one final look before heading to the back office.
He knocked and then opened the door without waiting for an answer, which was not well received by Mr. Merlotte.
"God dammit! I am tryin'...Oh" he stopped short when he saw who it was, "What the hell do you want?" he spat out at Eric.
"You to sit down and shut up for starters," Eric said calmly.
"Get the fuck outta my bar," Sam growled out, standing and pointing to the door.
"Not before I talk to you," Eric said, his tone and expression brooking no argument. "Now sit before I break your legs and make you sit."
Sam stared him down, but in the end he sat down and crossed his arms, waiting.
Eric paced in front of him and said, "I know that it was Sookie's decision to be with me that caused your falling out. I don't care if you don't like me or think I am not good enough for Sookie. I care what Sookie thinks and by some miracle she sees something in me that makes me worthy of her."
Sam only stared and Eric continued, "My concern is Sookie, and you have hurt her. I don't like it. Make it better, because Sookie and I plan to be together for a long time," Eric said, slowly walking to the door. Before he walked out the door he added, "And if you ever call her stupid again, I will rip your heart out."
He slammed the door and walked through the bar and out into the parking lot. He shot into the air and flew towards Sookie's to see if there were any new scents he could pick up.
He landed in her front yard and his nose immediately assaulted him with Fae. Sookie's grandfather had been here. And Preston. And Jason. And a much older track of Nora. She had been observing Sookie for what Eric knew had been a while now.
Eric took off and flew to an already bustling Fangtasia. He landed and many women and even men shrieked in delight at his arrival. Me moved quickly inside and looked for Pam, who was nowhere to be seen.
He spotted Tara at the bar shaking a cocktail shaker at vampire speed, wowing the crowd and moved to speak to her. She stopped when she saw him and quickly finished serving the humans before say, "Eric."
"Tara, where is Pamela?" he asked, genuinely curious.
"After you spoke with her, she said she was going out and I was to stay here," she said. Eric nodded and said, "I am going to be in the back making some calls. Don't let anybody come back or call if it isn't Sookie or Pam."
Tara nodded and went back to the long line waiting for drinks. Eric moved to the back office and began making the calls he needed to make. He called in every favor, every contact that he could think of without revealing any specific details. All of them said they would come and Eric sighed in relief.
Eric then called Jason. He needed Jason on board. "Jason, I need to speak with you. May I swing by later?"
After Jason agreed, Eric stood and walked around his desk and tried to call Pam. She answered and asked, "Yes?"
"Pamela, where are you?" he asked.
"Is there something you need, Eric?" she asked, avoiding his question.
"Not particularly. I wanted to speak with you a little more in depth about what we discussed earlier," he said.
"About you and Sookie bonding or you possibly turning her?" Pam said in a tone filled with attitude.
"Both. Where are you?" he asked again.
"Why I am shopping of course. Where else would I be?" she asked.
Eric said, "Well, make time in your shopping schedule to meet with me. Soon," he said, clicking his phone off.
Eric closed his eyes before dialing the last number he needed for the evening. His conversation was brief and concise and he told the man he was speaking to that he would meet him within the next couple of hours.
Eric walked out to the bar and said to Tara, "Call Sookie and tell her I am going into a meeting and will be unavailable for a bit. If she needs anything, you fulfill any request. Leave the bar and have Ginger and the rest of the staff cover."
Tara nodded and went back to serving the customers as Eric walked out of the bar and took flight.
Sookie
Sookie was cleaning up the small cabin for her and Eric. She had stripped the bed of its sheets and began washing them and the dishes she had used. She found a small cabinet with cleaning supplies, a vacuum and began dusting and vacuuming. If she had to guess, she would say that Eric probably had a housekeeper come in every couple of weeks.
She finished the small dwelling quickly and had just sat down to relax after making herself a sandwich when there was a knock on the door. Sookie froze, terrified. The realization that Eric couldn't even feel her terror settled in her already frenzied mind. She rose slowly, looking towards the phone and when a familiar voice said, "Sookie, it's me. I am coming in. I knocked out of courtesy in case you were naked." Pam.
Sookie gave a shaky exhale and said, "Pam? Oh my...Thank God. You scared me half to death."
The door opened and Pam stood there in pink Victoria Secret sweats. Sookie asked, "Did Eric send you?" looking Pam over, extremely confused as she gestured Pam into the small cabin.
She shook her head and walked in and sat on the couch. "No, Eric doesn't know I am here. Probably wouldn't like me coming near you without him knowing about it."
Sookie nodded and walked to the couch and sat a few spaces away and said, "Well, um, why did you come here?"
"I need to talk to you about something," Pam said. Sookie usually only saw a bitchy, glib, and sarcastic side of Pam. Sookie couldn't even mask her confused and doubtful expression at Pam's new sincere and even tender tone. She waited for Pam to continue.
"I don't want you to feel uncomfortable Sookie, really," she said. Sookie nodded and Pam continued. "Eric and I talked about your...plans. And I want you to know that even though I may have been...standoffish," she said tentatively. Sookie raised an eyebrow and she put her hands up and said, "Okay I have been a mega-bitch."
Sookie chuckled lightly and said, "I get it. It's okay. You were just worried about Eric."
Pam nodded and said, "Exactly, but I know there was a better way for me to handle it. Shooting a bazooka at your face was not my best moment."
Sookie smiled and said, "You gotta point comin'?"
Pam nodded and said, "I want you to know that I am happy for you and Eric. And I am glad that you decided to bond. No really," she said, grabbing for Sookie's hand when Sookie gave her a skeptical look. She held it in her own and Sookie looked into Pam's eyes and saw she was being genuine.
Sookie's couldn't help her mouth gaping, but she snapped it closed. "Well...I'm glad then. It will make everything...ummm, easier."
Pam nodded and said, "And Sookie, Eric won't talk to me about it, but last thing I want you to know is...I would love to have you as a sister."
Sookie felt like she had been slapped in the face. She looked at Pam and she added "You may never choose to be vampire, Sookie, but if you do consider it, know that you can come to me with questions."
Sookie teared up and Pam said, "Ew, but don't do that. I don't do waterworks and humans."
Sookie laughed and nodded and said, "Thanks Pam." She wiped the tears and said, "I am gl...thank you. It means more than you know."
Pam nodded and then reached down on the floor and grabbed a bag. She handed it to Sookie who asked, "What's this?"
"Well, because we are going to be in each other's lives, we are going to need to start bonding, pardon the pun, without Eric and Tara around," she said as Sookie opened up the bag.
Sookie grabbed out a pint of Ben and Jerry's and popcorn and a..bag of donor blood. And finally the complete series of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
"I heard this is what humans eat when they watch movies and that's what I eat...and some amazing comedy," she said, her trademark smirk in place as she gestured to the DVD box set.
Sookie laughed as Pam put the first disc in. "I ain't ever really seen Buffy before. You watch this?" she asked in disbelief.
"It's hilarious! Eric and I laugh and laugh the entire show, and not just because it is filled with witty one-liners," Pam said as she resettled on the couch and grabbed for her bagged blood.
She pressed play and the movie started. Sookie and Pam laughed their way through the first and second episode of the first season when Pam sat up straight, looking at the front door.
Sookie paused the show and asked, "What?"
"Shhh, I thought I heard something."
"It's Eric!" Sookie said, making a move to get off the couch and go to the door.
Pam stopped her and said, "It is not Eric. I would know if it was. Sookie, go back to the back bedroom and lock the door. Now."
Sookie shook her head and said, "What? No. The door is loc-"
Suddenly the door exploded and Sookie and Pam gasped and fell to the ground. Pam was back up in seconds and looked over her shoulder to check on a shocked Sookie. "Go back there now!"
Sookie got up and ran to the back bedroom. As she swung the door shut she saw who it was. Nora. She was cut, burned, and barely recognizable. It made Sookie almost throw up. Pam was asking Nora what the fuck she thought she was doing and Sookie saw a red button near the light switch. Sookie looked one last time at Pam and Nora before she shut the door and hit the red button. She heard the clicks and locks click and clanked into place.
Sookie heard Nora threatening Pam to hand Sookie over, but Pam was holding firm and telling Nora to calm down.
As she picked up the phone she heard a crash out in the living room, she picked up the line and dialed Eric's number.
"Sookie, I can't talk. Pam needs me and she isn't answering her phone. She is terrified," Eric answered immediately.
"She is here with me. And so is Nora. Please get here, I think Pam is in danger," Sookie said in a terrified and shaky voice.
Eric swore and said, "Sookie, are you in the bedroom?"
Sookie said, "Yes and I locked it."
"Good. Stay there. There are weapons under the bed. Take what you know how to use," he said, thundering wind making it hard for Sookie to hear.
"And do not, under any circumstances, go out into the living room," he said. "Do you understand?"
"Eric? Are you close?" she asked as she heard another enormous crash and felt the walls shake.
"I am coming to you now. Sookie stay in that room!" he barked and then the line cut.
Sookie jumped as she heard something big hit the door to the bedroom. She then realized it was obviously one of the vampires out of the living room, she just hoped and prayed it wasn't Pam.
She heard snarls and hisses as they fought to the death and Sookie realized Pam was in real danger. Where was Eric? Why wasn't he here by now?
Sookie heard crunches followed by sickening gasps of pain that Sookie knew to be Pam's. How much older was Nora? Was she even older than Pam? It sounded like one hell of a fight, and Sookie knew Pam was a fighter.
Sookie looked between the phone and the door, wondering if she should call Eric. She knew she would only be slowing him down, so she dismissed that thought. There wasn't nearly as much crashing as there had been three minutes ago, which had to be a bad sign. Vampires didn't tire, so one of them was winning. Sookie listened carefully, trying to make out who was ahead.
"Sookie," Nora called out, "Sookie, I don't want to kill Pam to get to you, but I will."
Sookie swallowed as Pam's weak voice said, "Sookie, stay the fuck in there, ya hear?!"
Sookie chewed her bottom lip and couldn't help the tears that fell down her cheeks as she heard a thud that sounded like a kick in Pam's gut as she audibly wheezed. Sookie felt so hopeless. Pam and Eric told her to stay in the room, but she couldn't let Pam die.
Sookie looked to the phone, to the weapons in her hands and the door. She was desperate for an answer and Sookie inhaled deeply, and made her decision as she heard another colossal thud in the living room. Sookie ran to the door and flung it open, shooting her light out at Nora and knocking her into the opposite wall.
"Sookie, no! Get back in there!" Pam gurgled out, blood spilling from her mouth.
Nora was back up and snarling, "That light runs out I hear. All I have to do is a avoid it you cunt. And I am fast, very fast," she said in a menacing voice as she advanced on Sookie. Sookie shot another blast of light at Nora, who easily dodged the blow and dashed her way toward Sookie.
Pam was up and in between them once more, but Nora easily threw her to the side and almost cleared the distance between her and Sookie.
Sookie shot her light, hitting Nora in the chest, her body once again hurled back to the other side of the cabin. She hit it hard, indenting the wall. Nora groaned in pain and Sookie grabbed Pam and said, "In the bedroom, now!"
Pam grabbed Sookie's arm and she helped Pam in the room, slowly as she wobbled on broken legs and what looked like a broken spine.
They were almost to the door when Nora was suddenly there. She said, "Almost made it," then ripped into Sookie's throat and lowered her mouth as a sickening gurgling sound came out of Sookie's now drowning windpipe. Pam gasped in horror and attempted to push Nora away, but once again she was batted out of the way by Nora, whose eyes were trained on Sookie's neck, a dangerous look of deranged hunger on her face.
Sookie fell to her knees as she got weaker from the blood loss and lack of oxygen. She literally felt her heart begin to panic and her lungs protest at the lack of oxygen. Nora bent before her and latched on her neck, holding Sookie's shoulders to keep her in place. She greedily gulped Sookie's blood into her mouth, lost to the ecstasy it brought. Sookie weakly attempted to push her off as she felt the life leave her body and her eyes clouded over as she struggled for air.
Sookie's vision began to blur and her last thoughts were that she was glad Eric wasn't bonded to her yet. He would live. He would be sad, yes. But he could go on. Sookie's last glimpse at the world she knew was Pam, who had stood and was trying to pull Nora off of Sookie. Sookie then blacked out and knew no more.
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