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Chapter Forty-Nine

"What the bloody hell happened back there?" Hermione asked as Alcide drove like the hounds of hell were chasing them.

"Why were they shifting?" Sookie wondered. "You almost shifted."

"Couldn't help it. When that energy starts rolling, it takes you over. We're lucky we got out of there alive," he hit his steering wheel. "Fuck!"

"I know it was terrible-" Alcide interrupted the normally blonde telepath.

"You don't know anything."

The witch frowned, "Well, I know that if you don't slow down, you're going kill us."

"We are not gonna die because of your shitty girlfriend and a Mississippi pothole!" Sookie shouted. When Alcide pulled over, she looked at him guiltily. "I had to be mean to make you listen. I'm sorry."

"She wasn't always shitty," the werewolf told them. "We were great together." He looked down, "When she wasn't drinking or cheating. She used to play horseshoes with my dad. Help my mom plant tomatoes."

"But tonight she was half-naked in a wolf skin, getting branded." Sookie replied.

Hermione sighed, "Tell us more about Russell Edgington."

"He's just some rich vampire," Alcide shrugged. "That's all I knew till tonight."

"I gotta talk to him," Hermione's cousin said.

Alcide looked to the woman seated next to him, "Are you out of your fucking mind?"

The Gryffindor Princess nodded, "I agree with Alcide on this."

"The brand, the blood, the vampire," Sookie insisted. "He knows where Bill is, or he knows who knows."

Alcide glared at his new friend, "I promised Eric I'd keep you both out of trouble. You ain't going near him, Sookie."

Hermione sighed, "I'll text Eric."

~HG/EN~

Later that night, after washing the black color from their hairs and going to bed, Hermione and Sookie woke up to hear Alcide arguing with someone. They paused at the doorway to see Debbie turn to them.

"That's the neighbor?" Debbie growled. "Oh hell no."

"They have nothing to do with this," Alcide defended his friends.

Debbie: frowned to the women, "You're fucking my wolf, bitches. In my house. {Like I did with Coot and Roy and Bobby and Travis}"

Sookie spoke up after Debbie's thoughts, "Like you did with Coot and Roy and Bobby?"

"Don't forget Travis," Hermione added.

Debbie lunges for them, however Alcide took a hold of her, "What'd you say to me, whores?"

Alcide growled at Debbie, "I'm strong enough to throw you out of here, blood or no blood."

Sookie rolled her eyes at the female werewolf, "No, we're not sleeping with him."

The witch gestured to the blonde waitress, "Plus, she's my cousin."

Sookie frowned, "You traded this good person who loves you for a shot of V, that burn on your back, and a dumb biker who's half the man and half the wolf that Alcide is."

"I will fuck you up!" Debbie shouted. "I will cut you!"

Sookie and Hermione went to step forward, however Alcide warned them, "Ladies, back off."

"Where is Bill Compton?" The telepath demanded.

A confused look crossed Debbie's face, {Who the hell is Bill Compton?}

~HG/EN~

"Have you told Eric yet?" Sookie asked as the cousins sat down in the living room.

"No," Hermione sighed. "I think I should tell him when we're face to face.

Hermione and Sookie sit down and talk before they hear Alcide's thoughts.

{It's gone too far and it's picking up speed. I gotta tell the packmaster everything.} They heard Alcide's thoughts as he walked into the room. "Gonna run errands. Won't take long."

"What's a packmaster?" The blonde asked.

Alcide frowned, "Goddamn it."

Sookie shrugged, "I gotta do what I gotta do."

"This is Were business. It's against our laws to tell you anything," he then gestured to Hermione. "Like it's against her laws to tell anyone who isn't magical or supernatural anything."

"Actually, that's changing soon," Hermione thought for a moment then grinned. "Like when the vampire came out of the coffin, only we're coming out of the broom closet." At their blank looks, Hermione felt her cheeks flush red. "Well, I don't ride brooms because I'm terrified of flying. But it's a huge sport in the Wizardry Society."

"I've been listening to dark, private thoughts since I was a little girl," Sookie told their werewolf friend.

Hermione sighed, "I'm new to it."

"Keeping secrets is how I survive, Alcide," Sookie said.

Alcide glared at her, "No."

Sookie frowned, "Then I'll have to dig it out of your head, and I really don't like do that."

"Sookie," Hermione admonished. "It's rude."

Alcide sighed, "Pack isn't a democracy. Most Weres don't have much sense. You both saw. They're all teeth and fight and sex. Packmaster's our alpha. He makes the big decisions, keeps the rest of us in line."

The telepath looked at him seriously, "How much does your packmaster know about last night."

"That's what I have to find out," the werewolf nodded. "He'll tell us what to do."

Hermione stood up, "Then we're coming along."

He pointed to them, "I am not breaking anymore rules for either of you."

Sookie stood up next to her cousin, "Then you might as well invite Debbie over to tear us up. Because that's what she's gonna try to do."

He glared at them as Hermione added, "I can protect us, but in my condition, my magic will no doubt drain faster than normal."

Sookie: patted him on the shoulder as she made her way out of the room, "Work with us. It will get easier."

~HG/EN~

"If these were ordinary Were junkies scoring the street," Alcide told his packmaster. "I wouldn't be here, but they're organized and drinking from the source. Sookie and Hermione were there, they can back me up."

The packmaster frowned, "You'll be disciplined for exposing us to a human, Alcide. And you took a pregnant witch there. We have a longstanding relationship with the magical community. Remus, before he passed, was our bridge to that community."

Hermione nodded, "I'm his son's godmother."

"Hermione? As in Hermione Granger?" The packmaster looked to the witch then growed at Alcide. "Fuck."

The younger werewolf nodded, "Yes, sir."

"It's not his fault," Sookie reasoned. "And we only wanted to tell you what we saw."

The packmaster sighed, "I already know all about it."

The witch crossed her arms, "Then you have a plan?"

"Whatever it is, I support you, sir, 100 percent," Alcide added.

The old werewolf looked at them pointedly, "Do nothing, tell no one."

Alcide was confused, "How's that help the pack?"

"Russell Edgington-" Sookie was interrupted by the packmaster.

"There's nothing I can do about him. He's the godddamn vampire king of Mississippi."

The telepath frowned, "Bill."

"Colonel Flood," Alcide implored. "That gang is recruiting. We can't just sit back and let some fanger pick us off one by one."

Flood narrowed his eyes, "Edgington is ancient. He's had a pack of Were serving him for centuries all over the world. Now he's on our doorstep. We gonna be smart. Let him do what he wants to do until he goes away."

Alcide frowned along with his friends, "If he's a part of our history, you should have told us about him."

Flood huffed, "I am saving us from extinction."

Hermione knew her werewolf friend was trying to keep himself composed, "I'd rather be extinct than slave to a dead man."

Colonel Flood kept his face impassive as he walked to his car, "{Don't know what to do. There's no one to help me. He'll kill us all. Maybe I'll just leave town. I'm scared shitless. Show no fear.}" He opened his car door, "Don't question your packmaster, boy."

Alcide widened his eyes, "Colonel Flood, we gotta do something!"

"Let him go," Sookie said, putting her hand on her hips.

Hermione nodded, "He can't help. He's afraid."

"Bullshit," Flood glared as he got into his car. "Alcide, obey."

As he drove away, Sookie looked to Alcide, "It wasn't bullshit."

He turned to them, "I know." He placed his hands on their shoulders, "I trust you both."

~HG/EN~

"Hermione. Sookie."

The sound of Alcide's voice woke Sookie and Hermione up and they went to the living room. To their surprise, Bill was standing in front of Alcide.

Sookie ran to her boyfriend and hugged him, "Bill."

Bill looked from the telepath to the witch, "Sookie… you both have to go now."

Hermione arched an eyebrow, "Is that all you have to say to us?"

"There's no time," the vampire turned to the werewolf. "You must take them away."

Sookie shook her head, "Wherever I'm going, you're coming too."

"It's too late. There's no hope for me," Bill told her then commanded Alcide. "Please, you have to get them out of Jackson, as fast as you can."

Alcide nodded, "I believe him."

Hermione's eyes widened, "You are trying to protect us."

Sookie's eyes watered, "What do you mean, there's no hope?"

Bill implored his girlfriend, "You have to leave now."

"I will," the blonde waitress nodded. "But tell me what I'm running from."

Just then the door was opened violently, slamming against the wall, causing them all to turn in surprise.

Coot walked in and turned to the doorway, "Come on in."

Another werewolf rushed in and began fighting Bill as Coot kneed Alcide, "That's for Debbie, fucker."

Russell walked into the room, rolling his eyes, "Grab the girls, you imbecile."

With Alcide incapacitated, Coot went to grab Sookie and Hermione pulled out her wand.

"Expellarmous!" To her astonishment, Hermione watched as her wand flew across the room and she looked over to see Fenrir pointing his wand at her. "Hello, love."

Coot grabs on to Sookie, but Sookie would have none of it.

She shouted "NO!" and to everyone's amazement they watched as purple light shot out of her hands, causing Coot to fly back.

Russell began to laugh and both of the cousins looked at each other before looking to Sookie's hands.

"Fantastic!" The older vampire exclaimed with a grin.