Chapter 51

Sookie's P.O.V

The moment I entered the library and saw Aurora wrapped in Bastian's arms leaning against the wall, I let myself relax a little. I was still very concerned with how Aurora's was handling her emotions , she had been through so much over the last few months and I wanted to make sure I could do anything I could to be there if she needed me. Happily as soon as Leif and Vallaint caught sight of them, they trotted over and positioned themselves next to Aurora and Bastian, obviously being cheeky and feeding from Aurora's power, I wasn't the only one to notice, Preston excused himself from the conversation he was having with Echo and strolled over pressing himself behind Leif and snuggling beside Bastian. My heart gave a little jump as Bastian raised his arm and wrapped it around Preston holding him as tightly as he was Aurora, and the three of them closed their eyes, drifting off in an almost dream like state. My boys purred with contentment, resting against the threesome, bathing in the power.

"It's beautiful to watch, isn't it" said Stark making me jump

"I can never really get a track on what it is to have your little group in my life, none of you are what the outside world would think you'd be? It almost magical watching you interact."

"How so Sookie?"

"Death Dealers, Demons, Vampires, Fairies and Angels. Your all so much more that your titles, look at Bastian, he seems more at peace now that Preston and Aurora are both within his arms and Fairies and Vampires are meant to be mortal enemies."

"Don't be fooled Sookie, we and even yourself are special. Outside of this compound, if another vampire attempted to get close to Preston in an aggressive manor, we would bring hell crashing down upon them. Vampires and Fae in general will always be enemies, you just happen to have a few odd ball in your life" Stated Stark as he gave my shoulder a squeeze.

"That just makes what we have more special, look at how Echo and Aurora act around each other. As well as yourself with Jasper, we are a family, no matter the sex or breed we love each other and I'm just so happy that my sons get to grown up with this acceptance and love we all have for each other. I'm not stupid I know, we'll have fights and disagree. But it's a life I didn't think I'd have again when my gran passed, it pure and it's perfect and it's my family. I love it."

Stark gave me a pure smile before he kissed my forehead and directed me towards Eric and Godric, whom where having a very intense discussion with Gerard, Yannick and Kellan.

"Why would the Elf, want Boston now?" asked Eric

"We aren't saying he would, but where also not allowing the possibility to arise. Boston's father was keep by the New York Vampires that we killed at the conference, none of us no what happened to him and who he's aligned with now. Elven males have a power surge during puberty and thanks to his time in Poseidon's realm Boston is growing rapidly, his blood will call to its kin for guidance. We want to infuse our blood through the gift, which would make us the primaries his awakening would call to." Replied Yannick.

"How would this change him? Quinn was mated when Aurora gifted him." Asked Godric

"He will not be mated to anyone Godric, the little shifter will just become blood tied to us like brothers and sisters, we will love and care for him. Protecting him with our lives, if he's in trouble or lost his blood will call to us. We just want to keep him safe." Said Kellan

"What about the pain I saw inflicted on Erebus when he drank the blood, binding the gift."

"That we can't answer that Godric, every creature reacts differently when given gifts, Elves already have wings so we don't know if Boston's bone structure will change with the giving of the blood?" replied Gerard.

"What about giving the gift to some else?" asked Eric

"Who, are your sons not special enough for you vampire?" snapped Yannick.

"I would no more risk my sons going through pain than I would Boston, I was suggesting an Adult, Dealer." Spat Eric

Before I needed to step in and calm things down, Yannick shocked me, bowing to Eric and apologising. I really needed to start paying closer attention to Zeus's son, from the creature that didn't care if anyone but Aurora lived or dies, he now showed a deep connection for his nest mates, he truly had changed. I watched him look over at my sons and then to Boston and the idea of any of our children being put through pain was weighing heavily on the death dealer.

"Nyx will know more than any of us if Boston will be at risk, I will promise you, none of us will proceed if he is at risk for a second." Promised Gerard

Godric gave a nod and called to his youngest son, I watched with baited breath as Godric explained to Boston that Aurora and her mates wanted to give him the gift they'd taken from Quinn. He made sure the young boy understood this would mean tying him to them by blood and that once it was done, it couldn't be undone. Tears filled my eyes as Boston started crying, hugging his father and promising Gerard, Yannick and Kellan he'd make them proud. He was over the moon to be as he called it, "really truly family for every". Gerard and Yannick explained to Boston that they needed to speak with Nyx and as soon as it was safe they'd tie him to them forever.

Our happy moment was unfortunately shatter when Isaac came running into the library yelling my name.

"Sookie, there's a Police car at the front gates and a very panicked looking human, pleading to see you and Eric."

This got us all intrigued, I could only imagine what we must have looked like when the twenty odd plus of my family followed Eric and I out the front door and down the drive to the large front gates, to see who had come calling, thankfully I looked around quickly before Dartagnan opened the gates with a controller he'd pulled from his pocket, to find Boston, Leif and Valiant pinned in between Aurora, Preston Bastian and Stark. I chuckled to myself, our boys new where it would be safe, no matter what came calling. I can tell you there could have been a lot of things I was expecting to see but Andy Bellefleur sweating with horror in his eyes wasn't one of them. He didn't even seem concerned with the large number of people behind me, in fact he look elated.

"Mr Bellefleur, how can we help you this evening?" asked Eric

"I'm really sorry to ask this Mr Northman, but I didn't know what else to do. Bud Dearborne and my cousin Terry said if I keep quiet and let you do your thing, you could help me."

"What help do you need Mr Bellefleur?"

"Holly that works at Merlottes, her son and daughter has been taken. There only, 3 and 5. We have search high and low, but all the dogs have found is the little boys bloody jacked, next to a drained dying vampire. We tired giving it True blood but it's too weak to drink or tell us what happened, Please help." sobbed Andy.

Eric took one look at our sons, ignoring Andy and started asking questions of our nest mates and putting a plan together. Once he knew what need to be done, he made 2 quick phone calls and matched up to Andy.

"Mr Bellefleur, you know 99% of us are not human don't you?"

To Andy's credit, he straightened his shoulders and gave Eric a firm nod.

"For us to do what needs to be done to try and save the children, we are trusting you Mr Bellefleur to keep our secrets, humans will not understand what we are. And it is only due to your affiliation with Terry that we are even considering this, there is also a concern we could be dealing with super naturals and if we are, we will make them regret stepping foot in my territory."

"Whatever you need, please I'll do anything to save the children. You have my word, I will keep your secrets with my life if need be."

Eric turned to Kellan and Demon vanished right in front of Andy and reappeared 5 seconds later with Jason, Laura Jane and Calvin Norris. I took pity on the shaking Andy Bellefluer as the Hot Shot Panthers and our werewolves shifted right in front of him, it became obvious that no matter how much power Aurora and her mates held, Bastian was the only one designed to track on the group for humans, it was up to the weres and vampires to track the kidnapped children and our True Immortals would keep them safe just in case we were dealing with a large group of unknowns. We needs to split up to cover as much ground as possible, so each group of fangs or claws, got a couple of sets of wings following them. I grasped Andy's arm as his knees buckled when Aurora, Yannick, Stark, Preston, Erebus, Kai and Gerard spread their wings, waiting for Eric's orders. Since I was already holding onto Andy, I shifted through his mind and gave all the relevant information to my nest mates.

"Sookie you're with Andy, keep your phone close, Alcide and the Shreveport Pack are heading towards us and they'll report anything they find. Saxon, Angels, Fae and Wraths you're staying here and protect the boys, what happens if someone steps foot on these grounds." Growled Eric

Andy, flinch when the word 'DEATH' was roared out, the sight of the Berts armed to the teeth collecting the twins and Boston, followed by the Wraths was going to give him nightmares I'm sure.

Gordic, Eric, Bastian and Pam, where heading north towards the area the vampire had been found, it also happen to be the largest area with factories and housing estates. A great place to try and hide if you knew the police would coming looking. Aurora, Erebus and Stark would hit the skies following them as well as reporting anything they saw higher up in the Factory towers. Isaac, Dartagnan, Blaesus and Jasper where to fan out coming in from the west side of town with Gerard and Kai in the sky. Jason, Laura Jane and Calvin, had the East with Yannick and Preston, the Shreveport pack was coming in from the south so we'd meet in the middle of town and hopefully have the children safe and sound within the hour. With one final sweep of the group, Eric waited until the compound gates where closed and the gate keepers took there hiding places, as the rest of our Family staying behind took positions over the grounds, on full alert. One nod and the air was filled with growls and roars from the weres as they raced off in there groups and our vampires flashed out of sight, dust swirled as wings beat hard lifting their owners high into the sky, finally it was only Andy and I.

"Are you ok Andy?"

"No one would believe me if I told them any of this was real, but if they find those kids, I'll prey to the all might and thank him for sending them to Bon Temps."

"That's great, but you need to get me to where the little boy's jacket was found, ok?"

Andy opened the passenger's door and raced around to the driver's side, 8 minutes into the drive I had taken a calls from Alcide, they had located a trail from wolves, and this wasn't good. Eric also called reporting they'd found the scent of a large werewolf park, they didn't know about and it was heading west.

"Andy, where is the drained vampires?"

"She's still where we found her, next to the area the jacket was found. We didn't want to move her and we had nowhere to take her if we did." Replied the embarrassed Sheriff.

I pushed my suspicion to Eric, that the vampire could have been drained by the werewolves and told Andy if he had anyone near the vampire, to get the area cleared fast, 2 minutes later Andy was sending his deputy back to the station and we were pulling up to an open carpark near a kids play ground, when Andy suddenly stabbed the breaks hard making my belt lock and almost choke me, I gave him a dirty look but then nodded as I saw Aurora had dropped from the sky cracking the pavement with her landing. He couldn't stop apologising as we climbed from the car, but the poor guy just couldn't catch a break, Bastian and Godric raced pass sending his hat flying and then his car alarm started screaming due to Stark landing so close to me wings spread that my hair whipped around like a tornado. I know my family weren't doing this on purpose but if they didn't calm down poor Andy was going to have a heart attack, Bastian and Godric reappeared as quickly as they'd raced pass, but now they were carrying a beautiful red haired vampire. I had seen her around the club a few times and when Eric and Pam appeared calling her Harper, Pam eyes became murderous.

"Harper would no sooner, hurt a human child than she would her own child, Aurora anything." asked Pam as she brushing Harper's hair out of her eye.

The vampire truly must be on the verge of death if Aurora couldn't get a clear read on her mind, but hope shone, when the vampire's eyes moved ever so slightly. Pam shoot me a look, then glared at Andy.

"Ah, Andy we need you to do something?" I asked

"Anything, I can do it." He replied hopeful to be able to help.

"We need to feed Harper to find out what she saw."

"We tried to feed her true blood, but if you can get her to drink, I run down the…."

The poor man mumbled off as the realisation of what we needed him to do sank in, god bless him. He pulled out his handkerchief, whipped his brow and step forward, Pam was gentle when she bit into his wrist and pressed it to Harper's mouth. At first nothing happened and Andy's blood was spilling down Harper's cheeks, but went Aurora growled at the poor vampire. Harper's eyes flashed and she swallowed mouth full after mouth of blood. Pam pulled Andy's wrist away before too much blood was taken, giving it a quick lick to heal the wound. It was clear from the look in Harper's eyes she'd live, it maybe a long recovery, but she'd live. Aurora stepped forward looked the vampire straight in the eyes, I could see from the small movements of Aurora's head she was sorting through Harper's memories.

"It's a pack of twenty three wolves, feral looking, unwashed blood addicts. They've taken the children and their baby sitter, Harper tried to stop them, but their hyped up on vampire blood, they seem like a virus, they fuck, feed and steel as they move through smaller towns. I'm sure the female baby sitter will already be dead from what Harper saw, if not she'll want to be, it's bad Eric. The children, we have hope. Harper over heard them taking that they'd keep them until they can find a buyer." Said Aurora as she cupped Harper's cheek elongating her fangs and purred 'I'm going to tear them apart piece by piece, I'll make them scream for you' A blood tear drop from Harper's eyes as Erebus landed and Bastian passed her to the god.

"Take her to the farm house, Eric will arrange for feeders to arrive, but keep her in the safe rooms just encase." Said Godric as Erebus took to the sky and Eric was barking orders into his phone.

Aurora, Bastian and Stark looked at each other, and a terrifying smile spreading across their faces, no matter how beautiful they were, they were killers and Andy was seeing it firsthand. 2 seconds later a werewolf called out and it was so loud and powerful, if was definitely one of the mail men. 'Go' spat Pam, as she dragged Andy and myself into the Police cruiser and with tires screeching, she raced us down the road lights flashing, follow Eric, Bastian and Godric. Andy didn't even have time to complain or buckle his belt, death defying speed and five or six sharp turns later and we were in front of a rundown bike shop and from the looks on the faces of my family Aurora had shared what she'd seen, The Shreveport pack had heard the call and we now had 18 werewolves including ours and they were all growling and foaming at the mouth ready to kill, the Hot Shots Panthers weren't much better. Their fur bristled and they clawed at the ground huffing. Our winged killers eyes were locked on the building, just waiting for the word, Pam left us in the car racing over to Eric, Bastian and Godric, who were smiling at the werewolf staring out of the shop front window at the army about to crash down upon them.

"What are they waiting for?" asked Andy climbing from the car pulling his gun from it holster.

"They are trying to provoke the werewolves to attack or run. If we charge in we risk the children getting hurt, Trust me Andy. Eric and Godric are very skilled at this type warfare." And thank the gods, due to our telepathic connection, Eric's plan was being feed to my mind as I'm sure Aurora was feeding it to everyone else in the group

I watched as Godric gave Aurora and Yannick a nod and they stepped out of line, letting their wings ignite into flames pacing back and forth in front of the windows, like caged lions, the wolves started barking, the sound of their teeth snapping shut sent shivers down my spine. Stark, Kellan and Gerard tapped their words on their legs, but it was when Preston appeared beside me that I jumped worse than Andy.

"Let's go save some human children shale we little sister."

I quickly shot Eric a look and he gave me a sharp nod, they were causing a distraction so Preston and I could shimmer the children to safety and it made sense to send me, the kids both knew me and would feel safe, and of Aurora's mates Preston had the least supernatural features, if you could ignore the pointed ears. Kai appeared next to Andy, giving me a nod, that he'd watch over him. Gerard stepped up the show, slamming his fist into the round making the whole shop shake from the foundations. Preston grabbed my hand and we shimmered in, the smell was terrible, petrol, urine, smoke and god knows what else. Thanks to Preston we didn't keep form for more than second in each area, as we searched for the children. But it was almost pointless, as every wolf in that building had their full attention of the group out the front, calling for a fight. We found the children on the third try and the sight was indescribable, curled up next to a dead young woman who had more clothes ripped off her body than on was the bruised and bloody pair. I whispered Cody's name and his terrified eyes looked up at me with a glimpse of hope, I smiled and stepped closure reaching out my hand, when I gruff voice screamed 'GET THEM' in our direction, we raced forward and had the children in our grasps, as death was called upon for their captors. Preston and I shimmered out as the shop started to crumble around us, we reappeared where we had left Andy and the look on his face said it all, I turned to see the Panthers ripping in to a werewolf that had tried to run, still in human form. The shop front had collapsed from something, I was guessing it was Gerard. You could see the brutal attacks causing the screams from our enemies. My family and friends released their true natures, blood thirsty, cruel, killers, directed towards anyone that would hurt children. Preston nodded to Kai and the Elf smiled as he raced off to inflict his our torture. Aurora, Yannick, Kellan, Gerard and Bastian where circling and blocking the feral wolves, feeding them towards our wolves, panthers and vampires. Andy squeaked in horror as Aurora grabbed a wolf trying to shift, she spun behind him grabbing his shoulders reefing them back so hard you heard his back snap, even over the battles raging around them, a small red brown wolf backed up two steps and lunged at the screaming wolf Aurora had pinned, I even took a quick gulp of air as the small wolf ripped the stomach and intestines from the shaking body. Aurora dropped the dead body and danced her fingers through the wolf's fur. The pair stayed close and attacked as a duo again at the first possible victim, not that the little wolf looked like it needed help, it just seem to thrive battling beside Aurora.

"Sookie, one of them has to live." Said Andy clearing his throat.

"They all must die." Spat Preston holding the terrified little girl

"They should, but didn't Aurora say they killed Lacey, we have to arrest someone for the crime, or how are we going to explain all this. Any bodies pulled from that mess are going to be shredded" Said Andy waving his hands.

I hated it but he had a point, the young woman's body was still in the shop and her family would want someone to pay. Preston handed me Cody's little sister, Catlin who had been wrapped around the Fairy like he was her life line and he went in search of a survivor. Andy pulled a blanket from the back of the police car and wrapped it around the children shaking in my arms. I became super alert when two black SUV's came skidding to a holt next to us, but the second Rai and Chow climbed out carrying two huge black duffel bags I knew Eric had called them. Dropping the bags the pair moved close to me going into security mode, giving Andy a look that said take a few steps back, if you want to live. When the children caught sight of them and started to panic, Rai took pity on them, giving Chow a nod he lowered himself to his knees and address the children.

"I know you are scared little ones, you have been through something that no one should have to suffer, but you have to know if Sookie is letting us this close to you she must trust us and I can promise you we may look scary but there is scary good and scary bad. Chow and I are scary good and we will protect you and Sookie from anything scary bad, pinkie promise."

Tears filled my eyes, when Caitlin sniffed looking up at me and I nodded in agreement, the sweet little girl wiped her noise on her sleeve and rushed into the shocked vampires arms. Rai tried to hide the amazement on his face as he stood tall holding the little girl as tight as he could, without hurting her. Cody was a little unsure. But Chow pulled back his ankle length leather coat and the boy jump at the opportunity to hide away. He scurried next to the vampire wrapping this arms around his thigh as Chow pulled the coat around him. All that was left was a pair of tiny bright blue sneaker next to Chow's heavy black arm boots.

Preston came strolling out of the rubble with the little red brown wolf on his left, Aurora at his right with his arms wrapped around her hip, beside her begin dragged by its scruff was a badly beaten wolf. She tossed it at Andy's feet and the poor sheriff looked horrified, the beaten wolf tried to move but the little wolf lunged forward biting hard into its hind leg.

"What am I going to do with that?" asked Andy

"It'll change back soon." Said Preston matter of fact.

Gerard, Yannick, Kellan, Kai, Stark, Bastian, Godric, Pam and Eric strolled over to us leaning up against the SUV's. No one really said anything as we waited for the panthers and werewolves to finish of the rest of the feral werewolves. It wasn't until three extremely large pitch black werewolves walked up to Preston and Aurora, one pushing his muzzle between the pair, giving Aurora's hand a lick that the tension was broken. Preston took off his shirt, which made Andy blush, handing it down to the little red brown wolf. It gave a little yip and it took the shirt and walked behind the cars to charged. Aurora twisted her fingers into the fur of the wolf next to her and the pair as well as the other two large wolves walk off down the road for some privacy to change. I chuckled when one of the wolves barked at Pam and she pointed to the duffel bags Rai and Chow had brought, the wolf nodded its head walking over and dragged them off followed by the remaining wolves and panthers.

Pam struggled to keep her face straight as Jasper, Jason, Calvin, Laura Jane and the Shreveport pack emerged from the darkness covered in Fangtasia sweat pants and T shirts.

"You think you funny don't you Pamela?" asked Alcide with a smirk on his face.

"Where else was I going to get so many clothes at short notice?" Giggle Pam in reply

There back and forth continued as Aurora and the Mailmen reappeared and it was obvious she has gifted them leather pants, boots and black shirt, which only got shouts of 'Not far' or 'Why isn't my arse in leather" witty comments. A petit young woman now covered in Preston shirt popped from behind the cars next to Aurora and smiled brightly when Aurora rested her arm over her shoulder, giving her hip a bump.

I didn't know if it was good or bad that Cody and Caitlin hadn't said a word, but it was looking promising that Cody's little face would pop out from behind Chow's jacket to look at who was laughing or making jokes. Caitlin was watching everyone very closely with her head resting on Rai's shoulder.

"So what do we do now?" asked Andy

"I'm thinking drinks and BBQ at the compound." Replied Jasper pulling his phone from his pocket.

"It's still a wolf." Said Preston giving the wimping animal a kick.

"He's not stupid, he'll hold that form as long as he can." Spat Dartagnan

"Can you even arrest a wolf, wont it change on the full moon in jail?" I asked.

"The cop should shoot it in the head, it'll change back and you have your bad guy." Said the young woman at Aurora said I now knew as Maria.

"It not a bad idea, Bellefluer can say he short him as he was trying to escape." said Alcide

"I can't just shoot someone." Replied Andy

"Really, would you like me to show you what they did to the kid's babysitter?" Said Preston.

Andy gave Preston a nod and followed the Fairy into the semi demolished bike shop, not 2 minutes passed and Andy came storming out pulling his gun ready to kill. He stop in front of the whimpering wolf kicking it in the head, screaming why.

"Wait until we leave." Said Chow quickly picking up the shaking young boy.

It was decided, Eric and Godric would stay with Andy just encase the wolf tried to attached once we all left. And a cleaning crew need to be called to clean up the bodies of the dead wolves. Everyone was heading back to the compound, where Andy would bring Holly to collect her kids. Pam, Rai, Chow and Myself climbed into one of the SUV's with the children. Calvin, Laura Jane, Jason, Nick, Jasper and Isaac filled the second, the rest of our group closed around Kellan and once Preston put his hand on his shoulder, Chow nudged Cody and they vanished from sight making the little body gasp 'WOW'.