Eric looked at the clock and knew he had to leave. He climbed out of bed and covered Sawyer with the sheets. He grabbed his jeans from the floor and pulled them on. He looked around for his shirt and found it. He knew his jacket and shoes were still in the bathroom. He leaned down and kissed her gently on the lips. She sighed and reached out and grabbed a hold of his shirt.

"Don't go," was what he was sure she wanted to say but all he heard was a mass of syllables and groans. He kissed her again and pulled away.

"It'll be dawn soon. I will see you tonight," he told her.

"Don't die," she replied.

"I was not planning on it."

Eric backed out of the room watching her. He then went into the washroom grabbed his jacket and shoes and left. He hated leaving her there while he went to the ground. He didn't have a choice though. He couldn't change her while she was pregnant and he wasn't even sure he would if she wasn't. He sighed and pulled on his jacket as he walked out the front door. He had a lot on his plate at the moment so it was best to just leave thoughts of turning her to the side for now.

Sawyer screamed as the whip hit her back again. She could hear her father behind her laughing. She closed her eyes and told herself that it would be over soon. That he would have to stop eventually. She screamed as he hit her again. She looked across the room and saw her mother sitting there watching it not saying a word against it. Sawyer had wanted to believe that she was loved by her parents but she knew different in that moment. They didn't love her; they loathed her.

"Now, Sawyer are you going to teach your brother how to move things?" Eve asked getting up and walking over to her daughter.

"I told you, it can't be taught, Momma. I just have it and he doesn't," she answered truthfully.

"Kris, again."

"Now, Evie maybe she is telling the truth," her father said. Sawyer felt tears rolling down her cheeks. He always tried to show he cared but she knew differently. After all he was the one holding the whip, wasn't he?

"She is lying, Kris. They are twins, if she has powers he would have them too. Make her tells us."

"Please, Daddy, don't. Please," Sawyer cried.

"I'm sorry, Sawyer, baby but I have too."

"No!"

Sawyer bolted up in bed sweating. She felt her heart pounding. She felt the sun shining on her but she felt cold inside. She heard her cell phone ring and reached for it on the nightstand. She answered it.

"Hello," she said.

"Vacker, are you alright?" she heard Eric's voice telling her.

"Eric? Shouldn't you be sleeping?" she asked looking at her clock.

"I was until I sensed your fear. Now, are you alright?"

"I'm fine. It was a nightmare."

"Do you have these often?"

"I think you should be sleeping and not wasting your time talking to me."

"Sawyer-."

"Night, Eric."

Sawyer hung up then turned off her cell phone. She quickly climbed out of bed and looked at the clock. She had seven hours tops before the sun went down and she had an angry vampire looking for her. She had to act fast.

Jason stood in the drug store looking at the condoms on the shelves. He really couldn't decide which kind he was in the mood for. He could just buy a box of the old regulars but Magnums sounded good. Hmmm, he never really was good at making decisions. He turned and saw Sawyer rush into the store. She wore a pair of blue jeans that hugged her in all the right places. And the knee high black spiked heels made it all the more better. He looked up and saw that she was wearing a grey racer back tank top with no bra.

"There is a Jesus," he said walking over to her as she reached the counter.

"I need prenatal vitamins and B12 please," she said digging in her bag for her wallet.

"It'll be a few minutes-," the pharmacist said.

"Please, I'm in a hurry."

"Where you going?"

Sawyer jumped about two feet when she heard Jason behind her. She had really been hoping to get out of town without seeing anyone she knew. She turned and looked at Jason and really wished she could glamour people like vampires did. It would make the whole sneaking away thing so much easier.

"I am going to visit family," she said.

"Really? Where?"

"Dayton, Ohio," Sawyer lied. She didn't want Jason knowing where she was really going. It was none of his business.

"Why such the rush?" Jason asked watching as her chest moved up and down as she breathed.

"My mother is sick. Jason, you do realize I am pregnant, right?" Sawyer demanded finding her wallet in her bag.

"Yeah, but... I heard that that's when women enjoy sex the most."

"Oh, I agree. Especially if it's sex with a six four, blond haired, blue eyed Viking."

"Damn, and I was so close."

"You really were, Jason you really were."

"Miss, it's ready."

Sawyer turned and opened her wallet placing money on the counter. She took the bag from the pharmacist and quickly left the store. She climbed into the Jeep and quickly got on the road. She knew she could get into Shreveport and catch a plane to Tulsa in no time. She knew this was crazy, suicidal and if Eric caught her she'd be dead but this was her fight. Her mother and brother were targeting her friends and she wasn't going to sit back and let it happen. She wouldn't let herself be helpless again like she had been in her nightmare. She thought about Griffin and what she had done to him. It sickened her to the core that she had killed someone but if she could kill him then she could kill her brother. And if her brother was gone, her mother would walk right into her hand.

Sookie walked in her house and knew right away that it was too quiet. Sawyer always played music when she was at home. She told Sookie she hated the silence. Sookie walked up the stairs and to Sawyer's room.

"Sawyer?" she asked pushing opening the door. She stood there shocked.

The closet stood empty and all of Sawyer's things were gone. Sookie pulled out her cell phone about to call Andy when she heard the door open and closed downstairs. She turned and ran back downstairs. She stopped when she saw Jason standing there.

"Hey, Sookie," he said.

"Jason, have you seen Sawyer?" Sookie asked.

"Yeah, I saw her at the drug store. She said she was leaving to go visit family."

"Fuck, did she say where?"

Jason looked at his sister shocked. It was very rare that Sookie would swear. He was even more shocked when she grabbed him by the shirt and shoved him against the wall. He looked at her and wondered if she had lost her mind.

"Jason, did she say where she was going?" Sookie demanded.

"Dayton, Ohio."

"Shit!"

Sookie turned and ran out of the house. She was headed over to Bill's to wait for sunset. When he got up she would tell him that they had another problem on their hands. Sookie knew that Sawyer had probably gone after her family on her own but Sookie couldn't let her do that. Sawyer was her friend and she would be damned if Sookie let her do this alone.

Sawyer sat on the plane and looked down at the notebook in front of her. She thought about Eric and how his skin felt against hers. She closed her eyes and let a tears fall. She wiped her tears away and suddenly for the first time in over a year, she had an idea about what to write about. She placed her pen on the paper and started writing about Eric. She knew what her next book was going to be about. Her character Mercy was about to fall in love with a thousand year old vampire.

She remembered where she had last left Mercy. Sawyer had left her character standing at the grave of Mercy's grandfather and Sawyer had really thought that that had been it. She didn't think she would ever be able to write another Mercy Cross novel again. And then she had met Eric. She still couldn't understand how with everything that was going on in her life she still felt the pull towards him. She reached up and gently touched the bite mark on her neck and smiled. Eric had her feelings things she had never felt before. Jeremy had always treated her like she was dumb and below him. Eric treated her like an equal; although she did feel like he trying to protect her.

She looked at the notebook and sighed. She couldn't call him Eric in the book because she didn't want anyone finding out he was real. She sat back and tapped the pen against her lip and thought about another name for him. She needed a name that sounded like a Viking name. She slowly went through all the names in her mind but known of them seemed right. She thought about Odin but thought that that was just way too easy. She looked out the window and saw the plane flying though the clouds. She let her mind drift away and hoped that it would come to her.

Eric flipped though the file that Pam had put together on Finn Kincaid and Eve Kincaid. He looked at their driver's license photos and began to wonder if Sawyer wasn't adopted. She looked nothing like them. Finn and Eve had black hair with dark eyes. Eric closed the file when Pam walked into the room. She tossed down the real estate paper in front of him. He didn't reach it just looked up at her. He knew that she was dying to say something.

"Go ahead, say it," he said lifting up his feet and crossing them on the corner of the desk and leaning back in his chair.

"You are going to move to Bon Temps for a human?" Pam demanded crossing her arms across her chest and looking at him.

"No, I am moving to Bon Temps for my human. She has the tendency to get into trouble."

"It makes you look weak to all the vampires. You are... You're turning into Bill."

Pam watched as Eric pulled his feet off then stood up. He straightened his grey suit jacket and looked at her. She looked up at him waiting for him to deny it; to say that he wasn't becoming weak. He didn't say anything though. He just walked to the door to the office and walked out. She followed him as he walked out into the club. Yvetta was there standing by the stripper pole waiting for Eric. She smiled at him. Pam stood back and waited to see what Eric would do.

"I dance for you now," Yvetta said.

"Actually, Yvetta there has been a change of plans," Eric started.

"There has been?" Pam questioned earning her a look from Eric.

"You will no longer be needing your services. You can leave."

"What?" Yvetta and Pam asked at the same time.

"Good help is so hard to find," Eric sighed pinching the bridge of his nose.

"What did you do?" Sookie yelled walking into the club with Bill following her.

"Hello, Sookie nice to see you too."

Sookie slapped Eric across the face. She stared at him and watched as he turned and looked at her. She was angry and thought that he had something to do with the reason Sawyer left. He had to because he had spent the night before with her. Sookie watched as Eric looked at Pam and nodded. Pam sighed and took Yvetta's arm pulling her out of the club and to the door.

"Where is Sawyer?" Sookie asked.

"I have no idea. Isn't she with you?" Eric asked confused.

"She left without a word and told Jason she was going to visit her family in Ohio," Bill said sitting at the bar.

"And I want to know what you did," Sookie said poking Eric in the chest.

"I did not do anything. A better question would be what did you do," Eric stated glaring at her.

"Me? I am her friend! Unlike you, I care about her!"

"Are you saying that I do not care?"

Bill watched as Pam walked over to the bar. He watched as she put two bottles of Tru Blood in the microwave. He turned and watched as Eric and Sookie traded insults back and forth and sighed. He really wished that Eric and Sookie could get along. Bill knew better than anyone else how much of a pain that Eric could be but he knew that it was worse if you let him get to you. He turned when Pam set a Tru Blood in front of him. He looked at her.

"Thank you, Pam," he said.

"You're welcome. You know, sometimes I wish they had figured out how to add alcohol to these things."

"I know what you mean."

"I had nothing to do with her leaving, Sookie," Eric said.

"I call bullshit!" Sookie yelled.

"You can call bullshit all you want, but it is the truth."

"And why should I believe you? You don't care about anybody but yourself."

"Not anymore. I care about her and if she is missing, I promise you Sookie, I will find her."

"I don't trust you to find her, Eric. One minute you can do something selfless and kind but I know you, in the next moment you are doing something underhanded and cruel. I wish I could have the trust in you that Sawyer has but I can't. I know you better than she does."

Before Eric could respond, Bill's cell phone went off indicating he had a text message. All heads turned to him as he pulled out his cell phone and flipped it open. He looked at the message and frowned. Eric walked over to him and took the phone. He read the message as well. Bill, call me this number in 10 min. Dont tell E. Sawyer. After the message there was a phone number. Eric looked at Bill but he shrugged.

"I don't know where she went or why she's calling me, Eric," he said.

"She is my human, Bill. How would feel if Sookie called me for help?"

"Pigs would fly in hell first," Sookie said walking over to them.

"I believe the lady gave you your answer."

Sawyer sat on the floor in the washroom of the cheapest motel she could find in Tulsa. She looked at the phone sitting in front of her on the floor. She turned and threw up in the toilet again. She was finding out that her morning sickness really didn't happen in the morning. Instead it happened in the evening. She sighed and wiped her mouth with the towel and tried not to think about when the last time they might have been washed was. She grabbed the phone when it rang and put it to her ear.

"Hey, Bill," she said softly.

"Sawyer, where are you?" Bill asked.

"Hawaii, I need a vacay, you know."

"We are really worried about you here. Please, just tell us that you are alright."

"Dammit Bill, why do you have to be so much of a gentleman?"

"I need to find a way to counter Eric's good looks."

Sawyer laughed. She sat there and laughed feeling tears rolling down her cheeks. And then her laughter turned into sobs. She cried wishing that she didn't have to be alone anymore but knew that she needed to keep her friends safe. She rested her head against the wall and closed her eyes.

"Tell Sookie and Eric I'm sorry but I need to do this on my own. They will come after you guys because... Well, because you are my family now," Sawyer said.

"Sawyer, you do know that we will not sit back and let you do this alone. In fact we will probably split up and get ourselves into more trouble looking for you. You do not have to do this alone."

"Bill, you love Sookie, right?"

"Yes, but-."

"I love Eric. I know you would do everything you could to protect Sookie. Well, I am trying to do the same thing for Eric. I don't know how it is that in the span of a few weeks I love him but I do. I can't lose him; he is the best thing I got going for me right now. Just... Keep him and Sookie there. I don't care what you have to do, just keep them there and safe."

Bill sighed, "You have left me with the most impossible job, you do realize that?"

"Bill, if anyone can do it, you can. I got faith in you."

"Be safe, Sawyer."

"I will. And Bill... Don't tell Eric I love him. I just... I don't want him thinking that I'm a weak human full of emotion."

"I doubt that he will care."

"He will. I'll... I'll call you tomorrow night... If I can."

"You better."

Sawyer hung up and curled up on the floor in a ball. She started sobbing and knew that she had to let everything go tonight. She couldn't put her plan into motion if she was a crying basket case. She had to let everything go and close herself off to emotions. Finn didn't feel emotions and if she was ever going to have a chance to beat him she had to be the same way.

Eric watched as Bill closed the phone. All he could think of was Sawyer's words. She loved him. He couldn't remember the last person who had said they loved him and meant it. He had over the centuries slept with and sometimes killed many women who had claimed to love him but the moment they had discovered who he really was they had turned their back on him. Sawyer knew who he really was and still loved him. Even though she knew that he might never love her back. He looked up at Bill.

"You and Sookie head to Dallas and give Isabel this file about the Kincaids. I will go to Tulsa," he said.

"How do you know she is there?" Sookie asked.

"She is thinking like a warrior. If she attacks her brother, her mother will turn her attention away from us and go there. It... It is something I would do."

Bill, Sookie and Pam watched as Eric walked to the office and slammed the door. Pam looked at Bill and Sookie and sighed. She had never seen Eric like this. She wanted to hate the human girl who had done this to him but hearing Sawyer on the speaker phone she had come to realize that the girl loved Eric. Pam couldn't argue with that; she would stand beside anyone who loved Eric even if it was a human.

"So, guess I should start packing," Pam said.

"You aren't coming with us," Sookie said.

"Not with you, sugar but with Eric. Can't let that big hunk of man do something stupid without me, now can I?"

Sookie watched as Pam drank the rest of her Tru Blood and left the room. She looked at Bill and he just smiled at her. For once he wasn't arguing with her that she shouldn't do this, that it was too dangerous. He would let her try to help her friend and that was what Sookie loved about him. She wrapped her arm around him and held him close to her. That was the reason she knew that they would be happy together. If only she had the same faith that Eric and Sawyer would be happy as well.