Chapter 41: How could she do this?

A/N: Wow can you guys believe it is already Chapter 41? It has been a long road, and still have a long way to go. Read and Review please?

Everything was a haze as I drove away from the burning building. I had no idea where I was driving to and realized it was the beach as I finally stopped the car after a while. Everyone got out and went their own ways while panicking.

But my mind was a mess. This was it. Danalynne was dead, she was not coming back.

My mind jumped back to the time she was down in Fangtasia's basement and I snapped her neck but she came back to life. But that won't happen this time. Bill killed her. BILL. I had to kill Bill. I had to stake that son of a bitch, get revenge for the woman I loved.

If someone told me twenty years ago that I would want to marry and actually settle down with a human I would have told them to fuck off.

But right at this moment I would give everything to see her again or better yet hold her in my arms. I chuckled as I felt a tear run down my face, it took a fucking human girl to break me. And it wasn't even fucking Sookie Stackhouse…what I saw in Sookie I could never understand because compared to Danalynne… Sookie was like a sand grain on this beach and Danalynne was the whole ocean.

I still wanted to see her walking towards me on our wedding day and then finally see her waking up the first night of our forever. I was going to turn her on our wedding night, but now that will never happen.

'How am I going to tell Godric?' I asked myself and shook my head. Surely he felt her die and he will be here in a few hours. Having no idea where he was I couldn't pin point how long he would take to get here.

I can't go back to that building because I know there is nothing left, just ashes. There isn't even a body that we can bury.

I have to make sure everything will be perfect, I have to decide what to do with her things…I have to…I need to kill Bill.

He is the reason she is gone and never coming back, I will kill him even if it means I will die trying.

There was yelling behind me and it finally made me focus on what was going on around me. I listened as Jessica said that Bill was calling her and Sookie asking if no one was going to stop her so I moved in front of her and held her back.

Blood came bubbling up and out of her mouth until she vomited all of the blood over me.

"Lovely…" I said as I felt the blood soak the entire upper half of my body. "Sorry…" Jessica said as she continued to bring blood up. She fell to the ground clutching her heart saying it was as if Bill was squeezing her heart.

I have never seen anything like it before, not even Godric's pull was this harsh and he was more than two thousand years old.

Sookie and Jessica decided that they were going and Tara was going to follow before I pulled her back by her ponytail and thrusted her into Pam's arms. Telling them to go back to the bar and wait there for us.

After they were gone I started walking forwards with Nora behind me. "You know this is a suicide mission" Nora said but I kept walking on.

"Eric now we can go somewhere far away. Somewhere where he won't be able to find us" Nora said as she grabbed my arm, stopping me.

"Nora if you want to go, then go. But I have to do this for her" I said to her and turned back around to walk again but Nora ran in front of me. "Eric she was a fucking human. If you want another warm pussy we can get you another one" she said to me and in half a second my hand was wrapped around her throat.

"She wasn't just some human pussy Nora! I loved her with everything I had, I was going to marry her and then turn her" I yelled in her face and saw her frowning up at me.

"I expected this from Godric, not you" Nora said to me and I removed my hand from her throat. "Shut the fuck up and help me or get lost" I said to her and flew up into the sky, feeling gratitude as I heard Nora following me.

As Nora and I came closer to Bills' house we saw both Sookie and Jessica holding stakes as they walked towards Bill on the second floors' porch.

Nora went first and tried to stake Bill but he simply caught her and threw her behind him into the wooden banister. While he was distracted I flew into him and tried to stake him but he pinned me against the wooden post and held on to me, stopping me from staking him.

But what happened next shocked everyone. A stake plunged straight thru Bills chest by the hand of Sookie Stackhouse. She actually staked him to save me.

Bill stared down at the stake and then gripped it with both hands, pulling it out.

Bill somehow must have taken Danalynne's powers because that was something she always did. My anger woke up with a vengeance but as if Bill knew, he looked at me and shook his head.

"Now can we talk?" he said as he threw the bloody stake down.

"I brought you all here tonight so that you could see for yourselves, I am no monster. I do not wish any of you harm. But if you force me to defend myself again, you will be sorry" Bill said and stared at Sookie while saying the last part.

"What are you?" Sookie asked and Nora followed with "Are you Lilith?" and I know all of us were wondering the same things.

"I am Bill Compton. But clearly something more. I see that now, I see everything so differently now." Bill said and I frowned as I walked towards him, holding my stake close.

"You say you mean us no harm…what about Danalynne? She was protecting all of us, your child included. And you what…took her powers and killed her" I said to him and watched as he turned towards me. Giving me his full attention.

"Eric I was protecting myself. She was a very powerful being, and you should be thanking me that I took 'care' of her" Bill said using air quotes for the part of taking care of her.

"Thank you? Thank you for killing the woman I loved and ripped her out of my life, thus ripping my heart out. Just as you loved Sookie, I loved Danalynne and you have the decency to say that I should thank you?" I yelled at Bill. Ready to kill him even if it meant that I would die in the progress.

"Eric she killed Godric. Her own words to me was that she was able to kill a two thousand year old vampire" Bill said to me and I heard both Sookie and Nora gasp but I shook my head at him.

"You are lying. Godric is still alive, and she would never hurt him. She loved him too much for that" I said to him and I could see the pity in Bills eyes, making me wonder if it could be true.

"Eric when was the last time you saw Godric? She told me. She told me to go see for myself. In your house, down in the secrete basement…the second coffin. I suspect there will be more bodies in the other coffins. I truly am sorry for your loss Eric" Bill said and I took a step back, feeling as if my chest was caving in.

It had to be true, there was no way Bill could know of the basement or the coffins. Nora grabbed my arm and pulled me next to her. "It can't be true…right Eric? Godric cannot be dead?" Nora asked me but I just stared at Bill in shock.

Bill turned back towards Jessica and Sookie and then sighed.

"The fear in your eyes, I know I put that there, but I promise you the man who did that to you is gone" Bill said as he looked at Jessica. Trying to get her to trust him.

"That's right, Bill Compton is gone. He died, I felt it. So whatever the hell you are, if you really mean us no harm then prove it. Stay away from Jessica. From all of us. Leave Bon Temps tonight and never come back." Sookie said with tears in her eyes.

"No!" Jessica called out as she threw her stake down.

"Bill is staying and so am I, you are the ones who should leave" Jessica said and I frowned at her. "Jess I am not leaving you here…" Sookie hissed out but Jessica shook her head.

"He's my maker! You will never understand" Jessica said and I knew what she meant. One would do anything for your maker.

"This is not Bill" Sookie tried again but I could see that Jessica would have none of it.

"You don't know that, you can't know that. None of you can. All of you just want to kill and ask questions later. You told me that you loved him and then you staked him…how could you?" Jessica asked with disbelieve showing in her face and voice.

Jessica then dropped her fangs which made both me and Nora also drop our own fangs, hissing at her.

"I want you to get out now, all of you" Jessica said and Sookie grabbed Jessica's arm but she wrenched it away from her.

"Get out now!" Jessica growled and Bill nodded as he looked at her. "You heard her, get out" Bill said just as the house started shaking, all because of Bills new found powers.

Nora and I walked with Sookie back to her house, making sure she got there safely. I was glad that Nora knew to keep her distance because I had to think about everything Bill said to me.

As soon as I got inside of Sookie's house I asked her for a pen and paper. Giving her the house back, because I needed to cut all ties with her.

"Eric I am really sorry about Godric. I am appalled that she would do something like that" Sookie said to me as he rubbed my arm. I only merely nodded at her and I think that she got the message that I wasn't in the mood to talk.

"Thanks for everything but I have to recent your invitation." She said and I felt a force pull me out of the house. Sookie shut the door and I watched as she walked up the stairs, going on with her life.

I knew I was putting off going back to my house. I didn't want it to be real. But I knew that I had to go home and see for myself.

Nora silently followed me, and I was sure her mind was also running around thinking of Godric.

We made it to my house in no time and when we walked thru the door I saw some of Danalynne's things lying around there. Frowning down at the things I walked to wards the secrete door, still thinking of the things lying around. The maids should have cleaned that up by now unless… Danalynne was not dead and she came back home.

No that should be impossible…but maybe just maybe she did survive the new Bill.

I was frozen in front of the door, my hand holding on tightly around the door knob.

"Eric…" Nora called out to me and it shook me out of the confusion. I sighed even though it was not necessary. As soon as I opened the door Nora gasped and covered her mouth.

"Oh God, what is that smell Eric?" she asked me and I already knew the answer. Bodies. Decomposing bodies smell like that. I told myself not to breathe and turned towards Nora. "Nora stay here. I will come back up and let you know what I find" I told her and I already knew her stubborn headedness would not listen to me, and I was in no state to argue so when she shook her head and was about to argue I nodded and said 'fine'.

I went down the stairs with Nora following me, and as we descended the stench became stronger and stronger. I was glad that I didn't feed recently.

I walked around the corner and saw three bodies lying on top of each other. That is why the house was not cleaned in a while. All three of my maids were lying there with their throats cut opened. They were dead and from the state of them I would say for about a month or two.

It was right about the time I was taken to the authority with Bill. Before we found Russell Edgington in the hospital.

I shook my head and stalked forward with apprehension and came to a stop by the second coffin. I bent down and pulled on the top lid of the coffin and pulled it all the way open.

The moment I saw Godric laying there I didn't know what to think. Because he was fine, he was there. "Oh thank God. Father you are here, you are okay" I said to him and heard Nora fall to her knees. I could feel she was ecstatic that Godric was okay.

"Father? Godric it is still night time…" I said and shook him but he was just lying there. That was when I noticed the red spot on his shirt. As I moved the shirt to the side I saw a gaping hole where his heart used to be.

I cried out as I fell to my knees not believing what I was seeing. Godric…our father was really gone. Danalynne really killed him. She ripped his heart out and kept him in this state just to torment me.

"No! No no no…Father please. Come back, we still need you. Please Godric…" I cried out brokenly, not knowing what to do. Nora was sobbing behind me and although she was crying out loud I felt most of the hurt. I didn't even try to stop the tears from cascading down my cheeks, they freely fell on top of Godric.

How could she do this to me? How could she do this to Him?

We both sat there on our knees, mourning for a great loss in our life. And at that moment I was lost, I didn't know what to do.

"Eric?" a weak voice asked behind me which was not Nora's.

As I slowly turned my bloody eyes towards the voice, I saw the first coffin in the basement open only a little bit, but even with the little light down here I could clearly make out Maggie.

"What are you doing down here?" I asked her and sped over to her to help her open the coffin she was in.

"She…Danalynne, I knew she would turn bad so I came to stop it but it was already too late. She got the upper hand on me and put some kind of sleeping spell on me. I've woken up twice but each time she just douses me with more. Eric…Godric can be brought back, I just need to…I need to go and get…" Maggie rasped out but didn't finish her sentence as her head fell back and her heart stopped completely.

"No! Maggie come on, how can we get him back?" I yelled at her but I knew it was of no use. She was dead and with her went the only hope we had of getting Godric back.

She was the only witch I knew that would help vampires. The rest would just try to kill us or try to get power over us. I closed the top lid of the coffin after laying her gently down inside of it.

I turned back to Godric's coffin to see Nora was kneeling over him, stroking his face gently.

Her face was streaked with her bloody tears and I knew now that she mostly regretted not spending more time with our father.

"Eric how could she have done this?" Nora asked me with a fresh set of tears pooling in her eyes. "I don't know Nora, but Bill killed her. There was some justice for Godric" I said to her and watched as she nodded.

"What do we do now?" she asked me and that was the same question I was asking myself.

"We bury the three bodies, and then make sure Maggie is sent back to Dallas. Isabel will know what to do with her body. As for Godric we leave him down here where he is safe. Until we find out a way to bring him back." I said to her and watched as she nodded and stood up, grabbing a body and walking up the stairs.

I walked to Godric and looked down at him. "I am sorry for failing you father. I will not stop looking for a way to bring you back until you are walking among us again" I said to Godric and laid a single kiss on his forehead before shutting the coffin.