"Thought you were working tonight," Sookie said as Jason took a seat at the far end of the bar.
"Nah, had a ton of paperwork, but I managed to get through them." He grumbled. If there was one thing Jason hated about the job, it was the amount of paperwork that went with every decision made or action taken.
"Good, want a beer?" She offered.
He shook his head. "I thought we'd spar a little tonight. I want to keep my wits about me.
"Oh sorry, I'm spending the weekend with Godric," Sookie answered with a slight blush.
"You gonna be sparring with him, ain't ya." He was feeling rather jealous. A couple of hours Godric spent with them while they trained had taught them a lot. He'd give his right arm to spend the weekend training with Godric. "Men, that sucks ass." He grumbled. He clocked Thalia walking through the bar and immediately remembered Godric's advice about his knife. Like magic, his knife appeared, and he started twirling it. Sookie had no idea why he would do that in public but shrugged and went back to wiping down the bar.
"What is going on?" Sookie asked as she noticed Godric at the bar staring in the direction of Jason who now had Thalia for company.
"Your brother is trying to earn Thalia's affections," Godric said with a smile.
"Of all the women, vampire or human on God's planet... he chooses the one that could rip him in half if he so much as puts a foot wrong."
"It would appear so." Godric chuckled. "Did I hear you plan on spending the weekend with me?" He was positively beaming. He had seen her bag when he picked her up but hadn't dared hope.
"I hope you like that plan." She asked as her tongue snaked out and licked her lips absentmindedly.
"I'm looking forward to your company. Although had I known I would have stocked the kitchen and fridge."
"I can get a pizza for tonight and then shop tomorrow while you are at rest."
"Okay, as long as you are happy with that, so am I."
'She can't be possibly dating a vamp... such a beautiful girl what the hell is she doing dating a vamp. Here I thought I'd give a few days and try talking to her about the church, only to find she is sleeping with a bloodsucker. She and that brother of hers need to be saved before it's too late.'
Godric could tell something had upset Sookie and when she turned her cold glare on Crystal, the new bartender, he understood. "Do you want to take your break now?"
"That is a brilliant idea." She threw the cloth down and stomped out without so much as a word to Crystal or Longshadow.
"I need to be saved... that bigoted pee-brained southern hick thinks I need to be saved. Who the fuck does she think she is?" Godric tried to stamp down on the excitement he felt from her ranting. She looked positively angry... but she had never looked more enticing.
He looked up to find her glaring at him. He cleared his throat. "She is not worth your ire." He said softly.
"You didn't hear a word I said, did you?" She looked at him knowingly.
"I..."
"We both know I'm talking about Crystal..." The name was uttered with disdain. "But not a word I said." No, he didn't.
"I didn't think this was a conversation." He argued. He was a three thousand plus-year-old vampire. His name struck fear in all vampires, and yet he was terrified of a twenty-something-year-old woman.
"Really... I didn't realize I was talking to myself." Sookie retorted.
"I... you looked incredibly... sexy..." the word sounded foreign on his tongue. "...in your anger. I lost all coherent thought as I watched the blood rush to your face..."
She was surprised he hadn't clocked on to the fact that she was milking his discomfort. She was thoroughly amused, but somehow he was so flustered he hadn't picked up on her emotions. She was far from angry with him for not listening. From the bulge in his jeans, she knew exactly where his mind had wandered. It didn't matter how old men were, if it was sexy, they would react physically. Sookie leaned back against Eric's Corvette crossing her arms. She watched as Godric stood there at a loss for words looking distinctly lost.
Back in the bar, Jason was too busy glaring at Crystal to focus on impressing Thalia. He knew his sister heard something from the bigoted mind of the bartender to have her storming off as she did after her less than friendly stare. Though he wasn't focused on the knife, he continued to move it between his fingers at increasing speed. "I can train with you... I am very proficient with every weapon except for guns. I do not like ammunition, it does not require that much skill to master." Thalia offered.
"Don't let a sniper hear you say hitting a target at two and a half thousand yards away doesn't require skill." Jason chuckled.
"That is the exception." She conceded.
"I will take you up on the training offer." Jason smiled his attention now entirely back on Thalia. Now he just had to figure out how to go from training to his bedroom.
"What weapons are you proficient in?" Thalia asked surprising Jason as he thought the conversation was over.
"I like blades, I'm pretty good with blades. I've got a good throwing arm. Arm to arm combat... I've got that down, but I'm sure I could be faster, more accurate with my punches, be more precise in my movement... I'd expend less energy with little-wasted moves. I'm a pretty good shot, although that did not take as much time to learn." He added with a chuckle. "There is always room for improvement." Thalia liked his thinking. Even after two thousand years, there were areas she could improve on. Humans who thought they were good at something so much so further education wasn't required always perplexed her. This one was proving to be full of surprises. Then again he wasn't entirely human she had noted.
Sookie and Godric walked back in, Sookie looked amused about something, and Godric looked as though someone had kicked his puppy. "Godric, you alright, you look a little..."
"I believe I have angered your sister." He whispered as though Sookie could hear him over the cacophony in the bar.
"Okay..." Jason responded in a drawl. "What did you do?" He knew from the look on Sookie's face she didn't think Godric had pissed her off.
"The new bartender angered her, and I believe I should have been listening while she was ranting and raving..." Jason threw his head back in laughter.
"Nah, you ain't in trouble... well not today anyway."
"I don't understand." Godric was indeed perplexed.
"Man, you know nothing about the fairer sex, do you?" That realization surprised Jason. "Sookie was ranting and raving and instead of listening you got all hot and bothered by the display." Godric actually looked sheepish.
"I did. Sookie looked enchanting in her anger." He admitted.
"Yeah, when a woman is mad, and it ain't at you, they look sexy as fuck since it ain't aimed at you. No man and I mean no man behaves any different than you did. She ain't really mad. I mean she is all ranting and raving, and you think she is sexy... why will she be mad at you?"
"She really was mad." Godric reiterated.
"Nah, she's just pretending to be mad. She ain't, but she's going to pretend to be so she can use it against you another time."
"I feel bewildered," Godric said with a needless sigh.
"Okay, listen." Jason sat up straight. "You might have pissed her off for a sec or two, but she probably took one look at you, and her anger waned. The thing is a woman always knows she might one day ask you for something she knows she ain't 'pose to. You going to say no and she will bring it up just to guilt you into giving her whatever she's asking for."
"I see." Godric nodded. "I was too flustered to check what I was feeling from her. Had I done that I would have figured out she was more amused by it than angry. She still amused by the whole thing." He added shaking his head with a chuckle. The girl threw him off in every way, not that he was complaining.
"Yeah, except when she decides to use it against you..."
"Let her." Godric finished.
"You catching on." Jason patted his back as he walked away.
"And how exactly can she use it against him?" Thalia asked.
Jason was about to answer when something occurred to him. She might just use that information against him if things worked out the way he was hoping for. "You know... I don't rightly know." He avoided looking at her
"We both know you are lying." She whispered, her lips touching the shell of his ear. She smirked at the shudder that went through him. She might be a feared warrior, but she was first a woman. She might not know the wiles and games the human women used to get their men, but she knew how to get a man. Hell, most of the time they came to her tongues hanging out as though they were dogs. As much as Jason had shown interest, he was respectful about it and didn't hound her in the least. Patience truly had its rewards.
Godric had arranged food to be delivered to the house by Eric's day man in the morning while he waited for Sookie to finish. "Do you plan on turning her in the near future?" Eric asked.
"No." Was Godric's simple answer much to Eric's frustration. He was hoping Godric's answer would yield some much-needed information. The Stackhouse's made no effort to hide their otherness and yet he still was none the wiser about what exactly it was.
"I don't need to tell you what will happen when she dies." Eric's voice actually showed a great deal of concern for his maker.
"It is not an issue." Before Eric could show his frustration, Sookie walked into the office.
"Ready to go?" Godric asked with a radiant smile. The idea of Sookie spending the weekend with him had delighted him greatly.
"What do you mean by it's not an issue?" Eric bellowed.
"Exactly that... it's not an issue." Godric answered in a bored tone.
"She is the sole reason you still exist, and I'm supposed to be okay with her dying. Don't think I don't smell your blood in her." Godric looked ready to rip an appendage of Eric until Sookie stepped in.
"Whatever gave you the idea I was mortal in the first place?" Eric was for once lost for words. For the first time in nearly two years, Sookie had in a way admitted she wasn't entirely human.
"Does that answer your question?" Godric's tone was a warning. Shut up.
"I believe you are taking me for pizza." Sookie teased.
"Indeed I am." Godric's furious expression faded in a split second at the sound of her voice. "Lead the way." He said following her out of the office before he did something to his childe he might later regret.
"You can just tell him," Sookie said as they waited for her pizza.
"It is not my story to tell and what business is it of his?" Sookie nodded seeing his point. If she wanted Eric to know she would have told him. "What would you like to do this weekend?" His smile lit up his face. "What would you be doing if you were at the farmhouse?" He added.
"Catch up on my reading." She said with a smirk.
"What are you reading?" He knew her answer was going to be interesting.
"The Twilight series." She chuckled when he wrinkled his nose.
"Pam, I believe is reading it as well. I read a few pages, and I will admit it is rather far removed from the truth." He said with a snort.
"Oh, I don't know... I just think you guys are jealous." She teased as she took her pizza with a smile.
"Of what." Godric almost bellowed.
"Of the fact they are near indestructible. I mean... they are not affected by silver... a stake would break on their skin and not even pierce the surface. They can walk around in the daylight as long as there isn't direct sunlight." Godric had to admit he was jealous of some of those attributes. Their weakened state during the daylight hours was particularly annoying. Though he didn't succumb as easily as young vampires, he was still locked in a sun tight room, or he'd burn. "Above all else, they have the Volturi. I mean your leaders are not feared, not as much as the Volturi are in the books."
"I have to read the book to argue your point." He said.
"I need to eat and shower. I'm sure you'd be done by then with your speed."
"I too have to shower and eat." He argued feebly.
"Godric, I have absolutely no problem using sex to get my way if you want me to play that game, I will." She threatened as they landed in his back garden.
"I will read it." He conceded.
"Good." She murmured before sauntering towards the kitchen. It was going to be an exciting night. He thought as he followed her into the kitchen.
"You are not reading." She warned looking at him over her shoulder.
He sped off. "Now I am." He called out earning a chuckle from her.