A/N This chapter is kind of short, but it is setting up for something big. Hope you guys enjoy and let me know what you think!

This was definitely an OSM. I hadn't meant to say it, I was just so glad to see him alive after what Nessa had shown me I couldn't stop myself. Now I had three options available to get me out of this right now. One, I could brush it off and try to get him to brush it off as well, two, I could own up and tell him that I meant it and hope that I didn't just make a complete jackass of myself, or three I could run and hide until dawn and hope that Eric would forget that I had said it between dawn and dusk tomorrow.

As I looked down into his eyes and saw confusion and I whole bunch of other emotions that I couldn't identify I knew that I only had one option. I jumped off the bed and ran into the bathroom to hide. I locked the door behind me, grabbed a towel to cover my still naked body and hid in the tub.

I felt silly hiding in the tub like a child, but I just couldn't face Eric right this moment. This was all happening very fast and I didn't want him to pity or humor me. I didn't want him to feel like he had to say it back, but that dream just messed with my head. Oh God, that dream! I was going to have to talk to Eric whether I wanted to or not. He needed to know about my dream.

I was so caught up in remembering my dream that I was startled when I heard Eric's voice above me. "Sookie, you can't hide in here forever."

I clutched the towel tighter around myself. "Eric, I'm so sorry. I don't know why I said what I said. I don't expect you to say it back, I just slipped out of my mouth before I could stop it and…" I was rambling and Eric shut me up in the best way possible, he pulled me to him and kissed me. I slid my arms around his neck as he kissed me and I clung to him. Seeing him get staked had really shaken me up and I felt better being close to him.

He pulled away from our kiss when I needed to breath and he gently caressed my face. "Sookie, I'm not going to lie to and say that I wasn't startled by what you said to me before, but not in the way that you think. The night you walked into Fangtasia I knew then that there was something different and special about you. In the few days since you've come into my life you have changed things, changed me. I can't say that I love you, but do have very strong feelings for you."

That was more than I expected. "I didn't mean to even tell you, but I had a really horrible dream and seeing you made me feel better and also blocked my brain to mouth filter." He gently lifted me out of the tub and tighter into his arms. I couldn't stop from snuggling closer to him as he carried me back to bed.

He sat down on the bed with me in his lap, then he asked me what I knew that he needed to know. "What was this dream that frightened you so much little one?"

I got as close to him as I possibly could before I spoke. "It was so horrible Eric. Somehow Bill Compton was able to find me and abduct me. He took me someplace filled with vampires. He had me chained up to a table and I was naked." I paused for a second as I felt him tense under me. I knew that it was going to get so much worse, so I continued. "I watched him climb up on the table and he proceeded to rape." I could feel the tears start to fall down my cheeks, but I quickly wiped them away and went on with my horror story. "He was so rough with me that he broke my pelvis. When he was done he got off of me and let every other vampire in the room have their turn with me as well."

My head had dropped down. I couldn't face looking into his eyes as I told him what could possibly happen, but he gently lifted my chin so that he could look into my eyes now. "Sookie, I would never let anything like that ever happen to you." My tears started flowing even faster. "What is it little one?"

"There was more to my dream. It was so horrible. You were there with me the whole time. You were chained to a wall. You tried to break free to save me, but the chains were silver and you just couldn't. You watched what they did to me growling and snarling the whole time and yelling for them to stop, but that's not the worst part." I paused to take a deep breath and calm myself down before I continued. "The worst part was when Bill went over and staked you."

"Sookie, it was just a dream. None of that is going to happen."

I wanted to tell him about Nessa and that it was a premonition instead of just a dream, but I didn't want him to think that I was crazy, but I had to at least try to make him believe me. "Eric I don't think that it was a dream. It felt too real to be a dream."

"You're just worried about what's going to happen since you discovered the Weres following you."

He wasn't going to believe me and I didn't know what to do. Describe the room that you were in and the other vampires to him Sookie. He'll believe you. I knew that Nessa was right, so that's what I did. I described every little detail of that room and every detail of each vampire that I had seen there as well. His face grew more and more shocked the more I described to him.

When I was finished, Eric set me down on the bed, then stood up and started pacing the room. "I am going to torture and murder that low life scum Compton and that stupid woman and her entire fucking court!"

"Eric, you can't take on all those vampires by yourself and I don't want you to. There has to be some other way."

He stopped pacing and looked down at me. "Sookie, it I don't do something about this, they will keep coming after you until they find a way to take you. I am not about to let that happen." I watched him disappear in the closet, then he came out a moment later wearing a pair of jeans and a t-shirt. He walked right by me and headed downstairs.

I got up to follow him when I realized that I was still naked. I quickly ran into the closet, slipped on a pair of shorts and one of Eric's t-shirts before I followed him downstairs.

I could hear him talking, actually yelling at somebody in a language that I didn't understand, in the living room, so I headed for the kitchen. I hadn't eaten anything since that morning, so I was starving. I made myself a double decker turkey sandwich, got a glass of soda and a bag of chips, then went into the dining room and sat down.

I was eating away at my sandwich and I was about half way finished when Eric came and sat down next to me. I could see that he was upset and frustrated about something. I swallowed the bite in my mouth before I spoke to him. "What's the matter Eric?"

"Bill Compton has gone missing."

I could feel the bite that I had just swallowed try to make it's way back up, but I forced it to stay down. "How long as he been missing?"

"Bubba saw him leave his house the night before last. He kept watch over Compton's house as well as your Gran's and never saw him come home. He could be staying with someone else in the area, but he didn't pack a bag and none of my regular vampire customers knows where he is."

I sat there for a minute letting what he had just told me sink in. I could feel my head start to spin. He could be anywhere right now. He could be gathering vampires to come and abduct me. He could be sharpening the stake that he is planning on ending Eric with. He could be watching this house right now.

That thought sent a shiver through my entire body before I jumped up from my seat and ran out to the backyard. I opened my mind up and out as far as I could looking for any voids or any thoughts about me or Eric. Luckily there weren't any, but I was still feeling sick to my stomach. I was close to having a full on panic attack when Eric came outside and took me into his arms. "I need you to calm down Sookie."

I pulled away enough so that I could look up at him. "I can't calm down Eric, he's coming for me. Those Weres found me and now he's going to find me. You didn't see what he is planning on doing to me. You don't know, you'll never know!" I could feel more tears streaming down my face as I watched the horrible scenes pass through my mind again, but this was different this time. I could actually feel my memories flowing out of me and into Eric. It was a strange sensation and I didn't really believe that it was happening, but when the memories finished playing Eric dropped to his knees with me still in his arms.

I looked up at his face and I could see bloody tears coming down his cheeks. "Oh Sookie, I will never let that happen to you. I swear on every one of my one thousand years that that will never ever happen to you."

I was shocked. He had really seen what I had seen. I didn't really know what to say to that, but I didn't have to say anything. Eric cradled me against him as he stood up and headed back inside the house. He carried me up to bed and tucked me in. He disappeared in the bathroom for a moment to wash away his bloody tears before coming back over to me and placing a gently kiss on my lips.

He was half way towards the door when I asked, "Eric, where are you going?"

"I have some errands to run before dawn. I will see you tomorrow night at Fangtasia." He ran out at vampire speed before I could say anything else. I had a feeling that he was going hunting tonight, but there was nothing I could do about it.

I sat there just thinking about everything that had happened in the last few days and I really needed somebody to talk to right now. I knew that it was late, but this just couldn't wait. I picked up the house phone and dialed a number that I new very well.

The phone rang eight times before it was answered by a very sleepy voice. "Hello?"

"Hi Gran, it's me."

"Sookie what's wrong? You sound upset darling girl. What's the matter?"

I couldn't stop myself from telling her everything, from Nessa coming to me in my dreams to telling Eric that I loved him and about that horrible dream/premonition that I had seen. It felt good to get everything out, but I was afraid that I had overwhelmed her when she was silent on the other end of the line. "Gran, are you still there?"

"Yes. Um, Sookie, would you mind if I came over tomorrow to talk to you?"

"Of course not Gran. We can have lunch together and talk before I have to go to work."

"I'll be there around eleven." She paused for a minute. "I want you to know that I love you Sookie."

"I love you too Gran." We said our goodbyes, then I snuggled down into the very big and very lonely bed. There was something off about Gran tonight, but I didn't know what it was. Hopefully I would find out during our talk tomorrow.

I closed my eyes and didn't expect sleep to come easily with all of the thoughts that were running through my mind, but I was asleep in minutes. And not long after that I was down in the living room with Nessa. "You didn't say anything to him about bonding."

"I had a few more pressing things on my mind, then he left before I had a chance to tell him."

"You need to talk to him about it first thing tomorrow night. But this is not the only thing that I came to talk to you about tonight."

"If you have anything else horrible to show me, I'd rather you waited for some other time. I have been traumatized enough tonight, I can handle anything else right now."

"No, nothing like that, I'm just trying to give you a heads up."

"About what?"

"Your grandmother is coming over tomorrow to tell you something and that something is going to change you're entire life. I just don't want you to go in there blind."

"What is she going to tell me?"

"It will be better coming from her. I promise that you will be fine. You are actually already changing and what she has to tell you will help you to understand that."

"Right now I don't understand one thing that you are talking about. Can you elaborate just a bit please?"

"You were the one that disabled the van that the Weres were in." Before I could be too completely shocked about what she had just told me I was pulled into a black and dreamless sleep.