Previously: Alana found out Sam and Sookie's date, wasn't to pleased about it since she felt Sam could've told her and throughout the whole night he never said anything. She was angry at how she told him everything and she began to believe that he actually felt something for her not because the allure, but she realized it the friendship, and she was trying to fill a void in her heart. After coming home she is greeted with an intruder in the Stackhouse home, she quickly texted Eric for help. Adele passed out on the cold kitchen floor as Alana was getting beaten, Eric a couple of minutes later to reach the house. Eric was shocked by the amount of rage that was in the room, after Sookie and Sam appeared they saw what was done. Eric left and call Godric informing him to come to Louisiana.
A/N: I changed the last chapter, I decided to take out the rape scene I didn't think it was necessary, so Alana has been beaten and had a knife lodged in her side.
Thank you.
Chapter five:Small Town Blues
The news spread around town like wild fire. Everyone wondered why someone would do such a shameful this to poor old Adele Stackhouse. Then when news came up that Alana had been beaten to the brink of death, the whole town was shaken up even more. Not only was Adele hit in the head by her own frying pan but now Alana was thrown into the mix even though she was the new girl in town. People had mixed emotions some thought Alana may have been a fangbanger like Maudette and Dawn and that she was targeted, Gran happened to be there but the police shot that down due to the fact when they examined her there were no bites or marks on her. Others thought Jason did it, angry that Alana hadn't fell for his charm and when Gran tried to calm him, he was blinded by rage hitting her to get her off of him. The town didn't know what to think. Some thought it was meant for Sookie but the killer grabbed the wrong girl. No one knew what to think but, everyone was now on guard. If the killer not only had the heart to kill the ladies in Bon Temp but a fine upstanding citizen like Mrs. Adele Stackhouse, no one was safe. People volunteered search parties to look for evidence but they saw nothing. No car tire tracks, no weapons, no DNA. Whoever did this wasn't new to the killing scene and that is what scared all the citizens.
The whole town in it's moment of fear came together. All the women cooked for Sookie and Jason in attempt to show their support but, one small gesture and Sookie was a ticking time bomb that exploded. Jason hadn't heard of the incident but, when he found out he speed off to the Stackhouse home and smacked Sookie across the face knowing it was her that was suppose to be targeted and instead, Gran and Alana payed for her sin. In the heat of it all, Sookie went to Bill's house for comfort ending up losing her virginity to the man she says she loves.
Godric had flown to Shreveport that morning that Adele and Alana were brought to the E.R. Sookie would visit them in the day as Godric and Eric would meet up and go in the night. Eric didn't want anyone to know of his maker's connections to Alana, in fear that this may have been someone other than the Bon Temps killer. Adele had slipped into a coma but was stabilized. After two days Alana had woken up that evening with Godric at her bedside holding her hand and Eric at the edge of her bed calling her his "little viking." Sookie showed up that morning and talked to Alana promising she would find out who did this and put his face in a meat shredder, Sam visited her along with Tara and Lafayette trying to make her laugh and comfort her. As Godric entered the private hospital room along with Eric, he saw an officer talking to Alana.
"Alana, what happened when you were pushed down the stairs. Come on a few you more answers and I will let you rest." Alana nodded as Andy patted her shoulder. "Well, he smacked me across the face and pushed me to the ground. He then told me this is how I shouldn't have come here, I guess he referred to Bon Temps... but his accent was different like he was from some other place but Bon Temps. He- he, I'm sorry could you get me some water?" Alana shook her tears away as Andy grabbed her a glass of water. She drank it and Andy smiled at her sadly and told her that if she needed time or wanted to write it down that he would be fine with that, since her throat was still bruised from being choked. Godric and Eric listen to the conversation, Godric was shaking in rage at what some evil human placed upon Alana and Adele. "He hit me again and began to choke me, I scratched him but he didn't seem to care. He laughed and then when he finished he stood up and kicked by in the jaw and grabbed the knife that was from the kitchen and stabbed me, telling me to learn from my mistakes or he would come back and this time I would end up like the rest, he left and muttered I was to pretty to die just yet." Andy sighed and hugged her telling her if she needed anything to call him that he didn't care what time it was.
He left the room looking at the 16 year old boy and the tall blonde, Eric stopped him and asked, "Did that really happen?" Andy asked if he was family and Eric said he was her sister's husband, that he was sent here due to his wife's pregnancy, she was unable to travel. Andy nodded and spoke softly, "Well, you aren't family but close to it so yes. Everything she said matches the evidence but the issue is, well it's all weird but, she don' have a blood type. Now the doctors say it may be a rare blood disease, since that have gotten two others like her. I will keep you updated Mr..?" Eric glamoured Andy, "You do not remember me. You walked out and went straight to your car, conflicted on what Alana said since she was only a girl, not a fangbanger." Andy nodded and left.
Eric walked in to see Godric at Alana's side. Godric held her as she reminisced about some memories that her, Godric and some girl, Nexie had. Laughing at the memories as Godric chuckled but was on the verge of tears. The young girl was still young and spirited even after the whole situation. A small girl of the age of 18, ran into the room with a nurse running after her saying she had to be family. The young girl turned around tell the nurse off, "Shut up. I am family, now why don't you go on home to sulk in your misery since your husband left you for that girl who worked at Hooters in Monroe. We know you only do this job to go home and sit with your pet cat, Felix, and drink red wine from a box as you lay in bed wondering if the man you thought loved you would ever come back."
The nurse took a step back, "How- how did you know?" The girl took a step forward and said dangerously, "Cause I am your worst nightmare. Now leave." The middle aged nurse scampered off in horror. The 18 year old with lavender hair stared at her cousin in horror. Eric observed the girl, her lavender hair with a black beanie, she wore ripped jeans and a gray muscle tee that read, Six Feet Under. Her cherry black lipstick and dark brown combat boots gave her an edgy look. Godric saw her and stood up, "Nexie, you are here." Nexie nodded her head and ran to Godric. Hugging him he looked down at the young girl who he cared for, Nexie looked at up at Godric as a fatherly figure as much as she denied it she would gladly die for him as would Alana.
"Alana?" She asked as Godric moved aside to reveal the 28 year old girl lying on the hospital bed. "Hey Cuz, how you feeling?" Nexie asked her cousin sweetly. Nexie may have been a bad ass on the outside she was all kind-hearted and soft on the inside. Alana looked at her cousin and smiled, she lifted her arm to gesture for her to come closer. Nexie sat on the edge of the bed as Godric and Eric stood side by side watching the rare part of Nexie unfold.
"Hey Nanie, how you doing?" Nexie twirled her cousin's hair and looked at her with concern. "Well, as fine as any would be, though nurses are impressed how quickly I am healing. I should be getting out soon. And you?" Nexie smiled at her cousin, "You know it's hard trying to stay perfect and all but I manage. Who's the giant?"
Alana laughed along with Godric as Nexie gestured her question towards Eric who smirk at her analogy. "That would be Eric, he is the one that saved me and Adele." Alana smiled at Eric as much of an ass he was he had good in him. "Thank you, Giant, for saving my cousin. Where is the lady of the house anyways?" She referred to Mrs. Stackhouse. Godric spoke up, "She is doing well but has slipped into a coma. The doctors say she will be just fine." Nexie nodded and looked at her cousin and smirked.
Alana looked a the sinister grin on her cousin's face, "What?"
Nexie spoke in an ancient mermaid tongue, "I can't believe you two haven't screwed each other. He is handsome, though I do prefer the blonde one. Now he looks like a killer in the sack. Should I give it a test run and tell you all about it?" Alana's mouth dropped at her cousin's confession. She replied in her native tongue, "Nexie! I don't want to know about the people that you fuck. I will pass, enjoy yourself."
Nexie laughed at Alana, the two vampires exchanged looks at the sight of the two girls speaking a foreign tongue they never heard before. Nexie spoke innocently in English, "Hey! I am just saying you can't look like that and suck at it. Maybe we can all get together and you know... play." Alana's face turned bright red as Nexie winked at her. Eric smirked finally realizing what the two were discussing, Godric on the hand was lost. Nexie looked at Godric and shook her head, "You are such a lost cause, I fear for you." Godric merely looked at her and Nexie's eyes widened when dawned on her that he has had the same thought that she was thinking about earlier.
"I am going to, um, go and get... You know what? Nanie, you always loved those, err um." Nexie tried to find an excuse to leave, trying to get away from Godric's stare. Godric sat in the car in the corner of the room and put his hands on the back of his head, "Oh I have to hear this." Nexie gave him a pointed look, "Just you know what, B.R.B." She hurried out of the room with Eric following her.
Nexie went down the hall to see Adele Stackhouse, she had bumped into Sookie who was just leaving the hospital. Her southern twag showed, "Oh sorry miss. I wasn't paying attention."
Nexie looked at the blonde and put two and two together, "Oh you must be Sookie! Hey, I am Nexie. I am Alana's cousin." Sookie looked at her and smiled, "Yes, I heard all about you. How long have you been here?" Nexie told her she arrived not to long ago, that she had just came straight from the airport and was planning on renting a room at a motel.
"Oh. Well I don't know if you want to but, you can stay at the house if you like. I mean it is kind of lonely and I know that Alana will be discharged soon, so you are more than welcomed." Nexie looked shocked, "Oh um, well thank you, then. I just wanted to see how Mrs. Stackhouse was but, I will be in contact." The ladies said there goodbyes. When she laid her eyes upon Adele, her eyes began to tear up at the sight of the elderly woman with a bandage wrapped around her head and cuts on her body. At that moment Nexie could only imagine the fight she had to put up.
Couple of days later:
Alana had healed completely due to Godric's blood to top her off. Everyone was shocked when she walked into Merlotte's with Nexie by her side. Everyone clapped and shouted. One guy was drunk enough to stand on a chair and shout, "Toast to the 'Lana for being alive as well as Mrs. Stackhouse and fuck you to the man who did that!" Everyone drank and shouted. Alana had introduced her Nexie to to the patrons. Nexie sat at the table with Jason.
"Okay freakiest place you've done it." Nexie asked the womanizer.
Jason was the first to answer with no hesitation, "Behind the Merlotte's dumpster." Nexie laughed and said, "In the changing room at a store." Jason and Nexie clanked their beers together and gulped it down. Alana walked passed the two and called the 'Pigs.' Alana hung out with Lafayette, who was still concerned for her, "Hookah I loves you, but damn are you crazy. You go through so much and here yo sexy ass is, smiling like it never happened. What ever you have been takin', had those happy pills over to La-la." Alana laughed, "You know what things happen, the only way to live is to keep on moving plus, being here with is like a damn happy pill."
The night waned on. Alana was helping waitress since Sookie was going on and on about how Bill wasn't in the bombing, that three rednecks decided to blow up a vampire nest. Nexie was hanging out with Jason, Hoyt and Rene while Alana and Tara would laugh as they annoyed the crap out Lafayette.
Nexie was talking about the new house she had just bought, Arlene had heard the conversation and cut in, "Oh! I love that Victorian house. It is just to die for. It has blue shutters and its cream white. It's so expensive though! I'm glad to see we have a friend of Alana's officially staying here." Rene looked at Arlene and smiled at her.
On the other side of the room Tara and Alana were dancing in the kitchen while Lafayette was cooking and occasionally dancing with them. Alana's phone buzzed, she opened up the group chat now Nexie had been added in, she was making fun of Eric and the fact he sat on a throne.
Eric: How is everything in that back water town of yours? I heard Billy boy is alive. Shame.
Nexie: aw were u upset, that he may come and steal that cheap ass throne of urs?
Godric: What happened?
Eric: Never. A vampire nest was blown up by humans. They believe Bill was in the house turns out he had left before dawn.
Nexie: Guess who bought a house the other day? this girl! Nanie u coming through and where are my fries? Stop dancing with Tara in the kitchen and tell Lafayette to get cooking
Alana: A house, that means you're staying! Lafayette said to stop flirting with Jason and get them yourself, you know your way around Merlotte's. What about Sook?
Godric: Congratulations Nex, I am glad you are staying.
Alana: I know right. Looks like more of a reason to dance.
Eric: She is staying? Well this will be good, more headaches. Alana, would you care to dance for me privately ;)
Nexie: Yes I am, giant. Nanie, we will talk to her. 212 Woodberry drive, the home of two mermaids. ooh! it has a ring to it.
Alana: Godric! He's is doing it again.
Godric: Don't talk to Ally like that.
Eric: Though I do recall Nexie talking to Alana while undressing me her eyes. Say, Nexie..
Alana: As long as I don't know about it, go for it.
Nexie: i think im gonna vom.
Nexie came to the window and demanded her fries. Arlene came up to the window and asked for Alana to follow her. While inside Sam's office Arlene hugged her. "Doll, I am so sorry for everything that has happened to you. I am glad you seem better, when I heard the news I tried to visit but Colby came down with one of those 24 or viruses and was a green as grass." Alana looked at Arlene and softly said, "Hey! Don't work yourself up. I am fine, Colby is fine I assume, Adele is better. Everything worked out. Now go work your little butt off, go on. Skip!" Arlene hugged Alana and the two left the room.
Alana walked out into the bar and smiled at Sam. She scanned the bar seeing Nexie putting her head on the table, about to pass out. Alana tapped Nexie on the shoulder, "Come on, time to haul you home." Nexie groaned as she stood up. She waved goodbye to the trio as Alana waved to Lafayette, Tara, Sam and Arlene. Once Alana put Nexie in the car she got directions to her soon to be home.
Pulling up the driveway Alana and Nexie got out of the car, Nexie was now wide awake. Opening the front door Alana was taken back by the house. There was a spiral stair case that led to the upstairs, a parlor to the right that reminded Alana of the Greece with the Mediterranean color and furniture. The library was to the left that had boxes of books in a corner and two chairs still wrapped up by the fire place. When she walked straight she saw a dinning room that matched the polar in a ways and a kitchen that was marble counter tops and a light blue color. Upstairs was five bedrooms, three being light tight since this was an old vampire nest. The house was gorgeous, Alana was in love with it all.
"Close your mouth or else someone might stick something in there." Alana turned around to see Nexie in yoga pants and a baggy tee. Nexie throw clothing at her, "Here, take these. You're sleeping over. Make up wipes are in the bathroom." Alana took the clothing and grabbed Nexie's bracelet that prevented mermaids from changing whenever in contact with water. Every mermaid has one, it's a necessity. Taking a quick shower, and dried off. Putting her hair in a bun and dressing in a ACDC muscle tee and a yoga shorts, she left the bathroom.
"You know, I really hate these shorts. I minus well wore a damn pair of underwear." Alana yelled coming down the stairs. Nexie was on the couch in the basement, "Stop complaining, walk around naked for all I care. I do it all the time." Alana entered the basement and smacked the side of her head and hopped over the couch and sat, "I know. I remember waking up to seeing you cook like that. See that phase hasn't passed yet." The two girls watched television commenting on which Bridezilla was their favorite.
Alana said she was going upstairs and said goodnight. Walking into one of the bedrooms she looked at the box of movies, taking all the movies out she placed them on the floor. She wanted to organize them into certain piles since Nexie of course just threw it all into a box and put tape to seal the box.
"I've always hated this movie. I should have burned it when I had the chance." Alana turned around to face Godric holding up the movie Twilight. She was stunned, breathing heavily she saw him drag his eyes all over her body. "What the hell? Ric, I told you to never pull that appear out of no where crap. And for your information, I like the movies." She snatched the movie out of his hands dumping it on the floor, bending down to pick up another box of movies she felt his eyes bore into her butt.
"Would you like to help or keep eye fucking me as Nexie calls it." Godric smirked at her and was about to bend down when they both heard Nexie yell, "AHHH! WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!"
Alana ran out of the room along with Godric to find a Eric and Nexie in the parlor. Nexie was leaning back avoiding what was in Eric's hand as he attempted to hand something over to her. She gasped and said, "Is- Is that what I think it is?" Eric took an unnecessary deep breath and responded, "Yes, it's your uniform. Now take it."
Alana and Godric exchanged looks of confusion, what was the big deal the both had thought. Nexie then leaned forward and quietly whispered as if she was in fear of telling a major secret, "But... it... it's fake leather." Alana groaned and spoke, "Really? Are you joking right now? You yell like you just saw death and it's over this crap!"
Nexie wide-eyed and her mouth opened as if she was talking to the biggest idiot in the world, "Uh, Yeah! It's the death of fashion. He can't expect me to work in some fake leather. Gods know where it's been or worse who made it. I can't touch something that was made in a toxic disgusting factory handled by machines! It's... P-leather.." Alana sighed and shook her head. She turned around and walked out of the room, Godric looked at the two. "Children."
He walked away as he heard both of them yelling after him, that they were not children. Godric went upstairs to Alana's room. He heard her in the bathroom adjacent to room. Godric picked up the movie, Casablanca and smiled. He remembered when he first met Alana.
Flashback:
Godric was in a movie store when he saw a young woman in a white dress browsing the stands settling her eyes on Casablanca. Godric smiled at the woman she dropped the DVD onto the floor in distraction of Godric's smile, no one else was in that section so he ran at vampire speed and picked it up for her. "They had a date with fate in Casablanca." Godric said handing the movie over for her, she didn't seem fazed by him because she knew exactly what she was and he knew that she had known. She smiled at him and said, "Thank you for picking it up." A drops of water had fallen from the ceiling and landed on her foot, due to poor construction, immediately scales appeared where the droplets had made contact with her skin. The woman had dropped the DVD on the floor and took a step back. Godric bent down and picked up the DVD again but when he got back up he saw the woman had made a run for it. Godric looked around and used his vampire speed and followed the girl's scent. He saw her run past the yellow house and run down the steps. He zoomed past her as she continued running down steps towards her home. He stood in front of her, running right into him. She fell into his arms as an instinct she wrapped her arms around him, almost in a hugging stance. When she had realized whose arms were holding her she lifted her head. Trying to push him away but he held her tightly.
"Please! Let go of me, sir. I beg you, you are starting to scare me!" She yelled in Greek. After a while she stopped fighting him. He finally released her telling her if she ran he would catch her again and never let go. She looked at him, "What do you want from me? I leave the store and you chase me as if I was running away with a precious item. That is most certainly not a way to-" Godric cut her off, by clapping his hand over the mouth of hers. She widened her eyes and pushed him away, "Who do you think you are! Never ever touch me! What do you want from me? Leave me be as I will do to you."
"What are you?" He asked curiously.
"What do you mean? I'm a girl." She looked at him pretending to be offended.
"You are a creature of the sea. I can smell the ocean and fresh air on you." He leaned closely to her. She scoffed, "Well you do happen to be surrounded by fresh air and oceans."
She walked past him, he walked along side her. They walked silently until he stopped her, "What is your name?"
"Alana and you are?" She turned to face him. "Godric. I am a-"
She cut him off, "I know what you are. You're a bloodsucking creature of the night. I knew the moment I laid eyes upon you." He took her hand and asked again, "What are you?" She looked at him and spoke softly, "A secret. That is what I am." Godric looked at her, "I would like to see you again, Alana." He wrote down his name and where to meet him the following night on the back of the movie she had been looking at. He handed it to her and kissing her cheek he whispered, "Until the moon shines in the sky, once again." With that he vanished.
End of Flashback
His hand glided over the DVD case where his name was written and the place they met. "I see you found it." Alana was standing behind him smiling. He nodded and walked over to the DVD player and put in the disc. As he waited for the movie to load he was surprised to see what had come on the screen. It wasn't the movie but a video that was recorded over the movie. Alana sat down next to him and grabbed the remote and pressed play.
Scenes of Alana and Godric over the course of ten years played. He smiled at Alana's face when it appeared on the screen, "Godric, I know I haven't seen you in forever... okay well maybe not forever but 2 months without seeing you has felt like an eternity. I wanted to say, I miss you and love you Ricky-Ric *Chuckles* I hope you enjoy the movie, oh, and also the movie Casablanca comes on right after so no worries about buying a new movie." The screen switched to the time when Godric had taken Alana out on the town, it showed them dancing and laughing when she stepped on his toes. The time where she dragged him shoe shopping and the reenacted the prince putting Cinderella's slipper on her foot with a pair of blue electric pumps Alana still had. Godric laughed at the part where Godric was asleep and Nexie and Alana decided to scribble on his face. He smiled softly at the part where Nexie must have recorded Alana and Godric hugging goodbye at the door when he was going back to Dallas. Also, he smiled watching the time when nursed a bird back to health and Alana crying because she wanted to keep the bird. A clip of Nexie telling Godric to wear the Santa hat cause he was older than Jesus cause Godric to laugh loudly.
Alana leaned her head on Godric's shoulder as he wrapped his arm around her shoulder she watched Godric's face smile brightly. It was one of the days Godric had been most happiest, the day where Alana's close friend, a fairy, had given her a vile of her blood so Godric could walk in the sun. Nexie was recording it, Alana had managed to get him to mix it with the blood donor packets and convinced him to walk in the sun. When he walked outside he watched the sunrise and held Alana close to him, he told her he loved her and laughed when he felt the sun on his skin. The last scene was of Nexie admitting into the camera how she felt he was like the father she never had and how he was asleep at the time and was debating whether or not to give him a hair cut. When Alana appeared on the screen, "So this is the ending. I really hope to see you again." She teared up at that moment and continued, "Ricky, you are the greatest thing that has happened to me, even if you did give me food poisoning at your attempt to cook for Nexie and I. I love you to the moon and back, as you once said 'They had a date with fate in Casablanca.' We really did have a date with fate when we met except it was because of Casablanca." A tear rolled down her cheek and the video ended.
The movie Casablanca began to play, Alana paused the movie and look at Godric who was smiling at the cover. "I can't believe you made that for me. Over ten years you took our whole friendship and played it into beautiful scenes of You and I, even of Nexie?" She nodded at him, "I made you the video hoping to send it to you since we hadn't scene each other in a long time. Yet, I never had the heart to send it over because I felt like if I sent it away I would lose the only memory I had of you. I watched it and even Nexie would steal it and watch the video because you mean so much to us."
"You truly are amazing, Alana. I have to say that had to be the most sentimental and best gifts anyone has every showed me." Alana stood up and walked over to her purse, she pulled out a long leather cord that held a bronze pendent that seemed to look have a anchor shape. Godric's eyes looked at the necklace he had given to Alana.
"I remember when you gave it to me. It was at the brink of dawn, when you were able to walk in the day time. You took the necklace off and put it in my hands and told me you loved me and walked forward and laughed at the feeling of the sun dancing on your skin. You had told me later on it was the necklace your mother had given you right before your village was raided by the Romans. When I told you I couldn't accept such a gift you placed it around my neck and said it was time it was passed down to someone you would die for just as she had said to you and just as her father had told her when he made it for her. I never took it off until I moved here. Not wanting for someone to notice it was yours. I always kept it with me though. I had someone bless it in Aphrodite's honor that way I could use it to not only to prevent changing into a mermaid but, to also protect whoever wore it and the person who had given it to them. This was one of the most sentimental and best gifts I had ever received."
Godric stood up and touched the cold metal. He held it remembering his mother giving it to him by the fire where the food was cooking. She had sent him to the woods to get wood and when he got back he found the village ransacked and was taken and sold into slavery instead of being murdered.
He smiled at it and placed it over her head and onto her neck, "Now people will know you are mine. Not out of protection because of what you are, but because of who you are to me."
He then leaned town and kissed her softly on the lips. She smiled during the kiss, he gently parted his lips as she parted her. Their tongues danced with each other just as they had danced for the first time under the stars in Greece. Godric broke the kiss put his forehead against hers, place his hand against her cheek, he whispered, "Lei sembra sempre di fare il bagno la tua strada verso il cuore della gente." (You always seem to swim your way into the hearts of people.)
Alana laughed at his little joke about her swimming, as he smiled down at her and kissed her again.
