PART TWO
Chapter 3
"All I know is I saw a wolf and a vamp on the front stoop here and you two were shot and bleeding…..that's all I know."
"All you remember." Willa said with a frown. "I didn't see it for very long but the redhead had something in his hand, I saw him putting pins into it. I think it was a doll. Maybe a voodoo doll….I saw them before on vacation with my father once. He told me how evil wiccans were and they would burn in hell….he really was hateful…." she replied wistfully.
"I don't remember anyone else. And you say I am….wed to someone what was just another meal to me at one point?" he smirked but Pam grabbed his left hand and held it up to his face, forcing him to look at the wedding band there. "She is the one person you would ever put over me." he gave her a funny look, as if he were far from believing any of this.
"They took her because of how unique she is. For some reason, you remember everyone and everything else. Tell me, do you feel like some of your memories are fuzzy? Because Sookie has played a part in your life over the past several years and you've become almost inseparable. Tell me your memories don't seem a little….off."
Willa interjected. "I did some reading on these things some time back….until the doll is de-pinned, then the effects remain. So unless we don't get our hands on that doll….he won't ever remember her." she paused and a dark look fell on her face. "And since they were after her, who knows what they have planned for her. Look around the house, do you really believe that you live here alone? Look at the photographs…." she flew from the room for a moment, returning with some velvety photo albums that she had spent hours poring over lovingly with Sookie. "You Can't deny these photos….its you in most of them. With her."
He said nothing as he took a album in hand and frowned. "I have never seen her before…..but this isn't enough to convince me. Some on, is this all some kind of warped trick you're trying to play on me? Because you do know I have somewhat of a twisted sense of humor." he smirked as he handed the book back to Willa, who shared a worried glance at Pam.
"You have to try to find her. You and her…there's something there….between you that you can use to track her down. Do you feel her at all? Though I fear some of the voodoo magic may be interfering, therefore making finding her all the more more difficult. To say of your stubborn refusal to admit that something is off…again, something I blame on the magic inflicted upon you….." Willa bit her lip, fearing for the worst, that not only would they be unable to convince him of the truth but if they did manage to get him to help, it would be far too late. And who knew what else these people had in mind.
There was a silence in the room as no one knew how to move on from here. To his credit, he tried to see if he left anything, any sense of danger from the woman who was not a stranger to him, thus confirming what Willa was thinking that in fact, the voodoo magic was wreaking havoc with their bond.
"Great….who knows where they could have taken her and if you have any honor at all, if you at least can see that this is not a joke-far from it-you will help us go try finding her."
He looked around the room at the faces looking back at him and there was something unsettling, he knew something was missing, felt it in his heart and knew something was gone from his mind. He also knew those before him and knew this was not his style of a funny prank and that they had been really and truly injured….well, clearly something was dreadfully amiss. "I don't feel as angry as I think I probably should about this person being taken from my mind." he said dully.
"Sookie's power is just a touch stronger than Aurora's and so she sealed the passage way to and from Faery….to keep her from sneaking in and seeing the work on the wedding." Pam said, remembering what Sookie had mentioned in a previous conversation. "So no faerie magic is helping us on this. Gonna take guts and some muscle I think and some smarts. I think we can scent these rats out. Trail's fresh…..for the time being."
Fingering the ring on his right finger, he knew how he had gotten it-a gift from Niall before he had passed-Pam had been given one as well-and was reminded once more of the holes in his memories. "This is….true then….this woman….she was mine and has been taken….."
"And you and I can use these rings to go out into the daylight. Though I would prefer people not see us having the ability, the less people know we have that ability, the better. Lucky it is getting dark…..though I was thinking….I think we may, in fact have some faerie magic we can count on after all….Adilyn Bellefleur…if she is willing to help us, anyway. She's no wimp, I know that much. At least it would be worth a shot getting her here and maybe trying to undo the voodoo magic."
And within the hour, the young faerie girl had driven over and was in the vast living room surrounded by vampires and worried for her friend Sookie. "You mean, he doesn't remember her….at all? Adilyn had said when Willa had explained the situation to them. "That's so sad!"
He gave her a look that made her flinch a bit but Pam patted her shoulder. "All bark and no bite…at least to friends of ours and only if he's in control. Which I would warn you he is clearly somewhat out of sorts. Now. Try using your light. Sookie's magic has broken spells before and I hope this time, it can do the same."
Pulling her hair back into a ponytail, the doe eyes faerie nodded and did what she had become quite a natural at. Had hands alight with magic, she hesitated to thrust it outward but Pam nodded stiffly, the look on her face increasingly impatient. And so the girl let loose the magic.
Chapter 4
The light hit what seemed like a shield, bounding off and dissolving. Useless and unlike anything they had seen faerie light do before. "Looks like the voodoo magic is stronger and more insidious than we thought. He's shielded from this magic…..but that isn't to say we can't still use you. You can read her thoughts and she yours….." Willa said as she looked at Willa. "WE can't make you come along and we know how Andy can be, overprotective and whatnot."
"I am coming with you…..he's too busy helping Jason get new recruits trained, lord knows the town has been severely understaffed for some time…though Hoyt has really come into his own I guess from what Jess said….she's proud of him, like, she is just so-"
"Can we just try to think about what we're doing next?" interjected a ever so slightly annoyed Eric. "I want to get this done and over with….I hate feeling so…..I can't even describe this feeling."
The others looked at him and turned to Willa. "Your magic…can it hone onto other faerie magic? We don't think they could be to terribly far from here. At least, we hope not." Pam said and it was within minutes they loaded up into Pam's black Range Rover and headed out on the open road, Pam making certain that they came armed with knives and guns, hidden in a secret panel in the trunk area. "Feeling anything yet?" Pam asked as she drove them on the highway leaving Bon Temps, she herself having scented the two that had made off with Sookie but was starting to have a little trouble with the trail being weakened. Perhaps due to the nefarious magic they wielded, she thought to herself.
Adilyn and Sookie had spent much time together working on their magic and though Sookie's was far more potent and powerful thanks to her bloodline and being a hybrid, she had managed to work on communicating telepathically from increasingly great distances. She supposed it was about time for a try and said as much to the others about her lessons with Sookie. "I….can pick up a faint trace of her…..but we aren't close enough yet to speak…but we are going in in the right direction." they remained silent for a couple of hours before the bright lights of New Orleans came into view. But instead of heading for the part where Mardi Gras took place, they wound up in a more modern, more businesslike area where towering skyscrapers were the norm. and it was as they passed by one plain black monolith like building that the faerie urged Pam to stop the vehicle.
Parking the car in a garage across the way, the four didn't depart the vehicle without taking something from the weapons stash. Three of them looked intent on achieving what they wanted to but their fearless leader, the Viking, seemed somewhat detached by the mission they were on. Not that it was his fault but Pam felt especially angry that not only was Sookie in unknown danger but that these people, whoever they were, had managed to take the most important person from his mind. And it wasn't all that long ago that Pam had a intense hatred for Sookie. But she had not only grudgingly stepped aside as being the favorite, but she had come to appreciate the waitress for the fiercely devoted warrior that she had proven herself to be.
Approaching the building, they could see no light coming though and clearly there was no glass where windows should be. The front doors opened as a quartet of black clad people who looked as if they had been on steroids for their whole lived emerged. Cool and collected, they made sure to block the double doors that led into the building. The night was quickly slipping from them and with only two of them with the power to be in the sunlight thanks to the rings from Niall, well, there was no way they were going to go into a battle without their full force, small as it was compared to the dozens that were detected in and around the building.
But instead of attacking the unwanted guests, the mixture of vamps and weres retreated, scattering into the night, leading the way clear for the four to enter the building.
"Welcome, I was wondering how long it was going to take you to get here, and I am impressed by your tracking skills. But sadly, I have no need for any violence or any of you getting in my way this evening and request that you all return to your homes and forget about me and the girl. She is going to be useful to me and my employees and I don't intend to return her. don't worry, her value, her uniqueness is what will spare her life and she will be treated as such." Milton and Frederic had appeared in the doorway, mere feet away from where the three vamps and the faerie were standing, all looking ready for a fight.
"We ain't leaving here without her. Whatever you've got planned for her-" Pam started before she was interrupted by a wolf knocking her to the ground, pinning her. More wolves emerged and there came a melee that Milton sped off, moving fast around the flurry of activity. It was when the scuffle stopped and the wolves and several other vamps suddenly retreated when the four looked up at the two on the steps, something clutched in the hands of Milton, who looked a them with a gloating expression.
"Seems you not only will be leaving, but the rest of you…..all of you will return home. Well, three of you will. One will remain here for the party. Thank you so much for bringing her along as well." Milton nodded as Adilyn was grabbed from behind by a vamp and rushed off into the building, screaming and trying in vain to fight back. But quick work had been made and she had been knocked out cold. And it was at that moment, the villain produced three more voodoo dolls and with relish, plunged several silver needles into the heads of them, all the while muttering the same gibberish words he had done before.
TO BE CONTINUED
