Eric sat in the chaise lounge chair with Pam looking down at him with bloody tears on her face. After 6 months, she'd finally tracked him down.
"Did you contract the virus on purpose?" she asked.
"On purpose, no. But did I go about my dealings with a devil-may-care attitude? Absolutely" he said and she walked over and sat beside him.
"You can't give up Eric. We an ample blood supply vampires are living longer and longer with this disease. And who knows? They're working on a cure. They could have one soon. Please? I will help keep you well until…" she explained.
"Why?" he asked.
"Do you regret the choice you made that night?" she asked and he looked at her, knowing exactly what night she was talking about.
"I made the only choice I could" he said instantly.
"Then don't make me watch this. Don't make me go back to Keely when she knows her maker and her fiancé are dead" she begged and he sighed. He'd spoken to Keely almost every other day since he left but he'd been cutting back their conversations, knowing that his beautiful, sexy, smart fiancée would know something was wrong if they spoke for too long.
"Don't make me watch you go as you had to watch Godric, as you had to watch Nora?" she pleaded as he spoke over her in a low but firm voice.
"You're free to leave" he finished and felt her pain and sadness.
"Do not do this to me" she whimpered.
"Goddamn you" she whimpered and he looked at her.
"For more than a thousand years, the world has been my oyster" he said.
"And it still can be. I'll do anything" she said.
"I've lost my taste for oysters, Pam" he said and she sniffled.
"You should go" he said softly.
"What about Keely? Willa?" she asked.
"They will learn to live without me" he said.
"And Keely? She won't" she said and he smiled softly.
"She's stronger than you think" he said and she got up, crying softly as she headed for the exit. He felt her pain and reached for Keely and felt her worry and fear for Jessica and wondered what on earth his fiancée was up to.
"Sarah Newlin" she said.
"What about her?" he asked.
"What if I told you Jason Stackhouse let her live?" she asked and he opened his eyes and looked at her.
"He didn't?" he said.
"He did. He told Keely that he couldn't have another person's blood on his hands. Not even hers" she said and he looked at her.
"She's out there" she said.
"Where?" he asked.
"No one's seen her. I have to imagine she's in hiding somewhere" she said and he felt the anger taking over and forced himself to get up, feeling her happiness and hopefulness. He winced and groaned as he got up and looked at her.
"Well, let's go find her. Shall we?" he asked and she smiled.
Keely raised her gun and began shooting at the infected vampires holding Bill, Sookie and another human she knew but couldn't remember the name of.
"That all of them?" Andy asked.
"I think so" Jason replied.
"What the fuck were you thinking, Sookie?" growled a voice and she saw Alcide, the werewolf naked. She saw Alcide and Bill arguing and then heard a gunshot. She looked around then paused when she saw Alcide fall to the ground with a gunshot to his forehead and chest.
"Andy, behind the tree" Jason said and she, Jessica, Jason and Andy began shooting at the tree and she heard men groan. She followed Jessica over to where Sookie was leaning, crying, over Alcide's body.
"Is he breathing?" Jessica asked.
"I could…or one of us could turn him for you but we would have to do it…" Jessica began to offer.
"No" Sookie refused.
"You sure, Sook?" Jason's soft voice asked.
"I've been down that road before" Sookie said and began to cry. Keely looked at Jessica then Bill and they shared a sad look. She, Jessica, James and Bill returned to the plantation house and James took Jessica to their room and she looked at Bill and sighed.
"Come" he said and held out his hand to her. She took it with a sad smile and he escorted her to her room.
Eric listened to the woman he was feeding from telling them the flight details then paused when he heard her say they were going to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He pulled away from her thigh and looked at Pam as she calmly read a magazine.
"Baton Rouge?" he asked.
"I thought we'd start with Senator Finch. If Sarah was gonna reach out to anyone, it would be him" she replied and he looked up at the stewardess.
"Tell the captain there's been a change of plans. We'll be landing in Shreveport" he told her.
"Shreveport?" Pam asked.
"What the fuck for? There is nothing left for us there" she said and he looked at her.
"There's my future wife and Willa" he said firmly.
"Eric, you abandoned Willa and we can send for Keely when we've dealt with Sarah Newlin. She's helping Jessica, remember?" she said.
"Willa probably hates you just like Tara hated me" she said.
"I don't care if she hates me" he said and saw her look away.
"I'm sorry about Tara. Keely told me" he said and she sighed.
"But Willa and Keely are still mine and they are still alive. I need to see Willa and marry Keely before I die" he said and she sighed.
"You're dying?" the woman asked and he looked up at her.
"Oh, did I forget to tell you? Congratulations, Victoria. You are now a proud carrier of the Hepatitis V virus" he said, calmly and uncaringly.
"This is what I do for a living. I'm gonna lose my job because of you" she said.
"I am terribly sorry about that. Now, go tell him" he said and she sighed and walked out of the cabin as he unzipped his leather jacket.
"I hate Shreveport" Pam said and he looked at her.
"Oh come on. I'll be a trip down memory lane" he said with a grin and she sighed.
Keely frowned when she heard Jessica whimpering. She listened to James and Jessica arguing about the fact that she wasn't eating and sighed.
"…get Keely and Bill" she him say.
"Don't you fucking dare" she heard Jessica warn.
"If you won't eat for me, maybe you'll eat for them" she heard James say and got out of her bed and rushed to Jessica's room, entering seconds before Bill and James.
"Jessica?" Bill asked in his firm tone and she paused when she saw the wound on Jessica's shoulder where Hoyt's mother shot her.
"What?" she asked.
"How long has this been going on?" she asked and saw Jessica scowling.
"How long?" she demanded.
"Ten weeks, maybe" James admitted and she looked at Jessica and gaped.
"It has not been ten weeks" Jessica refused.
"Jessica, is this because of what happened between you and Andy's girls?" Bill asked, sitting down on the bed.
"No" she said.
"Jessica" she said, knowing her best friend/sister was lying.
"It's...it's not. Adilyn and me, we're good. She even invited me into her home" she explained.
"So you're protecting Adilyn, are you?" Bill asked.
"Yeah" she answered.
"And she's not feeding you in exchange for that protection?" Bill asked.
"Well, who are you feeding off of?" Jessica asked.
"Jess, I'm almost 175 years old…" Bill began.
"Hello?" called a voice and Keely sighed.
"Of course she's here" she muttered.
"We're up here is you wonna join my inter-fucking-vention!" Jessica called.
"Give me a break" Jessica cried.
"One of these days, you're gonna have to forgive yourself Jess" she said and Jessica looked at her.
"Thanks Keely, that's really fucking helpful! Let me do the math here. What is it, six months? That's three fairies. Two months per fairy. Yeah, that's more than enough" Jessica ranted and Keely ignored the blonde in the door way and her conversation with James.
"None of this is even up for debate" Bill's firm voice said.
"You can feed off of me" Sookie offered.
"You're a fairy" Jessica said.
"I trust you" Sookie said.
"You shouldn't" Jessica said.
"Well, I do. Guys could you give us a minute? What she needs to hear, she needs to hear from a woman" Sookie said and Keely frowned.
"What am I?" she asked and Sookie looked at her as the guys left and Keely sat next to Jessica as Sookie took Bill's place.
"I know what you're gonna say" Jessica said.
"I don't think you do" Sookie said.
"'You need to eat, Jess'" Jessica replied.
"Going hungry isn't gonna change what happened. And you're not just punishing yourself, you're punishing everybody who loves you" Jessica added and Keely looked at her.
"I don't give a shit about any of that. Fact is, I don't give a shit why you're not eating" Sookie said and Keely glared at the blonde.
"Because in my eyes, those three dead fairy girls are just the tip of the fucking iceberg around here. So what if they're dead? Alcide's dead, Tara's dead. Almost everyone I've even known and loved is dead. And even as we're talking right now, Jessica, you're dead too and so is Keely. So I'm sorry, but I just don't give a fuck about you or your problems" Sookie said bluntly and Keely glared.
"My friends are being held captive at Fangtasia and I am gonna need a lot of help if I'm gonna rescue them tonight. And whether you care to admit it or not, I have been good to you. So are you gonna help me or not?" Sookie asked and Keely looked at her.
"Yeah" Jessica nodded and looked at Keely.
"Keely" she said and Keely stood up.
"She's done shit for me" she said and left the room and went back to her own room.
"You're really not gonna help?" Jessica's voice woke her and she looked up and saw her shoulder was healed.
"Who?" she asked.
"Lafayette" she replied and Keely nodded.
"So you won't help?" Jessica asked.
"Why should I? What has she ever done for me? She took Eric away from me, she has treated him and Bill like lap dogs and just expects everyone to fall at her feet because she's fucking Tinkerbelle" she said and Jessica sighed.
"Don't you wonna get Fangtasia back?" she asked and Keely paused.
"That's where they're being held. We save them and get rid of the vampire's and it's yours. You're Eric's progeny, it partly belongs to you. You're studying Business and marketing aren't you, to make it better? Don't come for Sookie, hell don't come for any of the humans but come for me, come to get back your home" Jessica said and she sighed as Jessica left the room. She showered and changed and then went downstairs and saw Jessica, Bill and Sookie and James waiting for others.
"Keely" Jessica asked in a pleading voice, standing up. She looked at them and then sighed and walked out. She drove to Patrick's home to talk it over with him and soon he'd convinced her that Jessica was right. She didn't have to go to Fangtasia tonight to help anyone but Jessica and Jason. She didn't need to go for any other reason but that they asked and that she could save Fangtasia. She sighed and drove back to Bill's house and walked in just as Jason began a speech about the battle of Normandy.
"Jason, we suffered of 200,000 allied casualties at the Battle of Normandy. The beaches were stained with blood for years afterwards" she explained and he awkwardly scratched his chest before he sheepishly sat down.
"History's a bitch" he said and she nodded. She went upstairs to change out of her casual clothes. She heard a knock and ignored it, assuming it was another vampire, come to help. She walked out of her room and paused.
"Eric" she whispered and raced to the landing and down the stairs and saw him standing with Pam behind him and Sookie front of him. She stood on the bottom step, staring at him as he looked back. He looked up at her and she smiled and then her smile instantly fell when she saw the veins.
