"No" she whispered and he walked over to her and took her hand and looked at Bill.

"Office?" he asked and Bill nodded and Eric walked her into Bill's office.

"We'll wait for you outside" Bill said and closed the doors.

"So what kind of trouble did you get yourself into now?" he asked softly.

"You're one to talk" she shot back and he smirked.

"Fair enough" he agreed.

"Where you ever gonna tell me? Or were you just gonna die?" she demanded and Eric sighed and she had her answer.

"Oh my God" she whispered.

"I wanted to come back to you but when the blood wore off that allowed me to stay in the sun, I began to burn. I drank the first blood I could but I needed more. I was safe but then the blood began to run out. I drank from a young woman who had the virus. I wanted to come home but I remembered the agony I felt when I held Nora as she died in my arms. I couldn't do that to you. I couldn't hurt you like that" he said and she looked at him.

"So you just left me instead" she said and he sighed.

"I was going to tell you" he said and she shook her head.

"No you weren't" she said and he sighed.

"No, I wasn't" he admitted.

"So what now? You came to say goodbye to me and Willa before you leave again?" she asked, feeling hurt and angry.

"I came back to say goodbye to Willa and to marry you" he said and she sighed.

"So we get married and then I become a widow? How unromantic" she commented and he looked at her.

"I will not die without making you legally mine, Keely. I know that you use my name already since you refuse to use your father's but I will drag you to the nearest church and force you to marry me if that's what it takes. I will not leave this earth without you being my wife. I will not" he refused, firmly and she looked at him.

"But how can I marry you when I know that I'm gonna be a widow before the end of the year?" she asked, sadly, feeling a bloody tear fall down her face and he smiled softly and wiped it away with his thumb.

"By being brave and strong and allowing me to have you before I'm gone" he said and she flew into his arms and he hugged her as she began to cry.

"Shh, min vackra flicka. It's ok" he soothed softly. (My little one)

"Where did you go?" she asked with a sniffle.

"Well first I went home to Sweden, which was absolutely beautiful. Then I went to South America; Bolivia, Peru but I got bored after a while and I missed you so I went over to Africa. Kuban, Morocco then up to Spain and finally France, where Pam found me" he said and she smiled softly.

"I'm upset she didn't take me with her" she admitted and looked up at him and saw his smile.

"So am I. I missed you" he said and she nodded.

"I missed you too" she said and they kissed, hungrily and passionately.

"Does Willa know you're here?" she asked and he looked at her, gently brushing away another tear.

"You two still not…" he began.

"Does she?" she cut in and he nodded.

"I called for her before you came downstairs. She should be here any minute" he said and she nodded. The doors flew open and she saw Willa with Sookie behind her.

"What do you want!?" Willa snapped.

"Willa, you look beautiful…." he began.

"Save it, ass-wipe. You know, I wasn't even two weeks old and you left" she snapped and Keely looked away.

"Yes" Eric said.

"And we will talk about that…later" he said.

"Right now, Sookie needs our help" he said.

"I don't give a damn what Sookie need's…no offence" she said and Keely agreed with her younger 'sister'.

"No, I get it" Sookie agreed, calmly.

"If you want my help, we are talking about this now" Willa snapped.

"As your Maker, I command you….later" he said in a firm voice and she walked out and looked at Sookie as she got into the front car with Bill.

"I understand you're badly outnumbered tonight" Eric commented.

"We are, even with the extra help" Bill nodded.

"There's another way in" Eric said and she looked at him as did the others.

"Let's go, shall we?" Eric said and she looked at him as she stood on the steps of the house with Pam.

"We're going?" Pam asked.

"We're going" Eric confirmed.

"She's like a fucking fungus that won't go away" Pam said and Keely smirked and nodded in agreement as she and Pam climbed into the middle seats with Eric. As Jessica, Willa and James sat behind them.

"Keely?" Jessica asked as they drove towards Fangtasia and she looked at her.

"Yeah?" she asked.

"Do you remember that time when your daddy….hurt you for the first time?" she asked and Keely nodded and ignored the reactions of the other people in the car, feeling Eric's hand squeeze her thigh.

"Yeah" she said softly.

"And we said that one day we'd find a way to be happy and free?" she asked and Keely nodded.

"Well are you?" she asked and Keely gave her a thoughtful look.

"I guess so, you?" she asked.

"I guess" she said.

"What's missing?" James asked them.

"I don't know. I just feel like something is missing" Jessica admitted.

"Why aren't you happy, Äskling?" Eric asked and she looked at him.

"Why do you think?" she asked and gestured to his veins and he sighed but didn't say anything. He took hold of her hand and kissed it and they spent the rest of the drive in silence. She watched Eric punching the stone wall and glanced at Pam, who rolled her eyes. She looked at Bill and nodded her head at Eric.

"Eric" he cut in and Eric sighed and moved aside and Bill punched the stone wall, smashing it, just as Sam reappeared.

"Okay. It's exactly as we were hoping. Nicole, Arlene and Jane are all still alive" he said.

"Thank God" Sookie said, holding out his clothes.

"Get them out of there guys. Get them out now" he said and she, Bill, Pam and Eric looked at each other.

"Let's go" Eric said.

"Eric, we'll go" Pam said and Keely knew she was included in the 'we'.

"I'm fine" Eric said.

"You need to save your strength" Pam said.

"Come on, now. Who's it gonna be?" Bill cut in.

"Us" Keely said and looked at Eric, putting a hand on his chest.

"We'll be ok" she said softly, kissed him gently and followed Bill and Pam into the staircase. She rushed through the vent and walked into the basement and saw one missing.

"Where's the fucking third?" Pam asked and the two looked at her and she sighed.

"You take them up. I'll stay here" Bill said and she nodded and led the two out, leaving Pam to talk with Bill.

"Where's Eric?" she asked and they looked at her.

"Diversion he said" Jessica answered and she swore.

"Come on" she said and they hurried back through the tunnel and she heard Eric talking as she stood with Bill and gave him a slight nod, letting him now she was there for back-up and the others were coming. She frowned at the unpleasant feeling she got when Sookie said she was his. She felt a hand on her arm and looked up at Bill and he gave her a 'be calm' look and she scowled but stayed calm. She saw Eric glance at them and looked at the infected group of vampires.

"Do you like it rough?" Eric asked.

"What the fuck kind of question is that?" the male frowned.

"Well I brought some friends" Eric replied and they and the infected vampires glared and hissed at each other but the door burst open and a fire bomb exploded. She turned her head and then heard the vampire's outside fighting and ran through the fire and pulled down the fire extinguisher and began putting out the flames. She put it down and saw Bill frowning at her as Eric smiled and she smiled back.

"Come on, burn them! Throw in another one!" she heard a voice call.

"No more fucking fires" she hissed and ran outside, grabbed the firebomb, killed the human male and threw the bomb on him, setting his body alight. She heard Jessica whimper and killed the vampire and was about to go and help when Bill beat her to it. She screamed and dropped to the ground when silver looped around her neck.

"Eric!" she screamed out in pain and Pam appeared and pulled off the silver, helping her stand and they killed the vampire together and went back to defending Fangtasia and each other. Keely looked around at the spots of red goo.

"Is that all of them?" Jessica asked and she looked around for Eric.

"Every fucking one of them" Violet replied.

"Eric?" she called.

"What?" Pam and Willa asked.

"Where the fuck is Eric?" Pam asked.

"Eric?!" she called, starting to panic. She backed towards the mini-van and relaxed when she saw him feeding off a woman.

"Jesus Christ, you scared the shit outta me" she said and he looked up at her.

"Well, I had to eat Vackra" he shrugged and she smiled slightly at him and looked at Pam and Willa.

"It's ok, the ass is over here" she said and heard him chuckle. She walked into Fangtasia and looked at Jason as he smiled and rushed over to hug her.

"I'm ok" she whispered as they hugged and she saw Eric walk in and smiled softly. She went to the bar and began to get supplies to start cleaning Fangtasia.

"I don't give a shit. I am not going with you" Willa refused and she looked at them as she cleaned the bar.

"I would rather die than get in that coffin" Willa refused.

"You will do what your maker tells you" Pam snapped.

"He may be my maker but he sure as fuck didn't raise me. Tara did" Willa said and Keely saw Eric glance at her and looked away.

"She was the one who taught me how to feed, how to control my impulses. He left! And then you left her when we needed you most. Keely had Jessica and Bill and you left us with no one" Willa snapped.

"We have bigger problems than your mommy…" Pam began and Keely sighed as they began to argue.

"Enough!" Eric roared and they all jumped and looked at him as she leaned back against the bar. Eric sighed and she watched him slump into his 'throne'.

"You're right. I've been a terrible Maker to you. And for that I am truly sorry but I do not regret turning you. I am proud to call you my Progeny" he said and Keely smiled softly when he looked at her.

"Why did you come back for me?" Willa asked.

"Pam and I are gonna kill Sarah Newlin before I meet the True Death" he said.

"You can count me out" Willa refused.

"She was practically your stepmother, Willa. If you have any idea where she might be, I need to know it" he said and she looked at him then Willa.

"I am not going with you…" Willa began.

"Like fuck you aren't" Pamela said.

"…but I will tell you what I know if you release me" Willa said and Keely sighed. Eric had released her and then re-claimed her and she knew how much it hurt and so did Pam. She watched Eric stand and look at Willa as she stood with Pam.

"Willa Burrell, I renounce the ties of our blood and my dominion over you as my Progeny. As your Maker, I release you" he said formally and Willa gasped and made a whimpering noise.

"Like being kicked in the cooch by a wallaby in'it?" Pam commented.

"Sarah has a sister" Willa said.

"Oh no shit, Willa. The whole world knows that. You better know more" he said.

"Her name is Amber. Amber Mills and she's a vampire" Willa added with a slightly smug tone.

"Oh" Eric smirked.

"How the fuck could Sarah Newlin have a vampire sister and the world not know about it?" Keely asked.

"I don't know but I over-heard her one night on the phone at the Governor's mansion. Sarah was warning her not to call there again or my father would send her to camp" Willa said.

"Any idea where this Amber lives?" Eric asked.

"The call came from a Dallas Area code" Willa answered. Keely looked at Eric and Pam and then thought about Jessica, trying to work out who needed her more.

"Good girl" he said and she paused when he kissed Willa's forehead.

"Ginger!" Eric called and Ginger in hurried a blonde in clothes much too young for her.

"Tell the driver we're heading to Dallas. And we'll only be needing two travel coffins" Eric said.

"What? No" Ginger squeaked and hurried over in her heels.

"You just got back and if you walk out that door, I ain't ever gonna see you again, am I?" she asked.

"Sorry" Eric said, absently.

"You're sorry?" she asked when she stopped in front of them.

"I have been your sex slave for 15 years, Eric Northman" she said.

"And we ain't never had sex. Blow job, hand job, nothing" she said.

"Do you know what a sex slave is without the sex?" Ginger asked and Keely smirked.

"A slave" Pamela said.

"Desperate" Keely said at the same time and Eric laughed.

"Now you are taking me with you to Dallas" she said firmly and they stepped back from her.

"And if you can't fucking take me, then you had better fucking fuck me before you go" she said and Keely blinked.

"I'm engaged" he said and she smiled softly but Ginger just blinked at him.

"Ginger, I'm diseased" he said, lowly.

"So the fuck am I" Ginger squealed and they all looked at her before walking around her and into the parking lot.

"Stay safe" he said and she looked at him.

"Hurry up and come home so we can get married" she said and he smiled.

"As soon as Sarah Newlin is dead" he said and kissed her and she kissed him back, hungrily before he left in the travel van with Pam. She looked at Ginger as the woman screamed and spun her around, catching her under the glamour.

"Ginger, you will stop screaming" she said and Ginger did as she was told.

"Now tomorrow morning you are going to get the locks changed and get three keys made, one for you, one for me and one for Eric. Then you are going to go to the hardware store and buy more black and red paint. You will buy industrial cleaning supplies and then leave them in the office. Make sure you lock up and then leave the keys hidden but you will text me and tell me where you put them, Ok" she said and Ginger nodded.

"Good" she smiled and then took off into the air, flying back to Bill's.

"I am so jealous that you can do that" Jessica commented when she flew through Jessica's bedroom window and smirked.

"Only because it runs in the family" she laughed and went to her own room to shower, change and then get into the bed. The next night she went to Fangtasia and took out the hidden keys and walked into the bar and sighed.

"I missed this place" she muttered to herself and then looked at Eric's chair and sighed.

"Well you're gonna need a lot of repairing" she muttered and began making a list of what had to be done before she returned back to Bill's home to change for Sookie's 'celebration of life' party. Jessica had told her about it and how Lafayette was actually the reason behind it. She changed into a simple, royal blue bandage dress and her black Louboutin heels from Eric and then left with Jessica and James for Sookie's house.

"You not coming in?" she asked Jessica and her best friend sighed.

"I can't, not with Andy and Adilyn in there" she said and Keely sighed.

"Ok, I won't force you but you gotta stop blaming yourself sometime" she said and walked up the steps and onto the porch.

"Hey" Jason greeted, opening the door and she smiled at him.

"Come on in" he smiled and Keely hugged him,

"I would have thought you'd left with Eric" he said and she smiled softly.

"I would have but then who would keep you, Jess and Patrick in line?" she teased and he laughed.

"Patrick's stuffing his face" he pointed and she laughed and spotted her brother near the food.

"What a shock" she said sarcastically and Jason laughed and she walked over to her brother.

"Hey" she said and he looked at her and smiled, hugging her with one arm.

"You look nice" he said and she smiled at him.

"Thanks, you too" she said and he smiled.

"Let me finish this, then I'll feed you" he said and she smiled.

"Don't worry about it. Lafayette already fed me" she said and he nodded. She smiled as they talked about their mother and younger brothers and she smiled, happily, knowing that with their father gone; they were all happy and her mother was back to her old, happy, caring, loving self again.

"You should come home sometime and see her" he said and she sighed.

"No, I think that's probably too much. I'll see the boys but I can't see her. Not yet…anyway" she said and he nodded and gasped and she looked at him.

"I love this song, come on" he said and she laughed as he pulled her to the living room to dance.

"Keely?" she heard a voice ask and turned and smiled.

"Hey Andy, everything ok?" she asked.

"Yeah, do you know where Jessica is?" he asked and she frowned.

"Why?" she asked and he sighed.

"I ain't gonna hurt her. Bill told me about her torturing herself over my girls. I need to talk to her" he said and she nodded.

"She's out front" she said and he nodded and she watched him leave.

"What was that about?" James asked and she smiled softly.

"Getting Jess back" she replied and he nodded and she laughed when he took her hand and spun her around and they began dancing with Lafayette.