Jessica entered the living room of Sookie's house and pulled Keely to the side.

"What?" her best friend asked and she smiled.

"Just watch" she said and held Keely's hand, excitedly as Andy entered the room. Jessica smiled and watched Andy drop to one knee.

"Oh my god" Keely whispered and they shared a bright, excited smile.

"Aww how sweet" she whispered and Keely nodded as Andy began to nervously stutter.

"I don't know what I'm about to say but I have been waiting for the perfect moment to do this but something keeps getting in the way. It wasn't until you went missing that I realized that something this whole time, was me. See, I got this voice in my head that says I don't deserve a woman as beautiful as you are. I don't deserve a woman as kind as you are. And I probably don't but I know the timing's weird and you got all kinds of healing to do… but please wear this ring for me?" Andy said and Jessica smiled, feeling happy tears building in her eyes as Keely squeezed her hand, excitedly.

"I'll go through all of it with you, every step of the way" Andy said.

"Yes" Holly said and Jessica smiled as people laughed.

"I didn't ask you yet. You gotta let me ask you" he said and Jessica and Keely giggled.

"Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry" Holly apologized and Jessica smiled and they giggled.

"Uh…Holly Cleary I love you with everything I got. Will you marry me?" Andy asked and Jessica smiled and heard people start clapping and cheering when Holly kissed him. Jessica let go of Keely's hand so she could clap and Jessica paused when James stopped her.

"Hey, come here" he said and she glanced at him.

"What?" she asked.

"You just seem happy is all" he said and she smiled.

"Well, I am" she said, trying to get out of his arms.

"Come on, let's get out of here" he said and she looked at him.

"Seriously? Now?" she asked.

"Yeah, it's been a while since…" he began.

"I know but we're at a party" she said.

"Okay? Don't be such a wet blanket. Just try to have fun, and we'll leave later, ok?" she said, quickly kissed him and hurried over to congratulate Andy and Holly with Keely.

"You ok?" she asked with a frown when she saw Keely's bloody-tear filled eyes.

"Yeah, I just…I gotta make a call" she said and Jessica nodded, with an understanding smile.

"I'll be back" she said and Jessica watched her best friend leave the house.

"Is she ok?" Keely's brother, Patrick, asked and she nodded.

"Yeah, just misses Eric" she said and he nodded.

"Is he gonna be ok?" he asked and she sighed.

"He's got Hep-V" she admitted and he gasped.

"Does…" he began and she nodded.

"Yeah, she knows. He wants them to be legally married before he dies. Keely loves him with all her heart and soul, Patrick. If he didn't make it…I don't wonna even think about what it would do to her" she admitted and he sighed.

"Then we're gonna have to pray to God that someone finds a cure and fast" he said and she nodded.

"Come on" he said and she followed him back to the happy living feeling of the living room.

Eric stood with Pam in their suite at the Hotel Camilla, getting ready for the Gala. He'd already dressed up Pam in the gown he'd bought her.

"I told the sales woman, my wife and I were going to an exclusive, high-society event and that only the very best would do" he said and handed her the finishing piece, a glittering clutch bag.

"Voilà" he said and she smiled, curiously at him and he stepped away, allowing her to walk over to the mirror.

"Oh my God" she said and then turned and posed at him, making him smile.

"I'm a Repuli-cunt" she said and he laughed.

"You think that's funny, huh?" she asked and he smirked and nodded.

"Wait till you see what that nice man at Nerman picked out for you" she said and he looked at her when she taped his chest then his nose with a grin.

"Strip" she said and he began doing as she asked.

"Oh Fuck" she said and he instantly turned and looked at her.

"Eric, you're stage 2" she whimpered and he looked at her then down at his body.

"Just cover the ones that will be visible" he said and handed her the powder as he stood in front of her, hearing her whimper slightly.

"I'm gonna die Pam, you have to accept that" he said softly and she sniffled and he reached up and gently brushed away a tear.

"I can't and I know that Keely can't. Eric you know that if you die…" she began and he nodded.

"Which is why after I'm gone, I need you to make sure she doesn't follow me. Remind her that she has her family and Jessica and you and even Willa and Bill" he said.

"You know that won't work. She'll follow you Eric, you've admitted to me yourself that you two are Soul Mates. She will follow you" she said and he tried not to lose his composure.

"I need you to make sure that doesn't happen" he said and she nodded.

"I will try my best" she said and he nodded and heard his phone ringing.

"Speak of the devil" she commented and he took his phone and smiled, seeing Keely's name.

"Hello beautiful" he greeted.

"Hey, how are you?" she asked and he frowned, hearing her sad tone.

"What's wrong?" he asked and she sighed.

"How do you know something's wrong?" she asked.

"That sigh, it's in your voice and you forget that I can feel you" he said and she sighed.

"Andy and Holly are engaged" she said and he heard the envious sound in her voice.

"So are you" he said and she sighed.

"I know but…" she began then sighed.

"But it's not the same. I mean they're together and they're alive and yeah I mean they could die tomorrow but they're together" she said and he sighed.

"We'll be together, I promise" he said.

"How could you promise me that? You could die tomorrow Eric and what would I have of you? A ring? A rundown bar?" she asked and he heard her start to cry and felt her pain and sighed.

"I have to do this. She killed Nora" he said.

"I know, I know you do but I miss you and I'm scared that you're not gonna make it back to me" she admitted and he wanted to give up on Sarah to go back to her.

"I will" he said, firmly.

"But how?" she asked.

"Because I am going to marry you. You will be Mrs. Eric Northman. We will get married, Keely, I promise you. I will do everything in my power to make sure that happens" he promised, firmly.

"I love you" she whispered.

"I love you too" he said and sighed when she hung up.

"Still think she won't follow you?" Pam asked and he sighed.

"I have to find Sarah Newlin, Pam, I have to get better somehow" he said and she smiled.

"My thoughts exactly, come on. You need to change" she said and he nodded and took the shirt she handed him.

Keely finished clearing the bar and the platform then looked at the floor and sighed.

"What are you doing here when there's a party going on?" Bill's voice asked and she looked up.

"How did you…" she began.

"Jessica said that you'd gone out to talk to Eric but hadn't come back. She saw you crying and knew that you'd come here" he said and she nodded.

"She knows me" she shrugged.

"Yeah" he said with a smile and she sighed.

"What if he doesn't get better, Bill?" she asked, sitting down on the platform and looking at him.

"What if this is it? What if he dies looking for Newlin and…all I end up with is this?" she asked, looking down and toying with her ring.

"Eric's a stubborn man, Keely. He'll marry you before he dies because he is determined enough to make it happen. You just have to have faith" he said and she looked at him.

"I had faith Bill, for years. Look where it got me. I believed in God all my life and I was raped by my own father, beaten, belittled, tormented and then turned into a vampire. I had faith and it got me shit! Faith is just another way of telling people that their lives are shit but that they have to pray it gets better just for fate, that bitch, to make it worse!" she said and threw the cleaning bottle across the room, throwing it through the door and he stood and grabbed her hands.

"He will be back Keely, he will" he said firmly and she began to cry into his chest after he'd pulled her into his arms, hugging her tightly. She finished crying and told Bill to go back to the house and she would go and get Jess and James. She arrived at the Stackhouse home and gasped when she saw Jessica and James arguing.

"Really, James? That's what you have to say? That you are sorry?" Jessica asked and she frowned.

"Because need I remind you that I just found you fucking a man in our car?!" Jessica cried and she gasped.

"Jessica, please…" James began and she raced forwards and stood on the porch as Jessica ran into the house.

"Jason" Jessica said and the man turned and frowned at her.

"Yeah, what's going on?" Jason asked.

"Can we please talk?" James asked from her left.

"There is nothing to say" Jessica said.

"Would you please rescind his invitation to this house?" Jessica asked Jason.

"What'd he do? What did you do?" Jason asked, protectively.

"I found him fucking Lafayette in the car that he and I bought together" Jessica said.

"Get the fuck out of here, James" Jason said coldly and slammed the door. Keely glared at the man, crossing her arms as he looked at her.

"Keely, please just let me…" he began and she punched him and watched him fly over the rail of the porch.

"Stay the fuck away from Jessica, stay away from me and if I see you anywhere near her, I'll kill you" she warned and knocked on the door.

"Jas, it's me" she called and the door opened.

"Come on in, Jess is upstairs with Jason" Sookie said, opening the door and she raced upstairs and saw Jessica and Jason look up at her as she sat on the bed.

"You mean with all that, that sensitive musician shit, it never occurred to you that he might be gay?" Jason asked.

"I don't think that he is gay. I think that he…he's just…he's confused" Jessica said.

"Sweetie, I gotta be honest with you. Based on what you saw him doing outside, it all sounds pretty gay to me" she said.

"Oh, my God" Jessica whimpered and then someone knocked.

"Who is it?" Jason asked.

"It's me" Lafayette said and Keely stood up, moving to beside Jessica.

"Go away!" Jessica shouted but the door opened anyway.

"Look, Red, I know this shit got to hurt…" Lafayette began.

"Don't you dare presume to know me. You do not know the first thing about me" Jessica warned.

"And you don't know the first thing about him" Lafayette replied.

"Fuck you!" Jessica shouted.

"Fuck you" he snapped back and slammed the door before storming back in a few seconds later.

"You now what? When was he turned? How was he turned? Who turned him? And where's he from back before he got turned? Ms. Ma'am, you don't know any of this shit, do you? I do because I cared enough to ask him and he cared enough to tell me. Now, listen, I know the this shit when down is real embarrassing. But if you keep it 100 with yourself and honest, you know this not the man for you" Lafayette said and Keely glanced at Jessica.

"Because he's the man for you?" Jessica scowled.

"If he is what's so fucking unimaginable about that, Red? Huh? Everybody else in this town is falling in love and getting engaged and having babies. Has it every fucking occurred to you that Lafayette, that queen that make all you white heterosexuals laugh and feel good about yourselves. Has it ever fucking occurred to you that maybe I want a piece of happiness too?" he ranted and she saw Jessica's eyes rimmed with red tears.

"No" Lafayette sighed.

"James is a good man" Lafayette said.

"He's a vampire, Lafayette" Jason muttered.

"Whatever he is. If you don't love him, let him go. And I will take over from here" he said and left the room.

"Jason, could you give us a second?" she asked and he nodded and left.

"Do you love James?" she asked and Jessica sighed.

"Yeah…no…maybe…oh, I don't know" she admitted.

"Then Lafayette's right. Jess, you know I love you. You're my sister and we've been friends for as long as I can remember. You're my best friend, my sister, but I think you know that James isn't the man for you and all you're doing is hurting both of you by trying to make it work" she said and Jessica sighed.

"I'll see you at home" she said and they hugged and she left the room and looked at Jason.

"Make sure she gets home ok?" she said and he nodded and she gave him a smile and a hug. She went back to Fangtasia to clean up the supplies. She sat down on the platform, raised her hand and looked at her beautiful, simple diamond ring. She then bite her lip and looked up at the ceiling.

"I don't know if you listen to vampires, since we'll we're not exactly godly creatures but if you do, I wonna ask you to spare Eric. I believed in you with everything I had until I was 17 years old, even after what my daddy did to me. I did so much in your name. I did everything that you stood for until I was turned. If you do listen and you actually care, please Lord, save my Eric and let him come back to me" she prayed.