Author's Note-I decided to start a new "season" of my stories and this picks up right where Unforgiven left off. Sorry it took so long to get this up and I hope you enjoy this. My reading order list is on my profile page for your convenience and as always, thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy. Please review!

PART ONE

Chapter 1

She heard herself screaming and felt like this was a bad dream, like she was having a out of body experience. That she had witnessed his death and had been unable to do anything to stop it. She was gasping for air as she sobbed uncontrollably, watching the pompous, arrogant figure walking through the remains of her beloved. "See what happened…..what a shame. If you had just stuck with me in the beginning, perhaps this needn't have needed to happen. But things are so much different now and I am better than I ever was before….'

"You…monster….you think you are Bill but I knew him. The real him that had bad and good to him. And in the end, he was the loving, kind person I knew was always there. You are just a abomination. A freak. And I won't shed a tear when I rip you apart."

"Not if I rip you apart first." he said with a lecherous look on his face. "But for now, I am going to keep you here for safekeeping and so long as you have some of me within you, your little light, your power are all but useless to you. So after I go out and have a snack, I do believe I will need some dessert." and with one last cold laugh, he vanished, shifted back into his Bill form and left her with only the painful afterglow of what she had seen. It had happened so fast, she knew he had shoved her out of the way when things got bad and the next thing she had known, she was ensnared in the ropes. That one of his last actions had been to try to save her had, ironically enough, helped make her prisoner of this being. And she had no idea how she was going to survive this. If she even wanted to. She found herself left alone within the confines of this building and to her chagrin, she found herself unable to flash out of here. Which explained why he didn't bother checking her up again. He has powers that she certainly hadn't expected and yet, she didn't want to leave anyway, she wanted to be here to mourn.

She knelt beside the place where he had fallen, the tears falling and she hated that she couldn't even rest her self against a body, that she was surrounded by a disturbing, bloody mess instead and she felt guilt over the anger that ha driven her to Dallas, the hurt she had felt at his indiscretions that hadn't been entirely hiss fault. She vowed inwardly that she would forgive everything, if she could at least have a proper goodbye. Standing up on shaky legs, she saw a flicker and a flash and felt something warming, soothing brush her hair back from her face and as she opened her eyes, she was staring into the face of her grandmother.

"Don't be frightened, more help is on the way…..times of great need coupled with the power in you was able to make this happen." her grandmother said as she stroked her hair gently ,Sookie finding it hard to believe she was seeing her again, let alone feeling her touch, smelling her as if she were alive, back from the dead. But she knew it couldn't be. Then she saw him and recoiled, stepping away a few paces but her grandmother stopped her. "No, rest assured this isn't the monster that has trapped her and done this terrible thing…..this is the good part of him, the side you said goodbye to that night in the graveyard when he asked you to end his life….."

Sookie eyed the second form carefully and there was no doubt he was a spirit and as he approached, this time she remained rooted to the spot, brushing her hair back, wiping her tears away. "I am so sorry you've endured this…..madness…..we came to help you end this and to perhaps undo other…..things." the spirit of Bill nodded to the ground with a solemn expression and she looked up at him with a pained expression.

"Nothing can bring the dead back or I certainly would have dome something to save her….." Sookie nodded to her grandmother. "And other people…."

"We are perfectly at peace and besides, a gift like returning to life is not something easily or often able to be done. But together, your grandmother and I should be able to help you channel your light, your unique power to use what is in his blood. And with our power…hopefully we can do the all but impossible this day." he said as he looked at her face. "I always wanted you to have a happy life and now that you have it, I won't let you lose it because of me…."

"That thing isn't you….I mean it is, but its not the you I know….not that I didn't see your dark side. But how this all happened…..what a mess." Sookie said as she allowed him to comfort her.

"We don't have much time…..we need to try this now before that thing gets back. And I should tell you we need to use some of that as well. You would be surprised the knowledge we picked up in the afterlife. " Gran said as she pointed to a separated pool of blood, blackish blood from the demon "Its got power in it and we need all the power we can muster if we are going to have a chance at bringing him back."

Chapter 2

She eyes the blood warily, not liking the idea of mixing it with the remains of her love. "I've seen things go wrong with blood before. " she gave Bill a knowing look and he looked ashamed. "But I suppose there's no other choice."

"Your magic should help temper it, purge the darkness from it. But demon blood is strong so don't be shocked if he loses his faerie magic that he obtained from you some time ago. And I am glad you two were able to find a magic that allowed you to have a child by the way. We saw him in that settlement overseas. He seems to fit in well and rest assured your Gunnar would be here if not for the magic that the demon enacted. He is keeping you two cloaked from anyone detecting anything amiss." Bill said and she appreciated the kind words. "For all intents and purposes, we are the only help you can hope to get in this mess." he said, not wanting to alarm her further but as she listened to her ghostly companions, knew this to be more than true. "If you are ready, then combined, we three should, hopefully have enough juice to make the miracle of miracles happen. And only through you can we channel out energies to help you."

"You mean….both of you have to…..possess me." Sookie said flatly, certainly not liking this plan any more than she had before. "I don't know….."

There came a clamoring outside, a vibration that shook the foundation of the eerie warehouse building. "WE don't have much time to linger here, Sookie, we need to help you do this and unless we at least try…we can do nothing but watch as this monster destroys you. I was wrong about that one, so terribly wrong when I told you not to give him your heart-no offense to you Bill, but lets face it, you did some terrible things to my Sookie here."

"Look, he made up for the things he did and we ended up in a good place before…..we said our goodbyes….." Sookie looked at her grandmother reproachfully. "No time to talk about the past. I am about to lose my future unless we do something now. Whatever you have to do just go ahead and-" she was stopped as she watched the two materialize into orbs of light, flashing straight into her being and she felt their presence and yet they made no move to take her over, but rather guided her to the mess on the floor that she just noticed was near a grate in the floor and she held back a upsetting gagging reflex as she felt her arms raise up, her light summoning, she still heard the noises of the angry demon outside, who was still repelled by the spirits magic. For how much longer, she didn't know and didn't want to wait to find out. And as she unleashed her magic, pulling in some of the demon blood into the mix, she watched as there came a crackling sensation and though concerned as she watched the stirred up blood drip like some macabre waterfall through the grate below, she could feel the love, compassion from those within her urging her on, though she felt her energy wavering, waning. It was taking a lot out of her but she was desperate for a miracle.

Chapter 3

From the outside, in the dark, the unnatural version of her former love paces, trying whatever he could to breach the building that somehow, someway had been made inaccessible for him, though had a feeling that she was involved in one way or another and though he was almost certain by the end of the night, when he had tired of her and had his fill of that so exquisite blood of hers, that she would be dead. The people he had just preyed upon, those unsuspecting winos in the alleyway hadn't had a clue what and who had hit them. But it was merely an appetizer and as he kept trying using his brute strength to break through the normally easy material for him to break through, the demonized version of her ex stalked around the outside of the building before taking to the skies, hoping to somehow get inside through the ceiling. His efforts for naught, he seethed at his failure to reenter the place that eh had brought the pair, though that number had, by his own hand, been cut in half and he had the only part of the pair he had wanted anyway. Still, something lingering in the air gave him some pause, some questioning as to what could possible be going on within the walls of the place he had thought secure. Sensing the power was wavering however, he knew it was a matter of time before he was back within the building and had his teeth where he so sorely wanted them. Right in her veins, didn't matter which one. To have this freedom of a conscience, that do gooder part him long gone, it was something of a relief to him now and when he finished with the waitress, the possibilities of the future were endless. Especially since now that there was a demon on the outside, he could, in fact help bring forth more from hell. Smirking with the thought of demons soon wreaking havoc, he knew that he couldn't let himself be killed, for it would mean that demons, once more, would be relegated to hell, their once chance to break through to this world long gone.

TO BE CONTINUED