Chapter 7

"She must be worth it Eric, for you to kiss her under his nose." Godric said with an amused tone. He turned in his chair to face me as I stepped out of the shadows.

"I could care less if Bill Compton knew I kissed her." I said airily. Godric raised an eye brow.

"That is obvious." he said lacing his fingers together. "Is she worth the trouble with Compton?"

"She is different Master. I have known no woman like her." I knelt at Godric's side. "The trouble with Compton I can handle." When I looked back up at him, he seemed to have a faraway look in his eyes. "why didn't you come with me when I came for you?" Godric heaved a sigh. What disturbed me was, not that he sighed, but that he felt he needed to at all.

"I have been looking inward these days. I grow weary of the constant violence between our two races. I fear I have been preferring solitude than to the constant stream of bowing, scraping leeches, pardon my pun if you will." I opened my mouth to speak, when suddenly he held a hand up. His head swung in the direction of the living room. He rose to his feet and began walking with purpose out of the room, while I was close behind him. I considered myself to be a calm…person. What I saw when I entered that room enraged me to the point where I was ready to commit murder. Lorena had Sookie bent over with a steely grip on her throat. I growled and took a menacing step forward. I was well aware that Compton was powerless against Lorena, with her being his maker. His pale face was more pale than usual. Godric reacted before I could. He wrapped his much stronger grip around Lorena's throat.

" Retract your fangs." he said with deadly calm. I looked to Lorena whose fangs retracted with a soft snick. "Release her." With a small show of reluctance, Lorena released Sookie. I stopped myself from pulling her to my side only because Bill got to her first. Sookie turned to look me directly in the eye. She nodded her head briefly to acknowledge that she was alright. I turned my attention back to the wretched creature at Godric's feet.

"you are a pathetic creature" Godric spat. "You have not evolved. We can coexist with each other Humans and Vampires."

"She provoked me." Lorena hissed. Godric didn't flinch.

"And you have provoked me" Godric lifted his eyes to Bill. "You, you seem to know her. Please remove her from my presence." He turned back to Lorena. "I want you out of my area before sunrise, or you will pay with your life." Lorena meekly bowed her head and left the room with Bill following close on her heels. Sookie looked at Godric with a weak, but grateful smile on her face. He managed to smile back. "Please everyone, enjoy the night." I exhaled and wandered back over to Sookie. She was absently rubbing her throat. I dropped my lips to her ear.

"Are you alright?" I asked gently. She jumped, and whirled around.

"You need to stop creeping up on me like that."

"I don't creep. Stalk yes, but creep no." She huffed, folded her arms across her chest and looked away. "Sookie, are you arlight?" I asked again this time more inpatient. I watched her brows furrow before she looked back at me.

"Yes I am fine." She said softly. A human male walked into the living room. I eyed him with curiosity. Sookie's brother approached the human but soon stepped back.

"A message from Reverend Steve Newlin." He opened his coat and what appeared to be a homemade bomb most likely filled with shrapnel was strapped to his chest. Before I knew it, the human had pressed the button and I was throwing my body in front of Sookie's.

The next thing I knew Sookie was shoving me off her.

"You are really heavy." She grunted as she moved me off her. I laid very still.

"Eric are you alright?" She asked with a touch of concern in her voice.

"I need you to help me. Suck it out." I imagined the look on her face, a cross between intrigue and revulsion.

"Suck what out." She asked as if she already knew what I was about to ask of her.

"The metal. You need to suck it out, or else it will heal inside my flesh."

"That is really disgusting. I'm not doing that."

"Dying…" I managed to croak. I heard her mutter about how disgusting this was and how I owed her my life. I felt her lips close over a hole in my chest. My fangs popped out and I leaned up to watch her. This was the only way to get my blood inside her. I leaned back down and closed my eyes enjoying the feeling of my blood entering her body. I could feel her within me. Becoming a part of me.

Bill came back in to the sight of Sookie bent over me. I watched with delight as he struggled to comprehend what was happening.

"Sookie, what are you doing?" Bill asked sternly. She looked back up at him.

"I'm sucking out the metal so it doesn't heal inside his body." Bill turned his gaze upon me, obviously furious. It was amusing.

"Sookie, the metal will pop out on its own." I turned my head to look back up at her. Her lips were covered with my blood. She was about to explode.

"You sick pervert." She struck me with her fist on my chest, and scrambled up to throw herself into Bill's arms. She hid her face in his chest. I rolled my eyes.

"I think I'm going to cry." Bill glanced at me with a murderous glare before escorting Sookie from the ruined building. I looked over at Godric who seemed to be in a mild state of shock as he looked about the room. "Master, I have a room at the hotel. I would be honored if you would join me." Godric nodded and followed me out.

I could feel her eyes on me the whole time. I dared not look at her. What I had set out to do was happening. But what was transpiring at present cast a pall over that small victory. Godric had been "fired" if you will from Sheriff of Area 9. Isabelle was replacing him. He'd asked me to accompany him to the roof. I felt a cold hand clench about my heart, squeezing it. If I could breathe, I wouldn't have been able to. I was about to leave the room when Bill stopped me.

"We have a score to settle you and I." he said from between his teeth.

"Not now." I said absent mindedly. It came out of nowhere. He threw a well-aimed punch at my jaw. He'd made me bleed. I spat out the blood onto the floor.

"It's done. I'm a part of her now." I walked past Bill to follow Godric to the roof.

I walked up to see him standing in the middle of the roof with his back to me.

"Master?" Godric turned around and smiled faintly at me.

"I have chosen to meet the sun." If at any time I had ever been struck speechless, right then was one of those moments. I felt Sookie at my back watching me.

"This is insanity." I shouted. I had never ever shouted at my master. I was trying to save his life.

"We don't belong here." He said calmly.

"But we are here." I shouted again. There would be no reasoning with him in this. "This goes against everything you ever taught me." He shrugged.

"I was wrong." I fell to my knees at his feet. I could feel the tears run down my face.

"It's time to let me go. Father. Brother. Son." I turned my blood stained face up to him.

"I won't let you die alone." He smiled gently.

"Yes you will." I felt a sob wrack my body once more. "As your maker, I order you to leave me." I grimaced as I felt the sunrise fast approaching. I stood and backed away from him. I felt Sookie's warm hand touch my own. I looked down at her.

"I'll stay with him, as long as it takes." I felt her compassion for me. I was grateful for her kindness, but I would never tell her that. I took one last look at my master and left the rooftop.