Title: Dead Lost
Summery: Eric left a year ago, but now Sookie's being pulled back into his life. The initial mystery Sookie is asked to solved is over come simply, but now Eric wants to start over with Sookie, will they be able to get it together, or will the year apart and the changes that came with it drive them apart for good?
Pam/Sookie Friendship, Eric/Sookie eventually-like you had to guess.
Rated: M.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the words I write. The characters, themes and products most likely belong to someone else, except for any names/persons not mentioned in True Blood or the Sookie Stackhouse novels.
If I did not reply to your review and you had a question, that is still not answered in this chapter, please send me a PM because fanfiction seems to pretend that I don't actually have the reviews and won't let me reply to all of them. (Or any of them really.) Our love hate relationship is teetering on the edge of abhorring each other.
One last thing, if I do not update between now and the 8th of June it's because I'm taking exams and being flustered and crazy, but I promise after the 8th I will update, cause it will be summer vacation! Hell yeah!
Not beta'd sorry. My beta is busy with classes and the hockey game. -_-
ENJOY.
I knew in the pit of my stomach who had made the woman disappear, I kept my mouth shut until Vera and I were safely inside Pam's room, "I know who it was." But I couldn't say the name out loud, what if the room were bugged? I searched all around for a piece of paper and scribbled down the name.
Eric.
Vera took the pencil and scribbled the word why, I answered out loud, "I don't know, but I know it was." I just had to figure out how to get the knowledge out of him, unfortunately we were due to meet the queen in half an hour, and I was dressed in the white flowered dress I had worn to the church.
It was either change or get dinner, and I wanted dinner, so we headed to the kitchen and made sandwiches, finishing them just before the guards came to take us into the throne room, Eric was once again perched in his chair.
Was the Queen perhaps making him be in attendance to torture him? Or did he want to be here?
"Sookie have you found anything?" the queen asked, a pleasant ring to her voice.
"No ma'am. The church we visited today showed hints that maybe someone was up to something. I'll dig deeper tomorrow and let you know." I lied.
"I am leaving tonight so you will have to share your information with my husband." She put extra emphasis on the word. I tried to hold back the slightest hint of jealously that wanted to lash out.
"Of course. Is there anything else?" she shook her head and departed before we had the chance. Vera and I followed her, Vera heading off the opposite direction of me, I was going to the library, which was thankfully empty.
I climbed my way upstairs and found the book I had really spotted earlier, it was written in English and had one simple word on the binding, Faery. I levitated up to grab it before returning to the ground and perching in the chair.
Much like the book Vera had found it had an account of many Fae, including Niall, Dermot, Claude, Claudine and Claudette, and others. I scanned the first few pages absently, until I got to my name and stopped.
Sookie Stackhouse- human/fae Followed by Hunter- human/fae. And Hadley and Remy were listed beside his name. beside Hadley's name was the word 'second death' and a page number. Remy's simply said human.
My name was alone, but had page number, I flipped through the book and it led me to a tree-type thing, it connected me to the Fae, and off to the left, next to Claudine's name was the name "Linda". No last name, it said 'Fae' beside it.
The bottom of the page had yet another page listed beside my name, and I flipped to it, it had a list of telepaths, Linda, Barry, Hunter and I were on the list. As well as many other names that I couldn't pronounce.
I heard the door open downstairs and nearly jumped out of my chair, looking down I spotted Eric, standing on the floor below looking up at me. He floated up so he was at eye level with me, "I thought I might find you here. You were lying to her, why?"
"Why I did isn't really your concern…or is it? Was she yours too?" I asked; a hint of jealously biting at my words.
"No, she was not mine. But until she is returned I will have to deal with the woman's crazy antics to get her back. It is problematic for me." He went over my head and landed by the chair, "how did you get this from way up there?"
"It was already down." I lied, he raised an eyebrow, picked up the book and returned it to its place on the shelf, damn it. He floated over to stand by me, our chests inches apart.
"I really didn't want you here, there is much danger." He said suddenly, "just stop looking for her; it will be safer for you."
"Like hell, if I stop she'll kill me." I snapped, "so tell me here and now, did you have anything that to do with her disappearance?" He didn't speak; he just looked down at me, his eyes searching mine for something.
I reached up and brushed my fingers through the hair hanging on his face, tucking a lock behind his ear, "Fine then." I whispered, "I guess I'll figure it out myself." I stepped away from him and headed down the stairs, slowly with extra sway in my hips.
"Sookie, I'm asking you kindly, please stop looking."
I turned to look at him over my shoulder, "Sorry Eric, you lost your privilege to ask me to do anything of the sort." And then I continued my way down the stairs, and off toward my room.
I dug through my suitcases and pulled on some shorts and a t-shirt, I pulled my hair up into a high pony tail. I had spotted a gym on the first tour, and I felt like going for a run. When I finally made it to the gym, after about four wrong turns, I found Pam inside jogging, along with a guard I recognized as the one that I been following Pam around since we had arrived.
"Good evening." I greeted both of them with a smile, turning on one of the treadmills and stepping on. I started out slow, and then increased the pace, slowly. After awhile Pam disappeared, the Were looked troubled, not knowing whether he should stay or follow me.
"You seem troubled." I commented, moving from the treadmill to the stair stepper, he eyed me and then started jogging faster, I rolled my eyes, sighing and letting my shield down a little bit. His brain was fuzzy, angry or more frustrated if I truly thought about it. He would rather be anywhere but watching us.
"What's you name?" I broke the silence and pushed my shields firmly into place.
"Charles." He answered, slowing to turn and look at me, "and yours?"
"Sookie." I answered with a smile, "how long have you been working here?"
"About a year." He answered, and then his back stiffened. The door opened, Vera stepped in and then I heard the explosion. Charles jumped my way, taking me down under him as I heard Vera let out a shriek.
The building collapsed around us, I heard screams, crashes and sparks. My arm and legs throbbed, I knew I was probably bleeding, and that my legs had slammed into the stair stepper.
When the chaos died down I felt Charles lift off of me, helping me sit up, I saw Vera on the other side of the room, Pam was leaning over her, tapping on her face and shaking her shoulders.
"Eric, what happened?" she snapped her head around; Eric was standing behind her, scratched up and burned. I looked over at Charles; he was covered in dust and had a few cuts on him, but otherwise was unharmed.
I ventured a look down at my legs, I had bleeding scratches on my left knee and a huge bruise already forming on my thigh, aside from those and then dust I was unharmed. I pushed myself to my feet, wobbled a bit and walked to Vera's side.
"Where are we staying?" I asked the room aloud, looking at Vera, I could heal the wound on her head, but not in front of them.
"I will set up rooms at the hotel. Pam, take her down to the car and head over with Sookie. The rooms will be under your name." Pam nods, scooping the witch from the ground.
"Thank you Charles." I tell him, looking at the now destroyed stair stepper, "I don't think I would have survived that."
Then I followed Pam out to the car, she drove and I sat in the back, making sure Vera continued to breath. She did, even if it was just barely. She wasn't waking up and her mind was pretty blank.
I chewed on my lip, glancing out the window, I could see bright lights in the distance, and I hoped that was the hotel. It wasn't the hotel was another 10 minutes away and when we finally got Vera up into the hotel room I made Pam leave and returned to Vera's side.
I rested one hand on her forehead and the other on her stomach, my hands glowed faintly, I let my shields drop down and the glowing grew brighter, transferring from my hands to Vera's body.
It wasn't until after the glow wore off 10 minutes later that Vera's eyes blinked open, "good, you've finally woke up." I smiled and sat back in the chair I had planted myself in after I had healed her, "Pam!"
The vampiress was in the room in the fraction of a heartbeat, "Vera, you're awake." She gave her a side glance and then turned to me, "good job, I'll sleep on the couch tonight."
"No, you can use my room Pam. I'll sleep on the pullout; after all it'd be safer to have you tucked into a room." Vera says.
"You're hurt." I point out, "and she's right Pam. I'll take the couch." Before they can argue I walk out of the room, toss the cushions off of the couch and pull the bed out, using the sheets someone had dropped off I make the bed and crawl in, shutting my eyes to 'go to sleep'.
Pam called out that she had to go get dinner and when the door clicked shut I sat up in my bed for the night, turned on the TV and tried to let my mind be swept away. Not that it worked.
My mind spun in circles, trying to analyze everything that had happened since I'd arrived in Okalahoma. Piecing things together and trying to figure out what was going on. Of course I got nowhere because my cell phone rang and jarred me out of my thoughts.
I picked it up without looking at the caller ID, "Hey Claude."
"Cousin, how are you?" I knew he probably didn't care, so I didn't answer, "Genie and Max want to talk to you."
"Well then, put them on the phone." I grin.
"Hi aunt Sookie!" Genie says, Max says hi from behind her.
"Hey sweetheart! How are you?" she launches into a story about her day and the party she and Max went to and how Claude and Dermot almost burnt last night's dinner. I smile at the thought of the two cooking, they never really cooked around my house it was usually me or one of the kids.
She asked what I was doing and I told her about the vampires I'd met and the amazing house we'd stayed in, glancing at the clock I told her she needed to hand the phone back to Claude and get ready for bed.
"Okay, gnite aunt Sookie!" she said, I heard Max once again in the background say goodnight and then Claude took the phone.
"Do you know another fairy named Linda?"
"Yes."
"Did she look like me?"
"She resembled you."
"Who is she?"
"Why do you want to know?"
"She's missing." Claude doesn't say anything for a long time.
"She's family, but only part fae, and was gifted by telepathy from a demon. If she is missing that is unfortunate. The world would be better off with out her. She only resembles you. I need to go." He hung up the phone and I let mine fall to my lap.
Claude had been living with me for 6 months now, I had let him back in because of his kids. He didn't want them living so close to where he worked, because of the people that hunted their kind he wanted them to be safe, and far away.
I had agreed as long as he promised to keep out of my love life and keep his opinions to himself unless otherwise directed. It wasn't that hard for him to agree to, and he was willing to do anything not to have them close to the bar.
He had never told me who the mother was, or even told me how they came to be. I mean, just thinking about Claude being with a woman was something to laugh at; he wouldn't touch a woman with a 20 foot pole, so how had this happened?
He would never open though, claiming that I shouldn't be concerned with his love life, I couldn't really argue with that so I let it go. For now. One day I would find out, and probably wouldn't find it as amusing as I did now.
I stretched out across the bed, closed my eyes and snuggled down into the sheets. But I couldn't fall asleep. Something was messing with my head. I sat up and looked around. It felt like a vampire was trying to glamour me.
Or talk to me.
I slipped out of the bed, shut the TV off and crept out into the hallway, Eric was lingering in the hallway outside his door, and he locked eyes with me when I stepped out. I met his gaze and raised an eyebrow at him.
"Could you hear me?" he asked, surprise in his voice.
"No. I could feel you, poking around in my brain. What do you want?" I leaned against the rail, glancing down at the lit up pebble filled garden below.
"I need you to understand something Sookie, finding Linda is going to be nearly impossible, and if you don't stop looking for her you could get hurt. You're not supposed to be here. She called you here to protect her own ass. She knows she's in danger and knows that if it's me putting her in danger, that I won't harm her while you're here."
"Is it you?" he steps up so he's right in front of me, his eyes boring into mine, "Well Eric?"
"Sookie!" Vera screamed from inside, the door jerked open and she breathed a sigh of relief, "I thought something had happened to you. Oh, sorry was interrupting?" she didn't look or sound sorry.
"No, I was just telling Sookie she should get back inside."
"Sure you were." She rolls her eyes, "hey did you get me that book?"
"It's on the table, you two should head inside." Eric takes a step back, and I walk into the apartment behind Vera, locking the door, I hoped Pam would return and slide the chain into place when she did.
Vera grabbed the old book she had earlier and plopped down in the chair beside my bed. I crawled into the bed and watched Vera's eyes scan over the pages, flashing black every so often.
"Vera, what exactly is that book? It's not going to be some evil thing like in that Scooby Doo movie is it?" she looked up and smiled.
"No, it's nothing like that. I'm not an evil witch, though I do not practice "white magic". I practice black magic and white magic, grey if you prefer." She laughs at her own joke, "anyways, you don't have to worry, I wont unleash and evil beast."
"Alright." I mumble, "so what else is in that book?"
"Just family tree, heritage and such. It's what the vampires know about us. Everything."
"Who does the books?"
"I don't know. Some old guy with no family and no ties to anyone. He can't be swayed to keep anything out. He's completely set in his ways." She replied, waving her hand dismissively in the air.
"Why is each in a different language?"
"Because one of his ways was not to write for the enemy, why write a book about the Serbian witches so that the American witches can hunt us down, or read about our ways." She says, "So, did you find the book on fairies?"
"Yes." I answered; disappointed it was going to be lost to me again.
"Good, now I don't have to surprise you." The book was suddenly sitting in my lap, "Eric snatched it for me. I figured you find it interesting." She closed the book and set it down on the side table, "I'm going to head to bed. Goodnight Sookie."
"Night." I replied, already flipping the book open, looking for the page on Linda. From there I found a connection to Niall and then a connection to a demon named Dion. A small paragraph was asterisked and at the bottom explained that nothing could be found about the demon except that the demon gifted Linda with the telepathy.
I fingered threw a few more pages and noted with delight nothing but my name was mentioned in the book. I read what little information was supplied about Niall, Claude, Claudine and Claudia. The book showed that all three twins were alive, as well as Hadley.
I closed the book, set it on top of Vera's and looked around. There was a small space behind the bookshelf in the room that I pulled away from the wall and I hid both the books there. I continued to look around, trying to find a better hiding place.
Sleep, however, pulled me under before I could find one.