READ THIS.
Obviously I haven't made it clear: Firstly, Anything Pam hears is rumor. She hasn't seen Eric or been to the mansion since she was given the area in Okalahoma, secondly; keep in mind Eric said he doesn't take pets. He is how ever a vampire and not bonded to Sookie. Thirdly, the answer to who told the Queen about Sookie's telepathy will be revealed. Soon. Fourthly, yes Linda is a Sook-a-like, (also I know Linda was another family members name…) but Linda and Eric's only connection is the Queen. LINDA IS NOT ERIC'S. I sincerely hope you will see by the end of this Eric is not a douche bag like he seems. (Well, as much of one. Still a secretive high handed jerk of course.)
-end explanation-
And with that I encourage you to continue on with chapter 6.
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.
Should be the last update until the 8th, or maybe one more next weekend.
The dream was strange; I was in a room made of marble with a single throne chair in the center. Eric stood beside it, a smirk on his face. His eyes were gazing behind where I stood, but I didn't turn around to look.
A cool arm brushed against mine and I saw the Queen step up to the throne and sit, the smile was still on Eric's face, and Vera and Pam appeared at his side, I saw something glinting in Eric's hand. Vera's eyes were black, her hair starting to turn as well.
Suddenly the Queen shrieked in pain and Eric plunged a silver stake into her heart. She screamed louder and exploded.
I jerked up, panting and looking at the clock, it was two am. I jumped from the bed and ran to the door, storming down the hallway to the two guards, "Move." I growled. They looked at me, giving me a warning the look, I grabbed one of their arms and shoved him into the other, proceeding to pound on Eric's door.
It opened to a bloody mouthed Eric, his dinner sat on the couch, "out." I growled at her, she jumped up and scurried out of the room while Eric cleaned his mouth, "tell me what is going on now."
"You lost your right to know." He threw over his shoulder at me.
"Eric Northman don't you dare treat me like that, you keep telling me to go home for my own good I should at least get to know why! I'm not one of your fang bangers! I wont do whatever you tell me to! Tell me what is going on, now!"
He looked surprised at my out burst and shook his head, "Sookie, it is a wonder you have no been killed yet."
"Yeah, I know." I grumbled, "Now tell me what's going on." I spun on my heel so I could watch him as he went into the living room and sat down on the couch.
"What do you thinks going on?"
"None of your bullshit Eric, tell me now." I growled, "I am sick of being in the dark when it comes to these things. I got called to help find a fellow fairy who I found out fucking looks just like me, and now you tell me to stop looking for her? What did you do take her yourself so you can have a fuck buddy?" I screamed, "I don't even know why the hell I offered to come!"
He looked alarmed, and then angry, he was pinning me against the wall in seconds, "I did not take her, nor to I want her for a 'fuck buddy' the only one of those I want is my stubborn, hardheaded, telepathic, ex-bonded. Don't come here and assume I took her because she looks like you. I don't love you or want you for your looks, I may have in the beginning five seconds I laid my eyes on you but it was you, everything about you, which drew me in."
I stood there speechless, my mouth hanging slack; I blinked my eyes, "then tell me what's going Eric."
"Something you don't need to be involved in. I just want you to go home, where your safe." He replied, his voice softer.
"I don't want to go home. I'm tired of home." I replied, and then I thought about what I had said, I really didn't want to go home, I really was. That's why I was putting up with his shit.
"Sookie, it would be safer."
"I don't care Eric." I murmured, and then surprised myself by leaning up and kissing him. Sparks shot through my body, from my lips down to my toes and back up. I threw my arms around his neck and he picked me up, deepening the kiss.
I wrapped my legs around his waist and he pushed me against the wall, and broke the kiss, "Sookie…I've missed you." And then he crashed his lips back to mine, my hands tangled in his hair and he pulled us away from the wall, dumping me down on the couch, surprise over took me and my shields dropped.
Eric faltered and I jumped to my feet, backing toward the door, the moment lost, "I'm going back to my room. Tomorrow night you will tell me what I want to know." I jerked the door open and ran down to my room before he could catch up.
Pam raised an eyebrow at me when she bumped into me outside the door, "I don't wanna talk about it." I muttered, pushing the door open and crawling back into the bed, I buried my head in the pillow and willed myself to sleep again, and eventually, after the sun came up, I fell asleep.
"Sookie, Sookie." A deep, definitely male voice, called. I peeked my head out from under the covers and met Eric's eyes, "Good morning sleeping beauty. We need to have a drive. Get dressed."
I tumbled out of my bed and went to get my suitcase from Pam's now empty room. I grabbed a dress from the suitcase, went in the bathroom, threw it on and tugged a brush through my hair. I brushed my teeth and met Eric in the living room, "where are we going?"
"For a drive." He replied simply, spinning and walking out of the room. I slid on some shoes, grabbed my phone and followed him out the door and down to his corvette, "So, how long ago did you start becoming more like your cousin."
"A few months after you left." I replied, glancing out the window, "did you take her?"
"No." he answers, "do you have any other abilities?"
"Yes. Did you have someone take her?"
"Yes."
"Why?" I cut in before he could ask me a question. He turned a corner and pulled to a stop, turning on his hazards.
"She needs to die. Please, for your own safety, get on that plane waiting for you there." He nodded forward.
"No. I won't get on that plane and go home." I growled, "I haven't found her, so if I go home will not that arise suspicion?" I ask, knowing that he would see my way and I would get to stay.
"Alright, but you need to promise that you will stay out of harms way when I tell you to get out, you go." I nod, "good. And now that we understand each other, would you like to do something tonight?"
"Like what? I'm supposed to be looking for Linda, won't the Queen find out if I don't?"
"I went with you to help look, of course." He smiled, I narrowed my eyes him, "Look we need to have a long conversation. And I don't exactly have anywhere we can do that at the moment, so would you like to go back to the hotel, attempt a lame search or go somewhere else?"
"Are Vera and Pam doing anything?"
"I assume they are, but we can't discuss what they're doing. So, I'll ask again, back to the hotel, lame search, or somewhere else?"
I sighed, closed my eyes and sank down into the seat, "I don't care Eric, and you will probably talk me into doing something else anyways. So do what you have in mind?"
He smiles at me, and speeds up a little more, "Well, they have a fair going on downtown, perhaps they could be there?" he asks.
"Whose really going to be there?" I throw back.
"A few visiting royals and sheriffs and Pam and Vera. I have to go."
"Are you bringing me because you want them to think I'm Linda?" I ask.
"No. I'm inviting you because I want to invite you. Do you always need to question my motives?"
"Do you seriously have to ask me that?" I asked, turning my head to face him, "seriously?"
"Okay, fair enough. But I wouldn't do that, they all know I don't feed off of Linda, she is the Queen's not mine. I never wanted a thing to do with her. I didn't even know about her until two months after Pam left. She likes to mess with me, because she has power over me."
"How?"
"Because if I do anything against the marriage she can get me sent to the magister." He answered, "I was technically 'hers' and vampire marriages are different in several ways from your human ways."
"Like how?"
"I cannot go into it now, besides I want to enjoy myself. Come on." I hadn't even noticed that we pulled into a parking lot. Eric was at my side of the car and opening the door for me, I stepped out of the car and he offered me his hand, I rolled my eyes and walked on past him.
He was quick to fall into step beside me, pausing only to show something to the gate manager before we strolled through the gates. People were all around me, kids shrieking with laughter and parents following them, happy couples, all around, and vampires.
A few stopped to say hello and bow to Eric, others stared from a far, mostly at me. The only other people that came up to us were a few kids wanting to see Eric's fangs. We went on a few rides, played a couple of games and I got dinner, which was a delicious corn dog.
We were in line for a ride when Eric's phone rang. He picked up, talked fast and then hung up, "Sookie, we need to go find Pam or Vera, the Queen is returning." I sigh and let him pull me out of line to drag me across the fair and over to a small shop called Nada's.
He pulled me inside cast his eyes around and frowned, "what are you doing in here vampire?" a new voice called out, Eric smiled, his head tilting to the side.
"Good evening, is your sister around?" Eric inquired politely, "I need to find her or Pam."
"Neither is here at the moment, but they'll be back. What do you want?"
"The Queen has arrived early and I must be at the hotel to greet her, though I wouldn't want to ruin Sookie's night by bringing her back so early." He lied, I knew it, the girl hiding in the shadows probably knew it, and Eric knew it.
"She is human?"
"Yes." I answer before Eric, mostly because hello, standing right here! I mean she couldn't just ask me?
"Alright, goodbye Eric."
"Thank you." He replied, still smiling as he bent down to my ear, "I'm sorry about this, but it must look as if you three were out searching and not just having a good time. I'll see you later. And maybe Vera could fill you in on what's really going on."
After Eric left the woman stepped from the shadows, glaring at his back, "Hi." I said awkwardly smiling at the woman. She had curly brown hair, dark brown eyes, and very pale skin.
She looked much taller then her sister and she were definitely much less tattooed. But her eyes were the same, hazel, though hers favored more on the brown side where as Vera's favored green.
"Hello." She replied, a smile finally stretching across her face, "I'm Alexsandra." She extended her hand for me to shake and I took it, shaking briefly and introducing myself.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Miss Stackhouse. If you would like you can have a seat on that couch over there, Vera and Pam should return soon."
"Thanks." I said, crossing the small shop and sitting down on the soft, but antique looking couch. I gazed around the shop, the walls were lined with spices and herbs and other weird things. Maybe this was a magic shop.
A few customers came in and out in the next 30 minutes, most of them confirming my belief that it was a magic shop, but Vera and Pam didn't show up until it was close to 10, an hour and a half after Eric left.
Alexsandra and I were sitting playing a game of cards when Vera came in and touched her sister's shoulder. Alexsandra jumped, and I jumped because she jumped, "Sookie, what are you doing here?" Pam asked.
"Eric had to leave me here, the Queen returned." I answered, scooping up the cards I had dropped and handing them to Alexsandra.
"He could have told us." Vera muttered, I shrugged. I didn't mind being stuck here, Alexsandra was rather nice and very fun to talk to, and around her I could let my shield down, her brain was as blocked as a vampire's.
"Well, we were going to leave before checking in here, I guess it's a good thing we didn't." Pam said, "Are you ready to leave?"
"I guess." I mumbled, not really wanting to leave the shop, it was very peaceful. But I got up anyways and followed Pam and Vera to the car after exchanging goodbyes with Alexsandra, which thankfully had a backseat, I wonder if Eric had even thought about that?
I assumed we were going to go back to the hotel, but Pam drove right passed it, not even slowing down, "Pam, where are we going?"
"You'll see." Was all she said, I didn't ask anything else, because I was getting more tired by the second. I was almost asleep when I felt the car stop, my eyes slowly opened and I looked out the window to see a small little house with a cute white picket fence and a red door.
"Where are we?" I asked, looking between the two.
"My house." Pam replied, "hurry up."
I scrambled out of the backseat and followed them up to the red door, which Pam opened without using a lock, "It's got a spell on it so only Pam or people that have Pam's permission to enter can get in." Vera explained as I followed her through the door. I could faintly feel the magical barrier.
"Why are we here?" I felt like I was playing twenty questions tonight, between Eric and Pam and Vera I wondered if maybe I could get some straight answers. It turned out I could.
"We're here because the Queen can't bug Pam's house." I spun to find Eric standing by a door I had completely missed, "I was wondering if you three would ever make it back."
He crossed from that door to another door and strode in, Pam and Vera followed him so I followed them. And now I will get to hear the story, I thought. I saw papers and contracts strewn everywhere as well as three Weres and a blonde who looked very much like me.