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.
Since I've completed four out of my seven exams and got 3 B's and an A I decided to edit this and upload it before I jumped in the pool. Enjoy, review/PM if you have any questions and I'll reply ASAP. :D
We sat in dead silence, I had taken a seat in a chair near the door, standing in the corner directly across from me was Charles, and next to him was another guard I didn't know the name of, but recognized. Off behind me was the third Were and sitting on the couch beside Pam was Vera, Eric was somewhere behind me as well. But I was staring ahead of me at Linda.
I thought I was looking into a mirror; she looked almost identical to me. The only difference was our eyes. It made me wonder if maybe Eric was lying. He said he hadn't told the Queen about me and my telepathy, so that would mean he wouldn't know that I'd be the one searching for his new stolen toy? What would keep him from stealing her from the queen? Did he change his story because I was searching?
I stared at her, puzzled; her mind was an open book. She didn't seem to care if I could hear the thoughts swimming around her head. She hardly thought about anything anyways, the stray thought about how good Eric looked in blue to the even more obnoxious thought when she wondered how big Eric's package was.
But even though she was thinking about him, she was looking right at me, her own mind probing mine, trying to get in. Not that she would, my mind was completely sealed off to her, or anybody that I didn't want in.
I wonder if he bangs her. The thought caught me off guard; it was louder than the rest of her thought. I didn't know who 'her' or 'he' was. My guess would be Eric. As for 'her', I mean, she knows Eric sleeps with the Queen, so it wouldn't be that, and her eyes never left me.
I bit back a sigh, why had I kissed him anyways? What the hell was I thinking? He had just finished eating. And he was probably going to sleep with her. My brain added in helpfully.
I wanted to drop my head into my hands, but I wouldn't look away from the other telepath, the look of frustration never crossed her eyes, but I could feel it in her mind. Did she actually not notice I was poking around in her head?
I wonder if this staring contest might end anytime soon. Vera's thoughts drifted into my mind from Linda's head, both of us turned to her at the same time, the same speed.
"That's creepy." She muttered glancing between the two of us before turning and staring over my shoulder where I knew Eric was now hovering, I had to agree it was creepy, "Are we going to sit here and watch these two all night or get down to business?"
"Right." He said, stepping into my line of vision, "the plan was simple, we would 'find' Linda and she would be distracted and not be aware of the doors locking all of us in her room and the explosion on the north corridor removing the guards except for these three. But now we have two problems."
"Sookie." Vera said, "But how is she a problem Eric?"
"Because the Queen suspected something, or she wouldn't have called her in. She somehow found out about Sookie's abilities, and decided that would protect her from me. Since Sookie was part of the search we would need to get her out of the room, somehow."
"She could pretend she's ill." Charles volunteered, "The second problem is that it's not a hotel room, instead of the palace, so how exactly are we going to get rid of her guards?" No one apart from Vera, Eric and Charles seemed to have anything to say. None of them even looked like they were coming up with a solution, they were still casting glances between Vera and I.
"Well, if there was an explosion at the hotel it would still force the guards to leave." Vera said, "And since these two look alike, maybe I could do something about the eye color, she wouldn't be able to use Sookie as protection, because she wouldn't know who she was."
"You wouldn't know the difference either." Charles argued, "We need Sookie out of the room and the guards gone."
"I'm not helpless you know." I pointed out, all eyes turned to me, "I can protect myself, and I sure as hell won't get in the way of any of your issues, so just factor me out. Your only problem seems to be the hotel."
"Sookie is right; she can take care of herself." Pam added, smiling at me, "We'll figure something out, for now you need to hold up your end of the deal."
Eric narrowed his eyes at Pam before gesturing for me to follow him, I got out of my chair and followed him downstairs to what I assumed was Pam's day chambers, "alright, I'm going to explain what's going on, and please just let me explain before you question anything."
I made a 'go ahead' gesture and sat down in a chair beside Pam's bed, "Alright. You know I had no choice in marrying the Queen; I tried everything I could think of to get out of this. But there was no way. So I did everything that bitch wanted me to, because she held my life over my head, and threatened yours. I never wanted to leave you. The offer I made was stupid and greedy of me; I had simply wanted to keep you all mine."
He paused, "I'm sorry if I made you feel any less important to me. I in no way see you parallel to fang bangers. You know that, right?" I nod and he falls silent for a moment, "I had no clue the queen knew you were a telepath, I still don't know how she found out. She had killed Vera's parents, and the rest of her family, so I had set up with the witch to help recreate for someone else, maybe Pam.
What I didn't expect was for her to bring in you. After I had Linda kidnapped, something which Linda knew about, I had told her Pam knew of a witch good at hunting down missing people. Then she shocked me by asking about you, and the contract we used to have. She sent Pam to go get you before she actually asked me about it, it took us months to work out the plan.
With Pam stuck in her area and I having no way to get knowledge to her I would go through Vera and she would relay the plan to Pam, she was busy looking for a place to stash Linda, in case the Queen had wanted to search herself. I guess they hadn't bonded like I'd expected so the kidnapping her was easier. Is there anything else I didn't cover?"
"What does her death mean for you?" I asked immediately
"It means that I will inherit the state, provided I am not the guilty party." He answered, sitting down in a chair across from me.
"Then who is going to kill her?" he shrugged, and explained that if he knew about it that he wouldn't be able to say he didn't know that whoever it was, was going to kill her. I sat silently retreating into my mind, trying to think of anything else I wanted to ask.
"Why did you kiss me?" he asked suddenly.
"I don't know. I just…wanted to." I replied, "Were you going to sleep with her?"
"No." he answered.
"How many have you slept with?"
"The Queen and one other woman a few times, how many others have you..?"
"I haven't. I kind of just shut off, the only guys I had contact with were Claude, Dermot and Sam, and then Claude's kids moved in, so I distracted myself. What is it about you that makes me have diarrhea of the mouth?" I ran it all into one quick abrupt sentence.
Eric smirked, "I don't know, but it's rather funny." I rolled my eyes at him, "what exactly are your abilities?"
"I'd tell you, but I'd rather you come up with your own musings and find out as I use them." I smirked, "I think they've come to a conclusion because my twin is broadcasting upstairs."
I made my way to the staircase and then paused, turning around as Eric walked into me, "you haven't had sex with her have you?"
"Who? Linda? No. I do not want a woman that looks like you if it isn't you. Besides, she's…well you mentioned how Dermot and Jason seemed to be polar opposites? So are Linda and you. And I most definitely prefer you." The way he said the last sentence was a purr that traveled up my spine.
"Right, well, lets go." I jumped away and up the stairs, returning to my earlier spot in the chair, Eric standing behind me, Linda resumed staring me down, and I met her gaze and kept it while the other three resumed arguing about how they were going to kill the Queen.
To me, Linda seemed to be a ditz; her brain was nothing different than the fang bangers I'd over heard at Fangtasia. But When Eric said something about the possibility of Linda getting hurt her mind slammed shut, she wanted me out and I didn't care enough to dig my way in.
"Why would I get hurt?" she asked, it occurred to me this was the first time I heard her talk. Her voice was soft and had a melody to it, like bells ringing through the air. She sounded so sweet, and captivating.
"Because if the fighting gets out of hand you will be trapped there, much like Sookie," Charles answered, "but it is highly unlikely you would be hurt, if this worked the way we planned it."
"Fan. Tas. Tic." She replied, a bitter ring to her voice. I vaguely occurred to me that I had thought the same phrase only a few days earlier. Maybe we weren't as different as Eric said.
"Good, then get some rest and tomorrow we will send them out to come find you. For now, let us return to the hotel." One of the Weres goes with Linda to a darkened car and the other goes with Eric, the last goes in a new car and tails them, we follow the second Were.
"I just want to sleep." I groaned, pushing open our hotel door, I stopped dead. The Queen was sitting on the arm of the couch of my bed, "Oh."
"Your Highness." Pam said, bowing.
"What have you two found?" she demanded, "Where is my Linda?"
"I have to do a location spell. I cannot do it at the moment, my strength is greatly diminished. I believe I will find her tomorrow." Vera said angrily and then looked apologetic, "sorry for my attitude. I am very tired." She brushed past me and went into the bedroom, calling goodnight to me.
"Alright. Thank you for your hard work." She walked out the door, slamming into my shoulder before shutting the door.
"Well, someone is sure a cup of sugar." I grumbled, grabbing something to sleep in and locking myself in the bathroom. I turned on the shower, letting it heat up as I shed my dirty clothes and brushed out my hair.
I stepped into the shower and leaned under the water, letting it rain down over my head for a good twenty minutes before I washed it, washed my body and stepped out wrapping in a fluffy towel.
I dried my hair, slipped into the clean clothes and crawled into the bed, pulling the sheet up and closing my eyes. I fell into a somewhat peaceful sleep around 3 o'clock.
Vera calling my name the next morning, "Sookie, we have to get up." She groaned, shoving my arm a few times until I sat up, "come on, you need breakfast and we need to be seen leaving."
After I got dressed we went down stairs and used Pam's car, heading to a tiny café for breakfast, then back to the fair, heading to Nada's. Alexsandra was sitting on the couch reading; she hardly looked up from her book as Vera scanned the shelves. She grabbed some items off of them, dropped a few bills on the counter and pulled me out.
"We need to go somewhere private to pull this off." She said, louder than she needed. We must've been followed. I got into the passenger seat and she drove us around in circles for about two hours, the same red and blue cars followed us.
Finally we stopped and got out, we walked for a mile and then stopped next to a tree, and she laid out a bunch of things and then set to work performing her spell. I didn't know what kind of spell she was performing, but a little grey ball formed in front of her.
"Okay, lets go." She pulled my arm and we followed the ball back to the car, got in and drove after it, the sun was already setting, "this ball should lead us to wherever they're holding Linda." She informed me, turning suddenly with the ball.
It was well past sunrise when the ball finally stopped. The blue and red cars were now gone and it was just Vera and I. None the less we went up to the house, the door imploded thanks to Vera and she stormed in 'taking' Linda from her captors.
With Linda in the backseat Vera tore down the road back to the hotel. Linda was silent behind us, her mind buzzing with idle thoughts. What would she watch later? Would she get a shower? What would she have for dinner?
I was saving up my energy for the worst case scenario, so I didn't bother with my shields, beside me Vera's brain was as vacant as a vampires mind, unlike the duplicate in the backseat, who was back to wondering things about Eric.
I rolled my eyes at her, I knew she had seen it in the vanity mirror, and then I stared out the window as Vera talked to the Queen. I could hear the excited voice through the blue tooth in her ear.
When we finally reached the hotel I had to throw my shields up, Linda put on a fake excited smile, and the second we swung open the Queen's door she flew into her arms, her mind however revealed how much she didn't want to be touched by the woman.
Well to be clear it was, I fucking hate vampires. Dead stupid things. I want her to get the fuck off of me.
I almost laughed, but at the same moment there was an explosion, Pam shoved Vera into me and the three of us fell in a pile on the ground while Eric knocked the Queen and Linda aside, then took Charles to the ground with him.
The door slammed shut, and I surveyed the room discretely. The occupants were Eric, Pam, Vera, myself, Linda the Queen, Charles, and two of her unnamed guards, who were already helping her to her feet. I felt two more vampire minds somewhere else in the sweet, and a third Were.
"What is going on? Is someone trying to kill me?" the Queen demanded hotly of Charles.
"I do not know." He answered.
"Go find out!" he scurried off, and I noticed Eric looked angry, that left us with Eric, Linda, Pam Vera, and myself. The Queen had herself, the three mystery vamps and the three guards, we were also down Eric, because he cannot be the one that stakes her. Which left Pam or Vera; I didn't think Linda would do it.
I don't know what actually caused it, but the vampires in the other room came tumbling in scuffling with the vampire, they slammed into Eric and the Queen, both of whom yelled angrily, Eric ripped the head clean off of one of the Weres and that was when I saw Vera making her way to the Queen.
Someone hit her and she went flying through the air, slamming against the wall. She was up in the next second, the air crackled at the angry magic flooding through her, I pushed myself back against the wall and grabbed Linda's arm, jerking her with me.
What are you doing?
Helping you. I pointed at the dead body now lying where she had been cowering.
"Thanks." And then she jerked her arm from mine and went running to the other side of the room. I didn't know what happened, but I ended up in a fight with one of the Queens guards, and the next second that tingly voice was yelling stake and Vera was rocketed across the room by the Queen.
Only then did her mind open up to me, and the painful haunting memories she had been thinking of slammed into my head, her parents were murdered right in front of her by the Queen, who had tied her up and forced her to watch. It made my stomach turn.
I slammed a lamp into the Weres head, effectively knocking him out, and ran to Vera's side, I laid my hand on her head where she was bleeding, her memories became stronger and my head started to hurt, before I thought about what I was doing the white light glowed around my hand and her head, and her eyes were blinking up at me.
"Sookie!" she screamed, shoving me the glow went away and the vampires froze, all turning at me. I pushed the stake into her hand discreetly as the Queen came toward me, I got to my feet. The lights slammed off then, as a new explosion rocked the room, I tumbled toward the ground.
I took the minor distraction to throw myself across the room; the plan formed in my head, let the Queen get distracted by me and hope Vera could see in the dark, I stood up and met the Queen's gaze in the dark. H
Her fangs were down and her nostrils flared her eyes wide as saucers she stalked toward me like a lioness would a gazelle. I looked at Eric, and then back at the Queen as she grabbed my arms. I couldn't see Vera and I didn't have time to look for her before the Queen buried her fangs in my neck.
I lashed out, kicking at her weakly as a scream ripped from my throat. But then she was gone, and I sunk to the floor holding my neck as a warm gooey substance splattered over me, the lights were still out but I could see Vera kneeling beside me, muttering something.
"Are you okay?" Eric's voice sounded distant and his face swam before my eyes. I blinked a lot, and bit my cheek trying to focus on him. He needed to be one face, not two. And then finally he was, I nodded at him, allowing him to pick me up off the floor, Vera was gone and I noticed Pam opened the door, she was pulling Linda behind her.
"Where is the Queen?" a worried Were asked, "is she hurt?"
"Calvin Neeson killed her, so I killed him." Eric said, "Please excuse me, I need to make sure this woman lives or we will have problems."
When we were safely in Eric's room I let myself relax, "why does she surround herself by Weres?"
"I don't know." He answered, "Maybe because Linda could read them. I really didn't care. Most of them hated her. Charles, she is no more. Calvin Neeson staked her while she was feeding off Sookie."
I saw him glance at me before he nodded and left, Eric set me down on the toilet in his bathroom, he spun the knobs on his shower and then turned to me, "can you stand?" I nodded and tried to show him I could, but he ended up needing to catch me, "okay, not. I will help you get cleaned up."
I wanted to argue, but I wanted to be rid of the red guts covering me, so I didn't argue. I mean, it's not like he hadn't seen me naked before anyways. He ripped the shirt and bra I was wearing, as well as the shorts and panties, then took off his own clothes before putting us both in the shower.
My head spun and I had to close my eyes so I didn't feel like I was going to topple over at any moment. I rested my back on Eric's chest as he washed my front and then wrapped my arms around him as he washed my back and hair.
Somewhere between the shower and lying in his bed he had dried my hair and dressed me, "Sookie, you need blood."
"Of course I do." I muttered mostly to myself, "but it's not going to happen."
"I am not doing this to connect us, you really do need it. If you don't want mine I will call in Pam to give you hers. But you need it." He sounded serious, but I really didn't want to be connected to him.
"Fine. Call Pam." I grumbled angrily. I didn't need to have my eyes open to know that I had probably hurt him, but he got up and called Pam in anyways. I felt the bed sink down behind me and a female hand rolled me over.
I cracked my eyes open and saw Pam's disappointed face, "sit up." With help from Pam and Eric I managed to get in a good enough position, and Pam bit into her wrist before pressing it up to my mouth.
I took a few pulls, and then slumped down into the bed, allowing darkness to pull me under. The last thing I felt was Pam and Eric situating themselves beside me, and Pam telling Eric one thing.
"Do not be mad at her, I am sure she has her reasons. For now we need to rest." And then the pillow next to mine moved and I was out for the next 15 hours.