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?

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.

Sorry if it seemed rushed or the fight scene wasn't as awesome as it could have been but for what I had in mind Sookie wouldn't be doing much fighting because she's really no match for a lot of demons, she is only part Fae.

Hope those of you reading enjoy, one short chapter after this and then its done. I apologize for spelling/grammar mistakes. I've tried to find as many as possible, but spell check is broken and I'm dyslexic, and rather tired right now.

Enjoy~

SPOV

We were all sitting outside now, Alexsandra had un-cast the spell that put the fake light in the air. Everyone was lying around staring up at the sky; there was a full moon in two days, which was when we were going to run into trouble.

"We should attack then." Someone commented off hand. Eric grunted in reply, they'd clearly had this conversation before; I was sitting in a camping chair between Vera and Eric, staring at the starry sky.

It was humid and hot with a light breeze; I think the sticky air was making everyone grumpy, and the looming war about to take place, with the enemy surrounding the house. Maybe we should just teleport away that could be a plan, right? And then when they finally broke the barrier we wouldn't be here about to get massacred.

I voiced my thoughts, and everyone turned to look at me, mostly like I had three heads, "well, it could work." I point out, trying to find one face that isn't staring at me like I was bonkers. I didn't luck out.

"How could that work?" a Were asked, "Why would we run?"

"It's not running, it's relocating. If we're not here, and they can't tell, when they break through ready for a fight they wont know what to do. It would give us the upper hand. By the time they found us, we'd have a plan."

Now they were looking at me like I made some sense, good. "Could you do that?" Eric asked, sitting up and looking over at me.

"I could try. I mean, I'm not sure if I could really do it, but I can try." I reply nodding my head firmly, "Claudine said it was possible for me to teleport more than one person at a time. But it requires a lot of energy."

"Sookie, you almost fell over just teleporting me." Pam points out.

"Only the first time, I was just fine when we came back. So maybe it was just because it was the first time I'd ever done it." I reply, "I mean it was really not that bad. It's worth a shot, right?"

"Where would we go? They know every bit of property owned by the vampires and the packs." Mikhail points out. I glance over at Alexsandra, who looked up sensing my eyes on her.

"We could go to my place. I have a lot of property so tomorrow they'd be safer changing, but I'd need an hour to put spells on the property before you teleported people there." She says thoughtfully, "it's a good idea. Nobody really knows where I live, not even Vera."

"I will now." She replies with a grin, "I'll come help you cast, and we'd need to bring demon boy, because he's a great source of fire-y energy." She grins; he shakes his head with a smile on his face.

"Okay." Eric says he looks over to the pack leaders who nod in agreement. I stand up and we go in the house, Alexsandra gives me her address and thinks loudly about her backyard so I can get a mental image of it. I make sure I'm touching all three and picture her place, the tug is stronger this time and the pop louder and then I'm standing in her backyard with Mikhail, Vera and Alexsandra all looking around stunned.

"What, you think I pulled all that food out of my ass before?" I tease, Vera smirks, "okay, we'll text you. Go back, get some rest, you're going to be busy soon." I nod and teleport back to my bedroom, Eric is sitting in a chair in the corner.

"Everything all good?" he asks when I lay down on my bed, I nod and close my eyes, "so they're doing the spells?"

"Yeah, I'm going to rest since I've got a lot to do later." I mumble my eyes half closed. The bed down by my feet sinks down, "what is it?"

"Nothing." he answers, sounding tired.

I guess I was kind of tired, and by kind of, I mean I was almost asleep now, "wake me up when Vera calls." I close my eyes and that's the end of it.

I was woken up two hours later by Pam who demanded I pack up clothes and things I would want before I started teleporting. I didn't try to teleport more than three people at a time, I didn't want to risk anything bad happening, I had teleported mostly everybody over to Alexsandra's property, now the only people left were Pam and Eric.

"Ready?" I asked as I materialized beside them, both of them nodded and stepped toward me, I took Eric's hand in one of my hands and Pam's in the other. Once they joined hands I pictured Alexsandra's backyard and my house disappeared.

Everyone had settled outside with the exception of Pam, Eric, Vera, Alexsandra and me, we were spread around Alexsandra's living room, discussing a plan of attack. I was only half listening, because they weren't really interested in involving me in the first place.

But I knew the general idea. They wanted to attack on the second day of the full moon, figuring the demons surrounding my property would be distracted trying to figure out where we were.

Alexsandra's house was shockingly close to mine, only about 15 minutes away, so travel wouldn't be to hard and there would definitely be an element of surprise for all of us to come up.

Once we had that figured out Eric went about planning who would attack where based on what we knew of which demons were on which parts of my property. They consisted of water demons, which were the ones I wasn't going anywhere near, fire demons, where would be Mikhail's family, earth demons, who would be bad for the vampires to attack.

And those were just the low-rank demons. Linda had others, and Dion had a plethora of servants, and a marching Horde, which was basically a pack of demons sent to raise war. Those were the ones I was worried about, when Mikhail had described them even Eric seemed worried, and if it worried Eric it definitely worried me.

"And of course she could have incubi and succubi with her, not that you have to worry unless you get knocked out." Mikhail said, dragging me from my thoughts, "Sookie, you need to watch out, demons are drawn to Fae so be very careful."

"I will." I reply, "Is anything else going to catch my scent and try to kill me?"

"Imps might want to get to you, just because." Mikhail says, "Did Claudine teach you to do anything else besides teleport?" I nod, but don't explain what it is; Claudine told me it was safer for me not to trust everyone.

I was still slightly baffled as to how she knew about all of this, the spell was from years ago, yet she talked to me like she had been living my life with me the whole time. It was so strange.

Once more someone said something to me, "Huh?" I inquired, "Sorry I spaced out."

"Eric was saying that you should shower, have some food and rest for the next few days." Pam explained, watching her masters retreating back. I nod absently, and get to my feet, walking into the kitchen, my head spun a little when I stood.

Vera was sitting at the kitchen table eating a sandwich, "Hey Sook, there's more sandwich's on the counter." I glance toward the counter, grab a sandwich, and grab a can of soda, sitting down across from her and taking a bite of it. It was ham and cheese.

"These are good, you make em?" I ask before taking a gulp of the soda.

"Yeah, got bored listening to them talk about the fight. Pam's being all nut-joby about me fighting. Like I'm going to get killed." She rolled her eyes, "I mean Eric's letting you."

"Gee, thanks for that." I grumbled, biting into the sandwich again.

"Sorry, I just mean it's not fair that Pam's being all crazy, and Eric's just like "whatever" about you fighting." She grumbles, "I mean he doesn't even seem worried."

I shrug, finishing off the sandwich and taking another gulp of my soda, "he knows that even if he tells me not to I'm going to do it."

"Which doesn't mean that I don't care, I just don't want to argue with her," Eric says, pulling the chair beside me out and sitting down, "it's not like it would do me any good. She'd just do it anyways, and at least this way she might listen to me if I tell her to not do certain things."

"Yeah, don't hold your breath on that one." Vera jokes, taking a gulp of her lemonade.

"I can hold my breath until the day I'm staked, it won't make a difference." Eric replied, Vera rolled her eyes and took her glass, leaving the kitchen quickly, "you know I am really worried about you doing this. It's not your war."

"That's funny, that's the same thing Linda tried to make me think so I'd ditch. Clearly she's worried about me joining you guys." I reply, "And anyways, you guys are my friends, and they're going to wreck my house, so I'd say it's my war now. Besides, how many times have I been involved in things that aren't my problem since Bill walked into my life?" I reply.

"Fair point, but all I'm saying is, you don't need to be in this one." He points out, "so, how are you feeling? Not to light headed from the teleporting I hope."

"Sort of I mean, kinda, its fading." I answered, "The food is helping, and the soda. I just need some sleep. Maybe I should go to bed, I'll ask Alexsandra what room I can stay in." I tell him standing up, I sway on my feet a little bit and Eric's strong arm wraps around my waist.

"Come on, I know which room you're using. She's got vampire tight windows, so I'm going to share the room with you. That's okay right?"

"Of course Eric, just get me upstairs before I fall over." I tell him, "I feel suddenly exhausted."

"Alright." He scoops me into his arms and takes me up the stairs, I feel a soft bed underneath my back and I snuggle into the pillow beneath my head. The bed sinks beside me and Eric wraps his arm around my waist, "rest well. The sun will be up soon."

I never really noticed how well I fit in Eric's arms, and now nice and safe I felt sleeping in them. I had glanced at the clock when I woke up 20 minutes ago, it was 5:45, and the sun would be going down, so Eric would rise soon.

I closed my eyes, trying to get a bit more rest; unfortunately Eric stirred beside me, I heard him take a deep breath in, and he loosened his grip on me, "good evening Sookie, did you sleep well?"

"Mmm, yes." I replied, yawning, my hand covering my mouth, "I need to…." I gestured toward the bathroom door, he loosened his arms and I rolled out of the bed, grabbing my bathroom bag before I went into the bathroom.

I took care of my human needs and brushed my teeth before walking back into the bedroom, Eric was still sprawled on the bed, I crawled in next to him and snuggled back into his chest, he wrapped his arm around me and kissed the top of my head, "I forgot how nice it was to wake up with you."

"Mmm, it is nice." I mumble into his neck, my eyes shut tight, I stifled a yawn.

"Did you get enough sleep? Are you hungry?" he inquires, sitting us both up.

"Yeah I got enough sleep, and I'm kind of hungry." I answer, "Do you need a TruBlood? I can go get one and bring it back here."

"That'd be nice, but I can go get my own. Let's get dressed and head downstairs." He stands up and I'm still lying in the bed, eyes closed. I hear him moving around and when I crack my eyes open I'm met with the sight of his bare ass.

I smirked to myself and laid there watching him get dressed, enjoying the way his back muscles moved as he pulled his shirt on. He turned around and shook his head at me, tossing a shirt and a pair of jeans at me. I changed shirts and pulled the jeans on over my shorts before following him down the stairs.

After we ate everyone sat around and talked and joked, the Weres were all out running around and enjoying the night while the vampires stood guard outside watching for demons, save for Pam and Eric who sat inside with us.

Around 4 all of us went back to our rooms and slept again until it was nearly sun down the next night. I was with Pam's group of people so I stayed with her most of the night while she gave orders.

We had a few more minutes before we were ready to move out, it was almost 9 o'clock when Eric pulled me away from everyone else. I figured he was going to tell me not to get myself killed, but instead he pushed me up against the living room wall and kissed the life out of me.

"If you die out there, I will find you, turn you into a vampire, and kill you again." He says, resting his forehead on mine, "I don't want to lose you again. I made a stupid choice not fighting harder to not marry the queen, and I want to fix us. I love you Sookie."

Before I could answer him he kissed me long and hard before he was gone and I was alone in the living room. I closed my eyes for a brief minute and then went back out to find Pam who was watching Vera and Eric disappear into the wood, Alexsandra was standing with Mikhail in another group, and they started to walk off as well. Dermot was standing in the back of the fourth group with a sword in his grip. He was talking to one of the Weres.

"Come on Sookie." Pam said, tugging my arm. We started off through the woods. Our group was the second to last group. Eric and Mikhail's group were the first and then our group. The group Dermot was in would come a little bit later.

I could hear the sounds of fighting before we even saw it; I smelt blood and my stomach knotted. Pam jumped right into a fight, leaving me to stand alone and survey the area with a sword gripped loosely in my hand.

I had one job that I was to do, and it would probably take me forever to find her. It didn't take long for a demon to rush toward me with a gross grin on his darkened face. He was almost like an ink blob with only shinny red eyes and a mouth full of pointy teeth.

I brought the sword down on his neck the way Pam had taught me and his exploded all over my dress. I was disgusted in a second, but it was the only way to tell Linda and me apart. I was wearing a dress and it was highly improbable that she would too because dresses weren't good for fighting.

A second and third demon ran toward me, only one made it to me and I ran him through with the heavy sword and once more he exploded on me. Linda was clearly not around here, so I ran through the thick trees, trying to get closer to my house.

I'd never been one to enjoy killing, but I had to try and not think about it as I ran through and killed the few demons that tried to kill me, but as I got deeper into the fighting I started getting swarmed. My arms were cut up and I had a gash on my left calf, the sword had long ago been ripped from my hands and now at least twenty demons were advancing on me.

I squeezed my eyes shut and took a deep breath, trying to focus on feeling my magic. There was a tug in my stomach, and then a spark shot up my spin and tingles moved through my limbs. I opened my eyes and found I was glowing bright, I held my palm out like Claudine had instructed and a bright purple light shot out, slicing right through the ink blob demons and a few of the human ones. I used my other hand to get rid of more until they were all gone and I jumped to my feet, running toward my house.

Before I got to it I found Mikhail slumped by a tree, trying to catch his breath it seemed, I kneeled beside him, "have you seen her?"

"I think she's in the house. Hiding. She can't fight well."

"Thanks." I pushed myself up and ran toward the house, finding a sword lying on the ground that I used to get rid of a few more attackers before I made it up the steps of my back porch and into the house. There were a few dead demon bodies and a few dead shifters that I recognized lying on the floor through the house.

I crept silently, trying not to alert anyone to my presence, toward the stairs. I spotted Linda's blonde head disappear around the corner, and a demon slipped down the stairs. Was this Dion?

He was handsome, with dark hair that almost seemed to shimmer too much to be real. His skin was tan and his shoulders were broad, he was very muscular. His eyes found me where I was hiding in the darkness and he smiled.

"Sookie Stackhouse, right?" I nod, "it will be a shame to have to kill my daughter doppelganger." He says with a sadden sigh as I raise the sword. He smiles sadistically at me, raising his palm so it's facing me. I toss the sword toward him raising my own.

White light meets red in an explosion and the sword slams into his leg, breaking his concentration, my power hits him and he explodes. Lucky me, I get covered in his goo, "Dad?"

I shrink back into the corner when I hear Linda's footsteps, she sounds worried, "dad?" My hands are shaking, Claudine said our power would be matched, and only one of us would survive. She didn't know who, apparently.

Linda moved back up the stairs, heading down the hall. I followed her careful to avoid the creaking floorboards. She was in Dermot's room; she spun to face me when I cleared my throat behind her.

"Hello Sookie, I expected Eric to at least send you with a weapon."

"He did, but I lost it killing you dad." I didn't really know where the words came from, but I was sure they had come out of my mouth. Anger flared in her eyes. I noticed she was wearing a dress, it was exactly like mine. We looked the same.

"Then you will be defenseless when I kill you." I had maybe a millisecond to react when the power burst from her palm, I raised mine up and like with Dion our power met in the middle, but instead of being equally matched, hers began to over power mine.

I took a deep breath and closed my eyes, the tingles that ran through my body intensified, when I opened my eyes the glow was brilliant white and I couldn't see Linda at all around it, another shock traveled up my spine and my head spun.

The last thing I heard was a deep voice roaring my name and the last thing I saw was the white light exploding before I was pitched across the attic where I hit the wall hard and dropped to the ground on my face.