I was knocked off my feet by a human shaped blur. It hit into me hard and pushed me to the floor. I hit my head on the cabinet as I went down and small droplets of blood seeped onto my scalp and into my hair. My 'dress' made an awful ripping noise and I realised that it'd split in two. I looked up into the yellow eyes of my attacker. He was a panther. He was snarling in a blood-curdling way. But he wasn't all panther. His hands were human and on the left hand ring finger there was a ring. It was awful familiar. I tried to focus on that ring as the panther started clawing my stomach and shredding my legs. Blood ran freely from the wounds. I heard a crunch from somewhere around my leg and then awful sharp pain hit me. I gasped as I lost my focus. So much pain in my legs. It hurt so bad. I bit my lip. There was no way anyone would here me if I screamed and I didn't want to aggravate this shifter anymore. Then he hit my head again and everything went dark.
I woke up feeling terribly groggy. I was aware that there was someone else in the room. My body hurt like hell but I kept my eyes closed. I opened my mind to find the extra person in the room. Shifter. Bitten. Oh fuck Calvin's gonna kill me for this. I shut my mind off. There was some pretty awful images of me in that brain. Deep breaths, I knew who it was over there in the corner of the little kitchen. And at the moment he was extremely dangerous to me. I closed my eyes and focused on the pain in my right leg. Calm down Sookie, Calm down. Beside me I could feel some sort of wooden cone. Oh shit. It was a stake. I picked it up in my right hand. I could feel the warm stickiness of my own blood. Slowly and carefully. This was going to hurt. My attacker was about a foot away from me. His hands were covering his face. He was cowering like a little boy. In an instant I felt sorry for him. Then I remembered what he'd done to me. I raised the stake and jammed it into his leg. The creature howled in pain his eyes met mine for a second and then he was out. I looked at the creature curled up, now one the floor. I looked at his blonde hair and his tanned skin and I cried. My brother had tried to kill me.
My first thought was to call 911 then I realised that if I did I'd have some pretty heavy explaining to do. So instead I called the were option. Calvin Norris. I pulled my self over to my bag. It was lying on the table. I figured that's where my attacker had lain in wait. I couldn't bear to think of him as my brother that just hurt too damn much. I reached out for my purse. I paused and gritted my teeth. There was an immense pain from my arm. But I managed to grab it. I meticulously picked my way through the contents of my bag until I found the cell that Eric had had to replace for me after the last one got ruined. I flicked through my phone book, I paused before I pressed the call button. It rang once.
"Sookie, what can I do for you today ?" Calvin's cheerful voice resonated loudly into my ears. I winced, I seemed to hurt everywhere. " Calvin, thank-god, listen, Jason just attacked me, I staked him and he's lying on my floor, please, for god sake could you send someone down here ?" I paused, I blinked away the tears that were clouding my eyes.
" Sookie just stay where you are, we'll be right down." I flipped the phone shut. The grave sound of Calvin's voice frightened me. A lot. I let my mind drift back to the horrible sight that had greeted me from the kitchen sink. There had been blood lots of blood. And someone's left ear.
I tried my best to crawl to the door but by the time I got there the were's had already forced their way in. Calvin sprinted to me whilst his brothers ran into the kitchen to find Jason. " The sink." I whispered. " It's in the sink" The pain must've come through my voice because Calvin gathered me up in his arms and carried me to my bed. Or it could've been all the blood on my body. I didn't even want to think about how he knew where my bed was. I didn't even remember giving him directions to my house. He disappeared into my en suite. Right then I heard a familiar voice call through the door. Amelia. She ran into my room. Aw Jesus, I realised I'd gotten blood all over the carpet. Well shit. Right then Calvin re-appeared. He noted Amelia and motioned for her to sit with me. I looked out the window as Calvin began to work on my body. He had my first aid kit from the bathroom cabinet. Amelia fed me dozens of aspirin. Suddenly I was so tired. I'd worry about Jason when I woke-up. Oh god, and Eric.
A cold hand was brushing my hair. I opened my eyes slowly and carefully because whenever I did something bad always seemed to happen. I looked into the beautifully warm eyes of Eric Northman. I felt a sweet kind of warmness spread through my body.
" My lover." He whispered. Through the numbness of the drugs I felt his lips sweep over my forehead. I inhaled his sweet scent. He had one arm curled protectively over me and the other was still holding onto my hairbrush. I smiled through the pain that was returning. Then something occurred to me, whose ear had been in my sink. But that didn't need figuring out straight away what did was what happened last night.
" Eric," I said putting an ounce of warning into my voice " what did we do last night." He laughed, loud and thunderously. Then he caught sight of my serious face.
" Sookie, you really don't remember ?" He smiled although I could see the caution behind his eyes.
" No actually Eric I don't." God, talk about role reversal. Last year it'd been him being all amnesiac. His booming laugh filled my head and the house.
" Where is everyone ?" I asked feeling really confused. It reminded me of when I first moved in with Gran and I would wakeup and cry for my mom. But instead of my grandmother to be there for me, this time it was a supremely sexy Viking.
" The were's fixed your door and then left with Jason." I saw his beautiful face turn into a grimace when he thought of my brother. My brother, the one who'd tried to kill me.
" Eric, Jason was at fangtasia, seriously, what did he see." I asked, my voice shook with anger and disbelief.
" He left before anything happened." Eric said soothingly. This was definelty weird it was kind of like having the amnesiac Eric back with me. The one that cared.