I do not own any of these characters; they all belong to Charlaine Harris.

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I backed up as the two Weres came closer. Oh this was so not good. It was broad daylight and Amelia was down the stairs and I had no idea where Raul was. I wasn't too sure I could take thing one and thing two all by myself.

"How much do you think the blond vamp will pay?" one of the Weres asked out loud. Oh Shit! I thought. These guys aren't working for Eric. I had been thinking that this was just an elaborate plan on his part to capture me back. Apparently I was wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. I tried to figure the best way out of this situation. I decided to use my surroundings as help.

"Um," I whined " Sanctuary?" The two guys looked at each other and laughed. I took advantage of the situation and bolted past them and down the stairs.

"Hey!" they yelled, "Get back here!" I didn't even think I just ran down the stairs shouting for Amelia and Raul the whole way. I could hear thing one and thing two catching up though. I was near the end thought and I saw Amelia at the bottom of the stairs. I tripped down the last three steps and ran right past her as she punched thing two in the face, knocking him back into thing one. I backed into a pillar and Amelia dashed past me and grabbed my arm to take me with her.

"Sookie lets go!" Amelia ran towards the exit. She must have forgotten about me or something because when I rounded the corner I didn't see any open doors. One of the Weres jumped down in front of me. I backed away from him and turned so that my back was towards the pews and altar. I could actually hear Amelia a little ways off. It sounded like Raul was helping her. I wasn't too sure how we would get out of this without any help. I almost tripped over the holy water. That gave me an idea. I felt horrible but I knew I had to do it. I pushed the stand of holy water down in front me and then turned and ran down the pews. The Were tripped and fell over the black metal stand. I was pretty sure it was thing one who was trying to get me. He didn't even take the pews into account once he got back up. He just vaulted himself over them. Aw Crap. I thought. I ran behind the alter and grabbed a crucifix as I hid below. I could hear thing one step closer and closer. I scrambled quickly around the table until I could see his legs. I stood up slowly behind him with the crucifix in my hand and hit him right in the head. He fell to the floor.

"Hey!" I called "Let's get out of here!" Thing two jumped down in front of me as I tried to escape down the end aisle.

"Not so fast," he growled, "the vampire will pay dearly if he wants to see you alive again." I gulped. Please Dear Lord let me find a way out of this. It didn't seem likely because thing one had recovered from the blow to his head and the two of them were corralling me. I had no idea where Amelia and Raul were. I hoped they were safe. One of the Weres pulled the gag from his back pocket. And moved towards me menacingly. I almost had my back to the stonewall when I spied something out of the corner of my eye.

I put on my most wide-eyed "Please don't hurt me act" while I watched Raul swing down and kick thing one into thing two and onto the ground. Raul landed gracefully by my side.

"Come on Sookie, let's get out of here." Raul took my hand and pulled me away from the two weres.

Amelia was out side sitting in the driver's side of the Porsche. She zoomed off as soon as Raul and I were in.

"Holy Fuck." Raul gasped, "Sookie if this is what vacation is like then I can't even begin to imagine what your regular life it like." Raul let his head fall back between the headrests and breathed heavily. I thought back to what my life had been like. I had thought that after the fairy war that I had fulfilled my quota of danger and loss for the rest of my life. I was wrong apparently. At least I still had my sense of humor. I laughed as I remembered seeing Raul swing down from the rafters in the church.

"Well, Tarzan, its a pretty much the same as my regular life." I told him. Raul laughed and I filled Amelia in on how Raul had saved me.

Amelia was almost as bad a driver as Eric. Raul and I were thrown into each other while she made a sharp turn into the valet parking area for our hotel.

"Amelia, I believe that with your driving skills and my rescuing techniques we could make a dashing movie." Raul grinned and then turned to me "But of course! Sookie you can be all the reasons Amelia and I need to exercise our talents!" I rolled my eyes. I think my life was much more exciting than any action movie I'd ever seen.

"Oh!" Amelia exclaimed "Sookie we need to go shopping." She'd stopped a few feet from the safety of our hotel. I couldn't believe her. Shopping? After the day we had?

"Amelia, you've got to be kidding." I told her. The truth was, I really wanted to go shopping. I mean we were in Paris. This was probably a once in a lifetime chance.

"I don't think it's a good idea." Raul said. I nodded.

"Amelia what if more Weres come after us?" Amelia made a funny kind of thinking face where she moved her mouth from side to side quickly like Samantha on Bewitched.

"I know," she turned to Raul with wide eyes "Raul would you please go and buy clothes for Sookie and me?" she batted her eyelashes at him. "I would be ever so grateful." I rolled my eyes.

"Amelia, cool it." Raul grinned, "Yeah I'll go. I think I can find things that would look good on the both of you, but I don't know your sizes." Amelia was ecstatic.

"Alright I'm a size four and Sookie's a size six." I had lost weight. Normally I was between an eight and a ten. I hadn't been eating well lately. Raul turned and walked away. Amelia was still telling him what kinds of clothes to get. I was a little worried for him. I knew that he would be less of a target, but I still worried. But Amelia looked a little foolish talking to herself so I dragged her inside.

"Amelia," I asked once we had gotten to our room "what's Raul's story?" She was lounging on a chaise and rolled over to look at me. I had plopped down in one of the chairs.

"You should probably ask him yourself."

She was right. I shouldn't probe, but I was curious. "I'm just curious Amelia. Besides sometimes its better to hear from a third party observer." She rolled her eyes at me.

"Well, Raul and I are cousins. My family used to come out to France every summer. His family lived here so it was tons fun to have them stay with us at the villa. Raul and I were really close, but he had a lot more pressure than I did. Raul's family wanted him to become a doctor or an investor or something that made him a lot of money, but Raul just wanted to explore and travel the world. He got his college degree in archeology. His parents cut him off when he made it clear that he wasn't going to do what they wanted. Raul went off on his own for a while but he ran out of money so he hired himself out to my father. My dad pays him to pretty much live at the villa and keep it in good repair and keep the horses healthy and all. I kind took suit soon after, only I've got more resources than Raul does so I could fend for myself a lot better. I remember Raul saying that he really wanted to go on some kind of expedition but he didn't have enough funds." Amelia was frowning.

"That's really too bad." I said, "Raul's such an awesome guy."

"He really is, I mean he's hot and smart and really interesting." Amelia sat up and leaned towards me. "You know, I think he kind of likes you." I raised an eyebrow. Uh, Raul and me?

"Amelia, I wouldn't want to get him hurt, and if we dated then he'd probably end up dead."

"Ha ha, your probably right." Amelia went to her luggage and brought out some nail polish. "Hey, what do you want to do tomorrow?" she asked.

I had no idea. I mean we were limited. I wasn't sure what we could do that wouldn't cause us trouble. Raul came in with some bags before I could answer.

"Okay, I couldn't get much because something came up." Raul looked a little flustered his dark hair was all over the place and his eyes were bright. "Lauren, the girl I asked to scout for Eric the past few times told me that she just can't go out again." Oh great. I bet Eric was terrorizing her, or sending his cronies to do it. I bet she'd gotten the scare of her life. "She said she was too freaked out." I groaned. Yep, signs of vampire influence.

"What are we going to do?" I asked. Raul set the bags down on the bed. There weren't that many.

"Well, I don't know who else to call, so I think I'll go." Amelia stood up and went to look at what Raul got her. I walked over to him.

"Raul I don't think that's such a good idea. I mean they probably know who you are and I wouldn't want you to get hurt." Raul put an arm around my waist and hugged me to him.

"Don't worry Sookie, I can keep a low profile. Plus it isn't much of a vacation if you are cooped up in here." I sighed. "I won't stay out long if that makes you feel better." It did a little. I had no idea what Eric was up to. I don't think he'd take too kindly to hearing about our attackers earlier today. I was pretty sure that he would be even more worried about me.

"Raul these are amazing!" Amelia had thrown on some shorts and a blouse that Raul had picked up. She looked really good. I hopped I had gotten cute clothes too.

"Alright, I'm going to head out. I should be in by eleven at the latest." That wasn't too late. Raul changed to dark jeans and a black t-shirt and left. I sat down on my bed. I was too worried to look at my new clothes, but Amelia had poured them out and started to look at them.


"Sookie these are adorable you have to try them on!" Amelia got a little over excited by shopping. She was holding up a black strapless dress. It had a sweetheart neckline and a gold zipper on the side. It was short and sexy. Thank goodness I had brought my strapless bra. I decided to try it on. It was the prettiest dress I'd ever put on.

"Oh Wow. Sookie, if you wear that Eric couldn't be mad at you anymore." She was right. He'd probably forget that he was mad at me and just fuck me if he ever caught me wearing this. I decided that it was my secret weapon just incase anything happened that I might I have trouble fixing.

"Raul is a great shopper. Amelia, are you sure he's not gay?" We both laughed. It would be a horrible loss to the world if Raul were gay. It was bad enough that Claude was. Amelia put on a sexy silk dress that Raul had gotten for her. We were both geared up, with no place to go.

"Sookie I want to go out soo bad." Amelia flopped down on the bed and stared at the ceiling. I really wanted to as well.

"We can't tonight it's too risky. Tomorrow night we'll go out. Raul needs to find a place that will be vamp free."

"Blaahh, I want to go out now! I don't care if it kills me." Amelia threw her arms down on the mattress and pouted. I knew she wouldn't and thankfully Amelia decided that a movie would do. She rented something off the hotel's channels. It was in French so I decided to read instead. Amelia gradually fell asleep. It was getting late but I wanted to stay up for Raul. I tried turning off the TV, but their remote was weird. I managed to turn the sound off. The screen was flashing colors eerily when Raul burst in through the door eyes wild, and gasping for breath.

Sorry this took so long. School and etc. However to make it up to all of you wonderful people who are following and reviewing I promise to finish before the second season of True Blood starts. Which has more Eric I'm told. =]