Promise of a Lifetime

Chapter Nine

Time never goes by the way you wish it to, it has a mind of its own, always moving at the same pace, never looking back. Sometimes when I am waiting, time seems to stop to wait along with me, but things are never what they seem.

The last time that I had been on an airplane was with my father. We had been going to visit a doctor, someone that we had thought could help us figure out what made me so special. Back then I had looked down at the earth below us and watched all the people whom looked like ants, and the clouds that I could almost touch. I had looked out the window and smiled, but now all I saw was Dallas' city, and all of its lights.

Sookie and I were sitting in the private plane, Jessica and Bill were sleeping in the metal coffins that Eric had provided for them. Every now and again Sookie would ask if I thought that they were okay, and when I answered she would only smile and call herself silly for worrying about them, but she wasn't being silly at all.

But now the plane was landing and the suspense of finding him became even worse. The closer we got to our destination more my mark made itself present. The sudden burning sensations and quivers caused my heart flutter and my stomach to turn. Something else was making itself present. The last time I had used my powers was that night with Sookie, when I had injured my hand, but that was a week ago and I hadn't used my powers since then. Had I made a mistake in waiting too long?

Sookie steps off the plane first, and I follow, Bill and Jessica had already been unloaded. Sookie and I couldn't help but noticing the normal looking man wearing a suite while he holds a sign with Compton written on it. Sookie smiles at me and walks toward the average man, but as she gets closer she starts to falter.

A slight chill tells me that something is wrong but as Sookie said the words, "Thats me," I knew that she had made a mistake the moment we got off the plane.

I sprint towards Sookie to grab the man, and before I get within arms length Bill is there, he was too fast to see, but he made it. The man struggles but its no use to fight a vampire, not for a human anyway. Instead I make my way to Sookie and grab her hand, she looks startled but as she watches her lover I can see the trust she has in him. She is safe as long as Bill is with her.

We reconvened in the hotel room, Bill had wanted to question the man who tried to harm Sookie. Normally I would have been paying attention, I wanted to know who it was that wanted to harm the only true friend I had, but my mind was elsewhere. The mark on my hand was beginning to burn, making it almost impossible to ignore. Every time I attempted to focus my attention on my friend the mark would pulse, like his presence was calling me, pulling me towards him.

My thoughts were everywhere, but they all had one clear topic. My breathe was beginning to quicken and my heart raced, this caused my powers to surface, forcing its way from the shackles my control had become. Suddenly I fall back, landing on the hard floor of the hotel room, I can hear Sookie above me, worried, but I can't think. I know that Bill is there too, but I can't concentrate, my hearing leaves and I take a large intake of breathe, then in one smooth motion I push Sookie away, but not with my limbs. My powers force their way out, and I know that I have felt this power before.

Fear.

I panic and another surge of power escapes, sending a wave towards Bill, he too is pushed back. They are both yelling at me, at each other, and I can hear Sookie screaming my name, Bill wants her to leave. She should, it's safer. Sookie wont move, and I roll onto my stomach, I need to control myself, maybe I waited too long. I should have used up more of this energy before I got closer to him.

I can feel myself loosing it, my consciousness is beginning to be consumed, I attempt to speak and the sound of pain makes it's way through my throat. Taking a breathe I try again, "Sookie, leave-n-..." I can't continue.

"No, Skye I wont leave you, tell me what is happening!" Sookie is trying to fight against Bill's tight grip.

I breathe in again, "Bill, take her away, I can't hold it, not again, I can't let it go again...not again..."

Darkness, I can't see anything, just darkness. This has happened before. I was young, my mother and father were fighting, I had let my powers slip at a party. My mother was angry, she wanted to get rid of me, I was nine. I was angry, why was it my fault? I had been holding it in for a month and so I couldn't stop the sudden surge of energy, I had to let something out.

They heard me, I had panicked. That's when I had lost it. It broke free of it's shackles and I had been too weak to stop it. Instead I stepped aside and allowed it to take over, that's when I saw my father shatter. It was surreal, and didn't seem real. One minute he was there holding me, the next his cheek cracked just like glass. So frail. I blacked out, and woke up surrounded by...

My eyes flutter open and I feel sick. Holding my stomach I look around, I am on the roof of a building, staring at the sunrise. I glance around and see that nothing is around me, but how did I get here?

My stomache protests and I keel over, allowing the contents of my stomach to spill out onto the cold cement.

Slowly I crawl towards the railing and use it to help myself up, then look down at the city below. Even this early in the morning, people are bustling about ready to start their human lives.

"You're awake," the voice tears my attention away from the scene below and instead to the stairway to my right. There standing in the shadows, sheltered from the sun is Eric Northman.

"What are you doing here? What am I doing here?" I ask the tall blonde.

"Bill insisted I help get you away from the general public, and Sookie was the one who insisted you be put on the roof," Eric's nonchalant tone made me angry, but he had saved me, and Sookie was okay.

I look at him and notice that he is covered in blood, "Did I do that to you?"

Eric doesn't say anything, so I attempt to make my way towards him. Stumbling I walk towards the stairway and when I am close enough to the shadows Eric grabs my arm, pulling me towards him. I drop, landing on the floor, my arm still in his grasp. Eric crouches beside me, holding onto my frail arm.

"I'm so sorry, I-I tried so hard to stop it, but I ended up hurting you, and Sookie..." as I let my head fall I remembered what happens when I cry.

"What are you? If I were human surely I would have died," Eric states, clearly he is interested.

"SKYE! Thank the heavens, you're okay!" Sookie's voice rang through the silence between Eric and I.

I look up at her and see that she is fine, except for a scratch on her right forearm, "I thought you were dyeing, and if Eric hadn't shown up when he did then who knows what would have happened."

I smile, "I would have killed you, and I wouldn't have been able to stop it," my voice is bland, and blunt.

Eric smiles, "How interesting."

I frown, after that surge of energy I can allow a little emotion to escape, only a little, "Interesting? You find it INTERESTING that I nearly KILLED you and Sookie?"

"Quite frankly, yes," the vampire smirks, his smug expression makes my blood boil.

Sookie sighs, "Eric that is enough, clearly you have no compassion in you at all, but thank you. Without you, things could have been a lot worse than they are."

Eric nods, and he bends down towards me so that he is at eye level, I stare into his eyes and my heart quivers, "Take care young lady."

I smile, and a small giggle escapes my throat, but then it grows into a laugh. Suddenly I stop myself, I let go too much, "My stars, I don't think I have ever heard you laugh. Skye that was beautiful-"

Eric cuts Sookie off, "But what, may I ask, do you find so amusing?"

I look up at the vampire, "You are nicer than people think Eric," then I reach up, placing my hand and the mark on his cold cheek, it seemed to cool the burning, calm the flame burning inside me. Only a bit, but enough, and I lean closer to him, whispering into his ear so that Sookie can't hear, "you are beautiful Eric, on the inside. Thank you for saving me."

Eric looks taken back, but he hides it well, only I would notice it in his eyes, and with that Eric left Sookie and I on the roof.

"Okay, what was that?" Sookie asks.

"I thanked him," I smile at her, "I truly am sorry Sookie, I don't know what came over me, I just...I lost control..."

Sookie smiles, "It's okay, I'm fine, Bill might worry a lot more, but it's okay."

I smile, but I am worried, if just getting near him causes me to lose control like that then what could happen once I meet him?