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"Not this time" Sookie yelled as she unlocked the door yanked it open, she charged him making using all of her anger and hate toward him to knock him off of his feet and it worked as he fell back onto the floor with her on top of him. "Bitch are you crazy" Alcide screamed grabbing a hand full of her hair "I'll kill you" he shook her head back and forth yanking her to the floor with him, Sookie fought hard punching and clawing at him on her way down she could feel his flesh under her nails as she focused on making him bleed.
Sookie opened her eyes panicked she searched the room with her eyes she was in the bathroom curled in a ball on the floor with the video camera Alcide had handed her hours before, "Shit" she cursed herself disappointed that she was only brave enough fight back in her dreams. What had happened to the Sookie that had moved back to Bon Temps just weeks before determined to fight for her own life with everything inside of her, she pushed herself from the floor slowly feeling stiff and cold from the time that had passed and she remembered her Eric in that cold dark place on the floor and longed to find him.
She pulled the bathroom door open slowly not sure what was waiting for her on the other side but found relief when she saw Alcide's drunken figure slumped at the end of the bed, she had avoided another night of him touching her and thank god her minstrel cycle was due in a few days she couldn't bear the thought of him touching her especially now that her last memories of Eric were tainted by the video.
Her thought turned to Earl and the sickening last memory Alcide had left him of his mother and her heart felt heavy, would the video of Eric wincing in pain on the dirt floor be all she would have of him for the rest of her life. Sookie shook herself remembering that her goal was to find Eric not to mourn him she shook herself pushing her despair out of her mind, she needed to focus the video meant he was still alive and they could still be together once she got rid of Alcide.
"Sookie" his voice carried from the other room sounding groggy and angry, her first instinct was to hide to run away from his voice but she knew that if he found her he would kill her not to mention leaving Earl and Eric behind to deal with her mess. That wasn't who Sookie was she couldn't live with herself if she left now in the middle of the night knowing the two of them would probably be killed, "Sookie" he yelled again his voice making the hairs on the back of her neck stand up she crept into the bedroom slowly unsure of where he was or if he was waiting to pounce on her for something he thought she did.
Alcide lay flat on his back one arm folded over his eyes and the other searching the side of the bed where he was expecting her to be, "damn it Sookie" he yelled jumping from the bed looking around the room wide eyed but still not seeing her figure as she stood in the doorway watching him. "Sookie get in here" she moved forward a few steps wondering how he still couldn't see her in the room "Sookie" his eyes closed and he crawled back on to the bed wrapping his arms around her pillow, it took her a few minutes to realize he had been sleep walking but when she did relief washed over her "thank you" she whispered looking up at the ceiling glad that she had escaped another night of him inside of her.
The sun was coming up quickly as Sookie sat at the kitchen table sipping her third cup of coffee and evaluating her life, the years before she met Alcide were the best in her life. She was more popular than most and always loved by her Gran and Jason it was easy to be happy back then back when things were simple and she could just be herself, she hadn't felt that way in years until the night she spent with Eric.
He reminded her of what she once was before she was beaten and trained to be what everyone else thought she should be and now that she found that again she refused to let it go today was they day she would take it back. Her plan was to wait for dumb and dumber to leave for the day and then she would set her trap, Alcide will tell her where Eric is or he will suffer her wrath. Footsteps coming from the hall broke her concentration making her hands tighten around her coffee cup and her body stiffen, "what are you doing up" Earl walked into the kitchen slowly his face red and bruised.
"What the fuck" Sookie jumped from the table grabbing the boy's face in her hands "he did this to you?" her heart ached as she looked at the marks covering his face and neck and immediately she wanted to grab a butcher knife from the kitchen drawer and end Alcide's life. "Not him Bill" Earl said looking down at the floor "why, why did he do it" Earl didn't look her in the eyes as he pulled his face free from her hands and took a seat at the table, "because I know something they don't want me to tell."
Sookie's heart sank in her chest and she hoped the thing they didn't want him to tell was where Eric was, she walked over to the table taking her seat and wrapping her hands around the warm mug of coffee to keep them from shaking. "What do you know Earl" the boys eyes filled with tears as he looked up at her "I am so sorry, I, I didn't know you, I, I am so sorry" her body started to shake this was it he was going to tell her where Eric was and she would save him and they would run off into the sunset together.
"Tell me what you know Earl please" Sookie took his hand in hers reinforcing the bond they had formed over the last couple of weeks " please don't hate me please" the boys sobbed uncontrollable as he looked up into Sookie's eyes. "I went to him every night even when they told me not to, I went to him and made sure he was ok, I fed him and bandaged him but I was too afraid to let him go, I , I just couldn't I knew he would kill me if I did."
Sookie's heart sank in her chest she didn't blame him for being scared she understood the consequences for crossing Alcide and it was true that he was capable of killing the things that he loved, he had proven that over and over in the years that she had known him but he was talking about her Eric. "Where is he Earl" her voice was calm and steady out right emotionless as she spoke "where is Eric" Earl looked up at her again his fear burning in his eyes and Sookie knew what his telling her meant, "I won't let him hurt you, I will kill him first."
Earl looked into her eyes and he knew she meant what she was saying he trusted her more than he had trusted anyone in his life since his mother "he's under the shed in a cellar," her body froze he was so close this whole time and she didn't know it her stomach turned as she stood and walked to the back door pulling it open and staring at the rusted tin shed that had been built with her grandfather's bare hands.
"How do I get down there?" she spoke without looking back at the still sobbing boy "there is a handle in the floor under the wheel barrow," Sookie pushed against the screen trying to figure out how she would get a wounded Eric, Earl and herself away safely before Alcide woke up and just as she stepped onto the back porch a voice came from over her shoulder stopping her in her tracks.
"Where you think you're going" her body went stiff as she tried to read in his voice if he had heard the conversation that she and Earl were having just seconds before " I was thinking about doing some gardening today" Sookie tried to sound calm as she turned to face him. "Breakfast first" he nodded his head at the empty skillet on the stove and turned heading back toward the bedroom, she had to think fast she needed a plan a real plan not the GI Jane crap she had been playing out in her head because now she knew Eric was alive and she not only had to survive but she had to make sure he and Earl did too.
She cooked breakfast in a haze her mind spinning in circles trying to figure her way out of the hell she was in, once she had carried Alcide's food to the bedroom and listened to his twenty minute lecture on her failure to cook the perfect egg yet again she rushed back to the kitchen. "Earl you said you see him every night right" Sookie's eyes stayed locked on the bedroom door as she whispered, "yeah I feed him why" Sookie moved to the sink turning the water on full blast to cover what she said next Sookie leaned in close to Earl whispering directions on what to do when he visited Eric later that night and turned back to the sink just in time.
The back door swooshed open as the sound of Bills voice echoed through the air he had graduated from a pain in the ass to a rude pain in the ass Sookie thought to herself turning her attention back to the dishes. "Where is your father" he said poking his finger into a yellowing bruise on the side of earls face, "Stop that" Sookie snapped turning her eyes to him so he could see the rage burning in them and know she meant what she was saying.
"If you touch him again I will kill you and don't think your beloved Alcide can stop me" Sookie hadn't thought her words through she was pretty sure Alcide would have a problem with her killing Bill but she was also willing to suffer the consequences once she had done it. Bill gawked at her in disbelief but the threat was enough to make him turn and storm off into the bedroom far from her and Earl so she looked at it as a victory.
Sookie couldn't help but think about the shed and how many times she had been in there searching after seeing Bill leaving it after doing god knows what to Eric and she couldn't believe she was that close to Eric so many times without knowing it. She could feel the excitement building inside of her she no longer needed to pretend or behave hoping they would slip up letting her know where Eric was, she knew where he was and tonight she would go to him but first she would have to figure out a way to deal with Alcide first.
Earl sat quietly at the kitchen table while Sookie finished the last of the dishes before the two of them quietly headed out into the backyard to work in the garden, it seemed like the oddest thing to her to be working in the garden just a few feet from where Eric was being held. Sookie couldn't help but walk to the shed several times moving things around and humming "I know your there I'm sorry and I love you" she wasn't sure if Eric could hear here or if he even wanted her to love him after being kidnapped and tortured just for being with her but at that moment it was all she could think to do.
She still hadn't come up with a plan and by the third trip to the shed she found the trap door in the floor Earl had told her about and it took everything In her not to pull it open and go to him but she knew he wouldn't be in any condition to run and she needed a better plan.
Sookie was so lost in her thoughts of how to get rid of Alcide she hadn't noticed him standing in the doorway calling her name it was Earl who elbowed her pointing in his direction to avoid either of them getting on his bad side, "huh" she mumbled looking up at Alcide "can I talk to you in here for a minute." Immediately Sookie thought Bill had gone running to Alcide crying about the threat she had made earlier in the kitchen but when she followed him into the bedroom she realized she was mistaken, she looked down at the bed that was now neatly made and laid out on it was three different types of pregnancy tests.
"You're late so I thought we should test and see if you're pregnant" Sookie looked down at the bed in shock was he really following her cycle "I am not late" she blurted out irritated by his assumption, "yes you are Sookie two days late" Alcide walked over to the window seat and pulled back the cloth removing the oval packet of birth control and hold it out to her "check your two days late." Her heart was racing if he knew about the birth control than he would know she wasn't pregnant "what's the catch" her eyes drifted from the packet of pills to the pregnancy tests, "oh yeah they are Aspirin did you really think I didn't know" he smiled at her tossing the pills onto the bed.
Sookie stood stunned as she stood face to face with Alcide with a pack of altered birth control and three pregnancy tests between them and her worst nightmare was coming true….