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To answer your questions...the prologue is normally a really important part of the story that's taken out of the main story to, I guess, summarize the main idea of the story. I've seen it in a few books I've read, and I use the prologue for every novel length story that I write. Hope that answered your question!

In this chapter...visit from Dr. Ludwig, and Sookie finally learns the truth about her cousins!

Here's Chapter 3! Hope you enjoy!

Chapter 3

Dr. Ludwig arrived not long after Pam had called her. She was a short person. This was the first time that I'd ever seen her or actually met her. Last time she treated me, I was in a short term coma, I guess that's what you can call it.

"This better be good. Vampires are always waking me at 2:00 in the morning without a good reason," Dr. Ludwig said less than happy about being woken up this early in the morning as she entered Fangtasia. She, apparently, wasn't a big fan of vampires either.

"We're paying good money," Eric reminded her.

"Money isn't as important as sleep is," Dr. Ludwig informed him. "What's the problem?"

Eric motioned to me. I was sitting on the stripper pole platform. It was a lot more comfortable than a bar stool at the moment. At least sitting where I was sitting, I had the pole to lean back against.

Dr. Ludwig looked over at me. She recognized me. "You're the one I treated after that car accident? Selena, right?"

I nodded my head.

"So, what seems to be the problem?" she asked me.

Without a word, I turned a bit, angling my body so that she could see my arm.

Dr. Ludwig frowned, and looked at Eric. Then she looked at me. "Come over here, and sit, so that I can get a better look."

I, reluctantly, got up and walked over to her, sitting down in the chair that she had pulled out, and motioned for me to sit in. "Do you already know what attacked me?" I couldn't help, but ask.

Dr. Ludwig answered, honestly, "I have an idea, but I'm going to have a closer look see, and find out for sure if it is what I think it is."

I didn't have that good of a feeling about all of this. "Is it potentially fatal?" I asked.

"If it turns out to be what I think it is then yes it is potentially fatal," Dr. Ludwig confessed. "And, if it is indeed what I'm suspecting then you must have an angel looking over you or something because you shouldn't be sitting here and talking like nothing is wrong." "You're not fully human are you?" Dr. Ludwig asked, taking all of us by surprise.

I shook my head no. There was no point in lying to her. She was after all wasting the time that she could be sleeping to come and examine my arm. Telling her the truth is the least that I can do to repay her.

"Do you mind telling me what you are?" she asked, pressing on as she examined my arm intently.

Now I wasn't so sure about the whole truth thing after all. I was still iffy about telling Sookie the truth about me, and the rest of my family. I looked over towards where Sookie and Rachel were sitting. Rachel looked back at me. She looked from Sookie to me then to Sookie, and lastly back to me. Rachel nodded. It was her way of saying, "She's going to find out sooner or later, so why not now?"

I took a deep breath, and admitted, "I'm a hybrid."

Dr. Ludwig looked a bit surprised. When I looked at Sookie she looked like she was about to fall backwards out of the chair that she was sitting in.

"What type of hybrid?"

"Human-Witch, and..." I paused, biting my lower lip. It was too late to turn back now.

"And?"

"Vampire," I confessed, telling her the god's honest truth.

"A vampire-witch-human hybrid?" Dr. Ludwig asked double checking. It didn't take a genius to realize that Dr. Ludwig had never known a hybrid before.

I nodded as I looked over at Sookie. She was frozen in place, shocked beyond belief. Rachel was doing her best to snap her out of it, but nothing seemed to break Sookie out of her new found zombie-like state.

"No wonder you're not suffering from the side effects people and vampires suffer from when attacked by a maenad," Dr. Ludwig said.

I was taken back when she said the name of the creature that had attacked me. "I'm sorry...a what?" I think I was hearing things.

"A maenad," Dr. Ludwig repeated.

"What about my scratches?" I asked, somewhat changing the subject.

"Well, sense you're a hybrid, and made up of many different supes your body can't decide how to react to the poison that got into you when the maenad scratched you. Therefore, I'm not really sure what'll happen. But, to be on the safe side since you never know what'll happen, I'd say that our best bet is to suck the poison out of your arm," she explained.

"Suck the poison?" I asked, wide eyed. Everything she said before and everything that went in one ear and out the other, except those words stayed behind.

"It's better to be safe than sorry," she told me. "It's your choice. You can choose to keep it in you, and hope that nothing bad happens, or you can let us suck the poison out of your arm. It's up to you."

"How will the whole sucking thing go down?" I asked, letting out a small laugh at how that question came out.

"Well, Mr. Northman and his progeny will have to assist. We'll suck the poison out of you, and then give you new blood," Dr. Ludwig explained. "Synthetic blood, of course, now that I know what you really are," she added.

"You should do it, Selena," Rachel said, coming up next to me.

I looked back to see what Sookie was doing. and found her with her head and arms on the table. I looked quizzically at Rachel.

Rachel shrugged, "Information overload. She passed out."

"Oh," I said simply.

"Let them suck the poison out of you. You never know what the poison will wind up doing in the end, so just get it out of you, and you don't have to ever find out," Rachel explained. "Besides, you're always the type to do things that'll save your ass, so why should you stop now?"

"Good point," I said with a nod. I looked at Dr. Ludwig. "What do I have to do?" I asked.

She looked at Eric, "We're going to need a few cases of synthetic blood."

Eric looked at Pam.

She nodded, and made her way around the bar.

Before I knew it, Eric was kneeling beside the chair I was sitting in.

I looked at him, and half smiled. "Don't drink too much," I teased.

"Lucky you the poison won't allow me to drink too much," he smirked his normal trademark smirk.

"Thanks in advance for putting yourself in harms way to possibly save me," I said to him in the most sincere tone I could manage.

"Anything for you," he whispered in my ear.

I felt blush creep on my cheeks. It's just such a shame that I didn't have any memory of what happened in San Francisco between us. If I did then things between us would for sure be way different then what they are now.

Don't you worry, I hated the whole maenad storyline from Season 2. I only made Selena get attacked by a maenad because of course as you just read, it's going to bring Selena and Eric closer together! Please Review!