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In this chapter...Selena confronts the maenad! She has a lot of guts!

Here's Chapter 6! Hope you enjoy!

Chapter 6

When I got home that morning around 4:30, I took a long, long shower and went to bed around 6:00. I didn't get any sleep, though. I was tossing and turning for hours. All I could think about was how I wished I could throw myself at Eric without regreting it later. Of course, until my memory returned that would never be able to happen. So, until then I'd have to suck it up and deal with it.

At 10:00 I finally gave up. I got dressed, and went downstairs. When I entered the kitchen I was greeted by Sookie and Rachel. They looked up at me, and I put a hand up, signaling that I wasn't ready to talk just yet. Then I pointed at the coffee pot, letting them know that once I got my coffee, I'd be in a happier mood.

Once I got my coffee, I sat down at the table across from Sookie. The three of us sat there in silence drinking our coffee for a minute or two. Rachel finally broke the silence.

"So, what did you talk to Eric about last night?" she asked me, sipping her coffee.

"The maenad," I answered simply. "Oh, and how it's out to get me," I added after a brief silence.

"Out to get you?" Sookie asked.

I nodded. "It makes a lot of sense. Not even two mornings after I survive the maenads attack those dead hookers are found in the alley."

"So what?" Sookie asked.

"So? So, it's obvious that the maenad wanted to send me a message," I told her.

"Not necessarily," Sookie said.

There are times when Sookie just doesn't use her brain. This is one of those times. Don't get me wrong she's my cousin, and I love her, but jeez. She gets annoying with her stupidity at times.

"Sookie, even Eric agreed that the maenad is mad because I got away from it and survived," I said, looking dead into her eyes.

"So, what did Eric say would get the thing off of your back?"

"A sacrifice."

Rachel raised an eyebrow, "What kind of sacrifice?"

I shrugged my shoulders, "Whatever the maenad likes the most is what Eric told me."

Sookie entered the conversation again when she asked, "How are you suppose to know what it likes best?"

I shrugged again, "That's what I asked him?"

"What'd he say?"

"He said we don't know. Then he ordered me that I need to stay out of the way," I said, laughing.

Rachel and Sookie both had a good laugh, too.

"He seriously ordered you to stay out of the way?" Sookie asked amused.

I nodded still laughing.

"He's obviously the one with memory loss," Rachel remarked. "I mean honestly he should know better than to order you around like that."

"One would think," I said with a smirk.

~True Blood~

That night, despite Eric ordering me to stay out of the way, I found myself back in the alley where everything had begun...alone. I was fully prepared to call the maenad out. Surely, there was a person behind this thing. A person that could actually talk.

Some might say I was stupid for even considering doing that, but this time I was prepared. I'd be able to defend myself if anything were to go wrong. I wanted answers, and I was determined to get them. I wanted them now.

"Hey maenad! Or whatever you want to be called. I know you hear me! Come out, and show yourself! I'm right here you piece of shit!" I yelled, enticing the thing.

All of a sudden, a feeling of someone, or something near by watching me washed over me. Catiously, I looked all around me. Nothing or no one was there. It was playing games with me.

"I know your there! I can feel you watching me! Grow a pair, and show your fucking self!" I hissed. I was in no mood to be fucked with right now!

"Language, language," a women's voice said from behind me.

I whirled around only to come face to face with a women who looked like she'd never seen a shower before. Her brown hair was all over the place, and twigs and god knows what else were sticking out of it. To make matters worse, she was literally butt naked. I turned my head away.

"Do I make you uncomfortable?" she asked.

"No, not really," I answered truthfully. "It's just not polite to stare."

"Bad mouth, but considerate of others," she said, obviously taking mental notes about me. "You really are something."

"Who are you?" I asked, curiously as I made eye contact with her.

"Just call me Zora," she answered.

Cutting right to the point, I asked, "Okay, Zora, what do you have against me?"

"What makes you think I have anything against you?" the women asked, pretending to be offended.

"Cut the shit!" I hissed through clenched teeth. "You know damn well what makes me think that."

"It was nothing personal at first, but then that dog you had with you spotted me, and you saw me. I can't have anyone seeing me, and living to tell about it, but apparently you lived," Zora explained. "Now how is that?"

"Wouldn't you like to know," I snapped.

Zora's face turned evil just then. "I've tried to be nice about this, but apparently you don't appreciate me giving you a break..." she paused. "Therefore, I'm no longer going to be nice." Before I could process what was happening Zora had turned into the devil looking creature with claws.

Normally, one would be scared, but I found myself laughing a bit. Now that I got a really good look at the maenad's evil form, I couldn't help, but laugh. Zora looked like a halloween costume made from several different horror movie costumes. For instance, Godzilla, and wait in a way even like the half horse half human dude, or whatever he was off of Narnia. Wow, I really need to lay off of the movies.

Distracted by my thoughts, I almost didn't notice Zora raise one of her claw hands. I looked up at it. Yep, that's somewhat like Godzilla alright. What an interesting observaton by me.

Just as Zora was bringing her claw down to once again scratch me, this time possibly for dead, I felt a huge breeze. Then I started spinning, and before I knew it, I was no longer in the alley about to get scratched to death. Great timing on the part of whatever had just happened.

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