A/N: Thank you so much for reading, reviewing and putting my story on alert, I really appreciate it. As always I own nothing but mistakes. There were really good guesses as to who was at the door and I 'll shut up so you can find out.

Chapter 6: Fracture

"Jason!" I threw my arms around him and hugged him.

"Sorry I have 'nt been by to see you yet, works been kicking my ass." He said patting my back.

He stepped away from me and saw Eric. "It's been a long time douchebag." Jase said.

"Not long enough bitch." Eric said and they did that man-hug thing.

Jason sat on the couch, between Eric and I. "So what 's up Jason?" I asked.

"Nothing, I knew you were back and I wanted to see you."

"And...?" I wasn 't buying it, Jason never wanted to see me unless he had to or he wanted something.

"I thought you brought that asshole with you, I wanted to kick his ass for taking you away." Oh Jason if only you knew.

"I left him, that 's why I came back to move on with my life." I didn 't see the need to tell Jason what happened. This is the first time I 'd seem him in years, when I called him and told him I was moving back home and into Gran 's he seemed happy but didn 't ask any questions and I was glad that he didn 't. I 'll tell him about Quinn eventually but when I decide.

"Well that 's great Sook, did you make food?" Alas to the real reason for a Jason visit.

"I 'll get you something, do you both want tea?" I asked, getting up. They both nodded and I got up to go to the kitchen.

I heard the boys talking but I didn 't overhear what they were saying, I just took out the lasagna that I had made yesterday from the fridge and put it in the oven.

"Lasagna will be done in a minute." I said and sat back down, Jason and Eric got quiet.

"Why are you two so quiet, did I ruin the male bonding?" They laughed but it was a polite laugh, something was up.

"Nah, you didn 't interrupt anything, lasagna sounds great Sookie, god knows I love Crystal but she can 't cook to save her life." We laughed. It wasn 't like Jason to date but if he did date he had a criteria:

1. The women must cook!

2. The women must understand that he has needs and has to meet those needs as much as he wants.

3. The women must be at his disposal and then will be... disposed.

"You love her? I would have to meet her Jase." I said teasing him.

"She wants to meet you too, I think you will like. She 's a real 'carreer minded' women, a paralegal who wants to be a lawyer. I 'll bring her by or we can all go out together, even you." He poked Eric in the arm. They were always like that, hitting, poking, wrestleing, it 's like how they showed their love for each other.

"Oh I don 't know, I don 't want to butt in on the family time." Eric said politely after he smaked Jason 's hand away..

"That 's bullshit man, you know you 've always been family, right Sookie?" He asked me. I felt a knot in the pit of my stomach. He was family and I loved him and I was still in love with him but I 'm sure that 's not what Jason was asking me.

"Yeah of course Eric, you should go with us. Pam 'll be back soon enough and we can all hang out together."

"Pam 's coming back? I saw her in vogue magazine... Crystal bought it, she looked so hot, is she single?" Are you fucking kidding?, I thought and by the look on Eric 's face he was thinking the same. "Not for me, I have single friends." Jason smirked.

"She 's into this model but who knows..." Eric offered.

We all ate the lasagna and I felt so bad about Jason not having a home cooked meal, I let him take he whole thing home with him. That got a huge bear hug from my big bro. Eric and Jason, punched each other on the shoulder and hugged.

He left and I turned to look at Eric. "So how about that almost-kiss?" Eric asked and I smiled.

"Almost..." I rolled my eyes. "Let 's watch the movie."

Epov

While Sookie was in the kitchen, Jason started grilling me for information on her. "I ran into her at Merlotte's and we've been hanging out... Jason?"

"Yeah?"

"I 'm in love with Sookie, I've been in love with her for seven years." I waited for him to punch me in the gut but instead he just laughed.

"I 've always known that dude. Now you 're in the picture I know that asshole won 't be." He said giving me a pat on the shoulder.

"Sook just wants to be friends for now and I would appreciate it if you kept this to yourself, she knows how I feel but I don't think she wants to hear your opinion on it." He smiled and nodded.

Sookie came back in the room and Jason got quiet, which obviously made her know something was up. He left and we watched the movie, Halloween. Sookie was a horror movie addict. She snuggled to me and I 'm not sure why but I wasn't going to question it.

"Eric..." Sookie said sweetly and put her hand on my cheek. She was looking in my eyes, seemingly searching for an answer from them. She gently pulled my face down to hers, she wanted to kiss me and for god knows what reason I pulled away.

"What was that about?" She said angrily.

"What happened to wanting to be friends until you figure things out?"

"We are friends, friends can kiss Eric." We stared at each other for a second.

"You gave me conditions to this whole friends thing and I'm going to give some of my own. We need to be clear, either we 're friends or we 're together. I can 't have this in between 'friends-who-kiss' thing. I told Jason I 'm in love with you and would tell everyone if you let me but no games Sookie."

"You have got some nerve Eric! You told Jason!" She had he hands on her hips, she meant business.

"I wanted to him to know how I feel about you. Since I have no idea how you feel." I looked down at my feet.

"You know how I feel about you, about all of this. I need time." She walked toward me and reached up to cup my face with her hands. "I love you Eric." She lifted up on her tip toes and kissed me. I put my hands on her waist and pulled her closer to me. Her tongue brushed my bottom lip and my mouth opened, giving her access. I followed her lead as she pulled us to the couch and straddled my lap. She broke away from me, her face flushed and her lips swollen. She looked at me nervously.

"I just wanted to kiss you, I haven 't just kissed someone in a long time,you know?" "I want us to be together eventually but I don 't think it should be all or nothing, I've done that before and it doesn 't work." She still looked nervous, she bit her lip and I took my thumb and freed her botton lip. "Is that something you 'd be ok with trying?"

"So you want to take babysteps?" I asked. She nodded and I kissed her nose. "I would love that Sookie, but conditions."

"Eric enough with your 'conditons', I said I wanted to be with you, whatelse do you want from me?" She pretended to whine.

"I 'm not going out with other women." Or sleeping with them.

"You 've made that clear, are you asking me to do the same?" She asked with no clear emotion. I wanted to say 'yes, Sookie you 're mine and I don 't share' but who was I kidding. I had her once and I lost her, it was her desicion.

"You can do whatever you want, we 're doing this at your speed." If we were doing this at my speed, she would living with me and we 'd be engaged but that was a fantasy, Sookie needed time and saying that to her would scare her off.

"I 'm really up for dating alot of people, I want to focus on work and eventually going to back to school. I just want us to do what we 've been doing, is that ok?"

"You don 't even have to ask." We smiled at each other and got back in our original seated position, resumed watching the movie and snuggling. Sookie wanted to take things slow, I could do that.

About a month Sookie got enough loans to go to a local community college, between classes and work, she and I didn 't have much time together but we talked on the phone alot everyday, just to talk about our days. We went out a few times I even took me to the set of 'Fangtasia'. Bill had the part of Stephen, the southern bad boy, that had all of the 'fangbangers' after him, but he only had eyes for one girl, the one girl who didn 't want him. 'Sory of his life' I thought. He saw Sookie and his eyes lit up.

"Sookie Stackhouse, my goodnees you are even more beautiful then I remebered." I saw Sookie hold in a laugh.

"You look good too Bill, except the being covered in blood thing." We all laughed.

"How do you know Eric are you a model."

"My, oh gosh no! Eric and I have known each other for years." And we 're dating so back off. I wanted to add but I didn 't say it of course.

"Well, it 's great seeing you Sookie, maybe we can get together sometime, I have to wash all this blood off." The mother fucker winked and walked away. Sookie looked at me and bursted out laughing.

"He was flirting with me Eric." I didn 'r say anything.

"Oh you 're not jealous, not of Bill?" She said smiling.

"I 'm not." I lied. "Ok maybe I am but I just didn 't like the way he was talking to you."

"Bill is Bill right? He 's never going to get further with me then flirting, why not let him have some fun? Besides I like taller,blonder guys." She said batting her eyelashes.

"Oh really?" I raised my eyebrow and pulled her in for a kiss. "Sorry Mr. Northman but said he wanted coffee and I told him I wasn 't his assistant and he fired me." Jessica said behind us.

"Don 't mind Bill Jessica, he's a bit moody." We all laughed. "Jessica Hamby, this is Sookie Stackhouse. Sookie this is Jessica, my assistant."

The women shook hands and Sookie noticed Jessica 's ring. "Jesus, sheperd of Judea! That is one spactacular ring." The one I'll get for you will be bigger, I thought.

The girls talked about got to know each other and I went to Bill 's trailer to give him a piece of my mind about Jessica.

"Northman calm down, I asked for a cup of coffee."

"And them promptly told her she was fired? Bill don 't do that again you have an assistant, infact I believe I helped you hire him. There 's no need to order people around."

He nodded and said. "Another thing Northman, I want you to meet my new bodyguard."

"Hey man nice to meet you." This huge bald-headed guy, took my left hand and with my right I punched him in the face.

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