Two sides of every story Chapter 5: Stay, a true blood fanfic

"Sookie! Sookie?" I could hear Bill's voice as I opened my eyes.

I was lying on the couch and he was sat over me.

Oh my god, did I just faint?

"Why did you faint?" He asked me.

"It was all just too much."

"Do you want to stop for the night?"

"No, keep going, please."

He nodded and moved away slightly, but not as far away as he was before.

I was glad in a way, that he was closer.

"You know what happens in a torture room. So I won't go into detail. They silvered me a lot, didn't give me blood. She was just putting off my death. Then Debbie Pelt and a werewolf called Cooter, fed from me. Lorena left me to die, she told them to drain me dry. The nearly did, they thought they did. But they were too high to even think properly."

"Then you found me. I could smell you."

"Wait a sec. You knew I was there? I thought you were dead, like really dead!"

"I couldn't move. Anyway, when we got into the truck, I could smell your blood, you cut yourself did you not?"

"I did, I wanted to try and save you."

"You wanted to save me?"

"Yes."

"I couldn't stop myself, I knew your scent. But my brain wouldn't connect with my fangs and I bit you. I didn't know how to stop. I felt like a baby vamp."

"You nearly killed me."

"I know, and I haven't forgiven myself for that, or for anything."

"Good to know."

"I came to see you, at the hospital. You were so unwell, I felt terrible. So bad that I wanted to kill myself, I wanted to sentence myself to the true death. I knew what I had to do, I hooked you up to my blood. When you saw me you were obviously scared. Then broke up with you. I didn't want to do it, but I knew I had to. It was the right thing to do. I guess."

"What? You guess? You nearly killed me!"

"I know. But," I cut him off.

"Yeah, I know you were tortured and nearly drained."

"I wasn't going to say that. I guess, because I still loved you, I asked you to marry me, not long before that. I still do."

"I was so happy when we got back together, I thought we could just forget everything. But I was wrong. Then Eric spilled. And everything was broken."

"Explain that, why you betrayed me in the first place."

"Okay, I came to Merlotte's that night just to see you. But when I did, I saw that you are the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. I couldn't do what I had been sent out to do, that's why I didn't just meet you and go, and that is why I stayed and ordered a red wine, which I had never liked as a human anyway. Being drained by the Rattray's was never intended, I was spellbound by you, and hungry. Then you came out to save me, I was so very impressed. Then we became a pair, and honestly I completely forgot about Sophie-Anne. I was...amazed, that you could love me. That you could trust me. I would give anything to have you back in my arms, anything. Even my duties as king, as a vampire."

"Really?" I asked, sceptically.

"I would meet the sun for you, I would be silvered all over, if I could kiss you once more. And if you could forgive me, then maybe you could start to trust me. And we could start over, now that you know everything. Every secret."

"How can I be sure I can trust you?"

"I don't know. I just wish that you could find it in your heart to love me again. Instead of hating me."

"I don't hate you, Bill."

He looked straight into my eyes,

"I want you to mine again. Forever."

"Believe it or not, I still love you. I'm just angry at you, extremely angry."

"How can you relieve that anger, Sookie?" He said my name the way he used to. In that deep, gravelly voice. The one he knew I couldn't resist.

I was so close to kissing him, but I wasn't going to just hand it to him. Just like that.

He was going to work for it.

He moved closer to me, kissed my cheek, my jaw line and finally my lips. He picked me up and sat me on his lap. I tangled my fingers in his thick, dark hair and forced him closer to me. He felt like I should be with him, and no-one else. But I should think vampires give out those kind of feelings. This was going to be different, we would talk, and go out more. And not just to Fangtasia. We would go out with friends, and babysit for Arlene.

I moved away from the kiss and realised i had just been planning our future.

"Stay with me tonight, Sookie? Please. Even if you go tomorrow, be with tonight?"