Chapter 7
She grimaced at where she had been brought, that she had hoped she had seen the last of this place. But it felt like the past once more had raised its ugly head and so as she stepped once more into the vast home that had once belonged to Russell Edgington. It had barely changed since its last owner and to her chagrin, she found more wolves had made their presence known here and had counted no less than twenty as she was brought into the room where she had once been questioned by Edgington about what she was.
This time, it was a blonde vampire that was questioning her but it had only been after she had been sedated by what he told her was a iron laced sedative. Carter was clearly of a Nordic ancestry but she saw the wickedness in his eyes just as surely as she had seen it in Russell. Though not quite as well built or as tall as Eric was, he was still a figure of intimidation and his hair was golden, flowing to the small of his back. Dressed impeccably in a dark navy three piece suit, she couldn't help but think this maniac-the latest one to enter her life-was undoubtedly handsome.
"So now that you a little more subdued…may I offer you a drink? Oh, of course not, where are my manners? My wolves tell me, and I too detect, that there is a little faerie baby within you…outstanding." carter was pacing before her as she remained bound and flanked by two wolves. She felt lightheaded and doubted she could summon her light, let alone the same magic she had used back in the van. She still needed to talk to her grandfather more about this faerie rage magic she had, there were so many questions she had. Now was not the time. Right now, she had to figure out just how she was going to get out of yet another mess.
"Thank you for the offer but you are right, I shouldn't be drinking, now should I? unless you aren't too brutish to offer me some water?" she replied smoothly, determined to not let her fear show.
He looked at her with a amused look but left the room, to return with a bottle of water and he handed it to her. Barely able to hold it thanks to the bindings that contained her, she was nevertheless maintaining a aloof and controlled exterior. "So. What do you want?"
Carter sat down opposite her in a leather arm chair and crossed his long legs, folding his hands businesslike in his lap. "No doubt you know who I am, a progeny of the long missed Edgington. And I know of your history with my maker and it displeases me yet I am impressed. And to have a fairy here…..a real honor and I believe my maker would be impressed by keeping you here to taste whenever I so please and to have yet a second one to come along…." Carter gave her a hungry look. "And of course my wolves need that special pick me up, that boost that enhances their already impressive powers. And so don't think I mean to kill him, oh no….you two will remain here and serve as the meals you deserve to be after you killed my maker. I would hate to have to kill him, should he try to rescue you from here but I would prefer to have you over him. Faeries are all too rare."
"I am getting awfully sick of being used as a vamp buffet." Sookie snapped as she glared at the vampire, who shot to his feet and got right into her face, a manic look in his greenish blue eyes. Fangs out, he wasted no time in helping himself to a taste of her, unaware that there were reinforcements nearby
"Good thing we saw that light." Willa said as she crouched behind some shrubbery and trees with her friends. They had heard the terrified scream erupt from the mansion and it took all the self control he had to keep from charging the house. He was no fool, he knew that whoever had ordered her kidnapped would do whatever it took to keep such a prize safe. Luckily, he had spent enough time in this building to know the layout. All over, wolves were patrolling, both him wolf and human forms, the humans armed with assault weapons and blades that had a silver sheen to them.
"I think the whole county saw that light…..if only you saw what it did to the building back home." Eric said, referring to the New Blood complex Sookie had inadvertently leveled with her light, though it was also her light that had spared Eric from being injured too badly. "What I want to know is who orchestrated this? And why we would end up here?"
"I don't think we're getting any answers until we start getting dirty." Pam said as she glared at the wolves, a breeze beginning to be stirred up. And as their scents were taken on the breeze, the wolves knew they were not alone any longer.
"Well, it looks like we're getting dirty." Willa replied as she and her companions shot out of their hiding place and made fairly short work of the wolves, though it was far from a easy task. Clearly these vamps were getting some vampire blood but it seemed to be a weaker variety.
"I think whoever is in charge here wants some vamp blood too. Getting Sookie here meant luring you here too. And we all know the older the vamp, the stronger the blood." Pam said as they headed, blood covered, to the front doors of the mansion. "I smell more wolves around….and silver is plentiful here, of that there is little doubt."
He said nothing but instead tore the front doors off the mansion, wasting them as if they were merely paper. The entrance hall was as it looked the last time he had been here and he could smell Sookie and her blood, knowing she had been savaged against her will. Knowing she was likely secreted away somewhere, he was about to send the others to start looking around when the door of the office opened and with a arrogant swagger, Carter had clearly waited until this moment to wipe the blood from his mouth.
"Leave it to the legendary Viking vampire to make such an entrance." Carter said with a sarcastic bow to the three before him. Sure enough several wolves appeared on the staircase leading up to where Eric suspected Sookie was, somewhere. "I was hoping it need not come to being to violent, so messy….." Carter shook his head sadly, his long blonde hair shining under the lighting of the room.
"You are the one who instigated the violence. Kidnapping her and then taking from her what is not yours."
"So selfish to not want to share blood….you have good taste but if you think I want her dead, well, by now I suspect you realize I don't plan to let a good thing like her leave me. Well, I should say good things, because I know she is soon to deliver a second fairy to my collection. Pity that you'll never get to know your child, though I am quite intrigued to know how in heaven's name it is possible for her to have a vampire's baby…..all the more reason to claim the both of you as yours. And in return, I let those two live." Carter nodded to Pam and Tara.
"You want to turn my maker into a feedbag for your stinking wolves and Sookie to be your personal blood supply….." Pam said slowly. "Not the most clever or original idea, I gotta say."
"Did I mention I have amassed packs of loyal wolves in other parts of the state? That upon my word I can have them do what I order? That with the blood of the fairy, I can daywalk-"
"For a few minutes at most at a time." Willa interrupted, looking at him smugly.
"Unless I am mistaken, and I doubt I am, there has been changes to this girl over the past months, that her blood is not only stronger than it has ever been, more magical, but with her being a part of a bloodline such as she is, I can have hours to walk in the sun rather than minutes. A sip will give me hours." Carter smirked. "And you may wonder how I could possibly know such a thing? I intercepted a faerie who came to visit Sookie and I did some interrogation and learned a lot about Sookie's magic, her relation to the fairy king, Niall. This fairy was so easily coerced into giving up information, it was almost laughable how little she put up a fight…apparently this fairy was part of Niall's inner circle and was privy to such valuable information. So you can now see the value of keeping not one but two faeries here."
Pam and Willa turned to look at Eric who also appreciated the gravity of the situation. That with a sip of Sookie's blood, Carter could go out and cause unbelievable chaos and terror and that wasn't even including the wolves at his command. "you're even crazier than Russell was , you sack of-" she was silenced by the swiftly moving vamp who threw her clear across the front yard of the mansion. As Willa raced to her aid, Eric was left facing the older vampire.
"I will do whatever it takes to get her back….I am ready for a fight." he said, to which Carter laughed.
"I am twice your age, you really think you could last more than a few minutes against me?" Carter laughed. "I would hate to waste your blood, as I no longer wish to waste mine on the wolves, at least with you, it is still powerful stuff for my furry friends."
"I have money. More than enough. How much will it take to get her out of here?"
"I have no interest in money. I made a promise when Russell died, that I would bring more pain to you than anyone could imagine. And by keeping her from you, I sense that I will do just that. To think that should she be here long enough, perhaps she will come to…..love me. She seems to have a thing for tall Scandinavian blondes, does she not?" snapping his fingers, a second wave of wolves appeared, clearly all high and supercharged on vampire blood. Though putting up a decent enough fight, it was too much for even the Viking to handle and even with the return of Pam and Willa to his side, it was impossible odds and it wasn't long before the three were silvered and rendered unconscious.
To Be Continued.
