AN: Hi everyone! Here is the latest chapter; It is an all vampire chapter. I hope you all will not miss the fairies too much.

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EPV

I was sitting behind my desk checking my e-mails when I hear that sniveling Compton trying to bypass, Pam, my child and second in command, to enter my office. I mentally tell Pam to bring Compton to me.

'Pamela, bring in the sorry excuse for a vampire so I can be done with his nonsense.'

"Eric, how could you! I told you this would happen!" yelled Bill.

"That's Regent to you Compton," Pam corrected as she pushed him forward.

She was quick to remind Compton of my new status; and in doing so reminding him it was within my authority to end his miserable undead life at a whim.

Pam, due to the machinations of the now finally dead, Victor Madden, had questioned my decisions for the first time ever in her existence. Since she decapitated Victor, in our latest skirmish and because of my newest plans; was now once again the loyal progeny I trained her to be.

"Compton, what is this you are going on about?" I questioned, already knowing that it would only be a matter of time before he came barging into my office. I should have ended him on that insolence alone years ago if not for Sookie's on-going attachment to the tiresome vampire.

"It's Sookie, she's . . . " Bill trailed off.

"Not this again Compton," I exasperatedly said.

"Master, can I take him to the basement and enact punishment?" Pam questioned gleefully.

I gave Pam a meaningful look and she at once quieted.

"Bill, this better be good," I stated while motioning for him to go on.

"Sookie's d..dead," he said as bloody tears rolled down his face.

I immediately stilled.

"Sookie's wellbeing is no longer my business and consequently no longer yours. I am sure you got the memorandum from King De Castro informing you that because she was no longer my bonded or wife she no longer had any ties to the vampire community and therefore all contact would cease immediately."

"How did you come by this information Compton; I specifically ordered you to leave her alone and to not even step one foot on her property?" I now questioned angrily.

"Ah. . . Ah. . . I" he hesitated.

I saw Pam roll her eyes at Bill's incoherent babble.

"Spit it out Compton!" I yelled; my bloodlust rising.

"I felt her pain and had to make sure she was safe. So, I went to her home and . . ." he sputtered again through bloody tears.

"Leave, before I end you myself. I will not be disobeyed again. Am I clear Compton?" I questioned.

Bill answered like the dutiful underling, "Yes, Regent."

"You are dismissed," I said and continued to read my emails.

"Master, do you think you should have told him?" Pam asked.

"I do not want him screwing up my plans. I will inform him when it is necessary." I replied

BPV

It was just like him to dismiss me without any concern for Sookie's life. He was so negligent of her care these last couple of months. I told him time and again that she was not herself. Surely, he could have allowed me to check on her regardless of De Castro's mandate. After everything she has done for him.

I knew he did not love her as she believed and was only using her for her talent. Things would have been better had I never taken her to Fangtasia. She was so insistent on going there to find help for her simpleton brother. After Eric met her, he looked for every opportunity to undermine me and claim her as his. Sookie would still have been mine and most of all alive had I not given in to her request.

I only came back to Louisiana because of the mission from, Sophie-Anne Leclerq, the now deceased former Queen of Louisiana and Arkansas, to procure Sookie. However, after getting to know Sookie, how could I have not fallen in love with her? She was kind and innocent; although sometimes a little naive.

Being in Bon Temp brought back unpleasant memories of having to leave my human family behind when I became vampire; Sookie being dead only added to the memories I tried to forget.

Maybe it was time for me to move on.

Next Chapter we will pick back up with Sookie.

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