I heard to commotion on the other side of the room and saw an unfamiliar vampire about to bite Sookie. That was bad... I was in front of her the next second, holding her by the throat.

"Retract. Your. Fangs." I heard the snick as she did as she was told. "I do not know, nor care who are you are. In this area, and certainly in this nest, I am the authority."

"Yes Sheriff." She replied as I released her.

"This human," I said, looking at Sookie, who so reminded me of Brianna, "has proven herself to be a kind and loyal friend to our kind." I turned back to the vampire who had irritated me, "Yet you treat her like a child does a dragonfly, pulling off wings for sport?"

"She provoked me," she tried to plead with me.

"And you provoked me." I said leaning close to her," You've disrupted the peace in my own my home. I could snap you like a twig. Yet I haven't." I said leaning back again," Now why is that?"

"It's... your choice." She whispered.

"You're right. It is my choice. You're an old vampire, I can tell. You've had plenty of time to better yourself, yet you haven't. I fear for all of us if this type of behavior persists." I stepped back seeing her suitably chastised. "I want you out of my area before dawn." I looked at her child, Bill." You seem to know her, escort her from the nest." He glanced at his human before nodding his assent.

I stood near Brianna, breathing in her scent to calm myself, so I noticed the alarm on her face when a human walked in. Before I could ask what alarmed her so, the human was speaking.

"Excuse me. I'd like your attention please. I have a message for you all from Reverend Steve Newlin!" he ripped his jacket off to expose a silver bomb and he pressed the activation trigger in his hand.

I moved quickly and covered Brianna. After a minute or so I released her, "Are you alright?" I asked her.

"Fine, how about you?" I saw a small cut on her arm healing and I glanced at her curiously."I can heal small wounds on myself." she said as an explanation.

I nodded and surveyed the damage. "I'm fine, wait here for me." I ordered her, finding Isabel and set her to counting the dead, I saw Eric had a taken a few bullets but was otherwise fine. I called the Hotel Carmilla and arranged for my nest to stay there.

Isabel approached me and said there were five dead, Stan, two vampires, and two humans.

"Everyone," I said and Eric whistled to get their attention. "They may come back, go to the Hotel Carmilla. They have been alerted of the situation and extra security is in place."

I saw scattered nods and murmured agreement as they began trickling out. I picked Brianna up and gave my ruined home one last look before speeding to my room in the Hotel Carmilla.

I set her on the bed, "I have a meeting with Nan Flanagan, will you wait here for me?"

She nodded and I leaned down to give her a quick kiss before going to the main room of my suite. It was the biggest room so it was being used for the meeting.

I sat on the couch next to Nan's chair and Isabel sat next to me. Eric sat in the chair across from Nan and Bill and Sookie were in the couch across from Isabel and I.

I focused on Brianna and I heard the shower turn on. I tuned back in to hear Nan say, "Sheriff, you fucked up. You're fired."

I nodded, "Of course, I agree. Isabel should take over, she had no part in my disgrace."

"Godric," Isabel pleaded,"Fight back."

"Come on, you don't have to take shit from her, She's a bureaucrat for god's sake!" Eric said bureaucrat the same way he did humans, like a lower life form. I had hoped he had stopped thinking himself so high and mighty, but he wouldn't be Eric if he didn't.

"You want to lose your area, Viking?" Nan wasn't having any my child's attitude.

"You don't have that kind of power." He sneered at her.

"Try me, I'm on TV." She turned away from him."Godric, come to my suite to fill out the forms."

I nodded, "In a moment. I have something I'd like to say first." I could feel my two thousand years crushing down on me as I spoke," I apologize for all the pain I have caused, for all the loved ones, human and vampire, that have been lost. I will make amends, I swear it." I had to fight keep Brianna out of my mind, this would be better for her.

Nan patted my back as she left," Calm down, It's just a few signatures."

Eric had caught on to my emotions through our bond and stood in front of me. "Godric, no! You have to listen to me!"

"Look into my heart, "I told him, knowing that if he really looked into my heart all he would have to say was Brianna."There's nothing to say." I knew my loved ones would be hurt, but they would survive.

"Yes, there is!" My child pleaded with me.

"On the roof." I said, wanting to be ready for the dawn. And to be away from Brianna so she wouldn't tempt me to change my mind.

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