I couldn't believe how easily she'd ripped away my self control. I hadn't been that out of control in centuries. I reluctantly released the sleeping beauty from my embrace and stood, stretching. I knew Eric would be here to see what had changed my mind. I threw on a pair of loose white pants and went to the main room of my suite just as Eric opened it.
"Godric." He whispered, embracing me.
I smiled and sat down once he released me. I felt Brianna waking up through our bond. When I heard the door open I held my hand out to her, when she took it I pulled her to me so she was sitting next to me on the couch.
Eric looked at her curiously and I knew he could smell the sex on us. I also knew that he knew I didn't sleep with my food, he met my eyes and apparently got whatever answer he was looking for from them because he let it drop and instead asked, "So what changed your mind?"
I tugged slightly on a lock of Brianna's hair, "Her."
He looked shocked, then he turned to her. "How?"
She shrugged,"I gave him a purpose."
"How?" My child asked insistently, I could feel his need to know through the bond.
She sighed,"I told him the truth."
"About?" I could feel Eric getting annoyed at her evasive answers.
She glanced at me and I felt her hesitancy through the bond we had developed early this morning. "You can trust him." I told her.
She nodded and took a deep breath. "I'm a Healer." Eric gaped."I get the calling sometimes, to go and heal someone if they're going to be important. The stronger the calling the more important the person. Last night I felt it stronger than I ever had before."
I was intrigued, I had never heard this before.
"Well, when you get a calling that strong, you get a feeling of their purpose. I just told Godric what his purpose was." She said.
"And what was his purpose?" Eric asked suspiciously. She stayed quiet for a moment, and he changed his question to make her less uncomfortable. "What else can you do?"
She shrugged,"I can read minds and if I touch someone I feel all of their memories." Eric looked at her in shock. "Oh, but the touching thing doesn't work on vampires. I don't know why since I can read their minds."
He closed his mouth and turned to me, switching to our native language,"She could be useful."
I growled possessively, "Don't even think about it, She's mine."
He looked at me in shock, "You've never taken a human companion..." I just shrugged and he switched back to English, "I need to go deal with the Bill Compton and Sookie Stackhouse problem." With one last, appraising look at Brianna, he was gone.
Brianna had turned into herself when he said 'Stackhouse'...
"Brianna," I whispered, bringing her out of her trance, "What is it?"
She looked at me for a minute before standing and walking to the bedroom. I heard her rustling through something and she came back with a piece of paper that looked like it had been read one too many times.
She hadn't it to me silently and I unfolded it. It was a letter. It read:
'Dear Daughter,
I'm sorry we could not keep you, but it was for the best. If you ever wish to find your real family, look for the Stackhouses in Bon Temps.
Love, Your real parents'
I set it down and looked at her. "Where did you get this?"
"I found it in my room one day when I was eight." She said quietly.
"Well, it seems you've found your real family. Sookie and her brother Jason are in the hotel right now." I was a bit surprised at this development myself...
My door opened and Nan strolled in with her bodyguards,"What's this I hear about you kidnapping the Newlin's daughter?" She demanded.
Before I could reply Brianna spoke up," Nobody kidnapped me, My dad's just being over-dramatic. Again." She rolled her eyes.
Nan studied her,"How do you know you weren't kidnapped? Your father claims you were glamoured into leaving of your own free will."
"Glamour doesn't work on me." Brianna replied immediately. I had suspected as much, Sookie couldn't be glamoured either.
"Oh really?" Nan leaned close to her,"I want you to go and find a stake, then I want you to come back and stake Godric." She spoke in a soothing voice filled with power.
I raised my eyebrows. And Brianna looked put off,"No way. He's like, two thousand, he could kill me before I even came close to staking him." I could feel her uneasiness with that order, and I knew it wasn't because I could kill her...
Nan smiled, "Well, since we can prove you haven't been glamoured, how would you like to go on TV against your parents? Imagine what a blow it would be to them for their own daughter to be on our side."
Brianna looked up at me and I said, "As long as I can go with her."
Nan looked between us before nodding, "Fine, be at my suite at eight o'clock tomorrow night."
Once she was gone I pulled Brianna onto my lap so she was straddling me,"How did you sleep, Ma Cherie?"
Okay, so we're going into my storyline a bit more now, with Brianna's family and Godric's 'purpose'. Thanks for your support, if you've ever written a story, you know how much reviews mean to you, so REVIEW!