Chapter Four:

Sookie and I arrived at her house, and to our surprise, Eric was leaning over the railing looking out into the front yard.

"I have some news about Bill," Eric began as we walk up to the porch.

That leaves Sookie stunned for a bit but she manages to ask "Good or bad?"

"Well, he's alive, in the vampire sense, so I guess that's good."

"And…?"

"Well, he's not doing too well. Lorena has him."

"His maker? I thought she had to leave him alone?"

"Apparently not; she was taking him to Georgia, at least that's the last thing we learned."

"Why?!" Sookie and I both interject.

"The vampires in Georgia are…different."

"That's crazy," I mutter with a shiver and pull my jacket tighter around me. "There are zombies everywhere in Georgia! My brother told me that the have the state quarantined!"

"How do you know all of this?" Eric says, gliding in front of me.

"She came from Georgia. The bar she worked at was one of the first to be infested." Sookie says as she walks up the steps of her porch to unlock the door and let us all in.

"Why am I hearing about this now?" Eric looks me over. "And how did you manage to get out of there?"

"Well, it's not like I got a chance and I'm not going to tell you my life story. Here, I'll tell it to you now, 'My name is Zoey Darke; I'm a 21 year old telepath from Georgia that barely escaped the clutches of the zombie menace and somehow drove all the way from Atlanta to Bon Temps. Oh and I'm a ninja, that's how I managed to get out of there practically unscathed.'" I add an eye roll when I say the last part, plopping down on the couch while Sookie walks into the kitchen.

"You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit even for a 17 year old," he says while he gracefully sits down next to me. "Did you get bitten?"

"Obviously not," Sookie says, returning from the kitchen with a warm True Blood for Eric and two mugs of hot chocolate for me and her.

Thanks, I think to her as she hands it to me.

No problem, and she takes a seat in the recliner across from me.

"If anything I have some abrasions and bruises here and there but nothing serious."

"Maybe I should take a look at them, just to be sure." He says as he brings the True Blood to his lips and gives me a facetious look out of the corner of his eye and slides he free hand up my thigh.

"If I was 17, you would be considered a pedophile," I say as I slap his hand away, Sookie giggles at that comment and she blows her hot chocolate to cool it down before she takes a sip.

"But, my dear, you just told me you are 21, so all is well." And he returns his hand to my thigh for me to slap it away again. "That just encourages me even more."

To Catch a Predator, I think with a smile, I wonder if Chris Hansen's "Have a Seat" magic would work on Eric. Sookie bursts out laughing and Eric gives her a pointed look but then fixes his gaze back on me.

"She's quite the comedian," Sookie says in her defense and takes a sip of her hot chocolate.

"I try…" I shrug and take a victory sip of my hot chocolate with a slight smile."

"Fucking telepaths…" Eric mumbles, shaking his head, then takes a sip of his True Blood.

"We need a plan to get Bill out of Georgia." Sookie says after a brief period of silence.

"I can see if Ryan can help us out. I need to get some stuff from his house anyway."

"Who's Ryan?" Eric asks.

"My brother. He is currently with my 'Uncle', my best friends, Neyky, Naomi, and Kaity. My 'Uncle' and Neyky are both shifters." I say as I check my phone to see if I got anything from anyone, but I don't. "I'll call him tonight. What day should we go and how will we get there?"

"We will leave in two days. So Wednesday night, 7:30, meet me at Fangtasia. I can get a special vehicle so I can go with you two. They plan on having Bill being their test subject on how the zombie virus affects vampires."

Sookie gives a gasp of exasperation and says, "We shouldn't wait till Wednesday then!"

"They aren't there yet and we are still figuring out their location."

"Don't worry, Sook, we'll get him! And we'll kill that bitch!" I say, my voice full of confidence.

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A/N: Hi everyone! I just want to say thank you for those who commented and added my story to there favorites. I hope you guys like my fanfiction, I haven't really written one before, so…yeah… I am trying to get at least a chapter a day, but that might not be possible. Also, I realized once I reread some of my chapters, there were some grammatical errors, so I would like to apologize for those. //

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