A/N- Sorry for the delay. Got wrapped up in other things

My first reaction at seeing Dr. Ludwig and her driver standing in the middle of Felipe de Castro's suite was shock, and then as I turned to look at Pam it became dread.

Pam's jaw was set and her eyes burning as the goblin and her were driver approached me with wide grins on their faces.

"Hello Ms Stackhouse" she greeted, her voice high and, seemingly, excited.

"How de do" I replied, giving my wide, nervous grin to both of them, habit alone keeping me polite.

Of course, this was what I had wanted. I'd prayed that Dr. Ludwig would come and run tests on my baby, prove that I was carrying the child of a fae, but that had been before my confrontation with Madden. Now I knew the truth and Dr. Ludwig's life was a pendulum that could swing either way depending on which path she took.

I knew I had to warn her somehow.

"I'm here to run the paternity test you requested," Ludwig announces and beside me, Pam hisses.

I just smile all the wider, "Of course, if you'll just follow me to my bedroom- with Quinn..." I add spotting him among the vamps and throwing him a pleading glance,

"We can get started right away?"

For a moment I think Quinn is going to refuse, I see him standing near the throne of de Castro, his arms folded across his chest and his mouth set in a disapproving line. However he relents and pads across the room to join us, whether because he'll be getting out of a room of potentially angry vampires or because he feels he owes me, I'm not quite sure. Honestly I didn't really care, I just knew we'd probably need a witness for the test and he was simply the least repulsive of the bunch.

Bowing to Felipe, Quinn promised we would return shortly and our party was herded by a furious Pam into my bedroom. I was barely through the door when she slammed it and hit the radio, turning the music up loud enough to cover our conversation.

"What are you fools doing here?" she snarled, looking pretty frightening to me, but Ludwig and her driver didn't even flinch,

"Running Sookie's paternity test of course," she stated innocently, holding up her medical bag,

"As she requested"

I frown at this and shake my head in confusion, "No I didn't, I never managed to call you"

"You're endangering all our lives by being here" Quinn pointed out, towering over the goblin, but she only grinned wider.

"I'm taking away the only reason the King of Nevada has for keeping Sookie imprisoned here, if he continues to hold her after tonight, it will be considered an unlawful act and he risks being arrested for his crime"

If only it were that simple. I found myself dreaming of swanning out there, laying the test results at Felipe's feet and being home in time for breakfast tomorrow morning. But I knew that wouldn't be happening,

"You're assuming I'll still be alive tomorrow night" I press my hands over my womb to protect my innocent child, "If Felipe runs out of reasons to hold me...what's to say he won't kill me?"

"He'll have to step over my ashes first" Pam tells me, patting my arm tenderly. It's probably one of the most reassuring things she's ever tried to say to me.

"And then what?!" I ask, admittedly becoming slightly hysterical.

"That won't hold him off for long and I have no chance of outrunning him"

My pregnancy hormones kick in and I find myself tearing up,

"By coming here you've potentially killed my child"

"I had a child once," Ludwig tells me, and I gasp in horror at the use of past tense, Southern superstition making me clutch my stomach harder, as if I could actually reach my child and hold him or her in my womb.

"A little boy who was killed by one of Felipe's entourage when I refused to come serve him" she looks up at me with furious eyes, "So now I come to wreak my revenge on him"

At my expense.

I know before I even open my mouth that it would be foolish to reason with her, but it won't stop me from trying.

I never get the chance though, because at that moment, Pam freezes beside me, her eyes going wide. I turn to her in confusion and see her silently mouth a name.

Eric

Then the door to my bedroom crashes down and Madden storms in with Sandy and a troupe of vampires in tow. Pam drops into a defensive crouch in front of me, Quinn hesitating only a moment before joining her.

"Traitorous bitch!" Madden snarls at her, "Your master will never see you again!"

He lunges towards her and she leaps into the air meeting him halfway and sinking her teeth into his face, landing before the Nevada vamps with a mouth full of flesh. I stumble backwards in surprise and nearly trip over Amanda, who is partway through changing into her wolf form. She bowls into two other vamps, staggering them.

But there are two more and they rush forward to grab me even as I try to run to the bathroom, I look around for a weapon but I can't see anything.

I resort to screaming and kicking out with my legs as they drag me from the room. Even as I'm struggling to break free from two ridiculous strong vampires, I see the suite is emptied of vampires and can hear battle noises below me.

Lightening cracks from nowhere above our heads and I flinch as they drag me to the elevator, and despite everything, I find myself wondering if that is the smartest idea? Surely the attackers would have the sense to be waiting below. As the door closed, one of the vamps, a tall dark male, pulled out his mobile and hit speed dial.

"Majesty" he breathed quickly, "Have you arrived at the safe house?"

Judging from the response I assume Felipe has, and I can't help but feel contempt for the man.

There would be snow on the hilltops of Hell before Eric would let his vampires go to battle without him, but Felipe was all too happy to run and hide while his entourage died.

Coward.

"What shall we do with the telepath?"

I tense at that question and struggle some more. Then the elevator jolts and comes to a stop, the lights cutting out. Thrown into darkness I manage to break the distracted vampires grip on me, and though I have nowhere to run, I crawl as far away from them as I can.

Then from the darkness above me I hear a familiar voice,

"Sookie!"

My eyes go wide,

"It's me!"