Pam stared on at the petite blonde woman whom she hadn't seen in almost a decade, a confused mix of feelings overwhelming her. On the one hand, she was actually somewhat happy to see the little tart but on the other, she was irritated that Eric may have seemingly done this whole charade just for the chance to run into her, again.
"I have to agree Eric, what the fuck?" Pam said, staring daggers into the side of Eric's head who still hadn't turned around to look at the one human on Earth that he had ever cared about. Eric turned to look at Pam and pointed a single finger at her.
"Pamela. Not now," Eric said sternly as he turned to look back at Jax with an apologetic grin.
"If you'll excuse me for just a moment," Eric said, rising from his chair. Jax's face swarmed with amusement, knowing all about women and the drama that undoubtedly seemed to come with them. He waved his hand as if to signify Eric's departure from the room.
"By all means, take care of business," Jax said, biting idly at his lip as Eric finally turned around to peer down at Sookie Stackhouse. His lips slowly parted and his throat suddenly felt dry as he stared at her wide eyed for a moment before clearing his throat and walking towards her. He could tell she was just as shocked as he was but she was also incredibly irritated. He idly grabbed her by the arm and pulled her from the doorway, leading her downstairs. Sookie wrenched her arm from his and gave his chest a light shove.
"Eric, just what the hell are you and Pam doin' here?! I gave up everything to leave Bon Temps and get as far away as I possibly could from vampires and werewolves and just fucking anything not human!" Sookie bellowed, her chest heaving as Eric simply watched her, amused at the situation and how fate seemingly brought them together.
"It seems difficult to get away from yourself," Eric said simply, referring to her still being part fae as Sookie lurched forward, reaching a hand up to clasp over Eric's mouth, looking around as if anyone would have even got that subtle comment. Eric lightly took Sookie's hand and slowly removed it from his mouth, staring down at her.
"Can you honestly say you're not even the slightest bit happy to see me?" Eric said with a wicked grin as Sookie stared up at him and idly rolled her eyes.
"Glad to see you haven't changed one damn bit, Eric. Honestly, why did you come find me after all this time, why now?" Sookie said crossing her arms firmly over his chest. Eric stared at her blankly for a moment before chuckling.
"Oh Sookie Stackhouse, you always did seem to think the world revolved around you. There was a time that I would have actually agreed with that sentiment but no, I hadn't a clue you were here," Eric said, gazing down at her as Sookie's eyes narrowed, as if the capability to read his vampire mind was suddenly going to become possible.
"Alright, let's say I actually believe you…you still haven't answered the question," Sookie said, standing her ground with her arms still tightly crossed over her chest, one hip popping out to the side as she raised her chin in defiance. Eric gave a sidelong grin as he reached down to move a single lock of blonde hair behind her ear.
"Suddenly what I do with my time is any of your business?" Eric said as his eyebrows rose, Sookie's hand raising to bat away his hand from her face, especially after that comment. Eric would have been lying if he said that he didn't still care about her. He cared about her a great deal but there was still a bit of pout up disappointment and annoyance at her continued devotion to Bill after everything he had done to her. Devotion that ran strong to the very day she drove a stake straight through his heart. He was only happy to hear that she didn't let him talk her into using the last bit of her fae light in the process.
"Oh for God's sake Eric," Sookie said pushing passed him so that their shoulders collided harshly.
"Welcome to fucking Charming," she said to him over her shoulder as she quickly ascended the stairs. Eric's lips curled into an evil grin as he watched her go up the stairs. This arrangement with the Sons of Anarchy just got a whole lot more interesting. Sookie stuck her head into the meeting room again, catching Jax's gaze.
"Everything…okay?" Jax said, raising his eyebrows.
"It's perfect," she lied, "but did you need anything else before I leave?" Sookie asked and Jax shook his head slowly.
"Not that I can think of, Darlin'," Jax said and Sookie nodded once in response.
"Great, I'll see ya tomorrow," she said as she looked over at Pam for a moment and gave her a single nod.
"Pam," she said as Pam rose a single thin eyebrow wondering just what the hell had transpired downstairs between her and Eric.
"Sookie," Pam replied simply before Sookie offered a weak grin and pulled herself from the doorway only to turn around to the tall, menacing form of the Viking vampire himself. She jumped a bit and turned her gaze upwards before shoving past him and down the stairs. Eric reached out to grab onto her hand but only felt the graze of her fingertips as she was out of his reach.
"Sookie!" he called out after her as Sookie paused in front of the door looking over her shoulder to him.
"I'm sure we will have plenty of time to shoot the shit Eric, but right now I need to go home and scream into a pillow for an hour," Sookie said, pursing her lips together and walking out the door before Eric had the chance to protest. Eric's eyebrows furrowed, knowing he could have easily vamped his way in front of her outside and purposely prevent her from leaving but he knew Sookie, and that was not the way to approach her. At least not now having just been reacquainted with her anyway, he thought as he smiled wickedly again to himself.
The following night…
Eric stood outside the building he tracked down with Cartwright within. He turned around to face the members of the club that wanted to be present for this man's eternal death holding up a finger before he spoke.
"Are we all clear how this is going to work?" Eric asked with a raise of his brows.
"Not too hard to understand to pretty much stand back and let you kill the fucker," Jax said, a tone of slight resentment that he would not be the one to fill his chest with lead, but this plan would prove far more torturous then simply giving him an easy way out after what he did to Bobby. Eric nodded once with a smile.
"Precisely. Glad we have an understanding," Eric said as he turned to face the door now.
"Shall we?" he said as his booted foot lifted to slam into the door, all of the men within immediately raising their guns. Eric vamped around the room like a flash of lightning until the only one without their throat sliced open was that of Cartwright's. The tall, bald headed, black man gazed around the room, his wide eyes filled with horror as Eric slowly approached him. Eric paused a moment to close his eyes and smell the death in the air. It had been too long since he partook in a blood bath and relished in the fear that followed. Cartwright stood trembling for a moment before a shaky hand raised the pistol to Eric's face. Eric opened his eyes with a smirk as he eyed the pistol.
"Seriously?" Eric asked, as Cartwright's hand continued to shake and a liquid started to form near the crotch of his pants. Eric's gaze dropped down, his eyebrows raising, delighted of the sheer terror he was causing to this apparent former, intimidating and ruthless thug.
"Well, I guess all hope of an honorable death is out of the question now," Eric said as he vamped behind Cartwright, grabbing onto his skull and yanking it to the side, releasing his fangs.
"Wait," Jax said as he stepped out from the shadows. Pam and Jessica also stepped out from the shadows as the rest of the men remained in their positions, simply observing. Jessica's eyebrows furrowed, as she looked confused on what exactly was happening.
"Eric wouldn't let me come to some stupid meeting but he invited me to this?" Jessica asked, looking around the room nervously at all the dead bodies and then to the man that Eric was currently hovering over.
"Call it…education," Pam responded as she folded her arms over her chest. Eric paused when Jax said wait and looked up at him with a cock of an eyebrow.
"Change your mind?" Eric asked as Jax approached them.
"Hell no. I wanted to ask…when you get turned, does your body stay in the exact state it was when you were human?" Jax asked, his jaw clenching. Eric looked from left to right, a little put off at the random question but then nodded slowly.
"Yes it does, why?" Eric asked as Jax nodded once in reply, removing a screwdriver from his pocket. Eric watched him curiously.
"Good," Jax said before he suddenly jammed the screwdriver into Cartwright's eye, the man's wails of pain echoing off the walls of the dark room. Eric let him continue this action as Jax continued to dig into the eye until he was able to remove the screwdriver and all the contents of the eye with it, leaving a gaping bloody hole in its place. Jax leaned forward to speak right into Cartwright's ear.
"That's for Bobby you pathetic piece of shit," Jax said, venom lacing his tone as he spat into Cartwright's face and took a few steps back. Running the back of his sleeve over his mouth to rid it of the beads of sweat and saliva that resided there. He nodded to Eric to continue with what he was going to do. Jessica stood there dumbfounded as she looked down to the bloody screwdriver in Jax's hand and wasn't sure if she was mortified or completely turned on at that current moment. Eric bared his fangs and sunk them deep into Cartwright's neck, growling noises escaping his throat as he drank hungrily of the crimson liquids that spilt in droves from his puncture wounds. The members of the club had all seen some very fucked up shit in their days but to watch an actual vampire feeding on a human and the blood that spilt forth was something beyond what they could have comprehended. Some of them idly grimaced but forced themselves to continue to watch the act as the man currently being fed on was the asshole that tortured and murdered their friend. Once Eric felt the man near death, he pulled his fangs away, licking around the edges of his mouth to rid it of excess blood.
"Pamela," Eric called out as Pam's arms unfolded and she took a few steps forward, annoyance lacing her words.
"Eric, are you fucking kidding me? I told you I never had any interest in being a damned mother and Tara was a mistake, clearly," Pam spoke, her face contorting into a look of sadness mixed with bitterness at the thought of Tara Thornton.
"Pam, there's no time to discuss this. I am far too ancient to do it myself. He'll be chained in a basement and you'd have complete control over him, been awhile since you had a proper lackey," Eric said, blood still splattered across his face as he rose an eyebrow to Pam, his protégé who no longer was officially under this thumb. Eric may not have been able to command her to perform deeds anymore but Pam and himself had been together for so many years, Pam still felt compelled to acquiesce to his requests. She pursed her lips together and gave out a long sigh before she bit into her wrist and shoved it at the man's mouth. She dipped her head down to outright yell in the man's ear.
"Drink!" she bellowed as the man weakly responded by licking at the blood oozing from her wrist. Her eyes panned upward to catch Eric's gaze.
"You're an asshole," she said and Eric couldn't help but smile.
"Would you have me any other way?" Eric asked and Pam just smirked in response knowing Eric's asshole like nature was one of the most confusingly attractive qualities about him. Jax stepped forward, watching Cartwright drinking from Pam's wrist as Eric stepped away, dipping down to one of the dead bodies to use their shirt and wipe away the excess blood on his face. He stood up, walking back over to Jax, watching Pam feeding the man.
"So how does this all work exactly?" Jax asked, watching Cartwright feeding with morbid curiosity.
"We dig a hole and put Cyclops here and Pam in it. In three days we will have an unlimited supply of Charming California's new hit drug," Eric said with a smile and then gave Jax's back a few harsh slaps. He started walking towards the door, passing the rest of the members as he did so, their faces still in a state of shock.
"You boys might want to get to work on digging that hole. Timing is pretty sensitive with this whole ordeal," Eric said as the men jolted back to reality, scrambling around to look for a shovel. Eric then looked over to Jessica who was twirling her hair and biting at her knuckle. He rose an eyebrow as he followed her gaze that was transfixed on Jax.
"Come along, Jessica. I'll give you a lift back home since Pam is otherwise…engaged," Eric said, offering Pam another smile as she just rolled her eyes at him.
"Go to hell," Pam said as Eric continued to smile. Jessica trotted over to Jax who looked over to her with a cock of an eyebrow.
"I just wanted to say that, that whole eye gouging thing, well that was pretty awesome," Jessica said, her eyes suddenly dropping to her feet with embarrassment as Jax looked from left to right, not really sure how to respond to that as he cleared his throat.
"Thank…you?" he responded with, as Eric stood in the doorway.
"Jessica! Let's go!" Eric bellowed as Jessica rolled her eyes.
"I'm comin' alright! I'll catch ya later, Jax," Jessica said, offering Jax another smile before she trotted off to meet Eric. Jax stood there dumbfounded for a moment before he shook his head and went outside to help the boys with the hole.
Chibs and Tig drug Cartwright's almost completely lifeless body outside and to the hole as the rest of the men, including Jax stood around staring down into the dark abyss. Pam sighed as she removed her jacket and her pumps, shoving them into the arms of Jax.
"When I get out of this hole, if these don't look exactly the way they do now, I'm going to munch on you for breakfast," Pam said sardonically as Jax gave a wicked grin.
"Now why would you wanna go and reward me like that?" Jax said as Pam put her hands on her hips, raising an eyebrow.
"Cute," she said and then turned to look at all the men as Chibs and Tig threw Cartwright's body into the hole.
"I want you all to remember this enormous favor I am doing for ya'll. There may come a time where I ask for a favor in return from each and every one of you," Pam said before she held her hand out to Chibs.
"Now be a doll and help a girl into a hole," Pam said as Chibs cleared his throat, taking her hand and helping her down into the hole where she laid down beside Cartwright with a grimace. She laid there for a moment staring up at them as they all just stared back down at her.
"What are you waiting for? Fill the fucking hole!" Pam yelled, her hand raising for extra emphasis as they all cleared their throats and began shoving the dirt back into the hole to cover both Pam and Cartwright completely.
After dropping Jessica off at the house, Eric decided to go back to the clubhouse to gain a bit of clarity. He paced back and forth on the main floor glancing between the ice cream bar and the alcohol bar and smiled to himself. Sookie. Sookie was the girl that Jax had spoken of that they hired and thought up the idea, of course she was. Eric ran a hand through his short, blonde locks as he let out a sigh. As interesting as it was to be back in the life of Sookie Stackhouse, he also suspected it was going to make things even more complicated. His eyebrows rose as he sensed a presence at the front door and he slowly turned to look. Sookie stood outside the door, peering in on him as she slowly opened the door and stepped inside. Her back pressed against the door, the look she had on her face reminding him of that same look she had walking into Fangtasia for the first time all those years ago. She was intrigued, nervous, and scared all at the same time. Sookie cleared her throat as she caught his gaze.
"Can we talk?" Sookie asked as Eric offered her a warm smile in return.
"Always," he responded.