(Still don't own anything...dang it!)
Chapter 2
Bill walked into his upraise apartment with a ton on his mind. The movement toward main-streaming was moving forward, but at agonizingly slow pace. Now that Eric and Pam were selling the watered down cure of the Hep V virus the powers that be were back to the underlining issue of making this world work for all sups. Bill was instrumental in the fight to bring the different groups together. Days like today though made him question how much good his actions were actually having on the big picture. Shaking his head at himself as he slowly removed his suite. He knew in a battle like this it was the small battles that were truly important for they would combine to create the big picture. A picture where all creatures were welcomed and even though he knew you could not erase all discrimination you could at least limit a huge majority of it. Letting the frustrations of the day fall away as his clothes were his eyes focused on the computer sitting ready on his desk. Smiling Bill grabbed a robe from the end of his bed and slid it on as he made his way to his laptop hoping to have received a message from Sookie.
Yes he knew whom he was corresponding with nightly. He set out to create this link with Sookie because he could not help himself. When he told her he could not swear her off because he loved her too much he had not lied. He could never completely leave Sookie, but he had set out to make her think he had. He never truly wanted to leave Sookie or Jessica, but he knew if he did not make Sookie believe he was gone from this world she would never have the normal life she so deserved. With help from the research he had the scientist doing for him when he was Bilith he had discovered because of her blood he could not die. Vampires, as a general rule, could live forever if they did not meet the sun or were staked, but Bill it seemed could meet death but it would never be a true death for he just returned. He could only describe it as something like a reincarnation, but a reincarnation in which he stayed the same. He had discovered this before allowing Jessica, Pam, Tara and the rest of the vampires who were held captive to drink from him before they burned in the sun, but he had thought with them draining him he would have lost the ability. After Sookie helped him stake himself he found out differently. He did not know how, but he had found himself alive or undead as it was again in the coffin Sookie had closed and covered. Being stuck as he was he had no other option then to call out to Jessica. Even though he had released her she could still feel him as Pam had been able to with Eric. Thank the stars for that or Bill would probably still be in that coffin trying to figure out how to get out. After Jessica dug him out and having her cry and yell at him he was able to get her to agree to keep his return a secret from everyone including Hoyt, but most especially from Sookie.
After leaving Bon Temps Bill had moved to New York where the head of the new organization toward main-streaming, One Hope, was located. Keeping a low profile, as much as possible, Bill was now known as the go to guy to get the deal closed whatever the deal may be and get it done discreetly. For a few years this had so consumed him that he thought of Sookie only a few hundred times a day, but soon he could no longer resist the urge to check out how her life was going. By asking a few questions of Jessica he had learned that Sookie had married and had a baby girl. She lived in her family's home with her husband and daughter and she had attended school and now was a successful realtor. It had looked for a while there that Sookie had achieved all he had ever wanted for her, but then Jessica told him about Sookie's break up and that had changed his decision to keep his distance. His heart cried out for Sookie and he decided he would find a way to be in her life somehow, but he knew he would need to keep his being alive unknown to her still. After watching a late night showing of the movie "You've got mail" Bill had an idea. With Jessica's help in glamoring Arlene with the idea of getting Sookie into a chat room Bill was able, with the help of some very knowledgeable computer geeks, to develop an online relationship with Sookie. A year and a half had gone by now and still every night, once his meetings with the One Hope organization were over with, he would rush home excited to see the window on his laptop saying he had mail. They were truly powerful words as Tom Hanks said in the movie.
Tonight was no exception as his heart beat just a little bit harder and faster as he saw a waiting message from Sookie. Sitting down Bill could not help but soak up the trust Sookie gave to Night Dreamer as he read her latest message. Sookie's trust and love were like the Holy Grail to Bill and if this was the only way he could now receive those from her then he would have to be satisfied…well almost.