AN: This chapter was written kind of sloppy, and I want to apologize for that. I just really wanted to get it up by tonight, so I spent the past several hours writing it. Also, reviews are my inspiration. I'd like to thank everyone that has reviewed so far. I haven't gotten much on this story, but every one counts in my book and makes me really want to continue writing it. Needless to say, the more reviews I get, the faster I update. I hope you like this chapter!

You were like the crash of thunder, echo through my darkest nights

You awaken all my senses, make me feel alive

Even if we try to fight it, we know that the sparks will fly

Cause in the end we're just two people destined to collide

Stone Hearts by Leona Lewis

"I missed you too," I looked up at him and smiled. I absentmindedly ran my hands over the black, leather jacket he was wearing. I had always been envious of how vampires could pretty much wear a ski outfit in 100 degree weather and feel perfectly comfortable.

"I was afraid you wouldn't be able to come," he said while playing with a stand of my hair. It was like we were discovering each other for the first time again. In a way, we were.

"Things at the studio have been pretty hectic lately, but I managed." My dancing career was dwindling to an end, due to the fact that I had more medical problems than any 24-year-old should. Dance had a major impact on my body, but I planned on teaching it for several years after I finally ended my career. Whenever I wasn't performing somewhere or going in between auditions, I helped teach and choreograph at the dance studio where I had learned.

"It wasn't your dancing that I was concerned about," he said, implying other aspects of my life.

"Oh," I realized what he meant, "I need to talk to you about that actually. But not right now."

"Since you're here right now, I'm assuming your family situation has changed."

"It has," I vaguely said. I didn't want to talk about this right now. Eric realized that and changed the subject.

"I brought another vampire and his human here to help find Godric also," he mentioned.

"Really?" I asked. This sounded like a lot of unnecessary people to me.

"Yes. The woman is a telepath and should be helpful. I was just going to meet with the vampire now, if you wanted to join me?"

"Sure," I smiled and start walking out of the room, following his lead. The room we were going to was on the same floor, but not really close to mine.

"He won't be happy to hear from me," Eric commented before knocking loudly on the door.

"It's Eric, I wanted to talk," he said as if he were talking to me. I'm sure the vampire inside could hear him though. I was right.

"Meet me at the bar," Eric said before grabbing my hand and leading me to the elevator. I blushed at the gesture.

The hotel's bar is more of a lounge than anything, and it seemed overly crowded. The walls were painted bright red and most of the furniture matched them. Eric sat down on a red, leather couch and I followed suit. A blonde vampire was practically eye-fucking me from across the room, so I moved closer to Eric. He glared at the vamp and I could have sworn I heard a low growl come out of his throat.

A brunette man that appeared to be in his thirties came walking into the room and I immediately knew he was the one Eric was meeting with. I'm pretty sure his name is William.

"Bill," Eric said as a greeting, and the man nodded in acknowledgement. His focus shifted towards me as he gave me a curious glance.

"This is my friend ,Katherine Sterner, Katie this is Bill Compton."

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Ms. Sterner," he drawled in a southern accent. I was surprised when he reached out and shook my hand, but I quickly returned the gesture. Most vampires didn't shake hands.

"You too," I said and smiled at him, "but call me Katie, please." He took a seat on a chair directly across from Eric.

It didn't take me very long to figure out that the two didn't like each other very much. I didn't like Bill much, either. The asshole called Eric a monster and went on talking about how he didn't care about anyone other than himself. Not true. Then he contradicted himself by saying that Eric cared about Godric. Bill needed to get his facts straight.

I just sat quietly as they went back and forth, Bill trying to get Eric to say why he cared about Godric so much. I thought it was pretty obvious that Godric was Eric's maker, but Bill hadn't figured that out. He tried to get his girlfriend, Sookie, out of an agreement with Eric too; but that wasn't going to happen. After listening to this for several minutes Bill finally got out to leave. He bided me goodnight before sulking out of the place.

I raised my eyebrows at Eric and he smirked at me.

"William can be a bit melodramatic at times," he stated and I laughed out loud.

"I can tell."

"It's getting late," he observed, "I'll walk you back to your room."

"Okay," I said happily and hopped off the couch. I really wanted to get out of this place.

"Would you mind coming to a meeting tomorrow with Godric's nest?" He asked once we got to my door.

"Yeah of course, I mean that's why I'm here."

"Good," He grinned at me, "I'll see you tomorrow night then, dress nice."

"Night," I said as I pulled him into a hug.

"Goodnight," he kissed me on the forehead before heading for his hotel room.

I looked over my reflection in the mirror as I heard him knocking on my door. I was wearing a strapless purple and white sundress with white heels. The dress stopped mid-thigh and showed off my long legs, along with the heels.

"You look beautiful," he said as he took in my appearance.

"You don't look bad yourself," I joked, admiring his body in his all-black outfit. Someone had a new favorite color, I guess. He smiled at me before leading me over to Bill's room. We would be going to the nest along with him and his girlfriend. Eric knocked on the door once before the vampire answered.

"Good evening Ms. Sterner, Eric," he said as he stepped out of the room. I frowned at his refusal to call me by my first name. A pretty blonde in a red sundress stepped out from behind him.

"Hi, I'm Sookie Stackhouse," she said with a huge smile, reaching out to shake my hand.

"Katie," I said, shaking her hand.

"It's a pleasure to meet you," Sookie said, the huge grin never leaving her face. She seemed to be a typical southern belle.

"Likewise," I gave her a fake smile as we started walking to the lobby. Telepaths annoyed me; I could always feel them pushing into my head. I could easily block them out, but it was annoying and rude of them to try to get into my thoughts in the first place. I knew most couldn't help it, but I loved the look on their faces when they realized they were being blocked out of my mind.

Sookie liked to talk; a lot. The entire car ride there I listened to her as the two vampires sat in silence. I felt like I knew her whole life story after a ten minute ride with her. She told me how she had always wanted to go to New York, and that she loved my accent. I didn't bother correcting her on my geographical location, hell I even considered Northern Jersey and New York City to be in the same state sometimes. Not literally, of course, but they were so similar. And I also considered most of the southeastern states to pretty much all be the same, so I got where she was coming from.

As soon as we stepped into the house I could tell the two vampires weren't very happy with the help Eric had brought in.

"You should have told me Eric hired fucking humans, Isabel," the male vampire, Stan, said. I bit back my tongue. I knew better then to reply with a bitchy comment, and I figured Eric would defend me either way. Sookie wasn't as smart as me.

"Now wait just a minute," she said with her hands on her hips.

"Respect her," Bill growled out. Gee, thanks. Just forget about me.

"Katherine is more than human, I'm sure you will find her helpful," Eric said. At least someone remembered me as I quietly sat on the couch. When it came to vampire politics, I tried to be seen and not heard.

"I couldn't tell you, Stan, you've been off on your own for days," Isabel said with an accent.

Eric glared at Stan before changing the subject to Godric. That was why we were here, after all. Stan and Isabel just kept quarrelling. This time they argued about whether Godric was taken by the Fellowship of the Sun or not.

"If they've got him I'll hear it, that's my job," Sookie butted in. Stan pretty much ignored her and said something idiotic about destroying the church and supposedly leaving no trace. Great idea.

"Hm, vampire-hating church annihilated, wonder who did it? Fucking brilliant," Isabel said sarcastically. I think I'm going to like her.

"You're completely incompetent!" Eric said in frustration, losing his temper. "What's happened to Godric that he surrounds himself with clowns?" Ouch.

"We invited you as a courtesy, this is not your territory," Isabel said, "You have no voice here." Maybe I wouldn't like her after all.

"Yeah sheriff, why don't you run back down to Louisiana? We don't need you or your puppets." Stan was an asshole.

"I'm not going anywhere," he growled.

"I'm nobody's puppet," Sookie said with attitude. Then they all started arguing again about making a plan. These people were fucking annoying.

"Idiots," Eric said and stalked to the other side of the room. I agreed with him. They all kept fighting, or just yelling at Stan in general, until Eric threw a vase across the room. That looked expensive.

"Godric has protected you, made you rich, and you stand here spitting and scratching like infants!" He shouted at them.

"Don't any of you care that there is a traitor in your midst?" Bill drawled angrily.

"No," Stan said.

"Impossible," Isabel agreed with him for once. That was a shocker.

"Someone tried to kidnap me from the airport," Sookie joined in. This was news to me.

"You were the only ones that knew she was coming," Bill stood up next to Sookie.

"Explain," Eric demanded. I just continued to sit quietly on the couch, bored by all of this. Most of the time, I loved being the center of attention. I performed in front of huge crowds for a living. But with vampires, I found that things worked out better for me if I kept quiet and observed what was going on. Of course, Stan and Isabel blamed each other for this. They reminded me of my teenage siblings fighting with each other back home.

Sookie began barking out orders at them, a stupid move on her part. You would think someone that hangs around vampires so much would know that they don't like to be told what to do.

"I'll infiltrate the Fellowship of the Sun," she said. Bill disagreed with her, but Eric argued to let Sookie speak. Bill seemed to think this would be too dangerous for her, which was kind of true.

"I'll go too," I spoke up for the first time after Stan left the room in a temper.

"Not you," Eric said, "We'll find someone else to go with Sookie. You can stay and inform us of what's happening at the church."

"Or I can sneak in and find Godric while Sookie's distracting them," I thought I had a pretty good idea. Eric disagreed.

"We'll discuss this later," he didn't want to argue in front of these people.

"There is no easier way, one of the humans must go" Isabel said.

"If this leads us to Godric then we'll do it," Eric agreed, "the decision is made." He knew that I could tell if I was in danger, and he had confidence in my abilities. I'm not an idiot, I can protect myself. Even though he'd be talking me out of it the second we were at the hotel, Eric would probably let me sneak into the church if I was really stubborn about it. Bill obviously didn't have this confidence in Sookie.

"A few words," Bill said angrily and walked out of the room with Eric. I rolled my eyes. Isabel started up a conversation with Sookie that I begrudgingly joined in on. I was elated when Eric and Bill finally came back, announcing that we would be leaving. Needless to say, the ride back was a silent one.

I leaned my head on Eric's shoulder and half listened to him discuss all of the reasons why I shouldn't go into the church. The other half of my mind was focused on some special for Shark Week on Discovery Channel. He had wanted to talk once we got back to the hotel, so I invited him into my room.

"We need someone with your talents to be with us, informing us of what's happening inside the church. Any human can go inside with Sookie," he did make a good argument.

"Whatever you want," I finally gave in, annoyed with him.

"I just don't want anything to happen to you," he gently tilted my face towards his.

"I know," I wrapped my arm around his torso and buried my face into his chest to show him that I wasn't mad. He draped his arm around my waste and rested his head on top of mine.

"Eric," I mumbled after a few minutes.

"Yes?" he answered.

"Maybe after we finish this, we can go back to the way we used to be; as a couple."

He held my face so I was looking at him again, and smiled at me. I saw a flicker of hope flash in his brilliant, sapphire eyes.