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Authority Always Wins

Sookie POV

"Eric, what the hell is going on?" I asked angry. Where in the hell has he gotten me into?

"Tell the fucking human girl to shut the fuck up before they kill us all or I do." I glared at Nora and to my surprise it was Eric who slapped her before I could realize. "Eric, what do you think you're doing?" When I looked at her again I saw blood on her lips but the wound was closed instantly.

"Sookie, you gotta get out of here." Was he mad? We would be surrounded in a matter of seconds so escape was impossible. Any vampire would reach me before taking a step. "Sookie, listen to me, this is not going to be nice so you have to leave if you want to stay alive, do you understand?" I had never seen Eric nervous so I didn't like it at all. "Get out!"

I walked away from him, slowly at first, but when I started hearing voices I ran as fast as I could but I knew I'd not be able to escape without being seen so I chose another option and hid behind a large stack of boxes from I could see what was going on.

Eric and Nora were surrounded by guards – vampire guards 'cause they were moving very fast – and I could not help feeling guilty because I had escaped while Eric was sacrificing everything for me.

Could I do something to help him?

I stood there motionless watching the scene in front of me and trying not to feel too guilty but I wasn't getting it. Yeah, Eric could be an insensitive bastard who moved for his own benefit, but he had saved my life in more than one occasion, so I couldn't leave him to face all those guards while I escaped as if nothing had happened. I wouldn't be able to return to Bon Temps and forget everything, and while I had left Lafayette alone with Tara, I knew I'd not be able to keep on with my life after Eric had risked his own.

"You two are arrested and you'll have to answer to the Authority."

What the hell was that about the Authority? Eric had talked about it a few times during the night but I had been so pissed off at him that I hadn't paid attention. Something I regretted now 'cause I wanted to know who formed the Authority and why it was so important.

"Get them into the truck." One of the guards turned the rest of them into a large truck and when I leaned slightly to see what was happening, someone grabbed me tightly and when I tried to read the mind I realized it must be one of the guards 'cause he was wearing the same black clothes than the rest.

"Who the fuck are you?" He muttered and before answering his question he was dragging me to the same truck where they had been introduced Eric and Nora. "Let me go!" I screamed and kicked him but I knew all of that was useless against a vampire.

"Let her go!" Eric shouted when he saw me but the vampire that was holding me just laughed and threw me into the truck. Now I was screwed. Eric had tried to save me and instead of getting out of there I had been caught. What the hell was wrong with me?

"Who is that one?" Asked another of the guards. "She's human, why have you brought her with us?"

"I smelt her across the pier," said the one who had been holding me, "Northman stinks of her." In any other circumstances I would have been offended but I decided not to open my mouth as it could be the last time I did it. "I do not know if she has something to do with him but we'll take her with us. The Authority will decide what to do with her."

Great, when I thought things couldn't get worse…

"Sookie, I told you to get out of here, you never listen to me, do you?" Eric was pissed, and most importantly, he was pissed at me, but what could I do? I couldn't just leave him there after he had tried to save my life.

"I was trying to save you!" I yelled at him but he glared at me and I dared not say anything else.

Eric POV

The last thing I wanted to do was slap Nora the way I did, but I wouldn't allow her to talk to Sookie the way she did. She didn't know her, she didn't know how I felt about her and I didn't care if she believed if she was just a food source. Sookie was much more than that to me.

I tried to save her, I really tried, but Sookie was so stubborn that this time she had gone too far. I thought she would listen to me for once and would run away before anyone could see her, but she had to hide to see what was going on and that was a terrible mistake. The guard grabbed her before she could move and he caught my scent on her so he brought her to the truck.

"Do you realize the mistake you made?" I whispered low enough so none of the guards would listen to us.

"I just wanted to help you," she muttered but I cut her off. "Help me? Sookie, I don't need your help, you understand? This is not your business and they'll probably kill you know and I won't be able to do anything to avoid it." It was the truth although Sookie didn't think the same.

"They will release me 'cause I'm human, Eric." She said firmly but she couldn't be more wrong. "I don't follow their laws…"

"It doesn't matter!" I murmured pissed and trying to control myself at the same time. "The Authority is above human laws, don't you understand? The fact that you're human is not going to change anything because they will interrogate you and if they don't like the answer they will kill you." For the first time all night I could see how fear was all over her and she went pale.

"I told you she would bring us nothing but trouble, Eric." Nora muttered in my other ear. "Humans only serve as food and now the Authority will have something more for blaming us." I knew Nora did not care about Sookie, and she would use her in any possible way to avoid punishment but I couldn't do the same. "Don't worry, Eric, we'll give her to the Authority when we arrive and we'll say that she's the only guilty."

"Have you gone crazy?" I asked her hissing. Nora was looking at me with eyes wide open and she was about to say more but I was faster than her. "I won't use her, do you understand me? Sookie is no one to blame for anything and I won't betray her throwing her to the Authority."

"But Eric…"

"There is nothing more to say."

Sookie was trembling and when I looked at her I saw tears in her eyes. I did not mean to scare her but she had to understand this was much more serious than she could imagine.

"Sookie…" I whispered but she just shook her head without saying a word and looked down. "I'm sorry," I added but did not get any reaction from her. "Maybe bring you here was a mistake."

"You think so?" She asked me mad. At least I got her to react. "Eric, I have no idea what you've gotten yourself into but I'm into it too now and I can't believe I'm going to die by moron vampires just because…"

"Sookie, I did my best to save you, that's all." I knew she would not understand but my intention was good. "Listen, no matter what happens from now on, okay? I will do anything to release you and send you back to Bon Temps, alright?" Sookie did not move but at least I expected her to believe me. "I will tell them that you're a mere human that I've been feeding from and I just found you in my way to New Orleans, that's all."

"Eric, do you really think that will work?" She asked glaring at me.

"It won't work." Nora answered before opening my mouth. I stared at her but that didn't stop her. "The Authority does not leave loose ends, Eric, you know that, and she is a big loose end." I hated to give her the reason but Nora was right. The fact of carrying a human before the Authority was something hadn't ever happened and now all the blame would fall on me.

"Don't worry about anything, Sookie," I said gently, and if I could have been able to touch her I would have. "I don't care what I have to do but I promise you that they won't put a hand on you."

"What about Bill?" It was like a stab directly to my heart. "You said the Authority had arrested him, will be there when we get?" Whatever I did wasn't enough because it seemed Compton was always the most important.

"Bill betrayed you, Sookie. Have you forgotten?" It was him who left two vampire drainers to give her a beating just so he could give her his blood. Bill Compton was sent by Sophie-Anne to Bon Temps to capture a telepath with fairy blood, and yet she always end up seeing him as the hero while I was the one to blame for everything. "He will be there, if that's all you're worried about."

"It's not about that…" but when she was about to keep talking the truck stopped suddenly and the back door opened.

"Stay close to me, understood?" I ordered, yeah, I ordered it, and to my surprise Sookie nodded and stood as close to me as possible. "I won't let them touch you a hair, all right?"

"You had me with the first part."

At first glance it looked like an old abandoned warehouse but when the door opened, there were guards everywhere and a woman appeared with some more guards and stood in front of Nora.

"Salome, I have to…" But before she could keep talking, the other woman slapped him and Nora did not say another word.

"I do not wish to hear your explanations at this moment, Nora, so shut up." Nora obeyed and then the vampire's eyes fell upon me. "Mr. Northman, it is a pleasure to meet you at last, although circumstances are not the most pleasant." She smiled slightly but the expression on her face changed radically when looked at Sookie. "What is this?" I could see the anger and fear in Sookie's face but she did not open her mouth. At least she was smart enough to be quiet. "What is this human doing in here?"

One of the guards came up to her and started talking. "It was me who found the hidden human."

"And why did you bring her? You could have killed her right there and throwing her body into the sea." Sookie should be very pissed off but at least she was following my advice. "Tell me, why is she here?"

"I caught Northman's scent on her, so I decided to bring her." Immediately after Salome's eyes rested again on Sookie and smiled wickedly. I knew exactly what she was thinking and I was sure she would try to use Sookie against me to make me talk.

"We'll take the three of them." Salome began walking towards a big lift and after doing a blood scan, the doors opened and a large number of guards along with Salome walked into with us and went down.

I felt things would not improve one we reached our destiny and that's what happened when we were locked up next to Bill Compton.

"Eric, what the hell is she doing in here?" He hissed and I asked myself the same question. If Sookie had listened to me just this once time she wouldn't be trapped and waiting for the Authority to take a decision about what had happened. "Sookie, Eric forced you to come here?" How could he think I would do such a thing? Yes, I was still mad at her because she had rejected me, both of us actually, but I wouldn't use her in that way ever.

"No, Bill, Eric hasn't brought me." Sookie glanced at me and kept answering to Bill. "Actually he tried to save me but one of the guards caught me before I could escape."

"If you had listened to me you wouldn't be in a cell now, Sookie." I added coldly.

"I know, Eric, you already said that." She replied as coldly.

"And I say it again, Sookie…"

"Why don't you all shut the fuck up?" Nora replied suddenly and the three of us looked at her in silence. "I don't think you realize how screwed we are now." I could get a slight idea. "The Authority does not want problems with vampires that can't be controlled so they usually get rid of them." Would this rule also apply to Sookie? "And now there's a human involved. Thanks to you two and your ridiculous obsession with her," and she glared at Sookie, "we are now trapped and about to be executed if we fail to convince the Authority otherwise."

Convincing the Authority? I had never heard before about a vampire who faced the Authority and returned to say it. Nora was right, we were really screwed.

Suddenly a noise flooded the place and I saw Nora lying on the ground.

"SHIT! ULTRAVIOLET!" A second later I felt like my body was on fire. The light was burning me in an unbearable way and I could hear the screams of all of us in the room, all of us except Sookie.

"Eric! What the fuck is going on? What is this?" Sookie kept asking questions but the pain was so intense that I wasn't able to answer, I just could hide under my jacket with the hope that the light didn't end up turning me into a steaming pile of ashes. "ERIC!" Suddenly the light went out and the heat was gone but the pain and burning on my skin remained. "Eric, are you okay? What's going on?" When I looked at Sookie I realized she also had parts of her face red but nothing serious.

"It's ultraviolet light, Sookie, it's a way to make us not talk between us or torture us, I'm not sure." Actually I had never had to deal with the Authority, obviously because I was still alive or at least undead, so I didn't know what to expect. "Don't say a word, okay?"

"Sookie, are you okay?" Compton asked from across the room. "They hurt you?"

"I'm okay, Bill," she replied dryly though. "But I wouldn't like to be in this place. What do they suppose to want from me? I'm not a vampire, they can't treat me like one."

"I don't know, Sookie," I said as I stroked her cheek with my finger through a hole in the cell, "but I already told you, I will do anything possible to make them let you go."

"What if that's not enough?" Had she always need to look for the bad side? "Hopefully it is." I said no more and Sookie sighed heavily.

None of us, at least vampires, wanted to experience the sensation of sunlight on our bodies, so we sat in silence while I kept looking at Sookie every few seconds. She was nervous and scared although she did not want to admit, and I felt helpless for not being able to make her feel better.

Minutes, or even hours later, the guards returned and took us to a large room in which members of the Authority were meeting.

"Mr. Northman, Mr. Compton, I am glad to meet you both at last." Roman rose from his chair while the other members did not look away from us. Compton and I were forced to kneel in front of him while another guard kept Nora standing next to a wall. At least she was still alive.

I didn't know what we are going to face, or which would be Nora's fate because she was still present, but all I cared about was what they were going to do with Sookie.

She did not deserve this.

"I am afraid that I've received some news that I did not like at all." Roman was one of the oldest and most powerful vampires that existed, besides being the ultimate authority for all we were present. "War guns in the middle of the street?" He asked rhetorically. "What about Nan Flanagan?" Sookie was kneeling beside me without moving a muscle. "She was sent by the Authority to take care of you two. It was her last mission because she was fired as a member of the American Vampire League, so I want to know who killed her." Compton said nothing and I did the same but I was sure it was not a good idea.

After my interrogatory that I had with Salome I had realized that they were not going to let us go so easily. They were looking for someone to blame and Compton and I were perfect for it. She even tried to make me talk convincing me that Compton had confessed and that he would be reinstalled as king of Louisiana, but I did not believe it. She also told that Nora had found the true death, but when I saw her in the room I breathed relieved.

"Nan Flanagan is dead?" I asked and tried to sound surprised. "It's the first news I have." It wasn't a good idea to piss Roman off but I wasn't going to confess.

"They are very clever," Salome said, rising from her chair. It was the second time she had done it since Roman performed a strange blood ritual that seemed to be very important to them. For me, however, it had no relevance because I did not believe in their "sacred texts" as they were called. "Mr. Northman did not confess anything at all. It is fascinating that he hasn't been able to betray his king for her," and pointed to Sookie. Suddenly all eyes were directed toward her and I didn't like the feeling of what might happen.

"She is innocent," Compton said before someone said another word. "Let her go."

Before I could blink Roman had a special and very old-fashioned stake in his hand and was pointing it directly into Compton's chest. Sookie gasped surprised and terrified at the same time but I didn't even move.

"I feel a strong desire to stake you right now, Mr. Compton!" Roman hissed and all vampires from the Authority were alerted with their fangs extended. "Tell me, why should I not?"

"I'm the only one able to kill Russell Edgington." I said no more and all eyes turned toward me.

"Russell Edgington is dead." Dieter Braun stated, the vampire who had interrogated Compton.

"Are you completely sure about that?" I asked trying not to laugh. All members of the Authority seemed surprised, or perhaps worried. I didn't care anyway because I had a good point to make a deal and they knew it.

"Russell Edgington disappeared more than a year ago. You, Mr. Northman, asked us for permission to kill him and…"

"But I did not." And I arched my eyebrow as I looked at each and every one of them. "The true death wouldn't have enough to Edgington. I buried him in cement, and Bill Compton helped me." I looked slightly at him and saw a small smile on his face. "It was the only way to hurt him even more."

"And how is that possible?" Salome asked. "What could have been worse than the true death? Russell Edgington is one of the oldest vampires that exist, he is above humans. Tell me, Mr. Northman, what did you do?"

"I destroyed what he loved most." Salome did not seem willing to give up so I gave her the answer she wanted to hear. "I killed his progeny. Talbot, his lover. He represented what Edgington loved most in this world so I got rid of him." They still did not seem entirely convinced so I decided to push them a little bit more. "Russell has escaped and he will come after me. I am the only one able to stop him." Suddenly there was only silence in the room and when I looked at Nora I saw a slight smile on her lips.

"So we have a deal?" I asked as I looked at each one of them. They did not seem very happy and I would ask for the release of four of us, Compton included, although I still didn't like him.

"If you let us go, four of us," I said without hesitation, "including Chancellor Gainsborough." Nora looked at me as if I had gone crazy but even if there were fights between us I wasn't going to let them send her to the true death because she only tried to help me. "Let us go and I'll take care of Russell Edgington forever."

A deal. At least I hoped to gain some time with this.

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