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Let's Boot And Rally

Sookie POV

"I'm so drunk…" I could barely see clearly but before I knew Alcide and I were kissing like two teens on the couch in my house. What was I doing?

"Alcide…" I started to say but his lips were on mine before I could say another word. "Sookie, don't talk…" The truth was I was enjoying it. The tension between Alcide and I was more than evident from the beginning, but what about Eric? Things between us seemed to be going much better and suddenly I was making out with one of his mortal enemies.

"Alcide…please…" He must have confused my words 'cause instead of getting off he picked me up and went to my bedroom. We were taking clothes off – yeah, I was undressing him although I couldn't stop thinking about Eric – and when I was about to say what we were doing was a mistake I threw up on his shoes.

"I see you haven't wasted any time." I heard Bill's voice from the door of my bedroom and when I turned around I saw that Eric was at his side.

God, if the situation wasn't awkward enough between Alcide and me, it was much worse now. I didn't care Bill have caught us but the look on Eric's face said it all. He was pissed, pretty pissed, and I was sure he would never ever talk to me after what had happened between Alcide and me.

"What are you two doing here?" I asked while I was trying that my terrible headache disappeared. The four of us had gone down to the kitchen and as Alcide took care of fixing the door Tara had destroyed, Bill, Eric and I were sitting at the table. "I thought you were going to look for Russell Edgington, or at least that's what you said." I wasn't looking at the, I was looking at Eric but he seemed to ignore me.

"I'm afraid we will need your help, Sookie." Bill said as if it were an order. Did he really think it was the best time to give me orders? "We have to find and kill him before all this madness goes any further. We don't have much time to do it."

"Why not?" I asked, hoping this time Eric answered me. "I mean, the Authority let us go and that vampire, that…Roman?" Bill nodded and I kept talking – or rather trying to understand what was happening. "Roman said you two had to find Russell and kill him but he said nothing about time."

"The sooner the better." Eric added coldly and almost growling and I couldn't help looking that Alcide was having a good time at our expense. "It won't be long before Russell has regained his strength and if someone is helping him it'll be much more dangerous." Eric continued talking. "He is coming for all of us as soon as he's able to stand, and when I say all of us I mean you too, Sookie." He pronounced my name with such coldness that I was sure that I felt a chill through my back. "You are in danger too, so we'll need you to help us."

I buried my face in my hands 'cause they began arguing and I couldn't stand it anymore. Alcide shouted that they had gotten me into enough trouble and they should leave me alone, but Eric and Bill seemed to have other ideas, but even among vampires they didn't seem to agree. It was all so absurd yet terrifying that I just burst into laugh.

I was doing it, I was laughing non-stop and I didn't care what the three men in my kitchen were thinking. Maybe I was crazy – it was probably – but I had a terrible hangover and I didn't give a shit who one of them believed that I had mental problems. I couldn't hear what they were saying, it was just noise, noise and more noise. Nothing more.

"So…" I began talking while I couldn't stop laughing, "so I guess this is like a horror movie…" and I laughed like a crazy woman again. I was so overwhelmed by everything what was going on that I was unable to think clearly. "Y'know, I'm so tired of all this shit…" I was talking quite seriously but I couldn't stop laughing. "You vampires always do what you want without thinking about how much you can fuck others lives. You only seek the solution using humans – like me – for your own purposes and now – because of fucking vampires – we're in this situation." I really wasn't feeling what I was saying 'cause I didn't blame Eric for what had happened. Bill however…I was still pretty mad at him, the word was pissed, but I was just trying to feel a little better. "A three-thousand-years vampire has escaped from a cement prison and will probably come to kill me 'cause I'm related to you all. You," I said looking at Eric, "you killed his lover and you Bill, well you two took care of him. Alcide," and his eyes met mine when I pronounced his name, "he's probably going to kill you too for helping us."

I hated this. When the Authority released us with the only condition to get rid of Russell Edgington once and for all I thought at least they gave us some help. I dunno, I expected an army of guards to escort us to find that fucking psycho and kill him and end with the problem, but of course no member of the Authority was willing to get its hands dirty.

"Okay, so let's do this." I got up from the table and put my jacket on under the watchful eyes of two vampires and a werewolf. "We won't get anything while you two continue sitting there." Alcide chuckled when he heard me and I had to go through the hole the glass had left on the door when Tara took care of destroying my house.

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"We're going to need to talk with Doug. He works for me and is the man who was glamoured to free Russell and hiding him wherever he is." I didn't like what Alcide was suggesting but I knew we didn't have many more options. "Come on, we have to go looking for him."

"Alcide, are you sure about this?" I asked but we both knew the answer. We had to, we had to get an innocent man involved in a very dangerous thing, and when Alcide looked me in the eyes I knew there was no other way to do it. I would have to look into this man's head to know exactly what had happened.

"Doug, this is Sookie Stackhouse." Alcide said as his employee appeared a few seconds later. "Sookie, this is Doug." We shook hands and didn't hear his thoughts at least until I had told him the truth about what I was going to do. He deserved to know. "Hey Doug, we need your help, okay?" Alcide seemed worried for him and by the look on Doug's face I was sure he knew what his boss was talking about.

"Boss, I don't remember anything, I swear." He was very nervous and I wondered if among the mess on his head and my hangover I would be able to concentrate enough to read his mind clearly. "All I know is I was working and everyone else had already left. I was about to finish my shift and…"

"Doug, calm down. No matter if you can't remember, that's what Sookie is here. She can help you." Doug seemed reluctant but he nodded at least.

"Hi, do you mind if I take a look inside your head?" I asked him no more, and hoped he didn't leave running and thinking I was just a lunatic who spent time with vampires. Actually that was exactly what I was but I didn't need someone remembering me.

I grabbed his hand and instantly I began seeing images in his head. In them I could see the parking lot in which Russell had been buried but I couldn't look around 'cause I was seeing everything through Doug's eyes.

"Doug, can you see what's going on?" I asked him so he tried to show me something else.

"Somebody's talking to me…" I continued holding his hand and I could see something else.

"Someone is coming." I said, trying to see what was happening. "It's a woman." I was surprised 'cause I expected it would have been one of the wolves loyal to him. "She's releasing him…with her hands." I couldn't understand anything. "She's a vampire." I could feel Bill and Eric's eyes digging a hole in the back of my head but I didn't break the connection with Doug at any time. I needed answers, we needed to get to the bottom of this situation if Eric and Bill wanted to stay in one piece. "I can see…" I tried to focus stronger but it seemed my head was going to explode. "She's wearing a necklace…" Suddenly I felt a great tension around me and I knew Eric and Bill had reacted to what I was seeing. "It's like a spider…"

"Sorry, I'm so sorry…" I heard Doug sobbing. I was surprised that a man of his size was about to cry like a baby.

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"I swear, Boss, I don't know what happened. I don't remember anything and…"

"Relax, Doug. Don't worry." Alcide breathed deeply and kept talking to his employee while Eric, Bill and I waited for them to finish talking.

"Do you think he's going to help us?" I asked Eric and Bill.

"He seems pretty scared." Bill replied.

"Of course he's scared." I exclaimed, unable to bear any longer the tension between Eric and me. "A vampire glamoured him to help her release this fucking psychopath and he'll probably have flashes of what happened. All of this is driving him insane 'cause he's trying to understand why he can't remember anything but nevertheless he can see frightening images that seems to have no sense." At least those images hadn't sense for me when I had looked inside his head and saw the flashes. "He'll be lucky if he gets to move on and not end completely insane." I got up and went to where Alcide was with Doug 'cause I could no longer stand the tension.

"Alcide, we gotta go." My vampires were right behind me a second later and the five of us left in Alcide's van.

I sat in the front seat, holding Doug's hand while Alcide was driving and following the directions I saw in Doug's mind.

"Are we gonna talk about the fact that I threw up on your shoes?" I asked him but he just shrugged.

"Nope."

I nodded and looked back quickly. I knew I had to do something or I wouldn't remove this burden off my shoulders.

"Bill, can you sit here for a minute? Need to talk to Eric." Bill nodded reluctantly but moved and I sat next to Eric still touching Doug to see where we had to go.

I knew everyone could hear us, at least Bill, but I hoped Eric and I were able to talk about what had happened.

"Eric, I…"

"We should focus on finding and ending Russell and we'll talk later, don't you think?" He said cutting me of. I probably would have kept quiet and nodded, but I was sure I was still under the influence of alcohol, so I decided to be stubborn and continued talking.

"I think not, Eric." He stared at me and despite the darkness I could feel his eyes on mine. "Listen, right now I feel terrible for what happened, I swear, Eric. I…I didn't think things could get so complicated and I dunno…when you left me at home and started thinking about what was going and people at Merlotte's didn't stop judging me, the car accident…"

"What car accident?" Eric asked alarmed. At least I could be sure that he was still worrying for me.

"It doesn't matter now." I said waving it off. "What really matters is that…" But suddenly I had to interrupt our conversation. "Alcide, turn left when you can." I had to concentrate on two things at once and it wasn't easy. "Eric, I…I'm sorry. I didn't want to hurt you but I got home and felt awful, I started drinking and…well, I know what I have done has no excuse, but I felt so alone when you left and Alcide showed up at my house…" I started sobbing but I knew I had to control myself if I wanted to finish explaining what had happened.

"Eric…I promise that I didn't want…I didn't want to do what I did. I dunno what happened but before I could realize Alcide and I were kissing and although I kept thinking it was wrong, I couldn't stop." Eric said nothing and when I was about to keep talking – or saying excuses – Alcide's van stopped in front of the doors of an abandoned psychiatric hospital.

"We've arrived." He said and I could feel Doug getting more and more tense.

Eric POV

Watching the wolf putting his paws over my Sookie was one of the most unpleasant experiences of my existence. Sookie was obviously feeling the effects of alcohol but seeing her kissing Herveaux after we had begun to fix things between us was too much for me.

I couldn't look at her face, not even when she directly asked me something, and I just wanted to rid the wolf's head off. How could she have betrayed me after everything we had been through? We almost got killed by Roman and now it seemed that all I did for her, all we were talking about meant nothing for her.

But the worst part was seeing the expression of superiority in Compton's face. Did he think he had won? Sookie would never return to him, even if she was drunk and preferred to fuck Herveaux, but still, Compton betrayed her and if anything I could be sure about Sookie Stackhouse was that she wouldn't be able to forgive a betrayal, much less from Compton.

When we were in Herveaux's van, Sookie sat in the front seat to keep digging into that man's head that a vampire – probably a female member of the Authority – had made sure to glamour him to help her to release Edgington.

"You heard Sookie, Nora is a traitor." Compton said no more and I wanted to throw him out of the van. "What other explanation is?"

"Nora was helping us, did you forget that?" The anger inside me became bigger and bigger and I wasn't sure how long I could be able to contain it. "She tried to get us out of the country and was tortured as they did with us, so don't you dare say that she's a traitor."

"How do you know she was tortured?" He asked so calmly that I would have pulled his fangs off without hesitation. "She could be watching with the rest of the Authority as they tortured us to discover the truth. Nora is a traitor, Eric. Like her brother." My fangs showed up so fast that even Compton startled.

"Be careful, Bill, or you could lose those beautiful fangs." I was about to say some nice words more but my threat was interrupted when his cell phone started ringing.

"Hello?" He answered without taking his eyes off me. I wouldn't do either if I were he. "Who is it?"

"Hey guys, it's Molly." I remembered her voice but not her name. She was the vamp she placed our harnesses with that pretty stake that would be able to kill us before we could realize. "I'm calling to inform you that your devices have been activated." I opened Compton's jacket a little and saw that his harness was shining and when I looked down I saw mine had dong the same thing. "The countdown has begun," she continued explaining. "I wish you good luck and if you two don't get it…well, it was a pleasure to meet you both. Peace." She said and hung up.

Great, now we had a countdown. I never thought Roman was stupid enough to accept the deal without imposing his own conditions and this was one of them. The only one actually because if we didn't get Russell Edgington killed we wouldn't be more than a pile of guts on the ground.

Compton and I decided to say nothing about the harness and a few seconds later Sookie and I were talking, she telling me how bad she felt for what had happened with Alcide and that she never intended to hurt me. I didn't want to believe her but a part of me – thanks to the blood bond we shared – I knew she was being completely honest with me, but before we could keep talking the wolf informed that we had arrived.

I wouldn't have chosen a better scenario. There were five of us in front of the gates ofan abandoned psychiatric hospital, exactly the same in the movies Sookie had talked about during the time I was living at her home.

"Okay, Eric and I will get in, you others go." Compton said and I didn't say a word because I knew it wouldn't be necessary.

"WHAT?" From the tone of Sookie's voice I knew Bill wouldn't get to convince her otherwise. "I think not. I'm the only one who can guide you all through this place so I'm not staying out here waiting. Also, I've seen enough horror movies to know that everybody ends up dead if the group separate so we're going together."

"Sookie…" Compton kept insisting and I couldn't help put a small smile on my face at the look of determination in Sookie's face. She wasn't going to be left behind, I was sure of that.

"Bill, I won't stay here and I have very good reasons. The first is that I can get rays out of my fingers so I'll be able to defend myself against any vampire or something else that appears. Seconds, I need to pee, and the third is that I have a terrible headache and I want this over as soon as possible and go home before my head explodes, understood?" She asked and before any of us could add another word, she turned around, grabbed Doug's hand and walked into the building.

"You two are screwed if you believe you shall change her mind," Alcide said as he walked into it right behind her.

Sookie was leading with Doug and holding his hand while he seemed to be more nervous and frightened than before.

"Okay Doug, I need you to focus, alright?" The guy nodded and I could feel his pulse quickening. "Left." Sookie muttered and we walked into a room where everything was in the ground and destroyed, and there were rats everywhere. "Shit!" Sookie yelled when she saw a rat gnawing on a hand. "What the hell is going on here?"

I walked in front of her and examined where the trail of blood seemed to begin. I didn't want Sookie to follow me but she was stubborn and I knew she wouldn't stay back. When I pulled away a white cloth that was covering a door I saw something I didn't like at all.

"FUCK! FUCK! WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE?" Doug didn't stop screaming when we saw the corpses of several humans with bites on their necks. They were completely drained and some body parts were everywhere around the room. "I wanna go, I'm starting to remember some things and I don't like what they mean." I was getting tired of hearing this guy complaining and whining all the time.

"Calm down, Doug. You're not alone, okay?" Sookie was trying to calm him down but it wasn't going to be easy. "We should go," Sookie said looking over her shoulder, "I don't think we will find anything here."

We continued hearing Sookie's indications and I realized the smell of blood was everywhere. Whoever had freed Russell Edgington had made sure that we didn't find him in all this time. She had given him food, but someone should have realized. All those humans were gone and surely their families would be looking for them.

We reached a closed door and we stopped in front of it. I wasn't sure that Russell was inside, it would have been too easy, but I still put myself at Sookie's side and opened the door.

"OH MY GOD!" Sookie yelled and when she turned her flashlight into the room we could see several humans hanging in chains as if they were pieces of meat. "What's all this?" When the ones that were conscious looked at us they begged us to help them and Sookie stared at me but we weren't here for them. "Eric, we need to get them out of here."

"No, we need to find Russell." Sookie glared at me but I wasn't going to change my mind. "Listen to me Sookie, okay? If we don't stop Russell Edgington before he has recovered his strength then these humans, us and many more will die, do you understand? We can't waste time releasing them."

Doug seemed to go insane when he saw all humans hanging from the ceiling, and although some of them did not stop screaming, I wouldn't waste time with this. "WE'RE GOING TO DIE HERE!" Doug yelled non-stop and hid behind a pillar.

I grabbed Sookie's hand, because Doug was not going to keep helping us, and we left that room. Sookie seemed to be pissed off but at least she accepted we left before we were discovered.

We walked down the hall and check all doors, some were closed and others open, but not worth a look at them. If Edgington was still here he would be protected. So we continued walking and Sookie didn't release my hand at any time. Suddenly I realized what had happened with Alcide was nothing important, as Sookie had assured me, and I trusted her.

"Oh God…" Sookie murmured and it was then when I heard a slight moan from inside the room. "I think we've found him." Compton, Sookie and I walked in while Alcide stood at the door.

"Oh, I have been waiting for you all." Russell said with barely a whisper. "I'm so glad to see you again. Cement is not fun," he went on with his usual sarcasm and chuckling. "Miss Stackouse, it's a pleasure to see you again."

"Fucking son of a bitch!" Sookie shouted and I took a piece of wood floor under Compton's watchful gaze.

"We meet once again, old friend," I said with my fangs fully extended and slowly approaching him. "I have been thinking about this for a long time, and my moment has finally arrived." I lifted my arm to sink the stake through his heart with all my strength but just then I heard a roar and saw that Alcide had disappeared.

I really, really hope you liked this chapter although I have to say that I like seeing more action in the last chapter, it was great but I don't like Terry's story, it just doesn't interest me at all.

Have a nice week!