Well, I liked the last chapter, I have to admit it. The season is improving although I would love to see more scenes with Eric and Sookie together 'cause I'm soooo tired of Beeelll Compton.

Love Russell by the way. He's totally insane but you just have to love him, hahhahha.

Hope you like my version of this chapter.

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In The Beginning

Sookie POV

Everything happened so fast I could hardly see what was happening. Russell – the vampire psychopath who didn't seem to want to disappear from our lives – had staked Roman and his remains were laying on the big table that presided the room.

"Eric! Eric, where are you?" I yelled with all my strength while the lights flickered and I couldn't see anything. Some kind of security protocol must be activated 'cause all vampires in the room were laying on the ground in a vain attempt to stay in one piece. "Erc, where the fuck are you?" The screams followed one after another, voices mixing and for the first time I could hear with my ears instead of my mind.

"Trap him!" I could see some of the guards walking into the room but I couldn't be sure. The lights were so blinding that I had to spend most of the time with narrowed eyes.

"Eric! Bill!" Not that I was concerned about Bill – at least not too much – but I needed to know he was still alive. "Eric, where the fuck are you? What's going on? Eric!" I yelled and yelled and what it seemed like hours were probably seconds but I wasn't sure.

"We got him!" I heard one of the guards and suddenly the lights came back into the room. Russell had a silver net over his body and nearly a dozen of guards were around him while holding their guns and pointed at him. "We'll take him to the cell."

I wasn't sure but I thought I heard a woman's voice ordering the guards to capture Edgington but not kill him. Was it real or I just thought I imagined it? A few minutes before they were all wanted to kill him and now they wanted to put lock him in a cell. What the fuck was going on here? Did they really think to keep him alive was a good idea?

"Sookie, are you okay?" Bill was next to before I realized while the other members of the Authority were recovering after what had happened. "Sookie…"

"I'm okay, Bill!" I shouted and felt terrible a second later. This wasn't his fault but I still didn't need him to make me feel weak and vulnerable when I already felt bad enough. "Where's Eric?" That made him to go back and take his hand off me.

"The view is great from here but I would like to go down now." I heard Eric's voice and looked around but didn't see him. "Sookie, up here." When I looked up I saw him hanging from one of the columns with what looked like a silver chain around his neck.

"Oh my God…" I was literally with my mouth hanging open. I knew Russell threw himself over Eric after killing Roman but I had no idea how he finished up there. "Eric, are you okay?"

He tried to shrug but he winced then. "Guess I'll feel much better when I can see the world from the height at which I was used to."

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For some reason I could not understand – or maybe I did but I refused to accept it – Bill, Eric and I were trapped in a cell again.

"Why are we locked? I thought you two were like heroes now for bringing Russell Edgington here. What the fuck has happened? Why nobody has been able to stop him before he killed Roman?" I had so many questions that I felt my head was going to explode. I looked at both of them but none seemed to want to answer me. "We are trapped, again, and it seems that you two don't mind at all."

"Relax, Sookie." Bill ordered me.

"Are you serious? Are you going to order me?" I glared at him but he said nothing. "You gotta be kidding me!"

"Somebody knew what was going to happen. Russell's harness did not work and he sank a stake through Roman's chest before any of us were able to react. Russell did not escape alone, someone had to help him and then make sure his execution was never carried out." I tried to follow Bill's reasoning but it wasn't easy when there was so much on my mind and I was still feeling a terrible headache that hadn't improved with the damn blinking lights.

"Nora." Eric mumbled.

"You said it was impossible, besides she was locked in a cell during the time. How was she going to do it?" Nothing they were saying made sense to me but the truth was that I had stopped looking for a logical explanation since we found Russell Edgington in an abandoned psychiatric hospital while he was feeding on humans who were hanging from the ceiling as if they were pieces of meat.

"She's not working alone. Someone should be helping her." Eric seemed lost in his own thoughts and it was driving me insane 'cause I didn't understand a shit about they were talking about.

"Who?" Bill asked no more and I couldn't help but rolling my eyes.

"C'mon Bill, if the answer was so simple we wouldn't be locked up right now, don't you think?" I was so pissed that I didn't care what I could say or who may be affected by my words. "Besides, I don't think Eric knows. Nora has lost her mind or at least she's trying to make us believe it, so it's impossible that Eric could know. If Nora is working with someone else, it must be another member of the Authority, right?" Bill looked at me as if expecting to find the answer on my face while Eric was just looking down at the ground.

"How could all of this get so complicated?" I muttered to myself but I knew both of them were listening to me. "It was a fucking execution, dammit! How is it possible that in a room full of vampires one of them has been able to kill another without either of you moving a muscle?" Just then Eric and Bill were placed in front of the bars and stared at the vampire in front of us.

"Molly! Molly!" Bill yelled as she kept typing on her laptop. "What the hell happened? Why the harness failed?"

"Shut the fuck up!" She replied no more.

"The harness failed, Molly!" Eric shouted and his voice was so cold that I felt like my blood had frozen. "What the fuck happened?"

"That's what I'm trying to find out!"

If this was going to be a screaming fight I had already had enough because my head was about to explode and the last thing I needed was a fight between vampires.

Eric sat down next to me again while Bill stood.

"What's gonna happen now, Eric?" I asked while I was trying he looked at me. "What are they gonna do with us?" It worried me a bit – a lot – the idea of staying locked in this cell for much longer, especially with two vampires that hadn't fed recently. "If Nora is the traitor, Eric, what does it mean? Are they going to blame you because she's your sister?" Eric looked at me straight in the eye and I did not like what I saw in them. "You have nothing to do with her, at least not now, Eric. You didn't know what Nora was doing so they can't blame you for what happened."

Eric didn't say anything, he just took my hand and began caressing it. For some reason this simple gesture made me feel much better although I was still locked in a stupid cell.

"Everything's gonna be okay," I whispered, trying to hide the trembling in my voice. "We haven't been through all of this for nothing, Eric, do you understand?" I looked into his eyes trying to let him know that I wouldn't give up. "I haven't left my house, my brother and my friends behind only to end up locked in a warehouse in New Orleans." Eric raised an eyebrow but didn't utter a word. "I'm dead serious, I won't give up just because those vampire fans of religion have been unable to stop Russell Edgington."

"I'm not going to give up either, Sookie." He replied with determination.

Despite being in a cell next to Bill Compton I was unable to hold myself any longer and I kissed Eric gently on the lips.

"I never thought you were going to." I muttered when our lips were almost touching.

Eric POV

I could not believe we were in Salome's room while she and Nora smiled at us as if it was a meeting with old friends.

"Please, come in, come in." The guards were gone so we were the five of us alone. I wanted Sookie to be released but they assured me she wasn't in danger. Despite this promise I was going to keep an eye on her.

"Brother…" Nora began approaching me but I wasn't going to allow it.

"Do not call me brother!" I yelled while glared at her.

"Please, come in." Salome repeated again and the three of us walked a few steps until we were in front of them. Sookie was at my side while I was trying to keep her behind me. "I'm glad to see you all," and she even turned her eyes toward Sookie, "but I have to admit that I feel a great pain for the loss we've had tonight." I knew there was a relationship between Roman and Salome but she didn't even move a muscle to help him when Russell sank a stake through his chest. "But his loss was necessary."

"It was part of Lilith's plan." Nora added but I didn't even look at her. "The Guardian was against our beliefs, although pacific coexistence with humans is part of that plan."

"The plan of God…" I heard Edgington's voice and seconds later he appeared standing between Nora and Salome. "My old friends and…Miss Stackhouse, a pleasure to see you again." Bill and I stood on guard with our fangs completely extended. I was ready to rip his head off at that moment but I wanted to know what the hell was going on. "I thank Lilith for having included me in her plan. We are all part of the same group, we seek peace. I'm not the same man, I don't want to be a cold-blooded murder as I was. I have changed. I…"

"That's enough, Russell." Nora cut him off and I wanted to rip his head off when I heard the friendly tone in which both of them were talking. "Eric, you must understand…"

"Do not talk to me!" I wasn't even able to face her. She wasn't the same Nora I met, she wasn't my sister. Nora had become a traitor. "You have betrayed me, I trusted you and you got me into this mess, all of us!" I added, pointing to Compton and Sookie. "How could you do this? To me? To Godric?"

"It's Lilith's plan, Eric…"

"I don't fucking care! You are nothing but two bible-banging cunts." I was so pissed off and I had so much rage inside of me that it was becoming harder and harder to control myself. "You let him escape!" I shouted, pointing to Edgington.

"It wasn't me," she replied but I did not believe her.

"It was me." Salome? I knew Nora wasn't working alone and although I never trusted Salome I wasn't sure it would have been her. "I had to do it because he was part of the plan. Russell Edgington was our choice for peace, pacific coexistence between humans and vampires, Eric. Don't you understand? All that happened was not something sudden, it was prepared for a long time. Lilith's plan for us to be free has been carried out and she will come to us when the time has come."

All this religious shit was starting to give me headache – if a vampire could suffer a headache – but I didn't know for how much longer I could keep listening bullshit.

"We will have an initiation ceremony tonight," Salome said looking at both of us. "It would be a honor for you two to be there."

"Brother, please…"

"Stop lying to me, Nora," I hissed through clenched teeth while Edgington rolled his eyes.

"Please, Salome insisted. "Tonight."

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We were back in a room, alone Sookie and I, trying to find a meaning about what was happening.

"Are you okay?" It was the second time she asked me the same question but the answer was still the same. "Eric, I know this must be pretty hard for you, especially about Nora, but what about them? Salome and Russell were together from the beginning, she released him and now…what? What will happen? Will they force you to be part of the Authority?"

It was something I had been thinking about since Salome uttered the words 'initiation ceremony', but I wasn't interested in joining this group of lunatics.

"They seem to be very decided that you and Bill form part of the Authority and with Russell on their side…" I knew what she meant. We had a ruthless killer released and he'd be able to do anything.

"Salome just wants power, don't believe anything she said about sharing, Sookie, because it is not true." I was being completely honest with her but she needed to understand. "They are so obsessed with Lilith that they'll be able to do anything for her."

"But she's not real!" Sookie shouted desperate as she rose from the bed and paced back and forth across the room. "Please, tell me it is true, tell me that Lilith or whatever is not real because none of this makes sense, Eric." She breathed deeply but I knew – because I could feel it through our bond – that she was pretty pissed with what was happening. "They are just excuses. Fucking excuses! What about Bill? Bill seemed to be delighted when they spoke about the initiation ceremony, which of course I have not a fucking clue of what it is."

"Sookie, don't worry, nothing's gonna happen." I got up and placed myself in front of her as I put my hands on her shoulders. "I promised you that I would protect you and wouldn't let anything happen to you, remember?" She nodded slightly but without saying a word. "I think so far I have fulfilled that promise." I put my hand on her chin and pulled gently until she looked up and she was looking into my eyes. "This time won't different."

"You don't know that, Eric." She looked away and pulled away from me. "It was about to hunt Russell Edgington before," she said as her back was to me, "but right now we don't know what's going on. They," she said, pointing to the door, "have a plan, Eric. And for some unknown reason they want you and Bill to be part of that twisted plan about a vampire god…what exactly are they waiting for, Eric?" She turned around quickly and crossed her arms. "What will happen? Lilith will reborn in some way? Is that the master plan? Is that God's plan as Nora called it?" She chuckled a few times but there was no trace of humor in her eyes. "Salome and Nora are as mad as Russell, Eric. I am sorry to say this but your sister," and she hesitated before continuing talking, "she is no longer the person you met. I know I have no right to speak or comment or something I don't understand but…" I didn't like what I was hearing but Sookie was right about Nora. "She's not the sister you met, Eric."

"I know," I muttered and Sookie seemed surprised. "We are the only progeny of Godric, Sookie and now he's gone. We are all that remain of him and Nora has lost her mind so she's no longer able to distinguish reality." I could not believe I was confessing all this to her but I felt better with every word that got out from my lips. "Nora is Sanguinista, like Russell and Salome. She loved Roman, or that's what she said, but still she was able to sacrifice him to release Edgington so that gives us an idea of how little we can trust on them."

"I don't trust them, Eric, I don't even trust in…"

"Bill." I cut her off, finishing her phrase as she nodded once.

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The moment of the 'initiation ceremony' as they called it had arrived and although Salome and Nora assured me there was no danger for Sookie, I wasn't willing to take that risk. Much less with Russell Edgington in the same room, knowing he might be able to do anything.

There we were, Bill and me included, while Russell and the rest of members of the Authority didn't stop looking at the urn where the sacred blood of Lilith was guarded as if it was a precious treasure.

"Tonight is the beginning of a new world, a world where humans and vampires live in peace." I couldn't avoid rolling my eyes. Did they really believe all this shit? "Our race needs humans to exist. Humans and vampires, two sides of the same coin. Lilith, the First, the Last, the Eternal."

"Praise her," they all said in unison.

"Praise Lilith." Russell yelled putting his hand over his heart. This was so surreal that I wanted to laugh and kill them all at the same time.

"She will be our salvation." Newlin added with a smile from ear to ear. I could never understand that someone took the trouble of turning this guy into a vampire. It wasn't a punishment for him, it was for all vampires because we would have to stand him forever. Unless one of us staked him as we did with Nan Flanagan.

"Now is the time to join us together with Lilith as she wishes. Her power, her beliefs, her blood." And they all looked quickly toward the urn. "We are siblings, we are united by the blood of Lilith and her blood will return us to the real world, our world. To our true ourselves." Murmurs succeeded quickly among the remaining members of the Authority. "Roman followed the teachings of Lilith, but his desire to keep her blood was stronger than the real purpose we are going to perform." Nora was giving us a great speech, even emotional, but I couldn't hate her more at that time.

Dieter Braun was the first to walk toward the urn as he examined it carefully. "This…is…blasphemy." He said slowly as looked at each and every one of us. "I am the oldest member of the Authority, except for Roman, and this is a sacrilege…" But before he could keep talking Russell launched himself at him and rip his head off, throwing it to one corner of the room while the rest of his body was disintegrating on the ground.

"I'm in." Rosalyn said before someone else could say another word.

Salome walked to the urn, avoiding Dieter's guts, and opened it to reach the bottle containing the blood and looked carefully at it for a few seconds before returning to Nora and Russell and spilling a drop on her hand.

"This is the blood of Lilith," she said as she lifted the bottle for everyone to see.

"What do you think will happen if we drink the blood?" Bill asked me muttering. "We don't know what effect will have."

"It's only vampire blood. We are vampires, what might happen?"

They all drank a drop and Compton and I did exactly the same.

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The next thing I could remember after drinking the blood was to see Nora approaching to me, and although a strong desire drew me to her it was a much more attractive force that I should found.

Sookie.

I left the room and walked to the room where she was. I couldn't remember the path because I couldn't think clearly but I followed her scent to the right door, opened it and found her lying face up on the bed.

"Eric!" She got up quickly but didn't move toward me. "Eric, are you okay? You look a little…" But before she could keep talking my lips were on hers, kissing her passionately and grabbing her strongly so she couldn't pull away an inch from my body. "Eric!" She tried to get away but I wouldn't allow it. I had wished this for a long time. "What are you doing? Eric, let me go. Eric!" Her attempts to escape were just making me to desire her harder.

"Sookie, calm down, I just want us to be together."

"Eric, this is not the way," she whispered and felt the fear in her voice. Was she scared of me? I let her go and she immediately walked away from me. "Eric, I don't know what happened to you but you don't look the same."

"I feel good, Sookie. I feel free!" I would have been able to fly to the ceiling and lay there all the time. "The blood was…" I closed my eyes remembering how I felt when the drop of blood was in my mouth. The feeling was indescribable, something I had never felt before and that made me forget everything else. "Come with me."

"No way!" She yelled but I didn't care, I just couldn't stop laughing.

"Sookie," I walked towards her but she stepped back. "Sookie, you know me, I would never hurt you," I said seriously. No matter what I was feeling, I would never put Sookie in danger. "Please come with me and let me show you the world."

I wasn't sure how I convinced her but all I cared about was walking through the crowded streets of New Orleans with Sookie by my side and a group of drugged vampires joining us.

"Look around you, Sookie," I whispered in her ear, laughing, "the world is ours to do with it whatever we want. We are not slaves to anyone, nothing can stop us and we are free to live among humans."

"Eric, you need to stop, okay?" I looked down at her with a big smile on my face and kissed her passionately in the middle of the street. "What the hell are you talking about?" She asked when she got to catch her breath. "This is all for that blood? Is Lilith's blood? Why the fuck did you drink it?" She was staring at me with her big and beautiful brown eyes.

"It's freedom, Sookie." I said no more and while the rest of them had fun in the streets Sookie and I got away from them.

"Where are we going?"

"Trust me," was all I said but she still didn't say a word. "You deserve to be happy and see what the world can offer to those of us who are different, Sookie. You have no idea what's out there but I can show you, I can give you anything you wish." I couldn't blame her because she was looking at me and thinking I was insane, but I didn't care. "Tell me what you want, Sookie, tell me what your heart desires and I will give it to you…"

Eric…" But my fangs popped out when I took a deep breath and smelled the blood flowing freely. "Eric, what are you doing?" There was fear in her voice and when I leaned down slightly I could feel her heart beat getting faster and faster. "Eric, I have a power, I really hope you haven't forgotten, and I assure you that I'll use it against you if you don't leave me another choice." I loved she was so brave but even with her power she wouldn't be able to stop me at that moment.

"Sookie, I lo…" But at that instant I heard cries of terror and panic. Something was going on so I grabbed Sookie tightly and moved at full speed until we walked into one of the locals where a parting was celebrating. A party that was no longer for humans, it was non-stop feeding party for the vampires present.

"Oh my God…" Sookie muttered covering her mouth with her hand as she watched the scene before us. "Eric," she looked at me desperate but all that blood flowing was making to concentrate pretty hard. "Eric, look at me, look at me!" She grabbed my face with both of her hands and forced me to keep my eyes fixed on hers. "Do you realize what's going on? They are killing these people, Eric, you can't let them do this."

"It's Lilith's will." I said no more, as if it was a rehearsed speech.

"I don't give a fuck Lilith's will!" She screamed and just then a figure appeared on stage, it was like a vision. A woman, completely naked, smiled at each one of us for what we were doing.

Was it real?

"Eric, look at me. Eric, please, look at me!" Only Sookie's voice brought me back to reality but I still could see that woman from the corner of my eye.

"Lilith." I mumbled.

"What? Eric, what are you talking about? There's nobody there!" It was as if I could hear her voice and when Lilith looked at me I knew exactly what I had to do. I grabbed Sookie and lay her down on a table while she kept begging me not to hurt her. I couldn't control myself, it was as if my mind and my body were miles away from each other.

"Eric, don't!" Sookie screamed again and again but I was unable to stop.

"Do not hurt her, my son." I heard a familiar voice when I was about to sink my fangs into Sookie's smooth and firm skin.

"Godric." My Maker was staring at me and I couldn't believe I was seeing him.

"You are better than all of them, Eric. You can't hurt her because if you do you will regret." I looked to Nora again but I couldn't see Lilith. Was she gone of it was just an illusion? "You have learned but your sister does not. You have to help her, Eric, you have to show her the path." Godric disappeared but his words remained in my mind.

"Sookie…" I looked down and saw her eyes closed and tears streaming down her cheeks.

Thanks sooooo much for reading this chapter. It was pretty easy to write 'cause the New Orleans scenes were funny but I wanted my own personal point of view for this one.

Hope you've enjoyed it.

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