Well, I finally finished this new chapter.

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Gone, Gone, Gone

Eric POV

"What do you think they're gonna do with her?" She asked knowing she wouldn't like to hear the answer. I knew exactly what they would do with Molly. She had betrayed them, like me, but at least I hoped to get a deal to release Sookie. After all, she had nothing to do with this.

"Sookie, you shouldn't ask questions when you don't want to hear the answers." The less she knew the safer she would be.

"Eric," and I heard her sobbing. "We're in a fucking cell. Again." And she sobbed as I listened her weak voice. "We can't be much more fucked up, right? We tried to escape and Bill betrayed us." Sookie hadn't stopped crying since they put us in the cell and I wanted to comfort her but I really had no idea of how to do it. "I want you to know…" she stopped and I sat down next to her but not looking at her. "Eric, I want you to know that everything has happened, the fact we are locked in a cell and probably about to die, it's not your fault." I looked at her suddenly, not knowing if she was serious or I was just too weak. I hadn't fed for the last few days and Sookie hadn't eaten although I told her she should. I had to make a great effort not to throw myself over her and drink to the last drop of her blood.

"You are here because of me, Sookie." I answered no more knowing it was the whole truth.

"No." She took my hand and looked into my eyes. I didn't want her to look at me but I couldn't stop doing it. "I don't blame you, Eric. Since all this madness began you've only tried to protect me." Tears were sliding quickly down her cheeks and I hated seeing her so sad. "It's Bill Compton who has betrayed us, Eric. Never forget that." She muttered coldly. In other circumstances I would have been delighted to hear her speak in that way of Compton but now we were locked in a cell while they deciding the moment of our execution and I knew Compton was on their side in every decision taken. "At first," she began with just a whisper, "I thought you just wanted to take advantage of the situation 'cause Bill had been taken. I was so mad at you I could hardly hear a word out of your lips. I hated you, I hated you for having pulled me out of my home that night and I just wanted to come back. I still want to come back, Eric, but I won't if it's not with you." What was about with this sudden confession? Was it really what Sookie felt or she was just saying it because we were going to die? "Trusting Bill Compton was the worst mistake of my life, I assure you." There was so much determination in her eyes and voice that I believed her immediately.

"It doesn't matter now, Sookie. We must find a way out of here." She began laughing as tears continued sliding down her cheeks and finally laid her head on my should as she cried uncontrollably. "I don't wanna die, Eric," she muttered between sobs. "I just wanna go home and wake up from this nightmare."

"Me too, Sookie, me too." I stroked her hair until she fell asleep and put her down on the bed in the cell so at least she was able to rest for a few hours.

I didn't know how much longer we would remain locked in this damn cell or if they actually had other plans beyond the true death. I was so fucking sick of waiting. I had no patience when it was about my fate, much less be locked up.

"Eric?" I looked at Sookie and saw she had just awakened. It had passed a half an hour so I knew Sookie would be still exhausted. I couldn't blame her for not sleeping, I couldn't either even I had tried. "How long was I asleep?"

"Not enough," I said, stroking her cheek. I had wrapped her with my jacket because the cold could be felt everywhere in the cells. Everything was cold, bright and depressing. I didn't want Sookie to remain here any longer but at the moment we didn't have many more options. "You should try again."

She shook her head and sat down next to me with the jacket still covering most of her body. "Can't sleep, Eric. Every time I close my eyes I feel like I'm trapped in a nightmare and the worst part is that when I wake up the nightmare still continues."

"Sookie, I want you to know that I'll try to convince them to let you go. This is not your place, you haven't done anything to deserve being locked up here, surrounded by vampire who are too crazy to see the world around them." If I had to beg for her life I would.

"I won't give up, Eric." I knew Sookie would be willing to fight for her own life but unfortunately she would have nothing to do against the rest of the Authority vampires. "I will not allow them to keep me locked up in a cell only 'cause they're fucking stupid enough to believe in everything that's written in this damn book," and picked up the Vampire Bible that was on the bed and began ripping the pages. I was proud of her for being able to maintain the courage despite the circumstances.

"I won't give up either, Sookie."

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When the guards took me out of the cell and left her alone I couldn't help looking back all the time until I couldn't see her anymore. I didn't know what expected me, it would probably be the last time I saw her and couldn't even kiss her goodbye.

I was too weak to fight and my handcuffed hands wouldn't be helpful so I resigned myself to wait for my fate, whatever it was.

"Thank you, we'll take care from now." When I walked into the room I saw Nora and Compton waiting. What the hell was going on? Why the other members weren't present for the show?

"Eric," Nora tried to touch my head but I turned away from her before she could get her hand on me. The guards had forced me to kneel in front of them like a fucking slave. I swore to myself that if leave from here in one piece I would do anything to end Bill Compton once and for all. "Eric, you are my brother and I want to save you. That's the reason why you are here."

"Listen to your sister, Eric. We both want to help you see the real world." The real world?

"Uncuffed me and I will show you the real world," I hissed without being able to extend my fangs.

"Eric, please." Nora begged kneeling beside me. "We are trying to save you. Others want to condemn you to the true death but Bill and I know you have a chance. We can save you but only if you are willing to believe." Believe? Believe in Lilith? Losing my mind like them? I preferred to become a pile of guts than accept their damn beliefs. "Salome and Russell want your death, Eric. You've become a traitor to them but you still have an opportunity."

"An opportunity?" And chuckled. "The same opportunity Molly had? And what about Sookie? Do you also going to give her an opportunity?" I asked this last question glaring at Compton. I hated recognizing but I thought she still meant something for him. "You are not different from others so don't try to convince me otherwise. You're just a selfish, Nora." I glared at her and she seemed surprised by my words. "You do not care for me at all."

"Eric, you are my brother! The blood unites us, of course I care for you!" Was she trying to convince me or herself? "I am just trying to open your mind to Lilith, what we really are. Feeding on synthetic blood is not evolving, it's getting back to the past."

I tried to resist but if they had refused to feed me blood had been for good reason. Now I understood. When Compton took Lilith's blood and offered it to me I refused.

"I refuse to believe!" I screamed but between both of them grabbed me and forced me to drink the damn blood. I tried to spit it out but it was impossible, Nora made sure I didn't do it while Compton left us alone.

"It's the future, brother. Don't refuse to evolve." Evolve? Did they really believe their own lies? "I love you, Eric. If I brought you up here was for a good reason and you'll understand soon." I couldn't even look at her face so I refused to do when she began caressing my cheek. "Lilith takes care of us, she made us who we are."

Nora and I remained kneeling in silence until a sort of vision appeared in front of us.

"She is here!" Nora cried excitedly. I couldn't believe I had to go through that again. I didn't like losing control in the way I did that first night when I drank the blood. I was about to kill Sookie and I'd have hated myself for it.

I looked at the same place but what I saw was very different.

"Godric." I muttered while Nora shook her head incredulously. "No."

"I tried. I tried to save her, Godric."

"My children." Godric said and it was wonderful hearing his voice again.

"Father." Nora murmured. "Why did you come?"

"My blood is within you." Godric said facing Nora. There was no hatred in his face but perhaps what we were seeing wasn't even real. "I'll always be with you, Nora."

"No! You abandoned me centuries ago, Godric. It's Lilith's blood which forms part of me now." Why was she so fucking convinced that Lilith was real?

"Lilith is a god without god. She only will guide you to the destruction of your own race." Godric had taught us well but at some point Nora deviated from the path. Perhaps he might be able to convince her of her mistakes.

"How can you say that?" Nora was so desperate that I could barely hear her voice. "After all the years the three of us spent together? Hunting and killing? Feeding? How can you say what we do is wrong?

"Because I did what you haven't been able to." Godric replied coldly. "I evolved." He added looking into my eyes. "Please, Father, you have to save her." I pleaded. "She's lost."

"No, I am not." Nora replied. "I have sworn my loyalty to Lilith." And just as the words left Nora's mouth Lilith appeared behind Godric. She was naked and studying the situation. What the hell was going to happen now? "Please…" Nora began. "Please, Lilith, forgive him!"

"Fight her!" I yelled knowing I wouldn't be able to keep watching this scene for much longer. "You have to fight her, Godric!"

"I am not who must fight her," he said to both of us at the same time Lilith tore his throat and got rid of his head, leaving us horrified by what had just happened.

"No!" I shouted with all my strength.

"Father!" Nora joined me in the despair we were feeling at the sight of our maker killed.

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I was back in the cell, laying on the bed while Sookie was stroking my cheek and getting my hair out from my forehead.

"Eric, please, talk to me." She begged me. I didn't utter a word since I came back because there were so many thoughts in my mind that I felt totally lost. "I dunno what happened to you but I need to know you're okay. Please Eric, tell me something."

"I saw Godric." I said no more and knew she'd have questions.

"What?"

"And I wasn't the only one." I added, looking into her eyes. "What do you mean you weren't the only one?" I hated having this conversation, especially locked in a cell but I wasn't going to hide anything. "Nora saw him too."

"Oh." I could hear the disappointment in her voice so I grabbed her hand and kissed each of her knuckles. "It's not what you think, Sookie. I was just trying to convince her, to save her."

"You can't save her, Eric!" She yelled desperately but didn't move from my side. "How many times she has to betray you for you to realize that you can't save her?" Maybe Sookie was right and I should give up but every time I thought about it I recalled Godric's words and knew I couldn't forget what was happening. "I have to try, Sookie. But my priority is you."

"I don't wanna lose you, Eric." She whispered and I knew she would begin crying again so I got up slowly until I was sitting with my back against the wall and looked into her eyes. "You're not gonna lose me, Sookie, but if I have to die to save you then I will."

"Please, don't say that…"

"It's the truth." Her eyes flooded with tears again so I opened my arms and she sat on my lap as she leaned her head on my chest. "I won't let you die here and I know I've ruined your life from the moment I pulled you away from your home in Bon Temps, but I want you to know that I'm willing to do anything to save you."

I didn't know if Sookie was believing me or not but at least I had told her what I was thinking. I wouldn't give up, not with her, but if I found the true death one second after Sookie was free I would feel at peace with myself and I'd disappear from this world knowing I had dome something right.

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Swearing loyalty to Edgington was the last thing I wanted to do but at least I got to revoke my sentence. They had forgiven my life and I would pretend to care about their beliefs but I wouldn't let them to brainwash my brain like they did with Nora and Compton.

Bill Compton.

He was the reason that I was barely able to keep control being in the same room with him. I hated him, I wanted to kill him and torture him until he confessed to be a traitor who was able to sell his own race to save his skin.

"We're wasting time here." Russell said while the rest of us were reading the Vampire Bible in our laptops. Even Jessica, Compton's unbearable progeny, was brought to the Authority. The reason? I didn't care because if I had to kill every one of them to escape from here I would. "We should go out and eat. Enjoy the night."

"We have work to do, Russell." Salome replied. "Drinking Lilith's blood means much more than feed and chase humans." I never thought I'd hear those words from Salome's mouth but at least I got some time.

"Okay, we don't have to get out. But at least we might have fun with her." He pointed at Sookie who was sitting next to me, our bodies touching as her arm was intertwined with mine. I had managed to convince the other members that Sookie had been glamoured and she was playing her role perfectly. "Miss Stackhouse would be a great entertainment."

"She is mine!" I roared with my fangs fully extended. Russell Edgington wouldn't put a hand on her. Sookie grabbed my arm harder and I could feel the fear spreading throughout her body.

"What use has her if we can't have fun? We are vampires! We must feed! She is human," he said as he approached Sookie and she tried to get away from him. "Her blood…"

"It's just human blood, Russell." Compton cut him off. I couldn't believe he had pronounced a phrase to try to divert Edgington's attention from Sookie. "We should continue with this."

"No! The world is ours!"

"Russell!" Salome yelled. "Stop acting like a baby vampire. You're letting yourself go by your instincts when you should be helping us to spread the message of Lilith. Every vampire needs to read this book," she said as she held one in her hand, "and understand what we really are."

"We do not need a book for that! We are free! Let's go have fun!"

"Don't forget I can lock you up in the same place I brought you out," Salome hissed showing her fangs.

"Oh please…" Russell hit Salome and she landed against one of the columns of the room. "You and your friends, do you think you can control me?" Nora stood up to face Edgington but he grabbed her throat and I tensed. "Lilith doesn't exist! She is nothing to me! I will feed on human blood now and forever!" And he disappeared before any of us could move.

Sookie POV

I could hardly believe what had happened. Russell Edgington, a firm Lilith's advocate, had disappeared leaving the rest of us with our mouths hanging open. What just happened exactly?

I looked sideways at Eric but didn't dare to do anything else. I was surrounded and even Eric would be able to kill them all before he gets caught. If Edgington rebelled against the Authority members, what would they do? He wanted power, he had made that clear, and practically had betrayed the beliefs he had sworn to follow.

"Sookie needs to eat something." Eric said and quickly rose from his seat forcing me to do the same. Nobody said a word against and we left the room to the hall where I was finally able to breathe deeply. "What the hell happened, Eric?"

"What we have seen is the proof that we can't trust any of them and we should get out of here as soon as possible." I couldn't help but rolling my eyes. "Yes, genius, I hadn't realized of that." Eric raised an eyebrow at me and I felt guilty for paying my frustrations with him. "Sorry, but I can't think clearly. I just wanna get out of here."

"Be patient, Sookie."

"Patient? Eric," I hissed muttering so no other vampire but Eric heard me. "We're screwed, you know that, right? Do you think they will let us go 'cause he made them to believe that you're on their side?" Of course Eric had told me what he had to do to save his life. His and mine. "Besides, Edgington's gone and we both know he's able to do anything to get what he wants. He's looking for a fairy, Eric."

"But he won't find one." He snapped. "Sookie, you have to trust me, you understand? I'll do everything in my power to solve our problems and get rid of Edgington and Compton once and for all." I had with the first part but Bill… Obviously I had mixed feelings about him but he had betrayed me. "I know you're thinking we should save him but I don't think there's salvation for him, Sookie."

"I understand." I answered weakly. "But I still can't believe he's really on their side. What if he's pretending?"

"Really?" Eric asked me and by the tone of his voice I knew he was pissed off by my question. "How can you keep worrying for him? Sookie, Bill Compton is willing to sacrifice you for his own race. I know it's something you don't want to hear but it's true." And it was true, I didn't want to hear it but deep down I knew he was right. "Okay, we should then focus on the part of how we get out of here." I tried to change the subject and think of a way to escape. "How do we do?"

"I have to think."

"Yeah, me too." I said rolling my eyes again. "We have to go back there?"

"I was telling the truth when I said you needed to eat something." I wanted to complain but we were walking to another place before I could open my mouth. "Besides, I'd rather be alone with you most of the time." I couldn't hold myself any longer and kissed him. I kissed him slowly but passionately as his body pressed against mine and I was with my back against the wall. Oh God, his kisses were amazing and for the next few seconds I completely forgot how many problems we had.

"Okay," I said when I caught my breath, "let's get for something to eat." And I smiled broadly as we left holding hands.

It wasn't exactly the most romantic place but at least we had advanced in our relationship although I couldn't help thinking at the time when the guards took Eric without knowing whether or not I would see him again.

We had to do something and we had to do it as soon as possible.

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