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Normal Again

Sookie POV

"No, please, don't kill him. Bill, please, Eric's just trying to help you. Please don't hurt him."

Bill or whatever he was now had Eric knelt before him and I knew what was going to happen. "Bill, listen to me, please. We are here to bring you back, this is not real, you have to come to us before you completely lose your mind, do you understand?"

His body was completely covered in blood and he didn't say a word, just strange noises coming out from his lips, fangs fully extended and looking at nothing. I didn't know what he had turned into but he wasn't Bill Compton anymore.

He looked at me for a second and with one blow he separated Eric's head from the rest of his body, leaving a huge puddle of blood that was beginning to cover the floor of the room.

"NOOOOOOOOO!" I screamed with all my strength but I wasn't seeing Bill anymore, they were Eric's blue eyes looking at me with concern.

"Sookie, calm down." I was covered in sweat and nothing I could see around me looked familiar. "Sookie, look at me." I did, I looked into his eyes but I couldn't stop shaking. "It was just a nightmare, alright? You're safe now." He sat me on his lap and cradled me like a baby. Why couldn't I stop reliving that night?

"It was so real…" I muttered as tears rolled down my cheeks.

"It was real, Sookie, but it's over now." I wished I could believe him but the truth was that it wasn't over. We got out of the Authority but I knew Bill wouldn't give up. Now he had super powers or something like that so it was just a matter of time for him to find us.

"It's been a month, Eric," I said sobbing and looking into his eyes, "and I'm still having nightmares. How is it possible? Why can't I stop thinking about it?" I hadn't been able to return to my home in Bon Temps. Since Eric and I came back from New Orleans I had been with him in Shreveport. I felt alone and unprotected and I knew no one else but him would be able to understand what was happening. He stayed by my side all the time and he was the only person I could talk to about how I felt. "It's like a nightmare that keeps haunting me, everywhere I go and even while I'm awake. How can I live a normal life again knowing what I know?"

"You'll have to get used to, my lover." He said no more. Was it going to be so simple? I didn't think I was able to accept something so horrible in my mind but maybe Eric was right and eventually I'd learn to live with it. "Are you hungry?" I turned to look at the clock on the bedside table and shook my head. "Eric, it's four in the morning," but he just raised an eyebrow. "No, I'm not hungry." I added and lay down on the bed, looking at the ceiling.

"Sookie, you've barely eaten since we returned to Shreveport, I'm worried."

"I've eaten, Eric." Or at least I remembered it. "But maybe not enough. Can you blame me for it? After all I saw is a miracle that I don't throw up every time I think about food." During the first few days I couldn't keep anything in my stomach. Images of Bill transforming and emerging from a pool of blood plagued my mind and I ended up with my head inside the toilet.

"I don't care, Sookie, you have to accept what happened and move on." He snapped and although I knew he was right that did upset me. "I told you I would look after you and I'm not doing very well. You have to eat, you have to go back to your normal life and…"

"And leave your house? Is that what you wanted to say?" I snapped as well and apologized a second later. "I don't know why I behave and talk to you in the way I'm doing it but I can't help it. All this is driving me insane and I can barely think straight. Every time I try to distract myself watching TV or reading a book I think back on it and I give up. I have those images impressed in my mind and I can't get rid of them, Eric. I can't go on." I buried my face in my hands but I refused to mourn. I had shed many tears and felt there weren't many left behind.

"I don't want you to go, Sookie," he said softly as he stroked my cheek with his knuckles. He was lying beside me, supporting his weight on one elbow and without taking his eyes off me. "And the last thing you should do now is being alone."

"Maybe it's my destiny," I muttered still covering my face. "You never have thought about it?" I pulled away my hands and looked at him in the thick of the night. I could see him so clearly that I couldn't believe it was still night and the room was so dark. "When I met Bill I thought I would have a chance to be happy 'cause I couldn't hear his thoughts." And it was true. After a lifetime hearing what people around me thought it was a relief not to hear anything at all when I was with him. "I really thought I'd get a normal life even if my boyfriend was a vampire but it seemed problems were constantly chasing us."

"Guess I was also responsible for those problems," he whispered but the last thing I wanted was that he felt guilty.

"No," I shook my head. "I didn't understand then or didn't realize it, but you were never a problem for me, Eric." And I kissed him lightly on the lips to assure him that I was being honest with him. "Besides, you saved me so many times and in different ways that it'd be selfish of me to say that all vampires have only caused me problems. I'd be lying if I said it so I won't." I sighed heavily trying to relax. "I knew Bill Compton meant problems from the first time he walked into Merlotte's but I didn't know then or didn't want to believe it. He made me feel so…normal, I let myself go and didn't listen to people around me who cared for me."

"You shouldn't feel guilty, Sookie," he said as he placed his hand on my abdomen. "Bill made a choice."

"I don't think it's that simple." If the same situation had occurred in Bon Temps, at his home, I would have been able to convince him not to do it but the time he spent with the members of the Authority had changed him. Drinking that blood had made him change so radically that even Eric couldn't do anything to stop him. "When Pam said vampires who live in nests become psychos I didn't want to believe it but Bill…he really changed, right?"

"I think so. He betrayed me when we were trying to escape from the Authority and then I knew he was on their side. Salome had brainwashed him and drinking Lilith's blood turned him completely insane."

"Fucking Llith!" I hissed through clenched teeth.

"Fucking Lilith," Eric murmured and we both laughed. It seemed the only thing that had gone well but the result, that Bill would turn into that thing, did not make me feel as if we had won. If Bill had thrown that blood into the fire as Eric told him, if he had come back to us things would be very different now. Bill and I wouldn't be together, I was sure of that, but at least I'd be able to sleep without waking up screaming at each moment.

"You should sleep, Sookie, it's still dark and you need to rest." Rest? I didn't know what that word meant anymore. "And I want you tomorrow morning to go to the kitchen and eat breakfast properly, okay?" I couldn't help but rolling my eyes. "I'm serious, Sookie, I'm worried for you and I don't want you to neglect your own life."

"I'm not doing it, Eric, but right now I can't think of food without feeling nausea. Sorry, I know it must be frustrating for you but that's how I feel." I didn't want to blame him for my problems and I hoped he understood that I wasn't doing it. "But I will try. For you." I added and that seemed to reassure him. "I can't promise you that I'm gonna eat a dozen pancakes with chocolate syrup or a steak, but I'll eat something. I promise."

"Thank you."

I didn't know if talking to Eric had some calming effect on me, but I suddenly felt exhausted and fell asleep while we were still chatting. I was so tired that I didn't even have dreams.

When I opened my eyes and looked at the clock it was daylight. Eric was sleeping beside me, not moving a muscle, so I kissed his cheek and got out of bed to go to the bathroom. I was dizzy and when I turned on the light it dazzled me. I had been so long hidden in the darkness that my eyes had begun to get used to not seeing daylight.

I gripped the sink with both hands and looked at myself in the mirror. I was a little pale but not as bad as I expected. Drinking Eric's blood had made me feel better but I wasn't still feeling like myself. Would I ever feel like myself again?

I got into the shower and turned on the hot water completely, I needed to relax and it was the only way I knew to do it. It was like burning water running down my skin was able to take all my problems and worries away. It was just an illusion but at least made me feel better for a few minutes.

"You are an abomination…" I could hear his words in my head like an echo. He was so cruel that I wanted to cry. Again. I was trying to convince myself that he really didn't feel what he said but reality was pretty different. Bill Compton had become a monster, and I knew he wouldn't cease in his attempts to trap and kill us. Eric and I were his targets and he would find us eventually.

As I promised Eric the night before I walked into the kitchen and took some things from the fridge. The smell of food hadn't caused me nausea so it was a good sign but I wouldn't trust it.

The first thing I did was to prepare a huge cup of coffee, it was the only thing that made me feel like a normal person, and luckily Eric knew it 'cause one of the cabinets was full of coffee packets. The first time I saw it I couldn't help but laugh, especially when Eric told me he had read somewhere that coffee was a necessity for humans in the morning.

So that was the first thing I did, coffee would relax me a bit while I got some eggs and bacon. I didn't want to eat too much 'cause I was convinced that my stomach was going to stand it.

"C'mon Stackhouse, don't give up." I murmured as I finished preparing breakfast.

I felt better after brushing my teeth but I was still exhausted, it seemed that no matter how much I slept I never had enough and began thinking that maybe all those nights locked in a cell in the Authority were affecting me so much. But then I didn't realize, we had so many problems that the last thing I thought about was to sleep.

However when I laid on the living room couch with the curtains closed and darkness flooding everything I fell asleep. I had an open book on my hands that I had tried to read but even though I tried I couldn't pass from the first paragraph. I finally gave up and fell asleep.

Eric and I were running through the halls of the Authority, or rather he ran at vampire speed while he was carrying me. Everything was so confused and surreal that I didn't know if laugh, mourn or just pass out.

"We gotta go!" Eric shouted while Jason was driving the truck with Nora, Pam, Tara and Jessica inside and Eric and I left flying. Literally. He launched himself into the sky and we disappeared into the darkness of the night.

I clung to Eric with all my strength but it didn't seem to bother him. I was trying to forget everything had happened but even though I tried it was impossible. Images of vampire guts blown by wooden bullets and blood everywhere was all I could think of as I buried my face in his chest and felt Eric's hands caressing my back.

That night we went back to Bon Temps, to my home, but we both knew I wouldn't be able to lead a normal life after everything had happened. I couldn't go to bed, sleep all night and wake up next day as if nothing happened. No, my life was not normal, if it ever had been, but now it was even worse.

"Do you want me to stay?" When the words left his lips I began mourning. It was as if the weight of all had happened during the last days had fallen on me. "Sookie, I…" but I just couldn't hear anything else, I hugged him and we stood therefore a while. I didn't even know if they were seconds, minutes or hours, but before I could think twice I was picking up some of my stuff and leaving with Eric to his home in Shreveport.

When we arrived I realized Eric's house was very…normal. I knew most of his eccentricities but this place was too common for a vampire. Especially for a vampire like Eric Northman.

"Nice house," I whispered when we were in the living room. There were objects from the Viking era everywhere, or I thought so, but apart from the weapons on the walls it was rather cozy. "Swords make the house look like…" Actually I had no idea how to finish the sentence. "It's interesting."

"Come," and he led me upstairs. The walls were covered with paintings and photographs, in some of them appeared Eric and Pam like two good friends, until we came to a room. "This is my bedroom," he said before opening the door. I just nodded as if I was giving him permission. "There is another bedroom down the hall…"

"I wanna be with you."

For some reason I thought sleeping in the same bed with Eric would be uncomfortable but then I remembered the nights we spent together in my house, in my bed, when he couldn't remember anything.

I put my stuff on the bed and sat down, looking down at the floor. Eric was putting my clothes in his closet but I knew he hadn't stopped looking at me since we walked into the bedroom. He wanted to make sure I wouldn't do anything reckless but the truth was that I didn't even have the strength to think about it.

He was behaving so well with me… It was like he wasn't the same vampire who tricked me into drinking his blood, but still it was the same Eric. He was worried for me, I could feel it, as he was during the time we were trapped.

"I've taken care that you have anything you need." He said but I didn't even react. "There's food in the fridge, clothes in the closet for you and anything else you need in the bathroom."

"Clothes?" I asked confused.

"Yes," he nodded as if he was ashamed. "I always thought you might need…" I didn't want to know how long he had bought so many clothes for me but I wasn't gonna ask. Anything that I needed was in Eric's home. "I hope this is not too…" But before he could finish his sentence I kissed him passionately. We were sitting on the bed and kissing but neither of us let it go by passion and we just sat there holding hands.

"Sookie?" I heard his soft voice and when I opened my eyes I saw Eric knelt beside the couch and looking at me. "Are you okay?"

I nodded and stroked his cheek with my fingertips. "I was very tired…" I whispered and he sat down next to me on the couch while I tucked myself in the blanket. I didn't remember catching it but it was there. "I tried to read a bit but I couldn't focus so… Guess I fell asleep but I don't remember."

"You still need to rest," he said no more and I curled up next to him. "Have you eaten?"

"I managed to keep the breakfast in the stomach, but I didn't wake up at all. What time is it?"

"Eight-thirty." Actually I had nothing to do or nowhere to go but I wanted to know what time it was. "Hey Eric, if you have to go to Fangtasia or need to do anything else just do it. I don't want you to stop your businesses just for me."

"Don't worry about it, Sookie, everything's under control." I assumed that meant Pam was taking care of the bar. "You want me to take you to bed?"

"No, I'm fine." I moved slowly until I was sitting my back against the backrest. "I'm sore, guess I should start doing some excersise or at least walk."

"There's a gym in the basement." I was there with my mouth hanging open. Was he serious or was just kidding? "I thought it was a good place to train with my weapons but feel free to use it anytime."

"A gym? You have a gym at home?" I asked and for the first time since we got back from New Orleans I realized I was smiling and laughing at the same time. "Are you telling me that you have your own gym in the basement?" It was surreal but funny.

"Sookie, you okay?" But I kept laughing nonstop. "Yeah, perfectly," although I had to stop laughing to be able to breathe. "God, I think I needed that…" I whispered resting my head against the couch and sighed heavily.

"Laugh and fuck, they say it's the best way to forget problems," and I sat there grinning like an idiot.

Eric POV

Her words surprised me but I had been so worried for Sookie in the last month that I was glad to see her laughing for the first time in too long.

It was comforting to see her like that again, at least for a few minutes, because when she stopped laughing sadness came back to her eyes.

"So what do we do now, Eric? We can't hide for rest of our lives, well at least for the rest of my life, but we can't go out looking for Bill. He would kill us as soon as he saw us." Sadly Sookie was right. Bill had been tainted by Lilith's blood and was now able to do anything. He had a great power but sooner or later it would be too much for him. "Tell me, do you have a plan?"

"No." I said simply. If I had learned something from Sookie was that she preferred to hear the truth even if it was cruel and terrifying.

Sookie nodded but said nothing. We had talked about what happened that night many times but we never discussed the idea of a plan and I honestly didn't want her to be part of it. If I had to get rid of Bill Compton I'd do it myself, Sookie didn't need to suffer for something that had no solution. I would take care of everything and at least she would have a normal life. Even if that meant to stay away from her forever.

"What are you thinking about?" I just smiled and shook my head slightly. Neither of us needed to hear the concerns I had in my mind. Sookie needed to rest and get back to feeling like herself as soon as possible. "Right now I'd to read your mind, Eric, 'cause I know you're planning something and I know I won't like to know."

"It's nothing, lover."

"Lover?" She mumbled and blushed. "It's been a long since the last time you called me that. You couldn't remember anything then but somehow that would always left your lips."

"I remember." Since I had regained my memory I had been confused but when I thought of Sookie everything made sense. She always stood by my side, cared for me without having to do that but she still made sure that nobody found me in a weak moment. "I also remember the passionate nights we spent together, making love in every flat surface of your home." She blushed even more but she was smiling. "Everything was so simple and complicated at the same time. I knew those feelings were real because I knew someone would be able to use them against me. You are my only weakness, Sookie."

"Why have we waited so long, Eric?" She asked after a few minutes in silence. We were both lost in our own thoughts but it was her who broke the silence. "I know I'm stubborn and I've always said how much I hated you but in the end it wasn't true. Since that first night when Bill took me to Fangtasia and I saw you…" and she shrugged.

"What?" I asked because curiosity was stronger than me. I wanted to know if what happened that night was just a product of my imagination or not. "I'm so embarrassed talking about this…"

"No need to feel embarrassed, Sookie. Tell me." I insisted not knowing if it'd be a good idea but I couldn't help it.

"I tried to pretend, especially since Bill was with me, but the truth is that I couldn't take my eyes off you from the start. You were sitting there like a real king and all I could think about was to get closer to you and sit on your lap and kiss you and never leave." She mumbled the last part but I heard every word clearly. God, I had no idea her feelings for me were so deep since that night. She had made it clear on my occasions that I meant nothing to her that this confession on her part was surprising me. "You must be thinking I'm just an idiot unable to accept her own feelings, but at the time I was so innocent and Bill seemed to be in love with me…" And her eyes filled with tears again. No, we hadn't advanced so far to get back now.

"Sookie, look at me." I said firmly. "Don't you dare to blame yourself for this, do you understand? You did everything you could, even more. Bill couldn't save himself, he decided to drink the blood and become a monster and even you wouldn't have been able to stop him. That's the truth, Sookie, and I won't try to soften any detail, understood?" Maybe I was being a little rough but the sooner she understood the better.

"I don't blame me for it, Eric, but I keep thinking that if I hadn't hated him so much during the time we were locked maybe things would be different now, don't you think?" I didn't want to keep talking about but it seemed Sookie felt better to deal with it. "I don't know, Sookie."

"Well, I think so. I was so mad at him…" After I recovered memory and Sookie's speech rejecting us both I hadn't expected she was too happy to see us again but at least I got her out of the Authority without suffering any damage. At least physically speaking. "I'm a mess, Eric. I wanna to be mad at him, especially for the horrible things he said that night, but at the same time I need to find a way to help him."

"I don't think there's any, Sookie. Bill Compton has ceased to exist as the vampire we knew. He has been influenced by a mad god and has become in…"

"Please don't say abomination," she snapped, cutting me off.

"You're not an abomination, Sookie Stackhouse, no matter the words that came out from Bill Compton's mouth, you won't stopped being the most beautiful creature I haver ever met in my more than a thousand years old." I gently kissed her waiting for her to pull me away but she clung to my neck with all her strength as if the ground beneath her feet were opening and threatening to swallow her whole.

We kissed, I caressed her and when it seemed that everything was in our favour and I had her in my arms to go to the bedroom she stopped.

"I'm sorry, I can't." She murmured against my chest.

I wasn't going to push it, we both needed time to accept what had happened and the fact that there was now a relationship between us.

"I wanna be with you," she whispered, "but I need a little more time. There are many things that I need to think of…"

"I get it." I interrupted her but I just kept caressing her all the time. "I will wait whatever it takes, Sookie. You already know that." When Sookie fell asleep again I brought her to the bedroom and took care of calling Pam to make sure everything was in order. Nora was at Fangtasia now because she had no other place to returnt to and Pam wasn't very happy about it. Tara and Jessica stayed with us and Pam brought them to her house every night after closing the bar. Not that I cared about Bill Compton's progeny but it was important to Sookie that Jessica was safe so I agreed.

"Good night, my love," I whispered softly before kissing Sookie's lips and leave the bedroom.

Pam POV

"It's hard to believe a vampire as powerful as my brother is wasting his time on a bar to entertain humans." I rolled my eyes for the umpteenth time and continued with what I was doing. It was bad enough that Nora was in Shreveport but I was getting sick of hearing her comments. "Guess Sophie-Anne needed the money."

"Yes, our queen was a spendthrift." I muttered without looking up from the papers on my desk.

"Why did you come back with Eric?" She asked.

"I could ask you the same question." I snapped. "Now that the Authority no longer exists you could leave to anywhere else. Why have you stayed in Louisiana? It doesn't make sense, does it?" Eric was aware that Nora and I would never get along so I didn't need to pretend that I appreciated her. "Obviously the United States are not big enough for the two of us to live here."

"You should show a little more respect," she said threatening me. Really? I hadn't been locked in a cell and about to executed by Bill Compton to have to obey orders from Nora.

"You may be Eric's sister, Nora, but I don't have to obey you. This is Eric's territory, he is the Sheriff of Area 5 and it's to him, my maker, the only one I have to obey and respect." I wanted to make it clear from the beginning. "Now if you excuse me I have to go out to the bar."

I left without even looking at her and sat on Eric's throne. From the stage I could see everything was happening. Tara was behind the bar serving the fangbangers and vampire that had gradually come back to the bar after Tru Blood factories were rebuilt and back to the production and distribution of synthetic blood.

"Hi Pam," Jessica greeted me from one of the tables that stood near the stage and I just nodded. "I need to talk to you."

"Not a good time." I answered no more. I had duties at the bar now that Eric and Sookie had decided to spend time together as a couple in love. I didn't understand his fascination with her but I was smart enough not to comment on that subject.

"It's about Bill," the redhead insisted. "I don't know what to do," she continued as climbed the steps and sat next to me with a untouched bottle of blood in her hands. "You are a vampire, Jessica, you drink blood, avoid daylight and sharp things. What else do you need to know?" Nora made my blood boil and the last thing I needed was a girl talk with Bill Compton's progeny.

"Where am I going to live? I don't think get back to the mansion is a good idea, Bill could come back and…"

"He's not Bill anymore, Jessica. He has become now in something that I won't even bother to understand." I cut her off sharply. "You should forget about your maker because he no longer exists." I had to be cold and cruel, but the truth was that if I were in her shoes I wouldn't know what to do. Eric was everything to me and if he had become a monster as Bill Compton now I would feel the same way. "You have to start taking care of yourself because nobody else will bother to do it."

"But I have nothing, I dunno what I should or not to do and I need someone to help me understand what's happening. Bill was insane, it was like he lost his mind and treated me like…"

"It doesn't matter!" I hissed through clenched teeth. "You think you're the only one with problems? Bill Compton or what has become now won't stand by, he will look for us and when he finds us we better be prepared because he'll unleash a war and not all of us are going to survive. Listen to me and listen to me carefully: prepare yourself for the worst and if you have to kill your maker then you will. He won't let you live, Jessica, because he can't recognize the real world anymore. You have ceased to be his offspring." It was the only way for her to understand that she couldn't count on Bill any longer.

"Consider yourself an orphan."

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