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We arrived at my house shortly and Eric quickly ushered us in.

"Pamela the papers." He held out his hands and she gave him an envelope.

He opened it and Tara handed him a pen.

He quickly signed everything and grabbed my hand and signed my name over everything.

He got up, along with Pam and Tara and left the house.

I walked after them and saw them all standing on the porch.

"What are you guys doing?"

"You need to invite us in." Eric said with urgency in his voice.

"Come in, all of you." They all walked in and I saw Jason's car come into view.

"Is Sam alright?" I asked him as he got out of the car.

"Yeah, I just dropped him. He is a bit shaken up, but he is fine." I saw that Jason's eyes were still red with the fresh tears he had been crying over Jess.

"Jase, I'm so sorry."

"Don't, let's just kill him okay?"

Jason walked away from me and into the house as I was left alone on the porch.

"Fuck." I muttered as I fell to the ground and felt the tears falling from my eyes.

I didn't know what to think but I felt like this was my fault.

Somewhere deep inside me I felt like I had to save Bill and it felt somewhat familiar.

"Please don't tell me you are thinking of trying to save him." I looked up and saw Lafayette standing there.

"Oh God, I thought they killed you." I got up and threw my arms around him.

"Sookie, Bill is gone. He isn't the man you used to love, hell I'm not even sure that was the real him even back then."

"I don't even remember him back then." I mumbled.

"What?"

"Bill glamoured me into forgetting about him and Eric."

"And you still want to help him?"

"He didn't know what he was doing."

"Why are you defending him?" Lafayette asked and I didn't even know why I was.

"I don't know."

The silence filled the air and I heard someone clear his throat behind me.

When I turned I saw Eric standing there.

"You should come in; it's not safe to be out on the porch at night with Russell, Bill, and Nora out there." I nodded as I walked inside the house.

Lafayette walked past me and up to Jason.

Eric grabbed my hand and I turned to face him.

"Please don't do anything that you and I both will regret later."

"Eric I know Bill is gone, he killed Jess and I realize that is something that he can't just come back from."

"But?"

"But I just feel like I can't watch him do all of this and not help him."

"He doesn't need help he needs a fucking stake in the heart. Sookie I will not let you go anywhere near him."

"Eric I…."

"Sookie I can't and I won't lose you." I looked into his eyes and I knew he was just protecting me.

He loved me and I loved him and I knew he was right.

"I won't help him." My voice was low and I turned my face away from him.

He lightly brushed his hand against my cheek and kissed me.

"Don't trust Bill." He whispered against my lips and another memory hit me.

"You know you can't trust Bill." Eric's words rang throughout my head.

"I won't." I kissed him again and we rejoined everyone else in my living room.

"So exactly how fucked are we?" Pam asked as she sat with Tara on the couch.

Pretty fucked.

"Well Bill killed Jessica and Russell killed Lilith." Eric said.

"So royally fucked, great." Pam scoffed.

"Maybe not so, my sister may be released from whatever insanity that has had her since her Lilith is dead."

"You think Nora will be all ready and willing to help us?" Pam asked.

"She is my sister; I have to hope she will."

"The other girl there, she is your sister?" I asked Eric.

"Yes, Godric made her after me." His answer was cold and to the point.

I could tell Nora had hurt Eric by choosing Lilith over him, but I could understand why he had to see the good in her.

He loved her just like the love I had somewhere in me for Bill.

"Well if Nora is willing to help us, she may be able to tell us where Bill and Russell are." I said trying to look on the good side of this.

"If she is even working with them." Tara said as she glared at me.

Clearly she was still angry at me.

"If she just has a clue where the fuckers are, we need to take them our right there and then." Jason said as the anger washed all over him.

"Yes, but you must not let revenge consume you, trust me it doesn't end well." Eric told him.

"Well what about a tracking spell?" I asked and I looked over to Lafayette.

"Like to find Bill and Russell, honey I don't know if I can do that. I'm just starting to use spells and shit."

"But you are getting powerful with your magic." I told him.

"I can see what I can do." He got up and headed to the door.

"Oh before I forget, nice to see your ass too miss fang." Lafayette looked over to Tara and glared at her.

"Fuck you." Tara said lowly and Lafayette shook his head and walked away.

"Alright I think we all just need to calm down, tonight was a bit much." I said and Jason shook his head and walked away.

I heard him walk upstairs and slam a door.

"What's up with him?" Pam asked.

"Jess and him kind of had a thing going on." The sadness hit me as I thought of my dead friend.

"I'll go talk to him." Tara said as she got up.

I got up to protest and she turned to me.

"I'm not going to hurt him, it's not like he killed me." She ran away from me and up to Jason.

"Ignore her." Eric said as he kissed the top of my head and brought me to sit next to him.

As the three of us sat there I could feel the tension in the room.

"Pam, sorry I blasted you at the bar." I said and she raised an eyebrow.

"Sorry I pushed you, oh wait I'm not."

"Pamela." Eric gave her a warning look and she sighed.

"Sorry."

The awkwardness in the room was getting to me so I got up and headed to the kitchen.

I grabbed a glass and got some water from the sink and drank it quickly.

I looked out the window and thought of the scene at Merlottes.

All the dead bodies, the blood, Sam almost being drained completely by Bill.

I knew Bill needed to die, so why was it so hard for me to wrap my brain around it.

"We need to talk." I turned around and I saw Tara standing there.

"What?"

"I can't forgive you for what you did, for what you and Lafayette did."

"You were dying; I couldn't let you die for me." I told her.

"But I did, I did die and now everyone else will soon. Going after Russell and Bill is a suicide mission, one that everyone is all too willing to go on. I won't let Pam die for this, and I won't let Jason die for this either, I won't let anyone die for this."

"I'm not forcing anyone to do this; Russell wants all of us dead."

"Correction he wants you dead, and for Eric to suffer. We are all involved because of you," she paused as she got closer to me, "You don't see it, do you? Everyone around you keeps dying and you always ask yourself why. You think you got it rough but in fact you make it rough, you love the danger so therefore danger loves you. You through pity parties for yourself when in fact they are all dead because of you."

"I never asked for anyone to die for me."

"And that's just it, you didn't therefore everyone felt the need to. It's how you justify your guilt over the people you have killed." Tears fell down my face as she slowly pushed me up against a wall.

"You killed me and I think I deserve a little closure." She moved the hair away from my neck.

"Tara don't, this isn't you. I'm sorry for what I did, I should have let you die but I was too selfish."

She stopped and I could feel her breath against my neck.

"You were selfish and you still are and one more thing this is me." She was about to bite me but she was gone in an instant.

Eric was standing before me and Tara was across from him on the floor.

She growled at him and he ran over to her and grabbed her by the neck. He threw her up against the wall and Pam was at the doorway watching them both with panic in her eyes.

"I don't know who the fuck you think you are but I am your elder. Sookie is mine and if you think once about touching her or harming her in any way I will stake you and think nothing of it. You are nothing to me and I am surprised that my progeny had such bad taste in picking hers." Eric let go of her and she fell to the ground.

"Now put your fangs away before I make you put them away and apologize to my lover and your friend you ungrateful ingrate." Tara glared at him as she put her fangs away and slowly got up.

She walked over to Pam and looked to me.

"Fuck you." She said and Pam slapped her upside the head.

"Tara, I don't think fuck you translates to I'm sorry in any language." Pam said to her.

"I'm sorry." And with that Tara was gone.

"She's new and dramatic. I'll make sure she doesn't get herself killed and we will find a place to stay since I'm sure the welcome isn't so strong after all of this."

"Just make sure she is okay and come back before sunrise. I think you can all stay in the cubby." I looked over to Eric who nodded.

"Great, be back in a jiff." Pam was gone and Eric sighed.

"Are you okay?" He asked me.

"Yeah, but she was right."

"What do you mean?"

"Everyone does die because of me, and I couldn't stand it if I got you killed." He shook his head and walked over to me.

He held me tightly and soothingly rubbed his hand up and down my back.

"Don't think that way. This isn't your fault, none of it ever was."

"Then why do I feel like it is?" I asked him and he made me look at him.

"Because some stupid baby vampire made you think this. I love you and I promise if it is within my power I will not let anyone you care about die."

He kissed me, "But know if it is against you and them I will choose you. I will not let you get yourself killed." I nodded and he kissed me again.

"Don't be sad." He whispered as he kissed me even more passionately and pushed me up against the same wall he had just pushed Tara up on.

"I wish we didn't have to worry about whatever was out there." I whispered against his mouth.

You love danger, therefore danger loves you.

Tara's words rang throughout my head and I lightly pushed Eric away.

He gave me a hurt look and I just shook my head.

"It's late; I just want to get some sleep." I told him and he raised an eyebrow.

"Sookie don't let…" He stopped and his fangs came out.

"What?" I asked him and he was gone.

"Eric." I ran after him and I saw him at the door way.

"What's going on?" I asked and then stopped when I saw the same girl from the bar, Nora, standing there.

"Eric forgive me." She ran up to him but he stepped back into the house a little more.

"Eric?" Her face held great sadness and I could see the blood that was staining her face.

"Please Eric, I was wrong… I was wrong." She cried and Eric slowly moved to her.

"Nora." He grabbed her and held her.

"I'm sorry, I saw him. I saw Godric and he snapped me out of it." Eric nodded as he let her go slowly.

"I'm just glad we are together again." And then she kissed him.

I stood there like an idiot until he pushed her back.

"Nora this is Sookie, she's my…"

"Girlfriend." I felt the jealousy peak in me as I stepped up and cut Eric off.

"Oh, you aren't usually the committing type, especially not to a…"

"Human?" I asked her as I put my hands on my hips.

"She's not just human." Eric said as he grabbed my hand and it calmed me down a bit.

"Well than I suppose we can't have a proper hello." And by proper hello she meant fuck my boyfriend.

"No."

I smiled and Nora nodded.

"You can invite her in, she is sincere." Eric told me.

"Come in." Nora nodded as she came in.

Well so much for going to sleep.

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