A/N: I still don't have a beta but decided to post a chapter of this story. I know I haven't posted any chapter for months now. It was actually from lack of beta, and reviews that I found myself not interesting in writing. But I decided, I don't care anymore if you wanted to read my story, entertained by it, by all means continue reading and follow my fic. If not, then don't read it.
disclaimer: Charlaine Harris is the owner of those familiar characters in this story. I am merely using them for my fellow fanfic readers entertainment. I'm not profiting from them so please don't sue.
Without further ado, here's the new chapter!
EPOV
"Leif, it's good to see you brother" I said greeting my older brother Leif. We vampires are not touchy feely creatures because of our very territorial nature and very heightened senses, but of course except when we fuck and feed. Also, doesn't reflect on our behavior to the very few creatures that we take up in high regard, or considered an ally. In supernatural sense, touching and rubbing our scents and especially giving our blood to somebody, has a really great and huge significance. That someone was either a slave to us to serve us, blood bag, or were protected by us. Either ways our scent serves a very significant purpose that will determine your purpose and connection to us. But I must add, this occurs and done rarely, especially for a very old vampire like me. I never freely give my blood, except to Pam when I made her, and like I said except when we fuck and feed, that act, rubbing our scent is unavoidable but I will never willingly give my blood to anybody for it signifies a much greater deal. I 'm not a very trustee vampire, most of us are not, even those we been around for centuries. I've learned in my more than thousand years that there's always a way to dissuade someone's loyalty, there's always a price, especially in the Supernatural world. There's very little chance in truly gaining somebody's trust and be trusted without proving yourself time and time again. I consider myself lucky, although I only have few supe who I mostly trust and hold in high regard, they are proven loyal. I consider my brother to be one of them. "MY BROTHER".
I grab my brother for a hug, patting him on his back and he releases his other arm that's surrounding my child's waist, so he can hug me properly. Outside I might seem glad to see my brother Lief but inside I was tense, and can't help but feel a little suspicious. I don't know, call it intuition, but right now I have a weird and nagging feeling that something was up. I know he hasn't been here for 5 minutes, but this is a very surprise and unexpected visit. Don't get me wrong as I said I trusted my brother and I was always happy to see my brother, to catch up on his "attempts" of mainstreaming, and also after all his the only real blood family I have left, but my brother and I don't get along that much, living or undead. My genetically egotistical, pillager and pragmatic like me brother, who have a hobby and takes pleasure in being a pain in my ass whenever his around. Yes, I still trusted him though he usually drives me nuts when his around. When we our together we tend to get in each others skin easily. So I was happy and contented to be apart from him and every now and then just hear from him from "afar", his tolerable farther away from me.
While hugging my brother I was also mulling over, speculating the reasons of my brother's unexpected and unannounced visit. So even though we don't have time for the whole catching up thing, and so averse to the fact that he didn't bother to contact me before showing up at my doorstep, more like my territory, my curiosity had won on the very reason of the excuse he will present to me for his sudden unexpected visit, so I spare a little bit of my time to talk with him and invited him inside. I hadn't seen my older brother Leif for over a century.
As I invited him in my house I ask Pam to heat up a trublood for my brother( for lack of time and donor to offer him) and then introduce my brother to the vampires on my regime that hasn't met him, who is Mattew and Felicia given their only been my underlings for more than a decade. The other two who I account and proven as a few of my loyal underlings, had met my brother a century ago.
My brother had barely nod his head to the three male vampires of my retinue in acknowledgment, while Felicia had earned a flirty sexual remark, and invitation (you probably have an idea what kind of invitation) whispered to her by my ever philanderer brother, boldly flirting, seducing every female he can have and will come upon. Don't get me wrong Felicia is a very attractive vampire. And honestly, I already had a fill of her when she was first recruited on my regime, but seriously, my brother has only been here for less than 10 minutes and his attention was already to Felicia. My ADD brother, that's what I will label him, for his attention easily diverts whenever his around a pretty woman. Same old Lief, I thought. Both I and my brother are quite the same with this behavior the only difference is I never instigate it myself with the opposite sex, human, vampire, or any supe alike, especially human, even for the sake to fuck and feed. Ok, correction, I do instigate sometimes, but rarely, and only for fulfilling certain obligations or for maintaining my position. It means I have only done it to enhance my reputation for being well known, lusted and well respected sheriff vampire that I am. Being blessed with power, wealth, good looks, and not to mention my exceptional gifts, I was accustom to women throw themselves at me willingly and get whatever I want without even using the benefit of being vampire, strength and glamouring, but so as my brother( the good looks, wealth, and power for being old). And that's the part I couldn't understand from him sometimes, he's like desperately trying to get attention from the females. Or maybe I was the only one who sees a problem with this, making it a big deal, after all most vampires act like this, male and female alike. Or just maybe I never found any women, who I would gladly and wanted to instigate and pay attention with, without the consideration of doing it to only maintain my position and fulfilling certain obligations …besides Angeluina…Fuck! Why my mind had drifted to her as an answer to my musing is so pathetic, I'm so pathetic. It angers me that I never associate that word to me at all, besides at times of feeling despair thinking of Angeluina. It's been more than millennia....I have accepted that she had left me forever and will never be able to see her again. The night that I have awakened, became the creature of the night, wasn't even the fact that I consider I died. The night I beg with my then unbeating heart for her to stay with me forever and not to leave me, is the day I considered all of me died. All of me lost and replaced with the creature that I am now, with lost soul, humanity, damn for eternity. Still in this more than thousand of years I have roam this earth, I never able to move forward with my undead life without a single thought of her. I find myself intensely yearning for her especially this past couple of months. In addition to these flooding thoughts about her was accompanied by a heaviness feeling in my chest. Although I'm not sure if the heaviness and restlessness that I was feeling this past few months was due to the thoughts I'm having about her, the cruel part is I can only guess. Oh my Goddess, what a fate this is.
Leif's finger was now tracing circles on the top of Felicia's pushed up breast that I bluntly disregard as I told him to follow me to my office, but before my brother had stop in his antics to follow me, Pam came back from fetching the bottled of synthetic blood for my brother. Her hand is on her hips, the bottle of synthetic blood on the other hand and an unreadable expression plaster on her face. Is she jealous? She then said,
"Master, tell me why am I not surprise I will find your brothers hand already roaming to Felicia's breast?" Pam had said nonchalantly.
I almost forgot that my child Pam is still in an arranged relation with my brother. They're still lovers, in contact, visits each other, give pleasures to each other. Hell, Pam has more contact with my brother than me. She is closer than I with him actually.
It's been almost 300 years since I turn Pam. When I turned Pam, it's for the sole benefit of my brother. (I know how gracious of me, don't you think?) I was not disappointed when I present Pam to him. His pleased and so wanted Pam for himself and I don't have any objections for that matter. Pam was a different story though. Given she just got out from a fuck up life that she's been through ever since she was a child at that time, and she didn't know shit about my brother so she don't trust anybody besides me. She doesn't want to leave my side. I was a fair maker for Pam maybe I was fair with her because she so damn remind me of Frida, my brother's long dead wife, and the only female that I truly cared about besides Angeluina. So when Pam beg me to stay at my side, and not to be handed to my brother I did not object, which is probably the wrong thing that I have done at that time. Of course this decision gave my brother an ammunition to once again bring up like he always does ever since we were a child, of me always finding a way to rubbed it in his face that I got whatever I want and what was supposed to be his. That ever so ridiculous and scornful statement almost resulted into a very hasty, impulsive decision, which consisting of me cutting ties with my only alive or undead brother for that matter, and reducing him into a puddle of ash if not for Pam giving an alternative solution. I'm so sick and tired of my brother's accusatory about me getting what I want and what was supposed to be his. It is so ridiculous it's been over centuries, we are among the undead now, and he still not over and past me being a sibling rivalry. I don't have any idea why my brother treats me as such. I made myself clear, plain and simple I turn Pam for him, and not for whatever other reasons or ulterior motive he was thinking I have. At that time, also it's good thing and it helps that my brother seems to still take his dead wife's memories in regard even just for a little, for I was positive that he will probably not agree on Pam's decision which I might add also Pam doesn't have at that time if I was not a fair maker. She have made a promise to my brother that after she's overcome her newborn vampire urges, given that she's only been turn vampire by me for merely 3 weeks at that time, although I will honestly say Pam is an excellent newborn. She's an obedient, smart, and has a fascinating mind in executing my orders, she's a clever ruthless bitch, surprise or not a surprise given she was abuse since she was a child but nonetheless I love that about her. But I will say she does well behave for a newborn. We didn't even have an accidental draining on her younger years, except the one that I gave her permission to drain and play with, which is so lovely to watch. It's like what human refer as a fucking kid on Christmas morning, with glee, you almost think she's high on fucking fairy dust, not really fairy dust but you could have thought that she does have been sprinkled with it the way she was bouncing from wall to wall or should I say from human to creature, feeding and executing punishment at the same time or simply what she pleases. She is so much fun to watch. And also what can I say; I can damn spoil my only child. Oh, those were the days that I missed with Pam being newborn, although she's still fun to watch but she got too skilled with it that now it's almost effortless when she conducts and execute my orders. I don't know if I wanted to make another child again, reminiscing Pam's newborn days gave me a hard on and a desire to make a child but I will never do it unless without considering the big picture. Making another child is a serious business and not to be thought and execute lightly, for my life will be tied with that child. And after Pam, my standards have increase exponentially on what I wanted for a child.
With her promise to my brother, she also added to give her sometime to overcome her miserable past and that she will be willingly go with him and give her a chance to know and trust him. And sure enough on her promise Pam and my brother have spend over a century together and stayed in Northern Europe before Pam came back to me.
When Pam came back to me after more than a century spending time with my brother, she told me that she had like Leif immensely during their time together, but they mutually decided not undergo a 'Pledged Union" ("Pledged Union" in my story is like a vampire version of marriage but with a determined time limit being bound to another vampire. As you know vampires don't usually bound themselves to another vampire eternally. One who often get to this Union is usually for the sole purpose to gain power and allegiance, very rarely for emotion, which mostly happen for young vampires, even then as time pass they will eventually get stripped with emotion, then they're rarely get subjected or open again with another union unless they truly desired it).
I remember her reason and exact words are "Leif is an amazing lover, "to a certain extent". She honestly and plainly explains that she actually prefers women as lovers but will not have a problem if I and Leif needed her for fuck. To be exact she said, "Hell, as hot and amazing you two in bed, it will be foolish of me or anybody else to turn u both down on that department. I'll always volunteer! That Pam. Although I must admit after that statement she had never disappoint me. She was true to her words. She had volunteered a lot in the past and she had learned a lot on inflicting amazing pleasure from my millennia experience, which I have no doubt she uses to her conquests now. I was stop on my musing when my brother manages to quip back on Pam's statement.
"Because she got nice tits!" Lief said indignantly then saunter his way to Pam.
"Too cliché "Pam retort then roll her eyes. When Leif reach her, he took the bottle of synthetic blood from her hand, took a swig of it then leaned closer to her to whisper in her ear.
Pam then giggles and playfully smacks my brother on his arm. I decided to stop reminiscing, musing. It's not very productive. There's more important matter I needed to dwell upon and tend on to accomplish tonight, like for one, the impending execution of my plan for the sheriff of area 5. Our undead lives were depending on the outcome of my plan. So, I took the moment and told my brother "again", that I needed to talk to him privately, and ushered him to my office.
After I had closed the door to my office, had settle down at my chair and see to it that my brother had also seated, I didn't waste time and begun to ask,
"Ok, Lief what brings you here in my territory?"
I've been transferred to another territory but technically this is still my territory since I'm the Queen's second in command. This territory will still be monitor by me and so us the other four territories. I'm pretty positive there's a reason behind my brother's unannounced visit because I know him too well, he'd never made an unannounced visit before, and we have a proper protocol in every kingdom that visiting another territories should be inform ahead before making appearance in any territories, so I'm positively sure my brother is up to something. I don't like allusion or beating around the bush and that is something we had in common and among other things. As expected, I wasn't surprise when he answered me straightforward.
"Your queen requested my presence and offered me a position to her Kingdom which I did not accept" he said then took another swig to his bottle before looking back to gauge my reaction to his statement.
"And why is that? Why didn't you accept my queens offer Leif? Given you been wanting to migrate to United States for sometime now, don't you think it's a really good opportunity for you?" So my brother was the one the queen had mention last night she's in negotiation with.
In more than a thousand years that we've been made vampire by the same maker, Leif had remained in Northern Europe. Actually I did too for over 400 hundred years, before I finally travel and give in on my yearning for I don't actually know at that time, maybe an itch to get away to my obnoxious maker, and annoying brother. Maybe, but all I know that's only part of the reason. I was also always lonely and felt a longing, even when I have the company of my maker, brothers and sisters. As I travel around the globe, and reach the United States in eighteen hundredths', the first nest I have learned and encounter, encourage and recruited me to join. To be exact by Sophie Ann Leclerque's nest. In 1800's, during those earlier times we are still considered myths on human civilization. Every vampire around the world was either independent vampires who roam around by themselves like I for a while after I left my nest, or part of a nest leaded by an elder (powerful ancient vampire whose been undead for more than a millennia). Sophie Ann is considered an elder and has acquired a lot of vampires in her nest, I myself included. Sophie has an exceptional gift of keeping the children that she made, bound to stay by her side loyally, not leaving her at all. I got recruited in Sophie Ann's nest for the reason that she convinces me that the United States Vampires are organizing and planning a reveal to humans, which I must say took centuries before it finally happened. She also had promise me a position which she made good of and kept as I been one of her sheriffs' ever since and now also her second in command. She had wanted my brother to join in her nest too and he did for a while, before he got tired of waiting on the progress of the supposed to be Reveal to humans, so he parted on our nest and remained in Northern Europe. The United States Vampire so far was the only one had finally managed to well organize our kind. Vampires in continents of Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Europe, Australia, and even South America still wasn't as organize as the Northern America and to top that they still struggle to be accepted by human population and struggle enforcing to have vampire rights in their continents. Not that we don't have problem here in the United States with humans. We still have, the overzealous Fellowship of the Sun who is still on a mission to spread their bullshit belief that we're the evil creatures that will bring the humans to total and serious damnation is one of the worst antagonist of our kind here in U.S .
"I do think it's a good opportunity, for someone who doesn't have an option or much better offers to consider. And to tell u honestly my brother, being offered to be the sheriff of this area probably give you the impression that It's the best offer that I would ever get and should accept?" he snort and continue with his rant.
"A millennia vampire as I am? I was presented much better offers for consideration besides being a sheriff my brother." Leif said indignantly and smirk at me.
Yes, still an egomaniac I thought. I'm pretty sure the queen presented him a very good offer probably much better than what she had offered me before; given the condition of the kingdom right now; we are in desperate need of trustee sheriff in this area. She will not want to play games and only will present her best offer for my brother to accept, but my ever egotistical brother had refused her offer? What the fuck kind of offers will top my queen's? He didn't expect to be offered a higher position than being a sheriff, did he? His statement manages to gauge a bit of reaction out of me, and I was annoyed. I wanted to beat the smirk out of his face and I probably can. Even given that my brother has manage to roam and be undead for a millennia, but to set the record my brother is 7 years older than me in human life, but I'm older than him in being undead by a couple of years and much powerful than he is. I had a few gifts that other vampires don't have and envied of.
Allowing my brother to get me annoyed with his refusal of my queen's offer probably was not a very productive reaction in dealing with my brother. He always likes getting that reaction out of me all the time human or undead. Seriously it's like his past time when his around or reason to continue to roam on this earth. I know, you would assume his the mature one here, don't get me wrong his pragmatic as I am and very mature but not when dealing with me. I sometimes think he has a serious grudge on me that I didn't know of.
I thought if I ever wanted to know the particulars of this offers, I'll have to compose myself and act indifferently. If he was ever going to give it willingly, I thought, I know my brother too well, but I guess I could try.
"Care to tell me whose offers you're considering and the particulars of their offers? I might be able to negotiate it to my queen."
"Sorry brother, I'm afraid your queen can't give nor will top the other offers that I'm considering. And no, I'm not sharing the particulars of it with you until I had finally reached my decision."
Damn straight I was right on my assumption.
"Alright Leif, If there's nothing I can do for you to accept my queens offer, I would like to continue this conversation when I'm not time constricted, me and my underlings have important matters to take care of tonight. Please contact first to make sure I'm not tied up with business before you show up. And Leif, I might add that you should start knowing and abiding the Vampire Law here in the United States given you are considering an offer base here. Proper protocol is to contact the sheriff of the territory before entering. And you not informing of your presence in my territory, would've entitle any of my subordinates to attack you and kill you on the spot without repercussions" I said the last sentence with emphasize and hope that my brother had fathom the seriousness of abiding the laws of our kind here. That probably annoys him being lectured by me because he response boldly,
"I understand my brother; I'll admit it's a mistake on my part. I had assumed that since your queen requested my presence here in her kingdom she had informed you, so you lecturing me right now about the importance of abiding the Laws here, "forgive me" its seem feeble on your queens part enforcement, don't you think? Unless…." He paused. I gave him a sharp look but he still continues,
"Honestly my brother knowing this gave me an impression that she purposely didn't inform you if I was right in my assumption that she wanted me killed in retaliation for my refusal." He said, and seemingly act offended for a brief moment then he continued "I think it's ….hmmm what's that human term… " my brother pause and act like he was thinking for a moment then said "not sport? Yes, I think it's not sport of her and very childish" my brother said matter of factly.
A hiss escapes me. So typical of my brother, can't refuse to be a smartass. I'll admit I probably would have thought the same but will never stupidly blurt out in front of the queens second in command. Luckily he's my brother, and that fact doesn't supersede any importance of vampire law on my book and will let it slide, for now. I said for now because it's only I and he in this room. No witnesses and eavesdropper who will tell tail it to my queen. But I will not feel responsible next time he did so with present witnesses and that's what I told him. Maybe the queen is so pissed off with my arrogant brother's refusal and decided to kill him? that might be one of the reasons and given her current condition and state of mind I was applaud that she didn't perform it herself right then and there, after the failed negotiation.
"Brother are you getting rusty? Do I need to remind you the very trait you and are possess that had keeps us roaming all this years and had aver us as a survivalist? Do I need to remind you the logistics of pragmatism? Because honestly blurting that out to me, wasn't very smart of you. So my advice is make no mistake again brother, because I assure you I won't be responsible with, nor or any of this kingdoms subjects surely punishment if this indiscretion ever happen again." I told him with firmness, and add. "And I doubt my queen intended to retaliate my brother, you will not be here in front of me talking otherwise. Let's just say my queen apparently still on her right mind, given with her condition right now as you probably already saw, since you had a chat with her. You are lucky she let you refuse her, continue to be undead aside." I just mention how the queen looks weak because that is given when you see her, but I refrain to say that its more than the queens condition that is weak, her mind also after the whole unfortunate ordeal in her kingdom especially the feared or acceptance that her undead existence will soon be forfeited.
I didn't give my brother a chance to make a retort to what I said, which I have no doubt given a chance will further annoy me tonight so I immediately made diversion, told him I have important matters to tend and also to contact me in a few days if he wanted to talk and visit in a more opportune time. I was glad he didn't push for information about tonight's affair, not that I will reveal any of it given he's not part of the regime but still I was glad. I pretended to be interested on the little paperwork on my desk, reading and tidying it. I saw him got up, and open the door. We said our goodbyes. Not looking directly at him, pretending not to pay attention but observing in the corner of my eye, I saw him smirk, and then he told me, "I will see you brother very soon" before he left and walk out the door.
We arrive at the little town, Bontemps, half an hour past 9. We park a few miles away from our destination. Chow and Matthew are to wait here for my call, they are back ups as per planned. I investigate the surroundings before making our way into the lions den (huh more like the vampires lair). The drive wasn't bad or interesting for that matter. I have been on this little town countless times, and every time I came back nothing much had changed, nothing grandiose or extraordinary here, old establishments, old bars, old houses, trailers and town hicks. Actually the only interesting part of this town is one of the sheriffs of area 5's residence, yes, I'm pretty sure this is only one of them. We tend to get more safe houses, for the purpose of (duh) being safe. That fucker has acquired an interesting mansion. I said it's interesting, the mansion being extravagant aside; it's once the historical home of one of the most powerful supes. Who are the powerful supes I was talking about? It's the Fairy Brigant's residence before they were driven away in this little old town. The curious part for the sheriff of Area 5 acquiring this mansion is you would think he will never be able to possess it, that this mansion would be heavily warded with powerful magic and keep out any unwelcome creature, but no, he actually acquired it legally and the ward actually let him in and only him at first. I wasn't yet part of the nest before this all happened, anyway as I said only him because from what I've heard a lot of vampires under Sophie Ann attempted to get in this said mansion but no one can, even the queen had tried, consulted on witches and other magical being to break the ward, but to no avail no one can, so she gave up possessing it and give it to the sheriff of area 5 because his the only one can get in. That's most intriguing and fascinating about this mansion, how that sheriff able to get in, no one knows. As if it was really meant for him for keeping. Fucking inconceivable! I always wondered if this story was true. I can't really believe it for myself but the queen not residing on this mansion is the only explanation that made me believe that this story was actually true.
(Picture of how I imagine the mansion look like. Please replace the dot word w/ a period in order to view the picture. )
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I nod my head to Chao and Matthew, a sign for them to start to scout the area and remain alert and concealed outside until or if I ever need assistance. I know the execution of everything I had planned for tonight is really precarious not just with the impending demise of a powerful sheriff of area 5. It wasn't my idea to do the deed tonight on New Years Eve, where I honestly think was a really bad timing to execute it. Given the Sherriff is hosting a Ball with invited guests around, and not to mention tonight is fucking full moon. I think this is the craziest timing ever. But the queen insists on it, fucking told us to enjoy the party. She said the Sherriff actually hosts amazing year end party. She had attended the last year and she had enjoyed it immensely. She so enthusiastic, I can tell she probably wanted to go again this year but I know that she wouldn't want for the Supe to see how much of weaken state she is. She said she wanted us to experience the last amazing party that the sheriff will be hosting. She actually has a glee in her eyes when she said it, and that reaction actually piqued more of my curiosity. I still think the queen is really not in her right mind to send us on this mission tonight, no matter how amazing ones party, this is almost thoughtless thinking, suicidal on our part but I can't argue with her, even though she expects too much, and she has the title and the final say.
Frederick is more than 500 years old; it will be a big challenge to bring him down. I highly assumed and anticipate a really serious good fight from him; and truth be told It will be foolish not to assume the same for his 300 or so year old pledged and 80 year old child, very precarious indeed.
After Chao and Matthew disappear, merging and concealed with the night, we drove the few blocks to head to the sheriff's residence. We reach the lot of the mansion and park in a vacant available space as far away as we can find from other vehicles which I must say a bit of a challenge, the lot is almost full. Don't want my car to get scratch or get dings though, so I park it in the middle of a vacant space and my underling park both sides of my car .Good. As I exited my car I stretch to my full height and feel and observe my surroundings. The night's eerie, "full moon" I thought. Magical beings energy is at the most high and uncontrollable for most other supes. I can feel it, almost taste it. The surrounding is busting with energy.
The sheriff of area 5, I know been hosting this New Year's ball yearly for the past 3 years but I never went even once. Not until tonight. From what I gather on my brief observation around, I was intrigue of what kind of party this Sheriff's been hosting, with mixtures of supes and human, indeed it honestly piqued my curiosity and fascinated me.
The lot was occupied by few arriving humans and supes, making their way to the front door of the mansion. Observing a bit more, my attention was captivated on a particular group, 50 yards away. That particular group said, was a very odd mixture of what I can decipher, consisting of Were, Shifter, Witch and a human? I think it's a human. Well, I wonder what is a human doing hanging around with…a Were, Shifter and a witch? Or maybe she didn't know they were supe? Either way that group is really odd. As I was still observing this group, particularly the human, she is behind the shifter. I gathered she is tying the mask on his head, but I can still see her masked face through the shifters shoulder. Speaking of odd, no weird, I suddenly had an extremely weird feeling. I felt… what is that feeling?...hmmm….I feel warm and fuzzy all over my undead body. I look around and to my side to gather what's causing this weird feeling. Pam and Felicia were now only exiting their cars, probably just now finished retouching their make-up. I was still trying to comprehend where the warm and fuzzes feeling coming from when I heard a barely audible lovely voice ....What?!!! It was barely audible that I only caught a few words and even that it was in Latin, so I had a really hard time translating and understanding it. The few words that I caught said, "See again... my eternal and chosen one….Hmmm? I wonder who said that? And what's the meaning of those words? Why did I hear those words? I was so absorbed and lost with my thought that I wasn't aware that Pam and I assumed also Felicia is trying to get my attention. Fuck! I didn't realize what I did while deep in thought. I was halfway in the parking lot facing the mansion, while Pam and Felicia are sitting on their asses on the ground, with identical expression of shocked! What the fuck?!!!!
The evening of December 31st Masquerade Ball. Full moon
SPOV
Its 7pm, Amelia and I got off work early, to prepare ourselves for the New years Ball. Our dates will be picking us up at 9:30 pm. So hopefully we have enough time and will be ready by then. Actually Amelia has a date, Tray Dawson the Were that she's been dating for more than 2 weeks now. Yes I know that his a were, to be exact his a werewolf, and the first time that I found out about this, it scared the crap out of me, when Amelia had ask him to change in his were form in front of me. After that nightmarish but also fascinating demonstration for me, I had learned that the human's that I'm having a hard time reading before was actually supernatural beings. I wonder what kind of supernatural being one of my professors in college that I had attempted to read mind but couldn't, given he always give me a leering look every time I ask a question on his class or whenever we crosses our paths in the university hallways. Sigh, also, the librarian in one of the Shreveport library who always have the book that I couldn't find and needed under her desk. The mailman who picks-up and deliver's my mail and packages at work who seems to sense when there's a bunch of packages that needed to be ship off even if he already drop by for the day, he will suddenly show up for it, and Oh! My ex boyfriend Quinn! who I broke up with, because of his annoying sister. I had labor my mind trying to read the thoughts of this particular people, that I remember me having a hard time reading the thoughts. Every once in a while I can only see snippet of images from this people's minds and now I have an idea that they are probably supernatural beings also, but I wonder what kind they are? Anyway, Since Bill wasn't going to be able to go, I had asked Sam if he can go with me. The two of them agrees to chaperone us, but once the moon reach into its full phase, or before it happen, they have to take their leave. Apparently they have no control over themselves and must change whenever its full moon, and unfortunately its full moon tonight.
We painted each others nails and curled our hairs. After Amelia curled my hair she tis it on the top to create volume, then went and smooth it to the side and secured it with a gold crystal hair barrette leaving a few loose curly strand cascading on the sides of my face down to my shoulders and to the side of my breast. The outcome was so beautiful. After she's done with my hair I quickly did hers too, Amelia has a shoulder length dark brown locks. I curled her hair and gather it on the back with a silver barrette, leaving a few curl strands framing her face. It turns out very pretty too. We put each other's make up too. We were so giddy on the prospect of bugging out the guys eyes tonight. After we are finish with our hair and make up we quickly went to her bed to pick up our dresses that was lying on top of it.
Amelia is wearing a black silk gown with spaghetti strap, sweetheart neckline, ruffled slits and silver bead accents. She has a black laced masquerade mask with black and silver feathers on it to match her gown and a silver open toe pumps to complete the ensemble. Mine was the opposite color of hers. I was wearing a white chiffon gown with gold beaded spaghetti strap and gold accents. I had made the skirt of my gown ankle length and cut asymmetrical to give me ample of room to enjoy my favorite part of the party, which was dancing. My ensemble was complete with a gold masquerade mask line with white lace with white and gold feather attach to it and a matching 3 inches ankle strap gold pumps. Amelia put a small jet black chandelier earrings and a very weird looking bracelet. I didn't ask her about her bracelet because I'm used to seeing her wearing different weird jewelries that I just associate it as part of her witchy identity. So seeing Amelia put on some jewelries, reminded me of the jewelries that I decided to wear with my dress and get it in my room. So, I told Amelia that I will be heading back to my room to get my jewelries, and will be back in a few minutes.
When I got to my room, I locked my door, went to my walk-in closet and knelt down to open one of the custom cabinet. I have a particular jewelry in mind that I wanted to wear tonight that will compliment my ensemble. The cabinet is about 3 feet tall, and has two drawers where I kept organize my socks, leggings, nylons, and leg warmers, and some scarves. If anybody went to my room, and rummage on my closet that's what they will find on that cabinet. Nobody knows but Jason and Lyzel that once you pull and take out the drawer that there's a hidden fire proof safe behind it. Not even my best friend Amelia. I have a normal lockable jewelry cabinet, but this hidden fireproof safe stored some of the really important possession and stuff that I treasured and acquired. It stores some of the family heirlooms that were given to me by Gran, and gifts from a distant relative that I accumulated on my birthdays, also, my passport, and important legal papers, together with two hand guns with silver bullets that Gran told me to keep. It was my abandoning father's gun actually, engraved with his initials. I didn't want to keep it actually when I found that out, I only had kept it because Gran told me I needed to keep it and convince me that it might come in handy someday. I never pay attention and never tried to think too much why it has a silver bullet, but now I thought it's odd, and wondered why it has.
After I pull out the drawers, I punch the combination on my safe, it clicked then opened it. Once the door is open, immediately a low light came on, illuminating the inside of the safe, enough for me to see the contents. Everything is in their rightful place, as it supposed to be. I grab the jewelries that I wanted to wear for tonight's event, a gold necklace, a pair of earrings and matching bracelet set. It has a very intricate design with uncut yellow stone. It looks simple because of its small size, yet interesting, because of the intricate design that made it look like out of this world. While putting on the jewelries, clasping the necklace on my neck, my vision had caught one of my old journals when I was a child. I smile to myself, and since I'm almost done dressing, I glance on my bedroom clock to see if I got a little bit of time to quickly glance inside my old journal, I simply couldn't resist, especially when I saw my crappy hand writing of the Initials of my silly childhood infatuation, who I thought my future husband to be. I giggled to myself and open the journal further. There, inside drawn a bunch of heart shapes in the middle is a big heart shape and written, "Sookie Hale" which I told everybody as my name when I was a child, then there's a heart in between my name and my so called husband name "Eirikr Nordmann".
A/N: Huh! You probably didn't expect that huh!?
Sookie, when she was young, used to tell people that her name is Sookie Hale. She uses her Grans middle name as last name because she doesn't want to use her dad's last name. Yep! If you're following my story you will know that Sookie has a grudge with his father for abandoning them. And so that's what she thought what her dad did but not really. I will eventually fill you in on what really happen. It has something to do with fairy politics. Yep, her Dad will eventually re-emerge on this story.
As for Eric's native name being written in her childhood journal, you'll find out the reason in Eric and Sookie's conversation at the Ball.
And as for Leif, he has a big part in my story. His not actually Eric's full blood brother but half brother. In my story you'll find out how much pain in the ass he will be to Eric and probably you will eventually think on your ass too ; p
Oh! the characters in my story will display OOC from the original novel, just a heads up.
And lastly for the Latin words that Eric didn't fully heard, this is the full words.
"Tandem nos animadverto iterum , meus iam eternus vita , meus carus electus unus."
Which meant, "At last we see again, my eternal life, my dearest chosen one." or my beloved chosen one, in English.
Hope you like this chapter! And don't be lazy and review! ;-)