Chapter 10

I should have stopped when she asked and I didn't . I gave into to everything that I wanted and I hurt her. Alf is not retuning my phone calls. Marie is not going too but I need to know if she is alright. Isabelle interrupts me again in my study. She had a habit of doing that lately. I explain to her what happened and she is angry with me.

"Go to her Godric and beg her forgiveness and show some remorse grovel if you have to."

"I do not grovel"

"Do you want to lose her?"

"She is dying anyway"

"Godric that is not how you feel! You have chased after her for weeks now"

"Her business was worth it Isabelle. Its made nearly $500,000 so far."

"Godric there has been more to your friendship than v food we all know that. If she is as sick as you lead me to believe and died tomorrow you would be devastated. You would not want her last memory of you to be last night"

" I would not be crushed Isabelle am stronger than that"

She knows I would Marie is food for my starved soul. She embraces my kind and she embraced me last night until I made her bleed..

Isabelle knows me too well she knows I will be devastated when Marie dies and that I want to go and see her and I won't forget about her. I wish to take her something but I know she has no use for material goods. I can offer her my forgiveness and my submission but for the first time in a long time I don't know it that will be enough…

Marie ignored Godric for the best part of a month. As long as she wasn't home at night he couldn't find her. Marie had a hiding place in fact she had several. One was her parents grave, she went there to speak to them and she went when she had a problem she had spent a lot of time there recently. Godric had hurt her with his words he wanted a servant, an object and a trophy and she was none of those things. At first she had thought that he loved her well may be not loved but her had at least cared for her. He had been kind to her but it was all a ruse to get her to be his thing (maybe there was a vampire term for it but she didn't know it). Did she love him? She didn't know she thought she did. She liked having a sparing partner it was like... No she wasn't going there that was a long time ago and not an option anymore although considering her current activities maybe a call to a long lost friend wouldn't be a bad idea. Anyway she didn't know where he was. No work was going to get her over Godric and work she would. Everything would be like they had never met she would go to Hell and work a few shifts a week. He couldn't stop her now she wouldn't work for him anymore and he didn't own her.

Marie started work in Hell a few nights after sitting at her parents grave. Peter had been glad to receive her call. She was busy greeting patrons who hadn't seen her in a while taking orders. She received many compliments on the v food and discovered Godrics factory had been supplying Hell with her recipes apart from the ones that were exclusively for his businesses. Marie leant on the bar half way through her shift exhausted.
"You alright Marie" Rick asked her.

"Yes…Just forgotten how exhausting being on your feet is all the time."

He smiled. "Thanks for covering tonight. Guy in your area is waving for a waitress."

"Thanks"

She walked over to a blond guy who was sitting down.

"Good evening Sir. My name is Marie. I'll be your server tonight. What can I get you?"

He looked at her and smiled. "You smell delicious. AB- right?"

Damn that stupid lemonade. Why was she still drinking it?
"Correct but unfortunately I am not on the menu."

"Well if you're sure I'll have an O- True Blood"

"Coming right up"

She came back with his true blood and he downed it.

"Sit with me" he motioned to her.

"Sorry I can't I am working"

He would have to glamour her but she would be perfect for what he had in mind.

"Marie look at me. Marie will you sit down just for a moment."

"Ok" she said and she sat down.

"Marie have you every let a vampire drink from you."

"Yes"

Great he thought she would have to be a fangbanger.

"How many?"

"Just one. The first time he glamoured me, the second time I let him."

"Was it recently?"

"A few weeks ago"

"Did you sleep with him Marie?"

"No."

" Look at me Marie"

" The sheriff didn't want to sleep with me"

"The sheriff… Do you mean Godric?"

"Yes."

"Can I take you to Godric and let him feed from you again?"

"Ok"

"Good Marie"

He took her hand and led her out of Hell. Glamouring all of the staff so that they did not argue with him taking Marie. He had not seen Godric in almost 70 years so it was only fitting he bring him a present and a donor he seemed to like.

Eric arrived with Marie had Godric's nest and one of the underlings recognised him immediately and offered to take him straight to Godric. Eric shook his head and told the man he already knew that Eric was here. Marie knew that she should have been terrified but Erics glamour was keeping her from being afraid and also she knew that Godric wouldn't hurt her.

Godric came out into the hall and greeted Eric.
"My child to what do I owe the pleasure?"
"Master" he said kneeling before Godric. " it has been too long " he pulled Marie down beside him and she winced in pain. "Master I have brought you a present. AB- your preference."
"Thank you Eric but it was not necessary. Marie you can get up now" he said gently taking her hand and pulling her up. She didn't move. Eric prodded her
"Get up" he ordered.
"I can't "she replied.
Godric put his hands under Marie's arms and pulled her to her feet. She had no stability in her body and she fell against him. As she did he got a slight whiff of her smell and she smelt fantastic just like he had remembered.
"Marie" he whispered into her hair "I missed you."
Eric chose to speak at this moment. "Master will you share with me"
Godric was nearly crazy with the need of Marie's blood. He had not fed since the night she left. He nodded and Eric blurred to a standing position and scrapped his fangs along Marie's neck drawing blood. He bowed.
"After you master."
The sight of Marie's blood running down her neck was too much and he leapt on her neck and Eric attacked the other side. She was losing way too much blood this way but Godric did not lose control this time. He came to his senses at this point and ordered Eric to stop.

"My child that is enough"

He licked Marie's wounds closed but he could feel that she had lost too much blood for her. She was sick after all. He knew now that he should not have accepted Eric's gift he had made everything worse. He carried her up the stairs and sat down on the bed and pulled Marie to him. He bit his own wrist and forced her to drink his blood while she was still comatose and did not resist. What happened next neither Eric or Godric was prepared for. Marie must have drank from Godric for about thirty seconds. She came to and then pushed his hand away and fell on her knees down the side of the bed and began vomiting blood violently. It didn't cease and this scared Godric he realised that must have been what happened the last time that it had happened. The violent vomiting of blood never stopped and Godric and Eric looked at each other never in their years together had they seen this. Godric fell on his knees next to Marie. She gasped trying to speak.

"What is it Marie?" he said

As the next wave of blood vomit came out she gasped. "Phone speed dial 6"

Eric none to gently grabbed the phone out of her pocket and pressed the speed dial. When the phone connected he said"
"This is Eric Northman who is this?"
"This is Dr. Ford of Dallas University Hospital"
"Eric that is Marie's physician"
"Is the human ill?"
"Yes Eric she is dying"

Godric grabbed the phone off Eric and explained briefly what had happened. Alf appeared five minutes later and knelt beside Marie. She was vomiting blood and sitting in a pool of it. It was hard as a vampire to be around all that blood but he had had lots of practise at the hospital. He looked at her and she looked back at him helpless. He did not speak to Marie he just put his arm around her shoulders as she vomited. there was nothing he more he could do. Her body was rejecting Godric's blood just like it had his. He looked at Godric and said quietly enough for a vampire to hear.

"Drain her."

Godric looked shocked. "What?"

"There is nothing that I can do. Your blood hit her system and there is nothing more that I can do. We can sit here and watch her vomit blood until she dies or you could make the whole process quicker Sheriff and drain her"

"But you didn't" Godric argued he was not losing her.

"She was five years old Godric and my blood didn't give her this type of reaction. "

They were all speaking quietly enough for Marie not to hear but she as so preoccupied with vomiting she wouldn't have heard anyway. Alf got up to leave.
"I'll give you some privacy Sheriff and arrange the paperwork. Her death will not be unexpected so there will be no post mortem. "

"Master. I apologise for bringing you this human. I had no idea"

"Eric it is fine. I should not have given her my blood. This was my error. She had had a bad reaction to vampire blood before. I decided to ignore it. I am the only one at fault here. "

"Will you turn her Master? I would not object to another sister."

"No Eric. I will not. I offered to turn her before and she said no and you and I both know that I won't turn her without her permission."

"Ask her again" Eric could sense Godric's distress over the situation and thought his master would find comfort if he could turn her.

"Leave us Eric. I will ask her again but I know what her answer will be."

Eric left too and Godric knelt again beside Marie who was still vomiting blood.

"Marie" he said gently "I am sorry but you are dying will you let me turn you now."

She gasped again" You had to find out the hard way didn't you. You didn't trust me. Arrogant bastard. "

"Marie" he pleaded

"No" was the last word he heard her say before she was interrupted by another wave of blood.

"Marie I am sorry our time had to end like this. I am truly sorry for what I did to you and I will spend whatever time I have left on this earth being a better person I promise."

Godric hugged Marie to him.

"I will make this as quick as possible Marie" he whispered and he bent his head towards her neck and drank.

The door burst open and Andrew appeared "Stop" he shouted " I can help her"