Keely jumped and stood up as Eric suddenly appeared with Pam in the Office of Fangtasia.
"We need sanctuary" he said and she looked at him.
"Oh my God, what have you done?" she gasped and he looked at her.
"I staked a Vampire. The lover of Russell Edgington" he said and both girls gasped.
"Are you insane?" Pam asked.
"Where can we go!" Eric roared and they both jumped.
"A human home would be safest. We've all been invited into Sookie's" Pam said and Keely frowned.
"No. That's out of the question" he said and they nodded.
"Patrick's?" Keely asked and he looked at her.
"No, we can't put your brother in danger" he said and she looked at him.
"You never panic, should we be panicking?" Keely gasped. The three turned as Ginger entered the office.
"Ginger, dear, where do you live?" Eric asked and she frowned.
"Across the river in Bossier, why?" she asked and Pam and Keely began pulling on their jackets.
"We need your house...nowish" Keely replied.
"Because of the V-Feds" she asked and the three vampires looked at each other. Pam changed into a hot pink, velvet Juicy track suite, as Keely changed into a matching blue one and Eric pulled on black jeans and a black tank top. They walked out of the private area and saw the Vampire Police there.
"I'm sorry Miss Flanagan, the bar is closed" he said and she looked at him.
"Thank you, I already ate, Tru Blood only of course" she said and Pam and Keely rolled their eyes.
"Can't stay out of trouble can you?" she asked and the three vampires glared at her.
"The VRA are two states away from ratification, I should be kissing asses in Oregon not cleaning up after you in fucking Louisiana" Nan snarled.
"Oh I promise there is nothing amiss in my area" Eric said.
"Shut up, you're making my head hurt" Nan snapped and Keely forced back her own comment.
"Officers, silver him" she said and Pam, Eric, Ginger and Keely looked around and saw the men in all black close in on them and gasped as Eric began hissing in pain. He groaned and fell to his knees and Pam and Keely rolled their eyes as Ginger begin screaming.
"Ginger shut it" Keely said and the blonde fell silent and began shaking. Ginger was sent home after being glamoured and Eric, Pam and Keely were guarded in the main bar as the bar was searched.
"The downstairs is clean" Nan said as she re-entered the bar. Pam and Keely leaned against the bar as Eric sat in the seat Nan had told him to, opposite another seat and a recorder.
"Well I told you there was nothing" Eric said.
"It's been wiped" she snapped.
"Well I'm a Virgo, I like to be neat" he said and Pam and Keely glanced at each other.
"Your screeching barmaid, who's been glamoured so much she can't even remember her own last name, does know that no one ever goes back down there with so much as a mop and a promise. Suddenly it's as sterile as an operating room" she said with a raised eyebrow.
"It doesn't prove anything" Eric replied calmly.
"If only we had a Magister to decide that" Nan said and Keely stiffened slightly. Eric looked up and Nan gave him a slight smile.
"Relax. It's not like you killed someone" Nan said and Pam and Keely looked at their maker.
"Just need your official statement. That's all" Nan said and sat in the chair opposite him as Eric glanced at Keely and Pam
"Webcams, for the Authority" Nan said when the two camera's were placed either side of her, pointed at Eric. Keely watched the woman place the Bluetooth into her ear and the camera's turned and looked at her.
"Members of the Authority, its Nan. Can you hear me?" she asked, looking at the camera on her left.
"Good. As regards to the matter of the disappearance of our Magistar, last known whereabouts this...dump in Shreveport Louisiana. You have before you Eric Northman, Sheriff of area 5" she said and the camera's spun around and pointed at Eric.
"Smile for the camera's Eric" she said with a sick smile.
"...there's a pattern. The Turks told folk tales of shape-shifting jackals at the fall of Constantinople. The Aztecs were decimated by diseased warthogs. Each time there's been wolves, fuelled by vampire blood. I nearly found him in Augsburg in 1945. His wolves were in the service of the Nazi's" Eric recounted a while later. Pam and Keely sat at the bar, watching and listening to every words past between Nan and Eric.
"He disappeared after the way and I thought he finally meet the true death, now he's returned" Eric said and Nan looked at him and crossed her legs.
"Do you know why?" she asked.
"In times of conflict Russell Edgington inserts himself into the affairs of men" Eric said and Keely was unsure of how to be feeling at that moment. It was Russell, who with Eric's help, had saved her and how knows how many other girls from suffering the fate she and Jessica had and also saved her from the Magister's sick torture.
"...He claims its to prevent humans from destroying the planet and themselves. Thus our food source" Eric said.
"But Tru Blood changed all that. Humans are no longer food for us. The Great Revelation..." Nan said.
"Russell Edgington opposes the Great Revelation. He doesn't want to co-exist with humans. He wants to subjugate them" Eric explained.
"The Authority..." Nan began.
"Fuck the Authority!" Eric shouted and Pam and Keely and Nan looked at him, shocked.
"Russell's words, I just repeated them" Eric said and Nan reached a hand to her Bluetooth.
"This is why he killed the Magister?" she asked.
"No, he killed the Magister because the Magister defied him. He kidnapped Queen Sophie-Anne because she refused him. Now if the Authority or the AVL stand in his way...well" he said and let them draw their own, obvious conclusion.
"These are treasonous allegations" Nan warned.
"Why didn't you report this?" Nan asked.
"I should have but the Authority has existed for only a few hundred years. My history with Russell Edgington goes back nearly a thousand" he said and Pam and Keely looked at each other in shock.
"My family was massacred, all of them by wolves. I managed to kill one and I watched him change into a man at the end of my sword. And these wolves, they're the same. Sweden, Germany, here" Eric said and Keely looked at her maker, the dots finally making sense.
"With all due respect, I did not report Russell Edgington to you because I want him to die at my own hands" Eric said confidently.
"I have waited a thousand years for this" Eric added and the camera's spun around and pointed at Nan as Eric glanced at Keely and Pam.
"Yes, yes I understand. I'm flying immediately to Portland. Thank you" she said and stood.
"What?" Eric asked as he watched her.
"Is that it?" he asked and she looked at him.
"The Authority will review your statement against the, frankly strong, possibility that I've lost an entire night's worth of airtime promoting the VRA in order to listen to a load of bull shit" Nan said and Pam, Keely and Eric looked at each other, stunned.
"But some do believe in a fair hearing. American's" Nan said and she and Eric stood as did Pam and Keely.
"Miss Flanagan. Russell Edgington is a threat to our very existence" Eric said as she turned and looked at him.
"But he is a king, one who just donated a half a million dollars to the same American Vampire League you say he's trying to bring down. Weird huh?" she asked and Keely glared.
"Bring in a couple of spare coffins for Sheriff Northman and his..." Nan said and looked at Pam and Keely.
"...whatever you two are" she said and Pam and Keely raised their eyebrows at her.
"You're on lockdown until the Authority makes its ruling" Nan said and then left.
"I really hate her" Keely said and Eric and Pam looked at her.
"Come on Cupcake" Pam said and led the brunette to the coffins that now resided in Eric's office. The next night, Pam woke and saw Eric awake and bleeding from his nose and ears as he sat at his desk. They both smiled slightly as Keely's coffin opened and the brunette quickly climbed out.
"I hate that thing" she shivered and then gasped when she looked at Eric.
"Did you sleep at all?" she asked softly and sighed when he grabbed a bloody towel and wiped his nose.
"I'm fine" he said.
"Are the guards still outside?" Pam asked, slowly climbing out of the coffin.
"Mmm" he said and then looked at Pam as he gently pulled Keely into his lap.
"Girls, whatever the Authority decides, I will not allow either of you to take any responsibility" he said and they looked at him.
"You didn't kill the Magister" Pam said.
"I may as well have" Keely said and Eric looked at her.
"No you didn't. Edgington did" Pam scolded and Keely sighed but stayed quiet.
"Either way, politically I'm a much cleaner scapegoat. Who's easier to pin it on? A Sheriff in your custardy or a King that might be anywhere?" he asked as Pam walked over and leant against the desk and he pushed back his chair with Keely, sitting delicately in his lap his arm around her waist and across her legs.
"If they search Russell's place, they'll find the remains of his lover" Eric sighed.
"What did he do to you?" Keely asked as she looked up at him.
"Nothing" he said.
"But he was the nearest thing to Russell Edgington's heart, he had to die" Eric said and both girls began to tear.
"A hundred years I've been with you. Why did you never say anything about Russell or your family?" Pam asked and he looked at her as he gently ran a calming hand up and down Keely's legs.
"You didn't need to know, neither of you did. What good would it do to share my pain with you two?" he asked.
"You didn't need to carry it all by yourself" Keely said in her old, familiar soft and sweet voice.
"I am not weak" he said with a slight edge to his voice.
"I was a sole survivor. The burden is mine alone" he said and then rested his forehead against Keely's.
"We've lived through so much for so long" Pam said and Keely began to cry as did Pam.
"I've just got used to all of this, I have you two. I can't lose you now, it can't end this quickly" Keely added with a whimper.
"Everything ends. Even the Immortals" he replied gently and then looked up at his oldest daughter.
"If I can't go on, I want you to look after Keely. You two are sisters" he said and they began to cry with slight sobs. Keely buried her head into his chest as Pam fell beside him, with her head beside Keely's. Eric wrapped his arms around his two girls as they cried. He pulled his head back and kissed them both on the crowns of their heads. After a while, Keely and Pam went to the main bar so Keely could get a Tru Blood.
"Here let me" Eric's soft voice said and Keely sighed sadly as he wrapped his arm around her and held the bottle to her mouth as she drink from the straw, which he found both strange and utterly adorable. Pam sat at the table just behind them as Eric sat with Keely as she drank in silence. The three looked up as Nan entered the bar. Keely felt Pam take her hand and moved back to stand with the blonde.
"You look like shit" Nan said and Eric looked at her.
"Nice to know I look better than I feel" he said and she looked at him.
"The ruling is as follows" Nan began and Pam grabbed Keely's hand tightly.
"The Authority disapproves any knowledge of our interview, your statement or indeed this ruling itself. None of this ever happened" she said.
"What?" Keely, Eric and Pam couldn't help but ask and the blonde looked at them.
"Missing royals, dead Magistar. It's a political baby no one wants to touch, not with the VRA this close to ratification" Nan said as she handed Eric the letter and walked to stand opposite to Pam and Keely.
"Russell will not stop killing. What if the human public learns of it?" Eric asked as he walked over to stand opposite Nan.
"That's why you're going to take care of it. Quietly, discreetly and most important of all, completely off the books. You wanted revenge, it's yours" Nan said and Pam and Keely felt Eric's excitement begin to grow.
"What sources are you going to give me?" he asked.
"None. We're not going near it" she said and went to walk away.
"How do you expect me to kill him? He's three times my age" he said, turned around to watch her stop and turned and storm over to him.
"Listen you whiney little bitch. The only link between Sophie-Anne, Russell and the Magister, is you. You brought us this steaming pile of shit and you're going to make it go away. Bring me his fangs or I will have yours" Nan threatened and stormed off, followed by her guards.
"Ok, I really really hate her" Keely said and Eric gave her a slight smirk.