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Chapter Four
Holy Shit Fuck
When we got to the conference room there was a line waiting that went out the door. I blew out a breath that I technically didn't need but still as pleasurable as it had been when I was human. This was going to be annoying.
"Make sure you keep your shields in place or you're going to be over run."
"Yes momma I know." Came the sardonic reply that I really didn't need. I guess he did already know that but still.
I moved over to the table that had been set up for me to sit behind calling for another chair from one of the lackey vampires that Sophie-Anne had put on guard duty. I sat down and then called for a royalty blend blood to be brought to me; although I'd just eaten I could already feel my fangs throbbing again. It was nothing but annoying being a newborn, if there had been some way for me to skip the process but still be a vampire (by choice this time) I would definitely do it.
"Bring in the first human." I told a lackey that kind of resembled Bill.
And so it went for the next four hours. That was when she walked in. I felt my fangs click into place the moment her brain registered for me. She was me if I was a little bit taller, except she was a poor imitation if anything. Her tits were fake and I bet I could pop them with a squeeze and her hair was colored to a honey blond. It was her mind, her mind that was thinking about nothing but Master, none other than Eric Fucking Northman. You had to be fucking kidding me.
As she stopped in front of the table it took all my willpower to stay in my chair, Hunter was giving me strange looks and I couldn't do anything to appease him because I'd locked my mind up tight. I need to get my act in order NOW before I lunged over the table and grabbed her throat and ripped it out. It wasn't as if we had been on the best of terms when the blood bond had been formed but when it snapped I had realized how much I missed being able to feel him. If anything twenty years away had given me it was time to think. I'd realized how much of a selfish brat I'd been during our interactions and the way I had regarded Him, I'd realized that I had been ungrateful every time he'd done something kind for me. My stupid pride hadn't let me accept the gifts for what they were, him simply trying to give me something to make my life easier, but no, I had thought he was trying to bribe me. Even though we hadn't been together together when the bond was formed and I had resented it he had done it to save me from bonding with Andre, something I was still grateful for in fact, and I had practically spit in his face instead of saying thank you, thank you, thank you!
He had replaced me though so maybe I really hadn't meant that much to him. After all he had never tried to find me, the bond would have allowed him to do so and I know for a fact that he could have done it during the month that Sophie-Anne had been making me vampire ready. Hell I had even tried to dream of him and it hadn't happened. But no, he'd replaced me with someone younger and faker than me. It didn't matter that she looked like me, if anything that was worse; he had replaced me with someone that could be me if I was brain dead. I hissed as she took a seat and I was over the table before I could stop myself, I had her pinned to the chair before I knew what I was doing and I was snarling in her face.
"What is your name?"
"C-C-Cressa Williams ma'am." She stuttered, not only did she look like me but she had a ridiculous name as well.
"Why are you here?" I asked.
"My m-m-master sent me to be checked out."
"Do you have any ill intentions towards your master?" I growled I couldn't believe this.
He had sent her to be checked out at a telepathy clinic did he have no clue I was here or did he simply want to flaunt her in my face? Her mind was jumping all over the place which was better than the disgusting images of them fucking every which way had been of course but she wasn't thinking anything long enough for me to tell if she was just terrified or if she was hiding something. Gripping her shoulder a bit harder I noticed her wince and smirked at her. Catching her eyes I asked her the question again and then carefully listened and watched. Nothing, she wasn't hiding a god damned thing. Goddammit. Still holding her eyes I leaned forward showing her my fangs which had been extended since she arrived.
"Are you scared little girl?" I asked.
From the images in her mind I could tell she was and it just made me smile. I wanted her scared, I wanted her to piss her pants and completely disgust him. "How long have you been with your master?" I could tell she didn't want to answer but I wasn't going to let her say no. I could tell someone was tugging on my shoulder but I didn't care, I was not finished with this blood bag, I had been replaced by a stupid fucking human that smelled like fucking daisies. This was inexcusable.
"Five, five years."
"And have you ever done anything bad to your master?"
Her mind flashed to ordering more clothes than she was supposed to, sneaking out in his corvette when he didn't know, getting a kitten although he didn't like the fur or smell on her. Nothing I could use to make him get rid of her. She must have done something, something that would piss him off more than just taking his prized car out for a joy ride. There was one thing I needed to know though, and I took a deep sniff near her ear, she hadn't had any of his blood and that was a good thing or else I might have snapped her neck. Leaning back I caught her eyes again, I knew I didn't have much time; I could hear them sending someone to come get the stupid bitch.
"Do you love him?" I asked. I had to know; even if she did I had to know if they had that deep enough a connection.
"I'm still not sure ma'am he can be real cold sometimes, but I suppose I do. He treats me real well and I know I won't have to stay with him forever." I did nothing but nod my head because there was another two vampires in the room than there should be.
"Cressa." Two syllables and I was ready to fall down at his feet. I took my hands from the stupid girl's shoulders and stepped back, turning and looking at him for the first time in twenty years was the hardest thing I had had to do in years. It hurt. He had replaced me; he had gotten a younger version of me and probably forgotten all about me.
Pam was with him and she looked beautiful, I had never really seen her before I could tell now, her hair wasn't just pretty, it was spectacular, falling down her back in luxurious waves a mix between honey blonde and ash. Her features could have been carved out of marble and I still wouldn't expect it, or maybe it was the fact that I hadn't seen in her so long. I had missed her almost as much as Eric, we had started becoming friends. I crossed my arms and watched the silly twit run over to him where he enveloped her in his arms. Stupid bitch.
I became aware of Hunter standing beside me only because I could feel him knocking on the wall I'd put in place between us. Instead of glancing at him I dropped the wall. His mind was full of questions and he was barely restraining himself from blurting them out loud so I answered them.
That's Eric. We had a blood bond before I was turned; he was obsessed with me, and thought it was love. Hell I thought it was love and when I was turned the bond broke. He always said he cared about me but he never looked for me that I know of. That's his new pet; he brought her here to be checked out. No I don't know if he knew I was the telepath. I'm sorry I reacted so strongly, I'm still young and you will be even worse trust me.
I could hear Pam asking Eric questions in rapid Swedish but all I cared about was that that stupid woman was leaving the room. I tracked her with my eyes and then switched my gaze back to Eric; he was staring at me again.
"Come Pam, it's time to reintroduce ourselves it seems."
As fucking if. "Hello Eric, Pam it's wonderful to see you again. I never had any idea how beautiful you were while I was human, I might have taken you up on your offer." I was not going to let him make me awkward, I had been trained to be at ease no matter what situation I was in and Sophie-Anne would kick my ass if I didn't live up to it.
"Sookie, you're beautiful, just as I'd thought you'd be. I'm even more eager to get into your pants now then I was then." That was Pam, always a saucy remark.
"This is my cousin or nephew as I like to call him, Hunter. Hunter this is Pam, Eric's child." So what? I was ignoring him; it was his own fault for not talking. It was his own fault for letting me ambushed by his despicable pet.
"Pleased to meet ya Pam." Hunter nodded his head and offered a smile. I could see in his head he was very pleased to meet her so I turned and raised an eyebrow at him. He blushed, how cute.
"Sookie it's good to see you again." His voice, had it always been that deep? That husky? A chill went down my spine as I glanced at him.
"It's good to see you too. I had planned on looking you up when I found out you were going to be at the summit." I tried to smile I really did but it probably looked more like a grimace, I could barely look at him knowing he'd replaced me. This was horrible.
"You look beautiful Sookie. Truly magnificent."
"Thank, you look as gorgeous as ever of course." There was the smirk, just the small upturning of the corner of his mouth. I hadn't realized how much I had missed that smirk. "I suppose you got called down here for your pet?"
I could feel my eyes going hard and flat, there was no way I was going to let him see how much seeing her, meeting her and hearing her vile thoughts had affected me. I felt Hunter shift beside me and spared a glace his way, he looked uncomfortable enough, and I really didn't want him to have to stick around while my dirty laundry was aired.
"Hunter why don't you go up to the room? I'll be up shortly."
Instead of protesting which I'd feared he'd do he simply nodded his head after sending me a pointed stare. He wouldn't be far and I sent him a nod in return. Eric and Pam waited till Hunter was out of the room and then turned back to me.
"Yes, Cressa seemed quite upset when I arrived, why was that?" As if he didn't know, I barely stopped myself from snarling.
"It was unsettling seeing someone so like me." I really didn't want to say anymore, it was humiliating enough having to admit that.
~Sookies POV~
Her eyes were nothing but blue ice chips. I don't believe she had ever looked at me so hatefully while human and it was disconcerting to say the least. If I had known Sookie was alive and going to be here I would have never have brought Cressa, and it was true she did look similar to Sookie.
"I see." There was nothing else I could say really and I doubted that seeing Cressa had been what unsettled her. "I'm sorry she caused you distress, I'll make sure she is better behaved in the future."
Although she was smaller than she had been as a human her curves where still there, and although her hair had lightened you could still see strands of the golden blond it had once been. She was so beautiful it almost hurt to look at her. I couldn't help wondering her relationship to Hunter, she had claimed to be his aunt but I could see the resemblance to her cousin Hadley in his features, she was obviously protective of him from the way she had sent him from the room. Perhaps he was a lover? But no, even if Sookie was vampire I doubt she'd ever consent to relations with a family member.
"I missed you." It had come out before I had a chance to stop myself, it was always like this with her, she took away my stoicism, she made me remember being human in a way no one else ever had, she gave me feelings again which I had resented at first but had realized were beneficial in my dealings with other humans.
I don't think I've ever seen a vampire looked as shocked as she did in that moment and I didn't try to stop the smirk that formed on my face, it seemed I could still unsettle her after all this time, that was good to know. If I had blinked I would have missed it though, her maker had taught her well how to hide her emotions it seemed. Of course she had always been rather good at doing it, probably from years of practice hiding her reactions to the thoughts she heard. I could feel Pam's amusement singing down our bond but there was nothing I could do about that.
"I'm sure; Cressa seems like a lovely little doll, perfect for you really completely mindless and complying." She spit the words out and my smirk did nothing but widen, her fangs were peeking out from behind her lips now. It seemed Cressa had gotten to her. I stored that piece of information away for further examination later.
"Yes she is quite pleasing, she understands perfectly how to please me." Baiting her was probably not the best way to get back into her good graces I realized a moment after saying it. Instead of anger though it looked like I'd wrapped her in silver.
"Yes well I suppose you always did like people that heeled to you rather than people that pointed out your errors."
That was true enough but she had to know how much I had valued her fire, her ability to look outside the box and how she stood up to me. "Of course I always did enjoy our bantering."
"It seems not enough or you wouldn't have found a replica of me except mindless." She looked mortified the minute the words left her mouth.
She thought I had replaced her? How could she think that, Cressa was nothing but a distraction, the fact that she looked like Sookie had been nothing but a benefit, it was much easier to fall into fantasies when the person pleasuring me looked like her. Didn't she understand how I had mourned her thinking her dead? Before I could say anything she turned away from me and glanced at the clock, it was getting close to five, we had been standing here talking for an hour but to me it felt like minutes, I couldn't get enough of her, even if she was mad at me.
"I'm sorry but I need to be going, I have business to attend before I rest for the day. Pam it was wonderful seeing you again, maybe we could get together again tomorrow?"
She wanted to see my child but not me? It felt as if I had been slapped this was appalling; my bonded was alive and apparently had no interest in seeing me. She was kissing Pam on the cheek now and walking away, she hadn't even said goodbye!
"Sookie!" At least she stopped at my call even if she didn't turn around. "Perhaps we could speak tomorrow privately?" I needed to speak to her, explain to her why I had Cressa, why I hadn't found her.
She didn't turn around but she nodded and then she was gone. I wanted to hit something this was horrible. A million times I had imagined our reunion but it had never played out like this. I had imagined her running into my arms and throwing her own around my neck, perhaps she would cry and thank me for finding her, more likely though she would asked to be set down before I was done feeling her body against my own and then she'd start in on a diatribe about how long it had taken me to find her.
"Well that went well" Pam's dry voice came from beside me. "She is truly impressive don't you agree master?"
I nodded my head. It was true, she was impressive for someone so young, I wondered who her maker had been, the Queen perhaps. There was no way to know unless she told me so there was no use pondering it. Running my hands through my hair I looked around, once again becoming aware of my surroundings, someone could have staked me and I wouldn't have noticed them coming up behind me, that was how distracted I had been speaking with Sookie.
"Come Pam, I suppose I should go and deal with Cressa and you can be formally introduced I suppose."
"Surely you're not going to be keeping that disgusting creature?" She founded incredulous.
"Of course why wouldn't I? She is a good pet and apparently loyal to me or Sookie would surely have pointed it out." Yes, Sookie might have been angry with me about Cressa but that only firmed my belief that she would have pointed out anything Cressa had been plotting.
"Are you sure that is wise?" I glanced over at her to see her eyebrow raised as I pushed the button to call the elevator. "I'm not sure angering Sookie is the best idea if you wish to resume your friendship with her."
Friendship? Pam knew that it had been so much more between Sookie and me and maybe she was right but I wasn't simply going to throw away a well trained pet because it angered Sookie, after all she hadn't reached out to me in the twenty years we had been separated, had she really wanted to reunite with me I'm sure she would have found a way.
"Why should I throw Cressa to the side? Sookie is vampire now and quite angry with me it seems, and after all I do need to eat and she has a wonderful spicy taste." I answered smirking while I stepped onto the elevator.
"If you say so master."
No, I wouldn't throw Cressa away but I certainly wouldn't flaunt her in front of Sookie. I knew how temperamental she had been before being turned and I'm sure she is still just as fiery.