Chapter Nine
You Can't Be Serious
When we arrived back in Shreveport Eric was out of the car and into the bar quicker than I would have expected, during the ride to the airport his mood had taken a sudden upswing, when I had expected to have to deal with his pouting for days. Well whatever, a happy maker was good in my books. I stepped out of the limo and made my way into the bar, looking around and reassuring myself that Chow hadn't completely fucked up our bar, there was a strong smell of drugs in the air but that wasn't to unusual, I scanned the waitresses working the tables, they all seemed to be right of mind as well. A wave of relief swept through me, I had hoped that in our absence that nothing bad would have happened but the Fellowship had increased in our area recently so I always felt unsettled leaving the bar in the hands of another.
Walking to the bar I got a royalty blend and looked around the room again. Our area had swelled with Vampires after Katrina, the amount had never went down after the reconstruction of New Orleans, it was always pleasing to know how many people answered to Eric, and by that me as I was his lieutenant. Indeed we had had a rough couple of years after New Orleans economy collapsed but we had weathered through, as we always did.
"How was the summit?"
I turned and looked at Chow; he had taken up Longshadows one third of the bar five years ago and had shown himself to be trustworthy, if a little indulgent in his feedings.
"It was full of surprises." I replied taking a sip from my bottle.
Indeed, it was wonderful seeing Sookie again and it had been a surprise. There was also the shock of finding out that Eric had had a pet and kept it a secret from me, something I still hadn't forgiven him for. Yes I was going to be stealing one of his credit cards soon and indulging in some retail therapy to make up for my hurt feelings. I had been eying a beautiful vintage Dior suit and just waiting for Eric to fuck up until I could buy it. Not that he did something like hiding a pet all the time, but simply forgetting to compliment me on my clothes would have worked. There was no way I was going to be spending the enormous amount on the suit, Eric never thought to buy me vintage things these days.
"Surprising how?" Chow asked, wiping a glass with the cloth he had in his hand.
"Oh, well do you remember Sookie Stackhouse?" He nodded so I continued, I had teased Chow relentlessly when he had first become the bartender at Fangtasia, saying that Sookie loved getting our bartenders killed, "She's alive and well."
The glass slipped from Chows fingers and I raised an eyebrow. Odd that he would react so strongly to finding out she lived, he hadn't known her that well. Indeed he hadn't even liked her, believing that she was beneath his notice as a human. He bent and picked up the shards, throwing them in the garbage and flicking the drops of blood from his fingers where he'd cut them. I heard a human suck in a breath as she bit her lip and stared at the blood that remained on his fingers. I turned and caught Felicia's eye nodding towards the woman, I had no doubt that she was a V user and as I got closer to her the stench of her addiction wafted towards me. Well one less V user meant one less buyer I supposed, I watched as she was led away
Never a dull night at Fangtasia.
"Pamela." I turned and moved towards the hallway leading Eric's and my own office. I paused in the doorway seeing a strange man standing in front of Eric's desk. "This is Niall Brigant." Eric continued, "Please come in and shut the door."
I stepped into the room wary, Eric's moved seemed to have shifted again, and he was on the edge of his seat figuratively speaking. I moved to stand behind him and as I passed the strange man I couldn't help feeling drawn to him, I paused midstep, taking a breath I was startled to find that the man had no scent, looking closer I noticed the pointed top of his ear. He was a fairy!
"Pam, come." There was only the slightest trace of a makers command in his voice and knowing that the man, no fairy before me I thought of disobeying him, I had never had a fairy before and supposedly they were delicious. As I stood there wavering between obeying my master or trying to take a drink from the fairy before me he turned. Looking into his eyes I was startled once again at the sudden power I felt hit me, making me take a step back, moving quickly I was behind my master, my fangs down ready for the attack.
"PAMELA!" I could feel the anger rolling off of Eric in waves; I had expected him to be slightly mad but not this.
"Northman, it's fine, she is young yet it is understandable that she would try."
"True. Now why are you here?" Although Eric sounded calm, her anger was still hitting me in full force. Oh later would not be fun.
Niall took a seat in front of Eric's desk which I thought was a bit presumptuous but there was no way I'd be pointing it out now. Eric might actually destroy some of my clothes this time and I had no desire to further enrage him. For Eric to be putting up with it, I figured that this fairy must be powerful, or important, more likely both.
"I have learned that my great granddaughter is alive recently." Niall said, and I was nearly knocked over from the amount of shock that came through the bond before Eric closed it. So this fairy was Sookie great grandpa? The thought alone made me want to laugh. "I had searched for her after your meeting in Rhodes, but I was not able to locate her. You see I had just learned of her existence."
"Wait how didn't you know about her? Isn't knowing you kin part of being a fairy?" I asked.
"Yes, it is part of being a fairy, but my son had hidden her from me, along with his other grandchildren. When he died his charms broke and that's when I found out about as well as her brother. I have been in contact with Jason, but alas he does not have the existential spark in him."
Ok, that told me nothing, I shifted slightly looking at my feet. I still didn't understand why he was here, and shouldn't he have been able to tell Sookie was still alive all these years?
"I felt Sookie's life being snuffed out, but I was still unable to locate, although I still did feel something. I didn't understand what it was until learning that she was now a vampire. I believe her spark is still alive and well, indeed I think it might actually have grown over the years. Now why I'm here is because I am calling in your debt to me Northman."
I saw Eric tense slightly, and smirked inwardly. Eric owed a debt to a fairy? The thought was laughable and I couldn't help wondering how Eric had even become indebted to a fairy, plus I still had no idea who this Brigant was.
"What do you wish for me to do Prince?" Eric spit out. I had to repress the urge to laugh gleefully out loud. Niall Brigant was a prince! Oh the fun I could have with this.
"I want my great granddaughter, she may be vampire but she is very much still fairy, I believe that when she lost her human life her fairy nature took over that side, I'm not even sure she knows that her spark has grown."
Well fuck.
"I don't suppose you have a plan to retrieve Sookie." Eric asked dryly raising his brows at the fairy. "You do know that she is in my Queens palace and the child of one of the Queens."
"I do understand that, but my request remains the same. I don't care how you do but I want my great granddaughter away from that place, it is not within her nature to be locked up."
Funny that he should mention Sookie's nature when he didn't even know her. That's when it struck me, Sookie was royalty, and apparently she had no idea about that. I felt like laughing again, I had regarded her as a backwards hick from bumfuck nowhere when in reality she had been a princess; oh I was so sure she would just love that. It did explain the grace that came effortlessly to her though and the charisma that had always poured off of her, indeed I had just put that down to her fairy nature but it made even more sense knowing that she had it in her blood.
"I had planned to try and get Sookie released from her maker so our plans will coincide with each other, however I make no promises that Sookie will wish to meet you."
Niall smirked at this, folding his hands together over his crossed knees. "I have no doubt she will wish to meet with me, especially if her gifts have grown over the years."
"Gifts?" Eric questioned.
"Yes, gifts. I do not believe you need to know about them. Now I have a question, is there another fairy-hybrid living in the palace that you know about? Perhaps another of my grand children?"
I stiffened behind Eric; Niall was obviously speaking about Hadley. "Yes, her name is Hadley, what do you wish me to spring her from the palace? If so I am going to assure you that she is quite pleased to be there."
"Yes, I can feel that she is content with her life, but that is not why I asked. I get a bad feeling whenever I look in on her." Niall paused looking down as his hands frowning. "I believe that she has ill intentions towards Sookie, and like I said she has the spark as well, it worries me."
Hadley had never liked Sookie; I remembered that from the time when Sookie had been in New Orleans and ran into her cousin again, indeed they seemed to have a hostile relationship. Hadley had been a selfish creature while she was human, she had basked in the Queens attention and thrown it into the donor's faces that she was a favourite; I could see her planning something against Sookie. The thought sent a sharp pain zinging through me; I did not want to lose my friend again so soon after finding her.
"I am planning to go down and spend some time with Sookie, perhaps I could bring my trip forward?" I suggested quickly.
"Yes that would work wonderfully and give your master some time to set up his plans." Niall replied. I looked at Eric and he nodded, it seemed he agreed with me.
"Then I will leave tomorrow. If you'll excuse me I should go and pack the night is getting late and if I'm to depart at first dark I should be ready."
Both Eric and Niall nodded and I sped from the room, getting to my van I pressed the unlock button and jumped in the seat. If I was to be staying for awhile I would need more clothes than I had intended to take while first planning the trip. I wasn't worried, I knew Eric would succeed with his plans, he always had before.
I pulled into my driveway, pressing the button to make the garage raise up I pulled in and then shut the garage door behind me. Going to the door I pressed the code to enter my house, the smell of fresh flowers was still strong in the air, making me thankful for the maids I employed. Yes when we had come out of the coffin there was numerous benefits, such as being able to actually own property in my own name and no longer having the need to relocate every couple of years, but one of the best was being able to hire people to clean my different homes so that there was never that musty closed in smell in the air.
I moved quickly through my home having no need for lights, as I reached my bedroom I once again pressed in a code and leans down letting the scanner go over my eye. The technology of this modern age made securing my daytime resting places so much easier. In addition to the security measures I had it warded against anyone that didn't have my blood, Eric could enter and probably Sookie could have when she was alive as she'd been bonded to Eric, but no one else. As I stepped through the entrance a feeling of home rose inside of me.
The room was decorated in the pastels I so loved, with hints of bright jewel tones that were much brighter, all the furniture was stained a dark brown, almost black. Eric had gifted me the giant headboard, he had made it himself for my birthday fifty years ago and I had still not changed it. Moving into my closet I pulled down two giant suitcases, both of them a violet color. I moved quickly through my clothes, pulling what I wanted from the rack along with matching accessories and shoes. When I was finished I could just feel the pull of dawn starting and I was pleased with myself when I finally lay down to my daytime rest, tomorrow I would be in New Orleans and be able to look out for Sookie.
When I rose the next night I was shocked to feel Eric in the house. He hadn't been there when I went to my rest and it had been close to dawn, still I suppose I should have expected it, there was no doubt that Eric would want to talk to me before I departed, I also had a few questions for him about the night before. I dressed quickly and left my rooms, finding Eric sitting in my living room and flipping through a home decor magazine. He didn't look up until I was seated.
"Are you ready to leave?"
"Yes, I finished packing last night before I rested. Eric how did you become indebt to a fairy?"
Eric raised an eyebrow and I feared that he wouldn't answer me; he usually had no problem answering my questions. "It was during the last vampire fairy war, I had been injured during the battle, and Niall found me and buried me so that I wouldn't burn with the rising sun. I still don't know why he did it, I had killed many fairies that night but he still saved me. I was about 500 I suppose, Godric had just released me to go on my own, something he later regretted when he found out about my debt I do not doubt."
"So he saved your life and said you owed him a debt? Why didn't he ever collect before now?" I asked puzzled.
"I think he was maybe saving it, he made sure to pop in every once and awhile to remind me that I owed him and that he was still around. I had hoped maybe he had been taken out during their recent wars, but apparently not." Eric responded, sounding a little sour if I do say so myself.
"They have been fighting then?"
Eric nodded his brow furrowing. "Yes in Faery I believe. I haven't heard from Niall in over a hundred years, when I heard they were warring I had a faint hope that he would perish, still it's probably better that he didn't, he may be able to help me get Sookie away from Andre."
"Why doesn't he just retrieve her himself?" I didn't understand why that wouldn't have been his first option, since he apparently wanted her out of there so badly.
"I believe he doesn't want to start another war, but after you left he made it clear that he would if I was unable to get her out." Eric said.
I grinned, if there was actually a war I might get the chance to taste a fairy after all. Eric had told me all about how wonderful they tasted, as well as the fact that if you drained one you got a chance to see the sun again. Both things appealed to my nature, it had after all been over three hundred years since I had seen sunlight.
Eric must have felt my elation at the thought because he scowled at me growling, "If there was a war you would probably be injured in it Pam, although they do taste amazing do not underestimate them, you felt a hint of Nialls power last night, would you want to face that in battle?" I pouted at him. "Pamela, we almost wiped each other out last time, fairies are not to be underestimated, if they hadn't retreated into Faery we would probably still be fighting."
I still wanted to taste a fairy, the small amount of blood I had gotten from Sookie the night she was attacked by the maenad had been delicious despite being laced with poison.
"Okay." I answered.
"Now if you have no more questions lets get onto your punishment for last night, as well as the altercation that you did nothing to stop between Sookie and Cressa." Eric grinned as he spoke, rubbing his hands together. I felt my heart drop; if it was still beating it probably would have skipped a beat. "You will feed from only large hairy men for a month, that is your punishment for last night and for the incident at the summit you will hand over your black Amex card to me until I feel you deserve to have it back."
I gasped, how could he take away my card? I was going away for Christ's sake, this wasn't fair at all. "I didn't know anything serious was going to happen! Hell Sookie was doing fine until Hunter freaked the fuck out, this isn't fair she's a fucking vampire, she didn't need my help!" I cried outraged.
Eric's grin only grew as he held out his hand, beckoning me to hand it over. I grumbled under my breath as I went to grab my card, depositing it in his hand I felt my heart break a little bit. "What if Sookie wants to go shopping?" I asked petulantly.
"You will just have to use your savings amount; I know that it is sufficient for your shopping needs." He sounded gleeful as he said it, Eric loved to torment me.
"Will you at least reconsider my feeding restriction?" I whined.
"No, and I will know if you don't comply with it while in New Orleans."
I nodded, defeated. I stood stomping to my room to grab my bags; he could be completely infuriating when he wanted to. I grabbed the handles and sped back into the living room just as his phone trilled from his pocket. I could still feel his amusement through the bond so I was surprised when it cut off.
"What do you mean she's gone?" Eric growled into the phone.
I dropped my bag and moved closer leaning in the hear the other side of the conversation.
Bianca. While at the summit Eric had had me call back to Shreveport and get Bianca to go to the palace. She was an acquaintance of mine and he had wanted someone in the palace. Bianca just happened to be the perfect fit as she was itching to move up in the ranks so to say. We had been waiting on a preliminary report about Sookie's first years as a vampire.
"Eric I don't know what to tell you, I woke tonight to total chaos, her child was running around like a crazy thing and Sophie-Anne is the most upset I've ever seen her. Andre has already killed two weres, she's just gone." Bianca stated.
"How could she just disappear? Can Andre not feel her? Did no one see her leaving?" Eric growled out, his hand opening and closing, maybe he was practicing squeezing Bianca's head off?
"She was seen just before sunrise, we have trackers out now trying to locate her, but I think it was an inside job, there is no way that some random person got into the palace that close to dawn. No Andre can't seem to locate her but as I said if it's inside job maybe it was a witch that took her."
"I and Pam will be there shortly, tell no one you've spoken to me and do not react when I arrive."
Eric snapped his phone shut almost breaking it in two. I moved to sit on the opposite sofa from him, the closer I was the harder it was to endure the anger and grief that was coming through the bond. I was upset myself, we had just found her again, and surely she wouldn't be taken from us so soon after reuniting.
"Maybe we should call Godric?" I asked tentatively, although I thought Eric was more than capable of dealing with the situation himself, I believed that Godric's unique insight would be beneficial to him. Plus I knew Godric had been worried about Eric and probably still was. If there was even a chance of Sookie going completely missing again I wanted Godric around to make sure my master didn't do anything rash.
"Perhaps. Meet me at the airport, I have to go and retrieve some clothing, and your punishment still stands Pam."
I scowled but nodded my head as he rose. It gave me a little hope that maybe just maybe this time Eric wouldn't go off the deep end if we couldn't find Sookie.
I rose in complete darkness, not since I had been turned had anything been as dark as the room that I was in. One of the benefits of being a vampire was that there was no disorientation when you first wake up; you're just dead then alive again. It took me awhile to accept that that wasn't strange; still I kept quiet, not moving at all, listening to see if anyone was in the room with me. There was no one, I stood from my prone position on the floor making no noise, putting my hands out infront of me, summoning up a small glow into my hands.
The first time it had ever happened I had been mid coitus basking in the sensation of a well given orgasm when my whole body had lit up like a firecracker. The light had been so bright it burned my eyes, the poor human that had been resting beside me had gone blind unfournately, that had been hard to explain, I had had to glamour the memory from his mind of course. Over time I had learned to control it, and learn how it worked, it had taken a long time though, the first time I ever experimented with my new ability I had almost killed the donor I was practicing on, throwing him across the room and denting his skull, it was also the time I had learned that I could heal with the same light. I hadn't told Andre or the Queen about the ability or the other one I'd discovered, hell they knew about my telepathy and they didn't need to know about my light fingers.
Looking around the room I frowned, there were traces of silver and iron in the walls, apparently Hadley didn't know that iron didn't affect me, but the silver was a problem. Why had she even taken me in the first place? I couldn't see what she wished to accomplish, no doubt Andre was already looking for me if he had been alerted to my missing presence. I felt for my bond with Hunter, instead of feeling him though I felt a black hole. Panicking I reached for my bond with Andre, finding that it was also deadened.
What the fuck? 'Ok, so you can't feel any of them, there is a rational explanation to this Sookie. Maybe it's like when I was taken from Rhodes and Eric couldn't feel me?' I thought, trying to pull myself together. 'Think, why would Hadley stick you in a room that had silver walls that was also apparently warded?' No matter which way I looked at it, I couldn't figure out why she had done it. Sure we had never gotten along, but surely she didn't plan to kill me? No definitely not, if she had intended to kill me surely she would have done it this morning? Frustrated I paced around the room, stopping in front of a giant door, there was no handle on this side and as I touched the surface it burned.
I pulled my hand back hissing, the fucking door even had silver plating. Letting out a frustrated screech I sat on the floor. How the fuck was I supposed to get out of here, and did anyone even realize I was missing?
I sat like that for what seemed like hours, there was absolutely no sound coming from outside the room so either it was soundproof, which I wouldn't be all that surprised to learn or I wasn't even in the palace anymore. I hadn't recognized the three weres that entered my suite this morning at all, which was odd as Hadley didn't really have contact with anyone outside the palace from what I knew. Hell even the Queen didn't bring her on outings, sometimes I thought that the Queen had regretted turning Hadley, but even if she had she would never have admitted it to me. I blew out a breath staring down at my hands.
Maybe my lightning hands could blast the door open? No one knew about them so I doubted Hadley had had the door reinforced to withstand the power behind them. Getting to my feet I tried to calm my mind, focusing on exactly what I wanted to happen I thrust my hands out in front of me. There was a boom and the door groaned under the pressure but it held. I screamed in frustration, throwing myself and all my body weight against the door I cried out where the silver touched my skin. Falling back to the floor I moaned in pain, watching as the skin sizzled on my right side.
I pulled my knees up to my chest and leaned my head against them. This was useless. Wherever I was it didn't seem like I would be getting out of here on my own. I dropped my shields trying to feel if someone was around but there was no one, I was definitely out of the palace.
I let the light in my hands go feeling the reserve of wherever it came from waning, I had never really used it before and apparently I taped into my resources trying to blow the door out. I sucked in a breath scenting my surroundings. I could smell the unknown weres as well as Hadley. My shields were still down, so I wasn't really surprised when I felt the were coming towards me, his mind was full of pock marks, a sign that he'd been glamored a lot in his life. I could clearly see he wanted to get to know me better.
I shuddered, not since my uncle had I ever seen something so sick in someone's head. Slipping inside I learned his name was Samuel and that he had a wife and babies at home, I dug a little deeper but it seemed like all he knew was that he was supposed to keep me in the room and not to come near me. I couldn't help grinning at that, he had made a big mistake. I had learned of my second ability by accident, I had woken from a bloodlust to a donor frantically searching for something to kill me with. There were at least four bodies around me, most of them were drained, but some of them still lived. I had reached out instinctively with my mind, trying to understand why he would want to kill me and seen the slaughter through his eyes. Instead of moving I had simply grabbed his mind, I guess you could think of it as in my mental hands, and wiped his memory clean of the advent, putting in its place that he had had a lovely time and that I had been perfectly behaved.
I had used my ability throughout my first years, it was probably why I was punished less than I should have been, but Andre's punishments had always been harsher than what I thought I needed. I grabbed the weres mind, removing the dirty images of what he wanted to do to me from it and instead giving him instructions that he was to let me out and forget that he had done it. My ability could be so useful sometimes, as most people knew better than to look directly into vampire's eyes these days.
I was waiting at the door when he opened it and I walked out as he closed it. I was in an underground bunker of some type, but it was huge! I looked around, casting my mind throughout the building, there was only five weres here and all of their minds were as fucked up as the first guys. I blew air through my noise and sped away before the were noticed me. It was easy enough to find the exit, but when I came out I had no clue where I was.
It seemed that I had been moved at some point during the day as I was in what appeared to be woods. There was no one around except for the weres in the bunker and there were no scents that I recognized outright. I could faintly smell Hadley but it seemed she hadn't been here in a week or two. That was weird, how had her scent been so strong in the room I was locked in but not out here? Shaking my head I brushed the thought off, looking up at the sky and trying to find the North Star I was blown away at how clear the sky looked. I rarely ever saw stars in New Orleans because of all the pollution in the air, I found it eventually after staring up at the stars longer than I probably should have. I started running, figuring I would eventually find a town and a phone.
I heard the first growl when I had been running for about an hour I figured, I was just starting to see lights through the seemingly endless woods that surrounded me. I glanced behind me without pausing, but I didn't see anything. I wasn't that surprised the forest I was in had dense underbrush, so I reached out with my mind. Three, there was three wolves on my tail and I cursed silently under my breath, I wasn't sure if I could evade them and I didn't want them chasing me to whatever was ahead of me, an altercation between Werewolves and a Vampire would definitely show up on the front page. Thinking quickly I glanced around. There was a sturdy tree coming up on my right and as I reached it I jumped, grasping the lowest branch, swinging myself up onto it I crouched waiting. They appeared not even twenty minutes later, during that time I had become aware of my hunger, it had started as an ache in my stomach, by the time they showed up bolts of pain were shooting through me, my fangs had run down and wouldn't go up.
Perhaps these weres would be a welcome meal if slightly disgusting. Imagine McDonald's food that has sat in your fridge overnight and completely cooled and then when you heated up all the oil oozed out, this was how I regarded weres. They were good for a quick meal but I would definitely never prefer feeding off them. I watched as they paused where my trail ended, I hadn't moved from the spot I'd crouched in from when I'd first entered the tree, the less my scent was spread out the less chance they'd have of picking up. Looking into their thoughts all I saw was a red snarly mess, it seemed they didn't retain all their human thinking facilities. I cursed inwardly seeing the chunks missing from their minds; I wouldn't be able to glean any information out of these ones either. Two of the wolves were branching off but one was still nosing around the area, apparently not convinced that I had suddenly disappeared. Perfect.
I dropped down on top of his, snapping his spine, I was nothing but grateful when the pain made him shift back into a human because it was on so much easier for me to grab the back of his head and lift his neck to my mouth. I bit down, sucking in the sweet blood that would end my pain finally, I didn't restrain myself at all and when I was finished I jumped back into the tree and putting cramming in body into an intersecting pair of branches. I wiped the small amount of blood off my chin, I was quite proud of myself, I had felt like I was starving and yet I hadn't wasted any blood. Looking up at the moon I realized I had dallied too long waiting for the weres and then feeding. I scowled and moved off, staying in the trees and jumping from one to the other.
I did not see any signs of the weres and when I came out of the trees I was shocked. I was standing in the backyard of the Fellowship of the Sun, where I had rescued Godric so long ago. I frowned counting up the distance between New Orleans and Dallas, it would have taken them at least 6 hours to get me here, and I had woken at first dark as usual. Furthermore why the fuck would I end up in Dallas and so close to a Fellowship church? None of this made sense. I stepped out onto the lawn that surrounded the 'church', I had never been able to think of it like that seriously, at least not since I had met Steve Newlin all those years ago. I moved over to the parking lot and my hopes fled when I saw that it was empty, a quick glance at the sky let me know it was getting later and later, I would have to find somewhere to rest soon enough, but the thought of resting in the woods so close to the Fellowship had me uneasy, not even mentioning the wolves that had been tracking me.
It was if thinking of them summoned them. They stepped out of the woods on either side of me about ten feet away. I was flanked; I turned and looked at one and then the other. I had never had a problem with wolves, indeed I got along well with my day time security, and it was true that they did have a distinct smell; it was kind of like a musky woodsy smell. It wasn't as horrible has Eric and every other vampire I had ever met made out regardless of the fact. I took a step forward and matching growls met my ears, they were both big and I figured they'd be pushing six feet in their human forms. I didn't want to take on two weres by myself, I knew I wasn't strong enough. I paused staring the large black one as I thought, I could vaguely remember where Godric's house had been, but it had been badly damaged in the attack from the Fellowship, and I didn't even know if he was still Sheriff. Finding that house was my best bet but there was no way I was going to lead these wolves to it.
They had to die.
I moved faster than I ever had and I was beside the first wolf in a second, he just caught my wrist as I went to grab his head, biting down painfully. I growled ripping it from his mouth as he turned more fully towards me. I took a step back when I was hit from behind, knocking me over the wolf that had grabbed me. This one was pure white, and I would have thought beautiful at any other time. I rolled to my feet crouching my fangs extended, I darted forward grabbing the black wolfs front legs and jerking them forward until I heard them crack. He howled in pain shifting back into his human form and I could barely look at him, I had completely pulled the arms from their joints, still he needed to shut up, there was a highway just over the lawn. I grabbed his head and twisted it sharply hearing his neck crack I dropped him to the ground as the white wolf once again hit me from behind, grabbing onto the back of my neck.
I fell sprawled over the dead body that I had just made, twisting I shrieked in pain as I felt the wolf firm their grip sinking it's teeth into me. I rolled onto my back trying to squish it between my body and the ground but it was a no go, rolling back to my stomach I lifted myself and the wolf, hissing the air out of my lungs. It held on that's for sure, and as I got my hands around its ribs I could feel my skin separating from my neck as I pulled, I screamed as I tore it off me, throwing it as far as I could. I didn't let it lie there for very long, no I pounced quickly, sinking my fangs into the soft skin of it's inside back leg. The noise was horrible, a mix of a human screaming in pain and wolf, I discovered I was still thirsty and the screams got quieter and quieter as I quickly drained the blood from his body. I shoved the body away from me when I finished and watched as it slowly turned back into a human, truly I had always liked weres but that didn't mean I wasn't going to kill them if they tried to kill me.
I quickly gathered both bodies and I once again shoved them high up in the trees, the smell would attract crows but it was safer than leaving them on the ground where someone from their own pack could find them right away. Reaching up I felt the back of my neck, it was tender and a bit sore but I could tell it was healing. Stepping back out onto the Fellowships lawn I looked around, I don't know for what, maybe I had expected to see more evidence of the small battle that had just occurred; maybe I was just trying to get my bearings. Whatever I was looking for I didn't find it, instead I once again looked up at the sky, orienting myself I headed off towards Godric's old house, hoping I would arrive before I had to seek shelter from the sun.
AN: Wow! This is my longest chapter yet and trust me I tried to end it much sooner so that I could post it but Sookie screamed bloody murder about me leaving her locked up in a cage surrounded by silver. Plus I think I needed to show just how strong she was, and she completely agreed. The next chapter should be up soonish and I hope you all enjoyed this one! Reviews keep me going and I have to thank everyone that reviewed Chapter Eight!