Fifth Day, Fifth Chapter

Chapter 28

He flew back to the hospital, he went without anyone could see him and leaned over Sookie's bed.

"Have they done these tests?" he asked.

"Yes" Jason replied with a rueful tone.

"Well?"

"Let the doctor tell you. I... I don't understand anything" He was going to rush out after him when he saw him appear behind a curtain. The doctor saw Eric, wrote something in the patient's folder that he was visiting, he left it at the foot of the bed and he fixed his glasses and headed to where they were standing.

"We have run all the tests to your friend and..."

"She's my wife" he interrupted. The doctor looked at Jason who nodded.

"Well, we have done all the tests to your wife and effectively, your blood, as you said, has erased all traces of the bruises and injuries which she had when was admitted this morning."

"Why doesn't she wake up?" he got his nerves to talk to humans.

"That, sir, I don't know what to answer. There is no medical reason why she shouldn't be awake. It's all I can say. Let's disconnect from machines" He told to a nurse and they began to turn off all the monitors and taking off the stickers.

"She doesn't need them?" Eric asked.

"Not at all. The IV feeding line is all she need, because she cannot take food by herself, obviously."

"Perfect" he said. He went to Sookie, he pulled the needle serum, he licked the droplets of blood, closed the wounds with his saliva and picked her up.

"What are you doing? Where do you think you are going?"

"Let him do it!" Jason scared him "Are you going to take her to Fangtasia, so that doctor of your can check her?" Eric nodded and run out from there at vampire speed.

She was so cold, almost frost. He held her against his chest during the flight, feeling sorry about been unable to keep her warm with his body heat. He landed in the alley of Fangtasia, on the back door. Pam received him at once. She was dressed in a red tube dress that shone like patent leather, long sleeves, plunging neckline and short above the knees.

"What has happened? You are not answering your phone. What happens to Sookie?"

"Call Ludwig."

"Immediately" She stood there, typing a number while Eric was heading to his office. He called one of the humans who worked at the bar and asked him to bring a stove or a radiator like the ones that the staff used in showers. The boy happily obeyed, happy that Eric addressed to him directly. He lay Sookie on the couch and left her in the most comfortable position he could, then covered her with some towels that he had there.

"I've seen a fangbanger out there in the line, with a fur coat. Took it from her!" Eric ordered. Pam came back in and they both covered Sookie in the best way they could. Pam watched her master stroke Sookie's hair.

"Ludwig is coming to here. Let me comb and fix her, you know how she is" Eric backed off and let his creature groom his wife "Did I want to tell me now what had happened?"

"I don't know" he said. But then he told her everything that had happened after finding Sookie in that shape.

"And she didn't wake up after drinking your blood?" Eric shook his head when somebody knock on the door.

"The doctor, master" announced a vampire.

"Which kind of mythical and fearsome creature have you got in your way this time Miss Stackhouse?" Eric helped with the heavy bag. The little doctor went to the sofa, rolled up, bent over Sookie and Eric felt while repeating the story of the day; neither had he kept to himself what happened over the night. He didn't know what to think. Too much excitement during sex could make that kind of damaged?

"And you say that you have given her your blood in the hospital..." Ludwig took a gleaming scalpel and she made a small cut on Sookie's wrist, licked and tasted the blood "Strange. She doesn't have any apparent injuries" she said after palpating her head again "and there is no trace of any poison, at least one that I know of, in aroma or flavor. And although I sense a slight hint of magic sharper than usual for her, it's not rare for Miss Stackhouse. But this is not natural, that I'm sure. If it had it been natural, your blood, vampire, would have healed her."

"Then?"

"Then I focus on something that vampire blood cannot cure."

"Like what?"

"Like nothing. A vampire is able to boot from the clutches of death itself to a dying man. Unfortunately, your waitress is not a wholly human. It is unclear how vampire blood works in other magical creatures, and less in the fairies, but what is certain is that the blow that human doctors say caused her unconsciousness is fully cured. I must investigate further" She gathered her things and take small steps approaching to the door "Norseman, it'll be better that until I have a diagnosis, you let her in the care of a human doctor. She'll need intravenous feeding."

"I would rather that you take care of her" Eric told her apprehensively.

"I have more patients, young man."

"I money won't be a problem" she looked at him frowning "I'll owe you a big favor" she smiled. Evidently, she liked that more. Eric was an ancient vampire with a position of power today and in the future his position could be even better in the supernatural and vampire hierarchy.

"Okay, okay. I have to go see someone now, but you take her home while I can go and check her and stay with her."

"She'll stay in my house" Eric said.

"She'll be better in hers, so she can be attended by a nurse."

"She'll be in my house, safe."

"She'll only be safe during night, but anyway... I don't have time to discuss it now. Do you have outside rooms, where she can get some sun? Well put her there" She continued when he nodded, walked out through the door and left escorted by her driver.

"I won't be at the bar tonight" he informed Pam "Come to my house when you close."

"Be careful" his creature told him.

"Pay the fur coat to the lady" Eric went out the back door, with Sookie in his arms. He arrived to his home in a few minutes and grab a royalty from the freezer and warmed it up in the microwave then he dress the bed for Sookie with red Egyptian cotton sheets. And even he hated it, and he had sworn to his wife that when she least expect it he would tear it up and throw it to the trash because it was horrible, he finished up pulling out from a drawer that Sookie had appropriated to store her stuff, a pink plush pajamas with gray elephants. It was just awful, but on cold nights Sookie liked to put it. And he put up with anything as long as she stayed at home. A thousand years to finish becoming a wimp.

Pam came close at four in the morning, Eric raised an eyebrow and asked where she had been when the bar had been closed at two. She simply replied that she had been "paying" the fur coat that Eric, in his infinite generosity, had given Sookie. The young vampire went upstairs to visit her friend and took care of her, aplaying some skin lotion in her face. The doctor of the supernatural arrived about an hour just before dawn and Eric was very, very angry.

"Births of the goblins are easy and painless" she defended herself "but long. Each goblin can give birth up to eleven pups."

"I don't give a damn" Eric confessed.

"Let's take another look at your fairy, Norseman. Let's see... I brought the dropper, but she will need a nurse during the day to change the bag when it's emptied. No argument. Also" she said when he saw Eric opened his mouth to interrupt "someone will have to clean Miss Stackhouse."

"I'll shower her" Eric said.

"I wasn't talking of that kind of cleaning up, vampire. You have been a few hours with her, so you may have noticed that in her coma, she craps and pee in her pants. If you clean her up, she will be ashamed. What is it?" She asked after seeing Eric's frown.

"She hadn't done it" Eric said.

"There was an adult diaper in your office at Fangtasia, I guess it was the one that they put her in the hospital. Right?"

"But it was clean."

"Did she had an IV in the hospital?"

"Of course" his cell phone started beeping. It was Jason.

"Where have you taken my sister?"

"Come to my house, I need someone trustable to take care of her while I'm dead during the day" He didn't answer, but Eric heard Jason's truck engine roar before hanging. Then?" he asked to the doctor.

"Now more than ever I must investigate. I'll have someone I can trust to come to be with your waitress during the day. He is my apprentice, a mongrel elf."

"You should let Stackhouse" Pam commented referring to Jason "take her to Bon Temps. It isn't good that so many people outside our common circle be at your home. I don't trust."

"I don't care."

"Eric is dangerous."

"I will move to another house!" The Viking roared. Pam bent her head bowed but she frowned. For her Eric's safety was as important and vital as Sookie's safety was for him. Jason arrived a few minutes before sunrise, he has some bags with him bringing supplies for the day, because, he said, he had no intention of leaving his sister at any time. Not after what had happened with the fairies.

Pam stayed to spend the day there. She succumbed as soon as the sun came over Shreveport's horizon but Eric withstood stoically in his room in the basement until the elf showed up. He wouldn't let come into his home to take care of his wife, a complete stranger, even when he came highly recommended by Ludwig. The doctor made the introductions slowly, calmly, knowing by the glint in Eric's eyes that he had trouble staying awake in such circumstances. He'd had time to talk to Jason alone before the assistant doctor arrived, so they had a plan of defense and surveillance plotted out. Jason made a gesture of complicity to the vampire and accompanied the two doctors to the room where his sister was.

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