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Chapter 26:
Eric had been gone a week. I had gotten no phone calls or texts and I had even had Pam ignoring me. Sookie was freaking out daily and trying to run off all willy nilly to get Bill.
I was currently locked up inside my house on my day off when the door bell rang. I could tell it was Sookie because she had been stopping by to get updates on what was happening. Had I gotten a phone call? Why wasn't anyone answering? It just wouldn't end. I figured if Eric hadn't called there would be a good reason for it. All I had to do was sit and wait.
"Open the door Oliver! I know you are here!" She started banging on the door. Sighing loudly I threw the blanket off myself and trudged to the front door.
"He hasn't called yet. There's no new information." I told her sternly, I knew if I let her in I wouldn't get a moments peace until bed time.
"I cannot believe this! I can't sit around here waiting anymore Oliver.. I am going out there." She said as she turned and started back down the porch steps. "This is boloney."
"Sookie dammit! Get back here! You can't just go after them, you could ruin Eric's plans." I yelled after her, following her down the steps, still in my nightie.
"I can't wait around while Eric takes his sweet time. Bill could be in danger." She yelled back at me. "You either stay here or come with me but I am not waiting another darn day."
"Seriously? You're doing this?" I asked her as I turned to go back inside. This constant shit was getting to me. "Let me get dressed and call Pam again before you run off making stupid choices."
"Fine, go on in there and get dressed. Call Pam and then get in the car so we can go." She said as she crossed her arms over her chest and stomped to her car.
I pulled on a long sleeves , loose white dress and tugged on some boots. I combed my hair back and called Pam. It rang four times and went to her voice mail once again.
"Pam, its Oliver. Sookie is out of control and heading for Bill. I can't let her run off so I am going with her to make sure shes safe. If you here from Eric let him know.
Hanging up I placed the phone back into my bag and headed for Sookie. I guess we are going on a small road trip. I even left Godric as note. I figured he would try to help any way he could once he got back.
"Alright Sook, lets get this shit done." I said, climbing into her car, not knowing what our plan would be. Storm into this place? Fight a bunch of really old vampires, risk death. All for what? Bill Compton. Completely unsure if he still even wanted to be with Sookie.
I was pissed to say the least.. But here I was going along with it.
We have been driving all damn day Sookie.. Pull over the damn car." I told her. I hoped by now Pam had gotten my phone call. Maybe she could attempt to stop us and I could go home and eat ice cream.
God I wanted ice cream..
"Fine, but I am not happy about it." She whined, pulling us into a small motel. "We head there first thing." She warned me.
"Yeah I get it. Do you think they have ice cream here?" I asked, moving a little off topic.
"Seriously? Ice cream?" She asked baffled. What? I wasn't the one whose boyfriend was missing. He wasn't even her boyfriend! This was so ridiculous.
"What? I deserve ice cream! Look at me, again! Here saving your ass, Bill's to.." I said annoyed with her.
"Whatever little miss whiny pants." She said, raising her eyebrows to me. As we sat there I think I decided it was a staring contest. Sookie and I got closer to each other, eyes wide open. I could see her falter though, her eyes were drying out!
"Ha! Bitch! I so won." I stuck my tongue out at her as we checked into our small room. She smiled at me oddly, I could feel her wondering what the hell was wrong with me. I was wondering what was wrong with me! Maybe I cracked. Maybe I was having some sort of Fae mental break down.
'I wonder what Eric's plan is here. Damn vampire..'
"He's trying Sookie. That should count for something." I said, reading her thoughts loud and clear.
"Hey! Privacy?" She said angrily.
"You are broadcasting that shit loud and clear Sook, Kinda hard to ignore you." I shrugged. It wasn't my loss of self control, it was hers. I won again?
I smiled to myself, unsure of why my thoughts were so bonkers. I was feeling rather silly lately. It was true.. I must have cracked.
A knock on our door drew me from my thoughts, Sookie got out of bed and answered the door. A large tan man stood in the door way. He looked at Sookie then at me, walking through the door without saying anything.
"Uh hello? Manners much?" Sookie said angrily, slamming the door.
"You Oliver?" He asked me, approaching the chair I was sitting in. "Pam sent me, I'm Alcide" He stuck his hand out to me.
"Ha! Awesome!" I said, laughing to myself. Sookie and Alcide watched me curiously as I jumped from the chair. "So your here to help then?" I asked him.
"I am, I owe Eric Northman a favor." He looked back at Sookie who was now joining us at the small dinner table.
"You owe Eric Northman a favor? Why?" She asked him.
"Pack business." He said, looking back to me. "Eric can always tell you later. Now whats it gonna take to get you to go home?" He asked me. I raised my eyebrow at him this time.
"Don't ask me that. Ask Sookie." I shrugged. If she decided we go home then so be it. I did not have my heart set on this little adventure.
"I am not going anywhere! Tomorrow I am going to find out where they are and I am getting Bill back." She said sternly, Alcide drew his hand over his face in agitation as he finally nodded to her.
"I will be back in the morning, Be here when I am." He said, turning to leave us.
Sookie was up early, puddering around the small room, packing our stuff back into bags.
"Are you sure you wanna do this?" Alcide asked her for the tenth damn time.
"Yes, take me to this bar and I will read their minds. We can get Bill by tomorrow." She shrugged at him.
"Well I am in! I've never met a whole pack of wolves before." I said, excited. "Never been around any other then you." I giggled.
"It ain't safe... You two shouldn't be doing this." He tried to warn us.
"It's no use, she want's to do this." I told him, patting his shoulder. "No use repeating yourself."
We arrived in the were bar, stopping as was usual for new supe bars, they were always checking the clientele.
"They only allow supes here." Alcide had explained as we came to the entrance of Lou-Pines. "It may not look like much but Lou Pines is the oldest were-bar in Mississippi." He reached around Sookie's waist and directed towards a bald wolf by the bar.
"Alcide." He grinned as they shook hands, "It's nice to see a face from the old pack."
"I figured the new wolves are drinking enough for all of us." Alcide smiled back, stopping to take a look around the bar. The place was packed with bikers all smelling heavily of dog. Even I could smell it, but for me it was different. To me they were earthy, natural even. I didn't mind them.
"Who are the civilians?" He asked, eying me thoroughly, not removing the large smile from his face. He could tell we weren't wolves.
"They're cool, they are uh... Friends." Alcide told the guy.
"This one looks like dinner." He said back, eying Sookie's silly white outfit. She was always dressing like the girl next door, in this case it was over kill.
"I'll keep an eye on her, Hollace was it?" I asked, knowing full well no one mentioned his name. I had picked it up, listening in on Alcide's thoughts. The niceties were getting boring. The wolf's eyes trailed down my body again trying to figure out what I was, like everyone did at first. "Now! Is there any chance bikers enjoy ice cream?" I asked him, rolling my eyes. It was a bit off topic but I didn't want to be here and I wanted ice cream. I raised my head impatiently as the bar drew my attention away from the man.
There was definitely no damn chance of bikers enjoying ice cream in this place. This was a bar that wouldn't serve anything but hard liquor and beer, I was out of luck. Dammit.
'Oliver! Stop thinking about ice cream already! We have to focus on getting Bill back!' Sookie forced her thoughts on me as she pulled me after Alcide. I pulled my focus away from the bar and followed after her in a huff.
'You owe me ice cream.' I sent her my reply angrily, hoping she would feel my emotions as well.
"We have to split off. If they see me with you they ain't gonna talk." He told Sookie.
"Where you gonna be?" Sookie asked him as we stopped at a table by the bar.
"I'll be watching you." He said, making eye contact with me. I nodded and pulled her quickly towards the man he pointed us towards. "Make it quick, for you're own sake." He said into her ear.
Sookie broke off from me as we did a slow walk towards the men at the large table. One man sat in the middle, legs up on the table. He seemed like the one had been looking for, confidence poured from him as well as the scent of vampire.
"Well hello there boys." My idiot friend said, batting her eyes around at them. "I seem to have left my wallet in my car. Which one of you would buy this girl here a cosmo?" She asked as they all looked at her. A Cosmo? Really Sook?
"You here alone cream puff?" A large hairy biker asked her, his face remaining still, eyes traveling over her white lace shirt and short jean skirt. "Oh you are aren't you? Not very smart are yeah?"
"Oh me? I have been to much tougher places then this." Sookie laughed it off, but we all knew she was full of it. "Any of you heard of a place in Louisiana called Fangtasia?"
"You're a fang banger?" He said, raising his eyebrow at her.
"Well there's nothing.. Meaner or even stronger then a vampire." She shrugged. "Whats not to like?"
I threw my palm up to my face, dragging it down dramatically as I watched her in horror. This girl was asking for trouble and I was starting to question my devotion to her and the pact I made with Claudine.
"You'd be surprised." The guy in the middle said, stepping up from the table and joining her by the large hairy dude.
'If you knew we just kicked the shit out of one a few days ago you'd be on your knees right now.' his thoughts rushed over me as he set his beer down on the table.
Sookie came closer to him, placing her hand suggestively on his shoulder, "Why don't you tell me about it." She whispered to him, smiling as she placed her other hand on her hip. This was now getting out of hand. I took a bar seat next to Alcide, as we watched the two waltz out of sight.
"That girl doesn't know what she is doing does she?" He asked, handing me a bottle.
"She was sheltered.." I said, taking a drink and placing it back down on the bar as a scream came from behind the door they went through. Alcide and I both jumped from our seats, racing towards it.
'Eww he's rapey, hurry up and get in here.' Sookie was yelling at me over our little connection.
By the time I reached her Alcide had the man on the floor as he threw punches. His fist connected with the wolf's face one by one, blood flying at us.
"Well damn, I thought this was boring but you really saved me from it this time." I told her as I pulled her away. "Next time maybe you should let me do the talking? Also buying me a little ice cream first could help to." I elbowed her side.
Alcide and the man brought the fight into the open bar, throwing each other around as cheers erupted from the bikers. Sookie moved towards the door as I went back to the bar to finish my drink, trying to ignore the fighting men behind me as a chair flew by my head followed by Alcide.
I drank the last of my beer, turning around to watch the fight now. A few bikers were standing close to them, trying to make sure it didn't effect the few lady wolves on the outskirts of the bar.
Finally Alcide was pulled back by two as their leader threw punches, taking over the fight. I placed the empty bottle down and straightened out.
"Well shit! It seems the fun has run out.." I said as I easily threw the men off him, all three including the man that tried to hurt Sookie. Light filled the bar as they flew into a few tables roughly, braking one in half completely. All eyes went from them to me in a second as they tried to figure out whether to come at me or not. I flicked a small piece of table off my shoulder as I looked around at them raising my eyebrow, "What? I really do enjoy a good fight but when others start steppin in.. It just starts to get a little unfair. There is nothing interesting about that." I shrugged.
I turned around and made for the door where Sookie had been waiting for me, her eyes wide, a smile played on her lips as she watched me.
"Look man you gotta get gone, they aren't gonna stay smart for long" Hollace said, shaking Alcide's hand as he lead him towards our car. "I dunno if you heard but I should tell you that your girl Debbie.. She's engaged to Coot.." He whispered, trying to say it quietly enough that we wouldn't hear. "I thought you should know, the girls got a V addiction that's leading her towards danger." The last bit cut off as I was pulled roughly into the car with Sookie.
Alcide drove us back towards the small motel we were staying in as Sookie and I sat quietly.
"Was that even worth it?" He asked her finally breaking the silence.
"Yes of course it was.." She said back as she turned her focus back to me, "I knew what I had protecting me and I knew what I was doing thank you very much."
"What does that even mean? You have a small blonde girl and a wolf against what? Thirty biker wolves?" He raised his voice a bit.
"You saw what she can do." She shrugged, "Besides.. I saw a few memories of him with Bill. It's a lead." she insisted.
A loud beeping noise rang out over the shitty radio as Sookie answered her phone, annoyed at the bad timing. "Hello?"
"Bill? Are you hurt?" She asked the phone, her face turning to worry. "I know the were wolves have you."
"Shut the fuck up." She said shaking her head. This caught my by surprise having never heard her swear before. I had thought her incapable until now. "You have to be kidding me?"
I placed my hand on her shoulder, rubbing gently.
"You have to say that... Someone's listening." He shook her head again, pulling away from my comfort, "That's not true." She sobbed now, her body shaking lightly as she looked out the window. "I don't believe this.." She cried into the phone.
Getting upset I grabbed it from her fingers, pressing it to my ear.
Me: Bill? What the fuck is going on? I sent Eric after you a week ago.
Bill: Eric is here, I cannot speak for him but I am asking that you do not bring Sookie here looking for me. Her and I are over, I wish to be left in peace.
Me: Yes well that's all well and good but I have no control over what she does. I would like to add that when I do find you I plan to punish you for hurting my friend Mr. Compton. We little people don't love lightly, Sookie doesn't love lightly..
Bill: You shouldn't come here Miss Northman, go home.
The dial tone came as the line went dead. Goddam vampires!
"You hung it up on him?" Sookie asked me, her eyes still filled with tears. "Why would you do that? We could have figured out where he is!"
"I am sure he wouldn't have told us. Besides, that woman was listening in, I could hear her." I shivered as I remembered the slimy maker or my friends Boy toy. I was sure she was having a fun time listening in on us. "We can still find out where they are, don't worry about it."
Bill had turned into 'they' I realized. Bill had said he wasn't coming back and Eric hadn't made contact with me. I found it very intriguing, now I wanted to know just as badly as Sookie just what was going on. Was I kidding myself about him? Did he leave me behind to move on to newer brighter things? Did he even love me?
"He said they had sex." She told me, leaning her head on my shoulder, wiping her cheeks. "She made him do it." She said trying to convince herself that he had been lying.
"Look Sookie.. I really think you should be prepared to loose him." I told her, preparing myself for the same outcome.
"Bill loves me. I know in my heart that this is all just for show." She reassured me. Alcide finally pulled into the small motel parking lot.
"Get some sleep, I will come back for you two in the morning." He growled, trying to get Sookie out of the car. "You stay, I want to talk." He said to me.
Sookie slammed the door, heading towards the room we were staying in. I watched as she slipped through it, closing it loudly behind her. It would be a hard night with no sleep, I knew it.
"What time should I come by tomorrow? What time we heading back to Bon Temps?" He asked me.
"Heading back? No I am not going back." I shook my head, "I know at first I wasn't so into finding Bill but now I sorta am.. Well not Bill but I do want to find out where he is so I can find someone else.."
"Eric Northman." He said.
"Yes.. How do you even know that?" I asked, crawling into the front seat.
"Pam said you were dating her maker. Seemed obvious." He shrugged, "Look she needs yo to go back, that man shes lookin for doesn't want her to come after him. I can take her home."
"You can try sure." I Shrugged as I swung open the trucks door, "But I am not leaving until I figure out what is going on here." I told him, slamming the door behind me.