A while later they stood in front of Godric and Keely saw Godric smile at her and returned it and then felt Eric's amusement and saw him watching and gave him a glare which he replied to with a smirk.
"I just wanted to say, I'm real sorry for what the Fellowship put you through" Jason said with a nod and Keely rolled her eyes as he went to walk away.
"You helped save many lives today Mr. Stackhouse. Please know you have friends in this area whenever you visit" Godric said with a small appreciative smile.
"Thanks man but I don't know if I'll be wantin' to come back, any time soon" he said honestly and Godric nodded, understandingly then Jason walked away.
"Miss Northman" Godric said and she smiled.
"Keely" she said and he nodded.
"I wish to get to know Eric's new daughter" he said and she shrugged.
"You're the sheriff, it can wait until later" she said and he looked at her.
"You are very patient. Are you sure you're Eric's?" he asked and she giggled slightly.
"I remember the whole thing so yes, I'm positive" she said and he smiled.
"Meet me in the garden in 10 minutes" he aid and she nodded and walked away and then heard Eric laugh.
"You are very nosy did anyone ever tell you that?" she asked and he shrugged.
"Did he get to tell you what Vackra means?" he asked and she huffed.
"No, I still don't know" she said and then spotted Stan and smiled.
"Stan?" she asked and he looked at her.
"Keely" he said.
"Do you know what Vackra means?" she asked and he chuckled.
"If you want languages ask Isabel" he said and she nodded and walked over and asked Isabel the same question.
"Did Eric or Godric call you it?" she asked and she nodded.
"Eric does" she said and Isabel smiled.
"Then he would not be happy if I ruined it so sorry, can't say" she said and Keely huffed and then saw Eric smirking at her from across the hall and glared.
"...good boy, run along" she heard him say a while later and rolled her eyes as Jason walked away.
"You have a very sick sense of humour" she said and he grinned at her.
"So have you sometimes Vackra" he said and she glared at him.
"I will find out that means and then what will you do?" she asked and he smirked.
"You need to meet Godric" he said and she sighed and walked off and then spotted Godric waiting.
"Sorry, I was having a very annoying conversation with Eric" she said and he nodded with a smile.
"He is like that" he said and she smiled.
"Would you tell me what Vackra means?" she asked and he smiled.
"It's an old Swedish word" he said and she nodded.
"That's all I'm saying" he said and she gaped and pouted.
"Now I know where Eric gets his mean playful strake from" she said and he smiled.
"So tell me about yourself" he asked and she smiled and was about when her phone began ringing. She looked at him and he smiled, making butterflies fly into her stomach.
"Answer it, we can talk later" he said and she sighed.
"Sorry" she said and then picked it up.
"Whoever this, it better be important" she said angrily.
"Keely" Jessica said and she heard her best friend was crying.
"Jess? Honey, what's wrong?" she panicked.
"Me and Hoyt had sex in Dallas and now we just tried to do it again here and...It grew back" she said.
"Grew back? What grew back?" she asked.
"It, the barrier thing, I mean everything heals when you're a vampire. I'm gonna be a virgin forever Keely" Jessica cried and Keely gasped and sat on the grass with a stunned expression.
"Oh wow, honey, I...er...I don't know what to tell you" she said.
"I know, I just...I feel so weird and cheated" she said.
"Sweetie, I'm so sorry" Keely said.
"I just feel like such a freak. I mean a virgin vampire?" she asked.
"Well I mean maybe there are operations or something. I mean you can't be the only virgin vampire" she said, soothingly.
"I guess but what if there isn't? I can't go through it again" she said and Keely sighed.
"I know" she said.
"Jess sweetie, I have to go before Eric starts looking for me but I swear I will call you later ok and we will talk all about it" she said.
"Ok, I love you" she said and Keely smiled softly.
"I love you too" she said and hung up the entered the house and saw Isabel with Hugo on his knees, battered and bruised and stood in the room and in front of Eric, who placed his hand on her shoulder.
"Hugo, he's your human is he not?" Godric asked calmly as blood tears welled in the Spanish woman's eyes.
"Yes he is" she admitted.
"Do you love him?" he asked and Isabel, Keely, Stan, Bill, Eric and the others in the room looked at him.
"I...I...I thought I did" she stuttered and Godric nodded as the woman began to cry silently.
"It appears you love him still" he commented said with a soft smile as Isabel sniffled slightly and Hugo made whimpering noises at her feet.
"I do. I'm sorry. But you are my Sheriff, do with him as you please" Isabel said and Godric glanced up and Keely locked eyes with him and gave him a small smile, which he faintly returned.
"You are free to go" he said and Hugo looked at him stunned as did every other vampire in the room, except Keely.
"What?" Stan growled.
"The human is free to go" he said firmly and Stan sighed but didn't argue further.
"And do not return. I fear it is not safe for you here" Godric added and then looked at Isabel.
"This is a travesty" Stan said and Godric looked at the male.
"This is my verdict" Godric said finally.
"Eric?" Godric asked and he stepped forwards.
"Escort them out, make he leaves unharmed" he said and he nodded, with a blank face.
"Yes Godric" he said and then walked over, picked up Hugo by the scruff of his neck and then walked off out of the room.
"Thank you, thank you Sheriff" Isabel said and Godric looked at her and nodded and she left. Keely watched Godric leave and went after him.
"That was really nice" she said when she found him the garden.
"Nice?" he asked and she nodded.
"Yeah, most vampire's including Eric, would have killed him without a second thought" she said and he sighed.
"I would have done" he said and looked at her.
"But then I saw your smile and I couldn't" he said and she smiled softly.
"What does my smile have to do with anything?" she asked and he smiled at her, causing more butterflies.
"It's so sweet and innocent and...pure. There's no anger in your eyes, there's no rage or hunger. They sparkle and shine with laughter and happiness. I have not seen eyes like that in a very long time. You're smile is the same, it's bright and I can't help but smile back at you. You are only a few weeks old and yet you have no greed in your eyes, no hunger for power or rage in your eyes. You have no...Darkness" he said and she smiled gently.
"My grandfather always used to tell me that, if one can live their life without anger or hate, it is a happy life, but if one can live their life with anger and hate and still be happy, that is a great life" she said and he smiled.
"He sounds like a very smart man" he said and she smiled.
"He was. He taught me a lot. I can see you are tired of this, I can tell you are sick and bored with being a vampire but have you were tried not being one?" she asked and he looked at her confused.
"Excuse me?" he asked and she smiled.
"Have you ever spent a day, sitting down somewhere and just sitting there because you can? Have you ever just walked into the rain and danced around in it, knowing people are watching and laughing at you, just because it makes you happy? I have. I have spent hours playing the rain just because it was fun and it was something that made me happy that costs nothing and hurts no one. Every Wednesday my brothers and I used to go for a walk, only around our neighbourhood, and we'd just talk and laugh about things we'd done or things we wished for. Just because you're a vampire doesn't mean that everything has to change. Ok so you no longer have a heartbeat, you can't go out in the sun, you have cold skin and you drink blood. So what? None of that stops you from dancing in storms at night or running through a field, even if you can cross it in seconds. You are sheriff by choice. You can walk away, you can quit. You can have the childhood you maybe didn't have when you were a child" she said and he looked at her.
"You are the youngest person here and yet maybe the smartest" he said and she smiled.
"No, just the simplest, I don't need fancy toys or gadgets to make me happy because I grew up with next to nothing. You'd be surprised how much fun it is to just run around in a thunderstorm" she said and he looked at her.
"Next rain storm at night" he said and she smiled.
"I'll be here with my welly's" she said and he chuckled.
"So what else do you have philosophies on?" he asked and she laughed and they sat outside talking.
"We better get back to your party...Sheriff" she said and he smiled at her.
"After you Miss Northman" he said and she smiled as he held open the door for her. She ignored Eric's smirk as she and Godric went into the little room and he gestured to his white chair.
"What?" she asked and he smiled.
"What kind of gentlemen would I be if I sat down and made you stand?" he asked and she smiled.
"The 2,000 year old kind" she said and he grinned as he gently pushed her into the chair as they began chatting about random things that entered their heads.
