Sorrrrrrrry it's been so long between updates :(
But this is the longest chapter yet (YAY!) and I think (hope) you'll all like it :P
Please try and excuse any mistakes....They are all my own.
Dislaimer: I own nothing it all belongs to Charlaine Harris
Sookie........What the fuck is Sookie doing here? That came through loud and clear from Jasons thoughts, although you could tell that was what he was thinking from the look on his face. But what was he doing here? Jason was not into vamps and he wasnt a fangbanger. This night was just getting better and better. Eric interrupted me and Jasons staring competion.
"Sookie how do you know this man?" I was about to answer him when Jason spoke up. Out of the corner of my eye I noticed Pam sheperding the other two fangbangers out of the room.
"I'm her brother and I think the question is who the hell are you? And Sook what are you doing here?" I heard Eric's fangs slide and down and quickly put myself inbetween the two. Shit, what was I going to tell Jason. But he hadn't seemed to have caught on yet that I'm now a vamp.......Hmmm maybe, just maybe I could get through this tonight because I really wasn't ready yet to have to explain to Jason and my friends about my new state.
"Eric not now. Jason come sit on the couch with me." I pulled him down with me and faced him, wondering what excuse I could give him that wouldn't rouse too much suspision. Eric and Pam both leaned against the far wall regarding us both with a look of curiousity. "So Jase, I'm here tonight because I'm.......I'm looking for a place to book a suprise party for Tara's brithday in a few months and here was just giving me some information about it and a quote. So what about you, how comes your here tonight?" Well Jason seemed to believe what I had told him but I could hear that he was wondering where I had been these past few days becuase he had been to the house and found it all lockd up. I could also hear that he wanted to speak to me alone.
"Oh right, that sounds....nice Sook but um I never knew Tara liked vampires.......But ya me and a couple of the guys decided to come check this place out 'cos none of us have ever been here before......and here I am." he flashed me a winsome smile and I couldn't help but return it. This was going well.....until Eric decided he wanted to join in the conversation.
"So I hope you are enjoying your time here tonight and that everything is as you expected it to be but I need to finish discussing some things with your sister, if you wouldn't mind returning to the bar area." His tone of voice made it obvious that he wasn't making a request. Jason did stand but hesitated. He glanced at Eric and Pam. As his head was turned I couldn't help but notice his main artery pumping strongly in his neck. No. My fangs were fighting to descend and I had the strongest urge to jump on Jason and bite him. It took everything I had to keep my fangs retracted and to try and act like I wasn't seconds away from draining my own brother.
"Sook I'm not so sure I wanna leave you here, why don't you come on out front with me and we'll have a drink and a catch up, since I havn't seen you for a couple days." Jason was not the sharpest tool in the shed but even he could recognise a highly charged situation when he saw one. Oddly enough part of me wanted nothing more than to go with my brother and just be normal with him but the more rational part knew that it just wasn't possible at the moment, and maybe not ever. I felt tears begin to well but forced them back, Jason couldn't know what had happend. Not yet anyway.
"I'm fine Jase I've just gotta finish up with and then I'll be heading go back to your friends and have a good time." I stood up and began to gently usher Jason towards the door but avoided any body contact with him. The sooner he was out of here the safer he would be. I was almost clear when he turned in the doorway and pulled me into a tight hug. He was so warm and smelled nice, funny I'd never noticed that before. My mouth was only centimeters from his neck. I couldn't help it, my fangs came out fully and I had to quickly disengaed myself from my brother, keeping my mouth firmly shut. He looked at me in suprise but didn't say anything else. I reached as if to close the door and made sure most of my face was hidden as I called
"I'll call you sometime tomorrow Jase okay? Have a good night. Bye. Love you" I heard him carry on the down the hall as he muttered something about me and how weird I was sometimes. I slumped against the door and sighed. That was a close one. Eric needed to answer some questions.
"Why was my brother brought in here?" Eric and Pam exchanged an unreadable look.
"Sookie, neither Pam or myself was aware that Jason was your brother or that he would be here tonight, if I had known I would not have forced you into his presence.....however I feel this incident has been difficult enough for you, so consider your punishment over." He had the gall to smile at me as if he was doing me some huge favour. I had had enough of his shit tonight, I needed some space. Not to mention all my senses were on overload and I was too distracted to keep them in check.
"Eric I need some space, all of this is just too much." I didn't wait for an answer as I whizzed out the back door and took off into the streets. I snaked my was down various dark alleyways until I arrived at the entrance to Shreveport park. I figured the park would be deserted at this time in the morning and took off as fast as could go, just trying to work off my growing frustrations, I could feel my growing hunger but disregarded it. I suddenly stopped as I heard a movement a few hundred yards to my left, I tilted my head and inhaled experimentally, I attempted to discern a singular scent but hundreds of different scents assaulted my nose, hmmm this would be where the whole maker/teacher i.e. Eric, would come in handy. Thinking of Eric I concentrated on our bond and felt for him, he felt....what......ambivilant perhaps? Strange but I quickly forgot about it as at that moment a gentle breeze carried an odd but strong scent across my face, it had a distinctly canine tinge to it but still radiated the tangy coppery smell that humans seemed to carry. Nobody had smelled like that at Fangtasia. I decided to investigate, after all no point in having all of these superior sense if I didn't put them to use once in a while.
A strange growl startled me. It came from my left again but this time it sounded closer. I spun around until I was pressed against a tree. My body had naturally went into defense mode, my fangs were fully out, my hands were raised ready to rip something apart and I was crouched low to the groud ready to spring and attack any enemies. Good to know my instincts knew what to do because I hadn't a clue. I was pulled out of my musing by a snuffling sound getting closer. I stared into the darkness in the direction of the noise but even my enhanced sight could not penetrate the blackness of the night.
Well fuck just being a sitting duck I was gonna meet whatever was out there head on. I sniffed again, caught the scent and started to stalk towards it, keeping low to the ground. Keeping conceled in the bushed around me I got around ten feet from a small clearing......And fuck me wasn't there three giant wolves and a naked man and woman standing in the middle of the clearing. I may have made a small squeak of shock because the next thing I knew I had three wolves bounding after me. I should have been petrifed and scared for my life but instead I was exhilarated by the chase. I was suprised by my own gracefulness and how easily I could run through the undergrowth without tripping up, unfortunatly the wolves seemed to posess almost equal grace and were only seconds behind me. Time to try something new.......I quickly sized up a tree infront of me and instead of going around it I gathered myself and leapt up onto the tree. I'd been aiming for one of the lower branches but ended up halfway up the tree. I started to giggle as the wolves just stared up at me. Okay so maybe some things about being a vampire were fun.
"Haha wolves who's the winner now bitches!" I was practically vibrating with excitment. The wolves began to growl at me and scratch at the tree......almost as if they understood what I was saying, But that was impossible........wasn't it? One of the wolves turned and loped back the way we had came. I wonder the wolf was going......Oh well who cares I was having too much fun to really care about anything else right now. The wolves scent wafted up to my again and caused an ache deep in my throat, I licked my lips as I stared down at them, my eyes were drawn to a small grey wolf, the easiest target in the group. I caught myself as I began tilt foward and prepares to pounce. I was going to try and eat a wolf. How wrong was that, it was only a few days ago that I'd look at a picture of a wolf and admire it's beauty and now I was eyeing one up for dinner......but (I sniffed again) they definitly had a whiff of human about them. I'd have to question Eric about that later.
The missing wolf had reappeared and was carrying something in it's mouth...what was that......a gun? The wolf had a freaking gun.....well I never. And things got even stranger when the wolf dropped down to the ground and began to convulse like it was having some kind of fit......and then the air around it began shimmer, I strained my eyes even more to see what was going on and when the air finished shimmering I almost fell out of the tree such was my shock. The wolf had disapeared and in it's place was a man......a human man, who was naked and twitching on the ground.
"What the fuck just happend?" Maybe I was having some strange vampire hellucination because I hadn't had any blood in a few hours, perhaps, because really, wolves don't turn into people that was stuff of fairy tales but then I was now the stuff of horror movies and I was here and present.......Oh hell none of this making any sense and I couldn't concentrate anyway.
The man below me had stopped twitching and unsteadily got to his feet and looked up at with narrow eyes "Vampire, what are you doing out here tonight?" I wondered what his problem was and said as much.
"Wolf who turns into a man, what business is it of yours what I'm doing out here......Actually what are you doing out here?" I noticed he was slowly moving towards where the gun was on the floor, I felt a growl build in my chest and errupt from my mouth "Do not take one more step mister or I will make you stop." I was pleased to see he hesitated.......then pissed to see how quickly he moved to scoop up the gun and train it on me. Bastard.
"Get out of the tree now Vampire and maybe I won't shoot you......immediatly."
"Now, now that is no way to speak to a lady. And if you dare to shoot me you won't enjoy the consequences.......Bitch." I fluttered my eyelashes at him and stifled a laugh, I was feeling the buzzing excitment from earlier still coursing through my body, I was willing to admit I was certainly enjoing this part of being a vampire, at that moment a feeling of pride washed over me. However my throat was aching in a painful way and the urge to throw myself and feed on the weakest thing present was growing by the second and distracted me from determining where that random feeling had come from. "I'm willing to come down and talk to you but only one to one, make the other wolves leave first." He seemed to consider this and I added "And I'll know if they don't really leave, I'll still be able to hear them if they stay close by." He was silent for a few moment more and I took the oppotunity to lower my shields and listen to what was in his head
The others won't want to go but I need to find out all I can about this vamp......Could be a rogue and dangerous to the pack........I can handle one vamp and I've got the gun......If she becomes wild I'll shoot her, shift and finish her.......
I pulled out of his head as I got a clear picture of how he'd like to "finish" me, eeewwwww, however I could here his thoughts loud and clear, although there was a strange, almost crackling around them. He roused me from my thoughts.
"The others will leave and then you will come down so we can talk." There was a slight question in his voice and I was happy that he had aquesised with what I wanted.
"Yup that sounds about right......So you go on and send you little buddies on their way and I'll be straight down." I gave him a cheerful smile, fangs and all. He didn't return it instead he moved to stand with the other wolves a little way from me and spoke to them in a low voice, although he needn't have bothered as could clearly hear every word he was saying as well as the strange wimpers and grunts the wolves were making in return. Did they really understand what he was saying? Were they wolf/men things to? I sighed to myself, so many questions and yet not very many answers.
Well wolf/man must have been able to communicate with the wolves because moment later the remaining wolves went off bounding through the woods they way we had all come. Wolf/man started to say something but I held my finger up to silence him. I sat completely still and strained my senses to see if I could pick up if any of the wolves had stayed in the vicinity. Nope I couldn't hear any lingering heartbeats so I prepeared to jump down but then I panicked slightly as I looked down......that was a long way.......but wolf/man was looking at me expectantly so I sucked it up, closed my eyes and leapt forward. I was convinced I would land flat on my ass but instead I landed on the balls of my toes, as graceful as any cat would have.
"So answer my question why are in this park tonight?" He was irritating me again.
"Why don't you tell me first why you are here?" He scowled at me. I took the time to evaluate him physically. He was maybe six feet tall. Dark blonde curly hair. A nice toned body. Obviously he was still naked and as my gaze travelled lower if I could have I would have blushed as I took in his manhood, oddly enought this was the first time I had seen a naked man and a penis in the flesh before......the picture was interesting to say the least. I could feel myself begining to get aroused at the sight of this naked, attractive, man before me......my eyes were reapedly drawn to the pulsing veins I could see in his neck and groin. Stupid vampire impulses.
"I am here tonight taking a run with a few member of my pack, this park is considered part of our territory. Now tell me why you are here......alone." There was no question in his voice now and I really didn't care for the way he was speaking to me.
"Well thats nice and all and I hope you were having fun but I fail to see why you need to know why I'm here tonight." My anger was breaking even with the arousal I was feeling.
"You are in OUR territory, therefore it is my business as to why you are here." He was starting to sound pissed now and I was suprised at how ready I was to get into hand to hand combat with him. I also was trying to act like I knew what the hell he was going on about....packs......territories and what not, I thought it better to act like I knew what he was talking about then revealing how naive I really was, from an early age I'd realized no matter what situation you were in it was never a good idea to be weak, and not knowing all the facts in a situation made you weak in my opinion, so I just kept pretending I actually knew what he was going on about.
"Umm go to the public libraray jackass and I think you'll find Shreveport park is public land, meaning ANYone can go on it.......including me." I was feeling pretty smug at that point until I heard him clock the gun.
"Right bloodsucker tell me what I want to know NOW or I will kill you, right here, right now." I was immediatly in my defensive position again and bared my fangs at him while feral growls emanated from my chest.
"BITCH don't you dare threaten me. I've tried to play nice with you but it's not working so we'll have to do this the hard way." Quicker than he could anticipate I had knocked the gun from his hand, and probably broke his wrist in the process, however that didn't stop him from trying to punch me in the face. Now that I wasn't going to stand for. I back handed him like the bitch he was and sent him flying yards knocking him unconscience. Suddenly the air was filled with the most delicious smell. Blood. Fresh blood straight from the source. Within seconds I was on him seeking out the source of the blood, hungrily sucking and licking at the deep wound on his cheek. The blood soon stopped flowing from his cheek and I could practically hear the artery in his neck calling me. I nuzzled my way down to his neck and rested my lips on his flesh for a second, hmmmm how exactly to do this, I hadn't fed from a human before so I let my lips travel across his neck until I felt where his pulse was the strongest, jumping under my hungry lips. With no further ado I sank my fangs into his warm flesh and relished how his thick tangy blood gushed down my parched throat. Oh heaven, not even Ben and Jerry's could compare to how good this man tasted right now, the way his warm body felt next to me and the way I could feel his heart thrum with each pull I took from him, the whole experience was incredible, pleasurable and intensly erotic. Unfortunatly wolf/man took that moment to come back to awareness and began to attempt to dislodge me from him, totally ruining my almost euphorical experience. Urgh. I grabbed his wrists and pinned that above his head and although he continued to struggle I had a good fanghold on his neck and I wasn't going anywhere, this was too good to stop. I purred against his neck as I continued to drink and his struggles were slowing down as was his heartbeat under my lips.......part of me wanted to stop, the rational part of me but the new predator in me wouldn't let me stop, I was in the midst of a powerful bloodlust and I didn't want to stop even thought I knew in a few short minutes wolf/man would be gone. I was eating like a savage I could feel his blood dripping down my chin down my cleavage.
A huge wave of lust crashed over me and I hesitated taking my next mouthful as a secondary wave of calm and warm followed signaling the arrival of Eric.
"Sookie as your Maker I command to let go of the dog." I ripped my fangs free as I dropped wolf/man like he was on fire. In that moment something shifted deep inside of me and nothing would have stopped me letting go of the wolf/man. And I didn't like it one bit.
I slowly met Eric's gaze, fearful of how angry he would be but he suprised me with the look of pride on his face and the proud smile he was wearing, like a father gives his little girl when she manages to ride a bike on her own for the first time......Awww how cute but instead of riding a bike I had almost made my first kill.
It was twisted and wrong but I found myself smiling right back at him.
So Sookie really embraces her new self in this chapter huh ;) You know what to do :)
