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"Progeny?" I asked, feeling out of the loop. "The sheriff of Area 5?"

"The progeny Godric sired long ago," Isabel explained. "His name is Eric Northman."

Then, it suddenly came to me. "I know who he is!" I exclaimed. "Wait a minute. Godric turned someone into a vampire?"

I wondered why he never told me that. Come to think of it, he never told me that much about his past. At that point, I was even more worried. What else hasn't he told me?

Stan rolled his eyes. "We don't need to bring in someone from the outside!" he growled. "It's bad enough that she's here." He motioned towards me.

"Watch it buddy!" I quickly fired back. "I have a relationship with Godric just like you do. Like it or not, we're in this shit together."

The doorbell rang.

Dru quickly answered the door. "Good evening, Eric," she said to the tall blond man dressed in black who waltzed inside with such grace.

This was Eric Northman? Good Lord, he was a fine example of why God must have been having a great day when He made this creature. The man was tall for sure. He certainly overpowered my petite frame. And he was unnaturally beautiful, with hair so blond that most women could only dream of such a thing, and a fit, muscular build. He looked to be of Scandinavian origin.

I was sure that he caught me ogling, because he smirked at me in a very conceited manner. Come to think of it, he was probably used to that kind of attention.

"Bill, Sookie," Dru continued. "Nice to meet you both. Please come inside."

Bill and Sookie? When did they get here? And why? I probably didn't notice them at first because I was too busy drooling over this Eric Northman.

"What the hell are you two doing here?" I asked the lovely couple, Bill and Sookie. It wasn't said out of anger, but rather surprise.

"To make a long story short, I sort of owed Eric a favor," Sookie explained.

I was shocked by her appearance. Instead of her usual tank tops, shorts, and good-natured Southern girl sundresses, she donned a red handkerchief-print halter dress that was almost too tight in the chest. To complete the look, home girl was rocking the Old Hollywood Veronica Lake hairdo. I suddenly felt hideously underdressed in my jeans, sweater vest, and tank top.

She pulled me into a hug. "I'm so sorry about what happened to Godric. I know you two have a little thing going on."

Eric Northman perked up with curiosity. "So Godric has a girlfriend? It's funny, none of you mentioned that." His eyes scanned the room.

I put my hands on my hips, in my defensive mode. "We're not dating," I defiantly stated.

Bill rolled his eyes. I could tell that he didn't particularly care for this sheriff. "Annabel, this is Eric Northman, sheriff of the Shreveport area."

The tall vampire smiled again. He sure was sexy, but he seemed arrogant and cocky. What a lethal combination. I decided that I didn't like him. "Well, pleased to make your acquaintance, Annabel," he said.

"Yeah, nice to meet you," I replied in a bitchy manner. I kind of sounded like a Jersey girl with a severe attitude problem.

"Can we stop fucking around?" said a very impatient Stan. That man never failed to make me angry. "You should have told me Eric hired a fucking human," he said to Dru and Isabel. "As if one isn't bad enough."

"Wait just a minute!" said a defensive Sookie.

"You better watch that mouth of yours," I fired back.

"Respect them!" Bill shot back, always the gentleman.

"Thank you," Sookie and I curtly replied.

"We couldn't tell you, Stan. You've been off on your own for days," Isabel said.

"Are you sure Godric was abducted by the Fellowship of the Sun?" Eric chimed in, pacing around the room.

"They're the only ones with the organization and manpower," Stan replied as if he were explaining a simple concept for the umpteenth time.

"As much as I hate agreeing with him," said Dru. "I think he's right."

"But they're amateurs!" Isabel protested. "It doesn't make any sense. This is Godric we're talking about. Two thousand years old. Besides, there's no proof."

"If they've got him, I'll hear it. That's my job," Sookie offered.

So that's why she was summoned here. To use her telepathic powers.

"There's no reason to wait," said Stan. "We need to take these fanatics down, full out attack. Exterminate them like the vermin they are." He smirked, sounding so confident, like a football coach explaining his game plan. It was truly disturbing.

"Stan, you idiot!" Dru said. "That's the worst idea I've ever heard. See, this is why you'll never be sheriff. You don't think!"

"Hm, vampire-hating church annihilated. Wonder who did it? Fucking brilliant," said a sarcastic Isabel.

"I doubt the king of Texas would approve the destruction of our international political agenda," Bill spoke. I had no idea what the hell he was talking about.

"Fuck that," Stan bluntly replied. "The Great Revelation was the biggest mistake we ever made."

Isabel was even more furious now. She moved closer to him and lowered her voice. "Don't use Godric to make your own lethal power play."

"You're completely incompetent!" Eric growled all of a sudden. "What's happened to Godric is that he surrounds himself with clowns!"

Isabel strolled over to Eric. "We invited you here as a courtesy." She acted so calm that it frightened me. "This is not your territory. You have no voice here."

"Yeah sheriff," Stan agreed. "Why don't you run back down to Louisiana? We don't need you or your puppets."

"Oh, I'm not going anywhere." Eric stared him down while speaking calmly.

"And I'm nobody's puppet," Sookie scoffed.

"What we need is a plan," said Bill.

"Finally, someone hit the nail on the head," I blurted out.

"I have a plan," Stan stated.

"It's not a plan, it's a movie," Dru fired back.

"It's not a movie." He paused for dramatic effect. "It's a war."

I sighed and rolled my eyes. "Okay, now it's definitely a movie. And a really shitty one at that." Me and my comic relief just has to ruin everything.

Eric glared at him again. "Idiots," he breathed, then started pacing around again in a huff.

"Here's the deal," Stan declared. "We take them all out at once. I'm sticking by that."

"Of course! So the federal government can bomb us back into the middle ages!" Isabel shouted.

Stan laughed a little bit. "Things were better then."

"Then why don't you go to Romania and live in a cave?" Dru offered.

Finally, someone came up with a brilliant idea.

"Oh shut the hell up, Dru," Stan shot back. "You weren't even around then!"

All of a sudden, Eric lifted a vase of the dining room table and chucked it across the room using his insane vampire speed. I swear I almost had a heart attack.

"Godric has protected you. Made you rich and yet you stand here spitting and scratching like infants!" he yelled.

"Don't any of you care that there is a traitor in your midst?" Bill asked.

"Impossible," Dru stated.

"Someone tried to kidnap me at the airport," said Sookie.

"What?" I asked, incredulous. Someone tried to kidnap my friend?

"You were the only ones that knew she was coming," Bill continued.

Eric narrowed his eyes. "Explain," he said to the Dallas vampires.

"I bet it was you," Stan declared, looking at Isabel. "It was you and your fucking human boyfriend."

"How dare you accuse me of such a thing!" Isabel said to Stan, crossing her arms. "I think you did this to take Godric's place as sheriff!"

"Look, if ya'll argue anymore, I'm either gonna fall asleep or start screaming. So this what we're gonna do," Sookie demanded. Everyone stared at her, not expecting her sudden outburst. "I'll infiltrate the Fellowship of the Sun."

Bill started to protest. "Absolutely not!"

"I'll just pretend I wanna join the church and check out their thoughts."

"No," Bill said. "No one can help you during the day."

"I'll go with her," I said, not really thinking. "It'll be less dangerous with more than one person." What the hell was I getting myself into?

"Waste of time," Stan said as he began to walk away. He picked up his stupid cowboy hat from the coffee table and placed on his head. "I want no part of this."

"There's no easier way to find out if they're involved," Isabel hesitantly said when Stan walked out of the room. I could tell that she didn't want to do this. But it was the very last straw.

"If it leads us to Godric, we'll do it," Eric plainly said. He sure was loyal to him. For some reason, it gave me the chills. "The decision is made."

"I've got an idea," said Dru. "It involves Isabel's human companion, Hugo, assuming that is alright with her. We'll pair either Sookie or Annabel with Hugo, and they will act as a couple looking at the church as a place to get married. Whoever doesn't play Hugo's fiancée will act as their wedding planner."

"That's a very good idea," Isabel said, nodding her head.

Bill still looked apprehensive. I really couldn't blame him though. If anything went wrong, this could have been a matter of life or death. And his girlfriend was caught in the middle of it.

"Bill," Sookie said, sensing his reaction. "Don't worry about it. If all goes well, this should only take about a day."

"It's too dangerous," he said. "Those people are crazy."

"Bill, you'll can't tell her what to do," Eric retorted. "You can't control her."

Bill glared at him. Boy, if looks could kill…Then again, what would that do to Eric? He was already dead.

"Well, I suppose I have no say in the matter," said Bill. "But alright."