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Steve and Gabe dragged us further into the cellar, and locked us in a storage area that was enclosed by a chain-link fence.

"Godric!" Sookie and I cried out as we clawed and pulled at the fence.

Hugo was silent, but breathing heavily and sweating like crazy as he helplessly clung to the fence.

"Isabel and Eric sent us!" Sookie yelled.

"Godric, I know you're here!" I tried.

"He is here," she said to me. "Honey, I heard the things they're planning on doing to him."

I could tell by her tone that she was thinking some bad things but she didn't want to tell me. I couldn't blame her.

Hugo paced around the enclosure. "Remember how I said I was claustrophobic?" he said between nervous breaths. "I wasn't making that part up. It's bad. I can't take elevators, walk-in closets. You know hotels were they tuck the sheets in too tight? Just thinking about that makes me want to scream." His fingers gripped and loosened his tie.

I drifted over to a small stack of colorful board games in front of a wall, giving up the idea of yelling for help. "Jesus Christ Vampire Exterminator?" I questioned as I examined the first box, which had an illustration of a buff Jesus brandishing a crossbow. "Silver Stakes? Send Them Back to Hell? This is just sick!"

"I don't have time for games like this!" Hugo cried. "I need to get out." His face was ruddy and coated in sweat.

"Just take a deep breath," Sookie replied, her voice soothing. "Look at me. We're gonna figure this out, alright?"

He took a seat on top of a closed box and closed his eyes and shook his head. "Okay, okay. I'm okay."

"So the Newlins knew who we were the moment we walked in," Sookie said, crossing her arms across her chest. "Same way they knew to come after me at the airport. I guess someone at that nest is a traitor."

I still needed to ask her about this airport incident, but now was not that time.

"You think a vampire sided with the Fellowship to get Godric out of the way?"

I sighed. "If anyone did it, then it was probably Stan."

"But to be the sheriff?" Sookie questioned. "I've heard of ambitious, but that's just plain crazy."

"Well you met him," Hugo said. "He'd rip our throats out for looking at him sideways."

"Sookie, Stan is one angry, crazy son of a gun," I said. "You don't know him the way Hugo and I do. Be thankful for that."

"If that's true, then Bill and Eric could do a lot worse to him when they find out," she said, her face sneering with contempt.

If Bill and Eric could do terrible damage to Stan, then I could only imagine what Godric would do.

"Bill can sense my fear," Sookie spoke again, her voice wavering as she toyed with her pearl necklace. "He'll come storming through this church any second."

"I don't know, Sook," I replied. "If Godric isn't showing up and he's in the same damn building, then I don't think Bill can make it. I think they vampire-proofed the place."

She walked over to me and took my hand in hers, holding my gaze as she finally revealed Godric's fate. "Annabel, sweetie," she spoke quietly. "I don't know how exactly to say this, but the Fellowship is planning on burning Godric in front the entire congregation. He's gonna meet the sun."

My gaze lowered to the floor. "That's what I was afraid of." My voice was weak and cracked at the last part. I swallowed hard. I was about to lose it and start sobbing like a crazy person.

"We have to stay strong," she said.

"You're right." I forced back the tears, walked over to the fence and pounded on it. "Godric! Damn it, I know you're in here. I know you know we're in here! Please, please come out!"

"Morning!" a disturbingly cheerful voice called out.

Sookie, Hugo, and I were sleeping in our own little places. I lifted my head up and saw Steve on the other side of the fence with Gabe. He slipped three bottles of water through the open space on the bottom of the fence. How thoughtful.

"How did y'all sleep?"

I groaned as I felt my entire body ache. Screw sleeping on a cold concrete floor. But more importantly, had an entire night really gone by? I jumped to my feet as an intense feeling of dread ran through my body, coming up in my mouth as a sour taste. What if we were too late? What if the Fellowship had succeeded in their plan?

"They're coming for us, you know," Sookie said.

"Yeah, well, that's what I thought," Steve replied as he placed his hands on his hips. "I figured pretty girls like you would have vamps running off to your rescue. Actually, we were kinda hoping for it. Ain't that right Gabe?"

Gabe stared us down. "Yes sir. Bring it on," he responded in a monotone voice.

"We're ready for them. We've been ready for a long time."

"You're gonna get yourselves killed!" Sookie said. "That's not a threat, it's a fact."

Steve crossed his arms and shook his head. "They've got you all twisted up, haven't they, with their glamoring and their empty promises and their evil blood."

"You're the ones who are evil," I shot back. "You so-called 'Christians' are going straight to hell!"

He laughed. "Well, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on that one." he grabbed a metal folding chair that was leaning against the wall and placed in front of us, taking a seat. "Now, things got a little out of hand last night. I apologize for that. I'm not the monster that the vampire-loving media makes me out to be."

"Yeah right," said Sookie.

"All I want from you is a couple of answers and I'll be more than happy to feed you a nice hot breakfast and send you on your way."

Hugo spoke with no hesitation. "What do you want to know?" Sweat stained the placket of his blue shirt.

Sookie and I whipped our heads around to face him. "Shut up!" I scolded in a whisper.

"Annabel, we need to get out of here. Just tell them what they want they want to know," he pleaded. "Her name is Annabel Laroque and this other woman is Sookie Stackhouse and I'm Hugo Ayers."

"Hugo, no!" Sookie cried.

He continued. "We were sent here by the vampires of Area 9 to find their sheriff."

Steve looked truly disturbed. "Sookie Stackhouse," he quietly said to himself. "From Bon Temps?"

This caught her attention as well as mine.

"How do you know where I'm from?" she questioned.

Steve was acting too calm. It was an angry kind of calm. "You're Jason Stackhouse's… sister. Am I right?"

"Jason?" I asked, although it was more directed at myself.

"You know Jason? He's got nothing to do with this!"

Steve was getting tense as his hands gripped at his knees. He let out a sigh. "Come on Gabe." He rose to his feet and left the basement, with Gabe following behind him.

"How do you know my brother?" Sookie called after them. "Nice work," she sarcastically said to Hugo when they left.

"Hey, we sat down here all night waiting for your boyfriend to show up. You can play damsel in distress all you want but one way or another, I'm getting us out of here."

Sookie sat down and stared at the door that Steve used to enter the cellar. "Hugo, do me a favor and just shut the fuck up."

Hugo heaved a sigh and unexpectedly kicked a few empty cardboard boxes, sending them flying up in the air.

"Hey!" Hugo called out as he shook the fence. "I need to use the bathroom. Come on! Let me out of here!"

By this point, I had enough of his bitching, so I grabbed his empty water bottle and handed it to him. "Here. Sookie and I will turn our backs."

"I don't need that!" he yelled as he knocked the bottle out of my hand. "I need to get the hell out of here!"

"Hugo, this is not helping," Sookie chimed in. "Just… sit down." She grabbed one of his hands. "Look, try to relax."

Suddenly, she let go. "You," she said in disbelief. "You're the traitor."

"What?" I simply asked. By the look on her face, I could tell that she had accidentally read his mind.

Sookie almost fell back.

"I used to be just like you," he said. "I thought I was a real emancipated thinker. Especially when Isabel took me to bed. And the sex was amazing. The best I ever had. You know, it's addicting. To be desired by something that powerful."

"I'm no addict," Sookie said.

"And I've never even had sex with Godric," I replied.

Hugo shook his head and laughed slightly. "Then I guess you wouldn't know how your life changes to suit them. You start missing work, can't get up in the morning, can't stand to leave them after dark. Before you know it, you're somebody that you don't even recognize."

"So you went to the Fellowship because you can't control yourself?" Sookie asked, as if it were the most ludicrous thing she had ever heard.

"I begged her to turn me," he replied, the pain audible in his voice. "It was the only way we could be together as equals. You see, they don't want us to be equals. She was just using me the same way that Bill's been using you and the same way that Godric's been using you, Annabel."

"You don't know Bill," Sookie replied.

"I know he and his friends are having you do their dirty work. A telepath's gotta be a real trophy for a vampire."

"Shut up, Hugo!" she snapped.

"All they care about is their own kind! That's why I joined the Fellowship," he said.

"If the Newlins care so much about you, how come you're still in here?" Sookie asked.

He didn't reply.

"Face it, Hugo," she said. "You're nothing but a fang-bangin' traitor to them."

Ouch, I could tell that that one really hit home.

"Gabe!" he called out. "Gabe, you can let me out now! They know everything! Anybody! Come on, let me out!"

I smiled viciously. "Yep, you're so damn important to them, aren't you?"

He glanced at me, then looked away.

Suddenly the door opened, and Gabe came walking through the fence, looking all beat-up with a bloody lip and grass-stained clothes.

"Gabe," Hugo questioned. "What happened to your face? Listen, they know everything, which never would have happened if you hadn't kept me down here with a Goddamn mind-reader. Okay, I hope your reverend knows that I'm gonna need protection now-"

Gabe cut him off with a punch straight to his jaw. "How's that for protection, you fang-bangin' bastard?"

The hit sent Hugo to the ground. Gabe then started kicking him ferociously, growing absolutely mad.

"Get off him!" Sookie screamed as she leapt onto Gabe's back.

Ignoring Hugo, who was now an unconscious mess sprawled across some boxes, Gabe turned his anger to Sookie. He grabbed her forcefully by the waist and pulled her to the floor. In the blink of an eye, he slapped her across the face as she screamed for her life.

I jumped onto his back and began punching and pulling, anything I could do to get him off of Sookie. In a rush, he tore open the front of her dress, sending buttons flying across the room. Sookie cried out in despair.

"Get the fuck off!" I roared as time quickly began to run out.

Suddenly, I felt myself become airborne for a mere second. Something pushed me off Gabe's back, sending me hurtling to the floor. Sookie's screaming ceased, so I pushed myself up to my knees and looked up.

"Godric?" she asked, her face bewildered.

"Godric!" I shouted in disbelief as my face lit up.

There he was, looking down before us, holding Gabe by the collar of his sweatshirt.