"Giselle? You're here for Giselle? I don't understand how do you know her?" Sookie asked as she stepped beside me and reached for my hand.

"We know she's like you. A telepath. And we need her." There was a long pause "I need her." He said without unlocking his cold stare on me.

"Eric you can't have her! She will not do your bidding for you like I do. We have an agreement. If you need help you use me, no one else!" she demanded as she took a step in front of me as if to protect me. God Bless her. Nothing could protect me if Eric Northman really wanted me.

"Sookie! Just stop. I'm standing right here and I can answer for myself." I said as I stepped back to her side.

Quickly turning to me, "But Elle you don't know who these vampires are and what they are capable of."

"I'm not stupid. I know that he is Eric Northman and he's sheriff of this area. Sookie, I have a talent that not even you possess. I can read vampires as well as humans and I'm sure Mr. Northman knows this already. That is why he is here." I replied in an even toned voice.

"You can what?! How ca-"

"So you'll help me then?" Eric interrupted.

"I'll see." I said with a half hearted grin.

"We could just make her." Pam said as if she could make a game out of it.

I turned around quickly and leaned over the table in Pam's face, "You can't make me do anything that I'm not willing to do."

"You're either a very strong willed and reckless human or very very stupid." Pam said as she stared me up and down. "Either way this may be fun." She smirked.

"I know that whatever vampires want with me they can't afford to loose me so I have nothing to worry about." I stood straight up to meet Eric's gaze.

"You telepaths are the same. Strong willed and crazy. I'm intrigued and very little these days intrigues me." He said sitting back against the window facing the end of the table, "Please sit."

"We can't, unlike you we are working and it is rather busy in here tonight." Sookie said sharply taking me by the arm and pulling me to the bar.

We both went back to waiting on our tables. Eric and Pam just sat at their table waiting for close. In passing Eric's thoughts kept creeping into my head. Thoughts of what he could do to me. I think he was just doing that as some sort of scare tactic. Besides Eric is a very brilliant, bright and scary vampire even at the best of times. I just shook all of that off. At closing I helped Sookie to finish draining the bottles of ketchup in to each other. We giggled and laughed as we reminisced about the past and all the adventures we had as kids, though they all seem to be quite subdued compared to what we both had been through in the most recent years. For those few brief moments we had slipped into a world that took us far away from Merlotte's and Bon Temps. We had also seemed to have forgotten that Eric had been waiting patiently in the corner booth. We finished up and gathered our belongings from Sam's office and walked toward the door. Eric and Pam soon followed suit.

"Giselle, will you help me or not?" Eric growled.

"Mr. Northman I'm not sure why you need my help or what exactly you think I can do for you but seeing as you are sheriff of this area, yes I will help you. Besides Godric, your maker, was very kind to me in a time of need." I said as I stopped at my car to get a suitcase out of the trunk.

"You know Godric?! How? When?" Eric asked just as puzzled as the rest.

"Eric I've been alone in this world for many years and while in Dallas I met quite a few vampires. I was looking for death at the time. I met Godric in a wheat field that I had visited often to look back on my life and to contemplate my future. There he sat quiet and alone. He smiled his very calming and reassuring smile and invited me to sit with him. I took my place next to him on the blanket he had laid out. He explained to me that he had been drawn to that field that night by a source of power which he himself had never known. We sat there and talked for hours before he had to leave. We made this a nightly routine to meet up and talk. It lasted for weeks. Until one night I didn't show and he knew something was wrong. Godric went looking for me that night and not too far from the field in which I met him he found me nearly dead and raped. It wasn't like me to be attacked I've been a fighter my whole life. But I was jumped by a group of men. They beat and raped me, then left me for dead..." I trailed off as a single tear fell from my eye. With a huge gulp and a sniffle I continued. " Godric found me just in time. He fed me to keep me alive. He knew he had to take care of me. Godric became the family I never had. He had confided in me that he later on realized that I was that source of power he had been drawn to in that field that fateful night." Eric slumped down beside my car.

"My Godric. Vater. Bruder. Kind." Eric said speaking half english and half german.

I leaned down and sat next to him, "He spoke of you in the same language. Father. Brother. Child. I've seen your turning as if I had been there first hand the night it happened." Eric snapped his head up to look at me. "Yes, being a telepath allows me to see memories like movies as well as hear thoughts. Godric shared a lot with me. He is a very wise and amazing person. Because of Godric I'll never be the same. I've changed my ways because of him. He gave me life. He gave me something to live for."

Eric grinned "He's good at that. Always has been." Eric grabbed my hand.

"You have a lot of love and loyalty to him. Thousands of years. To only know that kind of love and devotion would be divine. And because you are Godric's child I'm here at your beck and call. Eric there were times I had begged Godric to turn me and he wouldn't. He gave more reasons to live a life full of friends, light and love."

"He saw something in you. He knew you were special. That's why. Just as I know you are special. There's something about you that interests me. I feel as if I've known you my whole 'life'"

I giggled. "Really? That's kind of funny he told me that more than a few times." We had been so involved with our conversation that we both forgot about Pam and Sookie. But by the time we both realized this, they were gone. Sookie went on to her house and Pam was off somewhere not too far away.

"Guess Sookie was tired of being second rate tonight." Eric remarked as he quickly stood lending me a hand. "Ah, she'll get over it."

"Do you want her to get over it? I mean you guys seem to have this unspoken sexual tension between the two of you. I feel as though you want her to be mad about this just to know she cares about you."

With his devilish grin he replied "Sookie has held my interest from the moment I met her. But there's something about you that drawls me to you more than I've felt drawn to anyone, other than Godric."

We started walking towards Sam's trailer, where all the lights had been blazing since sunset.

"Godric told me that I'd run into his child once I returned home."

"Did that scare you?" Eric asked as if he wanted me to be scared, yet at the same time not.

"Of course not. Knowing that Godric respects me I feel protected, as if I'm standing under his wing."

Eric's phone rang. He lifted to see who would be calling him. It was Godric.

My Child I feel that you have met a very close friend of mine.

"Yes Godric." Eric's face had distorted into what could only be described as a medieval grin.

You are to protect her and keep her out of harms way. She will give you things that you never thought were possible. She's very special. I love her, she's my human child and I would do anything for her. Eric I trust you and only you with protecting this precious gift.

"Yes Godric. I'll protect her as if she were mine." Eric said as he placed his hand on the small of my back as we got closer to Sam's.

Vater. Bruder. Kind. I love you above all others.

There from the corner of the stone faced viking gods eye came one single bloody tear. "Vater. Bruder. Kind." Eric snapped his phone shut and wiped the tear from his face.

I closed my eyes and I heard the thoughts racing through Eric's head.

Why does Godric feel that she needs to be protected so badly?

What did he mean she can give me things I never thought were possible?

I miss him more than life.

My eyes flew open to the statuesque Eric staring at me. "Sorry I didn't mean to."

"I'll have to get used to the fact that someone can actually get into my head now." He smiled.

"Well Mr. Northman this is where I leave you for the night. I'm sure I'll be seeing you soon." I said as I turned to reach for the door handle of the trailer.

I felt a cold breath on my neck. Eric had moved right up to my back. "Take care of yourself during the day Giselle and I'll see you soon."

I felt my whole body shiver. And as fast as I turned around he was gone. I heard the engine of his corvette roar and tires squealing as he sped out of the parking lot.

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Authors Note:

Thanks to everyone who has read, reviewed and added this story to their alerts. I appreciate it. Hope you enjoyed this chapter. The Chapters will get longer I promise.