My screams echoed throughout the house. A few minutes after I had started screaming Eric appeared in my room. He dropped to his knees at the foot of the bed.

"Holy God. What the hell?" He asked bewildered at what he was staring at.

My wrists, my neck and my ankles all had what appeared to be silver burns. I couldn't move. My eyes were rolling uncontrollably. My wailing started again. In a few split seconds I was taken out of my body. I was flashed to Pam. Even though she had been hanging from a tree by silver chains she was actually able to move now. The silver seemed to not affect her at that moment. It was a matter of seconds before she broke the chains. She too was confused as to what was transpiring. She managed to attack the people that were holding her captive. I was thrust back into my body. I gasped. The pain wasn't as horrible as it had been a few moments ago. Eric was beside the bed by this time. He was afraid to touch me. He sat there mumbling in Swedish, loosely translated to God take me instead. I wasn't really in the mindset to worry about that at the time. My screaming ceased and the burn marks slowly began disappearing from my body. A few minutes later I was laying in the bed with no lingering signs of what had just happened. I sat up. I knew then what it had felt like to be a vampire being burned by silver. Eric reached up with a bloody tear in his eye and grabbed me.

"What the hell just happened?" He asked cradling me like a baby.

Astonished at what I had just been through I took a guess at what it could have been. "I think. I mean I helped release Pam from the tree she had been hanging from. It's still dark where they have here so she was able to seek shelter from the sun in time." I replied inspecting my wrists for any sign that it had actually happened.

"But how could you?"

"I took her pain into my body allowing her body to heal and not be affected by the silver. This is too much. Something new everyday. I just want it to stop." I felt a lump rise in my throat.

Eric held me away from his chest, where I was quite content, and said "You are amazing. You are far stronger than anyone I've ever known. Myself included. You take the problems of the world and make them your burden. You are a precious gift."

"Precious gift? Really?! Who are you kidding? I just want all of this to stop. I want to live the life of a normal twenty-three year old. This is all just too much."

"You are a precious gift. You are mine. And I won't have you talking this nonsense." He stood with me still cradled in his arms. He moved swiftly from my room to his. He laid me on his bed. "You'll sleep with me. I don't want to be that far away from you ever again."

"Eric" he placed his finger to my lips before I could finish. He laid down on the bed next to me. He draped the silk sheet over both of us and curled up behind me. My body fit perfectly into his. He threw one arm over my side. I reached up and grabbed his hand and it curled to my chest. We both asleep pretty quickly. I was exhausted from my ordeal. We both slept soundly until dark. I had wiggled my way out of Eric's arms before he had awoke. I walked into the bathroom and started to run bath water. I sat in front of the mirror staring at myself.

"What the hell are you?" I asked myself. I just stared at my reflection in the mirror.

I slid into the warm water and allowed myself to relax. It was only a matter of seconds before Eric was at the bathroom door.

"Mind if I join you?" He asked as he gracefully walked over to the tub. He stood there waiting for a response.

I looked around the tub. "Yeah sure. I mean it's definitely big enough for the two of us." I smiled as I scooted over to one side of the tub to allow him enough space to slide in next to me.

He slid in and smiled at me. "Because of you Pam is safe and on her way back to me. I don't think I can thank you enough."

"I don't know how I did it but I'm glad that I could help. I mean did you even now Pam was missing?"

"No I didn't. She had phoned me while you were bathing yesterday to tell me that she wasn't going to be at the bar last night. So I didn't think anything of it." He replied as he searched for my hand in the soapy water. He pulled my arm towards him spinning me around so that i could sit between his legs. I laid back and nestled my head right under his chin. I felt at home in Eric's arms. We sat in the tub for about an hour just talking and occasionally staring at each other. I've never fallen for someone, other than Godric, so quickly before. Eric stood and helped me out. He took the pleasure of wiping me down with the towel. He took extra care to make sure that there was not a drop of water left any where on my body. Left a trail of kisses from my neck to my inner thigh. That man made me so weak in the knees. The doorbell rang.

"Who could that be?" I asked wrapping the towel around me.

Eric bolted out of the bathroom to his room, changed and flew down the stairs before I had even stepped out of the room. Downstairs I heard the door open and two sets of footsteps walking into the living room. I walked in to my room and changed into the only other change of clothes I had in my possession. I slowly descended the stairs peeking into the living room before completely stepping off the staircase. It was Pam.

"Giselle could you please join us?" Eric asked sitting with his back facing me.

I walked into the room. "Pam," I said as I nodded in her direction. I took my place on the couch next to Eric.

"I hear I have you to thank for still being alive." Pam said with a hint of disgust in her voice.

"Yeah but I didn't do it on purpose." I met her disgust with a little bit of my own.

"I don't know how you did it but I'd be dead without you. So I thank you." She said as he repositioned herself.

The doorbell rang yet again. Eric stood and answered the door, leaving Pam and myself staring at each other awkwardly. It was UPS they were delivering all of the clothes that Eric and I picked out last night.

"Man that was quick. We just ordered all of this last night." I said with delight staring at the insane amount of boxes being brought into the house.

"I contacted a few people and had them but a rush on shipping all of this out." He smiled as he signed the tablet.

"Always making a few calls." I muttered under my breath with joy.

"Yes. It's great to know people."

Pam looked over at me and realized that I had flare and passion for fashion just as she had and smiled. Instant connection. I realized I finally had a shopping buddy.

"We'll have to go shopping sometime." She inserted.

"That would be great but I'm sure the shops and boutiques you go to don't carry my size." I responded as I lowered my head a little.

"Darling you just need to know where to go. Plus with Eric's kind of money they'll carry any size you can imagine." She said as she stood with her hand on her hip. Eric just grinned.

"We'll have to make a play date then."

Eric began running the boxes to my room. It only took him about 2 minutes to run 30 plus boxes up the stairs.

"Feel like going back to the bar tonight to see if you can get any indication of took Pam and who is after me?" Eric asked stopping at the top of the stairs.

"Sure Eric."

"I have something I want you to wear." He yelled from his room.