A/N: I own nothing and make no revenue from this fanfic. I'm only taking the characters out for a walk.
The moment Eric and Pam's fingers came into contact with the Stackhouse siblings a jolt of electricity zapped through their limbs. Dropping their clasped hands for the first time that night they whirled around and the four of them starred into blazing blue eyes for a moment too long. The sensation was strong enough to be felt by Godric who decided that, that was the last in tonight's string of oddities he would endure without contacting his Childe.
"I must apologize Mr. Newlin but I am needed elsewhere. We will have to pick up this dialog another night." Godric told the bigot behind the massive desk who was attempting to hide how frightened he was by pontificating utter nonsense. To Godric's three thousand years Newlin's bravado was comical at best.
"What could possibly be in need of a demon like you?" Steve Newlin said in a condescending voice.
"Mr. Newlin do you have children?" Godric asked the man before him.
"I do not, but I can't imaging what that has to do with anything." Newlin replied truthfully, as his question had taken him completely by surprise. Godric could see him mentally kicking himself for his answer.
"It is my Childe who needs me tonight. After a thousand years he is still a source of great joy for me." Godric told him his eyes twinkling with mirth for the first time in years. Godric was looking forward to seeing his Childe and Grandchilde soon.
"Vampires can't have children and aren't you just a boy?" Newlin noticed the demon boy, who showed up a few hours earlier saying he wanted to talk, looked almost happy as he spoke of this child of his.
"You are wrong on both counts. You have misunderstood my every word and I am at a loss as to how to explain our race any clearer." Godric said as he rose to his feet. Newlin had hoped to convince the demon to stay and meet the sun in a church celebration, but it looked like he wouldn't be getting his wish. If only Gabe had responded to his earlier text when the Vampire had first showed up at his office door.
Back on the dance floor in Fangtasia Eric seemed to shake off the zing of the electricity cursing through his veins the fastest. "May I cut in?" Eric breathed into Sookie's ear, using the loud music as an excuse to invade her personal space again.
"Sure," she replied not feeling so sure she glanced back at Jason and watched as Jason held his hand out to Pam who gingerly placed hers in his and allowed him to pull her into his body.
"I'm Eric Northman, and you are?" Eric whispered into Sookie's ear as he held her body close to his as they swayed to the music.
"Sookie Stackhouse, it's nice to meet you." She responded having to put some distance between them and tilt her head back to meet his eyes as she introduced herself. Sookie kept a close eye on Jason while she danced with Eric, which Eric seemed to notice raising his curiosity again. "He is your brother?" He posed the statement as a question nodding in his direction.
"Yes. How did you know?" Sookie confirmed while asking her own question.
"Pam told me. You met her at the door." Eric answered solving that mystery quickly.
"Yes of course, I just didn't realize that you were talking about us before." Sookie lied smoothly.
"Yes well it's hard not to notice you, you both you light up this place. You shine like candles in a coal mine." Sookie blushed at his compliment and subsequently felt Eric's bloodlust rise and his effort to control himself. As he was struggling Sookie started to pull away just slightly, which distracted him and they both relaxed a little.
As Jason danced with the blond from the door he kept a close eye on Sookie and the very tall blond man who was getting a little closer than he liked to his little sister.
"She's in good hands," Pam purred in Jason's ear adding a little glamour seemingly just for a test.
"That may be your opinion hot stuff, but she is my sister and I'm not letting her out of my sight tonight. Thank you very much." Jason said firmly taking careful note of his dance partner's emotional climate. He of course felt the attempt to glamour him into being compliant but didn't let it sway his interest in the gorgeous blond he was dancing with.
"It's Pam actually and his name is Eric." Pam introduced herself and Eric to Jason as her curiosity in her dance partner peaked.
Pam quite enjoyed dancing with Jason who was decidedly male. Something she hadn't done unless she was under duress or compulsion in centuries. The tingly electrical current that pulsed through her system the moment she touched him still felt like it was zinging through her veins and his smell was intoxicating this close. The feel of his firm body pressed against her and the way they moved together had her forgetting her self and she truly enjoyed herself. Eric could feel his Childe's happiness, which wasn't an emotion he was used to feeling from her while he danced with the ever intriguing and sexy Sookie Stackhouse. Her soft curves, the way she moved, and smelt had him reeling for the first time in a thousand years.
Tara all of a sudden popped up between the two couples and announced. "Laf and me are heading back to the booth to grab a drink. You guys coming?"
Sookie and Jason exchanged a look and started to disentangle from their partners and head back to the booth. They attempted to regain contact as they walked, but Eric and Pam kept getting in the way. Somehow the siblings managed to get themselves sandwiched between the two vampires and Tara and Lafayette's eyes were bugging out when they realized that they were in fact vampires. The waitress had come up so fast with their refreshed drinks the foursome were quite impressed.
"Wow that is some service for a club this busy." Sookie commented taking a deep drink of her second gin and tonic of the night.
"Perks of ownership." Eric boasted with dismissive a wave of the hand causing the waitress to scurry away.
Sookie attempted to ignore the jealous thoughts aimed at her and even Jason from almost all the readable brains. The waitress was particularly offensive thinking 'don't know what they see in these obvious trailer trash bumpkins.' Jason and Sookie silently compared notes about all the vampires present and noticed that they seemed to able to tell who is stronger somehow. 'Lets test this maybe it's age related.' Jason thought to his sister.
"So how do y'all know each other?" Sookie asked Eric indicating he and Pam.
"We are co-owners in this bar and I met her many years ago." Eric told them giving nothing personal away.
"Yes you could say I've known him all my life." Pam added with a sarcastic chuckle.
"So have we. We all basically grew up at the Stackhouse place with Gran, Sookie and Jase." Tara volunteered while Jason tried to think of something to ask that would get them to admit to something more specifically age related.
"So I guess that means that you are older than Pam?" Jason said bluntly not one for finesse.
"Yes quite." Eric again responded with a carefully guarded response. Weaknesses and conversely strengths were not something, which were prudent to advertise to strangers.
'Interesting well I think quite is an understatement. If we are right he is the oldest in the bar and by a landslide.' Sookie thought back to her brother.
'Should we press the issue?' Jason wondered silently. Eric was about to put them on the spot with a comment designed to offend when he noticed Compton again.
'Oh shit Jase look who is coming over.' Sookie's worried thoughts broke Jason out of his machinations about Vampire ages.
'Crap follow my lead k.' Jason said clearing his mind of their previous topic and readied himself for what they had hoped to accomplish by coming here tonight. Conversation stopped between the foursome and they barely heard Lafayette's inquiry about bar merchandise.
'K.' Sookie agreed with a squeeze to her bothers hand, which were joined and held beneath the booth again.
Bill had been watching from the shadows as the Viking and his annoying childe wrapped themselves around his prize and her infuriating brother. When they went back to the booth he thought he might benefit from another introduction. Maybe in another setting she wouldn't be quite so standoffish they certainly don't have any qualms with Vampire. Watching as she danced suggestively first with her friends and then with the Viking had excited and enraged him. So he walked up to the booth and inclined his head ever so slightly. "Sheriff. Pamela." Bill said in the most submissive tone he could manage.
Eric is just about to lambast Compton for his insubordination when he notices Jason glance quickly at his sister wide eyed and then he greeted Compton.
"Bill so glad to see you again tonight. Why didn't you mention that you knew our friends Eric and Pam?" Jason spoke before Eric could say anything and with a much different tone than previous conversation.
Everyone but the siblings seemed a little taken aback by Jason's comment but when Bill sneered at Jason and looked at Sookie like he was looking at something to eat. Eric decided to play along with Jason's game for the time being. Pam of course was licking her lips at the prospect of irritating Compton.
"Yes Bill how did you meet up with our dear friends Sookie and Jason?" Eric purred while he and Pam simultaneously put their arms around the sibling's shoulders. It did not go unnoticed when they slightly relaxed at the gesture.
"Yes well, I met them at the local watering hole near my ancestral home this evening. And you? How did you meet them?" Bill asked condescendingly his temper was definitely getting the better of him. Eric could see that Compton was distressed by their conversation and was left wondering what his deal was. 'The tool is usually rather boring.' Eric thought to himself. 'When Compton came in a week ago to ask for permission to move into my Area from Sophie Anne's court I had my suspicions regarding his motives, but until tonight we hadn't seen hide nor hair of him.' Eric mused further to himself all the while enjoying seeing Compton squirm.
"One of their friends works here so they have been here before, of course." Pamela quickly responded to Compton's accusation. Causing Lafayette and Tara to wonder if they were telling them the truth about it being their first times here after all.
'Jase we gotta get Laf and Tara out of here! Their gonna get us caught in this lie.' Sookie thought quickly to her brother.
"Hey Laf, Tara why don't you guys head on out and we'll meet you all at Grans tomorrow for supper like always okay." Jason spoke looking directly at their friends, while they added as much emotional oomph to his words as they ever had in their lives. Causing Eric and Pam to feel another electrical shock as they still had their arms around the siblings.
After looking wide eyed at Pam Eric added some glamour and the two stood up and said goodnight and off they went. Bill decided that now would be a good time to take their place in the booth. The waitress showed up giving the siblings a moment to look at Eric and Pam respectively with a 'we'll tell you later' look.
"So Billy how goes the mainstreaming?" Eric asked, he couldn't help himself, he really didn't like Compton and if tonight was dump on Compton night then so be it.
"Yes Beehl what brings you out here from New Orleans all of a sudden?" Pam piled her question on top of her Makers before Bill could answer.
Bill was starting to realize that he was under incredible scrutiny as the Viking appraised his reactions carefully all the while he touched Sookie, which was making him want to growl. The waitress returned with Compton's true blood as well as fresh drinks for the foursome.
"Yes actually Bill here was trying to get me to come home with him tonight while I was at work and of course I don't date customers so I had to decline." Sookie spoke directly to Eric completely ignoring Bill who sat fuming from across the booth.
"And of course we were on our way here to meet up with you all so of course that was just out of the question right?" Jason looked pointedly at Eric trying to convey that he had attempted to glamour her, as they all knew that it couldn't be done.
"I wasn't aware that she was yours Sheriff." Bill's statement was designed to both get him out of trouble as well as determine their relationship.
"Yes well they are both under our wings now aren't they? So why don't you let us get back to our evening and you can get back to your mainstreaming." Pam didn't want to actually claim them, as they didn't really know what they were dealing with, but she still wanted to push Compton's buttons. Bill sputtered a bit but grabbed his true blood and high tailed it back to his shadowy corner to continue to watch the Sheriff and his Childe with the Stackhouse siblings.
"Let's take this into my office shall we?" Eric tone conveyed that his request was in fact a command.
"Oh goody… Play time." Pam said excitedly going, as far as to clap her hands in a girlish manner to which Eric couldn't resist rolling his eyes.
'Shit.' Jason thought panicking a little.
'Keep calm.' Sookie thought in an attempt to sooth her brother. 'Easy for you to say yours sounds happy.' Jason couldn't help but laugh at her thought, causing Eric and Pam to exchange yet another look. Sookie and Jason kept their hands clasped with Pam bringing up the rear.
As she admired Jason's ass while he walked Sookie did the same to Eric's. Both men noticed the other female's emotions but only Jason was picking up on the whole groups emotional climate including the lust from Pam behind him causing him to sway his hips a little more than necessary to see if it was having the desired effect. 'Jason, stop that!' Sookie admonished her brother.
'Stop what?' Jason attempted to act as if he didn't know exactly what he had been up too.
'You know what.' She retorted barely holding back a snort. They entered the office and Eric took up his seat behind the desk and Pam closed the door and went to stand to his right. Jason and Sookie took the two chairs opposite the desk and sat silently waiting for someone to break the staring contest.
"I knew I recognized that name!" Sookie blurted out and then covered her mouth as she had meant to only let Jason in on her revelation.
"Compton, of course the old Compton manor right across from Gran's place. Oh great he is our next-door neighbour! That's just great!" While Jason ranted he forced himself not to jump up and pace but to relax into the somewhat uncomfortable guest chair.
"I bet that's what I was noticing all week too." Sookie decided to add out loud seeing as though switching over to silent communication at this point might draw more attention than this conversation would.
"You mentioned that he came to town last week?" Jason asked Eric thereby acknowledging him for the first time in several minutes.
"What is going on here, and what are you two?" Eric demanded fangs down.
"I'm a waitress." Sookie said sweetly.
"And I work on the Parish road crew." Jason told him simply.
"Why are we unable to glamour you and what is going on with Compton?" Eric continued to ask barely holding onto his anger at this point, but wanting to get answers from the siblings. As they were still holding hands Sookie was able to catch the incident that was about to happen in the club even with the minimal attention she was paying to their surroundings.
'Jase the club is going to be raided any moment and there is a Vamp feeding in the bathroom.' Sookie informed her brother silently.
"We should leave now there is going to be a Police raid." Jason stated calmly. Pam had been continuing her appraisal of the two siblings while they sat across from her Maker as she couldn't help but be impressed by their lack of fear.
"Are you police?" Eric shot back menacingly rising to his full height his hands on his desk.
"No, but there is an undercover officer in the bar." Jason explained from his seat still holding tightly to his sister's hand.
"We don't have anything to worry about as there is nothing illegal going on here." Eric promptly answered he noticed that Jason's heart rate didn't change while he spoke leading him to believe he was being truthful.
"There is a vamp in the bathroom feeding off of one of the fangbangers that you kicked in the head earlier though." Sookie added sheepishly. Eric and Pam were shocked and confused by her statement, as they would have noticed if she had ventured to the restrooms.
Suddenly they were all outside in the employee parking lot and both Vampires had their fangs out.
"Explain." Eric demanded.
"I'm a telepath." Sookie said quietly.
"Really I had a psychic once it was incredible." Eric said with a leer.
"Did the psychic think so?" Sookie sassed back her hand on her hip.
Eric laughed, "for a while."
"Look we really should be going the cops will be here soon." Jason said interrupting their banter while tugging on his sister's arm to get her attention.
"You still have to explain what is going on with Compton." Eric said taking a couple of steps in their direction.
"Tomorrow night, later on. Come over to Gran's, it's right across from Bill's through the cemetery. Do you know the place?" Sookie invited them to their Grans all the while looking Eric right in the eye without any trace of fear.
"Yes we will be there after midnight then. Until tomorrow." Eric agreed to postpone the conversation until then and bid them goodnight.
Jason started to pull Sookie towards the other parking lot as Pam and Eric moved towards his cherry red Corvette. Sookie took one more look at Eric and decided that he really was beyond beautiful even if he was a little scary.
'Well that went well.' Sookie thought to her brother.
'I can't believe you told them that you're telepathic.' Jason admonished her.
'What was I supposed to say Jase?' She replied.
They barely made it to his truck when the cops complete with Vampire paddy wagon showed up. As they drove back home they were both silently contemplating the same thing. Their dates were very cute and they just might be able to get them to get Compton to back off.
"Look I think I'll stay over at Grans till we get this sorted out okay. We are stronger together and you know it" Jason suggested.
"Okay sounds good Jase. Do you think Compton bought it?" Sookie asked a little unsure of their earlier improv skit.
"I'm not sure but he is much younger than Eric and even Pam and Eric is a Sheriff what ever that means." Jason mused out loud.
"Yes so maybe they will be able to get him to back off then?" Sookie asked hopefully.
"Right that's the plan but I wonder what they will want in return. What if they are no better than Compton?" Jason could help but voice the question that had been nagging at both of them all night.
"I don't know for sure but I get the feeling that Pam really likes me for some reason. What about you what did you feel?" Jason said his uncertainty clear in his voice and emotions.
"You're better at this stuff than me, but it seemed like Eric was equal parts curious and lust." Sookie let him know of the assessments she had made earlier in the evening. "What about the electricity thing?" She asked.
"Never happened before to you?" Jason wondered glancing over at her to see the look on her face.
"Nope you?" Sookie asked turning in her seat so that she could see Jason more clearly in the dark truck cabin.
"Yes sometimes when you're up close and personal with someone that you really like. I've only noticed it a couple of times. The first time it really freaked me out not that I needed any more of a reason to be freaked out." Jason answered her question with a chuckle while waggling his eyebrows at his sister.
"TMI Jason Stackhouse TMI." She all but screamed at her horn dog of a brother.
"You asked! Plus I thought you might like a bit of a warning cuz I certainly could have used one." Jason half-heartedly apologized.
"Sorry you're right, never mind lets change the subject okay." Sookie said more to get him to drop the subject than anything else.
"Fine. So tomorrow night then, should we invite them in or meet them outside?" Jason asked more than fine with changing the subject to more important ones.
"Lets play it by ear and see what they are feeling first. We have to consider Gran. Speaking of Gran should we tell her what is going on?" Sookie responded and the question remained unanswered as they came to the end of the bumpy driveway.
Jason cut the engine after parking behind the farmhouse and took a hold of Sookie's hand so as to get a better radius. They were not impressed when they picked up a void on the edge of the property closest to the cemetery.
'That's most probably Bill.' Sookie thought recognizing the void now that they have encountered him a few times.
'Get your key ready and we'll get into the house real fast like.' Jason thought to his sister.
'K go.' Sookie agreed with his plan and they jumped out and rushed into the kitchen and quickly locked the door behind them.
"Nothing we can do tonight so lets just get some sleep and talk in the morning k." Jason said and bent and kissed her cheek goodnight and made his way to his old room, which was right next to hers, upstairs. Sookie wanted to make sure that Gran was okay before heading to bed herself. She ended up removing her reading glasses from her face, and placing them alongside her book on the bedside table before turning off her bedside lamp. Sookie quickly went through her bedtime routine and got under the covers and was asleep before her head hit the pillow.
Eric drove directly to one of his homes in Shreveport with his Childe in the passenger seat both deep in thought for the first half of the drive. Both were musing on which type of supernatural being they might be. 'One thing is clear the boredom factor was certainly alleviated tonight.' Eric thought to himself.
"Well they're certainly not boring are they Master?" Pam mused aloud unknowingly echoing Eric's thoughts.
"Yes quite interesting and quite alluring as well. Did you notice the slight glow about them when we were outside? They must be some sort of Sup but I have not idea which kind." He responded with his own thoughts and observations.
"I couldn't really tell in the bar other than their scents, which are delectable! And that electricity thing did you feel that too?" Pam wondered her fangs descending as the thought of their scent.
'Pam being less than half my age seems to have missed their more subtle tells.' Eric thought in response. "Yes twice once while we were dancing and then at the table while Jason was attempting to get rid of the others." He admitted while his mind spun at the meaning behind this shock of electricity.
"I also felt it while I was dancing with Jason and although I am usually not a lover of men I would make an exception for him, which is unusual to say the least." With no prompting Pam admitted to her fascination with a male for the first time in centuries.
"Maybe another clue to their heritage then? Maybe this Gran of theirs might hold some clues as well. Lets both rest in my place and then we can go to them directly after we feed tomorrow night, yes." Eric suggested and Pam just nodded her agreement seemingly lost in thought.
As Eric pulled into his garage and closed the door behind them he noticed consciously what he must have known subconsciously in picking this home out of all the others. Eric flew out of the car so fast that Pam sped after him expecting the worst. They came into the kitchen to find Godric waiting for them with a smile on his face.
"Godric!" They said in unison.
"Hello my Childe, Grandchilde." Godric greeted them both and after a moment Eric and Pam unfroze and launched themselves into his arms.
"What brings you here Master not that we aren't very happy to see you." Eric asked not releasing his Maker from his grasp causing the elder Vampire to chuckle.
"I came to see what has been so interesting this night. I have felt different sensations along with conflicting and erratic emotions throughout the night." Godric said holding his Childe back so that he could watch his facial expressions as he spoke.
"I am glad you are here. Tonight we met the most intriguing sup siblings the female of which is telepathic." Eric said proudly.
"The first sensation was much earlier on in the night though, hours before they arrived." Pam spoke reminding Eric of that fact.
"True. When we touched them an electrical current was produced. The same current seemed to be produced later during conversation." Eric relayed the facts as he remembered them, which with Vampire memory was perfect even if he didn't understand what else was going on at the time.
"This has the potential to be much more interesting than anything going on in my Area." Godric told them and with a final squeeze they released one another.
"Godric I am so glad that you decided to visit us it has been too long." Pam practically gushed she was so happy to see her Grandsire.
"I agree little one. Why don't we retire to Eric's day chamber and continue our conversation regarding these sup siblings you met tonight." Godric said and the threesome headed through the average suburban single family home towards the bedrooms, which have been altered to conceal a light tight bedroom with bath. Pam was diligent with keeping items for each of them in all of their homes throughout the world so that on nights such as these they would not have to worry.
It didn't take them long to change into something more suited for their daytime rest. Eric of course, slept nude always had since the temperature ceased to bother him after the change, while Godric and Pam kept their earlier customs and wore simple clothes to bed. "So tell me about these siblings of yours?" Godric asked them as soon as they had crawled under the covers situating themselves as Godric bookends.
"I knew the moment I noticed them walking across the parking lot that there was something different about them. And once they got close enough, Godric they smell divine it's like nothing I have ever smelt before." Pam started the tale eagerly.
"I have to agree with Pam they stood out like candles in a coal mine from the minute they stepped into the bar. More to the point their reactions to what was clearly their first time in a Vampire bar were antithetical to the norm." As Eric explained he lifted his head from the crook of his Makers neck where he returned as he finished speaking drawing in his scent as if he needed it to live.
"Also it seemed as though they are not knowledgeable of the sup world. They seem very tolerant but sheltered." Pam spoke her head resting on Godric's chest.
"Don't forget how for the first time in centuries you find your self drawn to a male." Eric tattled on his progeny his words slightly obscured from speaking into Godric's neck.
"So let me sum up your observations. Two unknown supernatural's who are related, and seem to have unknown powers. These powers include telepathy, and possibly sexual thrall or lure as well as whatever the electricity denotes." Godric summarized succinctly.
"Oh and don't forget Compton." Pam brought up the vainglorious young vampire.
"Compton, the Queen's procurer? What is his role in all of this?" Godric questioned.
"We are unsure as of yet they promised to explain tomorrow after midnight when we are to join them at their home." Pam continued, as Eric seemed to have checked out of the conversation.
"You have excepted an invitation to the home of an unknown sup?" Godric asked pulling his Childe from his side to look him in the eye conveying his displeasure.
"Master I don't believe we have anything to fear from them. If anything it seems they are in need of our help." Eric attempted to explain his actions.
"You met them mere hours from now and you profess to feelings of concern for these sups?" Godric said his disbelief plain in his tone.
"We are hoping that their Grandmother may shed some light on their heritage as it is her home they have invited us to." Pam added another layer of reason for their acquiescence.
"Another unknown... You both surprise me with the level of trust in strangers this shows. Something I have never known either of you to possess." Godric said his concern piqued he was now more than ever grateful that he made the decision to leave his Area without so much as letting his Second know of his plans. The moment he left the fots church after removing his glamour from Newlin's guard dog Gabe he took to the sky and flew straight to one of his Childe's Shreveport homes. It only took a low level Makers call to ensure Eric chose the correct safe house and he waited patiently for his Childe to arrive.
Dawn was moments away and Pam was already fighting to remain conscious during their conversation. Godric swept her hair back from her face and planted a kiss to the top of her head. "Sleep my Childe we can continue this when the sun sets tonight." Godric said his hand gently soothing her tense form until she submitted to the dawn unable to resist any longer. Godric turned his attention to Eric. "My Childe I have missed you terribly."
"Not as much as I have missed you Master." Eric told him looking deep into his ancient grey blue eyes. Eric smashed his lips onto Godric's full pink lips and their tongues and fangs clashed drawing blood, which drew growls from both their chests. They kissed until Eric too felt the pull of the sun and knowing he would only moments later Godric wrapped his arms around his beloved Childe and they fell to rest in one another's arms.