A/N: I don't own anything i'm just taking the characters out for a walk.
Bill's POV - The aftermath
I can't believe Sookie is so stupid that she let Eric blackmail her into coming to Dallas, just to free Merlotte's gay cook. I mean really, I can't get her to agree to anything and all he has to do is raise his eyebrow and she jumps. Women are so simple; and Eric uses it to his advantage and gets away with it every time. Even Sophie Anne thinks that he hung the moon and the stars, which is why she didn't want me to let him near the telepath. In my defence I didn't think that she would stand out so badly! And how could I have predicted Eric's reaction to her? I mean who wears a white sundress to a vampire bar? I knew he would be interested but I thought that surely he would respect that I had claimed her as mine own.
She wanted to get answers about the killer that was strangling fangbangers in her town. Not that I thought that anyone would answer her questions especially Eric. Her brother was being accused of these crimes and so she wanted to find the real killer; Rene was so easy to manipulate. Once I got her Gran out of the way Sookie ran straight into my arms. But Eric I can't predict or manipulate; he is centuries my senior and I can't let Sophie Anne know that I failed to keep the telepath from his notice. This was supposed to be a simple assignment; Hadley said she was a simple country girl. This information has proven false.
I should have known this trip wouldn't go smoothly, but my maker showing up, was not something that I could plan for. I forced her to release me decades ago; I would have ended myself if she hadn't. I cannot stand her, nor any female for that matter. I have been thoroughly enjoying Queen Sophie Anne's court especially Andre; he and I have been lovers for many years now. So now here I am attempting to stay awake in order to best my maker so that I do not loose the telepath and fail the Queen. She has trusted me with this mission and I intend on fulfilling it and soon. My patience is growing thin; there is only so many ways to stroke her fragile human ego. But Sophie Anne wants a telepath and for that she needs to be strong and confident in her abilities.
I can feel that she is in distress; if she is damaged in this mission Eric will pay! Unfortunately I will have to report this to the Queen. The sun is about to set and still she hounds me whining about how much she loves me. I am concerned that she will continue to interfere with my mission for the Queen. Perhaps I should tell her? No she will use it try and insinuate herself further into my life, how I wish she had never turned me in the first place.
We both hear the knock on the door. I rush to answer it almost getting open but Lorena blocks me and speaks through the door.
"Yes?" She calls as she casually pets me as if we were lovers.
"I have a message for Bill Compton, it's from Sookie Stackhouse. She says she and the Sheriff are in the basement of the fellowship and they need help."
"I must go to her."
"Bill you will do no such thing - it is beneath you - she is a human."
I see an opening and take it; smashing her over the head with the flat screen TV. I rush out into the hallway and the bellboy who delivered the message is still present. I grab him up and glamour him into telling me more. Strange that his fear does not abate under my glamour, but no matter he is forthcoming with the information I need. Sookie has managed to call the hotel and sent him up to ask for my help. I release him as the elevator doors open and speed off towards the Dallas nest.
Upon arriving the nest is a buzz and I am clearly just in time to join the rescue party.
"Sookie sent word that they are holding the Sheriff in the basement of the church." I tell them as I enter the room, these Dallas Vampires really are disorganized.
"See I told you that they had him! Now will you let me deal with them?" Stan yells.
"We need to hurry, I can no longer feel Sookie; I think she may have been knocked unconscious." I hiss at their incompetence, and where is Eric anyways I thought that this mission was so important to his that he would be here for sure.
"Yes my connection to Hugo has also been severed. This mission has not gone very well at all." Isabel seemed defeated as we filed out of the nest.
We leave the nest and quickly make our way to the church. The minute we arrive I can feel that Sookie is close, her emotions are confusing, they are in conflict with one another. I cannot tolerate this any longer. The door to the sanctuary is easy to rip from its hinges and the scene inside is certainly interesting. Armed humans surround two of the oldest vampires in the country. Maybe one of them will take Eric off my hands during this standoff.
"Sookie!" I yell out as we enter, I cannot see her but I can feel that she is close.
"One more step Vampire and the girl dies." Newlin trains his gun on Godric and then I notice that he is holding her in his arms.
"If you shoot her, everyone here will die. Let her go now!" What is that heathen doing holding My Human?
"Bill shut up!" Eric is such a jerk; if only I could tell him that Sophie Anne sent me into his area and I was steeling an asset like Sookie right out from under his nose. He wouldn't be so smug then would he? I cannot fathom why she is in Godric's arms she doesn't even know him, she is such a fool trusting one so old as he.
"Honestly what do they see in you?" Newlin asks as if to himself.
"Steve Newlin! You have pushed us too far. You expect us to sit on our thumbs while you round up your men to come lynch us? We'll kill you first. Same way we did your father." Stan bellows as soon as he enters the room.
"Murderer!" Newlin screamed. Before he can do anything rash Jason shoots Newlin in the hand he is holding the gun with, which falls to the floor and then again square between his eyes with a blue paintball. Newlin is now kneeling at Eric's feet after he swooped in and grabbed up the weapon and Newlin. Damn it I guess Eric won't be meeting his final death this night after all.
"Enough! You came for me I assume Underlings?" Godric speaks up before Stan and the Dallas vampire can make a meal out of these fots humans.
"Yes Sheriff." Stan looks annoyed that he isn't going to get to slaughter the humans.
"These people have not harmed me. You see we can coexist. Mr. Newlin, I do not wish to create bloodshed when none is called for. Help me set an example. If we leave you in peace, will you do the same?"
"I will not negotiate with subhumans! Kill me. Do it. Jesus will protect me." Newlin's eyes gleam with crazy as he attempts to goad Eric into martyring him.
"I am actually older than your Jesus. I wish I could have known him, but I missed it... Good people, who of you is willing to die for this man's madness?" No one answered him. "That's what I thought. Stand down, everyone. People, go home. It's over now." Peace with humans. That is such a crock as if we would ever treat our food as our equals! Their only purpose is to sustain and pleasure us, and for the special few to entertain us.
Now I need to get Sookie away from Godric and Eric. Of course here comes yet another thorn in my side: Jason Stackhouse. If only the idiot Bon Temps police had in fact arrested him for the murders like I had hopped. "Oh my god, is she alright? Sook, Sookie, oh my god I'm so sorry... What happened, who did this, I'll kill them!" Jason is speaking to Sookie and Godric like there is nothing wrong with her being in his arms. And he thinks that I might hurt her, I am sure that nothing I am able to do could even pale in comparison to what someone like Godric could do.
"She is simply exhausted, she will be fine. And there is no need, as he is already dead." What's this? If he 'saved' her then I am going to have to work even harder to get her to leave his side. She is such a bleeding heart sentimentalist.
"Bill what are you doing? Why was she even here in the first place." Jason whirls around in an impressive display of speed for a human and starts in on me as if this whole thing is my fault. I easily evade him and take off after Godric and Sookie.
"Give her to me, Sookie is mine." The growl emitted by Godric's causes my flight or fight instinct to kick in and everyone in the immediate vicinity to freeze.
"You will not touch her, unless she asks you to." What gives him the right to dictate my rights to My Human? She is mine to do with as I please. She will pay for this. I stand back and watch the assembled vampires mill about and then get back into the vehicles to return to the nest. I cannot stand being in Eric's presence and so after I watch as he escorts Jason into one of the vehicles I take off on my own towards the nest.
As I slow down to a stop just outside the nest I cringe and turn and to face my maker. Of course she has tracked me here. I will have to tell her of my mission or she will be impossible I am sure of it. And now that not only Eric but also Godric is interfering I can use the help.
"Lorena, I can explain. But not here someone may overhear us." We make our way to a dead end street a couple of blocks away from the nest. My mind is whirling at the complications I am about to unleash on myself.
"I have been given a mission by my Queen. She wants the girl in her court I am merely procuring her for her."
"Well William, I should have known that you would never actually fall in love with a human girl. Wonderful and so once she is delivered then we will be free to pick up where we left off. I have missed you Darling."
"Lorena I do not wish to return to your side. I have a position in Queen Sophie Anne's court and I intend to return to it once this mission is complete."
"If you want this mission to be a success then you will have to return to my side when it is finished. I'm sure Sophie Anne wouldn't mind if you were to take a leave from her court." I can see that she will not budge on this and so I have no other options but to agree to her demands.
"Fine, I will go inside and retrieve the human and I will meet you back at the hotel."
"Don't take too long Darling." She says in a singsong voice that chills me to the bone.
She zooms off and I take a minute to gather myself, I shudder in disgust: the things that woman has made and will make me do. I slowly make my way back to the nest and upon entering I scan the rooms and find that although she is in the house she is not anywhere I can see. I notice Eric standing off to the side Jason has just walked away looking nervous. Hmm I wonder what their deal is, I bet I could use it somehow to further turn Sookie against Eric. That really has been so easy, she really is quite susceptible to any suggestions that I make its pathetic really.
"Eric that was low, even for you! Calling my Maker. But you will not win this, Sookie is mine." I hiss at him to low for anyone to hear.
"We will see about that Bill." Eric says confidently like he knows something that I do not.
"What is that supposed to mean?" I ask attempting to hide my confusion.
"All she has to do is renounce your claim in front of witnesses or ask for protection from someone of higher authority Bill and you know it." He says smugly, we are starting to draw attention to our conversation.
"She will never do that! She loves me and I her. You just don't understand our relationship Eric and you never will." I almost gag on the words but I am able to deliver them with the expertise of an accomplished actor. Eric all of a sudden turns away from me and I have to step to the side to see around his massive frame. The entire room has gone silent everyone is staring at My Human enter the room holding hands with Godric. My vision clouds with red and I am barely able to prevent myself from shaking violently. She will pay for this insult! As soon as I am able to control myself I make my way over to the couch they are sitting on. I know it is unwise to discount Godric's age and his authority here he is after all Eric's Maker, but I cannot help myself.
Thank goodness I will be able to take her to New Orleans and hand her over to Sophie Anne soon. I'm sure that she will let me use her torture chamber to sort out our differences once we get there. Sophie Anne certainly does not allow her pets to disrespect her she will be happy to help me teach Sookie her place.
"Sookie there you are, darling I have been looking everywhere for you." At my words she starts to shiver and tears being to fall down her cheeks and what is more she starts curling into Godric's arms.
"Sookie what is going on here, you are mine what are you doing?" This is outrageous she is clinging to Eric's heathen of a Maker and he is letting her just cry all over him.
"Bill remove yourself you are upsetting her, she has been through enough already." Godric's says in a calm and icy voice and instantly Eric is right behind me.
"Eric remove him from my nest." I know that I have made a mistake being asked to leave the nest by the Sheriff of the area and in front of witnesses no less but this is ridiculous surely he won't keep my human and force me to leave without her?
"Yes Master." That simpering idiot what is he like a thousand years old and he still calls his Maker Master?
"No she is mine, you can not have her." I can't believe this; they are stealing My Human from me this will never stand.
"Get out and stay out Compton, in fact I think it would be wise if you returned to Bon Temps this night. I will ensure that Sookie gets home safely." Eric says in a tone, which clearly means that this is a command.
"You can't do this, she is mine!" I yell at him.
"I can and I just did now I am your Sheriff and I have given you a direct order: return to Bon Temps Bill." Eric is very close to causing me physical harm and so I pick myself up and back away slowly then zoom away out of sight.
I cannot leave, not while she is still in there with that heathen. I'll just wait and watch she is so stupid that she will soon make a mistake and I will be there to grab her. Staring at the house for ages waiting for someone to come out I almost missed someone going in, a clearly scared young man. Seeing this I took a look around and there were other humans present surrounding the house? What is this? I grab the closest human and glamour them into telling me what is going on.
"We are going to blow up the bloodsuckers and any humans that associate with them; they are abominations and all deserve to die." I snap the neck of the fots human in furry before I realize that in the confusion I may be able to grab Sookie with out Godric or Eric noticing. Suddenly I couldn't be happier for the fots: they certainly had their uses.
Moments later the blast is heard and felt even from where I am standing: the house is destroyed. Before I can rush inside the other humans begin to pick off anyone who attempts to flee cutting them down with wooden bullets. It's a massacre. After a few moments they seem to run out of ammo or guts and start hightailing it out of here. I take my chance and speed into the house. The inside of the house is appalling and I immediately go into bloodlust. The scent of blood and charred flesh is heavy in the air. I quickly take stock of the main room attempting to locate Sookie with our blood tie. I watch as she pops into view right where she was when that over grown buffoon threw me out like some over muscled bouncer. My hopes are dashed as I see that Eric and Godric are laying protectively on top of her body and the moment she yells Eric's name his head pops up and he appears to be undamaged. Blast my luck, I had better get out of here before he notices me and locks me in a silver lined coffin for disobeying his order.
I speed out of the house and take off back to the hotel. I can't believe their arrogance they will regret this day. As soon as I reach my room my Maker makes herself known.
"Where is the girl? I was hoping to have a taste of that little morsel before you passed her off to Sophie Anne." Lorena tells me excitedly.
"Godric and Eric have stolen her from me, I will have to tell the Queen they are too old for me to fight but she can order Eric to release her; its the only way." I am seething mad.
"The Queen should not have sent you into one of her Sheriff's areas to steal an asset behind his back you, do realize that this is against our laws. If he finds out you will be punished." Lorena attempts to use logic to divert me from my mission.
"The Queen has leverage against him." I tell her as I flop into one of the chairs in the sitting room.
"Still it would be wise to distance yourself from this mess. Eric and Godric are far older than even your Queen and I are. And Sophie Anne is no match for them even if she is Queen." This is more logic that I have ever heard from my Maker before usually she would be quite happy to go against any and all rules as we have done in the past together.
"No I cannot let this stand, the AVL will have to be called in after the bombing and we can get them to turn her over to me again. She knows nothing of our laws it will be simple to convince Nan that Godric is using his age to steal my pet." I tell her.
"Alright but if this does not work then you will return to Mississippi with me and seek shelter with my King and I." She tells me although I know that she will command me to do this if I refuse.
"No I must stay and recapture Sookie, the Queen will help me punish her for her disobedience." I am never going to let this go, surely she must understand if anyone did this to her she would strip the flesh from their bones slowly.
"You have been asked to leave the area by your sheriff this is madness, as your maker I..." I could feel the command coming after years of living under her cruel rule.
I took my chance and cold-cocked her: she didn't see it coming. I just hope that I have time to grab the girl before she catches up. I can feel through our blood tie that she is moving closer to me as I speed away from Lorena. I exit the hotel and wait off to the side just out of sight. There is a constant influx of vehicles containing blood spattered and injured vampires and the odd human, I notice that Jason is blood stained but completely uninjured as he exits the vehicle with his arms around Isabel, Godric's second. What they see in that pretty boy I do not understand he is almost as bad as Eric.
The next car is of much more importance to me; Eric gets out and strides directly into the hotel. Godric pops out of the other side but ducks back inside for a moment until he emerges again with Sookie wrapped around his small frame. I watch stunned as he carries her into the hotel like the child that she is and what is this he is rubbing her back? How am I going to...