We rode in Alcide's truck to Mississippi. I got to know him for the first hour of the road trip. I already knew everything about his very short love life. Now I knew his father owned a construction company. His father also asked Eric for a loan, and Alcide was doing this to pay for his father's debts. Alcide also told me how rowdy the Jackson pack was. They gave Weres a bad name. Then it came time for him to start asking questions about me.
"When did you find out that you had, your power?" He asked keeping his eyes on the road ahead. "Well, I've had it all of my life. I just couldn't understand it. I only realized I was different when I started school." I said, feeling the humiliation I had all those years ago. Having to hide what I was to fit in.
"That must've been hard, I didn't have to deal with my 'difference' until I was thirteen. I bet it would've been much harder if I had to deal with it since birth." Alcide said. He took a handful of chips out of the bag that he had made me hold. "That house, was it yours?" He asked. "No, that house belongs to Sookie, my cousin." I said. "Oh." He muttered.
"It was my gran's house, but she passed." I flinched. "Sorry." He muttered. "We're almost there." He said breaking the short silence. "I'll take you to Lou Pines, it's a Were bar. You should go in and get what info you can." Alcide said. I'd have to hand it to him, he was really doing better than I thought he would.
When we got to Lou Pines I got out of the truck shaking off the chips that Alcide dropped. He found that amusing. I was starting to like Alcide. He wasn't exactly like me, but he was different, like me. I related to him in a very easy way. Not to mention that he wasn't as complicated and secretive as Eric.
We walked in together. There was a very buff man at the door, in fact the whole bar was filled with very buff men. "Hey Alcide." The man said. "Hey." Alcide replied. We walked past him and Alcide whispered in my ear. "We gotta separate, they won't talk to you if they see me with you." He said and looked at me. "Okay." I said, he nodded and went to sit at the bar.
I walked over to the first table. I saw someone I had seen before. He was in the car, with Sookie and Bill. "Hey there." I said making eyes at the man. I needed to touch him without making it seem like I had to. I wouldn't give him a chance to hide his memories from me.
He raised his brows at me. "Honey, where'd you come from?" He asked. "A couple places." I purred. "You wanna party?" He asked me. "Sure do." I told him grabbing his hand. He pulled me along.
I saw Sookie being put into a room, it was a beautiful room, very luxurious. But she was scared. Bill was being spoken to, reasoned with. He spoke to a older man who was clearly a vampire. I pulled my hand away from him.
The guy took a small vile out of his pocket. He dropped V onto his tongue, and he offered me some. "No, I've got to go." I said, he grabbed my arm. His grip was painfully tight. "Let go of me." I spat each word to him. But, he wasn't afraid of me at all. When he pushed me against the wall, I screamed.
"Get the fuck off of her!" Alcide barked as he grabbed the man by his shoulders. The man got a hold of Alcide quickly, the V made him stronger and faster than other Weres. After a few punches the bouncer rushed in quickly breaking up the fight. I walked out with Alcide, his face was bleeding.
"Fuck!" He spat while he wiped his mouth. There was a lot of blood on his face. We drove to Alcide's house in silence. When we got there I went straight to the kitchen and damped a paper towel. "Come here." I said to a still very angry Alcide. He came to me and let me clean the dried blood off of his face.
"Did you at least get anything?" Alcide asked after I cleaned the blood off of him. "Yes, Sookie is being held, by a vampire. He seems to be making some kind of deal with Bill, I don't know maybe for Sookie's safety or something." I slurred feeling quite tired, I realized how close I was to Alcide. His body heat was too much not to realize it.
He was looking down at me. I inched closer to him. My body seemed to move on it's own. He put his hand on the small of my back. His face was getting closer to mine. My body collapsed into his arms. "Okay, you should get some rest. How long have you been awake?" He asked as he carried me to a room. "I didn't get much rest last night." It was truth, and it was Eric's fault for haunting my dreams.
Alcide laid me down and looked at me in a way that was maybe adoration. Maybe he thought he liked me, maybe he related to me as I had to him. In our differences…
"I thought I would bring you some extra blankets. It gets kind of chilly in here at night." Alcide said, I noticed he wasn't wearing a shirt. Wow. "That's very thoughtful of you." I whispered, he smiled. He sat the bundle of blankets at the end of the bed. "You know, I'd be much warmer if I slept with you." I said biting my lip. His face looked animalistic as he registered what I had said.
He came around the bed. As he picked me up again, he kissed me. It was a hot, and vastly passionate kiss. A kiss that he'd been holding in him the whole day. I knew I wanted him, I could be with him. He wasn't this complicated creature that was wondering what I was every second of his waking life. I could live in the daylight with him. I wrapped my legs around his waist and threw my head back to breathe. "Ella." Eric's voice came out of Alcide's mouth. I fell.
When I woke up I was on the floor tangled in the bed sheets. Why the hell was I having creepy dreams left and right? I sighed and moved my hair out of my eyes. It was my subconscious that had a dirty mind, and sadly I couldn't control it. I unwrapped myself and looked around the room. The sun was up and I had been asleep for a while. There was a dull pain in the back of my head, at first I thought it was a caffeine headache, or maybe it was where I had fallen. It didn't matter at all. I pulled myself up and stretched my sleepy limbs.
I walked out into the empty living room. Then into the kitchen where Alcide was making breakfast. "Hey Alcide." I peeped feeling a little weird, because of my very vivid dream. I felt as if I should be wearing one of his t-shirts and walking in to kiss him. Instead I stood next to where he sat the carton of eggs.
"How do you like em?" He asked me, I didn't understand. "The eggs, scrambled, sunny side up?" He asked with a small chuckle. "Oh, scrambled is fine." I said. "Hope you don't mind breakfast in the late afternoon." He chuckled. I checked my phone to see it was in fact late, it was five in the afternoon. I'd been out for a while.
"It's fine, but I just-" I rubbed my sleepy eyes. "What?" He asked. "It's funny, no guy has ever made me breakfast before." I laughed shortly. "I'm glad to be your first." He said with a smile. I giggled. He bit into a piece of bacon and winked at me. I laughed even more.
"What is the plan now?" Alcide asked me while he finished his food. "Well, I say we go back tonight." I said, he stopped eating and shook his head. "No." He said. "Why?" I asked him. "Tonight is Debbie and Coot's engagement party." He said taking his plate and dumping it in the dishwasher. "Alcide, I need more information." I pleaded, he looked at me for a second. "Fine, but I'm not staying long." He said before he walked away.