Alcide got into the drivers seat after Tara and I got in. As soon as we were on the highway I started to breathe. Tara looked horrorstruck I thought it best not to ask her about her night.
Alcide pulled over halfway down the road. He went into the trees. Tara and I went to the back to check on Sookie. "Sookie?" I spoke loudly so she could hear me. But I received no answer. Tara started to bang on the back of the truck. "Sook!" She yelled. Alcide ran up and opened the door.
Sookie was lying in the back, two bites on each side of her neck, her arm cut open and Bill was lying next to her. He sat up and guarded his face from the sun. "What, what happened?" He asked. I ran to Sookie and felt for a pulse. She had one, but it was weak.
Tara jumped in the back and held Sookie. I felt numb, my mind didn't register any of it at once. "Get the fuck out!" Tara screamed at Bill and kicked him in the back. He fell on the ground. I noticed his skin wasn't burning. As I looked at him I felt betrayed. "W-why?" I asked as tears fell. Bill looked up with sorrow in his eyes. I was sobbing when Alcide threw me over his shoulder and dumped me in the truck.
As we drove to the hospital I was freaking out. Sookie was going to die. It just couldn't happen. "She's going to be fine, Ella." Alcide said reaching over to hold my hand. I laid down in the seat holding my knees against my chest. Alcide was driving very fast, Sookie was dying, and I was having a panic attack. "Calm down Ella." Alcide said rubbing my hair with his free hand. I tried to calm myself, but I just couldn't.
When we got to the hospital they took Sookie in. I wiped my face off with the inside of my shirt. I got out and followed them, I watched as they put Sookie in a bed and stuck her with needles. Then they took her away. We sat in the waiting room. Tara paced, Alcide held me while I cried. The doctor came back looking disappointed and confused.
"How's Sookie?" I asked her jumping from Alcide's hold. "Who are you?" She asked. "I'm Sookie's cousin." I told her. "Well...your cousin doesn't have a blood type. I've never, in my whole career seen a reaction like that. Are you the closest family member?" She questioned. I looked to Tara, she stepped up for me, I couldn't handle this. "No, her brother Jason is." She said for me as I retreated back into Alcide's grasp.
Tara had to call Jason, the doctor said that Sookie wouldn't make it. I was to deep in my hate and sorrow to come out for anyone.
After a while I heard Jason come in. "What happened?" He asked. I looked up. "Bill." Was all I said. We all were able to go into her room then. Again Alcide held me. Lafayette was talking but I was to in my head again to hear.
I got up to go to the bathroom after a while. I walked through the hall like a zombie. After I went to the bathroom, I washed my face and stared at myself. My face was deathly pale, my eyes were dark, my bottom lip was busted. My heart was shattered, I didn't know how to conduct myself. I slumped out of the bathroom to come face to face with Bill Compton.
"Ella." He said and before I even thought about it I punched him in his face. It didn't seem to have hurt him, but he frowned at me. "I deserved that." He whispered. "How could you Bill?" I said trying to keep my hands to myself. "I didn't mean to." He muttered. "How is Sookie?" He asked. "Half past dead." I mumbled. "Take me to her." Bill was begged, he looked like the emotional Bill that Sookie had fallen in love with. After a few seconds I started to the room. When we got there Tara jumped up. "Get the fuck-" She was screaming. "Tara he can help her." I whispered. Lafayette grabbed her. "Ella, are you sure?" Jason asked me. I nodded, when she was almost killed by two V dealers Bill brought her back with his blood and I was sure he could do it again.
Alcide walked over to me. I leaned against him. Bill took the IV and cut into his arm. He stuck the tube into his vein. Sookie looked better after a few minutes. Within fifteen minutes she was awake. Screaming. I jumped and so did everyone else in the room. Bill stared with horror, he looked horrified that she was afraid of him. After Sookie calmed down she took a deep breath. "We need to talk." She said and looked around the room. "Alone." Sookie added. "Fuck that." Tara spat. "Tara, please." Sookie whispered, Tara stomped out, we all followed.
Alcide walked with me. "Are you alright?" He asked me. I looked up at him. "I feel. I feel numb." I whispered as if it were a big secret. "It'll all be better." He assured me and embraced me. If Alcide, who recently murdered someone, and was told off by the woman he loved so much, was so sure that it would be okay. That this fucked up world would bring some good, well it's hard not to believe him.
Sookie was released from the hospital. As soon as I knew she was safe with Jason, I got into the truck with Alcide. I hadn't slept in such a long while, I started to feel empty headed. I laid down in the seat and let my eyelids fall. Sookie, and Jason were safe and I was safe here with Alcide, for the moment.
When I awoke it was four-twenty-seven am. I was lying in my bed, while Alcide was snoring at the end of the bed. I smiled at the sound. As I sat up I felt a wave of calm float over me. It was short and steady, but it was gone before I could enjoy it. I got up and tiptoed through the hallway. I opened Sookie's door and peeked in. She was sleeping. I closed the door and walked to the bathroom. I took a quick shower and got dressed in a tank top and shorts.
Since I wasn't sleepy anymore I went to the back porch and sat on a rocking chair.
"Now Ella, Sookie, Hadley. Don't be getting into trouble." Gran called to us from her rocking chair on the back porch. Sookie and Hadley were both seventeen, and I was ten years old. We were playing together while mom went to the doctor. We walked through the graveyard. "Do you think they know we're stomping all over them?" I asked my sister and my cousin. They stopped and looked at me. "No dummy their all as dead as a doornail." Hadley said. "You know what I think Ell?" Sookie smiled and threw her arm over my shoulders. I always wished she was my sister instead of Hadley. "I think that all these people have done gone to heaven. So no they don't know we're stomping all over them." She said with a smile.
Then I heard the gate squeal, it made me jump. Someone grabbed me. Before I heard Hadley laughing I was running. I didn't stop even after I heard her. When I made it back to the porch where gran was sitting I took a breath. "Looks like you've seen a ghost sweetheart." She said as she patted her knee for me to sit. "Hadley scared me." I muttered feeling stupid for even being afraid in the first place. "Well honey, don't you be scared. When your afraid of something you know what you should do?" She asked and I shook my head. "You remember, you're strong, and brave, and nothing can harm you."
I missed gran so much, she was my rock. Gran was my mentor and she was the only person other than Sook that truly understood me. She was gone, but her words were burned in my brain. Every word that she had ever said to me in fact. I had sat there for three hours remembering. Gran seemed to have known what I was before I even told her.
As I was sitting there watching the sun reflect off of a puddle of water, I heard a car. I just thought it was Jason coming back to check on Sookie. But then I heard a voice that I haven't in so long it made me jump. "Ella?" I looked over at Hadley. She was standing on the steps. She looked better than she had two years ago. She looked clean. "Hadley?" I cried, I didn't know it till that second but I missed her terribly. "Hey." She said, keeping her distance. She was hiding something from me. "Where the hell have you been?" I asked her. "What do you mean? You left too." She said. "I know, I know." I muttered giving an apologetic smile.
"I got a message for you from Eric Northman." Hadley took a breath. "He said Russell is coming for you, and he also said not to trust Bill." Hadley sounded afraid of something. In fact the whole time she was talking she shook. "Eric, how?" I had no clue how they'd know each other. "I can't, I have to leave, it'll be smart if you and Sookie did the same." She said and ran to her car. Before I could yell at her she sped out. I took a deep breath. How could I trust Eric? He left me in that vampire's mansion to die, while he did whatever. Sookie almost died because of Eric, and, well, because of Bill.
I needed answers, that was something I couldn't deny. But that would have to wait, I knew tonight would be bad. Russell would come for me and Sookie, and we'd have to try and keep ourselves alive.