Sookie was gone, I knew she needed to be alone. I sat on the couch and didn't try to clear my head or ponder over love or why there were so many bad things happening. I just laid back and stared at the ceiling, thinking nothing.
Sookie sat crying over gran's grave. A woman I had never seen before held out her hand. "Sookie come with us." She said. Sookie seemingly agreed taking her hand. Then with a burst of light she was gone.
A ragged gasp escaped my throat. I had no clue what I had just seen, but I knew it wasn't good. Without a second to think, I ran out of the house. "Sookie!" I yelled running to gran's grave. When I approached Sookie, she was holding her hand out to the woman. I reached her just in time to grab Sookie's hand. There was light everywhere. It engulfed my body with a distant cold feeling as if submerging under water. Before it really started it was over and I was left standing on a stone ground.
"Ella." Sookie smiled at me. When I realized we were in Fae I started to worry. "You're a fairy as well." The woman said. "I am Claudine." She smiled brilliantly. When I looked around I didn't see the world I had through my mother's memories but a land of beauty.
My mother stood not far from where we were. She hadn't noticed we were here just yet. When she did notice me her eyes went wide with fear.
She walked over to me and grabbed my hand. "You can not be here Ella, it's not safe." She said silently keeping a smile on her face. "I followed Sookie." I had to speak out loud. "Please get out of here, before." Then she stopped and let go of me. She looked hopeless. "A trap? The trap is the world you've left behind." A tall woman walked out. She was speaking to Sookie who bowed in her presence. My mother inched a couple steps away from where I stood.
"No need to bow, we're all friends here." The deep voice of the woman boomed through the courtyard for everyone to hear. "I'm sorry, I just have no idea who you are." Sookie said quietly. "You can call me Mab, I'm the one who sent for you. Have you tried the light-fruit?" Sookie shook her head. "It's really very good." She insisted. "I don't want any." Sookie shook her head.
"You should try it." Mab said smoothly. "I said I don't want any!" Sookie yelled throwing it down. I seemed to be the only one to notice how it looked after it fell to the floor. It smashed with the grace of an already rotten fruit. I looked back at my mother who had her eyes stapled to the woman who called herself Mab.
"The future of our kind is in peril." Mab said with a sneer. "A vampire breached our realm because he had a taste of fairy blood, your blood." She spoke loudly. I walked over to stand beside Sookie who was shaking just a bit.
"In the old kingdom vampires nearly drank us to extinction they drove us onto this plane." Her voice was stern. "Well it won't happen again, I'm staying away from vampires. I can guaran-damn-tee you that." Sookie said loudly. As I watched Mab's face it changed. "Oh I know." She said darkly. Her distorted face made me stare in confusion and diluted horror. Had I really seen that? I couldn't be sure because her face went right back to normal as soon as she spoke again.
"We can't have bearers of the Fae on the human plane any longer, we've sown to many seeds with humans, now it is time to harvest!" When she said that I grabbed Sookie's hand. My mother was right, this place wasn't safe.
Sookie and I used our powers at once. We blew Mab against a tree and within a second the whole place had changed. It looked like a barren desert and the fairies that looked beautiful mere seconds ago, now were revolting dirty creatures. Sookie and I ran for our life. It seemed like we did that a lot these days.
There were explosions all around us as we ran. People were screaming and the hideous fairies were clawing at us from behind. My rapid heartbeat sounded in my ears and I kept my bare feet going against the pain of the rocky dirt under me.
"Come with us we can help you." Two Fae men stopped us. They looked like the others. The one holding Sookie seemed to combust within a second. "Do not fear, we can get you home." He looked up. "Hold them off, I've got the humans." He yelled.
As more fairies ran after us the man screamed. "Follow me!" We had no choice. We stopped in front of a large break in the earth. "You have to jump!" He yelled. "We can't jump in there." I gasped looking at the man. His eyes were a striking blue, it stood out from the rest of his face.
"My sister was the one who abducted you. Because the crown wishes to seal off the human world from Fae forever." He spoke quickly. "And you don't?" Sookie asked. "It was once our world to, it is our right to travel there." He said, then he paused. "Have you eaten the light-fruit?" He asked. We both said no. "Then jump." He said.
I could feel something coming, I wasn't sure what but it made my stomach twist into knots. Without thinking of the awfully great possibility that we could simply die I grabbed Sookie's hand and jumped.
We fell onto the grass of the graveyard as if waking from a nightmare. The breath was knocked out of me. I gasped for air. Sookie was sitting over me. "Ella, are you okay?" She asked. After a few seconds of gasping I was. Sookie helped me up slowly and I looked around. It was daytime all of a sudden and the air felt a little chilly it looked to be late afternoon maybe five o'clock.
We walked back to the house not speaking, it was all just to weird. When we came upon the house our already twilight-zoneish day had gotten even weirder. The house was beautiful, it had been restored, it looked like it had when I was a baby.
Sookie and I looked at each other for all of two seconds with questions we knew that one another had no answer to. We walked up the porch. A man stopped us. "Where do you think you're going?" He asked. "Into my house." Sookie said pushing past him. The inside was even better than the outside. "Honey, if you don't come out I'm calling the police." He said.
"Do it call the cops, because I would love an explanation." Sookie said throwing her hands up. After Sookie walked into the kitchen, I shrugged at the man and closed the door in his face.
Sookie and I sat at the kitchen table in silence. I supposed she was really waiting on the cops. I really didn't know how she would explain the whole weird as hell day we had been having, well without sounding like she needed a trip to the loony bin. I knew that if she was going to tell the cops everything I'd have to agree and that meant we'd both get a free straightjacket.
Sookie pulled out a watch flipping it over in her hand a couple of times, I had never seen the watch before. After a few seconds of staring hard at the watch she started to cry. "Who's watch is that?" I asked her. "It was granddaddy Earl's. He was there." She said. I frowned, I had never met my granddad, but from gran's memories he was a saint.
"Police." I heard Jason's voice, Sookie got up and I followed. "Jason?" Sookie asked wiping her eyes. Jason stared from me to Sook, he was shocked, and I just couldn't tell why. "S-Sookie?" He gasped and ran to her. "I can't believe it's you." He paused. "Ella!" He said with a tear in his eye. He let go of Sookie and squeezed me until I couldn't breathe.
"Jason, why are you dressed like a cop?" Sookie asked him but he didn't listen. "Jesus Christ we thought you two were dead. We've been looking everywhere for you. We figured a vampire must've did it. Maybe Bill, or that crazy tall one." Jason went on. "Eric." I muttered on reflex, the anger from last night still in the pit of my stomach.
"Hold on, hold on. Stop a second." Sookie insisted. "What is today's date?" Sookie asked. "T-today is uh, October 21st." Jason said. "We've been gone for two weeks?" Sookie asked looking over at me. I stared wide eyed. Two weeks? No wonder why it felt a little colder outside.
"Sook, you two have been gone for twelve and a half months." The sentence he had said set me reeling back. A year, a year? A whole year of my life was wasted. I was nineteen years old now. I missed my own birthday, and I was worried about my car insurance.
Everything that had seemed dully weird today was set on the backburner. We were in Fae for all of fifteen minutes, twenty tops. But, we had actually been gone for a year and two weeks. This wasn't weird anymore it was completely insane.
Jason, Sookie, and I sat at the table, my head still felt numb to the unbelievable new findings. "You sold my house?" Sookie asked. "Sook I thought you were dead, you're not the kind to just run off like that." Jason said defensively.
I stood up and walked to the sink to wash the dirt on the palms of my hands, and as I always did, I looked out into the backyard. I noticed my car wasn't sitting in the same place where I had left it. I felt angry and betrayed, yes it was junk, but I had worked so hard to make it the one thing I owned.
"Where's my car?" I asked Jason, the expression on his face was nothing but guilt. "You sold that too? Jason, that was everything I owned." I paused with the lump that grew in the back of my throat. "Wait no I get it, Sookie's not the kind to run off, but I am." I stomped out the backdoor before I could hear any of his excuses.
As I stomped down the dirt road into the darkness thinking of nothing really just feeling extreme anger, I bumped into a certain tall Viking vampire. Before I fell on my ass he grabbed me. "Ella." He whispered. He was holding me tightly against his wide chest. I fought against him for a few seconds. I already knew that I wouldn't be able to get away. Before I resorted to biting and scratching he dropped me.
"I never believed you were dead." He said quietly, his face was dramatic. "Nobody did." I huffed rushing past him. For no good reason this all made me so very angry. "What does that mean?" He asked, it was one of the few times I had seen him confused which I didn't care at that second I just wanted to punch something.
"What does it mean? What does it mean, Eric!" I screamed up at him. I didn't think about what I was doing. I was just feeling rage. "It means I fucking came back here for my family! But it was useless! Nobody cares about me! I'm nothing to them!" I was crying and screaming hysterically over my shitty car, but it felt good.
As tears began to stream down my cold face, I stopped myself. Eric looked at me from a few feet away. "I care." He whispered and without the look of pushed down disdain or arrogance, he could've almost been taken seriously.
"No, no don't give me that shit. You'll kiss me and say something sweet, then you'll try to kill me or hand me over to some kind of evil force." I laughed. Eric kept his eyes on my face.
"I wasn't going to let you die. I could have very easily drained you, but I held back." He said. I clapped my hands sarcastically. "Oh Eric thanks, really." I smirked. "Just leave me alone." I whispered to him. He looked at me for another silent second and then he was gone.