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Chapter 62: Nightmare

Sookie

Sookie began randomly pointed to places she felt human and vampire minds. After a while the police and fireman decided to indulge her and check. When they found vampires and humans, they looked to her in shock and began following her every instruction. Two hours later they were still pulling vampires and humans out of the rubble. They had light tight body bags ready for any vampires and quickly covered them and dragged them out.

The process was made a lot more difficult and time consuming as they passed many deceased humans and vampires that had met the true death. Sookie choked up each time but pushed on so she could get to the next vampire or human she could help.

The police were now moving her around the complex on a fire truck ladder where she was safely able to point out areas where there were people who were still alive.

Sookie was now exhausted and hanging on to the ladder with shaking limbs. Sookie heard Jason and Lafayette call for her and she looked down at them.

"Sook, you's is gonna fall from exhaustion. Come down here, sweetness. You done all you can for one day," Lafayette called out to her as she was slowly lowered.

Jason moved forward and grabbed her off the ladder and they slowly climbed off the fire truck to the ground.

Sookie literally was being held up by Jason and Lafayette. She needed rest and also some food. She had only managed about half a bagel before Abby knocked on her door that morning.

Sookie's thoughts wandered to Abby. Sookie looked for the head of security, wondering if Abby had made it in time. She must have to have evacuated so many people, especially humans. Sookie walked to him and asked, "Have you seen the girl that notified you of the bomb?"

The manager nodded and said, "She was concerned about getting someone named Jake out. The last I saw she was running towards the stairwell leading up the rooms."

Dread filled Sookie as she realized that Abby had tried to save Jake from what was definitely his suicide mission. Earlier Sookie had seen in Abby's mind that Jake had told her to leave the hotel before the bombs went off. He wanted her to live. He didn't want to her to die. Sookie was sure Jake was gone. She only hoped that Abby wasn't able to get to wherever he had been at the time.

It was this hope that reinvigorated Sookie. She turned to Jason and Lafayette. "I need caffeine. Lots of it. I will not gonna leave these people to die in the rubble. Abby might be in there."

Sookie straightened her back and suddenly there was a photographer in her face, snapping pictures of her. She swatted them away and spun on her heel, heading back to the fire truck. Jason called after her, but in his head he knew it was a losing battle.

Sookie climbed back up the ladder and instead of holding onto it like she had been, she tried to get comfortable and perched on one of the rungs as they drove slowly around the ruins and she pointed to spots where she found survivors.

After a while, her butt fell asleep and she needed to walk around to stay awake. There was a portion of the wreckage that Sookie was able to walk through that the police and fireman had begun to clear. As Sookie maneuvered over wooden beams, soot and ash, rubble and glass, she spotted something moving. She almost called out to alert the fireman of a vampire that was here.

Almost. But she stopped herself when she recognized it was none other than Bill Compton.

"Sookie," he said, in an alarmingly weak voice. "Sookie, I need help."

Sookie looked down into the face that had caused her nothing but pain since the night she had met him. He had literally caused and starred in her nightmares. Now the only anecdote from the terror Bill had planted in her was Eric, who soothed all her fear.

She knew that even though they were pledged, even though he was sworn to protect them and their union, Bill would never accept it. She had seen his scathing and hateful looks during and after the pledging. She had also seen the unmistakable signs that Bill was plotting, searching for loopholes in the oath that Py had made him take.

Someone as slithery and slippery as Bill was would eventually find a way. Sookie kneeled down and brushed Bill's bangs off his forehead. He sighed at her touch and said, "The sun…," in a desperate and pained voice.

"Bill why do you pursue what you will never have? You said that if Eric made me happy, you wouldn't stand in my way. Why is that not the case?" she asked in a tone as if they were sitting to afternoon tea other than in the sun.

Bill groaned in pain and closed his eyes, not wanting to hear her. "Why Bill?" she asked.

"Because you are supposed to be mine," he said in a sandpapery voice.

"No, Bill. I am Eric's. I always have been. I was always meant to be with Eric. You just were a speed bump on the way to him. I know you will continue to hunt me. To hurt me. Through Eric."

Bill looked up at her and she knew he saw the truth in what she was saying. As if she was a legitimate and genuine fortune teller. "Do you know what my worst nightmare is, Bill? I wake in the middle of the day, screamin' in fear that you have taken Eric away from me and that I have to live in this world without him. Even as I lay in his arms, I scream to God that he doesn't let it happen. It is my biggest fear. I can't have it, Bill. I know if I were to let you live, it would happen. I can't. I believe right now, God has given me the opportunity to end my torment."

Bill's eyes widened in fear and disbelief. Even she couldn't believe the words coming out of her mouth. She reached over for a sinister looking splintered wood. She traced the tip with her fingers and she closed her eyes as she thought on the damage this could do.

She looked between it and Bill. Could she live with herself? She had killed Debbie Pelt already. Could she take this life as well? It was a purely selfish kill. It would keep her safe, yes. But Sookie wished Bill never came into her life. She wouldn't ever get that wish. Ending him and being happy with Eric was the only thing close enough.

As she raised her hand to finish her nightmares, she knew she couldn't do it, and shrieked out in pain and frustration. She couldn't take a life, even if it was someone as despicable as Bill.

She cried and was shocked as she looked down in the triumphant face of Bill Compton. "You can't. Because you have love for me," he stated.

"No, never. I love myself. I couldn't live with myself if I took a life that wasn't for protective reasons," she said harshly. "Heaven knows I would do it if I thought God could forgive me for such a sin."

Bill's face turned serious as her words hit home and he waited for her to call for help.

She stood and kicked ash over his face and walked away. She wouldn't kill him, but she wouldn't help him to live.

As she walked away towards the crowds of people outside the building she looked back to see John Quinn standing over where Bill Compton lay. In his hand was the splintered wood. His purple eyes caught Sookie's as he brought the stake down and lodge into Bill's black and cruel heart.

Sookie was shocked, but relief flooded her system as she watched Quinn nod to her and walk away from the scene.

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