All Hell Breaks Loose

Chapter 9: Heat of the Moment

They were circling her. Sookie had no idea if they could smell the blood that was inside her but she knew they were all around her, getting closer for the kill. Even if they couldn't smell her blood she knew they wanted to get a good taste of her.

"Somebody help," Sookie cried out as she drew herself into a tighter ball on the raft and watched as the as the foreboding fins of the great whites slice through the waves. She was out here, all alone and she had no idea how she got here.

Cannon fire cut through the near silence and Sookie looked up to see a large ship sail up to her. It was not a tall ship like she had seen in the pictures. The bowsprit ended in the shape of a dragonhead and there were shields on the sides that had images of Scandinavian yore, and it was captained by Sig. Wait, why was a famous crab fisher captaining a Viking ship and why were people aiming harpoon guns at the sharks. This did not make any sense.

"Sookie give me your hand," Eric called out.

"Eric?" Sookie asked and glanced up towards the sun and then back at the vampire. He wasn't even smoking. She reached up and grabbed his hands.

"I got you," Eric said as he pulled her aboard. He was not wearing his usual clothing nor was he dressed as a Viking. He did wear a puffy white shirt and long dark red vest embroidered with brocade. He had on black pants that ended at the knee and leather boots that were folded over on top. He had both a belt and a leather swash. His hair was tied back and there was an earring in his ear.

"Why are you wearing that?" Sookie asked.

"I always wear this when I rescue beautiful women," Eric replied with a wink. "Now shall we go down to the galley? Lafayette has made tacos."

"What the hell is going on?" Sookie asked and did not pay attention to the person tapping her shoulder at first.

"Sookie," a familiar voice spoke her name from behind.

"Claude?"

"Sookie, you have to wake up," Claude said as he continued to shake her shoulder. "You and Tara are in danger. Wake up."

"I'm up," Sookie moaned. She opened her eyes as Claude continued to shake her. "What is going on?"

"We have to get out now."

"Not until you tell me what is going on." She hated having been waken up from that dream. Sure it was strange but the image of Eric dressed as a pirate was not one she was going to forget anytime soon.

"Fire," Claude explained as the smoke alarms went off.

"Shit." Sookie leaped from her bed and ran towards Tara's room. "Tara wake up." She knocked on the door while the high pitched screeches of the alarm continued.

"I'm up," Tara said as she opened the door. "What is going on?"

"House is on fire." She could smell the smoke coming from the direction of the kitchen.

"This way," Claude said as he ran down the stairs.

Sookie followed behind and only glanced over her shoulder once to make sure Tara was following behind. The three of them ran out of the house, cleared the front porch and ran towards the direction of the cemetery and Bill's house. Once inside Sookie will call the fire department.

The baleful yellow gazes from the wolves along with their growling kept them from cutting across.

"We're surrounded," Tara said as the wolves began to circle around the same way the sharks did in Sookie's dream.

"Not for long," Claude said glowing energy formed in his hands. He threw the blasts at the wolves.

Sookie formed her own energy blasts and threw it at the wolves, smiling in triumph when she hit at least two of them. Out of the corner of her eye she watched as Tara pick up a rock and threw it at another wolf.

One wolf snarled and leapt for Sookie before she was able to get a chance to form another blast. A shotgun was fired and a dead man with a bullet hole in his head landed next to Sookie.

"Get the fuck away from my sister!" Jason shouted as he aimed at another wolf. He was dressed in his uniform and he was not alone. Andy was with him and fired his gun at the Werewolves.

A human like blur rushed past taking another wolf with it.

"You may have us outnumbered," Claude said as he blasted two more of the wolves. "But besides your claws and fangs you are unarmed."

"And more is on the way," Andy said as he aimed again at a few of the wolves who do seem to be backing down. "I don't think they want to keep your secret."

The wolves looked at each other before they turned tail and ran off, leaving behind a few dead bodies, two that were unconscious and one cradling an injured arm where Andy had shot him.

"When did you guys here about this?" Tara asked as another patrol car came rolling up followed by a couple of fire trucks and an ambulance.

"Just recently," Jason explained as he walked over to Jessica who was feeding from her capture and kill. "You better head back home, take that with you."

"Don't need to tell me twice," Jessica said and ran off with the dead Were.

Jason nodded and crossed his arms. "Drove by on patrol and we saw the smoke. Are you two all right?"

"We are fine," Sookie answered. She watched as Andy read the rights to the one Were with the injured arm. She figured her brother or Andy radioed in for back up and about the fire.

"Thanks to—where did he go?" Tara asked and gestured to where Claude was.

"Damn fairies," Andy muttered as soon as he walked away from the wolves. The paramedics proclaimed the one that Jason had shot dead and were treating the injured. "And werewolves. I can see why Bud had quit."

"There is no way you can quit us," Tara said to him.

"I don't plan on to," Andy said as he studied the dead body. "What is this?" He pointed to the back of Wolf, just below the neck and between the shoulders.

Sookie let out a breath as she studied the brand. It was the same mark as those on the werewolf pack that were loyal to Russell Edginton.

"Looks like a brand," Tara said as she studied it.

"What kind of brand?" Andy asked as he pulled out a notepad. "Gang brand?"

"More like pack band," Sookie answered.

Andy pursed his lips and furrowed his brows. "Gang brand." He wrote it down and it looked like he wrote the symbol. I know you are reading me Miss Stackhouse. I'm going to write down what it will look like to the others. I've been told these guys don't want the world to know about them yet.

"Thank you, Andy," Sookie said as Kendra and Kevin approached them.

"Sheriff Bellefleur," Andy corrected.

"Thank you, Sheriff Bellefleur."

"What she thanking you for, Andy?" Kevin asked.

"For coming here with Jason," Sookie answered. "Saving me and Tara from these guys." She pointed at the dead were.

"Don't need to thank me Miss Stackhouse," Andy said. "All part of my line of duty." He did not see Kendra rolling her eyes.

"What do you think this is, Sheriff?" Kendra asked.

"Pretty easy to figure out," Andy said. "Some gang members came here, set the house on fire and hoped to snatch up Miss Stackhouse and Miss Thornton as they fled the place."

"That does seem like it," Kevin said as he nodded.

"That explains why one is shot and killed," Kendra said. "I just finished talking to the paramedics. The others were stunned and one received a blow to the head by a blunt object."

"I threw a rock at his head," Tara said and crossed her arms. "I aint gonna let some strange assholes come and try and take me and Sook here and I aint gonna just stand by and let the men fight my battles for me."

"I loaned Sookie my tazer," Jason said, impressing Sookie with how quick he was able to come up with a cover story. "I know I shouldn't have done that, but there were a lot of them and I wanted to make sure my little sister was able to defend herself."

"Hmm-mm," Kendra mumbled and looked to Andy.

"I'll talk with him," Andy said before turning back to Sookie and Tara. "The paramedics are going to want to check you out and then we will question you."

"And take you to my place," Jason added. "You are welcome to stay with me for as long as you need, sis, Tara."

"I'll think I'll stay with Lafayette," Tara said. She still had apprehensions about being around vampires.

"We'll drop you both off," Jason said before he nodded towards the direction of the ambulance.

"Thank you," Sookie said and walked towards the direction of the flashing lights.

"Do you know what is going on?" Tara whispered.

"Yeah." She didn't want to keep Tara in the dark. She explained how Alcide discovered that Edgington had gotten out.

"Back to his old tricks. Do you think he is gonna go after Bill and Eric."

"Probably. Do you think Claude might have done something to alert Jason and Andy?"

Tara shrugged. "Not certain, could have been a coincidence."

Sookie nodded and felt her hands slipping onto her pajama pockets. There was a piece of paper in one of them and she didn't remember putting it there. She pulled it out and looked at it. It was an address for someplace in Monroe. Now she was certain she didn't put it there. Sometime tomorrow she is going to see what that place it is and figure out why she came across it.

A/N: First of all thank you to TryEverything and Anonymous for the reviews.

The house fire was also in the book. I have no idea if they are also going to include that in the fifth season but it was one of the more memorable moments for me.