All Hell Breaks Loose
Chapter 23 Save Me
"Bill," Sookie gasped out the name of her former lover. "Jessica." She tried to run towards the hurt vampire but was held back.
"Oh no my dear," Gerald said and waved his finger at her. "Can't have you firing your flash grenades at us."
"Let me go," Sookie demanded as she pulled even more.
"We are going to let you go, but not right now."
"That was the deal," Bill said. "I offer myself and tell you the location of Eric Northman."
"What are you doing?" Sookie asked.
"Sacrificing himself," Alcide said in a somber tone.
"He's giving up on Eric."
"For us and Jessica," Alcide said.
"But," Sookie started and laid her eyes on Jessica. The poor girl wasn't moving even though here eyes were open. Her limbs were covered in burn scars from being tied by silver chains.
"Sookie this is the only way," Bill said as he brushed his fingers through Jessica's hair. He looked up at Gerald. "Now let them go."
"Just one thing," Gerald said and nodded at the werewolf that was holding Sookie from behind. "Joey, get the bowl."
Sookie heard some of the rope being cut through and Gerald grabbing onto her free wrist. Before she could react Gerald took a knife to her arm and cut it while another werewolf held up the bowl.
"You said no harm," Bill said as he walked straight up to them but was held back by several weres.
"No I said I would let them go alive," Gerald said as held Sookie's bleeding arm over the bowl. "That should be enough. Go and bottle it. Ella it's your turn."
"Sorry if this stings," a female were said. She wiped down Sookie's arm with a wet cloth. She spread on some medicine from a tube that did sting before covering it with a thick cotton pad and wrapping it in gauze. "I don't think there will be a need for stitches, but it would be a good idea for a doctor to check it out." She secured the gauze with some medical tape.
"Blindfold them and take them away," Gerald ordered.
"No," Sookie gasped. "Bill."
"This was the only way," Bill said as Sookie felt herself being tied up. "Take care of Jessica."
"But Eric."
"Sookie keep quite," Alcide said. You don't want to risk them knocking you out.
She bit her lip to keep from snapping at the wolf as a cloth was placed over her eyes and another over her mouth.
The three of them were loaded up in the van they had stolen. Sookie wanted to make sure Jessica was all right but she did not know where the girl was located exactly and it was hard to wiggle around. She couldn't hear Jessica's thoughts nor could she smell where she was exactly. She could read Alcide's mind but couldn't ask.
"Meshica?" Sookie tried to get out while soaking her gag even further with her saliva. She heard a feminine moan coming from her left. Sookie crawled over closer.
"Here's your stop," a were said as they pulled over.
Sookie felt herself being picked up and hauled out of the van. She felt the sensation of falling followed by brief pain of striking the ground and grass. She rolled over and felt something big, warm and breathing.
"Can't we get some V from her?" One of the were's asked as they dumped the third body.
"I'm not about to piss of the boss," another were answered.
"Not even a little lick?" The first were asked.
"Not even a single drop," The second one answered as two objects were dropped down next to them. "If you can get out of that then call someone who cares and I would work fast if I were you."
Sookie wondered if she could burn away the rope that was binding her with her light. It might not work and it might even knock her out with the burst.
"Hmmm," Alcide moaned and Sookie could feel his mouth against her face as he managed to get his lips around her gag and with a motion of her head slip it off him. His lips brushed higher on her face and found her blindfold and he pulled it off her.
"Thank you," Sookie said as she sat herself up. She could see they were in a ditch on the side of the road smack dab in the middle of no and where. "Let me try the same." She bent down and used her mouth to remove Alcide's gag and blindfold in the same way he removed hers.
"I'll get the girl's," Alcide offered as he rolled over to Jessica. "Still gotta get out of these binds."
"I'm going to try something," Sookie said and felt the warmth of her light in her hands. She felt it grow warmer and warmer and smelt smoke. As it burned she got on her feet and ran to the middle of the road while the rope burned and once it was weak enough she threw it off her hands onto the dirt where she stomped it out.
"When did you learn how to do that?" Alcide asked as Sookie squatted behind him and untied his bindings.
"Just now," Sookie said as she finally finished the last binding. She moved over onto Jessica. The chain was tied tight and she couldn't unbind it. "I don't think I can melt silver though."
"Got these rocks," Alcide said.
"Jessica can you speak?" Sookie asked as she stared in Jessica's eyes.
Jessica shook her head and opened her mouth. There were scorch marks on the inside of her mouth and down her throat and there were bloody gaps in her teeth where her fangs were.
"Those bastards," Sookie gasped.
"What did they do?"
"Tore out her fangs and they made her drink a mix of silver powder and water."
"That group is sick and twisted," Alcide said as he shook his head. "They were the ones who put Steve through that form of hell."
"They wanted to hurt her bad so Bill would come running." She heard the clink of the chains falling off of Jessica. "Jessica can you walk?"
The young vampire nodded and stood up. She walked over to another part of the ditch where she bent down and picked up to dropped objects. It was their phones.
"Uh thanks," Alcide said as he grabbed his. "This aint good. We got only a little more than an hour until sunrise."
"Jessica is going to need some way to stay under," Sookie said. "And she needs some blood."
"I know," Alcide said and bit into his wrist hard. "Here you go." He held it out to the young vampire.
Jessica smiled in appreciation before she sucked from his wrist.
"Still need to find shelter for her," Sookie said as she looked at her phone. There were a handful of calls. Some came from Sam, there was one from Andy and a few from Jason's house.
"That will be enough," Alcide said and pulled away. "Now for the shelter." He walked away from the ditch and further into the field before he removed his clothes again.
"Jessica do you need some more?" Sookie asked. She stared at the bandaged area on her arm. She didn't want to risk infection by reopening that wound. Instead she scratched her other arm a few inches past the wrist. "Here."
Jessica was a bit reluctant but she drank from the wound for a few minutes before she pulled herself off and pointed to the direction where Alicide had gone.
Alcide was in wolf form and digging a long and wide hole. Jessica crouched down beside the wolf and dug as fast as she could using her vampire speed. Sookie joined in digging as fast as she possibly could.
When the hole was dug deep and wide enough Jessica climbed inside and pulled dirt covering legs before she lied down and Sookie and Alcide buried the rest of her.
"Now what?" Sookie asked. She was exhausted and sore. She needed to get her arm checked and they had to find some way to rescue Bill. She also wanted to check up on Jason especially if he had been calling her for several hours.
"I'll be able to find her," Alcide said as he finished dressing. "Got the scent book-marked in my brain."
"This is a dirt road," Sookie said. "Don't know which direction to take."
"Tire marks from the van are heading west," Alcide said. "We follow it we will find asphalt for certain if we go that way and even if we don't come across some form of a gas station or motel then someone driving along might show up and give us a lift."
"We have to figure out how to save Bill."
"We need to get you checked out," Alcide said after he placed his hands on her shoulders and stared into her eyes. "Then we both need food, rest and showers, now lets call our friends and that will guarantee us being found even sooner."
Sookie sighed. Alcide was right and she knew it. She called Jason's house first.
"Stackhouse residence," Steve Newlin's voice came through on the other end.
"Steve?" Sookie asked.
"Sookie?" Steve asked before the phone was taken from him.
"Where are you?" Jason asked. "We have been trying to reach you for hours."
"Sorry," Sookie gasped. "Jason I'm so sorry."
"Why? What happened with you guys?"
Sookie felt her eyes burn as she told her brother everything.
A/N I do feel pretty bad with what I've done to Jessica but I figured she had to be hurting pretty badly for Bill to feel her fear and danger.
Eric will make an appearance soon.
Replies:
Anon, thank you. I am having fun with Steve and I'm not sure if I will have Sookie and Amelia meet in this story.