Chapter 64

Evil Is The Flavor That Makes The Bad Ones Taste Better

Sookie's POV

We had arrived at the cabin quickly. I expected it to be all set up with the same things as Eric's home, daylight protection and all. There was none of that.

"Why do you own this place if you don't stay here?"

"I use it for the occasional interrogation, sometimes I loan it to human business partners to sweeten a deal, other times I rent it out." He got real defensive when I laughed. "Real estate is a very lucrative investment!"

"No, honey! I wasn't laughing about that, I was thinking about some clueless businessman staying here on a little getaway, never knowing some ruthless Vampire had interrogated the life out of someone in the same place." That seemed to take the stick out of his ass, at least a little.

"So, alskarinna, how do you plan to go about this? Will you just straight out kill him when he walks in the door? Or will you allow him to run a while before taking vengeance for the fallen? I can tell you this, the hunt and chase makes it much, much better."

"I think I'll just wait and see how it plays out. I don't wanna think about it and plan it too much. The spontaneity appeals to me. You know what I mean, like when you aren't sure what's going to happen and you're scared and turned on all at the same time. The rush of adrenaline and fear makes all your nerve endings come alive." I was walking towards him, doing my best to project a little shiver down his spine. I felt a thrill when I actually saw him take a tiny step backwards. "The feeling like you gave me during the hide and seek you sprung on me. I wasn't really sure just how afraid I should have been of you and that made me so.... fucking...... wet."

Eric moaned and closed his eyes. "I just want to eat you alive when you talk that way, Sookie."

"Save that thought, lover. He's here."

"I'll be near but I won't intervene unless you call for me. Don't be afraid to ask for help if you feel you can't go through with this. I won't judge you, alskarinna."

"I'll be fine, Eric. I hope one day, you'll stop underestimating me. Now go!"

Luke's POV

I found the place with no problem!, Maybe my Johnson has built in GPS or something. I take a second to look in the mirror after I park and I wink at my reflection.

You're the man, Lukeinator! Get some!

I can't believe this is happening! Finally, a real woman I ain't kin to. A woman who hopefully ain't humped most of Louisiana like my whore cousin Lexie. I wish I could remember what this chick looked like, but I can't remember telling anyone that I could eat pussy. I ain't never done that before, no way I'd put my face down in old Crotch-rot's cooch. It's bad enough that I stuck my dick in there.

I'm nervous to get out of the Tahoe. Something feels wrong, something's telling me that I should just drive back to the dorm and whack off instead.

Man, I would have to be a total fag to run off and not tap this! Get it together Luke!

I get the Binaca out of the glove compartment and spray some in my mouth and a lot in my eye.

"Dammit! That fucking burns, son!"

Okay, steady now. Can't be too nervous, she'll know you ain't done this much and she'll dry up quicker than shit. Be cool, be smooth.

I finally get the nerve up to get out and walk up to the door. I knock hesitantly, and hear her walking to open the door for me. I'm praying now, shoulda done this on the ride over here.

Please dear Lord, I don't mean to seem picky, but please don't let her be a pig, please don't let her be a chick with a dick or a...

"Fucking vampire!!! Shit!" I run away from the face I'd seen on posters all over the L.O.D.I. Campus. I am so fucking dead!

Sookie's POV

I smelled his fear and insecurity as he walked up to knock. I almost felt sorry for him. Although I could no longer read human minds, I could still sense their emotions and he was very confused. And dumber than a soup sandwich.

He knocked and I opened the door. I was prepared for a lot of things, but not for the fact that he recognized me and knew I was a vampire. What the shit was that all about? And then he screamed and ran. I guess the chase was on now.

I blurred past him effortlessly and he ran into me when I stopped in front of him. He bounced back like he'd hit a wall and fell to the forest floor.

"Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit! Damn me and my evil horniness! I let my junk lead me into temptation and now look. I'm a dead man." He started crying and blubbering and I felt like I might puke.

"Why do you recognize me? How do you know my face?"

"R..r..r...Reverend Newlin put you up as enemy number one last week. He says you're the most dangerous vampire in Louisiana."

"How did Newlin find out about me?"

"Someone named Bill is all I know. This guy called a few weeks ago and said he was going to New Orleans to hunt you down himself, said that if we didn't hear from him again, that meant you'd got him and eat him and we should be on the look out for you."

Fucking Bill Compton was still causing me grief from the great beyond. Unbelievable! "And just what were your instructions if you should find me?" I felt a righteous rage coming on.

"We were to gonna stake you immediately, not drain you and leave you for Gods Fiery judgement."

"Why different instructions for me?" I was getting angrier by the second, I knew what feeling truly homicidal was like. This idiot had only a few seconds to live, he'd better start getting right with his maker.

"Because the Reverend said the sun wouldn't kill you and the stake might not either but it would keep you down long enough for us to chop your head off."

The scream of rage that escaped me echoed up and down the lake shore. How in the FUCK had these incompetent idiots gotten all this information about me? Sure, Bill had told them about me initially, his back up plan to make sure Eric and I never had our happily ever after. There is NO way he could have foreseen all that had gone on since my turning. Someone I trusted had loose lips.

"Chop my head off? You would do that to me, even though you don't know me? You don't know anything about me that someone else hasn't TOLD you, you fucking brainless moron. What if they're all lies? How would you know if you just came up, staked me and lopped my head off my neck?"

I knelt down and got close to his face, I could smell it as he pissed his Levi's. "You follow so blindly, is that because you can't think for yourself? Or is it that you're too scared to think on your own? I never understood weak minded fools like you who never questioned anything, just followed like a sheep." I stood up and glared at him, making sure he saw as all three sets of my fangs emerged. He screamed like a little girl and shit his Levi's.

"Yes, you followed blindly like a sheep and now like a sheep, you've been led to the slaughter. Make your peace, Luke McDonald. I judge you and find you guilty of the murder of Carlotta Amera. I sentence you, by vampire law to die by draining."

He tried to stand up and run but found no footing. His cries were pitiful but just enraged me further. What a disgusting, weak and pathetic human. He had all kinds of bravado when he had three accomplices helping him drain an innocent vampire, but he lost control of his bodily functions and cried like a toddler when faced with one single female to battle. And he wasn't even trying.

I screamed in frustration and kicked him hard in the ass. I felt his tail bone crack from the impact. The strangling sound he made pissed me off even more.

"Get up and run you sorry piece of shit! RUN!" he curled up into a ball and started screaming for help. I grabbed him by his leg and flung him a good distance into the woods. "There's your head start, asshole!" But he didn't make a move, he wasn't even crying anymore. I blurred to his side and knelt beside him again.

"You are truly the most wretched and sorry beings I have ever seen." I reached for him again and he flipped on his back and pressed something cold and hard onto my face.

"Die you fucking Vampire cunt!" What the hell was this fool doing? I felt Eric near and I warned him to stay away. This was mine to finish.

The look on Luke's face was beyond horror. Looking into his eyes, I knew that he had lapsed into insanity and the laugh that came from him was further proof. He wasn't laughing for long. I don't care how crazy you are, when someone reaches into your mouth and rips your tongue out of your head, it sure ain't funny. The sight of his ruined tongue in my hand and the blood that covered both sent me into a frenzy like I had never known. I dropped the tongue onto the floor of the forest and squished it under my feet. The gurgling scream from my prey excited me, physically and sexually. I felt fully electrified on every inch of my body. I licked the blood from the palm of my hand and laughed wickedly. Delicious.

I set about breaking both of Luke's legs, one bone at a time. Blood came flying out of his mouth with every scream and was a fountain of red that saturated me. I jumped on him, one foot landing hard on each of his hip bones and matched his scream of agony with my own scream of triumph. The cracking sound his pelvis made was orgasmic. He was jerking and twitching crazily now, the pain driving him out of his mind. I wasn't done, there was more of him to ruin. I kept my footing on his shattered pelvis and lifted him roughly under his arms, feeling the sweet, wet pop as each vertebrae in his spine separated from the next. I had effectively paralyzed him, he wasn't able to breath anymore but wasn't quite dead yet. I lay him down and positioned myself on top of him. I leaned close and whispered a last thought to him.

"There is no place for you in heaven, no more than there is one for me anymore. You are a murderer and God told us in the bible that a sin is a sin is a sin. At least I can live forever, but you, you will be roasting in the deepest pit of hell momentarily." I drew my head back and bit into his jugular and felt the sweetest surge of warmth hit my tongue. It was exquisite, like crimson manna flowing from his failing body into my mouth. I never knew that something could be so delicious and fulfilling. So different and so much better the synthetic I'd had earlier. How could anyone ever mainstream full time?

I felt the last fleeting thump of his heart and then Luke McDonald, the murdering dolt who'd fucked his cousin and gotten the clap for doing it was dead. I heard clapping coming from the tree's above me. Eric floated softly to the ground and knelt beside where I lay with Luke's corpse. I saw a million things in his face when I looked up at him. Wonder, awe, disbelief, he was impressed and maybe shocked?

"You are so very beautiful in your rage. A terrible, lovely mistress, fierce as a viking warrior and showing not a shred of mercy to the undeserving. I never knew this was inside of you, min gudinnan av frånfälle (my goddess of death)."

I stood and took my clothes off slowly. I felt beautiful, standing there in the moonlight, covered in blood and sated from drinking. Eric stood as well and stripped, I was in awe of his tall, muscular body, so pale in the glow of earth's satellite. I took in every detail of his body as I knew he was appraising mine. I sighed at the sight of his erection, it was beautiful to know that it would be mine forever. He smiled when he caught me staring at him like that. I wasn't embarrassed at all about it. I felt a low, rumbling growl start from my chest and it issued out of my mouth savagely. I lunged for him but he blurred out of the way, causing me to miss him.

Perhaps you deserve the hunt that this pitiful fool wouldn't give you. Can you catch me Sookie? Are you as cunning as you think you are? I'm very fast, both on my feet and in thought.

I lunged for him again and was again denied. I growled in frustration. I would never best him in strength or speed. I knew a way to get what I wanted, but was it fair? Could I claim victory if I used an ability that I alone possessed? I heard a faint but familiar voice inside of my head. A voice with a slight French accent gracing the words.

Sookie, mon élève (my pupil), as a woman, you have so few advantages to begin with. There is nothing wrong with using the gifts you have been given to succeed at any task. Show no mercy whether it is in war, business or love!

I decided that I should listen to her advice, she didn't get to be Queen by being stupid, after all.

Eric had stopped in front of me again, teasing me with his crooked smile and his taunting words. I stared at his cold blue eyes, looking through them into his soul.

"Eric, you don't want to run away from me anymore. It's silly when all you're doing is denying us both what we really want. I want you to come over here and put your hands on me and I want to put my mouth on you. I want to taste you and make you feel good. I want you now, Eric and you want me too. You can't stand another minute of not feeling me in your arms. Come to me now."

There would be time to worry about all the troublesome things that I had found out about Reverend Newlin and his knowledge of me, but right now, as Eric blurred to me and covered me in kisses and caresses, there was nothing I wanted more than just to belong to him.