Weeks had passed and Sookie was managing to control herself with a little extra help from Eric and Pam, it was hard for her relying on someone else's emotions but she was trying her best to follow the instructions Eric had given. She fed regularly on willing donors from the bar and they had figured out that a little hot vampire sex and a night time flight with Eric helped with her rage, Sookie was proud of her self and the progress she was making but most of all she was glad not to see that disappointed look on Eric's face that she had seen so frequently since being turned.

Sookie wondered around the parking lot behind Fangtasia getting some air or so that's what she told Eric but really she was struggling with that other part of herself the part that told her to rip apart every warm body in the building and smear the blood all over her body. This was part of her this was who she was now the monster she fought to control every night of her new life, she took a few deep breaths realizing how long she had been standing in the dark alone and she knew Eric would worry if she didn't head back inside soon so she pulled the door open and headed back into the chaos.

The fangers were in full effect decked out in the black leather and fish net the smell of the sweat made Sookie's stomach turn as the surrounded her booth pining for her attention, Eric watch from across the room shooting her a smile hoping it would help her cope. She knew his intentions were good and he had even hired a new vampire bar tender hoping the new meat would take some of the attention off of her but in the end it failed, Sookie had inherited many parts of the vampires who had given blood to save her and one of those were Eric's irresistibility and the fact that she couldn't stand being in their presence only intensified it.

The new bar tender though friendly on the eyes standing over six foot tall with thick dark hair and the brightest blue eyes Sookie had seen since her own, Levi was his name though she was sure he had been called by many others over the years had very little charisma when it came to the bar patrons but seemed eager to please Eric. Sookie couldn't help but feel there was something strange about the vampire but she chalked it up to her own irritability from being pinned in the bar for several hours a night after all he was there because Eric thought it would help her.

"You jealous" Pam whispered into Sookie's ear startling her

"Jealous of what exactly" Sookie snickered back tossing a napkin at the table,

"You're telling me you haven't noticed how our sexy bar tender throws himself at Eric every five seconds"

Sookie looked up at the sleek blonde dressed in a lacy black blouse with skin tight leather pants. It was part of the show they put on every night a Fangtasia and Sookie couldn't help but think about how much better Pam looked in the pastel colors she wore when she when she wasn't parading around the bar,

"Oh really Pam like he is the first vampire male or female you have seen throw themselves at Eric" Sookie waved her hand brushing off her comment.

She couldn't lie she had noticed the way Levi went out of his way to anticipate Eric's every move and she knew at some point she would need to have a little talk with him, not that she was insecure about her relationship with Eric she knew they were monogamous and have been since they had been together but there was always a chance that someone might catch Eric's eye. Sookie went about her evening surrounded by needy little humans pining for her affections and when the bar finally closed she didn't stick around waiting for Eric like she usually did, Sookie knew he would be disappointed but she was starting to feel smothered by all of the rules that were supposed to keep her safe from the Authority.

Once in the parking lot she pushed off the ground leaping into the air she hadn't told Eric about her little ability yet, it was something she was working on in her free time which was becoming less and less lately now that Eric had given her a full time position at the bar but she still managed to sneak off every now and then. Sookie hovered over the trees watching the stars bounce around the sky when she caught something moving out of the corner of her eye, she wasn't sure what she saw but as she listened and watched from above the trees she knew it wasn't human and it wasn't there by accident.

Sookie swooped down pushing through the thick brush of the trees and pouncing on her prey shoving him to the ground and sitting on top of him, shortly after landing she knew who it was that she had caught stalking her through the trees and she wasn't surprised to find Levi in her grasp.

"Why are you following me" Sookie demanded pushing her heal into the nape of his neck,

"I, I, I'm not" Levi squealed under the pressure of her foot Sookie flipped the thin ma n with little effort pressing her face against his

"Liar" she hissed.

"Why are you following me?"

Sookie tried to sound menacing and stern but the fear on Levi's face mad her want to laugh, she knew he was much older than her and by rights should be able to flick her off of him like a flea but her strength was yet to be matched by any vampire young or old.

"Eric was looking for you, I was just trying to be helpful" Levi pleaded with her but she knew better than to believe him

"Eric knows how to find me why would he send you and not come himself," She twisted her foot pushing it deeper into his throat

"I saw you leave" he struggled to talk under the pressure of her boot "I came on my own."

"Why" Sookie eased her foot off slightly "why would you come at all" Levi didn't have an answer he shrugged his shoulders hoping she would take his word that he was only trying to be helpful,

Her first instinct was to too crush his throat and rip him to shreds enjoying the sounds of his bones as they broke but when she thought of Eric she couldn't bring herself to do it knowing that if the authority found out she had killed another vampire it would mean his and Pam's lives too.

Sookie lifted her foot from his neck allowing him to stand and dust himself off, "does Eric know you can fly"

She didn't answer him but as she rolled her eyes and walked away she realized Levi would rush back to tell Eric what he saw hoping to earn brownie points with him so she headed back to the bar hoping to catch him first and avoid the lecture for not telling him she figured it out. Sookie walked through the doors to the bar thinking she would find a frantic Eric and a snickering Pam but what she found instead baffled her, Pam was dusting glassed behind the bar not even bothering to look up as she walked through the door and Eric was in his office his hair disheveled looking stressed as usual as he fussed over the usual paper work.

Sookie hissed realizing she was lied to Eric wasn't looking for her at and at this point she wasn't even sure they had noticed she was gone, the sound of her irritation caught Eric's attention causing him to look up and question her demeanor "What's going on now." She didn't answer but continued to stand clenching her fists a few feet from his desk, Eric dropped his pen quickly walking over to her cupping her face in his hands and kissing her sweetly hoping to distract her from whatever was causing that look in her eye.

"Levi" Sookie whispered dodging Eric's kisses

"Did you have him follow me" Eric's tried to keep up with her train of thought but he was clueless as to what she was talking about.

"Follow you, have who follow you" he said reaching for her hand, Sookie turned moving further away from him her anger was getting the best of her and she couldn't stand that she had been trick so easily by the ass kissing bar tender.

"Were you looking for me, or did you have him follow me, just tell me the truth" she breathed heavily as she spoke trying to calm herself but she knew it was no use,

"Sookie I didn't have anyone follow you and I don't understand what's going on here so just tell me" Eric's patients was growing thin he had no idea why she would think he was having her followed and at this rate her rage would have her storming off before he had a chance to find out.

Sookie turned to looking directly into Eric's his eyes as she spoke hoping she would see the truth there, "I was flying around the woods behind the bar when I saw something leaping through the trees following me when I caught him" a smile spread across Eric's face he had heard everything she said but couldn't help the pride he felt hearing that she could fly.

"Flying around the woods huh" Sookie's heart softened when she realized that she had just blurted out her little secret, the secret that she was sure would only cause him to worry more knowing that now she would be even harder to catch when she felt like she needed to get away.

"Ok, ok so I can fly that's not the point here did you have Levi follow me or not"

"If you didn't send him why was he following me?"

Eric looked at her "where is Levi now" Sookie could feel herself getting angrier at Eric's concern for Levi,

"I left him in the woods when he told me you were looking for me" she bit out each word furiously

Eric could understand her anger over his concern for their new bartender but in the end he knew what Sookie was capable of and if she was this angry over Levi following her he couldn't help but worry about what she had done when she caught him.

"Sookie I didn't have anyone follow you but I am sure he just thought he was helping after all that's what he was hired to do" Eric hoped she would understand what he was saying but she had a way of letting her emotions get the best of her and no matter how much they worked on it Sookie's anger was beyond her control most of the time,

Sookie leaned back against Eric quietly focusing on her breathing and mulling over what Eric was saying. She was positive Levi was following her and she didn't believe he was just being helpful but after a few minutes she told herself that though she didn't trust Levi she did trust Eric and rather than fly off the handle torturing the man she loved she would just have to keep a closer eye on the new bar tender from now on.

"Where is he from" Sookie asked her question catching Eric off guard

The truth was Eric didn't know where Levi was from and it was part of the reason he was so stressed lately other than knowing that he was passing through his area looking for a job Eric couldn't seem to find out anything about him, he was slowly searching through Bill Compton's vampire data base hoping to find some info on the vampire but wasn't having much luck their either. Eric had tried talking to Levi on several occasions with no luck and even asked that pam and a few other vampires from around the bar to get close and try to learn what they could immediately reporting it back to him but so far if Levi was hiding something he wasn't telling.

He had his suspicions which were a bigger part of his stress the most likely one being that Nan Flanagan was up to her old tricks again sending an unknown vampire through his area eager to help and get close to the rouge vampire as Nan called her, Eric had noticed how odd Levi was always following him around wanting to help with any task big or small foolishly thinking Eric hadn't noticed him watching Sookie out of the corner of his eye. He believed Levi's helpfulness was his way of getting close to him which meant being close to her and though his gut told him to throw the newcomer out on his ass he needed to know what Nan was up to and that meant waiting it out but it also meant lying to Sookie and keeping her from killing him.