Chapter 1-Savior
The doors of the cells slid shut and they were very much the same in which were once found at Vamp Camp and Pam said as much as she saw her friends being thrown in to their own cells. "Just like the cells at the Authority. See what happens when you steal ideas from others?" Pam has chained by her wrists by silver to the walls, the bars separating the three cells all made of the highest quality of silver but at least allowed them all to see and speak to each other. They remained bound by the wrists and ankles by cuffs of silver while Sookie was in the iron cuffs. For added security, they were leashed, chained by the neck to the walls, giving them barely any mobility.
"Looks like your plan isn't going to happen anytime soon." Eric muttered as he glanced at Sookie, who was looking paler than normal. "Are you alright?"
"I wish I could get us out of here with my magic…..but I can barely keep my eyes open." she said as the door to the prison area slid open with a high tech wooshing sound.
"With the purging of your employees from this place and the glamouring, I now have access keys to every corner of this building and so I think I will be happy here, especially when I get the new staff in place. The vampire members of my team has already glamoured the surviving humans into doing whatever is asked of them and so by the end of the week, I hope to have the first run of New Blood Redux rolling off the lines. But first, I need to start getting the formula together." smirking, he let himself into Sookie's cell and was joined by a couple of the vamp henchmen he bad brought along with him. A bag was brought out and seeing what it was, a enraged Eric struggled against she chains, putting up a tough but fruitless fight as he wanted nothing more than to stop what was about to take place.
"I will sign over the company to you if money is what you want, you know New Blood is profitable-: he shouted at Kai who turned and looked at him with cold brown eyes.
"If I merely wanted your company, yes, I would have accepted. But you forget, I am avenging my brother Gus and I want to make you suffer for what you did. And nothing short of this I think would be true justice. I know either way, the company is going to be mine and so that is not a concern to me. As of right now, it is as good as." he pulled Sookie up by her long blonde hair and allowed the henchmen to do their job, pulling out a blood collection unit and making quick work of their task, treating her as if she was a cow being milked, giving her no sense of dignity. And she tried to keep her dries of pain to herself but Kai had a rough grip on her hair, plus had pressed a blade of iron against her throat, putting it close enough to let out a thin trickle of blood. "Fairy blood coupled with Viking vampire blood…the new taste sensation…we all know hoe tasty Sookie is supposedly to vamps and this will indeed be the new big thing for all vamps. They will never be able to get enough."
Throwing her to the ground when the blood had been collected, they moved on to Eric and as hard as he tried to fight and as furious as Pam was getting at seeing her friends being victimized, no one could do anything. And soon they had collected some of his ancient and powerful blood. With a swift kick to the face of the injured Viking, Kai smirked and left the two to slowly recover from their wounds, the smell of blood hanging in the air. Screaming in anger at the damage left to her boyfriend, she felt something take her over and the iron restraining her and her magic. The room pulsated with magic and the bindings dissolved, not only on her, but on her friends and fellow prisoners. It seemed that her emotions had manifested in a new magic she had never known. Stunned, she got to her feet and scrambled to the far side of her cell where she reached arm through, barely touching Eric's shoulder. "Come on, scoot over and we need to do this. Now."
"I….I don't know if this is right….if I should…." he replied, still reeling from the draining he had just endured. On top of being weakened by the silver on him, it had certainly made him weaker losing the blood he had just lost.
"You have risked everything to help me and I still owe you for being so crappy and bitchy to you in the past. Besides, I already have the fangs, what else could really change.."
There came a flash of light as Niall appeared, ."You go full hybrid and you will get a taste for blood, Sookie. But you will also turn even stronger than you already have. And you will take the light back from him that allows him access to Faery and since it was a one time spell I cast….."
"You'll never be able to visit Faery again or be in the sun there…" Sookie's face fell.
"I am sorry for not coming sooner, Sookie, I was stuck with some issues that needed tending but I wanted to make sure you were alright. And that you knew the risks of what you are about to do."
"I don't want to take that from you….the sun…..I know you loved the sun, being out in it before…." Sookie said slowly as she met the gaze of Eric. Even in a weakened, desperate looking state, he was brave and fearless.
"As long as I don't lose you or Pam I can be perfectly content to be doomed to only the darkness again."
"I came here to help the process go a little faster because I doubt that those thugs will leave you long enough for things to run their course." Niall said. "If you want me in this battle, all you need to do is say the word and I will help-"
"If you can help speed things along, then it will be a great help and you can get back to Faery. The people there need you and I am in good company. It won't be long before we are fully healed and then…that Kai will pay for what he's done." Sookie replied. "I can't keep expecting others to bail me out of trouble, Niall. I have tried to grow up…I have grown up…over the past weeks. And I needed to do that."
"Spoken like the royal that you are." Niall said. "But if I check in again and I see you are in trouble, you can bet I will make an appearance."
"Fair enough." Sookie managed a smile and she turned to face Eric who had managed to sit up and with his soon to be gone light, he destroyed the bars separating the cells and scooted over to her. "Let's do this." she said fiercely. She saw he looked hesitant, almost…could it be…afraid?
"Sookie, you do know what you are asking of me, I mean….there won't be going back, no undoing this….when you sent me your thoughts earlier of what you wanted to do…..I don't want to take anything from you."
"She will lose nothing…with her special royal fairy blood and your own very powerful blood….with some magic from me, she will become a rarity. So as Warlow was a hybrid, so too will Sookie become one as well." Niall said.
Chapter 2-Evolution
The last thing she saw and felt before she allowed Eric to turn her was his eyes looking at her with such reverence. He had promised to make it hurt as little as possible and he had kissed her gently as she faded in his arms. She had seen the life return to him after all the time he had been restrained by the silver and the bloodletting he had endured against his will. Already, she saw the fire returning in his eyes, his spirit. And for that she was grateful as she slipped into darkness.
They all knew that without Niall then casting his light, his power into Sookie after Eric had done his part, that this magic would speed things up, as they couldn't afford a drawn out turning for if they were interrupted, things could have gone terribly awry. There was a tense silence as Niall, Pam and Eric waited for the fairy to awaken.
"You look spent." Niall said as he walked over to Pam, sill recovering from the silver that had only just been destroyed around her. "Take a few sips, you are going to still need as much muscle as you can get, what with what you're up against."
"You….trust me not to lose control? You're the freaking king of the faeries, for hell's sake." Pam said with a funny look on her face."
"You have been a good friend to Sookie and any friend of Sookie is a friend of mine…..well almost any friend. I never cared for that Compton fellow."
"He wasn't that bad." Pam grudgingly admitted. "In the end he showed he had some decency. But he still was no saint."
"No one is." Niall said. "Quick, take a drink and let's hope she wakes soon…..I can not help you in this fight, this is something you all have to do yourself. I know you three will come out of this okay."
Pam was timid, a rarity for her. But she soon found her fangs sinking into the neck of the ancient fairy and in seconds, she was feeling much improved. And she had indeed, managed to keep her self control as she drew back from the fairy and offered a rare thank you to the eldest being in the room. And almost simultaneously, there came a stirring, movements slowly being made by the sleeping fairy and then, her brown eyes opened widely, taking in everything around her, her senses working at two hundred percent.
Chapter 3-Renewed
"How are you feeling, Sookie." Niall asked her as he examined her top to bottom once she was up and on her feet. "You have become a rare being, my dear, as it is uncommon for fairy-vampire hybrids to be created. Takes the blood of only the strongest and oldest vampires to create one and even then, the risk of failure is high. I didn't mention that fact earlier for fear of giving you doubts…I always knew there was something special between the two of you that would lead to you becoming a hybrid. A success."
"Thank you Niall….and I…I can still eat normal and all that, right? I remember Warlow was able to and-"
"You are still able to eat, yes and you also need to partake in other forms of nutrition to be at your top performance."
"Not like I haven't had a little blood in my system before." she mused as eh met the gaze of her two companions. "I feel…..I mean, even as a fairy I felt good but being the best of both worlds….I can't even begin to describe it."
"Then I leave you in capable hands and wish you all the best of luck. I will look in on you and should you need help, you will get it. But I know you are strong, that you wish to fight your own battles. And it is time I let you do so."
Nodding, Sookie hugged her grandfather and replied. "Yeah, I don't like depending on anyone to save me….I feel different but in a good way. Like a new chapter in my life is begun."
"Enough of the sentimental crap…can we please go kill those guys now before anything else happens? I would, for one, like to see another day in which I can do some heavy duty shopping…tell me Eric, is there really anything worth buying at Ikea?"
Snorting with laughter, Sookie looked at his face as it went from grim to amused. "When we get out of here, you will get a shopping trip…I believe you are overdue for one, after everything you've done over the past few years….besides, we will certainly need new clothes once we are done with these thugs and stop their little business venture." Eric said as Sookie used her power to destroy the rest of the bars of the cells, allowing them to regain their freedom.
"Have a sip before we go after them, you need it." Sookie grabbed him by the arm as he went to leave the underground area. She held her wrist up to her own mouth and used her own fangs to bite a wound open and pressed it upward to his mouth. Hungrily he drank for a minute or two and even in that brief time, she could already see the life being restored in him.
"Thank you Sookie." he said. "Shall we go for a fight?" he offered her his hand and smirking herself, took it and led Pam out and into the ground floor of the sprawling factory and business complex. They were on a mission and planned on doing whatever it took to take back what belonged to the Viking. No matter what.
To Be Continued