A/N: Disclaimer, I own nothing! If I did, I'd have had Sookie ditch Bill that first night at Fangtasia and drag Eric by the leather pants back to his office.

One second I'm sitting in the cubby with Eric, covering him with silver to keep him still in case the witches do the spell to make the vampires go into the sun, trying to pretend he's the jerk Eric with all his memories instead of my sweet kind amnisiac Eric so it's easier to hurt him. The next I'm sitting in my living room but as I look around I realize there are small differences. For instance, I see on the mantle there are pictures of me with people I've never met before, Gran's crocheted blanket which I was starting to think of as Eric's, which is normally on the couch, is scrunched up in the corner like it's trying to be hidden away. It seems some of the innovations Eric made while I was in Fairyland aren't there anymore, like, oh shit, the entrance to the cubby is gone! I look down at my hands and yeah, the silver is gone.

Probably the strangest difference right now though is the fact that a man is sitting in front of me that I've never met before even though he bears a striking resemblance to Jason. Like really, they could be twins if he looked a few years younger, or Jason a few older. He's just staring at me calmly, like he already knows what I'm going through and he's giving me time to orient, word of the day last week, myself.

"You must be confused."

"Uh, yeah." It comes out as more of a question.

"It is understandable, dimension travel can be disorientating in the best of conditions, and this definitely was not the best of conditions."

"Care to elaborate?"

"Well, it was more than just dimension travel, really. It was more dimension travel with a side helping of freezing said dimension for an extended period of time." He stops talking and waves his hand in the air as if to negate what he just said. Yeah, like that's so easily forgotten. "Let's not get slowed down by the metaphysics of it all, I couldn't explain it if I tried and I'm sure that's not what you're most curious about."

"Well actually…"

"No, you're wondering why you're here."

I wasn't really, this is my house, after all.

"You see, there are infinite dimensions, so there are infinite versions of each being, each thing, each molecule, everything. My granddaughter, my Sookie, messed things up beyond repair here. She's a stubborn one, I'm sure you understand, and she kept avoiding the truth of things because it didn't fit what she thought she wanted in life. That didn't change the fact that I love her, you see, so when I saw an opportunity to give her a second chance and to let her live her life, live her destiny out with her one true love, I took it. It just so happened that in order to make that happen, you needed to be displaced. I'm sorry for that, honestly. Even if you're not my Sookie, you're still Sookie, my granddaughter, so I still have love for you. But, full disclosure and all, my plan was going to end up with you here on a dying planet with no chance of surviving. Don't look at me like that, I had to live with the guilt of it all, you weren't the only one getting the short end of the stick. Plus, you were heading in the same direction my Sookie was, your world was on the way to becoming just as doomed as this one is. That is, until my Sookie took over, now they're saved and everyone is thriving."

I can't help but scoff, "You're telling me I changed the world? I was what made or broke the dimension?"

The older Jason grandfather guy laughs loudly, I don't think what I said was funny but he seems pretty weird, so whatever. "My Sookie had much the same reaction as you, dear girl. Yes, though you are not the one to save everything, your choices would have led to it all the same. Now, where was I? Yes, okay so I basically switched your places, her in your spot, you in hers and my Sookie did everything that was needed of her. She and her mate came together, fought their enemies valiantly, and won. In the end, they have peace, a family, love, and each other."

So that means I was right, it never would have actually worked out with Eric, or Bill now that I think about it. Apparently, the person I'm supposed to be with is human, or at least humanish, Sam maybe? I guess it doesn't matter now, from what he's saying, my life is doomed anyway.

"I see you're thinking hard over there, coming to conclusions, most likely wrong ones, but conclusions nonetheless. Here, I think it's only fair you know of what I speak."

Before I have a chance to respond the guy snaps and for a second it seems like nothing is happening until my eyes close without my knowledge and images start flickering on the back of my eyelids. It's really freaky when the sounds start coming too. I see me, or I guess this place's me and she's taking care of Eric, keeping him safe during the spell. I see her feed him and then make love with him once the day is over and he's safe, I can't stop the thrill of jealousy I get at the sight because he's mine. She had her own Eric. I see her use her fairy light to give him his memory back and I feel shock when I see him, the real Eric, not the amnesia one I was falling for, declare his love to her. I might be even more shocked when she, or me, whatever, returns it. I see them fight against the witches, Russel Edgington, which what? He was supposed to be dead, a weird vampire fairy hybrid, I see my family and friends either join them or leave them, I see them make a family of friends and loved ones around them, and I see myself gain powers, apparently, if I stop actively pushing my fairy abilities away I can gain more and use them to help the people I love. Woah, she, I, we can teleport? I shake my head and try to get passed all that and focus back on the memories, I'll deal with the magic of it all later, possibly a lot later. Then they really make a family. Does she somehow have his babies? I see those babies grow fast but the parents loving every minute of it, loving their children and each other with all their hearts. I see Eric walk in the sun and I see him most definitely not getting bored of me, or her, whatever. It's so unbelievable I think I might have finally lost my mind.

"It's real, it's all real."

"No way, I've never been that sure of anything in my life ever, especially not a man. There's no way she's me and she was so willing to trust Eric. He never gave me any reason to think he was trustworthy."

"Oh, yes, I should have said, this" he gestured around the room, "Is sometime further in the future, a few years passed where you left. She had a lot more time with him than you did. She learned the hard way that Eric would do whatever he had to, to keep you safe. It's why, at this very moment, he is nothing more than a sex slave and a meat shield to the queen of Oklahoma."

I can't stop the gasp that escapes me at his words. "What?"

"It's a long story covering years and years, and honestly, I don't know all the details. Thankfully, when I implanted all your memories in her, I took the necessary precautions to be able to do the same with you. If you want it, of course."

"Wait wait wait," I say, this is all becoming too much, it's getting more unbelievable every second. I'm almost positive I stroked out at this point and this is some fever dream. "So you're telling me, Eric is my one great love?" He nods his head at me, "And there's a world, or dimension, whatever you want to call it, that he'd be willing to give up his gigolo ways to be with me and only with me?"

"Not just one world, dear girl, in damn near every world he falls for you, or you fall for each other. It seems that this one and your original one are two of the worlds that you're being too purposely blind to see the truth, because he's fallen for you here as well. It is you that are the holdout, child, not him."

Okay well, I might be stubborn but I had every reason to think that Eric wasn't a suitable significant other, he's just not the type, though I guess he is when he finds the right person, it's just hard to believe that the right person is me. Wait… it feels like my heart stops for a moment. "Did you say this world is doomed? Like we're all going to die?"

"I did say that, yes. And I had all intentions of letting it happen, it is not as if I knew a way to stop it. That is until your counterparts completed their prophecy, it brought to light one of your own, which in reality has a lot of similarities to theirs with a few key differences."

"So what, I'll be able to save the planet if I what? Give myself to Eric? Aren't I your granddaughter? And you're trying to whore me off?" I ask indignantly. Although I admit to myself it wouldn't be too much of a hardship. I do… care for him, and now I don't have to try to push away that feeling thinking it'd just lead me to pain.

"No, of course not! It would not work if there was no love involved. We don't have to worry about his side of things, I am in contact with Eric, he uses me as a middleman to check up on you to make sure you are still safe and that the other supernatural beings are still leaving you alone since he is not legally allowed to contact you per his contract. He still loves you and he's still pining away for you every day hoping you'll eventually come for him. It is you that I'm worried about, though I do not think I have to be, not after I give you the memories of this Sookie, at least. Then you'll know the past you two have shared."

I open my mouth to say something but before I can I feel two voids coming towards the house and fast. I look at the door with my eyes wide and hope that my apparent grandfather has some nifty fairy abilities to keep them at bay. I don't feel much safer when Pam and another female vampire I've never seen waltz right into the house like they own the place. Does Eric still own the house? Do all vampires have free access to me?

"Sookie, my human friend. You promised to call me when your grandfather came to you. I suppose I will forgive you, as long as you're working towards a way of saving our maker."

Our? My blood runs cold at the thought, or at least colder than it possibly already was. Am I a vampire? I open my mouth a little and try to force my fangs to come down. I breathe a sigh of relief, I'm either not a vampire or I'm a really crappy one because thankfully, no fangs. So I voice my original thought, "Our?"

"Sookie, are you well? Did you hit your head? I have told you, that you need to be careful, I am already not fond of the fact that I'm friends with a human you are all so fragile. Plus, you and my maker were so connected I'm pretty sure he'd still be able to feel you in pain and risk his life to leave Oklahoma to make sure you are well and safe." Pam says as she walks up to me as if she's looking me over for injuries.

"She is not the Sookie you know." Gramps finally joins in.

Pam's fangs are down and she's looking at my grandfather dangerously before I could even blink. "What do you mean? Where is she? I swore to protect her, as did Karin."

"She is safe and with Eric. They are living happily raising triplets."

"Are you senile old man? Eric is a vampire."

"Prophecy." He replies as if that explains it all.

Apparently, to Pam, it does because her shoulders loosen and she takes a step back. "Well then who is she? And when will they get here?"

"They won't they are in another dimension, this is the Sookie that she replaced. Your Eric is still with the queen but fear not. Once I give this Sookie our Sookie's memories, I have a plan to get him back and save the dimension."

At least I'm not the only one confused because Pam turns her head to look at me and then Karin with a face I've never seen on her, she looks befuddled. Thankfully, I'm able to hold in the laugh. Eric isn't here to keep her in line so I don't doubt that she'd rip my throat out if I gave her half a reason to. Although she has called me her friend a few times, maybe I'm wrong about her.

"Okay, okay, give me the memories already," I say, just wanting to get this over with, I'm tired and need some sleep. I can deal with all this crazy tomorrow, I just want all these people out of my house already.

My grandfather doesn't need to be told twice, he snaps his fingers again but something is different about this one, this time it hurts, it's like the type of migraines I get when I've had my shields up all day but times a thousand and just add in the beating the Rats gave me for good measure. She can't see or think for a second it's just blinding pain. I start getting snapshots, snapshots that make no sense to me, just pictures of people I know and some people I don't, a lot of Eric, a lot of me and Eric. And then all of a sudden it all makes sense. Like the last piece of the puzzle going into place and the picture finally being visible. I know everything that happened over the last few years, and there was a lot. It seems like I haven't had a break in years and it seems like it only ended when I finally got out of the supernatural world. So I was right, this world isn't right for me. But then, I remember the memories of things that happened earlier today, or at least if we're looking at this dimension anyway. The day that the other Sookie left she accepted how bored she was and how much she missed Eric. When she, or I, cheese and rice this is confusing, when she was told the truth about her freedom from the vampires that were trying to control her for her disability.

Although I have to admit, that version of me was blind as a bat, it's clear as day how much this Eric loves her, how much he'd do for her to make sure she's safe. When the torture by those freakily scary fairies happened, Eric was tortured too, and still, he gave me his blood to heal me faster but I could only focus on the fact that he wasn't the one to save me. He couldn't save me because he was in silver chains unable to get to me and now I get the feeling that through this bond he literally took some of the pain that I was feeling away from me and put it on himself. In this dimension he was the one to save me from Longshadow, he also saved me from Bill in the trunk and saved me after getting shot at that bar when I was trying to save Bill, he always saves me. He was always there when I needed him, but I just wouldn't accept it. It was like I was hurt by Bill and I couldn't accept that Eric would be any different. If one vampire hurt me, then they all would, right?

It makes me stop for a second and think, is that the way I was going in my original dimension? And I have to admit that yeah, maybe I was. I had Eric with me, in my house, and in my bed. I cared for him but I kept him at a distance, and didn't let him into my heart because I was sure that it'd end up hurting me if I did. And it seems like I'm the one that was doing the hurting, that's not to say he was a saint but I was the one that fought him every step of the way, every time I let him get closer I found a reason to push him away. I mean looking at the memories of what happened with that Sookie and my Eric, as soon as she gave him a chance he never let go. Which is what I want, right? What I've always looked for.

Along with all the memories, and feelings that come along with them, I feel things for people I've never even met, like my roommates Amelia and Octavia, who were the women in the pictures on the mantel. I can now remember both taking those pictures and placing them there. I forcefully push away the reality that Lafayette died, I don't think I can deal with that right now, at least I have the peace of knowing that he's alive out there somewhere. Tara did really well for herself here, so that's a plus. There's just so much to think about, so much has happened and so much is different from the life I was living a few hours ago. At some point as I was processing all the memories and dealing with my emotions about them, I stopped thinking that the life a Sookie lived here is different than mine, I'm Sookie, I might not have been here but it's my life. Wow, that sounds crazy. Thankfully, I'm ninety-two percent sure I'm completely sane, so that's something.

I realize I've been lost in my thoughts for a while when I look around and see everyone looking at me, Pam is looking at me with her brow quirked but I'm sure I see a bit of worry hidden behind her eye. Karin, who I now remember is Eric's other progeny, his first, is looking at me like she's wondering if whatever Niall did to me scrambled my brains and Niall is looking at me with grandfatherly worry.

"I'm okay, guys it just hurt a lot, I'd have to feel better to die."

Pam gives me the same unimpressed look she always does whenever I say one of my southernisms, then ignores it like normal, and gets back to what she thinks is important, "So do you know everything now, fairy princess? All caught up?"

"Yeah, I got the gist of everything. What are we going to do?" I look at Niall, "You said you have a plan?"

"I do."

"Okay, what do we have to do? We have to save Eric, he's been there too long already. I really don't like that queen, she's a bi… well, she ain't nice, I can tell you that much."

"You've met her?" Niall asks me.

"Yeah, she came over here before our divorce was final and pretty much just tried to tell me that she didn't get what he saw in me and that he wasn't going to miss me at all. I know now that she was just trying to make me feel bad, make me feel like I wasn't that special to him, and she was insecure about how hard he was fighting to stay with me, I hate to say it but it worked at the time."

"You should know better than that, Sookie, you've been dealing with vampires long enough to know our games."

"Yeah well, I was already looking for any excuse to run away. It didn't take much convincing to do it. I know better now, I won't do that again."

"Good. Now you will hear from me in a few days, until then live your life as normally as possible. When I come to you, my plans will be more cemented."

I'm not a fan of the waiting part of that idea and I can tell the vampires aren't either but Niall was making a face I'm coming to understand is the face he makes when his decision is made and there's no changing his mind. He's a prince, after all, he's used to being obeyed. He knows me well enough to know that I'm not one to follow orders and I really want to get Eric out of that situation but I know this isn't an easy sea to navigate, there's a whole bunch of legal stuff that I don't understand so I'm going to trust him this time. I nod my head and I'm surprised when the vampires reluctantly follow my lead.

"Good. Now dear girl, get some rest, you look run down and I'm sure you could use some time to get everything settled in your head." He doesn't know how right he is so I give him a small smile and another nod.

He stands up and opens his arms up to me, I gratefully sink into them and enjoy the feeling fairies get when touching their kin. After what would have been an awkwardly long hug to anyone else, I reluctantly pull away. "Goodnight, Niall. Please get back to me as soon as possible."

"I will granddaughter, I promise."

He pops out of the room before my head even finishes its nod. I turn my attention to my friends and see them looking at me speculatively. "I agree with Niall, Sookie, get some rest. I will be back tomorrow because I must know more about this other dimension." Pam says.

"Eric was right, you really are a whore for gossip," I say with a laugh and it surprises a laugh out of her and even a quirk of the lips from Karin. "Goodnight, guys."

They're out of the house before I even finish talking. Cheese and rise these supernatural types have no manners at all and I'm starting to believe they never will.