Dead Ever After Re-write (Sookie Stackhouse and Eric Northman)

Chapter 11

Disclaimer: I am not the owner of these characters. The original story and the characters belong to Charlaine Harris. I am only borrowing them for a little while.

Chapter 11

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I think that the upcoming chapters need to be told from Sookie's POV only because... well, you will find out why! Enjoy it :)

SOOKIE'S POV

The ride to Alcide's house was silent. There was really not much to say at this point. My heart was still aching knowing that Bill lied to my face without flinching. How many more lies did he tell me and I believed him?

We parked in Alcide's driveway next to a man who was dismounting a motorcycle; we recognized Mustapha the minute he took off his helmet. He looked at us surprised, but recovered really quickly.

"Mustapha," I called him as I exited the car, "did Alcide call you in?"

"No. I'm here to talk to Alcide. Looking for new leads to find Warren."

"We are here for the same reason," I told him.

"We have been looking for you. Especially Eric," Bill stated. I looked at him knowing that he was lying again. I didn't add to his comment, but it suddenly downed on me that Bill was trying very hard to cover up Eric's disappearance.

"This is an unexpected but pleasant visit Sookie. Good evening Bill and Mustapha," Alcide interrupted us as he waved us in.

After all the pleasantries were given and all the drinks were served, we sat on his living room, anxious for information.

"I'm going to talk first because I have a special interest to get this done with," I said while I sipped on my coke. It felt refreshing on my throat. "Mustapha, how did Kym get into Eric's house?"

"I let her in," he replied. Alcide stopped and turned to him. His face was hard and accusing. "Jannalynn told me that she had Warren. She told me I had to let this Rowe girl into the house. That was all I had to do," Mustapha explained.

I looked at Bill with satisfaction. Bill wasn't too happy to find out that I had been right about her, but he didn't make any comments. His face was hard to guess because he barely showed his emotions.

"If Jannalynn has Warren, then we need to find her and make her confess," Bill said, turning our attention back to the topic.

"After I talked to you about Jannalynn," Alcide spoke to me, "I began to think about her pretty seriously. The more I took her recent actions apart, the more I thought I should look deeper. I figured out that Jannalynn was not telling me the truth about a few things. Sometimes when she was supposed to be around, she was out of touch. I thought maybe her romance with Sam was going over the top, but when she'd tell me one thing about them, you didn't seem to know anything about it. And Sam's your partner, so you'd know, I figured."

So he'd called me to talk about Sam and Jannalynn's "wedding plans," at least in part to hear my reaction; of course, I'd been completely shocked.

"I saw her one time when she didn't see me. She was at a bar way across town, instead of at the Hair. And she was with a group of rogues I had turned down. I knew she was planning something. I'd had them all over at social evenings at the house, talked to 'em. The only one worth anything was a female named Kandace, and she wasn't sure she wanted to be in a pack. Didn't like the power struggles. I got to respect that, but I thought she'd be an asset."

I thought maybe he'd also liked Kandace's assets, but that was his business.

"So, I called up Kandace, and asked her to meet me alone. Without me even bringing it up, she volunteered to tell me what was going on, because it troubled her."