Brighter Now

Chapter 19

Adira couldn't believe her eyes. Godric was actually standing in front of her.

"Adira?" Sierra asked her but it sounded like she was under water instead of standing next to Adira.

"What are you doing here?" Adira gulped.

"I wanted to talk to you," Godric told her.

"I don't think so, buddy," Sierra interrupted while her friend was staring at the vampire with longing. Adira was trying to hide her reaction by crossing her arms but even an idiot could see that she still missed Godric.

"I'm sorry?" Godric asked the unknown woman.

"I think you have done enough, don't you?"

"Sierra. It's okay. I'll talk to him," Adira murmured.

"You can't be serious? He might attack you," Sierra said, worriedly.

"I'd never hurt Adira," Godric assured her.

"Go back inside, Sierra. I need to do this," Adira told her friend, putting a comforting hand to her friend's arm.

"Fine. I'll give you ten minutes," Sierra said before turning around and walking back inside.

"I'm guessing you got your memories back," Adira murmured after shutting the door behind her.

"Yes," Godric told her, walking behind her as she walked towards her steps.

"I don't really know what you want me to say," Adira admitted, sitting down to the stairs.

"You don't have to say anything," Godric told her, "I just needed to apologize—"

"For what? Not caring for your own safety? Losing your memory? Wanting to kill me? Thinking of me as a fangbanger? Or maybe about having sex with other people while I still had hope for us?"

"Adira—" Godric let a bloody tear to escape from his eye, "I can't imagine how hurt you've must have been but you know I'd do anything to take it back.

"But you can't. And truth to be told I can't forgive and forget about it either," Adira admitted, "I know it wasn't you. It was past you but you really hurt me."

"I deeply regret hurting you, my heart," Godric said, crying. He could feel it. He was going to lose her.

"I just can't do this right now. This is why I left your things with Eric. Seeing you, talking to you is just too painful," Adira admitted before getting up and starting to walk away from Godric.

"You left my things?" Godric had no idea what she was talking about.

"I brought all the things you left here to Eric," Adira turned around long enough to answer Godric before turning around again and walked inside her house.

"I don't blame you for giving up on me after everything I did to you," Godric whispered to the closed door before flying away.

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Godric was standing in a roof when he felt more than saw Eric.

"Two thousand years is enough," Godric told his child.

"I can't accept this. What is this about?" Eric wondered aloud.

"You know I wanted to meet the sun before I met Adira," Godric informed him, "I thought that us being here wasn't right but then she showed me how much brighter my life could be with her in it."

"I can keep you alive by force if I have to," Eric yelled at him.

"Even if you could why would you be so cruel?" Godric wondered aloud.

"Why would you be so cruel to Adira? You claim you love her and that she changed you but now you have your memories back and what are you doing? You're going to leave this word. Did you even say goodbye to her?"

"It's better for her. She can have her normal life back and I'm hoping you would compel me away from her memories," Godric admitted.

"You can't do this," Eric pleaded in Swedish.

"I lost everything with Adira," Godric told the younger vampire.

"You still have me and you haven't even tried with Adira. I can't believe I'm saying this but Adira stood by you for months and you, Master, are giving up after a day?" Eric asked aloud.

"It's better for her. I know she's moving on. She told me she gave my things to you," Godric said sadly.

"Please. Please. Please," Eric started crying in Swedish.

"Maybe it was my destiny to fall for her. Maybe we were only supposed to fall for each other so I could save your human," Godric wondered aloud.

"Don't be stupid," Eric told his maker, "What Sookie and I feel for each other is nothing like what you and Adira feel for each other."

"What do you mean, min son?" Godric asked worriedly.

"You forget that I saw how Adira suffered when you had no memory and now I see how you're suffering for her—but if it was me and Sookie..."

"What?"

"You know I feel—disturbingly human with Sookie but after watching you two I don't think it's love," Eric admitted, "more importantly I don't think she loves me either."

Godric wanted to get mad at him because he had lost everything to save Sookie Stackhouse but he couldn't regret saving someone. There had been too much blood shred from his hands.

"It doesn't matter. Let me go," Godric told him.

"Then you don't care that I'll tear this letter," Eric told him, taking it out of his jacket.

"Why would I care?" Godric asked but then he smelled it. The letter smelled like Adira.

"If it matter's that litt—" Eric told him but stop talking when Godric took the envelope from his hands.

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 N/A: So Godric wanted to meet the sun but what do you guys think will happen next since he now has Adira's letter? And do you guys think Sooric will break up?