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

Chapter 21

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 21

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Sookie's POV

We approached the group who was now silently staring at Eric and me. This was so embarrassing. It looked like we were the last ones to arrive. Where we late? I didn't have my phone, so I couldn't see the time.

"Welcome," Alcide said from the far end corner which made everybody snapped out of it and turned to face him. I must remember to thank him for it. "Now that we're all here," Alcide continued, "please follow me."

And that confirmed my suspicion: we were not only the last ones, but we were also late.

Instead of walking into the house, he actually went around it towards the back. He then continued passed the backyard and into the bushes. We just followed him quietly.

To call this property "remote" was an understatement. Though there was more cleared land around it that there had ever been at my place, it was even more private. No one lived here full time any longer.

We crossed a large piece of dense overgrown forest area until we reached a meadow which was big enough to fit all of us. There were some lights set up to illuminate the perimeter. Alcide stood in the middle while everybody else circled him.

Eric was right next to me. I noticed people giving me side looks from time to time and I didn't know if it was because my special smell tonight was making them horny too or angry because a vampire was the reason for my current situation.

Just ignore their looks and block any type of communication coming from their brains I told myself.

It was interesting to look at the entire scene instead. Tonight, Alcide stood up among his people as much as Niall did among his. Alcide looked like a king; a king in jeans and a T-shirt; a barefoot king. He looked dangerous. The power gathered around him. The air was humming with the magic of the pack.

Good. We needed more tension.

I wondered how were they able to set up the lights in this area that was so far from the house. I wondered if this meadow area was here before or if it had been created for tonight's trial. I wondered what was going to happen tonight, and I wondered how Sam was handling all of this. I was anxious, so I wondered too much to keep my mind occupied.

I scanned the crowd until I spotted Sam. He was alone, with a large empty space around him.

I felt Eric's eyes on me, and when I turned to him, he was staring at me without saying a word.

"Do you know what's going to happen tonight?" I asked him in an attempt to break the silence. Something was just off tonight.

"I don't know what we're here to see," he said. "An execution? A duel? With the wolves, I can't predict."

Right when I was about to ask him more questions I spotted Pam walking in our direction. When she got to where we were at, she stood in front of Eric without saying a word for a few seconds, and then produced a set of keys and a cell phone.

"Queen Sophie Anne has been trying to get in touch with you. She has called me three times already wondering about your whereabouts. I told her about Sookie's text. She needs to meet with her Sheriffs; establish her kingdom again."

"What did Sookie's text say?" Eric asked Pam.

"Not to worry. She's in possession of your body," Pam said with a devilish smirk.