Their Butterfly {True Blood Romance18+}

Team Merlotte's

Only Rikku Hearting will have a POV.
My keyboard kept freezing up in my writing on my notebook app so I probably didn't catch all misspellings due to my dyslexia. If you noticed words are weird or anything off let me know in the comments by commenting where the misspellings are to help me out.
It would be much help.

Thank you.

Author-sama
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Another day, another night, working at Merlotte's, busing tables, taking orders.
The scent of fried food in the air, boozed up clients, and chatter of humanity litters the air like second nature.
Rumors of the mouth, bustling bodies, happy go lucky customers, and the occasional riff raff.
Like any other night, any other night that I was carrying boxes, boxes of ingredients without complaint for my boss Sam who gives me money to pay rent from my work.
Who gives me money to feed and clothe myself with my paycheck.
I am much happier here in the southern part of the U-S-of-A.

No longer tied to my family in Colorado Springs, who judge me for being who I am enough.
To judge me so...that they kicked me out onto the street at 16, and I learned to work blood sweat and tears to survive, to move to a new beginning where I'm fully happy being who I am, not shunned for who I am. Where I have friends, who will lend a hand to me when I am in need if assistance.

No shame.
No judgement.
No telling me I'm a sinner, for being born the way I am.
I am normal.
I am at peace today in the future and forever will be.
Nobody will tell me I cannot be me.
I am accepted here, for who I am, and who I want to be.
Though Lafayette knows truthfully what I am, he is the only one I confessed to, confessed about my true identity, and he kept it secret for me, like I asked, which I am glad for.

My grandmother was of The Fox Tribe, my grandfather Chinese, so my mother was half of both, I'm half of each, though I look more Asian than anything. I'm a mix of many.

My grandmother's tribe had certain members born with a gift of inhuman strength, how I know was I looked into the tribe, visiting members still alive.
They told me it's rare, but there are children born with the gift of having unnatural strength, gifted to them in ancient times, to defend their tribe leader in wars, and even the women were born this way who inherited the gift.

I was born with it, which I must keep it a secret from anyone from finding out or I could be seen as a freak.
Which I'm not.
I'm a normal person, with my own things I like to keep from other people.

I set the crates of ingredients into the big refrigerator, taking them out and organize them where they were supposed to be.
"Hows ya day Rikku?"
Lafayette asked me, while he was flipping burgers and giving a gumbo some seasonings.

"Good so far, and yours?"
I reply back setting the last of the food in the places they were supposed to be and set the crate aside.

I had to go back to the truck outside to get more ingredients in crates.
"Be careful outside its night out and vamps be out."
Lafayette warns me.

"I will do not worry."
I tell Lafayette, walking out to the back.

When I turned 23, vampires came out of the coffin, revealing they existed, which was two years ago, since then Sookie would ask me to cover for her at work and she would be gone for long periods of time, until she would come back looking worse for the wear, saying she did some work for a vampire friend, which I call bullshit on.
I mean she would return with fucking injuries and work still!

I know full well how dangerous vampires were, I mean I've been attacked before, and I defended myself in secret, which the vampires no longer bothered me.
The ones who attacked me wanted me to be their lover, which I refused.
I was waiting for the person who would make me feel the true love spark.
I wanted true love, like I read about in stories growing up, and like the show I adore, Once Upon A Time.