Meeting November 18

It was November 18th and the True Blood Anonymous group was abuzz with excitement. We had our first Thorsday meeting at our former refugee shelter at AS.org and we had a wonderful time, getting a bit silly towards the end. But that was okay, whatever happened on Thorsdays stayed at the AS.org forum. I know that I was anticipating the next meeting with a small batch of new topics for discussion and anticipating further fun.

Nia brought fudge made of white and dark chocolate, a choco-holic’s wet dream and Renee made the coffee. I brought a new bottle of Bailey’s (our last bottle gave up the last of its milk of cheer during the last meeting) and I cracked it open and poured a healthy shot of it in God Speed’s cup then mine. Hoyt sailed by, grabbing a slab of Nia’s Sin (what I like to call it) and headed to his usual place, far away from God Speed, who settled down by Westexan who was relaxing with her legs stretched out in front of her, rubbing her growing bun (The Kaiser Roll).

“How’s the soccer player?” I asked the mum to be.
“Bending it like Beckham around my right kidney,” she said, squirming a little, trying to find a comfortable position. Give it up Westexan, you won’t be comfortable til the little dictator has his triumphal entry into the world.

Iluvtheviking came in all aglow. She was pretty and in the pink, a wide grin on her face. She passed up the coffee and never mind and had just a small square of Sin and sat down. I got up and squatted in front of her.

“Congratulations Iluvtheviking, I am tickled pink for you,” I said.
“Thank you,” she said. “I am so excited when I am not barfing my head off,” she said.
“Good for you,” I said. Eric Lover came in and sat down her big bag of crazy and went and got a cuppa and fudge and sat down. I went and sat back down and sipped my coffee. Linzy and Lina and Liz and Mel came in and hurriedly got their candy and coffee and plopped down. Dude, Minnie and Vi and Karalee and Burke filled in the empty places around our circle.

Soon the lights went out and we were aware of the counselors at the doors, the lead counselor and the southern counselor at one door, the lady counselor and her protégé at the other.

“I sense a great deal of excitement in the room,” said the lead counselor. “Tell us what has happened.”
“Go ahead Iluvtheviking, tell him,” said Hoyt.
“Okay…I’m going to have a baby,” she said, squeeing excitedly.
“Congratulations. First our Westexan is having a little teacup and now you,” said the lead counselor.
“And let’s not forget Dracodarling being engaged,” said the southern voice of my favorite counselor. Draco had not been with us for some time….but then again, she is in love….

“What shall we discuss tonight?” asked the lead counselor
“Well, this is something I have been thinking about,” I began. “I know we have to take notices from the Source with a grain of salt, the Source is so tricky, but there were two things that I found intriguing.”
“Tell us Aslinn,” said my counselor.
“Well, one of the notices said that Bill meets a woman who thinks Bill is her son and another notice said that there was going to be a situation where we see Bill’s wife,” I said. “What do you think that will be about?”
“That is intriguing,” said Liz. “Well, you know that the Connection talks about a certain family connection of Bill’s. I think this may be a way to bring that piece of the story into the next season. We were originally supposed to learn this last season.”
“One of the things that is troubling to me is that Bill’s wife sees him after she thinks Bill is dead in the war,” I said. “Imagine, going along thinking your husband is dead and then you see him again.”
“And of course he is Vampire; imagine having to tell someone you love that you can never come home because you are…different….” I said. I sniffed a little and Vi handed me tissues. It had been a while since we had needed tissues in group.

“And watching the adventures of the first summer isn’t helping,” said Nia weakly. “Next Saturday they show the whole thing with Liam, Diane and Malcolm and how angry everyone was with them and with Sookie for loving…who she loves…” said Nia, smoothing her hand over her favorite Vampire’s face.
“Everyone suffers so much because of love,” said Hoyt. “Look at Jessica.” This remark of course elicited an angry glare from GS.
“Not just Jessica,” said Liz. “Sam, Jason, Bill, Eric and his love for his maker, Lorena.” Everyone grumbled at the mention of the most evil woman in the world.
“Fair is fair guys, she may be evil but she is in love with Bill,” said Mel. “Or at least a reasonable facsimile”
“And don’t forget Tara and Sookie. Poor Tara is going to be suffering so much she doesn’t even see danger when it comes her way and Sookie…this is going to be a tough season for her,” said Burke.

“True,” said Lina. She sighed heavily and shook her head. “I don’t know if I can make it…it is still so far away, next June.”
“Twenty-eight and a half weeks,” I said, sadly.