Wednesday, May 5, 2010
It was good to be home and walking in to the parlor and firing up the one eyed god (the computer) and turning on the tv to VNN and catching up on the daytime news, taken care of by Asian and European Vampires during the day and American Vampires at night, was a great treat. Bill arranged for us to get the station by unknown means, but we were extremely well informed. The same for the various Vampire publications we received monthly, including Play Vamp, featuring lovely female Vampires and Vampiress, featuring luscious male vampires. Eric made sure we got a copy where he was the featured centerfold. And Bill made sure we got the Bon Temps Bugle and the Shreveport Times as well.
I was standing over the stove, sprinkling cheese over the broccoli, chicken and rice cheese casserole. I made a spice rum cake with butter rum icing and it was cooling on the countertop. Renee was cutting the large baguette. There were fresh flowers in the parlor and it had been dusted already. Eric must have had his house keeper in to spritz the place up. It was fresh and clean with the not unpleasing scent of Vampire around the place.
“Is Barrister coming to the meeting?” asked Scarlett, who was enjoying the centerfold in Play Vamp. Pam was such a vixen, like Eric, she was never known to be modest…but Vampires aren’t.
“Yeah, he is ready to sit down and discuss what he and the Vampire he knows in London has come up with about Hunter,” I said. This was Eric’s big concern right now and after consulting with older Vampires in London and Germany about the precedence he had managed to hammer something out to present to the Magister here and then there was the fairly cut and dry matter of Eric’s will. The language would be the same as a human will; he just had to get together the list of Eric’s goodies to be divvied up. I wondered what Sookie would get.
“Well, if anyone can help him, Barrister can,” said Scarlett, finally closing the centerfold and tossing the magazine onto the coffee table.
We had all been engrossed in the latest offering from the Connection. Like junkies, we descended on Barnes and Noble and cleaned them out and those who rode, read aloud to the drivers as they drove homewards. Many were finished and many were still reading and we would reserve our discussions for Saturday. I know Bill and Eric were reading as well. It was odd to think of them living in three worlds at once.
God Speed came in with Jen. He checked out the forum glowing bluely from the screen. Raki came in with her screen caps on a disk to be loaded into the forum gallery. We were also now 3 months old and we were very active and very excited to be getting closer to the adventures. We loved the adventures of the summer and we were ready to see what would happen next. How would the Source interpret the stories of the Connection and how would they reflect our own stories with the Vampires and supernaturals that roamed the shadow world of our lives. We wondered about the way some things were eerily like the things I had written about. Especially the minisode we had seen with Jessica.
The minisodes acted as bridges between season two and three, filling in gaps for us as we see things unfold in the adventure. We got to see the events that led Jessica to be in the front of a truck cab with a man she apparently fed on and may well be in trouble for. Not unlike the scene we had experienced with the Fellowship of the Sun people, Jessica is confronted by a man who seems at first to be on the prowl for a young woman when we discover he is there to “save” her, waving a pamphlet about sin and salvation before Jessica takes sudden mercy on him and glamours him to go his way…safe for the moment.
We sat down to supper. After the rich roasted meats and holiday food, a plate of a homey casserole with nice bread and some of Eric’s expensive wine was a great meal. We chatted, barely containing our desire to chat about the new book and very engrossed with speculating about the minisode. We were so distracted, the Sheriff of Area Five was mostly unnoticed until he moved with Vampire speed to Fairy’s side and asked for a Tru:Blood.
Pam came in soon after. She was wearing black slacks and a red silk tank top and a heavy gold chain around her neck. She kissed Nicky and Scarlett and I went and grabbed three bottles to heat when Bill and Jessica came. When Fairy was finished, she took Eric his bottle and received a kiss in return and I heated the three bottles for the other Vampires.
Barrister, my human lover and fiancé came in and walked by me for a kiss and then sidled up to Eric, who excused himself and followed Barrister to the couch where they sat down and he began talking. Eric raised his hips so he could slide his hand into the front pocket of his jeans to take out a folded square of paper. He opened it and Barrister leaned toward him to read the paper.
Bill and Jessica came in. They greeted everyone, Renee and Vi and Bella getting kisses from our Vampire husband and Jessica smooched GS and Sal and Scarlett. Bill came over and kissed me on the neck.
“Ummmm, you have been in the sun,” he said, his mouth still lingering on my skin.
“I have been in the sun,” I said. I took out the T:B bottles and gave them a shake and handed Bill his. He tipped the bottle and he took a long drink. “Hungry Bill?” I asked.
“I was,” he said. “I never feel well fed unless I am with one of my lovely wives.”
“Good thing to know,” I said with a wink as I handed Pam her blood and I called Jessica, who made a disparaging sound and came and got her bottle. She thanked me and drank it, pounding that first mouthful down with a squinched up disgusted look on her face.
Chris came in and she walked by Eric and she ran her finger tips down his shoulder to his hands and the Vampire caught her fingertips between his own for just a second. She sat down at the table and her mom set her a plate of baked chicken and steamed vegetables for her supper. Jessica came over and sat with her and they chatted about going to see a Vampire band at Fangtasia for their early evening show. Renee didn’t care for it, but since Eric was there and a few of us would be there, she relaxed.
It did not take long for us to clean up the kitchen and set the dishwasher to chugging away and we joined the group who had begun to collect for our meeting. Linzy and Lina flanked the Viking and Minnie and Fairy and Vi and I shared a couch with Barrister. Bill sat next to Renee and Bella and God Speed and Dude bracketed Jessica , Jen sitting on the other side of her husband. Westexan and Raki and Scarlett and Pam and Jessica made themselves comfortable among the others ranged around the main area of the parlor.
“I am so happy to see our friends have returned from our little break,” said Eric. “I can tell by your voices that you are excited about the offering from the Connection and the little peek into the world of Bon Temps.” By that I figured he meant the minisode because Jessica looked a little nervous.
“Eric, are you in trouble?” asked Minnie.
“How do you mean dearest?” asked the Sheriff.
“Why are you making a Will?” asked Linzy. “And don’t try to evade us..you know what happened the last time you tried to play coy with us, your second in command got scared and sent Scarlett in to spy on the Queen.” Eric looked at Pam who did not flinch and Scarlett who looked at him the same way. Having Pam’s blood made her more likely to look Eric in the eye.
“Isn’t it just good planning, Barrister, for a man of wealth and power to make out a Will, distributing his worldly wealth to friends, and loved ones and children?” asked Eric.
I rolled my eyes. Fine if he didn’t want to tell us, he shouldn’t at least insult us. An old Vampire like Eric was scared for his immortality, that was why he was making a will. “Who is actually filing in in the Vampire world?” I asked.
“Barrister is preparing the document, but Mr. Cataliades is filing the document,” said Eric.
“Why, do y’all have some sort of supernatural registrar’s office?” asked Fairy. She wasn’t crazy about why Eric was making a will either.
“Yes,” said Eric. “He will take care the will is adjudicated.”
“Bill do you have a will?” asked Westexan.
“I do,” said Bill. We waited to hear more about why he might have done something like that but heard nothing. Vampires.
“Aren’t you all interested in who gets what?” asked Jessica.
“No,” said Linzy, putting her head on the Viking’s shoulder. Perhaps she said it a bit roughly because Jessica cast her eyes down a little and God Speed squeezed her hand a little. “I apologize, Jessica.” The red headed girl nodded and turned to look at Bill.
“Where will you all be when we begin the adventures?” asked Eric.
“We will be here,” said Renee. “We have to watch them together. I don’t know how any of the sister wives are going to get through this without Bill.”
“And how will you feel about a were coming to the meetings?” asked Eric. He said the word were as if he had said the word moron. Everyone knew this was touchy for Eric, as a few of his ladies had defected momentarily to the mutt. But after talking to Bill and the were in question and Pam, he decided to add him to the group, temporarily that as. I hope whoever the were was was smart enough to avoid gaining Eric’s ire. It was bad to have to have a Vampire mad at you.
“I think he will be helpful as we begin to navigate the world of shifters and weres. We have so much to learn about their world, just we do about the Vampire World,” I said. “I think the two worlds will be prevalent in this world than it is in the connection’s world.”
“How do you mean Aslinn?” asked Bill.
“Well, I think it is a matter of cohesion. Plus, the way things are being played with issues of bigotry and bias and how that looks and how we relate to it, it would make better sense to run the two communities as closely together. It will be much easier to present,” I said.
“Do you think we will see the bigotry angle really played out in a big way?” asked Butter.
“Oh yeah…we’ll see it first as human on human bigotry, then human on supernatural bigotry and then, Vampire on human bigotry. And we have Arlene. Never mind a Vampire saved her life and the town and a shifter nearly died to help the town. I think we are going to see the very heart of darkness,” I said. “So, having a were here, to lend some perspective, will be useful. You two guys really need to not be all prejudiced against each other. You are both supernaturals, you are both gonna be victims of hate crimes, you really don’t have time fighting amongst each other.”
“Of course she’s right,” said God Speed. “We will have a hard time learning how things come together if you all are hissing and spitting at each other.”
“And you all would put up a bigger front. Just you and Bill alone Eric, without the weres behind you, you would have been massacred,” mentioned Body Guard.
Eric flinched a little at the reminder but did not refute it.
“I don’t think we have seen the end of the Fellowship of the Sun, either,” said Aolani. “And they hate the weres and shifters as much as the Vampires.”
I nodded. All my dusty books and catalogues of lore were written metaphorically by quills dipped in the blood of suspected witches and werewolves and Vampires. The Malleus Maficarium, the most terrible book of fear and hatred spoke of the castrations, the mutilations, the tortures of people deemed different. I shivered when I thought of it. That is why I kept it on the shelves, read it often. Those who fail to read history are doomed to repeat it. “And if the witches come out,” I said, looking at Aolani. She nodded.
“How much longer Aslinn, by your count?” asked Vi.
“Three more weeks til June,” I said.
“And five weeks to the adventures,” said Scarlett.
And the wait still feels so long.
It was good to be home and walking in to the parlor and firing up the one eyed god (the computer) and turning on the tv to VNN and catching up on the daytime news, taken care of by Asian and European Vampires during the day and American Vampires at night, was a great treat. Bill arranged for us to get the station by unknown means, but we were extremely well informed. The same for the various Vampire publications we received monthly, including Play Vamp, featuring lovely female Vampires and Vampiress, featuring luscious male vampires. Eric made sure we got a copy where he was the featured centerfold. And Bill made sure we got the Bon Temps Bugle and the Shreveport Times as well.
I was standing over the stove, sprinkling cheese over the broccoli, chicken and rice cheese casserole. I made a spice rum cake with butter rum icing and it was cooling on the countertop. Renee was cutting the large baguette. There were fresh flowers in the parlor and it had been dusted already. Eric must have had his house keeper in to spritz the place up. It was fresh and clean with the not unpleasing scent of Vampire around the place.
“Is Barrister coming to the meeting?” asked Scarlett, who was enjoying the centerfold in Play Vamp. Pam was such a vixen, like Eric, she was never known to be modest…but Vampires aren’t.
“Yeah, he is ready to sit down and discuss what he and the Vampire he knows in London has come up with about Hunter,” I said. This was Eric’s big concern right now and after consulting with older Vampires in London and Germany about the precedence he had managed to hammer something out to present to the Magister here and then there was the fairly cut and dry matter of Eric’s will. The language would be the same as a human will; he just had to get together the list of Eric’s goodies to be divvied up. I wondered what Sookie would get.
“Well, if anyone can help him, Barrister can,” said Scarlett, finally closing the centerfold and tossing the magazine onto the coffee table.
We had all been engrossed in the latest offering from the Connection. Like junkies, we descended on Barnes and Noble and cleaned them out and those who rode, read aloud to the drivers as they drove homewards. Many were finished and many were still reading and we would reserve our discussions for Saturday. I know Bill and Eric were reading as well. It was odd to think of them living in three worlds at once.
God Speed came in with Jen. He checked out the forum glowing bluely from the screen. Raki came in with her screen caps on a disk to be loaded into the forum gallery. We were also now 3 months old and we were very active and very excited to be getting closer to the adventures. We loved the adventures of the summer and we were ready to see what would happen next. How would the Source interpret the stories of the Connection and how would they reflect our own stories with the Vampires and supernaturals that roamed the shadow world of our lives. We wondered about the way some things were eerily like the things I had written about. Especially the minisode we had seen with Jessica.
The minisodes acted as bridges between season two and three, filling in gaps for us as we see things unfold in the adventure. We got to see the events that led Jessica to be in the front of a truck cab with a man she apparently fed on and may well be in trouble for. Not unlike the scene we had experienced with the Fellowship of the Sun people, Jessica is confronted by a man who seems at first to be on the prowl for a young woman when we discover he is there to “save” her, waving a pamphlet about sin and salvation before Jessica takes sudden mercy on him and glamours him to go his way…safe for the moment.
We sat down to supper. After the rich roasted meats and holiday food, a plate of a homey casserole with nice bread and some of Eric’s expensive wine was a great meal. We chatted, barely containing our desire to chat about the new book and very engrossed with speculating about the minisode. We were so distracted, the Sheriff of Area Five was mostly unnoticed until he moved with Vampire speed to Fairy’s side and asked for a Tru:Blood.
Pam came in soon after. She was wearing black slacks and a red silk tank top and a heavy gold chain around her neck. She kissed Nicky and Scarlett and I went and grabbed three bottles to heat when Bill and Jessica came. When Fairy was finished, she took Eric his bottle and received a kiss in return and I heated the three bottles for the other Vampires.
Barrister, my human lover and fiancé came in and walked by me for a kiss and then sidled up to Eric, who excused himself and followed Barrister to the couch where they sat down and he began talking. Eric raised his hips so he could slide his hand into the front pocket of his jeans to take out a folded square of paper. He opened it and Barrister leaned toward him to read the paper.
Bill and Jessica came in. They greeted everyone, Renee and Vi and Bella getting kisses from our Vampire husband and Jessica smooched GS and Sal and Scarlett. Bill came over and kissed me on the neck.
“Ummmm, you have been in the sun,” he said, his mouth still lingering on my skin.
“I have been in the sun,” I said. I took out the T:B bottles and gave them a shake and handed Bill his. He tipped the bottle and he took a long drink. “Hungry Bill?” I asked.
“I was,” he said. “I never feel well fed unless I am with one of my lovely wives.”
“Good thing to know,” I said with a wink as I handed Pam her blood and I called Jessica, who made a disparaging sound and came and got her bottle. She thanked me and drank it, pounding that first mouthful down with a squinched up disgusted look on her face.
Chris came in and she walked by Eric and she ran her finger tips down his shoulder to his hands and the Vampire caught her fingertips between his own for just a second. She sat down at the table and her mom set her a plate of baked chicken and steamed vegetables for her supper. Jessica came over and sat with her and they chatted about going to see a Vampire band at Fangtasia for their early evening show. Renee didn’t care for it, but since Eric was there and a few of us would be there, she relaxed.
It did not take long for us to clean up the kitchen and set the dishwasher to chugging away and we joined the group who had begun to collect for our meeting. Linzy and Lina flanked the Viking and Minnie and Fairy and Vi and I shared a couch with Barrister. Bill sat next to Renee and Bella and God Speed and Dude bracketed Jessica , Jen sitting on the other side of her husband. Westexan and Raki and Scarlett and Pam and Jessica made themselves comfortable among the others ranged around the main area of the parlor.
“I am so happy to see our friends have returned from our little break,” said Eric. “I can tell by your voices that you are excited about the offering from the Connection and the little peek into the world of Bon Temps.” By that I figured he meant the minisode because Jessica looked a little nervous.
“Eric, are you in trouble?” asked Minnie.
“How do you mean dearest?” asked the Sheriff.
“Why are you making a Will?” asked Linzy. “And don’t try to evade us..you know what happened the last time you tried to play coy with us, your second in command got scared and sent Scarlett in to spy on the Queen.” Eric looked at Pam who did not flinch and Scarlett who looked at him the same way. Having Pam’s blood made her more likely to look Eric in the eye.
“Isn’t it just good planning, Barrister, for a man of wealth and power to make out a Will, distributing his worldly wealth to friends, and loved ones and children?” asked Eric.
I rolled my eyes. Fine if he didn’t want to tell us, he shouldn’t at least insult us. An old Vampire like Eric was scared for his immortality, that was why he was making a will. “Who is actually filing in in the Vampire world?” I asked.
“Barrister is preparing the document, but Mr. Cataliades is filing the document,” said Eric.
“Why, do y’all have some sort of supernatural registrar’s office?” asked Fairy. She wasn’t crazy about why Eric was making a will either.
“Yes,” said Eric. “He will take care the will is adjudicated.”
“Bill do you have a will?” asked Westexan.
“I do,” said Bill. We waited to hear more about why he might have done something like that but heard nothing. Vampires.
“Aren’t you all interested in who gets what?” asked Jessica.
“No,” said Linzy, putting her head on the Viking’s shoulder. Perhaps she said it a bit roughly because Jessica cast her eyes down a little and God Speed squeezed her hand a little. “I apologize, Jessica.” The red headed girl nodded and turned to look at Bill.
“Where will you all be when we begin the adventures?” asked Eric.
“We will be here,” said Renee. “We have to watch them together. I don’t know how any of the sister wives are going to get through this without Bill.”
“And how will you feel about a were coming to the meetings?” asked Eric. He said the word were as if he had said the word moron. Everyone knew this was touchy for Eric, as a few of his ladies had defected momentarily to the mutt. But after talking to Bill and the were in question and Pam, he decided to add him to the group, temporarily that as. I hope whoever the were was was smart enough to avoid gaining Eric’s ire. It was bad to have to have a Vampire mad at you.
“I think he will be helpful as we begin to navigate the world of shifters and weres. We have so much to learn about their world, just we do about the Vampire World,” I said. “I think the two worlds will be prevalent in this world than it is in the connection’s world.”
“How do you mean Aslinn?” asked Bill.
“Well, I think it is a matter of cohesion. Plus, the way things are being played with issues of bigotry and bias and how that looks and how we relate to it, it would make better sense to run the two communities as closely together. It will be much easier to present,” I said.
“Do you think we will see the bigotry angle really played out in a big way?” asked Butter.
“Oh yeah…we’ll see it first as human on human bigotry, then human on supernatural bigotry and then, Vampire on human bigotry. And we have Arlene. Never mind a Vampire saved her life and the town and a shifter nearly died to help the town. I think we are going to see the very heart of darkness,” I said. “So, having a were here, to lend some perspective, will be useful. You two guys really need to not be all prejudiced against each other. You are both supernaturals, you are both gonna be victims of hate crimes, you really don’t have time fighting amongst each other.”
“Of course she’s right,” said God Speed. “We will have a hard time learning how things come together if you all are hissing and spitting at each other.”
“And you all would put up a bigger front. Just you and Bill alone Eric, without the weres behind you, you would have been massacred,” mentioned Body Guard.
Eric flinched a little at the reminder but did not refute it.
“I don’t think we have seen the end of the Fellowship of the Sun, either,” said Aolani. “And they hate the weres and shifters as much as the Vampires.”
I nodded. All my dusty books and catalogues of lore were written metaphorically by quills dipped in the blood of suspected witches and werewolves and Vampires. The Malleus Maficarium, the most terrible book of fear and hatred spoke of the castrations, the mutilations, the tortures of people deemed different. I shivered when I thought of it. That is why I kept it on the shelves, read it often. Those who fail to read history are doomed to repeat it. “And if the witches come out,” I said, looking at Aolani. She nodded.
“How much longer Aslinn, by your count?” asked Vi.
“Three more weeks til June,” I said.
“And five weeks to the adventures,” said Scarlett.
And the wait still feels so long.
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