“Are we on? Do you see and hear us?” I asked. Barrister and I were sitting together in front of the mini-cam on my computer.
“We see and hear you Aslinn,” said Body Guard. “How are things in Spain?”
“Hot,” I said. “Have our Vampires arrived yet?” I asked.
“Soon,” he said. “Of course Eric…”
“Yeah,” I said. Eric was under the sway of the Witch Antonia. How he would be I had no clue, and felt he would be unpredictable. I had some things to share with the group, but I didn’t think it would do much good. After leaving the bruja’s hacienda, we went to the witch caves to see where they supposedly did their deed.
Fairy and Sugar Mags and Sweet and Wild came in with their arms full of goodies. I wished I were there, getting ready to chomp down on some lovely Minnie brownies. Lina and Linzy were there. They were whispering about something and I wondered about those two. The last time I had been around them, they were all hyped up for some reason. I had known them a while, but just lately, I had the feeling they weren’t telling us something. Same thing with Fairy. There just seemed to be times when she looked as though she was listening to something in her own head. When she caught me looking at her, she would turn her attention to something else and seem to almost banish gaze from her. Violet came in with Renee and Westexan and Aolani. Alcide stopped by the computer screen and said hello and sat down by Sugar Mags who was tickled to death. Finally three Vampires came into the room. Bill, Pam and Jessica. I watched Butter light a stick of incense. Pam may be looking pretty but she must be a little tangy to the olfactory. The nose knows, ya know?
Jessica sat down near the computer where Barrister and I were playing Max Headroom. (Let’s take The 1980’s please Mr. Trebek). “Hey guys are you ready?” asked Jessica into the computer.
“Ready when you are Jess,” I said.
“Eric is under Antonia’s sway,” said Bill.
“What does that mean?” asked Fairy.
“That remains to be seen,” said Bill carefully. “We don’t know what her plan may be.”
“Could they use Eric as a weapon?” asked Renee.
“She could,” said Pam. “Just as Antonia was using Luis to try to kill Bill, she could use Eric.”
“Eric was already damaged by the first spell,” said Aolani. “When a witch casts a spell, the spell becomes a door of influence between the witch the subject of the spell.”
“That is what we suspected,” said Bill, nodding. “Aslinn, have you learned anything else?”
“I learned a lot, but none of it seems relevant to this case except for this one thing. There may be someone who can heal both our Vampires if he will do it,” I said.
“Who?” asked Butter.
“Lafayette,” I said. “He already has a link to Eric through his blood and he and he is a medium. The bruja said the witch Antonia has to be exorcized and then bound by a brujo, someone who is a master at healing magik.”
“Lafayette isn’t a brujo,” said Westexan.
“No, no he isn’t, but Tio Luca is,” I said. “He can drive Antonia out and heal Eric and Pam.”
“I knew there was a reason I had not killed Lafayette yet,” said Pam.
“But isn’t Lafayette gonna be crowded with that woman already inside him?” asked Lina.
“She is just borrowing Lafayette as a vehicle,” said Aolani. “She may not be inside him all the time.”
“What is her story anyway?” asked Linzy.
“She thinks the baby is hers, she is using the doll as a tracking device,” said Aolani. “She is haunting the doll, that is why it kept coming home when Jessica and Hoyt kept throwing it away.”
“Was she the one who wrote on the wall?” asked Minnie.
“She was. The message has nothing to do with the fact that Terry is not the baby’s father, it has more to do with the fact the baby is not theirs, as far as she is concerned. That baby is hers.”
“Wow,” said Westexan. “So what is her story?”
“Whoever the man was who killed the baby, the baby’s father, that is the clue,” said Body Guard. “If the woman was hooked up with an influential family, then it may tell us more about the ghost and why she is interested in the baby.”
“Well, she seemed to know her way around the Bellefleur house,” said Renee.
Barrister had been looking at Jessica through the computer screen. “Jessica my dear, how are you doing?”
“Oh, I’m okay,” she said. “When will you be home?”
“Saturday,” he said. Jessica smiled at him.
“Jessica, what are you going to do about Jason and Hoyt?” asked Fairy.
“I don’t know, I am so confused. Nothing happened the way I thought it would be,” she said.
“That’s obvious, I thought it was pretty shitty of both men,” said Sweet and Wild.
“I don’t know, I think I kind of deserve it,” said Jessica.
“Well, if it is any consolation, human relationships are not smooth running either,” said Linzy
“Yeah, I get it,” said Jessica.
“Alcide, what is going to happen with you and the pack?” asked Sugar. “You disobeyed the packmaster and got involved with Sookie’s mess.”
“I don’t care,” said Alcide. Minnie, Sugar and Sweet and Renee all looked at each other. “What?”
“It’s just that I think you have too much on your plate as it is,” said Violet.
“I can handle it,” said the werewolf.
“Do you think Tara will go through an attitude adjustment since you saved her Bill?” asked Fairy.
“I hope so. One of the problems of our kind is there are Vampires who have no ethics or limits. I admit I was that way myself when I was with my maker, but once I became my own Vampire, I resolved to recapture some of my humanity. I of course owed something to Tara because I could not save her when she was in Russell Edgington’s house,” said Bill.
“You didn’t have any options then Bill,” said Renee.
“But aren’t you doing this to get into Sookie’s good graces again?” asked Lina.
“Perhaps. It would not be beyond possibility that I did. But, I don’t think I am necessarily out of her good graces. She did come to me, she and Eric, to stand by me. She didn’t have to, in fact I would have preferred Eric and Sookie stay where they were,” said Bill evenly. “But any other ulterior motives I have does not negate my desire to make up to Tara my inability to help her. I do not wish to harm her.” Lina just looked at Bill, still skeptical.
“Sam needs to do something with Tommy,” said Aolani.
“If anyone deserves to be euthanized, it is Tommy,” said Butter.
“He’s gonna make one bad step and that will be all that pup wrote,” said Minnie. “I just hope nothing happens to Sam.”
“Me too, but Sam is in trouble with Marcus, your pack master,” said Renee.
“I will try to keep an eye out for Marcus,” said Alcide.
“Well, we will just have to see what we shall see,” I said.
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