Who are you? Cuz I really want to know

I drove by the Compton place on my way to see Sookie. I could see Bill's face looking outside at the hot day and it was weird...like it was 13 o'clock and all was not well. He looked at my car and then turned his attention elsewhere. I wondered, with his Vampire eyes, if the world looked differently to him with the light of day and what did he see the rest of us didn't. I shook my head and drove on.

"Did he see us?" asked Renee.
"I don't know," I said. "If he did, he gave no hint at it."

Sookie had called us to come see her and I was more than a little reticent. I was not interested in helping Sookie per se, but I was interested in knowing what she thought about Bill and Jessica. I knew Jessica would come out on Bill's side. I knew she loved Bill and she looked to him for so much. She used to hate Bill, but as they walked their walk together, she realized how much she loved him and I guess she also appreciated what he had done for her, making her Vampire and getting her away from her abusive father and complacent mother. I worried for the little Vampire. Bill was very influential in her life.

We had seen a lot of things, but we had no idea what it meant. I hoped maybe Sookie had some impressions. We pulled up in front of her neat little Currier and Ives house and got out. Renee and I looked around. We didn't want to see Bill, not as he was, I don't care how reasonable he seemed. I was confused. If he was Lillith (I refused to refer to him as Billith) then who were the three women who sped into his body. It was like she was Maiden, Mother and Crone, or the three fates. The presence of three beings was just too specific. Maybe....People's minds were always putting together patterns and perhaps it meant nothing. But thus far, we knew Bill could perform acts of telekinesis, and he could survive being staked and he could day walk. Were these just physical manifestations of the powers we knew he had inherited?

We walked up on the porch and Sookie opened her door. She looked at us and opened it wider to admit us. We went into the house. "I made coffee if you want some," she said.
"Sounds good," I said. We went into her kitchen and she got 3 mugs and poured us all coffee and indicated the sugar and creamer for us. We sat down at the homey kitchen table and began to doctor our coffee. Sookie kept looking at us.
"How are you guys doing it?" she asked. "Blocking me?"
"We are wearing a talisman," I said. "So what can we do for you Sookie?"
"I want you to cast around my house," she said. "To protect me, like Marnie did with the Moon Goddess."
"We don't know if that will work for Bill," I said. "You rescinded the invitation for the best way to protect you." She puffed out her cheeks in frustration.
"I just want my life back," she said.
"I get that, but there is no way to make the past go away and pretend you are not involved," I said.
"Okay, do you know anything about this Warlow?" she asked.

Apparently Warlow was the Vampire child of Lillith and he had some claim on Sookie that still remained to be seen.

"You have to get someone to read you the contract again. I don't think that is all there is to it," I said.
"Why would my ancestor make such a deal with Warlow?" asked Sookie.
"Why does anyone make a deal? He did something for your ancestor and now you are the thing that makes the contract fulfilled," I said. Sookie gripped her coffee mug tightly in her fist.
"And what do we do about Bill?"
"I don't know, but staking him sure the hell didn't fix it," said Renee.
"I know, but that was all I could think of," she said. "That's not Bill you know."
"We don't know that," said Renee. "All we know is there some part of Bill in there. You just have to reach that part of him. Besides, if he is some part of Lillith, perhaps he can do something about Warlow."

I was not sure that Bill was too interested in Warlow or his designs on Sookie.

"Sookie, you know, as Eric and the rest of them know, we can't really interfere with what happens to you," I said carefully. "But I think the answers you need you can get from Nora. But you have to be careful with her. And you have to talk to Eric. I know you don't want anything to do with him, but you have to talk to him. He wants to help you."
"I would just give anything to have my life back," she said.
"Sookie, your life changed the moment you went after the Rattrays to save Bill. You involved yourself in the life of Vampires," I said. "You can't just call that back." My phone rang. I pulled it out and flipped it out. I listened and snapped it shut. "We have to go."
"But you have to help me!" she said.
"Look, talk to Nora and Eric and find out what she knows about Warlow and then, you have to talk to Bill, ask him what he can do to help you," I said. I looked at Renee. "We have to go."

Renee and I stood up and Sookie followed us out of her house. "Can I stop by your place and talk to you guys?"
"Call us before you come," I said.
"I will," she said.
"Good luck Sookie," said Renee.
"You are going to need it. And be careful in the woods," I said. She looked at me.
"Okay," she said.

I took a page out of the Aolani School of Driving Like Your Broom is on Fire book and put my foot on the gas and sped off back to Shreveport. Aolani had called us back to the House for some reason she could not get into on the phone. We pulled in at record time and went into the House and it was blessedly cool but it was like an ant hill that had been disturbed.

"Hey, what's up?" asked Renee.
"What did you find out from Sookie?" she asked.
"She wanted us to spell her house to keep Bill out," I said.
"We saw Bill, looking outside," said Renee.
"He didn't come out?" asked Aolani.
"No," said Renee.
"That is likely something he doesn't want too many humans to know about," said Aolani. "If Vampires can walk in the day, that will cause the governor to really go after them."
"Any word about that?" I asked.
"Nah, he has just been doing the whole Vampires are dangerous thing. I am still worried about his involvement with that bottling facility," she said.
"Hey, why don't we go and drive by there?" suggested Minnie.
"We could, but chances are, if something is about to happen there, we won't see it," I said. "Anyone hear from Eric or Pam?"
"No," said Minnie. "And I am worried about them."

Diantha suddenly popped in. It was a little unnerving when she did that, and no matter how many times we told her not to, she still did it. "The bottling plant is full of humans right now, retooling it for the Tru:Blood. They have their brewing tanks though and they are already mixing the formulas for it in the big tanks."
"Are there guards?" I asked.
"Yeah, but I was invisible," said Diantha.
"Hey, maybe we can dim ourselves and go and have a peek." said Minnie.
"Maybe," I said. "We will keep that in reserve." Dimming was the closest thing humans could do being invisible. It made us...ignorable. There was no such thing as invisibility for humans. "We should take Eric with us, if we go."
"Did Sookie say she would give Eric back his invitation?" asked Barrister.
"No, she wants her life back," I said. "We did tell her that Nora could probably help her with Warlow, but I made it clear to have Eric with her when  and if she talked to her."
"Do you know where Pam and Tara are?" asked Len.
"Presumably they are at Fangtasia," I said. Tara had been hit with some sort of weapon we had never seen. We had not yet figured out what the military had done to make new Vampire weapons, but we were sure we would find out. Len had his werewolf connections sniffing around. As far we knew, we had the latest and greatest in anti-Vampire weapons.
"And Jessica, has anyone talked to her?" asked Barrister.
"No," said Aolani. "We have not talked to any of the Vampires."
"How about Alcide?" asked Len.
"No, he isn't answering his phone," I said.
"We may not be able to depend on Alcide for much support," said Minnie.
"Yeah, and he may be a little busy with his new pack and all," said Renee. She shrugged her shoulders. She was not very interested in the Pack Master of Shreveport.
"Sam, anyone call him?" I asked.
"I called Merlotte's and got Lafayette," said Aolani. "He is not saying much, he is just saying Sam is tied up."
"I think he should give Emma over to her grandmother," said Renee. Aolani agreed. I would have protested if the pack master was JB, but with Alcide, I knew nothing would happen to her.
"Yeah," I said. "I hope they don't hurt Sam to get to her."
"So, what do we do now?" asked Diantha.
"Nothing we can do but wait to see what we shall see," I said.