Season Four
Sep. 18th, 2017 10:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
onceavikingIt's stupid really.
Sookie's friend has come over and she is clearly upset about something. Emotionally wrung out.
And he should. Just have stayed away. Have hidden. Played along with Sookie's 'well, now is not the best time to have a sleep over'.
But he doesn't. And the friend, Tara, freaks, brandishing a poker at him, screaming at Sookie.
Because she betrayed her by letting Eric in. Eric who tortured Lafayette.
And he sees it, the dungeon, the one Pam showed him. Just as clear as if he was standing there.
Because he cannot deny it. He is that Eric too. Was that Eric.
Tara leaves and he asks Sookie, if he really did all of those horrible things Tara said he did. (To others. To Sookie). She confirms it. And then she tries telling him that there is good in him too. That she sees it. That she wouldn't have let him stay if that was not the case.
But he can't unhear the accusations. Unsee the dungeon with its chains.
So he tells her that he sees the beautiful light that shines within her and that he could not bear if he was the one to snuff it. And then he leaves, walking slowly into the darkness of the Louisiana night.
He hears the creak of her screendoor. The sound of a floorboard being stepped lightly on.
"Eric," she says, quietly.
You need not raise your voice when talking to a vampire.
"Don't go."
He turns and she is standing there in the porch lit by the warm light from her kitchen window and her inner glow.
She holds out her hands to him and he returns to her embrace.
To her kisses.
Sookie's friend has come over and she is clearly upset about something. Emotionally wrung out.
And he should. Just have stayed away. Have hidden. Played along with Sookie's 'well, now is not the best time to have a sleep over'.
But he doesn't. And the friend, Tara, freaks, brandishing a poker at him, screaming at Sookie.
Because she betrayed her by letting Eric in. Eric who tortured Lafayette.
And he sees it, the dungeon, the one Pam showed him. Just as clear as if he was standing there.
Because he cannot deny it. He is that Eric too. Was that Eric.
Tara leaves and he asks Sookie, if he really did all of those horrible things Tara said he did. (To others. To Sookie). She confirms it. And then she tries telling him that there is good in him too. That she sees it. That she wouldn't have let him stay if that was not the case.
But he can't unhear the accusations. Unsee the dungeon with its chains.
So he tells her that he sees the beautiful light that shines within her and that he could not bear if he was the one to snuff it. And then he leaves, walking slowly into the darkness of the Louisiana night.
He hears the creak of her screendoor. The sound of a floorboard being stepped lightly on.
"Eric," she says, quietly.
You need not raise your voice when talking to a vampire.
"Don't go."
He turns and she is standing there in the porch lit by the warm light from her kitchen window and her inner glow.
She holds out her hands to him and he returns to her embrace.
To her kisses.
