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CHAPTER 5

GPOV

How am I to make her understand? She chose life over death, she should understand the only life there is, is ours. I cannot expect her to see that the fifty years of life she could have had as a human is gone in but the blink of an eye. But in due time she will. Until then, it is my duty towards her to make her accept life. To love it and cherish it, to excel in every field she can.

I think the first place I am to take her will be Bon Temps cemetery. There is no chance to see her brother there, as I've learnt he is either chasing women, either with one.

It's always amazing the surge of love and protection one parent feels for their child. I am already feeling this connection to Sookie. If there is a Higher Power, I've no doubt she was meant to be mine. I love her, but for now, she wouldn't understand.

"Sookie, get up and come with me. We are going to your home".

She looks at me, and seems to just now process what I said.

"Mmmh, Good Morning, Godric. Uh, good evening. Could I go and take a shower first?"

"You are welcome to."

While she takes a shower I check with Eric our travel plans. We are to leave the US tonight by Anubis. Pam checked normal companies' flights, and we are not able to fly to Stockholm in a night. Obviously, I could not let Sookie alone while on board the plane. So as the flight is around ten hours, we'll leave at around 4 am and arrive there at around 9 pm. My best option is to take Sookie with me on a travel coffin for two. I cannot have her attempt to escape. I am sure she will appreciate that...

...

After pulling off at the cemetery, I get out of me car and go open Sookie's door.

"Of all places, what are we doing here?"

"I have not been human for so long and there are things I keep wondering about. I think you could help me understand. Would you be agreeable?"

"What do you wanna know?"

"Come, let's take a stroll!"

Walking through the tombs, I first ask her why humans have such memorandums of the dead.

"We miss them. Wherever they are, we are not able to see them again. It is the only tangible thing there is left for us to mourn. I come here when I want to be close to my Gran again."

Passing each stone, we read the names of the deceased and I ask about each's family. Some died young, some old, some were still babies when death took them, leaving behind crying parents.

I am trying to make her understand, the immense sufferings death brings.

"But you know Godric, death is part of life".

"It does not have to be, Child."

"It is not natural".

I let escape a small laugh.

"Our existence is in the order of things. In the same way humans' is. Like a human being born, we rise to be children first, and grow. But, as a second birth, it is not our bodies that grow, it is our qualities".

"Yeah, right, loveless and ruthless qualities."

"Do you thing I have no love? I have more love for my Son than any human mother has towards their only child. And wether or not, you want it, I love you already as my Child."

"WHAT KIND OF LOVE ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?! YOU TAKE ME AGAINST MY WISHES, TAKE AWAY MY FREEDOM, AND PROMISE TO KILL ME AND TURN ME INTO A MONSTER!"

Speaking calmly, to diffuse the tension, I explain that I am instead offering her a greater freedom she would ever have conceived, would she stay human. As for killing her, it is simply a three days death. Not a real one.

"Do you think I will let you finish like the people of this town that have been buried here? Their only accomplishment in dying was leaving mourning relatives behind.

Did you not feel inconsolable when your parents died? Or when you grandmother died? Would you not have them stay with you, if you could? If you really had the choice, would you want them dead?"

She cannot find any answer to that. I realise that even though she is still young, she understands what the loss of so many loved ones is.

"As for making you a monster, you are mistaken. I will not deny, some of us are. And some humans too. You have met Mr Compton, and have seen his total lack of real care for you. We are not like this."

"How is kidnapping me any bit better?"

"I do what needs to done for you. He didn't even think of it. Come, let's continue on for a walk."

I take her hand in mine and let her mull over what I just said.

SPOV

I find myself taking deep calming breaths. I can understand his arguments, but I don't like it. It doesn't make sense to me he claims to love me. Why me? We've just met. He hardly even knows me.

Walking around the tombstones, I tell him so.

"You are right to wonder why. You are the second person in two thousand years I have chosen to take on as my Child. I have seen greatness in you. I know you would not be able to develop it to its full potential in a short human lifetime. But, you are not the second person I've loved in all this time! I would have been a real monster if that was the case."

I see him smiling at me in the moonlight. I cannot but wonder how many he has loved.

Walking silently for some time, we are going in the direction of my house.

"Eventually, you will ask me to turn you."

Gosh, I am starting to be so scared he might be right at some point. But I will not give up on finding a way to escape his clutches.

"I love the sun, Godric."

"Do you? Enough to impose your death on people who love you? Would you really choose to let them see you die, have their heart broken, because you.. like the sun?"

"Just think about it Sookie."