I have decided to re-write this story, after rereading it several times I realized that there is a lot that I had left out in order to get to the main points of my story. I hope you all enjoy the new version of this story. Also if there is any likeness to any other stories, the only reason I can think there would be is that I have read way too many stories on here and have loved them all. If there is something in here that is too much like your story just let me know and I will figure out a way to change it. As always nothing belongs to me, but I just can't stand not playing in the sandbox.

Chapter 1

I have been walking this earth for so many lifetimes. The despair is eating at my soul. I don't want to go on another night. I am thankful that I only have this night and it will end. I have been here for so long that I have lost count of the days. It is all I can do to keep the bond closed to my child, if he had been able to feel what I have been feeling since we parted ways he would know what I am about to do. I don't want him to suffer but I have lived long enough. I just want peace that my final death will bring me.

I thought that by giving myself to the Fellowship of the Sun Church, that by getting to know me as a person and not the monster that I am, that they would see vampires in a different light. But it seems that I am mistaken, the more I would talk to Mr. Newlin, and the more I realized that no matter what any of us vampires did he would never see us as anything but monsters. I will admit that I along with most of my kind are monsters but I believe that there can be equality if only someone would take the first step to get to know the other group. That is one of the reasons I came here.

Once I realized what he planned for me, after all I had been feeling over the last centuries, I figured it was time. Time to get redemption for all the wrong that I have done in the past and all that my kind have done in the past. If there is a god maybe he will see my sacrifice as amends for our past and future and he can help them see what needs to be done.

When I came here, I never really realized how close they were to actually taking one of us. But as I have come to realize by the "cell" that they have placed me in that they had already been planning to take one or more of us. They never let me see much of the church. I met Mr. Newlin in his office. We talked the whole of the night, and by the time that I realized that there would not be enough time for me to safely find a place to rest for the day he informed me that they had a room in the basement that had no windows that I could retire for the day in.

I told him that I would look at this room, which is when I realized that they had other plans for me. After I stepped into the room, silver bars dropped from the ceiling in front of the open door and slammed into the floor. That was my first mistake in a millennium, trusting that these humans really wanted to help change today's society. At first I didn't trust them, and I forced myself to stay awake for the first few days. They provided me with nothing, no sustenance, no spoken words, not even the sight of another person.

Now there is something that you must understand, after so long without sustenance, time is distorted. We lose track of our eternal clock, the days and nights start to run together. I really have no idea how long I have been here, but it could have been the last few hours, days, weeks or even months I began to hear several heart beats coming down the steps into the basement.

I think I can make out a scuffling. When the door into the basement opens the most delicious sent that I have ever smelt in my life and very long un-life floats down the hall into my cell. I can now also hear and smell the scent of Mr. Newlin and his underling Gabe. Gabe, there is something I noticed in his eyes that just doesn't sit right with me. I noticed it the moment that I met him. There is at least two others with them, one scent belongs to the wonderful smell, and another that seems almost familiar to me.

In my weakened state I have to strain my ears to hear what they are saying. "Here Gabe, put them in the supply cage. Once they are locked up nice and tight, go and get some of the Soldiers of the Sun and surround the building incase her vamper comes looking for her." Mr. Newlin said. "It would be my pleasure sir." was his reply. I could hear a gate slam shut and retreating foot steps back up to the main floor. He must have knocked them out or something because it then became quiet for a while.

The first thing that I became aware of was her screams, they have begun to stir my inner beast. Her smell has become that much more tantalizing, making my instincts drive me to hunt. No I cannot get involved it is not my place to help. "Please, oh please lord make them stop, I don't know how much more of this I can take." I become still as I look around just to make sure that they have not slipped someone into my cell when I have been out of it. Seeing nothing, I focus on keeping my beast locked inside his cage.

I do not understand these people, they claim to be of god, but yet there is no questions spoken down the hall just the sounds of torture. What can this women offer them, and why are they torturing her when they know that she is human. I don't understand, they seem to only have a problem with my kind. Was I wrong about them? Thinking back to the last words I heard spoken, I recall Mr. Newlin saying something about the girl's vampire. Could that be why they are torturing her, to make her vampire come for her? Is this another trap that they have planned for one of my kind?

"Bill where are you? Barry, I need to contact Barry he can get a message through." Surely she is not speaking this where her tormentors can hear her plans. "Barry, its Sookie. If you can hear me please go to the hotel and tell Bill Compton that I am in the basement of the fellowship of the sun and the sheriff is here. I am in danger, Barry, this is a life or death situation." What is this women thinking saying her message like that? Does she not realize that if I can hear her, then her captors can also? Is Barry the other person that was brought in with her, if she can't escape how she can think the other person will? And how does she know that I am here also?

So many questions, with so little in answers. The smell of a lot of blood brought me back to the here and now, there is way too much of it. No human can survive that much blood loss. "Eric I am sorry that I failed in finding Godric. I know he is down here somewhere, but by the time anyone gets here it will be too late for me. Please Eric if you do nothing else for me don't leave my body here after I am dead. I want to live, I want to return home. I am so sorry Bill that I didn't listen to you about coming here. Where were you anyway? I love you Bill, always."

She knows my Eric, how can that be that she is here looking for me? Eric is smarter then I give him credit for sometimes. It would be just like him to send humans to look for me since he can't feel me. I hear her heart beat slowing now. This is my fault she is here. My fault she is dying down the hall. My fault that unspeakable things has been done to her. I cannot let this happen! Determined to save this girl, I rush to the bars holding me here. Burning, I can feel my flesh burning as I grab the bars. It is the most that I have felt in a long time. The beast rattles his cage trying to escape. I quickly realize that the only way for me to escape my prison is to release the beast within, I just don't know if in my weakened state if I can return him to his cage.

Releasing the beast I grab the bars once more and pull. With the strength of my beast it is child's play to free myself now. I am a bit slower since it has been so long since I have fed, but I am fast enough to get to her before her attacker knows his trouble. I am a not surprised at all to see that it is Gabe who has violated her. I knew there was something in his eyes that I did not like. Before he can even blink I have torn him off of her and broke his neck. It doesn't even shock me in the slightest that Mr. Newlin has been standing here watching the whole thing. Before he can speak I have knocked him out, although my beast rages at me to do more for him allowing an innocent to be done this way.

The smell of her delectable blood drawls me to her. It is almost something from a long dead memory, the smell of her blood. It is as I suspected, she has lost too much of it to survive this night. If only I hadn't been fighting with myself, and just followed my instincts to come and save her. There is only one way that she can survive this night, but it is no survival that I would wish on anyone. Why did her vampire not come and save here, with her blood running freely I can smell a small trace of his taint. It is not anyone I have smelled before, his smell is a nasty smell that I have come to associate with the worst of our kind that I have met over the years.

How could something as sweet and innocent as this girl involve herself with something as dark and twisted as this vampire? Of all the evil that I have done in my past, how can I condemn this girl to an existence as I have walked. But there is no other option for her, she will have to become one of us. I cannot let her die knowing that I am the only reason that she was here in the first place. She does not want to die, I can tell because no one would fight this hard to stay alive. Even now she is still fighting for it. She will hate me for eternity, or until she no longer needs me to survive so that I can end my existence.

I gently lift her in my arms, I lean in close to whisper in her ear, "I am so sorry little one, but it is the only way." Praying once more that she forgive me, as gently as I can I pierce her neck and begin to drain her of what is left of her blood. As soon as the amount needed has been taken, I bite into my wrist and place it at her mouth as it begins to slide down her throat. I can feel the magic begin. Just as her heartbeat slows to almost nothing, I can see the magic healing her body. I know she will make it through the change this one is strong. I have not seen one as strong since my Eric. I gently brush her hair out of her face while speaking to her in my mind. I know she cannot hear me, but it is something that I feel I must do, apologize for what I have done.

I can feel Eric getting closer, he is just above us, "I am here my child, down here." I whisper to the air. I feel him as he enters the room I am in; he kneels to my back and says "Godric". I have not heard that lovely voice in over two hundred years, if I had a heart that would beat, it would be soaring with joy. I slowly turn and his eyes widen in shock at who is in my arms. He knows immediately what I have done. All he says is "What happened that would cause this?" coming to look down on the girl, he can no longer see the injury's that would have taken her life. I don't have time for a full explanation right now, it will have to wait. I tell him, "She was dying; I had no other choice since she was here because of me. I couldn't just let another innocent die because of me."

He looks up at me and I can see the sadness in his eyes before they go blank. This girl must mean something to him. "Who is Bill my child?" I ask him. I can see the shock cross his face at the question before he recovers. "He is an underling in my area, and this human belongs to him, he has claimed her. Although she says he is her boyfriend, she still belongs to him though she don't see it that way." I can just sense the hurt at those words in his voice. If it had been anyone other than myself he had spoken them to they would not have noticed.

"Find this Bill, escort him to my nest, tell him that the girl is fine and all will be explained just after sunset tomorrow night." I told him. "I should accompany you to guard you while you are vulnerable." He said to me. "No you must see to Bill and make sure he does not come here looking for her. By now he must have felt her die, and his rage will cause him to destroy this church and everything in it. That is something that we do not need. I will take her somewhere no one but myself knows about. Now go, and shed no blood." I told him before he left.

I must go there is much to prepare before my night will be over but before I do, I notice that Isabel's human is on the floor in the corner. I take a moment to wake him, once he opens his eyes I glamour him to find out why he is here. After I have discovered that he is the traitor in my nest, I glamour him into forgetting his part in all of this and to return to his mistress, but he will remember once he is brought before me. I must think on what is to be done with him.

I leave the church unseen with my beautiful angel in my arms. I immediately go to one of my secure homes that only I know about. She will need to be cleaned, and redressed since hers is destroyed. It is a good thing that I keep some of Isabel's clothing here in case she needs them in an emergency, and also good that they are about the same size. Once I have her cleaned and dressed, I leave to take her to my spot where I go to find peace.

It is a good size pond, surrounded by trees; there is not even a road that accesses this any longer. I doubt that there is still any alive that remembers this place. It is peaceful here, and on a clear night like tonight, you can see all the stars like you could when I was still human. It will be the perfect place for her change. With everything she will have to come to terms with tomorrow night, a peaceful place is what she will need. I sit at the edge of the pond, with her in my arms thinking. I look down at her, she is beautiful and I can already see the changes being make to her. She will be more beautiful than before. I just hope she can forgive me for what I have done to her, but I just couldn't let her die after I heard her mind. That is the only explanation I can come up with about hearing her earlier.

That brings up another question, why was I able to hear her mind. Was it because I was so weak from lack of sleep and lack of blood? This is something I will need to ponder. I wonder if we will be able to speak to each other in our minds once she rises. Looking down at her, I find myself attracted to her. I have not been attracted to a female since before I was made vampire. This is not the normal attraction that a maker feels for his child, this is something more.

I think back to the taste of her blood, now that I think about it, it tasted familiar to me. Almost like something I have tasted before, although I cannot place it. And her smell is delicious. With her taste and smell I could almost say that she was part fae. But that cannot be, the fae went extinct ages ago. Being one of the eldest vampires on this continent, I would know if they were still around. Wouldn't I? If she is part fae, I wonder what line she comes from, and if anyone will come looking for her.

Just as the last thought passes my mind I hear a pop. I quickly put myself between this unknown danger and my beautiful little one. As I look up, to say I am stunned speechless is an understatement as I look into the eyes of the prince of the fae. "Vampire what have you done?" he yells at me. Once I find my voice again, I quickly explain all that I know of what happened to her, and that I couldn't let her die on account of me. He just looks at me, as if he can will my head to explode. I get the feeling that if it wasn't for my little one, he would end me where I stand. He moves toward my angel, I cannot help the drive to defend what is mine as I block his path and grown barring my teeth.

Throwing his hands up, "I am only going to check her memories vampire, to see if what you tell me is the truth." Keeping my eyes on him as I move just slightly out of his way, I tell him "If you intend any harm to my child, I will gladly end you fairy!" I can't suppress another growl when he kneels down and touches her on her forehead with this palm. He just looks at me then closes his eyes. His hand starts to turn blue and I can feel the magic pick up in the air. He stays that way for long moments before he removes his hand and stands back up before me.

"You are lucky that her memories remain of what happened to her before you changed her. Who was the man that did this to her, and who was the other that stood and watched it done to her?" he asked me. "The one that beat her is dead, I killed him for what he did. The one that watched is Mr. Newlin, the preacher of the Fellowship of the Sun church here in Dallas. I knocked him out and left him in the basement of his church." I told him calmly.

He stared at me for a long time, I can only imagine that he was judging me. He finally came to a decision, and stated, "Since you have changed her you have the right to know that she is my great granddaughter. She does not know this, but now you will know how important it is to not let anything happen to her if you do not wish to start a war. I will not punish you at this time for changing her since she would not have survived her wounds. But I will punish you if any harm at all comes to her in the future."

I couldn't believe that I have just changed the prince's great granddaughter and he is going to let me live. I guess the only reason that I still live is that she will need me when she rises. She is of royal blood, I had come to suspect as much, but never dreamed she would be of the royal line. I wonder who all knows of her family connections. He must have known what I was thinking because he told me that no one knew of her, that he had kept it that way for her safety. He also let me know of her telepathy. That is why I was able to hear her.

I begin to wonder what other powers she has, when he let me know that her other powers had not developed yet, but with this change there is a good chance that they will immerge. All I can do is look down at my beautiful child in wonder. He reminds me of what he requires of me for her protection before I hear another pop. I look up and find that we are once again alone. I am still stunned that I have a fae princess in my arms that will soon be my child. I wonder if Eric has ever tasted her blood, if he had he would have made the connection like I did.

I have spent most of the night lost in my own thoughts, when I realize that it is time. I gently lay her down in the soft grass before I dig our resting place for the day. Once it is dug, I gently pick her up and place her inside. Before I join her, I ask once more to be forgiven of what I have done to her. Just before the sun arose I have covered us in our grave. I find myself praying once more that she will forgive me when we wake just as the sun pulls me down into my death sleep.

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