Chapter 1

Hello, people of Earth! I've written this fanfic of the top of my head, but don't worry I have a very good imagination and I can tell where I'm gonna take a story from the first chapter. It will hopefully be interesting to you. R&R and let me know. xx

Disclaimer: I do NOT own True Blood or any of the characters that appear in it. But I do own my OC's I don't know how many I plan to put in.. Enjoy!

I walked along the road. The rain was terrential. It was a normal night, but I could feel there was something in the air. A kind of forboding hanging over everthing. Quickening my pace, I walked down the lonely streets. There was not a soul to be seen. It was quiet - too quiet. Particularly for seven o'clock at night, in a usually thriving town. It was the end of autumn, however the humidity of summer remained. It would feel like it too if the icy sheets of rain were not falling on me. I, being me, had to forget an umbrella.

I walked along the street and suddenly realised that in order to get home and out of this rain quickly, I would have to pass through an alley at the back of one of the appartment blocks. The dark was so imposing, the rain was so cold on my neck. These combined made me go against logic, which would have normally prevailed, and I turned into the alley.

As soon as I entered I realised it was a bad idea, but I was not turning back now. When I set my mind to doing something, I have to complete it because if I don't the feeling afterwards, is much worse than how I would have felt at the time. Well, that is the case most of the time. However, this would not be one of those times.

"Hello, there..." I heard from behind me. The voice was cold, condesending, and arrogant. I froze at it. Not from fear, but from the annoyance of being be-littled. That does not fit well with Alice Boden!

I turned ready to face the person that had confronted me, and ended up looking at a very muscular chest. It was under a very tight shirt but it was still obviously well toned. I looked up and was met with with a very handsome, very tall blonde man. Like, seriously, he was well over six foot!

"And what would a pretty, young thing like you be doing in a dark alley at night? Don't you know that there are monsters that come out after dark?" He asked, as though I was stupid. I realised that he was a vampire as soon as I saw him, but that wasn't about to stop me from retorting.

"Actually, I did realise that. That is why I was going home." He smiled at me as though I was a piece of meat. Which I suppose to these kind of people, I was. I turned to walk away, inorder to stop myself from hitting him in the face. Before I had taken two steps, he was infront of me. I probably didn't look as scared by his trick as much as he had been expecting, to which he frowned. Now I smiled and raised and eyebrow. "Excuse me?!" I probably said it with more attitude than completely necissary, however I think that is not out of place for being jumped by a vamp in an alley. His frown deepened and now he was begining to look really pissed off.

"What is your name?" He asked.

"Sorry I don't give my information out to strangers in dark alleys." Before I knew what was happening he grabbed me. And as soon as he grabbed me, he put me back down and now I realised we were the other side of the street, and out of the alley. My head was spinning from the speed we had just moved at.

"Ok we're out side of the alley so tell me." He demanded.

I glared at him. "You're still a stranger." I said.

He laughed. For a creature of the Night, a killer, his laugh sounded like music of the angels. "I am Eric Northman. And you intrigue me. Now, tell me your name." He said looking at me. I realised he was trying to glamour me, and I laughed this time.

"That doesn't work on me. Never has and never will." Again his smile fell, but mine remained.

"Well, you are quite facinating. And English too. My, my, my..." He said now looking at my neck, which I knew my hair was skicking too thanks to this stupid rain which seemed to refuse to lighten.

"Congratulations on guessing where I'm from. Now let me think... Danish? No. No. Swedish." I saw his face change and I realised I had got it right. After having spent three months travelling around Scandinavia with my aunt I realised he was most likely from there. His build said this also.

"Wow. Miss..?"

"..Boden..." I gave him it because of how hard he was trying. But I didn't plan on giving him my first name. He is probably going kill me anyway. Why wasn't I scared, I hear you ask? Because if he came at me I would... well let's just say I have a few tricks up my sleeve.

"Boden.." He seemed to test how the name sounded. Or perhaps he was trying to remember any other people he had heard go by that name. But judging by his face, he obviously drew up blank. "Well, Miss Boden, we are a long way from home, aren't we?"

"No. It's only around the corner." I said and then realised he meant England. "Oh, well aren't you too?" I said.

"I suppose. So why are you here in Shreveport?"

"Why are you here in Shreveport?" Again he laughed.

"Touché. This is my area." He said with a smile, thinking that I wouldn't know what that would mean.

"Area...5? Right?" I said. I saw the danger before I came. His eyes flashed with rage, and before I fully realised what was happening, he had slammed me into a bin and was holding me up against it.

"How do you know about the area's?" He said baring his newly extended fangs at me. He leaned into my face to give himself more menace.

"Secerets." That was all I said, and laughed as he became even angrier. Don't go getting the wrong idea. I don't go around intentionally agrivating vampires. But this one really got under my skin and once I start, I find it very hard to stop. Got me in trouble with a lot of schools. But luckily I moved around a lot so it wasn't too much of an issue.

Eric was getting really angry now and he began leaning in closer and closer. When I realised he was planning on biting me my heart rate rose and he noticed.

"Scared?" He asked in the same condecending way as the convosation started. I just glared at him, refusing to admit it, but not denying it at the same time, because I was. "Well, well, well... Miss Boden. You are one of the most interesting people I've ever met..."

"One of?" I raised an eyebrow, but he carried on speaking, as if not hearing me.

"...But you are deffinately the most mysterious." Not surprising. I like keeping my life as private as possible.

After a noteable silence, I realised the compromising position I was in with this vampire I had only just met. I blushed. Again he noticed. Even in complete darkness he would have seen the redness in my cheeks. "And innocent. Well, that is a rarity. Especially with someone that has a mouth that should be illegal." I looked up at him my face set. I wanted to be free from him.

"Please get off me...now." I said. I thought I was going to have to make him, but surprisingly he moved back without argument. But he was still staring at me like dinner. After being in that position with him, I had lost some of my confidance.

This time when I tried to walk past him, he didn't try to stop me. Head up shoulders set, I walked away. But before I reached the corner, he called back to me.

"I will see you again. And your shirt is see-through." I looked down, and blushed even more than before. The white shirt that I decided to wear with my jeans, was completely see through because of the stupid rain. ERG! FUCKING HELL!

I didn't have a bad body. Actually, it was pretty nice. Of course like any other girl, I would love to lose a couple of pounds. My curves suited my 5"4 frame. Unfortuneately, my usually blonde curly hair looked brown, matted and horrible thanks to the rain.

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I walked into the house. "I'm home!" I shouted.

"Oh, thank goodness!" My cousin, Arabella, said as she came from the kitchen. She was thirty five and my guardian. As I was seventeen, I was still a child in the eyes of the law, but I have had more experience in life than most people twice my age. "Where were you? We've been worried sick."

"I finished work late because Suzie came in late, and then I got caught up in the rain. Sorry, Ari." I said to her and placed my soaking wet jacket, that did nothing to keep the rain off me, onto the hook.

"You're soaking! Go have a shower and then dinner should be ready. We're having chilli. Is that ok?" She asked. She knew it would be as that is my favorite meal cooked by her.

"Yeah, that's great." I said plodding up the stairs.

"Oh, yeah and Alice? Chris called for you. I told him that your phone broke and that you'd ring him back." I smiled. Chris was my brother. He always called. Every night. He was a vampire, as of two years ago, but unlike most he was still a familly man. He still lived with his wife and son in England. I lived with him for a while but then... well then -let's just say - something happend. So I thought it would be best for me to move out here. I had offers to stay with several other relatives, dotted all over the world, but I decided on Ari and her family, because I had never been to the south of the USA, and Louisiana sounded...fun.

The hot water of the shower was such a shock after the coldness of the rain. I stayed in there for twenty minutes. In that time I washed my hair and body, and simply stood there asorbing the heat from the water pelting down on me.

I got out feeling absolutely contented. I dried off and dressed into some dry jeans and a black t-shirt. I walked down the stairs with a towel wrapped around my head, because my hair is a total frizz ball if i try to blow dry it, and I didn't fancy having dinner with wet hair on my neck. I already reckoned I was going to have a cold from being out in the rain.

As soon as I had bounced down the stairs I was jumped on by my five year-old little cousin - Oliver. He thought of me as his sister (when he was younger he even used to call me 'sissy') and I feel the same way about him. "Hey, little man!" I picked him up and spun around. He laughed so hard.

"Hey, Ally! We've got Chilli! Your favorite!" He said in his cute southern twang.

"Yay! What did you do today then?" I asked putting him down. He grabbed my hand and pulled me towards his play room.

"Look. I orga-organised my cars." He stumbled in his excitement, over both the words and his own feet. He was so much like me in his clumsiness.

"Wow!" I said, enthusiastically.

"Oli. Alice. Dinner." Ari called from the kitchen.

I walked in and saw Kevin sitting at the table. He picked up Oli and placed him on his lap.

"Hey, big guy!" He kissed him on the cheek and placed him in the seat next to him. "Alice, why were you so late?" He asked. Not forcing the answer out of me, just curious.

"Suzie was late and I got caught in the rain. I got told my car won't be ready until friday. Oh well. This rain won't last forever, so I don't mind walking to work for a couple of days." I said and sat down. I was still slightly annoyed at the fact that my car wouldnt be ready for another three days. It only had a flat tyre!

"Ok. I take it, by the fact that you're still here, you didn't get jumped by any vampires then?" He laughed, and then I remembered that I had been. I had to force a laugh, because otherwise I'd have to answer questions that I wasn't comfortable with answering. Ari set the plates down and sat down at the other end of the table. "We've found another school." I froze my fork half way to my mouth. Kevin was looking at his dinner as he said this, so he didn't notice. I had been kicked out of my old school two weeks ago, and I thought they weren't going to make me go back, because I didn't have to go - as technically I was an English citizen, and there you can legally leave school at sixteen.

"Where?" I asked. I knew they were trying to do this for my best interest, so I couldn't resent them for that. I might as well take it on the chin.

"It's not far. It's in a little town called Bon Temps." He said. I'd heard of that town. Richelle went to a bar there and got kicked out. Well, I suppose it may have been because she was already drunk and she's only twenty. Older than me, but unlike me, she can't hold her liquor.

"Ok. When do I start?" I asked, taking another bite of chilly.

"Monday." Brilliant(!)

Randomly came up with this idea. I have been dying to write a True Blood Fanfic, so I made a new fanfic account deicated to True Blood.

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