True Blood

Dead Meat

"I'm coming back, so you need to go to the gravestone and put your hands up like you did before." I say as I watch as Warlow appears "How you holding up?" I ask and he sighs

"I'm hungry." he whispers and I hold up my hand so he can take a bite 

"So, I was around at my friend's house-- Arlene, the one who just lost her husband-- and I got, um... I got a daytime visit from Bill while I was there." I say and he sighs 

"He drank my blood." Warlow whispers and I kneel down 

"Now, I have to ask you a favor. It's kind of a biggie. How would you feel about doing something for Bill?" I ask and Warlow laughs 

"Why would I do anything for Bill? Do you still have feelings for him?" he asks angrily 

"Hell, no. The thing is, it's not really him that I'm asking for, it's for me, for my friends. They're all gonna die." I whisper and he sighs 

"You realize Bill wants to kill me." Warlow states and I shake my head 

"He won't. I'll make it a condition of our deal." I say 

"That's funny, I seem to recall you telling me how he lied to you and betrayed you, and now I'm suddenly just supposed to take him at his word?" he asks 

"I'm not asking you to trust him, Warlow. I'm asking you to trust me.
If I don't believe him, the deal's off. I won't let anything happen to you, I promise." I whisper but then he looks at me curiously 

"If I do this... I want you to be mine forever. Will you be?" he asks and I move back confused 

"Is this an ultimatum?" I ask  

"That's not how I see it." Warlow says and I shake my head 

"How do you see it, then?" I cry 

"It's a proposal. I love you, Meghan Stackhouse. I've loved you for nearly 6,000 years. And now that I've been with you, now that I'm so close, it's unbearable. I don't want to wait to start my eternity with you." he says and I sigh stumbling up 

"I can't. I'm gonna need some time to think about this." i cry before I slip back into the human world "Fucking eternity?" I cry kicking stones before I storm off back to my house. The next day I walk up to Bills house knocking on the door and he opens 

"I take it you spoke to Warlow." Bill states 

"I did." I whisper 

"The two of you come to some kind of decision?" he asks walking outside to take a seat in the sun and I sigh 

"That's kind of a longer conversation. Before I tell you what we talked about, I need to know how this would work." I state 

"Warlow would accompany me to Governor Burrell's research facility, whereupon he would feed all the vampires in that white room some of his blood. That way, when the ceiling opens, they'd all be impervious to the sun, as I already am." Bill says and I step closer a little 

"And after that?" I whisper 

"You're asking if I'm gonna kill him?" he asks and I nod 

"Dr. Takahashi has yet to synthesize Warlow's blood, so you have my word that no harm will come to him because I need him alive." he says looking a bit annoyed and i finally snap 

"So sorry, but this is kind of a big decision I have to make." I cry 

"Really? 'Cause it seems pretty simple to me. You either wanna save your friends or you don't." he says smirking and I throw my hands up in the air feeling tears run down my cheeks 

"Warlow wants to turn me, Bill. Says he's been waiting on me going on 6,000 years. So, now, guess what. His patience is starting to wear pretty thin, too, and he's given me an ultimatum. The only way he'll agree to help you is if I agree to become his faerie vampire bride. So, there. Doesn't that sound like a conversation deserving of, oh, I don't know, five minutes of your precious fucking time?" i cry and he shakes his head 

"We need to make a time for me to come and pick you up." Bill states and I growl 

"How about I'll let you know if I decide to do this? How about that, you motherfucking monster?" I scream as I walk away. I'll never understand how the old me fell in love with him. When I storm to the car I head the the cemetery kneeling next to my parents and grandmothers grave 

"Well, this is rich I used to come to this place for solace. I used to come here looking for, I don't know... love. My memories of you were kissing me good night and baking cakes and lullabies. There was some bad stuff, too, but it was mostly good. And now those memories are gone. They've been replaced with pain and murder... and fucking darkness. So, here we're all gonna lie, all of us Stackhouses. Dead but not gone... 'cause death ain't the end anymore.  We all know that now. Death is just a fucking pit stop... on a road that keeps on going... with no end in sight. So, fuck you, Mom and Dad. Screw your kisses and your hugs and your attagirls. I'm gonna become the very thing that you hated so much... you were willing to kill me over it. 'Cause I'll be damned if I'm gonna spend eternity lying by your fucking sides. I'd rather walk the earth as a corpse... than spend another minute thinking about you." I cry before dropping down to my knees and sobbing and that's how I end up standing before Bill 

"What made you change your mind?" he whispers and I shake my head 

"I don't know, I just-- destiny's too much of a bitch to keep fighting." I say and he gives me a soft smile before we disappear into the other world but when I turn to look at Warlow his throats been slashed open 

"Oh, my God. Shit. Who did this to you?" I cry as I look at his lifeless body and I turn to see the look on Bills face 

"Eric." he hisses