Love Bites

I sat in a corner table in the packed resturant. Tara, the girl who worked behind the bar was watching me closely while she talked to Sam. Jessica said that she was going to get Sam to come over and talk to me. Infront of me sat my first Trueblood. I wasn't sure what it was going to taste like but it smelt good. Everyone around me wasn't paying attentoin to me but I watched everyone closely. I started to take small sips of my drink and waited for Sam.
"Nikki, well I sure haven't seen you in a long time! How are you?" Sookie walked over to me carrying her tray in her hand and smiled down at me. I couldn't help but smile back up at her and look her over.
"Well some stuff happened and -"
"Oh good lord Eric turned you didn't he?! I told him not to! I told him that you weren't going to be happy with that life style!" Sookie cut me off and placed her hand on her hip. I was caught by what she said and looked up at her with an even more confused look.
"What do you mean you told him not to?"
"Well a couple weeks ago he mentioned it. He said when you were in with the Queen that he wanted to turn you so that you guys could be together," I bit my lip hard trying not to get mad at Sookie.
"Oh... Well then, I guess he was happy that the Queen tried to kill me last night," Sookie now was the one with the questioning look. I pushed out the chair that was next to me and let her sit down. She looked over at Sam and nodded her head. She put the tray on the table and sat down.
For the next 20 minutes I told Sookie everything that had happened in the last couple of days. She sat there listening to every word I said in complete silence. The looks would change on her face everytime I would say somthing different that she wouldn't agree with or did, but she said nothinmg until I was finished.
"I'm calling Bill. He is going to go talk some sence in to Eric! He can't do this to you!" Sookie stood up without saying anything else and walked away. I got up to say soemthing but Sam came over just when I was about to get up.
"Uh, hey there Nikki," I could sence the feelings that were running threw him. There was a mix of fear, cautiousness and curiousity. When I saw him sit at the table now with me, with a new warm Trueblood in his hand, I couldn't help but smile.
"Hi Sam, I haven't seen you in so long," I tried to make myself seem as normal as I could, except for the Trueblood infront of me. It felt weird not breathing with an actually purpse so I breathed in threw my nose as if I needed it. I stopped half way threw the breath when I smelt something very strong. It wasn't nice and Sam watched my closesly as my face turned and twisted with the smell.
"Oh god whats that smell?" I pressed my hand over my nose to see if it would help, but it didn't. Sam's smile turned into a frown and he stood up slowly.
"Nikki, wanna come to my office with me for a second?" Sams voice was serious and I quickly got up and followed him back to his office. Once we were inside and he had shut the door, I could still smell that horrible stench that was out there. "It's me, by the way," I looked up when Sam started to talk.
"What do you mean it's you?" I watched as Sam turend around in his office and sat in his chair,offering the other one for me.
"You're smelling something, something really bad right?"
"Yah," I was skeptical to answer, not exactly sure where he was going with this.
"Its from me. I'm a shifter, I have a different smell then humans, or vamps or were's," what Sam said caught me off guard and I stood there looking down at my former boss, sitting at his desk.
"Wh-what? What are weres?" My eye brows raised in a confused arch as Sam started to give me back the same look.
"Do you not know anything that i've talking about?" Sam's voice was bewildered and I sat down, opposite from him in the other chair that he keeps in his office. I shook my head slowly, scared of what I might hear in return.
"Christ, didn't Eric teach you anything?" Sam rubbed his and across his face and groaned.
"Sam. I haven't even been a vampire for 24 hours yet. I have no idea what is going on," I could feel tears starting to form at the corners of my eyes as I thought of my life being gone so quickly.
"Oh, Nikki... I'm sorry. I just thought this happened a while ago, I mean I haven't seen you in so long. I...well shit... sorry," Sam ran his hand threw his hair nervously not knowing what to say and avoiding my eyes. I watched him carefully, as if in a new light. I could see every single fine reddish hair that was coming out of his head.
"Well, I guess I'm a shifter. I'm someone who can shift back and forth between being human and an animal. I can look at any animal and change the way I look but I have an animal I tend to go to when I need a quick shift. Remember that collie that's been around here sometimes? thats me," Sam smiled at the end and looked back up at me.
"Then well there are weres, which are were-wolves and prety much any other animal out there,"
"Are you serious?" I could barely believe what was being told to me. Like I knew there is some messed up stuff other there, but Eric had really left me in the dark about everything...
I put my head in my hands as I thought of what I was going to do. Eric had left me completely abandoned and I knew nothing of what was going to be next. We sat in silence for a few minutes together. It wasn't exactly silence for me, cause I could still hear every foot step and everything movement from the resturant. Quietly I heard the cook swearing about hicks, I heard another one of the waitresses stressing about an order and I could hear someone peeing in the bathroom.
There was a light tap on the door and Sam and I both quickly looked up. I let my feelings extened out and I could feel the presence of another vampire, other then Jessica. I was starting to get excited, thinking that maybe Eric just got mad and was on his way back to get me now. But when The door opened I looked up and saw someone I wasn't expecting. Bill, with Sookie behind him.