[arriving at Fangtasia] You said you wanted to go out tonight.
SookieI did not mean Fangtasia! I mean really, all those pathetic people who come here looking for sex with vampires.
Sookie
You know what I mean. So what? Five, ten minutes?
As long as Eric requires us.
Sookie
You mean as long as Eric requires me! Didn't even have the decency to ask me himself.
You are mine. He didn't need to ask your permission.
Sookie
He cannot check me out like a library book!
Unfortunately Sookie, he can. Eric is sheriff of Area 5.
Sookie
Sheriff?
It's a position of great power among our kind. We do not want to anger him. As long as the requests are reasonable, we should accede to his wishes.
[handing Sookie a leather outfit] Put these on.
Sookie
Oh, thank you. But I'm fine really. I'm just gonna dry out my hair and be on my way.
You're not going anywhere. Eric and your boyfriend aren't nearly done talking just yet.
Sookie
Is... Bill is some kind of trouble?
That's for the boys to figure out. Right now what you need to do is change out of your clothes... there's vampire in your cleavage.
Sookie
[looks down and gasps] Okay. Eeww!
Allow me. [takes the bloody piece out]
Sookie
Thank you.
I'm beginin' to understand the fuss everyone's makin' over you.
[in bed with Sookie after finding the cat dead] Aren't you tired?
Sookie
Every time I close my eyes, I see her face.
Sookie
Gran. But now that you mention it, Tina's in there too.
You do know I'm not going to let anything happen to you. That I am here for you, to protect you.
Sookie
What if I don't need to be protected? What if wanting to be protected makes me feel like the helpless little girl I used to be all over again?
Sookie... all of the things that you need to be protected from, all of the trouble you're in, you are in because of me. So you needing to be protected has nothing to do with you or who you are. All of it is my fault... So why don't you go to sleep and let me be the one to worry about it.
Sookie
Bill, all the trouble I'm in, it's mine. I chose it. I chose it when I chose you.
Sookie
Don't you think I wanna blame somebody else? But what happen to my gran and poor Tina is my fault and it's sweet of you to try to take it all from me. But if I let you, I'd be so mad at you, I would never be able to look at you again. And right now your face is the only thing getting me by. So why don't we just leave it on me, okay?
[pause, accepting] Very well.
Sookie
Night Bill.
Hey you. Listen, are you alright?
Sookie
Sometimes I wish I smoked, so you could sneak outside without anybody knowing something's wrong with you.
Okay. I'm really sorry about your cat.
Sookie
Maybe I shouldn't have come in today.
Yeah, I was gonna say why did you?
Sookie
I don't know. Maybe cause lately it seems like if I called in sick every time someone I love got murdered, I'd never make it in for a single day of work.
Don't you think Sam would understand?
Sookie
I guess. But if I went home, what would you do?
Me? What's it got to do with me?
Sookie
Arlene doing nothin' but showin' off her ring to anybody who will look at it, you be the only one waiting tables.
Yeah, she's gonna be a handful, that one.
Sookie
Don't you imagine what she was like the first time she got married?... What about you? You ever been married?
Is this the part where the sister asks what the girls intentions are with her brother?
Sookie
Hm-mm. Cause right now I am all about protecting Jason.
He misses you, Sookie. He does. Between your grandma passing and what happened afterwords with you.
Sookie
He told you about that?
He couldn't not. He's a mess about it.
Sookie
Well you wouldn't know it.
Look, I know what you must think of him and I get why you're mad at him. I do and he loves you. You got people around who love you and all I can hope is that maybe one day I can be counted in among those people.
Sookie
You are way too good for him. You know that, right?
Of course, I know that. I'm not stupid.
Sookie
[wakes up, medicated] Tara. You look so pretty. Like someone turned on a light under your skin.
[smiling] Hospital gave her pain meds. She's... she's a little loopy.
[in tears] Didn't you listen when I said I'd lose my shit if anything ever happened to you?
Sookie
Don't lose your shit. I'm fine. Did Sam tell you he saved my life? He turned into a dog and bit Rene.
[laughs] Well, shit. I'm gonna need some of them drugs they gave you.
Okay, you guys. We should let her rest.
Sookie
Sam, you should let people see the real you. Cause you're kind, brave. There's nothin there not to love.
[smiles and winks] Right back at you.
Oh sweet Jesus! Please forgive me. I had no idea, Sookie. I swear!
Sookie
Of course you didn't.
I brought him around my kids. I slept in the bed every night with him and all that time, it was nothing but lies. I mean his name, his accent. God! You think you know someone. How could I not know?
Sookie
None of us did. Don't blame yourself, honey.
Can't help it. I told you to stay out of my thoughts. Isn't that why you didn't listen in on Rene?
Sookie
It was like he kept that part of himself locked away in some dark corner of his mind.
Sookie, I am so sorry. I want you to promise me smoethin', okay?
Sookie
Okay.
Someday, if I ever find another man, I want you to look inside his head and tell me everything that's in there.
Sookie
Uh... Arlene, it doesn't really work that way.
Promise me, okay? Cause I have the worst taste in men... Is, is Bill goin' to be okay?
Sookie
I don't think so... no.
Oh, honey. Oh, sweet baby.
Sookie
[opening the door and seeing Bill, all better] You're alive?
Well, technically no. But I am healed. I've fed.
Sookie
Would you like to come in?
Yes. [enters as she closes the door behind him. Seeing her bruised face, he tries to bite his wrist]
Sookie
No.
Without my blood, it will take weeks for you to heal.
Sookie
I don't care. After everything I just need to feel human right now.
Sookie
[smiling] You were willing to sacrifice yourself to save me.
Sookie
My life is too short for all that. [they kiss passionately]
I don't know about you, but I think I've seen enough dead bodies to last me a life time.
Sookie
Except this one, I just don't get. With everyone Rene killed, you could see his rage. But this?...Cuttin' out that poor woman's heart? Someone just wanted to see her suffer! Every time I think I know what's what, it turns out...I don't know anything.
Sookie
Did you have anything to do with Uncle Bartlett's death?
[hesitantly] He hurt you.
Sookie
Oh my God. Is it that easy for you to kill? Does human life mean so little, you can just kill on command? Toss someone in the water? I can't have people dyin' every time I confide in you. I never felt more inhuman than when I had to kill Rene. It still haunts me and now you've made me feel like I killed another person. I feel sick... I always thought as different as we are, somehow we can still be together. And now I don't know. I don't know anything... (whispering as she cries) Please say something, Bill. [silently walks to the door]
[appearing at the door to stop her] Sookie... I cannot and I will not lose you. For all the ways I have dismayed, aggrieved or failed you, I swear I will atone. But I am not sorry. I refuse to apologize for what you have awakened in me. You, you are my miracle, Sookie. For the first time in a hundred and forty years, I felt something I thought had been lost to me forever... I love you. And for that I will never feel sorry.
Sookie
[crying] God damn you, Bill Compton. I love you.
Sookie
We've never had 'make up' sex before.
How does it compare to 'you thought I was dead' sex?
Sookie
That was pretty great too, but I wouldn't want to go through that again. I hated feeling like I'd lost you.
Yet, you like fightin' me.
Sookie
I don't like to. I just...
Let's not get too used to it then. We don't want to be one of 'those' couples.
Sookie
You're right.
[to Sookie] Are you still angry about our fight? Sookie, none of that matters anymore.
Sookie
You're right. I'm alive and in one piece. Unlike my friend Lafayette who Eric chained up like an animal and left to bleed to death.
Sookie
You better not have known anything about this, Bill Compton. Because if you did, I don't think I could ever forgive you!
I have no idea what you're talking about.
[behind them] I imagine she's referring to the human in my basement... The human who traded sexual services with a vampire in order to sell his blood - which as you know is a grave offense.
Sookie
[to Eric] His name is Lafayette and you ought to be ashamed of yourself for what you've done to him. [slaps him]
I'm glad you're feeling better and may I add that color suits you very well. [referring to her red shirt]
Sookie
Go to hell!
[holding her back] Sookie! Enough!
Sookie
Oh it's not nearly enough. They've tortured him and bitten him and shot him and kept him down there in his own filth for weeks.
There are others who would have done far worse and you know it.
Sookie
You're gonna let him go right now or I swear, I'm going to the police.
[angry, draws his fangs] I do not respond well to threats!... But perhaps we could come to some sort of arrangement.
[to Sookie, about Jessica] You undermined my authority as her maker! You risked those people's safety and your own! If I had not glamoured them with in an inch if their sanity, both our lives would have shattered!
Sookie
I know. I'm sorry!
You keep sayin' that and I am expected to what? Forget this ever happened?
Sookie
What else do you want me to say? I know when she asked me to take her, I should say no. But all I could think about was Gran and what I would give to see her again.
That does not give you license to behave like an irresponsible child! She is a loaded gun, Sookie. Not a doll for you to dress up and play with!
[upset, Sookie gets out of the car, slamming the door as she moves away]
Sookie
Walking!
Don't be ridiculous. Bon Temps is nearly 20 miles away!
Sookie
[walking away] I'd rather walk all night then spend another second in that car with you!
[to Bill, after he gets back in the car] She wants you to go after her. She wants you to go after her and kiss her and tell her that you love her.
She will come back, when she calms down... she will come back.
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