[awakes to find Bill licking at her open head wound] Do I taste different from other people?
BillYes. What are you?
Well, apparently I'm not dead. What I am is telepathic. I can hear people's thoughts.
Bill
Even mine?
No. That's why I like you so much. I can't hear you at all. You have no idea how peaceful that is after a lifetime of blah, blah, blah.
Bill
May I ask you a personal question?
Bill, you were just licking blood out of my head. I don't think it gets much more personal than that.
Bill
There must be some people who know about your talent.
The people closest to me. But - we never talk about it. And I do my best to stay out of their heads. Over the years, I've learned how. I figure it's kind of unethical to listen in to my family, my friends, my boss. But, they know. Other people suspect or they they think I'm psychic. Most people just think I'm crazy.
Bill
What does it sound like?
It's sort of like a stream of consciousness. Gets weirder when people are mad or upset. Sometimes... sometimes it's just images. I should be gettin' home. [moves to sit up, looks surprised] Wow, I feel completely healed.
Bill
You are.
Do doctors know that V juice can do this?
Bill
No, and we wanna keep it that way. I should show you to your car.
How old are you? Am I allowed to ask that?
Bill
I was made vampire in 1865, when I was thirty human years old.
Wow, you look older than that.
Bill
Life was harder then.
Were you in the Civil War?
Bill
I was.
Would you be willing to come and talk to my grandmother's club? It's mostly a bunch of old people who had family in the war. They call themselves Descendants of the Glorious Dead.
Bill
[incensed] The glorious dead? There is nothing glorious about dying in a war. A bunch of starving, freezing boys killing each other so the rich people can stay rich? Madness.
[pause] I'm sure it was awful.
Bill
Would it make you happy if I did this?
Oh, it would make my grandmother ecstatic.
Bill
Would it make you happy?
Bill
I'll do it then. I look forward to meeting your grandmother. When may I call on you?
Bill
Just after dark then.
[standing outside her house] Well, since you're here...
[opens her door, but Bill hesitates]
Bill
You have to invite me in. Otherwise, it's physically impossible for me to enter a mortal's home.
Seriously? Well come on, try.
Bill
I-I can't. I can't even try.
That is so weird! [playfully] Oh Bill, won't you please come in?
Bill
Thank you.
[blocks his path] So, if I were to withdraw my invitation, would you have to leave?
[Bill nods, embarrassed]
I'll have to remember that.
You said you could glamour somebody into letting you bite them? What is that? Hypnosis?
Bill
Kinda. It's similar. All humans are susceptible to it.
Bill
No, and I never will.
Bill
No. I don't feel comfortable with that.
Bill
[stops walking and stares intensely into her eyes, whispers] Sookie?
Bill
Can you feel my influence?
[laughs] No! Not a bit! Sorry.
Bill
[confused] Sookie, this is very strange.
You don't like not being able to control people, do you? That's not a very attractive trait, Bill.
Bill
Human are usually more squeamish about vampires than you are.
Who am I to be squeamish about something out of the ordinary?
Bill
[after Malcolm and his gang have left] I'm sorry you had to witness that. Your visit was unexpected.
Bill
Hepatitis D is the only blood born pathogen to which we are susceptible. Malcolm must be furious.
Bill
A mutation. Relatively harmless to humans, oddly enough.
I've never even heard of it.
Bill
That's because we've kept it out of the media.
And it makes you sick for a year?
Bill
No. It just makes us weak for about a month or so. The biggest danger to us from Hep-D is being captured and staked during that time.
Yeah. You don't want your weaknesses to be public knowledge.
Bill
Precisely.
And what the hell did you mean, "Sookie is mine"?
Bill
I was communicating to the others that you are my human and therefore I was the only one who can feed on you.
You most certainly cannot feed on me!
Bill
Well of course I can't, Sookie. But had they known that, they'd've considered you fair game and I wouldn't have been able to stop them from attacking you. It would be three against one, and Malcolm is much older than I am and quite strong.
And... you and Diane dated?
Bill
We had sex once, just after she was made vampire back in the late 1930's.
What? Gross. Bill, she's so... they-they're all so mean, so ...
Bill
Evil. Yes, they are. They share a nest and when vampires live in nests, they become more cruel, more ... vicious. They become laws unto themselves. Whereas vampires such as I, who live alone, are much more likely to hang on to some semblance of our former humanity.
[just getting home and seeing him suddenly] God damn it Bill! How many times do I have to tell you, do not do that!
Bill
I'm sorry. It wasn't intentional. I just got here. I wanted to make sure that you were safe.
Why can't I hear your thoughts? Do you even have any thoughts?
Bill
Oh, I have thoughts... many life times of thoughts.
So why can't I hear them?
Bill
I don't know. Perhaps it's 'cause I don't have brain waves.
Bill
Because I'm dead.
No, you're not! You're standing here, talking to me.
I think we need to stop seeing each other.
Bill
Why?!
Because you don't breathe. You don't have any electrical whatever it is. Your friends would like nothing more than to rip my throat out and because vampires killed that preacher from the fellowship of the sun church and his wife and baby! You look me in the eye and tell me they didn't do it?
Bill
Human have killed millions upon millions in senseless wars. I do not hold you responsible for that.
Bill, night before last I had to bury my bloody clothes because I didn't want my grandmother to find out I was almost killed, and tonight I was almost killed again! Why on earth would I continue seeing you?
Bill
Because you will never find a human man you can be yourself with.
Bill
[in her dream] Sookie, don't ever sneak up on a vampire. What are you doing here?
All right, here's the deal... and this is a little embarrassing. I've never been with a man intimately, for all the reasons I told you about. But... I feel things when I'm with you that make me think and... I know this could be a huge mistake, one I will regret forever, but it feels like you're the one that I'm supposed to, you know... do it with. And... I'm really nervous about that... and frankly I'm scared to death of you. So can we just get it out of the way already so I can relax and get a good night's sleep?
[Bill draws close to kiss her]
Just... just don't bite me, okay?
MMalcolm
[letting Bill in] Well look. It's everyone's favorite buzz kill.
LLiam
[offers him blood] Yo mister mainstream. Thirsty?
Bill
No.
DDiane
Hungry for something else? I remember you having a very sizable... appetite.
Bill
The three of you will stay away from me and Sookie from now on.
MMalcolm
I'm your elder. You have no authority here.
Bill
There are higher authorities.
MMalcolm
I'm not afraid of Eric.
Bill
Higher'n him.
MMalcolm
Well then she can speak to me.
DDiane
She can suck on sunlight for all I care.
Bill
You know, you are doing nothing to help our cause.
DDiane
Not everyone wants to dress up and play human, Bill.
LLiam
Yeah. Not everyone wants to live off that Japanese shit they call blood, either. As if we could.
Bill
We have to moderate our behavior now that we are out in the open.
MMalcolm
Not everybody thinks it was such a great idea, and not everybody intends to toe the party line. [leans forward] Honey, if we can't kill people, what's the point of being a vampire?
[while driving to Fangtasia] Penny for your thoughts?
Bill
I thought you liked not knowing what I'm thinking.
Bill
You won't care for it.
That doesn't mean I don't wanna know.
Bill
[looking at her clothes then back to the road] You look like vampire bait.
[laughing] What's that supposed to mean?
Bill
I promised your grandmother no harm would come to you at Fangtasia tonight. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to keep that promise with you dressed like this.
So are you sayin' you think I look nice?
Bill
Doesn't matter what I think. This isn't a date. Remember?
[as he walks up to Fangtasia with Sookie] Bill. Haven't seen you in a while.
Bill
I'm mainstreamin'.
Good for you. Who's the doll?
Bill
Pam, this is Sookie. Sookie, this is Pam.
[smiling, extending her hand to Pam] Pleased to meet you.
Oh. Sure. How funny. Who'd have thought? Getting carded at a vampire bar.
I can no longer tell human ages. We must be careful we serve no minors... in any capacity. (looking at her id) Twenty-five, huh? How sweet it is.
Bill
[awakens, very weak and looks around seeing two bodies] The others?
[meekly] They all presented themselves as gentlemen. Blame the war if you like. Proved to be no more than savages once I let them into my home. They deserved no better!
Bill
Am... Am I dying?
Oh yes. But I'm not keen to let you go quite so easily. I've waited a long time for a man such as you. [straddles his waist and cuts her neck] Drink... if you do not drink, you will die as certain as I am speakin' to you right now. Do you wish to see your family again? Your wife, your children... you must drink from me.
[Bill drinks with reluctance]
Take me in you. Feel me in you. We are together, William. Forever! You are mine!
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