The Sookie Stackhouse Companion

LA
    Dear Eric,
    With the permission of Sophie-Anne Leclerq, Queen of Louisiana, I will be returning to claim my ancestral home in Bon Temps.
     
    Sincerely,
    William Compton

    TO: WILLIAM COMPTON
    DEAR BILL,
     
    LONG TIME NO SEE. AS YOU KNOW, THE VAMPIRES IN MY AREA PAY THEIR FEALTY BY WORKING AT FANGTASIA. PLEASE CONTACT PAM TO SET UP YOUR SCHEDULE.
     
    ERIC NORTHMAN

    To: Eric Northman,
Sheriff of Area Five, LA
    Dear Eric,
    I understand that your vampires may offer a tithe as an alternative to working at Fangtasia. I have other obligations and fear I will not have the time to dedicate to your club.
     
    Sincerely,
    William Compton

    TO: WILLIAM COMPTON
    DEAR BILL,
     
    A TITHE IS ACCEPTABLE, BUT I WOULD MUCH PREFER YOUR TIME AT FANGTASIA. AS A FORMER CONFEDERATE SOLDIER YOU WOULD BE QUITE A DRAW. I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU HAVE WORK TO DO FOR THE QUEEN, BUT SURELY YOU CAN SPARE ME, YOUR SHERIFF, SOME OF YOUR VALUABLE TIME AS WELL.
     
    ERIC NORTHMAN

    To: Eric Northman,
Sheriff of Area Five, LA
    Dear Eric,
    Please find enclosed my certified check for six months’ tithe.
    Sincerely,
    William Compton
    Phone: Eric calling Bill.
    ERIC: “Bill.”
    BILL: “Eric.”
    ERIC: “I need you to bring your human to Fangtasia tomorrow night.”
    BILL: “Why?”
    ERIC: “I need her services.”
    BILL: “Eric, you know she is mine.”
    ERIC: “Of course, Bill. There will be none of that.”
    BILL: “Then why?”
    ERIC: “It is enough that I am sheriff and I order you to bring her.”
    BILL: “Eric . . .”
    ERIC: “Bill, you know it will be much better if you bring her willingly. You wouldn’t want me to have to send someone to get her, would you?” (Silence.)
    BILL: “We will be there.”
    Phone: Bill calling Eric.
    BILL: “Eric.”
    ERIC: “Bill.”
    BILL: “I received your gift.”
    ERIC: “And you’re calling to thank me. It was my pleasure, Bill.”
    BILL: “I’ve sent her back unopened.”
    ERIC: “You didn’t like her?”
    BILL: “I have no need for her.”
    ERIC: “I see. I’ll have to find some other way to show my appreciation to you and your human.”
    BILL: “That’s not necessary. I’ll consider your absence in our lives reward enough.”
     
     
     
    Phone: Eric calling Bill.
    ERIC: “Congratulations on your new position as Area Five Investigator, Bill. I had not realized you had such aspirations.”
    BILL: “I thought it wise to secure a position.”
    ERIC: “Technically, you now work for me.”
    BILL: “Technically, I work for Sophie-Anne, as do you.”
    ERIC: “Yes, I suppose you are right.” Pause. “I understand your human has captured a killer. She’s quite resilient.”
    BILL: “Indeed she is. Don’t float around her windows anymore, Eric. It makes her uncomfortable.”

Living Dead in Dallas

Timeline
    TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2004. Sookie calls Portia Bellefleur to come to Merlotte’s and get her brother, Andy, who has gotten drunk after a particularly bad day at work. Leaving his car in the parking lot, Portia drives Andy home.
    WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22. When she gets to work in the morning, Sookie notices that Andy’s car door is open. She discovers the body of the bar’s short-order cook, Lafayette Reynold, in the backseat. She blows her own car horn to get Sam’s attention, and he calls 911. The police arrive and question Sookie, who tells them that Lafayette bragged about attending a sex party a few days earlier. She and Sam privately discuss whether someone from the orgy could be responsible for Lafayette’s death. Terry Bellefleur, Andy’s cousin, comes in as a fill-in cook and informs them that Lafayette’s neck was broken and that there is evidence of sexual assault.
    Summoned to Fangtasia by Eric, Bill and Sookie begin to argue in the car on the way to Shreveport. When the car suddenly dies, an angry Sookie gets out. Bill tells her he is going to get a mechanic and leaves the car unlocked for her, but she resolutely begins to trek back to Bon Temps. She hears movement in the woods beside her and calls out, figuring she might as well know what she is dealing with. Much to her surprise, a woman steps from the woods, a feral razorback hog by her side. She identifies herself as a maenad and tells Sookie that she needs a message taken to Eric Northman. Sookie is able to turn away just as the maenad slashes at her, catching her on her back instead of her face and chest. Sookie is in agony as she falls to the ground.
    Bill returns and rushes a mortally wounded