"Sheriff" Marina says as she leans against the doorframe of the room he sat in.

"Yes Ms. Sinclair?"

"Have you had something to eat yet?" she asks him, "because while I have been nursing this glass of...honestly amazing scotch" she says, holding up her scotch as he watches her with a hint of mirth in his eyes, "you've been seeing well-wishers but I haven't seen you drink a single glass of Tru Blood, imagine that" she says dramatically.

"Are you reaching a point, Ms. Sinclair?" he asks her as she makes her way toward him, taking a sip of her scotch as she does.

"You should probably eat" she says, "not for me, not for Eric, not even for that guy right there" she says as she points to one of his guests, "but for you" she adds.

"I'm not feeling very hungry" he replies.

"You don't have to be. Shove it down your throat if you must" she says to him as Godric watches her with an unreadable expression on his usually expressionless and stoic face.

"That sounds an awful lot like a demand, Ms. Sinclair" he says as she smirks at him.

"Not at all, sheriff" she comments. "It's just a uh...friendly suggestion" she adds.

Godric and Marina share a stare-down before Eric interrupts it with his arrival. Godric had called him with their bond.

"You called for me, father?" Eric comments in a silky voice as he materializes beside Marina as she looks up at the Viking from the corner of her eye.

Godric's eyes move from Marina to land on his progeny.

"Yes, I did, my childe" Godric nods. "I think I will have that AB negative now" he comments to Eric though his eyes are trained on Marina.

"Yes father" Eric comments with a bow of the head, pleased with the news.

Maybe the human is good for something after all.

Marina tilts her glass toward Godric in a mock toast as she turns on her heel to make her way toward her brother, giving Eric a playfully smug smile as she left.

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Rina found the scotch guy and she was grabbing another drink from him when she sees Jason talking with some guy who just entered the party. The guy shoves Jason back as Rina arches a brow at this.

What are they arguing about?

"Excuse me everyone, if I could have you attention. My name is Luke McDonald" he says. Godric is making his way back into the living room after having fed. Upon closer inspection Rina realizes that she recognizes him from the Fellowship. "I'm a member of the Fellowship of the Sun and I have a message for all of you from Reverend Steve Newlin" he says as he opens his jacket.

There are explosives and silver chains hanging from him.

Rina's heard that when you're about to die your life flashes before your eyes and you see everything in slow motion.

Not true.

At least not for her.

Her eyes landed on both her brother and Godric in panic, both of them on either ends of the room and then she closed her eyes, embracing death as the explosion goes off.

BOOM!

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Rina groans loudly as whoever – or whatever – was on top of her slides off as she groans in discomfiture, trying to get feeling back in her ringing ears again as she snaps her eyes groggily only to see that it was Godric who had shielded her since he was faster than Joseph who was lying a few feet away, impaled with a piece of silver.

"Marina" he kneels beside her as she sits up, her mind still fuzzy and disoriented from the explosion. His voice sounded like it was coming from miles away. "Marina listen to me, focus on the sound of my voice" he adds.

"Y-You never call me by my name" Rina speaks up as she smiles a bit at this before wincing in pain, "J-Joe, where's Joe?" she asks in concern for her twin. He was the first person that came to mind.

"He's fine" Godric informs her as Joseph coughs out loud, covered in blood and soot as Marina dizzily searched around the room for him.

She couldn't actually see anything because her vision was blurry. Joe hisses in pain at the silver embedded in his stomach as he pulls it out, burning his hands as he does.

"Joe?" she calls out for him.

"I'm...okay" he croaks out as Rina closes her eyes and reopens them as her vision clears as she weakly moves toward him only to collapse weakly as Godric pries her from the ground and carries her bridal style as she rests her head against his chest as Joseph stands with shaky legs.

"Rina. Sheriff" he says as he limps over to them.

"She's a little disoriented but she'll be alright, Joseph" Godric assures the younger vampire as he nods gratefully at this.

The sheriff got to her much faster than he ever could and he appreciates it.

He can't help noting however that despite assuring him that Rina is alright Godric doesn't relinquish her back into his arms.

"Call the Hotel Carmilla and inform them of what's happened. Tell them to increase security so everyone can go there" Godric says in his authoritative voice as Joseph nods at this as he looks at how snug his sister seems to be in Godric's arms as he calls the Hotel Camilla and booked some rooms as Godric commanded.

"Joseph, are you and Marina alright?" Isabel questions her progeny in concern as she makes her way toward him, covered in blood and soot.

"We're fine Bel, the sheriff has asked us to call the Hotel Carmilla and ask everyone to go there for the time being" he says as Isabel nods at this.

"Alright" she nods, "you call the hotel and I'll make the announcement" she says as he offers his Maker a sad nod when he sees all the body pieces on the ground, vampire and human alike.

There were legs, arms and all else covering the ground.

Isabel makes her way toward Godric who was carrying a limp Marina in his arms.

"Whose dead?" he asks her, looking around sadly at all the blood and gore.

"Stan, Paolo, Katherine and two human companions" she reports to him.

"Inform them" he says to her as Isabel nods at this.

"Everyone please––!" Isabel tries to gather everyone's attention but people are crying and speaking over her.

"HEY! Y'all listen up!" Jason shouts as people finally pay attention.

"They may come back. Go to the Hotel Carmilla. They've been alerted, security is in place" Godric comments as people start to scramble away.

"My ears are still ringing" Rina comments tiredly in his arms. And the room was still spinning she adds internally.

"That's to be expected. You are a human and there is only so much that your ears could take" he replies.

"To be fair, none of us were made to be near explosions" Rina comments. "I'm fine" she tries to reassure Godric as she pops both eyes open to see him looking down at her, the look on his face is of a person who isn't at all convinced.

He can clearly tell that she's in a lot of pain and what worsens it is that he can't give her his blood because vampire law prohibits him due to the necklace that she wore around her neck.

Besides, considering Eric had just tricked Ms. Stackhouse into drinking his blood it's safe to say that trying such a thing would not bear positive results for his friendship with both Joseph and Marina.

"I'll take care of her, sheriff" Joe comments as he approaches them, "we'll get to the hotel immediately" he says as Godric nods at this as he gently hands Rina over to her brother, who carries her in his arms, careful not to hurt her already injured side.

"I'm––"

"Stop being stubborn, Zuri" Joseph interjects in a stern tone of voice as she sighs heavily at this, accepting defeat for the time being. She feels too weak to fight him anyways.

Joseph only ever called her by her second name when something was REALLY serious.

"I hate it when you call me that" she says as he takes off with her, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

Godric stays behind to ensure that everyone is safely evacuated as the authorities arrive. The firefighters to douse out the remaining fire and the police to take their statements as well as the bodies of the deceased.

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Rina was inspected yet once again by Dr. McKenzie who assured the panicked and stressed Joseph that his sister was perfectly fine, seeing as the sheriff had shielded her from the bomb.

She also reminded them that Rina's side would heal if Rina drank her medicine and rested.

She'd given Rina some medication so Rina was still a little numb to the true extent of her injuries from the Fellowship at the moment.

"See, I told you" Rina says to her twin with an eyeroll as they made their way to Godric's bedroom where he was speaking with Isabel.

All of them had cleaned themselves of the blood, ashes and soot from the explosion.

"Honestly you worry way too much Joe" she adds with an eyeroll.

"How can I not worry? Trouble can find you in a freaking typhoon!" he hisses out.

"I think the typhoon itself would be classified as the problem in that example, dumbass" Rina teases her twin to show him that she really was okay.

She has yet to thank Godric for saving her from being blown to pieces.

It's so freaking crazy that the Fellowship actually sent a suicide bomber just because Steve Newlin's ego is wounded.

The man was a complete and utter nut job.

"Everything is alright with you, Marina?" Isabel questions in concern when the two siblings stood side-by-side before her and Godric as the two vampires turned to face them, amused by their sibling bickering.

"I'm perfectly okay" Rina says with a smile, "by the way, sheriff, thank you for shielding me" she says to him as Godric offers her a tiny smile at this though his eyes appeared a little pained at the events of the night as Joe regarded the both of them in a mixture of intrigue and slight concern.

"Are you guys sure that Nan Flanagan won't take issue with my being there?" Rina asks them, not wanting to get anyone in trouble.

"You are my guest and you have my permission to attend" Godric says simply as Rina nods at this as they headed into the room where they would be meeting up with Nan Flanagan from the American Vampire League (AVL).

"Rina, hi!" Sookie greets her happily when she sees her, her eyes landing on Rina first before going onto Eric next and then quickly back to Rina again, "wow, you look so pretty" she practically gushes as Rina looked down her attire.

"Uh...thanks Sookie" she says, unsure of what else to say.

She wore a basic white dress and a pink sweater and some sneakers. Pretty basic attire in her eyes but Sookie's sweet so Rina will take the compliment because she knows it's genuine.

Sookie says her hellos to the others before Bill inclines his head toward Godric in respect and said his hellos to them as well, including inclining his head toward Rina as greeting as she returned the gesture as they went to grab their seats.

Nan Flanagan makes her way into the room a few seconds later, flanked on either sides by bodyguards. She grabs a seat in a chair next to the couch that Rina and Godric sat in.

Across from them were Sookie and Bill with Eric sitting across from Flanagan while Joe and Isabel sat on the couch next to the one that Rina and Godric sat on.

"Do you have any idea the fucking PR mess you've made?" Nan asks them angrily without even greeting them, "and who has to fucking clean that shit up? Me. Not you. Me" she says to them. "I should drain every one of you bastards" she adds as Rina looks at Godric from the corner of her eye.

If what she says angers or even offends him then he is very good at hiding it.

"Stan went to the church on his own" Eric speaks up, practically glaring at the woman, "None of us knew anything about it" he adds.

"Oh really? Because anyone who met Stan in the last 300 years knew that he had a kink about slaughtering humans but you his nest mates, his sheriff, had no clue?" Nan asks them as she turned to face Godric at this.

Rina has come to a realization in the last few minutes: Nan Flanagan is a bitch and she does not like her.

"And how were we supposed to know that this time he meant it?" Isabel retorts.

"Not my problem" Nan tells them, "yours" she adds as she threw a look in Godric's direction but still he said nothing.

Nan really was staring to piss Rina off.

"Don't talk to him that way" Eric warns the woman.

"Don't talk to me that way" Nan says as she turned to face Eric for the interjection. The air grows a little tense at this. "Let's get to the point, how'd they manage to abduct you?" Nan asks him.

"They would have taken one of us sooner or later. I offered myself" Godric says as Eric looks at his maker in what Rina would assume to be hurt if it didn't disappear from his face just as quickly.

"Why?" Nan asks him, looking at him like he's crazy. Rina doesn't agree with his actions either but Nan doesn't have to be such a bitch about it.

"Why not?" Godric retorts calmly.

"They wanted you to meet the sun and you were willing?"

"What do you think?" Godric retorts.

"I think you're out of your mind" Nan says as Rina clenched her fists at this. "And then I hear about a traitor––?!"

"Irrelevant" Godric says immediately as Isabel averts her head in shame at the mention of Hugo. "Only a rumour. I'll take full responsibility" he adds.

"You bet you will" Nan says.

"You cold bitch" Eric says angrily, saying exactly what Rina was also thinking.

"Listen, this is a national vampire disaster" Nan says, looking at Eric like she wants to punch him in the face. "And nobody at the top has any sympathy for any of you" she adds. "Sheriff, you fucked up you're fired" she adds.

"I agree" Godric nods. "Of course Isabel should take over" he adds, "she had no part in my disgrace" he adds.

"Godric, fight back!" Isabel begs him.

Even Rina doesn't know why he let's Nan speak to him this way. She may be with the Fellowship but it doesn't warrant her speaking to him like she did.

"What are you saying? She's a bureaucrat, you don't have to take shit from her!" Eric says, raising his voice angrily as he gestured to Nan.

"You wanna lose your area, Viking?" Nan asks him.

"Oh you don't have that kind of power" Eric says to her, glaring at the woman as he does.

"Hey I'm on TV" Nan says as if that makes her better than all of them. "Try me."

"I'm to blame" Isabel speaks up, "I should have contained Stan the second Godric went missing" she says, feeling guilty about everything that's happening.

"Isabel" Godric says simply as she heeds his silent request and closes her mouth immediately.

"If I may" Rina finally speaks up as all eyes land on her, mainly for her interjection in vampire affairs, "you say that all of this is causing you lots of grief, Ms. Flanagan so what would you do if you had proof of Steve Newlin's plans? Would it still be as bothersome as you claim?"

"Who the fuck are you?" Nan asks her rudely, looking her up and down like she's a leech sucking on her blood.

"She's with me" Godric speaks up for Rina.

"She's your human?" Nan asks in surprise, smelling the blood coming from Rina's necklace which can't be Godric's as it was far too weak.

"I'm his friend" Rina corrects Nan, "if you reinstall the sheriff to his seat as sheriff then I will give you months worth of evidence to use to take Steve Newlin and his cult down" she adds.

"Rina–" Joe speaks up but she gives him a look at this as he snaps his mouth shut with a scowl.

"But I will only do that if the sheriff gets to keep his job" she adds, leaving no room for negotiation.

"Out of the question" Nan starts to protest, "he got himself kidnapped, attracted a suicide bomber and displayed piss poor judgment–!"

She doesn't finish her sentence as Eric rises from his seat angrily at this as Nan retracted a bit in fear though she tried to put on a tough bravado.

Joe and Isabel stop him from attacking the woman.

"Don't" they say in sync.

"Eric" Godric says simply as his son stood down at this. "It doesn't matter" Godric says to his son who went back to his seat, glaring at Nan as he did.

"Look, regardless of what your personal feelings about the sheriff may be, he did his duties as a sheriff and expecting him to know what his underling was planning or even did is unfair" Rina says to Nan, speaking up for Godric "he's not a fucking mind reader" she adds as the blonde glared at her for this, "with the photographic evidence that I have you can have your people verify that the photographs are indeed authentic and remove any false doubts that Newlin and his people might try to respond with placing you in a positive position PR-wise" Rina adds, "but as I've said, I will only do this if Godric gets to keep his job" she repeats firmly as Nan stared at her as if considering her words.

"You do not have to do this, Marina–" Godric protests.

"Of course I do, you're a good sheriff" Rina says to him as she turned to face him with a small smile. "Even if that opinion isn't held by...all of us" she adds, throwing a light jab Nan's way as Nan's eyes narrow at this.

"How many months of evidence are we talking here?" Nan asks her.

"3 months."

"And you have this how?" Nan asks her, looking at her in distrust.

"I infiltrated the Fellowship of the Sun and posed as a new recruit to their leadership program" Rina replies simply.

"You're a journalist?" Nan says.

"Something like that" Rina retorts. Nan snaps her finger as one of her bodyguards hands her her phone as she stood and went to a private room to speak with her superiors.

"Bitch" Joe says loud enough for all of them to hear as she walked off but not before glaring at him as she did.

"Ms. Sinclair, that evidence was yours to keep–" Godric moves to argue.

"There will always be other stories" Rina says with a shrug, "but there won't always be good vampire sheriff's though" she adds as Eric watched the two of them from where he sat.

He's never seen Godric act this way with anyone before. He can clearly tell that his maker both admires and desires the human that sat beside him.

"I cannot ask you to do this–" Godric still protests.

"The evidence is mine to do with as I please so I'm going to do with it as I please" Rina retorts stubbornly as Nan returned after her call ended.

"Good news sheriff, you've been given a second chance" she says as Rina smiles at this, happy to hear it. "Don't fuck it up this time" she adds as Eric glared at her for her disrespectful language toward his maker, "now as for you" she says to Rina, "I'll be taking all of that evidence now" she adds snippily as Rina nods at this as she rose from her seat as Godric, Eric, Joe and Isabel do the same as Nan looks at all of them in surprise at this. "All you can fucking relax. I'm not going to eat her" she says to them.

"I can take her and return with the evidence, sheriff" Joe says to Godric as Godric nodded stiffly at this as Rina offers him a reassuring smile as if to say that she'd be alright as he sank back into his seat as Eric and Isabel did the same as Rina and Joe disappeared in the blink of an eye.

A/N: I hope that you guys liked this chapter✌️. Please spread the word and share this story with all your True Blood/Godric loving friends because we need more love for our 2,000 year old vamp❤️