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Disclaimer: I in no way, own anything related to True Blood, The Sookie Stackhouse novels or anything else related to their characters and storyline. I DO however OWN Axel Twilight and Alexia Rebecca-Rose, along with THEIR storyline so please ask before you use them if you should wish to. Thanks!

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"Text" = Speech

It is currently dark outside. The air is filled with the music of the nightly swamp animals, making heir symphony of sounds that reach the ears of anyone close to the swamp. Axel and Sookie are pulling up in Sookie's car, outside of Merlotte's. The bar's nightly patrons are already inside and well into whatever conversations they are having with each other and are probably already on their ways to getting drunk. The reason for Sookie and Axel being here tonight is not to work, but to collect their checks for their days of work. Axel is here in hopes of also getting his work uniform. Being out of uniform has made him feel awkward, so he's looking forward to it.
"Alright Axel. I'll go inside and get the checks if you would like to just wait out here and keep the car running." As she is suggesting this, Sookie begins undoing her seatbelt, and puts the car in parks.

"Sure thing Sookie, I'm not really up to hearing people's close minded thoughts about me tonight." Is Axel's response as Sookie puts a hand on his shoulder.
"Trust me; it'll get easier to block them out as you work around them more." Sookie says, rubbing Axel's shoulder in assurance.

After Eric's "visit" to the bar the other night, and Axel's....reaction to him, people had begun showing what they thought about Axel's preferences. Sookie had then taken him that night and had a long heart to heart with him, and told him how he shouldn't care what people thought of him, even going so far as to explain Lafayette has the same preference.

Axel nods in responce

"Thanks Sookie, I'll try. Now why don't you go get the money and then we can go home and enjoy our night off." He replies, with Sookie nodding in agreement.

Sookie begins getting out of the car, just as Alexia walks out of the bar and towards the car when she catches sight of Axel and Sookie.

"Hey you guys! Isn't it your night off?" She shouts as she runs up to the car, her shoes making the gravel crunch with every step.

"Hey Alexia where are you going? I thought you had work tonight?" Axel asks poking his head out of Sookie's open door.

"Well I do, but I have to do something really important tonight so Sam was nice enough to give me the night off to do it." Alexia replies, looking at Axel and flashing a warm smile.

"Oh, Okay! Well Sookie and I are just here to pick our pay money and then we're heading home to enjoy our night off."

"That sounds; we should navigate our schedules to hang out together...just the three of us." Alexia says, something sounding off with the last part of her sentence, but Axel brushes it off as him just being paranoid.

Sookie seems completely oblivious to Axel's little unnerving moment.

"That sounds great, maybe when we see you next we can figure out a day that works for us."

Alexia nods, with her bright smile and begins walking away.

"Sounds great! I'll see you two tomorrow then and we can go from there!" She yells as she begins jogging off and disappears around a corner.

Sookie turns toward Axel with a small smile on her face.

"Well, I'll be back in a minute!"  Sookie said as she turned and jogged up to the bar's doors, opening them with a creek from hinges that had long since been oiled.
The following silence is a peaceful one and calms Axel to the point he just lays back in his seat and listens to the wildlife's night song of chirping crickets and croaking frogs. The soothing breeze coming in from Sookie's open door only adds to the calming atmosphere, as Axel sighs in contentment.  The silence, however, is shattered by the sound of twigs snapping, causing Axel to jump a bit in his seat and look out the back window...with nothing to be seen. The sound of snapping twigs is heard again, and Axel begins to feel unease settling over him and without thinking, he undoes his seatbelt and opens his door, standing up and shutting the door behind himself. The thought of Alexia coming back to the bar flashes through his head and so he calls out to see if he is just worrying for no reason.

"Alexia?! Is that you?" He calls, the music of the wildlife coming to an abrupt halt, adding an eerie atmosphere to the night.

Axel's call is only met by silence.

"Stupid Axel...it was probably just an animal." He says to himself as he begins to turn around, only to feel a huge force throw him to the ground, knocking the wind out of his lungs.

Before he can take in a breath, he feels a sharp pain crash into his chest and then another, another. He is seeing stars flashing in his vision, before the pain leaves his chest...and appears in his nose as a resounding snap echoes through the night, his cries of pain being the only thing he can hear. It takes him a moment to realize that he is being kicked, on the ground, by not one, but three people, who he can hear bits and snippets of what they are saying...none of it good.

"Fucking Fang-Banging Faggot! You spit in the lords face!" One yells

"You whore! God will punish you for your sins!" Yells another.

Another kick comes flying at his nose and lands, snapping his head to the side and spraying blood over the rocky ground, painting it red. He knows if he doesn't do SOMETHING to save himself, he's as good as dead, and so in a ditch effort, he uses Sookie's mind reading to hopefully save himself.

(Soo...Sookie! Help me!!!!) He practically screams as another kick connects with his chest, causing him to scream in pain.

The creaking of the bar's doors can be heard and then Sookie's voice, which sounds like an angel to Axel, is heard.

"OH MY GOD!!! AXEL! Sam, get the damn shotgun!"

Sookie's running feet can be heard as she runs over to Axel.

"Get the fuck off him you bastards!" She screams and one of the men stops kicking and turns to Sookie...slapping her and sending her down onto the ground.

"Don't YOU have a vampire doing you Fang-banging slut?!" He yells as Sookie raises a foot and kicks him in the crotch, effectively earning a howl of pain from him, and making him fall to the ground, clutching what is left of his probably miniscule family jewels.

"Don't EVER touch me like that again!" She yells as she stands up and is about to go after the other two attacking Axel, when the cocking of a shotgun is heard.
"You both get to the count of ONE before I add make you the new paintjob for the road, now BACK.THE.FUCK.OFF!" Sam's voice is loud and powerful as the kicking stops, and Axel's moans of pain being the only sound for a few moments as the attackers just stand where they are in stunned silence...the third attacker still on the ground clutching his crotch.

"You would help these two sinners?! They are a stain on the Earth and should be burned at the stake with one of those bloodsuckers!"

"You can take your Church of the Sun, bullshit and shove it up your asses!" Sookie yells as she runs over to Axel and bends down in front of him, he eyes red with tears that a threatening to fall, and a bruise forming on her right cheek.

"Axel! Can you hear me?!" She asks as Axel only nods in response.

"Can you move?" She asks as Axel tries to stand up, but yelps in pain and falls down on the ground, throwing dirt into the air.

"I swear if you cause him to die, you're gonna wish you hadn't!" Sam yells, his gun still pointed at the men.

"If we did, we're just doing the lords will!" One of the men shouts, a shot being fired from Sam's gun shortly after, earning a yelp of surprise from both men.

"I am not going to miss the next I shoot....now get out, you're no longer welcome at this again." Sam says, a hint of underlying malice evident in his voice.

One of the men slowly walks towards their still on the ground friend, and picks him up, sliding one of his arms over their shoulder for support.

"Come on, this fag isn't worth getting shot over, god will judge him!" The man says as his other friend nods and they walk off as fast as they could.

Once they are out of sight, Sam quickly walks over to Axel and Sookie and kneels beside them, surveying the damage that has been done to Axel.

"What exactly did they break Axel?" He asks, his voice having a slight shake to it, but sounding otherwise in normal.

Axel begins trying to slowly sit up, and is helped by Sookie; once he is helped up he takes a few deep breaths and begins cautiously moving parts of his checking for any broken parts.  For the most part, it seems the worst he can expect is a bunch of bad bruises, but once he begins checking his, the moment his hand touches his nose he hisses in pain and shock at how is practically turned to the right.

"Yeah, they really did some damage to that...I'll go get some bandages for...."

Sam doesn't get to finish as Axel quickly brings his hands up, grips his nose, and with a loud crack, snaps his nose back into place...starting the blood anew.

"No need, I'll just bandage it up back at Sookie's so I can get a good look at it....and thanks Sam." Axel says and then turns; now clearly seeing the bruise forming on her cheek.

"And I'm so sorry that you got hurt Sookie..."

Sookie shakes her head quickly in response.

"Don't be...it's not as bad as it looks...and besides, I got him back worse than he got me." She says, smiling.

For a moment there is nothing but silence, until Sam makes a noise of clearing his throat and moves closer to Axel, snaking his arms underneath him, and lifting him off the ground with little to no effort.

"Sam? I'm fine, really."

"Hardly, I don't think you should be walking around much after that beating, you can't risk hurting yourself more than you already are." He says as he walks towards the car....which is evidently farther than Axel remembers being from it before he was attacked.

(They must have dragged you away from it when they were kicking you) Sookie offers through their mental speech, Axel slowly nodding in agreement.

Once they reach the car, which still has the driver's and passenger's doors open, Sam walks around and places Axel gently into the passenger's seat, doing up the seatbelt with no protest from Axel, seeing as how it would be pointless to do so.
"Thanks Sam, I can't tell you how glad I am that you we were HERE when Axel got attacked and not at my house...I don't want to think what would have happened if we were." Sookie says, popping her keys into the ignition and turning them, making the car sputter pathetically to life.

Sam then walks back to the front doors of the bar and stops, just before he walks in.

"I'm glad too Sookie...just keep a close on Axel tonight, he lost quite a bit of blood, shouldn't be life threatening but just be sure."

Normally Axel would say there is no need to be so worried....but he had currently fallen asleep in the time it took Sam to get back to the bar doors, making his peaceful expression make him look as if the attack had never even happened.

"Alright Sam, if there is any problems, I'll run him to the hospital and call you, chances are the doctors would be wondering why he looks like he got ran over."

Sam nods.

"Alright...and tell Axel not to come in for the next week or two, I don't want him coming in, in that condition."

"Will do, He'll be thrilled to know I have his money for him at least."

Sam nods and walks inside waving a good-bye. When Sookie is sure he's inside, she quickly shuts the doors of the car and drives off, Axel sleeping peacefully beside her the whole way home.

Description
Disclaimer: I in no way, own anything related to True Blood, The Sookie Stackhouse novels or anything else related to their characters and storyline. I DO however OWN Axel Twilight and Alexia Rebecca-Rose, along with THEIR storyline so please ask before you use them if you should wish to. Thanks!

(Text) = Thoughts
"Text" = Speech

It is currently dark outside. The air is filled with the music of the nightly swamp animals, making heir symphony of sounds that reach the ears of anyone close to the swamp. Axel and Sookie are pulling up in Sookie's car, outside of Merlotte's. The bar's nightly patrons are already inside and well into whatever conversations they are having with each other and are probably already on their ways to getting drunk. The reason for Sookie and Axel being here tonight is not to work, but to collect their checks for their days of work. Axel is here in hopes of also getting his work uniform. Being out of uniform has made him feel awkward, so he's looking forward to it.
"Alright Axel. I'll go inside and get the checks if you would like to just wait out here and keep the car running." As she is suggesting this, Sookie begins undoing her seatbelt, and puts the car in parks.

"Sure thing Sookie, I'm not really up to hearing people's close minded thoughts about me tonight." Is Axel's response as Sookie puts a hand on his shoulder.
"Trust me; it'll get easier to block them out as you work around them more." Sookie says, rubbing Axel's shoulder in assurance.

After Eric's "visit" to the bar the other night, and Axel's....reaction to him, people had begun showing what they thought about Axel's preferences. Sookie had then taken him that night and had a long heart to heart with him, and told him how he shouldn't care what people thought of him, even going so far as to explain Lafayette has the same preference.

Axel nods in responce

"Thanks Sookie, I'll try. Now why don't you go get the money and then we can go home and enjoy our night off." He replies, with Sookie nodding in agreement.

Sookie begins getting out of the car, just as Alexia walks out of the bar and towards the car when she catches sight of Axel and Sookie.

"Hey you guys! Isn't it your night off?" She shouts as she runs up to the car, her shoes making the gravel crunch with every step.

"Hey Alexia where are you going? I thought you had work tonight?" Axel asks poking his head out of Sookie's open door.

"Well I do, but I have to do something really important tonight so Sam was nice enough to give me the night off to do it." Alexia replies, looking at Axel and flashing a warm smile.

"Oh, Okay! Well Sookie and I are just here to pick our pay money and then we're heading home to enjoy our night off."

"That sounds; we should navigate our schedules to hang out together...just the three of us." Alexia says, something sounding off with the last part of her sentence, but Axel brushes it off as him just being paranoid.

Sookie seems completely oblivious to Axel's little unnerving moment.

"That sounds great, maybe when we see you next we can figure out a day that works for us."

Alexia nods, with her bright smile and begins walking away.

"Sounds great! I'll see you two tomorrow then and we can go from there!" She yells as she begins jogging off and disappears around a corner.

Sookie turns toward Axel with a small smile on her face.

"Well, I'll be back in a minute!"  Sookie said as she turned and jogged up to the bar's doors, opening them with a creek from hinges that had long since been oiled.
The following silence is a peaceful one and calms Axel to the point he just lays back in his seat and listens to the wildlife's night song of chirping crickets and croaking frogs. The soothing breeze coming in from Sookie's open door only adds to the calming atmosphere, as Axel sighs in contentment.  The silence, however, is shattered by the sound of twigs snapping, causing Axel to jump a bit in his seat and look out the back window...with nothing to be seen. The sound of snapping twigs is heard again, and Axel begins to feel unease settling over him and without thinking, he undoes his seatbelt and opens his door, standing up and shutting the door behind himself. The thought of Alexia coming back to the bar flashes through his head and so he calls out to see if he is just worrying for no reason.

"Alexia?! Is that you?" He calls, the music of the wildlife coming to an abrupt halt, adding an eerie atmosphere to the night.

Axel's call is only met by silence.

"Stupid Axel...it was probably just an animal." He says to himself as he begins to turn around, only to feel a huge force throw him to the ground, knocking the wind out of his lungs.

Before he can take in a breath, he feels a sharp pain crash into his chest and then another, another. He is seeing stars flashing in his vision, before the pain leaves his chest...and appears in his nose as a resounding snap echoes through the night, his cries of pain being the only thing he can hear. It takes him a moment to realize that he is being kicked, on the ground, by not one, but three people, who he can hear bits and snippets of what they are saying...none of it good.

"Fucking Fang-Banging Faggot! You spit in the lords face!" One yells

"You whore! God will punish you for your sins!" Yells another.

Another kick comes flying at his nose and lands, snapping his head to the side and spraying blood over the rocky ground, painting it red. He knows if he doesn't do SOMETHING to save himself, he's as good as dead, and so in a ditch effort, he uses Sookie's mind reading to hopefully save himself.

(Soo...Sookie! Help me!!!!) He practically screams as another kick connects with his chest, causing him to scream in pain.

The creaking of the bar's doors can be heard and then Sookie's voice, which sounds like an angel to Axel, is heard.

"OH MY GOD!!! AXEL! Sam, get the damn shotgun!"

Sookie's running feet can be heard as she runs over to Axel.

"Get the fuck off him you bastards!" She screams and one of the men stops kicking and turns to Sookie...slapping her and sending her down onto the ground.

"Don't YOU have a vampire doing you Fang-banging slut?!" He yells as Sookie raises a foot and kicks him in the crotch, effectively earning a howl of pain from him, and making him fall to the ground, clutching what is left of his probably miniscule family jewels.

"Don't EVER touch me like that again!" She yells as she stands up and is about to go after the other two attacking Axel, when the cocking of a shotgun is heard.
"You both get to the count of ONE before I add make you the new paintjob for the road, now BACK.THE.FUCK.OFF!" Sam's voice is loud and powerful as the kicking stops, and Axel's moans of pain being the only sound for a few moments as the attackers just stand where they are in stunned silence...the third attacker still on the ground clutching his crotch.

"You would help these two sinners?! They are a stain on the Earth and should be burned at the stake with one of those bloodsuckers!"

"You can take your Church of the Sun, bullshit and shove it up your asses!" Sookie yells as she runs over to Axel and bends down in front of him, he eyes red with tears that a threatening to fall, and a bruise forming on her right cheek.

"Axel! Can you hear me?!" She asks as Axel only nods in response.

"Can you move?" She asks as Axel tries to stand up, but yelps in pain and falls down on the ground, throwing dirt into the air.

"I swear if you cause him to die, you're gonna wish you hadn't!" Sam yells, his gun still pointed at the men.

"If we did, we're just doing the lords will!" One of the men shouts, a shot being fired from Sam's gun shortly after, earning a yelp of surprise from both men.

"I am not going to miss the next I shoot....now get out, you're no longer welcome at this again." Sam says, a hint of underlying malice evident in his voice.

One of the men slowly walks towards their still on the ground friend, and picks him up, sliding one of his arms over their shoulder for support.

"Come on, this fag isn't worth getting shot over, god will judge him!" The man says as his other friend nods and they walk off as fast as they could.

Once they are out of sight, Sam quickly walks over to Axel and Sookie and kneels beside them, surveying the damage that has been done to Axel.

"What exactly did they break Axel?" He asks, his voice having a slight shake to it, but sounding otherwise in normal.

Axel begins trying to slowly sit up, and is helped by Sookie; once he is helped up he takes a few deep breaths and begins cautiously moving parts of his checking for any broken parts.  For the most part, it seems the worst he can expect is a bunch of bad bruises, but once he begins checking his, the moment his hand touches his nose he hisses in pain and shock at how is practically turned to the right.

"Yeah, they really did some damage to that...I'll go get some bandages for...."

Sam doesn't get to finish as Axel quickly brings his hands up, grips his nose, and with a loud crack, snaps his nose back into place...starting the blood anew.

"No need, I'll just bandage it up back at Sookie's so I can get a good look at it....and thanks Sam." Axel says and then turns; now clearly seeing the bruise forming on her cheek.

"And I'm so sorry that you got hurt Sookie..."

Sookie shakes her head quickly in response.

"Don't be...it's not as bad as it looks...and besides, I got him back worse than he got me." She says, smiling.

For a moment there is nothing but silence, until Sam makes a noise of clearing his throat and moves closer to Axel, snaking his arms underneath him, and lifting him off the ground with little to no effort.

"Sam? I'm fine, really."

"Hardly, I don't think you should be walking around much after that beating, you can't risk hurting yourself more than you already are." He says as he walks towards the car....which is evidently farther than Axel remembers being from it before he was attacked.

(They must have dragged you away from it when they were kicking you) Sookie offers through their mental speech, Axel slowly nodding in agreement.

Once they reach the car, which still has the driver's and passenger's doors open, Sam walks around and places Axel gently into the passenger's seat, doing up the seatbelt with no protest from Axel, seeing as how it would be pointless to do so.
"Thanks Sam, I can't tell you how glad I am that you we were HERE when Axel got attacked and not at my house...I don't want to think what would have happened if we were." Sookie says, popping her keys into the ignition and turning them, making the car sputter pathetically to life.

Sam then walks back to the front doors of the bar and stops, just before he walks in.

"I'm glad too Sookie...just keep a close on Axel tonight, he lost quite a bit of blood, shouldn't be life threatening but just be sure."

Normally Axel would say there is no need to be so worried....but he had currently fallen asleep in the time it took Sam to get back to the bar doors, making his peaceful expression make him look as if the attack had never even happened.

"Alright Sam, if there is any problems, I'll run him to the hospital and call you, chances are the doctors would be wondering why he looks like he got ran over."

Sam nods.

"Alright...and tell Axel not to come in for the next week or two, I don't want him coming in, in that condition."

"Will do, He'll be thrilled to know I have his money for him at least."

Sam nods and walks inside waving a good-bye. When Sookie is sure he's inside, she quickly shuts the doors of the car and drives off, Axel sleeping peacefully beside her the whole way home.