I could only think, You had to be there. And even then that didn't sound convincing. Okay, Sookie, I said to myself. What else could you have done? It wasn't the time to do a lot of detailed thinking, but a quick scan of my options came up zero. I couldn't have fought off Andre or persuaded him to leave me alone. Eric could have fought Andre, but he chose not to because he wanted to keep his place in the Louisiana hierarchy, and also because he might have lost. Even if he'd chanced to win, the penalty would have been incredibly heavy. Vampires didn't fight over humans. Likewise, I could have chosen to die rather than submit to the blood exchange, but I wasn't quite sure how I would have achieved that, and I was quite sure I didn't want to. There was simply nothing I could have done, at least nothing that popped to my mind as I squatted there in the beigeness of the back stairway. I shook myself, blotted my face with a tissue from my pocket, and smoothed my hair.
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