[ closed to Eric ]
Sookie had to make sure that Bill was all right before leaving. There was still a sense of obligation - and the truth was, she wanted to help. She was always going to care about Bill, even in spite of things that had happened before. Things that he might not even know about - but that had still happened.
And everything with Eric was different.
Nothing in Sookie's mind made sense, but she knew she had to tell Eric that Bill was here. It was going to change things, at the very least - because it didn't seem likely for Bill to just...sit by and do nothing. Did it? Maybe this Bill came from a completely different time, one where Lorena was still nearby, and -
- no. Even as she thought it, as the thoughts tumbled over in her mind in a confused tangle of consciousness, Sookie knew that wasn't true. It wasn't going to be quite that cut and dry, quite that simple.
She thought all of this over the entire walk to the hotel room she shared with Eric, even still while she pushed open the door and let herself inside.