Sookie 13.5 After Dead (4 page)

The vampire short-order cook
ANTHONY BOLIVAR
became a celebrity chef and appeared on the Food Channel several times. After he was arrested for picking up a prostitute and overdrinking from her, the Food Channel asked him to pack his knives. He began traveling again and occasionally takes a night shift at a restaurant . . . maybe one near you.

Lawyer
KATHERINE (KATE) BOOK
is still an undead activist. She has to practice in night court, of course, but she’s featured in magazines all the time as a poster woman for all that is good about vampires.

BOOM
still works on the bomb squad in Rhodes.

Shut away in Faery forever,
DERMOT BRIGANT
is extremely happy. He basks in his father’s affection and has a very uncomplicated sex life. He is spell-free.

DILLON BRIGANT
had already disowned his remaining child, Claude, well before Claude escaped from Faery. Dillon spent the next few hundred years keeping a low profile, because he didn’t want to remind his father, Niall, that a family member tried to overthrow Niall’s government.

NIALL BRIGANT
spent a few decades suspecting that there were plots against him behind every door because of Claude’s rebellion, and many of the fae suffered for Claude’s misbehavior. Every now and then, Niall thought of Sookie and sent her a letter via rosebush.

AMELIA BROADWAY
had a son with Bob. After many arguments over what to do with her father’s business and money after he was declared legally dead (Bob wanted to give it to charity), the couple split up, but they shared custody of their son, Felix, until he was eighteen. Amelia sold her father’s business to a large chain, invested the proceeds, and used her witch skills to play the stock market. She amassed a huge amount of money and married her banker. Felix became an animal wrangler for the film industry, specializing in big cats.

BUBBA
continued to be passed from vampire kingdom to vampire kingdom, but while he was in Tennessee, he escaped from his minder to visit his gravesite, causing a near riot. After that, the vampire council censured Tennessee and ruled that Bubba couldn’t enter the state for fifty years. He is in Canada now. He hates the winters.

CALLISTO
drifted over to the Middle East, where she caused dreadful bloodshed but went unnoticed.

Wright’s
PORTER CARPENTER
took special courses to become an expert in crowd control. He got the job of police chief of Arlington, and then he was hired by Fort Worth.

DESMOND CATALIADES
remained a friend to Sookie, developing a habit of dropping in before Christmas every year. His children didn’t approve of his attachment to a human, but in view of what happened when their father was unhappy, they never spoke to him about it. Mr. Cataliades declared New Orleans a devil-free zone, and he enforces that doctrine vigorously. He continues to practice law.