Sookie 13.5 After Dead (5 page)

DIANTHA CATALIADES
was a teenager for only ten more years. She still has a startling sense of fashion, and she still works for her uncle. She also has a seasonal job at a fireworks factory.

CHARLES CLAUSEN
finally found a nice lady wereowl to nest with.

HANK CLEARWATER
contracted gonorrhea.

PARKER COBURN
lived with Rubio Hermosa and Palomino for fifty-seven years. After a fight about who had left the bathroom light on, Parker moved to Las Vegas, where he’s become a door-opener at a casino owned by Felipe de Castro. He’s looking for congenial vampires with whom to nest.

BILL COMPTON
developed a warm relationship with Karin the Slaughterer. He built a secret daybed for her on the second floor of the Compton house. Though eventually their physical ardor abated, Bill was glad to have Karin’s input when he began creating and producing violent vampire-themed video games. He recruited a stable of young computer-oriented men and women who agreed to work for Bill exclusively for twenty years in exchange for being brought over. Eventually, Bill had to add on to the Compton house to accommodate his nest. He became extremely rich and was featured in all the vampire magazines, and not a few human ones. He strolled across the cemetery to visit with Sookie from time to time. He always loved her. A surprising development was made possible by all the money he earned from his computer empire: see
Felipe de Castro
.

Detective
MIKE COUGHLIN
was shot and killed in the line of duty when the Wendy’s where he was having lunch was robbed. Detective
WILLIE CROMWELL
was wounded in the same incident, but he recovered. He had to retire because of his injuries.

ALFRED CUMBERLAND
reached the pinnacle of his career when he photographed the marriage of Sheriff Pam to Heidi.

Barmaid
CYNDEE
got another job at another vampire bar in Mississippi after being fired from Fangtasia. But she made the same kind of trouble for a vampire who was less in the public eye than Eric, and she went for an unexpected and fatal swim in the Mississippi.

DEVON DAWN
’s appearance on
The Best Dressed Vamp
made her an overnight celebrity, but her fifteen minutes of fame was over after a couple of months. She gladly went back to obscurity, though she dressed much better.

BUD
and
GRETA DEARBORN
enjoyed their retirement together in the harmony that marked their marriage. Bud had a stroke at seventy-five and never recovered, and three years later, Greta passed away in her sleep. The town renamed a street in Bud’s honor, and the memorial scholarship started in Greta’s name sent one of Terry Bellefleur’s step-grandchildren to college.