Sookie 13.5 After Dead (9 page)

BROCK
and
CHESSIE JOHNSON
adopted Coby and Lisa Fowler and raised them with a lot of love and a lot of financial struggle.

KENYA JONES
and
KEVIN PRYOR
went to church with wedding rings on one Sunday. Kevin’s mother collapsed and said she couldn’t breathe, but she recovered when Kenya offered mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. After a year or two, Mrs. Pryor and Kenya learned to tolerate each other, much to Kevin’s relief. The couple never had children, but one of Kenya’s nephews lived with them until he went to college. They always referred to him as their son.

KENNEDY KEYES
cohabited with Danny Prideaux for two years, after which their differences drove them apart. Kennedy, no longer as controversial a figure as she had been when she first walked into Merlotte’s, found a job at the casino in Shreveport, tending bar in a very abbreviated outfit. She married a businessman twenty years older than her, outlived him easily, and began raising and breeding bulldogs. She married her gardener when she was sixty.

MUSTAPHA KHAN
joined the Long Tooth pack and was a member in good standing for forty years. He took a job as Pam Ravenscroft’s daytime man, and he also earned a little extra money as a bouncer at the casino. He and Warren stayed together until Mustapha’s fatal motorcycle accident on an icy highway.

FBI Special Agent
TOM LATTESTA
had the misfortune to be visiting the BVA in Washington when the FotS made one of its last terroristic statements by bombing the building. He did not survive the explosion.

ANTOINE LEBRUN
cooked at Merlotte’s for five more years, saving his money carefully. He opened a hamburger place close to the high school and called it the Hawks’ Nest. It was instantly successful, because Antoine made the best milkshakes in Bon Temps. He married one of Kenya’s sisters.

MAXWELL LEE
became the face of vampires in Shreveport, since Pam tended to say exactly what she was thinking, with poor public relations results. The suave Maxwell gradually assumed more and more responsibilities after Bill Compton became king, until he became almost synonymous with Louisiana vampirism. He loves every minute of it, though he’ll never admit it.

LAYLA LARUE LEMAY
and her maker and lover, Sean, have so far been able to stay together, though child and maker usually can’t. They still dance together. They’ve been invited to work on the vampire version of
Dancing with the Stars
.

BEV LEVETO
was cohost of
The Best Dressed Vamp
until its cancellation, when she began to host
America’s Top Vampire Model
.

The
LISLE
family remained based in Wright, Texas. Angie, Deidra’s younger sister, was so impressed by the power of prayer at Deidra’s wedding that she became a Methodist minister. Jared, Deidra’s older brother, survived Afghanistan to become career army. Mr. and Mrs. Lisle became friends with Bernie Merlotte and set an example for the community by making it clear she was welcome in their home. Mr. and Mrs. Lisle had several grandchildren. They urged all of them to elope.