Chapter 1: Chapter 1

Disclaimer: I do not own some of the characters in this story. I'm merely playing with them. Charlaine Harris I hope you don't mind. Please don't sue.

This is my first Sookie and Eric fanfic story, so please don't be too harsh on me.

This is a revised version. Big T-H-A-N-K-S to notdoneatforty for helping me in revising this first chapter so it will read much better. Notdoneatforty is a freaking God send, check out the story from this author, who has some mad skills in smutty and action scenes! Beautiful Stranger is the title of the FIC, another Eric and Sookie story to obsessed about;-)

All mistakes left are all mine, as I might have tweaked and add some words, but I didn't change how this story goes at all. ;-)


The Brigant's had spent the years of their existence in a little piece of Louisiana, inan old town called Bon Temps, surrounded overwhelmingly by people. Humans wereso enthralled by them, the locals were so drawn to them you couldn't even imagine. Yes, they were wealthy and inrealitywere probably capable of anything just by using their money. And you know what come withbeing wealthy? Power. However, that's not why the people were so drawn to them. It was becausebesides being wealthy, they were all very charismatic and beautiful people. They in turn loved the attention that they usually get from the locals, but were also private in some way. Everybody wanted to be close to them, humans were so comfortable around them.

But the last few years of this Brigant heritage had been and disappearances had happened too often for the past ten years in their family, and people had started to feel unsafe and scared around them.

'Who would try to do harm to this family?' No-one had been able to solve the mystery. Police and other locals had attempted to solve the mystery, but they didn't understand the reason for the deaths and disappearances. Some people suspected that perhaps someone was jealous of their attachment to people, while others speculated that it might be connected to how they got their wealth. Still others speculated that maybe behind those lovely and charismatic characters who were the Brigant's, that there must be something else, something hidden, which caused those deaths and disappearances in the family. Well, that's what some of the locals thought about the matter.

So after that the Brigants who survived decided just to keep to themselves. After years of being admired and adored by people, then having had these horrible events happen, one day they all just vanished without a trace.


Its time…..

In a small town like Bon Temps it is not unusual for people to talk and gossip and news spreads fast as lightning. You wouldn't believe how quickly it can spread sometimes. Talk about hearing your own business from somebody else before you even know it yourself.

Liezl went to the doctor after having been sick for quite a while. She had been light-headed and on and off had been throwing up. She had also been having horrible headaches, pretty much for the past four days, so feeling miserable she finally decided to pay a visit to her local hospital.

They did some tests on her but she already suspected that she might be pregnant and she was very worried about it. She and Dan had just now started making plans about their wedding and she thought she was not ready for that yet.

After keeping her waiting for an hour and a half the doctor walked back in. She informed Liezl of the test result and congratulated her, confirming that she really was pregnant.

Although she was not surprised by it, this was still a major change in her life, so much so that she actually fainted right there at the doctor's office.

When she woke up the doctor was just walking back in to check up on her again. She wanted to make sure that Liezl was totally conscious and able to understand her instructions before she would release her, and informed her to take extra care of herself because she was three weeks along on her pregnancy.

The doctor also informed her to take prenatal vitamins, told her what diet and exercise to follow, and when her next prenatal visit was. Finally she advised that Liezl should not hesitate to call if she had any questions or experienced any problems during her pregnancy, like severe nausea, vomiting or bleeding. The doctor even offered to arrange to get her back home. Liezl refused because she wanted to have some time to herself to think on the way back home.

Her brain got so worn out just thinking about breaking the news to Dan. Although she knew that he loved her and was ready to marry her, (even his mom actually liked her) she still couldn't overcome her fear of telling him because she didn't know if it was good or bad news. Could they actually be happy and see this as good thing? And what would some people think? Would they think that she got herself knocked up, and that it might be the reason why Dan was marrying her? She didn't know what to do.

The drive home actually took longer than it would normally have taken her because there was a traffic jam caused by lunch hour. Instead of getting annoyed though she was somewhat grateful about it because she could process all her thoughts. She realized that she shouldn't beat herself up about it. She decided she wouldn't care about what other people in town might or would think about her being pregnant. She decided that she would see this as a blessing for she knew other people were desperate to have babies but they couldn't, and she was lucky enough to be going to be a mother soon, and fulfil her and Dan's dream. She decided that now she would only care about the baby in her womb and Dan, and that was all that was important. Liezl remembered in one of their conversations Dan talking about wanting to have a lot of kids because he was the only son, so he actually longed to have a big family. Although she thought the timing was probably not so great, she still got courage from that.

When she reached the Stackhouse home Adele, Dan's mom, was on the porch and by the look of her she was so excited to see her that she seemed giddy. Getting out of the car, Liezl hadn't even taken three steps before Adele was already beaming and rushing towards her. When Adele reached her she hugged her tightly. Not releasing her very tight grip she told her that she was so happy to see Liezl and asked how she was.

"Ah? I'mmmmm ..doing okay Adele." She was hugging her so tightly that Liezl was actually having a hard time breathing.

Adele realized what she was doing and loosened her hold.

"I think we need to celebrate," she said.

When a confused look showed on Liezl's face Adele quickly informed her of what she knew.

Liezl was shocked and unable to respond. Who could have beaten her to tell her soon to be mother-in-law about the news? By the look on her face Adele had noticed that Liezl wasn't expecting this, so she continued to explain what she had heard.

She told Liezl that one of her friends at the hospital had called her this morning having recognized her as Dan's fiancée. Her friend was concerned and wanted to know if there was something wrong with her soon to be daughter-in-law.

"I told her that you've been sick for a few days now, and that I didn't know that you were going to the doctor today because you keep on putting this off when I ask you to go, so I can accompany you," Adele informed her.

"But anyway, she told me that she was going to call me back in a bit if she could find out what was wrong with you, and then she called back with the news," Adele said excitedly.

Liezl started sweating and suddenly felt cold from head to toe after hearing Adele's explanation. She couldn't believe how cruel it was, that the news got to her mother-in-law before she even got home. Freaking unbelievable! But as the moments passed she relaxed a little bit knowing that Adele was actually thrilled about it. That quickly went back to anxiety when she remembered about Dan. Would he be as thrilled as his mom?

Adele must have noticed her anxiety and ushered her inside the house so she could relax. Going inside the house Adele went to the kitchen and poured her a glass of tea. Adele was always this hospitable, something Liezl appreciated and admired about Adele very much. She was even more grateful when she got her drink because her throat was still dry after this morning's events.

"Thank you Adele. I could have gotten that myself. You didn't have to do that."

Liezl had been living with them for six months and they already treated her as family. In three months she would be legally married to Adele's son and would be part of their family.

A few hours passed, with them talking and preparing a special dinner, as a sort of celebration, slicing and chopping Dan's favourites, while making plans on how to tell him the good news.

During their talk, the two women decided to move the wedding to within a month before she got too pregnant.

Dan arrived and he already knew. He was smiling from ear to ear and looked at her intently, then without an explanation he kissed her and told her how much he loved her. He was happy and so was she.

It was fortunate that they decided to have the wedding early. By the time they had originally planned the wedding for, her belly was already huge. At eighteen and a half weeks they found out that she was actually carrying triplets, which explained why she was so huge. But Liezl didn't care, her husband was so happy and that was the only thing that mattered. The more the merrier, right?

The Stackhouses were very excited and very much anticipating the births of their triplets, and so was everybody in the small town. This lovely young couple had indeed been blessed with a lot of friends, but were especially blessed with their mom, Adele.

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