The Five W's by PersianFreak
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to Charlaine Harris. Please don't sue.
Rating: G
Spoilers: None, really. Let's say up to Dead to the World in case people get angry.
A/N: One-shot drabble because I felt like it.
Also, I am now taking requests because I've hit another bout of writer's block and I need someone to give me some form of inspiration, puh-lease. Give me a prompt of some sort and I will write something. Let's say, first five people?
Reviews are, as always, welcome =]
Sookie doesn't remember when it happened, she just knows that it did.
She knows that one day (and she doesn't quite remember when) she stopped seeing Eric as some insensitive jerk who used to order her around and began seeing him as the one person she felt safe with.
One day, and she isn't quite sure how, he stopped the leering and the sexual harassment and started looking at her in a way that made her self-conscious and giddy like a teenager.
It wasn't long before she got this horrible feeling in her stomach when he wasn't around, like suddenly she needed him to – not function, no: she never needed anybody . Not even to feel content, no. – feel happy, rather. She started wanting more than just the sex; she wanted his laugh and his voice and his intelligence and his sense of humour, too. She wanted the way he shot her dirty glances and held her hand when she was in trouble. She missed the way his eyes took in everything within seconds but then settled on her like they- like he was home. Like Sookie was his refuge; the one place he could hide and be himself and not worry about keeping up the facade for anyone, because Sookie was the only one that saw through his bullshit and called him on it. And he returned the favour, which was more than she could have said about Bill or Quinn or even her own brother.
It's the not knowing, the confusion, that makes Sookie drive to Fangtasia one night.
It's the gaping hole in her heart that was never supposed to be there that makes her not bother to knock before she walks into Eric's office.
It's the fact that hearing him ask if there is anything wrong makes her heart flip-flop ridiculously in her chest that makes her tell him to shut up, just shut up, so that she can immerse herself in his arms and pretend that he wants her as much as she does, in all the ways that she does.
Sookie isn't quite sure when or how or what or where; all she knows is that one day she fell in love with Eric Northman.
And that's when the trouble started.