All Characters belong to the lovely Ms. Harris I'm just playing with the a little because Eric is so damn irresistable. So please don't sue lol.

As much as i love him, I hate him. "How could such a frustrating man be in such a pretty package." I think to myself while I'm sipping my morning coffee. And damn what a pretty package it is with those icy blue eyes, broad shoulders, shoulder length blond hair and a smile that can make any woman need a fresh pair of panties if he looked in her direction. If I didn't know any better I'd swear he'd been destined to be a Viking, and boy would I want him to pilige me.

"Hrmm ,So tell me what it is I can do for you today Eric?" I asked him not even trying to hide the slight annoyance in my voice at the thoughts that were going through my mind at that moment. My body was responding to his presense like a teenage girl on prom night.

"Well, Sookie even though I don't mind gazing at you beautiful face , I came with a proposition for you." He said with a slight smirk.

God that damn smirk! "Go on." I replied only partly interested.

"I need your help, my mothers company is going under, and I can't let her get screwed six ways from Sunday." Eric replied with a pained voice. Sookie could tell it was hard for him to ask for help of anyone but especially hard now because it was her that he was asking for help from her. She could tell that his pride was taking second shelf to this important matter.

"So what can I do to help?" I asked hoping she could help him out because Catherine was a wonderful sweet woman who did not deserve what happening.

" Well my dear I know you have a lovely way of spinning things to your advantage." He replied bitterly. I clenched my fist and bit my bottom lip from saying some snarky remark back.

"So I'm here to hire you to do our PR and marketing to hopefully get people back interested in visiting our hotels again. Since I know you are so damn professional and put your all into your work, there is no one else better for the job. As it is we are investing everything we have in you so that we can probably get ahead by next year. If you are as good as you say." He said with a shit eating grin,that Sookie wanted smack off his face.

"Well I might have to check a few things to see if there even is a chance at turning it around before you have to file for bankruptcy. But other than that I will try my best to help you Eric. I would always help an old friend." I replied looking down at a paper in my desk averting his eyes the best I could so he wouldn't see the slight mist in mines.

"Thank you, come to my office tomorrow afternoon and we'll get started. Going over everything you need to have to get us back to a normal standin." He said in a tight voice void of emotion.

"Well See you then Eric." I said never once glancing up from my desk, wishing he would leave already so the pressure in my chest would lighten.

"Bye" Eric said as he walked out of my office with fire at his heels.

Oh this was going to be her own personal round of hell and she knew it. She also knew that she deserved every torturous minute of it. As a tear shed down her cheek she knew that she had ran away from the very man who stole her heart all those years ago. The realization hit that he may not have ever given it back.

"I am so screwed!" she sighed loudly and dropped her head onto the desk with a moan.

TBC