Chapter 3

They were gathered around the kitchen table and by this time, Jason had delivered on his promise to return to check on her. Though earlier than he had expected to stop by, he was pleased to see Niall had joined them, for he knew the power that he wielded. As Niall led Sookie back outside where they could talk and catch up, Jason pulled out a chair and sat opposite. "We need to get back on the same page. I don't wanna fight with y'all cause I know you can kick my ass with a finger. But I would go down fighting if it meant helping keep her safe from being hurt. After all you vampires have put her through and what you all went through together, I would think the last think you would want to do was make her cry."

"Seems to me you missed out on part of the conversation. Shall I enlighten you?" Eric said with a cocky smirk and as he proceeded to explain things that Jason had failed to know, he wasn't smug about it but rather impressed. "You are a good man and brother to her and I would like nothing better than remain friends. Especially when there is a chance we could become family."

"But you said she refused." Jason replied. "And for what its worth, I don't want to be enemies either."

"Good." replied the vampire. "She will come around, I know she will."

"I still don't get how you two are gonna get over the whole "kid" hurdle. It ain't possible."

"judging by what I have seen in my life, I don't see how this is any more impossible than that which I have seen and done." his smile faded as he turned more furtive. "I can only hope that this won't bring further danger to her, I hadn't given that much thought."

Jason scoffed. "With a family like yours, I would hate to be the guy that tries anything stupid."

Arching a brow, Eric smirked. "True enough."

Niall and Sookie were far from the farmhouse and Sookie kept looking back at her cozy home. "They need their time to settle things and so after hearing your tales and having watched over you the past few days, I have brought something for you. Something I hope can help assuage your fears, your worries." he produced a small vial of a strange blue liquid within it, a slight bit of fairy light glowing within, giving the substance a ethereal appearance. As she took it from her grandfather, Sookie frowned.

"What is this?"

"The only magic that could ever give the two of you the thing you both want yet can't have. And it would serve another purpose. If this potion does not work, then it means simply you two are not soul mates and are not meant to be together. And that you need to move on with your life."

"So….." Sookie took in what she was getting from the words of her grandfather. "This potion can give us a baby but it won't work if we aren't…but we do love each other."

"That may well be but you could still not be right for each other." Niall explained. "I don't mean to make you upset but for all you or I know, this will work, you'll start a family and love long lives together. But the worst case scenario-"

"I know, I know…" she said, raising a hand to stop her grandfather from reminding her what could turn out being a cold and bitter truth. "But I won't leave him even if we aren't soul mates….I couldn't do that to him again…..but this potion, it could really….I mean…."

"The things fae magic can do is almost infinite however even this magic is limited. While most fae women have four children when they are pregnant, you, having become a little more than just fae, would only ever be able to have one. Perhaps two, though that would be a long shot. And should the two of you not be compatible, should you not conceive, I detest telling you what I must."

Sookie braced herself, knowing he was going to build on what was briefly referenced moments ago. "You would forcefully keep us apart."

"To save you from the magic of the potion. Because should you remain with him if the potion proves you two are not meant to be, your powers will diminish, your health deteriorate until you simply fade to nothing. Nothing will remain of you. Nothing. And once you take the potion, its effects will work something like what you once referred yourself as being. Vampire crack. I feel it necessary to warn you. A night of passion unlike anything you ever have experienced is in your future the moment you drink that potion, its essence radiating from you and affecting him deeply. Be warned, he may have trouble controlling himself."

She took a deep breath as she pocketed the potion. "Thank you….I guess." she said, watching her brother and Eric sauntering over to where they stood, both seemed to be getting along and she breathed a sigh of relief as her brother came over to hug her.

"Look, he and I….we worked things out. Things are good again and I think I can head home now….not worried about you." Jason said, raking a hand through his short hair. "Bridget could use some help with the kids anyway, even if Hoyt and Jess are coming by."

"Give them all hugs for me." Sookie said, referring to her two nieces and her sole nephew and as her brother departed, Niall looked at the two of them, quite gravely.

"I wish you both the best of luck." and with a kiss on the forehead of his only granddaughter, he vanished from the spot, leaving a awkward Sookie to explain what had transpired between her and her grandfather to Eric and even he had a reluctant look on his face, when she had said there was a chance that the magic in the potion, though it would be within her, could make even him lose control. But she had faith in him and said as much.

"The trust you have in me is touching, to say the least…but if things don't go how we hope…." he turned away from her and looked at the heavens. "I honestly don't know what I may do."

"I think we have to hold on to hope and trust that things can and will go our way. I think we are about due for some happiness, don't you think? And if Pam doesn't get the chance to find me a decent wedding dress and whatever, I think she may just lose her mind." Sookie smiled at her weak joke, trying to bring the mood a little light.

And without another word, she was swept up into his arms and taken back to the house where fate would work one way or another upon the two of them. With a track record they both had, they knew things had a chance of going either way. The question was, which way would it go?"

To Be Continued.