The Mercedes S600 Guard provided by Anubis Airlines pulled up to The Sanctuary gate, the heavily tinted window on the driver's side rolls down as hand protrudes out pushing the security button. Per their usual agreement Anubis timed the arrival with the setting sun so Eric would not suffer too much discomfort.
In the back passenger's compartment looking at her husband Eric, Sookie turned looking out window surveying the large estate trying to make head or tails out of it asking, "This..., is a Hospital?"
Lazily gazing out of the window Eric told his wife "I see your point...Sookie!" Giving her hand a squeeze, he said, "Let's see what she has to say."
Raising her right eyebrow to an arch, her pupils start dilating as Sookie pursed her lips confused she looked back to her husband stating, "Eric...!"
Eric looked at her out of concern saying, "If you feel uncomfortable, we can leave now Sookie!"
Taking a deep breath composing herself Sookie looks Eric as she replies, "I-I am scared because I don't understand what is happening to me!" Slumping back into the leather interior, she says, "If this Dr Helen Magnus can give us answers..."
Eric's bad mood was increasing by the second he hated having no control over what was happening to his wife.
Henry Foss's voice comes over the intercom speaker asking, "Yes, may I help you?" The very sound the man's voice seemed to be grading on Eric's nerves!
"Like a child running their fingernails over a chalkboard"
Eric's Eyebrows moved to their lowest point overshadowing his blue eyes and causing a severe furrow. His eyes tensed and his nose flared out with pure rage, his mouth moved to a sideways sneer. As sheriff of area 5 Eric Northman, was used to snapping his fingers and having things get done. "Eric hated not being in control." Even worse, he loathed not having answers at his fingertips!
Baring his fangs Eric spits out the window to the ground muttering infrasocicly (A frequency lower then 20Hz) "werewolf"
For reasons, Sookie can't begin to understand herself, even though she couldn't hear Eric's voice she knew what exactly what he said. Looking at his reaction it doesn't take Sookie long to put the pieces together as she thinks to herself, Eric can barley tolerate it when I let Jannalynn & Shreveport pack run in the woods out back of the house! Shifting her weight to a more comfortable position, He stays in Shreveport on those nights!
Henry Foss's voice comes over the intercom speaker again asking, "Why are you here?"
Sookie held up her finger telling Eric one moment as she responds to the intercom, "Mr., & Mrs. Northman we have an appointment to see Dr Magnus!" Sookie replied.
Henry Foss's voice came over the intercom speaker for the last time stating, "Follow the path to the front door... Someone will meet you."
They reached the front of the house moments later, and Eric & Sookie walk down a short gravel path to the door, Sookie looks at Eric saying, "I know how you feel about werewolves Eric...!"
The door opened and are face to face with a large almost brooding creature, "Bigfoot" an intelligent Neanderthal-like species"
Already annoyed by the scent of the werewolf in the air Eric's vampires arrogance started showing for the entire world to see. Tilting his head back slightly and to the right, looking down his nose at Bigfoot Eric's eyebrows lower almost to a furrow as the right side of his mouth pulls up to a sneer looking Bigfoot up and down again not quite sure what to make of it stating, "Brutish sort of fellow isn't he!"
Bigfoot's bright yellow eyes glared down at Eric saying in a gruff gravely almost primitive voice, "I could say the same thing of you Mr. Northman."
Eric looks at him with a raised brow and rubbing his chin in contemplation with his thumb index finger saying sarcastically in a honeyed tone, "It speaks!"
Sookie turned looking at Eric pointedly, hitting his shoulder mockingly telling him "behave Eric we need their help."
Becoming more irritated with Eric with each passing moment Bigfoot stoped midway down the hall in front of the two of them; he turns to Eric telling him, "I would listen to your mate vampire...!"
Chuckling in his unique primal voice, he chides Eric saying, "She seems to be the more intelligent."
Leading them through the maze of corridors until they reach a large old oak door Bigfoot softly rapped his knuckles on the door. A women's voice from within the room calls out telling them, "Come in!" Gesturing with his hands he says as the door opens stating, "This way Magnus is expecting you!"
Addressing the woman on the far side of the room sitting behind the desk, he tells her "The Northman's are here Magnus."
Walking the length drawing room/office, the couple notice row upon row of full bookshelves against the wall. Further, down they see a dark haired woman seated behind large a large oak desk. They recognize her immediately as Magnus, seated to her right is none other than Nikola Tesla. The most annoying vampire Eric ever met!
Eric's already sour mood went from bad to worse as he looked at Nikola saying with contempt in his voice, "It's been a long time since Paris Nikola...!" Crossing his arms over his chest saying, "Eighteen hundred and eighty-three wasn't it?"
Raising his eyebrows, they pull in to a slight furrow as Nikola smiled mockingly at Eric, saying with an arrogant aristocratic tone, "Has it been that long Eric...?" Scoffing he says in a penetrating tone, "Where does the time go!"
Getting more annoyed at both of them by the second Magnus folds her arms over her chest muttering in exasperation "honestly..., you two!" Looking like a cross-school principal chiding her students she mutters, "Are you quite through playing mine are bigger than yours?" Raising her eyebrow in annoyance Magnus says, "I thought John Druitt was bad!"
Looking at Sookie, Magnus gestures with her hands asking, "Would you come with me to the examination room...?"
Magnus's gives Sookie a sympathetic glance telling her "Those two acting like children." Raising her voice half an octave making sure they could hear her Magnus announces, "You must be scared enough as it is..., Mrs. Northman!"
"Please call me Sookie" Straining to get up out of her chair, she tells Magnus "No need to stand on formalities!"
"Alright..., in that case Sookie you may call me Helen!" Magnus tells her. "Shale we" Magnus pointed to the door.
Crossing the room to the door both Magnus & Sookie leave, headed to one of the sanctuaries many medical examination areas.
Looking back over her shoulder as they exit Magnus eyebrows forming an ever so slight furrow clinching her jaw tightly before calling out to both Eric & Nikola in disgust, "If you two children can behave yourselves... you can join us!"
Both men scowl as one another as they head for the door.
Making their way through the maze of corridors with Magnus leading the way to the Exam Room all the voices of the abnormal guests' race through Sookie's head filling it to the point she can hear nothing else.
Putting her hands on her temples Sookie starts gently rubbing them to ease the onslaught of pain that was sure to follow stating "All those voices..., Magnus!" Looking at Sookie in amazement Magnus asks her matter-of-factly, "You can hear them all the abnormal's in residence here at The Sanctuary?"
Sookie looks at Magnus confused, her knees stating to buckle from the strain of it all asking her "You can't!"
Magnus looks at Sookie telling her "We do not hold anyone against his or her will here Sookie." Furrowing her brow Magnus tells her "For the most part everyone here has come here of their own free will."
Sookie raises an eyebrow at the last statement asking flatly, "What does that mean Magnus...?"
Stopping dead in her tracks and pausing as she frowns saying in a flat tone of voice, "You mean to say you keep them captive?" Pausing if only momentarily before stating "Magnus!"
Magnus turns to face Sookie pausing as she looks at Sookie before saying in a curt tone, "regrettably...yes Sookie!" Magnus says as she pauses in silence once more choosing her next words with care "There are some abnormal's that are far too dangerous to be left running free Sookie."
Sookie gave Magnus a sideways glance at that remark hoping up on the table saying, "What does that mean?" Sookie started to think, If my child proves to be a a danger will she keep it?
"It means Mrs. Northman that not all our residence's here at Sanctuary are capable of coexisting with the rest of humanity." Magnus tells her in a penetrating voice, "It's a sad truth but there it is!"
Magnus tells her "I do apologize, Sookie this will be a bit cold!" It takes Sookie's body a moment to adjust to the feeling of the sensor of the ultrasound machine. Shriving Sookie cries "Ouch...!" as she shivers.
Both Eric and Nikola catch up to them just as the examination begins
Magnus looks at the image on the screen telling Sookie "I need to make an adjustment" Furrowing her brow she whispers "This can' be right!"
"According to this your four months pregnant" she plays with the controls on the scanner, Magnus says, "Their, that's better, everything seems normal but you said you're only a few weeks along...! Looking at Sookie,
Magnus tells her "Very odd"
Magnus was thinking to her self According to her she is only weeks pregnant... but this scan tells me she is months
30 minutes later back in the office of Dr. Helen Magnus, Nikola Tesla states, "The ultrasound was quite interesting..."
Becoming more irritated with his old friend Nikola by the second, Eric makes some kind of rude noise as he looks at Nikola stating in a low matter-offact tone of voice, "Get to the point, Nikola will you please!"
Nikola mutters, "This is the thanks I get Eric...?"
Putting his hand on his hips saying "I crises crossed the globe to find out what I can to help you."
Magnus gives Nikola I decidedly dirty look letting him know get to the point. "Now"
Nikola scowls saying "All right..., all right Magnus."
Composing himself once more he looks at Sookie saying, "My research on the subject since you conference with Magnus was quite reveling...!" Pausing to find the right words Nikola states, "From what I have discovered, it's not uncommon for a mother caring the child of a vampire to crave blood through the first trimester and even all the way though her pregnancy."
The strain on her body was showing and Sookie's tired and scared expression was getting worse by the second she looks at Nikola going from half asleep to wide awake in a split second she reached her wits end saying in a orotund tone , "So I am going to be craving blood..." Sookie's eyes start growing wider with each passing moment stating in a ringing tone "For the next nine months!"
Nikola pauses as still as a statue before telling them "Crave blood yes...!" Carry the child nine months no! "It will be three to four months!"
Getting rather annoyed with his old friend Eric asks Nikola in a shrill tone , "Is it normal for the human mother to go out hunting...!"
Eric looks first at Magnus then at Nikola as he deadpanned the comment "For blood..., Nikola?"
Anticipating Nikola's next question Eric admits, "Yes Nikola...She has..." Eric's Brows furrow and the right side of his mouth slants down Eric gazes intently out the window saying in a tremulous tone, "I am 1000 years old I haven't seen anything like it."
"Then she will need watching" said Magnus interjecting "Night and day!"
Magnus eyes soften as she looks at Sookie asking, "Would you like to know the sex!"
Sookie's hand moves over her belly almost cradling it as eyes widen asking, "You can tell that already!"
Magnus tells her softly "Yes, it maturing quite fast..., it's a girl!"
Eric examines Magnus's face as she speaks asking, "What are you not telling us?"
Magnus pauses for a breath before saying "As I told you... its growing fast!" Looking at Eric blank faced she stated quavering, "Alarmingly so Mr. Northman..."
Biting her lip Sookie asks, "Is that normal Magnus!"
Magnus eyebrows rise to a head she looks at them wide eyed tells her in a toneless voice, "The accelerated growth rate may kill you before its born Mrs. Northman."
Nikola asks, "May I call you Sookie..., Mrs. Northman?" Trying to keeping his tone even he says matter-of-factly, "Regrettably, the growth rate it's quite normal."
Alarmed but calm for the moment Eric states "A Dhampiresa" leave it to you to give birth to a legend Sookie dearest" Shaking his head Eric states, "I suspected as much!"
Wide-eyed Sookie looks at Eric asking, "What do you mean?"
Nikola looks at Sookie saying "No, he is quite right my dear...!" "There is a reason we don't know much is about Dhampiresa and Dampir bloodlines!"
Tears start streaming down Sookie's already bleary-eyed face at hearing Nikola's comments saying in a brittle tone of voice, "As if I were not scared enough as it is."
Nikola looks at her saying, "dry your eyes my dear...!" Handing her a box of Kleenex he says, "It is because in the entire vampire world they are the most hated!"
Sookie asks Nikola "Why...why they are hated so much."
Nikola tells them in a honeyed tone, "Because historically they would hunt vampires and kill them."
Eric's eyes become a deep shade of maroon, as body stiffens as he states emphatically through a snarl, "No child of mine will ever hunt vampires!"
"Uh Oh!" said Nikola "blood rage is taking over!" He declared.
Tired as she was Sookie summed up what little strength she had left slapping Eric across the face as hard as she could snapping him out of it! Eric turned to Sookie telling her "If anyone else had done what you just did-," Sookie cuts him off saying "They would be dead right now!"
