Thanks so much again to Evenflo78. Now to encourage reviewing, suggest to me movies for them to watch, or tell me of Stockholm if you've been there. If I get 5 or more reviews, you will get a nice lemon! After all it is a 9 hour plane ride for the next chapter I believe.
As the hours passed, sunset quickly arrived and Eric rushed outside to enjoy the beauty of it. Taking his phone with him, he watched as the sky showed an array of colors, orange, red, pink, purple. Ahhh so wondrous, my first sunset in over a millennium, I've never quite appreciated the beauty until now. Eric watched the sky grow darker and startedanticipating a call from the tricky, mischievous Pam. Perhaps I won't answer her call at first and let her panic just a little.
Sookie joined him outside, but he didn't seem to notice her presence until she hugged him from behind and looked up at him with so much love and appreciation. She's almost surprised to see tears in his eyes.
"It's so beautiful Sookie" Eric said in a husky voice.
"I know Eric, I know. I can't imagine not seeing a sunset or the sun for so long, then finally seeing it again"
He leaned down and gave her such tender kisses, the feeling of joy in both of them taking over.
"Wait lets go to my room" Sookie whispered.
They made love to each other, not noticing the phone ringing, multiple times.
After they finished and were lying in the bed peacefully, Eric looked at his phone and saw 5 missed calls from Pam. I didn't even notice it ringing. Pam must be truly terrified for me by now, calling me over and over in the space of about half an hour.
Eric quickly got dressed and picked up the phone to call back, when Pam came rushing in and hugged him for all she was worth.
"Ow, careful Pam. I'm a fragile human now remember?" Eric says with a laugh.
"Oh I'm so sorry master; I thought you were dead, or badly injured. When you didn't answer my call, I started flying over here as fast as I could. I'm so glad to see you're ok." Pam finally noticed that, of course, Eric wasn't alone. "I see you're more than ok." Pam said with a sly grin. "I'll leave you two to it."
"Oh, no you don't Pamela. We have some things to discuss, mainly your tricking Amelia into turning me human." Eric said sternly.
Meanwhile, Eric pulled Pam outside of the room so Sookie could get dressed properly, without Pam in the room.
"Well Eric, I've been seeing how much you and Sookie enjoy each other's company, and I thought maybe it would be nice to turn you human for a short time. This way you could have some peace and be able to spend some of her days with her. I didn't know about Bob, but I talked with Amelia under the pretense of turning me human, and she said there was a spell that could do it, but she would need some hair pulled out of my head. Since we have the same hair color, I thought it would be easy enough to give her yours."
"Pam, Pam, Pam, I trust you won't be doing this again. Will you?" Eric scowled even though he was human his vampiric tendencies held steadfast within.
"No, not on my undead life." Pam responded obediently.
"That's good to hear. Now, let's go in the kitchen where Sookie can't hear us. I have other things I must discuss with you."
"I'm planning on going to Sweden for a few weeks and will be taking Sookie with me. I'll need you to take care of the bar for me while we're gone. I'll also need you to send two waitresses to work at Merlotte's. Of course, they will need to be paid more than we're paying them now, to make up for the missing tips they would be getting from Fangtasia. I also believe my Sookie will need sweaters just in case."
"Ah yes, I'll get right on that. I do have some nice sweaters that Sookie can borrow, I'll be sure to have them when you need them. Also make sure you come see me before you leave, I'll have something ready for you in case of dire emergency." Like a pint of my blood specially stored in a container just in case. Pam thought ingeniously.
Eric looked at her with that last comment, and kept his thoughts to himself. Shouldn't be anything bad and Pam's probably feeling a bit guilty, or worried at the thought of me flying to and back from Sweden.
Eric hears Sookie coming downstairs and turns to see her looking as lovely as ever. She asked him what the discreet conversation was all about. Eric responds by stroking her arm and telling her it was only a little business he had to tend to, in light of the situation.
"Now," Eric begins, "What do you think about Sweden? I just need to call my private pilot and we'll leave early tomorrow. We can see the sunrise together, if you'd like of course." Eric said gleefully, unable to stop the smile that spread across his face. "I already talked to Sam about us leaving and I'm sending over some waitresses to cover for you."
"Wow! Sweden, that's so great, I think I'd love it, except… I don't have any clothes for the weather up there. Isn't it cold, even in summer?"
"Well surprisingly enough, no. We might want to get you some sweaters just in case though, it's slightly cooler than you're used to here. There's also much more daylight, since it's so far north."
Eric heads back upstairs to make hotel reservations for the next 3 weeks on Sookie's ancient computer, as well as calling Pam to tell her of the plan to leave in the early morning. She tells him she'll be bringing by the sweaters and her little something and will see them off on our trip.
Eric then, calls the pilot to make arrangements to fly to Sweden. He tries to object but Eric quickly offers him double the usual rate. The pilot agrees and says he'll be there with a co-pilot, since it's such a long flight.
"I'm going to Sweden tomorrow!" Sookie tells Amelia excitedly. "You're free to stay in the house while I'm gone. Tray's also welcome to stay with you if you like, in the guest room."
Amelia squealed in her excitement for Sookie. "Hey Sookie, I know a spell that I can use to block your telepathy for your trip. That way you wouldn't have to try to keep everyone out of your head when you should be relaxing."
"That would be great Amelia, just make sure you do everything right and follow the directions precisely." Sookie said with nudging Amelia playfully.
"I'll get right on it, to give the spell plenty of time to start working." Amelia says as she skips off towards her room.
They heard a car driving up and looked outside to see a black Lincoln in the driveway. Sookie went downstairs to invite Pam in, and noticed some beautiful warm sweaters, as well as a small container.
Eric comes downstairs after hearing a car and to see Pam in the kitchen. He asks her about the container and she tells him that it's some of her blood specially stored. Eric watches as Sookie begins trying on the sweaters and is glad to see they fit her well.
Her blood will work well enough if only Sookie or I get hurt. I hope we don't both get dangerously injured and knocked unconscious, then that blood will do us no good. Eric thinks to himself and immediately tries brushing off that worry and think about enjoying vacationing in Stockholm.
Pam has also brought Eric clothes in a suitcase in her car. She helps Sookie get packed and they all sit down in the living room to watch TV. A peaceful silence between them passes as they wait for the driver to arrive.
After a while, Amelia comes downstairs and taps Sookie on the shoulder.
"Can you hear what I'm thinking at you?" Amelia asks hopefully, knowing she's such a good broadcaster.
"No I can't" Sookie says, smiling brightly. "Thank you so much." She squeals giving Amelia a hug.
Pam looks at Amelia with a greatly embarrassed look, knowing that the jig is up, and has been up. Pam leads her into the kitchen gently. "Amelia, I know I tricked you, I just wanted Eric to experience being human again for a short while, I'm sorry. I imagine he tried scaring you when he figured it out?"
"Yes he did, he jumped out of my closet at me!" Amelia responded still horrified at the memory. "Well it's too late now, and I'll be able to spend a lot of time with Tray in this house with Sookie and Eric gone." Amelia said, winking at Pam.
Pam's tinkling laugh filled the tiny room and Amelia soon found herself joining in.