Hi there everyone. Everybody is speculating why this story isn't as crazy or drama filled as my previous stories. In the story the precedes this one, Thou Art to Me a Delicious Torment, Eric at one point decides that he wants to give Sookie a peaceful and full life. While I want their life together to be an adventure, I also want the couple to have some peace with their children as they continue to grow as a family. That is my goal with A Loving Peace.
So there won't be too much more drama. I am thinking that this story will be done soon and then it will be on to whatever my next story is.
So let me know what y'all think and thanks for reading!
(And I can't wait for TB Season 5 so I get a whole new batch of inspiration to start writing!)
A Loving Peace
Chapter 7
Eric
Eric thrummed his fingers on the patio table by their pool. It had arrived while Sookie was taking an afternoon nap. Now he was anxiously waiting for her to wake up.
He called out for Godric to make sure he and Lily stayed in the shallow end of the pool as Godric tried to get past the rope separating the deep end and the shallow end. They had two swim instructors over at the house three days a week to teach Godric and Lily how to swim.
Lily was only on how to blow bubbles in the water and dog paddling. She hadn't quite mastered how to float on her back, but tried really hard. Eric checked his bond with Sookie. She was still snoozing.
Damn. She had been sleeping for two hours. That wasn't normal for a nap was it?
He stood and said, "Jag kommer att gå kolla på din mamma, du beter(I am going to go check on your mother, please behave)."
Lily and Godric didn't even acknowledge him, completely focused on their swim instructors. Eric only smiled and shook his head. They were such cute little monsters.
He sped to their room and peeked inside.
He slowly climbed in bed next to her and she immediately began to stir. She turned towards him and gave him a sleepy smile. She looked fucking adorable. She was sleeping in one of his t-shirts. "Hi, baby. What time is it?" she asked as she yawned and stretched.
A little after six. Her eyebrows popped up and he smiled and said, "I have something for you."
"Oooh yes, where are the kids?" she asked reaching for him, a lustful look in her eyes.
He laughed loudly and Sookie looked confused, but also amused. "What?"
"No I have a gift for you, lover. Though I could also give you that," he said wrapping his arms around her, getting himself a nice handful of her ass.
Sookie pushed him to lie on his back and straddled him. "I want you first."
Eric growled and claimed her lips massaging her ass. She reached between them and ran her hand into his pants and massaged him.
He growled, already responding to her touch and removed her, or rather his, shirt.
She closed her eyes and breathed deeply as he cupped her breasts and grinded her hot center over his now rock hard dick. "God damn," she whispered as she leaned down and kissed him again softly.
Sookie ran her fingers in his hair as she kissed him and he reached between them and massaged her over her underwear. She grinded against his hand and said, "I need you."
The way she said it was so sweet and soft. It was simple and demanding.
He slid her underwear over her beautiful bottom and with Sookie's help got out of his own pants and shirt. Sookie eased down onto him causing both of them to groan in happiness. They had been having sex on the sly for a while, now that both Godric and Lily were making regular appearances in their bed at night. Even though they had sex regularly, the idea of limitation was causing them to use every opportunity to have sex.
In the stables, the shower, the garden, in the hall closets, in Eric's office, hell even in the darkened garage. If possible, they were having even more sex than they normally would.
Sookie rode Eric slowly at first, but gradually picked up her pace, angling her hips looking for the right angle she liked. Eric knew better and rolled them, hooking her legs high on his hips and plunging into her deep. She moaned out his name as he expertly found her spot and he leaned down as she arched her back and took her breast in his mouth, kissing it thoroughly before moving to its neighbor.
Sookie raised her hips up looking for more, and he decided to switch their positions again. He slid out of her warmth and dragged her practically limp body up to face the headboard of the bed. He grabbed her hands and placed them on it for support, her hips slightly bent and he growled at the view before him.
She looked behind her, wondering what was taking so long and nudged him with her foot to tell him to get to it already. "Impatient little fairy."
She only nodded and made a frustrated sound as she rubbed her ass against him. He growled and grabbed her hips and plunged into her from behind. "Fucking perfect," he moaned as he rubbed the beautiful ass he was pounding into.
Sookie was completely lost to what he was doing. Eric thrust forward and pulled Sookie's hips back simultaneously. Sookie's hands were white from gripping the headboard so hard and her neck was bent all the way back as she panted and breathed heavily. Eric loved when her hair was wild and flowing over her shoulders and back, slightly sweaty from their lovemaking.
Eric grabbed it and gave it a light tug causing Sookie to bark out in pleasure and arch her back even more.
He was close and so was Sookie. As he went deep, she clenched her inner muscles around him and straightened, placing her back right against his chest and pushing him backward so that he was in a kneeling sitting position. Eric growled in response. One hand went behind him as the other wrapped around her and grabbed her breast and massaged it in his hand as he thrust up in her.
He bent his face towards her neck and her artery raised in anticipation as it felt his lips touch the skin there, kissing her tenderly. She raised her hand and ran it up to cup his cheek, stroking it to encourage him to bite.
When he did, the blood soaked his tongue and coursed down his throat. His body sang with the taste and power of her blood coursing through him. Sookie cried out and began to come and he exploded into her and clenched her tighter to him as his seed continued to spew into her.
She trembled in his arms as he continued to drink and she mumbled, "Fuck Eric, I want more."
He growled and sealed the wound, kissing her tenderly on the neck and shoulders. "Me too," he murmured against the skin right behind her ear. Sookie leaned forward and lay on her stomach pulling him with her.
He lay on her side, kissing up and down her smooth and tan back, worshipping her.
"I can hear the kids climbing out of the pool," he said in a tortured voice as he kissed the side of her breast.
Sookie moaned in protest and rolled to her side. She reached for him, looking to claim his lips which were kissing their way up her abdomen, her breasts, her neck and then her lips.
They made out like teens for a while until Sookie pulled away and said, "The swim teachers are wondering where we are."
Eric growled and reluctantly pulled away, locating Sookie's discarded underwear and his own clothing. She wriggled into her underwear, which was something Eric couldn't seem ignore, not that he tried.
She then walked topless to the closet and slipped in to put on some clothes as he slipped into his clothes. After he slipped his shirt over his head, he turned to the bed and smoothed out the bedding to hide the evidence of their earlier love making.
Sookie then slipped out in a casual dress and a pair of flip flops as she walked over to Eric. When she stopped in front of him and stood on her toes, angling her face for a kiss, he wrapped his arms around her and placed a light kiss when he heard Lily call out for him.
She nodded in understanding and took his hand and walked out of their room and down their hallway to the stairs. Eric said, "I didn't give you a chance to give you a present."
"After what we just did, I don't need any present," she said with a smile on her face as they began descending the stairs.
He chuckled and said, "I will give you your present anyway. At dinner."
Sookie nodded and kissed the back of the hand she held in her own.
Sookie
Godric then spotted them and ran to Sookie and Eric. Eric swung him up and asked, "Hur kom resten av dina simma lektioner gå? (How did the rest of your swim lessons go)?"
"Bra (Fine)," he responded. "Elin gör verkliga korv och hamburgare (Elin is making real hot dogs and hamburgers)!"
"Verkliga? What do you mean real ones?" Sookie asked him with an amused smile on her face, baiting him.
"American."
Sookie chuckled as Eric shook his head in humored disbelief. They had been debating about American cuisine in their family lately. Godric wanted more "real" food aka Sookie's southern home cooking. To be honest, she did miss cooking for her children, but the food Eric's staff had been feeding her had been too delicious to put up a fight for the job.
Now Sookie tried to make a few "real" meals a week for Lily and Godric and the staff were more than intrigued by her methods in the kitchen.
"Your American "real" meals are actually rip offs of all the other cultures they were borrowed from," Eric said stubbornly.
"Not true," Sookie said as she smacked Eric's arm.
"Yeah, not true," Godric said.
Agda then walked in the room holding Lily's hand, who then dropped Agda's hand and clapped excitedly and ran to Sookie. "Mommy!" followed by her baby babble.
Sookie crouched down and held open her arms for her daughter, who walked awkwardly over to her on unsteady legs. "Yes, baby girl. Come to momma and tell her all about your swim lesson."
Sookie buried her nose in Lily's hair, smelling her child's chlorine saturated scent. Eric copied her with Godric's head.
Sookie lifted Lily up in her arms and followed Eric and Godric out to the pool area. Eric set Godric down on the chair at their outside table (another wood carved creation of Eric's) as Sookie sat Lily in her high chair.
Elin and her new sous chef Verner were at the grill speaking in rapid Swedish about if they were making the American food correctly.
"Jag är säker på att det kommer att bli gott. Det luktar fantastiskt Elin och Verner (I am sure it will be delicious. It smells amazing Elin and Verner)," Sookie reassured them.
Elin and Verner gave her a nervous smile and turned back to the burgers and hotdogs sizzling on the grill. Eric sped off somewhere causing Lily to give an excited gasp, her eyes trying to make sense of the fact that her daddy was there one moment, and then gone the next.
Eric then reappeared just as quickly as he disappeared and held a white envelope out to Sookie just as Verner set a plate in front of her and Godric. Sookie took a bite of her hotdog, nodding to a nervous Elin and giving her a thumbs up to indicate the food was just as good as she had predicted. She then held her hand out to Eric and said, "Did this cost a fortune? I swear to God if this is a deed to another house Eric Northman," she warned as she swallowed.
Eric only chuckled and said, "Open it, Sookie."
Sookie popped a potato chip in her mouth as she began opening the envelope. While she did, Eric sat and made sure Lily was eating her food instead of throwing it down to their beautiful pair of Great Swiss Mountain dogs, Thor and Loki.
Sookie unfolded the letter, which she recognized was one from the Authority.
After some words she hadn't covered from her word of the day calendar, her jaw dropped once she realized the gist of the letter.
They could go home.
Sookie teared up and looked at Eric.
He smiled and nodded his head.
"We can leave as early as next week," he said as Verner set a snifter of blood.
Next week she could be home in Louisiana. With Jason, Pam, Isabelle, Patty, and everyone else from her life there.
Godric, mouth full of food, "Go where next week?" he asked, confused.
"Back to Louisiana," Eric responded.
"To Pammy? And Uncle Jason?" he asked excitedly.
Eric nodded and said to him, "Yes, I haven't told your Aunt Pam yet, because I thought you and Lily would want to tell her as a special surprise tonight."
Godric nodded and clapped his hands excitedly.
Lily continued to eat, not understanding what they were discussing.
"Can we tell her now?" he asked, beginning to slide out of his chair..
"We will once we finish dinner," Eric replied, pointing to Godric's still full plate of food.
Godric slumped back in his chair and grabbed another handful of chips, munching on them.
Sookie felt Eric's eyes on her and said, "are we sure it's safe to go back?" she asked nervously.
She didn't want to get the kids hopes up. Or her own.
Eric leaned forward and explained in his calming deep voice, "Sookie, I have been in contact with the Authority ever since Nora showed up with Isabelle on our door a year ago. We have been in negotiations since that date. The Authority refused to negotiate regarding a pardon for Nora because she is seen as a traitor, passing on confidential inside information to us. She is banished from America until there is a pardon. If she does return the states without a pardon, she will be put to the true death. Nora has never been intrigued by America, so it will not be a challenge for her to make the rest of the world her home."
Sookie remained silent, eating her hamburger and drinking her iced tea as she listened to him. This was the most he had really talked about his conversations with the Authority.
"We are not in the same situation as Nora. We are not traitors and we are simply a family that went on vacation, following the proper protocol for taking such a leave."
"And the interest in me? Is that gone now too?" she asked as Elin gave her another hot dog. Sookie said, "Elin efter detta jag är bra, tack (Elin after this one I am good, thank you)."
Elin nodded and headed back to the grill. Godric was throwing small chunks of his hot dog to Thor and Loki, who were fighting over the scraps at their feet.
Eric looked at Sookie and gave her his most reassuring smile. "Their interest in you is what took me so long to negotiate the return home. I had to tell them you were a telepath. There was already so much interest surrounding you, especially after they suspected you of killing both Bill and Nan, who were high ranking members. They needed some kind of an explanation for the secrecy and I had to give it to them. Please forgive me, but I did it because this small admission makes them think this is all we have been hiding. I have negotiated contracts that they may hire you out if you would like to assist them and I approve. I will also be present for every reading. I also included the clauses that said you would only assist in reading humans if they follow our original agreement of handing over the humans guilty of anything over to the human authorities and not exacting punishment themselves."
"And they were play with all these stipulations?" Sookie asked genuinely interested in his answer.
"Not at first. But I had told them this was the only way we would return home. And they would be gaining a telepath for hire and a sufficient sheriff for Louisiana area five once more."
Sookie scoffed, "Sufficient? Now you are fishing for compliments, Viking."
He chuckled, taking a sip of his blood and asked, "So? What are you thinking min strålande fru (my radiant wife)?"
Sookie looked at their gorgeous Swedish home, the grounds, the staff that had become family. Eric could see she was torn.
"Sookie, this is not choice you have to make. Here or there... we can always return here. I just want you to know that home is now accessible to you. I know you have been missing it and that you are afraid that Godric and Lily will not know your culture and their roots. And I completely understand. We have been in Sweden two years now, and away from Louisiana a lot longer than that."
Sookie chewed her bottom lip. She would miss Elin and Agda. Adolf and even the newcomer Verner. The gardener Gjord. She would miss their days at the beach. She would not miss the winter. That was for damn sure.
Sookie leaned forward and took Eric's hand in her own. "Its ns not that I don't want to jump at the chance. I just don't want to make this decision for our family. I feel we should make it as a family. I know I have been missing Louisiana but what do you want, Eric?"
"I want you to be happy. I want Godric and Lily to be happy. I want to see my progeny. I want Pam and Jason in our children's lives. But most importantly, as long as I am with you and our barn (kids), I am happy and couldn't care less where we live," he responded to her.
Sookie squeezed his hand and then lifted it to her lips. "I feel your honesty. I don't deserve you min man (my husband)," she whispered sincerely, tears in her eyes.
Eric smiled and stood, leaning over the table and kissed her lips, wiping the tears from her eyes.
"So? Are we going home, Sookie?" he asked as he sat back down draining his blood.
Sookie turned to where Lily and Godric were now running around in the yard with the dogs and called out to them. They ran over with the dogs on running around barking with their tongue hanging out of their mouth and the tails wagging frantically.
Lily collapsed in Sookie's lap, looking up at her laughing and panting, trying to catch her breath.
Godric simply fell to the ground, letting the enormous dogs clobber him with kisses. "Listen to your mom," Eric ordered.
Godric sat up and looked to his mom as the dogs lay down next to Godric. Sookie lifted Lily to her lap and said, "Your daddy has suggested we move back to Louisiana, where Pam and Jason are. But if you don't want to leave this home, we don't have to. We can stay here, or we can go on vacation somewhere else. What do y'all think?" she asked them.
Lily was still catching her breath as she sucked on her thumb and Godric asked, "We would get to be with Pammy, Aunt Isabelle and Uncle Jason?"
Sookie nodded and recognized that Godric too was torn. She tried to peek into his mind, but he was as good as his mother when it came to building walls to keep people out. She projected to him, 'It's okay, go ahead and tell us what you want, honey'.
"Do we have to leave Thor and Loki?" he asked, looking nervous as he pet Loki on the head.
Eric chuckled and said, "No we can bring Thor and Loki and anything else from here we want. Except Agda and the rest of the people who work in the house. Their homes are here along with their families."
"We would never see them again?" he asked, his voice getting upset.
"No, baby, we can come back to Sweden anytime you want to see them or live here in this the house. Like your daddy told me, we can go back and forth between here and Louisiana as much as you want," Sookie reassured them.
Lily continued to suck her thumb as Thor licked her toes, causing them to flex as she giggled. Sookie could see in her daughter's mind that she was not really aware of the conversation that was going on around her, but that she was happy. Sookie looked to Godric who looked like he was getting more and more decisive.
Sookie now wondered which he was leaning toward. Either way she would do what he wanted. Sookie was homesick, but she also had found a second home in Sweden as well. Maybe Jason and Pam could come and live with them for a while. Sookie reminded herself that if Godric chose Sweden, then they could always revisit that decision after some time. She just wanted her kids and her husband to be happy.
"I want to go to Louisiana to Aunt Pam, Aunt Isabelle, and Uncle Jason. As long as Thor and Loki can come too," he said.
Eric said, "That is your only reservation? Thor and Loki?"
Godric nodded and Sookie bounced Lily on her lap in excitement. "Do you hear that baby girl? We are goin' home!"
-Two Weeks Later-
BUMP! Bump! Whoooooossh. They landed. Sookie exhaled and released her death grip on Eric's hand. He flexed it and winced to be funny and Sookie giggled as she blushed.
"Hey I am gettin' better! Lay off of me!" she exclaimed as she waited for the plane to slowly finish taxiing down the runway and stop.
When it finally stopped and Captain Tyler emerged from the cockpit, he began preparing to unload everybody and everything. Sookie chuckled as Godric sprinted to the front of the plane, his feel falling heavily causing an echo throughout the airplane's cabin, asking if he could help.
Captain Tyler is a good and patient man, Sookie thought to herself as she picked a now awakened Lily who was rubbing her eyes. She looked for Sookie and once her eyes settled on her mother she lifted her arms and clenched and unclenched her hands to tell Sookie she wanted to be picked up.
Sookie went to the built in playpen and lifted her in her arms, "Did you have a good nap baby girl?"
She nodded her head as she rubbed her eyes looking around the cabin for Eric and her brother.
Lily looked to Sookie and asked, "GodicK?"
"He is here honey. He is gettin' off the plane to help Captain Tyler," she responded as she reached for their travel bag.
Sookie began walking off the plane just as Eric came up behind her with the rest of their essential luggage and took her bag from her shoulder as they headed to the front of the plane.
As they turned to get off the plane, Sookie gasped when she saw the runway. It was completely glammed out. There was a large elegant party with candles, lanterns, and a bar of cocktails and appetizers.
Sookie smiled and her eyes were stinging as everyone in the crowd said, "Welcome Home!" all at once.
Lily waved her hands excitedly causing many in the crowd to laugh and clap. Godric was already running toward Jason and a crying Pam, throwing his arms around Pam's neck. She picked him up easily and swung him around. When she set him down he repeated the same hug with Jason who held onto him and appeared to be asking him questions.
Sookie felt a gentle nudge and she realized she had been frozen looking at the friendly faces below her. Eric was smiling down at her and inclined his head to get her moving down the airplane stairs.
She saw almost all of Bon Temps there, Isabelle, and many she didn't recognize but she knew that Eric did. Sookie smiled out at the crowd, her eyes falling on Jason and Pam, who were definitely the culprits behind this party.
Sookie reached the bottom of the stairs and set Lily down who ran toward the crowd of smiling faces. She ran right into Jason's arms who kissed her forehead and cheeks before Pam snatched her out of his arms and showered her with kisses and French praise.
Sookie was so happy. Eric grabbed her hand and led her the rest of the way to the crowd. As she flung her arms around Jason, she let out the biggest smile.
She was home.
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