Tara waited until she saw Sookie getting off of work at Merlotte's and approached her by her car, in the parking lot...
"Sookie?"
Sookie didn't even look startled.
"Tara. When did you get back?"
Tara didn't answer.
"I woke up to find that some strange woman had been watching my babies all day. You would do that to me Sookie? You would just quit looking after Alex and Ilsa like that?"
Sookie looked around, then folded her arms.
"I don't know what to say to you, Tara Mae Thornton Compton Northman! I mean I believed you when you said you wanted a life with Alcide."
"I do...did, Sookie! But I accepted that what happened, happened."
"Alcide would never accidentally stake himself! Even drunk! Hell, vampires can't get drunk, Tara! Now what really happened?" Sookie asked in a no-nonsense manner.
"Look, you deserve to know. Eric told me that he went over to see Alcide and found him conspiring with Debbie's ghost. They were going to stake him on the sly. When Eric confronted Alcide, Alcide tried to get Eric to do it then and there. Eric...Eric shoved Alcide in front of him."
"Oh. My. Fucking. God. Are you kidding me? Eric got Alcide staked?"
"It was either him or Alcide, Sookie. I don't like what went down but I don't have any choice but to move on."
"You do have a choice! Tara, before all of this happened, you were going to court to get custody of your babies."
"Eric tricked me into signing a marriage document! I can't sue for shit now! I'm not happy about what happened. You have to know that. I loved Alcide. We were trying to make a life together. But I'm in this now. I'm married and I don't see the point in looking back."
Sookie shook her head.
"The least you can do is honor Alcide by not staying with Eric!"
"Sookie, I just fucking told you that I was tricked here! I was only able to divorce Bill, because he never loved me. Eric isn't going to let me out of this marriage. And if he does, he'll insist on keeping Ilsa and Alex. If you care about them, then you'll come back and watch them during the day for me. Did Sam and LaFayette quit helping out as well?"
Sookie nodded. Tara threw up her hands! Damn!
"What would you have me do Sookie? I can't fight Eric."
"You think you can't! You have a nice income no thanks to being Bill's wife. And it doesn't end because you're Eric's wife now. You have just as much as he does for lawyers."
"How about I don't want my babies to end up like I did? I have my problems with Eric, but at least he's there. Either you're going to understand or you won't."
Sookie ignored that last part.
"I don't suppose you know why Bill helped Eric lie about this, do you?"
Tara remembered Ben and answered her question with a question.
"Why? Has this caused trouble for Bill and you?"
"You're damned right it has! I wasn't buying that stupid 'Alcide got drunk and accidentally killed himself' shit! And I couldn't understand why Bill would help Eric cover up like that. I still don't."
"So Bill and you aren't together?" Tara asked.
"No, Tara, I just told you we weren't! Since when do you care?"
"Hey!" Tara snapped. "Don't jump all over me just because your shit is messed up! If Bill did help Eric, he probably had a good reason! And why are you making this about you? Alcide is the one that got staked here!"
"He was my friend. And I thought he was something to you too."
"Okay, I take it you won't be helping out with Ilsa and Alex anymore. Nice. See now, I have to put up with some Nazi sounding bitch Eric hired, all because you won't act right. Thanks again, Sookie!"
And with that, Tara used her vampire speed to leave Sookie in Merlotte's parking lot. Sookie, who had been about to open her door, instead, turned and went back inside Merlotte's. She planned on telling Sam and LaFayette about what Tara had just told her about Alcide's murder.
Meanwhile, Ilsa was crying in King Eric's arms! He looked at Ben.
"Why is she carrying on so?" he asked in wonder.
"Your Highness," Ben said reluctantly, "you may look like her father, but somehow, she may be able to sense you are not."
"But I am! She was conceived when Tarayan was with ME!" King Eric snapped. His loud voice only made Ilsa cry even harder! Soon, Alexander began to whimper. King Eric set Ilsa down.
"I plan to arrange a nice marriage for you." he said, smiling down at his daughter, who was still crying. He then gingerly picked up Alexander.
"And you, my namesake, will carry on as King once I die. You will love Northland. Both of you will."
Alexander stared at King Eric as if he didn't know who the hell he was either! King Eric was unnerved by the pointed look from his own son, and set him back down as well! Damn that vampire impostor! HE had done this! HE had turned his children against him!
Tara returned from seeing Sookie and sensed strangers in the house. Or she smelled them. But when Ben and 'Eric' appeared, she wondered how her sense of vampire smell could've been so off?
And why was Ilsa crying like that?
"What the hell is going on up in here?" she asked, eyeing Ben. Why was he here?
King Eric spoke.
"Tara, Ben and I..."
"Uh, do you hear Ilsa crying?" Tara interrupted. She hurried past the two vamps and into the babies room. Ben looked at King Eric.
"I have to make sure that your look alike's prison is secure. Be careful. I know you plan on revealing your true identity to your wife soon. But do remember the people here that hate him, that will think he is you. You are not the thousand year old vampire he is."
"I realize that. My family's stay here WILL be brief." King Eric assured him. Ben then left the house. Tara had finished calming Ilsa down and putting her into her crib. Alexander stared at her with sleepy eyes. Tara smiled at both of them, before easing from the room. She left the door ajar and faced 'Eric'.
"What was Ben doing here?" Tara asked, moving by him.
"He told me who he really was." King Eric told her. Tara stopped walking and turned to face him. What?! She had thought Ben understood her, back in Paris, when she warned him about saying anything to Eric. What had changed his mind?
"So you're okay with his lying to you to get to Sookie?"
"I think Sookie ought to give what Ben is proposing some thought."
Tara looked him over.
"You're kidding, right?"
"No. I want you to speak to Sookie and..."
"Uh, I know what Ben wants me to do! Why do YOU want me to?"
"I don't follow you?" King Eric asked, confused.
"If Ben hooks up with Sookie, there goes your chance to keep her as a mistress or a human wife..."
King Eric could stand no more! He had been away from Tarayan for what seemed like an eternity! He closed the short distance between them and covered her lips with his own! Tara was a little startled by Eric's sudden intensity, and dragged her mouth from his.
"I told you before I left here, that you weren't getting fucked until you got rid of that Baroness bitch."
King Eric could not follow what the hell Tarayan was saying! He just knew he needed to be inside of her NOW!
"I don't follow you..." he asked almost breathlessly.
"You don't follow me? I don't want that woman being our nanny! I don't care how old a friend she is!"
"Was she old?"
Tara raised a brow.
"Was who old?"
"This Baroness Bitch? Because I drained her."
Tara backed back a bit.
"You drained your old friend?"
"You did not like her, correct?"
"No...uh...but it didn't mean you had to..."
King Eric suddenly seized Tara in his arms and kissed her hard! His hands roamed her body, until he lifted her and set her down on the drink cart, which was devoid of any bottles. Tara didn't know if the idea of Eric killing that Nazi woman, turned her on or what, but she eagerly helped her 'husband' remove his pants, as he pulled her dress up with one hand and ripped off her underwear with the other.
King Eric yanked Tara forward onto his searing length and then began pushing the drink cart, using vampire speed, all around the house! The cart zoomed and rocked so violently, that the result caused Tara to boost up and down at a furious pace on King Eric's manhood!
The cart was discarded in the kitchen, as King Eric, without breaking rhythm, lifted Tara onto the counter and she grabbed an overhead rack to keep her balance, yelling out while her breasts swung wildly. King Eric rested his hands other hips to keep her balanced, smiling as Tara released her passion over and over again. He planned on taking her over and over again, until he had exhausted himself. His longing for her had always been limitless and what was happening now was proof of that.
Tara could not understand why she suddenly felt as if she could not get enough of Eric! He cupped her buttocks and she released her hold on the overhead rack, gripping his shoulders for support, as he lowered both of them down onto the kitchen floor, with him on his back. Tara slowly moved upon him until they both settled into a vibrating rhythm that seemingly would not end.
As King Eric and Tara finally settled in their bed and let their hands just explore one another, Ben had a problem.
He had come upon Bill Compton and Sookie Stackhouse, trying to free Eric Northman from his prison!
"You're saying this creature has come seeking Sookie?" Bill asked, as Sookie threw a tiny, fairy dust like ball, at Eric's 'prison'.
"Yes! He is in collusion with that 'other' me. I have no doubt Tara is fucking him now."
"And that doesn't bother you?" Bill asked. Sookie tried to hit the prison again, but with little success.
"I think she needs to get him out of her system. This Ben Flynn is the one that has power enough to return this impostor, Tara and our children, to this other reality. I won't allow it."
Sookie finally spit on her hand, then produced a huge fairydust ball! She flung it at Eric's prison and it suddenly disappeared!
The real Eric was free.
Ben couldn't afford to reveal himself, just yet. But Northman could not be allowed to run loose either.
"Okay, well let's get back to the house," Sookie said, "and I'm sorry, Eric, but I don't agree. Tara needs to know the truth."
"This King Eric plans on telling her the truth before he leaves. That won't be happening. I can feel how she's feeling now. It is clear they have been intimate."
Bill and Sookie looked at one another, then looked at Eric.
"And again," Bill said, "you don't have a problem with that?"
"He is me. I am him. I will spend some time with Nora until this matter clears up."
"And what about Ilsa and Alex?" Sookie threw out.
"He will not harm 'our' children. But Tara will finally have to choose-me. So I am giving them both time to say goodbye. Tara will say goodbye to this man for good. And King Eric will say goodbye to any world, once I am through with him. Now let's get out of here. That changeling will probably be on his way back soon, looking for you." he said, looking at Sookie.
"I still don't quite understand that." Sookie grumbled.
Bill looked at Eric, then to Sookie.
"I think somehow Tara is supposed to make you understand. We'll just have to see if she brings this creature up to you." Bill said.
"Okay, well I'm definitely going back to baby-sitting. Someone has got to look after Tara and the babies while you 'let her get this out of her system'." Sookie said with disapproval. She just didn't believe that playing games here, was the way to handle this problem.
Meanwhile, Ben watched the trio walk off. He would contact King Eric later to tell him of his counterpart's escape and that he planned to not interfere...for now. Ben's eyes watched Sookie's retreating back. She was a halfling. She should've never been able to break Eric Northman out of that contraption and yet she did.
It made Ben want his 'princess' all the more.
