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I went home by myself that night, Wayne dropped me off. Eric was busy trying to sort things out with the Queen and I didn't want to be there any more. I didn't turn on the TV I knew it would just have something stupid on, instead I sat up reading. I didn't even look up when Eric came in.
"You didn't fed enough today." He said, not even greeting me.
"I wasn't hungry." I replied not looking up from my book.
"Do not force me to make you eat." He said his voice dangerously low.
"I'm not asking you to." I said and in a split second Eric was straddling me, my book was gone and my arms were pinned to the bed.
"I shouldn't have to tell you to feed, you should just do it." He said and I looked up at him.
"And I will, when I'm hungry." I said, Eric's Fangs clicked out and I kept still.
"I'm not in the mood Ava, I do not need to worry about you going into blood lust or getting weak." He said and I didn't respond.
"I know you are upset with me, I understand that. Right now is not the time to be trying to have a child. I told you we would look into it and we will. But it is too dangerous to have you pregnant and I don't know that I can protect you." Eric said and I relaxed a little, its not that he didn't want to, he was worried about it.
"Eric…" I started trying to reassure him.
"Not now, right now you will go into the kitchen and feed." Eric said but he still didn't let me up.
"Yes, okay I'll go feed." I said and I did, he was "asleep" by the time I got back.
The next night I sat out in the club with Pam, Eric was having meetings in his office all night and apparently I was "not required" to be there, which in Eric talk means get out and stay out until I call for you. Of course I was annoyed but I sat just watching the humans for a while. I wanted to go out, do something but Eric was still in full blown protective mode which meant I wasn't allowed to go anywhere alone.
"Let's go shopping." I said to Pam and she smirked.
"Eric wants you here." She replied and I wrinkled my nose.
"Don't see why, he's barely spoken to me all night." I said, pouting a little.
"That's because I've been busy." Eric said appearing beside me and I groaned.
"I hate it when you do that." I said annoyed and he just kissed my neck a bit.
"I know you do, that's why I do it. Pam we're going out. Ava you can take Donald shopping with you." Eric said and Pam stood up, I just looked at Eric as he stepped away from me.
"Where are you going?" I demanded, Pam paused and glanced to Eric who came back to me and put his hand around my throat, not tightly but enough that I was paying attention.
"Out, you may go shopping then return home." He said his voice soft but sharp at the same time.
"Can I use the credit card?" I asked softly and Eric nodded a little, gave my throat a bit of a squeeze and left. I did go shopping, dragging poor Donald around with me, and I racked up a huge credit card bill too. Eric was stressed, its not often he got like this and I knew better then to push his limits but I was bored, I was being shut out of things he was doing and I hated it. After I put my things away I got in the tub, it was big enough for both Eric and I to fit in it, and every once in a while we would bath together but tonight I just soaked by myself. I wanted candles but had to settle for mini Christmas lights instead, they were pretty but not the same. I was still in the tub when Eric came home, he was more relaxed now but still on edge, I could sense it.
"Eva where are you?" He called and I rolled my eyes, he could sense where I was.
"In the bath." I called back and he came in taking off his jacket.
"How was shopping?" He asked and I shrugged a little.
"You won't like the bill." I said and he smirked a bit coming over.
"I never do." Eric said before leaning down and kissing me.
"How was…out?" I asked and he looked down over me.
"I'm not telling you things because I can not, and its better you don't know." He said and I frowned at him.
"We promised not to keep things from each other." I said and that was true, from even before he turned me, when I told him I was sick he made me promise not to hide something like that again from him.
"You promised not to hide things, I didn't. And I don't usually unless I have good reason." He said and I turned my head away.
"Pam gets to know." I said and Eric turned my head back to look at him.
"Pam can take care of herself, and is required to know, you are not." He said and I looked up at him.
"When will you stop protecting me from everything?" I asked and Eric looked down at me.
"You are mine, and I will protect you from what I think is necessary." He said and I sighed.
"Fine when will you stop treating me like a child?" I asked and he got up.
"When you stop acting like one." He said as he left the bathroom. Eric and I rarely fought for more then a few days, normally we just talked about it and it was over. I got out of the tub and followed him.
"Do you wish I had powers like Sookie? Or could fly like you?" I asked and Eric looked at me from the bed. All vampires had powers, mine hadn't developed yet.
"Enough Ava!" Eric boomed and I looked at him still dripping from the tub. I didn't know what to say, Eric just ran his fingers through his hair.
"Come to bed, we both need rest. Tomorrow we can sit down and talk about this; I'm too stressed out to talk to you about this." He said not looking at me, and I climbed into bed not even bothering to dry off.
