Ch. 9 Everything happens when the sun goes down

An hour later my grandfather placed his hands on my shoulders and closed his eyes. Pam, Eric, and I stood perfectly still as my grandfather started to glow bright. He looked stunningly beautiful and fearful at the same time. When he opened his eyes they were a bright gold and smoldering. The power held within them making them glow even more and making me hypnotized.

"May them be released to you," he said and I saw some sort of ripple through the air flow from him to me. I stepped back and saw in the window's reflection that I was now glowing too. It was as if I was a great ball of sunshine. Slowly though the radiance began to dim and my skin went back to its natural pale color.

"So I have my powers back again?" I asked to confirm and my grandfather (who was not glowing anymore) smiled at me.

"Yes."

"Can she try them out now?" Pam asked and I wondered the same thing.

My grandfather shrugged his shoulders. "Sure."

Soon three pairs of eyes were on me. I looked away from them because I was a little nervous and closed my eyes. After a few deep breaths I tried to conjure my flames, even the tiniest spark, but nothing happened. Not even a flicker.

"Well that's embarrassing," Pam whispered, leaving me there bright red and humiliated.

Yes, this is embarrassing.

"If you keep making that squinty face, it's gunna stay like that darlin'," Fynn, a.k.a. Chuck pointed out to me.

"I don't suppose you have any better ideas?" I asked looking down at the leprechaun.

It had been a few days since my grandfather gave me back my powers but I couldn't make them occur still. It was terrible! Truth be told I missed them. Being a human wasn't the same anymore. With my powers gone, it felt like a part of me was gone too, and now with me having them, it still didn't feel like I was truly myself again.

"What does your lad say about this? Maybe he can help?" Fynn tried to suggest but I just shook my head and sat down in the shade under one of the oak trees in my beautiful (and ridiculously huge) yard.

I hung my head. "I've been avoiding him. I think this is a problem I have to fix. Let's just face it! There's a glitch in my system! Ugh!" I tossed my hands up in the air and huffed.

With a flick of his wrist a cup of tea appeared in Fynn's hand. "I think you need this more than I do," my little leprechaun friend said and handed me the cup.

I sipped it hungrily and looked at the sky. Soon night would come and as much as it pained me, I didn't think I should see Eric. "Maybe I could stay at your place until morning?" I asked. Fynn just chuckled. The sound made me smile.

"No can do darlin'. I seriously think you need to see your lad. No matter how bad you think you have to do this on your own, I don't think you can. I think the old one can help."

Well, shit…

I sat in one of the big dark brown, leather chairs of our library by the window and watched nervously as the sun went down. Something in me whispered to my heart the moment Eric woke up. He would come find me, I knew it. He always came to find me. But why shouldn't he? He was my soul blood bonded! We should be inseparable! Barely able to take our hands off of each other! But I was broken… I didn't come back the way I had left this world.

"Violet." The sound of my Eric's voice sent a slight happy shudder through my body. I closed my eyes and waited until he was standing in front of me. I could smell his distinct scent. It was a dominant, musky, powerful, but soothing aroma that always got me in a tizzy. It was strictly Eric.

When I opened my eyes and looked up into his they were flashing from serious, to concern, to love, to desire, to despair. "Yes?" I asked innocently enough.

Eric sat down in the other big comfy leather chair across from me. He was quite stiff and his gaze was even more rigid. "We need to talk."

"About?" I was becoming nervous now. I didn't want to talk about anything. It was like I couldn't.

"You, me, the war, everything-"

I stood up so that I was now looking down at him. "No."

"No?" Eric questioned and his eyes looked livid.

"No," I repeated and began to get up and walk away.

"This isn't over Violet. We are talking now!" Eric declared and grabbed my arm, not hard, but it wasn't comfortable.

"Get your hands off of me now," I seethed in a deadly tone.

Eric let go but reluctantly. He stayed on my heels as I marched outside. I was cursing to myself left and right and told him now and again to leave me alone. I didn't want to talk. I was a broken mess, and I needed to figure out how to put myself back together! The hell with Fynn and all his advice! He wasn't a soul blood bonded! He was a damn leprechaun!

"Violet enough!" Eric shouted at me and this time he didn't hesitate to use his strength to make me stop for good and look at him square in the eye.

The crackling energy between us was like an electric shock. I stared up into Eric's oh-so-blue eyes and wanted to cry. Every emotion in me was just waiting to spill over. I wanted to scream, to cry, to run, to downright crumple to the ground, and hide like a coward, afraid to deal with my problems head on.

"Talk to me!" Eric's voice was more of a plea than a command and he shook my shoulders a little.

"What is there to say?!" I blubbered and struggled against his iron clad grip.

"Anything!"

"I-I-" It was like the words were stuck in my mouth and didn't want to come out.

"Anything Violet! Blame me! Blame me for everything!" I was shocked to my core at what I just heard. It was like he was somehow reading my heart from its depths.

"Let go!" I shouted and Eric did but I lost my footing and fell to the ground.

I took a few steps and began to wipe away my tears. Damn them for making me look weak!

"We need to talk about this-" Eric began. Pleading me to share some sort of emotion of how I was feeling.

"God Eric! I don't want to talk about this!" I shouted, stood, and threw my hands up.

"But you are my wife-" Now that did it. I turned around with a fury building inside of me.

"I am not your wife! Eris took that title away from me! Or don't you remember?!" I screamed at him. Eric's face was stone cold still but his eyes showed everything. He was destroyed inside just like me.

"I-," he tried to speak but I just let go of everything.

"All you had to do was live Eric! That was all you had to do!" I sighed in aggravation. My skin began to heat up inside but I continued. "After all you put me through- after everything I did to make sure you- god damn it!"

"I know, and I'm sorry. I couldn't live without you." Eric's eyes were now red and he began to leak bloody tears down his face.

I stepped forward but still kept my distance. My hands were now tingling, practically shaking, and my breathing was becoming heavier and heavier. "I did not do everything I did to save the world…I did everything for you. I love you above everyone and everything else, and in return I leave behind a life, but to only come back broken. I'm broken inside Eric! HOW CAN YOU LOVE SOMETHING SO DESTROYED?! HOW CAN YOU-" And with that a fire erupted in me. A familiar and comforting feeling I had felt many, many times before. I closed my eyes as I felt my body being lifted into the air. My vision then turned to black before I was looking into the glowing orbs of the phoenix. My inner phoenix.

It was in that moment I truly felt at peace. The flaming bird looked at me and bowed its head. I did the same out of respect and listened carefully as it spoke to me.

Young goddess, you have come a long way.

How have I come a long way? I came back not the girl I once knew.

You are stronger than you think you are. You saved the world.

I did but-

There is nothing to question. You are who you are. You are here again for a reason.

What is that reason?

You know dear one.

I puzzled over what the phoenix had told me until it came out of the pits of my heart.

To live and love Eric.

The magnificent flaming bird gave me a sweet smile and nodded to me once more before my vision went back to normal and I was no longer staring at the bird, but at the night sky.

"Whoa!" I breathed and slowly floated back down to the ground.

It ached my insides to see Eric looking so beat down. Like a man who was desperate to breathe, he stood with his chest heaving and staring at me. When I stopped not a foot away from Eric I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding. He shivered when I placed my hand over his heart. Slowly I rubbed a small circle against the cold cotton black t-shirt and looked up into his eyes.

Eric's P.O.V.

Violet's soft touch against my dead cold chest sent shivers up and down my spine. I looked down into her golden brown eyes and placed my right hand against her soft cheek. She sighed into my touch and placed her hand over mine that was against her cheek.

"Oh Eric," Violet sighed once more and closed her eyes once more as fresh tears danced down her cheeks.

"So what happened after that?" Pam asked me the next night at Fangtasia.

I looked at my child and said, "She brought me to the bathroom, cleaned the blood off of my face, and went to bed."

Pam cocked an eyebrow. "Went to bed? Did you two have sex or what?"

I rolled my eyes. "There was no sex Pamela," I said in annoyance and got up to leave to go back out into the club. Violet said she didn't want to come which didn't help my mood anymore than Pam's irritating questions.

Fang bangers and vampires alike were being slaves to their passions. For a second I envied them until the desperate and underfed came to flock at me. Honestly a woman who was so skinny that I could count her ribs wasn't attractive, even before I was bonded to Violet.

"So I hear you're the one to make a girl purr around here," a slithery voice sounded to my right. I looked and saw a vampire woman. She was striking no doubt with her lush long dark hair with matching eyes. Her body was perfectly sculpted and her lips would make any sensible man with or without eyes drool to taste, but I felt nothing towards her.

"HEY!" I heard and my head snapped up to look where the voice of my bonded came from.

Violet's P.O.V.

Take me I'm alive
Never was a girl with a wicked mind
But everything looks better when sun goes down

After Eric left for Fangtasia I decided to take a shower. During that time I battled with myself of what to do next. I was feeling like my old self again and it felt wonderful.

Why the hell didn't I go with him?!

I scolded myself and decided I wasn't going to let anymore time waste on by. I took the keys to my new Audi A6 Eric had gotten me and punched it all the way to Fangtasia. When I arrived everyone stepped aside letting me through with wary eyes.


I had everything
Opportunities for eternity
And I could belong to the night
Your eyes, your eyes
I can see in your eyes
Your eyes

When I saw the tall dark woman, who I was guessing to be a vampire from her fangs popping out, I called out. Eric looked up and so did the woman. She was none too pleased about me making an entrance, but the fang bangers and the other vampires were more than happy to part in order to let me pass down my own runway towards Eric.

You make me wanna die
I'll never be good enough
You make me wanna die
And everything you love will burn up in the light
Every time I look inside your eyes
Make me wanna die

I could hear the vampire hiss lightly when I was a foot away from Eric and her. "He's mine," I claimed not even looking at anyone beside my bonded. I smiled wickedly as I watched pride wash over Eric's eyes.

"You filthy human!" Brownie fumed and I kicked my flames on.

"Keep your hands off my man." I spoke with true conviction and confidence while grabbing her by the throat and tossing her to the side like a rag doll. No one dared help her while she coughed and grabbed at her singed throat before scrambling out of the club.

Taste me, drink my soul
Show me all the things that I shouldn't know
And there's a new moon on the rise

"Violet," Eric growled low in his chest and he grabbed me. The air left my lungs but the excitement grew deep down from the depths of me.

"I meant it. You're mine," I whispered before pressing my lips to his smooth cold ones.

My heart thudded in my chest as Eric zipped us to a private V.I.P. room. The music was still thumping through and my heart was erratic. It had been so long-

I had everything
Opportunities for eternity
And I could belong to the night
Your eyes, your eyes
I can see in your eyes
Your eyes everything in your eyes, your eyes

Again and again Eric showered me with soft kisses at a slow pace. It was blissful torture. He knew deep down that I needed him to take his time with me. I sighed as he skimmed his nose down my throat before biting through the skin and taking a mouth full of my precious blood. When I moaned a second later he couldn't help but grind himself against me.

You make me wanna die
I'll never be good enough
You make me wanna die
And everything you love will burn up in the light
Every time I look inside your eyes (burning in the light)
Make me wanna die

Somehow I could hear the song through all the sensory overload and I whispered the next verse into Eric's ear while running my hands through his soft blonde hair. "I'll die for you my love, my love. I'll lie for you my love, my love (make me wanna die). I'll steal for you, my love, my love (make me wanna die). I'll die for you my love, my love. We'll burn up in the light."

Every time I look inside your eyes
I'm burning in the light
Every time I look inside your eyes
I'm burning in the light
Every time I look inside your eyes
Make me wanna die

When Eric was done he licked his marks and put two drops of his blood on them so they would heal as fast as they were made. I sighed again and looked up into my Viking's eyes. They were so much brighter now that he had just fed on me. "My god I love you," I smiled and Eric began his sweet kisses all over again.