A Thousand Years

Chapter 10

Her thoughts ran rampantly as Eric looked at all the conflicting emotions crossing her face. Fear, anger, stress, fatigue, anguish. A menagerie of emotions that all resulted in her continued usage of what he had in his hand. He knew if he wished, he could squeeze his hand and the pills could dissolve into dust before their eyes. He was over a thousand years old. It would be like a child with play-doh in their hands. But her reaction. Her fucking reaction was astonishing even to him. But he was only now relearning human emotions. He had murdered enough of them to know what it was to hear them beg for mercy, but this was something entirely different. Entirely new. He didn't know what it was about this girl that made him stop, made him crave, made him wish to drop to his knees and offer her the world. But she had it. In all of her fucked up glory.

And Vahalla help him he would bend the world to give her her every request.

Eric looked down at her as he continued to hold the pill bottles in his hand, looking between her and them several times. Sighing softly, he set them on her nightstand.

"I'm not going to tell you to choose between me or the pills Sookie. But if what you're saying is that you took these because of the events that transpired between us, how things ended, then why do you need them now that I am back and we have reconciled? Taking them will only destroy your body, and I do not wish to bear witness to your demise if you choose to continue taking them. I need to know if you're done with them. I need to know that we can start to fix things and figure out where we go from here. I didn't think myself capable of love after so long Sookie. A few weeks is only a blink of an eye in the lifetime I've lived and I will do everything to be there for you so that you know that this shit fixes nothing. I don't want you numb. I want you ALIVE. Breathing, vampire, fairy, anything you choose. But alive, and not some walking dead numbed out, pilled up ghost."

Sookie hiccupped through a fresh bought of tears as she looked innocently up at Eric. She knew he was right. This had only been a few weeks. In Eric's lifetime that was a mere flash of what he had lived through. She knew she could do what she was doing forever. She'd die. She fought too hard to stay alive through so much and so many enemies to simply just hand over her life. Also giving a soft sigh she looked up at him through her eyelashes as she chewed her bottom lip.

"Take them. Throw them out. Flush them. Give them back. I don't care."

"You're sure?"

"Yes Eric. I'm sure."

"You're not going to go into complete Fairy meltdown in the next few hours when you don't have them?"

The look that she gave him was probably suppose to be somewhere between scathing and annoyed but she still felt a small bubble of laughter well up inside of her at his comment.

"No Eric. I won't."

"Good."

He pulled out her remaining pills and walked into the bathroom. Pouring all of the pills into his large hand, Eric crumbled them to dust before flushing the ashes of her reprieve into the toilet. Walking back into her room, he walked up to her, pulling her up and into his arms as he kissed her deeply.

"I'm proud of you."

The words were simple, yet meant the world to her. Sometimes the worst endings were the best places to make a fresh start. This was such a wonderful new beginning and she knew she didn't want to fuck it up this time. He was proud of her, he was staying and she couldn't begin to think of another way she would want to start another thousand years with this man then exactly this…

Ok ok ok I know its short, I haven't updated this in months and I apologize. One of the reviewers was asking me to work on this and I promise a lemony epilogue but I think this will be the last chapter!

Piercedstarling xoxo