Viva Las Vegas

Chapter 10

Imaginary Pets & Friends

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The ride to Shreveport was deathly silent, Pam pulled up in front of Eric's house, and he just sat there staring out of the windshield.

"You tried to warn me," Eric finally said.

Well I wasn't phoning to give you fashion tips, Pam thought, but she knew when she would get away with sarcasm, this was sooo not the time. "Yes."

"Come inside and have a blood, "Eric unfolded himself from the Mini Van entering his house via the garage. He went through the motions of heating two pouches of bagged blood, handing one to Pam making his way to the living room.

"Okay let's have it," he sighed, some nights he swore he felt every one of this thousand plus years, today was one of those nights.

"Are you sure?"

"Get on with it Pamela,"

"Okay, apparently Sookie leaving was a terrible misunderstanding, when she woke, she seen how late it was, dressed, and picked up your note, never reading it. Then she ran as she was afraid she would miss her flight home. She didn't read your note till she was on the plane, she cried all the way home according to the witch," she finished there to see how Eric was talking it.

"I still don't get why she left in the first place, she promised to be mine, damn it," Eric forced out between gritted teeth.

"You were the first Vampire Sookie had ever really met, she didn't know what she was saying or what it meant to our kind. Amelia, the witch said she was heartbroken, but wouldn't tell her why, she called the hotel at all hours, over and over but she only knew your first name and they refused to put her through, eventually they barred her number, by which time you where already home," Pam answered.

"The baby?" Eric braced himself.

"Amelia didn't believe it at first herself, but Sookie was adamant that she had only been with you. Amelia only found it hard to believe because of what she thought was gospel. Vampires could not father children, but she never known Sookie to lie or even to go out with a guy, so she was having a hard time trying to reconcile the two half's .

Yesterday she finally got Sookie to take a pregnancy test, today Doctor Ludwig confirmed Sookie is pregnant with a Dhampir, her mentor later confirmed the conditions which had to come together, it's actually about a one in a trillion chance of it happening, congratulations you should have played the tables," Pam finished.

"Fuck . . . FUCK," Eric roared sending the coffee table hurtling towards the wall. She hadn't rejected him; she had tried to get in touch with him, had she managed it. What then? She would have been his, would he have known the child was his. For the first time in his life he didn't know how to fix something. His mind just kept replaying; the look on Sookie's face when she said you will never see our child.

"And the Fae?" Eric said when he calmed down a bit.

"Amelia always suspected there was more to Sookie but she didn't know what, either did Sookie by all accounts," Pam said rubbing her temples thinking how she could help her Master, but the silence grew as no plan came to her.

"I have to register Sookie as my pet," Eric suddenly said jumping to his feet.

"Oh now...I don't think that is a good idea, Sookie was really pissed off about that, according to the witch," Pam.

"If we want to make it out of this alive, we have to register Sookie as mine. Tonight I gave her my blood. She told Bill, she was mine," Eric was pacing, thinking. "It will buy us time, you saw how many Fae arrived there, what you didn't realise was the crests they had on their armour was none other than the royal guard of the Brigants. Without claiming her, we would be fucked. Then I will have to find a way to win Sookie back, you heard Compton she can't be glamoured," Eric said.

Pam was already dialling the authority, she thrust the phone to Eric, she had minutes to spare if she was going to make to Compton's before dawn, "I'll stay the night with Bill to make sure he doesn't do something stupid," she raced to her car she would have to race the dawn to make it to Bon Temps in time. Unknown to Pam she would save Bill's life, dragging him to safety with seconds to spare. She thought about leaving him there to met the sun but the paper work is bitch and it was just easier saving his undead ass, she let him know as much too.

Eric nodded he was already going through the registration process, at the automated prompts, wasn't modern technology wonderful? 'To register a pet press 3'

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Sookie woke up in a bright sun lit room she had no idea where it was. But sitting in a chair was Mr Big Ant reading a book; he seemed immersed in his book.

"Good morning Sookie," he smiled finally looking up at her.

"Where am I?"

"Do you remember, when I would tell you stories of Fairies at the bottom of your garden, about a land called Murias?"

"Where the High Prince lived, beyond the veil?" Sookie completed for him.

"Yes. We are there now in the High Prince's castle and stronghold," Fintan smiled at her.

"But you said there was a war and I could never go there . . . actually scrap that. Why I am I still dreaming?"

"You are not dreaming. My name is Fintan Brigant, I was in love with your grandmother, but she was loyal to Earl. One summers afternoon I came apon her after having been chased by my fathers enemies, I asked for a glass of water and although I seemed very strange to her and she was frightened, she still offered me the hospitality of her home. We struck up a friendship.

I am your biological grandfather, Adele longed for children and Earl couldn't give them to her, but I could and I did," Fintan laid down his book.

"Gran would never cheat," Sookie shook her head, steely determination covered her face.

"Your right, that is why Earl knew. He gave us his blessing. I am not asking you to understand or for your forgiveness but we both loved your Grandmother so much, that there was no question in granting her greatest wish, for children."

Sookie realised that there was a dripping sensation on her covers when she looked down she seen they where wet, putting her hand to her face it dawned on her she was crying.

"Why should I believe you?" she hostility evident in her voice.

"Earl was human, Adele had little streak of otherness, the spark, if they together had been your grandparents the baby you are carrying now wouldn't have been possible. You must know how rare, it is for a vampire to be able to father a child and how it can't be a regular human to carry the child. Otherwise it would happen all the time, yes?" Fintan smiled in what he hoped was a reassuring manner.

Sookie just stared straight ahead; it was just so much to take in. She also knew that he was right, "Oh God where's? Amelia . . . I've got get to home, I can't leave her with that mad man on the loose, he'd probably hurt," Sookie made motions to get out of the bed.

"It's okay we made sure she is guarded," Fintan assured her.

"But they are Vampires!" Sookie pleaded, to her what could be scarier.

"We are Fae, the only race to ever nearly wipe out the Vampires, don't let the pretty packages fool you, child," Fintan smiled.

Sookie ran her hand through her long hair. "Sookie, I know you have had a lot of shocks in a short time but there is just one more shock we have ha word from the Vampire authority. . ."

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