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SOOKIE POV

Sluggishly I sat up, taking a few deep breaths before I heard a knock on the bedroom door, Eric walked over opening it and I saw both Godric and Pam standing by the door.

"My Child" Godric spoke,

"Master" Pam added, Eric nodded once and they both walked in, their eyes meeting mine before I tore my gaze away, I was pretty sure they all heard everything anyway, I stood up and walked towards the door,

"excuse me" I simply whispered attempting to walk by Eric blocked the doorway, my gaze immediately met his, my own heated angry expression was practically mirrored in his,

"where are you going?"

"to take a walk, am I not allowed that?" I hissed up at him,

"Låt henne gå" (let her go) Godric spoke and Eric moved to the side before I grabbed my duffle bag and headed out, unsure of exactly where to go seeing as I was pretty much locked inside.

I walked aimlessly down the familiar corridor, until I reached the kitchen; I dropped my bag onto the floor feeling like nothing. I grabbed a bottle of water from the fridge and took a sip from it before I felt my solitude disturbed – non other than Eric himself. He walked in without a single word grabbing himself a TruBlood before he placed it in the microwave, I could feel his eyes on me, burning holes throughout me, but I maintained my cool and grabbed my bag with my water before I walked out without a single word said to him.

"Get changed into the outfit Pam has brought you, you will not go to Fangtasia in that" he spoke loudly behind me and I just continued my way back down to the bedroom where Godric and Pam were sitting discussing something.

"My Master seems to be in an unpleasant mood" Pam began, the corner of her lips curling up into a smile,

"Pam" Godric looked over and she nodded before standing up to leave.

"Sookie – I am sorry" Godric began and I merely looked up at him,

"sorry for?"

"for Eric's behaviour"

"don't apologize for him, I really do not want to hear it right now – I want to go home, I want to see my brother, I want to see Sam, and my friends, I want my Gran back" I chocked out the last sentence, "please just let me go home" I pleaded but he only stood watching me,

"that is for Eric to decide but I will have a talk with him now"

"I don't want to go to Fangtasia please if I have to stay here I don't want to go out" I added quietly before he smiled over at me and left me alone in Eric's bedroom.

I curled up on the couch with my eyes closed as I listened for any type of noise, maybe I could hear a car pass by, maybe the conversation being held although I severely doubted both; I was sure Eric's home was most likely in Shreveport, so I was at least an hour away from home, maybe even more. I sighed to myself wondering what I had gotten myself into, if I didn't feel the need to talk to Bill that night, to save him from the Rattrays but I did and everything had escalated from that point. I felt myself lifted off the couch, opening my eyes instantly I saw Eric; he seemed much pinker than before, I assumed he had finished his bottle of TruBlood.

"Godric has told me you'd rather stay inside tonight?" he asked as he turned to sit down himself and set me down on his lap, I only nodded. "Do you miss you friends?" I did – terribly. I nodded once again and his eyes left me to look around his bedroom.

"Well…how about you can talk to them? Let them know you're okay and ask for a week off of work just so we can sort everything out, from your power, to the bond, to the Queen and the Were's"

"I need the money Eric, I have bills to pay and taxes, and all sorts" I sighed deeply, I had taken off so many days from work already and I needed the tips to get by.

"I've paid off your house, your car, I've paid for all your bills in advance, a year's worth, and I have gravelled your drive-way, put up motion sensors, cameras and updated your security" Eric replied smiling,

"no Eric!" I was furious as I tried to pull myself away from him, he only wrapped himself even tighter around her, and she felt calm within seconds, "Eric, please take it back, it's just…it's just too much, I'm not a kept woman, I can't keep hiding here away from my life, my family and my friends" I looked up to meet his eyes, "please Eric, I've agreed to so much, just let me do this"

"Sookie, you must understand, as soon as we're bonded this will happen – whether or not you make me take it back, I've just sped up the process; I see you as my bonded already, and I am showing you that I will take care of you; I'm not going to force myself upon you for sex, you will yield to me lover, and then when you do you will yield each and every day begging for me to touch you, to please you, to hold you" he stopped as I raised an eyebrow,

"so what was earlier about?" I questioned,

"Sookie you were enjoying it just as much as me, you whimpered for my lips to be on yours, I could feel you the lust, the passion how much you craved me, and I took control of the opportunity you see, which I will every time I see one but I won't further it if you do not want it, like earlier." He finished and ran his hands through his hair. I guess he was right, I mean he didn't necessarily force me into anything, I did want it just as much and I have to give him credit he did stop when I did.

"Alright Eric, but I want to go back to my life after this week, I want to leave I can't be cooped up all day, we can compromise"

"to a point – my word is law, now tell me what you propose" arrogant pompous a-hole.

"I will continue the blood bond, and accept the help if I can continue to work at Merlotte's as I do now"

"how many days is that?" he asked

"six days"

"no-make it three and then you can work for me for two days"

"for you?" I raised an eyebrow curiously.

"at Fangtasia, use your gift to see if there are any people selling V, drainers, under-aged people, under cover cops etc etc" he waved his hand about and I questioned it for a few minutes as we sat in silence debating with myself,

"fine I'll agree to that – Monday to Wednesday at Merlotte's, Thursday to Friday at Fangtasia" he nodded and I nodded.

"However when you work with me, you will wear the outfits I give you is that understood? We have a dress code and you will need to obide by the rules everyone else does" Eric cut in before me,

"fine, nothing too revealing or short, or that will make me look like those fang-bangers"

"never my pet – you will look like an angel" here we go with my pet and my lover. I shook my head at him,

"Oh yes I can date whomever I want" I added remembering the argument which Eric brought about with Quinn the previous day. I felt his stiffen and his hold tightened on me, his calm collected face was now full of rage, those icy blue eyes were hard like marbles.

"as my blood-bond you are not to kiss, touch or be touched or kissed by any man who isn't me is that understood?"

"you don't own me" I spat out finally managing to get out of his hold, "I'm not a possession Eric do you hear me?!" I yelled at him,

"do not raise your voice Sookie, you will follow my rules you are mine"

"shove it Eric, I'm not yours do you hear me?! I AM NOT YOURS" I hissed, slapping him across his cheek I pulled it back realizing I had done something I shouldn't have, "Eric" I whispered as he stood up taking a step towards me as I mirrored him except I went backwards, "I'm so-sorry I didn't me-" he lifted his hand up and I stopped talking immediately.

"Sookie you're pushing my buttons, I've been kind to you up till now, but if you cannot stop acting like a child, you refuse to follow my rules as you're my blood bonded you will be punished now"

"Eric please look I'm really sorry, please I don't – I'm sorry let's just complete the bond" I needed to take his mind off of the punishment, "It's just Eric if you won't love me the way I need to be I can't be with you I cannot give myself to someone who has no intention of giving themselves to me" he stood quietly watching me, I hoped he was deliberating it over in his mind,

"You'll still be fucking other girls, you'll still feed from them when we're bonded, why can't I? Why can't I have a relationship with another guy? Seeing as you refuse flat out to try with me"

"Sookie, do not" he took a step back and as he spoke I saw the fangs which were extended, I knew he was angry and to be honest I couldn't continue doing this to him if I wanted to live past tonight. Unhappily I swept my curls from my shoulder, exposing my neck my head turned away from him and I sighed,

"go on" I whispered, he hesitated and stood still watching me,

"what?"

"what do you mean what?"

"why are you exposing your neck to me?"

"for the blood bond?" I responded, my eyebrows at this point had furrowed down in confusion, he chuckled – I did not expect that. I felt my cheeks redden under his gaze and he took my hand leading me to his bed.

"Mutual blood exchange my pet" he sat down, lifting me easily until I sat on his lap straddling him, his eyes were on me, raking over my body the same way he does every time his eyes meet me. I should feel uneasy, but with Eric I felt protected in many ways despite his attitude to certain beliefs.

"my wrist and yours, no necks – I am not letting what happened last time happen again" I held my finger up pointing it at him, "okay Eric?" he only rolled his eyes and exhaled,

"fine fine, here" he bit into his wrist and held it out for me, I didn't move for a few seconds but then I clasped my hands around his arm, and brought my lips to his cool skin, licking up the blood which had dripped and latched on uneasily at first. I could hear him groan minutes into it, into my own skin as he drank from me, I'd have never thought drinking someone's blood – vampire or not would be such a turn-on, it happened each time; I felt the need for Eric, the need to satisfy him and myself. I pulled my mouth away from him, I felt closer to him, and I just assumed it was because of the second mutual blood exchange. He was still feeding from me and I slumped against him, pressing my forehead to his bare chest, I felt him withdraw his fangs and lick the wound his arms wound around me and held me against him; so this was comfort? That feeling of complete peace, and tranquillity washing over you and taking away all your troubles.

"you seem…content" he didn't ask but more or less told me.

"I am" I replied honestly and there was my crooked smile. "Sookie no more slapping me or it won't end well for you" he rose with me still attached to him like a leech, my legs were tightly wrapped around his waist now, my arms snaked around his neck and his arms held me by my waist.

"how so?" I asked

"you will see if you decide to fall out of line Sookie, and you will not let any other man touch you, because I will kill him and then you will be held here against your will, no friends, no Jason, nothing besides me – don't put yourself into a situation you won't be able to handle" he was serious, from the tone of his voice, to his face I could tell he wasn't saying it to frighten me, he was warning me. I didn't have an answer for that so I just remained silent as he continued through the hallway,

"did you look around?"

"nope" it was the truth.

"you didn't?" he looked at me, he didn't believe me.

"nope" I added again.

"really?" Eric I'm going to hit you I thought inwardly.

"yup" Idiot.

"you tried to escape?" I hesitated and nodded unable to swallow the lump in my throat,

"tisk tisk my pet" he chuckled nuzzling his face into my neck, which made me shiver, "I should punish you but seeing as you weren't so nosey I guess I'll let it even us out, however you should look around would you like to?"

"yeah, sure" I smiled softly and he dropped me onto the floor lightly, holding his hand out for me. I was startled, and I was pretty sure the look of shock spread across my face, it was a gesture close to my heart and I smiled up at him, it was a human gesture; one which took me by surprise, I lifted my hand to meet his and his cold fingers intertwined with mine.

"come with me my lover, we'll start after the discussion we have with Godric, then he'll leave and I'll show my house" he pulled me alongside him.

After the discussion about the Were's and the Queen, the matter had come to me and my gift; it was an hour long discussion, how it came about, why, was there danger around, how did it escalate so quickly.

"Eric…when you tasted Sookie what did you think?" Godric spoke after a few minutes of silence.

"She tasted exquisite…by far the sweetest most satisfying blood in all my years" I looked at him and from the corner of his eye he was watching me, his lips twitched fighting a smile and he winked as I blushed looking down.

"Do you know why?" I had a feeling Godric knew, Eric shook his head.

"She is part Fae my child" part Fae? Fae what the hell is Fae?

"How? How…are you?"

"I've tasted one before, a long while ago, but I never thought I'd meet a Fairy who wasn't full, Sookie is maybe a sixth, or an eighth, not much but enough combined with our blood" Godric continued and I sat there perplexed.

"I was thinking with her drinking from me it might have unlocked the power inside of her, tapped into it and given her the strength to do what she did back in Dallas, and then here last night. Now with your blood I'm sure more will happen. But no one can find out she is part Fae, or we will have a war on our hands every vampire will want her Eric"

"Hold on wait, I'm a Fairy?" I asked, leaning forward as I brought my legs up to cross them underneath me.

"Time to secure the blood bond completely" I heard Eric's hoarse voice in my ear, he lifted me up with ease as I wriggled in protest, "Sookie, do not make me restrain you" he groaned and I looked back at Godric who shook his head, his boyish smile now showing,

"Fairies to us are like crack to you humans Sookie, you're addicting and now Eric will be so much more addicted, be careful with her Eric" he warned him, Eric nodded once.

"Master will you go to Fangtasia tonight with Pam and make sure everything is in order, I would like some time with my Sookie tonight" Eric nuzzled his face in my hair, and I could feel his cold breath against my scalp, without thinking about what I was doing I found myself kissing the crook of Eric's neck, he groaned and I sighed contently, closing my eyes.

"Of course my child you enjoy your night with you bonded, Sookie I will see you tomorrow" and without another word Godric had left me and Eric alone.

"Sookie…" I gulped wondering what was coming next, "close your eyes for me, I want to take you somewhere" I watched him with an apprehensive look on my face, "my lover are you afraid?" I nodded and looked down at the floor, but as he left his house he pulled me closer before he lifted off the ground and began flying through the midnight black sky. "I will protect you my pet, just relax, no harm will come to you with me around" he spoke quietly. I was scared, but there were two reasons; one – of course the obvious because I had no idea where we were going exactly. And two because I was beginning to trust Eric, and I shouldn't; I knew he would protect me, but I needed more, and with this bond I only found myself wishing he would open up. I was going to make sure I'd talk with Godric, explain it to him, and if it was the last thing I'd do I'd make sure Eric would open up; I would make the effort to learn about him, learn as much as I could…maybe then he'd open up to me and give me the relationship I wanted; if he thought he was going to take my body, my innocence, my heart, my soul, my mind and every other thing I would offer to him and expect nothing in return; especially his heart he was mistaken, and a bigger fool than I thought.