Chapter 10:
SPOV
***Flashback, 100 years ago***
Niall's gift was overwhelming and it came with a ticking timeline. I had to make my decision before I married Sam. And I could never tell Sam. In fact, I could only tell one person – well, vampire – if I decided to accept the gift.
I was wary to trust Niall, or his motives. Fairies were cunning and devious, and I was certain that Niall had something up his sleeve even though he assured me that he felt it was his duty to right some of the wrongs that had been forced into my life.
But whether or not I trusted Niall didn't matter. I had resigned myself to the fact that there were some things I could not control. I was the universe's pawn – I had no control over fate and neither did Niall.
But I could control this.
The gift was a second chance. And a hell of a second chance at that. It involved magics that I would've thought impossible. If I hadn't known that fairies were unable to lie, I would have been sure that Niall was simply pulling my leg.
But he would've never teased me with something like this.
I knew what I wanted and that I had to talk to Pam. Because she was my friend, and because she was sorta the linchpin. If she didn't wanna take part, then the point of the gift was moot. So off I went to Fangtasia, a place I thought I'd never visit again, to have a heart-to-heart with a vampire who may have grown to like me but once wanted to kill me. I laughed to myself because ironically I was about to ask her to do just that.
PPOV
When Sookie walked into Fangtasia, she stood out, as always. She wore a simple white cotton sundress and styled her hair in loose curls draped over her shoulders. In a sea of black and red and night, she was sunshine. I vamped her to my office right away; she was protected per Eric's contract with Freyda, but that just meant a vampire would be punished for hurting her, not that one wouldn't be stupid enough to do it.
In pure Sookie form, she said the unexpected. To say I was shocked would be an understatement and I am certain it showed on my face. She exclaimed that never in a hundred years would she have thought she could break through the "Pam façade". Her words, not mine.
What Niall had offered her was amazing. He would place a charm on Sookie that would tie her life to the shifter's – something I did not like hearing. She would wither and age, live as a normal human. But once the shifters life ended, Sookie's looks would revert back and she would be young again for 24 hours. As she put it, she would be "Eric's Sookie" again – something I did like hearing very much. But she would not be immortal and she would expire after 24 hours was up.
That's where I came in.
I sat steely-faced across from Sookie as she asked me to become her maker. Turn her during those 24 hours so that she could wait out Eric's contract, so that they could choose whether or not to be together again. It was not lost on me that Sookie had her doubts about whether Eric would still want her, but I had none. He had always been hers, even before he lost his memories.
And when the time came, I did my part. Took Sookie's human life and made her my child. And from her vampiric birth, my secret was also born.