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Chapter 10

SPOV

By this time we are about 20 feet from the exit, and I see Pam coming down from the DJ booth looking around for me. My heartbeat is picking up and I am about to go into full out panic mood. I don't know what to do. I need to get his slimy disgusting hands off of me, and I need to get to Pam. She will help me. I close my eyes in frustration, and as I do I feel Pam's hands on my shoulders.

I open my eyes and some how I am back across the room standing by Pam still holding our drinks.

"Sookie, how did you get right in front of me? You weren't there a second ago, I was looking around for you?"

"No time to explain Pam, get me to Eric, NOW!"

Pam picks me up and rushes me to Eric's office at vampire speed, as we race by I see my would be kidnapper glaring at me from by the exit with a look of confusion on his face. As we enter the office, Eric is already walking towards the door, but stops in his tracks.

"Lover, I was just coming out to find out why you were hyperventilating out there. Is everything ok? I felt through the bond that you were scared."

"No not everything is ok. Short version is I was grabbed by a vampire I don't know and was being dragged towards the exit. He told me if I screamed for you that he would kill you. Next thing I know I close my eyes and I pop over to Pam and have her bring me to you right away."

At this news both Pam and Eric's fangs pop out and they are seething.

"Someone tried to grab you at my club and threatens to kill me? Come, show me who I get to kill tonight."

All three of us exit the office and my two vampires have hold of my arms, for safe keeping I assume. We walk down the long hallway, and into the club. I spot the would be kidnapper. He is sitting in a booth looking at us. He puts his finger to his mouth in a shhh manner then points to Eric and makes a straight line across his neck in a "I will kill him" gesture. I know that Eric is unstoppable, so I don't buy his threat for a minute.

"Eric that is him sitting at three o clock in that booth. He is the one that grabbed me and was trying to take off with me."

Eric turns towards the booth and lets out a laugh that vibrates the walls and the music abruptly stops. Everybody turns towards us and eyes us suspiciously. I guess no one has ever heard the mighty Viking laugh before.

EPOV

So, Appius decides to try to "kidnap" Sookie. This is rich.

"Come lover, I have someone I would like you to meet."

I grab her hand and send her calming waves through the bond. I know that she is nervous about getting anywhere close to Appius, but she will soon understand.

"Brother, my bonded tells me you attempted to grab her while I was in my office? Please explain."

"Well, Eric good to see you again. You did tell me what a firecracker you had here and I decided that I wanted to see just how brave she is. Did you know, or did she tell you, that while I was dragging her to the exit and telling her that if she screamed I would kill you, that she called me a blood sucking asshole? How rude your bonded is…"

Appius and I have a great laugh, but then I feel curiosity through the bond, I guess it is time to fill my lover in on the joke.

"Sookie, this is Appius, he is my….brother, for lack of a better word. We were made Vampire at the same time by the same maker. I have asked him to come here to meet you, seeing as I have chosen you to be with me forever. Apparently he wanted to find out what all the fuss was about and decided to try to kidnap you to see what you and I would do. He always was the jokester out of the two of us."

"Well, how do you do Appius, it is very nice to meet you. I am so sorry about earlier, you know with calling you an asshole, its just that I thought you were trying to hurt me and I don't exactly take kindly to people kidnapping me. Any friend or relative of Eric's is a friend of mine. Let me know if you need anything at all and I would help you…"

My bonded….always the gracious host even when the guest was trying to get a rise out of you, she still feels the need to help them with whatever they may need.

"Very nice to meet you as well Sookie…nice trick by the way. How is it that you were in my grasp one minute and the next you were standing by the lovely Pamela? I know I didn't let you go. I had no intention of letting you go until you either called the Viking or got away on your own… so please, could you enlighten me?"

Sookie looks at me, asking silently for permission, which I nod my head at.

"Well, it appears that my Fae side is a little bit stronger than we originally thought. You see I am part Fae, and I just recently learned I could pop; only I hadn't learned how to do it til tonight. So, that was interesting to say the least."

"Well Eric if you hadn't taken her as a bonded I think I would have. And you know me, I don't take humans on as a bonded, or a pet, or really at all…so Sookie, that says a lot about you."

"Thank you Appius, I'll take that as a compliment. Now if you wouldn't mind, Pam and I have some dancing to do. So how about the two of you get caught up while we entertain the vermin with our seductiveness."

Both Appius and I let out a chuckle and nod towards Sookie and Pam. Pam bows her head to us and leads Sookie off towards the dance floor.

"So tell me Brother, what do you think of my bonded?"

"Eric, I have never met another human like her. I had her heart racing and I could smell the fear yet she looked me right in the eye and called me an asshole without any regards to the fact that I could smash her to pieces if I so chose to do so. Then she got to you, which wasn't in my plans…but she did anyways, and she brought you out of the office to look for me. When she spotted me I made in very plain to see gestures the comment to keep her mouth shut or you would die, and yet she smirked at me and proceeded to tell you where I was. She had no fear whatsoever that I would make good on my promise. She didn't even seem to register that I would be able to harm you in any way."

"Yes Appius it is both a downfall and a trait I cherish in my bonded. She has been staked, kidnapped, tortured, her heart has been betrayed, sought after by higher beings, family has abandoned her, told by her own race that she is unimportant, has survived through two supernatural wars, and various other horrible acts and yet she still acts as if nobody in this world scares her or that they will hurt her. She gives everyone dead or supernatural or human the same respect. And she is not afraid to tell them what she thinks when it comes to them trying to hurt her. I fear the only way to truly protect her will be to become King one day."

"Brother, I have known you for a millennium and you have never once thought of becoming King, but this single human can bring out such a primal urge in you that you feel that is the only way to protect her? Please do explain?"

"Well, you see even when Sophie Anne was alive she wanted Sookie as her own, now Felipe De Castro is King and he too wants Sookie for his own. I feel it might be the only true way that I can protect her, is by taking on more power. That is why I have called you here. I will need my families help if I am to succeed."

"You sure have changed. You wouldn't have ever wanted this power if she hadn't come along. Well, first thing is first, you need to go to the council and put her under your protection. Even though she is your bonded, having their approval will definitely help defend her from all these vampires who want to covet what is yours already. Then we will decide when the time is right to strike."

"So you will help me with this Appius? I know that you normally do not get into our politics, as you hate it as much as myself."

"Of course brother, I will help. Do you know of anywhere that I may stay for a while so that I can be around to help you with this project?"

"You will stay with us at my home. Sookie would not have it any other way I assure you."

"I do not wish to impose on your or your bonded Eric. Perhaps I can stay with your child at her home?"

"Eric, my Viking, are you two done talking? Or do Pam and I need to go dance for a few more songs?"

"No lover you are more than welcome back, we were just discussing where Appius would be staying while he is in town. You see he came here to help me with a project, but he doesn't have a house in the area… so he was thinking of staying at a hotel or at Pam's house."

"Nonsense… Appius you are Eric's brother, and as family you will be staying in our house with us as our personal guest. I will not have his family staying somewhere different just because I am there. Please make yourself comfortable. Eric, if you would allow Pam and I to leave, I will go home and fix up the third light tight room so that when he gets there it will be clean and have fresh linens on the bed."

"Of course Lover, I will be home shortly with Appius. And then we will continue our evening there."

"Come on Pam, lets go to the house. Goodbye Appius, I will see you at the house very soon."

"Yes, goodbye Appius, it was great to see you again."

My child and my bonded left the bar, leaving myself and Appius sitting at the booth by ourselves. I turned towards Appius to see his mouth was gaping open.

"Is something wrong dear brother?" I say with a smirk.

"Wrong? Yes on so many levels. I think a human just put me in my place, and yet I did not get mad. If I didn't know better I would say she glamoured me. Or she put a spell on me. I didn't even argue with her. It was like her word was all that was gonna happen and I have no say in the matter. I have never had a human talk to me that way before… and I think for some reason I only enjoyed it because it was her. I don't think I would ever allow another human to talk to me that way again…but she can any day. What just happened?"

"That is what happens when you are around Sookie, Appius. She can charm anyone into almost anything and you never even see it coming. That is why so many want her for their own, but I will not allow anyone to take her. She is mine and will remain that way. But as I said before, even though you had her panicked for a little while, she is not scared of you, and never will be. You do not scare her at all. She has moments of fright but she does not fear people in general. Just their actions…when she has to. I tell you, she is a gem in a room full of scum. She was a rare find, but I am glad I have her. Let us finish our drinks then we shall head to the house. I think you will find your accommodations very much to your liking and if I know my Sookie, she will have cleaned every surface in that room by the time we get there. She was brought up by her gran who taught her manners and would roll over in her grave if her granddaughter did not play the perfect hostess no matter what. So you will not need for anything while at our home."

"Our home? She lives there with you? Last time we spoke she still lived somewhere in the backwoods, or so you said."

"You are right, she doesn't live there yet, but I am working on that. So far she has been there for a couple of days, and she doesn't appear to want to go home. Though I know tomorrow she will be at her house for an…intervention if you will by her friends. Perhaps I can convince her to move in for good later this week. Come lets get to the house, did you bring a car?"

"Of course, you know I don't go anywhere without my jag."

"Then we will ride in your car, since the girls took my vette to the house."

SPOV

"Pam, hurry, I can tell they are almost here. Do you have the sheets out of the dryer yet???" I yell at the vampire…

SWOOSH

"Sookie, you know I can hear you without you yelling. Yes, I have the sheets; they just came out of the dryer. Let's put them on the bed, and then the room will be done. Yes?"

"No, I have to figure out what to do about blood for him…I mean, Eric has me, but what about Appius. Isn't rude to tell him to drink tru blood? Or do you think he will get his own meal every night at Fangtasia? Gran never taught me vampire etiquette. What should I do Pam?"

Pam begins to laugh as she puts a pillow case on the body pillow.

"Sookie, Appius is over a 1000 years old just like Eric and you are worried about him not being able to find his own food? Seriously? He will feed himself. Just make sure there are true bloods in the fridge for him as well. I know he will appreciate that."

"That's not too hard. Oh, thanks so much for helping me do this Pam. I want to make a good impression on friends of Eric's."

"Did you really call him a blood sucking asshole? If you did then trust me, you made an impression on him all right."

"Of course I did, well, before I knew he was Eric's brother. He was trying to hurt me and I had to tell him what I thought of him."

"You do realize he could have killed you…right?"

"Of course Pam, I am not dumb after all. I know that I am not invincible. I just make sure that the people attempting to hurt those I love, know that they are assholes for it. But I apologized already. You don't think he holds that against me…do you?"

"No, he was surprised not offended. See most humans would have pissed on themselves or they would have been throwing up, crying or any other disgusting emotion. Not looking at us in the face telling us to go to hell. That is unique and refreshing to those of us who have been alive for a very long time like Eric and Appius have been."

The boys arrive home and call out to us, so we head to the living room to meet them.

"Hello Appius, nice of you to decide to accept our invitation to our home. Let me show you where your room will be."

I grab his bag and walk him down the hall.

"You do realize that I can carry my own bags right?"

"Now what kind of hostess would I be if I made my guest carry his bag to his room when he is supposed to be relaxing? My gran would tan my hide with a switch for that if she were alive. So, thank you very much but I will carry your bags to your room."

"You are definitely different Sookie. Thank you for showing me to my room. I do appreciate it. I will just put up my things and since it will be dawn soon I will just stay in here and read until the sun makes me die for the day. You have a goodnight."

"Goodnight Appius, and I will see you when you rise tomorrow night."

I walked back down the hall and see Eric waiting for me.

"Lover, Pam already went home for the day. She told me to tell you she would see you tomorrow night. Are you ready for bed?"

"Of course I am. Lets watch a movie then drift off to sleep? Is that ok? I have a very trying day today."

"Of course, come my lover lets go do just that."

My Viking picked me up and carried me Rhett Butler style all the way to our room.

A/N:

So I am already working on the next chapter. And it will take us through her destiny. It is going to be a LONG chapter so please give me a few days to write it in…seeing as I will be writing it during my work cycle (I work 8 graves then I am off 6 days) so hopefully I will have it done and sent to my beta by this weekend and have it up for you shortly there after. She tends to read it quickly so it shouldn't be a problem doing that. Thanks so much again for being patient and waiting for these two chapters.

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