A/N- Read and Review. Sookie's ex is about to make an appearance

I'd never been the one to initiate physical intimacies with Pam. I'd always waited for her to hug me or take my hand, but right now I wanted to run into her arms and kiss her on the cheek.

She sashayed forward with her long violet dress of hooped lace and taffeta, her hair was done in a tight knot at the nape of her neck and she was more dressed up than I had ever seen her.

She stopped a step away from me and curtsied deeply,

"Your Most Revered Majesty, forgive me. When Sookie didn't meet my master for their prearranged dinner tonight he worried and, when he couldn't find her, sent me to you to ask for your assistance"

She threw an affectionate smile at me and came forward to peck me on my nose, sliding an arm about my waist and patting me gently on the stomach.

"But now I've found her it appears all our worry was for nothing"

I dared to glance at the Felipe de Castro and Victor Madden, they were both wore expressions of shock and annoyance on their faces. Clearly they hadn't expected Eric to rally so quickly, perhaps he'd felt my mood spikes and had sent Pam running after me immediately.

Then I had a brilliant idea,

"Perhaps I could borrow your phone, Pam?" I ask, feigning innocence,

"Just to ring my husband and let him know that I'm perfectly fine"

"Husband?" Felipe de Castro raised an eyebrow and looked to Victor Madden with, probably fake, surprise,

"I was made to believe that you and Eric were no longer married"

Pam, ever so slightly, tensed, but I decided to play the blonde Southern waitress act.

"Of course we're still married" I protest, making sure my confusion showed,

"I gave him the knife and he certainly hasn't given it back"

Victor Madden glared at me, "But you did destroy a gift from him and sent it to Fangtasia to publicly humiliate him"

Oh boy, nothing like knowing that an entire situation is your own fault to make you regret past actions. I quickly decide to lie my butt off,

"I did return a gift from Eric" I began, my mind switching into overdrive, "However; we did organise to have dinner tonight to reconcile..."

"Perhaps reconciliation is not what Eric Northman had in mind" Victor Madden is ever so quick to suggest, "Perhaps he wanted to end his association with you"

A little unlikely seeing as there had been no dinner planned, at least to my knowledge, plus Eric had already ended his association (for association see; frequent and enthusiastic sexing and the occasional date) for me the night before. So I scoff at that, before I remember my manners,

"I don't think so" I tell him politely, "Eric and I are still quite happy with one another and I can't see that changing in the immediate future"

Pam gave me another peck on the nose, and stroked my hair like a mother proud of her daughter, although when I thought about it I could technically be her step-mother.

Felipe de Castro didn't seem content to let matters rest however, he pressed his fingers together under his chin, "Yet..." he mused thoughtfully, definitely aware that everyone was hanging onto his every word, "You are pregnant, clearly with another man's child"

I blush with misery at that statement and look to Pam for help. Obviously reading my distress signals enough to be physically affectionate with me tonight, she steps forward and lowers her voice, not that it means much in a room full of vampires.

"Unfortunately Sookie was captured during one of the recent wars and was unwillingly got with child at that time"

His Majesty nods as if it's not news to him, he'd probably put the pieces together when Victor Madden had reported the incident of the smashed cradle to him. Then I recall that I'd smashed that cradle beyond recognition, unless Eric told him what the object had once been, and I doubt Eric would have been that foolish, there was no way he would have known about my condition until ten minutes ago when he smelt it on me.

"Unwillingly!" Victor Madden puts a hand over his heart as Sandy stalks from the room, my eyes watch her as she opens the door and slips through it, I inch closer to Pam, my gut telling me that I'm not about to like what's coming next.

"How shocking, particularly when we have the father here to claim his unborn babe"

For a wild moment, I think that Bill Compton has once again lied to me, that he and Niall didn't kill the two fae that tortured me. As you can guess this put fury in my heart and a sickening pit in my stomach. I feel like throwing up and place a hand over my mouth just in case. Against my will my eyes fly to the door, savagely hoping that if the two fae are here that the vampires smell them and devour them immediately.

The person who steps through the door however is even more shocking.

"Quinn?!"