Time frame: Years after "From Dead to Worse"
This is a companion piece following "Family", "Bowling for Vampires", "Leather Underwear", "Reunion" and "Vampire Boogie".
Disclaimer: I don't have any claim on any characters in the Sookie Universe. Please don't sue me. The other characters are my own creation and just wanted to play with them for a while.
A/N: I posed a question to EricDreamer in regards to the encounter in the beginning of this chapter. What I've written is based entirely on her answer.
To Blooddrunk: True to my word, the first half is the result of Bill's and mine little...discussion. (smirks and winks while rubbing her rear). God, I love the democratic method. Since you know how hard it is for me to write BAN, I hope this eases your anxiety about the direction of the story. ;)
It took me quite a bit of looking to find a decent spot for the wedding. *Research geek dancing for joy*. I couldn't very well have it in a church- too traditional and with all the Supes involved, I didn't want any trouble- shocking I know. I did not want it in Fangtasia or at Merlotte's- they've been done and I wanted something unique. And no way no how was I using EEE. I refuse to believe that Quinn's company is the only one to perform these types of ceremonies. Besides if I wasn't clear before, I think that dumb tiger is a dork...Babe.
The link for the venue is on my profile if you want to take a gander at it, along with the link to Ally's engagement ring.
Enjoy!
Chapter 21
2 days until the wedding...
Bill's POV
The first rays of the sun filter past the trees along her back fence. I cradle her to me, her leg thrown over mine, her cheek pressed against my chest as she sleeps. I absently stroke her hair, her back as we lay on the grass beneath a tree in her backyard. I look up and marvel at the beauty of nature, soaking it in, memorizing it. I am not completely positive that this change in my physiology is permanent and if it isn't, I want to hold on to these moments, treasure them. The way the air smells, fragrant, earthy and rich from last night's rain. The sounds of life stirring around me. The heavy warmth that envelopes me like a thick blanket.
Heavenly.
Ally shifts against me, moaning softly. "Mmmm...Bill..." she murmurs and I smile. I roll to my side, letting her slide off carefully to the grass and onto her back. Her eyes flutter open with a flash of disorientation in them as she glances around. When her gaze meets mine she smiles the kind of smile that crinkles up the corners of her eyes. I smile down at her.
"Hey." she whispers softly.
"Good morning." I say. "Sleep well?"
"Mmmhmm. Very. I dreamed of you." she says running her fingers through my hair.
"I sensed that." I say with a grin. I lower my head and bury my mouth into the crook of her neck. "Perhaps, I can do better." Her breath hitches and I hear her heart begin to race. With hands, fingers, mouths and tongues we worship each other, brazenly oblivious to our surroundings.
Let the neighbors call.
I taste her, taking my time to enjoy every glorious inch of her body offered. Our hands and mouths explore one another, teasing, wanting, demanding. She straddles me and eases me into her warmth. Light and shadow against her skin, the sheen of perspiration on her lithe form reflecting it causing her to shimmer. She arches, she yields, crying out as I cry out with her. With each rocking of her hips another level of pleasure unfurls like ribbons of satin. She is storm. I am inferno. We meet. We ride. We burn.
She tightens around me and I sit up holding her to me. I thrust up. I go deeper and send her further, eager for the next wave of climax to swamp over us. My insides clench as her pulse calls to me. She drives her nails into my back asking, pleading me to taste her essence as her hard nipples brush against my chest. I bite down sinking into her soft firm flesh, letting the flow flood in my mouth with her sweet flavor as I explode into her with a roar. Covered in dirt and grass we cling to each other as our vision clears.
Suddenly, I was keenly aware of someone approaching us from the other side of the fence. I had just enough time to get up with Ally still wrapped around me and move us behind the tree. I stand covering her body with mine and pressing her back against the tree before Sookie enters through the back gate. She looks around and laughs a little at what lay before her. Clothes, damp and crumpled tossed and strewn all over. Tables and chairs shoved haphazardly to the side. She senses our presence and her gaze moves up towards the tree. Blessedly, it was a wide tree.
"What are you two doing back there?" she asks suspiciously. My face peers from behind the tree and she gasps and blushes at my obvious state of undress.
Ally looks at me with laughter in her eyes. She wiggles playfully against me. I give her a menacing glare.
"Sookie. Were you looking for me or Ally this morning?" I ask forcing my voice to remain casual while using one hand to caress Ally's throat. She clamps tighter around me and digs her nails into my bottom.
"Ally of course, she's the only one who'd be awake..." Sookie's eyes open wide. "Oh. My. God. You are out in daylight!"
"Yes." I strain out. Ally had just leaned forward giving my chest and throat one long lazy lick. I lock my jaw to keep a groan from escaping my lips.
Sookie looked ready to bombard me with more questions. I was fighting a desperate need to throw Ally to the ground and take her.
Now is not the time for questions or idle conversation.
"If you could excuse us for just a moment Sookie..." I say quickly, transporting a giggling Ally and I into her bedroom leaving Sookie standing perplexed in the yard.
Tossing Ally onto the bed, the primal part of my nature comes to the fore as I approach her with one intent in mind.
To ravage.
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Ally's POV
"I want to thank you and Eric for your care and support these past few days, Sookie." I say to her as she drives us into town. There were some final wedding details that required my approval and she needed to re-brief me on what to expect in regards to the wedding itself. I sort of forgot the first run through.
"You're welcome." she says with a smile then stares back onto the road lost in thought. We drive in silence until we reached New Orleans.
Our main stop was at the Royal Sonesta Hotel located in the French Quarter. Bill and I had chosen the Bienville Suite for the wedding and for the reception dinner. The main room was separated from two other rooms, the gallery and the bar- ideal for a small wedding and entertaining. The hotel's old fashioned charm and impeccable reputation was the main attraction. Chandeliers and light but warmly decorated rooms- it screamed old Southern charm.
It was breathtaking.
Arm and arm, Sookie and I walked along the area that was to be the wedding hall and smiled at each other.
"Were you this excited when you and Eric got married?" I asked.
"Excited, elated, nervous. I was everything at once. I never thought I'd ever get married and to a vampire no less, but it happened. One of the happiest days of my life." she said beaming. Suddenly, a pang of worry nagged at me and I tensed. Sookie turns to me holding taking my hands into hers.
"Are you alright, Ally?"
"Do you think I'm going to make a good wife?" I ask. She smiles at me.
"Do you love Bill?"
"With all of my heart."
"Then you'll do fine." she says hugging me. "Besides, if you can handle the possessive nature of vampires, you can handle anything." she chuckles.
"So all vampires are inherently possessive?"
"Yes, and Bill is tied with Eric for the throne." she laughs.
"Good to know." I say smiling.
"So long as you stay away from Victor, I think you'll be alright."
I frown. "But he's my friend, Sookie. Why should I stay away from my friend?"
"He's interested in you for one thing."
"He admits he fantasizes about me, but he knows that I'm not interested in him in that way."
She snorts. I narrow my eyes.
"Are you trying to tell me that you don't have ANY male acquaintances that harbor some hidden lust for you?" She opens her mouth to deny it, then closes it.
Hmph. Thought so.
"Well I'd just be careful if I were you that's all." she grumps.
"Same goes." I say with a smirk. She rolls her eyes and grins back.
Driving us back to Shreveport Sookie asks, "So when did Bill become immune to the sun's effects?"
"A couple of days ago. He said it happened the day you all came to rescue me." I say flipping through a brochure from the hotel. Bill and I plan to spend our wedding night there and a few days for our honeymoon and I wanted to see what things we can do- other than the obvious stuff of course.
"Is he...does he..."she shakes her head after the start of each sentence trying to get it out.
"Drink blood? Wear sunblock? What?" I press.
"Is he happier now than he was before?" she finally gets out.
I frown again. "I don't know, Sookie. I honestly don't know."
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That evening...
I sit with my back against his chest on the sofa his strong arms wrapped around me. We were watching the original black and white version of "The Day the Earth Stood Still."
"Bill?"
"Yes, Ally?"
"Do you like being able to go out in the sun?"
He sinks into the sofa snugging me closer to him. "Yes. Yes I do. I always enjoyed the daylight hours when I was human. I missed it."
"I'm sorry that becoming a vampire took so much away from you. Your family, your life, the simple pleasure of a morning stroll. It's all so sad." I say tilting my back to look at him.
"Being a vampire hasn't been easy for me, but it has it's benefits."
"Like what?"
"I am stronger than a normal man. I am no longer tied to the restraints of my human life. I've traveled, seen and learned of different cultures that I'd only dreamed of. It has allowed me to live a long life. Each experience, good or bad, has been an adventure." He shifts his body and looks down on me. "But importantly...MOST importantly, becoming a vampire has lead me to you, Ally. For that reason and that reason alone, I will always be grateful for my vampire existence."
Raising my hand to palm his cheek, I smile at him. A joyous tear slides down my face and he slides me down further into the couch for a kiss.
His kiss flutters on my lips like a butterfly. Its wings takes our love, spreads it wide and warm as it beats up towards the heavens.
TBC