A/N I finally have gotten to Thanksgiving. I think that I might skip ahead in the next chapter, but we'll see. Enjoy and leave me some love if you get the alert for this because fanfiction is a big fat fail!

I showered quickly, dried off and changed into a t-shirt and jeans. I brushed my wet hair back, then made my way back downstairs.

When I stepped out of our bedroom I was surprised that I couldn't smell sex and fairy in the air. That should have been permeating through the entire house by now, but there wasn't even a trace of it in the air.

I walked down the hall and down the stairs waiting for the scent to hit me, but there was nothing. When I reached the kitchen and all I could smell was the food cooking for lunch I was confused.

Sookie was sitting at the kitchen table when I came in, mixing up the cream pies for dessert. She was now wearing a tank top and shorts, but she had never gone upstairs to change. Now I was completely confused. "Lover, is there something that you need to tell me?"

She stood up and came over to me with a smile on her face. "Yes there is, but I want it to be a surprise. It's really important and it will make you really happy, but I want to wait until the whole family is together."

"I guess as long I get to find out eventually I suppose I can wait." I leaned in and kissed her on the lips before forcing myself to pull away and get back to fixing our meal.

Around 12:30 I went upstairs and showered again and dressed in a red silk, buttoned down shirt, black dress pants, black socks and boots. I thought about putting on a tie, but then I decided against it and made my way back downstairs so that Sookie could get ready.

While Sookie was getting ready our first guests arrived. It was Niall and the triplets. I was cordial to them since soon they would be family. I led them into the living room and offered them drinks like I knew Sookie would. I poured Niall the white wine he asked for and the red for the triplets and brought out a tray of deviled eggs as well as a tray of crudités.

As the fairies were eating a drinking a tension had filled the room without Sookie there. I decided to go up and check on her.

I excused myself and I had reached the bottom of the stairs when the doorbell rang again. I opened the door and found Fintan, Sookie's brother Jason and a woman who seemed very familiar to me, but who I couldn't place right away.

A breeze blew in from behind them and the woman's scent hit my nose and my jaw hit the ground when I realized who this was. No, this couldn't be, it wasn't possible. "Hello Eric." Even though her voice sounded different, it didn't have the graveliness that comes with age, I was sure that this young woman standing before me was Adele Stackhouse.

I knew that I was being rude not inviting them inside, but I was still too stunned to react. I'd been standing there staring long enough for Sookie to appear at my side. "Honey, what's the matter?" She looked up at me then out to who I was staring at. "Oh my God!" Her expression was almost identical to mine, but she was able to snap herself out of it faster than I was able to. "Gran, what happened to you?"

Adele looked up at Fintan with so much love and affection in her eyes, "It was all Fintan. He gave me a part of himself so that I can be young again and we can have the life that we should have had all those years ago."

I was still staring not able to grasp what I was seeing. Adele looked more like Sookie's mother or older sister than her grandmother. I wondered how she would handle this when the initial shock wore off.

I managed to pull myself together and invite them inside, but I was shocked again when Jason stepped up to me and held out his hand for me to shake. "Eric right? My Gran has told me all about you. Welcome to the family man, but you better make sure to take extra special care of my baby sister."

"Thank you Jason and I will treat her like a queen."

"Alright." He let go of my hand and walked into the house. "Hey Sook, is that deviled eggs that I smell?" I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone right now. I really needed some explanations of what was going on around me before I went completely nutty.

I was still standing in the open door way pondering everything a few minutes later when Pam arrived. She was wearing a pink Chanel dress and had a smile on her face. "Confusion doesn't look good on you Eric. What's going on?"

"I really can't explain it. It's something that you just have to see to believe." She walked inside and I closed the door and followed her.

We went into the living room and I noticed that all of the fairies seemed to be smiling at Sookie. That was kind of freaking me out along with Jason being so docile and Adele being thirty years younger. This was all a bit disconcerting.

Pam fixed herself a drink and there was small talk until it was time to eat. We all moved into the dining room and once we all had full plates it was like we all went into observation mode as we were eating. The fairies were watching Pam and I eat and we were watching them right back. There wasn't a lot of talking while we were eating. It wasn't uncomfortable or anything, it was just the oddest thing that had happened in my long life.

When we were done eating I helped Sookie clear the table and I could feel that she was bubbling with happiness inside. I wanted to ask why, but I knew that she would tell me when she was ready.

When everything was cleaned up and put away Sookie shooed me into the living room and asked Fintan to help her with dessert. I thought that was a little strange, but she probably wanted a few minutes to talk to her grandfather and I couldn't blame her.

They came back in a few minutes later and I could see that Fintan was a bit distracted, but before I could ask him what was wrong Sookie came over and sat beside me. She took my hand and I could feel that she was practically vibrating with excitement. "Lover, you need to calm down before you hurt yourself."

"I'm sorry, I'm just so excited and I'm ready to tell my news now." She turned to the rest of the family, but I couldn't take my eyes off of her. "Everyone, I have an important announcement to make." She turned back to me so that she was looking at me with the biggest smile on her face as she spoke. "I'm pregnant."

She said the words that we had both been hoping for, for weeks, but I was still in a little bit of shock. She must have known yesterday when Dr. Ludwig was here. Why didn't she tell me then?

I wanted to pull her aside right then and ask her all of the questions that were going through my head, but the family had gathered her into hugs and there were congratulations all around.

The congratulations went on for quite awhile before we continued on to our coffee and dessert. I sat there next to my beloved eating my pie and just trying to think about how she was able to keep this from me even for this short amount of time. I wasn't angry about her keeping this from me, I was just curious.

The rest of the afternoon seemed to fly by. Before I realized it our family was leaving for the evening, all of them with leftovers. I was finally alone with my Sookie.

She went upstairs to change clothes and take care of her human needs, so I decided to start a fire since there was a chill in the air tonight.

It didn't take long for me to get the fire blazing and I decided to make a bed for us in front of the fire. I went to the linen closet and pulled out a spare quilt and a half a dozen pillows. I arranged everything in front of the fire, then I went into the kitchen. I got a bottle of ginger ale out of the fridge and two champagne flutes. I wanted us to celebrate our news and I knew that alcohol was not good, so we would use the soda instead.

I brought everything back into the living room, sat down and was pouring our drinks as my beloved was coming downstairs. I looked up at her and she was absolutely gorgeous and still had a huge smile on her face as she walked up to me. "What is all of this?" I pulled her down into my lap when she was within my reach. I couldn't help letting my eyes and hands roam over her body. She was wearing a red, silk, full-length negligee that was very low cut in the front.

"This my love is a small celebration after the news that you shared this afternoon. How were you able to keep it from me Lover?"

"Dr. Ludwig helped me to suppress the bond so that I could surprise you, but she was puzzled that you weren't able to smell it on me."

I pulled her closer and inhaled her scent deeply. It was definitely different than it had been even earlier today. "Lover, you do smell different now, but you haven't smelled like this before. How is that possible?"

"I don't think that I did it on purpose. I wanted to be pregnant so badly, but I didn't want you to find on your own, I wanted to be the one to tell you. Dr. Ludwig thinks that the fairy part of me is growing now that I'm pregnant and she thinks that that part of me covered my scent.

I nuzzled my face into her hair and kissed her neck. "My naughty little fairy." She giggled and I couldn't help but let her joy wash over me. "Do you know how happy you've made me my love? You are giving me everything that I thought was lost to me after I became a vampire. I don't think that I could be happier than I am right at this moment."

I looked into her eyes and I could feel that she was holding something back again, but then she smiled at me and leaned on to whisper in my ear. "What if I told you that I know something that could make you even happier?"

"And what would that be Lover?"

"It's actually a couple of things. Dr. Ludwig told me that I should give birth around the same time that Hadley gives birth to Hunter since she's been watching over her care as well."

"My love, that is wonderful. They could be twins."

She smiled even bigger as she whispered in my ear again. "Not twins Honey, triplets. We will have our two sons and our daughter all at once."