Eric pushed open Luna's front door, the window that was set in the door was smashed out and the shards crunched under his shoes as he walked over them. The house was a wreck. Picture frames were knocked off the wall and their pictures torn up, chairs and tables thrown about, the contents of the fridge splayed all over the kitchen floor, CDs were broken apart and made a sparkly trail across Luna's bedroom and den, a couple more windows in the house were broken out, little nicknacks that sat on the fireplace mantel were shattered, broken and tossed to the floor. What caught Eric's attention also was the doors to the cabinet, which led to his cubby, were wide open. They must have thought something valuable was down there. Eric thought climbing down the ladder. He looked about the cubby, that was vertically undisturbed from the last time he was there. Frowning at the oddness, Eric looked down at his watch. It was almost an hour, so he went back up the ladder and locked the front door to the house, even though it was really pointless, but he knew it would have made a difference to Luna and headed back to Fangtasia.
"Any change?" he asked, hanging up his coat, when he came back in.
"No, she's still out. I was about to give her the stuff Dr...Ludwig gave for her." Jacob told him opening the bottle.
"I've got it, go see if Pam's awake yet." Eric ordered taking the bottle and dropper from Jacob and sitting down where Jacob just was. He dripped the dropper in and filled it to the ½ tsp. line, then carefully dripped it in Luna's mouth. "Just hope this works fast, I have questions." he said to himself, closing the bottle and setting it aside. The clicking of Pam's heels made Eric glance up at his Child.
"What happened to her?" Pam asked, putting her hands of her hips.
"She was attacked, Pam. I want you to go through the channels and find shit out. Ask around for people that may have had issues with Luna in the last few months." Eric told her, watching Luna's eyes start to shift behind her closed eyelids.
"Anything else you want me to do?" Pam rolled her eyes.
"Have someone go over to her house and clean it up. Fix the broken out windows etc." he added. Pam rolled her eyes again and clicked away to start making calls.
"Is it working?" Jacob asked.
"Seems like it." Eric answered, picking Luna up. "Go help Pam, Im going to take Luna to my cubby to rest better." he told him, taking Luna into his office, pulling a certain book halfway out and letting it go. The bookshelf moved aside revealing an opening that led into a room that Eric slept in during the day at the club. He laid her down on the bed in the room and covered her up a bit. Rubbing his face, he sat on the edge of the bed, his back to her.
"I'm sorry." her soft voice whispered.
Eric paused, then turned to her. "You're awake." he smiled.
"Yeah." she sighed, rubbing her eyes. "Where am I?"
"In my cubby at Fangtasia. I felt you were in trouble and had you brought here." he told her, taking her hand in his. Luna looked around his cubby.
"Looks different than your other one." she pointed out.
"The one in your house?" Eric asked, frowning. "You've seen it."
Luna nodded, sitting up. "Yeah, last night after Pam came and flipped out on me. Where I slept." she told him.
A ping of joy hit Eric making him blush slightly. "That's why the doors were open. But why did you sleep there?"
"I don't know." she shrugged. "Something just told me too."
"Good thing. Else they could have done something worse to you." Eric growled, his eyes unfocused with anger. Luna leaned over to him and kissed him.
"I'm still sorry." she whispered.
"For what?" Eric asked, cupping the side of her neck in his hand.
"Going off on you like I did." she answered pressing her lips together. "I'm still upset that you killed him, but I understand why you did it." she rested her forehead against his strong, cool shoulder. "Just don't do it again, please." Eric rubbed her back, she was melting him more and more each second they were together. He started out as this cold hearted, mean tough guy and now he was turning into the warm, sensitive Vampire that loved a human more than the blood he lived off of. He sighed gentle against her neck.
"I won't kill anymore of your family members, expect for Axel and Bjorn, if it comes to that." Eric told her, kissing her neck.
"No one that upsets you when they say or do someone to me." she told him, wrapping her arms around his neck, lightly. "Not anyone that whistles or hollers at me, makes a rude gesture or comment..."
"I will rip off the body part that touches you." Eric hissed, continuing to kiss her neck and shoulder.
"Fair enough, I suppose." Luna nodded. "No killing them, Eric." she enforced her voice.
"I understand, Luna." He answered. Didn't say anything about the guys that attack you like these losers. He kept that to himself. But as if she could read his mind she pushed him away by the shoulders.
"No one, Eric. I mean that and don't think my failure to add the ones that attacked me last night means they're not included." she scolded him. Eric smiled at that, she impressed him just like everything else about her.
"Okay, Luna. No killing anyone for you." He said crossing his finger over his heart and pinking swearing it to her. "I'll just beat and torture them." he smiled, sealing the promise with a kiss. Luna laughed against his lips.
"There's no cut off point is there?" she asked when the kiss broke. "You have to hurt them somehow, don't you?"
Eric grew serious, "Yes, I do." he nodded. "I have to make people understand that you're mine and they're not to harm you in anyway without consequences. It's my job." Luna blushed this time at his words. "What?" Eric snapped at her.
"You said I'm yours." she told him. "I didn't know that."
Eric sighed and pulled her into his lap, face to face with her. "You are mine." he told her. "All mine." He smiled brightly. "And I'm yours." Luna stared quietly into his eyes, rolling what he said around in her head. She liked it, being his. Being Eric Northman's girl, it made her blush furiously and drop her head to hide it. Eric smiled watching her, kissing her neck again. But this time his fangs popped out making Luna jump. Eric clamped his mouth shut, moving away from her neck.
"Sorry," he apologized. "I'm hungry than I thought and the close smell of your blood ran them out."
Luna took a deep breath, "It's okay." she smiled. "I'm just not use to it. You are the first real Vampire I've ever interacted with."
"Oh, I doubt that. You just may of not known it." Eric replied.
"Still, then I didn't know it." she corrected. Eric chuckled, defeated in the matter.
The bookcase opened and Pam stepped in, "Ooo, am I missing out on something?" she cooed seeing the two. Luna raised an eyebrow at the dark blond.
"No." she answered shortly, getting a curious look from Pam. First time Luna ever saw the female Vamp look interested in something other than her shoes, nails and hair.
"Fine then." Pam snapped. "Eric, I went through the channels and the only things I found started when you two met and it was from most all of the people that know in Arcadia." She told Eric. "Especially the owner of Arcadia Bar and diner at the edge of the town."
"Joel." Luna said. "I knew he'd be pissed about us being together. He gets jealous about everyone I see, but he wouldn't do this or have this done. He has too much of a thing for me still." she explained to the two.
"Still?" Eric questioned.
Luna ignored him, "I know the guys that attacked me last night. There's only 401 people that live in Arcadia. So, working at Joel's I pretty much know all of them. The two that attacked me where John and Mike Rainey, their half brothers, actual cousins. They work somewhere in Minden, I think doing construction or landscaping, some stuff like that." she told them.
"Do you know where they live?" Eric asked.
Luna eyed him, "Eric, it's Mike and John Rainey. They're dumb in the head, too much inbreeding in their families. John was a mental patient at East Louisiana State metal hospital up until four years ago for going off his rocker, he's nice but has issues and Mike gets him to do a lot of bad shit." Luna told him. "Mike, on the other hand needs to be in a mental hospital. He's a big criminal, hillbilly redneck. Hunts animals, eats the meat straight out raw from what I've heard and hangs the dead animal bodies around his house and needs to discover David Dunbar Buick's invention, the bathtub." she exclaimed.
"He doesn't bath?" Pam grimaced.
"Doesn't smell like it." Luna said, shaking her head. "I don't know where they live, no doubt somewhere in Shackers, but I don't want to know. Let alone care. Mike's always hitting on me like a drooling, in heat hound in front of his girlfriend, Chloë. The poor girl."
"Does John have a girlfriend?" Eric asked.
"I don't know. Don't know a lot of girls in Arcadia that would date a former mental patient. But, I heard from the other waitress at Joel's that she saw him and a girl on what looked like some kind of date somewhere. Think she said the girl's name was Madison." She answered him, then froze seeing the expression on his and Pam's faces. "Fuck, I did it again."
"Did what again?" Eric asked trying to look innocent.
"Word blabber. I just told you two enough about the two to find them, didn't I?" she asked. "And don't lie to me. I know I did."
Pam laughed, "I'm really starting to like this girl."
"Yeah, you did give us enough to find them. But it's for the good, Luna." Eric tried to tell her.
"No, its not." Luna growled, narrowing her eyes at him. "You're going to find them and, and I quote from you earlier, 'Beat and torture them.' That's not for a good, Eric."
"But, they harmed you and I told you I can't let that happen." He explained to her, rubbing her shoulder. Luna gripped Eric by the shoulders, the best her little hands could on his massive shoulders.
"You don't get it!" she yelled. "I don't want you harming people because of me! You maybe able to live with it, but I fucking can't, okay." A tear rolled down her cheek. "I can't live with that, Eric. Knowing that you harmed someone because of something they did or said. I get you have some sort of title to uphold with me being yours, but I have a conscience that will rip me apart for it for the rest of my life, short as it may be." she shook him with her strength. Eric's throat tightened feeling her emotions flood over him, so incredibly deep. He bit his lip and kissed her forehead.
"I get it, Luna. I do, honestly, sweetie." he told her.
"Eric, you can't be serious!" Pam yelled. "Getting soft for her!"
Eric flashed to Pam, trapping her against the wall. "I will get anywhere to be with her, Pam! And that's my decision." he growled at his child.
"Yes, Eric." Pam sighed.
Eric let Pam pass and went back to Luna, she scooted back into his lap, to Eric's joy. He brushed the loose hair from her face and kissed her cheek, it was still a little wet from her tear. "Little human." he sighed slowly. "You are turning my life around and upside down."
"Me?" She pressed her hand to her heart. "Eric, you're a Vampire and I'm a human. We're not only talking. But touching and kissing, being together. Letting you build a cubby in my house." she giggled. "This is a Vampire racist world, Mr. Northman. Just like back in the 1930's and stuff with the African-American's."
"I know. I was here for that." Eric told her.
"I believe that." Luna laughed. "But, people are going to hate us for it and you can't kill, beat and torture them all."
"I can try." Eric laughed, hearty.
Luna shook her head, dropping it. Eric wrapped her in his arms and pulled her against him as he stopped laughing. Luna melted against his chest as they laid down, her resting on top of him. He twirled strands of her hair around his finger as they laid there quietly. It took a few moments for Luna to get use to the fact he didn't have heartbeat and it took him time to get over feeling hers beat against him, in time though feeling her heart beat against him it lulled him into a comfortable state of mind with its easy rhythm.
"Don't you have to work?" Luna asked against his shoulder, turning her face into his neck.
"It's my night off." Eric answered, gulping as he felt her warm breath against his cool neck, making the skin of his neck goosebump. "Just you and me." he told her, rubbing her back with his free hand. Luna nodded drifting off. "Oh shit." Eric grunted, sitting up, disturbing Luna.
"Its been more than an hour." he told her, going out back to Fangtasia and coming back with the meds Dr. Ludwig gave them and the dropper. "I'm suppose to give this too you." he said, filling the dropper to the line. "The blade that, that guy stabbed you with was poisoned with toad's slime and this will help kick it out of your system." he explained to her, holding the dropper out to her. Luna shook her head at him, eying the dropper.
"No, that stuff tastes nastier than nasty." Luna told him, clamping her mouth shut tight.
Eric's shoulders slumped, looking at her. "Don't start something you can't end, little human." he said, shifting. "Take it or else." Luna shook her head again. Eric sighed, setting the things down. He picked up a glass and poured some of his blood in it, then mixed the medicine in it. "Here." he said handing it to her.
She popped an eyebrow at him, "You think that'll change my mind? It's still in there." Eric held the glass to her lips.
"Open." he ordered.
She opened her mouth.
"Drink."
She drank it with him holding the glass for her. The rush she got from his blood sped through her like a race car on crack. Luna licked at her lips, as Eric set the glass down on the nightstand. "What a rush." she panted, her blood pumping. Eric grinned at her, watch her eyes flare and go wide.
"Eric?" she whispered, curiosity and a glimpse of innocent flashed in her blue eyes. "Are you still hungry?"
Eric gulped a bit, "Yeah, why?" he asked, though he knew. But he wanted her to say it.
"You wanna?" she shied, biting her lip.
"Feed from you." he said. She wiggled her unsureness. "If you want me too and only then, Luna."
"I'm curious to how it feels." she told him, moving a might closer to him. Eric nodded, "It's a sharp pain. Its quick. Other than that, I don't really know what its like after than. It's been a over a thousand years since I've felt it." Luna nodded.
"I'll do it, if you do." she said.
Eric swept her hair away from her neck, watched the pulse in her neck before letting his fangs pop out. Surprised when she didn't jump or gasp, she remained relaxed as he closed his mouth around her neck. She gasped as his fangs broke through her sink, but relaxed again when Eric pulled her flush against his body, drinking deeply from her. Luna panted softly, licking her lips and dropping her head back. Eric gripped the opposite side of her neck, supporting it and her head. The sensation was weird to Luna, having a Vampire feeding from her, but she liked it too. It was like a twisted type of hickey, that instead of leaving a big bruise, left two fangs marks. Eric pulled back, clicking his fangs away as Luna wiped a drop of her blood from his bottom lip and giggling as Eric licked it from her finger.
"Can't waste." Eric told her, licking at the line of blood that poured out of one of the fang marks from when he pulled back.
After lapping at the marks, he closed them by rubbing some of his blood into them. "You must be tired after all that's happened." he said fussing over the pillows. "Why don't you take a nap." He was right, but she didn't really want to fall asleep. They hadn't spent much time together alone and peaceful since she left for Sweden a month ago. But again, on occasion, Eric had that glint in his eyes that told her she wasn't going to win. So, laying down and letting him cover her up, she fell asleep. Eric waited til she was fully asleep before going into his office and making a call.
"Godric, It's Eric. I need your help..."