Dear fellow readers, I'm so sorry it took me this long to update. I got a new job and it really took my nights, which means exhaustion. But I love your reviews, favorites and followers!
I'm sorry for my grammar errors, sentence structure is my weakness because I'm highly functioning autistic and language structure is a little off. It's also because sometimes my head is faster than my hands when it comes to writing.
Characters belong to Charlaine Harris and Alan Ball (The story is mine!)
Sookie inhaled deeply than slowly exhaled out, trying to calm down her overbeating heart. She was filled with excitement and feeling very nervous. Eric and Sookie were all still in Sookie's old house that was almost all packed up and ready for the new house. Dr. Ludwig was there to do a house call check-up on Sookie's pregnancy. Dr. Ludwig, Eric, and herself was looking at the monitor of the ultrasound to take a look at her baby, well the beginnings of a baby just to see if everything is going well. Eric held her hand, fascinated at the machinery and the little image on the screen. He could see a faint outline of a baby blob, but it was hard for Sookie to see.
"It seems like everything is okay." Dr. Ludwig stated.
Sookie looked at the monitor more closely "Can you tell if I have twins or not?" she asked.
"Yes Mam. Do you see those two blobs?" Dr Ludwig pointed out where the blobs were. Sookie nodded with a smile. "Those blobs may not be much, but those special blobs are your babies. You are going to have twins."
Sookie's eyes were filled with tears of joy. Eric just kept on staring at the screen, like if he stared at it longer the babies would shaped form more. He is just as happy and filled with a fatherly pride. His ego was totally huge for not only he was getting a son, but two sons! They were going to be princes of vampires and fairies. He was going to be a vampire king of Louisiana with Sookie as his queen. He never felt so blessed right now. For once he truly felt like he was being watched over by a high being. He never had so many gifts come to him so easily. At the same time he was afraid that all of this will be gone in a flash. Part of him was so afraid that this was a dream and he was going to wake up. If that's true, he was going to be suicidal. He shook his head from the negative thoughts that were creeping themselves in and he looked at his beloved who was filled with joy, despite the fact that their children were not really formed yet. They were just cells, but still they were looking at evidence that their children are existing.
"I'm going to be mom Eric! And you're going to be a father!" Sookie said through her tears of happiness. "The best part is that they're your children Eric. You fathered them, not some random sperm donor."
Eric smiled back just as happy for his mate was already glowing " I know lover, and thank you for having them and going to give birth to them. That I know is a miraculous task itself." Then another worry came to Eric. He just remembered his Viking days, where in that time period it was truly indeed a miracle for both the mother and child to be healthy and okay after the birth was over. Women died constantly from the birthing process, fever, or infection. Also many infants died for a simple reason...people back then didn't know you were supposed to clear a baby's throat or give it a pat on the back for it to start breathing. The people instantly assumed that if the baby didn't cry, it was a still born.
Sookie has read through Eric's thoughts, sense she can tell he was thinking in heavy thought about their children. "Eric." Eric looked at Sookie for she confirmed to him that she's been listening on his thoughts. "It's going to be okay. We have technology and medicines that help out pregnancies that we have more good births than bad." she tried to give comfort.
"Sorry lover. I already know that I shouldn't have to worry. It's just that I can't help but feel the old memories of what used to happen."
"I understand." Sookie still had his hand, but this time she was giving the comfort to him.
"I don't mean to interrupt your hallmark moment, but I need to leave." Dr. Ludwig said as she started to pack up the machinery. "Do you have any questions for me before I go?"
Sookie had tons of questions "What am I to expect? What kind of children are they? Also what should I eat?"
"Well Ms. Stackhouse, we don't know exactly how those children are going to come out. They can be pure fae, or mixture of vampire and fae...there are many possibilities of what your children can be. To be honest with you..not that I ever wasn't but we are in new territory as far as supernatural beings is concerned. We're just going to have to wait and see. The best advice I can give you is to follow your instincts. The one thing many human beings have forgotten to do is follow their natural instincts. Many living things follow their instincts for survival and pregnancy. You must do that, your instincts are your manual. However the two recommendations is that you must eat more to gain your strength and to feed the two little ones you got inside of you. Also if you ever feel discomfort from pregnancy, take your vampire's blood to take the pain away.
"But won't that affect the babies?" Sookie wondered what would the side effects be for babies to have vampire blood.
"It might actually be good for them. They might have bond of their own to their father and the blood will strengthen their growth. After all these babies are not human, that we know for certain."
"Do you have any idea of when the babies are due?" Sookie asked.
"With an estimated guess, I'd say around five months. Which that's how the average pregnancy of a fairy is. But you have to count the vampire blood that you drink from Northman should speed things up more." Sookie looked concerned for that didn't feel like an answer. "Like I said, were in new territory. All we can do is guess. Which is why I'm writing so many notes, since your baby is the first of its kind. We have to document it. Just in case there'll be more in the future.
Then finally asked about the question that he' been dying to ask. "What about feedings?"
"Sookie from you?" Dr. Ludwig asked "We just covered that! Weren't you paying attention vampire?!"
"I meant me feeding from Sookie. Will I harm my children because of it?"
"No, as long as you stop before you take too much. Just don't be greedy with it, she'll be fine and your children should be fine."
Eric smirked for he can finally have his treat of sucking Sookie's blood with the pregnancy hormones as well as her being a full fae. Sookie playfully rolled her eyes and slapped him on the arm. Dr. Ludwig cleaned off the gel from Sookie's abdomen from the use of the sonogram scanning.
"Sense this is new journey for everyone, here's my personal number for any questions that will arise and for you to call me for emergency check-ups. I'll send you my bill Northman."
Eric then looked at Dr. Ludwig "Like always Dr. Ludwig it's been a ..."
"Stop trying to charm me Northman! I still find you annoying!" after that statement she popped out.
"What is it about you that she hates you so much?" Sookie asked.
"She doesn't hate me. She's just not really a fan of vampires. She only deals with us because of our blood. So sometimes the payment is not necessarily money, but our blood instead."
"So it looks like I have my own personal doctor for this."
"You have to Sookie. Our babies maybe beyond miracles for us, but we still have no idea how all of this is going to proceed. We have to take every precaution there is to make sure everything goes smoothly and to prepare for the unexpected. I know that and Dr. Ludwig know it." Eric gave a gentle loving kiss to Sookie. "By the way I heard a rumor that someone had bought a wedding dress." Sookie smirked and gave a playful smile. "May I see it?"
Sookie looked at him like he was kidding "No! You're not suppose to see it until I walk down the aisle."
Eric frowned "I'm familiar with this concept, but I forgot the reason why."
"Eric it's bad luck when the groom sees the wedding dress on the bride before the wedding."
Eric snorted with laughter "You're joking right?" Sookie shook her head no. "Well what about me seeing the dress without you in it."
"Same thing."
"Sookie do really believe in that superstition?" Sookie nodded.
"Lover. In a vampire sense, we are already married. So technically I'm your husband. So can I now see the dress?"
"First of all, we may be husband and wife the vampire way but there was no wedding of that. This is the human way, and the human way says the groom may not see the wedding dress until I walked down the aisle."
"Okay lover, do you want to know why that superstition was created to begin with?"
Sookie paused for a moment "I'm actually curious as to how that came about."
Eric looked at Sookie hoping she'll brace herself for what marriages really were about. "During the time when arranged marriages were custom, the betrothed couple wasn't allowed to see each other before the wedding at all. The wedding symbolized a business deal between two families." Sookie had her eyebrows raised. "I know romantic, huh? The father would have been pleased for his daughter to marry a man from a rich, land-owning family. But he also feared that if the groom met the bride before the wedding and thought she wasn't attractive, he'd call off the wedding, casting shame onto the bride and her family. Therefore, it became tradition that the bride and groom were only allowed to meet at the wedding ceremony so that the groom did not have the opportunity to change his mind. And that veil the bride wears? Its original purpose was also to keep the groom from finding out what the bride looked like until the last possible minute, when it was too late to back out of the transaction."
"Are you serious?" Sookie asked.
"Lover back in my days, marriage was pretty close to the same thing except we do allow love as a reason to get married as well. However if I had an elder brother who had a wife and kids, and he died in battle; it would be my duty to marry her and take care of her children so they had a husband to look after them."
Sookie never felt better than to live in the century she's living in now. "So marriage for love is a new concept still." Eric nodded as Sookie looked down with a frown.
"So now you know the truth behind the superstition, can I see the dress?"
"It's still a no."
"What! Why? What's the reason this time?"
"When you see me walk down the aisle, I want you to be entranced and in awe when you see me. It'll make it more memorable."
"I'm always entranced by you, but at least this excuse was better than the last one." Sookie was smiling in a pleading way. Eric rolled his eyes as he gave in. "Fine lover, I'll won't see the dress until you come to me down the aisle when you finally yield to me permanently the human way."
Sookie kissed him passionately "Thank you Eric. By the way I bought more than just a wedding dress." she said in a teasing voice.
Eric arched an eyebrow "Really? Do tell lover."
"It's very sexy and it's for our wedding night." she said with a teasing smile. Now Eric's going to have this in his mind all the time until his wedding night.
"Lover! You're not going leave that clue sitting on my mind until that night are you?" Sookie nodded. "That's cruel lover! That's torture!"
Sookie smirked at him "So Mr. Northman? Do you think I'm an excellent torturer?"
Eric was so close to Sookie face to face where they're breathing each other's air. "I think you have a talent for it."