The next night Sookie awoke to lying on top of some ones chest. Her heart fluttered for a brief moment before she realized that it wasn't Godric, but instead his child. She didn't bother moving. She felt comfortable, it may not have been Godric she was lying on, but lying on someone still felt good. IT made her feel like she was wanted still. Her eyes filled with tears all over again when she remembered what had happened the previous night. She felt Eric place his hand over her head.

"Sookie, enough!"

Immediately she ceased her crying. The last thing that she wanted to do was lose the only one who was still here for her. She wouldn't know what to do if that was the case.

"We need to go soon." Sookie reminded.

"Yes, but I have no intentions on leaving yet."

"But what about your maker's orders?"

"What about them, I have broken them several times within these last few days. Once more won't hurt."

"Then what are we going to do. There's nothing left here if Godric doesn't want anything to do with us."

"Yes well, Dallas holds a lot to offer and quite frankly I would like to ease your mind."

"Ease my mind?"

"Yes, by taking you out for the evening. Making you smile."

Eric said this very gently while running his fingers over Sookie's face.

"Just because one man doesn't wish to have you doesn't that there isn't another who does."

Sookie only stared at Eric, she didn't know what to say. She wanted a shoulder to cry on but she didn't want to jump into another relationship so soon. She blocked out all of her thoughts. Eric had brought her this far, he had done this much for her, she could at least give him the time of day. Before she could give him a reply she was hushed by Eric raising up and crushing his lips to hers. She didn't kiss him back at first, she wasn't so sure. Wouldn't this make Eric her rebound? She wrapped one arm around his neck and gripped the back of his head with the other, while diving deeper into the kiss. But a damn good one. After a moment the two of them broke apart. Eric sat there staring at Sookie for the longest time before finally getting out of the bed.

"I need to go and feed, you go get cleaned up and I'll be back after a while. Be ready in an hour alright?"

"You can't feed from me?"

Sookie regretted the words. She didn't really want him to feed from her. Or did she?

"Are you offering yourself Sookie?"

She hesitated at first but allowed a smile to creep up onto her face.

"Of course."

The reaction she got from Eric was not the one she had been expecting. He immediately spun around on his heels in an attempt to completely dismiss her offering.

"You belong to…"

She didn't give him a chance to finish, she wasn't having it any longer.

"…To Godric? I think not Eric. He has made it clear that he wants nothing to do with me for th time being. I have to wait a couple of years he says. Well I'm not waiting for him. I refuse to. He can't jus throw me away and forget about me until he feels the time is right. I don't understand him at all…I know that now. I do understand that he wants to protect me from everything that's out there…and from everything that he can endanger me with. But honestly isn't that what it's supposed to be like in this whole, game of love. There are going to be risks, and dangers. And I think that it's he who doesn't understand that."

Eric didn't reply, he just stared at Sookie for the longest time. She had quite the spirit. And he couldn't help but think that she was right. In this the both of them, she and Godric, were completely clueless to the two worlds that the both of them had to offer the other. He turned his head to the side as she began to finish what she had to say, this time in a whisper.

"So no Eric, I belong to no one."

He watched her for a moment longer before turning around again, this time with the sole intention of leaving for a meal that wasn't Sookie.

"Be ready in an hour."

Then he was gone, and Sookie was once again left alone. Had he not heard her? She shrugged her shoulders and started for the bathroom. She took a long shower and got out. She dressed in a black ruffle skirt and a red tank top. She smiled looking at herself in the mirror. She couldn't help but see the image staring back at her. She was beautiful. Maybe Godric still loved this girl that stared at her. Just then the door to the suite opened and Sookie knew it was Eric who walked up behind her. She could now see his reflection staring back at her in the mirror. Who was that beautiful man standing next to that adorable girl? She giggled to herself, she was being quite childish.

"You know he's a fool for what he did to you?"

Sookie's smile faded and she turned around to look at him.

"And what did he do to me Eric?"

"For hurting you the way he did." Eric clarified.

"He didn't hurt me."

"He didn't?"

Eric looked at her with that 'oh really' look on his face. Sookie sighed and turned back around to stare at the Eric in the mirror, because for some reason that mad etlaking to him face to face a bit easier.

"Alright then maybe he did, but I'm only stronger now."

She paused a minute before continuing.

"Besides, you shouldn't speak about your maker in such a way."

Eric smiled. He had to admit, this girl did understand the bond between maker and child. She definitely had what it took to become a vampire, to thrive as one as he did for so many years before with Godric. If it wasn't for Godric reminding him last night that she still belonged to him he would have probably taken her, fed from her, made love to her senselessly, and then turned her. But the law of claim forbid him from it, especially the law of claim from his maker. Unless he wished to die he wasn't allowed to touch her. But with every passing second spent with this girl he was beginning to think she was well worth the awaited death.

"Are you ready?"

"I am."

She spun around on her heels and flashed him a great big smile. He laughed at her goofiness and held out his hand. She gladly and quickly took it and they left the suite for the city that awaited them below.