A/N Basically I fail at updating. I have had this ready for awhile, but just haven't typed it up until now. I'd say i'll try not to wait so long on the next chapter, but i haven't started it yet, but i'm feeling inspired again and hopefuly the reviews i know my lovelies will leave on this chapter will help even more so enjoy and leave me some love!
CHAPTER 28
I was quick to finish my shower, then I holed myself up in my office. The calls that I had to make took me less time than I expected. The Ancient Pythoness had foreseen this and was expecting my call. She was ecstatic about the new change in the monarchy. She promised that my transition from sheriff to king would run smoothly and painless. I wanted to believe her, but I had a feeling that some of our kind were not going to take kindly to having a human as there queen and Sookie was definitely going to be my queen.
My next call was to Rasul, one of the former queen's guards, but also a loyal friend to me. He'd had eyes and ears in the queen's compound for me for years now. He had also been expecting my call. He'd already heard from the AP about the changes taking place in the monarchy. He'd already started weeding out any untrustworthy vampires and anyone unwilling to see myself and my bride to be as monarchs.
From everything that I learned from Rasul, everything was starting to come together well and it had only been a few hours. I had a feeling that the AP had started things in motion long before this night. I also had the feeling that she knew that I'd come back from the future and was waiting for me start changing things. I would have appreciated a little heads up about all of this, but the AP was good at keeping things to himself.
After instructing Rasul to get the former queen's compound ready for visitors, I hung up and called each of the remaining sheriffs requesting their presence in one weeks time at the royal compound. I didn't know if we would be keeping it or finding something else more suitable, but that would be something I would discuss with Sookie first.
I knew that I was cutting everything close with our wedding, but I wanted to get as much taken care of as possible so that she and I could enjoy our honeymoon. I'd been planning for us to visit Sweden for a few weeks to show her where I lived as a human, but now I thought that maybe a week in a tropical setting would be better with everything going on right now. I would take my Sookie and our children to Sweden when they are a bit older.
Now that it was colder here, someplace warm would be the ideal location to take my Lover. She would be able to enjoy the sun and soak up some vitamin D for her and our babies.
Hopefully I could convince Pam to watch out for Hadley while we were gone. Even with Sophie-Anne out of the picture, there was still Niall to contend with. I still wasn't sure what his plan was, but I wasn't to take any chances.
I made one last call to Pam letting her know what my plans were for the kingdom and what I needed her to arrange for the upcoming trip to New Orleans and my honeymoon. She was more than happy to see to those plans and to watch out for Hadley while we were gone. That only cost me three new pairs of shoes and two new outfits including accessories. It was a small price to pay.
I made a few notes on what I needed to accomplish over the next few weeks, then I made my way upstairs to bed.
I couldn't help stopping outside of the guestroom that Hadley was staying in and slipping inside. I went over and knelt down next to the bed. I sent out a little mental glamour to make sure that she stayed asleep, then rested my hands on my growing son. "Hello my boy, this is your father. I can hardly wait for you and your brother and sister to come into the world. Your mother is giving me something that I never dreamed I could have ever again.
"I'm going to promise you now that no matter what I'm going to be there for all three of you no matter what. I missed out on so much when it came to my human children, I am not going to make those same mistakes again. I am going to be the best father that I can be and I will love, no I already love all of you will all that I am." I gently stroked the baby bump and I was met with a good, strong kick. I smiled as I leaned down and gently kissed where the kick came from. "Goodnight my son. Sleep well and grow strong." I placed one more kiss on my growing son, before standing up, slipping out of the room and heading down the hall to our bedroom.
I slipped into our room and found my Lover fast asleep. I was glad to see here resting after all the stress that she'd been under lately. After our wedding I was going to make sure that she and I would have at least a little bit of peace and quiet.
I walked over to the bed and gently slid in next to Sookie. I gently rested my head and hand on her growing baby belly. I could hear the swiftly beating hearts of my son and daughter. In that instant I wished that Hunter was nestled in there with them. I wanted the three of them to be as close as possible, but I was afraid that Hunter would always feel like an outsider having not come from my Sookie's womb.
"Baby, that's not going to happen." I looked up and saw my Sookie looking down at me.
"I'm sorry I woke you my love. I just needed some bonding time with our children."
"It's okay." She reached down and started running her fingers through my hair. "We will give all three of our children equal love and attention."
"Were you reading my mind again Lover?"
"You were practically screaming that thought at me. I couldn't help but hear you. Plus I don't like it when you beat yourself up like that. All three of these babies are going to be happy and loved. And they'll be bragging to their friends when they're older about their big, Viking, daddy."
"And all the little boys will want to come over to see their beautiful mother."
"I don't know about that. I might not bounce back to what I looked like before."
"It doesn't matter, you'll still be the most beautiful woman in the world to me and our children."
"You know, we really should start seriously thinking about names for our babies."
"That sounds like an excellent idea my love." I could tell her about my plans in the morning. Right now focusing on our children sounded like a really good idea.
"Goodie!" I helped her sit up and she grabbed her baby name book from her nightstand. She got comfortable, then opened the book. "Now, do we want to go with something traditional or unique? Do we want a certain culture name or just any old name that we like?"
"Why don't we just start with some random manes to see if we like them, then if we don't find anything that way, we can look for something more specific."
"That sounds good." She opened the book on her lap, looked up and pointed to a name. "First name for our daughter could be Danielle. It's Hebrew and French and it means God is my judge."
"Danielle Northman. I like it, but I think that we should keep looking to see if we like something else."
"Okay." She marked that page and flipped to another. We went through several other names: Gillian, Jamie, Kayla, Tiana, Bree, Alyssa, and those were just the ones we liked.
We wrote down the list of favorite girls names, then moved onto boys names: Xavier, Alexander, Ethan, Hamilton, Gunnar, Ryder, Samuel and Sookie's additions of Corbett, Mitchell, and Jason.
We had our lists, but I could tell that my Sookie was starting to fade and I was feeling a bit fatigued myself after everything that had happened tonight.
Sookie put her book and our lists aside and we curled up together in bed and were soon asleep with our children nestled between us.
