2013-
"I want to go with you two to get Tara back," Sookie told Eric and Pam in the parking lot at Merlotte's, "it's crazy that she thinks she can stay in another reality."
Eric nodded, then grabbed her quickly and bit into her neck! Sookie began squealing like a stuck pig and Pam worked quickly to catch enough seeping blood to fill the vial! She could not help but lick her fingers as she capped it. Sookie's blood was damned good!
Eric reluctantly controlled himself, bit into his wrist and then forced his blood against her lips to heal her. Pam handed him the vial and he went inside, while Pam asked Sookie if she was alright!
"You fainted there." Pam said, trying to sound sincere. But Sookie wasn't falling for that shit!
"Eric fucking bit me, that's what happened! What's going on?"
"Something that was necessary in order to get Tara back here. Look, I'd like it if you didn't tell Sam about this." Pam said.
But Sam had actually heard the squeals and was now standing in front of them.
"Tell Sam what?" he asked, looking accusingly at Pam. Pam pulled Sookie away from Sam a bit.
"Sookie, I would not have went along with that, but Eric told me that Tara is with SAM here, in that other reality. Now I'm sorry, but I have to do whatever I can to break that up from THIS reality."
Sookie was more than a bit surprised to hear that!
"How does Eric know that?"
"Tara returned in your kitchen of all places!" Pam hissed. "And she told Bill that she needed vampire blood to save Sam. And she seemed pretty adamant about going against the Authority's orders just to help my boyfriend!"
Sookie didn't answer. If Tara was with a version of Sam Merlotte in another world-well-good for her! She would prefer Sam be with Tara than Pam!
But she didn't voice that opinion. She just realized that maybe she had better keep an eye on Tara's other worldly romance, so that Pam and Eric didn't fuck it up!
"Okay. I'll do as you ask." Sookie said and turned and walked over to Sam.
"Just a girl thing, Sam. Nothing to worry about. I'm going to get back inside." Sookie said and walked back into the restaurant. Sam then looked at Pam.
"What the hell is going on? Where is Eric? He was out here with you, wasn't he?"
"I thought he went back inside?" Pam asked.
Meanwhile, Russell and Eric were around the back where the trash bins were.
"Can I have my vial?" Russell asked.
"Can I have my hint?" Eric asked.
Russell took his arm and turned the dial on his ring...
1583-
Edgingland Palace-
King Franklin Edgington, was more than a bit surprised when his father, Russell Edgington was announced-with his fucking cousin...Eric Northman, formerly of Northland and challenger to his crown!
He jumped up from his throne, furious! His men unsheathed their swords, but Russell rolled his eyes.
"Have your men put those things away, boy. You know what I can do."
Eric eyed Russell. Was HE a vampire here? And did Franklin know it? Eric glanced over at sun coming through some windows. Some of the light fell directly upon him and nothing happened. Russell actually sipped some of the fairy blood and soon, but the sun didn't appear to hurt him either. But Eric could not figure out if that was because Russell had had the fairy blood or what? And he didn't quite know if he himself was still a vampire or human now? He didn't feel any different.
"How dare you show your face here!" Franklin hissed. "Father, why is he not in chains?"
Russell cast a sly glance over at Eric before answering.
"For what, son?"
"For what?! He stole the troops that Earl Thorngrove promised me and forcibly wed my beloved, Lady Tarayan Thorngrove!"
Suddenly, Eric remembered Sam calling Tara 'Lady Taraya' or something like that! He gave Russell a meaningful look of understanding, before answering for himself.
"I'll tell you what: let's have duel for the throne. If you win, you will never have to be bothered with me again. And I will tell you where Lady Tarayan is, before you kill me. And if I win, well, this is all mine. And 'Tarayan' too." Eric said.
Franklin just stared at him before speaking.
"I will agree to no such thing. The monarchy is mine by right. What happened, Cousin Eric? Did Thorngrove's troops perish? Did Lady Tarayan flee from your bed?" Franklin smirked.
Russell and Eric ignored him and had a small conference in front of him, whispering.
"I'll make you a deal," Eric whispered, "I will bring you a regular supply of Sookie's blood, if you kill him and take the throne."
"I was going to do that anyway," Russell said between clenched teeth, "there is no way this idiot would ever be a child of mine."
"Kill him, take the throne and then come for me in about three months." Eric requested.
"Why?"
"Just do it!"
"Oh I'll do it, but I want an actual fairy per month. Not this piddly shit in a vial! See I know that Sookie Stackhouse disappeared for a good year to some fairyland. You find that land and bring me one fairy a month. I'll come and get the fairies-and then in three months I'll bring a fairy AND you, back here."
Eric didn't especially like that part of the deal. For it called for some investigation. But it certainly wasn't impossible to find out. And he did remember draining one, when he had amnesia.
"Fine." Eric agreed.
"May I ask why you want this facade continued?" Russell asked.
"It will soon be apparent." Eric said.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TWO TALKING ABOUT BEHIND MY BACK?!" Franklin sneered. "Father, you are being insolent! And you, cousin, I want my betrothed back! Produce her or you will rot in the dungeon!"
Russell and Eric stared blankly at Franklin, before Russell looked at Eric and said, "I'll kill him now, glamour his guards into thinking he was poisoned, and then we can go back."
Eric just nodded. Russell had just answered his question with regards to his 'vampire status'.
1583, St. Muniz-Three Months Later:
Sam Merlotte was deeply unhappy and heartbroken. Lady Tarayan had sworn to him that she would never love another such as him, and that they could continue their relationship after she married King Franklin.
But she was besotted by that pretender, Prince Eric! He had come into her dressing room that morning, hoping to maybe broach the subject of rekindling their passion,whilst Prince Eric was off on the grounds with Alcide Herveaux, training those men in the use of those loud weapons, Lady Tarayan had brought with her from that other reality. But Prince Eric had been with her, and he watched in strangled horror(and behind a door in the adjoining room), as Prince Eric and Tarayan fucked like like they would never stop!
Sam almost jumped, when he felt LaFayette's hand come down on his shoulder! He said nothing and continued to watch the prince and Lady Tarayan, as they copulated on the balcony to her room.
"I know how you feel," LaFayette murmured, "I have fantasized about the Prince since I was lad."
"Aye." was all Sam said. LaFayette sighed.
"I wish they would hurry up. I have disturbing news for the Prince's ears only."
Sam did not care, as his mind wandered to Tarayan and that other reality they had briefly been in. Everything had seemed so strange. That one room they had been in looked like something from another world and yet, sort of resembled a kitchen! And Prince Eric had been more calm and controlled. Where had Tarayan come across that ring that allowed the both of them to travel in such a way?
"We should go, before we are discovered." Lafayette advised and Sam nodded, then left the adjoining room, with him.
Meanwhile, Eric had indeed insisted on making love to his wife out on the balcony, lifting her up and impaling her on his manhood, standing up. Tara had wrapped her legs around him ad cried out helplessly as Eric made furious love to her, thrusting with a tempo that to her, rivaled a washing machine. Their bodies slapped together noisily as Tara lost herself in dizzying excitement and lust.
Later, a servant had brought water for a bath and Tara felt bad, that she was now supposedly too good to get the water herself! She didn't really feel that way, but Eric had a fit if she did anything that he thought a servant should be doing. As she leaned back into the water, Sookie entered, closing the door quickly, before rushing over.
"What is it?" Tara asked, a bit fearful. There had already been two accidental deaths by way of the guns she had brought into this reality and one drunken incident, where someone shot off their foot! She now expected to hear something along those lines from Sookie.
"Lady Tarayan, I heard something. Something that LaFayette was telling your grace and my husband. I know they are planning on not telling you, but I thought you should know, since he caused you such pain."
"Who?" Tara asked, now sitting up.
"King Franklin. His father is now king. Apparently King Franklin was poisoned." Sookie said, peering at her a bit. She had noticed earlier that Lady Tarayan's stomach had looked a bit distended...
"Poisoned?" Tara asked, wondering why the hell Russell would do such a thing now? Why hadn't he just killed Franklin from the get-go so he could be king? Why did he wait so long to do this?
That was what Eric and Alcide were wondering, as that listened to LaFayette.
"Why would my uncle kill my cousin NOW? Why didn't he do it after he murdered my father?" Eric asked in wonder. "Is your spy sure of his findings?"
LaFayette nodded grimly.
"Yes, your grace. Only there doesn't seem to be any proof that King Russell killed his son. As I said before, many remember the late King Franklin choking and gasping for air, over roasted lamb. Everyone in the kitchen was questioned and no one of any consequence turned up as the guilty party."
"That doesn't mean someone in the kitchen did it," Alcide theorized, "the poisoner could've been someone who got close enough to the lamb to corrupt it, then leave the grounds."
"Aye," Eric said, "and leave handsomely paid by my uncle. We now have no choice but to speed up the timing of our departure here. I don't want my uncle sitting on that throne a moment longer than his twit son. We will prepare to leave here and retake Northland in a few days."
2013- Fangtasia
Pam stopped short when she found Russell Edgington, sitting in Eric's office chair. God, she had hoped someone had staked him!
"Well hello, dear. Pam, isn't it?"
Pam sighed.
"Yes."
"I bet you were hoping I had died, weren't you?"
"What do you want?" Pam asked.
"I'm here to have a hard talk with Mr. Northman. He has reneged on an agreement we had. Something that was to be delivered to me once a month, that wasn't! I came in through the back. Fetch him for me, won't you?"
Pam rolled her eyes!
"I can't. He was captured by the Authority."
Russell frowned.
"Again?"
"Who the hell knows? Tara has been long gone, so this time it wasn't her fault! He just outright killed a vampire for no reason, knowing he would get pulled in! Let me ask you this: does this agreement have anything to do with his hair?"
Russell now slowly stood up.
"His hair? What the hell are you talking about?"
"Eric's hair. He grew it back long? And he suddenly did it after that little visit he took to God knows where, with you." Pam said, her manner increasingly snotty sounding. But Russell ignored her tone! Damn! That fucking Northman never had any intention of honoring their deal! And he had killed that vamp, to get into the Authority building to get his fucking hands on Roman Zimojic's ring, not his!
Russell took a pause. Northman would have to kill Roman to get it again. He decided that that would probably be best. He would wait until that deed was done, before seeking revenge on Eric Northman for his treachery.
