So peoples ... sorry for the massive delay on this, but I hope you enjoy this.

Disclaimer: Not Mine.

SPOV

"No. Sookie. It is you that has got it wrong. Not me." Bill said in reply.

Boy. Bill really was looking to get another kick in the nuts, but really the only thing that was stopping me from giving him one was that he really was too fucking stupid for his own good to really realize what it was that he was saying.

And Gran had always brought both Jason and me up to respect those who were a lot more unfortunate than what we are.

"Seriously, Bill. Just fuck off already and leave me alone. What I do with my life stopped being your concern when you cheated on me" i answered him in as civil a tone as I could manage.

He looked at me as if he was going to say something else, but instead of listening to what it was that he had so say, I simply turned around to face Eric, putting my back to Bill, and I wrapped my arms tightly around my boyfriend, enveloping him in a big hug. He reciprocated quickly and laid his own head down on top of my head, holding me as tightly to him as he possibly could. A

As if he really didn't want me to go anywhere at all.

Somewhere in the background, I heard Bill make some sort of a huffing noise, and then there was the sound of a door slamming.

But I honestly didn't even care. I was safe and secure in my boyfriend's arms.

"I love you, Sookie" he whispered, pulling me out of my daydream.

"I know. I love you too, Eric" I said, kissing his chest softly.

"And don't worry too much about tonight, lover. My parents are going to love you" he said.

"Are you sure about that, Eric?" I asked, unsurely, looking directly up into his eyes but still refusing to lift my head from where it was buried in his chest.

"Absolutely sure" he said, without any hesitation whatsoever, and also meeting my gaze.

I waited for Eric to elaborate on that a little.

"Lover ... they will love you simply because I love you. They just want to see me happy" he said.

I nodded slowly as his words began to sink in through my skull.

"Now ... I will see you later on, lover. And you had better go on home now before I drag you back inside." He said, and gave me a surprisingly chaste kiss on the lips.

I responded quickly before skipping off on down the corridor, and I made it back to the house that I shared with Amelia a few moments later.

"Well don't you just look pretty damn fine today, Stackhouse?" Amelia grinned at me as she came into the kitchen where I was.

I turned around to face her and gave her a small smile in reply.

"So did you and hot stuff Northman finally do it?" she asked, reaching for the coffee maker.

"No" I said, feeling the blush rise up rapidly on my cheeks.

And for once I was actually telling her the truth.

"I think that you are telling your best friend here quite a few little fibs, Sookie" Amelia said, doing her best impression of Gran.

I tried not to laugh at that.

"No. Amelia. I am not telling you any lies or fibs" I replied.

"Then what was that massive grin for?" she asked.

I sighed.

It was becoming quite clear that Amelia was not going to give up until she got the answers that she was looking for.

In other words, until I told her.

"Fine" I said, rather more huffily than what I had intended. "Eric has asked me to meet his parents tonight"

"And this makes you smile like a complete lunatic? If it were me, I would be completely shitting myself by now." Amelia admitted.

"I am really nervous about the whole thing, especially since I haven't done this before. Bill definitely didn't want me anywhere near his parents. But, this means that he ... Eric wants to keep me around. He wouldn't have asked me to meet his parents if he was intending on dumping me or if he thought that we weren't going to last, would he?" I replied.

"Sookie" Amelia said, really rather sharply.

I was brought straight back down to reality.

"What?" I sniped back.

"Stop over analyzing this. Eric is most definitely completely and totally taken with you. There is no way on this earth that he would ever give you up voluntarily. He wouldn't give you up without making sure that there was a real macho man fight to the death for you. And from the way that you speak about him, you feel exactly the same way. Do. Not. Screw. This. Up. And whatever you do, really stop thinking like that. Eric is not Bill. He is not Bartlett. He just wants to look after you and protect you for the rest of both of your lives. You ain't going to be finding that anywhere else. Okay." Amelia ranted.

"I do love him" I said.

"I know you do. And he loves you too. Now come on. We need to go shopping" Amelia said, dumping her cup down into the sink.

"No. I need to get some chores finished off here first. And then if I have time, I will go shopping with you." I answered.

"Fine. But you are no fun" she replied.

I rolled my eyes at her but was saved from having to reply to her when my phone chirped of the sound of a text arriving. I lazily opened it, and began to read.

*LOVER, MAKE SURE THAT YOU BRING SOME CLOTHES WITH YOU. WHEN YOU ARRIVE LATER I AM NOT LETTING YOU GO. EVER*

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