So just want to say here … the songs referenced at the end of this chapter are Jennifer Lopez On The Floor, and the Enrique Iglesias I Like It

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EPOV

After the rest of the family – Pam, Godric, Elizabeth and Daniel had left for Fangtasia, it was just Sookie and me left alone in the house.

"Lover … if you want to go on ahead and get something to eat, I can finish this up for you" I suggested gently to her".

"No … it's alright. There is just a couple of bags left to put away anyway." She replied.

"Will you have to request a meeting with the Authority and the Magister or can you do it all over the phone?" she asked after a few seconds of silence as we put away the two remaining bags of groceries.

"I should probably be able to deal with both of them … with both the Magister and the Authority over the phone, although just as a warning, the contact number that I have for one of the members of the Authority may be outdated., and I might not be able to use it, so I might have to contact Nora … do you want me to put the phone on loudspeaker for you to hear that particular conversation, if I have to contact her?" I asked, wanting to make sure that there was no way in hell that the same situation as the one we had the other night could ever occur again.

Although the possibility that I would have to phone Nora was fairly slim, I just didn't want to take any chances of causing any more fights or arguments between Sookie and I.

Nora had already caused enough of those.

"No … its alright, Eric. I trust you completely and I meant what I said to you earlier … if you want to keep in contact with Nora and to rebuild a relationship with her. I won't stop you. I won't stand in your way. She is your sister after all" she replied.

"And I meant what I said too. I want nothing more to do with her other than business – professional business. She lost any sort of relationship that she might have had with me when she tried to steal me away from you." I replied, putting the last of the groceries away.

"You go ahead and make the calls while I make myself something to eat" Sookie said, pulling out the frying pan from one of the lower cupboards.

"Sure. I'll see you in a little bit, lover" I said, giving her a little peck on the side of the forehead.

I then made my way up to the office which was situated beside mine and Sookie's bedroom at human speed, as I was scrolling through my list of contacts looking for the phone numbers that I would be needing.

Aha.

There it was.

A contact number for the magister. I pressed the call button as I was sitting down in my office chair.

"Magister" said the magister when he answered the phone.

"It's Eric Northman, from Louisiana Area 5" I said to him.

"Ah. Sherriff Northman … what can I do you for tonight?" he greeted me.

"I'd like to inform you that Sophie Anne LeClerq, the Queen of Louisiana as met he final death and her Second – In – Command, Andre Paul is currently under detainment in the basement of Fangtasia, one of the local businesses that I own. I am calling you to inform you of my own ascension as King of Louisiana and that of my wife, Sookie Northman, as my Queen." I told him.

There was silence on the other end for a good ten or fifteen minuties.

"And what are your reasons for sending Sophie Anne to her final death?" he finally asked, breaking the silence.

"She tried to take my bonded and pledged wife off of me knowing that we were bonded and pledged as well as married according to human laws" I carefully explained to him.

"Very well then. I accept you kingship, Eric as well as the leadership of your bonded and pledged and Mrs. Northman. I wish you the very best of luck as King and Queen" he said, and then hung up.

Well. That went better than I thought that it would. I thought to myself.

Next, I scrolled through my list of contacts a little further and found the number for not only three members of the Authority but also the number for the "secretary" of sorts for the Authority – well, not her personal number. The number for all business like calls.

Perhaps I should use that particular one. It would mean that there would be records of the call, just in case I ever needed to go back to it.

"You have reached the Authority. Press 1 to speak to a live undead person. Press 2 to leave a message" said a bored, monotone voice.

I pressed 1.

"You are now on speakerphone" said the same bored, monotone voice. "Please state your name and then someone will get back to you".

"Eric Northman. Sherriff, Louisiana Area 5" I said.

"How can we help you, Eric?" said a voice. This time it was an actual person, and if my memory served right, it sounded like Roman.

"I want to inform you of my succession as King of Louisiana. And that of my wife, Sookie Northman as Queen of Louisiana." I said, feeling that this call was going to be a repeat of my previous phone call to the Magister.

"And how did you succeed as King and Queen" Roman asked.

"Sophie Anne tried to threaten and kidnap my wife and bonded, Mrs. Northman" I said, thoroughly enjoying saying that especially since though only Roman was speaking, but I was sure that the rest of the members of Authority, including Nora would be listening to each and every single word that I was speaking.

"Are you pledged?" Roman asked.

"Yes. We are. By Ceremonial Knife. And we are also married according to human laws." I said.

"Did Sophie Anne know that you were bonded and pledged?" Another voice asked, and I presumed it was Salome's.

"She was aware of that" I confirmed.

"But yet she still tried to take your bonded away from you?" Salome asked.

"She did" said, and then I was put on hold for a few minuites – presumably while the Authority deliberated. All I could hear down the phone line was Jennifer Lopez singing something about being on the floor and then after that some guy singing about liking it and then Barack Obama in the same song.

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