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Please note: italicized words would be the thoughts from another's mind they hear. So when it's Sookie's POV, the italics represent things of Eric's she hears. And if it's Eric's POV, the italics are things of Sookie's he hears.

Chapter 35

"Fuck, Eric," I groan, his hands gripping my hips tightly as I rock against him, getting him deep inside. His mouth is all over my neck, tongue dragging down over my pulse point and across my shoulders. I feel his fangs scraping across my flesh and I want them in me like he is.

I push him down onto the floor and my hands perch on his shoulders so I can keep moving my hips, grinding us together in the most delicious ways. His hands slide up and down my legs and around to squeeze my ass as I ride him. I can't get enough of him and I can't imagine my life anyway but like this: with him inside me.

I lean over and press our mouths together, my tongue licking his fangs before I feel his tongue stroking mine. His hands trail up my back and around to cup my breasts hungrily as his mouth bites one of them. I love this feeling. I love being flooded with his emotions as well as my own. His desperate need to have me, his hunger for my body and my blood, is so intense.

He pushes himself up to sit again and I wrap my legs around his waist. His hands gently caress my back as he moves over me and lays me down on the cool marble floor. Then it's his hips that are rocking into my mine, thrusting him inside me. His fangs scrape down my neck and I only wish I had my own so I could bury them in his neck.

I want that too, Lover; anywhere on my body, all over my body.

A shiver runs up my spine as his voice echoes in my head.

Come, Eric. Come inside me. Need you to come.

Your wish is my command, my queen.

I giggle softly at that before I'm screaming and moaning my release. The vibrations of his growls shoot through my body as he drinks. I feel blood dripping down my shoulder onto the floor as he pulls on the blood that flows. His excitement and absolute adoration shine through the bond as I rub his back with my hands and run my feet up and down the back of his legs. I'm pinned to the floor by my vampire and there's nowhere I'd rather be.

Too quickly, in my opinion, does he pull away and heal the wound with a prick of his tongue. He continues to lick the blood that's spilled and spread across my skin and I enjoy his tongue and lips on my flesh.

"Such a tidy vampire," I laugh softly as I run my fingers across his shoulder blades.

"Mmm," he hums in my ear and it sends a tingle down to my toes.

What happened tonight? You taste different.

"How so?" I wonder.

Sweeter, more potent. How is that possible?

He lifts his head and his chin is still red with me.

"You're a messy eater," I tease and kiss his nose.

"You're a messy bleeder," he responds before zipping away for a couple seconds. The faucet runs and he's back on top of me with a wet, but clean, chin. "Better?"

"Yes," I nod as I sit up and he pulls me onto his lap. "Maurella and I did some magic together. She wanted me to try some things to get answers."

"Such as?" he asks as he lifts me and walks us into the movie room to sit on the couch. It's very comfortable and I sure as heck don't mind his hand stroking my legs or the other hand perched on the small of my back.

"I'm not supposed to say," I inform him and he's off-put for a second before I continue. "I'm going to tell you, but she said these are heavily guarded fae secrets."

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Well the fae are a pretty secretive group, even more so than vampires have ever been. Though based on the amount of magic the fae possess, it makes sense that they should be so guarded.

"You know you can trust me, Sookie," I remind her. She can feel that and I know she does.

"If other vampires found out, Eric-"

"Sookie," I interrupt her with a soft kiss. "I meant what I said in the meadow: your family and friends, human and fae, are under my protection." If they are important to my chosen, they are important to me. I especially don't want her to be caused any pain if they were to become ill or harmed.

"Thank you," she says and returns my soft kiss. "That means a lot."

"So what answers did you get?"

"She had me try a few different things with my light to test me out, I guess. But after about an hour of that, she told me that it seems I am of the sky-fae as the sky-fae are the ones who have the ability to teleport."

"But what does that mean?" I wasn't aware there were different types of fae. Everyone knows dwarves, elves, magi's and things of that type carry fae magic, believed to have been created by fae even. But I didn't know there were sky-fae. What other is there? Earth-fae? Fire-fae? Is it an elemental-based thing as a lot of magic is?

"Well it's why I love the sun," she explains. "I mean ever since I was little really. My first memory is laying in the yard with the sun so bright it could blind but I wasn't affected. I just stared up at it and was just happy."

That… doesn't bode well for a future vampire.

She looks at me and asks, "Do you have many human memories?"

"Yes," I answer. "Several. Most notably was the last night with my parents, but a few from my youth, mainly of the ocean. But get back to the fairy stuff. Why do you taste different tonight?"

"We shared blood," she states.

I can't even control the rage that shoots through me and before I know it, I'm moving. I'm growling, fangs out, on top of her on the floor in a split second. "Eric!" she yells and blasts me off her. I go flying up to the ceiling and when I land, she's not on the floor where she was. I jump to my feet.

"Calm down!" I hear her behind me and I spin around and then she's not there. "What is your problem?" I hear her voice down the hallway and race down there but she's not there and it makes me angrier.

CALM DOWN.

"No," I growl loudly.

Did she drink from you? Did you drink from her?

"Eew, no," I hear her behind me and I spin around and she's there with her hands glowing with some sort of shield in front of her. That's new. "Of course I didn't drink from her, Eric. Is that what this is about?"

"You said you shared blood and you will only do that with me," I demand.

"Fairies don't drink blood, Eric. That's vampires. I didn't drink, there was no drinking. Are you calm now?" she asks as I step toward her and feel the resistance of the light in front of me that's glowing pink.

"Yes," I say through gritted teeth.

"Then put your fangs away," she demands as she stares at me. When my blood simply reacts, I can't shut it off that quickly. I can't put them away and she must sense that because she lowers her hands a little. "Yours is the only blood I'll drink, Eric. You know this." She reaches out and her hand glows purple as she places it on my chest and I feel a calm seeping into me as my fangs retract themselves. Then she slides her hands around my waist and kisses my chest softly.

"No wonder you couldn't bond with a human," she comments. "A human would never put up with your shit and would have been dead by accident."

"Sookie-"

"I know. Vampires are more react first, think later types, and luckily, you found the one girl who can protect herself from it."

I don't want her to have to "protect herself from it" as she puts it, but it also seems inevitable, doesn't it?

I kiss her forehead and pull her into the bedroom with me since we're practically already there. She follows me easily and pushes me back onto the bed.

"I should have more control over myself though," I mention.

"Yeah, well… Personally? I think it's kinda hot," she grins as she crawls up the bed slowly and of course my entire being reacts to the gesture. "Cave-Viking is really sexy."

"OH yeah?" I ask and pull her down on top of me. She laughs as I kiss her. "So… how did you share blood then?"

"That was toward the end of the night but we cut our palms and then held hands with some fairy light. It was really… intense actually. We're actually kin, her and I. Apparently most fairies have two lights, the white bright one and one particular to their kin. Some have the purple calming light, others have the pink shielding one and so on. She said that only true fairy royalty would have the ability to access the rainbow."

"Meaning you actually are a fairy princess of some kind? Pam is right?"

"Apparently," she nods and rests beside me on her side, facing me. "She wasn't sure where it came from right now. She's going to look into it, but she says that's the mark of royalty. She said my light must have been bound when I was young because fairies have access to their light from birth."

"So someone didn't want you to have it? Or didn't want someone to know? Or they were trying to protect you?"

"Something like that," she shrugs. "She said she was going to look into it but we may never know. She did say that Claudine helped me the night I saved Voldermort from being drained by awakening my light to save me. But I didn't really access it until my emotions were on overdrive, when I was being kidnapped by Russell, or when I blasted Maryann, or used it to stop you from killing Bill."

Alright, that makes sense but why bind her fairy powers? Was it a fairy who did that? Was it Claudine? And what would be the reason?

"Maurella is also of royal decent. She said even though I'm half-fairy, my light is very strong. She suspects it's because of the amount of time I spend with the supernatural. I told her I'd had vampire blood as well and she said vampires are also part of the magical realm and it's likely that this also has a part in my light growing so fast."

I kiss her neck as she speaks because she smells incredible. She always does, but it's more so now.