Thanks for all of the reviews on the last chapter. You guys are really sticking with me, and I need to apologize for the long delay on this chapter. I gave you a few one after the other and then hid! My muse committed suicide on me, and I fell into a terrible writer's block. It was horrible, but this is one story I will not mess with under such circumstances. I got some great advice from Rainbow Lies on how to handle said writer's block, and I appreciated that and every other kind word that you have for me. This chapter is for you, girl! I love all of you regulars. I will hate ending this story so much.

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Celia moaned as she woke up slowly, and opened her eyes with a resigned sigh. She felt like she could sleep forever, and she stared at the walls of her bedroom. The bedroom that she shared with Pam. Celia looked over at the sleeping vampire with loving eyes, and bit her lip. She knew that she had walked out on her last night after feeling so hurt that she was not going to yet be turned. Celia had drank so much that she should barely be able to open her eyes, but Pam's blood had regulated her body well and she felt just a hint of what she should be suffering. Celia looked at Pam as she replayed the memories of it inside of her mind, hating herself as she did. Celia had left without listening to Pam's explanation, but she had been too emotional to stay. Pam had not gone into detail on how she felt about that, but her eyes and tone when she did speak had made it clear to Celia that it had hurt. Eric had helped when they had spoken as well, and had given Celia another perspective. "Oh, shit. Sookie!" Celia whispered, and looked at the clock. Her friend would be working now, and they had planned on meeting there and going to a movie after some food. Celia grabbed her robe and phone, tugging it on as she went to the living room to call Sookie. Sam answered and she greeted him before asking for just a second with Sookie. He was not a fan of personal calls.

"Hey, there. How are you feeling today?" Sookie asked, her voice rushed.

"Good. Vampire blood is amazing for hangovers. I was hoping that you still wanted to hang out today." Celia remembered the scene at Dara's house, and she knew that that friendship was over. It was sad in a way. Dara had been nice and seemed to need someone, but she had handled a few things wrong. Celia remembered the kiss with a shudder, and she hated herself for not ending it faster. She didn't want anybody but Pam, but she had allowed Dara to continue.

"Well, sure. Eric said you would probably stay home, but that sounds fine." Sookie said, and Celia smiled.

"I do need to be home for Pam, so we might have to work around that. It was a rough night." Celia admitted, and closed her eyes.

"I hear that." Sookie said, and told Celia she would see her soon before hanging up. Celia went into the bedroom and gathered some clothes, and stared at herself. Her hair was tousled and tangled from their bath last night, and the emotionally charged lovemaking in their bed afterward. Celia had not been able to get enough of Pam, despite the vampire's attempt at insisting that she rest. Celia won, and had enjoyed many orgasms as Pam caved in to her every need. Many nights with Pam had felt like hard fucking intermingled with lovemaking, but last night had been an emotional reconnecting of them. Celia knew that Pam loved her through her actions, and she knew that their talk would come that night. Celia could not keep her eyes open after they finally stopped, and her body was spent. Celia smiled and went into the big shower, taking her time as she enjoyed the hot water and the quiet time. She washed her hair and body carefully, and got out as she towel dried her hair. Celia brushed it out before drying it, and she eyed her skin for a moment as she stared into the mirror. She put on a little eyeliner and mascara, and then pulled on her newest skinny jeans and a comfy long sleeved tee shirt that Pam claimed showed her curves very well. Celia slid her feet into sparkling one stars that matched the black shirt, and glossed her lips with a deep pink colour. She added her necklace and earrings that Pam had given her, and eyed her ring with a smile. There had been a whisper of another last night somewhere in their tryst, and Pam said it would tell the world that she was claimed. Celia personally thought the one that she wore said that pretty clearly, but Pam would try as only Pam could. She would go to any length to keep her happy, and Pam did that with gifts. There had been so many at work and home, and Celia had learned not to feel guilty.

She left a note for Pam should she run a little late, and stared at her for a long moment. She had been broken at the idea of not being with her anymore, though her stubborn ways has prevailed and ended in her running away. She was relieved that Dara was safe and could go on with her life, though she did long for some closure. Pam's anger was easy to remember even drunk, and Celia shivered as she walked out into the garage and to her car. Celia started it, hearing the radio blaring as she frowned. Pam must enjoy music as much as she did, since Celia had no control over anything last night. She pulled out of the parking lot and drove into Bon Temps, thinking and singing along to the radio as she drove. It would always hurt her that Pam had pulled away from her, but Celia understood better why thanks to Eric. He had been so intimidating when they first met, and now she could reflect at how much he had helped her along the way. She knew that he enjoyed doing it too, seeing his smiles under the stern front that he sometimes put on. Eric could surely be angry though, and tell her just what was on his mind. Celia shook her head. Who would have guessed that a pair of vampires like them would become everything to her? She missed her family deeply, but Pam had filled that void, and losing her would have destroyed Celia. She sighed as she pulled into the parking lot, and parked. It was only half full, and she glanced around as she walked inside. "Celia!" She smiled at the small group of acquaintances she had made there, and walked to the small bar to greet them.

"So what happened last night?" Sookie asked, sitting down when her shift was over with two salads.

"I got really wasted with a friend like an idiot after I left the house." Celia admitted, taking a long swallow of her sweet tea. "I was upset with Pam, and I had to leave."

"You two are not ever that upset with each other. What caused you to run away like that?"

"It was not for the night. Just to clear my mind. I thought she was going to turn me, and I fell apart when she pulled away from me. I wanted it so much, Sookie. We had discussed my life and what I want out of it, and she is it. She knew that, but she still pulled away." Celia stared at the bite that she had in her hand and blinked.

"You want to be a vampire?" Sookie asked, staring at her incredulously. "You're so young, Celia."

"I am young, but I have lost everything. My family is gone, as well as any old traces of my former life. I fell into her life somehow, and it seems like I was meant to. We belong together, and that is the best way. Isn't it?" Celia said, and Sookie saw the hope in the girl's eyes. "I know I will never leave her that way, and she will be my maker."

"I can see that being an issue. It is hard to picture Pam as anybody's maker, much less her lover's." Sookie said, having seen her at some weird moments. "You don't want kids…..someday?"

"I would more if my family was here. It would break my heart too much, knowing what they were missing out on. I can't imagine being with any man either." Pam had glamoured a lot of memories away from Celia, but some emotional scars remained. She hated the idea of a man even touching her, and had even taken time to trust Pam with her body. "So, I guess I am fine not having a family."

"She wants to know for sure that you feel that way, I'll bet. Pam does not want you to regret such a choice as becoming immortal."

"Don't you want to be with Eric that way?" Celia asked, and Sookie looked at her with s small smile.

"I….I love him. I know I do, but I don't know if I want to give up having kids for that life. I really do enjoy daylight and human things." Sookie said, and shook her head. "He and I don't have a perfect track record either."

"It is hard being with a vampire." Celia agreed, and Sookie looked at her.

"You seem to fit right in. I have never seen Pam the way that she is with you." Sookie noted, and Celia smiled. "Course, you got right under my skin that first night too. I just wanted to protect you from the world." Sookie said affectionately. She was only a few years older, but Celia felt like a little sister to her. Sookie often worried that Pam would be too much for her-and likely was in the bedroom-but she really seemed to love this girl. Everything said it down to the sparkling ring on her ring finger. Anyone would think that she was soon having a wedding to some lucky guy with just a casual glance. Sookie smiled. Not a guy, but a gorgeous female vampire that nobody should mess with. "So have you thought about what to do now? I think I heard Eric mention college."

"I might go for a business degree. I could use accounting classes to better myself at the bar, and anywhere else that I might end up working. Why not get a degree? I have a job and a boss that fully supports it." Celia grinned. "I might make some friends along the way." Her face dropped, thinking again of Dara. "I guess that won't be too easy with my lifestyle, right?"

"You never know." Sookie said, and smiled at Celia. They finished eating and snuck in a movie at the theatre in Shreveport together, which was a romantic comedy that both had them crying as they left. Celia drove Sookie home and hugged her goodbye, and started on the road back to home. She saw a sign that caught her eye, and smiled as she pulled into the parking lot.

"Can I help you?" The clerk glanced up when she walked in, and she nodded at his greeting. She looked around the shop carefully, and her eyes fell on a bunch of flowers that were laying carefully on a table.

"I want something with those. Make it big." Celia said, smiling as she pictured Pam's face.

"Lucky guy." The young man said, glancing at her finger with a hint of regret. This woman obviously had someone waiting for her at home. He went over and grabbed a vase and started to work, and she walked around. There were some arrangements in a small fridge, and she eyed them slowly. Celia pulled out one with white and yellow flowers, and frowned for a moment. She set them on the counter and glanced up to see the guy placing a pink ribbon around the vase and tying a perfect bow. It made them look that much more elegant. "How's this?" It was a large vase filled to the brim with various pink roses and baby's breath, and she smiled as she looked at it.

"Perfect." Celia said, and he carried them to her carefully. She asked for a card for both and filled them out , one taking much more thought than the other.

I love you so much, Pam.

The second made her bite her lip.

I am sorry for everything, Dara. Good luck with everything.

She attached that card to the smaller arrangement and asked for delivery, jotting down the address before paying for both. He helped her to the car with the larger one, and eyed it with impressed eyes as he carefully set the flowers in the front of the back seat.

"Nice wheels. Some man takes great care of you, don't they?" His second attempt at flirting was obvious, and she smiled.

"What makes you think it is a man?" Celia winked at him, and he stared at her with parted lips for a moment. "Have a great day. Thanks a lot." She got into the car and started it, driving carefully home as she laughed at his reaction. She pulled into the driveway as the sun started to slide behind the horizon, and she smiled. Celia got the flowers and carried them inside very carefully, and headed down the hallway to their room. She set them on the table beside Pam, and the vampire stirred.

"What smells so good?" Pam's voice was curious and low, and Celia looked down at her. The vampire pushed herself up onto one elbow and looked the flowers over with a pleased smile. "What are these for?"

"What am I to buy the woman that has everything?" Celia replied, and Pam smiled up at her. "They reminded me of you…..all of the pinks. The beauty."

"I love them." Pam told her, rolling onto her back as she sheet dropped to her waist. "Come here and let me thank you." Celia dropped onto the mattress, straddling the vampire as she leaned in to kiss her. Their lips melted together, and Pam slid her hands under the hem of Celia's shirt to slide it off.

"Pam, before that…I want to say something. I might have babbled it last night in my drunken state, but I am sorry. I am sorry for walking out on you, and wrecking myself like that. I am sorry for….kissing her. So many things." Celia murmured, angry with herself. "I have some idea why you pulled away from me. Eric gave me a different perspective, and I understand."

"I will take that step, Celia. I want you forever." Pam assured her, their eyes locked. "I have loved you nearly from the beginning, and you have changed my life in ways you cannot imagine."

"I have?" Celia said, and Pam nodded and brushed their lips together again.

"I have never wanted to keep someone in my life as I do you. I have never felt the pain that I felt as you left me last night, Celia. I was so scared you were not coming back, or that something would happen to you. Eric called me to tell me where you were going and I…it took everything I had not to drag you out of there. I wanted to kill her when I saw her touching you like that, but I had always known that she wanted you." Pam held her gaze. "I didn't kill her because I know you care about her. I do want you to find other friends however. "

"I know, Pam. I knew that last night." Celia said, and smiled. "I need a new start anyway." Pam sensed that Celia was not being completely honest, but she let it slide.

"Let's start by getting these clothes off." Pam suggested huskily, and Celia sat up to remove her shirt. She wore a barely there scarlet bra underneath, and Pam traced the skin above them with her fingertips as her fangs clicked into place. She rolled Celia onto her back, sliding off her jeans with eager hands as she looked at the girl. "Do you think that you can be happy with just me?" Pam's fingers grazed the underwear that matched the bra, and Celia whimpered. "Do I please you enough?"

"Yes…..Pam…..yes." Celia told her, and Pam moved over her to kiss her. The kiss was gentle yet demanding, and Pam's hands slid over the front clasp of the bra to free her breasts with one easy movement. Pam's hands wandered over her nipples curiously, teasing them to the point that they were throbbing. "Pam, please."

"Please what?" Pam asked her teasingly, moving her lips down Celia's body so that her cool breath teased her skin.

"Bite me." Celia begged her, reaching for Pam as she vampire parted her legs with her knees. They looked at each other for a moment, and Pam lowered her fangs to Celia's breast. She bit just below the nipple, and Celia moaned as she arched her back and pressed harder into Pam. Celia remembered back to before, and she closed her eyes as Pam drank from her. Pam's body pressed low against hers, and Celia felt the throbbing deep inside as she moaned. Pam lifted her lips, looking carefully at Celia as she did. Celia stared at her with desire filled eyes, and Pam leaned back down to suck her nipple into her mouth. Pam teased it with her teeth as she sucked harder, and slid her hands down to Celia's ass to lift her closer to her. Pam was eager to hear Celia scream her name, and she smelled the dampness between her legs as she inhaled deeply. Her little human had turned into more than Pam could have ever anticipated, and she slid one hand between Celia's legs.

"I want to bury my hand inside of you tonight. You're so wet." Pam told her, settling for sliding the material aside to stroke her slick folds. "I want to fuck you with it until you scream my name." Her mouth moved back to Celia's nipples in between sentences, and the human moaned beneath her. Celia was blinking as she listened to Pam's words, getting wetter with each sentence. Her hands and lips were everywhere, and Celia felt the heat spreading over her body as she relaxed with it. The emotional bond was strong, as strong as it had been last night. Tonight was a more primal need, and Celia took a long breath as she felt her release building up with the simple touches.

"Fuck me with it, Pam." Celia said in a strong voice, and Pam looked up at her. "I want all of you tonight."

Pam leaned up, and Celia clearly saw her erect nipples and her perfect pale breasts. She thought back to the florist, and smiled as she remembered her words to the clerk. Pam was the perfect woman, and Celia gasped as fingers slid inside of her. Pam eased more into her, stretching with her fingers as Celia parted her legs further. "Can you be happy with this, lover?"

"Fuck, yes." Celia responded strongly, and Pam watched as half of her hand slipped inside with wild eyes. Celia started bucking against her, and she slipped the last little bit past her entrance as Celia screamed. The sweat pooled down her face as she gripped the sheets beside her, and she continued to thrust against Pam. The vampire matched her movements, and soon Celia screamed with her intense orgasm as Pam's fingers stroked everywhere inside. Pam's name echoed against the walls, and Celia closed her eyes as everything went black for a moment. "I love you, Pam." Celia breathed, and Pam smiled down at her.

"Prove it." Pam said, looking down at her body with roving eyes. Pam rolled onto her back, and Celia struggled to breathe for a moment as she looked at her. "You are such a keeper, Celia. Your body is all mine, isn't it?"

"I never wanted her, Pam. Never." Celia said, and Pam stared at her. She spoke the words as if she remembered servicing Dara in the past, and Pam faltered for a moment. "I said your name last night." Celia moved to rest on Pam's stomach as she kneeled in front of her, and kissed her skin. "I said your name because I wanted you to come and take me home. I wanted you to make love to me."

"I did, baby." Pam reminded her gently, and stroked her hair as Celia moved up to kiss between her breasts. "I brought you back and we will never do that again."

"I love you, Pam. I should not have left." Celia sniffled, and Pam looked into her face. "I am so sorry."

"Ssssshhhh." Pam comforted her, watching as Celia dipped down to her nipple and drew it into her mouth. Celia bit down and Pam hissed as her hand tightened in Celia's hair. "I think….a little….emotion…is….good for…..you." Pam told Celia as the girl bit hard enough to make any human scream in pain. Pam knew that she had drawn blood and she felt a trickle between her thighs as Celia drank from the wound. Celia sank down between her legs and slid her fingers over her damp center as Pam moaned. She welcomed the thrust inside of her as Celia stared at her, and Pam kissed her as she moved to her knees. Celia kissed her deeply as she adjusted her hand and made the vampire moan with every thrust. She was all too aware of how much Pam could take, and she gave it to her with the same passion that she had bitten her with.

"Scream my name." Celia told her, as her hand disappeared inside of Pam's heated body. Pam cried out as she moved against her, and Celia watched as she built up to the scream that filled the room. Pam kissed her after she was close to done, and she pulled her face to her for a long kiss.

"To think I have not even tasted you yet." Pam murmured into her ear, as Celia laughed.

"What are you waiting for?" Celia asked, and Pam slid her tongue back into her mouth. They spent another hour pleasing each other, and showered before going out to dinner. Celia ate eagerly, spent from the amazing session that they had shared. Pam watched her with a slight smile on her face, and Celia smiled. "I am so happy to be with you."

"I am happy to be with you as well. I do have a request." Pam said, and Celia looked curiously at her.

"What…..?"

"I want you to spend our first holidays together as a human, Celia. I want you to have a happy memory of them before you change." Pam said, and Celia looked at her. "Can you live with that?"

"I think I can." Celia agreed, and smiled. She could enjoy making her mother's recipes that way with Sookie as they planned, and shopping for Pam as she slept. She had seen a gorgeous amethyst ring that she wanted to buy for her, as well a purse. Celia actually really liked the idea, and she looked at Pam. "I know I can."

"Good." Pam said, smiling as she sipped her true blood. She certainly did not need it, having enjoyed a lot of Celia's blood in their messy tryst that night. It was just for show. "I am going to give you the best Christmas you have ever had, love. "

"I am with you, baby. That is all I need." Celia told her, with a smile.

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