I Remember You

Chapter 54

I have a quick question. Is there an issue w/fanfic stories being disabled or deleted? When I tried to post a chapter for 'He's Mine' it wouldn't let me. A warning came up advising me that the story was inappropriate. The warning said that the story is for mature audiences and they don't have an MA rating. I didn't think that my story was an MA story. 'I Remember You' is a lot more MA than 'He's Mine'. Has anyone else had their stories deleted or received emails about getting them deleted b/c of content?

I love that you take the time to PM, read and review the story. You guys are the greatest. Thank you all so much for your time and I hope that you enjoy. And the disclaimer remains the same; story is mine, the characters are not. They belong to Ms. Charlaine Harris.


While Sookie was looking into Eric's eyes, she remembered the first time she'd seen the man that she was making love with. She was sitting by her waterfall and her feet were dangling in the cool blue waters. She knew that she wanted him and she knew without a doubt that he was truly the man of her dreams. She never understood why she was in love with him. He was a stranger then but being with him now, she knew. At that very instant, she knew. It had nothing to do with what he was or who he was. It had nothing to do with his position in the vampire world. It had nothing to do with any of that.

It was his soul that she loves. Her grandfather was wrong. It didn't matter that he was a vampire. He was worthy of her and she wanted him. She wanted all of him. She wanted everything that he was. Her dreams had come true. She now had him and she had every part of him ...everything that he is and was belongs to her. And she was never going to let him go. He had so much more going for him. He was more than just a vampire. She knew that.

She could see that he wanted to be seen as something more than just a vampire. He wanted to be seen as a man but only by her. In the weeks since she'd found him, she'd seen the man that he wanted to be but she loves the vampire that he is. And because of that, she was now complete. They were complete.

She looked into his eyes and smiled as tears streamed down her face; a memory. She remembered him standing alone in the wooded clearing. She could see it as if it were happening at that exact moment. He was looking up into the sky. That night she saw him being held tightly by the grips of pain; never releasing him. Sookie knew that it was up to her to set him free. She'd given herself to him. She'd freely given him all of her; her soul, her mind, her heart and she'd selfishly taken them away. She would never do that again. Everything that she is now, will forever be a part of him.

Eric watched Sookie's face as she studied his. Her eyes were going a mile a second. The more she stared at him the more concerned he became.

"Sookie," he finally whispered.

Sookie placed her hands on either side of Eric's face and said, "I'd dreamed of you for many nights and then ...boom ...there you were; no longer the man in my dreams. You were in the moon and when I saw you, I wished that I was the moon; just for that night. I would have been able to watch over you until the sunrise. I saw you, Eric."

"You were there?"

She nodded. "I was there. You were standing in the clearing and you were sad and lonely. A song was playing. You tried to escape the words of the song but you couldn't get away. It followed you out into the night. You roared into the night air because the song reminded you of your loneliness. I heard you. You called out to me and I answered. Did you hear the wind carrying your name?"

He nodded.

She smiled. "That was me. I was with you. Do you remember that night, Eric?"

Eric couldn't believe what he was hearing. "I do," he whispered.

Sookie wrapped her arms around Eric and she began to move on his hardness as she thought of the man in her dreams; the man in the moon.

As she rode him, she whispered, "The wind kissed you and you could smell me in the air. It wasn't a dream, baby. It was real. It was me. I wrapped you in the comfort of my love, in my arms. I didn't want you to feel lonely. Did you feel it, Eric? Can you feel it now?"

She made love to him as she gave him the same love that she'd given to him that night.

Eric didn't speak. He held onto her for dear life. She was his anchor but he remembered that night. He remembered what he was feeling; the pain, the torment, the agony. The cruelty of it was the worse. The loneliness was the excruciating. He didn't believe it was possible for a vampire to feel the feelings that she made him feel. He wanted her so desperately and now she was back. He needed to see her eyes. He knew that if he looked into her eyes, that he wasn't crazy as Pam and Bill believed him to be.

"Look at me lover," he said.

When she did, he gasped because he knew that he hadn't been dreaming. He did see her in the moon. He did feel her love in the wind. It was her kiss that he'd felt on his face. He knew that she was coming back to him. He'd always known that Sookie was going to come back home. As he slowly moved inside of her, he began to tell her what he felt that night.

"I wanted to be the moon that night. I wanted to be without pain if only for a few hours and then I saw you. I felt you. You were lying on the ground with a white bird perched upon your shoulder. You were dressed in a beautiful white gown. Your fingers danced over the waters. The most beautiful sight that night was you."

He kissed her neck and went deeper into her before he spoke again. "You could see me. You were smiling at me. I reached for you but I couldn't reach high enough." Eric gripped the back of Sookie's head and kissed her passionately.

"I'm so sorry, baby. I'll never leave you again."

"You're mine."

"I'm yours," she moaned into his mouth. "Forever, I'm yours."

Eric gripped Sookie's hips and moved his hands slowly up her breasts. He cupped them and tenderly began to massage them. Sookie offered Eric one of her breasts. As he kissed and loved her nipple, his eyes were filled with passion. She began to swirl her hips even more than before. She could feel herself begin to reach her moment. Her wetness began to clamp onto his hardness.

Just as she met her orgasm, Eric's fang pierced her nipple. With each pull of her nipple, the lovers reached their orgasm together.

Not wanting to let her go, Eric wrapped Sookie into his arms and carried her to their bedroom; her legs still wrapped around his waist. Once they were in bed, they looked into each other's eyes and stared into their forever.

Eric never expected to be as happy as he was. He always knew that she would come back to him and he knew what to expect when she returned. He expected to feel pure happiness and joy but not like this. This was something that he never expected. And for this, he would be forever grateful.

All Eric could think was of ways to thank Niall for all that he has done for them …for him. He is the reason she was home. Niall was the reason everything felt the way that it should. She was home and remembered him. Just by making love, she remembered some of their life together. She was happy and she was happy because they were together again. And she'd done the same thing for him.

"You've made me so very happy, Sookie."

With her hand resting on his face, Sookie said to Eric, "That night, I knew that I would have you. You were so lonely. When I saw you, I wanted you. Your heart called out to me. You wanted to be loved so very badly and I wanted so very badly to love you. You were made for me."

As the lover's held each other, there were smiles and kisses throughout their time of peace. Simple touches to the others face or a slight peck to the tip of one's nose; the love was alive within them. The bond between the two lovers was fully open and the emotions that lived between them were like heartbeats.

Eric loved it. Eric was alive. He didn't expect things to be this easy. He was a happy vampire once more. He could think clearly again. Now that she was well and safe, Eric wanted to ask her about the Sarah Newlin incident but he didn't want to talk shop tonight. He wanted to share every single second with her. He didn't want those seconds to be marred by the thoughts of the FoTS or BVA members. Those things could wait until later.

He wanted to hear about her new memories. He wanted to know about her college life and her friends. Since she returned home, he needed to know what her new life was like. He needed to be a part of her human life. He wasn't going to make the same mistakes as before. He was going to be smarter with the second chance that he was given.

"Tell me about your college life. I want to know about the classes that you took. I want to hear about your professors. I want to know about the sorority that you're a part of. I want to know everything about your time away. I want to know everything that you did while you were away. What did you like best about college?" Eric asked.

Sookie fell silent for the first time since they began talking. She couldn't remember anything about college. She remembered graduating but nothing else. Each time she opened her mouth to answer one of his questions, she had to close it. There was nothing that she could say. She didn't remember any of the classes that she'd taken. She didn't remember any of her professors. She knew that she had a college life. Amelia was always there. The girls that were her SoRo sisters were there. She remembered Danni. She remembered them all …or did she? Her mind suddenly went blank. She didn't know how to answer his questions. She didn't know if she could.

"I don't know," she answered. She looked confused when she said it again. "I don't know."

Eric realized that he may have asked her too much too soon. Her memories of college may not be up for discussion just yet. He knew that the college memories were meant to cover up her time in Faery but he'd assumed that Niall had done a better job or replacing the memories. If he'd known that she wouldn't know, he never would've asked her.

"If you don't want to talk about it right now, we don't have to. You can lie here and rest. You've been through quite a bit tonight."

She shook her head no. Lying on her stomach and resting on her elbows, she looked at Eric and said, "I have to know what I liked about college… right? I graduated at the top of my class and now I work with children in a prominent psychiatric facility. I remember the girls from my sorority. I saw a couple of them a few weeks ago. I remember the parties. It had to have happened, right?"

He nodded because he didn't know what to say.

"They invited Amelia and me to the five year class reunion. We're going in a few weeks. I went to college."

When she looked at Eric, she had a lost look on her face. Then she asked him the million dollar question. "I did go to college didn't I? I did." She looked almost frightened.

Eric didn't want to destroy what she knew to be true. He couldn't take that away from her. The old Sookie didn't want to spend her life as a barmaid. She had always wanted more but she was never given the chance. If this is what made her happy them he was going to go along with it.

Eric kissed her and said, "You did, my lover. Your life is as you've always wanted it to be. You've always wanted to have a career and a life filled with friends. You wanted to make a difference in peoples' lives and that is what you've done. That's what you've always done. You're an amazing woman."

She rested her head on his chest.

As he kissed her once more, he said, "Never doubt who you are. Anyway, it is possible that you don't remember because you've had a very trying week. You were hurt and you slept for four days and nights. It's okay. You've been through a lot. Come lover, dawn is approaching. Let me hold you."

Sookie ignored his last remark. "What do you mean I was hurt? I didn't get hurt."

The look on his face told her something entirely different. "You don't remember?"

"No." She frowned at Eric and said, "What happened to me?"

This time Eric looked lost. "You don't know what happened?"

She only blinked her response to him.

"Well, it's not important, my lover. We can talk about that later."

Sookie sat up quite abruptly. "I don't want to talk about it later. What happened to me? How was I hurt?" Eric reached for her; to calm her. She flinched away from him. "No, Eric. You need to tell me."

"Sookie, you need to calm down."

Sookie got up from the bed and began pacing the room. She was getting agitated. She saw flashes of the night. The man with the bypass scars on his chest flitted through her mind. She remembered Delia trying to hit on Eric and how it angered her. Eric threatened the drunken man …Johnny. Johnny Fairplay was his name. She and Eric then left the club. They were walking and talking. They were having a great time. They were listening to jazz music and ….

She remembered. She and Eric talking and she could hear the mind of the man running up behind them.

'Kill the vampire.'

The man was walking quickly in their direction.

'Kill the vampire.'

She heard him as he continued to rush in their direction. That was the only sentence the man was repeating over and over in his mind. She could see the flurry of hate and blood going through the man's mind. She had to stop him. She wasn't going to lose Eric again. She'd just gotten him back.

She suddenly stopped and slowly turned around to look at Eric, her eyes were no longer blue. They were almost black.

"He tried to kill you. I could feel him coming and I got him. I crushed his throat with my hand." She looked at her hand as if the remnants of the man's throat were still there. A deadly smile took up residence on her face. "They were going to kill you because they thought that you killed Sarah Newlin. He was going to stab you but he got me instead."

She touched the part of stomach that was once the home of the man's potential murder weapon. Sookie ran and jumped back into bed with Eric. She nestled into his chest. "They automatically assumed that it was you that killed her. It was my kill. I killed her. Oh, how I wish I could tell them. Sarah thought that she was so smart. But I showed her. I'll show them all."

Eric was filled with pride. Eric smoothed down Sookie's hair as she rested her head on his chest. "Yes you did, my lover. I am so very proud of you."

Sookie nestled down into his arms. "I'll protect what's mine. They'll come back for you and they're coming back strong but you will prevail. You showed them tonight what you're made of. We'll end this and come out on top." Looking up at him she asked, "You want to know why?"

"Why?"

"Because you have me," she replied. "They don't know about me. No one knows about me. I see things that they don't want you to know about. I hear things that they don't say out loud. I can get them before they even come our way. We can kill them. We can kill them all." Sookie's hand trailed down Eric stomach to his special place.

He inhaled the scent in the bedroom and he knew that she wanted him. Eric could feel his hardness beginning to stir and stiffen because of her touch, her scent and her words. He turned his head and looked at the bedside clock. They had fifteen minutes. He could do a lot of damage in those fifteen minutes.

"Well, baby, do your best."

Eric didn't even care that Sookie read his mind. He just wanted to make her happy so …he did his best.


A/N: Sorry that I've been late w/the chapter. Work called and I had to answer. Hope that you enjoyed. Update: If anyone hears anything about the issues w/some of the stories please let me know. I still can't post the next chapter of my story. I've emailed them but haven't heard anything back. Thanks for your time.