A/N: Since we don't know what happens immediately after Eric & Sookie run, this is probably going to prove completely bogus, but what the hell :P
Epilogue
Hours later, Nora sat in the back corner of the transport container where they had taken refuge after escaping from the Authority Headquarters.
Jason stood guard by the entrance with Sookie watching as Molly attempted to rig up an early warning system using her phone and what looked like a hairpin. Jessica had collapsed early on, curled up in a ball near Eric and Pam.
Pam had kept an eye on the younger vampire until she'd sunk into oblivion and then her attention had been entirely taken up by her Maker.
For her part, Nora had spent her time since their taking up residence in the container concentrating on healing and trying not to be to open in her scrutiny of her brother and his child.
She felt an unfamiliar twinge of jealousy as she watched him administer his own blood to her wounds in an attempt to speed up the healing process, whispering words of comfort in his native tongue.
It had been a long time since she'd spoken Swedish and he was speaking in low tones so she could only pick up bits and pieces of what he was saying, mostly just generic expressions of comfort.
Then he had said it.
nämen älskling.
In all their time together he had used many different terms of endearment, in many different languages, but he'd never used his native tongue. His use of it now underscored what he had told her only hours before, Pam was his everything.
Oh, she'd known that he meant it when he'd hissed it in her face after she'd dared to malign his child, but knowing it and seeing it where two very different things.
No wonder he'd always taken such pains to keep them apart, despite him always citing wanting to keep Pam out of vampire politics, she knew that there was also a part of him that didn't want to hurt her. That didn't want to prove what she had long suspected: no matter how much he might love her, he loved his child more.
His bond with Pam was stronger than her bond with him had even been, possibly even stronger than what he had shared with Godric.
She watched as he cradled Pam against his chest, the gentleness of the action belied by the sternness of his tone as he ordered her to rest. She missed whatever retort Pam had shot back in reply, but she didn't miss the indulgent smile that spread across his face in response.
Nora settled down to rest, still watching the pair out of the corner of her eye, and smiled sadly when she caught sight of Eric dropping a kiss on the now sleeping Pam's forehead.
He'd never looked at her with that much affection before and now she knew that he never would.
But that was ok; he was still her brother and, really, that was enough.
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A/N: Well, that's all folks! Now I have to find something else to do with my spare time :P
Thanks for all the support, especially those of you who have stuck with this from the beginning, and I would like to particularly mention hansprincessa for...everything. She's wonderful and I love her and this one's all for her! x
