Chapter 55

Kellan's POV

As we walked back to our group after teleporting back to the club, I noticed a clock on the wall and to my amazement we were arriving close to the moment we had left. It seemed like time hadn't passed at all, Aurora and Yannick froze at a shadow on the ground and looked around confused. I went on high alert, but nothing seemed to be out of place. I was sure the shadow had just come from one of the flashing lights of the club, but they were death dealers and if something had them on edge it was something to be concerned about.

"What did you see?"

The pair locked eyes, and whispered "Us"

"What do you mean, us?"

"We just passed through, ourselves. We think we have somehow not just stopped time in our loop, but turned it back a fraction somehow." Said Yannick, eyes still locked on Aurora.

"Is that good or bad?" I asked

"We shouldn't be able to, it's not a talent either of us are aware of." Replied Aurora

"We? I've never know either of you to need the other to use your gifts."

"It's not something we would normally do, but we wanted to cover all the possibilities since we were asking you to release your demon." Said Yannick

The three of us stood thinking over the possibilities of what rewinding time would mean when we noticed Bastian approaching.

"Is everything ok, you excused yourself and have been standing here attracting attention for a few minutes now?"

"How long has it been since we left Bastian?" asked Aurora?

"Three minutes at the most, what's wrong?"

"Nothing for us to worry about now, would it be inappropriate of me to ask that you take me to the dance floor." Asked Aurora.

Bastian's eyes sparkled as he nodded to us both and led Aurora off to dance, Yannick and I re-joined our group watching our mates dance. Due to the height difference Aurora had her head resting against Bastian's chest and you could see in her eyes she was still thinking over what had just taken place. The music was a modern fast dance beat but the pair were lost in a beautiful waltz, thankfully after a few moments Aurora closed her eyes and got lost in the peace of being in Bastian's arms.

"What does your brother think of the power you have aligned yourself with?" asked Knox, moving his chair to sit next to mine.

"I have no idea, and you are well aware we don't talk. I can't see why he'd care what I did, as long as he has his precious throne."

"Please Kellan, you know as well as I do your brother is a power hungry monster and when he finds out, you the true heir of this world has mated with not one but two death dealers. He's going to drive himself crazy with conspiracies and envy." Replied Knox.

"It doesn't bother me, does it bother you?"

"I care little of what your brother does as long as he stays out of my business and after what Aurora has promised my demon, I know where my alliances stand."

"And what has she promised?" I asked not sure I would like the answer. I knew my demon was extremely unhappy at the idea of Knox's demon even talking to Aurora.

"My mate is expecting, your mate has given her word to return and bless the child for all the see."

As powerful as Knox is, he had his enemies. We all did in this world, demons love to hold power over each other, but for Knox's child to have a death dealer bless its birth, it would let all in this world know, if you even think about harming the child you'd mark yourself for death. Both I and my demon could live happily with this promise.

"Please also allow me to raise my hand and bless the child's birth, between Aurora and myself. I don't believe there would be a demon in ten world that would look twice at your child with hate in their eyes."

Knox took my offered hand and kissed my palm thanking me for the honour, as he looked up his demon pushed through and I knew it to, was thanking me for offering to protect its offspring. No matter how much we had been enjoying our time in my world, it was time to collect everyone and return to Sookie's human world. We had our Intel and I'm sure from the smiles of my nest mates we would be retuning soon, all good things must come to an end.

Sookie's POV

I can't believe the fun I'd had in the demon world and as promised by Kellan upon our return we had only been gone 45 minutes our time. I stayed at the compound and spent some time with Pam and Piper telling Mika and Michelle of our demon world adventure, to my surprise Aurora wasn't anywhere to be found. I noticed Gerard looking out one of the windows towards the woods, his brow furrowed. I excused myself and went to his side.

"Where's Aurora?"

"In the woods between the houses."

"Why?"

"Something happened tonight and she said she needed a moment to look into something."

"Look into what, the only thing in those woods between our houses is Talon's nest and my families burial plot."

I don't know why but this made both Gerard and myself uneasy, we quickly excused ourselves and rushed off to find Aurora, what we came upon was both beautiful and terrifying. Stark was closely watching Aurora and Yannick from the shadows, Aurora sat cross legged in front of my Grandmothers grave stone, with Yannick kneeling at her side slowly running his finger up and down her back, we watched as she talked to herself or maybe the grave stone.

'If it was possible, would it be wrong to bring you back, I would give my life to bring Valiant back but it's not possible. You on the other hand may be possible, so much to consider? I wouldn't be bringing you back like the fathers did for Godric. I don't think that's possible with humans, your bodies don't hold a spark, but you wouldn't actually be dead. I'd just be moving you from the past before you died to the future as it is now. Would this future be as it is if you never died, would Sookie be the Sookie we meet if you still lived? What if everyone believed you died when you died but I brought you back before they buried you? That's something to think about, I should talk to Bastian about the idea of coffins. But I'm sure you're not a vampire kind of grandmother, I do have some skills under my belt now I have Hades powers. I wonder if you'd even like us, I can truly say that not one of my mates or I have ever not loved every story Sookie has told us of you or how if you were around you'd be mad at us for something we'd done. I will always love and miss my brother, but I have my mates and Boston now, they are my everything. They are my home no matter where we are. I truly believe in my heart that if Yannick and I can bring you back, Sookie will feel the same peace. That's worth the risk isn't it?' Aurora and Yannick looked at each other and seemed to drift deeper into some kind of trace.

"Is it possible?" I whispered, not wanting to interrupt them.

"You don't need to whisper Sookie, Their communing with nature. I touched Yannick's shoulder before you arrived and he didn't even know I was there, they are not aware of their surrounding at this moment, their minds are singular, connected to each other and the forest around them. "Replied Stark

"What the hell happened tonight?" asked Gerard.

"They time looped to play with Kellan's demon and when they pulled out and returned to the club, they returned before they left. Aurora and Yannick didn't just loop the world above as they intended, somehow they pulled the demon underground in as well and turned the clock back." Said Stark.

"Have either of you ever know of Aurora being able to reverse time?" asked Bastian as he, Preston and Kellan joined our group.

"If she had the ability I would have thought she would have used it to try and bring Valiant back the day he fell." Replied Gerard.

"But why would she try and bring my Gran back?" I asked.

"When hasn't Aurora thought of everyone but herself, she gave Eric and I Godric back, she almost lost her life giving you your sons and now your grandmother, as a time reference your Gran's death in this world is truly a short time frame if they are able to go back." Said Bastian.

And here came the tears, I hated to think it but I really would give just about anything to have my Gran back. I don't know why but my mind thought of Quinn and what he had thrown away giving up his life with our family, I still can't believe how much my life has changed that day I walked into Fangtasia and their reading her book was Aurora. I don't know how long I had been thinking about that day or what a fool Quin was, but I was pulled from my thoughts by Aurora who was now standing in front of me.

"Can it really be done?" I asked

"We'll do all we can to bring her back to you, I promise."

"I don't deserve your friendship, I still don't understand why you chose us, or even more me." I replied trying to hold back my tears.

"Sookie, you surprise me almost daily with your willingness to help others, even us. Creatures that hold more power than you can comprehend, but you risk your life to help us. I can see helping other before yourself is in your nature. And I can believe it always has been, I need to say thank you for everything you've done for me since that beautiful day we meet, I was dying when we first meet, I looked well enough and thought I knew everything, but I didn't. I didn't realise how much pain I was holding in from Valliant's death, how lonely I was, how much I was pushing those who loved me away, but most of all I didn't realise things could get better and that I could actually be happy. Yes I was alive, but dying inside. No one could see it but your soul, you saved my life Sookie. You gave me a family, a new little brother and my mates, you made me better, you little hybrid are family, part of my soul and I love you. I will do all I can to bring back your grandmother."

I broke down and fell to my knees, Aurora followed me wrapping me in her arms and just let me cry. I felt Eric arrive and for a split second his panic at seeing me crying, but over my sobs Yannick explained to Eric what they were going to try to do and what Aurora had express. Aurora's embrace was replaced by Eric's as he lifted me and we turned towards the farm house, I looked over Eric's shoulder and watched Aurora and her mates all standing together just looking into each other eyes expressing their love for one another. God I loved them all so much, power or not they were my family each and every one of them.

The next five days flew by in the most peculiar way, Piper had been put on the books as Aurora's business liaison and she and I would get the three boys ready for school every morning and after they were dropped off we would return to the compound and assist Terry with the largest land buy in Bon Temps history. Aurora Ocean was becoming the largest land owner in the area, and it had the town talking. Terry Bellefleur's sister Porsha even came fishing around asking to speak to Aurora to offer her, her legal services with the large land purchases. The three of us had a good laugh at that as Aurora's lawyer and business holdings manager was one hell of a scary demon and he'd eat Porsha for dinner. But we just let her know as soon as Aurora was available she'd get in contact, I knew it was really pissing Porsha Bellefleur off that it was me giving her the push off. I was town trash in her eyes and since I'd only address her through the gates intercom, never giving her entrance in to the compound she was seriously miffed at little old Sookie Stackhouse. Eric and Pam had returned to running Fangtasia as well as getting as much information as possible about our German vampire Hans who was making small power plays within the vampire council that affected our family. But it was Aurora and her mates that had become something else altogether, ever since that night at my grandmother's grave, Aurora and Yannick would walk around hand in hand in a trace like state. Their eyes held nothing but blackness and no one could approach them. Kellan, Bastian, Preston, Stark and Gerard keep them circled at all times. But that was only the start of the protection following the pair around, every supernatural in our family watched the whole group like they were made of crystal and to be protected at all cost. The pair were with us but not, I hadn't seen any of them eat, sleep or break from the trance in so long it was becoming normal to see the group walking around like zombies. On the sixth day, after picking up the boys and returning to the compound for their private tutor lessons with Marigold for music and Erebus for Math and literature, I was shocked when Boston dropped his school bag and ran towards Aurora and Yannick as they walked towards the library. Not one person stopped him as he pushed his way through the circle of protectors and wrapped his arms around Aurora waist, my breath caught in my throat as first Yannick's eyes cleared, then Aurora's, and they looked down at their little brother.

"Hello my heart, we have missed you." Said Aurora, her voice was croaky and quite as she hadn't spoken in days.

"Daddy Godric said I had to be good because you and Yannick were doing something really special for Sookie, but I missed you. Can you stop for just a little while and stay with me?" asked Boston as he looked between Aurora and Yannick.

"Of course little brother, what would you say to us going out for burgers at Merlotte's tonight." Said Yannick as he tussled Boston hair.

Boston's face lit up like a Christmas tree, Aurora bent down and kissed his forehead whispering 'We love you little one'.

"Why don't you go let everyone know we're going out and see if they want to join us and ask Piper to make sure Merlotte's can handle our numbers. We just need to talk to Sookie." Said Yannick.

Boston and the twins went running off if high spirts for their adventure out, Gerard and Bastian quickly supported Yannick, who stumbled as Stark scooped up Aurora. The pair where on the verge of collapsing, Preston pushed open the library doors and Kellan nodded for me to join them. I followed quietly and waited until Aurora and Yannick had found a comfortable spot and rested up against their mates.

"We found her Sookie, she everything you said she was and more." Said Yannick

"What do you mean you found her?"

"Your Grandmother, she has the spirit of ten death dealers. She's excited to meet Leif and Valiant." Replied Yannick.

"But you haven't gone anywhere?"

"Sookie what do you think they have been doing for the last week, there hasn't been a moment that they haven't been bouncing back and forth returning when they left trying to push further back in time. That's why we've been walking around keeping their bodies moving, keeping them safe, leaving them a point to return to." Said Kellan.

I looked to Aurora, she was struggling to keep her eyes open, Gerard nodded to Bastian and he raced from the room only to return seconds later with two large blood shakes. Stark gently brushed the hair from Aurora's face telling her she needed to drink, with a weak smile she did, and it was painful to see how much she was struggling with the simple task.

"Aurora doesn't look good, neither do you Yannick. Why don't I tell the boys we can go out another night and you can both just relax and recuperate?"

"We can't Sookie, Boston needs to be with us. He is connected to us now and our little brother has been hurting from our distance, our bodies have been present but not our souls. Did you not notice how close our mates stayed to us, time travel distance is not a fun experience, we can promise you that. Once we return from dinner tonight, we'll connect with Preston and return for your Grandmother. We tried our best to bring her back on our own, but we need Preston to give us the boost to ensure she survives, I believe the reason we were first able to reverse time was because of Kellan's demon. Without knowing we must have absorbed some of his power, Aurora has just drained herself to the extreme trying to shield myself and Adele, her body gave out and your Gran gave us a good talking to before we came up with our plan to use Preston." Said Yannick

I rushed to my friend and lowered myself in front of her, her colour wasn't great but it was a little better now she had consumed half of her shake, yet again she was pushing her body for me. She may believe I saved her, but truthfully we saved each other.

"Wouldn't it be better to feed from your mates, than drink the blood shakes?" I asked

"It would be we need to keep them strong for Boston and when we return we will need to feed heavily." Replied Yannick

"So what's the plan?" asked Kellan. Aurora and Yannick looked at each other and then lowered their heads a moment before Aurora looked up, smiling at her demon.

"We are going to let Rene Lenier attack me, in Adele's form and when her body / mine is collected by the coroner it's going to get accidently cremated that night. Sookie still kills Rene and they have a funeral but the coffin is empty. It's the only way we don't alter who Sookie and Jason become, the Sookie from then needs to believe Adele is dead in that moment of time. But she will be safe with Yannick and Preston, once we are able to build up enough power we'll return. For you it will be seconds, we will fall into our trance and then return. Adele should simply appear. For Preston, Yannick and myself I believe three weeks may pass, I need to let the human damage my body substantially for it to be believable and have them deliver my body to the coroner. So I'll need time to recover before Yannick and I can bring everyone back. " Said Aurora.

Gerard shot to his feet, enraged at the idea of Aurora letting a human attack her. Bastian wasn't much better, I swear I heard him growl at me. Stark wrapped his arms tighter around Aurora as Preston and Kellan stared at Yannick. I wanted my gran back but was this asking too much, Boston burst into the room and ran straight for Aurora giving me a little nudge to move. Once I did he looked over everyone.

"What wrong?" he asked.

"Everyone is mad at Yannick and me because we have to do something that may hurt my body to bring Sookie's grandmother back." Said Aurora putting her glass down and taking Boston's hand.

"And you have to do this, there's no other way?" he asked.

"We've tried multiple plans, some we lost you, other I never come to Bon Temp and meet Bastian and Sookie because she is not with Eric, which meant I never mated with Yannick and so on. I won't lose you or any of my mates, so yes my heart it's the only way. But it works, it has already. It truly is Yannick who suffers the most, he's had to stand by five times now and watch my body be damaged. But he does it for us, he does it for me and I love him for it." Said Aurora as she turned to Yannick.

Gerard, Kellan, Preston, Bastian and Stark all looked at Yannick and you could see in their eyes, how proud they were of their mate and that if it was them in his place, they weren't sure they could do the same thing. Boston leant in kissed Aurora on the cheek before he moved over and climbed onto Yannick's lap hugging him as tightly as he could. The twins arrived with Piper in toe and the news we would be 40 strong for our dinner plans, Piper had called Sam and he'd promised to reserve the back 5 booths, it was going to be one hell of a squeeze, each booth was only meant to seat 6 but the idea put a smile on Aurora's face so it was full speed ahead. Erebus pulled the boys away for their lessons as we wouldn't be leaving until night fall so Eric, Pam, Bastian, Chow and Rai could join us. Aurora, Yannick and their mates took this time to rest and recuperate as much as possible. Piper, Marigold and I finished up some more paperwork and talked amongst ourselves as we waited for the clock to tick down.

"So we have 3 Angles (Michael, Swan, Celine), 5 Fae (Echo, Grayson, Embrie, Doulas, Lilac), 6 werewolves (Dartagnan, Isaac, Blaesus, Mika, Michelle, Jasper), the seven deadly sins (Aurora, Gerard, Yannick, Kellan, Preston, Stark, Bastian) plus my Erebus, 5 vampires (Eric, Pam, Godric, Chow, Rai), 3 Panthers (Jason, Calvin, Laura Jane) the twins (Leif, Valliant) and Boston, plus us three, 1 Elf (Kai),and finally Terry and his girls (Aim, Lilim). How are the humans not going to notice us as not other worldly." Asked Marigold giggling at the wonderful mix of supernatural that was our family.

I had to laugh myself, that wasn't even including our Saxon Vampires, the Wraths, Reaper our chimera and Talon our night fury. What was my Gran going to think of this amazing group of creatures? That had become my family.

"Honestly if they have a problem they can go eat dirt." I relied and this allowed Piper to join in on or laughter.

Before we knew it, the sun had set and we were on our way. What it would have looked like to the outside world as we pulled into the Merlotte's carpark was beyond me, but the shocked looks of the few people in the carpark said it all. 3 Lamborghini Murcielago, my BMW X5, 7 Ducati Panigale V4 road bikes, 2 McLaren Spiders and 2 Aston Martin DBX SUV's. God bless them, the on lookers where trying their best to hide the fact they'd pulled out their phones and started taking pictures of the cars and bikes. This was something I knew for a fact my gran wouldn't like, she liked low key and our family just didn't know the meaning of the words. But everyone was laughing and enjoying their time together so what the hell.

As we entered the crowd inside went deadly quite, but thankfully Jason, Calvin and Laura Jane stood up giving us a wave. To my surprise Sam was also on his best behaviour, smiling and nodded to the booths at the back. I could see a few regulars giving us the evil eye as we'd taken their usual booths but they quickly changed as they notice the size of our group and that it kept filing through the door as if it was never going to end, Holly was behind the bar and gave us a big smile, which also went a long way with the locals.

"Hey guys, it so nice to see you all. Squeeze in if you can and I'll be over to get your drink orders in a moment, PS Chow and Rai my kids say hi." She said smiling like a Cheshire cat.

The locals actually started laughing and shaking their heads at our group as we playfully climb all over each other, giggling and laughing like kids in a playground trying to squeezing into the booths. As expected Leif and Valliant, snuggled onto the laps of Kellan and Gerard. Preston and Bastian sat either of Yannick and Stark, with Aurora on Starks lap and Boston on Yannick's. How the ten of them fit in that booth was beyond me but they looked content, the rest of our group happily mixed together filling the booths joking over what drinks and food they were ordering, and who was able to eat how much. Pam, Marigold, Piper and I went to the bar to get the first round of drink. I didn't think Holly was going to understand the blood shakes and no lemon drinks required.

"Hey Sam."

"Hey Sookie, your numbers are growing." He replied.

"What can I say, it must be something in the water. Do you mind if I jump behind the bar and give you a hand with our group, we have a few special orders that needs to be made?"

He happily waved his hand giving me free rain and I appreciated it, Holly headed over to our group with menus in hand, Marigold and Piper quickly asked around our group for drink preference and before too long Pam was doing her best impression of a roller waitress delivering drinks and everyone was loving it. Once everyone had a drink in hand, I gave Sam a wink and headed back to my family. The food started to come out a short time later and it was a game of musical chairs as everyone ate, laughed and enjoyed each other's company.

"Not that I'm not loving this, but why the big night out?" asked Jason

"Aurora and Yannick are going to do something big tonight and they've been trying all week with no luck and they wanted to be with the whole family before they went all out tonight." I replied.

"Sook, how big are we talking? Will you need the pack?" asked Jason.

I looked over at Aurora and Yannick still not truly believing that in only hours they were going to try and bring our Gran back, I wiped away a tear that escaped and leant forward talking Jason hand.

"They're going to try bringing Gran back."

"Wait, what." Said Jason as he tightened his hold on my hand.

I watched my brother lower his head and start to sob, Calvin and Laura Jane became concerned for Jason and moved to his side, I gave Calvin a reassuring smile as he patted my brother back, leaning in to ask his pack mate what was wrong, between sobs Jason told them Aurora and Yannick were going to bring Gran back tonight. Calvin's head shot up looking to me to confirm what Jason had said, I wiped away my own tears and nodded yes. The look on both Calvin and Laura Janes face said it all, they were as amazed with Aurora and Yannick's big hearts as I was. It wasn't that long ago the death dealers had completely changed the lives of every single member of the Hot Shot pack giving them new houses and cars, new clothes for their children and most of all respect. Calvin was still walking on cloud nine of late because of the change in Laura Jane, Aurora pushed the young panther, demanding she live up to the potential Aurora saw in her. And to my amazement Laura Jane rose to every challenge and excelled. You could see in her eyes, for the first time in her life she was proud of herself and proud that Aurora only ever treated her as an equal. Aurora brushed against my mind checking everything was ok, I gave Jason's hand a squeeze and he looked up at me and I nodded towards Aurora. The pair made eye contact and my brother lowered his head in respect to both death dealers, how Jason and I became so lucky to go from it just being the two of us to being part of a family that exceeded 50 still surprised me.

Calvin and Laura Jane were tell me that if it was ok they'd join Jason at the compound tonight just to be there if help was needed. I was telling them they were welcome any time when we were rudely interrupted. Laura Jane jumped up from our booth as did Rai from the booth cross from us and the pair blocked the approaching human, I don't know what she was thinking but Porsha Bellefleur raised her right hand towards Rai as a threat to move as it was wrapped in a silver necklace. One moment our group was making enough noise for it to be heard the next parish over but the second Porsha raised her hand silence fell and we all shot to our feet, Rai being the warrior he was didn't even move a muscle, But Laura Jane did stepping in front of the vampire daring the human to make a move. Porsha stopped mid step as Rai wrapped an arm around Laura Jane and extended his fangs at the human, Laura Jane smiled from ear to ear hoping she'd step out of line and the pair could attack.

"Miss Norris move aside, I know you know who I am." Said Porsha.

"Sorry can't do that, my families having a private gathering."

"You and I both no I am not here to speak to anyone in your family, don't make me ask again."

I was about to step in but I quickly looked towards the sound of heavy boots and high heels approaching from the rear, Laura Jane and Rai smiled at Porsha as they stepped aside. Porsha went to step forward extending her hand but was shut down quickly. There standing next to Aurora, Boston and her mates was Godric and he was fuming with rage, I can honestly say I have never seen him looking so terrifying.

"In all of my years I have never meet a creatures quite as stupid as yourself, you come crawling up like a mangy dog looking for scraps and then threaten the very creatures that may throw you a crumb." Said Godric.

Porsha blushed bright red, looking around for some kind of backup. But to my enjoyment not a single person from the bar area gave her the time of day, Porsha had always thought herself and her family better that everyone else but not anymore. She cleared her throat and tried to address Aurora directly, but before she was able to get a single word out Aurora spoke up.

"I'd like to thank everyone here tonight for putting up with our antics, sorry if we were a little too loud but you know how families can get. As a thank you, please allow my family and I to pay for everyone's tabs tonight and we look forward to getting to know you all better in the future."

The room was filled with cheers, whistles and raised glasses, our family all gave a playful bow and begun collecting there thing to leave. Aurora took a step forward towards Porsha and we all watched her flinch, Aurora leant in and whispered. 'You disrespect my family again or try entering my home, I'll let the wolves out and we can see how fast you run.' When Jasper stepped up and barked in Porsha face our group became uncontrollable as they filled out, Yannick and Chow picked up Lilim and Aim, who stuck there tongues out at Porsha as they past. Terry tisked them before he went to the bar to pay for everyone bills. The locals gave our group high fives and head nods of approval and I smiled happily as they winked and waved goodbye in return. Most of the bar followed us out to watch us climb into the sports cars or pair up on the bikes, not one of us left until Terry was out of the bar and clubbing into my car. Every flash of the road markers from my headlight started my heart racing, my brow felt clammy and my hands shook, I was working myself up for a major panic attacked and it was all down to the fact within the hour I was going to be seeing my Gran again. Eric reached over took my hand and gave it a squeeze, if he wasn't at my side I don't think I'd be able to get through this and that's the crazy thing, all I had to do was wait and watch. God help me, my crazy was picking a great time to pop it ugly head up.