Tara turned away from her and Candyman's reflections and faced him.
"I figured you'd turn up eventually." Tara said wryly. "What are you doing here?"
Daniel Robitaille lowered his hook hand and walked over to her small bar set. He began to pour two drinks. He then picked up one of the glasses and walked back over to Tara to hand it to her.
"You must be crazy if you think I'd drink anything you gave me." Tara snorted.
"You drank at 'Candyman's Kiss'. You drank from bartenders that were from hell. And nothing happened to you then." Daniel said, pushing the drink on her. Tara took the glass and sipped from it briefly, before setting it down on a nearby table and facing him again.
"I think I'm beginning to understand some things. Things that you forgot to mention. One of them being that you can't kill me, can you?" Tara asked boldly.
Candyman rolled his eyes, but reluctantly shook his head. Tara smirked!
"And is that because of my fucked up father? Who you didn't tell me about?"
"Hell, girl, it's not place to 'tell' someone about their damned father!"
"But you knew he was like part snake?"
"I knew who he was because my own father, made a deal with him for my mother." Daniel said quietly. "Thulsa Doom usually just takes what he wants. But for some reason that my father never told me about, he made a deal for my mother. Doom gave my father wealth with his business during the Civil War and my mother was declared dead in this realm."
"Your mother was alright with that?" Tara asked.
"No." Daniel said shortly. "Or at least that's what my father told me, when I paid him a visit after my death."
Tara decided not to say anymore about it. If Candyman 'visited' his father once he died and became Candyman, chances were, the reunion wasn't good!
"Why are you here?" Tara asked instead. Daniel handed her Celia's diary!
"You wouldn't be able to get back without this. You are planning on going back, aren't you?" Daniel asked knowingly. Tara refrained from reaching out and snatching the diary from him! She coolly took it from his hand, in an almost gracious manner.
"Alright," Tara said in a surly tone, "what do you know?"
Daniel lifted a brow.
"I can sense your attraction to that vampire's, Viking father. I can certainly understand why you might not be so crazy about Northman himself. But he will go completely insane if he finds out you are traveling back to the past to fuck his father."
"I don't like your word usage, 'Candyman'! And no one has fucked anyone, okay?"
"And the other two?" Daniel asked.
"Other two?"
"Hood and Compton. You wished them away and Thulsa Doom saved them from their fates by bringing them to the past with you."
That, Tara did not know.
"Why would he have done that?" Tara asked.
"You'll have to ask him when you meet him." was Daniel's response.
"I'm not interested in meeting anyone that's half snake, okay?"
"Now, now, 'Tarja', he is your father. The only one…"
But Tara suddenly interrupted him!
"What happened to my being 'Mrs. Candyman' and all of that shit? What was that really all about?"
Tara noticed a slightly shady look cross the face of the shadiest, undead killer around. Daniel cleared his throat.
"Fucking you was the way Thulsa Doom managed to pull you in." he admitted.
But Tara didn't follow him…
"I thought Celia'a diary was doing all of that?" she asked.
"Celia's diary pulled you into MY past. And hers. But…well…it wasn't actually the two of us being together, that gave you access to Doom's past with Eric's father. I had to fuck your painting. The one of you naked…"
"Excuse me?! What in the hell are you talking about? You mean that painting that Bill had?" Tara snapped.
"Yes. I can do that sort of thing, since I was an artist."
"You had sex with my image in a painting?" Tara asked in disbelief.
"Yes." Daniel admitted again.
"I don't believe you. Get the hell out of my apartment!" Tara yelled. That had to be the nastiest shit she had ever heard!
"Do you want me to prove it to you?"
"Are you asking me if I want to watch you fuck that painting Bill has of me? No and hell no!"
Meanwhile, Kurt sensed Tara was back in this realm! He didn't know how or why, but he knew she was back in Bashee. He quietly left the police station and used his vampire speed to go to Tara's studio where he heard shouting from inside! Kurt burst the door open and found Candyman, balls deep, fucking and grinding against a naked painting of Tara! What the hell?
"STOP IT!" Tara was screaming, her fangs now out. Kurt's fangs emerged as well as he hurried to her side, and Candyman stopped what he was doing to face off with both of them! He closed his ratty fur around his loins. They still tingled from the urgency of his lovemaking with Tara's naked portrait image.
"You fucking pervert!" Kurt snapped. "I should run you in!"
Candyman grinned at the newly turned vamp!
"I'd love to see you try." Candyman responded calmly, lifting his hook hand. It was then, that Eric appeared, having felt Tara's distress. He closed what remained of the door that Kurt had burst through and addressed Daniel first.
"Why are you here?" he asked him calmly.
Daniel looked at Tara.
"Do you want to tell him where you've been?" he asked her. Tara walked up to him.
"Bottom of the ocean or outer space?"
"Both. And I won't stay in either place for…"
Candyman disappeared! Tara walked over to her painting and studied it. There was no 'liquid damage' that she could see! Eric looked from Tara to Kurt.
"What happened here?" Eric asked his youngest 'child'.
"I walked in on that animal fucking Tara's portrait right in front of her. I don't get how or why." Kurt said in a low tone. Eric turned from Kurt and addressed Tara.
"Tara, do you know how or why Daniel Robitaille can just have sex with a painting of you?"
Tara set the painting down and faced Eric.
"Get out." she said calmly. Eric turned to Kurt.
"Leave us." he told him. Kurt looked unsure and he looked from Eric to Tara, which irritated Eric!
"I said leave us." Eric reminded him coldly.
"Kurt, thank you for coming by to check on me. I'll be fine." Tara told him, not wanting to get him in trouble with Eric. Kurt nodded and left, opening the ruined front door the best he could, before gingerly closing it again. Eric watched him leave before turning to face her.
"Daniel told me that if he has sex with Sookie three times, it will bring back Caroline Heyward. Obviously, I am not about to let that happen."
Tara said nothing to that. Eric continued.
"I know that what I did was inexcusable. And I am sure that you want to banish me. But clearly something does not work, otherwise you would not be back."
Tara still said nothing.
"So if you were not in outer space or at the bottom of the ocean, where were you?" Eric asked her.
"Gone." was her response. Eric smiled patiently before closing the short distance between them and grabbing her shoulders!
"You will damned well tell me where you were, Tara, or else…"
"Or else what? You'll force me to wish myself someplace to die? Like you did to me? And your problem isn't that Daniel is trying to fuck Sookie three times, it's that Sookie FUCKS HIM BACK! Now get out of my apartment and my life! I never want to see you again and I want you to release me!"
Eric lifted a brow.
"That is not happening."
"Uh why?"
"Because I do not want to. Now where were you? I am only going to ask you once more before I command you to tell me!"
Tara could not allow Eric to force her to tell him that she was about ready to marry his father and be a real wife to him! Tara used vampire speed to grab on to Celia's diary! She closed her eyes just as Eric began to utter the phrase As Your Maker I command you…
When Tara opened her eyes again she was kneeling on a marble floor! She looked up and saw that her mother was sitting on a throne with a crown on her head!
So was her 'father'. The half snake Thulsa Doom.
"You have left Ulfrik Norseman hoping to find sanctuary here. There is none to be had, girl. You are married. You belong to your husband. I have sent word that you are here and when he arrives, you will most likely face his wrath." Doom told Tara.
Tara slowly stood up and stared into the eyes of the man that supposedly sired her(Tara didn't quite buy this whole story but she had no choice but to play along for now). Thulsa Doom's cold eyes stared back at her.
"Leticia," Doom said, not looking at his wife, "leave Tarja and myself alone."
Leticia nodded and stood, bowing slightly towards her husband, before giving Tara a look she herself could not read. Once Queen Leticia left the throne room, unescorted, Doom spoke.
"You are much more than a fae, you do realize that Tara Mae Thornton?"
Tara just nodded. She had no powers here so she couldn't afford to be lippy.
"You are my only child that has any powers. Abilities such as yours only show themselves every three hundred years. The power to wish someone to their death, should be used sparingly and only when needed." Doom told her.
Now, Tara found her voice.
"You said Ulfrik was my husband. The last time I was here, he was my fiancee." she said.
"I am aware of that. Ulfrik Norseman thinks that you left his camp to chase after the eunuch, Bill Compton and Lucas Hood. Two servants." Doom told her.
"Where are they?" Tara asked.
"Who? The 'servants'? Norseman is dealing with them as he sees fit. Once he married you, your servants became his." Doom told her.
"They are not servants!" Tara snapped. "And I didn't wish them away to be slaves here, I…"
"You killed them." Doom told her coldly. "And I unkilled them. I can undo anything you do, daughter."
Tara said no more about Hood and Bill. She would figure out a way to get them out of there on her own. But she had to know about Candyman…
"You want to know about Daniel Robitaille, do you not?" Doom asked sarcastically.
"You're a mind reader now?" Tara asked just as sarcastically. Doom's response to that, was a swift backhand to her face that sent Tara reeling! What in the FUCK?
Tara jumped up to leap at him but Doom smiled in such a strange way, that she paused.
"You are clearly not used to ceding power when you have none. Even if you were still vampire or even half fae here, in this world, you would not have been able to lay a hand on me." Doom told her, as he watched Tara's body, literally turn pink with rage, before he himself disappeared for exactly five seconds, before he returned, wet and in shock! He dropped to his knees on the floor!
"You…you wished me away! You should not be able to do anything! YOU…UNDERWATER…YOU…" Thulsa Doom sputtered as Tara slowly approached him.
"Don't fucking put your hands on me, ever, snake ass! And I saw you with my mother. If you have to fuck someone, find someone else. Like another snake or a frog or goat!"
"The Queen is my wife! If I want to have her…"
"You're part animal! You should find another animal to be with!" Tara argued.
"She is not truly your real mother, you do realize that, do you not?" Doom coughed, still unable to believe he had been in sea water! Dark, dark sea water.
"Well she looks like her! And what you did to my mother to have me was criminal!" Tara snapped, just as a servant walked into the throne room and then stopped short! Seeing the King looking weak and wet, while his daughter was clearly yelling at him, was a strange sight, to say the least.
"What is it?" Doom asked between clenched teeth.
"Your Grace, King Norseman has arrived to retrieve Queen Tarja. He has also brought two traitors for execution." the servant said in a humble tone. Tara followed after the servant for what seemed like miles, until the front door was reached. The servant opened it and Tara stepped out into the light of day to see Lucas Hood and Bill Compton, tied up and naked on horses!
Ulfrik was climbing the stone stairs towards her, his beard full and his hair pulled back. He glanced back towards his prisoners and his sea of men that had accompanied him. The servant knew that King Ulfrik Norseman's men would require food and lodging for the night and turned to go back inside to ensure this happened. That left Tara alone with Eric Northman's father from long ago.
Her husband.
"As you can see," Ulfrik said wryly, "the eunuch is not one. Your father told me he was. Was he mistaken about that? Or does he just not know the definition of what one is?"
"I was not aware that he had told you that about Bill." Tara replied.
"Bill? That is the eunuch's given name?"
"Yes."
"That is a strange name."
"It's short for 'Billiam'." Tara lied and Ulfrik nodded with sudden understanding, as if 'Billiam' was an actual real name. Maybe it was in this time. She looked around Ulfrik and looked at Hood, who was glaring daggers at her and Bill, who looked frightened out of his damned mind!
She concentrated and soon watched the two of them disappear! Ulfrik's men cried out and he himself turned away from Tara to see what all of the commotion was about. Ulfrik saw his missing prisoners and looked to Tara.
"Your serpent father told me of your powers. I expect you will use those same gifts on my enemies when needed." he told her.
Tara raised a brow. The little details of this marriage agreement were becoming clear to her. And not in a good way.
"So you agreed to marry me because I had powers?" Tara asked.
"Yes. I needed additional men for my army as well, if I was ever to get my son back." Ulfrik told her, watching her closely. "King Doom said that you knew all of this already."
"Your son?" Tara asked uneasily.
"Eric. His mother took him when she left with that Fae Sorcerer. He has countless men and powers. I need yours to combat his. I plan to get my son back and publicly execute his mother for leaving me. Did your father not explain all of this to you?"
Tara thought she would pass out! Eric was a little boy here? And Ulfrik had to be talking about Dermot! God…she didn't think she would be able to look at Eric here as a little boy! That made her his step-mother now!
Ulfrik could see that his wife looked as if she may faint and he suddenly picked her up and carried her into the castle! Tara was about to protest and tell him she could walk on her own, when her eyes locked with his and she saw intensity and longing. It was then that she knew she was not being carried away so she could rest.
She was being carried to bed. Ulfrik Norseman's bed.
"I could see your longing for the other one. The one that was not pretending to be anything other than a man, Tarja. I would have gladly killed him to wipe away the look in your eyes when you gazed upon him. You sent him away to protect him." Ulfrik rasped as he hurried up a staircase with her and carried her into a nearby room that Tara sensed did not belong to her or him. It was just the closest room he could get her alone in.
Ulfrik set her down and walked over to the door to secure it. He then turned to face her.
"You have been holding back during our loving. I sensed it. Now that you have sent both of those servants away, I want all of you, are we clear?"
Tara said nothing as Ulfirk removed his clothing and she backed back a bit at the sight of his staggering length! She coughed!
"I guess if that's how you want it, Ulfirk, I'll go along with it. I'm sorry for whatever." Tara replied as she quickly undressed and leaped into his arms! Ulfrik was surprised and pleased by his new wife's eagerness and he violently took her mouth with his own, crushing her to him!
Tara felt him lift her with his almost tree trunk, muscular arms, before he dropped her down onto his raw member. Ulfrik soon began steering his manhood deeply and vigorously within herm while massaging her buttocks greedily. Tara's body quivered as it was pummeled with fury by his thrusts and she fell into an almost relentless fog of lust as she bucked and pitched against him, until a volcano erupted inside of her and she was left vibrating and spinning from ecstasy that never seemed to cease.
PRESENT TIME- THE FORGE…AFTER CLOSING
Eric clenched and unclenched his fist, as he heard a newly returned Bill Compton, tell himself and Kurt, the truth about where they had been…
"You are saying that Tara is married to my father? My FATHER?!"
Kurt could feel his sire's anger and wondered if Eric was also jealous?
"Yes. I don't know how or why, Eric, but your past and Tara's origins are intertwined. Your father was about ready to execute Hood and myself when Tara found her powers again and sent us back here! But she is still there…"
"She is still there because she wants to be!" Eric snapped. He then looked at Kurt.
"How did Sheriff Hood explain his return to your newest Sheriff?"
Kurt looked at Bill. Bill looked at Kurt.
They both looked at Eric.
Kurt finally spoke.
"Hood is at Tara's and he's reading Celia's diary. He wants to go back and get her."
Eric smiled. Actually grinned.
"No. Sheriff Hood will not be going back. I will. And we're going to put an end to all of this time traveling, Celia's diary and Candyman. I don't know exactly how the three of them are related but it will end."
"Before you marry Sookie?" Bill asked, unable to hide the bitterness in his voice.
"Yes, Bill. Before I marry Sookie." Eric confirmed cooly. Meanwhile, after using Tara's shower in her studio apartment, Lucas Hood decided to read Celia's much talked about diary himself. Only he skipped around and found a passage that he had no doubt whatsoever, that Tara had not read yet. Somehow, Celia knew that Daniel had become Candyman(Hood supposed if he had not skipped around, he would know the how and why of that reveal). And because of this, Celia knew something else: that Candyman and made a deal with Thulsa Doom to help him reunite with Caroline Heyward, by using both a future daughter of his and her friends.
But there was a price for Doom's help. When Candyman actually ceased to be no more, meaning he could not even be summoned, he would honor a 'Hell Betrothment'. That being that Candyman, while living in eternity in hell, would be married to Tara, when she finally died herself.