They held hands as they walked back to his car. If his heart could still beat, he was sure Sookie would hear it. Godric had never courted a lady or remotely considered it. He didn't know the ins and outs of courting. According to Pam, he was allowed to kiss her goodnight when he walked her to the door. Sex if it came, it did on the third date.
He was surprised to find he was actually nervous at his age. But then age had nothing to do with it. For the first time in his existence, someone had captivated him since Eric, and it wasn't about turning them. He had no qualms about giving her his blood. He hadn't given his blood to anyone since turning Eric.
"Did you have a good time?" He asked as they got to the car.
"I had a great time." She intoned. To his surprise, she stepped closer to him and kissed him softly.
Somewhere in the back of his mind, he should have pulled away, but her magnetism was just too strong. At least that is what he would blame when asked. Her hands found his hair and drew him closer. He growled deep down in his chest as the kiss became heated. He could feel the softness of her lips, the sweetness of her skin. He could hear her heart beating against his. The rise and fall of her breathing made her ample breast swell against his chest. He could feel her nails on his scalp. Then like a whirlwind it hit, her sweet scent. He pulled away faster than she could comprehend.
"Sookie." He warned as she took a step closer. "Please, mask your scent." He pleaded. She shook her head slowly with a smile that sent a shiver down his spine. That was a sensation he didn't ever remember feeling.
"You are going to have to get used to it. I can't always keep it masked it requires concentration. I can't always concentrate. I didn't do it on purpose." He got her meaning. Her concentration had lapsed while they kissed.
"I see." He grumbled. He took a tentative step towards her and inhaled. "Zeus, have mercy." He moaned. His gums ached, and his fangs he knew had made an appearance something she found rather exciting. He heard the uptick in her breathing, the acceleration of her heartbeat, and the increase of her pulse.
"Godric." Her voice though barely above a whisper felt as though it traveled over the empty parking space. This time he stayed on the spot when she walked closer. "Take me back to your place." He didn't need to understand modern courting practices to know what that meant.
He wanted to beg her to mask her scent, but he knew it was unlikely. He held his breath the entire drive back to his house. It was apparent Sookie was enjoying his discomfort. "Can Eric feel you?" She asked as they arrived in his driveway.
"Yes, but I can shut off the bond if you require." She was human and had human sensibilities about sex. "You feel uncomfortable with the notion of him feeling my emotions during intercourse."
"I do." She blushed slightly. "And can you call it sex, hell I'd even take you calling it a fuck. Intercourse sounds like something my gran would have. Yeah, you are old and at times act like it, but you don't look like an old man, and I doubt you fuck like one.
"No, I don't." he laughed. "It has been a while so who knows."
"When you say a while…"
"Just over half a century." The last time he indulged, he had been with Eric during the Second World War when they were looking for the one responsible for his family's death.
"Wow," Sookie mumbled. "And I thought my twenty-five years was long."
"I suspected as much" Godric whispered. "Are you…" that was about all he managed before he felt her lips on his.
...
Eric felt Godric's anxiety, which was followed by a great sense of excitement and then fear. He had difficulty tracking all the various emotions that coursed through him for the better part of half an hour. Then he felt nothing; there was a feeling of acceptance and resignation then it was gone.
For two hours he waited, and when he still felt nothing through the bond, he decided to go and check on Godric. "He's on a date," Pam said as though it answered all his questions. "He doesn't want you sharing his emotions or worse feel yours while on a date. When the night is over, he will open the bond." She added. Her words made perfect sense, but it wasn't enough. He vamped out of Fangtasia and took off into the air. In truth it wasn't entirely about the closed bond, it was curiosity about his date with Sookie. He was still struggling to get over the fact that Godric got what he had wanted for so long and still wanted.
He landed in Godric's expansive backyard and went through the kitchen. That was when the smell hit him. His fangs dropped, and he inhaled deeply. It smelled like Sookie, but so much more. How had Godric not drained her? He knew he hadn't because he could hear them. He slowly moved through the house and up the stairs. The smell got so much more potent with every step. The noise of their fucking grew in his ears. He stopped outside the bedroom door, listening to Godric's low growl, Sookie's loud moans, and indiscernible words. He could time the rhythm of their movement as skin slapped against skin. His erection had made an appearance as he listened to them fucking. This was why Godric had closed the bond two hours ago.
Enraged, he vamped back down and out the backdoor to the far side of the backyard because outside of anger he barely felt any emotion. Right now, there was several coursing through him. Godric had thought him to ignore them, so he did. What did Godric do to earn himself her affections and a place in her bed or rather getting her into his bed?
The idea of taking her in a bed never occurred to you. You simply wanted to bend her over your desk and fuck her. The same desk you've had numerous fangbangers over. Is it any wonder she found you reprehensible?
No, Godric had stared at her as though she was a wonder of the world and she had seen it. She had seen the way he admired every facet of her life. How he paid attention to every minutia of her very existence. Godric had proved himself worthy of her time. Godric understood her human sensibilities to things like sex while he had mocked them.
...
"Had I known you wanted to come here I would have been better prepared." Her blood still sung in his veins, as he watched her get dressed. He'd never felt so full, so free as did at that moment.
"I didn't know I was staying either." The blush she knew tinted her cheeks surprised her. She had just spent the better part of three hours begging this vampire to fuck her and bite her over and over again. How could she be blushing at the thought of her wanting him at the end of the date?
"You have nothing to be embarrassed about. I am happy you want me as much as I have wanted you." He felt no shame in his admission.
"I have always wanted you… I just don't like the politics that came with being with you." She said as he led her down the stairs. He knew that and meant everything he said. She will be kept out of it. There wasn't a monarch on earth that would ask for his fealty because he lived in their area. There have been two monarchs since he became sheriff of Texas and none dared to ask him to kneel in fealty. He could be the head of the authority if he so chose, but politics didn't appeal to him either.
"I will see you tonight." He said as he stared at her.
"You are staring." She whispered.
"I don't want to forget a single minute feature on your face."
"You are a vampire with perfect sight and recall you can't forget even if you wanted to." He knew that more than most. There was so much he would love to forget.
"You are right, but still."
"You are sweet." She teased. She placed her hands on his hips and pulled him forward, more he allowed himself to be pulled forward. "I do want you and if the last few hours wasn't any indication… this might help." The warmth of her lips on him made him breathless although breathing wasn't a requirement. Her tongue dueling with his drove him out of his mind. He held her against the wall as his mouth assaulted hers. Her legs wrapped around his waist as he lifted her without thought. With her dress around her waist and her bare sex rubbing against his erection the inevitable happened. Soon Godric was pounding into her again, and in no time she came hard her teeth clamped on his shoulder, breaking the skin.
"That wasn't meant to happen." He teased. "Shall I heal you?" He'd done that throughout the night as he was her first and she was quite sore after her first time.
"No, I like the physical reminder of our night. I will be fine by tonight."
"Are you sure?"
"Very." She sighed. "I will see you tonight." Before he could respond, she was gone. Her teleporting would take some getting used to.
He went back up to his room and grabbed a shirt. The room was saturated with her smell. He would go to his day death with a smile on his face for the first time in decades. That sense of trepidation he felt when he had first seen her, thinking he would not be able to have her was gone.
When he made his way back down, he found Eric in his living room. "I felt the bond closed." He said by way of explanation for his presence.
"I closed our bond for decades you did not come search for me then," Godric argued.
"No, but you've kept the bond opened since the night you arrived and with all the conflicting emotions before the bond closed I felt it best to come."
"As you can see I am well." The light-proof shutters engaged plunging the house into darkness for a few seconds before the night-lights came on.
"There is a guest bedroom at the end of the hall you can have that."
"Thank you, master." He said with a needless sigh. "I take it your night with Sookie went well." He just couldn't help himself.
"Why ask when you already know the answer?"
"I felt you briefly the night you came…" Godric had opened the bond briefly to warn Eric of his imminent arrival, but his progeny had collapsed in pain. Godric had lived with the pain for so long he had forgotten just how dilapidating it truly was. He had quickly closed it, but then tried again when he saw Sookie. Eric's lack of reaction told him that just the sight of Sookie had healed so much of the pain he no longer felt physically, but emotionally felt. "How is she able to take away your pain when no one and nothing else has. For so long I had feared you walking out into the sun and letting it take you." He looked away from Godric. "You came to say goodbye that night." Though phrased as a question it was a statement.
"I did because she asked me to." Eric's head shot up. He knew perfectly well who she was. "She knew the minute I stepped into that bar all thoughts of meeting the sun would fade at the sight of Sookie."
"You think she sent you because she saw Sookie in your future." Eric wanted to scoff at the notion, simply because the idea of the Ancient Pythoness sending her adopted progeny to meet Sookie was too immense.
Godric took a folded paper out of his pocket and gave it to Eric.
'Try harder. Gin and Tonic.'
Eric read the email in disbelief. "So that was how you knew her favorite drink." He whispered. He really didn't like what all this implied.
"Try harder?" He questioned.
"The night I asked her out she didn't give me a concrete answer. I was sure it was going to be no." Godric said with a chuckle taking back the paper. "I will see you tonight." He added getting up.
"Will you share?" Eric asked him. He knew he shouldn't have asked, after everything that Godric just revealed he shouldn't have asked.
"Sookie has worked for you for a year and a half… in that time I'm sure you made countless attempts to have her as another notch on your desk. And you have failed in that endeavor because she finds nothing appealing about you or your ways. You somehow expect me to subject her to you. You spent too much time on that throne of yours and have lost sight of the difference between a fangbanger and a lady. Sookie Stackhouse is a lady and one with a great deal of self-respect. I am not about to disrespect her by asking her to share her body with you." Godric was now in front of him. Though he towered over his maker, he felt small in his presence just then. "I do realize the past meant you could ask. This is your one and only." He warned.
"We are vampires… sex doesn't…"
"I am aware of what I am, I have been that for over three millennia and don't need a reminder. I am also aware that you are old enough and are no longer controlled by your baser instincts. You chose to fuck a fangbanger every night, and you do so because you can and not because of necessity. You want Sookie, not the other way round. When you want something, you adapt to get it. You knew what she was like and yet you made no effort to be what she wanted because you didn't think you had to." Godric shook his head walking away.