Godric's reading had slowed down considerably during the last pages of the last book. Sookie was doing her best not to smirk at him or mutter I told you so. "You know I can feel your smugness even if your facial features don't show it. " Godric muttered as he shut the book a little too forcefully. He couldn't believe Sookie actually had the books with her, she apparently had it for when he was asleep during the day. She didn't like it when he called it day death, so it was asleep.
"It's not smugness, it's just when you are right... you are right." Godric frowned, and she couldn't help but think he looked incredibly cute. "Baby, it's fiction." Sookie tried in a vain attempt to placate her sulking boyfriend.
"But it doesn't stop you from comparing real-life vampires to fictional ones aimed at teens." He said doubling down on his sulking.
"I doubt those books would be as popular as they are if they had been accurate to you," Sookie admitted.
"No, I don't see that happening. I will admit the Authority could learn a thing or two from the Volturi. You are right... they are not feared." He was more feared than the Authority. Russell Edgington, despite his eccentricities, was more feared than the Authority. In their world with age, came power and the members that made up the Authority were children in his eyes.
"Baby, stop pouting." He crossed his arms not realizing it was a sign he was far from capitulating. "You know for a vampire who knows nothing about the dating game... you really have the whole pout until my girlfriend says and does whatever I want so I no longer pout down to a science." Sookie straddled his lap, and he fought back the pleasured growl working its way out of his throat. "Baby, I was just teasing." She nuzzled his neck. Any other time he would have shown his surprise at not knowing his behavior would get her to do anything. But as it stood he'd be a fool not to milk it for all it was worth.
"Well, this vampire can't help but feel a little hurt that you consider him weak compared to vampires in teen-aimed books.
"I believe they are called young adults."
"Sure." The pout got poutier. Sookie wondered if poutier was even a word.
"Will you be less hurt if I sucked your cock and fondled your balls." There was no hiding his shock this time. "I might have human sensibilities about sex, but I'm no prude. Hard to be when you have Jason Stackhouse as a brother growing up."
"You can hear your brother's thoughts?" For some reason, he thought Jason's mind would be shielded.
"Yes, just as I can't completely shut out his influence. We can work on it and block each other, but we find it's more prudent to allow it. It allows silent communication. I can hear his thoughts, and he can feel my emotions somewhat to gauge how I feel about a certain situation. Certainly has come in handy in the past."
"Interesting." Godric murmured. "Do you two train because of vampires?"
"Yes, but for one vampire hybrid in particular."
"Warlow," Godric growled.
"Yes, the dairies warned that the realm Warlow was banished to wouldn't hold him forever. Any number of things could aide his escape, and he will come after me." Sookie sighed and stood. "I want to think of more pleasant things. Now about the offer I made earlier." She teased as though her teasing him earlier with fictional characters hadn't gotten her into trouble.
Jason had been a restless mess since he woke up. He had spent most of the previous night talking to Thalia; the conversation had carried on after Fangtasia closed. She had left him just before dawn and the temptation to offer her his basement room had been overwhelming. Despite waking up late, it wasn't late enough as there was still two hours of daylight left before Thalia could make her way over to his. He had spent most of it cleaning up the already spotless basement bedroom. He was getting her to stay if it was the last thing he did. He looked around the room and nodded to himself. He still had half an hour to go and decided to shower even though he was going to be working out and maybe rolling around on the floor. It had been so long since he'd gotten laid his cock and balls were threatening to beat him up if they didn't get any soon. The problem was since he laid eyes on Thalia no one else appealed to him. He was just throwing on his vest when he heard her. Due to his ability with air, he could also detect any small changes in the atmosphere around his house.
Thalia on her end smiled when she detected his elevated heartbeat and uptick in his breathing. She found she liked the way he reacted to her presence. Usually, things of that nature only served to annoy her, but his was welcome, and very much so. She knocked lightly and wasn't surprised when it was yanked open within seconds. She took in his appearance just as much as he took in hers. She was in black pants that were a little tight fitting around her and a black vest to match, in fact, her vest matched the green one he was wearing.
"Let me grab some stuff we can spar out back. It's real private, and we shouldn't attract any attention." Jason quickly grabbed a duffel bag and met her outside. If she came in and shut the door behind her his cock would be jonsing for a different kind of workout.
He dropped his duffel bag and pulled out a sword, Thalia had brought her own, and that did not surprise him. He stretched quickly and swing his sword around warming up.
"You drop your left shoulder every time you are about to lunge low." Fuck, Godric had already told him that.
"Okay." Now he just had to figure how to use that to his advantage.
"Again." She called out and attacked. So far he had constantly found himself on the back foot defending. Thalia's speed was proving to be nothing he had ever come across. She did say her speed was unprecedented for even a vampire her age. Once again her blade was at his throat. "Now, let's see what you are capable of when you use your abilities." He looked at her in disbelief.
"You knew the entire time, and you had me fighting you with just my human capabilities." Oh, that annoyed him. If he wasn't fighting a sup that would be fair, but a two-thousand-year-old vamp. She simply shrugged in response.
"I see." Jason groused. Thalia felt the air around her change, and before she could think about it, he was moving with a speed that almost matched hers. Sky clan, she realized as the air about her ebbed and flowed in a way she had never encountered. For someone mostly human he packed a lot of power. Now it was a fight, he gave as good as he got. Defending and attacking as much as she did, and then his shoulder dropped and she chuckled.
Jason although pissed knew it was an emotion that would not serve him well, so he swallowed his annoyance and focused on besting her. He saw an opening and was about to lunge when he realized he had dropped his shoulder. Instead of lunging low on her inside right, as he would have done, he went high on her left. For the first time that night he found his sword at her neck.
"Clever use of a disadvantage." She praised. "You are surprisingly better when using the air. You'd be even more formidable if you could fight just as well without it. Yes, you will not have the speed, but even without it you would surprise a lot of vampires."
"Okay, let's do that."
Jason was surprised to find the hours flew by while he trained with Thalia, and he still hadn't managed to find a way to make her stay. With that on his mind, he was making silly mistakes he hadn't made in years. Yet somehow one of those mistakes paid off when Thalia ended up cutting his left bicep deeply. "Fuck my life." He groaned as his blood dripped down his arm. "Could you." He presented his injured bicep to her. "I know your saliva will seal the wound." He added with a shrug. If Thalia hadn't been so focused on the sweet smell of his blood, she would have seen the triumphant look he wore as she leaned closer and licked the blood running down his arm and the wound clean.
Now it was Thalia who was distracted as they trained so much so, she now found Jason at her back with his sword at her throat. "You get a little part fairy blood in you and all of a sudden you can't remember a damn thing about fighting with a sword." Jason teased. "Maybe I should get you a gun." He added with a chuckle as Thalia growled. He held her around the waist, though she could easily get away from him, she didn't want to. "Do you want more... do you want to sink your teeth into my neck... how about the femoral artery?" Taunting a vampire with your blood was about the most single stupidest thing anyone could do, yet he was doing just that.
With a growl, Thalia spanned out of his arms and faced him. The next second he was on the floor, and she was on top of him, she crushed her lips against his.
'Finally.' He thought.
Sookie reluctantly cracked an eye open to find Godric staring at her amusingly. "It says a lot when the one unable to stay awake during the day is awake before the one that doesn't require sleep." Godric teased.
"I was kept awake all night by the one who is active at night and well past dawn." They had trained for most of the previous night and the night before, well she hadn't slept much placating her pouting boyfriend well past dawn. She retorted stretching her body little realizing the effect she was having on Godric.
"Shit, I need to call Jase." She said leaping out of bed. He had spent the night training with Thalia as well, at least she hoped that is what they had been doing.
"I'm sure your brother is still alive... in what state..." He chuckled as he heard a tired and weak hello on the other end of the phone.
"Jase, are you alright?" Sookie asked trying not to chuckle at the satisfied sigh that greeted her ears.
"Yeah Sook, I'm good... a little tired..." he was quickly interrupted.
"Then I suggest you find a way to regain your energy quickly because as soon as the sun goes down, we are back to training." Thalia practically purred.
"Talk to you later, Jase." Sookie hanged up quickly. "I have a feeling their idea of training and mine differ greatly."
"You just might be right." Godric laughed at her scandalized look. "Now, how about we get on with your training." He asked settling back down.
"I'm going to grab something to eat and then we can start." Sookie was practically bouncing on the balls of her feet. When it came to her training, she was just as enthused about it as Jason was. Of course, that hasn't always been the case. An incident in New Orleans a few years ago made her very grateful to have learned what she learned even if she'd done so begrudgingly.
Godric grimaced at the taste of his true blood. "That is foul." He moaned. "It must be off." Sookie took the bottle from him and checked the sell-by date.
"No, it's well in date." She showed him the date on the bottle.
"That's odd... I have never had an issue with the taste before. All of a sudden, it tastes rather unpleasant. I wonder why?" He murmured looking up at Sookie, and then it hit him. Of course, for the past few nights, the only blood he'd ingested was Sookie's. The other night she had distracted him with whatever book she was reading, and he had abandoned his drink then. Just before he had that foul stuff from the bottle, the taste of Sookie's blood had been on his tongue. He just had to give it a few hours and then try again. Hopefully, the bottled stuff wouldn't be too bad then. "I believe your blood has awakened my taste buds." She chuckled and nodded in understanding.
"I am surprised your brother carries a knife made mostly of iron instead of silver," Godric said as they strolled to his backyard.
"Actually, we carry a silver weapon as well. I find it more effective than a knife." With a smile, Sookie dropped a long silver chain down. Godric stared in awe, a second ago that chain had been a non-descript beaded bracelet around her wrist. Something he had dismissed as a fashion trend as her brother had the same bracelet around his wrist.
"That is impressive. I believe that is Fairy weaponry." Sookie nodded.
"Part of the treasure throve we found along with the journals"
"How does it work?" She raised an eyebrow at him.
"Obviously, I do not mean for you to demonstrate it on me." He quipped.
She laughed. "I should think not." She took a fighting stance, the silver chain in an outstretched position, using the centrifugal force keeping the chain extended. Godric knew she was warming up. Then she started alternating which side of her body the chain swang, followed by underarm swings. Then she started moving, using arm swings, neck swings. At one point she doubled the chain and started using it as a nunchaku. She ended her demonstration by wrapping the chain around one of the small branches and pulled. The branch came off with ease. Had that been a vampire's neck they'd be truly dead.
"Would you believe we learned all this from the journals and watching kung fu movies." She swung the chain towards him in a teasing manner, although he knew it he jumped back still looking at her in awe. "I have beaten myself up more times with this thing than anybody else." She added with a laugh.
"But you have used it. You have ended a vampire's existence with it." Godric surmised.
"Yes." She sat down on the grass and crossed her legs. He joined her. "My friend, Lafayette won a weeks trip for four to New Orleans a couple of years ago. It was Mardi Gras and so myself, Jason and his cousin Tara all piled into Jason's truck and headed for New Orleans. Lala decided we were driving because he was saving some money from his win so instead of flying we drove, not that we cared, mind you. It was the second day that I noticed we had a vampire on our tail. At some point he clearly realized Jase and I had seen him and was on the lookout for him, so he disappeared. The next time I saw him I was on my own in an alleyway... well, not entirely on my own as Tara was further down the alley puking her guts out from some concoction she drunk.
He tried glamouring me to go with him. He wanted me to tell Jase and my friends that I wasn't feeling well and was headed back to the hotel. I had no idea what a glamour was supposed to feel like, though I had read about it in the journals. I could feel a slight pressure on my brain and surmised he was trying to glamour me. I went with it, and then the idiot turned his back on me... I separated his head from the rest of him. Jason came out just as his head hit the ground, he could tell something was wrong with me."
"Your ability to be in tune with each other," Godric stated.
"Yes." Sookie turned her attention fully on him. "It was our first encounter with a vampire. It's one thing to read about something, but it's an entirely different thing to come across one."
"And one with nefarious intentions at that." Godric finished. "He would have drained you... there would have been no way he would have stopped himself once he tasted your blood."
"Something I'm now very aware off since working at Fangtasia. Hell, Eric and Pam less than flattering conversation about me included how good I smelled." Godric growled at that. "Even masking my scent I still have the vampires at the bar occasionally taking a sniff." She smirked at that.
"Your smell is intoxicating and your blood even more so. So much so I can't even drink the bottled stuff anymore." He actually looked put out by that. She threw her head back in laughter.