A/N I am sooo sorry for the delay, I have been in a bit of a funk lately, but hopefully I'm coming out of it now. No matter what I will finish my stories. So I'll leave you to it, enjoy and leave me some love!

I ran out the back door as fast as my boots would carry me. "ERIC!" He was standing out in the sun, naked as I left him and still as a statue.

I ran up to him as fast as I could, threw my arms around him and popped us back into our light tight bedroom. I was quick to step back and started looking him over. "Eric, Eric are you all right? Where are you burned?" As I was looking over him I noticed there were no burn marks. His skin was as perfect as it always was. "What the hell? Eric, what were you doing out in the sun like that?"

"Enjoying the warmth of the sun on my face after being in the dark for over a thousand years."

I was very confused. "I don't understand. How is this even possible?"

"It's you Lover. I don't know how, but it's you or our bond or the combination of the two." He finally looked down at me and I noticed that his face wasn't so pale anymore, it was pink. I couldn't resist reaching up and running my fingers over his now pink skin. It was warm under my touch and I couldn't stop the giggle that escaped my lips. "What's so funny my love?"

"You have a little sunburn on your face."

He looked down at me with a goofy smile on his face. "I do?"

"Yes, you do." I couldn't stop stroking his pink skin, but I suddenly noticed that it was turning white again. "Did your burn just heal on its own, or was that me?" I didn't really think that I had done anything, but after everything that had been happening lately I had to be sure.

"I'm healed? It wasn't my blood doing it. When we heal our bodies tingle letting us know our blood is working its magic. It must have been you doing it Lover."

"But how is that possible? I wasn't even trying to do anything."

"I think that it's a natural instinct inside of you. You don't need to think about doing something; the magic in you just knows and does it."

"You're the second person to tell me that today."

"Who was the other Sookie?" He looked down at me and that sexy eyebrow of his went up waking up my lady bits. "What have you been up to today?"

"Well, that's kind of a long story." My stomach took that moment to growl even louder than before demanding that it be fed. "Um, why don't you put on some clothes and meet me in the kitchen where my lunch is waiting for me and I'll explain everything to you."

"All right." He leaned down and gently kissed my lips before disappearing into the closet. Part of me was very tempted to follow and have my wicked way with my Viking, but my stomach didn't like that idea at all, so I made my way back out to the kitchen.

I sat down and started eating waiting for Eric to join me. It was only a few minutes before he came into the room, but I had already devoured almost half my food. I stopped short when I looked up at him as he came in the room. He was wearing black sleep pants and a black tank top that fit him like a second skin.

I continued to eat my food as I looked at him, but all that I could think about was nibbling on every inch of Eric, touching and licking him all over. I was lost in those thoughts as I felt him slide his hand up my leather clad thigh while his other hand trailed down my bare arm.

I looked up and was met with the beautiful blue eyes of my Viking. There was mischief in them and a smile on his face. I couldn't help but smile back at him. "Lover, as much as I adore your naughty face and what it leads to, you have some explaining to do."

That pulled me out of my naked Viking musings. "Wait a minute, I have a naughty face and when did you turn into Ricky Ricardo?"

"Yes you do have a naughty face. It comes out whenever we are about to make love, and I am certainly not a Cuban man who can't speak proper English."

"No you're not. You are a bad ass Viking, my bad ass Viking."

"Yes I am." He pulled away and I immediately missed his touch. "But now you need to tell me what you have been doing today."

I knew I couldn't stall much longer, so I quickly finished eating and told him about my visit to Fangtasia. I was expecting him to be angry at me for going there on my own, but there was only a slight hint of anger in our bond, there was mostly pride and a touch of jealousy. "What are you jealous about?"

"That you got to end that weasel bastard. I would have enjoyed at least being there to witness it."

"I'm sorry darlin', but it had to be done. Who knows how many vampires could still possibly be on their way here right now."

"Depending on whom they are, we might not have as big a problem as we think."

"What do you mean?"

"I've made friends with a lot of monarchs in my thousand years. If they do still come here looking for you I might be able to convince them that Compton was lying about there being a telepath here."

"That could work. I found out that he didn't have any real tangible evidence about me, but they were still intrigued anyway since telepaths are a rare commodity. He told, Indiana, Texas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Arkansas and Nevada about me."

He was almost smiling at the list of monarchs until I got to the last one. "Nevada is definitely going to be a problem. Felipe DeCastro is a ruthless son of a bitch and when he finds something that he wants, he doesn't stop until he gets it. I'm sure that he's sent spies of his own to check on you for himself."

"Maybe Nessa can tell me what he's up to."

Eric perked up at my words. "Sookie, who is Nessa?"

For a brief moment I was afraid that if I told Eric about Nessa that he would think that I was completely nuts, but that thought quickly passed. I loved him and he loved me and I needed to trust him with this.

I went through everything that I'd experienced with and knew about Nessa. When I was finished I looked up at Eric and he had a strange expression on his face. "You think that I'm crazy, don't you?"

He was quick to pull me over onto his lap and slid his arms around me before kissing me deeply. I wanted the kiss to go farther, but I needed him to answer my question first, so I pulled away from his kiss. "Eric, I really need to know if you think that I'm crazy or not."

"No Lover, I don't think that you're crazy. I think that you have more people looking out for you than you think." He moved his lips down to my neck and was really distracting me now. Not that I minded the distractions, but we had more to talk about.

"Eric, what are you talking about? Who else is looking out for me?" His hand slid up my bare back and unclasped my halter top. He slid the cool leather down my slowly heating skin until my breasts were bare. They didn't stay that way long though. Eric was quick to fill his hands with my ample breasts and I couldn't stop the moan that escaped my lips. "Eric, we need to talk about what is happening around us."

"We will Lover." He bent his hand down and rolled his tongue around my already erect nipple/ "But right now I have very important plans that involves us not talking for a while." He lifted me up in his arms where I clung to him tightly as he ran us at vampire speed outside.

When he lowered me down and I felt the warm grass on my bare back I started to panic again. "Eric, do you think that it's a good idea for you to be out in the sun like this? What if you start to burn?"

"My love, I'm not going to burn." He knelt down beside me and slid his hands down to the zipper on my leather pants and slowly pulled them down. "And all I've been able to think about since I could come out in the sun was having you naked under me and the sun that you love to worship so much." He leaned down and started kissing my bare breasts. "You are never meant to stay in the shadows Sookie. You are meant for the sunlight."

I reached up and took his face in my hands. "But I would give it all up if it meant I could be with you forever." Everything else would have to wait since those seemed to be just what Eric wanted to hear, because they were the last coherent words I said for hours.