A/N OMG another chapter so soon? I'm just saying right now, don't get used to this. This story is just really talking to me lately and I'm getting chapters out really fast. I only have about a page written of the next chapter, but i know where it's going in my mind so i hopefully will get it out soon so enjoy and leave me some love:)
I reluctantly pulled away from kissing Eric and my fangs had made another appearance. I was about to turn and hiss at whom I assumed was Dr. Ludwig, but Eric stopped me. "It's all right Lover." He moved me back over onto the bed and stood up to greet our guest. "So good to see you again Dr. Ludwig. How have you been?"
"Can it vampire. I'm not here to talk pleasantries with you, I'm here to check out the fairy princess."
I sat up against the pillows and got my first glimpse of the doctor. I had to try really hard not to laugh as I looked at her. She looked like a hobbit straight out of the Lord of the Rings. I really had to hold myself back when she pulled a step stool out of her bag and hopped onto the bed with me. Oh God, what had my life become?
She came over to me and without even a how do you do, she lifted up my shirt, exposing my naked lower half and started poking and prodding me. "Hey there lady, I'm a little on the naked side here."
"Oh hush girl. You're a supe and mated to the Viking here. Get used to being naked." I was about to argue that I would never be comfortable being naked in front of anyone but Eric, but her hands started glowing over me. I didn't know what in the hell she was doing to me, but I wasn't about to do anything to distract her or piss her off.
After a few minutes she stopped glowing and went probing through her bag. "You're using a lot of magic lately, haven't you little girl?"
"Yeah, I kind of have been. Why, is that a bad thing?"
"Not usually, but right now you need to take it easy on using your magic, hell you should be taking it easy all around right now for awhile."
"Why? What's wrong with me?" I could feel the panic building inside of me and Eric was quick to take my hand and sent a wave of calm to me.
"Now take it easy girlie, there is nothing wrong with you, you're just pregnant."
My jaw dropped. How was this possible? Vampires couldn't get women pregnant. I didn't want to get my hopes up that this could really be happening, but my mind filled with images, a vision really. It was of Eric and myself. We were sitting on a beach somewhere and I had a very noticeable bump that Eric was cooing at. I was smiling and felt happier than I'd ever felt before. "How are you feeling today my wife?"
"Never better my husband. Your son is trying to kick his way out of me today though." Husband? Son? I came back to myself with a huge smile on my face. Eric was going to be my husband soon and I was going to give him a son.
I wanted to celebrate and shout my joy from the rooftops, but then I remembered what was happening around us and it became too much for me. My eyes rolled back into my head and darkness surrounded me.
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"Sookie my angel, wake up. We need to talk again."
I slowly opened my eyes and instead of seeing my apparent future husband, I had a smiling Nessa beside me, "Hey Nessa."
"Hello my darling." She gently reached down and stroked my cheek. "You are positively glowing."
"I'm having a baby, a son if my vision was right."
"Oh your vision was very correct." She placed her hand on my belly and smiled even wider. "Oh yes, he is going to be big and strong and beautiful and his little sister who is going to come along a few years from now will be brave and strong just like her mother." I couldn't stop the tears from streaming down my face. "Oh my sweet girl, don't cry. Isn't this what you want?"
"Yes more than anything. These are happy tears. I never knew that I could be this happy."
"And I want you to know that when your Viking proposes to you, and it will be very soon, he is not doing it because of the baby. He was going to ask you earlier today."
"Was that before or after I tried to kill him twice?"
Nessa's laughter filled the room. "Oh my sweet Sookie, you didn't try to kill him, you didn't even come close to doing anything of the sort. All you did was make him realize that he needs to keep on his toes around you."
"But I almost drained him dry."
"That my dear was a necessity."
"WHAT?
"You're body is changing Sookie. First it was adapting to you getting your Fae powers and becoming more Fae, now you're becoming a hybrid of sorts."
"I thought that I already was a hybrid being part fairy and part human."
"That's true, but now you're becoming a different kind of hybrid. Your powers are now working and doing what needs to be done to make you a vampire as well to be more connected with your mate and to help grow your children."
"So that's why I was drinking Eric's blood like that?"
"Yes. You needed his blood to help with the transformation."
"Is it going to hurt?"
"No, most of it has already happened. I know that you have your fangs now, soon your senses will be stronger in the days and weeks to come. You yourself will also become stronger and faster and your powers will continue to grow, but while you are pregnant you need to limit how much power you use because if you use to much you'll start taking energy from the baby."
I was quick to place my hands over my still flat stomach. "I would never do anything to hurt my baby."
"I know that you wouldn't. Just take care of yourself and you'll both be just fine."
My mind started racing at her words, "But what will happen when others find out what I can do? Every vampire will want me to breed with them. I don't want that, I only want Eric."
She gently took my face in her hands. "Calm down my angel. What you and the Viking have achieved can not be achieved with any other vampire."
Relief flooded through me. "Thank God, but what's to stop them from taking me and trying anyway?"
"You leave that to me little one. You are progressing faster than even I expected, so we will be meeting in person very soon."
"Does this mean that we won't meet like this anymore?" I couldn't keep the disappointment out of my voice.
"Of course not Sookie. You are going to need all of the support and guidance you can get in the coming weeks and months. You're going to be growing a giving birth to the first child of it's kind, you'll need all the help you can get. Now, you need to wake up before your Viking wears a hole in the floor with all of his pacing.." She gently kissed me on the cheek and I was again pulled into darkness.
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I slowly opened my eyes and I could see Eric pacing the room and it brought a smile to my face. "Hey you."
He quickly turned at the sound of my voice and was by my side instantly. "My love, are you all right?"
"I'm fine. I was just a little overwhelmed, but I talked to Nessa and she made me feel better."
"I will protect you and our son with my life."
"I know you will, I've seen him and our future daughter and they are both perfect."
"You've seen them?"
"Yes. I had a vision or premonition or whatever and I saw us happy with our children. They are going to be so beautiful and perfect."
"I wish I could see them."
A thought popped into my head at his words. "Maybe you can." I sat up and took his hands in mine. I focused on the vision of our children and pushed it into Eric's mind. I could feel when he was seeing it and his feelings were a bit overwhelming. I'd never felt Eric so happy and overjoyed as he was at that moment.
When the vision ended he pulled me into his arms and held me very tightly. "Thank you." I could feel his tears falling on my neck and I couldn't stop my own tears from flowing as well.
"What for?"
He pulled back and looked at me with bloody tears running down his face. That sight made me cry even harder. I hated seeing his tears. "A thousand years ago I had a wife and children. My wife Aude had been my brother's wife. When he died it was my duty to marry her.
"She gave me six children, but only three of them lived and I lost her with the last babe. I never thought that I would ever have the chance to have a child of my own again.
"I wasn't there for my children like I should have been. Back in those days it was the woman's job to raise the children and take care of the household while the men were out raiding and gathering what goods were needed to get through the winter months. I don't want to make those same mistakes again. I promise you Sookie that I will be there, I want to be there for you and our children every step of the way."
"I know you will Baby. You are going to be the best daddy every."
Eric reached over and grabbed some tissues for us and we wiped away our tears before he spoke again. "What if I told you that I wanted to be more than just a daddy?"
"What do you mean?" I had a pretty good idea of what he was talking about, but I didn't want to get my hopes up.
I watched him smile down at me as he stood up from the bed, then knelt down next to it. Oh my God! "Sookie Stackhouse, I know that we haven't known each other very long, but I know with ever fiber of my being that you are the one person that I am meant to spend eternity with." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a ring box. Oh my God! "My love, my angel, my one and only, will you do me the extreme on of marrying me? OH MY GOD!
