A/N I am so sorry for the long delay. Real life has been difficult and it has put me in a bit of a funk. I have the next chapter written for this and hopefully i will type it soon, but i want to get my other stories updated before the new year. I am still working away at all of my stories. It's also been hard with the loss of Ericizmine (Angela) last month. She was a wonderful writer and her stories are one of the reasons that i started writing fanfiction in the first place. It is a great loss of such a fantastic writer. May she rest in peace and her legacy of writing continue on throughout the years.
I'd never really thought about the consequences of not having my fairy powers anymore. I didn't think that it would affect me much since I'd only had my powers for a short while. I knew that my powers had their moments where they were useful to me, but I would do this for Eric, I wanted to do this for him.
"Sookie, I can't ask you to give up your powers to help me."
"Yes you can. It was your blood that activated them, it's only right that I use them to save your life."
"How do you know that it was my blood that activated your powers?"
"I'd had tons of he who shall not be name's blood and there was never even the smallest spark, but a few drops of thousand year old Viking blood and boom, microwave fingers."
"I still can't ask you to do that for me. You shouldn't even be thinking about going to Mississippi. You should go home where you will be safe."
"There is nothing for me back in Bon Temps anymore. My place is with you at your side."
"Sookie, if something were to ever happen to you, I wouldn't be able to live with myself."
"I'm a lot stronger than I look. I can hold my own, but I wasn't sent back here just to sit on the sidelines. I know that I have acted horribly in the past, but that was always because of him. I was wrong and naïve to listen to him, but anything you need from me, anything you need or want me to do, I will do it freely and willingly."
He just looked at me for a moment before he spoke. "I have never known anyone as strong or as brave as you before Sookie Stackhouse." He pulled me into his arms and just held me close. "If you'd been alive before I was turned, I would have made you my queen."
My heart leapt at his words. Not the being his queen part, I would never, could never be a proper queen, but being his wife? That was a completely different story. When Bill had asked me to marry his, it had felt wrong somehow. I had thought that I loved him, but deep down in my gut I still had felt that seed of doubt. There was none of that in me now with Eric. Even after everything that he'd done, if he asked me to marry him, I wouldn't hesitate to say yes. But now wasn't the time to think about that.
"That's really nice of you to say, but right now I think that we need to focus on Russell." I pulled away from his touch grudgingly and grabbed a pen and paper. "I don't know what Russell is up to right now, but in a few days he is going to send wolves to abduct he who shall not be named. We need to go to Mississippi as soon as possible to stake out his moves." I sat down and started writing down as many things as I could remember about Russell's mansion and what Weres and vamps were working there and keeping guard. "I think that hitting him during the day would be the best option, but I don't know if my blood is going to last long enough to get you in and out. We are definitely going to need more than a few minutes to take him out."
"Maybe if we went in just before dawn or just before sunset that should give us the time that we need."
"No. Russell is three times your age. He could probably be able to fight the sun more than you can. We need to plan something for at least mid-day when he's at his weakest." I stopped and thought about how I could give him and possibly Godric more time in the sun. My thoughts immediately went to Claudine. Could I really sacrifice my fairy godmother? At this point my answer was a definitive hell yes. She was willing to take me away from my life without my consent, so I was willing to use her to help my Eric.
I think that I could her to help me, with a bit of force, and hopefully her blood would be enough. Warlow's blood would be even better since I already knew what his blood was capable of, but getting to him would be rather tricky.
"I think that we need stronger fairy blood. I have two possible options in mind, but one of them is a bit complicated. Well, maybe not. I have a fairy godmother named Claudine. Technically in this time line I haven't met her yet, but that doesn't matter. I think that she'll come if I call for her. We can either get some blood from her which I know should last for several hours longer than my blood, well at least draining her let you walk in the sun for several hours, but a few mouthfuls might be enough, or not.
"Then there's Warlow. I know that Claudine banished him to another realm and hopefully she could bring him back, at least long enough to get some blood from him. Just a few sips of his blood would let you walk in the sun until he dies." I couldn't stop the tears from rolling down my cheeks thinking about watching Eric die on that mountain top. "Maybe that's not such a good idea after all."
"Sookie, if that is an option, I promise that I will be more careful. We've just found each other; I won't do anything stupid to ruin that."
"Thank you, but it might not even be an option. Claudine might not be willing or able to bring him back."
"I can be very persuasive."
"True, but I'm pretty sure that your glamour doesn't work on fairies. Maybe if I talk to her I can convince her to just bring him back long enough for us to get some of his blood, then she can just send him right back."
"That sounds very dangerous. He's had at least two decades to plan an escape. He's more than likely just lying in wait for his opportunity to strike."
I dropped my head in my hands in frustration. "You're right. What are we going to do then?"
"You leave the planning to me. I'm sure that I can figure out something with just a few minutes in the sun."
"Okay Eric. I trust you."
"Thank you for that." He took my hand and pulled me back into his arms. "Why don't you get some rest now. You have had a rough couple of days. You'll need all the rest you can get while you can."
"I could get into that as long as you stay with me until I fall asleep."
"I can most certainly do that."
I went over and got into the bed with him following right behind me. When we got comfortable we both moved so that we were facing each other. "We'll get him Eric. He'll pay for what he did to your family."
"I know he will. What I would like to know right now is when are you finally going to yield to me my Sookie?"
I couldn't help but giggle and drop my head against his chest. Same old Viking no matter what we were facing. "Technically I already have, but it was the innocent, memory-less you."
"Well, you really need to experience the fully functional Eric Northman."
That thought sent a delicious shiver through me. "Yes I think that I do, but not now. When this whole Russell debacle is over I will yield to you, however, whenever and wherever you want."
He was quick to pin me down on the bed and give me that predatory look that made my insides quiver and my panties wet. "Why not yield to me now lover?"
"Holding out on you should be enough of an incentive to get you to live through this."
"It certainly is."
"But I will yield to a kiss right now."
"My pleasure." He leaned down and kissed me like both of our lives depended on it. I could feel his lust, his passion, his love for me in that kiss and I did the best that I could to return his feelings without getting us both naked.
He pulled away when I needed to breath and looked down at me with that sexy smirk on his face. "Sleep now my sweet Sookie."
"Yeah, like I'm going to be able to sleep after you've got me all wound up."
"All right, than think of me. Fill your mind with me so you will dream of me."
"Now that I can do." I curled up against him and filled my thoughts with all of my wonderful memories of Eric and soon I was fast asleep with a smile on my face.
