Oh My God, She's Alive. I am so sorry for the long, long delays, but getting kicked out of your house with 48 hours notice, spending two months in hotels that you can't really afford and having everything that i've written be buried in a storage locker just sucks, but i'm in my new apartment with my family and we are doing better now so hopefully i will have more updates up soon. i am doing some re-writes, but just know that i am still working away. ok, i'm going to shut up and leave you too it. enjoy and leave me some love:)


I don't know how long I was asleep for, but when I woke up I was alone in bed and I could hear Eric and Godric talking in the next room. "Eric, Russell is not someone that you can take out on your own. You are going to need any and all allies that you can get to take him down."

"Godric, this is my fight. If I have to sacrifice myself to get my revenge, then that's what I will do."

I didn't even realize that I had moved until I was in front of Eric and my hand connected hard with his cheek. "You selfish son of a bitch. I didn't come all the way back here just to watch you die at Russell Edgington's hands." I turned and stormed out of the room and went to my suitcase. I pulled out a pair of jeans, t-shirt, bra and panties before storming into the bathroom and slamming the door behind me.

I practically tore of my pajamas as I got dressed I was so pissed at him. I was not about to sit back and let him die again. This was finally our time together and I wasn't about to give that up. I would sacrifice my powers before I would let anything happen to Eric.

I dressed quickly, grabbed my dirty clothes and went back into the bedroom. I tossed my clothes in my suitcase, grabbed my sneakers and socks and sat on the bed to put them on. "Sookie, what are you doing?"

"What does it look like I'm doing?" I finished tying my shoes, zipped up my suitcase and headed for the door. "I'm leaving Eric." I grabbed my purse that was on the sofa and continued towards the door.

"Where are you going?"

"Someplace sunny." I was almost to the door when my path was blocked. "Eric, get out of my way. I'm leaving and you can't stop me." If I had to leave to keep him safe than this is what I had to do.

"Yes I can. You are Mine."

"No I'm not." That actually hurt to say, but I had to make him understand where I was coming from. "I may have said that I love you, but I never agreed to be yours. If you are hell bent on doing this alone then I'm leaving and not coming back." I couldn't stop the tears from streaming down my face after saying that. This is not what I imagined happening when I came back, but I couldn't back down now.

I kept my head down and tried to hide my tears. "Please Eric, just let me pass."

Godric was the next to speak. "Eric, don't do this. I know that I have told you to hide your feelings all the centuries that we have been together, but I was wrong. You both care for each other very much. Work together to defeat Russell Edgington. If you don't I fear that you will lose her for good."

"Please Eric, I need to do this, I want to do this."

"Godric, can you give us some privacy please?"

"Of course. I'll make some calls. I know some people in Mississippi that might be able to help."

I heard the door open and close signaling that Godric had left, but I was looking up at Eric now and neither of us was about to look away from the other. He stepped closer to me and took my suitcase and purse from me. "You're not going anywhere."

"You can't tell me what to do." I don't know why I was fighting him so much on this. I didn't want to leave him anymore than he wanted me to leave, but I just couldn't help myself.

"Maybe not, but I can tie you to my bed to get you to stay."

"Maybe after all this is over we can give that a try."

He growled in frustration as he set my bags down. "Sookie, I have relied on few people in my thousand plus years on Earth and I've cared for even less. If anything were to happen to you…"

"I know, I feel the same way about you, but I promise that I can and will help you in any way that I can."

He stepped back in front of me, slid his hand up my neck and wrapped his fingers tightly in my hair and forced me to look up at him. Others might have been intimidated by the way that he was holding me, but I reveled in it. He wasn't hurting me and I wanted any touch from him that I could get, I ached for his touch. "You really better make all of this worth my while."

"Oh I absolutely will. Have you heard of a place called Longyearbyen?"

"Yes as a matter of fact I have. What about it?" I could see that his interest was piqued and it made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

"I've done some research on their polar nights. Total darkness for months at a time." I slid my hands up his chest not able to keep my hands to myself any longer. "When Russell and Sophie-Anne are taken care of and there is hopefully a little peace in our lives, I thought that maybe we could go there and you can show me just how long you can go without stopping."

I heard and felt the growl that vibrated through his chest. I could feel his body tense and I knew that he was feeling as aroused about our possible trip as I was. "Don't tease me Sookie."

"I would never tease you Eric. I'm as serious as a heart attack." I stepped even closer to him so I was pressed as close to him as I could get. "I've missed you so much. I need you so much; I want you to erase every memory I have of him with memories of you, of us."

He pulled me even closer and leaned in to whisper in my ear. "I could do that right here and right now."

"I know you could, but think of it as a very good incentive to live through this. I promise that it will be so worth the wait."

He rested his forehead against mine for a minute before I felt him relax if only slightly. "Alright Lover, we will wait." He pulled away from me and I didn't like the distance between us at all, but I knew that we both needed to cool down a little bit.

I watched him walk over to the dresser, pick up his wallet and he pulled out a large stack of bills and a credit card. He set them down on the dresser, and then looked over at me. "Here is some money and my credit card. You are going to need more comfortable clothes and there is a store just outside of town that sells weapons that we are going to need to take out Russell."

"How will we be able to transport weapons without arousing suspicion?"

"I'll charter a private plane. We'll be able to sneak in under the radar."

"Okay. Is there anything else that you need me to get for you?"

"I just need you to be safe Sookie. That's all I want."

"I promise that I will be." I walked over to him and took his hand in mine. I moved so that he could see the smile that was on my face. "How about we do something to take the edge off."

"What exactly did you have in mind Miss Stackhouse?"

I pushed him over so that he was standing at the edge of the bed and reached for his belt. "You're a smart man who has been around for a while." I slid his belt out of his pants and tossed it aside before reaching for his zipper. "I think that you can figure it out." I pulled the zipper down and was about to slip my hand inside when he grabbed my wrist and stopped me. I looked up at him confused as to why he stopped me and I saw pain on his face. "Eric?"

"Sookie, I don't want you to do that."

"Why not? Did I do something wrong?"

Before I could blink Eric had me pinned to the bed and was pressing against me in all of the right places leaving me even more confused and aroused. "Sookie, I want you so badly right now that every part of me aches. It is taking all of the control I have to not fuck you into oblivion right now and that is not how I want our first time together to be. I don't want our first time to be a rushed fuck in my hotel room, I want you to have the most incredible experience where I make you feel so good and I make you keep coming until you are begging me to stop."

My body was trembling below him and the juices were running rampant between my legs. "Oh."

"That's all you have to say?"

"Yep."

He smiled down at me and I couldn't help but smile back up at him. "Well, since we both agree to wait on the good stuff, how about some cuddling and kissing before I die for the day?"

"Okay." And that's just what we did.