Hello there my lovelies :) Here's another chapter for you since you've been asking for more! I'm thrilled with the response you're giving me and you haven't failed to make me smile with your kind words. We're moving into the storyline of the TV series now as we've seen the start of Alexie's and Eric's relationship. It'll grow from a sexual and dominate one to a loving and caring one over the next few chapters so I hope you're looking forward to that. Enjoy! :)

Disclaimer: See chapters 1-3

I felt myself purr as Eric gently ran his fingers along the curve of my body. We both lay completely naked on his bed. I had been surprised when he insisted on us coming back to his place but agreed nonetheless. His apartment was everything you would expect a 'bachelors' to be: an open living space with an adjoining kitchen (why he would need one I do not know), an impressive size TV (he probably doesn't even know how to use it) and two closed off bedrooms with ensuits big enough to hold both a bath tub and a shower. The other room was obviously Pam's or just her closet. The whole place had blacked out blinds, which meant that if Eric did rise before the sun, he wasn't confined to one space.

"Are you a natural blonde?" Eric twirled a strand of my hair around his fingers and watched as it curled back once he had let go. It was close to 3am and we had spent the better part of the hour talking; something I hadn't expected. After our very rough and very loud session in his office, he bought me back to his so we couldn't be disturbed. He assured me that my car would be waiting for me outside his apartment building when I wanted to leave but secretly I hoped that it wasn't: I wanted to stay for as long as possible. Round 2 had started the instant we walked through his door, which was why we were now laying on his bed.

"Why? You think I have a bad dye job?" Eric smirked then shuffled himself closer to me. "Yes it's natural. It's lightened naturally over the years due to the sun but I've never dyed it. I've never felt the need to. My mother once hinted at me to go brown once but I think that was her way of telling me that she wanted me to look more like her than her sister."

He seemed satisfied with my answer ad went back to running his finger along my body. He stopped suddenly when he reached my left shoulder, "What's this?" I turned my head round and saw that he was referring to the small dove branded into my skin.

"I'm not too sure, Aphrodite gave it to about a thousand years ago. The dove is one of her symbols but I have no idea what it means. All she said was "you'll understand when the time is right." I guess that time hasn't come yet." I ran my palm down Eric's chest, enjoying the feel of his hard pecks and abs. he must have been in amazing shape when he was still human, it's the only explanation for such a body. "So what about you Viking, have any marks you can't explain?"

"None that I know of but speaking of marks, you haven't got any on your neck." His hand brushed my neck where he had bitten me in his office and I smiled. "I'm immortal remember? I heal fast, but the bigger the wound the longer it takes to heal. I remember when I got shot with an arrow during Tudor England. That bitch took over a week to heal." Eric smirked at he as he flipped me over onto my back and blocked me in with his arms. He wasn't quite lying on top of but he was close enough so I could feel his presence.

"I take that to mean that I can bite you again. Not only did it arouse you even more, you are by far the most exquisite thing I have ever tasted. So rich and pure and yet so satisfying." I pushed myself up and bit down on my bottom lip. He made his infamous growling noise but it was short lived. Just as he pulled away, my phone rang for the third time in the past 20 minutes. He reached over for it, about to silence it again but I grabbed his hand.

"Let me answer it. Its obviously important and the sooner I answer it, the sooner we can continue." Eric handed me my phone then rested his body on mine. He started placing small butterfly kisses along my stomach and up towards my boobs. I tried to push his head away but he was determined. "Sookie, this isn't a good time right now, can I call you back?"

I instantly sat up when I heard her crying and held my hand up to Eric. He stopped what he was doing and stayed very still. I hung up the phone a few moments later and shot out of bed. "What's wrong? Has something happened?" I opened the draw closest to me and sighed in relief when I saw several of Eric's tops folded in there. I grabbed one and threw on as I stepped into my heels.

"I'm sorry Erastís Mou, but I have to go. Sookie's brother is in trouble and they need me." Eric shot out of bed and vamped over to me. He held my face in his hands and placed a soft kiss to my forehead.

"Don't leave me waiting too long lover." I smiled at him then rushed out the door.

"Where is he Detective Bellefleur? I have been standing here for 3 hours yet and I've yet to see Jason! If you're denying him access to a lawyer then I will sue you so hard, you wont have time to brace yourself!"

I was not a force to be reckoned with at this moment in time. I had been up all night calming Sookie down and reassuring her that I was going to fix this. She was a complete wreck when I arrived back home. All she had told me was that Jason had been arrested for murder. Once I got her to calm down a little, she explained that Dawn Green, a girl she worked with, had been found strangled in her bedroom. Maudette Pickens had been found in the same way a last month but I knew there were no leads.

Sookie had explained that they arrested Jason on his return to Dawn's house last night after an argument they had. I knew he had been seeing her but that was only because of her hostile attitude towards me; it wasn't common knowledge until now.

"You will not Alexandra because you are not Mr. Stackhouse's lawyer. One has been appointed to him and I'm that lawyer." I gritted my teeth and turned to face Portia Bellefleur standing there with her high waisted, wide leg black trouser suit. She had a smug look on her face and I couldn't wait to wipe it off. This whole 'alpha female' battle she was insisting on fighting was going to end today.

"Oh? Is that so? Because I always thought that the state appointed a lawyer if the client could not afford one and since my pro-bono case for the month is this one, Jason does not need to pay me for my services. Secondly, I know for a fact that he has been denied his one phone call so I'm intrigued to know how you knew he was arrested and knew to come down here. I live with his sister who only knew of his arrest because Dawn's neighbour, Arlene Fowler, saw Jason's arrest and called Sookie. And lastly, you have a conflict of interest. Your brother is the arresting officer and we both know that you cannot represent Jason. Now, if you let me see my client now, I will forget all about your small mistakes. Understood?"

Both Portia and Detective Bellefleur looked at me like I had punched them both in the gut. Detective Bellefleur quickly composed himself and led me into the Sheriff's department and opened a door which revealed Jason sitting down looking a bit worse for wear.

"Alexia? What are you doing here?" I gave Jason an encouraging smile then turned to face Andy. "I'd like a few moments alone with my client. After that you are welcome to continue your interrogation and after I expect you to either arrest him or release him." I closed the door before he could answer then pulled a chair up next to Jason. I threw my arms around him and he melted into me. He was obviously distraught.

"You need to tell me everything Jason. I can't help you unless I know all the facts. You're facing a double homicide here and I'm gonna try my best to help you. Take a deep breath and start from the beginning."

Jason dove into the story of how he had a few run ins with Maudette and was with her on the night she was murdered. He told me that she was a 'fangbanger' and had filmed herself and another vampire having sex which led to them having rough sex. He swore that when he left her that night she had been fine. He then started a sexual relationship with Dawn and it was going great until he noticed she had fang bites on her. They started arguing and she fired her gun at him which caused him to leave.

"I drove straight to Merlotte's and stayed put until they closed. If you ask either Tara or Sam they'd tell you too. I then drove back to Dawn's to apologise when I found her dead on her bed. I dialed 911 and the next thing I knew, I was being hurled into this room. You have to believe me Alexie. I didn't do it."

The sheriff's department released Jason not long after our chat. The only link they had was that Jason had sex with both the victims and that wasn't enough to charge him with murder. I had been sitting at the kitchen table for the past 3 hours going over the police report. I managed to grab the copy that they were intended to file away on my way out with Jason. If I was going to help clear his name, then I needed to know what they knew. They had two sworn statements from both Tara and Sam that Jason was indeed at Merlotte's but there is a 20 minute window from Jason leaving the bar and placing his 911 call. I knew more than anyone that 20 minutes was long enough but without the official time of death, its difficult to say if it was indeed a window or not.

"Penny for your thoughts?" I jumped out of my skin when I heard Eric's voice. I looked over and he was standing on the back porch. He had on his usual black jeans and boots but what surprised me was that he had on a grey v-neck t-shirt as opposed to his usual black wife beater. He looked as handsome as ever and it bought a smile to my face. I had been so caught up with the case that I had forgotten that I left him in the middle of the night.

"I should warn you now that I cannot me held responsible for my actions when I am jumped. Come in. It's just me tonight. Sookie's at Bill like she is most nights and I could do with the company." Eric walked in and sat down next to me. He leaned over and picked up the police report for Dawn.

"I didn't take you as the jealous type. If you wanted to kill every girl that I have fed on whilst I fucked them then you should have said so. It would take a while but I would get an enjoyment out of it. I like the affect I have on you." Eric tucked a strand of my hair behind my ear and ran the back of his palm along my cheek. I closed my eyes and could feel myself melt into his touch. How would have known that a thousand year old Viking vampire could be affectionate? It was then that his words registered in my mind.

"You knew her? How?" I turned to face Eric and pulled one leg up on my hair and wrapped my arms around it. "She's been at Fangtasia a few times. She presented herself to me and I was hungry, which of course meant I was horny so I fed on her. I've seen her since but each time she was with a different vampire." I snatched Dawn's report out of his hand and handed him Maudette's.

"What about her? Have you seen her before?" Eric raised an eyebrow then handed the report back to me. "Once. She presented herself to me but I sent her away after I smelt her desperation. I assume she found someone else to feed on her. Are you suggesting that the murderer is someone from my club?"

I had a quick read over Maudette's autotypy report but saw nothing out of the ordinary. Her time of death was between 3am and 4am: plenty of time for her to get back from Shreveport. "No, I don't think it was a vampire. But I do think I have found another link between the two of them besides Sookie's brother."

"Of course it wasn't a vampire. A vampire would have drained them to death not strangle them. Although I don't understand why someone would want to strangle them. There are much more affective ways to kill someone."

"They're probably an amateur. Strangulation isn't a sure way to kill someone. A person can always slow their heart down to make it seem like they were dead. I've done it many times in the past to get out of sticky situations. I tend to stick to my pair of bladed sai. After 3000 years, I have no time for anything else other than a sure death."

I scanned through both of their reports again to make sure I hadn't missed anything before I stuffed all the pieces of paper in the folder and shut it. I got up and climbed into Eric's lap where he wrapped his arms around me.

"Your weapon of choice is a pair of sai? I expected it to be a sword." Eric's comment put a stop to the kisses I was planting on his neck. I looked up at him and smiled. "I may be 3000 year old warrior but I know that carrying a sword around these days isn't something that doesn't raise suspicion. Ares made them for me at the turn of the industrial revolution in England where I was living at the time. They're easier to hide and much more affective. And they aren't an ordinary pair; they adjust depending on my opponent. For example, if I plunged on of them into the heart of a vampire, the core would become wooden causing him, or her, to meet the true death."

Eric didn't say anything. Instead he picked me up and slung me over his shoulder like he did the night before.

"Eric! Put me down you stupid Viking!"

"Now why would I do that? I left Pam in charge of the club tonight and she wouldn't be happy if she found out that I came here and didn't have my way with you. Now, I'm going to take you up to your room and have my way with you. If your bed happens to break, or your door, during the process then I will replace it. Understood?"

"Just don't rip my clothes off. At this rate I'll have none left." If this was how Eric wanted to spend our nights then I was all up for it. Who needs sleep when you're immortal right?

Oh I wish for the day that Eric throws me over his shoulder like that haha
For future reference, Erastís Mou (εραστής μου) means my lover in Greek. When I add Greek into the story, I'll be writing it in it's phonetic spelling otherwise most of you may not be able to read it and I will let you know what it means at the end of the chapter
Also, if you don't know what a pair of sai are then google it. They're a big part of Alexia's future fight scenes so make sure you know what they are :)

Don't forget to review and let me know what you think :)

Jem x