Her words had far more of an impact than he ever could have imagined. She looked up into his face and he actually flinched when the words escaped her lips. If he was breathing all of the air would have made a whooshing sound right out of him. In appearance it looked as though it hurt him, and this caused her to take a step back from their embrace and question what had just happened.
"Eric...I'm sorry...I thought" her voice broke because she was about to cry. He quickly realized that he was standing there, naked, and stunned. He also realized that this may not have been the reaction that was customary in the "I love you too" department. The fact that his body ached at the sound of those words were more than he was able to handle. He had heard hundreds, if not thousands of fang bangers tell him that they loved him. Christ, he and Pam had a contest one night at the bar to see how many of the vermin would actually declare their love to them in order to be bitten. But this, this was different. This was Sookie, this was real, this was...amazing.
"Please" He cut her off before she could say another word. "Please, whatever you do, please do not say you are sorry. Your words, Sookie...I , I am honored and I am humbled that you have chosen to love me." He took his hand and he placed it on her chest, he felt her heart racing.
"But you look sad, you look like you are upset. If you didn't mean for me to hear you say it, it's fine, we can just...forget the whole thing ever happened, right? Maybe?" He felt how tense, how nervous, how anxious she was. She really believed that she was not meant to hear his declaration the night before. "Umm, Eric, this may be a bad time to tell you this. But, since you are standing in the middle of my living room stark naked....Amelia will be walking in soon." She was starting to get waves of her brain activity and it was a good thing, it kind of added a little humor to this very heavy moment.
He looked at her, he raised her hands to his lips and he kissed them softly.
"Do not hesitate, we need to finish this, now." She could feel the urgency in his words. She hadn't even looked away from him and he had picked up all of his clothes and disappeared into her bedroom. She let out a heavy sigh, she hated being told what to do. She stomped her way to the bedroom.
As she opened the door he immediately grabbed her by the wrist and swung her around so she was facing away from him. He had only put his pants back on so she could feel the cool of his bare, white chest. He leaned down and rubbed his face on the curve of her shoulder blade. He let his lips drag across her neck, the feel of his soft hair on her skin was heavenly.
"Now hear this, remember this...always. I have been walking on this earth for centuries. I have heard many things in my existence, I have learned many languages, I have practiced many traditions and customs. In all this time I have never found a love, my kjaerlighet, my die Liebe, amour, liefde, rakkaus, amor, karlek" She listened as he said the word love in all of these foreign languages. The perfect dialect, the perfect pronunciation, at least it sounded that way to her. It made her heart race to think of the world he has seen, the world he has known. "Sookie, my reaction was not because I was upset and did not want you to hear me last night. My reaction was because I had forgotten what it feels like, to have someone say they love you...and mean it. My life is about getting people to serve me, sometimes they want to, sometimes they don't. But you...you do not do anything you do not want to do. You chose to love me, I will be forever grateful" He was still resting his head on her shoulder and whispering this into her ear. Her eyes were closed tightly so she could take all of his words in and block anything she was picking up from Amelia's pending arrival. He grabbed her by the waist and turned her to face him. "I love you", he kissed her forehead. "I love you," he kissed her eyes. "I love you", he kissed her nose. "I...Love...You" He kissed her lips.
He picked her up and passionately kissed her. She wrapped her legs around his waist and locked them behind his back. He was holding her neck with one arm and the other was cupped under her butt, rubbing that in the most glorious way. She grabbed a fistful of hair and pulled his head away from her. "Well...why didn't you just say that in the first place." She teased him and gave him a look as if she was saying, "you big, stupid, viking."
In turn he let out a rumbling Eric laugh and threw her on top of her mattress, he pounced on her the minute she hit the bed. He grabbed her by the side of the rib cage and dug his fingers in, mercilessly tickling her. Her laughter filled the entire house and he just looked at her as she gasped for breath under his fingers. She stared up at him as she begged him to stop, her laughter, he could never get tired of that sound. She reached up and touched a lock of his hair that was dangling in front of his face. She tucked it neatly behind his ear, "I love you, too."
He laid over the top of her and wrapped his entire body around her. All there was in the room was the sound of her beating heart, and the feeling of pure, raw, love. They could both feel it, holding each other, laying as one person, unconditional love...the only kind to give.
She began to rub her fingers over his chest, slowly and tenderly. His body tensed, and then relaxed into the sensation. She moved her head down and rubbed her cheek against his cool skin. She drew imaginary lines on his skin with her fingers and would trace them with her tongue. He growled her name when she neared his nipples. They knew each other so well, it was as though no time had past, as though they had never spent a night away from one another. He rubbed her hair and twisted her pale hair through his fingers.
She began to unbutton his pants and slide them off of his hips, he was enjoying being touched, being loved. She slid her hands inside the waistline and down the front of the zipper, making sure to wrap her fingers around his sizable..attributes. He had no need to breath, but he was panting. Off came the pants and his silk boxers were barely able to contain his readiness. She thought for a minute about ripping those from his body, just as he had done to her latest pair of underwear, but that could end badly, especially if they didn't rip that easily. Instead she rubbed the silk over his body for a minute, and then disposed of them to the floor as well.
As she dropped her head to his lap he began to work her out of her pants. She kissed him everywhere as he watched her, his eyes unable to blink, unable to look away. He had managed to get her out of her work pants without interrupting her current course of action. She happily pulled her shirt off for him. He was fixed on her movement, her willingness to make him happy. As her rhythm picked up he could feel his pleasure rise, but then a noise. She jerked her head up like she was a kid in high school.
"Shit, Amelia's back" She looked like she has just been caught making out on the couch by her parents.
He sat up on on his elbow and looked at her, but his look was anything but irritated, or unsatisfied. It was a look like pure...entertainment. "Oh, lover...do not think your witch roommate is going to stop our pleasure." He grinned, winked, and grabbed her. He had her pressed against the bed with his body positioned directly on top of her.
"Eric, she'll hear us. What are you doing... don't you even think about it" She was secretly just as turned on as he was at the idea of Amelia hearing them. She was giggling and making her best effort to shoo him away from her.
"Look at me lover, this will be fun", and he grabbed her legs and pushed into her. She dug her fingers into his back and bit down on his shoulder in order to not scream. When he felt her teeth hit his skin he moaned a guttural, animalistic noise. He pounded into her fast and hard. She moaned into his body as she tried to muffle the sound of her complete pleasure. He picked her up and wrapped her legs around him, never even removing himself from inside of her. He pushed her up against the bedroom wall and she made a thud as she landed. He smiled at her.
"Sookie, you OK in there? Eric's here right, I see his car. He didn't like, fly away or anything."
He was thrusting into her like he was going for a world record in speed screwing. "Oh...Um...Yup....I'm...Oh...fine...Oh....God...No worries" She managed to try and sound somewhat, coherent. She grabbed her viking by the ass and begged him to release her pleasure. Her body was pressed against the wall keeping them balanced, he was thrusting his hips perfectly and at the perfect angle to hit her just the right way. She threw her head back and he grabbed her hair as it trailed down her back, further exposing her bare neck to him. He kissed her neck, sucked , dragged his fangs across the delicate, paper thin skin. She had expected him to bite, instead he lingered there until he felt the crest of her orgasm. As she started to jerk he bent down and sank his fangs into her breast. He drank, hard, strong pulls. She could feel the blood coming out of her body and flow into his mouth. She managed to keep the sound of her orgasm down, took all she had, but she did it. He on the other hand, came just as he bit, as soon as the blood started to flow he let out a moan that could only mean one thing. It was loud, it was hot, it was a dead give away.
The whole thing lasted about five minutes, but five minutes well spent. They stayed there, pressed up against the wall, her legs wrapped around his waist. She needed the extra time so she could get the feeling to return to her legs. She thought for sure that if he lowered her to the floor now her knee's would give out. He picked his head up from her breast after he was done drinking and gazed at her satisfied beauty. She had a slight glow of sweat on her brow, and she had the look of a woman that was truly content. He saw that a few strands of her blond locks were stuck to her face because of the glistening sweat, he pulled them away and tucked them gently behind her ears. "You are a beautiful woman. I love you. Please, come with me tonight. We can not be alone here, we can not have the privacy that we require. Come to my house for the night, you are not working tomorrow? There is nothing keeping you here tonight." He slowly lowered her to the ground, placing her down with not even a sound. She knew exactly what he was trying to get across when he said privacy.
She took a couple of minutes to think about, he was right, she was not working tomorrow. After the incident earlier at Merlotte's she would probably call Sam and ask for the day after tomorrow off as well. What could it hurt? They still had several things to discuss, it would be better to be alone. She looked up into his huge, blue eyes, "OK, I'll go with you. But, we still have some things to talk about Eric. I'm not going with you just so we can have sex all over the place and forget about all of the other issues we have, you hear me?" Her eyes pierced his, making sure he knew she was serious.
"Absolutely lover, talk first, love later...and later...and later" His voice trailed off as he scanned her body up and down.
"Stop that" She scolded his behavior. "Please, throw me my shirt. We need to get dressed if we're leaving." They quickly dressed and emerged from the bedroom to a gawking Amelia.
"Hey you two. Good to see you Eric, you look...well." She looked Eric up and down like he was modeling a brand new outfit just for her. "Sookie, you OK after everything that went down tonight? Sam is just beside himself. You should have heard him lay into those Fellowship guys. Arlene just stood there like she forgot how to talk. Imagine, her not being able to talk." She was trying to avoid the fact that she knew full well that she had just heard them having fantastic sex.
"I'm fine Amelia. Really, I'm just fine now." She wrapped her arms around Eric's waist out of need, she hadn't even realized she had done it. He bent down and kissed the top of her head, it was so comfortable, protective, loving. Amelia took in this simple exchange between them and smiled.
"Amelia, I'm going to stay at Eric's tonight. You got everything here under control, right?" Her eyes looked at Amelia's. Even if Amelia didn't have everything under control, her eyes were telling her that she had best agree.
"Oh, absolutely. I'm great here. You get going, I'll call if I need anything." She smiled and nodded her head.
She walked over and gave her a hug goodbye. She whispered a thank you in her ear and collected some things she thought she would need for the overnight at Eric's.