The characters are not mine, they belong to Charlaine Harris.

Warning: Mature Content

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Sookie's POV

The garage door is opening, I couldn't even tell you what color that door was, let alone what color the house is. I can tell you exactly what color his eyes are, the exact shade of his hair, the way his skin felt under my hands, the way his lips tasted, the way my body feels as his hands touch me. I can't believe it he said it! Sheriff of Area 5, Eric Northman said "Sookie you are mine".

Eric has turned the engine off and he turns to me, I can feel his passion, his lust, and his love through the bond. His hands are everywhere, rolling my nipples between his fingers, cupping by butt, tugging my hair, stoking my face. I reach down and open his jeans, his gracious plenty leaps out into my waiting hand and I begin to stroke him, up and down, slowly, almost painful slowly. I want him, I need him, I want to please him. I feel the tension building in his body, when he gasps "Lover, if you keep that up much longer and I will take you right here in the car. Let us go inside."

I pull back and barely nod my head. Eric has me out of the car and into his arms before I can blink. I am whisked through a kitchen, great-room, and up a set of stairs, and into a plain bedroom. Eric moves a picture to the side hits a few buttons and places his palm against the screen. He hits a few more buttons and places my hand against the screen. "The locks in the house will work for you now. Lover, no one, not even Pam has access to my day chamber, but you and I." I am touched, I understand the trust that he is placing in me by telling me where he sleeps during the day. "If you want to come or go from our" Did he just say "our", OMG! "day chamber or from the house you press the green button and place your right palm on the screen. Would you like to try it?"

I don't answer, I don't trust my voice. I press just the green button and place my palm on the screen. A book case slides to the left and I see stairs going down. Eric flips on the light and carries me down the stairs. There is a steal door at the bottom of the stairs, I hit the green button, place my palm on the screen and we enter a hallway, which ends in another steal door. When this door opens I see the perfect plantation style bedroom. I look questioningly in to Eric's eyes and he replies "Just like Rehet and Scarlett, right?" How I love this man, I wonder if he has forgotten anything I have ever said to him.

Eric lays me gently on the bed and begins to slowly undress me, there is not much there to begin with, just shoes, my dress, and a thong. Once Eric has removed every stitch of my clothing he removes his own and lays next to me. I lay there staring into his eyes for what seems like an eternity. The bond is fully open and our emotions are flowing back and forth, each time we feel the same emotion at the same time that emotion is enhanced and increased. I could lay here just like this for the rest of my life. It feelings like we are making love with our minds.

"Lover," His voice is choked with emotion, his eyes are glowing, "I need you, I want you, I cannot live without you. Please stay with me forever, I ... I do not want to live another lonely night without you. Sookie Stackhouse you are my Valkyrie, my angel, my life. I love you." Red tears are flowing down his face.

I move forward and begin to kiss away his tears, they taste of his blood, and cause instant warmth to flood through my body. It seems that I have acquired a taste for his blood, for a split second I panic. What does this mean? Have I already started to turn? Will the next drop be the one? I feel his confusion and then pain wash over me, he has felt my panic. It is in that second I have my second epiphany (again thanks to the word of the day calendar) I don't care, I would rather become a vampire than cause this perfect creature one second of pain.

"Eric, I am yours and you are mine. I am not going anywhere, There are lots of things that we will need to talk about, like living arrangements, but that is not for tonight. We can hammer out those details tomorrow night." I can tell, no I can feel his, disappointment and his sadness, both emotions are painfully strong. He has misunderstood my panic and thinks that I am pushing him away again, just like the night his memories returned and I refused to talk to him about it. My God I was cruel to him that night, I have to make him understand, I have to let him know that I love him and I am not going anywhere. I am his .... forever.

"Eric, look at me." He shakes his head and refuses to meet my eyes, my God is it possible that he is more vulnerable that I am right now? I place my hands on the side of his face and he lets me move his head until we are looking in to each other's eyes.

"Baby," I have not called him baby since he stayed at my house, never since he regained his memory. "I love you and not another day is going to go by that I do not wake up beside you and fall asleep in your arms. I love you Eric, but I live in Bon Temps and you live in Shreveport." I feel his hope fading and his disappointment mounting again. "I want to split our time between the two until we can decide together where we want to live." I feel his hope building again. "Eric, if we decide that we are going to live at your house...."

He cuts me off and tells me fiercely "OUR house."

"Okay, if we decide that we are going to live in our house in Shreveport, rather than our house in Bon Temps..."

I can feel and see his surprise, and then I am overwhelmed by wave after wave of love. I have called my house, my gran's house, our house, only Eric could understand the significances of that tiny little word "our" when it comes to that house. I refused to share it with anyone but him until this point, not even my own brother.

"... the property will have to be sold or rented, there are loose ends to tie up. I don't want baggage involved in our time together tonight and Eric, where we live is baggage. Hell, I don't care if we live in a crypt as long as we are together. Right now I need you ... I need you to claim me. It is at this second I feel it, he finally knows, he has finally accepted it, I love him and he can love me back. I will never run away again, I am truly his. I feel the acceptance wash over him, mirroring the feelings I had experienced earlier when I realized that he loved me.

With vampire speed he is lying beside me, he pulls me to him crushing my lips with the deepest most passionate kiss I have ever experienced. I feel my lust, I feel his lust, and the two merge, we are not two, we are one. I respond instinctively (thank you word of the day calendar), searching for his tongue with my own. I feel his hands move to my breasts, kneading and massaging. His touch is electric, everywhere he touches me tingles. I break the kiss and begin to flick my tongue along the vein in his neck. I reach my hand between us and grip his hardness, I can barley close my fingers around him. My God I had forgotten how big he really is. My hand is slowly squeezing and releasing his perfect moving up and down ever so slightly. He moans into my hair and begins to roll my nipple between his fingers, I am on fire. His other hand is sliding ever so slowly down my stomach, tracing an intricate pattern as he goes.

ERIC'S POV

Blessed Freya I love this woman! She has set my cold blood on fire, her touch is electrifying. She is being so brazen gripping my gracious plenty in her soft little hand, squeezing and releasing. I cannot wait until I feel other parts of her gripping me. I roll her hard nipple between my fingers as my other hand traces the words "Jag älskar dig" over and over down her perfect stomach eliciting a moan from her beautiful lips. I love the way she is caressing the vein in my neck. I briefly envision her biting and taking my blood. My cock hardens even more, I feel like I am going to cum in her hand if I am not careful. I can barely control my desire for her, it takes every ounce of self control I can muster to not mount her right now.

I pull back ever to slightly and bend so that I can take her breasts in to my mouth. I start so slowly, I lick her beautiful perfect nipple and then blow, I watch as her nipple hardens and goose bumps (her word) breakout of the rest of her breast. She is gasping and eliciting soft moans, her hand has never stopped massaging my cock, her tempo is increasing.

I flick my tongue across her nipple in time with her strokes. When her tempo increases again I take her breast in to my mouth and begin to suck. My hand has reach the soft curls of her mound, and she bucks her hips up, urgently seeking and wanting, as she breathlessly gasps "Eric ... I need you .. please ... take me now!"

I can't wait a second longer. I roll her on to her back, she has released my cock and her hands have begun to roam over my body, increasing the fire I feel inside. I position myself at her entrance, she is so warm and so wet. I steady myself and press forward slowly, I don't want to hurt her. The sensations running through my body are magnified by the bond to the point that I have to concentrate on not releasing my seed into her before I have even entered her fully.

When I have steadied myself I began to kiss and nibble her neck. Her beautiful face is flushed, she is breathing hard, I can hear the pounding of her heart. I could stay like this forever. I cannot believe that a few short hours ago I was convinced that I would be able to send her away, how could I have been so stupid?

Then without warning, my Lover, growls, I have never heard her make a sound like that before and she slams her hips upward, taking all of me in to her hot, wet core, all the way to the hilt. When my memories came back I remember fitting inside of her perfectly, but I was sure that it was just an embellishment I had added. In well over a thousand years I have only know a handful of woman that could take all of me.

I growl too, her animalistic desire is overwhelming, the scent of her arousal is overwhelming, the feel of her body is overwhelming. My cock is throbbing and pulsing. I don't hold back any longer, I begin to rock my hips thrusting into her harder and harder.

"Eric! Yes ... oh yes ... my God I have needed you." I love the way my name sounds on her lips. I trust forward harder and faster. I can feel her release building.

Her hot tunnel is gripping me tighter and tighter and her mouth has found my neck again. A moan escapes my lips as I reach between us and massage her breast, paying special attention to her nipple, all the while I continue to thrust deeply into her, never losing the rhythm our bodies have created.

The bond is open so fully I can feel everything that she can feel and for for a split second it is as if I can feel her heart beating inside my chest. I feel her need to breathe. It is as if her needs have become my own. I gasp, breathing in deeply because I need to for the first time in over a millennium.

Sookie's POV

I feel his release building, he is getting harder, thicker, and longer, if that is even possible. The sensations flowing through my body are so intense, they are almost painful, but I still want more. I want to feel him release inside of me. I want to feel his release through the bond.

I continue to look in to his eyes as he thrusts deeply into my depths. Wave after wave of pleasure is rolling back and forth through the bond, as unrelenting as the tide. I need it, I need his release. I need it now. I need his release so that I can feel my own. I know what will push him over the edge.

"Eric" I gasp, speaking is harder than I thought it would be, I manage to pant "please ... now ... I need it ... take all of me."

His eyes widen, he understands. His thrusts are coming harder and faster as he starts nuzzling my neck where it meets my shoulder, flicking his tongue faster and faster against my subclavian artery. I wonder briefly how I know that name before the thought is washed way as he thrusts into my with his fangs at the same time he thrusts forward burying his length to the hilt inside of me. I grind against him, I cannot get close enough.

I feel something in the pit of my stomach that I have never felt before. I am so caught up in the moment that I don't think, I need to take all of him into me, I just react. I lean forward so slightly and sink my teeth in to his shoulder, drawing deeply. His blood is as sweet as nectar, cold, and perfect. I take a second draw as he releases my shoulder and roars "Min älskare! Mitt liv! Ta mig till dig!"

I can feel it coming through the bond, like the roaring of a tornado in the distance. I take one last deep draw on his shoulder and raise my face to his. Our eyes lock, he leans in to kiss me, the taste of our blood mingled together is heaven. I feel his body grow tense, he jerks inside of me and his length spasms, pouring his release into me at the exact second my walls begin to tighten and clench with my release, squeezing and pumping, greedily pulling each precious drop from his body.

We call out to each other "Du är min för evigt!" and respond in unison "Jag är din för evigt!"

ERIC'S POV

When did Sookie learn Swedish? I think as I collapse on top of her. The thought escapes me when I realize that I am short of breath, I leap from the bed. Vampires do not breathe, we cannot be short of breath. I look in the mirror, my knees feel weak, I have not looked upon the face that is reflecting back since before I was made vampire. What is even more disturbing is that I have fang marks on my shoulder right as it meets my neck.

"Sookie!" Shock, panic, and confusion flow through the bond before I can control my emotions.

"What, is it Eric? What's wrong?" I can feel her concern through the bond as she stands next to me, I never saw her move. She gazes into the mirror, shock and confusion reverberates through the bond, she is not panicking, which I find very interesting. She does not have fang marks, her skin is like alabaster, perfect in every way, her eyes are glowing, and her fangs are extended. I have never seen a more beautiful vampire in all my life.

We stand there in silence gazing into the mirror. I reach down and take her hand, it is so cold. I feel my breathing begin to slow, my color is fading, and the fang marks are healing fast. I watch as her color returns and her fangs retreat. I feel the heat flow from my body into hers through the bond. We continue to stand there in silence, holding hands, even after we have returned to ourselves.

Since I have had Sookie in my life I have thought many times about what it would be like to have been her human husband. The pleasure of waking next to her in the morning light, the sight of the sunlight glistening on her skin as I make lover to her during the heat of the day, but more than those things I think of what it would be like to truly fill her with my seed. I think of the way her body would change, becoming round and ripe. I push the thoughts away. It is not helpful to dwell on impossibilities.

"Eric, what just happened?"

"I do not know."

"Baby, you okay?"

"Yes and no. I am happy you are here, I am happy that we are together now, but I just looked upon a face that I never believed I would ever see again. I looked upon someone I believed no longer existed. Then within seconds I look upon my lover and the only thing that I have ever wanted more than her .... is ..." I cannot say it out loud, I have always wanted her to become one of us, immortal, I do not want to have to watch her die. I burst out "You were vampire and you were not scared or angry!"

"Eric if I become vampire on accident because we have finally exchanged too much blood I'm not going to be angry with you or scared. I have chosen to be with you and I have chosen to exchange blood with you. I am not saying that I am ready to be turned but if it happens on accident, it happens. Eric, you were human for a moment. My God you were beautiful."

"Beautiful Sookie? Men are not beautiful. Men are strong and handsome, but not beautiful." I chuckle at her, I am pleased that she found my human form attractive. I will be dreaming about her in her vampire form for a long time to come. I hand her a robe, it is thick, fluffy, and white, when we were in Rhodes she mentioned that she loved the hotel robes. This one is much nicer, I purchased it for her the night after I took her to meet her Nail.

"Let me show you the rest of the house Lover. It is getting very close to dawn, but we still have a little time. I was hoping that you would stay here tomorrow." I wait, if I were still breathing I would be holding my breath. I want her to agree to stay so badly, especially after what just happened.

"I will be here when you awaken Baby."

"Sookie, more than that, you were vampire for a few minutes. While I am sure that you are not endangered by the sun in your current form, I do not know what caused the transformation and I do not know if and when it will happen again. Please do not go out into the sun tomorrow, you can keep the windows open in the house if you really want to but I would feel safer if you would close the light proof shutters. I will not be able to help you if something happens and if you transform during the day you will fall asleep and ..." I do not want to think about what could happen. I try to shut off the image of her transforming, falling into her day sleep, burning and then transforming back only to die. I can not live without her.

Sookie's POV

"Okay, Eric, I will keep the shutters closed if that will make you feel better but I think you are being a silly goose."

He smiles and his happiness fills the bond. I don't understand how his happiness has become one of my top priorities in such a short time. I am filled with regret when I think of all of the time I wasted being the most pigheaded, obstinate, egotistical, narcissistic, masochist on the face of the Earth.

"Regret Lover?" I am pleased that he is no longer panicking when my emotions are not of the most pleasant in nature.

"Yes, regret. I wasted so much time! I was pigheaded, obstinate, egotistical ..."

"Lover, we were both are all of those things. We both wasted time, please do not waste any of your time on regret. Neither one of us can go back and fix things, we can only move forward."

Eric uses the palm reader to get us out of the day chamber "Tomorrow when you waken please feel free to explore the house, but tonight I want to show you the main level, and get you situated."

When we enter the kitchen he begins opening cabinets and I realize that everything is organized exactly as my kitchen in Bon Temps. "Eric, what do you do with all of this food?"

"I put some in a box every night before I leave for Fantasia and drop it off at a shelter for woman and children. They give me a tax credit form. I have human staff that come during the day, but they don't know that I'm vampire. It is safer that way." He is being so open, just like he was when he stayed with me, I am so happy I could cry.

"Please don't cry lover, I know you are happy, but your tears still bother me." My God I love this man with every ounce of my being.

"We have about an hour and a half before dawn and we have a fireplace at this house too." Eric is smirking at me and raising his eyebrow, right now he is every bit Sheriff of Area 5, Viking Lord of Sex.

I feel my body react, instantly a flush begins that settles in to warm flood between my legs. I lean forward to kiss him when I here a resounding POP, my great grandfather has chosen to visit at the most inopportune time. Before I know what is happening, Eric has moved between us and is crouching in a fighting stance.

"Calm down Viking I don't want to have to hurt you."

"What is the meaning of this Niall? How have you found my nest?" I can feel Eric's tension flowing through the bond. I push my own tension away and try to send calm to him.

"Sookie has my blood flowing through her veins Eric, I can find her anywhere, much in the same way you can. I came because it is my understanding that Sookie was able to open your side of the bond. I had not realized that the she had progressed so quickly. I need to know if you have consummated your relationship with the bond open and more specifically if you exchanged blood."

What the hell? I have no intention of discussing my sexual proclivities (gotta love the word of the day) with my Fairy great grandfather. I am getting ready to let him know just how offended I am when I feel calm through the bond. Fine, Eric, I will try to keep my mouth shut, I send at him, the same way I would send to Barry, and I am rewarded with a flicker of a smile ghosting across his eyes, hmmmm interesting.

Eric responds in a voice as cold as ice, there was not even a hint of a smile in his eyes now, "While I find your question offensive Fae, I will assume that you are here with my bonded's best interests at heart, and for that reason and that reason alone I will indulge you. Yes we consummated our relationship, with the bond fully open, and yes we exchanged blood. Is there anything else you desire to know, maybe the positions we utilized during the consummation?"

"No Eric," my Niall replies with sarcasm "but I do want to know if there is anything else you feel you should tell me?"

I can feel Eric's agitation building. "Enough, Fae," he spits out the words like they are curse words. "I did not feel that I needed to tell you anything in the first place. Now, I want know why you have a sudden interest in my sex life and feeding habits."

"I have never cared about you or your kind Eiríkr of Northumbria." I have never heard anyone call Eric this name before. "I care about my great-granddaughter, it is she that has Brigant blood, Royal Fae blood, not you! Fae are not telepathic Eiríkr. Have you ever stopped to think what other blood flows in her veins or did you just stop when you got your fairy high on?"

I feel rage flow through the bond and for just an instant before Eric lunges for Naill, who instantly pops to the other side of the room.

"Stop it both of you! Grandfather stop goading Eric. Eric please do not try to kill Niall again." I don't know what else to say, maybe why can't you two just get along?

"I apoligize for upseting you Child. The bonding of my great granddaughter to a vampire has been difficult for me to accept. Vampires are as close to a natural enemy as we have." I never stopped to think about how odd it must be for a fairy and a vampire to be together until now. I am quite sure if it was not for my realationship with each of them individually they would have never found any reason to even speak, let alone work together.

Niall continued "I will ask again because you, Eric, must make this realization on your own or you will never believe what I have to say. Before you were turned, when you were Eiríkr you knew of beings that were telepathic did you not?"

"Yes but that blood was almost spent by my time."

"I don't understand, you knew of a ... race of telepaths?" I am confussed, why hasn't Eric told me of these people before?

"Not exactly, telepathy was one of their gifts, the most scared of them all. All of them were wand welders, some of them were adept in shamanism, prophecy, or sorcery. All of them could shift their shapes, and when they bonded with another being they could take on the attributes of that being." Eric answers softly. He has closed his side of the bond, I choose not to intrude.

I am so confused!

"Sookie," Niall begins to speak quietly "It was said that Thor's son Lóriði had children by a human, and that his descendants were the forefathers of the Norse Kings. It is also said that his descendants continued for seventeen generations, an unheard of amount of time in those days. But keep in mind during that time only the male descendants would have been counted. It is also said that many of the woman born of that line were Völva. When I was young and the blood was strong the woman were Völva at birth, by the time of Eiríkr the woman did not come in to their powers and become Völva until much later in life."

Eric has been so quite, I am almost startled when he speaks. "I was also told by my maker of another line. The Ancient Pythoness is supposed to have come from that line. It is said that the Greek line began when the God Appllo raped the Python, the earth dragon of Delphi."

"What are you saying Niall?"

"Sookie, ever since my son Fintan died I have been watching you. The moment I learned that you were telepathic I began to trace your family lineage. Your mother comes from a line of full shifters. She was your grandparents second child, so she did not inherit the power to shift. Were you aware of this?"

"No, she never mentioned it."

"I am not so sure that she knew, her parents and older brother died when she was very young. But it does explain why she was unable to resist your father's fairy blood and coveted him so. Do you know much about Adel's line?"

"No, not before they moved to Bon Temps a hundred or so years ago."

"Child, I was able to trace mother's side of her family line directly to the line of Lóriði. Adel's father's side of her family line traces directly to the line of the Phython. Sookie, the power you have received from any one of those blood lines by itself, Fae, shifter, Völva, or Pythia, alone, is minimal at best. But, together the mix of the blood lines along with the power of Eric's blood seems to have awakened things in you that I never imagined possible."

Eric speaks slowly and quietly, opening the bond bit by bit, I can feel his fear. "My mother was a Völva, Lóriði's blood flows in my veins as well. When ... when I was Eiríkr ... I had six children, only two of which lived. I lost track of their descendants many, many years ago ..."

"Eric, Sookie is not descendant from your line. The blood connection between your two lines to Lóriði was so diluted before your birth anyway that there is nothing for you to worry about."

I feel like laughing out loud, Eric was worried that I was his great, great, great, and then some granddaughter? The more I think about it the funnier I find the situation. I try to stifle it but I can't, laughter bursts from my chest. Neither Eric or Niall are amused, they are both scowling at me. I only laugh louder. Tears are rolling down my checks, my sides hurt, but I can't help it. Oh no I can't just be a weird human, I have to be a supe mutt.

When my laughter finally starts to slow, Eric says "Done yet Lover?" I can't speak, so I nod.

"What does this mean Niall?" Eric is not beating around any bushes, I can feel the anxiety flowing through the bond.

"I am not sure exactly. I do know that the two of you are bonded more than just by blood, you are bonded by your very souls. I have know that since the day I meet Sookie. You should have seen the look on her face when I offered to stake you." I never told Eric that Niall made that offer, I saw no reason to rub it in his face. I had expected Eric to be upset by Niall's causal death threat, but astonishingly the death threat seems to calm him.

"I understand your need to be private, I can appreciate that and it shows honor to my great granddauther. Nevertheless, you must be honest with me. When you were together earlier tonight did something unusual happen?"

Eric answers slowly and very quietly "Yes, it was as if I became human and Sookie became vampire. I felt my heart beat, I had to breathe and she pierced my shoulder with her fangs."

"Eric, did you receive any training from your mother?"

"Yes."

"Then you understand what is happening?"

"Yes."

"Okay this is just great, Eric knows what is happening and obviously so do you Niall. When the hell are the two of you going to fill me in?"

ERIC'S POV

I know that this is just going to be too much for her. I know that she is going to run as far as she can as fast as she can. Before tonight she was just a wierd human tonight she has lost alomost all of her humanity. Niall has made it sound as if she is some type of supernatual mut. I have to answer her. I have to calm her fears. I have to convince her to stay! I cannot, I will not be without her!

"Lover, a Völva's powers all come through the blood. Most Völvas are woman, but there were a few men. The strongest of the Völva receive their gifts through the blood at birth. The weaker of the Völva could not call forth the gifts from the blood within, the weaker Völva must add the blood from without. This means that they needed the blood that was spilt from another. The Völva also believed not only in bonding through blood but in the bonding of souls, one to another. I know little of the lore, most of the lore and the training of the Völva has been lost. I had just begun my training when I was turned. I said before, and I will say again, the blood was almost spent by my time, there were very few of us even then."

"Eric I am confused, what is Niall saying? I'm some kind of special supe mut?" I stifle a chuckle, I want to say yes you are my little mutt, but I am sure that will just piss her off right now.

"In a way Lover, yes, but more than that. Nail is saying that each blood line that has converged to create you was a line of power and that the combinations of those powers has awakened powers in you that have been lost for centuries. I was taught by my mother that sometimes when Völvas choose to be bonded to each other by blood there is a chance that their souls will also become bonded." I now understand why I have not been able to break the bond, I understand fully now why Sookie has haunted my nights and my days, she has taken my soul.

"Lover, the bonding of souls was considered the greatest of gifts a Völva could give and receive. It would allow the members of the pair to exchange attributes in the beginning. In time as the bond strengthened the attributes could be assumed without the need for an exchange."

I am suppressing the bond again as I speak. I do not want her to know that it also meant that the choice in mates was perfect and would produce gifted children. I do not mention this part, there is no reason for her to be given information that may cause her pain. I do not want her to feel my fear and misinterpret it. I am not afraid that she has the powers of a Völva, we can deal with that. I am very, very afraid that she will run away, I cannot bear it if she leaves.

"Eric, are you saying that as time passes we can just use each others ... stuff. I mean you will be able to be a telepathic human if you want to and I will be able to be a flying vampire?"

I can't help but laugh, my Lover always cuts to the chase "It is possible, but not extremely probable. The only instances I was ever told of happened after a blood exchange and were temporary at best."

"Do you still want me to stay in the house with the shutters closed?"

"Why on Earth would you need to stay inside with the shutters closed? Has there been a threat against your life, Child?"

I answer for Sookie, "No, but I was not sure what was happening, I do not want anything to happen ..." The bond bursts open, I can not hold it back any longer, the emotions crash through the barrier like a tidal wave, my fear for her, my love for her, my excitement that this gift may allow her to stay here with me a few centuries longer, just like she is now. I feel her send her love to me, her confusion, her fear, and her resolve. She has resolved to be with me no matter what. I am astounded that this beautiful, powerful creature wants me. I sink slowly to the couch.

The Fae speaks "Eric and Eiríkr,are one in the same. Do you believe in fate?"

I can barely speak, all that I can think is that she is staying, even after all of the Völva crap, she loves me. I don't give a shit what the stupid Fairy has to say. She ... Sookie did not run from me, she is standing by my side. Dawn is coming, I wish he would just leave. "You know that I do, why do you waste my time with redundant questions?"

"I believe that you were born to be here at this moment, to be Sookie's lover and protector. Only you can decide if you are willing to accept this honor fully,"

Fuck him. Doesn't he understand that I knew that she was mine from the instant I looked upon her beautiful face that night at Fangtasia so long ago.? Doesn't he understand that I have fought against this tie in vain? Doesn't he understand that even during my struggle to be free of my love for her that I still wanted her and ran to be at her side whenever I could find a reason? I am glad that he made me see the truth of what she is, but more than that he must understand that she is mine! I do not need a lecture from a Fairy, if he would have left us alone long enough I would have come to the same realizations without his assistance.

"Sookie, we are going to have to tell Felipe what we have discovered." I know that she hates vampire politics but she and Niall both are going to have to understand that Felipe De Castro is the King and we must tell him before he finds out on his own and believes that we are hiding information from him.

"I have already taken care of that. I have also informed Felipe that Sookie is my great granddaughter."

That is just fucking great, now I am going to be in trouble for keeping information from my King. Fairies can never seem to keep their mouths shut.

Niall continues "I also informed him that you were unable to disclose this information due to a spell I had caste upon you and your child, without your knowledge of course. The spell prevented disclosure of information regarding Sookie's tie to the Brigant Family to any vampire King or Queen. I let him know that I never trusted Sophie Anne and was sure that she would use my tie to Sookie to further use and exploit her."

I have to agree with Niall's assessment of Sophie Anne, she would have immediately used Sookie against Niall, if she did not bleed Sookie dry on the spot. Sophie Anne lost a child to Niall's sword during the Fae Wars, she would have stopped at nothing to make him suffer a loss. I am tired, so much has happened tonight and dawn is approaching, I want Niall to leave.

"Niall, Eric and I are ready to go to bed, can we finish this some other time." I love that woman.

"I will speak with the two of you in the near future. In the meantime, please be careful Child." Then with a loud POP he is gone, thank the Gods!

My Lover takes my hand and starts leading me back to our day chamber. "Eric, I have felt your fear, what is bothering you?" She has no problem with the keypads.

"Nothing is bothering me now Lover." The look on her face tells me that I am not going to get out of telling her. I don't want to fight so I answwer "Sookie, now that you have come to me, now that you have yielded to me, now ........ I fear losing you."

What else can I say? This is the long and the short of it, nothing in between matters.

I feel her emotions begin to flow into the bond, giving me comfort even before she says "Eric, I told you that I'm not going anywhere. Please believe me."

"Lover, first I turn human, then you turn vampire, then we turn back, your great grandfather shows up and announces that you have the blood and power of a race that has been gone from this Earth for centuries. I cannot see how you could not think about running away." I begin to undress her

"Eric," she begins as she caresses my face with her finger tips "I did think about running away, I am still thinking about running away. If I could figure out how to get you safely into my car we would be gone and we would never look back." My Lover, said we would be gone, I cannot believe that this is real, I am sure that I will rise at anytime and none of this will be real, this must be a dream.

"But we can't run away, so I think you should you should just shut up and kiss me."

I begin to kiss her tenderly as I sweep her into my arms and lay her gentle on our bed. Not my bed, not her bed, our bed. "Lover, there is not much time before I must sleep."

"Then we will have to hurry." She tells me as she reaches for me.

I kiss her beautiful lips and begin to massage her firm, full breasts, rolling her nipples between my fingers. I can feel her desire through the bond, it fuels my own. I begin to slowly lick and nibble and suck my way down her perfect body. I pause, hovering above her golden mound. "Watch me Lover."

I begin to gently stoke her folds, she is so ready, I want to taste her now. I began to lap her juices first from the insides of her thighs, were they have run over. I am rubbing her nub the entire time.

I turn my attentions turn to her center and I insert my hard tongue into her hot core. She cries out bucking her hips. I want to taste more of her, I need to taste more of her. I hook her legs over the top of my shoulders and replace my tongue with a finger. She moans and rolls a nipple between her fingers, never taking her eyes off of me.

I begin to flick her nub with my tongue, faster and faster, inserting second finger. Little sounds of pleasure escape her lips, as she grinds against my hand. I can feel her release building through the bond. I continue to work her nub as I curl my fingers, searching for her sweet spot. I know the instant that I find it. The waves of pleasure crashing through the bond are so intense, coupled with her screams of "Oh my God! Eriiiicccc! YES! OH YES! ERIC!" I almost cum with her.

I want her now. I need to be inside of her now. I pause at her opening, with the head of of my swollen cock pressing against her tight, wet, core.

"Please! Oh God, Eric, I need you. I need to feel you inside of me." She is gasping, her need flows through me, I had almost given in and entered her that very second. I steady myself, I am not a human teenage boy. I will not succumb. I realize that I am in control, I am the King of the World. I have found what I have been searching for, for over a thousand years, without knowing that I was searching. She is mine!

I lean forward and kiss her deeply, allowing her to taste the sweetness of her arousal, while I enter her slowly, inch by inch. The bond is humming more intensely than before. I pull back completely and slowly enter her again, thrusting a little harder at the end this time, eliciting a growling moan. Waves of pleasure hit me. I close my eyes to steady myself.

"Lover, look at me." She knows how I love eye contact, he words push my over the edge.

I throw my head back roaring "I love you Sookie" as I drive my length into her to the hilt again and again. Locking my eyes with her's. Her hands are on my ass and her fingernails are bitting in to my skin. The pain causes me to thrust into her faster and harder.

I feel it building, our release is coming. I thrust into her one more time and we are washed away. I spill my seed into her as her body spasms underneath mine. Her walls are clenching my lenghth, I have never felt pleasure before.

I collsapse on top of her raining kisses on her face.

"Sookie, jag älskar dig."

"Eric, jag är din för evigt."

I pull out of her, we both feel a sense of loss. I lay on my side and pull her to me, dawn has come, I must sleep. She brushes the hair from my face, snuggles against me and is asleep before I am. I close my eyes and allow sleep to claim me. I'm content and happy for the first time since the first time I met Sookie Stackhouse, for the first time in my lives, both living and dead. I have found my Valkyrie

"Jag älskar dig" = "I love you"

"Min älskare! Mitt liv! Ta mig till dig!" = "My lover! My life! Take me into you!"

"Du är min för evigt!" = "You are mine forever!"

"Jag är din för evigt!" = "I am yours forever!"