A/N: The merge is here!
Previously:
"This is only the beginning."
Chapter 11:
EPOV:
When I rise I do not even get the chance to ponder the voice from dawn, Pain, pain so excruciating I could barely move wracked my body while my ears hear a most terrifying sound. The gut wrenching screams of my lover. I looked over to where she was when I went to rest and she wasn't there, my own panic filled me and I shot from the bed to where she was and as I entered I was not prepared for what I saw. In the bathroom laying in a tub full of ice was my lover, her screams bouncing off the walls.
"Please! Please, kill me, oh god please!" Adele was holding her hand and Ludwig was holding her body in the ice. I pushed everyone out of my way and snatched her out of the tub roaring at the idiots before me.
"What the fuck do you think your doing?" I bit into my wrist and fed her my blood and her pain began to subside but she continued sobbing her thank you's and begging that she not be put back in the ice.
"Her fever was reaching critical levels, we needed to cool her down." Ludwig said with a defensive voice. I snarled at her
"Are you out of your fucking mind? Did you not think of how the cold water would stiffen her already contracted muscles? Your supposed to be a doctor for gods sake. How hard would it have been for you to cut my wrist as I rested and feed her?" I didn't wait for an answer from them and took my lover to the living room just in time for to see Pam walk in.
"Go get some blankets and the fur out of my day chamber." she didn't question me she just did as she was told, well at least I have one competent being in this house, well that's conscious any way. Pam returned with a blanket and my fur, I have had this fur since I was human. I put Sookie and I both on the bed and sit with my back against the back of the couch and place Sookie in between my legs her back against my chest and Pam lays them over her, the fur on top. I wrap my arms around her and she sighs
"Thank you Eric, it hurt so bad, you wont let them put me back in there will you?" I kiss the top of her head and promise her that I wont. Pam is just about to sit down when there is a knock on the door, I check my bond with my maker and I feel he is close but not here yet, so it must be her witches. Pam huffs but goes to get the door coming back moments later with the witches in tow and they are carrying a lot of bags. Once they see Sookie they drop the bags and push past Pam coming to the side of the bed. The female witch kneels at the side and she starts crying, the male witch however says something that makes me like him instantly.
"Who do we need to kill?" I hear Sookie giggle a little
"I'm going through what they tell me is called a quickening. Like my first bout with puberty wasn't bad enough, now I get to go through a magical one." the male witch laughed a little but Amelia's head snapped up when she hear quickening and she went directly to the bags and began pulling things out all the while talking rapidly under her breath.
"Fucking faeries, going to try and take her away, ha! Not on my freaking watch, sadistic bastards, I dare them to fuck with me, I'll shove a lemon wedge so far up their asses their family in the Summerland's will burn." she turns and hands some things to the male witch.
"We're going to go with a five for the ward, take this lemon juice and these iron shavings and pour them around the outside of the house. don't use all the iron though were going to need it to cast the ward." if I had the time I would have been shocked by her knowledge of the fae, but we had another enemy to worry about.
"I'll need you to ward against Elves as well." she stops digging around in her bag long enough to look at me.
"Why would we need to ward for Elves? They wont go near the fae." Sookie answers for me and I have to laugh.
"Well it seems I have a little elf in me, but no vampire yet." the witch puts her hand on her hip.
"Ok hot momma, which spark are we dealing with here?" when Sookie says both the witch almost drops what she is holding and her chin starts to tremble. I decided to nip that shit right in the ass.
"We will bond and she will live." she goes to say something and I have a pretty good idea what it is so I silence her with my best don't fuck with me glare. Sookie's breathing evens out and I can tell even though her body is twitching she is in a deep sleep. She had probably been in pain all day, she needed her rest because it's going to get worse. Amelia handed the male two more containers,
"Holly berries and clove, there can be no blank places so make sure your careful, and use all of the cloves. I'll set up the circle, we'll have to do a seven to keep the elves out." he nodded and took off out the door. I looked to Pam.
"I'll need you to heat up four of the bagged bloods." she left and I was alone in the room with the witch. She didn't say anything at all to me but kept glancing at me out of the corner of her eyes and I wanted to say boo, but I refrained since she was securing my home. Adele and Ludwig choose this time to walk in. I take a long look at Adele and I can tell she hasn't slept and probably hasn't eaten either. I internally sigh, since when did I become the care taker?
"Adele, I want you to go into the kitchen and get yourself something to eat, there is always food here just in case." she looked like she was going to argue but I held up my hand to stop her before she even started.
"You are of no use to her if your half dead, go eat and then come and lay on the bed and hold her hand while you rest, no back talk, like the shoe commercial says ' just do it'." I raise a brow daring her not to listen to me, if I have to I will shove the food down her throat myself and seeing how I haven't eaten food in a thousand years she is better off doing it herself. She gets a very small smile on her face and goes in to the kitchen. And the doctor uses this time to open her mouth, if I didn't need her I would kill her.
"I was not about to take your blood as you slept vampire, you did not give me permission to do so." I glared at her, it was a shitty excuse, a good one but still shitty. Before I can jump down her throat I feel my maker arrive. Thank the gods! He walks into the front room and looks around, first resting his eyes on Ludwig nodding in greeting then he looks at the witch with a raised brow. She pays him no attention and just keeps on working which is rude but I understand, she is focusing on her friends well being and nothing more. He finally rest his eyes on me and Sookie and he comes to me immediately. He looks her over.
"Well if she is this lovely sick then I can see how she caught your eye. How is she doing?" I glare at Ludwig.
"She is fine now that I am awake. The pain is coming back but I think she is to tired to care at this point." I kiss the top of her head before I can stop myself and she sighs snuggling closer as if it were possible. I look at Godric and there is a big grin on his face, I shake my head.
"You were right, but she will be the first one I tell." he nods and sits down on the edge of the bed just as Pam comes in with a huge glass of blood. I take it from her and drink it down fast. The male witch comes back in and hands Amelia the jar with over half of the iron flakes gone and almost all of the berries are gone out of the other jar he hands her. Amelia wastes no time, she grabs his hands and starts chanting. All the vampires in the room watch with fascination as we can see the magic rolling off them both. They both chant for at least ten minutes before I wave of power is released and I know the wards are now in place. Amelia sways and almost falls over but Pam catches her.
"Well, I have always been know to knock women off their feet." Adele comes in and lays down on the bed and puts one of Sookie's hands in her own. She looks up at me and already I can see the light returning to her eyes
"Thank you Eric, you were right." Pam snorts
"Why thank you Adele, he will be next to impossible to live with now." Godric chuckles
"I see you are as you always were Pamela." I notice she has taken the witch to a chair.
"Yes I am, as you know you cant mess with perfection." she winks at Amelia and the witch blushes. The air changes suddenly and Ludwig speaks.
"If you are gong to bond you will need to do it now, the sparks are starting to merge." I move Sookie's hair away from her ear and whisper her name. she whimpers.
"I know lover, I know, but we must complete the last exchange now. It will start very soon." she raises her head and turns it to look at me tears flowing freely.
"I thought it had already started." I brush her tears away. Shaking my head.
"I am sorry my love, that was just them igniting. I will be with you the whole time, and My maker is here as well." she turns her head to Godric and he moves a stray hair behind her ear.
"It's nice to meet you little one, from what I am told you are a force to be reckoned with, you will be fine." she lays back against me.
"they are going to stay here for this exchange my love, there is no time to hesitate." I bite into my wrist and she takes it into her mouth and moans when the blood hits her tongue. I can feel her blushing and I whisper in her ear.
"Not exactly how I planed to be in you but it's a start." then I bite down and just like the last time I have to force myself to pull away from her. She drops my wrist and pants. Every fang in the house is out. Sookie looks at Ludwig.
"How long…" but she doesn't get to finish her sentence as I feel the first clash of the sparks her body shudders.
"Let her lie down fully vampire." Ludwig says coming to the side of the bed. I get out from behind her and lay her flat, but I do not leave the bed.
Three hours, three hours of her screaming and crying, and it is still not over. The arm of the couch is crushed from my hand squeezing it over and over again. I have taken my makers blood twice, I feel both my maker and my child taking as much pain as they can, I feel like I have been shred inside with silver. Finally the pain is ebbing away and even though I do not breath I let out a breath of relief, but I soon find I am wrong, oh so very wrong. A massive convulsion wracks her body and her back arches head thrown back and the brightest light I have ever seen shoots out of her eyes and mouth. When the light recedes there is blood running from her ears, nose and mouth and I am almost loosing consciousness. Out of no where her body lifts from the bed on its own and her arms fall limply I can hear a faint humming and I can feel a breeze even though there are no open windows. Then I hear her heart, Thump, thump.. Thump…thump…..thump and then nothing. Her body lowers to the bed lightly. I want to grab her, hold her, she cant be, no! Oh gods No! I am still alive this cant be she cant…she sits straight up in the bed her heart hammering in her chest once again. Her eyes are wide open but they are different, oh gods, when she opens her mouth her scream shakes the entire house.
"Pythia!" I can hear a phone ringing in the distance but I cant take my eyes off of hers, her eyes once with blue irises are now a milky white.
A/N: Did you see that coming? Lmao! Well I hope you liked it. I am going to try and get another chapter out tonight. Should be able to, but it might not be until late! Hope you like and your still with me! Review if you can : )