A/N: I am so sorry, with football and the end of true blood I got a little intoxicated and the hangover the next day was no joke. But it is back to normal posting. Once again I am so sorry. Ok, anyone else not mad that the person that died did? I am pissed off about Sookie's choice! SOB! Poor Pam, already cant wait for season 5! Damn but that's almost a year away! Allan needs to get on the Ball and air it early! LMAO. Well here is the meeting with the AP hope you guys like were I have taken this and that none of you expected it. Keep your arms and legs inside the ride at all times! : )

Previously:

"I got something for you." I handed it to her and when she read the title she started cracking up

"Feline mating calls."

Chapter 22:

EPOV:

Our last nights in Dallas had been wonderful, we didn't leave the bedroom for the first night and the next we had to leave to meet with her grace Pythia before the Summit. Sookie was nervous, but not as much as she had been before Dallas, that was until the plane touched down. She grabbed my arm so tight, had I not been vampire it would have broken it.

"There is like a hundred or more people out there." I rubbed small circles on the back of the hand that had my arm in the vice grip.

"Humans or Supes?" she was quiet for a few minutes with her eyes closed.

"Humans, news crews to be exact. Who told them I was coming? No, I mean who told them of our flight information? If they know then so does everyone else." I just looked at her as if to say 'duh'. Pythia, is the most likely of culprits. She shook her head grinding her teeth. She was pissed.

"That old bird! When I finally meet her we are going to have a fucking talk." she was shaking her head. Pam laughed.

"Well, your certainly going to make an entrance, and aren't you lucky I was able to find a dress before we left Dallas. Go get your bags and get ready for your public debut sweetheart." Sookie huffed and flung herself out of her seat and her handmaidens followed. Godric joined me as I started barking orders to the Britlingens and Ferrell, he decided to tag along and Stan agreed to let him go.

"When the door opens I want the Britlingens to go first, don't act unless absolutely necessary. Ferrell, you'll go after with Godric and I. Then her grace and her hand maidens will make their extraordinary entrance." Godric laughed.

"Oh, this is going to be good. I would hate to be you later though, and Her Grace Pythia is going to be in for a rude awakening." Ferrell's eyes widened and I had to put a stop to his line of thinking.

"Her Grace Sookie would never harm Her Grace Pythia. What Godric means is that their will be a very heated conversation." I looked at Godric and he was grinning. that's just what we want, people thinking she would harm the AP, I swear he and Pam are so similar sometimes, but only when they start shit. Ferrell nodded, looking relieved. I wouldn't want to be in the middle of a battle between the two of them either so I understood. All conversation was brought to a halt when Sookie and her maidens came from the back of the plane. She was wearing a modest whitish pink dress. The light inside her was radiant and she looked so innocent, not like a woman who just ended a vampire a few day's prior, and de spined a were before that. She came and grabbed my hand and I looked into her eyes, tuning into the bond we shared completely, there was something more there, like another consciousness and it was like Sookie and this other being were communicating, arguing would be the best way to describe it. I raised my brow at Sookie and she huffed.

"Pythia…Let's just say she has made herself known." she rolled her eyes.

"Well, let's get this over with. I have some things I'd like to say to her face to face." everyone was in agreement and the Britlingens opened the plane door and made their way out, I kissed Sookie on the forehead and then Godric, Ferrell and I made our way down the stairs. Their were hundreds of them that's for sure, lights from cameras were flashing a mile a minute. I felt Sookie take a deep breath and Pam and Adele came out first, then Sookie, and the two witches were behind her. When they got to the bottom of the stairs, Pam and Adele fanned out to present Sookie to the world while the witches stayed close to her back. Sookie held up her hand and the crowd grew silent.

"Thank you for coming, while I appreciate the interest in me, I have just had a long flight and need to confer with others waiting for me so this will be brief." she took a step forward.

"All I can tell you at this time is yes I am the one who made the tip, apart of me is human but that's not all I am and Rodger, not in you widest dreams. I will be at a celebration tomorrow night, there I will give you answers to your questions." she walked over to the car that was waiting for us and got in after Pam and Adele. None of use spoke to the press, we all filed in after her and once we were driving and I no longer had to be weary of the crowds I looked at her. She was taking deep breaths and her hands were shaking. I pushed as much comfort and reassurance I could to her and she accepted it gladly. Once her hands stopped trembling she opened her eyes. I didn't get it, I didn't understand how she could face down and entire room of vampires and be so nervous of a crowd of humans, so I asked.

"I have to ask my love, how do you fear no supernatural but when it comes to humans you shake?" she looked kind of lost for a moment then she answered.

"Supes have a system, sure you all are ruthless and can kill, but with you it's to take something over or because someone wronged you and those wrongs are usually really bad. Sure there are those who just kill to kill but they are few and far between. I know with you I would have to do something really, really fucked up for you guys to kill me. Well, the ones from this realm anyway. Now humans, they are fickle. They could turn on me in a minute, it doesn't help that I can read their thoughts either. This is nothing like Dallas, this is world wide. That's what worries me." I nodded

"I can understand that. But you have to know that once the other Supes in this world see you with Her Grace Pythia, you will be untouchable. To be able to see what is to come is the most valued skill amongst us. Even without the other powers you exude that would be enough for Vampire at least to lay down their unlives to protect. Because in protecting you they protect themselves and the rest of the vampire in the world. I don't think the enemies in the other realm want to kill you either. That phone call you said I would get, well, that gave me new insight into our situation. We will speak to Her grace Pythia about it and then we will have answers. What I am trying to say my love is that your fear is valid but you are not alone, have faith in all those around you, with our skills and yours you will be protected." everyone was in agreement. She didn't know how well she would be protected, once all the monarchs knew what she was, they would each send one Vampire to see to her and wait for her approval. If they did not meet her standards they would be sent back and another would come. Never their most powerful mind you, but close. I wonder how she thought Pythia had survived this whole time, but the thought of more security for her would only trouble her now. That conversation could wait until later, as much later as I could possibly wait to have it. Pulling up in front of the hotel we were greeted by more press and Two of Pythia's personal guards, they bowed when she exited the car.

"Her Grace Sookie, Her grace Pythia is waiting on your arrival now, we are to escort you and your party directly to her chambers." One lead the way and the other took station at the back of our group, the lobby parted for us and we were taken to see Her Grace. As we neared, the feeling from before came back again and as we came to the door you could hear Pythia's laughter ringing out. As the doors were opened she called out.

"Come now child, that wasn't so bad. They have yet to see your eyes, Now that is going to spook the hell out of them!" Sookie rolled her eyes, what is it with the people in my unlife doing that? As we entered Pythia's guards spread out and into places at the walls. These Vampire had been with her since she had been made. This is what Sookie's life would look like, but with me by her side as where Pythia was with out a mate Sookie was not. Sitting in a lushly red padded chair was Pythia, on the ground on huge pillows where her maidens. Sookie laughed and turned her head to Amelia.

"No you wont, don't worry." Amelia looked relieved by her statement and I knew it had to do with sitting on the floor like a pet, No doubt the independence of a modern woman would find that appalling, so that would be another thing my lover would change. As if changing history wasn't enough. Pythia moved faster than she should have been able to and was standing in front of Sookie,

"There is much to tell you child, you must choose who will know, and who will not. Do you trust your circle girl?" Sookie spoke.

"I do, old lady." the corners of her mouth twitched as Pythia chuckled and turned away walking without help to another door. I didn't know what the hell was going on, Pythia was changed when she was old. Every appearance she has ever made she has needed help to move and now she walks as if she is a young vampire. that's what we were here for though, answers. So we followed and were lead to another sitting room, this one more casual and with less of her guards. She sat and she motioned for us to take a seat. Once everyone was squared away she beckoned to a guard and they brought her a piece of very old parchment. When he was out of the way she started.

"To tell you of yourself, I have to tell you of myself." the air shimmered around her and she started to de age right in front of our eyes. She didn't look to young but not as old as she once had. Even if we could speak, what would you say to that but what the fuck?

"I can no longer go back before I turned thirty years in human age, Like Adele, once I let myself age and stay that way for a time it drains magic and makes the changes permanent." Pam, forgetting her placed blurted out.

"Why would you let yourself age?" Pythia smiled.

"Through the years after I was turned it got harder to conceal myself from humans, everyone notices a young, what they think to be blind person with cloudy eyes. But a blind old woman, none thinks twice about. It was needed." she shrugged and continued.

"I know you have questions but they must wait till the end." everyone nodded and stayed silent.

"Like you Sookie, I was born of Elvin and Fae royal lines. I was to kept secret, I too met a vampire and fell in love, There was no bond between My vampire and I. The change came with my first ingestion of Vampire blood. but that is where the things our paths have in common change. My Vampire though he loved me did not know what was coming, that bonding could have saved my life, neither did I. After the merge, after death and then what is supposed to be rebirth my heart sputtered and failed, My vampire knowing I was close to death, and because he feared the fever would take my mind drained me before I could fully cross over, by the time my heart started strong again he had taken to much blood from my already weakened body and had to finish the process. For this reason and your age are why my sight is greater than your for now, you see I am startled between two world, life and death, all of me did not come back to my body after the turning and some of me still lingers in the true death. Viking, the texts your caller spoke of, they do not say what he told you. Well they do but it is even deeper than that. Through my time on this earth I have been procuring every text there is that relates to pythoness's, father back than even I, the Fae and Elves' were once allies, back when bloodlines where strong, there had never been a successful coupling between the two races, the children would grow and then die in the womb. The women would die of heartbreak, take their lives or were simply never the same after. This was seen as a sign from the gods they were not meant to mix. But alliances are what they are and no alliance is stronger that that of the pledge. There had to be a marriage, but who of the royal houses would wed? of course for the Elves' it would have to be a male a prince would have to be wed they hold most power in Luna. The Fae are not as they once were, women ruled their lands, Princesses and Queens with consorts. To establish even power, the male and female would have to be of worthy stock strong and loyal to their people. So it was that Nilyia Brigant and Charuk Baylock were wed. it was not a loving pledge at first, but through the years they found themselves in love." Sookie smiled, she loved a good love story, her choice in books said that much, romance novels and the modern woman, I will have to remember to investigate these further.

"It took Baylock to almost loose Nilyia for him to see he loved her, then it took convincing on his past to make her see she loved him." she chuckled

"But as with all love nothing, not even stubbornness can stop it. When she became with child Baylock feared for her soul, for it could only end in heart break. But Brigant was as Brigant's are, well the female of that line anyway, she loved her child as soon as she felt the life spark inside of her. Baylock never to harm her in anyway relented and allowed the pregnancy to continue. From them, the first Pythoness was born." she shook her head as Sookie opened her mouth to speak, and held up her hand and continued.

"Their was much rejoicing among the Elves and Fae, but their was jealousy among them as well, it only continued as the girl grew two sparks within her, when her quickening came it was brutal, but she was purebred from the strongest lines of each realm, when she merged she survived in tact. Although she was beautiful before after she was magnificent, every royal house wanted her , to breed with her. While the fae thought she should breed with a fae, the Elves thought it their right. Baylock and Brigant swore she would be allowed to be with who she choose. War broke out, Baylock and Brigant were killed one night while the Fae stormed the castle, seeing her parents slain and no hope in sight for her Thayne ran herself through. Before she did she saw Alnorim Brigant, consort to the Queen of fae, she laughed at him and told him."

"Of your blood they will be born, but from both realms they will be torn. You stupid, stupid man, you'll always want what you cant have." Sookie was Sobbing into my side after the tale. Pythia turned to Adele.

"You are of Baylock Stock Fintan of Brigant." she turned to look at Sookie again.

"What I was meant to do but could not you will do. The line of Pythoness will continue." Sookie's head snapped up her grief from earlier replaced with anger.

"I will not! I have my mate! I will not be bred to anyone. I love Eric, there will be no one else!" Pythia smiled.

"My dear girl, of course you wont, they will be his blood, it has already begun." she said as she pointed to Sookie's stomach, one of Sookie's hands went to her mouth the other wrapped around her stomach, I on the other hand was flooded with every emotion known to man, and some even that were not. A child, my child I… I didn't understand! This is not possible I am dead! My seed has been so for over a thousand years. Pythia continued.

"The two sparks will be present, the child will be of Fae and Elvin decent, but this time the child belongs to this world, they will have human in them, the only way for them to be able to survive the quickening would be with Vampire blood and a bond, but they are of Vampire born, they will have the strength they need to survive the quickening. She saw the perfect mixture, belonging to all worlds without straddling one. You are called The Living Pythoness not because you are alive, But because you are life." Even though I heard everything she had said, my mind was stuck on one thing, Father, I was going to be a father, Not in a vampiric sense, little finger's and little toes sense. A wave of protectiveness flew through me like I had never felt before. Nothing would take them from me, I will kill every fae and elf in both realms! I heard Sookie whimper, and I realized I was squeezing her and loosened my grip but didn't let go. Security would be stepped up, I would make her choose a vampire from every territory maybe even send out word to get two from each, more Britlingens, yes. Security on our home would be increased and updates and add-ons would be made. Pam's voice cut through my thoughts.

"I was enjoying being an only child. Bright side, I get to do some shopping, by any chance does it say how many siblings I will have?" Now I knew why I had made her, through all of her bullshit she is very perceptive,

Pythia said the line would continue. Pythia shook her head.

"The line will continue, how many there is no way to see, only that it will." Pam sighed and pulled out her phone, no doubt starting her shopping frenzy. Sookie looked at me.

"What do you think of all this? You've been really quiet." a huge smile made it's way to my face as I imagined her ripe with my child, maybe if the gods allow my children. Only one word was able to escape my lips, the one thing I never thought I would ever get to be, not maker not child but,

"Father."

A/N: Ok, did I go out into left field with this one too far? Did the roller coaster go off the tracks? Let me know! Once again sorry for the no update in two days but you'll get more when I wake up! Much writer love! Review if you can! : )