A/N: Sorry guys, went out of town for my birthday, it was a surprise. Just got back in last night so I am back to writing, apparently I have brain cells left! Lmao, arms and legs inside at all times
Previously:
"Hello in there, I am Godric. And when you come into the world you will call me Papa Ric, no harm will befall you as long as I walk the earth." Then it happened again, I got a glimpse of the children with Godric, walking in the sun.
Chapter 27:
EPOV:
I got but a glimpse of the vision; this was just like the time before when I saw them torturing her. Something was happening to me and I knew I needed to talk to Sookie, and it had to be done as soon as possible. What I just saw could be interpreted two ways, one I did not care for in the least; my maker could be meeting the sun when my children are born, but that seems highly unlikely with the emotions I feel coming from him, they are the total opposite of the gloom I had been feeling not long ago I was worried for him, now with this vision and the other interpretation being he could actually day walk, makes me undeniably happy but jealous at the same time. To think he could walk in the sun with my children made me jealous of my maker, something I never thought I would be when it comes to him. The car pulled up to the hotel and we piled out only to find a crowd of vampires, they saw the blood on Sookies clothes, the roundness of her belly and there was a mixture of shock and anger, when the car pulled up holding the Elf and he exited everyone backed away, never before had they seen an Elf in his condition, especially one of his station. Anger gave way to rage when the Fairy was pulled out of his perspective car, I could tell Sookie was holding everyone back. Pythia came to a standstill and addressed the masses.
"Tomorrow night your questions will be answered, please make way, her grace Sookie needs to rest and the prisoners need to be secured." All the vampires had feral smiles on their faces; they would love a chance to secure them, especially the Fae. Instead of heading to our room when we entered, Sookie followed the princes.
"They need me to make the wards stronger, after we do that I want to talk to you outside ok?" I followed after her because there was no way I would let her go by herself. Queen California fell into step, head bowed.
"Is there anything you require of me your grace?" Sookie stopped.
"Aren't you supposed to be on your honeymoon?" California smiled a little.
"Yes, your grace, but of course things here take precedent." Sookie shook her head.
"It is a love match yes?" Colorado came over then.
"Yes your grace it is." Sookie took one of each of their hands and placed them together with hers over the top. The honesty and feeling in her voice and the feelings I got from the bond as she spoke made me love her all the more.
"Love takes precedence over all; never forget that and your unlife will be whole. Go, I mean it now get, tomorrow night is the night for duties, now just take the rest of the night for you." They just nod their heads and take their leave. Sookie turned to a guard.
"I need two light tight cells; we also need as much holly and clove oil you can get. Iron shavings, two gallons of heavily diluted lemon juice. I'm going to need medical tubing and fishing line, also I need padded iron chains. Amelia, do you need anything else?"
"Just my bag from the room, you know me I keep anything and everything in there." I turned to Ferrell.
"See that the bag is brought down and everything her grace listed is as well, I expect it done in the next half hour." I dismissed him. And we continued to the cells, the only fight came from the Fairy, the elf was too drained to do anything. He was sprouting his usual nonsense; he was prince of the Fae, he was her grandfather, all the bullshit someone would do when they realized their time had run out. Now when they put the chains around him the iron pissed him off to no end. When she crisscrossed his arms over his chest and made sure he couldn't move anything but his fingers, what's even more brilliant is that she made him stand in the middle of the cell after she had sprinkled iron shavings all over everything, he couldn't sit or lay down anywhere without getting poisoned, he was only safe on his feet because the shoes he was wearing protected him from them. When they brought in the tubes and the other things she required the fun really began. She didn't open the gallons of lemonade instead she put holes in the lids and put the medical hose through it, then she hung the gallons from the ceiling with her fishing line while holding the tubes up so no liquid escaped. She then tied the ends of the tubes to the Fairies hands with his thumbs over the ends.
"Now Niall, if you move your thumbs the lemon juice is going to leak out and burn your hands, as it stands now in the hours till tomorrow night the juice will burn through your thumbs, remove them completely and the juice will mare that pretty face of yours." Amelia took charge from there.
"We need his blood in every corner of this room mixed in with some lemon zest. Lala, we need the Magenta pillar candle; the combination of red and violet will help to bring more energy into the ward, I also need some red sandalwood and ginger out of my bag, lets line the base boards." After getting him warded up nice and tight we moved on to the Elf, he still looked just as bad if not worse than before, she stuck him in the room that from the smell had been coated in holly and clove oil. The witches did their thing again and it was time for us all to part ways for the evening and Sookie lead me outside. She asked me to help her get down on her knees to the ground and bid me to follow. If I wasn't so intrigued by what she was trying to share with me then I would have laughed at her waddle and how she squatted to make it to her knees.
"Come on Viking, I want to show you something, well I want to see if you can feel it." I got down on my knees, my clothes still bloody from the earlier brawl as were hers, even in the aftermath; no especially in this state she looked more beautiful than ever. She took my hands in hers and placed them in the earth and took a deep breath.
"I want you to focus with everything you have in you on the bond." After a minute I dove into our bond, I let every emotion she was feeling wash over me, there was nothing different from when I rise every night and check it, she breathed deeply a few more times then I felt something new winding through our bond, not like when she speaks to Pythia, this was more powerful. I looked down and her hands were glowing over mine; her touch was cool as to where I had imagined it would be hot. Her giggle brought my eyes up to hers.
"You had it, come on and focus, this is serious." I intertwined my fingers with hers and I closed my eyes and dove into our bond again until I found the winding energy again.
"I can feel it, what is it exactly." She shushed me.
"Focus on that and listen, not with your ears with your mind and body." She breathed in and out and I felt the energy expand. Then it felt like the wind was rushing through me, my limbs tingled with the power, I didn't lose focus I opened every part of myself to this energy and I heard a faint humming sound and Sookie's voice.
"Remember what I was saying earlier? I said that I had damaged her and the bodies would heal her. Listen closer." I focused in on the hum again and it grew louder, then it was like a shrill wind howling through me and something that never happens to vampires happened to me, I got goose bumps. I looked at her wide eyed.
"What the hell was that?" she laughed at me.
"The earth called to you, she let you know she recognized you. I can feel that even when I am not touching the earth. Earlier when I said her, I really meant her, I'm going to tell you something else but you have to promise me you will not freak out." I searched her face and the bond and I knew this was serious.
"You have my word I won't freak out now, but I reserve the right to do so later if need be." She looked me dead in the eyes and took a deep breath.
"I can hear you sometimes, I mean like high stress times like back in the field tonight." It didn't bother me as much as I thought it would. It was a good thing but I was kind of disappointed that I couldn't hear her, or could I? I knew that I could get glimpses of her visions; I had twice now, I never questioned how or why I got them but maybe I should have given what she said next.
"I know it's not ideal, but you can hear me sometimes too, I mean I think you can anyway, in the field when you went for Niall right before that I tried to show you what I had seen, you saw that right? Then in the car with Godric?"
"Yes, I saw what they wanted to do to you and I lost control, but I didn't only see it, I felt it. Did you do that too? Can you feel your visions?" if she could it meant that she could be incapacitated by them and I didn't like that thought at all. She rested back on her heels and then sat on the ground with her hands still in the dirt on either side of her.
"I think I might when I have this all under control, I don't get complete visions right now. Pythia said she didn't either when she first started. There's a lot of stuff I am going to be able to do, there isn't a lot written about Thayne so we don't know all the powers she possessed and Pythia was turned so not all of her magic was able to come forth. Plus there is my human side to consider, we have no way to know how that will affect it in the long run. But we are getting of topic here, I heard you think how badly you wanted to be able to hear me so I tried to push something to you and it worked, so we will have to practice this alot more. I don't know what the snip of Godric in the sun means but I have a feeling it's not bad." Relief was the emotion that coursed through me now, I was more worried about that then I had let myself realize.
"So, she recognized me? How?" I said as I went from my knees and sat next to her putting my arm around her shoulders.
"You're her creation." She said with a little shrug so she wouldn't remove my arm.
"Her creation?" I asked with disbelief clear in my voice. Her creation if it was anyone besides Sookie I would have either laughed at them or tore them apart limb by limb.
"Ok, just think about it for a minute, not all humans vampires try and change make the transition, something happen in the three days your buried in the earth. I mean come on now, you rise from the earth will a new life and you think you're not her creations? The trees the flowers and plants human life, she was commanded to create; but you, you are the one thing she brought into existence without being told to do so."
"Ok, now say I believe what you're saying, how do you factor in our weaknesses? The sun, silver the drinking of blood to survive? Don't get me wrong, being a vampire is like nothing else, but with the way you're describing it, it sounds like we are her flawed creations." She shook her head then moved and laid her head in my lap and looked at me.
"Not at all, the powers she uses to bring life are not all her own, the god's give her a…I guess the best word would be an influx of their powers. You come from her powers alone, she made you in her image, blood and death; these are the things that she thrives on, they give her strength, the sun if too bright for too long withers her, burns her." This made sense if you over looked the silver, she heard me because she answered my inner thoughts.
"She took it upon herself to make a being without consulting the other god's for their approval, most gods just gave you her weaknesses, but Aries went a step further, the weapons of the gods are forged of silver, he thought it fitting and necessary that your race never has access to them. Take a weakness from a god and place it on any other being and the severity of that weakness becomes tenfold, this is why you literally go up in flames in the sun and why without blood you wither away and die the true death." I laughed.
"How do you know all of this?" I asked as I ran my fingers through her hair, trying to avoid the knotted masses of dried blood, she really needed to take a shower; again she heard me and laughed.
"I agree I need a shower very badly, so do you." She went to get up and found she couldn't by herself and I chuckled at her face as she attempted to again.
"Don't laugh, I was supposed to have months to get use to this, and it's your fault anyway." I laughed a full laugh at that.
"And just how is this my fault? I know I shouldn't say this but I have had sex with thousands of women and none of them have ever gotten pregnant, so my little living pythoness whose fault is this?" she rolled onto her knees and I took pity on her and stood up to help but she swatted my hand away and got up on her own huffing the whole way.
"Well I have had sex with three men and never have gotten pregnant, I am even on birth control, so my big Viking I think your super sperm are clearly at fault here." I rubbed her stomach.
"Super sperm, I like it. I bet Pam could market it, we could make a killing." She slapped my chest.
"I don't think so big boy, I and the only one who get the super sperm. We should go, Ludwig is getting impatient, and she wants to do an ultrasound to see the progress." She took my hand and intertwined our fingers.
"So, are you ready to see your children?" I picked her up and ran to Ludwig at vampire speeds, Sookie laughed.
"I take that as a yes." Sure enough as we entered the lobby Ludwig was pacing muttering to herself, when she saw us she stormed over.
"You know what my work load is like little girl, come on let's get this over with so I can get back to my night with no sleep in sight." We lead her to our room and as soon as we opened the door we were met by everyone in our little group. Evidently privacy was a thing of the past as far as this group was concerned. Ludwig went on issuing orders to all; sookie put a stop to it very fast though.
"I need to take a shower before we do all of this, so does Eric." I was looking forward to that shower but the way she looked at me let me know that wasn't going to happen and I pouted again. I felt Pam's amusement through our tie and I looked at her brow raised.
"I told you, once she started showing…" I didn't let her finish, I threw an ash tray at her just barely missing her head, even that didn't stop her though.
"Just think, you didn't even get to go through the nymphomaniac phase, poor, poor Viking." Sookie rolled her eyes and kissed me and whispered.
"Don't worry Viking, I haven't had my fill of you yet, I can't wait to get creative." She laughed at the look on my face and winked at me before waddling to the bathroom. I looked back at Pam.
"Just for that, I will be getting your shower all nasty. Oh, and go get Ludwig something to eat, in fact get all that consume human food something to eat as well. Actually, I command you to prepare the food yourself, and it better be good, wouldn't want the mother of my children eating something nasty would we?" she growled, Pam hates getting dirty and cooking for this many people will do that, not to mention having to wait on others well, others who are not me. I crossed my arms over my chest waiting for her to go and when she finally left the room on her way out she hissed at me. I didn't stay after she left; I wanted to get my shower done with so I could get back to sookie. I thought about what she had told me outside while I was showering and everything made sense. I wanted to know more though, like how the earth spoke to her and what else did she hear, and if she heard me did that mean she heard other vampires as well? I must have went over everything she said ten times before I got out of the shower, just as I was turning the water off I heard her voice in my head.
"You seriously think too much Viking." Then I got images from her of us, on the bed up against the wall, on the floor the dresser. Gods she was going to kill me. Her laughter rang through my mind so I thought to her.
"After everyone leave little girl you are mine." The wave of lust and desire I got from the bond made me want to go to her and take her right then and there but I reeled it in, as there was only one thing that was more important than both of us being sated, tonight I would see my children. The excitement that came from the both of us was over whelming and I raced to get dressed and to her side I went. When I came in Ludwig had her lying on the bed with her night gown (an ugly thing I swore to myself I would destroy so she could never where it again) raised up exposing her round belly about to put something on her. I went to her side and held her hand while the doctor put a wand thing on her stomach ad moved it around. I paid close attention to the screen and I saw movement and if it wasn't real to me before it surely was now. The doctor's next words made my heart swell and a protective instinct like no other click within me.
"Well, it looks as if there will be a lot of pink in your future. Congratulations Viking, you're going to want to keep your sword at the ready, twin girls."
A/N: Sorry this is so late, I have been working on it for days and I kept going back and rewriting it. I hope you like it. Next chapter there will be more action. The council with the help of the pythonesses will delve out sentencing, and in the chapter after ( hopefully) the earth is going to give a little something back. Much writer love!