A/N: Hello lovelies! Much love to all of you for the amazing reviews, you guys are the best! It is so crazy looking back to think I dumped this in the recycling bin the morning after I wrote it but I digress. Without further ado, I give you Chapter 7.
I own nothing: I just like playing with the toys of others.
SPOV
I curled my body around Eric's and laced my fingers with his, the bliss from what we had just shared flowed through me with the force of a flood swollen river. I was not experienced when it came to men and sex but I knew beyond any doubt that we had shared something deeply profound.
The pull I felt to him was astounding it was like something in me recognized something in him, when we were together I felt like I was complete. I have always felt set apart from other people, I am different, and I'm something more than the people around me. Eric too is something more, he's vampire, and he too is set apart from the world.
All of the feelings I have ever had of being alone in the world fell away in his presence. He wanted me to be his, he wanted to be mine, I wasn't sure what that meant in his world but I could tell it was something important. I'd told him I was his and that I wanted him to be mine and I know that I meant every word of what I'd said.
The idea of leaving him in just two days was distressing; I knew I would miss him terribly. How had this man become so entrenched into the very fiber of my being in just a few days? How was I going to be able to go back to my life now that I had found in him everything I'd ever longed for? Where did we go from here?
"Sookie what are you thinking about? Your despair is overwhelming." Eric asked his voice thick with concern. I felt crushed under the weight of the inevitable, I was going home. I tried to speak but I couldn't find the words, I felt the tears threatening to fall burning the backs of my eyes. Eric tilted my face up to meet his eyes and when he saw them glistening with tears the hurt in his eyes almost killed me.
"You regret this." He said his voice clipped. I sat up like someone kicked me, grasped his face in my hands and looked into his sad eyes "No! No Eric I don't regret what we shared or the things I said. This has been the most beautiful experience of my life Never doubt that." I told him emphatically.
"It pleases me to hear you say so. Why then do you feel such sadness?" He asked. I laid my head down on his chest relishing the warmth that spread thru me just from the contact with his cool body. I wanted to slap myself for ruining such a wonderful moment but I couldn't help the way I felt or ignore the fact that I was leaving. "I'm sad because I am going back to Sweden in two days and the thought of leaving you just tears me up." I told him deciding that honesty was the way to go.
His arms wrapped around me holding me to him tightly as he feathered soft kisses on my forehead. "I wish that was not the case lover, I would prefer you to remain with me. I find the thought of you not being a part of my life upsetting. I've never desired the companionship of another before you came into my life." He whispered to me.
His words turned me into a big mushy puddle, he always seemed to say exactly what I needed to hear and I could tell from his tone that he was sincere. It was so very unfair that I had met my ideal partner during a temporary situation. I had entertained the idea of remaining here in Shreveport but not seriously, but now it was fast becoming a very serious consideration.
We were locked in each other's gaze both of us lost in the thoughts of what could be, the future that was ours for the taking and in comfortable silence we just enjoyed each other's presence. My phone ringing broke the magic that was flowing between us and I reluctantly crawled across his huge bed to snatch it off the night stand. It was Jason calling and I almost had a heart attack thinking something was wrong, it was the middle of the night for Pete's sake.
"Hello. Jason, Is everything alright?" I asked. "Huh? Oh yeah, yeah everything's fine. I was jus callin to see if you could meet me at your place in bout an hour. I am out in yer neck o' the woods for my stag party and thought I'd swing by and grab yer stuff." He slurred obviously three sheets to the wind. Good gods I hope he isn't driving.
"Jason are you driving?" I asked him worried for his safety. "Naw Hoyt's drivin but he said it'd be alright if we stopped by and grabbed your stuff so I could shop for wedding shit with Crystal tomorrow." He replied merrily.
I looked at Eric and he nodded in understanding "Sure Jas I'll see you in an hour. Do not touch any of the things on my bedside table. Everything I need you to take is next to the front door, alright?" I told him seriously. The things I'd set aside were my most treasure possessions and I would be beyond upset if anything happened to them. I had already given him a key so he would be able to get in if I was still asleep since we had planned on tomorrow evening before I had to work.
"Yeah, I got ya. No touching your treasures. See ya soon Sook."He said and disconnected the call. I was already regretting agreeing to meet Jason, I had planned on spending the rest of my night with Eric, I hated that I would have to cut our time together short. "I'm sorry about having to end our night Eric. He was supposed to meet me tomorrow at six before I came in for my shift, but I have to clear out my things since my lease is up tomorrow." I explained. Damn it all to hell! This is not how I saw my night playing out.
"I could go with you. I find I am not ready to part with you." He told me. I smiled like a loon loving the idea of being able to spend more time with him. "You have yourself a deal Mr. Northman!" I said playfully.
EPOV
When I felt the deep sadness rolling through the blood tie I shared with Sookie as we lay in each other's arms it felt like someone had crushed my chest. I asked her what she was thinking of that caused her such despair and she didn't answer which was so unlike the fiery woman I had come to know.
She wouldn't meet my eyes and when I smelt the salt of her tears it was like a stake in the heart. I cupped her cheek in my hand tilting her face up so I could see her eyes and when I saw her beautiful blue eyes were full of pain and glistening with tears it sent a burning pain through me. She regretted being with me was the only thing I could think of to make her feel this way.
"You regret this." I said as the pain in my chest intensified tenfold. Fuck! How is it possible that the most exquisite experience of my existence could be a regretful one for her? I wanted to leave, wanted to escape the pain in her eyes, to shut out the misery she was feeling.
She moved so quickly she took me by surprise, she grasped my face in her tiny hands and looked so deeply into my eyes it felt like she was communing with my soul "No! No Eric I don't regret what we shared or the things I said. This has been the most beautiful experience of my life Never doubt that." She said with conviction.
There were no words sufficient to explain the feeling the erupted inside of me, not only did she not regret our love making she didn't want to take back any of the things she had said either. She went on to explain that she was feeling the way she was because she was leaving to return to Sweden and the idea of leaving me behind was tearing her up.
Hearing her admit that the reason for her sadness was that she didn't want to leave me thrilled me to my marrow! It meant I had better odds than I had originally thought at convincing her to remain here with me. I made the decision right then to tell her that I wanted her by my side, I admitted that before her I had never desired the company of another.
I was so far out of familiar territory expressing my feelings in any way; I had spent the whole of my existence comfortably detached from any emotions. She made me want to feel, made me long for all the things I had given up, she woke up the man I had been before I was vampire.
I held her tightly against me loving how the contours of her body fit perfectly with mine, reveling in the possibility I saw shining in her eyes. Silence enveloped us after we both admitted our desire to be with each other, we lost ourselves in the moment neither of us speaking but volumes were being expressed as we looked into each other's eyes.
I was happy; it felt as amazing as it was foreign. I have not been truly happy in a very long time, as vampires we quickly burn out all the joys there are to be had in the world. After a few decades of trying everything and achieving everything we just exist, after a time we forget the feelings we had as humans. Then there are only short bouts of satisfaction from hunting feeding or fucking before we recede back into bored apathy.
Sookie's phone rang breaking us out of our silence and caused her to leave my embrace, for the hundredth time I cursed modern technology. I listened to her as she talked with her brother, he wanted her to come meet him at her place so he could pick up her things since he was in Shreveport tonight and it would free him to do other things the following day for his wedding. I was not happy that he was taking my Sookie away from me.
I wanted her here with me; I wanted her to stay with me again during my day death. Even though I would be unconscious I enjoyed the idea of her warm body curled up against me while we both slept and I truly wanted to wake up to her beautiful face the next night. Our time was running out and I still had to convince her to remain here with me.
She looked at me apologetically and I nodded to her letting her know I understood. She agreed that she'd meet him in an hour after giving him a very firm warning to not touch the things on her bedside table, he promised not to touch her treasures and raised my curiosity as to what those treasures were.
The necklace mentioned by Pam's report and the witch jumped to mind, did she carry it with her everywhere? Most people who had some kind of artifact left in a safe or case to protect it. I wondered why she chose to keep it with her, what about it made it so dear to her. Having ended the call she turned to me regret in her eyes and told me she was sorry to cut our night short. Explaining that her lease term was up and she had to remove her belongings.
Once again I was reminded that she was leaving soon, I was not ready to end our evening and offered to go with her, letting her know I was not ready to part company. She graced me with a spectacular smile and told me I had a deal. We both got up reluctantly and headed into the bathroom for a shower I wanted desperately to make it long and pleasurable but I knew we hadn't the time.
We washed each other and I enjoyed the tender care she lavished on my body, I purred deeply in my chest while she washed my hair the feel of her fingernails scraping gently on my scalp nearly lulled me into downtime. I was unaccustomed to such treatment having not experienced it since I was human but I loved every minute of it and hoped to receive more of it in the future.
I was standing in my closet pulling on some clothes when I heard Sookie let out a vicious string of curses as she found her shredded clothing and I chuckled to myself. "It is so NOT funny!" she scolded me from the bedroom. I grabbed one of my shirts of its hanger and carried it to her as a peace offering; she had just finished buttoning up her pants and eyed the shirt I was holding.
She gave me a lop-sided smile and thanked me, she pulled the shirt on and it came nearly to her knees, she scowled and muttered something about looking like a frump. I watched as she bunched up the bottom of the shirt into a fabric ponytail before she thrust the tail up thru the neck hole and yanked it down turning it into a make shift halter top.
She noticed me staring at her "Lover what have you done to that shirt?" I inquired having never witnessed such a thing. She looked down at her handy work then back at me and shrugged "It made me look like a little girl wearing her daddies' clothes. I made a necessary adjustment." I raised an eyebrow at her and shook my head.
"Come on Eric this is white trash beautiful!" she said thru her giggling. I had a second motive to loaning her my shirt, I planned to wear it and enjoy being surrounded in her scent, which was no longer an option considering how her odd fashion was sure to wrinkle it severely. "White trash beautiful? Seriously?" I asked, I had never heard of any such fashion trend and I was certain if it were one Pam would have regaled me with stories about it.
Now she was shaking her head at me and laughing "Yes seriously. You need to get out more; you have been in Louisiana for how long? Surely you've seen women sporting white trash beautiful outfits." She said full of sass. "I get out plenty. I have been in Louisiana for about a century. I have never seen anyone wear a shirt like that I assure you." I said flatly.
She looked at me with an incredulous expression her eyes were big as saucers "A century? Holy shit Eric just exactly how old are you?"She asked. "I am a thousand years old give or take a few years." I answered and smirked as I watched her jaw drop. "Shut the fuck up! A thousand? Are you messing with me?" She said dubiously.
I smiled completely amused by her reaction "Yes a thousand and no I am not messing with you. When I was a human I was a Viking." I answered. She just stared at me with a shocked expression on her face and I felt her mind going a mile a minute thru our bond. "Wow Eric that's…well that's just amazing. I mean I get that vampires are immortal and all but I guess it never occurred to me that…just wow!" She said awed.
She smiled and wrapped her arms around me "I have a necklace I found from the 10th century according to the historian who looked at it for me. I bet you could tell just exactly what it is." She said clearly excited. "If you have a picture of it I'd be glad to look at it." I said despite the fact that I knew she always had it with her. "I can do you one better I have it at my place, I take it with me everywhere I have a strong attachment to it. I have refused obscene offers for it from collectors and turned down more than 20 museums who wanted to put it on display." She told me.
This was one of things I'd read about her that had me the most curious. What was it about this necklace that was so special that she'd turn down large monetary offers and request from museums. "We should go or we will be late meeting your brother." I told her even though I could care less about meeting him. I would much rather spend the rest of the night talking with her and making love.
I took her hand and led her down to the parking garage, she was looking over all the cars as we walked when I hit the button shutting off the alarm on my car she laughed "I should have guessed, that's so you." She said. I just smiled and opened the passenger side door for her to get in once she was settled in the seat I sped over to my side and folded myself into the vette.
"Where to lover?" I asked. "301 Crockett St." She said. I knew that address it was an apartment building a few blocks from the Valkyrie I have drove past there probably a hundred times since Sookie started working for me. How I'd never seen her in the three months she'd been here was surprising and I would have noticed someone like her.
It didn't matter I had her now and I smiled when she reached her hand out and rested it on my thigh as I drove us to her place.
SPOV
Eric was coming to my apartment and he would be meeting my drunk as a skunk brother. Perhaps this wasn't my best idea. I was so glad I had packed all of my stuff a few days before so that this should be a quick stint with Jason. I love my brother but he can be an idiot especially since he has been drinking for hours.
I am still reeling from the knowledge that Eric's a thousand years old and a Viking. Oh what I wouldn't give to see him dressed as such…Yum! My mind was so generously playing out an array of Viking fantasies for me and I totally got lost in them until I heard Eric's fangs snap down.
That's when I noticed I was stroking his thigh. When did I start doing that? I glanced over at him to find his eyes full of desire and an absolutely lascivious smile on his face. "You smell delicious lover what are you thinking about." He asked in his sexy bedroom voice. I blushed violently and wanted a black hole to open up a swallow me.
Gods I totally forgot how keen his senses were and I just knew he could smell how aroused I am right now. Not to mention he can feel everything I do because of the blood. OMG! "Oh, Um nothing really." I said and didn't even sound convincing to myself. He chuckled "Now now Sookie my bullshit meter is reading that as false." He said ginning like the devil now.
I couldn't look him in the eye and there was no way I was going to relay to him the things I had been thinking about. I looked out the window which only made him laugh harder, the big ass! I had never been so happy to see Jason as I was right now thank the gods I only lived a few blocks from the Valkyrie!
I glanced at Eric and he still looked beyond amused and the corners of his mouth were still twitching as he tried to rein in his laughter. I shot him a dirty look and he gave me a fangy smile in return "Ya might want to put those away big boy." I said. He raised any eyebrow at me "Big Boy?" He said with disgust. I stuck my tongue out at him and slipped out of the car before he could make something dirty out of it.
I barely got my feet on the side walk before Jason snatched me up in bear hug and spun me around "Jason Stackhouse you put me down right now you brute!" I shrieked. He laughed like a fool and then lost his balance sending us both crashing down to the concrete. "Good to see ya sis." He slurred still laughing.
Eric walked over and hauled Jason's drunk behind off of me and helped me up off the ground. "Holy shit! Who's the giant Sook?" Jason asked while he appraised Eric. Gods I knew this was a bad idea. "Jason this is my Eric, Eric, my brother Jason." I introduced them. Holy F! Did I just call him my Eric? "Yours huh?" Jason said with a smirk. Oh gods I did say it! Eric looked utterly triumphant, I just smiled sheepishly and nodded.
"Well alright then nice to meet ya man. Can we head up I wanna get back to Bon Temps before Krystal go to sleep.' He said while waggling his eyebrows. "Ew! Jason you shut your nasty mouth!" I hissed at him. "Glad to know I am not the only one she unleashes that silver tongue on." Eric said mirthfully. I shot him a scathing look "You better watch out when she starts making that face, she usually follows it up with a smack that'll knock the taste outta your mouth." Jason said and made a dash for the door of the building and out of my reach.
EPOV
Sookie thought that she was saved from telling me what she had been thinking about in the car since we had arrived at her apartment but I had every intention of finding out later. The amounts of lust that were flooding the bond and the scent of her arousal were strong enough to cause my fangs to appear. Oh yes my lover was most definitely going to be sharing.
I was thoroughly enjoying teasing her while trying to get her to tell me. She hopped out of the car and before she could close the door a man snatched her off the ground and spun her around. If I hadn't known it was her brother I'd have rended him limb from limb for touching her.
She screamed and berated him for his attack and her struggling against him caused the drunken fool to fall send them crashing into the side walk. I walked at a human pace over to where they were and drug him off of her. I helped her up checking her over for injuries before I wrapped my arm around her possessively and tucked her into my side.
I had taken him by surprise and he was eyeing me suspiciously before he turned to Sookie and asked who the giant was. Giant really? Sookie rolled her eyes at him and shook her head. "Jason this is my Eric, Eric, my brother Jason." She said. She called me hers! Hearing her claim me in front of others made that tight feeling return to my chest and I smiled triumphantly. Her brother didn't miss the way she'd claimed me and when he asked if I was hers she just smiled and nodded. Mine!
I was still replaying her claim in my head so I missed whatever the dolt had said that earned him a tongue lashing from Sookie but I couldn't help but laugh at him as he cringed and began to move away from her. "Glad to know I am not the only one she unleashes that silver tongue on." I commented and that earned me a vicious glare from my lover.
Jason was still inching further away from her when he felt it prudent to warn me what was coming and then he bolted for the door. Slap the taste out of your mouth? That is not even possible. Humans and their odd sayings. I just shook my head and chuckled her brother was amusing in town fool kind of way.
Sookie grabbed my hand and laced our fingers tugging me towards her building, I couldn't get over how much I enjoyed her touching me and followed her obediently. "Sorry about Jason he is a great person but he isn't the sharpest tool in the shed" She giggled. She pulled me behind her as she ascended the stairs to the top floor and I took the time to enjoy the view of her beautiful butt.
"I can feel you staring you big pervert." She told me trying to hide her amusement as she added a little more swagger to her walk. I smiled in delight she was a naughty little minx. As we were walking down the hall to her apartment we passed Jason and his friend carrying out a load of bags, they informed us that they got everything and were going to head out.
Sookie hugged her brother and said she'd see him tomorrow morning after her shift. She was going to stay in Bon Temps with him? I didn't like the idea of her being an hour away from me at all. He sauntered down the hall and just before he walked into the stairs he gleefully hollered "Now don't be doin nothing I would Sook!" Sookie looked mortified then pissed "Jason I swear I will kill you if you keep it up." She snarled at him. She is so fucking hot when she's angry. His only response was to laugh like a madman and say he'd see her later.
She walked into her rental and I stood in the door way unable to enter. She looked at me confused "You planning on stay out there?" She asked. "You have to invite me in. A vampire cannot enter a human home without an invitation." I explained. I looked at her waiting for her to ask me in when I saw an evil smile curl her lips "Is that so?" She said as she bit her lip, I nodded. What is she up to?
She pulled my borrowed shirt over her head and tossed it onto the couch and palmed her breasts causing a little moan to escape her lush pink lips. I advanced on her only to be held in place by the barrier. I watch as she rolled her lovely dusky nipples between her finger and thumb causing them to pebble as she again moaned but this time more lusty.
"Sookie. Let. Me. In" I hissed. She smiled at me seductively as she slipped out of her pants. I was now fully pressed against the barrier keeping me out. She walked right up to the door frame before slipping her hand between her golden thighs and stroked herself; she threw her head back and whispered "Mmmmm... so good." Fuck me!
My cock was hard and pulsing with need, my fangs ran down and a growl rumbled deep in my throat. "This is a dangerous game you're playing my lover." I ground out. She smiled at me, winked and walked into her bedroom. As soon as she disappeared from my view she whispered "Come in Eric."
As soon as my invitation was issued I took off after her undressing as I went and pounced on the naked beauty waiting for me on the bed. I crushed my mouth to hers kissing her deeply before I trailed kisses along her jaw until I made it to the racing pulse point on her neck. I nipped and sucked on the tender flesh as I slid two fingers into her hot wet sex.
She dug her fingernails into my shoulders causing me to hiss in pleasure, I continued my journey down to her breasts and when I sucked her pebbled nipple into my mouth her back arched up of the bed and a wild lusty sound tore from her as I scissored my fingers inside her stroking her G-spot. Her arousal was drugging me, pushing me to the edge of my control. "Jag behöver dig Eric."(I need you Eric) She moaned as she nipped my throat and I was lost.
I reclaimed her mouth and entered her simultaneously and the euphoria of being inside her was indescribable. She was panting, chanting my name and writhing in ecstasy beneath me as I pumped into her hot tight channel. "Säg att du är min Sookie, Att du kommer vara med mig alltid " (Say you are mine Sookie, that you will be with me always) I pleaded; I needed to hear her say it. She cupped my cheek in her tiny hand and looked into to my eyes "Jag är din Eric alltid." She whispered and turned her head away offering me her blood.
Nothing could have prepared me for the emotions that hearing those words would cause. I needed to be with her in every way possible, needed to feel her in me and myself in her. I savagely tore into my wrist and offered it to her; she smiled at me before she latched onto the wound on my arm. I drove my fangs into her neck and both of us were drinking deeply from each other, the utter bliss of being completely connected inside and out shattered the world around us as we fell over the edge into orgasmic oblivion.