Timing Is Everything Chapter 41: In Between The Lines, a true blood fanfic

Chapter Forty One: In Between The Lines

Another stop sign, another headline
Another broken song
Learning the labels, lessons and fables
I forgot

"You acted very stupidly tonight." Eric pulled his bloody wrist away from my lips, the wound healing almost instantly. He shook his head as he moved from the coffee table to beside me on the couch, tugging me onto his lap. I gladly wrapped my arms around the vampire, laying my head on his shoulder. My eyes fluttered close as I tried to relax, tried to process everything that had happened tonight. I hadn't imagined that earlier this evening, while watching Eric prepare to leave to talk with Godric, this night would be so hectic. It was almost too much to handle. I was exhausted. All I wanted to do was curl up and sleep for an eternity. But I knew I couldn't do so, not until this war was over and done with.

"I know." I mumbled, tightening my arms around him.

"What did you do, Ellie? What in the world did you do?' He questioned me, rubbing small circles on my back in a soothing manner. "Your eyes, they were...they were grey at first, and I knew she had possessed you. But then..."

"But then what?" I opened my eyes, staring up at him in confusion.

Under the surface, lost in the verses
There is a rising tide
We're trying to rescue the meaning
If only for tonight
If only for tonight

I saw the worry in his blue orbs, and that caused my concern to grow. I knew what I had done to that witch was unlike anything I had ever done before in my life. I knew it had been risky, giving the witch permission to enter me, to control me how she pleased. I knew she wanted my soul, and I knew she would go for it. I just never expected the agony, the excruciating pain that I felt as she clawed at my soul, like she was trying to rip it right from my body. I had done the only thing that I possible could, the only thing that my powers would allow, and it seemed to have been beyond my control. I had burned the witch alive right from inside of me. I had felt her dying. I had felt her soul being charred to absolute nothingness.

And in a way, it scared me.

Because I had hardly been able to even stand on my two feet when that had occurred. I had been without a single ounce of energy or strength when I had done something so powerful, so cruel and terrifying. If it was possible to do that when I was weakened, then who knew what I could do when I was fully charged. And that frightened me. It felt like there was a nuclear bomb inside of me, just waiting for the right moment to go off. And maybe that would be helpful while going up against Victor, but I was just scared out of my mind that I wouldn't know how to control it and would end up hurting myself, or worse, those that I loved.

I was a ticking time bomb, that's exactly what I was.

"They were as red as your blood, Ellie." Eric raised his hand up to brush away a single tear that had slid down my cheek, a frown settled on his lips. "Why are you crying my love?"

In between the lines and the boulevards
Underneath the sky chasing who we are
Wanting more before it slips away
Screaming to the stars just to feel alive
Maybe one more chance and we'll get it right
I won't believe, that all these days
And all these dreams were only meant to fade

"I'm scared." I whispered, my voice wavering.

"I won't let anything happen to you, Ellie. I will not allow another soul to harm you in any way. I promise you that, my beautiful little Phoenix." He vowed in assurance.

"It's not what others could do to me that scares me, Eric." I felt another tear slide down my cheek, followed by another and another. "I'm...I'm scared of myself."

Eric didn't seem to understand at first, his eyebrows raised as he stared down at me in confusion. We just stared at one another, my orbs pleading with him to understand. Something must have clicked in the vampire, the light bulb going off as he tightened his arms around me, holding me to him as if he was afraid to ever let me go.

Zero to sixty, running on empty
Tell me what have we become
Haunted by secrets
Shadows and demons hide the sun
But out of the darkness
Don't care what they call this
I won't let you down this time

"This is still new to you, Ellie. It may have been two years since you transitioned, but for the majority of those years you were without your memory. You never had the opportunity to strengthen your powers. And when your memory returned, you were thrust into multiple wars and forced to use powers that are likely beyond your comprehension right now." He stroked my long locks. "It's natural to be scared of what we don't understand."

"You sound like Godric." I mused, though I knew he was right. I hadn't had the time to strengthen my powers, to even really understand them at all. First I had dealt with the witches, and only a few months later, I now had Victor to deal with. I hadn't a moment of peace and quiet to try and dwell on who and what I was. Everything was just happening so quickly that it was frightening.

"I would like to think that at times, I too can be wise."Eric chuckled softly. "Please don't worry, my love. It pains me to see you like this."

I sighed as I felt my body grow relaxed. Eric always had a way about him that could comfort me in any possible situation. Here we were, a war going on around us, and I felt perfectly content in his arms. I was scared and frightened over the powers that lay within me, and yet Eric was able to make it seem perfectly normal. This was exactly why I had fallen in love with Eric, it was the reason that I could forgive him now, without a second thought. Because it was apparent that he loved me, that he cared for me. I hadn't known that for awhile. I was scared that it had all been an act. He had left me; he had broken my heart into a million pieces. But he had come back. He had come back and he had proven to me in such a short amount of time that he was serious, that he was sorry, that he loved me and was here to stay.

And right now, that's all I could cling to. It was the small bit of happiness that I could hold onto while we all fought for our lives.

"Promise me something?" I gazed up into those gorgeous blue eyes.

"I would promise you the entire world, my sweet." A small smile swept across his lips.

I couldn't help but smile in return. It was rare to see a true smile on his face in replace of that smirk of his. he didn't let his guard down around many, and I felt privileged that he had allowed himself to fall in love with me, to accept that we were soul mates and that we had an eternity ahead of us.

"Promise me that no matter what, we'll both get through this, that neither of us will die. Promise me that after this is all said and done, you'll sweep me off my feet and we'll live happily ever after."

"You and I, my love, we will live lifetimes of happily ever afters." He brushed his lips against mine, both of our smiles widening. "We will get through this, I promise you that we will all live through this, that we'll all be fine. I promise you an eternity together, my sweet, my Phoenix, my lover. You cannot get rid of me that easily."

I curled my hand around the back of his neck as I pressed him forward, capturing his lips with my own. A low growl emitted from the back of his throat as his hands gripped onto my hips in need. His tongue flicked out, tasting my lips as a moan escaped my lips, his tongue using that opportunity to dart in to meet mine. Our tongues duelled for control, his winning as usual, while my hands began to explore his body in a way that I had missed. Feeling his rock hard body beneath my hands, to slide them up underneath his shirt, his muscles reacting to my warmth, it sent tingles throughout my entire body. I could feel the electric shocks running through both of us as the intensity rose, one of Eric's hands slipping underneath my own shirt. His cool digits danced up my side and to my bra covered breasts. He gently brushed the backs of his fingers over the fabric, my entire body shuddering against his while I shifted so I was straddling the vampire, his arousal now pressing against me. I grinded against his erection, knowing just how uncomfortable it was becoming to be stuck in those jeans. My hands dipped down to massage the barrier covering his arousal while one of my breasts was pulled free from its confines. I gasped in surprise as he gently rolled my nipple between two fingers, pleasurable sensations shooting right through my body like lightening.

In between the lines and
Underneath the sky (only meant to fade)
Screaming at the stars
Just to feel alive, just to feel alive

We're trying to rescue the meaning
To do more than just survive
We're dying to capture the feeling
If only for tonight

"I will love you forever." Eric whispered huskily into my ear as his lips trailed across my jaw and to my ear where his fangs extended and he nipped gently on my earlobe. "I will love you for an eternity."

I felt like I was in heaven when Eric lifted my shirt over my head, ripping my bra off in the process. He lowered his lips down, sucking a nipple between his soft lips. I threw my head back in ecstasy as he sucked, tugged and licked at my nipple before moving his attention onto the other. I couldn't control myself as longer as my hands began fumbling with the zipper of Eric's jeans. To help, Eric brushed my hands away, undoing the button and unzipping his pants so I could pull his erection free. I lifted my hips off of Eric's lap as he tugged my jeans off, nearly growing impatient and ripping the fabric right off of my body. All the while, his lips never left my nipples, the two little buds erect and sensitive to his touches. I couldn't stop the moans as they left my lips one by one, growing louder by the second. Should Victor's army come here looking for us, well they would certainly find quite a scene.

"I forgive you." I gasped out as Eric's fingers slid beneath my panties and entered my wet core without a single warning. "I forgive you. I forgive you. I...oh god!"

His lips left my nipples, travelling back up to my neck where his tongue flicked out to lick along my pulsing vein. His fangs grazed across my neck, and I pulled my head to the side to give him more access. It was different than earlier, when the witch had been controlling him. I knew this time, he would bite me out of love, throwing me completely over the edge as he did so.

He didn't bite me right away though. He teased me, toyed with me as he pulled the panties from my body, leaving me completely naked straddling his lap. All I could do was hold onto his large shoulders as his fingers left my core, only to find my nipples once again, caressing my breasts lovingly.

"Tell me what you want, lover." Eric's fangs were poised to strike. "Tell me exactly what you want."

"I...I want...oh god, I want you...I want all of you...right now!"

I could barely even breathe as Eric suddenly thrust right into me. My eyes rolled to the back of my head, my hands gripping his shoulders hard. It took me a moment to remind myself of his length, of just how large this vampire truly was. Eric paused his movements for a brief moment, only to raise my hips nearly off of him completely. As he lowered me back down onto him, his fangs suddenly sunk into my neck, a cry of sheer pleasure entering the room.

"Ellie, I'm here, I'll..."

Everything just stopped at the sound of the front door crashing open and heavy footsteps came hurrying into the room. I felt my face flush a deep shade of red when I recognized the voice. I didn't dare open my eyes as I dug my head into Eric's chest out of embarrassment. I had nearly forgotten about the naked and unconscious friend of mine in the front yard. I had been so focused on everything else, I had forgotten he was there at all. And now I was kicking myself for that. Because here was Quinn, bursting into the house as he heard my cries, probably assuming I was in pain and was in need of assistance.

I was in need of assistance of course, but not in any way that he could provide.

"Oh fuck me." I groaned.

"I'm already doing that, lover." Eric snickered, not sounding at all like he cared that we had been interrupted. He thrust again into me, causing another moan to escape my lips. I could just imagine the look of horror on Quinn's face as he witnessed this. I was sure there was a matching look of horror on my face right now.

"I...er...I thought you were...ah..." Quinn was rambling in embarrassment.

"Obviously she's more than fine, shifter. Go run along now."

"Eric!" I slapped at his chest as I tried to pull away from him. That only caused another moan of pleasure, his erection digging deeper into me. "Oh god!"

"I'll just...wait outside."

It was only seconds later that the door was slammed shut, leaving us completely alone once again.

"Oh my...oh god, Eric stop!" I tried to put an end to our charades as Eric continued to grind himself into me, thrusting in and out as quickly as he could. I couldn't believe that Quinn had walked in on us having sex and that we were still having sex even now, with Quinn on the front porch waiting for us. I was embarrassed. I was beyond embarrassed.

And yet I wasn't really trying all that hard to move myself off of Eric.

I could feel my peak forming, the crashing climax slowly approaching. Eric was grunting as he suddenly pulled me down onto the couch, now hovering over me as he thrust in and out, only growing faster than I could even keep up. My nails were digging into him now as I tried to keep myself from slipping unconsciousness from the sheer amount of pleasure racking my body.

"Oh god Eric I'm...I'm..."

I didn't even get the words out as my orgasm was reached, ecstasy running throughout my entire body. The screams escaped from my lips, not caring at all if Quinn or anyone else could hear me. Eric just continued to push into me more and more until finally, his body tensed and grew still. My body shook in orgasmic pleasure, my back arching, my toes curling. It wasn't until my sweat covered body collapsed onto the couch that Eric slowly slid from me, shuddering rising up my spine from how sensitive I now was. It was the first time we had had sex since Eric had left. It was the first time we had made love, knowing that it was the first of many in our long lifetimes together.

"I love you." I murmured softly, my eyes slowly opening to gaze up at Eric who was smirking down at me. "God that was amazing."

"Well of course it was, lover." He dipped his lips down to meet mine in a short and sweet kiss. "I'm positively amazing, didn't you remember."

I rolled my eyes as I slapped his chest, Eric manoeuvring us so he was now lying on the couch and I was lying on top of him. I sighed in complete content, my eyes closing, feeling more peaceful and relaxed than I had ever felt before in my life.

And once again, that moment just had to be ruined.

"Why is the shifter naked on the porch?" Pam's voice came wafting into the room.

"There's blood outside, why is there...oh" Godric was he next to enter the house.

I groaned as I hid my face in Eric's chest, not believing that for a second time, we were discovered having sex.

"Well I'm not entirely certain having sex will solve the war we're currently in but..." Godric trailed off and I could just tell the smirk that was on the vampire's face.

"I must say, her ass is quite...deliciously appealing.

I was mortified. Absolutely mortified. Might as well just kill me now, because Eric and I would never live this down.

"Pam, not now." Eric spoke up. "Though you are incredibly right."

"Eric!" I mumbled.

"Sorry love, but she is." Eric lightly tapped my bare ass before lifting me up so quickly, I hadn't even thought I had left the couch as I found myself being enveloped by the cushions, a blanket covering my naked form. I watched through hooded eyes as Eric stood, delicately putting himself back into his pants and zipping himself up. He was staring at me the whole time before raising his gaze to those watching us on the other side of the couch. I drew the blanket over my face in embarrassment, wishing I could just disappear right into this couch.

"Perhaps we should give Elizabeth a moment to compose herself." Godric suggested.

Eric nodded as he leaned down and pecked me on the lips. "We'll just be on the porch, my beautiful lover."

I could only nod as he moved around the couch. I waited, listening as I heard the three vampires leave the house slowly, drawing out my embarrassment for as long as possible, before the front door was once again, closed.

"Seriously?" I gazed up at the ceiling, shaking my head as if God's face was staring down at me. "Seriously, god, I mean seriously?"

I pulled the blanket tightly around me as I peeked over the top of the couch, ensuring that I was alone, before sitting up and began the search for my clothes.

"Well at least we finally had mind blowing sex..."

"I cannot believe that just happened." I muttered to myself as I towel dried my hair. I had snuck upstairs to grab a shower and a clean set of clothes before joining the others. With everything that had occurred tonight, I had nearly forgotten that the whole point of coming here was to collect my things and go to Sam's trailer. Now there was only less than two hours before the sun was set to rise, and time was starting to run out before Eric and the others would have to go to ground.

"Yes that was...quite the scene to walk in on."

I groaned, hiding my face in my hands as Godric entered my room. I couldn't believe my luck tonight. First a naked Quinn, and then Pam and Godric.

"I'm pleased to see you and Eric are growing closer." Godric came to sit beside me on my bed. "Perhaps though, now isn't the time to..."

"Yeah yeah, I know." Someone just needed to shoot me now. "It wasn't my plan to just jump Eric."

"Well you have had that plan in the past." He reminded me.

"Godric!" I slapped the vampire's arm, trying not to remember the last time Eric and I ended up having sex. I hadn't been able to hold out on the sex ban I had created, no shocker there, and had gone purposely to Fangtasia dressed in just about nothing, to try and seduce him. Of course, I ended up having to come back here to do so, and that night was...well it had to be the most passionate night of sex I've ever had in my life. I could still feel the shaking of my legs as I remembered that night, how satisfied I felt.

"We may not have a bond, Elizabeth, but you're getting quite...aroused." there was a wide smirk on Godric's face, and I thought I was just going to die right there in embarrassment.

I groaned and fell back onto my bed, grabbing a pillow and covering my permanently red face. Godric just chuckled as he grabbed onto the pillow and effortlessly lifted it off of my face.

"I'm only teasing you, my dear. Though it does seem like you are..."

"Don't say it Godric, please god, just don't say it." I shot him a glare

"Of course." He nodded, though that smirk hadn't left his face once. "Is it out of your system now? Perhaps we can focus on this war since you and Eric have..."

"Really Godric, you're killing me here." I grabbed a second pillow and knocked it into Godric's side. He looked amused at my actions, and merely stole that pillow as well. "You suck."

"I don't believe I was the one who..."

"Okay!" I jumped off of the bed, waving my hands in the air for him to stop. "Don't we have more important things to worry about? Like why are you back here?"

"I felt something was wrong with Eric, I came as quickly as I could." Godric's smirk twisted into a frown. "I met with Pam outside, who had escaped the clutches of the Weres."

"Pam was captured by Weres?" My eyes grew wide. "When did this happen?"

"They were ordered to kill her after she had attacked the witch to ensure I had enough time to go to you this evening." Godric explained. "From what Quinn has told us while we were waiting for you, Bill had ordered Quinn to kill Pam as well, and he would be set free."

"But he didn't, Quinn wouldn't do something like that." I sat back down beside Godric. "So what happened?"

"Quinn supposedly attacked Bill instead, and he ordered the Weres to kill Pam before she could get away."

"But she's here now, so she was able to get away then?" I wondered.

Godric nodded. "She too had felt a difference with Eric, and once she knew she could trust Quinn, she sent him here while she finished off the Weres."

"And that's when he popped out of nowhere." I ran a hand through my damp hair. "God this night has been too hectic."

"It has." Godric sighed. "I fear that the witch will..."

"Oh." I chewed on my bottom lip as I caught Godric's eyes. "I killed her, Godric."

Godric's eyes grew wide in surprise. "You killed her?"

"It's impossible. It had to be impossible because I..." I couldn't look him in the eye any longer and began fidgeting with my hands.

"Eric said that she had possessed you."

"I couldn't hurt him, Godric. She was inside of him, controlling him and I just couldn't do it. She was going to kill him. She was hurting him so much, I had to do something." The tears formed in my eyes as I remembered the screams of agony Eric had been in. It tore my heart to pieces to hear him in pain. "So I told her to control me, to possess me."

"You were willing to sacrifice yourself, for Eric."

"I love him, Godric. I knew I couldn't really die. And what she wanted was my soul. It was what she went after the moment she had control of me." I shuddered at the memory. "It was horrible Godric. She was clawing at my soul. She was tearing at it hoping she could rip it right from my body."

Godric clasped a finger under my chin and raised my gaze to meet his. "You shouldn't have been so reckless, what if..."

"I don't know what I did, Godric. I don't know how I did it, but I killed her. One minute she was clawing at me, causing me the worst pain imaginable, and the next..." I closed my eyes as I thought back to what I had done. There were gaps in my memory, as if I hadn't wanted to remember it completely. "I had burned her alive, Godric, from inside of me."

Silence fell over the room as I slowly drew my eyes back open. I stared into those blue green orbs holding a mixture of shock and worry, and I waited for him to say something. But he didn't. He just sat there staring at me. And that worried me. Had I done something horrible? Had I been too cruel? I was already scared of myself, I didn't want to frighten Godric because of what I could do. He was my best friend; he was the only other one who I could turn to concerning what I was. If I scared him away, who else would there be?

"I don't know how I did it. It just happened. I couldn't even stand on my own two feet, Godric. How was I able to do that? I could barely send Eric flying more than a foot across the yard. So how in the world did I do this?" my heart was beginning to race as my panic grew, as the fear surged through me. "What does this mean? This shouldn't be possible, right? I mean, I know I'm a Phoenix, but I shouldn't have this much power. I don't even know what I did. And while I was weakened! If I could do this, then what else can I do? I'm a ticking time bomb Godric, I'm..."

"Stop." Godric took me by the shoulders, shaking me just the slightest to cease my rambling. I grew silent, though my bottom lip began to tremble, along with the rest of my body.

"I'm scared, Godric. I'm scared of what I can do." I whispered to the vampire, a tear slipping down my cheek. "I'm not supposed to have this much power. I'm not. It's not right. What's wrong with me?"

"Shh, come here." He wrapped his arms around me, holding me against him as I let the tears flow down my cheeks. I clutched onto Godric, onto the only man who could explain what was happening to me. I felt like a ticking time bomb, like at any moment I was just going to explode with this power that shouldn't even be possible. "It's going to be alright, Elizabeth."

"But...but..." I couldn't even get the words out.

"You've always been stronger than Kyra was, even at the beginning." He rubbed up and down my back in a soothing manner. "You only transitioned a few years ago, and your already more powerful than she ever was."

"But I shouldn't be." I pulled out of the vampire's embrace. "Something is wrong with me."

"There's nothing wrong with you." He reached up to wipe away the tears.

I shot off of the bed however. "Yes there is! I can kill people so easily, Godric. I can kill them with a snap of my fingers. I can set them on fire; I can burn them from the inside out. And apparently I can kill someone when they're inside of me. There is something wrong with me! I'm not right!"

"Elizabeth..." Godric rose to his feet. "You're perfectly..."

"No. No something is wrong with me." I shook my head, backing away from Godric. "What if...what if I hurt everyone? What if suddenly I can't control it and I...I don't want to hurt anyone Godric. I don't want this. Make this stop. Please just make this stop!"

A pair of arms wrapped around me, but I knew, even in the haze of my tears, that they didn't belong to Godric, and instead to the man that I loved. I couldn't stop the sobs as they escaped my lips, Eric holding my shaking body to his. If his arms hadn't been so tightly wrapped around me, I surely would have collapsed. I just couldn't handle this anymore. This was all too much. How was I supposed to defeat Victor when I was so unsure about my powers? I just wanted all of this to end. I want it all to be some horrible nightmare that I was going to wake up from at any moment. Eric would be there, holding me in his arms much like he was doing now, assuring me that everything was going to be alright, that I was safe, that it had only been a dream.

But that would never happen. Because this wasn't just a dream, this wasn't just some horrible nightmare my mind concocted. This was all very very real, whether I wanted to believe that or not.

"There is nothing wrong with you." Eric whispered into my ear as I sobbed into his chest. "You are perfect. You are absolutely perfect, my love. We will figure this out. We will help you. But there is nothing wrong with you; I can assure you of that."

I just shook my head, not believing him. Because there had to be something wrong with me, there just had to be.

"Look at me." Eric lifted my gaze to meet his, though I tried to resist. "Look at me, lover."

I sniffed, unable to control the tears as they flowed down my cheeks, the occasional sob escaping my lips.

"You are the most beautiful woman I've ever laid my eyes on. You are the most remarkable and extraordinary being I've ever had the pleasure of meeting. You are the most kind hearted, selfless person who has changed me into a vampire that I cannot even recognize. You changed me for the better, my love. I didn't care about love; I hardly cared about anyone but myself. But then you came along, and you changed everything. You made me believe in love. You made me believe that I can be happy; that I can have whatever it is that I choose. And I choose you, every single thing about you. Because there's nothing wrong with you at all, do you understand? You are perfect in every possible way." Eric cupped both of my cheeks, a small smile crossing his lips. "I love you, Ellie. I love everything there is about you. You may be more powerful than any of us could have imagined, but we will get through this. You and I, we will figure this out. We are in this together."

The tears only flowed harder, but it was instead because of Eric's words. Eric sighed as he pulled me back against him, holding me in a way that no man had ever held me before.

"I love you more than anything; more than anyone can possible love another. I love you with all of my heart, whether it is unable to beat or not. We will deal with this, my beautiful Phoenix, we will figure this out, you and I. You are not alone anymore. I'm here, and I'm not going anywhere."

I couldn't control the sobs as they racked my body. I clung to Eric for dear life, too afraid to ever let him go again.

"We will kill these bastards. We will destroy them all, and take great pleasure in doing so." Eric began stroking my hair lovingly. "And then you and I, well we're going to go on a very very long vacation. One where we won't do anything but have mind blowing sex all day, every day."

Somehow, I knew he was right.

He had to be, right?

A/N: The song in this chapter is In Between The Lines by Tyrone Wells, and it's an amazing song that I would suggest everyone go listen to. actually, all of his songs are pretty awesome. we are growing super close to the climax of this war, and after that, it won't be too much longer till the end of this fic. I won't put a number on the chapters, because I don't plan that far ahead lol. just be prepared that we are getting into the final stretch now. but have no fear, because as it looks like, the last installment to this series will be the next fic, which I do promise, is so much happier than the last couple have been lol. I know a lot of people have mentioned that, and I know there's a lot of heavy emotions going around, but it's all building to the end of this fic when, as I've said before, everyone has a happy ending.