AN: Sorry I left you hanging there, folks. I have everything written down in my head, but typing it out… You know…

I don't own anything, but I love it all. Playing around with them is a privilege.

Sookie shivered all over as she came down from her high, regaining conscious thought so to say. Her body felt new to her, every nervending seemed to be animated with the most exquisite warmth she had ever known. She felt the heat from Eric's body cascading over her, his desire evident in his heart beating powerfully close to her. He kissed his way up her neck and claimed her lips again and again, and she could feel the heat turning in to an excruciating flame running through her veins. She twined her hands in his hair, pulling him closer, deeper. She had never felt like this, like all of her being was concentrated in, on and around the man in her arms. She wanted him to take her, to own her and to make her his, and she could only press herself, all of herself, closer to him to convey it to him. He was on top of her, their bodies as tight together as bodies could be, but not close enough. Her panties and his boxers separated them, and she pushed him onto his back, straddling his waist. She paused as she took him in, his chiseled abs, and well-toned arms. His blazing blue eyes shone at her. Sookie bent down to kiss him again, and then rested her forehead against his, their panting breaths coming out equally ragged. His hands were restlessly roaming her back and down to cup her hips, bucking his own up to hers to show her just how hard he was for her. Sookie could feel her own need for him, her world shift, a paradigm-shift. She knew, with a clarity she could not argue, that he would, from now on, be her reason to breathe, fuck, even the air itself.

Sookie moved her lips to his ear, kissing the lobe gently, stroking her lips to his throat. She nuzzled the bend where his neck met his shoulder, and then found his hard nipple with her mouth, and she bit into it, and then lazily ran her tongue around it. She trailed kisses down his chest and simultaneously eased his boxers of off him. When his hard-on sprang out of its prison, she gasped. So it was true then. Everything about him was huge. Yahoo!

With tender fingers she stroked him once before taking the tip of him into her mouth. He almost yelped with pleasure and she let the tip of her tongue circle him, before taking the length of him all the way, as deep as she could in her mouth.

Eric saw stars through his closed eyelids, and explosions of fireworks. The feel of her, the warmth of her mouth was almost more than he could bear.

"AH, Sookie… Sookie… I want… I need to…. I have to have you!" His words came out more pleading than anything, but he couldn't help the bottomless need he had for her. Sookie looked up to meet his eyes, and hers were full of the same hurricane of emotions he felt through his body and soul. What was this? Eric felt that this moment, this time was all that his life so far had led up to. This was what was supposed to be, he hadn't known it, but now he did.

Eric gently guided Sookie on to her back, kissing her softly. He caressed her thighs apart, and stroked her wet folds with one hand, letting one finger plunge deep inside her. He could feel her body answer his touch, and she squirmed and stretched to hold him, trying to coax him into entering her.

"Please, Eric… Fuck me! Just fuck me before…. Oh, don't stop! Pleasepleaseplease!" Eric felt her walls convulse around his fingers as she came again, and when she started to ease, he entered her in one swift thrust, and another orgasm followed directly upon the first. She screamed his name, and he felt as if he was going to faint and explode, possibly at the same time. Eric had never been a religious man, but this must be as close to heaven one could come. The heat inside of her, the wetness… It was nearly the end of him.

"Oh GOD Sookie! You're so tight, so warm… Heaven… " He felt delirious and prayed he could last just a little longer buried deep inside of her. "My lover… I can't… I have to come!" He stroked her nub with his thumb as he fucked her harder and faster and then he let go. His world chattered, heaven and earth switched places and his eyes saw nothing but shimmering lights and her eyes, he heard nothing but her screams of orgasm mixed perfectly with his own growls, vibrating throughout his body.

They came to, after a long moment of blissfulness. The world came back into view. Sated and confortable, they lay entwined, sweaty skin against sweaty skin. Their breathing came back to normal, their hearts beating at almost normal rhythms.

"This is the beginning" she heard him whisper against her hair, and she turned her head to look at him. She felt the truth in his words. She saw the truth in his eyes. This man, her world, felt what she did. She had been betrayed by Bill and Lorena, but at this moment she only felt gratitude towards them. Their betrayal had put her where she was today. Maybe I should write them a thank you-note. She giggled a little. "What's so funny?" Eric searched her eyes and stroked her chin, tucking a wayward strand of hair behind her ear.

"I was just thinking. It's funny how life seems to take you on journeys, without plan or meaning. And before you know it, you arrive at where you are supposed to be. I can't explain it, but it feels like… Maybe this is where I'm supposed to be, Eric. Right here, right now, this is…"

"This is where you were meant to be? I know, Sookie, and it is! This is right, so right. It can't be any other way." He kissed her softly and then hugged her close. "I felt it right away, but I didn't recognize it for what it was. Maybe I'm a lesser man for it, but I wrote it down as physical attraction, much stronger than I ever imagined feeling, but still just physical. I was wrong. This is much more."

She reveled in his words. Let them embrace her completely. She felt them echoing her own feelings. This was insane, but she couldn't deny the depth of the emotions running back and forth between them, drowning them. Time didn't matter, nor did rationality or sense. She had fallen for him, completely, the first time she saw him. She knew him, straight away. There was no denying it.

"Stay with me, Sookie."

"I am here. I stayed, we made love. It was amazing."

"Yes, it was. Beyond amazing. Earth-shattering and all-consuming." He looked down in her eyes again, and then turned her over, covering her with his body. She could feel his cock stir and harden again, and her own body answered immediately. He entered her, met her ready and wet and warm, still looking into her eyes. "Stay with me. Not only this night, but all the days and nights to come."

He claimed her, filled her, staked her and she could not get close enough to him. Every fiber in her body ached with longing; she clawed him to get him deeper. Pure desperation, pure craving consumed her as he pounded in to her, every thrust driving them closer to the edge.

Eric felt her desperation; he knew it as his own. His physical need matched hers, and he could feel the world fade again. He lost sense of time and place, his mind and body consumed by a fire stronger than he had ever experienced.

"Fuuuuuck!" he screamed as he came, an orgasm stronger than he thought humanly possible to stand. Once again he could feel her fall right there with him. Her inner walls squeezed ever drop out of him, milked him dry. His world was spinning and she was the one thing anchoring him down.

"Om inte du finns, så finns inte jag. Det är den enkla sanningen."

"Oh… I've got to pick up on my Swedish… I have no idea what you just said to me." She laughed a little, moving to her side and propping up on one elbow to look at him. "I hope it was something nice."

"Sookie, what would you say if I asked you to go away with me?"

She gave him a questioning look.

"I want to show you something. Or rather, somewhere. My favorite place on earth, actually."

"I thought it to be here, your favorite place on earth."

"I love it here, but Kärkevagge…"

"Kergev… What?"

"Kärkevagge. It's in old same-language. It means Stone-valley and this place… I can't explain it; you have to see it to believe the beauty of it." His eyes sparkled with enthusiasm, and he looked so boyishly happy she had to give him a huge smile. "The valley is littered with huge blocks of stone left there by the inland ice" he continued, "and at the end of the valley there's a lake. It's so clear, you can see to the bottom of it even though it's really deep. Let me take you there, and share its wonder with you. I want to make love with you there, under the stars, at the end of the world."

"End of the world, eh?"

"Yeah, Kärkevagge is about as far north you can get and still be in Sweden. Fifteen kilometers, or just over 9 miles, from Riksgränsen, the border where Sweden meets Norway and Finland in the same spot. There, you can stand on a big rock and visit three countries at the same time" he added with a smile. It was contagious, that smile of his, and Sookie felt his enthusiasm transmit to her.

"Oh, Eric, I would love to go with you to Kaerge… Karge… Uh, Stone-valley. I really would like to see that place. When?"

"Actually, it would probably be better to go there during summer, but I simply can't wait that long." He gave her one of those sexy smirks, cocking his eyebrow at the same time. "If I can tear myself from you somewhere in the near future, I'll make the arrangements. There's a beautiful little youth hostel at Riksgränsen, from there we'll go by dogsled to Kärkevagge. Ever done that?"

"Dogsledding? No, never. Not much snow in Louisiana, remember?"

"You'll love it" he stated.

Sookie glanced at the alarm clock by the bed, and surprisingly found it to be past eight in the morning, and as if to confirm it, her stomach growled loudly. A slight blush crept up her face and she buried it at Eric's chest. "I'm hungry, but I don't want to get up."

"Well, lover, as much as I would love to let you devour me all day…" Eric's voice was thick with desire, his lips kissing her hair; he continued "given your tendency to faint when hungry, I'll better feed you. We want to keep your energy up, don't we?" He playfully swatted her behind before he jumped up off the bed and stretched his six and a half feet of naked wonder in front of her, clearly enjoying her watching him. She decided to pay him back, and leisurely stretched every limb of her body, moaning slightly with pleasure as she did so. Eric froze in mid-stride, his eyes roaming her with raw excitement.

"Ah, Sookie, lover… If you put it like that, I don't think we'll make it to breakfast."

Translation: If you don't exist, neither do I. That's the simple truth.

AN: Kärkevagge is an actual place in Sweden, Google it! Simply breathtaking…

The lovers are submerged in blissful lovemaking, and the world is right… Or? I see troubles rising at the horizon…

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