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Sookie came downstairs in her pajamas and bathrobe to see the most beautiful man she had ever seen. He was tall, long flowing blonde hair, the most beautiful sapphire blue eyes. He was muscular in a trim sort of way bordering on lanky. "Oh Hi I am Sookie and you are…?" she introduced herself.
"Sookie this is Fintan Brigant. You could say he's an old friend of mine and he is going to help you with your vampire problem" He grandmother was blushing and Sookie couldn't figure out why.
"Hello Sookie, it is good to meet you." Fintan said. Then he turned to Adele "I can see, as unlikely as it is with her concentration if the bloodline, Sookie has the essential spark. This will ciomplicate things with the vampire if he realizes it."
"Concentration of the bloodline… gran what's he talking about?" Sookie looked confused
"Sit down Sookie I need to explain some things and I am unsure of just where to begin." Sookie sat on the couch Adele sat next to her and Fintan took the easy chair. "Back when grandpa Earl and I were first married, we tried for a long time to have children. Earl had mumps as a child, and we realized that they had sterilized him. Children were not in our forecast. One day when I was out hanging the laundry Fintan came by and he asked for a drink of water, I fetched it and we talked. Now I loved your grandpa Earl, but I also so badly wanted children. Well Fintan kept coming back to see me, and I don't know how to say this…." She drifted off blushing furiously. "Fintan and I had an intimate relationship and with Fintan I had two children."
"Gran you mean you cheated on Grandpa Earl?" Sookie was scandalized
"Actually I had discussed it with Earl, and he accepted my relationship with Fintan, knowing that we would gave children form it. In those days they didn't have artificial insemination, or any of these newfangled things that they can do for barren spouses. I had your father and your aunt with Fintan and Grandpa Earl accepted them and raised them as their own. I was offered to go with Fintan, but I decided to stay with Grandpa Earl."
"I don't know what to say, so you mean that Fintan is my grandfather, not Grandpa Earl?" Sookie looked at him. His hair was almost the same color as her's. Looking at him she could see some facial features that she knew when she looked in a mirror were hers, the set of the eyes, the shape of the nose.
"What you don't know Sookie, is that Fintan is half Fairy." Adel said quietly.
"Fairy…. Fairies are real?" Sookie blurted out.
"Yes Sookie, fairies are real. We left the human realm after a long protracted war with the vampires. You see our blood acts like a drug to them and they cannot control themselves around us. If they catch us, they always drain us. My father Nail Brigant Prince of the Sky fae and ruler of Elfyra sealed the portals so only a few fae, like me, have access to them."
Sookie hung on every word. "So you mean to tell me I am part Fae?" She asked quietly "Is that why I have telepathy?"
"Yes many fae are telepathic. I am, as is my father Nail. You are 1/8 fae form the Sky fae Brigant line. We are a very strong line and I see the essential spark in you which is unusual for one with such a diluted bloodline. We will need to work with you to develop your other fae capabilities like teleportation and the energy work since you have the essential spark, they will eventually develop on their own. Better to train you in their use and control so they so not manifest at inopportune times." Fintan watched his granddaughter. He never expected one of the human bloodline to have the essential spark when neither of his children who were ¼ fae failed to manifest it.
"Ok what do I do about this vampire?" Sookie wanted to get the problem as soon as possible.
"One option since you have the essential spark is that I can take you to Elfyra, and you could live out your days in the land of fairy with you kit and kin."
"I don't want to leave here… I just want this vampire gone!" Sookie blurted. The idea of living in Fairy was intriguing but to live here who le life away from her family her life in Bon Temps just creeped her out
"There may be a way, but I will have to enlist the help of an old friend. He knows more of the vampire structure, and knows better how to deal with this vampire. I could just kill him, but we don't know who else he has told, which would just bring another vampire in play. What we need to do is make you safe, so no other vampire will seek to make you bond with them to use your telepathy. Vampires are not always kind to the bonded slaves, using them for blood and sex."
Sookie blanched. That was just what Bill Compton had told her. "His name is Bill Compton, he moved into the Compton homestead just on the other side of the cemetery. I don't know how I will be able to get rid of him and avoid him since he is essentially our next door neighbor." She folded in on herself. This just seemed like a horrible nightmare.
"So let me get this correctly. You want me to figure out a way to get rid of this vampire's attachment to you, as well as protect you from other vampires, but you want to stay in this realm?" Fintan sighed; this wasn't going to be easy. Sookie nodded. "Are you willing to do what it will take to do this?" Sookie nodded again. "I will go talk to my friend, it is awhile until dawn and I am sure I can reach him. I will be back." Fintan said as he stood up and then in a moment disappeared.
"Where did he go Gran?" Sookie was stunned.
"I think he went to talk to his friend. They can teleport once they come into this realm. Distance is not an issue." Gran fussed with the doilies on the table. She needed to keep awake. It was painful to see Fintan. He warned her he was long lived and that as she aged, he would not change. But to see him looking like he did the first day she met him, really brought to the forefront exactly how much older she was now.
It was about 45 min later when there was a knock on the door. Sookie opened the door to admit Fintan. Another male, looking very young his hisr in a pageboy cut stood on the doorstep. "Invite him in Sookie" Fintan told her.
"Come in" she told the younger man who smiled at her and entered. "This s an old friend of mine, Godric" Fintan introduced him to Sookie and Adele. "He is going to help us with your vampire problem. "I filled him in so he is aware of what occurred."
Sookie nodded, she was feeling much better knowing things were moving in the way to help them. "Would either of you like something? I have water, tea coffee." Godric shook his head while Fintan accepted the offer of tea.
Godric sat in one of the chairs. "we have a problem. Bill Compton is the procurer of Queen Sophie Ann and is protected by edict by the Queen. Killing him outright is not an option." Godic began. "I understand that you are the granddaughter of Fintan, and the great granddaughter if Nail Brigant. For a vampire to take you against your will could feasibly cause another vampire/fae war. Unfortunately, Fae is in the middle of a civil war between their factions and Nail is busy running that war. Fintan told me you declined going into Elfyria, which makes things a little more difficult."
"Sookie nodded. "I don't want to give up my life here, I have family…"
Godric nodded. You also would not be totally accepted in Elfyria, you may have the essential spark according to Fintan, but you are also only 1/8th Fae and would not be totally accepted. Since we cannot just outright kill Bill Compton, the only way I can see you being able to stay here, is for you to belong to a older stronger vampire."
Adele spoke up. "Is there no other way?"
Godric shook his head. "If Compton knows of her, we don't know if any other vampires know of her. I would offer myself bu7t then you would have to move to texas, which would defeat the whole purpose of you staying in this realm."
Sookie nodded. "I don't want to leave Louisiana"
Godric nodded. "I know you are a modern woman Sookie, and old fashioned ways are not yours, but we are in a predicament. You are involved in the vampire society structure now. You will need to belong to a stronger, older vampire than Bill Compton for you to be safe form him and his like." Sookie sighed. This was so medieval
"My child Eric would be ideal. This would be a form of arranged marriage to be honest. Eric is over a thousand years old, far older than most vampires in this area of the country. There is one older, but unlikely he will be willing to challenge Eric for you. "
Sookie looked at him in amassment "Arranged marriage? How will Eric feel about this being with someone he has never met?" She never thought she would ever be married, seeing how she couldn't touch a human without reading their thoughts.
"In his day, arranged marriages were the norm. Often a couple would meet on their marriage day. His marriage in his living years was arranged between his father and a neighboring chieftain. He is my child and will do as I bid him, but I think you might very well get along well. What you arrange between the two of you will be between the two of you. He is tall about 6 and half feet, and he is very handsome. He is very honest and trustworthy. He is has the integrity not often seen in this day and age. He lives in Shreveport, he runs a bar there called Fangtasia which he runs with his child Pamela." Godric looked at Sookie, yes she was the sort that would appeal to his child. She seemed sweet and untouched in a way. He could smell that she was a virgin, and knew Eric's integrity would make his child caregul with her. "we are running out of night. Go to you room and pack a bag for a couple of weeks. I will be taking you to Texas, where we will break the bond with Compton and after you have recovered firm that, we will have you form a bond with Eric as well as do the appropriate ceremonies."
Sookie's head was a whirl but she did as she was asked. She couldn't believe this. She had gone from a single woman who never hoped to ever marry to being betrothed to a man she never met. She knew as a modern woman she should rail against this, but the unknown was better than the known Compton. He was a nightmare. She knew from meeting Compton that she couldn't read vampires. She couldn't read Godric either, he was just a void. She packed quickly. She wanted to get on with it, she wanted to be out from under Compton as soon as possible, and if aligning with this Eric got her free and protected her form other vampires, she was more than willing to do it.