A/N: Well I know I haven't updated in a while and you all probably thought I already abandon this story. I just had a writers block. I have written portion of the chapter that I intended to post instead of this one but sadly I couldn't finish it to be able to post it *sigh* Instead this comes to mind and I thought to now give away the identity of Sookie in my story incase all of a sudden I decided to end the story. I have an idea of AU AH story for Eric and Sookie in mind right now so I hope I wont get sidetrack and finish the supposedly next chapter.
Disclaimer: As always Charlaine Harris is the sole owner of the familiar characters in this story. I'm only using it for entertainment of my fellow fanfic readers. I don't profit from this so please don't sue me Ms. Harris.
As always reviews are welcome and appreciated.
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Eric Northman- Eirikr Nordmann
Angeluina- well guess and find out ;)
EPOV Dec, 31st New Orleans before sunset
"Do you love her?" I was sitting by her feet, my head's on her lap, lost with my thoughts and the feeling of her hands gently patting my head. With her singsong voice she asks me again, "Do you love her Eirikr?"
I lifted my head on her lap and look at her beautiful eyes that resembles the color of the clear blue sky with flecks of gold around it, it is mesmerizing. I got lost on its ethereal beauty for a moment before I lay my head back on her lap and answered her. "You know who I love, and always will Angeluina."
"You know I can only watch you, talk to you in your state of unconsciousness, give you advise, guide you but nothing more Eirikr. Human life is short and I will love for you to enjoy it and be happy. You shouldn't waste it" she said with hint of sadness on her normal lovely singsong voice. I could only hope for the cause of her very concern for me that she love me the same way I love her but I known better, even if she does she couldn't really be with me because she's an angel. Not just an angel but my guardian angel. The one that was assign by the highest power whoever that might be to guide me through my life on my very first breath on this earth, my birth. "I LOVE HER. I'M IN LOVE WITH MY GUARDIAN ANGEL." I had told her ever since I had known what love is or should I say the very first I had learn and capable of loving which is ever since I was a little child and still it hasn't change and it only keeps growing in time and molded to a more complicated deep level that I sometimes felt despair for loving her, because I know I can't really have her. I can't have a normal life I deperately wanted with her and the most palpable is she is eternal and only existed on my unconsciousness. It's insanely impossible. Although her uttering the words that she loves me too it somehow make up and made me contended that I can at least hear that very heart warming words from her. But honestly In my mind I only thought that she was just saying it back for the reason that it's their very nature to love, like all angels was meant to love their charge on a guardian aspect. Definitely not the same way how I wanted it and meant it to be said, but surprisingly I'm contented.
"I help my father, my brothers and my people. I'm not wasting my life. I contribute and help whatever I can… I'm …I'm happy when I'm with you," I mentally thought and add that I'm happy to be with her even if not in the real world, even just on my state of unconsciousness or any state and sense for that matter. I know it's beyond any logical reason I know it's insane but I couldn't help it and feel this way around her. I'm irrevocably and irrationally in love with my guardian angel.
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(NARRATION)
It's dark and Eirikr couldn't see anything but can hear whispers around him. He concentrates to the voices and recognizes one as Angeluina's and another male voice, but he couldn't understand them.
(note: Angel's conversation is in Latin just felt like not writing it in Latin because nobody will understand it anyway and its easier for you guys to read it. yes? )
"Angeluina there's nothing you can do about it now. That's his fate, given to him" said the male voice.
"I should have warned him. I should have told him what was coming" said Angeluina while trying but failing in her attempt to hide the sadness and hurt that she is feeling for the first time for somebody. And that somebody is her beloved and former charge Eric (Eirikr).
"No! You did the right thing. We are not to interfere with our charge's fate. We are only existed to guide them. You know that Angeluina. We need to leave. I need to take you to your new charge" the male voice said.
"Can I see him one last time? His….he will be rising soon. Will you let me see him….please ….I just want to tell him something…."
There's a desperate edge and sadness in Angeluina's voice that Eric has never ever heard before and he didn't like hearing it at all. Just then he decided to move to go to her and realize and notice for the first time what his condition is. There something pressing all over his body. He inhale and smelled dirt. What! Dirt! What the hell! Wait, I'm buried in dirt? Does that mean… he decided to stop analyzing his actual condition and starts clawing himself out of the dirt.
The conversation of the two angels continues while Eric is clawing himself out to resurface.
"You know the rules Angeluina were not to be seen by humans or talk to them when their conscious." said the other voice.
"But his not technically human anymore his…his…immortal now…Please this is the only and last time I will talk to him….I just need to see him one last time please Clemente."
"This once. This once Angeluina. There better be not a repeat with your next charge. Actually there wouldn't be because I would not allow it. And there's a consequence for this Angeluina. The question is, are you willing to accept it?"
"I accept, whatever that might be. I'll do anything. I just needed to see him" just this one last time she thought.
"You know were not supposed to be attached on that level to our charge Angeluina. I think you will find out why after this. But I'll leave you be this once, since you accepted the consequences" then the male angel was surrounded by a blinding light flew away and disappeared.
(Eric and Angeluina's conversation is in Eric's native language which I choose to be in Swedish)
Eric resurfaces on the dirt and was shock to see the tear streak face of her beloved guardian Angel in front of him. At the same time he got hit by a delicious scent. He act on instinct and launch in his vampire speed to her guardian angel's neck, sinking his fangs and started drinking from her.
Angeluina didn't move and let Eric drink from her. She felt every pull of blood that Eric was drawing from her and didn't say a word until Eric suddenly stops.
Eric fell to his knees from realization of what he had done. He has an overwhelming feeling of what? He couldn't pinpoint what was it and just blurted the words that came out first in mind.
"I'm sorry" he said but didn't really know what he was sorry for. That he attack his guardian angel with his teeth? His actually at lost of what to say next. Is this a dream? He mentally asks himself. He put his finger to his mouth and tried to feel his teeth and got nicked by one of his fangs. He saw the tiny drop of blood ooze from his finger and his eyes glazed with hunger but completely replaced by shock when the tiny wound close right before his eyes. What's wrong with me? He thought. Then he lifted his head to look up to Angeluina, confusion shown in his features.
"Am I dreaming Angeluina? What's….what's wrong with me?"
Angeluina couldn't contain the unknown emotion that she's feeling for this creature and her eyes continue to shed tears. She brought her hands to cup his face and said,
"You're not dreaming Eirikr. You are awake and conscious but undead."
Confusion is still present on his face. He couldn't understand her response. Undead? What's that even meant? He thought. And then his focus had leap on her first response that his not dreaming. So he stood up and crushed his lips to her beloved Angeluina and kissed her with all his might. He felt euphoric, reveling for the first time on the feeling of her lips against his. It doesn't matter what's really going on. It doesn't matter as long as he can have his beloved Angeluina wrap in his arms for real.
Angeluina was shock with Eirikr's action but didn't object for the first time. She just wraps her arms around him and just give in to the unknown emotion that she's feeling right now. Her mouth and body reacted to his touch in an unknown way that she realizes she very much like. She let him guide him and tried to mimic his mouth on her.
His right hand cups the back of her neck and pulled her closer to him while the other tore to her clothes that are now lying by her feet. His tongue seeks entrance on her mouth and she let him in. He never stopped kissing her, never wanted to break contact with her. Afraid that the rationalize part of her might kick in and object to him once more. He places his hand on her back and gently lays her down to the ground. By now her tears had stop and replaced by what he can only define as want and hunger. He realizes she wanted him, hungry for him as much as his want and hunger for her.
For the first time they revel to each others hungers and let their emotion and feelings for each other guide them.
After the coupling, they're still wrapped in each other arms, lying down on the ground. Eric is lost for word and just felt really and truly happy. But Angeluina felt worse for she has realized what she had done. Everything they did is forbidden and wrong but at the same time she also felt that everything was right and perfect. This contradicting emotion had not gone unnoticed by Eric and he ask her,
"What is wrong Angeluina?" Eric asks and looks on her with palpable love and concern.
"I need to go Eirikr" she said and breaks herself from his embrace, stood up and walks away from him. Eric is on his feet in an instant too and caught her by the arms and spin her around to face him.
Angeluina's clothes were magically appeared to her body. She was now as perfect as she had been before their coupling. She stared to the deep blue eyes of her beloved one. Yes she had fallen in love with Eirikr when she's not supposed to. But she is in love with him from the moment she knew him. From the moment she had take charge on him. From the very first moment she had lay her eyes upon him. And she knew it was wrong. She had tried to hide and kept her unknown and intense emotions to this creature and tonight she had acted with abandon and wallow in with her emotion.
"Stay with me Angeluina" he pleaded with her. The pain and hurt shown on her face as she heard those words and the pleading eyes of her beloved Eirikr. She was trying to be strong and not cry again. From the very far distance she heard footsteps and conversations and she knows that her time with her beloved Eirikr is up. This creatures is sure heading in their direction and she was positively sure they're coming to get her beloved. So instead of answering Eirikr's plead to her, she said,
"They're here. They're coming. I must leave"
Whose coming Angeluina?
"Your maker, your brothers and sisters."
Angeluina tried to move but Eric's hands tighten around her arms.
"Wait! What?" Eric could not understand what she was saying. He knows he has a brother but definitely no sister. And what maker? He thought confused.
"I don't have time to explain Eirikr. But they will explain what you need to know once they got here. Please release your hand on my arms I need to do something important."
Eric let go of her but continue to hover. Once Eric let her go she unclasps the chain around her neck. Her wings appeared in her back and she pluck a single feather, closed both her hands on her necklace with the feather that she had pluck from her wings. She then closed her eyes and prays. She has begun to glow. The stuff in her hands disappear. Then she smile and say
"diligo vos Eirikr per meus eternus vita. Quod EGO mos reperio a via futurus vobis , haud res quis capit , haud res quamdiu capit quod quisquis eventus is may exsisto"
(trans. "I love you Eirikr with my eternal life. And I will find a way to be with you, no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes and whatever consequence it may be") and with those words been said she was gone.
Eric heard a crunching noise behind. He turns around in his heel and immediately recognizes the person sitting and swinging her feet at the branch of a tree, it was Hudley.
"Hi big brother! I hope you now understand the words the she had said and now remembered who the necklace belongs to." Hudley said and giggle.
A/N: I will not put any spoilers anymore because I don't know if I'll suddenly decided to change course and not follow through with my spoilers.
