A/N: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays to those of you who celebrate. I did the best I could to get this up early for you. I hope you enjoy.

Please forgive any mistakes, for they are all my own.

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EPOV

The next words that came out of my mouth nearly made me sick and I made a silent promise to myself that I would never, ever say them again. "Sookie, you have to stop." She moaned and shook her head and I grunted.

I was a fucking paraplegic. Frozen like a damned statue. I may as well have been made of concrete. My hands were fisted into the sheets with no hope of pushing her off of me. Fuck, it felt so good. "Stop!" I damn near shouted and thankfully she did.

"What?" Sookie purred. "Don't lie to me and tell me you don't want this." She said as she lowered the straps of her dress and freed her beautiful breast for my eyes to feast upon. Clearly I was failing miserably and she had complete control over me.

"Fuck, Sookie. I want you more than words can describe. I would love nothing more than to bury myself deep inside you and never come out. But…" She cut me off by placing her finger over my mouth.

"Then why are you stopping me. Why don't you want me? Why won't you make love to me?" She asked as she stuck her plump bottom lip out and I wanted nothing more than to suck and nibble on the pink flesh. I was so fucked.

"Sookie, I want to do things to you that are so perverse, I'm not even sure they are legal much less that they would be pleasurable, but not tonight. Not now." I sighed defeated. I knew that if she pushed me any more my will would crumble like a bunch of Jenga blocks.

"Why?" She queried as she proceeded to cross her arms and push her breast up in a most delicious way, which really wasn't helping my concentration.

"Because." I replied simply as I shifted the sheets over my raging hard-on and closed my eyes in attempt to regain some upper brain thoughts, seeing as how my lower brain seemed to be doing all the thinking.

"Because, why?" Sookie sang as she ran her fingers up my thighs, causing me to twitch and nearly lose composure, yet again.

"Because, damn it!" I hissed.

"Because, why?" She whispered against my neck. I hadn't even felt her move. Fuck, her warm breath sent chills across my whole body. I shivered in response.

"Fuck! Because, I love you!" I shouted as I gripped her shoulders and created some distance between her hot little body and mine. Shit, what did I say?

"So, you won't make love to me because you love me?" Sookie laughed.

"Yes. No. I mean… shit! I don't know what I'm saying. You've got me beyond ferklempt here."

Sookie laughed so hysterically she actually snorted. "Did you just say ferklempt?" She said between giggles. "Ferklempt?" She snickered.

"Did you not hear anything else I said?" I asked as I willed myself not to laugh at my apparent channeling of Mike Myers.

"Yes, you said you love me." She said matter-of-factly as she slipped her arms back through the straps of her dress, effectively covering enough skin to help me form coherent thoughts once again. "But I knew that already."

"What do you mean you knew that? Where are my underwear?" I shifted slightly and twisted my neck back and forth as if I were watching a tennis match. What the hell is wrong with me, I have to get my shit together.

"Well, you did take a bullet for me." Sookie muttered. "And though you may not want to say it, you certainly show it. I just didn't see it until someone pointed it out for me."

"Well, I do. I love you. I'm not ashamed, I just don't know when it happened or how or why, for that matter. I mean, only hours ago, I wasn't sure and now…" I trailed off struggling for the right words. "Well, now I just know." Brilliant Eric. You're one suave mother fucker.

"So then, why is it you don't want to make love to me?" Sookie asked seriously. "I mean, I'm finally ready and willing and you're turning me down. There's something really backwards about this." She teased.

"Tell me about it." I said mostly to myself, but Sookie heard and shook the bed in laughter as she slung my underwear at my face. I snagged them and glared at her as I slipped them on. "I mean I want to, but not like this. You're hurt and your arm is casted and it's going to be uncomfortable enough. I would prefer to make it as pleasurable as possible." I admitted.

"Honestly, with that going in me…" She nodded towards the still apparent tent in my briefs. "I think my cast and fading bruises will be the furthest thing from my mind."

I rubbed my crotch, willing my erection down, but that only seemed to make matters worse. That paired with the fact that Sookie was still flushed from our tumble moments ago and I was beyond turned on. I was somewhere between spontaneous combustion and clubbing her over the head and dragging her around my bedroom grunting like a Neanderthal.

"Let's change the subject." I suggested. I didn't need to imagine myself inside Sookie anymore than I already was.

"Why?" Sookie asked seductively as she twirled a lock of her hair. "What would I have to say to change your mind?" She sucked her bottom lip into her mouth and began gnawing at the swollen flesh and I think I may have groaned a little.

"Nothing. Anything. Shit, Sookie You're killing me here." I whined. She giggled and it was the most heavenly sound in the world but it may as well have vibrated through my fucking balls and I had to bite my tongue to keep from shooting my load like a thirteen year old boy.

"Eric." Sookie purred and I felt like I could have cried. She was clearly enjoying having this sort of power over me and I was helpless to stop her. "Please. Please make love to me."

Sookie crawled to hover over the top of me and her mouth was a breath away from mine. Her strawberry scented breath fanned across my face, nearly sending me into convulsions. I closed my eyes and wondered how in the hell she had sucked all the moisture from my mouth with such a miniscule act.

"Sookie." I whispered and my lips brushed against hers. She reached to palm my cheek and I leaned into her reflexively. My eyes caught hers and whatever she saw there was all the invitation she needed.

Her lips met mine and a low rumble sounded deep within my chest as she licked my lip requesting access. I quickly complied and found my hands tangled in her mass of blonde waves as she tumbled down on top of me.

Sookie's straps had fallen off of her shoulders and I unzipped her dress. Apparently, I was moving to slow for Sookie and she practically ripped the dress off, tossing it to the side, barely breaking the kiss. The tiny excuse for a pair of underwear that remained left very little to the imagination.

"Are you sure about this, Sookie?" I asked as she began grinding herself against me. "Fuck." I whispered against her neck. "I mean we should stop now, if you're not." My voice was cracking almost as much as my fucking will. I wanted to sheath myself in her and mark her body as mine. The fucking beast snarled in excitement.

"Please, Eric I want this." Sookie pleaded.

"I love you and I don't love you, because I want you. I really love you." I pushed her away once more and kissed her before catching her eyes with mine. "If this is what you want, then we will do it, but not because you think it is what I want."

"You don't want to?" She asked.

"Of course I want to. I can't think of anything I want more than to connect our bodies as one, but I don't want you to regret it in any way." She nodded and leaned in to kiss me but I pulled back. "Only if this is what you want. I love you either way; I'm not going anywhere, ever, if you will have me."

"Eric." Sookie breathed before continuing. "I have never wanted anything as much as I want you and I want you completely. None of this being afraid anymore and certainly none of this being uncertain, I love you and I want to show you, as well as have you show me." Sookie finished her speech by touching my mouth with hers.

It only took a moment before her hand had found its way into my pants and I was grinding against her fiercely. Fuck, I knew I needed to make sure she came first because this was certainly not going to be my finest hour. My load was bound to blow like Mt. St. Helens and it would take all of about three point four-five seconds.

I rolled us over and slipped my hands into the seams of her panties and lowered them slowly down her hips. She shifted slightly to assist in the removal but otherwise allowed me to control the situation. After paying equal attention to both of her breasts, I kissed my way down her stomach and circled her naval with my tongue. Sookie arched her back and pressed her heated center against me as my fingers found her moist folds.

"So wet, Sookie." I whispered against her pelvic bone and she arched into me yet again releasing a sigh that was straight from the gods. I wanted to hear her make that sound for the rest of my life.

I teased her folds for a moment before lowering my mouth to the little bundle of nerves at her apex. I ran my tongue around the hardened nub as she writhed and moaned beneath me. She was salty and sweet and it was the most delicious thing I had ever tasted.

"Oh god Eric, please." Sookie begged as she pushed herself against my mouth.

"Please what, lover?" I urged. I wanted to hear her say it. I needed to hear her say it.

"Please, make me come." She moaned in a breath as she whimpered and heaved and squirmed. God, she was beautiful.

I slipped one finger inside her folds followed quickly by the second, sending her arching off of the bed and earning me a beautifully muttered curse from her lips. I continued to move fluidly in and out of her deliciously tight center keeping rhythm with the laps of my tongue and nips of my teeth.

I added the third finger and felt as her walls clenched around me tightly simultaneously with her moans of pleasure and ecstasy. Her chest heaved and her body quivered as I rode her through the waves of her orgasm.

"God, Eric that was…" She nearly laughed out as I crawled my way up her naked form, leaving a trail of kissed along the way.

"Beautiful." I finished for her. She really was the most beautiful creature and in the throws of passion, she was angelic and entrancing.

A/N: Sorry I had to stop there, but you all can imagine what's coming up next, I'm sure. *winks* Besides, I need for the next part to be told from Sookie's POV and Eric got a little long winded in this chapter. Although he was, for lack of a better word, entertaining; he just wouldn't give up without a fight. Sorry.

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