Eric's Demons

Chapter Ten

"What price? Of course I want to help him, I thought we both did," Sookie was confused by this turn of events. What price could she pay?

"Eric brought you to me because I can show you how to bind the enemy. You can learn how to lock the spirit inside a host. Once it's locked in Eric and his warriors can return the Watcher to his prison," Nula told her.

"But I don't understand, how can I do that?" Sookie wanted to know.

"It's a mind trick, one that only minds like ours can perform. Already you can filter out other peoples' thoughts, a useful skill for any telepath who wants to remain sane. To lock someones thoughts inside their head is one quite simple step further. Whether or not you need to touch the host, as I did, will depend on how strong your abilities are."

Nula looked her over again, as if measuring her.

"We can see what other gifts your heritage has granted you, unlock some of them too."

"How long does it take?" Sookie asked.

"Not that long if you're a good pupil. I can go into your mind, open the doors if you like, but it will take practice in the real world to hone your skills. And therein lies the danger, because they'll do everything they can to kill you if they figure out what you can do."

"We can start in the morning while Eric sleeps, if you want me to teach you."

Sookie nodded, she had said she would do anything she could to help Eric. But there was another matter that she needed to clear up first.

"What was your price?" she asked.

"Simple, lend me your body for a few hours. My life is drawing to an end, and unlike my Nephilim father I cannot transfer from host to host. Only on invitation can I move to another body, even then only for a few hours. All I want is to feel like the woman I was one last time." She turned her gray green eyes to Eric.

"One last time," she told him.

Sookie reeled, she knew exactly what Nula wanted to do with her body, and her vampire. She was both horrified and intrigued, what on earth should she do. Without Nula's guidance she might not be able to help Eric as he needed. It seemed wrong, but was it? After all she had freely given her body to Eric only a short while before. She didn't know what to say, but the idea of this woman using her body for one last screw with Eric repulsed her.

But what would Eric want her to do? Would he want her to make this bargain to get Nula's help? Would he be as keen as she for one last fumble for old times sake?

"No, the price is too high!" Eric answered for her.

"You were my first true love Nula, and I would have stayed with you always, no matter how you looked. But it was you who chose to live apart from me as your jealousy for the younger girls ate you from inside. It's true that I love you still, but not in the way that I did."

He paused, took her wrinkled hand in his.

"Sookie has my heart now. When I make love to her it is to all of her, mind and body. I desire no-one else, not even you. It would be wrong for us to fuck through her. During the years we were together I never betrayed you. Now is Sookie's time, and I will not betray her."

Heart in her mouth, Sookie realized what Eric had just given up for her. He loved her. She wondered at how freely he had given her his heart if he had only loved once before in his thousand years. Wishing she could say she felt the same way about him, Sookie knew that for her it was too soon. For now she was infatuated with him, in love with his body and what it did to hers. But she did not love Eric Northman. Not yet anyway.

Nula looked from one to the other.

"You would risk my help, risk losing your battle with the Watchers. Without me you know as I do that you will fail. Does it not matter to you what will happen if you fail?" she demanded.

"Your price is too high," he repeated.

Turning her back on them both Nula crossed the kitchen to the sink.

"Dawn is coming, you should go," she said.

Sadly Eric placed his hand on Sookie's shoulder, turning her to face him.

"We will find another way, I cannot do this thing. I can't let you do this thing," he told her.

Still shocked Sookie nodded, got up to follow Eric back to the club.

"Leave my pupil here," Nula told him. "Now off with you!"

After Eric had gone, rushing back to Fangtasia before dawn's first light, both women stood together in the kitchen. Sookie waited for the ancient woman to speak.

"Well you can't blame a girl for trying," Nula chuckled, "you would have done the same."

Her lined face cracked into a broad smile, her eyes seemed to be looking into the middle distance.

"He's amazing, is he not? I still get wet when I think of him," she confessed.

Sookie giggled.

"Come on girl, we'll find out just what you really can do."

At nightfall Eric returned to find Sookie and Nula chatting together in the kitchen. Both women, one at the end of her life, the other at the beginning stopped talking to admire him as he walked in.

What a beautiful man, both thought together.

He's yours now, little one, guard him well.

I will, now that you've shown me how.

Puzzled Eric looked from present lover to former, knowing that he was missing something that had passed between the women.

"Care to share?" he asked.

"Not a chance!" Sookie answered, laughing.

"How did it go? Does she learn well?" he asked Nula.

"You should be able to judge that yourself," Nula grinned. "She tells me you've been giving lessons of your own."

Both women giggled like schoolgirls, leaving Eric wondering what else they had discussed.

Flanked by the guards Eric and Sookie walked in silence back to Fangtasia. Each had questions for the other, each would wait until they were alone.

"Did you learn much from her?" Eric asked when there was just the two of them.

Reaching up to touch his cheek, losing herself in his eyes, Sookie nodded.

"I am ready," she assured him.

"You know if I could save you from this, if there was another way..."

Pressing her mouth to his she never let him answer. Her kiss was hungry and intense, her tongue exploring his mouth. One hand ran through his blonde hair, pulling him into her, the other pressed against his magnificent breast.

Let's see who ruins who, she thought as she threw herself on him, pushing him back onto the desk. With a flourish she ripped his shirt open, satisfied that most of the buttons flew away from the material. Sookie felt him shudder when she teased his nipples between tongue and teeth. Working across his chest, then down his glorious abdomen, she licked kissed and bit at him while her hands worked furiously to get her own clothes off.

Once she was naked, Sookie climbed onto his stomach, pressed her mouth to his to drink more of those sensuous kisses from him. Beneath her ass she could feel him respond to her, his erection straining at his jeans.

Eric's large strong hands found her breasts. He squeezed her nipples hard and was rewarded with a gasp of pure pleasure from her. Sookie growled like an animal as she pressed his back flat to the desk.

Still astride him she turned to face the other way, drove her heat down onto his face. Beneath her Eric responded by gripping her hips with both hands, pulling her soaking entrance tight to his mouth. Lashing at her nerve center with his tongue he brought her to orgasm in seconds. An explosion of pleasure burst from her groin, radiated through her.

No you don't, she thought, not yet.

Her hands tore at his jeans, fumbling belt and buttons in her haste to have him naked. His tongue was at work on her again, and she felt another orgasm begin to form. Sookie's hands found his erection, so she leaned onto him, took as much of it as she could in her mouth. Working the shaft with both hands she ignored the way it crushed her lips as she worked furiously at him. She could taste her own blood in her mouth, mixing with his salty taste.

Without mercy he sent a second powerful orgasm shooting up through her from his mouth. Sookie shook, but still her mouth and hands worked furiously on his thick shaft. She could feel his tension starting to build.

Eric pushed her up from him, and was rewarded with a glorious view of her back and gaping entrance as she worked his erection. Easing three fingers into her soaking channel he started to finger fuck her, slowly at first, gradually increasing his tempo as the tension in his groin increased. Feeling another orgasm growing Sookie in turn redoubled her efforts, working him furiously between hands and mouth. As the third tore though her, turning her to jelly, she felt him buck and twist beneath her before he thrust hard into her mouth. Sookie kept her mouth and hands on him as he came.

This round is mine she thought before she blacked out.