Author's Note: I am sorry this chapter has taken so long to post but had been having computer issues. We hope you enjoy the chapter & should warn you there is B & S nookie in it. You might also want to keep a couple of tissues handy. Enjoy & Thanks for being so understanding
Octavious had become our regular evening guest, Bill enjoyed his company a great deal and the stories of his life that he told us were amazing.
He said he'd fought in the Battle for Troy. I remembered from English-history class that this "mythical" battle had been between the Spartan and the people of Troy. He had been badly injured when a beautiful Trojan woman took pity on him and turned him. He said he was one of the few Achaeans that remained behind and formed a new existence in the surrounding area of Troy.
I wondered if Helen of Troy really existed and thought back to the time before the great vampire revelation. A time when vampires, werewolves and witches were all just a myth and fairies only existed in some of gran's songs.
If this had been years back before I'd met Bill Compton I would have doubted every word that came out of Octavious mouth but now, now I accepted it all and adjusted what I thought I knew with what I was being told.
He told me that in every myth lies a grain of truth as he pointed to Bill and me to make his point. I thought of how naïve I had been and how my life had changed.
Octavious told us there were more supernaturals in the world than most humans and even vampires were aware of. He talked about gods, angels, witches, demons and fae; during his long life he'd met them all and knew them well.
I wondered how much more my gran knew about supernaturals and if she would have ever shared it with me if she'd survived; especially now that I carried one inside me.
Octavious asked which of my cousins had ascended breaking me from my reverie.
"Claudine," both Bill and I answered.
"The female? That is good. She'll be protection for all of you."
"Did she tell you of the baby before or after she had ascended or did Niall tell you?" Octavious asked and I noticed that his left eyebrow had arched, finally some facial expression from him, I thought; I just didn't know what it meant.
"Claudine told us, she was here when the doctor came with Niall so I think she hadn't ascended yet," I said.
He smiled as if he knew more than he was sharing, "Did she leave before or after Niall?"
"After," I said. Octavious gave me a scary grin; he seemed to be enjoying this information too much I on the other hand was growing more nervous after each question.
"Then she had ascended. There's nothing to be concerned about My Lady," he bowed to me.
"You and your child will be safe; the angel will see to it, she'll gift you with what you'll need."
"Fate has seen to it that your son's messenger is female thus, creating a motherly protection for him and female balance as well."
"She will keep him bound to his humanity, keep him bound to you unless you willingly give him over to the fae." Again he raised his eye brow as he looked at me, as if he was waiting for a specific response from me.
"I would never give up my son!" I said disgusted, wrapping my arms around the bump as Bill wrapped his arms around us.
"I'm sure you wouldn't My Lady, I meant no harm or disrespect." He stood and bowed to me, I didn't know whether I should be flattered or scared that he kept bowing to me.
"Now, if you will excuse us, we have to meet with Eric. Bill…"
"Eric will be sending Bubba, he should be here any moment." Bill answered Octavious' implied but unasked question.
"Sookie, he remains outside at all cost," he instructed me. Bill knew how much I appreciated Bubba and without that warning I would let him in.
They were walking out the door as Bubba arrived; I waved to Bubba from the window, a big smile on my face.
I watched as Bill gave Bubba some final instructions and then Octavious added a few of his own; I noticed Bubba stand up a little straighter as he nodded he understood.
They drove off to Shreveport and did not come back for a couple of hours; the baby waking me when Bill sat on the bed.
"I'm sorry sweetheart; I was trying not to wake you?" The look of love on Bill's face was breathtaking, (he had been doing a lot of that lately) and I fell in love with him more and more as each time I saw it.
"You didn't; He did," I rubbed my belly and pouted my lips to Bill for a kiss before I asked him, "Honey what's going on? What happened in Shreveport?"
"Sookie did you read my mind?" He sent me.
"No, but I know you well enough to know something is up, plus I can feel it. So spill Compton."
"I'll tell you like this Sookie."
"Octavious and Eric are downstairs. Pam is coming later. The less they believe you know the better." He sent me.
"OK, now tell me, and don't leave anything out, especially why they are here?" I sent back trying to control my fears.
"Eric believes Fangtasia is bugged and with all the new vampires from De Castro's regime, this seemed like the best place to come to; everyone believes we are entertaining. No one else knows Octavious is here."
"OK, so what is going on, more vampire shit?" I said rolling my eyes in frustration.
"Yes, more vampire shit. The King has decided to make his move on California." I felt my stomach start to turn.
"He's ordered Eric to go to California to see about opening a new Fangtasia at one of the hotels."
"Pam, Clancy and I are supposed to go with him..."
"What!" I almost scream out remembering we'd been using our inside voice a little too late.
"Sookie!" Bill sent.
"Sorry I forgot. Bill you can't go, that's going to be an all out war, something could happen to you." Panic started to over take me.
My panic started to turn into rage, "I'm not letting you go without me; the hell with De Castro. Plus, did you forget this baby is coming real soon?"
"Don't you think I know that!"
"Sookie the weres' that came here were from California. The one they caught said they came to get information about the vampires in Bon Temps. They were to report back on our numbers as they expect us to be the first to be sent out there."
"Sweetheart, they came to get information about you also."
"Tomorrow Octavious is going to call the King to agree to do the interview for the database that will keep us here with you."
"The King is setting you up, I know it. Bill, what about Eric, Pam and Clancy, they are still going to have to go." I said as fear crept its way up my spine again.
"Don't worry about them sweetheart they can take care of themselves."
"Now go back to sleep, you need your rest." He nuzzled the crook of my neck momentarily sending shivers down my spine.
"I have to go to Monroe with Octavious tomorrow but I will be back before dawn. Eric will be here until I return." He kissed me on the forehead and rubbed the belly before bending down to kiss it; then he turned and walked out of our bedroom.
My mind was reeling, jumping from one thought to the next; I knew that if Bill was leaving Eric to take care of me while he was gone danger must be around the corner.
I really wasn't looking forward to getting shot, stabbed or staked as was my normal fare during these kinds of situations; especially now that I was responsible for someone other than myself but I didn't know what I could do either.
Sleep was hard to come by this night and I forged a plan to never leave the safety of the safe-room until this war was over; if I had to hide in Bill's hidey-hole, I was more than ready for it.
Eventually sleep managed to pull me under but my rest did nothing to ease my nerves.
The next day I didn't get out of bed until five thirty in the afternoon. My eyes were bloodshot red as if I hadn't slept in days. I even sensed nervousness from the baby. I hadn't seen Bill since he informed me he'd have to go to Monroe.
After I showered Eric arrived, "Eric, do you want something to drink?"
"No dear one. You sit and let me serve you." He said as he moved me to the sofa lifting my legs to rest on the ottoman before heading to the kitchen to get me my meal.
"I must admit this look becomes you Sookie." He handed me my blood and sat on the sofa lifting my legs to place them on his lap. He massaged them and was lost to his ministrations for a good minute and I was lost to the feel of his gentle hands, before he spoke.
"I remember doing this…" he smiled.
"One day I hope you share with me what it was that Niall found in Bill that makes him deserve you, deserve this more than me."
"Eric don't…,"
"OK, I'll make you a deal, one day I'll tell you what you want to know if you promise me you'll be careful and not trust De Castro." I said as I leaned in looking directly into his blue eyes.
"You need to become your big conniving Viking self and prepare yourself for anything. I think De Castro wants to take over California and is setting you up as bait or as…," he put a cool finger on my lips and gave me a wicked smile.
"Sookie, if I didn't know better, I'd say you can read vampire minds. Don't you worry dear one, I have not lived a millennia by being naïve or foolish."
He leaned in and whispered, "It's all been taken care of. But I must say that this little surprise of yours and Bill, (he feigned a sigh as he pointed to the baby) has led me to reconsider my options in order to keep you safe."
"You are so much trouble Lover." Smiling he kissed my forehead, "now get some rest," he instructed before heading back outside to keep guard.
I had dozed off again by the time Bill came back from Monroe. In my sleep I felt arms wrap themselves around me and cool lips kiss my forehead and lips gently. I could have sworn I felt the baby sigh in relief; my eyes opened momentarily and my hands reached up to touch his face before I fell asleep again.
Bill lowered me onto the bed and I felt him slipping into the covers and gathering me to him. I heard him mumbling to himself (and I guess to me), "I will always love you Sookie…"
My eyes fluttered open and I pulled myself closer to him, nuzzling into the crook of his neck, instantly Bill wrapped his arms around me tighter; I felt as he slowly descended a hand to the baby bump. Soon after he slipped into that vampire down time and I drifted back to sleep for the moment.
During our rest, I dreamt of us and the baby, I dreamt of Bill carrying our son upon his birth. I dreamt of our son growing; celebrating his first birthday, learning to ride a bicycle with his father flying next to him to protect him.
I dreamt of our 10th year wedding anniversary, our 25th, our 50th and I dreamt of my last day on earth.
I watched as my frail body was being cradled by Bill's strong yet gentle arms. Blood tears streaming down his cheeks and his heart breaking as I took in my last breath; he taking his along with me. Our final words to each other being "I promise to love you for all of eternity and ever after."
In my dreams I saw us wrapped in each others arms in a never ending embrace as our friends and our children watched our single coffin being lowered to the ground… dirt and roses being poured over it.
And, in this altered state the love I felt from Bill and for Bill only intensified as the days passed and our tombstone faded into almost nothingness. The only remaining markers on it being our names (Bill & Sookie) and the words; "… promise to love … all of eternity and ever after."
I woke with tears in my eyes as Bill simultaneously roused out of his downtime, tears streaming down his cheeks as well. I couldn't form words to tell him how much I loved him and neither could he.
I didn't know if he'd had the same dream, I didn't know if he'd felt all I'd felt during my dream but the one thing I was certain of was that we both felt every emotion of love the other felt.
As I looked into his eyes, I lost myself in a pool of love that radiated from them. Bill raised my head with his fingertips until our lips met. More softly than he had ever done before, my wonderful husband kissed me; slowly taking my top lip in his, before moving to my bottom lip. I felt a chill run down my spine but I felt no need to go any faster.
Bill grabbed my hand and kissed each finger before stopping on the finger that held my wedding ring. He slowly removed it and while looking directly into my eyes my husband gave me his vows again.
"With this ring, I thee wed, I promise to love you, I promise to honor you above all others including myself, I promise to protect you and our son; for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, from this day forward, and for as long as we both shall live and ever after then.. I will forever love you." He replaced the ring on my finger and kissed it before turning back to my lips; we opened our lips to each other then and our tongues started to dance off each other.
Our hands were traveling along our bodies without hurry just with love. I knew that everything I felt Bill felt because I felt everything he felt as well.
Bill removed my night gown and turned me to him. We lay on our sides kissing for what felt like a wonderful eternity and I never wanted him more in my life. Bill's hand slowly drifted down the side of my body, slowly caressing my skin while I mirrored him with my hands.
Bill moved from my lips to my neck, slowly kissing and nipping at me. My nipples immediately pebbled and as his hands found their way to them I felt myself want to climax. Bill immediately noticed and continued to massage my breasts with his hands as he moved his mouth to my left breast. I felt his tongue dart across my nipple and his fangs carefully pass along them. He lightly bit my nipple and sucked it in his mouth as his hand caressed the sides of my body; then, he made his way down to my mound and I moaned into his mouth from the pleasure.
Bill used his right leg to support my left leg as his hand moved to my center until he found my hot and wet area and inserted a finger into me. I moaned and writhed from the pleasure of just feeling his hands on me. I watched as he slowly removed his finger and brought it to his mouth and sucked in the juices that had gathered in it. As he returned his hand to my mound, he leaned in and kissed me and I tasted myself on his tongue; the taste driving both of us crazy.
Bill pushed his finger back in me and with his thumb rubbed my clit, my hips took on a life of their own and lifted themselves and pushed into Bill's hands trying to get his finger deeper inside me. We both felt my pleasure intensifying bordering on a climax and I felt Bills cock throbbing against my thigh. The feel of him intensifying the heat I felt in my middle section.
Bill continued to suck on my breast and he inserted another finger into me; thrusting them further into me as his thumb continued to rub my clit. He thrust into me once, twice and by the third thrust his words had me climaxing all over his hands.
"Sookie cum for me, cum for me sweetheart, I want to feel your juices run down my hands, I want to drink you from my hands, cum for me sweetheart." He thrust his fingers into me again and I felt myself tighten around them and I came with such an intensity that I felt as if my wetness had shot out of me and straight into Bill's hands.
Bill began kissing me with intensity and I felt fire building in my stomach. As we kissed he brought his hand to his mouth and sucked on his fingers as he sucked on my tongue and instantly we were both licking and sucking his fingers clean. I felt a growl building deep in Bill's chest as I let out a moan of my own as his fingers had found their way back to my nub again.
Bill rolled me to my back and pulled me up to a sitting position on the bed, he placed pillows behind me to make sure that I was comfortable before placing himself between my legs. When I felt his tongue dart into me my eyes rolled to the back of my head, he held my legs in his hands and I shifted myself into a more comfortable position as his tongue kept lapping up my wetness.
I didn't know how much longer I could hold on before I came again and my need to feel him in me became desperate; I wanted him in my mouth, I needed him inside of me filling me. I begged him, I pleaded and cried out in pleasure but Bill never stopped lapping at me.
He sucked in all I had to give and savored every drop as my new climax took over me. Stars shined in front of my eyes, my body jerked, I thought I wanted to pee, I thought I was going to pass out from the pleasure, I thought I was going to die if he didn't fuck me already.
And, the only words that could escape my mouth were, " Oh, God Bill I love you, I love you , I love you."
He crawled up my body again and kissed the baby bump on the way up; by the time he made it back up to my mouth my nose was flaring and I felt myself growling. Bill's eyes widened and his fangs dropped down lower than I'd ever seen them; with a quickness I should not have possessed in my condition, I pushed Bill on his back and straddled him. I started to grind myself on his waist feeling his hard cock straining behind me, the feel of it making my breathe catch in my throat.
I worked myself down Bill's body giving him a taste of his own medicine. I nipped and licked his nipples and he let out grunts that only made me intensify my ministrations. I worked myself down to his shaft and slowly licked the head and the bubble of pre-cum that started to ooze out. Bill let out a very appreciative growl and I smiled as I continued to lick up and down his shaft never taking him in my mouth.
I wanted to have him beg for me as he had me begging for him. I wanted to enjoy each grunt, moan and growl my mouth and hands caused him to produce.
I opened my mouth and took him in it but never closed my lips around him. Only my tongue made contact with him. He could feel the warmth of my breath and mouth around his shaft but I refused to seal my mouth over him. He tried to push himself up and I backed away each time. He started to beg when I let my lips loosely glide up his shaft and my tongue licked his tip.
"Oh God Sookie, please, please sweetheart, please. I need you sweetheart, please." The sound of his voice burning me from the inside out. Finally I sealed my mouth around him and slid my mouth up and down his shaft as my tongue licked the underside of his shaft on every upward pull I gave.
Bill moaned and tried to thrust upward into my mouth but I stopped completely until figured out I just wanted him to let me do the thrusting; it took him about five seconds.
I continued sucking his shaft and then I let him feel my teeth scrape him and Bill let out a growl that shook me to my core as he gripped onto the bed. I continued sucking him off until I knew he wouldn't last much longer; then I stopped and moved down to his balls. I slowly kissed each and sucked and nipped at them as my hands glided up and down on his shaft; again Bill growled as I nipped at him.
I was certain he would cum if I continued this so I moved myself closer to his shaft and gave one last long suck and let him feel my teeth scrapping him hard before he came in my mouth. As Bill growled from the pleasure I removed him from my mouth and turned to his thigh and I bit down just at the area where I knew his femoral artery would be. I bit down hard enough to cause his blood to trickle into my mouth and he let out another growl as he came again.
"Oh shit!," he said as he grabbed the bed sheet to protect me from his projectile ejaculation. "Oh fuck, oh honey, oh fuck… oh, oh, fuck, fuck, fuck. Stop baby stop, Oh God please stop," he begged but I continued to drink from him.
Bill let out a growl that seemed to shake the bed, then I stopped drinking from him. When I looked up at him his fangs where down and his eyes were black as night. He picked me up and placed me on my back on the bed and he thrust into me. Each thrust accompanied by a growl from the both of us; if I wanted to get fucked by a vampire that was exactly what I was getting and I thrived on it.
Bill bent himself down to my breast and nipped at my breast causing blood to spill out. He quickly sucked it up and I felt myself building to another climax; we were both close but still not close enough.
I dug my fingers into his back and Bill growled down at me taking my mouth with his. He bit down on his tongue and pushed it into my mouth for me to suck from it. I didn't know if our arousal was exclusively our own or if we were also feeling the other's arousal, truthfully I didn't care.
Bill vent down to my neck and bit down with such ferocity that the pain mixed with our arousal and completely brought us to a simultaneous climax. We both growled and then fell onto the bed exhausted. Bill pulled me into him and gently kissed my lips again. He picked up my hand and kissed my wedding ring again before he spoke.
"You do know that I love you more than anything in this world. Only our son can claim to own me as much as you do." He said and I nodded.
"And when you take your last breathe, my life will cease to exist in this world because without you I am nothing."
"I will hold you forever in my arms even after there is no breathe or life within us," and with that he kissed me and I knew he had shared my dream.