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Chapter 15
The next four days after Erik's accident were pretty quiet. Eric got up every day and cleaned the snow that obstructed the entrance of the house. He left one morning with his parents' mule and returned at evening with a large firewood truck, because according to him it will be a harsh winter for sure. The truth is that I was starting to scare me because if this was normal in autumn, I didn't want to think what would happen in winter.
Eric brought his son down from the top bed to the bottom ones, when he had recovered from cough and the sore throat. He was full of bruises, but otherwise he was great, even though he was a little bored, because children didn't leave their houses these days and he hadn't company. His only diversion were Leif and Audr: his sister games weren't his style, and Leif preferred to practice sword fighting with Eric. I tried to learn how to play that weird chess game they played, but it is quite difficult and Erik was always wining me, so he ended up bored. The situation with three children at home wasn't the most conducive to Eric and me in regard to advance in our intimacy. Eric didn't want to overwhelm his children or me. It was pretty funny, because I never had the opportunity to flirt with a guy when I was in high school... flirting in that innocent and absurd way in which you lavish all kinds of gestures and looks that nobody but you both understand, or that's what you believe. So at my age I found myself often laughing like a fool, hitting him in the arm, pushing him when he said something silly, touching his leg, shoulder or arms when I get a chance, throwing glances and talking with flirty voice. In fact the both of us didn't stop thinking about when would be the time that we were alone and we could copulate as rabbits, but the important thing is attitude.
We hadn't kissed again, but Eric had included me in his kissing morning ritual. I had no heart to arrest him and pull him on me when he did, not with the children sleeping two feet from me; but if nothing happen soon, something big, I'd get in his bed and it to be what Odin wanted.
Erik convinced us to let him out the first day it hadn't snowed and it was clear. The wind was so cold that was like it cut the skin, but the boy needed to go outside. Leif was feeding the goats and the horse, and I sent Audr gather eggs that the hens had laid last night while I was drawing water from the well. Eric came out from nowhere with the rooster dangling from one hand.
"Here" he threw it to my feet. Audr came with a scratch on her face and whimpering that: she has broken three eggs. I bent down and wiped her face with a peak from apron which I had moistened with saliva. Apparently the cock had gone for her eye, Eric had seen it, picked it up and wrung its neck. You would have to see how bad these bugs could be. "This isn't going to attack the girl anymore."
"I'll do a good warm broth with it" I smiled and stroked his thigh "I'll grill the crest with a little butter, you'll see how tasty it is" I told Audr "Are these all the eggs?" the girl nodded "Go put them in the crisper basket" She ran out, I picked up the cock and pulled Eric to get up, I fell a little against his chest and he stroked my face.
"If father see you're going to be grounded" We heard Leif screaming. We peered into the area of the barn and saw that Erik had climbed a tree trying to catch a bird's nest.
"ERIK!" his father shouted him. I bit a smile and hid my face in his arm "I'll give you such a beating that the rocks on the beach are going to feel soft."
In Freira's house I changed a small hake and three flounders for a couple of loaves and then I was chatting with Bera and Ivar for a while. When I arrived home, Eric was a little angry.
"I've been talking to Bera and Ivar."
"I've seen."
"Did you know that their piglets are dying because of the pig stallion?" Eric bit his tongue to not tell me that he cared a damn "We're out of onions ... and carrots."
"Ah"
"I told them your pig stallion could mate their sows" Eric stopped what he was doing and gave me his full attention "Ten pounds of onions and carrots for each time the stallion mate and every three pregnant sows a piglet from the litter. And her stud will mate our sows to prevent us from happening the same thing is happening them."
"Nothing that lives in that house will mate anything living in this" I rolled my eyes and crossed my arms.
"I'll tell them, you agree. ERIK!" I shouted peering through the door. "Stop what you're doing and come here" the child appeared about twenty seconds later, his eyes bright and rosy cheeks. I don't want to know "Come on, you haven't bathed since two days ago."
"But... but..."
"Go, go, go..." I put the kid in the tub and sprayed him with warm water.
"It is cold."
"That isn't true" I added more hot water and threw it to him.
"It burns" I ignored him and I washed his hair thoroughly while he covered his eyes. I clarified his hair with water, pulling his head back, as he was moving a lot, he splashed me and wet me a lot.
"Take" I gave him the soap "well if you do not wash yourself, I will" He rubbed the soap and show me his ass to mock, I spank him and he acted like he was sore.
"Wash as Sookie told you!" His father shouted and he began to rub vigorously. I rinsed him with hot water he didn't complain and I covered him with a linen towel. He was telling me that Leif and he had fought that morning with wooden swords and he had almost hit Leif in his head, but his brother had cheated and he had stepped on his foot. So after that he had put a snowball in Leif's neck while Leif was throwing the pigs their food and Leif and he had finished fighting over the haystack until he smear Leif's face with goat poop. He was bending of laugh, like what he had done was very funny. He dressed and left his dirty clothes tangled in the floor. He dodged his father tiptoed through his back, and climbed into bed to play with some wooden toys. I walked out wiping my arms and thinking that now I would have to fight with Leif.
Eric and the children practiced with swords before eating. He taught them to dodge the blows of a bigger and heavier opponent and I looked at them happy because I knew that the two would sleep that night as two dormice. Audr sang and taught Luup, your puppy to give paw.
"Come on, Sookie, now you" He handed me one of the swords of his children "Come on."
"But..." Leif and Erik pushed me to leave the embroidery, get up and fight with Eric.
"Take the sword like this" he said "using both hands. You are weak" I tried to raise an eyebrow with pride "so forget the shields. Your best weapon is, you are small and fast. Never try to avoid a sword or an ax with a shield because you won't be able absorb the shock, and you'll break your arms, back, shoulders and the gods know what else. Come on, attack me. Come on!" I lunged at him with my sword raised and he laugh out loud on my face. He stopped the sword with one hand, he made me turn around and pulled me to him, hugging and pinning me. "That's what you should never do" He keep me with my hands immobilized with only one his own "Sookie is lucky it is me who has captured her if another had control... the gods know what would become of her" I started to struggle and I was shocked to notice that Eric was getting excited. I tried to wriggle out, but the more I shake my ass, the more I was rubbing against his pelvis and frankly, I don't know if I did it to get free or to rub against him "And this" he whispered "it's the last thing a beautiful woman should do in the arms of a Viking enemy" I scratched his arm, I raised a leg and managed to give it a little bump in his balls. Eric released me and bent between pain and laughter "Next lesson: women are fierce" I don't know who threw more sparks of the two, by anger and excitement "Beware of them. They are like bears when defending their cubs as wolves when they defend their men and their homes. They smell good and taste better, and made men go nuts."
"Eric!" He laughed.
"Come, attack again."
"Are you ready?" I told him the sword down.
"Well, I will attack then."
"Wait, wait" He lunged at me, I tried to avoid him as if I were the cape and he, the bull, but he turned around and grabbed me and threw me over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes "ERIC!"
"Unless they prove to be a danger, which is not the case of Sookie" he said patting me on the ass "men don't kill women in war. They must survive."
"But you have said that they made us go nuts!" Erik said. The father laughed. Nice. I pinched his ass, and he didn't flinch. I started him with the sword in his glorious derriere, but it was like the one that pokes in the hindquarters of an ox: nothing.
"The mission of women is to miss us, men" he said. And he was so at ease.
"You are an ass..."
"The mission of man, Erik, is going crazy about women" he added.
"Oh, please. In any case, it is you who made us go nuts. Erik, sweetheart, between men and women must be respect, communication, affection..."
"Prffff" Does that had been a raspberry?
"Eric, put me down. Put me down or I'll bite."
"I'm looking forward."
"Then" Erik said and his father let me down "we don't have to do harm to women, but we have to be careful with them because they are like bears and wolves and we need to let them made us go crazy."
"Right."
"Jesus Christ Shepherd of Judea!"
"I do not understand" Erik said.
"Neither do I" Leif added.
"I'm not surprised" I muttered.
"No one does" Eric confessed. Children shrugged, picked up their wooden swords and began to practice. Both of them thinking that when they get older they won't let women turn them crazy. Eric looked at me and rubbed his derriere.
"You hit hard. You have possibilities."
"You don't have any idea" He smiled same way he used to when he show me his fangs. He stared at me until I smiled at him too. It was they who turned us crazy!
I pushed him playfully and he had the courtesy to sway a little. He grabbed me by the waist and laughed. We looked to our lips and began to lean towards each other, when, as usual, something interrupted us. The sound of a horn sounded in the street. Eric turned abruptly.
"Is it announcing the ships?"
"No, that's not for the ships" Eric said. It was the alarm horn.