I know I have promised a marathon every 50 reviews, and you posted 67 reviews. I know you will make me post a chapter daily until I finish the story but I want to write my own stories so this is the deal I will post a marathon every 75 reviews but between marathons I will take a couple of days to write my own stories.

I promised marathon So let's began! Day one.

Chapter 29

Jason awoke with a start when he realized that he had fallen asleep. Hustler with fright, looked at his sister, who was in the same position.

"You can take a nap if you wish" the elf said. He looked like a normal man, but he looked weird: sharp nose, thin and manly lips, small, slightly pointed ears and almond-shaped blue eyes. One could look at him because of two reasons: because he was extremely handsome and at the same time he was very ugly. It was weird.

"No, no, better not. I'll sleep tonight" Jason said.

"As you wish."

"How is she?"

"Same as fifteen minutes ago, with no change"

"Ok" He had slept for just fifteen minutes, that was all, and the worst was another fifteen minutes went by, Jason thought that was a little insufferable, remain silent with the creature in the room, both looking at Sookie as two dumb statues, but the elf didn't seem to be bothered with the situation "So you're an elf, eh?" the other looked at him askance "I'd never met one, before" silence "Are you ... you know, like Legolas?" More silence and Jason thought that like everyone else, the elves didn't like to talk about their world and their race. Fuck with the supernatural secrecy.

"I'm not immortal" he said at last, in a clear voice "although very long-lived. I still have quite a few centuries of life."

"Lucky you" Jason wondered how many years must have, despite his youthful appearance. Maybe a couple of centuries.

"I'm twenty-three years old" he confessed "and I just finished my medical studies at Oxford University in England."

"Oh" The elf looked at the time, got up and went back to monitor his sister with some gadgets that had been in his bag "My mentor says you're a panther man."

"Only in part. One of them bit me and I have to shift every full moon, but not as one of thoroughbred"

"Does your sense of smell is as good as them?"

"The truth is yes."

"Haven't you noticed anything unusual on your sister in the last few hours?"

"Like what?" The truth was that it had seemed to smell like smoke.

"As if she was near a fire and she became impregnated of the smell of wood smoke" Jason looked suspicious and the other's eyes gleamed "It seemed to me"

He spent the day pecking at the food: sandwiches, chips, snacks, several cans of cola... yet the elf only drank a glass of fresh orange juice.

The doctor arrived shortly before nightfall, talked awhile with Aerin (the elf, who between the men called himself Irving) and then she began to check Sookie too. Eric showed up in the room a few minutes before nightfall. He looked bad, and he walked with some difficulty because although the light couldn't kill him, clarity bothered him.

"How is she?"

"No change" Ludwig replied him.

"Did you find out anything?"

"No" she replied. The elf coughed.

"I think, I have figured out something" Eric questioned him raising an eyebrow "I've seen this before, but never in human beings."

"Miss Stackhouse isn't quite human" Ludwig replied him.

"Neither have I seen it in any magical creature" then everyone looked at him attentively "From what I have seen during the day, your sister" he explained to Jason "doesn't have any biological need and doesn't need the drip at all, she doesn't require IV feeding."

"¡Come on! Tell at once where you saw it! Eric yelled at him.

"On animals" he stammered a bit. He didn't like vampires. He was a creature of the day "Your girlfriend..."

"Wife."

"Your wife" he corrected himself "She is like in a state of hibernation."

"Like bears?" Jason asked.

"Well... It's the closest thing I've seen to what's happening. During the months when these animals hibernate, they have their metabolism very slow, they don't eat, don't urinate, don't..."

"Ok. Ok." Eric interrupted him "So? My human woman is hibernating as a woodchuck?

"It's all I could think about it. What it's happening to your wife has no explanation" He replied with some bitterness.

"You should keep thinking."

"I think the guy is right" Ludwig agreed with him "Obviously Aerin isn't saying that Sookie is hibernating like a bear, but it's true that it's more or less what is happening."

"And has she reached that point in natural circumstances?" Eric asked "Is it something that happens to fairies?"

"Not at all. As I already stated, I haven't seen any magical creature became like this" confirmed Ludwig.

"Well, vampires are dead during the day. It also resembles it. Perhaps an overdose of vampire blood undigested because of her fairy heritage..." Eric roared.

"Are you saying that I've done it to her?" The elf paused "Have I don't it to her?"

"I don't know" intervened Ludwig "We must investigate further. I had told you with the amount of vampire blood that Miss Stackhouse has drunk over these years she might well have become a vampire, however, she hasn't. Don't give her more of your blood at this moment. We don't know if this is a side effect. We will investigate" Ludwig assured, this had aroused her curiosity.

"Sookie doesn't need a nurse and her life isn't in danger" Aerin reported "My presence here isn't necessary, but there is a library I'd like to check. If you do not mind" He said addressing Ludwig "I would do some research."

"O.k. go"

"Whatever it takes" Eric said. The two doctors packed up and left the room whispering "Jason, thanks for taking care of her. Rest tonight while I watch her.

"Are you sure?"

"I'll be with her all night."

Of course, Eric stayed with her that night and the following nights. But there came a time that even he wanted to take turns with Pam at Fangtasia, no one could watch her night and day because Jason had to work.

Even though Eric didn't want, Pam and Jason convinced him to move Sookie to Bon Temps. It had been two weeks after the fall of the waitress and the strange things that happened after it. Sookie was still in that state of hibernation, however, occasionally they had perceived odors in her skin that appeared there like something magical. She smelled of smoke, cold, sea water, to pitch or other people. And that was what most worried them... all of them. They were super-controlling the visits and everyone the panther, the shifter and the vampire agreed that what happened to her, was foreign to them.

Organizing in Bon Temps was much easier than done it in Shreveport. Most of the evenings were covered by Eric, but until he arrived Pam or Bill or Bubba used to stay with her. The sheriff had enough confidence in these guards. The day was usually covered by Jason or Sam because Eric didn't trust completely in the werewolf or in any one of Sookie's brother herd and he certainly didn't trust in any of both faeries. However, he trusted in the shifter.

And for more banter, things in the vampire world weren't much better. There was such a marked lull in the Louisiana's kingdom and Victor had been so calm that Eric got goose bumps at every breath of cold air that showed. Something was brewing, sure. He had called Felipe twice in the last week to make sure everything was ok, and he had been in contact with sheriffs in other states and they all seemed to agree that such an unusual calm in Louisiana could only be precedent of great evils.

He was going to warm a True Blood in Sookie's microwave when his cell phone rang. He answer but he didn't said a thing.

"Mister Northman?"

"Yes."

"I'm Aerin the elf, Mrs. Ludwig helper."

"I've been waiting three weeks to hear from you."

"Well, I have been living in a library for three weeks" he replied. Eric smiled to himself, because obviously wasn't the daring that made the elf speak him in that way, the elf was just tired "I'll go over your wife's house and tell you what I learned."

"I'm looking forward" He took the bottle of blood and drank it with a gesture of disgust.

"I can bring a cat, sir, there are many" Bubba, appearing from nowhere, said from the window. The unfortunate vampire felt a strange affinity for Sookie, despite he wasn't very bright, his loyalty and dedication to the service made Bubba a trustable fellow.

"No thanks. You don't need to watch over Miss Sookie tonight, Bubba and I'll be here with her.

"Okeydokey" and he ran like a lighting to the swamp to hunt who knows what.

Ludwig's car arrived two hours after Aerin called, the elf went out of the car but the doctor waited for the help of her chauffeur. Eric opened the door.

"Help my child with everything that brings" said the doctor. Eric saw Aerin struggling with a heavy suitcase.

"No, I can do it" He smiled. He came into the house with the bag and opened it in the living room "These are all books about supernatural diseases that I considered interesting for our case: I focused on fairies and vampires; although about faeries there is little information because they are very jealous of their privacy. However, vampires...

"Sookie isn't a vampire" Eric said.

"But she has ingested lots of vampire blood right? When I found nothing about fairies, I oriented my research in that way."

"And what did you find?" Ludwig said.

"Not much. Almost nothing makes a vampire sick, although they can be poisoned with the blood of a sick man, of course, in which case they would have a couple of bad nights, but that's it. They also suffer from psychosomatic illnesses, especially depression. And finally, there are the diseases caused after a failed conversion. In this case it isn't that vampire is sick, is that the process failed at some point, the magic hasn't worked as it should, and this causes irreversible consequences."

"So you think so much vampire blood has left Sookie in that state?"

"I thought it... for a while. But if so, Miss Sookie couldn't stand the sunlight and would have to consume blood. No, I think that is not the case."

"So we haven't advanced at all" Eric said.

"We know that you didn't caused it" the elf said and Eric stared at him "Of course, if it wasn't caused by a vampire, it must be something else. Tired of not sleeping and eating poorly and having covered the most important libraries of the supernatural world: Oxford, Budapest, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Rome... without success, I thought to call and apologize. I thought I couldn't help you. And being in Paris, What do you think happened?"

"Enlighten me."

"I saw a parade."

"Good for you" The elf pulled out a Disney child movie and handed it to Eric.

"Suddenly I realized that I had been looking in the wrong books!" Eric turned it to see the cover: The Sleeping Beauty "There is more information of the supernatural world in stories, myths and legends written by humans than in many of the books that we keep in our libraries. Sleeping Beauty is an old European story, there are several sources, but the main thing is that the protagonist is a young woman who is mired in a perpetual sleep, like Sookie up there, induced by the spell of an evil witch and who will only be saved by the prince in question."

"It's a joke right?" Eric asked.

"No."

"I know the power of witches, but are they really capable of this?"

"In the modern story is a witch who casts a spell to the Beauty, but in European versions is a fairy who cursed her. Fairies are present in all versions, being good or bad. It may seem incredible, but I think Miss Stackhouse is living her own fairy tale."

"Fairies..." Eric growled.

"And the symptoms are the same. Moreover, the sleeping princess came to sleep for a hundred years, until the spell was broken without losing an iota of youth or beauty."

"What are we supposed to do?" Eric asked a little irritated "Do I go upstairs and kiss her and see if she wakes up?"

"Only if you're her true love" the elf said convinced and Eric went to him to break his face. The boy hid behind Doctor, who didn't protect him that much.

"Norseman, Norseman, you don't kill the messenger" Ludwig added "Of course, in all this nonsense, it's the only thing with some sanity. Although her fairy "friends" put Miss Stackhouse to sleep, it seems clear is that this spell won't be broken with the first love kiss.