VampireElf: It felt off for me to reunite them romantically right away without some form of complication. Do not fret they will definitely have their time. Also I have been working on a Eric POV but it isn't up to snuff yet. I will post when it is done. Just know that Eric's character in the present is a little resistant to emotions so he may have a little trouble. It has been a thousand years :P. Thank you for all your awesome reviews! I love having you interested!
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Chapter 13:
Eric looked at me again this time I thought maybe I could see a little bit of my viking in there. But I couldn't be sure. "Well alright then. Glad I can be of assistance." I said hoping he would let me leave after I agreed.
"You have many things to tell me. I want to hear it all." He said noticing I had tip toed around all the big stuff.
"Yes well maybe that can be arranged. But I won't do it here with other vampire ears hanging about." I knew telling any vampire about my race was dangerous. If it got out Sookie and I wouldn't last long.
"But you will tell me?" He asked sliding his hand along side mine without touching it. I couldn't help but stare at them next to each other.
"Yes of course. I wish no secrets between us brother." I said hoping he would tell me everything as well. Standing up I grabbed my jacket and pulled it on. If I stayed longer I would be tempted to do something we would both regret, "I should go. It is not long until sunrise. Come see me when you can." I said smiling to him as I went for my friends. It hurt not to be able to hug him or even just touch for a second.
"Alright lets get the hell out of here. I have to paint tomorrow and I am exhausted!" I yelled to them not even waiting as I headed out the doors of Fangtasia. Bill and Sookie followed me slowly saying their goodbyes.
"So you gonna tell me what happened in there?" Sookie asked pulling herself up so she could see me from the back seat of my car.
"Not much. We just talked a bit."
She scoffed, "You didn't profess you love for him and promise to marry him?" She joked laughing with Bill. She knew vampires weren't much for marrying anyone.
"In what world am I that type of girl?" I asked frowning, profess my love? Yah not likely.
"Well...Did you at least set some boundaries?" She meant no touching.
"Yes I told him. He wasn't to happy about it." I wasn't really into this conversation around Bill anymore, "Look Sook lets talk about this tonight once Bill goes to ground. No offense but its a little personal." I said to her.
He understood, "I have to agree with Oliver on this one. Eric is my sheriff I really shouldn't know these things about him. Best to keep it professional." Sookie dropped back into her seat.
"Well fine, I will wait an hour." She crossed her arms over her chest. I really wasn't asking that much to wait a little while.
Once Sookie had said goodbye to Bill we changed into our night clothes. She was going to spend the night with me.
"So you and Eric just talked? Nothing more? I figured after a thousand years he would try something!" She moaned sitting on my bed next to me.
"He can't touch me Sook. Not much to do there." I said hoping this wasn't all we were going to talk about.
"Well I figured he would try. Did he at least tell you he loves you? He missed you?" Thinking back on it he hadn't. I chalked it up to a thousand years of loneliness or something. Who knows.
"Nope we basically covered how come I disappeared. I didn't detail it much though. I doubt he feels much nowadays any way." I figured he lost himself along the way some where.
"Well I don't believe that for one second! If it was real love then it is still there." How did she even know that? She loved one man in her twenty five years and it was very recent.
"Yes well I doubt he would admit it now anyways. Besides he has tons of women throwing themselves at him daily. He doesn't need me anymore Sook." We both sighed together and lay back.
"Well I don't know then. You will have to move on eventually I guess." She said. I hadn't thought of moving on with anyone pretty much since Bjorn. It felt foreign to me.
"Maybe." I said rolling over to allow sleep to take me.
In the morning I took Sookie home, walking her to her door. As soon as we stepped inside we noticed the blood. It was pooling around the kitchen. I saw her walk in and heard the scream, "GRAN! No Gran!" She cried out. I caught her as she fell to the floor. Someone had come here and brutally murdered the sweetest old lady I had ever known.
"Shh Sookie it's going to be alright. Shh...I have to call the cops." I left her on the floor and called Andy Bellfluer. We must have spent all day in the kitchen with the police while they questioned Sookie and I.
"Jason...He doesn't know." Sookie sobbed into my shoulder.
"I know baby. I will find him. Tara and Lafayette are here to stay with you okay? I will find him." I repeated. I knew lately her brother had been enjoying the thrills of V around town with his new girl friend. Hopefully when I found him he would be sober enough to pull his shit together and see Sookie.
"Damn hooker. What the hell happened here?" Lafayette asked me eying the scene.
"Someone did this. We need to figure it out before someone else gets hurt." I said, "Stay with her. I am going to find Jason okay?" I patted his shoulder and left the scene.
It wasn't long before I showed up at Jason's place. The curtains were closed and there was no lights on but I banged on the door until he answered, "Damn girl. What are you doing. People are trying to sleep here!" He yelled opening the door. He was completely naked.
"Dammit Jason put some clothes on!" I pushed past him and went inside. "Go!" I yelled. He came back clothed a few minutes later.
"What do you want anyways? You and I don't hang out." He said. He was right.
"I have some bad news. Are you sober?" I asked. he pushed some paper off his couch and sat down.
"I don't have to tell you shit. What do you want?" He pushed.
"Alright well shit." I said leaning against the door frame, "Somethings happened to your Gran. The same person who is framing you around town broke in last night. I am sorry Jason but she didn't make it." I whispered hoping he wouldn't flip out.
"She what?" He asked standing back up and walking towards me.
"She was stabbed last night. She didn't make it. Sookie and I found her body this morning." I knew he wasn't going to take it well.
"Where is she?" He asked.
"Sookie is at home with Tara and Lafayette." I answered. He grabbed his coat and stormed out the door behind me without even closing it. I watched as he drove off towards Sookie.
Me: Jason's upset. He is headed your way. Tell Sookie.
Lafayette: Alright girl. Let us know when you coming back.
Me: I have to get to work. I will be back later tonight.
During my shift many people had come in thinking about Sookie. Most of them blamed Jason for the murders. About an hour into my shift I got some texts from Tara.
Tara: Jason showed up high, slapped our girl in front of everyone.
Me: WHAT THE FUCK? Did you get rid of him?
Tara: Yeah. He blames her for it.
Me: Why? We weren't even home!
Tara: Says it is because she hangs around vampires.
Me: Well I hate to say it but it is consistent with all the girls. Most of them had bite marks. Maybe they came for her?
Tara: Who knows. He can't be up in here hitting women.
Me: Yeah. Okay well I will finish up here and see if Sam can give me the night off.
"Sam! Sookie's brother is acting crazy. He hit her. I may need to go take care of her a while. Tara and Lafayette gotta be here soon and I don't want her alone." He walked over to me.
"He hit her? No you stay here." What the hell Sam? "I will go over there. I need all the staff I can get tonight." He said. "Alright well tell her I am coming later." I said walking back to my job.
After a few days Sookie and I had finished the funeral stuff and had tried hard to move on a bit. I even moved into her place so I could protect her while Bill was in the ground. I worried about loosing her to this serial killer. We spent most night awake talking after Bill left. She finally slept with the vampire and wouldn't stop telling me about it.
All it would do was remind me of my long long celibacy. I had been thinking a lot about what she had said about moving on from Eric. I really hated the idea but I had to be open to moving on eventually. I still hadn't heard from or seen Eric since our talk. I figured he was busy with Fangtasia. In all honesty I missed him all the time.
Tonight Sookie was staying with Bill so I had gone back home to hang out and water the plants. I loved gardening in the light of the moon. Everything in the yard was illuminated at night. I went out side in my short white shorts and a tight white tank top. It was hot here even at night. I hadn't even worn shoes.
I stomped out into the grass and started pulling weeds from the soil around my veggies. It had only been dark an hour or so when I heard a whoosh behind me. I knew it was Eric so I finished pulling the mangled weeds out of the ground before turning to him. I wiped my hands in the grass before standing and joining him by the porch.
"Your here." I stated. It was obvious he was here. I sometimes didn't know how to greet him, He smiled. "Well I guess you should come inside then." I sighed wiping my feet on the rug by the door, "Sorry about the mess. I haven't been home for a while. I was at Sookie's a few days to help with the funeral arrangements." I said walking through the door. Turning to him I leaned against the door frame and watched him move towards me.
"You have to invite me in Oliver." He said standing in front of me, he peaked around the area by the door. I moved back and towards the kitchen.
"Well common in then brother." He moved inside in a flash as the door closed behind him. I knew he had to snoop a bit so I proceeded to make tea. He came in a few minutes later.
"You built this house?" He asked leaning in the doorway.
I nodded, "Yes almost a hundred and fifty years ago. Andrew wanted it big, I just wanted the water out back." I said sipping from my cup. His face got cold and hard.
"Who is Andrew?" He demanded. I hadn't seen this from him since Bjorn. He was jealous!
"Andrew was my best friend. He died over sixty years ago." His face calmed. I directed him to the living room were he sat on my couch. I on the other hand sat on the coffee table across from him.
"Why don't you age?" He asked.
"Well I dunno. Why don't you age? Magic I guess." I sipped again and set my cup down. "My people don't age but we can die. I told you that already. I guess I will be eighteen forever. At least the next few thousand years anyway."
He nodded, "What are you Oliver?" He asked leaning in and sniffing me, "You smell amazing." He whispered.
I moved back a bit and adjusted myself. "You don't know do you? I guess we really are rare." I sighed and picked up the cup again tipping it to my mouth, "I am a faerie." I said. His eyes grew soft. "When I was taken it was to Fairy. They tricked me Eric. I had to escape. By then at least five hundred years had passed. I thought of looking for you but I didn't have those kind of resources." His eyes were filled with something I couldn't place, a certain darkness. "Truly I tried to come back to you and Drott." I wanted to marry him no matter what damage it may have caused me. "You are so different Eric. I am sorry I ran from you that night at Fangtasia but I was a little afraid." I confessed. I hoped he might share his feelings about all this with me at some point. He was being really quiet. "So that is it not much else to tell I guess. I have a lot of awesome powers and I won't age. Life is what it is." I looked at him again as his eyes trailed my body. I wished then I could read him. But vampires were dead and I couldn't read something that wasn't truly alive. Our magic was very different.
Finally Eric spoke, "I smelled you in the bar that night. I looked for the smell and when I saw you I thought I was hallucinating." I only nodded. "Everyday after you left was painful for me. All I could do was keep going for Drott." I figured as much. "Now here you are." That was it? He left out a whole lot! His eyes drifted to my chest and up to my face again. "You are just as beautiful as the last night we were together." He said. Now I knew that look he had. He wanted me.
"Eric we can't go there. You might hurt me." I reminded him. "If there was some way you must know I would do it for you. But there just isn't. We can't be intimate." I said trying to look away from his roaming eyes.
"Your tune is much changed from our last conversation." He meant the night I turned him down at the river.
"You know how I felt. My kind is very different Eric. We can die of a broken heart. I may not have known this at the time but I felt it.." I said. Even then I knew to protect myself.
"I would not have hurt you Oliver. I hadn't been with a woman for months before that night." My eyes widened, he hadn't told me that.
"You look surprised." He said smiling cruelly again like the night at Fangtasia.
"Well you can't be mad at me for protecting myself. You know how you were.. Are. I may not have had the information I do now, but my body knew."
His smile changed to a frown, "I would have made you happy." He said.
I smiled to him, "We can't change the past. Only our future." I didn't even know where to go from here.
"Yes well, I do not intend to give up this time. I do not have to touch you for you to be mine Oliivi." He said scanning my body again. My cheeks flushed as heat pooled in my pelvis. He still had it but his confidence had certainly improved. "You will be mine again." He whispered to me as he drew closer.
"Eric stop. We must not push it. It isn't safe for me." I said back trying to move away from his gaze.
"I wouldn't hurt you. Ever." He said as his hand came close to my bare knee. I felt it lightly brush over the skin there as I held on for dear life. It took everything I had to pull my scent back from him. He only frowned, I assumed he hoped things had changed. "How is it after a thousand years you are still untouched. Were you waiting for me Oliivi?" He whispered again bringing his lips close to mine.
"Stop. Eric no!" I whimpered. How was it he knew I hadn't been with anyone. I chalked it up to vampire noses being amazing. Then I felt his lips brush mine lightly before he disappeared out my front door.