If Tara was unsure that actually having sex with her own husband, might not be a good idea, it was too late to turn back now.
'Bill' closed and locked their bedroom door, then forcibly pulled Tara into his arms. His mouth closed over hers hungrily, and Tara felt herself responding to his need as he fell to the floor with her, and entered her with the force of a fist punching through curtains.
Their bodies began undulating in a rhythm akin to a racing heartbeat. Tara felt herself lose control but before she could catch her breath, 'Bill' turned her over while still enjoined and began a slow, yet forceful, pumping tempo. His hands locked on her hips for support.
Tara stared into the unlit fireplace in the room, while on her hands and knees. Her breasts swayed with each of her husband's deep, penetrating thrusts. Who was this man? She could feel Bill's earthy desire for her, and yet she had never sensed it in him before.
Later, Tara scarcely remembered riding him, before collapsing into his arms. They eventually made it to the bed, where Bill's hands explored her body in the afterglow.
Meanwhile, Alcide was beyond satiated! Being with Tara like this, was better than he he had expected it to be. He swallowed the iota of guilt he felt about deceiving her in this way. But he still thought he did the right thing. Gordon and Barbara Pelt wanted Tara's babies. If he was married to Tara he could be a liaison of sorts between the two. He didn't know how to keep the Pelt's from attempting to take the babies once they were born. But he knew he could do nothing to help, if he wasn't with Tara in someway.
And pretending to be Bill Compton, Vampire King of Louisiana, seemed to be the best bet. Alcide laced one of his hands between one of Tara's. Tara smiled shyly at him before talking.
"Maybe we should see how Sookie is?"
Alcide frowned.
"You want to talk about Sookie at a time like this?"
"Bill, we need to find out what's going on. And why would Alcide rat Sookie out like that? It doesn't make any sense. He'd never do that to her."
Alcide reached over to curl a tendril of Tara's hair around one of his fingers.
"Maybe 'Alcide' has bigger fish to fry. Bigger problems."
"Meaning?" Tara asked.
"Meaning if he did tell on Sookie, maybe he needed to. Maybe he needed to protect someone else."
Tara frowned.
"You think Alcide threw in with the Pelts to protect someone else? And that he had no choice but to tell on Sookie?"
Alcide removed his hands from her hair.
"Something like that."
There was a knock on the door. Alcide got up and put on a robe, before walking over to the door and opening it to a guard.
"Sorry to disturb you, Your Majesty, but Eric Northman and Sookie Stackhouse are at the gate. They want to see you and the Queen."
"Tell them we're not in." Alcide told the guard.
"Mr. Northman spotted the vehicle you were in earlier this evening at his establishment."
"Then tell them that we came home and went out again." Alcide almost growled feraly.
"I'll try but they are insistent."
Alcide sighed deeply. He then nodded.
"Tell them I'll be right down." he said, then closed the door. He turned to look over at Tara.
"Eric and Sookie are here. I will deal with them alone."
But Tara was already scrambling out of bed!
"Eric got Sookie out on bail? Bill, if they're here than they must need help."
"Probably. I'll handle them."
"Bill, why are you suddenly ordering me around? I just want to help."
Alcide put his hands on Tara's shoulders.
"Tara, I'm only looking out for you. Why is that 'ordering you around'? You're half human, and you and the babies need rest. With Eric and Sookie there is always going to be something. I don't want you dragged into anything. I'll deal with it, then come right back up."
Tara said nothing for a moment. Maybe she shouldn't fight him so hard. He was looking out for her. And no one had ever done that in her entire life.
Except for the Stackhouses.
But Bill wouldn't do anything that wouldn't help Sookie, so Tara relented and nodded, a silent promise to stay put. 'Bill' kissed her quickly, before leaving to head downstairs. But Tara's voice stopped him.
"Are you going to put some clothes on?"
Alcide turned back to her.
"I'm just lounging around in a robe. No one is going to think anything of it."
Alcide entered Bill's office and walked past Eric and Sookie, to sit in the chair behind the desk. His robe was half closed.
"Your Majesty, do you plan on closing that robe?" Eric asked, not liking what his state of undress implied.
"I'm in my own home, spending some private time with my wife. You two can explain why you interrupted it."
Sookie gasped!
"Bill! You actually had sex with Tara?" Sookie almost wailed. Eric put a hand on her shoulder.
"We will deal with that another time, Sookie." Eric whispered. But Alcide heard it.
"I don't see why what my wife and I do, would be either of your concerns. Now why are you here?"
"Did you even give a damn when I told you I was calling from the police station?" Sookie asked.
Bill took his eyes off of Sookie and looked at Eric.
"What are you doing here?" he asked again.
"Your Majesty, Alcide Herveaux, wretched vampire spawn of mine, has revealed our secret of what happened to Debbie Pelt to her parents, who in turn, went to the police. The authorities dug up her body and Sookie was arrested on this evening." Eric explained.
Alcide leaned back in his chair, eyeing them both.
"Why would you think Alcide Herveaux revealed that secret?"
Eric smiled patiently at 'Bill'.
"Bill, come on. I think the one thing we do agree on, is how much of a loser Herveaux actually is. When he was unsuccessful at getting anywhere with either Sookie or Tara, he decided to get Sookie in trouble and we believe he plans to help the Pelts kidnap my unborn children. Now I suggest you increase security around here. It seems very lax." Eric said in a matter-of-fact tone.
Alcide was roiling with rage, but he kept it under control. He looked from Eric to Sookie.
"Sookie, do you believe what Northman here said was true? Is Alcide Herveaux a 'loser'?"
Sookie raised a brow.
"What's that got to do with anything? The point is, he told the Pelts! It had to be him! It sure as hell wasn't any of us or Tara!"
Alcide stood up, closing his robe firmly.
"What do you want from me?"
"We need your influence to make this go away. You managed to procure Herveaux and other Weres at one point, to cooperate with the Authority. Make this go away somehow." Eric said.
"I don't think that there can be peace in this situation," Alcide said, "until the Weres get a sense of justice. Someone has to go to prison for this crime."
Eric looked Alcide up and down, while Sookie snapped!
"Are you fucking kidding me?! You know what the fucking Pelts don't want to talk about, is that their daughters were crazy bitches! Debbie MURDERED Tara! Oh and Sandra then tried to kill Tara and she too had to take a life in self defense!"
"What I'm saying, Sookie," Alcide said, "is maybe that's exactly what needs to be said."
Sookie was about to say something else, but Eric interrupted.
"Is that your plan? To use a media blitz, backed with Authority influence, to make the Pelts and the Weres the bad guys in this?"
No, Alcide thought, but if thinking that will get you the fuck out of my house so I can get back to Tara, then fine!
Sookie suddenly stared at Bill, then grabbed Eric's arm.
"Bill, I'll trust you to do what's best. Let's go." she said to Eric and pulled him out of the room. Sookie hurried to the door, opened it and stepped outside. Eric was about to, but stopped and looked up towards the top of the staircase.
Tara was standing at the top, staring down at him. Eric looked at her, then her stomach, before his jaw tightened and he left the house as well. Once outside, Sookie let loose!
"I could HEAR BILL'S THOUGHTS!"
Eric frowned.
"What do you mean? I thought you couldn't read vampire thoughts?"
"I can't! I can't, Eric! But I sure as hell heard Bill in there thinking that he wanted us out of the house so he could fuck Tara upstairs! And he thought that he really wasn't going to help us! What is going on?"
Before Eric could speculate, a feeling came over him. One that told him Nora was in trouble.
"Nora is in trouble. And I sense it's Authority related," Eric said, pulling out a set of keys, "go to Fangtasia and wait for me there. I have to find out what's going on."
Sookie said nothing and took the keys. She could see that Eric looked agitated. After losing Pam, he surely didn't want to take the chance of losing yet another family member.
Tara returned to her room and soon Alcide joined her. He closed the door, took off his robe and got into bed. Tara was over by her dressing mirror. She stared at him through the reflection.
"What is it?" Alcide asked.
Tara turned on her chair to look at him.
"There are still times when I wonder if I can do this."
"Do what?" Alcide asked.
"Be happy without the man I loved in that other reality. But do you know in just a few, short hours, I feel as if maybe, my life isn't over."
Alcide got up out of bed, unclothed and walked over to her.
"Of course it ain't over, Tara. We can have a good life here together. With our children."
Tara nodded.
"What did Eric and Sookie want?" she asked.
"I don't want to scare you, but they want me to increase security. They think the Pelts plan to kidnap the babies."
"Who isn't trying to kidnap them?" she half joked. But Alcide could sense her fear and pulled her up out of her chair.
"Let's go to bed. I'm not about to let anything happen to you or our babies, okay?"
Tara nodded again and Alcide lead her by the hand over to the bed. Once tucked in, Alcide wrapped his arms around her, until he could feel her fall asleep, before getting up himself. He put on his robe and quietly left the room. He hadn't liked that little visit at all! He was going over to Authority Headquarters to make sure that Chancellor Kibwe had everything under control, so he could stay Bill Compton.