A/N: Thank you so much for your reviews, follows and favourites: ) I have been writing almost non stop, which I am sure to get into trouble for since I have done almost no work this week... This story is just pouring out though and so when the muse strikes I write!
I don't own anything I'm just taking the characters for a walk.
Eric's POV
It has been an adjustment to get used to waking with others in my day chamber once again. Ever since Godric released me I have not shared my resting place with anyone. My childe wanted to rest on her own after her first year or so. I found Pam almost immediately after Godric released me; though I didn't change her to replace him. I did it mostly out of loneliness but also because Godric told me that he left me so that I could live my own life, make my own mistakes, and have my own progeny. I took it as a box I needed to check so that he would believe that I am well enough adjusted to stop this foolishness and let me stay by his side once more. Pamela is quite different from us both she is very independent and I'm afraid I have spoilt her terribly. She took to being a vampire with gusto. I didn't have the same issues as Godric had with me. Pam was happy to leave her mortal life and family behind, and never once has she looked back. She has spent a number of years living apart from me and only returned to my side when I called her to help me with Fangtasia right before the great reveal.
In my defence she really is a wonderful childe she is fiercely loyal and a deadly fighter. What harm is it to see to her every wish if it also pleases me to see her happy? Her amusement at my expense over my infatuation with Sookie Stackhouse has almost become intolerable however. I may have to punish her if she persists with her unsolicited Dear Abby advice. Although after Godric's words before dawn maybe her advice could be helpful to us in dealing with her human female drama. I'm not sure if Pam is a very good example of the typical female and so I am loath to know what to expect from her and she from me. It is a different dynamic being bonded than the maker and childe relationship, which I know well. Clearly defined as master and childe however as our bonded she holds much more power over us than I think she realizes.
I know that I cannot fight this at the risk of damaging our relationship further but I cannot help the fear that paralyses me at the thought of how this might end. I know for sure that Godric will meet the sun if she perishes and from what I know of blood bonds it is probable that I will as well. Godric may have decided that his two thousand years on this earth have been enough but I still feel I have more to see, more to know; and her short mortal years may not be enough to quench this thirst of mine.
I felt Godric stirring his hands left me and I could feel him taking in every aspect of Sookie: her scent, the feel of her, the sound of her heartbeat, the taste of her. I opened my eyes to see that she too is awake and nestled happily between us. Her smile melted my heart and I couldn't help but smile in response and kiss her breathless. She will surely be the death of me but what a wonderful way to go. I don't know how I feel so much for someone that I hardly know: I haven't even fucked her yet. I don't like what she is turning me into it scares me how much I care. She is so soft and her scent drives me wild the combination of her and Godric has my fangs itching and my cock hard enough to cut diamonds. Fuck I have been unable to even feed from let alone fuck one of those pathetic bloodbags since I tasted her in Dallas.
The sounds that she makes in response to our touch - she is perfect - made by the gods just for us. I am about to impale her onto my cock when she speaks reminding me of our argument the night before. My anger at her words and actions comes back; though one look at Godric, who is laying next to us watching fangs bared in lust, reminds me that I need to treat her more delicately.
I pull myself together and steady myself pulling back all my anger and calmly I ask her. "Godric tells me that you had your reasons for leaving the house yesterday and I apologize for not listening to them and reacting poorly. Will you forgive me?" So turns to look at Godric who kisses her on the lips and then leaves us alone while he showers.
"Did he not tell you my reasons?" Sookie asks. Her body language radiates defensiveness as she pulls away from me.
"No I think he wants to teach me to be more patient with you. Which I will try and remember to do. Though you will have to be patient with me as well." I try to start out on a more even footing giving her the opportunity to tell me her side of things.
"I know this will be a challenge for all of us. Godric says that we need to try and walk in each other's shoes to learn how the other may feel or react to certain things." She tells me.
"I don't think you will fit into my shoes Lover..." I say waggling my eyebrows at her.
"Eric!" She admonishes the tension broken as I had hoped.
"I'm sorry Lover. Why don't you tell me why you left the safety of my home and went to work for the Shifter?" I asked her.
"He isn't the Shifter - Eric - he has a name!" She scolded but I merely raised my eyebrow and waited for her to realize that she is never going to convince me to like her boss. Not after the way he looked at her last night. "Fine." She huffed out a breath and sighed in defeat after a moment or two of staring one another down.
I waited and finally she spoke. "When I agreed to go to Dallas for you I told Sam I would be gone for two days. I was gone for twice that! He is rightfully upset with me especially since in all the commotion I forgot to even call him. When I called and let him know I was back in town he was short staffed and asked me to come in and work. I couldn't say no; he's one of my best friends, and besides I need the job. Anyways I asked Jason to meet me at my house and he checked to make sure it was safe before I came over and I checked for brains before I got out of the car and everything. Plus I wanted to go home and get some more clothes if I am going to be staying here. My bag is probably still in the trunk where I left it." She spoke explaining quickly not letting me get a word in edgewise. The one time I even looked like I wanted to say something she narrowed her eyes at me.
"Actually I have it right here Ma Petite." Godric interrupted my response, which is probably for the best.
"Thank you Godric, that is very sweet of you." She said turning towards him.
"It was nothing Little one." He told her coming to join us on the bed.
"I could have gotten it myself, but thank you." She responded stubbornly.
"Eventually you will get used to us doing things for you Little one." Godric told her and punctuated his statement with a kiss.
"Starting with protection. I have hired daytime body guards for you." I mentioned diving right in - damn the consequences.
"You what?" She retorted, her eyebrows disappearing into her hairline.
"We have to know that you are safe. If something were to happen to you..." I rationalized my decision.
"Arrgg... Is this just for this week? What about when I go back to work?" She argued back.
"You're not expected to work for the Shifter this week? What a pleasant surprise: no more odeur de wet dog." I couldn't be more thrilled Godric somehow convinced her to take the week off to spend with us. Now we just need to figure out how to gently wean her from her job with the Shifter. She is too good to be serving the rednecks in her Podunk town and that way she will have more time to spend with us.
"Eric your incorrigible!" She retorted.
"But you love it! Admit it Lover. You can't resist me can you?" I teased her right back waggling my eyebrows like I know she likes.
"I'll admit that you drive me crazy Eric!" She attempted to sound indignant but I could see that she was struggling not to burst into laughter.
"Have you two come to some sort of an agreement yet?" Godric interrupted our banter bringing us back to the task at hand.
"I think that we have... We are going to be more patient with one another's point of views and talk through things first before we let them affect our bond." I summarized the extent of what we had managed to deal with so far.
"And the guards?" Sookie baited still obstinately refusing to admit that she needed to be protected.
"I arranged this last night while I was at Fangtasia and I was going to speak with you both tonight when we rose. They started today watching the house; they are members of the Longtooth pack. One of them owes me a debt he is to be your personal guard, while the others will rotate and add additional security to the house." I let them know about the plans that I made the night before. It was an unspoken agreement as we left Dallas that this would need to be put into place and so I know that Godric will understand my actions. This is my Area and my home and so it is my responsibility to provide the security detail. If we are expecting the Queen and other territories to be interested in forcefully acquiring what is ours we must act proactively.
"It is necessary Ma Petite if we want to stay in one place and for you to be safe during the daylight hours." Godric always the voice or reason, how he manages to instill such quick agreement in her has me baffled.
"I think that I get it, but I won't have any privacy! It's just not fair!" Sookie pouted her bottom lip protruding just asking to be bitten.
"I know that this is a big change Little one; but Bill was sent by the Queen, and she has the authority to demand Eric hand you over to her, if we are not blood bonded. And it is likely that she will continue to attempt to take you: she is very impetuous." Godric laid it all out on her in clear terms.
"And once news of you grows other kingdoms will covet you and we need to be prepared." I added hoping to get her to see reason.
"And so this is forever then? Not just while we form the bond?" She quietly responded.
"We could try and leave the area, but you would have to leave your friends and family behind, and even then we can't guarantee that it would work." Godric brought up what might seem like an alternative but in reality would only prolong the inevitable.
"Besides I am a Viking and we don't run from a fight." I certainly didn't want to run it's been too long since I had reason to battle, but if she wants to I would be forced to follow them into hiding.
"Okay so let me see if I have this correct. You want to permanently bond with me, which gives you the right to kill anyone who harms me. As well you want me to be guarded at all times from potential threats?" She stated calmly seemingly having taken all of our warnings to heart.
"That is only part of the true meaning of the bond we wish to form. In the supernatural world a bond is much stronger and more meaningful than marriage in the human one. Human marriage is a fleeting union easily broken whereas a supernatural bond cannot be broken. The bond will tie our life forces together for eternity." Godric restated letting her know of the importance of the bond.
"Oh." Her eyes were wide and her response was barely audible.
"Oh?" I questioned not understanding her timid reaction.
"Well I guess I didn't realize that it was such a big deal! This is all so new to me. I mean last week I was just a telepathic barmaid from Bon Temps and now... I'm not so sure anymore." There is the fiery Faery that I know and love.. Wait did I just say love?
"Are you reconsidering bonding with us?" Godric asked the question that was on the tip of my tongue.
"I don't know? I think I just need a few minutes alone?" She said and she got up and went into the bathroom bringing her bag with her. Godric and I sat on the bed next to one another not looking at each other. She spent almost an hour in the bathroom and by the time she emerged Godric and I were deep into planning for every contingency that we could think of should she refuse to bond with us. We had to keep her safe even if she won't let us protect her we will do whatever is in our power to do so without her knowledge.
My fangs ran down so fast that they cut my lip like a newborn. She is a vision, in red lingerie; a lacy bra and boy short panties, her hair pulled up off her neck. We are both instantly at attention waiting on her to make a move towards us. Her hips swayed seductively as she walked the short distance to the bed. Godric couldn't stay still any longer and pulled her into his arms as soon as she neared the bed.
"You're playing with fire Lover." I growled out advancing on them.
"I just have one question." She asked and we growled for her to make it quick. Holding back any longer was beginning to become painful. "Is there anything else about the bond that I should know about?" She asked.
Godric dove into her breasts nuzzling her perfect mounds with his face. He trailed his tongue up the valley between her breasts over her collarbone and he nudged her thighs apart as he nipped up her throat biting and licking her flesh. He kissed her softly one, twice before he pulled away and looking into her eyes he spoke his voice rough with lust.
"Every bond is different and they are not very common. We have told you all that we know of what to expect. The only other thing is, in the event one of the three of us should meet our final death, it is unlikely that the others would survive the death."
"But..." she started to say but faltered. I lowered myself to the bed. "Knowing my life is so short you want to bond yourself to me? Why?" She continued to ask.
"I have no wish to live in a world that you do not, nor in one where we are not bonded." Godric's voice strong and determined answered her.
"I struggle with this more than Godric. I have felt the need to be near you, to protect you, to know you Sookie ever since that night you came into my bar. I have tried to fight it, tried to convince myself that I couldn't possibly but if I am truthful I find that I have deep feelings for you feelings that I have never felt before." I told her more honest than I have ever been before. And she started to cry. I made her cry!
"Please don't cry Lover I can't stand to see you cry." I told her wiping away her tears with my thumbs. She placed her hand on my cheek as she spoke.
"I'm crying because I am happy. I care about you both so much it feels like I would die if something happened to either of you. I don't know when but I've fallen in love with you both." I launched into them crushing them both under me as I crushed my lips to hers. When she tore herself away to breath she continued to speak. "I am frightened of how much I love you both. I don't think I would survive it if we were to part." She admitted.
"We are not going anywhere Ma Petite. I love you both too much to leave you no matter the circumstances." Godric promised us both.
"So it is agreed that we will form the bond then?" I asked.
"Can I ask for clarification on one more detail before I agree please." She asked though I don't know how Godric stayed attentive as her hands started to wander.
"Certainly." Godric prodded her to ask us anything.
"I know that Vampires are possessive creatures, and that this bond would make me yours, but does it also make you mine?" She asked and the thought that she wanted to claim us as badly as we wanted to claim her made my cock twitch.
"Are you asking if we will be faithful Little one?" Godric asked her his eyes dancing with mirth.
"Yes." She breathed.
"Let me answer this Master. Sookie I have no desire to be with anyone but you and Godric, nor taste anyone but you both. In my anger last night I shamefully attempted to take one of the fangbangers in my office but was unable to: she repulsed me." I admitted something that I hoped not to reveal but in reality made no difference if she is to be our bonded.
"So you are mine as I am yours then?" She confirmed.
"I think our little Fae is as possessive of us as we are of her Godric." I teased.
"I think you are right my Childe." Godric responded sensing my mood.
With devious glints in our eyes we set upon her tickling her until she squirmed wildly in our arms flailing almost off the bed. Our playfulness soon turned into lust; her lacy red undergarments reduced to silk remnants on the floor. I wanted so badly to bury my cock deep inside of her for the first time. Godric held her against his chest as I slowly stroked my fingers along her slit, she is already dripping wet. I inserted two fingers inside her and she moaned and let her legs fall further apart allowing me to settle between them. I teased her slick entrance with the tip of my cock begging for entry, which she gave by impaling herself as she raised her hips to meet mine wrapping her legs around my waist.
Finally buried to the hilt inside her hot wet and tight channel I held still letting her adjust to my size. I kissed her our tongues battling for dominance. I moaned into her mouth as she rolled her hips creating the most delicious friction. I sat back slightly and I almost came at the sight of our joining along with my Maker fangs as he scraped them along her neck drawing blood his tongue darting out to lap up the blood that escaped. I started to thrust and she met me thrust for thrust even as I sped up to almost inhuman speeds. She soon came undone screaming and clenching, her inner walls spasming wildly. She is so beautiful. Godric grabbed the back of my head and mashed our lips together our fangs clashing together. He sliced my tongue with his fangs deliberately sucking violently greedily. So close. I wanted Sookie to come as I did and with slight pressure on her clit we both came hard screaming the others name.
We lay huddled together as Sookie's breathing slowed. "You didn't take any blood?" Sookie asked me lazily.
"I wanted to wait for the second exchange." I explained my hands lazily exploring her skin.
"We need to find a place that we don't mind destroying for the exchange." Godric reminded us.
"We can use my spare light-tight room. We can remove as much of the furniture as possible before hand." I suggested not entirely convinced that what occurred in Dallas would happen again. However I agree that we need to assume that it might. Godric and I used our speed to quickly ready the room and then returned to collect our soon to be bonded together. We left the bed in the center of the room, which we hopped would be spared being close enough to us but removed all other items.
We arranged ourselves on the bed, with Sookie kneeling between us facing Godric.
"You must bite hard enough to open the wound deep enough Little one. You won't hurt us." Godric told her.
We nuzzled at her neck, holding her tightly licking to prepare her for our bites. We struck at the same time her blood flowing into our mouths so hot and sweet. She drew on Godric's wound until it closed I then placed my wrist to her mouth. As my blood hit her system completing our second three way mutual exchange the same bright white dome exploded out from her body. It passed through Godric and myself it felt warm and powerful as it expanded it became more destructive its power more obvious. The bed frame was blown to bits and lay in smoking smouldering pieces, bits of shrapnel embedded into the walls. The blood tie increased in intensity so I could feel all of our emotions and life forces swirling and pulsing together in an almost tangible way.
We lay content in a heap as before lightly caressing one another as the bond took hold changing us. This time is wasn't Sookie's shock at the sight of the destruction that broke Godric and I out of our blissed out state but her pain. We felt it before she started screaming it was sudden and sharp and powerful enough that it was difficult to determine the cause. Godric held her in his arms as she cried out in pain, tears streaming down her cheeks. I couldn't figure out what could possibly be the matter or how to fix it.
I fought to close the bond to shield myself from the pain so that I could think. It was difficult but not impossible to do. She seemed to be in otherwise perfect health; her breathing while shallow was strong, and her heartbeat again elevated in stress but also strong. I opened the bond back up slowly focusing on the source of the pain and I could swear I felt thirst. Could that be the cause of her pain? Willing to try anything to lessen her pain I shot out of the destroyed room and filled a glass with cold water and was back at her side in seconds. Godric let me take her from him her back pressed into my chest while I held the glass up to her lips and attempted to pour some into her mouth. She spluttered and moaned and only managed to swallow a small portion. Her hands came up to her face and she covered her mouth muffling her new screams. She rolled herself into a ball hugging her knees to her chest still holding her hands over her mouth.
"Godric what is wrong with her?" I pleaded hoping that he would have some sort of idea how to fix this.
"I'm not sure. I have never seen anything like this before. Her pain is localized to her mouth. I believe it is a reaction to our blood." Godric replied more calm than I was capable of being while our bonded lay screaming huddled in a ball.
"I have never heard of such a reaction to Vampire blood before." I whispered terrified.
"Neither have I." He told me his hand on my shoulder in comfort.
We took turns holding her while she screamed and cried in pain for an hour before I shot out of the bed and reached for my phone. "I will call Ludwig. She will know what to do." I told him as I dialled the healer's number and waited for her to answer my call. She answered in her usual gruff manner.
"I have need of your services doctor." I said in clipped no nonsense tones.
"You'll have to bring them by the clinic and I'm not seeing new patients Northman." She replied curtly.
"No you must come here now. You have treated her before." I told her my fear leaking through into my voice.
"Fine, but I am doubling my fee." She retorted.
"Fine." I spat and practically crushed my phone ending the call.
The little doctor appeared with her ever-present bag moments later. She took a look about the room and as her gaze fell upon my Maker who still held Sookie's screaming form in his arms she let out a sigh.
"It's such a shame." She muttered as she dug through her bag pulling out a syringe and a vile from which she then drew a small amount into the syringe and replaced the vile carefully into her bag. Both Godric and I growled at the doctor as she approached our Lover with the unknown substance.
"Step aside Vampire unless you want your bonded to be in pain?" She said with authority.
"What is in the syringe?" I asked her suspiciously.
"It will help with the pain; make her sleep. It's all I can do for her." She told us and we relented and watched powerless as she injected Sookie with the drug. Mercifully she stopped screaming and closed her eyes. I could feel the level of pain she felt was somewhat dimmed though it was still present while she slept in Godric's arms.
"What is happening to her?" I asked running the back of my hand over her forehead and down her cheek.
"Her body is adjusting as her magic awakens." Ludwig said gaining my full attention.
"Will this happen every time we exchange blood?" Godric asked her speaking for the first time since the doctor had arrived.
"The explosive light show? Yes. Her changes will be consummated along with your bond. Make sure to call me again when it is time. I'll expect my payment by the end of the week Vampire." She said and then popped out of the room as suddenly as she entered it.
We left the destroyed spare room and returned to the larger main day chamber and we both laid next to her and watched her sleep racked with guilt over the pain bonding her to us has caused her. I told Godric of the first time Ludwig had seen to her and a few other anecdotal stories of our bonded. The time Pam had expected me at Fangtasia came and went with no communication to her. She was unable to get neither Godric nor myself to answer our cell phones and so Pam took it upon herself to let herself into my home and ascertain for herself the reason behind our absence.
"This is why you are shirking your duties Master? To stay home and watch your human sleep?" Was Pamela's sarcastic comment upon seeing the three of us snuggling in our large bed.
"Pamela" I said in a warning tone.
As if our agitated emotions awoke her Sookie's eyes flew open and she started to scream again. Pamela took a few steps back retreating to the doorway. Blood began to flow from her mouth as she continued to scream. This went on for a few minutes and I was about to call Ludwig back when she abruptly stopped screaming. The pain stopped just as abruptly morphing into relief and euphoria that exploded out of her along with a burst of power, which threw Pam from the room.
As we recovered I went back to monitoring our bond very closely and was shocked to find that she again felt thirsty. As soon as Pam burst back into the room fangs down I sent her back out for a glass of water for Sookie. She resisted but seeing that we were unaffected by whatever force had knocked her down she relented and left the room.
"Sookie how do you feel?" I asked her.
"I feel strange and very thirsty but the pain is gone. Was that little doctor here? It's all a little fuzzy." She answered.
"Yes you were in so much pain and we didn't know what to do. She gave you a sedative for the pain which made you sleep for a few hours." I told her, Godric was too busy examining her to answer.
"Oh, well I'll have to remember to thank her, the next time I see her. I am always unconscious during her visits though." She responded with a chuckle.
We were all laughing when Pam brought the glass of water back; she held it out for Sookie as if it were acid.
"Thank you Pam. When did you get here?" Sookie said politely as she ducked under the covers and pulled them up to cover herself before taking the offered glass. She put it to her lips and tilted it back, the three of us watched in horror as the contents transformed as it hit her lips into human blood, which she drank so quickly that we were unable to stop her. She licked her lips and finally noticed our expressions: "What?" She yelled exasperated that we were staring at her.
We stared long enough that she looked down at the glass in her hand: she dropped it the moment she noticed the bloody residue. We all stared at the glass like it was a poisonous snake until Pam picked it up before any could dribble out and run onto our sheets.
"Well that was interesting! How come you get to have all the fun Master?" Pam didn't seem to understand the seriousness of the situation and I was about to command her to leave when Sookie threw her head back in laughter.
"I'm not sure I see the humour in the situation Lover." I practically snarled.
"A room full of vampires and the human is the one drinking blood. And the way that y'all are staring at it like it's going to attack you! It's just too much!" Her speech was different it almost sounded like she suddenly had a lisps almost like a... No... I stared at Godric my eyes wide for a moment until we both looked back at Sookie who looked back and forth between us like she had no idea that something was very, very wrong here.
"Ma Petite, you altered the glass of water to human blood magically and your speech is altered almost as if..." Godric said. Sookie's hands shot back to her mouth her eyes now as wide as our own, she squeezed her eyes shut as if that would make this whole situation go away.
"No. No, this can't be happening. You never said anything like this would happen!" Sookie cried out still covering her mouth.
"This is not something that we could have known would happen. If we did we would have told you. I promised you I would explain things to you before hand if we weren't in immediate danger and I would have, had I known. Dr. Ludwig did say that your body needs to adjust as your magic awakens. She also said that the process would be complete once we have formed the permanent bond with the third mutual exchange. She also said that the destructive light show would continue to happen so we still need to be careful. She also didn't seem very surprised nor did she seem to act as if this were anything other than what needs to happen for you to become what you are destined to become." Godric attempted to relay what we had discovered during the time that she was unresponsive.
"She also asked us to call her when it was time for the third exchange. Maybe she knows more than she told us. She is always so cryptic though." I added wanting her to know all the facts as they pertained directly to her.
"Yes I have never liked the pint sized healer her bedside manner certainly leaves something to be desired." Pam spoke her mind.
"She is the best at what she does though. I cannot afford to anger her unnecessarily." I countered Pam's truthful statement.
"No of course not we couldn't have that could we?" Pam said sarcastically.
Sookie seemed to have calmed down under Godric ministrations as Pam and I argued about the pint-sized healer as Pam so eloquently termed her. Godric is far better at this than I am at this point.
"So does anyone know what type of changes she was talking about?" Sookie asked her speech back to normal.
"No, she was vague as per usual. Have you noticed anything yet?" I remember asking her this after the first exchange this time surly something more than the beginning of a blood bond has occurred.
"Well there is certainly these.." She bore her fangs at us... Wait fangs?
"Little one they are beautiful!" Godric told her as she retracted them again.
"Let me see again. Godric is right they are very beautiful and if I do say so they suit you Lover." Sookie shyly ran her fangs out again and I couldn't resist I kissed her exploring her fangs with my tongue. She responded as expected: her arousal filled the air drawing in the others like a honey trap. Godric growled at Pam and when she didn't leave I broke away from our Lover to ensure that she was in control of herself. Godric immediately lost himself in Sookie and her new fangs. Without having to command her I impressed upon Pam that is was time to leave and head back to the club.
I joined my Lovers so excited to feel her fangs penetrate me for the first time we almost didn't notice Sookie needed more than the cup of human blood that she had drunk tonight. Her stomach started to growl and our growls of frustration were loud enough to drown it out.
"I can wait, we don't have to stop." Sookie panted as she tried to pull us back down on top of her.
"We have all night Ma Petite; we can get you something to eat and maybe even visit Eric's club later on." Godric stated although I had no wish to leave the house.
"Do we have to?" Sookie asked with the cutest puppy dog eyes I have ever seen.
"I would like nothing more than to stay in bed all night with you both. However I have Area business to deal with and I would love for you both to accompany me. If your feeling up to it that is?" I said as I remembered that the Queen is sending an emissary later; she neglected to tell me the reasons for the visit. However I have my suspicions.
"I'm hungry and thirsty but otherwise I feel amazing! I've never felt better." Sookie assured us that she felt fine and from the bond we could tell that she is being truthful.
"Well I can't tell you how glad I am that you are alright. You had us very worried Little one." Godric told her brushing his nose against hers.
"I'm sorry." Sookie apologized unnecessarily.
"You do not need to apologize Lover. Unless you knew this would happen and withheld it from us, which I am sure that you didn't and so you have nothing to apologize for." I told her firmly.
"What would you like to eat Ma Petite?" Godric asked her.
"I wish that peaches were still in season because what I really want is a peach, rhubarb and blueberry crumble with Vanilla Häagen-Dazs on top." She closed her eyes and spoke in a dreamy voice, and as she finished describing exactly what she wanted the most amazing smelling human food appeared out of thin air right in her hands. "Oh wow that's handy!" Sookie exclaimed as she saw the desert that she had conjured magically.
"How did you do that?" I asked cocking my head to the side.
"I don't know... I just thought about it really hard and poof here it is. Pretty Cool huh?" She said simply her glee clear in her emotions. We stared at her as she picked up the spoon buried in the bowl of sweet smelling desert and brought a bite to her lips. The little moan she let escape at the taste of it had my cock aching again. She seemed to not realize what she was doing, until she looked back up at us, and found that we were both hard as rocks, our fangs fully down, leering at our Lover in anticipation, of having her give us the same treatment as that confounded desert she had conjured from thin air.
"What? You're staring again! It is making me self-conscious... Do I have something on my face?" She cried out.
I leaned in a captured her mouth licking and sucking mmm she tasted of sweet and tart and creamy goodness. I moaned into her mouth. She pulled back panting for breath. "I thought that Vampires couldn't do that?" She asked.
"We can taste, we just can't eat or drink any significant quantity, but to taste that dish from your lips." I smiled in rapturous ecstasy I know now why she made the sounds she did as she ate. She went back to devouring her desert eying us as if we would steal it from her. She made the most mournful sound as she swallowed the last of it. Godric couldn't resist any longer and dove into her mouth to taste her for himself. They finally pulled apart a few minutes later and Sookie looked thoroughly ravaged and flushed. She glanced down at the dish next to her and cocked her head to the side.
"What do I do with this?" She asked.
"You conjured it in the first place can't you send it back or make it disappear?" I asked her, Godric nodded in agreement.
"I guess I can try that, I've never done this before so I'm just going on instinct here." She told us as her eyebrows scrunched up adorably and she stared at the dish until it disappeared and she burst into a wide prideful grin. "I did it!" She clapped her hands like a little girl.
"That you did Little one. How do you feel now? Still hungry?" Godric told her feeling as proud as I had ever felt him.
She thought about his question for a moment and then answered. "I think I am thirsty but I am a little concerned about that what with the whole turning water into blood incident." She admitted sheepishly.
"Lover you have fangs it is possible that you require blood now although apparently you still eat human food as well." I told her gently not wanting to frighten her.
"So it seems Ma Petite. You should know that there are more blood drinkers in the Supernatural world than Vampires." Godric told her.
"There are?" She asked.
"Yes in fact certain types of Faery are blood drinkers." Godric continued to explain more about the supernatural world.
"Oh." She exclaimed in what was beginning to be her usual response to new information.
"Shall we give it a try?" Godric prodded her gently, testing to see how she would respond.
"Sure but I think I need a minute just to gather my thoughts. Why don't you two get into the shower I guess we should get ready to go the Fangtasia soon. I'll be right behind you." She said absentmindedly already deep in thought.
"Alright Little one, don't think too long." Godric spoke for us both.
"I won't." She said and gave us both kisses and Godric and I left her on the bed and retreated into the bathroom. I hadn't been in here since we first arrived and the sight of her things neatly placed amongst my own made me want to rush back into the room and wrap her in my arms and never let her go. I shook my head lightly as if to rid my mind of such thoughts. It seems to be a struggle to keep my distance physically and my mind thinks of nothing but her. I followed Godric into the shower on autopilot.
He thought silently to me. 'She is even more magnificent than I first thought.'
'And she is ours. No one will take her from us.' I sent back.
'You seem troubled my Childe.' He knows me so well.
'The Queen is sending someone to search for Bill tonight.' I confided.
'Maybe it would be best if she and I did not go with you then?' He suggested.
'No. I cannot stand to spend another night there without you both.' I told him firmly.
We were startled out of our silent conversation by the sound of her heartbeat directly behind us. We whipped around to find her naked and smiling at us. She gave off the most ethereal glow. Her happiness so contagious that I forgot my concerns of the Queen and anything else that had plagued my mind moments before she appeared.
"You startled us Ma Petite." Godric admitted.
"Y'all have been doing that to me for a while now. I guess it's finally my turn to return the favour." She said smiling even wider.
"You didn't sneak up on us did you?" I asked her.
"Nope. One minute I was sitting in the bed and the next I am here; standing behind you both admiring your world class asses as you washed one another's hair." She giggled her eyes full of mirth and lust. "I was thinking that I really wanted to join you in the shower and then here I am! Poof." She said raising her arms emphasizing her point.
"Another development: it seems you can now teleport. That is also a well-known Fae power though I have never heard of one with so little Faery heritage being able to master such magics before. You are truly unique Ma Petite." Godric told her. If she could teleport to safety then keeping her safe just got that much easier.
"Unique, beautiful, powerful, sexy and all ours." I pulled her flush against me grinding my hardness into her. I hissed in pleasure as I felt her fangs graze over my nipple, she sucked, and bit, and swirled her tongue driving me wild.
"I want to taste you." She murmured into my flesh.
"Bite me, take it I am yours." I came instantly as her fangs entered me her bite strong but gentle. My knees threatened to buckle as she drew my blood into her by the mouthful. I recovered slightly and drove my own fangs into her neck causing her orgasm to rip through her. She threw her head back and screamed, I could sense Godric's hands on her body. He trailed his hands down her wet naked flesh slowly and as I licked my marks to seal them he plunged three fingers into her. She cried out and Godric fingers stroked her until she was close again.
"Drink from me." Godric breathed into her ear breathlessly his voice rough with lust his eyes black. She turned and sunk her fangs into my Makers neck causing him to roar and his seed to shoot from his engorged cock. I watched transfixed as his fangs entered her. As she came in response a bright explosion of power erupted and if I hadn't been holding onto them both I would have been thrown clear as Pamela had been.
The destruction wasn't as bad as it has been only a few tiles and the glass shower enclosure will need to be replaced. I held them to myself as we stood under the now cold stream of the shower. Godric regained his composure first and we shared a look before we lifted our Lover our of the shower and proceeded to dry her body. Her eyes fluttered as she came back to us slowly.
"Oops I think we are going to need to hire someone on a permanent basis to fix all the rooms that we destroy because there is no way we aren't doing that again! Wow!" We both roared with laughter blood tears pricking at my eyes. She huffed exasperated her hands on her hips.
"We have created a monster." Godric told me in a teasing tone.
"What are we to do with our possessive blood thirsty little Faery?" I responded licking my lips.
"Hmmff" She huffed again but she could not hide her smile. We stood staring each other down waiting for the other to break until she turned and sped out the room almost as fast as a Vampire. Godric and I shared a look before taking off after her. She stood in the closet looking through the few items she had hanging in here already. I liked the fact that her clothes hung next to mine it felt right to have her treat my home as her own. I want to share everything that I am with her, I would deny her nothing.
"I have nothing to wear to Fangtasia." She said exasperatedly.
"These are lovely Ma Petite, wear this one tonight." Godric told her indicating a blue and white sundress.
"I want to wear something different tonight something that shows just how..." She said clearly having something specific in mind. She again appeared deep in concentration until suddenly she wore an exquisite red dress her cleavage pushed up to dangerous levels. She wore sky-high black and white horsehair peep toe sling back pumps (thank you Pam for her incessant talk of female garments and shoes). The strapless A-line silk sheath dress flowed over her curves hugging them perfectly and ending just above her knees. Pieces of frayed black silk wrapped around the structured bodice accentuating all the right spots highlighting her hourglass figure. She giggled and twirled in excitement the skirt fluttered gently away from her body as she moved. Her beautiful shinning blond hair flowed in loose curls down her back she wore light makeup her lips glistening and kissably pouty.
"Stunning! You will make us the envy of every man tonight." Godric told her and then he gently kissed her knuckles.
"I'm not sure why I bother to retract my fangs in your presence Lover." I told her as I continued to stare at the vision before us.
"You two! Such flattery. You better get dressed yourselves we don't want to be late." She left us alone to dress and wandered upstairs her heels clicking as she went.
We dressed in record time. Black leather trousers and vest along with motorcycle boots for me; and Godric in his usual linen shirt though he uncharacteristically wore slim fitting dark wash jeans and boots. We found our Lover in the kitchen happily munching on an apple. Her fangs ran down as we entered the room her eyes dilated and her arousal perfumed the air. It took centuries of restraint to not throw her down and have my way with her against every flat surface of my home. We reluctantly piled into my Dodge Charger Godric stretched out in the back seat with Sookie riding shotgun and drove to Fangtasia.
Someone has parked in my spot again, and so I drove around to the front and parked right at the curb and sped around to open Sookie's door. Godric and I each entwined an arm with hers and I tossed Clancy my keys as we passed ignoring the looks and catcalls from the long line of fangbangers and tourists. All conversations ceased as we entered the only sound to be heard is the music, which changed to play an appropriate tune. Maria McKee's sultry voice, preceded by the telltale whistling of her If love is a red dress. We stood so close to the dance floor and the way that Sookie's hips swayed it was impossible not to let her pull us onto the dance floor. The crowd parted before us encircling us as our hands caressed her as she swayed and twisted to the slow sensual beat twirling between us.
As the song came to end we escorted her hand in hand towards the back again ignoring how all eyes in the place followed our every move. Pam zoomed to my side and told me in Swedish that Andre was waiting in my office. We made our way into my office. I opened the door to reveal Andre the Queen's eldest Childe in my chair. He made no move to rise as we entered the room. Godric kept Sookie's arm and they sat on the couch while I lowered myself into one of the guest chairs opposite the desk.
"To what do we owe the pleasure of your visit Andre?" I asked him without taking my eyes off of our Lover.
"I am here on behalf of our Queen. We have reason to believe that a Vampire in your Area has met with foul play." He spoke his voice already irritating me.
"Really? I am unaware of any Vampires in my Area who fit this description." I told him truthfully since I knew full well that Bill was in the hands of his Maker who had every right to do with him as she pleases.
"Do you know your Area so little Sheriff that you do not know when one of yours has been kidnapped or killed?" Came his childish retort clearly attempting to bait me with accusing me of neglect of my duties.
"Watch your tongue. You may be the Queen's favourite Childe but I will not hesitate to put you in your place Andre." I told him fangs bared reminding him of his surroundings.
'He knows who I am Eric. He is Bill's Lover.' Sookie's voice in my mind almost broke my hard mask betraying my shock at hearing her in my mind as only my Maker has done previously.
"The Vampire I speak of is William Compton and you cannot tell me that you are innocent in this with his Human clinging to your Maker." Andre hissed his eyes boring into Sookie.
"Compton is no longer welcome in my Area nor in Area nine of Texas." I told him nonchalantly, he really has no idea who he is dealing with.
"The Queen's wishes trump yours in this matter. She has rewarded him for his years of dedicated service at court with the opportunity to regain possession of his human home. This is non negotiable Sheriff." He threatened looking smug.
"I am unsure if this is relevant any longer as he has returned to his Maker Lorena following his disgraceful actions while in my Maker's Area." I told him revealing our trump card.
"An Area he no longer holds after his own disgrace." Andre spit enraging me.
"That may be true but it changes nothing in this matter. Compton is not here nor does Eric have any responsibility to reclaim him as his former Sheriff. Lorena has every right to do as she wishes with Compton as his Maker." As Godric spoke Andre lost his smugness and he rose to his feet and fangs down he raged.
"I demand that you release his Human to me. He is very fond of her and he would want her to return to New Orleans with me to await his return." He turned on his merger swarming charms most likely attempting to glamour Sookie into leaving with him.
"Sookie is not going anywhere with you Andre." Godric told him calmly.
"She is ours." I seethed.
"You can't be serious Northman? You have never been known to keep pets! Certainly you wouldn't mind if I took her off your hands? Compton tells me she can be quite a handful." Andre's villainous words remind me of why we need to protect Sookie from Vampires like Andre.
"Compton's lost is our gain. He left her for his Maker in Dallas and she has accepted our claim." Godric spoke, how he remained so calm is a testament to his superiority.
"The Queen will hear of this." Andre nearly screamed.
"I plan to call her and let her know of my recent acquisition." I replied calmly putting my feet up on my desk crossing my ankles and leaning back in my chair. Gesturing towards the phone on the desk.
"You have not heard the last of this Northman." He said through clenched teeth and stormed out slamming the door so hard that the casing cracked. Sookie let out a huge breath of air drawing our attention back to her.
"Well that was enlightening." Sookie said cheerfully, smiling widely.
"Yes quite, since when can you project your thoughts Lover?" I said both eyebrows raised in question.
"Oh I figured that out when we had the Were in the hotel room in Dallas. How else did Godric know where Bill and Lorena were waiting for me?" She explained her head cocked to the side.
"I assumed that since he amplifies your gift that he tapped into it somehow." I responded internally berating myself for my assumptions.
"It is a very useful skill to have for us to be able to communicate silently." Godric commented.
"Speaking of useful skills to have..." She said as she rose to her feet her hips swayed seductively over to my desk. She stood to the side near where my feet were still resting. She hardly looked like she was concentrating this time before three glasses of blood appeared; from the smell of them two she filled with her own blood and the other with the purest smelling AB neg I have smelt in centuries. With all the processed foods and industrial pollutants the taste of blood has changed over the centuries.
Godric jumped up and quickly wrapped his arms around her waist as we salivated over glasses of blood.
"You truly are a gift from the Gods themselves." I told her as I lowered my feet and stared at her in awe.
"Oh it's nothing, here try it!" She tried to downplay her actions as common or undeserving of our utter worship.
"Little one this is not nothing. Do you realize what this means?" Godric told her turning her to face him as he spoke.
"Yes I do it means that you don't have to worry about taking too much blood from me. I can conjure it for you whenever you need." She said simply and kissed him and then wiggled out of his arms and kissed me as well.
We each took a glass and waited for Sookie to drink before my Maker and I drained ours in seconds. The mouthfuls of her blood I have taken did not prepare me for the feeling, taste and effects of a whole pint ingested in one sitting. In such a large dose the Faery is evident and we both felt the effects immediately. Pam burst into the room sure that she was missing out on an altercation with Andre after feeling us both go into bloodlust. Her entrance jolted us out of it enough to prevent what surely would have turned into a violent claiming of our Faery.
"Hey Pam. What's up?" Sookie asked as though she was none the wiser as to what she has done.
"What is up is that I felt my Maker and Grandsire go into bloodlust and came back here hoping to find them giving Andre his final death but instead I find you casually sipping from glasses as if you were in the bar in full view of the public." Pam explained her interruption.
"Did you want one?" Sookie asked her holding out her glass eyebrows raised.
"No!" Godric and I growled out in unison.
"Not one of those, but one like mine silly. I know not to share." She dismissed our possessive response, batting it away effortlessly.
"I don't know what could be so impressive that you two are acting like this?" Pam asked taking a few steps into the room.
"Just try it Pam." Sookie said as she conjured another rare vintage AB neg for my progeny. Pam got a whiff of the blood contained in the glass Sookie held out to her and her fangs ran down and she lurched forward taking the glass. My girls gave each other fangy grins as they sipped their bloods. I could not have been prouder.
"Oh Master she is divine." Pam told me enthusiastically while she licked blood from her lips.
"We know." Godric and I said in unison. Our chests puffed in pride as we stood on either side of our little Fae unable to keep our hands off of her.
"Are you going to spend sometime on your throne tonight? You know how the vermin love it." Pam asked.
"Yes I believe we will. Have another chair placed between ours for Sookie and we shall be out in a moment." I told her.
"As you wish." Pam responded deferentially.
"Oh and Pam.." I added just as she was about to leave and fulfill her task.
"Yes Master." She said respectfully.
"Tell no one of this." I reminded her.
"I wouldn't dream of it." She drank the rest of her blood and left the glass for Sookie to disappear to where ever she got them from in the first place.
We sat on the raised dais for an hour ignoring all attempts to solicit our attention, which became more depraved as the night wore on. Until Sookie's anger spiked and she shot from her chair and we watched from our seats as she approached a man sitting at the bar. We barely held our places as she flirted with the vile Human. I have never noticed him before, his appearance seemed to blend in with the fangbangers: ever present black clothing and he even seemed to have added makeup to make him appear paler than he was. Not a small man by any stretch of the imagination although bland in appearance and I could smell his ordinary O positive blood and sweat from here. Only Sookie's anger let us know she was clearly not enjoying his attentions but most likely read something from his mind. After speaking with him a few moments she left the bar with the Human following her his eyes glazed as if glamoured.
She led him directly down into the basement, we followed keeping watch though careful not to interfere. She turned and grabbed him breaking his dazed look and threw him into a wall with more force than she should have had even after drinking from both of us. He broke several bones and lay in a bloody mess. Sookie's rage rose as she stalked forward and picked up the Human who looked to weigh more than twice her weight with ease by the tops of his arms.
"Sookie?" Godric asked wanting to know what it is that she heard.
"Why don't you tell them what it is that you and your friends have been up to Carl?" Sookie seethed. The Human named Carl started to shake his head and struggle in her grasp. She growled at him and tossed him to the floor again. She whirled around to face us and finally spoke. "He is part of a fots cell of drainers. They have been stalking the Vampires who frequent your club and following them home. This one has been following you," she looked at me her emotions raging through her eyes, "and he has the locations of three of your homes already. He was hoping that you would return to the same place again tonight so that he could break in while you slept tomorrow." She said tears streaming down her face. I was frozen where I stood in shock at the level of emotion this raised in her.
"Shhh Little one. Eric is fine. It's alright. Shhh." Godric held her while she cried and I didn't know how to go about what I had to do. There is no way to let this go not with a group of drainers associated with the fellowship of the sun.
"Sookie we need to learn as much as we can from this one." I told her all business: I have an Area to protect.
"I already have everything we need Eric." She told me and then buried her face back into Godric's chest. I hauled the would be drainer, Carl up off the floor where Sookie had left him. I proceeded to glamour him to leave the area and to become more tolerant. I was just finishing up when Sookie spoke again. "Eric what are you doing?"
"I am glamouring Carl here to leave my Area before dawn." I told her still holding onto the drainers shoulders his feet dangling in the air.
"Eric he wanted to kill you! And he would have if I weren't here tonight and happen to overhear him. And it wouldn't be the first time he has drained someone and left them for dead either." Sookie said her anger radiating dangerously off her. I have never seen her look so deadly a weaker man would certainly cower where I remained tall.
"What are you saying Sookie?" I asked her.
"I am saying that he shouldn't get off with a new life after what he has done. What he planned to do to you." She told me her anger morphing into bloodlust her eyes took on a reddish glow and her voice changed laden with authority and power. Godric struggled to keep a hold of her as her magic burst to the surface. The air starts to swirl picking up her hair and tossing it violently. I am still holding the Human when he convulses and turns gray and a fine mist explodes from him and flows into Sookie.
As the mist enters her body the room goes back to normal and she collapses in Godric's arms. He pulls her into his arms bridal style and I drop the lifeless husk that remains after whatever our Lover has done to him. I call Pam to me, and she zooms down the stairs and stops at the bottom of the steps taking in the scene.
"Dispose of the body Pamela. I will not be available tomorrow night I expect you to see to things in my absence." I tell her dispassionately.
"Yes Master." She responds her eyes lowered.
I follow my Master and Lover out of the club and we drove in silence back to my home. The Were guards are in place as instructed and let us through the gate without incident. I have no patience for Were's at the moment. The sun would set in a few hours and Sookie is still unconscious. We bathed her gently after removing her blood stained dress and shoes. We settled into our bed under the covers our Lover firmly wedged between our bodies protectively.
Neither of us had spoken and the dawn took us to rest Sookie never having regained consciousness though we could tell she rested peacefully. Exhausted but happy and safe in our arms.