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Chapter 66: Two is Better than One

Eric

"So we are decided Pam?" he asked.

She nodded and said, "Okay. We wait."

They had never waited for anything or anyone. But waiting it out was the smartest move, they had decided. It was a hard decision for Eric to make. He knew Pam would support him with any decision now that she had accepted Sookie. There was just too much in the air right now. HE needed to know exactly what the Authority would offer him. He also needed to know what Sookie wanted.

He typically made his decisions based on her very vocal and stubborn opinions. So to have her say she would do whatever he wanted had surprised the hell out of him.

Pam and he had hashed out all their options, debated and broke apart every possible benefit and consequence for each choice.

There were reasons where being named king would be beneficial. They wouldn't have to worry about who was to ascend the throne. Another enemy could take over if Eric didn't. One that wanted Sookie for their court.

Sookie would be forever protected by this title. She would never need to leave her home if she didn't want to. She would be his queen. She could benefit from such a position. Eric would also benefit too politically and status wise. He would hold more influence, more power, and more overall sway in the supernatural community. He wasn't lying when he said he never wanted the job though.

The risk for taking such a job was dangerous. It would paint a large target on his back for other vampires looking for power. Not only that, but the responsibility and time it would take, always planning, scheming. It would cut into his desire for a peaceful life and his time.

Time. It was precious to him now. Before it had always been expendable to him and it didn't matter if he wasted fifty years. But now it did. Sookie wasn't even guaranteed fifty years in this life. His time was now linked to Sookie's. Did he really want to spend it pushing paper, exacting punishments, and developing PR spins to make vampires appear less deadly than they were?

The answer was no. And he knew that the position as king was an artificial power anyway. Look at Bill's reign. He was a figurehead. A pawn of the Authority. Eric didn't want to be some face for them.

Pam was twirling a ring around her finger and said, "So, did she like the closet?"

"She loved it, she loved everything. I think she is moving in with now argument if you can imagine that."

"Well you are married now. What does she think that you wouldn't live in the same house?" she asked chuckling.

He shrugged, "I honestly don't know what she thought. At first it seemed like she was embarrassed even assuming we would live together. Like it was something I might now want."

"She was right. I will never want to live with a human. It creeps me out that they are walking around while I am in my day rest."

Eric chuckled. "It is quite nice. I fall asleep with her in my arms and typically wake up with her there as well. Nice and warm. Usually aroused and waiting for me to take her."

"Oh jeez, just fucking stop before I do the impossible and vomit all over your sofa."

Eric laughed and stretched. Dawn was nearing and he could see it begin to take effect in Pam. She stood and walked to fridge and grabbed a bag of donor blood and poured it in a glass, then placed it in the microwave.

"You want a glass?" she asked.

"Ew, no thanks."

"You are such a show off with your fairy blood tap," she said as she clicked her nails on the countertop.

"Jealous," he replied as he clicked open a laptop and searched through the lists of individuals found, but he noticed there weren't a lot of vampires. Nora wasn't one of them. He clicked the laptop shut and called the main contact line at the Authority.

He requested information on Nora and was informed that she had been pulled out of the wreckage, badly injured, but healing. She had been one of the vampires that Sookie had found. Apparently she was so badly burned, she was unrecognizable until she woke up and told them who she was.

Eric got the information on where she was being kept to heal and made a note to Bobby to send flowers and a card. He then clicked the laptop closed and said to Pam, "You need to go to your day rest."

She nodded and said, "I will, what about you? Going to go wake up Sookie for a round before you go to bed?"

He shrugged with a fangy smile and replied, "Perhaps."

She smirked and stood. "Well, good day Eric."

"Good day, Pamela."

Pam sashayed up the stairs and Eric's eyes followed her. When he heard her door click and lock shut securely, he walked up to his own room with Sookie and sat next to her form on the bed, watching her sleep. She was curled up in a ball and Eric wondered if she was cold. He stroked her cheek and he noticed she relaxed slightly in her sleep.

He smiled in wonder as gradually she uncurled in a more natural sleeping position and her face seemed to relax. He realized her side of the bond was missing him even in her sleep as she arched her neck, brushing her cheek against the palm of the hand that was gently stroking her cheek. He leaned down and kissed her gently.

She murmured his name in her sleep and he stood up slowly and walked out of the room. The sun was coming up now. He went to the front door as the windows and doors began locking and securing on their own for his day rest. All the windows had automatic steel shutters with silver cores. The doors all went into lockdown mode, and the only way out of the house was entering a code on the key pad. Only Sookie and Pam would ever have this information.

Eric entered the code and slowly undid all the locks, his every impulse screaming at him to flee to safety and darkness. He clenched his jaw in determination and opened the door, the morning sun streaming in and hitting his skin.

Sookie

Sookie jerked awake. The room was pitch black, so she couldn't see a thing. She felt next to her, but didn't find Eric. Sookie felt around for a light and found one on a nightstand next to the bed, clicking on the light.

She saw the time on the clock that it was a little after eight in the morning and frowned. Eric had said he would come and sleep with her during the day. The shutters obviously were the surprise he had spoken about. So where was he?

Sookie got up and stretched and checked the bond, shocked to find Eric awake. She traipsed through the unfamiliar house looking for him, but he was nowhere in the house. When she saw the front door, she noticed it was cracked open.

Horror filled her, and an insane amount of fear, but then she heard, "Sookie, come out here."

Eric. She ran to the door and swung it open, pushing through the ornate screen door. Eric was there, standing in the bright Louisiana sunlight. She gasped as she raked her eyes over his body for signs of injury, but found none.

She must be dreaming.

She closed her eyes and shook her head as she tried to wake herself up. Eric was now chuckling and then he stopped. "Sookie, come off the porch into the light."

"Am I dreaming? Are we dreaming together like the time in the snow?" she asked as she walked toward him.

He shook his head, "I have been here since the sun rose. I am immune to it somehow. I think it's because of the bond or the pledge."

Sookie knew she was dreaming. His pale skin shone in the light, but it didn't seem to redden as she looked into the sky and to his skin.

"Are you sure?" she asked in a concerned voice.

"Yes, and I haven't drank from you in a couple days now."

"Oh my stars," she said in wonder walking around him in a circle.

He turned around to her and said, "I never thought I would see you again in sunlight. You are even more beautiful. You are meant to be seen in the sun, my lover. Your hair is like the sun's rays and your skin simply glows. And your smell…sonnets could be written about it."

Sookie blushed and ran her fingers through his hair. "This is unbelievable," she murmured as she ran her fingers through his hair.

She then paused and said, "How did you know?"

"The morning of the bombing. I felt no pain as the sun hit me. I would usually be burned like Pam, but I felt nothing and suffered no injury."

"The bleeds?" she asked.

"I feel tired, like I would if I avoided day rest, but no bleeds. Not yet at least."

Sookie said, "I am nervous, can we go inside?"

He shook his head and said, "No, we cannot."

She looked up at him and he leaned down and kissed her, his hands flat on her back, pulling her flush against him.

She kissed him back in confusion and began to pull away when one of his hands went to her ass and rubbed it as he pushed his erection into her. She gasped and broke the kiss saying, "Eric we aren't sure how long this will last," trying to pull away, but failing as Eric began shushing her and kneeling down in front of her.

She tried keeping him standing, but he kissed his way down her body, kissing her stomach and then going lower. Sookie gasped as he nipped her through her thin nightgown and he rumbled in pleasure as he smelled her getting excited.

"Sookie, if I feel any burning I will run us both inside. Now let me make love to my wife," he whispered.

She looked down into his face, running her fingers through his golden locks. She then leaned down and kissed him hard as he ran his hands up her calves, rubbing them as he went. He tickled her thighs, and she quivered as he got closer to where she was now desperately in need of him.

When he felt she hadn't put any underwear with her nightgown he growled and she was suddenly on her back beneath him.

He lifted her skirt up and licked her slit, purring as he tasted her. She gasped and moaned on the grass. He moved up and kissed her roughly and entered her just as roughly. Sookie gasped against his mouth, but she moved her hips in response and moaned when he immediately hit her spot.

He moved in and out of her fast, and Sookie's eyes were clenched shut as he pumped into her. "Fuck Sookie," he gasped as she dug her nails in his ass, urging him to go deeper.

"So good Eric," she moaned out. Her hips bucked against his. She looked down at and him going inside of her as her hips moved on their own and it was oddly intriguing to her. She couldn't take her eyes off the extremely alluring and sexy as hell sight.

"You like that Sookie?" he asked as he slowed it down so she could watch at a slower pace.

She looked up at his amused and lustful eyes and nodded before returning her gaze downward. "It's just..." trailing off as he sped up again, "Fucking incredible," he murmured as he fixed his eyes between them as well.

She nodded and looked back up to his eyes. He leaned down and kissed her softly and she felt the pressure inside of her build. She deepened the kiss and swiped her tongue roughly against his fangs, feeding him her blood in their kiss.

He growled and thrust into her deeply and so hard that Sookie understood the pleasure-pain barrier. She moaned as he began spilling into her and released. She

Dug her nails into his back and gasped as Eric screamed up into the sky.

As they came down, Sookie realized her hair was probably muddy and the back of her nightgown definitely had grass stains that wouldn't come out. She was a sweaty mess, as the Louisiana sun beat down on them.

"Oh God, I am sweatin' like a pig," she said wiping her forehead.

He was breathing heavily in her face and she leaned up and kissed him.

"That was fucking amazing," he said as they pulled apart from the kiss.

She nodded and he rolled off of her. She straightened her nightgown, but he was standing and pulling her up. "Where are we goin'?" she asked.

"To cool you off," he replied as he picked her up, leaving his pants behind them.

She didn't fight him, but kissed his neck as he walked. Suddenly the smell of chlorine hit her nose and she opened her eyes to the most gorgeous pool. The pool was large and had a swim up bar to the back patio where there was a large outside mini kitchen and barb-b-q.

There was also submerged lounge area with stones that led up to it. Sookie continued to explore, but suddenly she was submerged in cool water and she was swimming frantically for the surface. She broke through gasping and wiped the water from her eyes.

She looked for Eric, but he was submerged and swimming slowly towards her. She swam away from him, shrieking and laughing, but her escape attempts were futile.

He grabbed her ankles and pulled her under. She was able to gasp in air just in time and he pulled her down to him as his lips found hers. He kissed her and she responded as best she could while underwater, but soon she was running out of air and Eric had her above water.

She panted for breath as he kissed down her neck. She couldn't help rubbing herself against him and he suddenly ripped her nightgown off of her. She moaned as his hands found her breasts and stroked them, pinching and rubbing her nipples.

"I want you again," he said, in an almost tortured voice.

She nodded and said, "I want you too," her lips crashing to his. She wrapped her legs around him and he swam them over to the side of the pool. She gasped as one of the water jets pounded into her back. He gently pushed into her and he moaned.

"It is so much fun to have you in the sun," he grunted as he moved slowly in and out of her. She shivered as he moved into her with the cool water. She gripped him even tighter between her thighs and he growled and moved faster. She arched her back against the wall. Eric bent down and took her nipple into his mouth.

He dragged the bottom teeth against her nipples and she groaned in surprise. As he switched to the other breast, Sookie's head fell back almost hitting the cement, but Eric stopped it and held the back of her head in his hand as he kissed her, pausing fully inside of her.

"Be careful," he growled out.

She shivered, and Eric continued thrusting in and out of her. Sookie was moving, experimenting different angles to find one that felt even better than it already did. Sensing this, Eric pulled out of her and turned her around, facing the wall and then jest. He hoisted her up slightly so the jet pounded against her clit as he spread her legs and entered again.

Sookie was making one long out moan after another as the double sensation overwhelmed her. It took no time for her to come, but Eric didn't wait for her to recover and kept thrusting as fast as the water would allow. Sookie looked for something to grab onto but found her nails scraping the cement. Her breasts were rubbing against the side of the pool and her eyes rolled back in her head. There was so much going on it was almost too much for her to take. Almost. It was also delicious.

She reached one hand back and embedded the nails in Eric's neck and he growled as he turned her face to his, kissing her hungrily.

She broke the kiss and pleaded, "Bite me."

He nodded and sank his teeth into her neck and they both came, Eric simultaneously drinking and screaming against her neck and Sookie trembling and going limp against the side of the pool as she sucked air into her oxygen deprived lungs.

"This pool is paying for itself," Eric said.

Sookie laughed and he turned her around and pushed her against his chest, kissing her softly.

"As much as I have had fun here, if you ever take a risk like this without me again, I will kill you," Sookie said, motioning to the sky and the sun in particular.

He nodded and flew them out of the pool, taking flight in the afternoon sky. Sookie shrieked and said, "I don't like heights and oh yeah, we are naked!"

"We are also on private property and so high up that we won't be seen. Let's take a look at the rest of our property, lover."

He flew them around and as the sun set, Sookie began to shiver as it got cooler and Eric landed, rushing them to their room before anyone could detect them sans clothing.

Sookie shrugged on a robe and said, "Sleep or business? Lord knows we have a lot to go through."

He shrugged and said, "You need a little more sleep and I could use some rest as well."

She nodded and climbed into the bed and sank into it as Eric climbed in behind her and pulled her to him and snuggled her from behind.

"Sleep now my love, reality will come later," he murmured as he kissed the top of her head.

She said, "I love you Eric."

Stalling on a whole new set of problems, they crashed and fell asleep.

Eric and Sookie needed to reconnect after all that happened in Rhodes. They also needed a little sunshine after all the dark shit I have dropped in their lap. So now you all can imagine Eric with a tan! Yummm!

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