Hey Everyone! Yes I put up a new chapter! Sorry I couldn't put one up yesterday. Life got in the way. Thank You again for your lovely reviews. Some of you were not to thrilled about the Bill being horny for Eric scene. Well there's a reason, you'll find out soon and it's True Blood...there has to be a gross factor somewhere. After all we just watched Eric and Jason at it! I had to close my eyes on that one! Anyway Enjoy!
P.S. I have no idea how long this story is going to be. I just keep thinking of more ideas as I'm going along.
Characters belong to Charlene Harris and Alan Ball.
"3 weeks?" Sookie did not expect it so soon. "3 weeks for mating season. Okay. Sorry to disappoint you honey...we need those condoms for the mating season." Eric looked at her with a frown with a pout and took another piece of steak.
Niall gave a little chuckle "My darling, I don't think condoms are going to work."
"Of course they work, if used properly and if they didn't reach their expiration date." Sookie was starting to get nervous.
"Darling, you don't understand things about mating seasons, so I'll give you a detailed explanation. Have you seen animals when they're in heat?" Sookie nodded. "Well imagine that times ten. When mating season comes, you're not going to think. You are going to do, what your body wants you to do. You're head and your body are going to be in sync with each other and there's only one thing that you want to do and that's to have as much sex as you need from your mate."
"You mean I have no control over this feeling at all? Sookie refused to believe that she's just going to let her hormones and her body take over. Eric was still eating while he was listening very carefully.
"Barely. Sookie, I've seen fairies do amazing and at the same time intense things that they do during mating season. Males actually take advantage of their females with this. During this time, Sookie all of your body and mind cares about is to be sexually pleasured and to get pregnant. Nothing else is going to matter. You're not going to care about being pregnant, in fact it'll go the opposite...you are going to crave of having children. That's what I mean that condoms are not going to work. Because you're not going to care."
"What do you mean males take advantage over this time period?" Sookie didn't like the sound of that.
"Well it's both good and bad with this. For the good news, this season strengthens marriages and romances between the lovers. The women are so aroused that men can lead them to extreme sexual explorations that their mate was unwilling to do in the first place."
Sookie looked at Eric with a sexy grin on his face. She wanted to slap and kiss him at the same time. "Don't get any ideas mister!"
"Lover, I had thousands of sexual ideas, before this knowledge of the mating season." Eric chuckled with a smile. He couldn't believe his luck, two weeks of a very horny Sookie. 'I'm going to have fun.' he thought.
Niall knew what the Viking was thinking and can't help but ask. "Sounds like fun doesn't it Mr. Northman?" Niall gave him a smirk like he knew something that Eric should brace himself for. Eric looked at him questionably, but he let it go.
"I'm afraid of this question, but I'll ask." Sookie said as she looked back at Niall. "What's the bad side to the males taking advantage of the mating season?"
"Males aren't the ones in heat, the females are. So they sort of have a clear mind, like they are alert as to what's going on around them. Females don't, as I said they don't care what's going on around them as long as they pleasured and pregnant. Even if it means they're doing it with someone they hate. This is where rape could be involved. There have been several cases, where one particular male has been pursuing a certain female for almost a year. She rejected him over and over. When mating season was approaching, she was trying very hard to find someone to be her 'mating buddy' so it would be safe for her. She couldn't find one. When mating season arrived, that male fairy that has been after her that past year mated with her." Sookie looked horrified. "She had a set of triplets with this man, she cared for them but she got really depressed that she not only mated with someone she hated, but also had kids with him."
"So for this mating season, it's best if me and Eric locked ourselves in the house for two weeks without interruption." Sookie had thought this through. She thought 'What if Bill came to the house? or God forbid Jason came over unannounced!' Sookie shivered at the thought.
Eric growled as he had his head looking down at the leftover food "Don't worry lover I'll make sure our mating nest is secured. I'll have no one come by, and it'll just be us for two weeks." He was still eating.
Sookie looked at him in shock. "Eric...I didn't say that out loud." Eric looked at her with wide eyes. He always wondered if he was going to get telepathy, just because he was healed from his lover.
"Did I just inherit your gift?" Eric asked her.
"Not necessarily." Niall interrupted. "Yes, you have telepathy...but it only works on Sookie, because it was her power for her to heal you. So any gift that was hers, is like her to have phone lines connected to you."
"This is great lover!" Eric said as he got out of his seat excitedly "Now we have an advantage of communicating in secret. Especially if you found something amiss!" Then all of suddenly his stomach was feeling achy. Sookie looked at Eric as he was rubbing his stomach.
"Oh honey, you ate too much!" Sookie looked at him in pity.
"I'm a Viking! There's no such thing as too much food." Eric didn't understand while he was feeling so sick. In his day, before you went off exploring or raiding, you ate the biggest meals. So when you're at sea in days at a time, you weren't skin and bones, when you finally found land. Even though you had food on the boat, but you got eat very little at a time. Also during that time, sometimes it's hard to find food. So the Vikings didn't believe in wasting a piece of it.
Niall going to take his leave. "Sookie I'll be gone for a while, I'll come back before mating season begins. I just have to go back to the fairy realm and take care of a couple of things." Niall also had a suspicion, a prophecy that was foretold a very long time ago. He wondered if Eric and Sookie had something to do with it. It's been a long time sense he looked at it. "See you later darling, and thank you for breakfast and your hospitality."
"Niall, thank you for everything. Thank you for helping me save Eric." Sookie said with a loving smile. Niall may not have been in her life long, but he was making up for it very fast with the help he provided between Warlow and saving Eric. Niall took his leave with a smile on his face.
"Okay Eric, just go to the couch and rest, let your stomach settle." Eric did exactly what Sookie told him. After all he has to go to Fangtasia tonight and deal with Pam and Willa. Including bringing Fangtasia back in order. Eric went to the couch and laid down. "Sweetie, I told you to take it slow, your stomach isn't used to the food."
"Sookie, in my days it was a crime to waste food." Eric explained.
"Well, that's what the refrigerator is for." Sookie smiled. "To keep food fresh, and to save the leftovers."
Eric smiled as he completely forgot about today's technology when it comes to saving food. "Oh yeah. Later tonight I'm going to Fangtasia and try to get that place in order as well as talk to Pam and Willa. I was thinking if when things are back to order, I want you to work with me and I was thinking of setting up new businesses."
"Really? I don't have a degree Eric, I don't know anything about businesses."
"So, I'll teach you. I'm better than any college professor when it comes to business. Besides Sookie, you don't want to be a waitress all your life do you?"
"There's nothing wrong with being a waitress!"
"I didn't say that. Waitresses are important in the food industry." Eric said patiently. Just think about Sookie, what is it that you want to do with your life. Do you have some career dream?"
"Right now Eric, my dream is to be with you. Have children with you whether it's in the next 3 weeks or next year, and be the best mate I can be. I need to make up for all the pain I've caused you." Eric grabbed her hand.
"Sookie Stackhouse, stop right there!" Eric said with certainty. "You've already made up for the mistakes you've made with me. You not only saved my life, but now you're giving me a beautiful future. A future that I'm more than happy to stay alive and enjoy our precious gifts. If we do end up being pregnant during this mating season, then you're giving me more gifts." he said softly. He used his hands to caress her face and looked into her new amber brown eyes. "I've never been a husband, a father, well if you count Pam and Willa, and a monogamous mate. In over a thousand years, I've never had so much magic happen to me, in such short amount of time. All because of you and that pesky virus. I never thought that deadly virus that was having my true death come upon me, was going to help bring me you and a wonderful future." Sookie started to cry. "Please lover, don't cry."
"If I didn't reject you, you would never have that virus to begin with." Sookie began to feel the guilt of her decision making again. Instinctively her wings came out and they were mixture between black and blue. Eric knew those colors represented sadness and guilt.
"Sookie, maybe the virus was catalyst. It gave me you and this new evolution of you and myself. Maybe there's a plan from Freya after all. This was meant to be, Sookie. No more tears lover. Let's focus on our blessings and our new life together." Eric kissed her with a loving tender passion. Sookie's wings went back to being pink with a mixture of blue's and yellows as they flapped. "Lover, it'll be great one night when we fly together."
Sookie loved the idea of her and Eric flying. Eric still wanted to rest after that stomach ache he had. Sookie knew right now it's best if she took a nap with him. After all Eric is going to take her out tonight after his dealings with Fangtasia. Sookie went to sleep mostly on top of Eric and to make room, Sookie tucked her wings back into herself. As she rested, she was at peace and ready for whatever comes her and Eric's way. A new life for both of them together.