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Thank you all dear readers for your comments, favorites, and followers. I apologize for the late update. Having my new job and tiring hours has left me exhausted. Plus I 'm writing not only these three stories but I'm also writing another story that I'm willing to have it published.
Plus I was in mourning...for my beloved cat has died unexpectedly. She was my baby. While I'm still visiting my mother, my father was watching over my cat back at home. This was such a shock, I cried my heart out. My cat was only three years old and there was nothing wrong with her (or so I thought). She died from a heart disease that's very common in cats. Vets to this day, don't know what causes this and it's undetectable until it's too late. The Vet has told my dad that I took very good care of her. There was nothing I could have done any better. Cats with this heart disease has a 1-8 year lifespan. For those who are reading this and has a cat...the disease is called Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The only way to find this thing is through a sonogram. An X-ray would not pick this up. Just so you know, there's no cure. For the cat to live longer is for him/her to eat specific cat food that has the ingredient to help the heart. So that's my sob story. I still cry to this very day.
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Don't worry readers, no matter how late I update. I won't leave a story hanging. Anyway on with the story! Thank You for your patience.
The characters belong to Charlaine Harris and Alan Ball. (Some of them are my own).
Chapter 26
"Everything has to be perfect! Including the dining area, the ballroom, and the coronation/wedding room! No mistakes! No security mishaps!" Mr. Cunningham was feeling the extra stress and pressure that was on him. Even though vampires are very good of conquering stress; including very good of hiding it, but vampires right now have no room for mistakes for the open public to see. They can't have another Russell Edgington killing spree or any supernatural surprise on the news. This extraordinary event of Eric and Sookie's wedding and coronation will be filmed and everyone including humans is going to see this. Mr. Cunningham feels like this one big ceremony will bring vampires back into the spotlight in a good way.
"Don't you think you're relying too much on this?" Mr. Hawkins asked. He can tell how much Mr. Cunningham is freaking out on the inside.
"Yes, but we don't have a choice. We have to have so much goodness happening in one night, that not only vampires will have hope again but the humans' fear of us will become lower."
"All in one night though? First it's Eric and Sookie's wedding. Having two enemy species come together, then there is their coronation right after that. Sookie's pregnancy and her idea for the baby vamps adoption and now...you want Mr. Northman to announce that there's a cure for vampires, which we don't exactly have that yet."
"We do have the cure!" Mr. Cunningham said in a whisper to Mr. Hawkins. "We just haven't produced it yet. Scientists are working on it, around the clock."
"Then you wait!" Mr. Hawkins said sternly. "One thing I know about humans is that their brains absorb one thing at a time. If you throw all of this on them all at once, they wouldn't know what to think. Besides they're finally getting used to the idea that vampires have their own government."
"I know. Trust me Mr. Hawkins, I know humans too. Another thing that they love to hear, is good news. That... they absorb faster than anything. Having multiple good news, gets people excited...including vampires. "
Mr. Hawkins wanted to make sure that his boss knew exactly what he's doing. "I still think you shouldn't announce not only the possible cure, but also Sookie's heritage. Fairies haven't revealed themselves to the world yet."
"The humans will not know that part. We're creating two separate videos. One for humans to see on the news, and the other is specifically for vampires and the supernatural community."
"So, how are we presenting this to the humans?" Mr. Hawkins asked.
"I've looked at Mr. and Mrs. Northman's files and have learned their back story. It's adorable really. A very small town, hardworking human waitress meets the powerful and old Viking vampire sheriff. That's a fairytale in itself. Little girls will dream of marrying some kind of handsome vampire prince when they get older. Eric and Sookie's image and story will encourage it. Especially now they will be king and queen of Louisiana! That's the hope for humans that fairytales do come true." Mr. Cunningham snickered with a little bit of humor. "Walt Disney couldn't do it any better! Perhaps we should make Eric and Sookie dolls for children!
"Now you're off your head!" Mr. Hawkins could see the wheels turning inside of Mr. Cunningham's head. He knew his boss was going to milk every drop of opportunity of using Eric and Sookie's image for publicity. To make a happy vampire friendly world again.
"Why not? It's never been done before, for the vampire government anyway."
"We are already doing things that haven't been done before! I think we should slow down."
"I don't think so. When wonderful things happen...you make them large enough into a huge wave for everyone to be in."
"You still need to talk to Mr. Northman for not only your ideas but also his permission for the wedding and coronation format."
"I'll be visiting him soon. After all the their wedding is in a week...I have to make sure everything is to his desire as well as Sookie's. Besides they're moving into the new house as we speak." Mr. Hawkins nodded. As he and Mr. Cunningham was signing papers and making sure the Werewolves know what they are doing for security, they hear Agneta walking in a fast pace. You can hear her high heels clicking louder as she was moving towards them. All vampires and werewolves looked at her with alert. She looked like she was ready to kill someone.
"I DEMAND TO KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THIS!" she yelled and slammed a newspaper page on to the table. Mr. Hawkins looked at her with caution as he picked up the newspaper piece. There and behold was a huge article about Sookie and Eric, their wedding and their up and coming coronation. There was a big picture of Sookie in her Merlotte's waitress uniform on the left and a handsome picture of a professional Eric Northman with Fangtasia in the background. The headline was: BON TEMPS WAITRESS IS GETTING MARRIED TO A OVER THOUSAND YEAR OLD VAMPIRE KING: A TRUE LOVE FAIRYTALE.
Mr. Hawkins was wide eyed shocked. It was in the papers already. He looked at Mr. Cunningham in shock. "You already did the publicity?! Without Northman's permission?!"
"Yes. For this situation I'd rather beg for forgiveness than to ask permission. This needs to happen. If Mr. Northman doesn't like it, I'll beg for forgiveness."
'Not before he kills you first.' Mr. Hawkins thought.
Agneta was snarling "You wouldn't need to beg forgiveness if I was Eric's queen!"
"Agneta darling, do we have to go over this again? There's much more benefits for Eric to marry Sookie than with you. There's nothing to go by of having a vampire marrying another vampire. There are no bridges...except for building states."
"HE'S MARRYING A BACKWATER WAITRESS TRAMP!" she screamed.
"Who also happens to be a fairy princess by blood! Including she's having his children! Which has never been done before in our vampire history!" He shouted back with a bit of calm. "We can have a new era if this is done appropriately. Eric and Sookie is our chance."
"Eric should still be MINE!"
"Agneta...let it go. Eric doesn't want you. It's beyond obvious that he loves this fairy. What would you do? Kidnap him and torture him until he says yes?! Which you better not do, if you're thinking towards that direction." he said sternly. Agneta didn't say anything, but vamp-speed out of the hotel in anger. The vampires and werewolves went back to their businesses of setting up.
"We really need to watch her." Mr. Cunningham said. "She might become a danger to herself... and others."
"Why don't we just kill her?" Mr. Hawkins questioned.
"I'm trying not to start the trend of killing vampires just because they were misbehaving. That needs to stop. We need every single vampire on this earth."
"We have the cure sir, or so you say. So why safekeeping all the vamps?"
"Not every vampire is going to get cured."
Mr. Hawkins wasn't sure of what Mr. Cunningham meant, but he was going to drop it for now despite a cold chill that went down his spine. "You're still going to have to talk to Mr. Northman and his Sookie and show them this." he showed him the newspaper article. "If they haven't seen it already."
"I know." he looked at the huge article again and read some of the lines. "The new Princess Diana of vampires!" Mr. Cunningham laughed with happiness.
Sookie and Eric were moved the last group of boxes into their cars. As Sookie was moving the last of the moving boxes into her car, she saw a newspaper roll on the lawn. "Might as well grab it. It'll be the last newspaper from this farmhouse." She opened up the paper which was mixture between local Bon Temps news and national news. There she saw a whole page about her and Eric! She saw the headline: BON TEMPS WAITRESS IS GETTING MARRIED TO A OVER THOUSAND YEAR OLD VAMPIRE KING: A TRUE LOVE FAIRYTALE.
"HOLY S!" Sookie looked at the pictures wide-eyed. Eric vamp-speed right to her for he felt Sookie's shock. For he feared for it was something to do with their babies. Then he saw the paper and grabbed it from Sookie's hands. "Eric! Can you believe this?!"
Eric was filled with mixed emotions. He was completely angered at first for that Mr. Cunningham did this without his permission. Then the second emotion that came was pride. Seeing his picture along with Sookie's, announcing to the world that they are the ultimate couple that everyone wants to be. He looked at Sookie's picture and his own again. The picture of him was actually when he had his long hair on the first night Sookie met him. Sookie's picture looked like it was the time period before she met vampires or himself. It just brought back some of the memories of Sookie and himself. How much they went through in so little time. They now act like they've known each other forever. He smiled with pride at the newspaper article.
"ERIC! Why are you smiling? You should be angry about this! I'm angry about this!" Sookie stated.
"Lover, don't you see? We are the power couple...or we are going to be soon. It's obvious that the new authority is desperate to have a wonderful image again. Which means we have the power." Eric actually was reading the article about him and Sookie. It was about how they met and they're in love despite their species and age differences. "I wonder how they got the information from?"
"Does it matter?" Sookie felt a sense of worry. "Don't you think will be easy targets from people who'll hate us?"
"Either that or it'll be harder because everyone will know us."
"What about our children Eric? They can be targeted if everyone in the world knows about us."
"Again lover, it'll probably harder to attack or kill our children if everyone knows about them." Sookie instinctively wrapped her arms around her abdomen trying to protect her unborn babies from no danger that's presented. "Sookie my love, I promise you nothing bad is going to happen to our children." Eric went to her and caressed her face. "Everyone is going to love you my queen."
"We all know that's not true, especially one in particular." Eric knew Sookie's meaning.
"I swear if Agneta threatens us again, she will meet her true death. At least I know how desperate the authority is that they'll do anything for us. That's including killing one of their members."
"Are you still going to act like you're angry about this? To the authority I mean." Sookie asked knowing Eric has a way of manipulating people for favors.
"Of course. Guilt of action always brings the favors. Which my love, you already know that." Sookie smirked as well as he did, for she was understanding how to play the game with vampires and their favors. Eric gave her a passionate kiss for he felt so much pride in his being. Everything was going his way, but he has to be sure that it keeps going like that. Which means he still has to be alert for threats.
As they kept kissing, Sookie saw something in the corner of her eye. "NIALL!"
"Sorry to interrupt but I figured it out!" Eric and Sookie had question marks on their faces. "The prophecy!" Niall said excitedly.