To my devoted readers, I apologize for making you wait this long for an update. There's absolutely no good excuse for this late update. Life got in the way and has lead me to exhaustion and no time to write. So I finally got something through to all three stories. I hope you enjoy them. Thank you for your support, patience, comments, favorites, and followers. Hugs and Kisses.
Characters belong to Charlene Harris and Alan Ball.
Chapter 5
Sookie knew she wasn't going to see much of Sweden on the first day or the second. After all Eric and Pam has a new business to promote. The pleasant activities as far as exploring Sweden will come after. However looking through the limo and seeing amazing buildings that are close by the river, and some buildings are close to the mountains in the distance. Everything sparkled with lights in the city of Stockholm. Sookie just kept looking out the window to see everything that she could. Eric smiled for her curiosity. He looked down at the papers that he was reading. Sookie looked away from her window to glance at Eric.
"Eric, what are you doing?" Sookie asked wondering how come he wasn't enjoying the view along with her.
"Memorizing the script for the New Blood commercial which we are doing tonight." Sookie tried to hold back a laugh, instead it came out a snort. Eric arched his eyebrow while looking at her. "What?"
"I'm sorry Eric it's just that... I can't see you doing a commercial in a professional manner." she started to laugh.
"Everything I do...including you... is professional." Eric smirked. "Some say I'm an expert."
"Okay." Sookie warmly smiled.
"You don't believe me?"
"It's just that when you're selling something, especially to humans, you're trying too hard to sound like a normal ordinary guy... that it comes out weird."
"Weird?
"Yeah. It's very laughable. Even when you try to talk in a southern accent." she started to giggle and snort.
Eric glared at her "Have you even seen me do a commercial?"
She bursted out laughing "YES! The one when you were promoting pro-vampire living. Right before you lost your memories! When I saw that..." Sookie couldn't stop laughing. "It was so political sounding from you that it felt so fake!" Then she mimicked his voice along with the first lines "My name is Eric Northman.
I'm a tax-paying American and small business owner in the great state of Louisiana.
I also happen to be a vampire." she continued laughing.
"Well...it's true lover as to what I said."
"Really? The tax-paying? Or the simple fact that you're not American, that you are from the area that is now called Sweden?" she teased.
"Okay Lover, I exaggerated. So do all commercials!"
"Just please tell me the commercial is not going to sound like the one you previously did." Sookie said as that pleading look her face. Pam whom has been quiet throughout this humorous conversation even arched her eyebrow at her maker. She wondered herself if the commercial is going to be like the one they did for the Authority.
Eric shrugged his shoulders not really know how to answer because he didn't know how this commercial was going to come out. "We're going with the flow on this. I usually don't with anything, but it depends on the setting." Sookie knew this was going to get interesting.
When they arrived at the studio to shoot for the commercial, the director and the rest of the team was ready. Many stared at the three beautiful people that walked in. Of course most eyes were on Eric. Sookie looked around in amazement. It took Eric less than 30 seconds to redress himself in a silver suit. Same thing with Pam, only in a professional tailored dress. Sookie smiled for she never saw Eric in a suit before. He was very sexy... as always. Eric felt a little uneasy that Sookie wouldn't be in the commercial with him and Pam. It felt wrong somehow. This was more than just him and Pam now. Sookie was now his soon to be his other half and one day his child. He shrugged the feeling off, for he had a feeling that Sookie wouldn't want to get herself involved in this.
Sookie looked at Eric's face for she can see that there was something bothering him. "Eric. What's wrong?"
"I just think that you should be in the commercial with me besides Pam."
Sookie shook her head "Eric this has nothing to do with me. This is yours and Pam's thing. Your product, I have nothing to do with it." Eric nodded in understanding her reasoning, but he still wants her there. Sookie stood on her toes to give Eric a quick kiss on the lips. "Now go! Let's get this over with so we can enjoy ourselves later."
Eric gave her his sexy smile "Any particular enjoyment?" Sookie rolled her eyes as Eric snickered to himself. He went to the chair to sit while Pam positioned herself by the products of New Blood. Then the camera started to record. Sookie stood by the side and watched.
"Are you fatigued? Plagued by veins and uncontrollable cravings? Do you fear the true death? Hi, my name is Eric Northman. I'm a thousand-year-old vampire and president and CEO of New Blood. Not too long ago, though, I was just like you- sick, despondent, waiting to die. But that's when Miss De Beaufort here tracked me down and found me in an abandoned wine cellar in the south of France." Sookie already wanted to laugh. Not from Eric's story, but the way he said it. He sounded like a typical salesman which made him sound funny. She used her hand to cover her mouth from her snickering.
Then Pam spoke, "When I found Mr. Northman, I barely recognized him.
He was no longer the invincible Viking vampire god who turned me over a hundred years ago. He had given up, but I hadn't, because I had a hunch there was a cure out there, contained within the body of Sarah Newlin."
"Oh-ho-ho, we all remember Miss Newlin. She was the televangelist's wife who had a second career as an international mass murderer before disappearing into thin air.
But not before swallowing the antidote to Hepatitis V. All of the antidote."
"So together, Eric and I set out to track Miss Newlin down. Well, we never caught Miss Newlin." Sookie rolled her eyes on that lie.
"She narrowly escaped our grasp by jumping through the rear window of a home she had been hiding in."
"We did, however, find a few drops of her blood on a shard of glass."
"So we rushed Miss Newlin's blood to our team of world-class scientists in Stockholm, Sweden, and Miss De Beaufort's hunch paid off when they synthesized it into this.
- New Blood."
Then the director made the cut. "That was great Mr. Northman and Miss De Beaufort! I don't think we need to do that again do we?"
Eric gave it a thought. Before he'd answer to the director, he looked at Sookie who was trying to contain her laugh. Eric had to know why she was reacting like this. What was so funny about the commercial? Other than the fact that Sookie knows that in truth he and Pam have Mrs. Newlin locked in the basement of Fangtasia.
"Lover?" Eric asked with a smirk. "May I ask kindly as to why you were laughing at our commercial? Was there something amiss?"
"Other... than... most of the commercial was... bullshit?!" she laughed uncontrollably. Eric raised his eyebrows for not only for her use of language but her continuous laughter. Even Pam went up to them with her hands on her hips looking at Sookie, wondering what's with all the hysterics. "Come on Eric, you and Pam are vampires and you run your own businesses. You don't actually think that commercial was good? Do you? Not only the sales pitch was filled with lies but the way you presented the product felt cheesy!"
Eric squinted his face for her explanation. Pam huffed "Well Ms. fairy, what do you think we should have done? Sense you know everything about commercials." she said sarcastically.
Sookie putted her hands on her own hips and looked at the two vampires who gave the word sex a whole new meaning. "You guys run Fangtasia. This product is for infected vampires. What are the two things that vampires always go for?"
Eric instantly answered "Sex and blood."
Then Sookie smiled at Eric hinting at him "Then make the commercial about sex and blood. Your selling the product as if your selling to a conservative group of humans. Your selling to vampires, not human beings. You just said in the commercial that you wanted to give up on life because the disease was making you feel so." Eric nodded. "Then give something that vampires will be excited to live for."
Eric smiled warmly at Sookie for her taking notice of the small details. "Lover, you are a genius. You're going to be in the commercial with us! I have a better idea of how to end it." Sookie was in shock for Eric's decision and before she responded, Eric asked the costume designer on the side to find Sookie a very sexy dress. Eric then gave directions to the director and to Sookie as what to do at the end of the commercial.
The director started to film again. There was more anticipation in the air because this time there was more excitement and more truth to the commercial. Everyone was silent. Eric was back in the chair again to start off.
Eric started off with a power-like voice "A virus has spread among vampires and humans alike. Unfortunately it's deadly symptoms only affects us vampires. Are you fatigued? Plagued by veins and uncontrollable cravings? Do you fear the true death? Hi, my name is Eric Northman the former sheriff of area five of Louisiana. I'm a thousand-year-old vampire and president and CEO of New Blood. Not too long ago, though, I was just like you- sick, despondent, waiting to die. But that's when Miss De Beaufort here tracked me down and found me in an abandoned wine cellar in the south of France."
Then Pam spoke in her power tone as well, "When I found Mr. Northman, I barely recognized him. He was no longer the invincible Viking vampire god who turned me over a hundred years ago. He had given up, but I hadn't, because I had a hunch there was a cure out there. That's when we found out that the cure was contained within the body of Sarah Newlin."
"Oh-ho-ho, we all remember Miss Newlin. She was the televangelist's wife who had a second career as an international mass murderer before disappearing into thin air.
But not before swallowing the antidote to Hepatitis V. All of the antidote."
"So together, Eric and I set out to hunt Miss Newlin down. Well, we never caught Miss Newlin."
"Which is a shame to not put that woman to justice. She narrowly escaped our grasp by jumping through the rear window of a home she had been hiding in."
"We did, however, find a few drops of her blood on a shard of glass."
"So we rushed Miss Newlin's blood to our team of world-class scientists in Stockholm, Sweden, and Miss De Beaufort's hunch paid off when they synthesized it into this.
New Blood."
Eric walked back into his chair while holding the New Blood drink. As he sat down, Sookie went to him in a sexy red dress as Eric putted on his seductive smile. Sookie sat on his lap and looked at the camera and said "As you can see this sexy sheriff is back to his old self again."
Eric than showed his fangs to Sookie and looked back at the camera "I'm back to one of my favorite past times." Then he bit into Sookie's neck as they both loudly moaned very sexually.
"OKAY THEN CUT!" The director shouted. Though the cameras stopped rolling, Eric continued drinking from Sookie. She continued to moan and rubbing his hardness with one of her legs. "Mr. Northman we're finished."
Eric stopped drinking for the moment to speak "You may be finished director, but I'm not." Then he continued drinking from Sookie as she moaned in delight from Eric's feeding, not helping the fact she was horny just by him feeding from her.