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Rated M for adult themes (Lemons, language and possibly some violence)

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Chapter 3: Falling Apart

Sookie's POV

I stared at the man before me and then looked back at my gran. I was utterly confused. Who was he? My great-grandfather has been long dead, it was clearly impossible for any of this to be true."Gran, what are you talking about? That man isn't my great-grandfather. I don't know who that is at all." A sadness grew over her and I instantly regretted hurting her with my words.

"Come sit down with me," she patted the empty space next to her on the porch swing. Her guilty expression scared me as I sat down next to her. I had a feeling that I wasn't going to like whatever she had to tell me. My 'great grandfather' stood next to the swing, his expression serious but his eyes revealed more.

"What is this all about?"

"Child, I am going to tell you a story. A story of my life many years ago. It is something I have not told to anyone, not even your father and will never be able to tell Jason. I have kept it to myself because I did not want others to suffer the consequences of my actions but I am afraid that there is no other way to avoid what will soon happen. What I am about to tell you might seem impossible but I need you to listen. Know that I will always love you Sookie." I nodded as I was unable to speak. Gran looked out into the distance of the night and she began her story.

Her voice was far away, as if she was reliving the moments all over again. "I loved your grandfather very much Sookie and he was the world to me for a long time, he still is. The love I had for him was not one that you read in your romance novels. When I had first met him and agreed to marry him, I did not love him but with time, I eventually grew to. He was a honest and good man to me and to others. We were content with our lives but I was missing something desperately. I could not have children with your grandfather. He was so sad and disappointed in himself that he was unable to give me the one thing I had always wanted. We went about our lives but I was unhappy and your grandfather knew it. That was when I met Fintan Brigant, he is your true grandfather and the biological father of my son."

"Are you saying you..." Gran held up her hand and I quickly shut my mouth.

"The first time I saw him, I instantly fell in love with him. It was like love at first sight, something that I had thought to be impossible. I was young and reckless, I didn't think before I acted. He was so beautiful and I fell under his spell. He was charming and wild, just as I had been. We had an affair, he and I. Fintan had promised me that with a little magic, we would be able to conceive. Together we had two kids, one of them was your father, Corbett and the other was your aunt, Linda. Your grandfather, Earl was not oblivious to the fact that I had become pregnant so suddenly. I had tried to brush it off as a miracle but I knew deep in my heart that he figured out that something had happened. Earl never spoke his suspicions out loud and he cared for my children as if they were his own. After that, I never saw Fintan again. He just disappeared without a trace."

"Magic? I don't understand Gran."

"Your grandfather Fintan as well as your great-grandfather Niall are not exactly human, my child. They are known as Fae. Niall here is a royal prince among his people. They are from a different world from ours. I don't know how else to explain it to you. Just as there are telepaths, shifters and vampires, there are fairies."

I tried to process all of this but my brain was in denial. My grandfather wasn't my real grandfather? My Gran had cheated on him? The man that she loved was a fairy? I was beginning to feel light headed and I no longer felt the comfort as I did before sitting next to my grandmother. She had been the woman that I leaned on, depended on, told everything to and she had kept this from me? From everyone? Suddenly my emotions were whirling out of control. Angry tears fell from my eyes and blurred my vision.

"Sookie, please..."

I got up, pushing away Gran's hand and rushed into the house. I didn't stop to look back as she called my name over and over again. I ran upstairs to my room and slammed the door shut. I buried my face into my bed, the tears never seeming to stop. I knew I was being childish, my stubbornness getting in the way of my feelings but I couldn't stomach down the truth. I shouldn't be judging Gran and I felt horrible for doing it right now. She was a good woman and always have been.

A quiet knock on my bedroom door disturbed my thoughts. I wanted to scream, yell, anything to get rid of whoever was there but I didn't have the will to be angry at Gran. Her life had been hard enough with all she had told me and she needed me now more than ever. I was all she had left and the way I was acting was sure to be breaking her heart. "Come in." The door opened slowly, the old hinges making it squeak. Instead of Gran entering, it was Niall who stood at the front of the door. He looked hesitant, like he was out of his element with speaking to crying woman. I probably looked like a huge mess from my tears and I tried my best to look more presentable in front of my great-grandfather. He walked over and sat down next to me on my bed. We stared at each other for a few moments, neither of us knowing how to start.

"I am sorry that this hurts you. If I could take away the pain, I would."

"I will never replace my grandfather with you or with Fintan, I am sorry but I can't look at you the same way that I see him. He had always been there for me and you, you are no one but a stranger to me."

He looked sullen but he nodded his head, "I understand. I do not expect you to replace me with anyone but I do hope that one day you will see that I love you in my own way. I had been watching over you for years. I might not have been there every second but I watched some of the stepping stones of your young life."

I looked at him skeptically, "Like what? If you watched over me and Jason for so long, then why did you never introduce yourself?"

"My son, Fintan had forbid me to come reveal myself to your grandmother, her children and to her grandchildren. He did this to ensure that you would be kept safe from any harm. I would never hurt anyone in your family but I am a very powerful man who has many enemies. It was for the best for both of us to stay absent from it." He had that same look as Gran, his eyes distant as he smiled fondly of something he remembered. "I was there watching in the distance the first time you moved into this home after your parents died, I was there when you first started school after that incident, I watched as you grew from a child to the woman you are now."

Tears threatened to fall all over again at the mention of my parents. "Why now?"

"My son had recently died and now I have the freedom to come visit Adele and yourself. I am afraid that things are going to change now. You are special, Sookie. You have the essential spark that no one else in your family has. You are not only human but part Fae. A hybrid of our kind and a Fae princess in our realm. We need to tell you now because soon you will not only be Sookie Stackhouse but something more. Because it is your 25th birthday, you have now reached the age where you will start transforming so that the Fae part in you will grow stronger."

This couldn't be happening. This couldn't be true. I was just a small town girl from Bon Temps. "I'm dreaming. This isn't real."

"I too wish that it wasn't real and just an illusion but I cannot. Once you start to change, your life will only become more dangerous from here on out. I have been looking out for you for a long time Sookie and I have waited decades for the right time to come to you. You will be kept safe."

"If this is truly happening to me and you can keep me safe, why must we take such extreme measures? What are you not telling me?"

Niall sighed, his eyes closing for a brief moment. "What I am about to tell you Sookie is something that will hurt you more than anything. The flash flood that your parents died in was not a coincidence or an accident. It was a plot to get rid of your father, your brother and yourself by enemies of Fintan and I. I won't be able to protect you from everything that comes your way, you must learn to accept that you are no ordinary human."

I didn't want to hear anymore. I shook my head over and over. No, no, no, no. Impossible. "Please...just go..."

"There is so much more to discuss. Your destiny, your marriage, your future all need to be explained to you tonight. I know you are in pain Sookie but this cannot wait."

My future? My marriage? My destiny? What? I couldn't take anymore of this. "GET OUT, GET OUT OF MY ROOM. I HATE YOU. I WISH YOU STAYED AWAY FROM ME, FROM MY FAMILY. IT'S ALL YOUR DAMN FAULT MY PARENTS ARE DEAD, YOUR FAULT MY LIFE IS TURNING UPSIDE DOWN. GET OUT!" I didn't care that I was acting on impulse and rashly. I didn't care that I was supposed to be a Southern lady with manners. I didn't even care if he disappeared forever and left me in danger. I just wanted out of this, out of this insanity that was now my world.

I didn't even look up, I kept my face buried in my pillow. All I heard was the door open and close. I got under the covers and the safety of my bed. I tried to sleep but my mind kept going back to what Niall had said to me. I could finally feel the fear beginning to creep in. I was Sookie Stackhouse, daughter of Corbett and Michelle Stackhouse and granddaughter to Adele and Earl Stackhouse. This was not how I wanted my twenty-fifth birthday to turn out. I suddenly regretted my earlier desperation for adventure and wanted more than anything to take it back. It seems that I had gotten my birthday wish after all. I cried myself to the brink of exhaustion that night before I finally fell asleep.

So what do you think of Gran's confession and what Niall was able to tell Sookie? Was it wrong of her to react the way she did? Let me know what you think!

The next chapter will get to the important stuff about Sookie's 'destiny' and her arranged marriage. Sookie will also be introduced to two different people...who do you think they are?