Well, peoples. At least there really wasn't any sort of a delay on this chapter this time!

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SPOV

"Come on and dance with me, my lover" Eric said, holding his hand out to me.

"Gladly" I answered him, and then I got up off of the chair that I had been sitting in.

He led me carefully onto the dance floor, and took up his position, in other words, he placed one of his hands on my waist and he clasped his other hand in my own. I placed my other free hand on his chest, and we began to sway easily to the slow music that was playing, although it felt that it was going on in the background.

"I love you, my lover. I love you" Eric whispered to me.

"I love you too, honey. I love you too" I answered, looking straight up into his eyes.

He just gave me a small smile in return, and then dipped his head to mine, softly placing his forehead against mine, and we just stood like that for god knows how long. Simply holding each other and staring longingly into one another's eyes.

"Lover … we have to be heading home soon. I can feel the pull of the sun already beginning." Eric whispered, what felt like only a few minutes later.

"I know, but I just don't want this night to ever end. Because as soon as we leave here, we are going to have to go back to single beds" I said.

"Lover … you know that you don't have to follow through with this completely ridiculous tradition of sleeping in two separate beds the night before our wedding, after all, we to be married. You will be my wife, and I will be your husband. There really is no point of either of us spending any more of our nights or days apart." Eric said, and I could feel through our blood bond that he was pleading with me to change my mind.

I will admit that there was a part of me … a big part of me that wanted to change my mind and just go to bed with my husband, but then I thought of Gran, and the rest of my friends. I very much doubted that they would allow us to sleep in the same bed, even if we had wanted too.

"Baby … do you honestly think that anybody else is going to let us have some alone time together tonight … today anyways?" I asked him, calmly and carefully.

"No … they probably wouldn't, lover. But since when have we listened to what anybody else has to say, my lover? Since when have we ever done anything that is traditional?" Eric said.

"I know, baby. Just give me this one thing, and then we can have every single night from now on together. We can have all of the rest of our lives together." I said, and then placed a soft, long deep lingering kiss on his lips, before leading him back to the table where everyone else was sitting.

"We should be heading off now, before we all get burned into an absolute crisp" Eric announced.

"Yeah. Let's head off" Pam said, just as everyone stood up from the table, and followed us out into the car park.

"I'll see you tomorrow, baby" I said to Eric, and then tried to move to get into the front passenger seat of Tara's car, but he wasn't having any of that, and he reached out and grabbed my hand, effectively pulling me back.

"Lover … you don't seriously think that I am going to let you head off without even a kiss goodbye?" Eric asked, his smirk growing wider on his face as he pulled me nice and close in to him.

"Never" I answered, and then I stretched right up on my tip toes and placed a gentle kiss on his lips, which, with Eric being the opportunist that he is, he took the chance to deepen the kiss. He eagerly slid his tongue into my mouth, and moved his hands down my back to my ass, and softly began to massage my ass cheeks with his big hands. I also wrapped my arms tightly around his neck as our kiss deepened still yet further.

"Yay … and that is exactly how it is done!" Lafayette cheered and hollered at us.

"I had better go, lover" Eric whispered to me, when he broke off the kiss.

"I know, baby. But it doesn't mean that I will be liking it" I said.

"And then you know that you could come with me" he replied.

"No … we have to do at least this one thing in a traditional manner, Eric" I answered.

"If you change your mind, lover. All you have to do is come back to me" he said.

"I know" I said, and then gave him a peck on the lips before climbing into the car. Tara and Lala also repeated the same motions as me. The very last sight that I saw before Tara swung the car out of the car park and down the road, back into Bon Temps, was the sight of my beautiful husband to be climbing into his own Corvette, with his child at his side, just as the sun began to rise up over the horizon, causing the sky above all of us to turn a gorgeous reddish pink colour that I had never ever seen before in all of my life.

We arrived back in Bon Temps a short while later, and after Tara had set me up in her guest bedroom – complete with Lala lying on the floor beside me, I fell off into an uneasy sleep as I thought of nothing but my fiancée, and of my impending wedding.

One thing was for sure, I couldn't wait to be Mrs. Northman.

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