Chapter 25

EPOV

How did I get lucky enough to find Valhalla on earth? As I float in ecstasy with my Fairy Queen riding me, I thank the Gods for every moment we have shared and will share. Everything about her is intoxicating; the smell of her arousal, her warmth and tightness, those delicious curves in all the right places, and the taste of sunshine on her skin. And she is MINE! Ah, I could meet the true death right now if I knew I could feel this for the rest of my after, afterlife.

Unable to resisting tasting the ambrosia that is her blood; I sit up and bite into one of her breasts. Not to miss out on an opportunity for us both to become one, she latches onto my shoulder. We both become lost in the emotions and energy flowing through us as we are now joined in the most intimate of ways. Just as we are return to reality from the abyss of our everlasting love for one another, both Huginn and Muninn land on the bed. Hissing at my magical companions, Sookie giggles.

"Don't be mean to them, Eric. They're probably wondering what we are doing." She was always the sympathizer.

"No…something is wrong. And they know exactly what we're doing." I look my ravens, waiting for them both to let me know why they interrupted us. Before I could finish connecting with them, we hear a commotion at our bedroom door.

"ERIC! Something's happen!" Vayl yells through the door. At least the guards are now worth the money I pay them if they have prevented him from even knocking on the bedchamber door.

"Eric…Sinclair and Betsy just came in and they are moving this way fast." If both Vayl and Sinclair are disturbing us, then the shit has hit the fan and I am about to be majorly pissed off.

Just as Sinclair and Betsy made it to our door, I bellowed "Meet us in the conference room in 10 minutes!" I looked to Sookie to give me confirmation that they were moving away from our door. Still deep inside her, I start to move. She slaps me in the chest to stop me.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING? There's an emergency and you are still trying to continue fucking?" she asks incredulously.

"Have you come again?" I ask her. She looks at me thoughtfully for a moment before shaking her head no.

"You know I have already tonight, but we were in the middle of working on another…" I cut her off by changing our position so she is on her hands and knees.

"I would be a bad husband if I left my wife unsatisfied." I mount her from behind and slam into her depths. Gripping her hip with one hand and her hair with the other, I fuck her at vamp speed. Her pussy is so tight that it feels like its milking me. I yank her head back to my chest and she shrieks at my unexpected movement.

"COME. FOR. ME. NOW." I command, punctuating each word with a powerful thrust. Just as she begins, I bit into her throat and her entire body becomes engulfed in her white light. As I drink, I reach over her shoulder to rub her supple breasts. Seeing her opening, she leans into my bicep and bites me savagely. I am now blazing along with her, our flames dancing and mingling together. This is pure perfection.

"I think that was our quickest session yet." She pants out as I lay her down and withdraw from her.

"I agree, but this will not become a normal thing. I do have the reputation as 'Viking Sex God' to live up to." I reply. I go the bathroom to get a wet washcloth. I return and wipe her down before doing the same to myself. Since we are close to our 10 minute mark, she dresses us in comfy pajamas; me in silk lounge pants and her in the shirt that matches them. We pop into the conference room just as the two couples, along with Cassandra and Dave, enter. I sit in my throne with Sookie in my lap.

Cassandra and Dave sit at the table. She looks nervous and is trembling like a leaf. Dave holds her hand and whispers in her ear to calm her fears. Betsy and Jazz move to stand next to each other as both Sinclair and Vayl approach us.

"What's happened?" I ask them.

"Apparently, the enemy is now making moves to weaken you through your association with us. Cole, one of our team, has been abducted by Salome. She and I had a brief history over 200 years ago." Vayl reported. Jazz' eyes flared with jealousy, a look I know all to well having dealt with my own past flings.

"Elizabeth and I were exploring Lafayette Cemetery when we encountered Tomas de Mada. He came to inform us that you are to meet him there two nights from now or he will kill our friend, Marc." Sinclair added. Betsy growled and was shaking with anger.

"Salome said the same thing and added that you are to bring Lucrezia with you or they will kill Cole and whoever else they have captured." Vayl was more anxious than I had ever seen him. He was pacing in front of us and it had me a little unsettled. As I contemplated our next move, Sookie took over the process of gathering information.

"Where were Marc and Cole when they were taken?" she asked them.

"Marc was probably on his way to or at work. He's a doctor at the Children's Hospital of Minnesota." Betsy answered.

"Cole was at the MGM Grand. FUCK! I told him that he shouldn't go to Vegas unsupervised." Jazz was ringing her hands. Betsy stepped closer to her and put her arm over Jazz' shoulders to as a gesture of comfort.

Looking at me to get my attention, I look directly into Sookie's eyes. We must decide how to proceed quickly, for the lives of many including the friends of our nest mates hang in the balance.

"I think that I need to speak to Lucrezia." She says in my head.

"I have already questioned her, but you may be right. I think I may need to go with them. As long as you are free, I will be fine. They do not know of our true power, so we can find their location and take them all out at once." I offer back telepathically.

"I definitely don't like that plan, but I knew it was coming."

"I am the one they want. It's time to make them regret it. You do know that you will be in charge of the entire kingdom while I am gone, right lover?"

At this, a sharp inhale was her response. She was beginning to get angrier about this situation and the fact that I had to sacrifice myself over to the enemy. One of the things that have never changed in my lover is her hatred of being controlled. Swinging her legs from over my right arm, she steps down from my lap. With her hands on her hips and determination set in her jaw, she takes over. Although this is a serious situation, she looks so adorable in my shirt and bare feet. Sans underwear, I can slightly smell her, which forces me to adjust myself.

"GUARDS! Bring me the prisoner!" she bellowed. None of us were prepared for an interrogation, especially so close to dawn. I know that she could feel our hesitation, but ignored it. I knew better than to question her out loud.

"My love? What are you doing?" I probed cautiously. I do not want her wrath to be turned towards me. And if I am about to turn myself over to the enemy, I plan to make love to her as much as possible.

"I am about to drain as much information out of her as I can get without turning her into a vampire vegetable. You WILL NOT go into their clutches unprepared and we will get everyone back safely" she replied and that was the end of that conversation.

Two guards came through the double doors of the conference room with Lucrezia. Although I had questioned her briefly before we went out, I made sure that I did not get into any of my more productive interrogation techniques. I am glad I chose to wait.

The guards deposited her on her knees in front of the throne. Everyone moved to either stand or sit next to me as Sookie paced in front of her. She was beautiful, like most vampires are, but we were unsure how long she would stay that way from the way Sookie was staring at her. Her eyes began to glow and I could feel her powers rising. Lucrezia's head was hung low when was first brought in, but must have found some courage as she looked up to face her interrogator. Her long dirty blonde tresses hung pass her waist and her brown eyes were moving around the room, taking in everything. After a moment, she glanced at me and had the audacity to wink at me.

Sookie delivered a right hook to her jaw, the sound of cracking bone makes us all flinch. Blood dribbles from Lucrezia's mouth as her wide eyes looked shocked at my wife.

"You are being held as a prisoner by the Monarchs of your kind and you have the balls to flirt with the King in front of his Queen, no less? You must not wish to live forever." Sookie said in a stern voice.

"I apologize. I am unfamiliar with who you are." Lucrezia did not realize that she was poking a beast that she had no chance against.

"You know who he is, am I right?" Sookie asked.

"Yes. He is the infamous, Eric Northman. Many know him as the Viking. He was the former Sheriff for Area 5 in Louisiana and now King. I also know him as the Viking Sex God." She whispered the last part as if telling a friend a secret.

Another punch to the face her nose no longer exists. "Spare me with your puny attempts to make me jealous. Now, do you know who I am?"

"Mmm…" she mumbles as she looked up to view Sookie fully. As her envious thoughts play along, she believes that she is safe. She knows what her cohorts were planning to do, so she was too confident that she would leave her unharmed. "You look familiar, but I am not sure. You look like the one that captured me last night. I heard rumors that Northman had become obsessed with some lowly human from a backwater town here in the Bayou, but I didn't believe them. He's too sexy and powerful to do something like that. As far as that, I haven't seen his pet yet" Lucrezia caught a hail maker punch to the face, shattering her left temple. She whimpered and looked up at Sookie in disbelief.

"I am Sookie Northman, the bonded and pledged wife of the King of Vampires. So I guess that makes me the 'lowly human from a backwater town', right?" As shock spread over Lucrezia's face, Sookie place her hands on either side of her head. Her head and hands began to glow as she pulled information from her head. Lucrezia's eyes rolled up into her head for a moment. When Sookie let her go, her head was limp.

Turning to the rest of us, Sookie hands down her orders.

"I got what I need from her. We only have about 20 minutes before dawn, so retire for now. Jazz, Dave, and Cassandra, we will get together around 10am to begin bringing everyone we know here." Jazz nodded and walks over to take Vayl's hand. Dave pulls Cassandra from her seat and they leave the room.

"We will look at the footage from the Grand to find out what happened to Cole. Betsy, I will have more information for you by the time you rise tomorrow." Betsy nodded as she is pulled into Sinclair's embrace.

Deciding she had something to say, Lucrezia added her opinion. "Whatever you have planned is futile." She begins as Sookie turns to face her. "Once Northman is under our control, vampires will take our place as the alpha race in this world. There is nothing you can do to stop our regime from taking over." We all started hissing and growling at her, but Sookie was the one to respond.

"If that were the case, then your puppet master wouldn't be a fairy." If I had been human, I probably would have swallowed my tongue. Not only do we have to deal with a mutiny amongst my race, but now this could be the catalyst of the Second Fairy War. I guess when it rains, it pours. "Although you will be release back to your fellow idiots along with my husband, know this: Any harm that comes upon him and anyone else I or my nest mates associate with will result in your true death. I suggest you spend your rest of your time here figuring out how you are going to keep him unharmed. Here's a little incentive for you." Before all of our eyes, Sookie conjured a silver rod about 6 inches long. Looking to the guards to hold Lucrezia, Sookie ripped open her blouse and held the rod against her sternum. Lucrezia let out a blood-curdling scream as my wife fused the rod into her chest. Using her power to heal, she covered the rod with Lucrezia's own skin.

"Since he and I are bonded, I will know if he feels any pain. It will be at that moment that I send this rod into your worthless heart. My reach is far and wide. There is no where you can hide. And don't fret, I have matching rods for Tomas and Salome." With a curt nod of her head, the guards dragged the crying Lucrezia back to her cell.

Now to get the next task completed, I address the group. "Before you all retire, contact all of those that you hold dear and tell them to prepare to leave. All of our loved ones will be put into a safe house until this conflict ends. We will bring them here tomorrow and take them to where they will reside once we all rise. As you all are now a part of our family, we will do everything in our power to keep everyone safe. Do not doubt that we will retrieve our comrades soon." They all filed out of the conference room, cell phones dialing rapidly to get things in motion.

Now that we are alone, I rise from my throne and scope Sookie into my arms. Not wasting any time, I blink us back to our bedchamber.

Author's Notes:

Ok. So the enemy has made their move to weaken the gang. Any guesses as to who the top villain is? I hope I surprise you all.

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