Chapter 5…Memories
"You have to consummate the wedding in order for things to fall into place…" she called from behind me making me stop in my tracks.
"What? You never mentioned this before" I roared as I stalked back up to her breathing hard waiting for an explanation.
"Because I knew you would not go through with the wedding if I said anything, but the gods have a plan and this is it…if you do it, it will start knocking the rocks into place to get you home, if you don't then you will stay here my child"
She said softly and walked off as I was standing there fuming…cursing whoever gods were up there and decided I was their little guinea pig.
I walked back to the ceremony and grabbed the first wine bottle I could get and started drinking from it because I was definitely not going to be sober with tonight.
Well later into the night I was drinking from another bottle of wine, I've lost count how many I have had, I was stumbling to my chair and fell into it, watching as a few of the people watch me do so.
"Do you not think you have had enough?" Eric asked me as he leaned over his chair to talk to me.
"No, definitely not enough" I slurred back to him and watched as he shook his head and then stood up, announcing that we were going to retire to bed.
I watched as he turned back to me and reached for the bottle of wine but I guess the look on my face told him otherwise because he pulled his hand back and took my hand instead, helping me up and leading me back to the room we were going to share from now on.
I stumbled into the room and kicked my shoes off and then took a big gulp of wine and felt Eric pull it away from my mouth. I rolled my eyes and turned around, stripping myself of my dress and turning back to Eric, starting to take his coat off.
"What are you doing?" he asked me and I laughed at him "Eric I've seen you sneak around with that red head, don't play coy with me now" I said to him and pushed him down onto the bed and pulled his shirt open.
Eric rolled us over and pinned my hands to the bed looking at me with fury in his eyes.
"Yes I know what you are doing but I will not lay with you when you have drank so much, I am not a monster that will rape my own wife" he snarled and then got off of the bed walking to the door.
"So that's it then? I'm not good enough, so you run to the little whore to solve your needs" I snarled back and stood up off of the bed and pulled my dress back on, feeling stupid for even thinking I could go through with this.
"She has nothing to do with this" Eric said and I laughed and shook my head at him.
"I should have never gone through with any of this, I should have known that you would always go to her, I mean why not, it will always be Sookie fucking Stackhouse" I roared out and then stopped as I realized what I said.
"Who…" Eric started but I held my hand up stopping him.
"Just someone from my past, now go to her while I talk to the king about undoing this wedding" I mumbled but stopped as he grabbed my arm.
"I am not going to her, I just refuse to lay with my wife while she is not herself, I want you to remember everything" he said and I shook my head turning to leave again but Eric pulled me back and locked his lips with my own.
I saw a white light flash and then I heard the clap of the thunder, followed by the hard sound of rain, we pulled apart and we were both breathing hard.
"It has not rained here since I can remember" Eric said in wonderment and looked back into my eyes as I stared back at him feeling a whole lot of different things.
"I want to go out" I said while looking up at Eric.
"It's raining, and there is thunder as well, it wouldn't be wise to go out" Eric said to me and I smiled at him and walked to the door that lead to the outside.
"Don't tell me the strong Viking is scared of a little rain and thunder" I giggle out and then stumbled out the door and into the rain laughing as I ran far into the storm.
"What have I gotten myself into" said Eric as he shook his head and ran after his new bride.
I was running until I got to my favourite place by the river, standing in the rain and lifting my chin up so that my face was in the direction of the sky. Lighting lit up the night sky and I smiled as the rain soaked me completely.
"Are you just going to stand there or join me?" I asked Eric as I saw him just standing there looking at me.
"No , I will just stand here and admire you" Eric said and I rolled my eyes at him and ventured further to the river.
"Come on Eric, live a little…you said it hasn't rain in so long, so enjoy it" I said walking backwards for him to follow me.
"Danalynne be careful, the river is too strong" I heard Eric yell at me and I rolled my eyes at him. "I know Eric I'm not going into the river, I'm not that stupid."
I said to him and stopped right at the edge of the small slope leading to the river.
"Please step away from there Danalynne, come back to me and we can go back to the castle and drink some more" Eric said to me and I shook my head at him and giggled.
"Eric I'm fine, nothing is going to happen and I thought you wanted me to stop drinking" I asked him and smiled when he came walking towards me. "Its dangerous by the river, the currents are too strong with the heavy rain fall, lets head back" Eric said to me and I nodded at him, feeling my body shaking from the cold.
I took a step forward and felt something shift, looking down I saw the small slope has starting shifting and as I looked up at Eric I saw he was staring at the same crack I was.
"Eric…" I said as I felt it shift down a little bit.
"I'm going to come to you slowly, reach your hand out so that I can grab you" Eric said to me and I nodded at him.
I watched as Eric stepped forward slowly and reached his own hand out to grab mine, my heart was pounding as I felt it slide a bit more and I looked up at Eric to see him frowning and staring at me.
"Eric…" I started but he shook his head and took another small step forward, I reached my hand out further and touched the tips of his fingers when I felt the ground give way completely under me sending me crashing into the freezing water.
I kicked my way up and once I surfaced the water I looked around for Eric and I saw that the river was sweeping me away quickly. I heard Eric scream my name but the water kept pushing my head under the water although I was fighting to stay above the water.
I was swallowing water as my head went down again and I fought with all of my strength to keep kicking to stay above, I felt something hard hit me on my head and it made my head go fuzzy for a bit. I felt something grab me around my waist and as I turned my head I saw it was Eric.
"Eric what are you" I started asking but the water pushed me down again, I felt Eric pull on me and everything was blurry and then I felt the water get less and then finally I felt Eric pull me onto the muddy ground.
We both laid there breathing heavily and just trying to process what just happened.
"You're stupid" I said to him and heard him growl in his chest "I am the one that is stupid? I told you not to go near there" Eric growled out and I laughed out.
"You were the stupid one to jump in after me" I said to him and sat up not believing that he did actually jump into the rough river to save me.
"If I didn't you would have been dead" Eric roared out and I sighed and then turned to him, leaning down I kissed him on the lips and then pulled back looking into his icy blue eyes.
We stared at each other for a bit and then Eric leaned up and locked his lips with mine again, but this time in a rough kiss, his tongue went into my mouth battling my tongue for dominance and as we were kissing Eric rolled us over so that he was on top of me.
Our lips were being bruised by us kissing so hard and teeth biting and pulling.
I pulled at his shirt ripping it open and tilting my head back as he laid kisses down my neck and over my breasts where my wet wedding dress was clinging to me.
I hooked my legs around his waist and pulled his face back up to meet with my lips once more while my hand fumbled with his pants to get them loose and then pushed them down with my feet. "We should stop" Eric said and I shook my head as I bit down on his lower lip making him growl out.
I felt Eric lift my dress up and felt his hard manhood lay on me. Eric pulled back and stared into my eyes as I felt him slide into me slowly, making my head fall back and a moan to erupt from my throat.
My hands found their way under Eric's shirt with my nails digging into his back as he pulled out of me and pushed back in. I starred up at this human Eric and as our eyes connected I felt the coil snap inside of me and it sent me over the edge. I hear Eric moan out as he felt me clench around him and he gave a few more thrusts before moaning out my name and stilling inside of me.
We were both breathing hard and as he pushed himself up he leaned down for a kiss that was sweet and tender.
I felt a tear run down my cheek as the old memories flashed in front of my eyes.
"We should get going" I said to Eric and pushed him back.