Marten's POV:

"Marten!" Sookie's voice calls out to me at the same time, the ring begins to shake and we hear loud bangs everywhere.

All of a sudden there's screams and cries of terror, the scent of faery permeating the air.

I look over at Marius briefly, who was on the other side of the ring and who was also trying to comprehend what was happening.

I then turn my attention to where Sookie was sitting. I catch of glimpse of Adam grabbing her and in less than a second, they were both gone.

I rush up there in vampire speed to find Pam on the floor, being attacked by a faery. My fangs which were already elongated, pierce the flesh of its skin as I suck the faery dry. My vampire instincts take over as I drink its blood, but something inside begins to stir. It was my bond with Sookie reminding me that she had been taken. It soon overtakes my vampire instincts for faery blood as I begin to come to my senses.

"Sookie," I call out in a raspy voice.

"Where is she?" I call out to Pam, who still on the floor, trying to mend her wounds.

"I don't know, she was there. I was attacked by that vicious piece of shit that you just drained. Find her," she says in anguish. "Son of a bitch, these were my new Louboutins."

I look around, and see some vampires injured, some were drinking the blood of the faeries that had been caught, some were even draining the blood of the humans who were in attendance, the vampires were in the midst of a bloodlust.

"Adam….." I growl. That fucker betrayed me and kidnapped my woman! I begin to fill with rage.

"Marten, focus," Marius commands me through our bond.

Suddenly, my rage begins to simmer.

"Focus on your bond with your wife," Marius says.

I do what he says and close my eyes. I still sense her lifeforce but it was far away. I couldn't pinpoint the exact location as to where they might have taken her, but one thing I knew, she was still in this world, for now.

I race in vampire speed to my private office and punch in the code on the wall to one of my weapons room that I had in various locations. I always prepared myself for battle. I knew just what I needed; iron swords, daggers, and lemon juice. I also put on my black tank top, leather coat, and boots. I was going to hunt them down and kill every last one of those faery fucks who took my wife.

"I will help you, if you will permit it," Marius says to me as he stands by the door.

I knew I needed his help. If there was anyone I was going to bring to help fight malicious faeries, it would be him. There was no one else on this planet who was adept enough.

I nod to him and watch him take a sword and a few daggers and attach them to his body and clothes.

"They took her northeast, I think," I say to him, still trying to connect to Sookie, but there was nothing. She must be unconscious.

"I will take flight," Marius says to me.

"Promise me you will save her if you get to her first," I ask him.

He nods and leaves the room quickly.

Fuck….. it was times like this that I wished that I had the ability to fly.

I begin running in vampire speed towards the general direction Sookie was in. I could only hope the closer that I got to her, the better I was able to find her exact location.

I was running for about an hour, when finally, I could feel Sookie reaching out to me through our bond. I stop so that I could focus on her. She was alright for the moment, but was scared and feared for her life. She was also feeling physically ill. From what, I wasn't entirely sure. From our connection, I am finally able pinpoint her location. She was about an hour from me. Maybe a half hour from Marius, who was still flying, but was now on a different course, flying away from her. I try to keep my connection to Sookie and connect with Marius at the same time. But suddenly, I lose Sookie again.

Oh shit! I think frantically.

I call out to Marius and tell him where Sookie was. He adjusts his course and begins flying towards her.

I begin running again, hoping that we weren't going to be too late.

Sookie's POV:

"Sookie…. Sookie my love…." A familiar voice calls out to me softly. I could feel one hand on my arm and the other one on my stomach.

Oh no my baby, I think frantically.

My eyes begin to open as I feel a dull ache on my shoulder where Adam.. or rather Tristan Helmond, bit me. I look up to see Marten leaning down on me as he continues to inspect my injury. I hoped he wouldn't inspect anymore. If Tristan Helmond was telling me the truth that I was pregnant, then I knew Marten would not react so well. I had already done some not-so-great things as a married woman with other men, I could only imagine what his reaction would be if he found out that I was pregnant as well. But how could I be? I only had sex with Marten, at least he was the only one that I could remember. I think briefly to the night that I had no memory of.

"I think I might need a tetanus shot," I whisper as I slowly put my hand against Marten's chest. Instead Marten pierces his wrist and puts it to my mouth to give me some of his blood.

"What happened?" he asks me.

I shudder as I remember everything that water faery had done.

"Adam Woods is a water transformation faery whose real name is Tristan Helmond," I tell Marten. I try to sit up and Marten helps me. I look around to find that I was still on the disgusting bed where he had had plans to have his way with me. I suddenly feel my body and hoped that he didn't do anything to me while I was unconscious.

I begin panicking.

"I do not think he assaulted you sexually, Sookie," a voice says to me.

I look over to my right and see Marius standing across the room. He was swinging his sword around, trying to clean off the faery blood. I look down in front of him to see the bodies of a couple faeries. I look behind Marten to find another one.

"Are you sure?" I croak out.

"Yes," Marius says. "When I arrived, you were unconscious on the bed, when I came through the sky window above you."

I look up to see the glass broken and there were shards of glass on the floor and parts of the bed.

"It looked like he was getting ready to kill you, but I arrived before that could happen. As soon as he saw me, he teleported out of the room," Marius says. "I inspected you to check for damages. You seemed well, aside from the gash on your shoulder where the fangs of the faery in question had pierced your skin deeply. I put a piece of cloth on the wound to help stop the bleeding. A few minutes after, these three faeries came into the room. It was during that battle that Marten arrived and killed the faery that is beside you."

I hug Marten and begin sniffling, trying to hold back the tears. I was shaking at the thought of what could've happened. I hated that these faeries almost did something horrible to me yet again. I had made a promise to myself years ago that I would never let them win and yet again, they almost won. I knew I only had one option, I needed to kill all of them, to protect myself, and to protect the child that was possibly growing inside me.

Christ, I was going to have to tell Marten, and I had to do it soon. But right now wasn't the time, we had to get out of the danger zone.

"He wanted me to have his babies, or at least babies that had the fae spark," I say in a shaky tone. I look down at my fingers, unable to look at Marten. "He wanted me to bear children for them until they decided that I was no longer needed and then they would kill me. Any child that I would give birth to that didn't have the spark would be slaughtered."

I could feel Marten's body tense up. I finally look into his eyes, no longer were his warm and loving blue eyes, but were now dark, filled with rage, a rage that I had never seen on his face before.

"I will kill them all," he seethes. "Noone will ever touch you!"

"There are still faeries in this compound," Marius says. "They know we are here and are readying themselves."

"Marten, we need to get out of here first," I say to him.

His eyes soon turn normal again, his body less tense.

I look down and saw that I was still wearing the shear gown, practically naked. I immediately cover up my breasts.

Right away, Marten takes off his leather jacket and puts it over my shoulders, hissing at Marius.

Oh god, he was turning into the possessive vampire again.

I look around to see if there was anything for me to wear.

"You can wear my clothes," Marten says as he takes off his black tank top. He also begins taking off his pants and underwear.

"I'll just wear your underwear and top," I grin a little.

He gives me a quick peck on the lips as we get ready quickly.

"I need a weapon," I say to Marten.

He gives me a sword.

I hadn't been practicing my skills lately, I curse myself for that, so I quickly fling my sword around to practice a little. I was a tad rusty, but I knew I could defend myself still.

"Stay behind me," Marten says solemnly.

I nod my head.

We make our way out of the room and into the corridor. Right away I could sense multiple faeries inside the large mansion.

One, two, three, four….. I think as I count the number of faeries inside my head.

I tap Marten on the shoulder and let him there were at least 11 of them. Right away he lets Marius know as he was the one leading us through.

Sure enough, we are attacked by a group of armed faeries.

In vampire speed, Marten and Marius begin killing them. Suddenly, two pop up from behind us and I begin swinging my sword at them, letting my faery power flow out to help provide me with the necessary strength and agility to fight them.

"Arghh!" I yell, as I take a swing at the last one, slicing through the faery's chest. The faery starts disintegrating.

"Come on," Marten says to me as we make our way out.

"I'll take care of the rest of them, take Sookie and find a safe zone," Marius says to Marten. He takes to the air and begins snatching faeries, who had been hiding in the trees. He kills them and throws their bodies. We watch as suddenly the rest of the ones on the ground burst into flames.

Marten tells me to jump on his back as he takes me out of the compound in vampire speed. I don't know how long he runs with me on his back, but he stops in front of a building, in what looked like a small town.

"We are in Vermont," he whispers to me. "I think Marius may have a safehouse nearby."

He places me on the ground. My legs were wobbly and I almost fall to the ground, but he holds me up.

"Are you okay?" he asks me.

"I'm okay, just a little nauseous," I say as I wipe my dry mouth. I wasn't completely sure if this feeling was being caused due to pregnancy symptoms or from the trip. I figured it could be both.

"Your head is probably spinning a little," Marten chuckles lightly, trying to help lighten the mood.

We hug again.

"Oh god, Sookie, I'm so glad you're alright, I don't know what I would've done if they hurt you," Marten says softly against my hair. "I'm so sorry, I should've been more protective of you and our life. I should have never let that thing inside our inner circle."

"It's okay, Marten," I say to him as I lean my cheek against his chest. "You weren't the only one duped by him. Well, I wasn't though, but I should've tried harder to expose him for what he was."

"We both made mistakes," he says.

"Yes," I say as the feeling of anxiety starts building up again. I still needed to tell him about what Tristan Helmond had said to me, that I was pregnant. I wasn't even sure. But then I knew the truth, I was pregnant. I could feel a strange, but wonderful feeling inside me, it was wondrous and….. something else. But of course, I was still confused and frightened about how I could be pregnant. From Tristan Helmond's reaction, it was obvious that it wasn't him. If he had had his way with me that night that I couldn't recall my memories, then maybe it was someone else or it happened on a different occasion…. Either way, I had no idea who the father was, but more importantly, what Marten's reaction was going to be.

I had to tell him as soon as we were safe.

I look at the sky, it would be dawn soon.

Suddenly, Marius lands in front of us.

"You still have a place to rest here?" Marten asks him as he holds onto me more tightly.

"Yes, it's about ten minutes away from here. An underground room," Marius tell us, "I will get some provisions for Sookie, while you take her there."

A little while later, we were safely underground in what looked like one of those nuclear bomb shelters. It was a bit dusty, outdated, and cold. I could tell that Marius hadn't been in this shelter for awhile.

"You can rest on the cot," Marius says to Marten and I as he tosses a plastic clear bag with a sheet, blanket and pillow in it to Marten who catches it.

I take it from him and begin making the bed on the cot. It was small, but adequate for us to rest for the day.

"I got you some water and other foods, along with a medical kit," Marius says to me. "I also found some clothing for you, I think we need to wash before we rest for the day."

I look down at myself and the two of them. We were all covered in the blood and other parts of the faeries we had just killed. I could tell from their eyes, they were both fighting their vampire urges internally. Marius' eyes were glossy, it was probably his age and experience that was keeping him from falling into a vampire bloodlust. Faery blood drove vampires into madness and not to mention getting them really sexually aroused.

"I added plumbing to this underground shelter about twenty years ago. There is a shower in the small room in the back, let me know if the water doesn't work," Marius says to us.

I walk to the back and grab a few towels along the way with Marten. He closes the door and we strip off our clothes.

Right away, he is on me, as he lifts me up.

"Marten," I say gently. "I don't know if I want to do this, at least not right now."

"I need you," he coarsely says.

"I know, believe me I feel it," I say to him. "But after what happened and the fact of where we are right now, it's not a good idea."

I was also still pondering about my possibly pregnancy, which I still needed to tell him. I don't know if right now was a good time to tell him, especially when we weren't alone in this small space. Was I really going to tell Marten that I was pregnant with Marius here?

"Okay," he grits through his teeth as he wills his erection down. "I can wait till we get home."

I give him a quick peck on his lips and we wash our bodies thoroughly. I put on a tshirt and shorts that were slightly too small for me and Marten puts on a t-shirt and pants that Marius had stored here.

After we are cleaned up, Marius goes into the bathroom to wash up as well. I pick up our soiled clothes and put them in a garbage bag.

"Dawn is almost near," Marten says as he wraps his arms around my waist from behind. "You sure you don't need to use the bathroom?"

"There's no toilet in here," I smile.

"No, but I'm sure there's a bucket," he says.

I laugh gently.

"I'm fine," I tell him as I turn to face him. I put my hands behind his neck. "I got water and some snacks. I'm so tired that I'll probably sleep the day away as well."

I put my hands on his cheeks. "Thank you for coming for me. I can't tell you how much I appreciate it."

"I would walk through hell just to get to you," he says to me as he puts his forehead against mine.

I close my eyes, enjoying the closeness with him. I still couldn't believe how much my life had changed in the past few years. Never had I imagined that I could have ever built a new life with another man after Eric died. After losing Eric, I was ready to live the rest of my life alone, waiting to reunite with him in the afterlife, at least that was my hope. Now, here I was, with a different man, a man who loved me deeply, and a man whom I had grown to love as well.

Now I was faced with something new, something I never thought that was possible for me, a child. I couldn't keep this from him any longer, I had to tell him now, telling him later would make the situation much worse than it already was.

I open my mouth, when suddenly I am floored with memories…memories from that night. I suddenly remember tasting that concoction Adam Woods had offered to us. I remember the feelings I was going through, I remember hearing the voices of the other vampires and being weary. I remember Adam having his hands on me and my body bending to his will before I popped out of there.

I bend down a little.

"Sookie?" Marten asks me. "Are you remembering what happened that night too?"

"Yes," I gasp. "I'm guessing the spell Amelia did, worked. I asked her to help me remember what happened that night, because I was afraid…. I was afraid of what might've happened."

"I remember feeling disoriented. Adam told me to go rest for the day. I wanted to look for you first though, but he said to go. And for some reason, I obeyed him. Do you think it was the drink he gave us?" he says.

"I think so," I say. "Whatever was in it, effected all of us. I remember going outside to the balcony because I didn't like how I was feeling, Adam was there and he had his hands on me. He told me to come with him. I managed to stop myself, but I could feel my body wanting to submit to him. That's when I used my fae power to teleport out of there."

"He would've done something to you that night," Marten says angrily.

I nod my head in sadness.

"Fuck! How could I have been so stupid!" Marten yells out loud angrily.

"Honey, honey," I say gently. "It wasn't your fault."

I hold his hands and try to ease him. "It didn't get that far. Let's just be thankful for that."

I look at our adjoined hands and remember again…. I had to tell him now, but I needed the strength. A single tear falls from my eye.

"I have to tell you something," I say quietly.

"Sookie?" he says worriedly.

"I need you to listen to me," I say. "Please."

He nods his head. I run my fingers through my hair and take some deep breaths.

"Please Sookie, you're alarming me," he says.

Just as I'm about to say it, Marius comes out of the room.

"Give us a minute!" Marten yells.

Right away he goes back into the room and closes the door. I knew he would be able to hear what I was going to say, vampires had good hearing.

I take some more deep breaths. "Adam, or rather Triston Helmond, told me something, right before he was going to … you know….." I say, I couldn't say it out loud. "Anyway, after he tasted my blood from the wound on my shoulder, he backed away from me and got mad, because…."

I couldn't say it.

"What?" Marten asks in a worrisome tone.

"He said I was already with child. He basically said I was already pregnant," I say quickly.

I was met with silence. A long, eerie, tension-filled silence.

"How?" Marten finally says, his voice full of emotion.

"I don't know!" I cry out.

"Who is the father?" he says to me as he gets closer to me, he begins sniffing me, as though he was sniffing for the scent of another man on me.

"Marten, I…. don't know…" I say to him. "It wasn't him, that's what I know for sure. It wasn't him. I've only been with you."

He bends down and presses his ear against my stomach. I stand still as he does. He does this for a minute or so before looking up at me with a mixture of sadness, fear, confusion, and anger.

"I hear a faint heartbeart," he says in almost a whisper. "It's so quiet, like it's brand new."

Red bloody tears start forming in his eyes. "Are you sure you don't know how this happened?"

I cry as well. "I don't know Marten, I swear you are the only one that I've been with."

He stands up and holds me. I cry as I hold onto him.

"We will figure this out together," he says.

I hold onto him tighter and shed more tears.

"Sookie is pregnant," Marten says.

I open my eyes to see Marius standing there, shocked.

"You do not know who the father is?" he asks me.

I shake my head.

"There is a way to know," he says.

"How?" I whisper.

"The taste of your blood. You and your child are one as it grows inside your womb. Your child's blood will be flowing with yours as well. The child has the blood of not only the mother, but also the father," he says.

"You are not tasting her blood!" Marten says viciously as he stands in front of me, ready to attack Marius.

"I would not drink from her," Marius says. "Pour some into a cup, just a tiny bit is all I need."

"What would you be looking for?" I ask.

He looks at the both of us. "I would be looking for yours, Marten. You are my son. I know how your blood tastes."

"You honestly don't think I could have fathered her child!" Marten spats out.

I look at him with shock and hurt. Granted, I understood his anger, but it still hurt nonetheless.

"I… I would think you would want to look at all the possibilities. Yes, it is impossible for our kind to procreate, but not entirely impossible, if it was meant to happen. Sookie is part faery and you…. are as well," Marius says.

We both look at him as though he had grown a second head.

"When I had met you, I did not know your lineage. There were a lot of faeries running rampant in Denmark during that age when you had been born. That was what faeries would do, they would settle in an area on Earth for a time period, then go back to their own realm. You mother was descended from faeries. Her mother was human and her father was faery, an earth faery I believe."

"How do you know of this and why didn't you tell me?" he says.

"Because… I didn't think it was relevant. Your brief life as a human was filled with turmoil. You had been mistreated by your father, stepmother, and your half-siblings. They hated how special you were, how there was a light that shone around you," he says. "I knew that you were angry at them. I could see it then even when I asked you if you wanted to walk in the shadows eternally. I knew that you just wanted to leave your human life behind."

"What happened to your mother?" I asked Marten. We never really talked about his human life, the only thing he had ever said about it was that it was rough.

"She died giving birth to me, at least that's what everyone told me," he says sadly. "I never knew her. My father didn't keep anything of her after she died."

"Faeries created potions to help with not only their mating, but also the procreation process. If Tristan Helmond's intention was to impregnate you Sookie, then I have no doubt that was what you consumed that night," he says.

"We all drank it," I say.

"Then if you drank it too Marten, then maybe, somehow, it triggered a reaction in you as well, since you were born with faery blood," he says.

I could hear myself breathing loudly at all of this, all of this new information.

"Did anything different happen, during the times you were intimate with each other?" he asks us.

"Uhhh…" I stammer embarrassingly, feeling my face turn red. I hated talking out loud about sex, more so with these two men. "A couple days ago when we… were intimate, a bright light just came out of nowhere, it was around us for a brief moment. It felt strange, but also…"

"Extraordinary," Marten says as he finishes my sentence. "I'd never felt it before in my life."

"Me neither," I add.

Marten holds my hand and squeezes it gently.

"If you want to know now, then I suggest we do this quickly before the sunsets," Marius says.

I nod my head and look at Marten.

"Okay," he says as he looks at me then at him.

Marten grabs a cup from one of the shelves and comes over to me once again. He lifts up my wrist to his mouth and bites into it as gently as he could. Some of my blood begins dripping into the cup and Marten takes a gulp of some of my blood before closing the wound with his saliva.

"She is definitely pregnant," Marten says as he hands over my blood to Marius. "I can taste it in her blood, the extra pheromones."

I bite my lower lip. At least we knew that part for certain now.

Marten glares at Marius as he brings the cup to his lips and tastes my blood.

He is silent for a moment and closes his eyes while Marten and I stare at him, waiting for the news.

"I taste your faery blood Sookie and….. yours, Marten," Marius says calmly, but I could see the shock on his face. "The child Sookie is carrying is yours."

I hitch my breath, still shocked and overwhelmed. I look up at Marten and could see the barrage of emotions written on his face and through our bond.

"Marten?" I whisper to him. I go to stand in front of him and hug him. He responds by hugging me back.

"I never thought it was possible," he says sounding lost. "I always wanted to become a vampire maker, since I could never sire children, but had never found the right person to turn. Now, we have created a child together, made from you and me."

"The sun is coming up," Marius says.

I look up at Marten who was looking very sedated. His body was wanting to rest for the day. All of a sudden, I start feeling drowsy as well.

I lead him to the cot and we lay down on the small bed, facing each other.

"It will be alright," I whisper to him before he closes his eyes for the final time.

"It will be alright," I whisper to myself. But would it be? Was this going to work? How would we explain to the world that I was pregnant and it was his, my husband's child? I suddenly begin fearing the safety of my child. Would he/she inherit the curse of my telepathy? Would they have vampire traits? I had no answers to any of these questions as I let my body fall into a deep slumber.