Inside is a velvet lined and fitted indent holding the book that her grandmother wrote her recipes, notes and thoughts in. "This is the original book. I had replicas made though, one stocked in the library and one I gave to Lafayette. You can keep this one somewhere safe, and it will remain preserved this way as the box is specially designed to store documents, while I can have as many replicas printed as you like." The box is closed and on the table a second later, her arms thrown around my neck and her lips pushing against mine. My arms lock around her back subconsciously, and I pull her off the floor as I lift her up to my full height while still kissing her.

She giggles, holding herself up just as much as I'm supporting her, and she gives me a thoughtful look when she pulls back. "I don't regret anything, just so you know."

A lightness enters my chest, and I growl softly as I kiss her again, my fangs down and cutting her lip before I even realize it. "One would think that a thousand year old vampire would have better control over himself." She teases when she pulls back, her finger tracing down the point of my fang, making my eyes roll back and a deep purr fill the room from my chest.

There's no such thing as control when you are around. I think the words towards her, unable to say them as she kisses down my throat and scrapes her own fangs against my skin. Her light emotions in the bond are enticing, making me want to bask in her presence endlessly as I simply enjoy being here with her in the moment. The bite she delivers if nothing if not careful, her mouth working the flesh perfectly as she pulls on the blood. I groan, and once again, this is something that I have not had before. Bites I'd received from other vampires tended to be rough, harsh or sudden with Godric and Pam being the exception as I usually bite myself for them to drink when it is necessary. However it's almost as though Sookie is truly trying to give me nothing but enjoyment from it which is probably exactly what she's doing, and as I've found with many things that are different about her, I like it.

She gives me a look after she cleans the bite she made, and kisses my jaw as she relaxes against my chest, snapping her fingers by my ear to create a small fire in the fireplace. I had made a point of asking Lafayette to replace the logs if he seen that it was need, and it looked like he had done so. "You are very caring." I muse in her ear, feeling the question from her. "It is unusual for me, to be treated so gently… I quite liked it."

She presses her lips to my chest, barely moving where she lays, and I hold my arms around her. "I'll have to tell Pam you want to be coddled." Her joke is softly spoken a minute later.

"I doubt she would believe you. Or she will be wise enough to know that I only enjoy that sort of attention from you." I tell her, running my fingers up her arm before I plant a kiss to her. "You are quite special, fairy princess." The emotions that were previously so light have suddenly soured slightly, and I chuckle. "It is what you are. No denying it. You are also now the bonded child of a powerful Sheriff, would you deny that?" She shakes her head slightly, and looks up at me, resting her chin below my collar bone.

"You belong to a fairy princess. Can I announce that at the Winter Gathering?" She grins widely when I just stare at her, and she puts her hands down to the fabric to leverage herself up, giving me a kiss and standing to pull me up with her. "We have our tickets I assume?"

"We leave tomorrow, and the following night is the start of the ball at two hours past sunset. I have booked the honeymoon suite in a vampire oriented hotel which is just on the opposite corner from the venue. Godric was quite pleased when he learned of it from Russel Edgington." She nods, pulling out her cell phone, and searching for something. "What?" I ask, and she looks at me curiously.

"I don't have any luggage." Nearly hitting myself for forgetting something so trivial, she tells me she will have it ordered with expedited shipping to arrive at Fangtasia during the next day while the were guards are on duty to receive it.

"I'll have them leave it in the office." I say, sending a quick text to Alcide, and Lafayette is suddenly appearing from the direction of the kitchen.

"Sooks, you's dinners ready." He's got a bright look on his face, and I wonder what there is for her to try this time.

When we get in the other room, she sits down to a cut of what I recognize as salmon, along with lots of sides and rolls. A plate of desert sweets is sitting on the counter. "That is something I can remember from being human." I say, thinking all of the way back. "There were several different kinds that our fisherman brought back, but they all tasted very similar."

"Well I can guarantee you as surely as Arlene is gon' get married a few more times that you never ate nothin' cooked by Laf." He sasses, and I raise an eyebrow at him, before ignoring it and giving my child a kiss on the cheek and taking off to my office. I file through some paperwork, and for probably the hundredth time go over that everything is set up perfectly for our absence during the ball.

We're on a plane the next night, first class commercial since the private jet needed work done. A glass of royalty blend is set before us without a word, and Sookie eyes it. "Try it." I encourage her, and I smile as she does so and realizes that it is not regular bottled blood. Grinning widely, she finishes it off before she picks up the book she had been reading. It is one that Niall brought her, only able to be read by her, and she does so silently as she occasionally takes looks outside the window. "Did he ever explain how that works?" I ask, and she nods, knowing what I'm talking since I feel that she plucked it from my thoughts.

She sends me the memory, something she has been doing more frequently when we're in company, and I smile slightly. Niall had told her that the words were written in clear ink, enchanted so that only fae could see the writing changed to whichever color the author desired. I'm surprised at the simplicity of it, and admire the blank pages as I think of the business opportunity it could be, should the ink be altered for use by vampires. Sending her the question, she mulls it over, before deciding to reach into her bag and switch books. Its several page turns before she's opening her minds eye to me, and she shows me what she is seeing right in front of her. It should work, since this says that it's pretty simple to do it. Her thought process is clear as I read the page through her in a second, agreeing.

"Maybe when we get into our hotel room…" She murmurs, and I nod, sending an email over the planes Wi-Fi for Pam to have clear ink delivered to my room.

Is it legal for makers to sell their children for sex with other people?

"A child usually belongs to their maker, but that is sort of a grey area in our laws." I tell her too quiet for a human to hear, satisfied that we're the only vampires present as the scent of any others would have reached me by now. Her eyes meet mine as she feels me arch an eyebrow, and she frowns, mentally pointing me to the man in the window seat one aisle ahead and across from us.

He wants to have a night with me, and heard a rumor about makers doing that, but he's too scared to talk to you.

"Good." I growl quietly, my arm resting across her shoulder as she grins and turns her attention back to the book.

The remainder of our short flight is uneventful, our exiting the plane being before anyone else as we use our speed to get to the baggage claim an instant later. I was happy when I found that she can keep up with me without much effort.

The suitcase and dress bag come out for her a minute later and my bag comes up a short moment later before we go to find the limo that Pam had arranged to take us to the hotel. A mini bar inside is stocked with things for both vampires and humans, and she picks up a bottle before looking at me with a grin. "Do you think I can still get drunk? I mean I can eat human stuff right?"

Shaking my head, she looks disappointed for a second before becoming indifferent and setting it back down. "Your vampire metabolism will process it too quickly for the alcohol to affect you." I explain, and she nods, looking out the window as we start driving through the city.

Our hotel is discreetly set between two others easily mistaken for part of either of them as the entrance is in the rear and most humans never notice it as it's not visible from the street. A bellboy takes our bags ahead of us, and she stays against my side as I lead her into the bar, ignoring the curious looks that I receive from several of the vampires wandering around. I order a bottle of royalty blend for each of us, and direct her to sit with me in a nearby booth. She doesn't mind it a bit, drinking swiftly as I do the same, and I am setting out empty containers on the bar counter when I see that another vampire has taken to approaching Sookie. I'm behind her in a second, staring at him in my seat as I put my hands on her shoulders, and she relaxes under my touch. Her thoughts convey that he had taken a seat when she was looking down at her phone, and had immediately asked if she would be interested in spending the night with him while she remained silent until I appeared.

I can see the verbal lashing she wanted to give him, and I'm impressed as she bites her tongue, deferring to me as would be customary with her age. "My child wants nothing to do with you. Leave." He gives me a scathing look before glancing back at her as she turns away from him and stands into my side with my arm around her waist.

"You didn't even ask her." His grin is ridiculous, and I look down at her, tipping her chin up to face her fully.

"Are you interested in this vampire?" The disgust alone from her makes me smirk, and she shakes her head, pulling her phone out as she starts ignoring him.

"As you can see, she is not interested." There's a strange way his nose keeps twitching, and I feel for his age which is somewhere around Pam's.

Turning away, I make it clear that he is beneath me as we head out the door, and I tell the bartender to put the drinks on my room tab. The things I requested from the hotel are waiting on a table in front of the TV, and our suitcases are setting on luggage racks attached to the wall.

A few hours later, after several attempts at it, she finally figures out how to make the ink just right and when Godric shows up he is very interested as we show him how it works. We end up going back down to the bar, where he wants to introduce her to several of his allies from Europe. Their eyes are on us as soon as we walk through the doorway, and my arm clenches around her shoulders as they examine her.

"Marcus, this is my bonded child, Sookie." I say as he approaches. His short black hair, young face and lean frame make him appear more like a human than an ancient vampire of fourteen hundred. He bows, and holding his hand out, she takes it after a second of hesitation for him to kiss the back and release her instantly.

"A pleasure to meet the beauty that finally tamed the Viking." The remark is well worded as he folds his arms behind his back, and Sookie gives him a surprised smile, instantly starting to like the usually serious man. "News doesn't travel very fast overseas to our nests, so Godric had only just told us that you were bonded and had made her your newest child. Forgive me, but I know nothing about you but your first name."

"I'm Sookie Brigant Northman." She says, her full chosen name seeming to catch him off guard as he gives her an evaluating look, smoothing his hand over his smooth light grey suit. "Grandpa Niall couldn't be here tonight, sorry." She says brightly, as though it's nothing, and I can't help my smirk as several vampires nearby Godric fall silent and stare at her.

"You are related to that trickster man?" He grins, looking up at me quickly. "Her scent would almost make me jealous, but her being any relation to Niall, I'm sure you have your hands full so good luck." Seeing someone that catches his eye, he excuses himself and Godric walks up with a small woman. She's even shorter than Sookie, dressed in an elegant beautiful kimono and followed by two large stoic men in suits. One is also Asian while the other looks like he is German.

"I am Torin." She says, bowing to Sookie slightly, and looking up at me. "Would it be permissible to you, I would like to spend time speaking with your child if you are not busy in half an hour."

There is something about her… I like her. She gives off the feeling like what I'd imagine an older sister would feel like. I want to see what she has to say. Sookie suddenly projects to me mentally, and I nod to the young Asian woman, who then goes off to get a drink with her two body guards following her. If her instinct is telling her to trust the woman, then we will follow it, as that was the same way Marcus had become an ally of mine a long time ago.

"What is this, Northman?" Sookie jumps slightly when a male vampire in a long black coat appears behind her speaking Swedish. He continues, walking around to stand before us, and I translate everything he says for Sookie mentally. "Not even a letter to tell me that you had bonded, let along turned her? I sent you an official announcement when I did it myself and you sent me a priceless antique sword, now I want to be able to return the favor. May I?" I nod, and he turns his attention to the woman at my side. "If you ever need a break from this one, you can always take a guest room in my home, as my Brenda would love to meet you. Sadly she had to stay home as she had business to attend to, but you are welcome with us anytime." He looks back to me. "I suppose you could come as well, and I'm sure you know my homes location."

I chuckle, clasping my hand in his. "Dear one, this is Aldo." She smiles, seeing the trust I have for him, and feels slightly mischievous as she goes with the light atmosphere.

"I could always have Pam spirit me away for some shopping and we could visit you for a night or two." She giggles a little as she feels accomplished to get the Swedish right, and he looks a little crazy as he grins widely.

"Oh I do like you, you'll do quite well to keep him in toe." He says to her, looking at me with a fangy laugh and clapping me on the shoulder in a friendly manner. "Be sure to come see me again soon."

We go through several more introductions, and all of mine and Godric's comrades seem to be simply charmed by her. Torin approaches the three of us a while later, and we follow with her guards behind us all as we go the elevator and end up on the top floor. "I asked for the garden top floor to be mine for the night." She explains, and we follow her down the short hallway passing a hotel security guard to get to the rooftop door.

It's clear in the bond that Sookie is surprised when we get outside, and sees the elegant garden that has been grown to perfection at the top of the building. Small tables with chairs are scattered around the pathways between the flower beds, bushes and small ponds. "What would you like to talk about?" Sookie asks in a friendly manner, and Torin smiles warmly, looking towards the door as one of the body guards locks the door. A second later a pop sounds through the air, and Niall appears with someone standing behind him.

"There is someone we would like you to meet." He says, and the small figure steps out from behind him. Torin stands beside her, and I feel Sookie's shock matching my own. As long as I'd known her, I had never known that she had a sibling, not even that she was familiar with Niall.

She's just like me. Sookie says to me in a soft mental voice, stepping forward, and she seems to be communicating with the girl as Taron stands next to her sister. They are identical twins, their kimono's done in the same pattern but different color schemes. Godric seems to understand everything as he scents the air and looks at me through the maker bond. "I'm really glad to meet you Tarin." Sookie says a silent minute later, confirming what I had observed through our bond, and I can feel awe prevalent throughout her.

"We were turned by the same man, and he was killed by Niall the night after we were turned as he intended to sell us to fund a twisted war he was stirring amongst the humans." Torin tells me, and Sookie is suddenly funneling me images and scenes as the story is told to me by Tarin in detail through her.

"Sookie, the series of ten books I gave you are the compilation of my notes from the time I spent training and guiding them." One of the guards moves over without a word, taking Tarin's hand in his and pulling her against his chest. He gives me a smile, a new look on his face as he glances down at the vampire next to him. "Tarin is the only one who has the spark, and she met Gregory when we were in Frankfurt, Germany one night when the twins were only about fifty. He was two hundred, and he was enthralled with her, which she felt the same. We ended up renting a house and spending several months there while she got to know him better and finally used her spark to make a bond with him so that he could come back to faerie with us." Niall informs us, and Torin gives us a bright smile while the other man who is Torin's real guard stays by the door.

"We now live in a house in a remote part of China, far from any civilization, and only a very small number of people know the truth about my sister. Something about being turned on the same night, or being fae lineage twins, makes it so that I can hear her thoughts and respond to her. We have a sort of superficial bond, so there are times when she will shield her scent in a way to seem like she's me, and go out with Gregory." Torin tells us, and I'm not surprised as Tarin and Gregory wander off into the garden area to sit close together at one of the tables and lean quietly.

Niall gives Sookie a pointed look, and then does the same to me, "One of the incredible things about these two is that they are in communication at all times as long as they are on the same plane. No matter where on Earth either of them is, they can communicate as though they were in the same room. It's the same if they are both in fearie."

"We would like to be friends with you." Torin says, stepping closer to Sookie and handing her a plain business card. "Our address is on one side in case you would ever want to visit us, and I put all of our phone numbers on the other side. I do believe tonight's event is starting soon?" She says the last part looking at Godric.

"Wait, so if Jason were turned?" Sookie asks Niall, and he looks at her surprised.

"Jason does not have the spark, but he does seem to have an alluring nature with women, and that could hint at having a fae quality to his blood. Should he be turned, he could be just like Torin, sharing a bond with you unless that is solely an identical twin thing." She shivers, and I feel it as she thinks over the prospect of that possibility.

"Well if Jason ever meets a vampire he likes, I just hope he doesn't mind being blocked out constantly." She says, and I grin along with Niall as Godric checks his watch. Giving Sookie a conspiratorial look and beaming me a grin before turning back to her, I barely notice as Tarin and Gregory are suddenly gone. "We will be having a charity auction which starts soon, and Sookie, I wonder if you would come help me with a few things." Niall disappears without a word, and Torin walks with me when Sookie goes off with Godric as the elevator opens into the ground floor.

"I believe that you and Gregory would have a few things in common." She tells me, before turning and walking away down a hallway. I go to the large ball room which sits across the street, and take a table that I find reserved for me at the front of the room just in front of the stage.

She says suddenly as my maker walks out on stage and steps up to a microphone, white gloves on his hands as he's changed into a tailored suit. The room is full of older vampires and their companions, all of whom will be present during the ball tomorrow night.

"Thank you all for attending this charity auction, in which almost all of the pieces have been donated by someone present and appraised by someone approved by the AVL and authority. The charities that we are sponsoring with this event are listed on a card in the center of your tables." The bright lights in the room are turned off, and the lights turned toward the stage are dimmed slightly. "We are going to start things off a little differently this year, and I am going to personally be overseeing the first item up for bid." He turns around towards the back of the stage, and the curtain parts for a moment as Sookie comes out, her body hidden as she pushes a wheeled cart with a sheet over whatever is on top of it to the front of the stage. There are stares of interest on her the second she stands to reveal herself next to Godric, and her eyes lock with mine as she strokes the bond. The dress she is wearing is in a shimmering blue material, cut strategically up one of her legs and hugging every curve of her body. A neckline that can only be described as modest while still somehow being extremely enticing pulls my attention down, and I realize the material is slightly sheer over her arms and midriff. Something about the way it shimmers against her, and the way she's feeling in the bond as I stare at her hungrily makes me want to shred it from.

"I am Sookie Brigant Northman." She announces, and I notice the way she fidgets with the shoulder strap of her dress. "My grandfather, Niall, decided that he wanted to contribute to the auction as a show of good faith to the elder vampire community. For our donation, we have three bottles of pure fairy blood to be sold to the three highest bidders." A stillness goes through the room, and all eyes are on the shiny steel cart that she had pushed out as she goes over and reaches for the sheet. Pulling it off, we see a crate sitting on its side with three dark wine bottles inside, all of them looking black and nestled into a layer of shredded white paper. "These bottles are all enchanted to contain the scent, and preserve the blood within until the cork is popped. I would also like to remind the vampires that this fae blood will most definitely make you feel high, it will not provide you protection from sunlight, and you should use it in a place you feel safe. Would you like to start the bidding?" She asks, turning her head to Godric as he smiles.

It quickly goes up, the numbers reaching quite a few million before a sixty second mark is called and it comes to an end. The three vampires who won come up to the stage, Aldo one of them, and Godric quickly hands each of them a ticket. "For safety reasons, I will not release your prizes to you until after the end of the ball tomorrow night." They are all understanding, and Aldo is kind enough to give Sookie a hand off stage while she's in tall heels before she moves to sit at the table with me.

Godric has a man to run the auction come out on stage as Sookie shifts her chair closer to me until there's no space between us. If you recall when we gave Pam that bracelet from the jewelry store, I handed her a note to get me something, and it was this dress. I seen it when we were in Dallas and thought you might like it. Do you? Her question is nothing but a tease as we both know that she felt my reaction through the bond when I first seen it.

Looking down at her in the seat next to me, I put my arms around her and hold her against my chest as I rumble silently. Ask me that later when it is in pieces. She shivers, and Godric sits at our table suddenly a moment later while the auctioneer fully takes over. Forcing my attention onto the event, we sit with my arms caged around her as things start being brought out and bid upon. Using the bond, I see her reactions, and bid on several things she likes that I will put in my home office. "You better quit." She says, despite the grin on her face and Godric gives me a curious look.

"Just because I can tell you like the things I'm buying doesn't mean anything. I'm simply trying to redecorate my office." I counter with a sly grin, and Godric catches on as he turns back to the auction with a minute smile on his face.

The proceedings are drawn out more than they need to be, and at the end I ask Godric to have my items sent to my home before I take Sookie back to our room. Sunrise comes a few hours later, and we stay awake for a little while before finally going to our day rest together, scraps of blue fabric strewn across the room.

When I rise I am pleased to find that she is next to me, as has been how I've woken every evening since I turned her, and I wonder if I'll ever get tired of this feeling first thing each night. Probably not, I decide as I place my lips tenderly to her temple and stroke her in the bond. She stretches in my arms, arching against me and purring as I growl against her. Her waking is slow, unlike the usual vampire who rises as I do in an instant, and Niall had said it was likely due to her being more fae than Torin and Tarin.

"I would like to stay this way forever." She murmurs against my lips after I've captured them, and I smile, lifting her up to sit atop me.

"Then I shall keep you here forever." Fully awake now, she gives me a suggestive look and rubs over me suggestively as I lean up to grip her hips and kiss her again.

A knock on the suite door is Godric, and I can tell that Sookie is lost to her urges as she doesn't even notice it. Her fangs are dragging against my neck a minute later as I stand with her legs wrapped around me and my arm across my back. She isn't even jostled as I open the bedroom door and then the suite door, making me a little grateful that Sookie insists we sleep dressed when away from home as Godric steps in and secures it behind him.

As of late she doesn't get nervous around him at all, and he has been keeping her company off of the stage while we were at Fangtasia. Usually he would tell her stories of when we were younger, and she had quickly started picking up Swedish when he switched to only telling her stores in the other language. Her knack for memorization seemed to progress, and she continued to learn as much as she could whenever we weren't busy.

"Are you ready to go yet, little one?" After a moment she gives one last hard pull making my eyes roll back for a second as she releases and licks over the marks tenderly. Kissing me on the cheek, she jumps down from my hold, and bounces on her step as she looks at Godric.

"Let me grab my things." She is in the bedroom and back a second later, holding her bathroom bag and the dress bag that holds the mystery gown her and Pam had been unwilling to let me see. "I'll see you soon sweetie." Her mood is light and full of anticipation as she stands on her tiptoes and goes with Godric out the door to his room so that she can get ready. I had just laughed when she had insisted on getting ready in the next room, as she had been certain her dress wouldn't last to see the ball, making me want to see it even more. The temptation had been present to sneak a peek on the previous night, but I had ultimately decided against doing so.

It takes me barely half an hour to get ready, and I am milling around in the ball room across the street as I feel Godric approaching with her. There seems to be a whisper running through the crowd, and I'm shocked when I see that they are all talking about the goddess that just walked in the door on my makers arm. Her hair is done up in such a way that I'm sure Thalia must have arrived without notifying me and helped her, her makeup perfect as her face looks natural but not completely at the same time. Her dress is long and black, skin tight with a deep neckline and a slit going up to just above the knee of each leg. She is wearing black sheer pantyhose and she eyes me as soon as she finds me in the crowd. Her amusement in the bond is clear as she finds that she was right, my intention for the dress clear as my hand clenches.

My mind wanders as I take stock of each vampire who seems interested, many of them not taking their eyes off her. I growl, and I feel her frown as a vampire only a couple of hundred years older than me steps into her path. Her arm slides over my back, having teleported to stand beside me, and the looks I receive are scathing as she wraps herself around me. "My bonded." I breathe against her neck, kissing her shoulder as my hand balls up the elastic fabric on her side. "You were right about the dress." The grin on my face seems to inspire her own, and she pecks my jaw as I lean back.

"I picked it out just for you to tear it up." The joke seems to catch several vampires, and I hear a few sniggers when a vampire comes up behind her, causing her to growl against my chest as she turns to face them. Godric appears behind her, and it says something when she doesn't even react to his appearance. "Little one, I'm sure that Sven meant nothing by his approach." His hand sits on her shoulder, and she quiets down, suddenly giving the other vampire a bright smile.

"Can I help you with something?" He seems almost taken aback by her flip, but I can feel that it's just her own mask as she is still seething within. She doesn't like him, no doubt about that, and Godric feels it as he plays the peace keeper.

"I had wondered if such an enticing creature is bound to anyone, but I see that I have my answer. Should you ever tire of the Viking, please consider my company to be yours." There is nothing but honey dripping from his words, and Sookie's arm clenches around me as he slinks away to bother someone else.

"Do not hesitate to defend yourself here." Godric whispers just behind her, and she nods almost unnoticeably. "You will be supported by many, as all of those you enthralled yesterday are here as well." I look across the room where he is looking, and see Torin with her bodyguard standing in the corner. She meets my eye for only a second before moving on, but it tells me a lot.