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Eric POV

I craved her. She was all over the room, it was intoxicating. She had my blood, and I could feel the pull of it, if only slightly. "Sookie." I breathed. She had renounced Compton's claim, and she was ripe for the taking. I wanted her. I circled her slowly, taking in every inch of her radiance. Once I was behind her sweet little body, my fangs clicked. Sookie gasped, and the noise had me inches away from her succulent skin.

"Eric!" Godric's tone warned me to behave, but I could only think of the sweet beat of her heart, and the lovely flow of her blood through her veins.

"Be mine." I whispered in her ear. That seemed to snap her out of her trance like state.

"Eric Northman!" She yelled shrilly. "I only just broke up with Bill, what kind of woman do you think I am?" She hollered. So Southern and sweet, I loved the sound of her drawl. Just the thought of taking her had me rock hard. I could feel my cock jutting this way and that with every step I took towards her. Apparently Sookie noticed too, because the most delightful aroma filled the room.

"Mmm. Delectable. Apparently the kind that loves the site of a tall naked vampire in front of you." I teased.

"Eric!" This time he had zoomed between us. "Leave her be." He said calmly, but firmly. Then he turned to Sookie. I rolled my eyes.

"Sookie, my love, please feel free to relax, I promise, we won't do any thing." He said softly. " I will call for another bed to be brought in." He compromised.

"Another bed?" Sookie questioned. "I don't think another bed will fit in here." She said looking around. I too looked about the room. It was true, the bed took up a great deal of space in the large room, and there was a couch and sitting area, as well as two large vanities. "Maybe I should just go bunk with Jason." She suggested helpfully.

"I believe he is sharing with Isabel." Godric said in an oddly fond manner.

"W-well." She clearly didn't have an answer. "I guess I could sleep on the couch." She said thoughtfully eying the piece of furniture.

"Absolutely not." Godric declared.

"I'll take the couch." I offered. I knew it would be pointless for Godric to offer, and I knew he would. She was just wary of me.

"T-thank you." Sookie said while looking me in the eye. Her beautiful, innocent eyes shone with confusion, and sincerity.

"It'll make Godric happy." I said decisively.

"Godric?" She asked him. I could feel his reluctance. I knew it would make him most happy to have us both with him during slumber, but we both knew this was for the best.

"Thank you Eric." He said a tad sadly. My cock twitched at the fact that he would miss me in his bed.

"Er, well. It's still early. I-I think I'll go check on Jason for a little while. You two might want to order some of that blood." She suggested as she made to leave. I quickly zoomed to block the door. I hadn't even thought about it. I just knew I didn't want her to go.

"I'm sorry." I said on instinct. "It's just that the thought of taking you, with Godric involved, is making me painfully hard, and all I can think about is how... magical you are." There, honesty is the best policy, I'm sure she agrees. Sookie stared at me wide eyed. "It's impossible to just ignore it, you're all over the room, your smell is overwhelming, and my instincts can only be partially controlled."

Sookie took a nervous step back, and it caused a weird feeling to settle in my body. I hardened my features and stood straighter. I walked swiftly towards my suit case, but the motion made Sookie startle. I frowned, but I dressed at vampire speed.

"I'll see you both later, I have to go make a check in call to Pamela." I said formally. I zoomed out the door and down the stairs until I reached the lobby. I approached the front desk with the kind of entitled fashion I used at Fangtasia.

"M-may I h-help you?" A cute little appetizer asked.

"I'll need two bottles of your best blood sent up to the room of Sheriff Godric." I said politely.

"Absolutely." She said a bit breathlessly. "Is there any thing else I can help you with, Sir?"

"What time do you get off?" I asked slyly.

Sookie POV

"I apologize for Eric's behavior. We really do want you to stay with us." Godric said kindly. I nodded mutely. I was still in shock, because Eric's words were very unexpected.

"I-I was just in shock. His words were..." I couldn't really place an adjective.

"Completely inappropriate, I'm sorry." Godric said firmly.

"No." I said, because that wasn't it. Yes, Eric's words were sexual, but they were honest, and kind of sweet. In an Eric sort of way. "They were just surprising."

"He sensed your discomfort." Godric observed.

"He keeps me on my toes, that's for sure." I laughed. Godric looked at me funny, and it made me nervous.

"You're not afraid." He said.

"No, 'course not." I snorted. "Eric has never hurt me before. Didn't I just say earlier how he saved me? More than once, I might add."

"You are a very special creature." Godric said interestedly.

"Not really." I shrugged. "It's not like it's the first time he's mentioned having sex with me, and he didn't have to tell me the details, I did sort of interrupt, didn't I?" I had tried to forget, but there it was. But I couldn't stop, I didn't want him to respond, so I just rambled. "Honestly, I don't know why I was so surprised." I continued hopelessly.

"It's different." Godric interrupted me. Thank goodness. But he didn't stop, and his next words made me blush. "What you saw tonight, and what you've seen before, they're different. When Eric and I join that way, it's love, pure love. Anything else is just him fucking around." He said firmly. Ouch. And to think I'd thought they were so sincere.

"Really?" I said pretending to be only curious, if that. "I guess that makes sense. You two are bonded and all." Why couldn't I stop babbling. Godric didn't say anything, so I kept going, saying the words that were going to push this new thing between us out the door. "You could never get that connection with anyone else." I said passively, like I didn't care. I shouldn't have cared, it's not like we were together, I'd only just broken up with Bill, and Godric was still in a fragile state.

"Actually, I have a daughter, Nora." Godric said fondly. "She's a bit like you, very strong minded. She and Eric bicker constantly when ever they're together." he laughed.

The urge to babble died and all I could say was. "Oh." Godric must have thought it had been an inquisitive oh, because he kept talking.

"Even when I was alive I wanted one of each. I had hoped that Eric would treat her like a little sister, someone to protect and cherish. But perhaps I turned Nora too soon, because Eric only seemed annoyed with her. He hated that she stole attention. Nora was never as needy as Eric, and she went on her own path only a decade after I'd turned her. But Eric always needed someone to appreciate his existence." Godric said teasingly.

"Isn't that the truth." I replied instantly. And even though I was frustrated by my own feelings of neediness, I had to admit it was true. Even though I had been with Bill ever since Eric and I had met, he was still constantly demanding through his actions that I give my attention to him.

"I hope he has matured enough to permit sharing my time." Godric said. The look in his eyes was clear; that time would be shared with me. I blushed and looked at my shoes. Before the silence could become awkward however, a knock sounded on the door. "Enter." Godric addressed who ever was on the other side of the door, but I could still feel his eyes on me.

The door opened slowly, and a nervous bell hop entered with a wheeled cart. Atop the cart sat two bottles of what looked to be red wine, but what all of us knew to be blood.

The bell hop looked at me, and recognition flashed in his eyes. I couldn't remember seeing him, but I heard a passing thought about the hostess from earlier. He glanced quickly to Godric and bowed. "Should I leave the cart, or would you prefer to dine at the coffee table?" He asked politely.

"If you would be so inclined." Godric responded kindly, gesturing to the small glass and metal table in the room.

"Of course." Grabbing a bucket of ice from under the cart, the bellhop set up the blood on the table, uncorking the bottles before bowing once more to Godric and leaving with the cart.

I couldn't help the gulp that came out as I swallowed the lump in my throat. The whole moment seemed charged with tension now. If I had focused on the bellhop, I'm sure he would have been wondering why I wasn't being fed off of. I felt self conscious, because that brought up the obvious. Why wasn't I dinner? I had never asked it of myself, because Bill had never really explained Vampire/Human etiquette, beyond me being his and keeping my mouth shut.

Eric had never fed from me, and though he had hinted at sex and the included blood sucking, he had never tried to feed from me, nor had he ever seriously requested my blood, as far as I knew.

"What is it my love?" Godric asked. His word choice more than his voice startled me, and I looked at him suspiciously.

"How come y'all never try to feed off of me?" I asked bluntly. Even after two thousand years, it seemed Godric could not hide his surprise pertaining to that question.

"What?" He asked, clearly confused.

"How come vampires don't try to get me like other humans?" I asked. I couldn't explain why I was suddenly feeling put out, but I was. Godric was silent for a while, before he answered my question with another question. I hate when people do that.

"Would you like to be fed from?" He asked.

"Well, no. I don't know. Maybe? But I'm sure other people don't want to be fed from." I defended myself.

"Other people can be glamored." Godric shrugged. "Besides, a vampire doesn't drink from somebody else's bowl." He caught my look, and added quickly. "So to speak."

"Am I in danger now then?" I asked nervously.

"You will never be in danger as long as I walk this plane." Godric said seriously. He was such a warrior, and his passion astounded me.

"Thank you." I said, because it seemed like the polite thing to say. Godric chuckled and suddenly the tension seemed to dissipate, and he poured himself a glass of blood. He could have been drinking wine, if the liquid wasn't so thick. I wrinkled my nose at the smell, and that made Godric laugh once more.

"It is not of the best quality, but surly it only smells like iron or something?" He asked lightly.

"It smells kind of like it tastes, I suppose." I said, but my nose was still wrinkled. "Vampire blood tastes much different." I said, the tension leaving my face a little as I recalled the taste of Godric and Eric together in my mouth.

"Really?" Godric asked, sounding intrigued. "I've never heard a human perspective, because usually the human is to high." He explained.

"Well, I only got a small taste, but I remember Eric tasted like something else entirely. Like salt and power, and kind of like Hershey's Special Dark." I grinned. I thought about the different tastes for a second. "Maybe something nutty as well." I laughed. Godric apparently agreed that it was funny, and he chuckled a little as well, before taking a large gulp of his drink.

"What did I taste like?" He asked excitedly. The blood was clearly good for him, though I wasn't partial to the idea.

"Like honey suckles, and pine needles." I said as I recalled his taste to the forefront of my mind. "And something I don't think I'll ever be able to place." I said wistfully.

"Even if you tasted it again?" He asked, taking a step forward.

"It was too other worldly, even for me." I tried to play down the situation.

All too soon Godric was in front of me, looking at me curiously and excitedly, like a child. I'll admit it made me a little nervous.

"Did you like it?" He asked me.

"Like what." My mind was blank.

"Drinking vampire blood." He said bluntly, his voice was oddly sultry though.

"I-I don't know." I felt like a child. Godric looked at me curiously, and I felt the need to elaborate. "I've only tasted it in emergencies." Godric paused, and I felt worried.

"I thought Bill had claimed you?" He asked. "Were you not bonded?"

"Bill could feel when I was in trouble." I didn't really know what to say.

"So you had shared blood." He surmised. "How many times?"

I though hard about that. "Well the first time someone attacked me, and Bill saved my with his blood." That had been the first time, the only time really, once I had thought about it. "Actually, that was the only time." I don't know why this upset me per say, but I didn't like that our only exchange of blood had been in such a crumby situation. "I guess he mostly drank from me." I really was rambling then. "Although that wasn't very often either." I added.

"Then you really have renounced him." Godric explained. "By word and action. Mine and Eric's blood canceled your bond. I apologize." Godric did seem sorry, but he seemed a bit pleased as well. "Eric will be pleased when he returns." Godric said lightly.

Eric POV

"Uhn, uhn." I had my hand over her mouth to keep her quiet. I fucked her from behind without care, pounding her relentlessly in an alley a few blocks away. I didn't look at her face, I couldn't without going soft. She didn't look right to me, though I knew Pam would deem her worthy. I didn't like the sound of her voice, it didn't have the right lilt. She was too tall and thin, and she didn't smell like heaven on a hell hot platter. God damn it. I pulled out of her swiftly, and she cried out without my hand over her mouth.

"I'm leaving." I said bluntly.

"B-but yo- I- we..." She was delirious. Moron.

"No, I haven't made you explode, but you haven't put me even close, so I'm leaving." She looked stunned, but I didn't care. I took flight immediately, heading back to the hotel.

I strutted through the doors without care, not looking at anyone, before I stepped into the elevator. I looked around once before the door closed, and felt suddenly really lucky, because all the humans looked disgusting, and I had Godric the most beautiful creature in the world. Sookie too. I thought bitterly, but at least I would get to admire her. If I was younger I might have permitted the smile tugging from my heart.

I hated her for being so perfect, but I hated everyone else for not being as perfect. Most of all I hated myself for not knowing how to handle one simple human after one thousand years of life! Still, I couldn't be too hard on myself, because even Godric didn't quite understand her and he was twice my age.

The elevator doors opened with a ding, and I immediately zoomed to my suite. I could smell blood, but I knew right away it wasn't Sookie's or Godric's. The blood I ordered. I reasoned. I opened the door without care, it was my suite after all. I wish I hadn't. I should have stayed with that stupid whore, it would have been less painful.

"I-I shouldn't." Sookie said softly. "H-he wouldn't l-like it."

"It's alright." Godric soothed. "Just a drop and I will always know when you need me." He whispered. Sookie squeezed her eyes tightly, and if the circumstances were different, I'm sure I would have thought the look was adorable. But I didn't.

"You offer her your blood?!" I roared.

"Eric!" Sookie yelped. She tripped taking a step away from me, but Godric caught her. Of course.

He turned to me and glared. "Don't shout." He patronized. "And don't assume to have anything to do with this situation, especially when you come in reeking of some human girl's intimate areas." He humphed. I didn't let it show, but I'm sure he felt my shame.

"Don't pretend sex matters, especially when you are trying to give blood to someone you barely know!" I regretted the words the second they left my mouth. Godric looked furious, but Sookie looked solemn.

"If it weren't for her light I would have taken the true death over this lie we call mainstreaming!" Godric rarely raised his voice, and I'll admit it was frightening. But Sookie wasn't scared. She placed a small hand on his shoulder, which he immediately grasped, pulling her into his side. She placed her other hand on his chest, and lightly pushed away.

"He's right." She said soothingly. Fuck me. "We shouldn't be making any bonds when we barely know each other. And you shouldn't put your life in my hands, I'm just a waitress, and I'm extremely mortal." She laughed lightly. Godric looked shattered, and I felt like shit. Why do I always fuck things up?! I thought exasperatedly.

"Sookie-"

"No, I mean it." She said firmly. Like a mother. My stomach turned at the thought of her with a child. "I told you already my bond with Bill is still freshly annulled, and I don't want to jump into another one right away! I need time to heal, and so do you." She finished. She was such a little spit fire, I loved it. Godric didn't seem to feel the same way just then. But of course, she was made to please. "But we can heal together. Be together." She said softly, taking his hand loosely in her own.

Godric still looked a little down, but he squeezed her hand. I didn't want to admit it, but I was jealous. I was jealous of how much he cared for her, and she in return, cared for him. What was I doing there? I knew in my heart that I was there to protect them, even if I could never be with them. It didn't matter what I had with Godric, Sookie wouldn't like it, and he was her's now.

I turned to leave, to give them some privacy. I mumbled a shitty excuse as I made to leave, but I was stopped by a hand in mine. And it wasn't Godric's! "You too, Eric. If you want to." Her hold on my hand was tentative, but I grasped her's firmly.

"There's no need. I will always protect you, no matter what." I said with a smile. I didn't know how to smirk at that moment. I squeezed her hand once, turned to Godric, kissed him softly, and left.

Godric POV

Sookie looked downhearted, but I was sure I felt worse. I squeezed her hand to give both of us comfort, but I knew it was of little help. My child, my lover no longer wished to be a part of me. I felt the empty space in our bond where he had closed himself off from me.

"That was a nice offer." I told her, trying to ease her guilt and sadness.

"I meant it." She whispered to her feat. "You two obviously love each other deeply, more deeply than any two people I've ever seen. You need him to heal."

"I have you." She laughed at that.

"I'm not enough." She didn't say it pitifully, but as a matter of fact. I stayed silent, unable to respond to what we both knew to be true. I did need Eric. Instead I brought her into my arms, holding her, smelling her, comforting us both. We stayed this way for a long time before we heard a knock on the door. I could hear Sookie's heart beat faster in what humans would call a leap.

"Eric?" She asked hopefully.

"I'm sorry to disturb you, but Nan Flanagan is here." It was just a messenger.

"We'll be out shortly." I replied. I heard his footsteps as he left. I looked sadly down at Sookie. "You should wait here, I'll be back as soon as I can." That snapped her out of her sadness.

"Not a chance in heck am I staying here." She was so spunky. I loved it.

"Alright." I smiled down at her. I had to admit I was pleased that she would be accompanying me, despite my worries. "But do try to remain calm."

"In order to remain calm, I'd have had to start calm." She said with her sassy little drawl. I had to admit I was excited to see what her flare would do for this meeting.

"Of course." I said with a slow smile.

"Kiss me once for luck?" She asked. I sucked in an unnecessary breath.

"Of course." I said again.

I lowered my head slightly to meet her mouth. It was like fire. She was so warm. Her lips were soft and pliant. I wanted this moment to last the rest of my eternal life.

Finally we broke apart.

"Let's go." She smiled up at me, even more radiant than before.

"Let's."

I didn't reach my goal, so feel free to forgo reviews! I suck! I feel like crap, but I felt like this was the place where this needed to end.