Just got done rereading this for the 3rd time

Hope you're doing well and just maybe here's a little encouragement for some new "blood"

Well this was a great story. Truly enjoyed it and now it’s a complete bummer. I was really hoping TBVA would show up to finish this story. You are a talented story teller I hope to see you come back and share the rest of TPMK.

this would make a great scene for a new true blood in a parallel universe where Godric doesn't die. it would be something caused by Niall to save Sookie and Eric both. only if i was casting this, sookie would NOT be Anna Paquin! it would be someone who would look like she was Fae, meaning beauiful.

I hope you come back to this soon, I think I’ve re-read this a dozen times and loving it more each time. So please, I hope you finish this.

please please update soon

I’m pretty sure that this is the first E/S story that has never mentioned Sookie’s breasts unless one were to count mentioning that she has a matching bra & panty set on. Even in the few love scenes so far, there is no mention of looking at, touching, or tasting her breasts. Not sure it’s significant, but it’s definitely novel for an Eric & Sookie story.

Well, bummer. My hope that the AP would turn out to be Godric’s maker in this story just ended in this chapter with finding out his maker was cruel & made him kill innocents.

Okay, I’m going to state a couple of personal preferences here that aren’t meant to be critical — just a stating that I see things differently for no other reason than I’m having trouble keeping my mouth shut tonight (keyboarding-wise). The first is the addition of “ain’t” into frequent use by Sookie. I might be remembering inaccurately, but it seems like she wasn’t really using it until sometime after getting back to Bon Temps.

Traditionally, Sookie is a reader, whether just romance & mysteries or, as in some FF stories, ‘higher’ forms of literature. Even without an extensive education, ‘readers’ tend to have better language skills than non-readers &, I believe, are less likely to use ‘ain’t’. Additionally, with the exception of Jessica, she’s hanging with a much more sophisticated group now so I would expect her use of language(s) to improve, not decline. It seems like a lot of FF writers treat ‘ain’t’ like a southern-ism & use it to help convey a southern accent/tone/twang, but it really has nothing in particular to do with the south. Folks with sucky language skills use it all over the U.S. Sorry — ‘ain’t’ is just a pet peeve of mine so I hate seeing it come from a Sookie character whereas it makes perfect sense in dialogue for a Jason or a Sam character.

My second preference is wishing Sookie wouldn’t take on sponsoring or becoming a maker to Jessica even though this chapter makes it sound like it’s definitely going to happen. No doubt you have your reasons for it & I’m not saying it’s wrong. From my perspective, as a fan of E/S HEA, adding yet another distraction from seeing the E/S relationship progress is frustrating. Sookie already has a lot of time consumed by being a new vampire & spending time/training with Godric. Add to that time usage, her new vampire family doesn’t seem to feel much need to allow more than a few minutes at a stretch for E & S to have any privacy & alone time. (We’re 27 chapters into the existing 40 & they’ve only just now had a couple hours for ESN & that right on the heels of Eric being miserable.) Presumably as they settle into Bon Temps life Sookie’s old friends plus Jason will also begin eating into her time. Taking time to train & nurture Jessica is just like a final straw. It feels like the only E/S interaction they will have time for is waving from across the room or, if they’re lucky holding hands while surrounded by everyone else. If Pam were Jessica’s new maker, those two might spend a little time away from E & S leaving some small hope for a more satisfying quantity of time for their relationship to blossom beyond communicating through their blood. I was excited in the early chapters to see that this Sookie actually had a sense of humor, but E & S aren’t getting to play together. I’m selfish — I like a little fun & humor along with the mandatory doom, gloom, & angst.

Okay, done spouting my unsolicited opinion. Ready to go back to reading your story as you see it.

Well it looks like this is going to be one of the very few stories that I won’t have to suffer through Alcide coming on to Sookie since he’s both unlikely to pursue a vampire and because (I assume) he won’t have the daylight hours with her out of view of other vampires (‘cuz daywalking is a secret he shouldn’t know, right?). That makes me happy! I’m not sure why, but the Sam, Bill, & Alcide characters have all made my skin crawl from the first time I became aware of them. I’m not a Quinn fan either, but my skin didn’t crawl with him. I just saw him as thick headed & annoying — way too annoying to be attractive enough to cause much damage.

As for all the emotional & psychological interaction with E & S in the chapter, I get they need to have a better understanding of each other & seem to be making progress, but in Eric’s place, I’d be compelled to tell the whole group that if they’d lay off the perpetual cock-blocking so a little lust could actually be released instead of building more & more pressure, he might be able to return to a place of being less distracted & start being able to focus more like his normal self. ;-D

Pt 1: My brain is getting knotted up with the blood stuff. First, it seems like Pam should be the one working more with Jessica & if blood sharing is needed, it should be between those two since the original plan was for Pam to be her sponsor/foster. It also seems risky for Jess to have A) much of any one’s blood of their bloodline since she’s still not officially transitioned to them. Doesn’t that potentially open avenues for Bill & Lorena to gain information using Jessica’s blood connections to Godric’s family? B) Jess noticed how much better Sookie’s taste is. The point of keeping everything big just between G, E, & S was to protect Sookie from other vampires/Supes finding out about her different blood & abilities, but it’s starting to look like Sookie’s just handing out free tasting samples now (to everyone but Eric). What’s to keep other vamps from not learning about Sookie’s special brand of yumminess now should the get their mitts on Young Jessica?

Pt 2. My ‘Uh oh” from my last comment from ch 20 was about a MS vampire showing up at Merlotte’s. I couldn’t think why they’d go there except maybe Lafayette’s former involvement with V since Sookie has been thought to be dead for a month. Even if news had spread to MS that fast about Sookie being back now as a vampire, why would Merlotte’s be of interest?

So now at the end of this chapter, it sounds like Fangtasia is about to be flooded by unknown vampires — sounding very ominous. My snag is why a herd would be converging there so soon, especially given that any news that might be the cause — Sookie’s return ‘turned’ — must include that she’s the child of one very powerful vampire & sister of another. I guess I just need to hit the next button for my Pt 2 questions to get some answers, but it seems my Pt 1 confusions will have to wait. **OH! Maybe this is the V plant follow through & the vamps are converging to check out any ‘tip’ from the Queen? I’d sort of written that off as resolved. Still, besides any remaining risks to Eric & Pam, it sounds pretty risky for the Magister to meet Sookie so soon. Chewing nails on one hand & pushing the next button with the other.

You’re messing with my mind!

Uh oh.

It wouldn’t have broken my heart if Sam couldn’t accept it & drop off a cliff. I disliked the Sam character from his first appearance in SVM & TB. Regardless of which stories he’s part of, I still cringe when he appears & grow to dislike him just that much more.

Will there be an introduction of the change to Mrs. Fortenberry? That sounds like it would be entertaining.

I’m confused as to why Sookie is so easily giving bits of her blood to Jessica, but so stingy & defensive with Eric. How would it hurt for her to make him a TB the same way she made Jessica’s like a ‘sweet southern lady/hostess ala Gran? I’m tempted to chalk it up to typical Sookie characters’ bitchiness to their Eric counterparts, but maybe I’m just missing something here in the story. It seems like it would have been a nice gesture to make Eric one to even if she felt the need to jerk his chain a bit when she gave it to him just to keep his ego in check.

It seems like all this secretive communicating between G, E, & S while the others are around could make it pretty hard to keep it concealed. Hmm.

Um, daywalker or not, Sookie is a vampire & everyone around will know that shortly. How can they risk her being seen outside in daylight if they are hiding her Fae traits to keep her safe?

I have one thing I think you’ve mistakenly attributed to ‘Fae Sookie’ more than once — holding life valuable. From my reading of SVM/TB attributes of vampires & fairies, I don’t think either race/species places much value on life with the exception of their own & of those they care about — usually those they are related to through blood. The valuing of other life/lives *might* be a human attribute, at least a small percentage of humans anyway.