Chapter 4 – The Sentence

"You asked me to marry you," she finally said after some time breaking the eerie silence.

"You didn't answer me, why?" he asked. He lifted his weight off of her to look at her. "I offered you everything I have and though I didn't remember who I was back then I meant it. You have been the only woman I have offered this to or ever will. Don't you understand how much you mean to me?" He asked her again. She realized he had remembered everything. She was at a loss for words; she was shaken by his words.

"It wasn't you Eric and I thought if I had you would be upset with me for accepting you when you didn't remember who you really where," she explained.

Eric understood what she said, she had explained this to him before and yet he still didn't understand why she denied him if he had made her so happy as she said he did.

"I might not have remembered my position or what I had or who I was, but that was me Sookie. I am that man I might act different because life is hard for vampires and I have to survive, but that doesn't mean I am heartless bastard as you seem to think I am. I wouldn't have been mad at you for marrying me or staying with me or keeping me with you, because that is what I wanted to be with you no matter what. The spell said I was to be with my heart's desire and that is you Sookie," He said as he lay on the porch moving her to rest on his body.

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to hurt you. I just…never thought that you, the thousand old year Viking would want to be with me for other than sex. You have to understand that after what Bill did and a life of rejection from men I don't think highly of myself to understand why you want me or wanted me," She said. He rested his hand on her cheek.

"I'll always want you as to why it's because of who you are, what you make me feel. I told you once before, you are smart and loyal. You have a sense of fun and adventure. You have the most beautiful breasts I've ever seen. You're brave and you are definitely the best I've ever had." He said kissing her nose and pressing a soft and yet loving kiss on her lips. "You read my mind," he stated.

"It has happened before, once," She explained. For some reason she wasn't afraid this time of disclosing her most guarded secret to him.

"When we made the deal?" He questioned. She nodded staring into his dark eyes. Though the look was softer there was something there that remained from before when they were fighting. "I opened my mind to you, I think that is why it's possible for you to read me, that time I wanted to test you and earlier I just wanted to express what I needed from you," He told her. She nodded. So she couldn't read his mind. She was afraid of him still. What will he do to her? She was afraid to ask.

"The tiger?" He questioned her. She sighed.

"I don't even know how to say this, but I don't love him. I like his companionship which is something I missed that I had with you, but it wasn't working out and is not. I was planning on ending our relationship anyways." She said not a hint of pain on her face. "I missed you so much," She broke in tears again and hid her face in the crook of his neck. "Why did you stay away from me? Why didn't you harass me more?" She asked between cries and it became hard for her to breathe or even say something. She had never cried so hard in her life and she couldn't stop.

Eric rolled them over and stood with her in his arms he walked them inside to her room and covered them. He didn't want to blame her because he too had his reasons for staying away.

"I was afraid of this power you have over me. I don't know what to do with these feelings I have for you, I don't know what they mean, I just know that since I left your house that night half of me was missing. I feel as though I should be doing something else rather than whatever I was doing except when I was with you. I cannot go on without you. Pam told me to kill you," he said as he rubbed her back and pressed soft kisses on her face. She looked up at him and willed her tears to back away.

"Are you going to kill me?" She asked. He sighed. He didn't have the answer. "You said that it should be you who should give the sentence for us, what would that be Eric?" She asked him.

The only other thing he could do that would keep them together.

"Spend eternity with me," He said and claimed her lips once more. He didn't wait for an answer from her. He made love to her again and enjoyed her warm body once more. She bit his nipple again, but this time he asked her to bite him until she drew blood, he wanted her to drink from him. That gave her hope that he might spare her life so she did. She drank what blood came out of his small cut, and he thrusted harder, faster and deeper into her as she did. When they were about to have their moment he sank his fangs into her flesh.

It was the most powerful orgasm of her life, but he didn't stop thrusting into her or drinking from her. As her life slipped away she realized what he was doing. Now she would spend eternity with him, she welcomed the darkness and what he will give to her.

"I love you," she heard him say, before she lost consciousness. He felt when her beautiful human life was beginning to end. He felt tears on his face and it hurt him more than he ever thought it would, but he had to finish, he couldn't stop now. Just before her pure heart stopped beating he fed her his blood.

He remembered when he turned Pamela and it didn't hurt this bad. He knew the pain he was feeling would slowly dissipate as her new life will commence soon. Now they will be together forever and no one was going to take her from him. Yes the sentence was to spend eternity together. He looked at her and kissed her lips before her heart produced the last beat.

"Now you are mine for all eternity my lovely Sookie,"

The End...

A/N Thank you who followed the story and for all your wonderful reviews. I hope I didn't disappoint you with the ending. Let me know your thoughts...:k