AN: Sorry this one's a little late again. I've been super busy with school and work lately. Next is the meeting with Niall and maybe some wedding plans. Enjoy!

"Oh my God, Pam?" I try to say gently, stepping closer to the bear skin blob on the floor of Eric's office. It seemed that Pam took the bear skinned rug and covered herself with it. What was going on? All Eric told me was that I would be the only one who could help Pam with whatever was going on and suggested I talk to her alone. "Pam, what's wrong?" I could hear soft sobs coming from underneath the rug and I took a couple steps closer.

"Don't come any closer Sookie. I'm hideous!" Pam wailed.

"Pam, I can help you if you let me see what's wrong. I'll make Eric command you if I have to but I don't want to have to do that."

She turns around, still completely covered by the rug and I hold out my hand. "Come on, let me see." I say gently. And she peaks and eye out. I can tell she's been crying but I don't move any closer I don't want to upset the progress I am making with her. I just stand there completely still and wait for her to trust me.

I nod at her in encouragement and she drops the rug. "Oh, Pam…" Her skin is completely red like freshly cooked lobster red. My hands cover my mouth and I stare at her for a moment. I think that I may begin laughing so I close my mouth and squeeze my lips shut. I can feel Eric coming into the room behind me and he puts a hand on my back.

"It seems that Pam has a little bit of a human problem." Eric chuckles behind me, he wraps his arm around my waist and hides his laughter in my hair. I can see now why he wanted me to go in and talk to her alone. Eric was extremely amused and that is the last thing Pam needs right now.

"Pam it's okay, I know exactly what to do. Come with me." She takes my outstretched hand gingerly and I smile at her. "Eric I need you to go to the closest convenience store and get some after sun cream, and aloe lotion." He raised his eyebrows at me. "Yes, you mister now beat it." I pushed on his shoulders and he released me from his embrace.

"Fine. I'll go… bossy" he mumbled under his breath and kissed my forehead before zooming out of the house.

I brought Pam upstairs into her room and told her to take a lukewarm shower and to change into soft material clothing. She nodded at me silently and whispered a thank you to me. I sat on her bed and waited for Pam to finish and Eric to come back. I could feel him getting closer so it couldn't be long now.

I wonder why this happened to Pam. The time she spent out in the sun should have killed her, but she seemed to be immune at the time. Like Eric now is. It wasn't until an hour or two after that she began to show signs of (I can't believe I'm saying it) sunburn. We will have a lot to talk about with Niall when we meet. I make a note to myself to ask Eric to call him sooner rather than later.

I close my eyes for a moment and focus on my breathing. This is something that Claude taught me to do when I was younger (in this life). He told me that meditation helps feed my spark and my light. If I focus long and hard enough, he said, the fae have sometimes been able to access glimpses of the future.

I take deep, steady breaths and let my mind go blank. The first thing I see is Eric and my connection, the glistening silver and gold rope that ties us together. When I touch it, it pulses with love, and joy. I push past it and I see the red and black swirls of darkness. This is what I need to see. The danger ahead is growing stronger I can feel it. I try to push farther through the smokey blackness and I jolt. I can see something. I don't know what it is exactly. I try to push further and the image appears out of the blackness.

A woman. With dark brown waist length hair. She's talking to a man. I know him. But I can't put a name to the face. It's on the tip of my tongue. And when the man's dark brown eyes land on me I know. How could I not remember him. That face southern drawl, those disheveled sideburns. Bill. I used to know him… love him even. Not anymore. Hate seethes within me and I almost lose the image. But I don't. I have to watch. The woman is talking to him but I can't hear what she's saying. He looks confused for a moment, a little angry and then she waves her hands in the air as if conducting an orchestra. The wind blows around them and he looks up. Lightning lights up the sky and the woman's eyes glass over. It looks as though she's blind. I can't see her face though. Only her eyes. And I know then that I know he too. But how? I see an evil smile grow across his face and he seems to know something. Oh my God. No!

The vision disappears from my sight and I find that I am no longer on Pam's bed. I am lying flat on my back and a group of vampires are looking worriedly down at me. I blink a couple of times when I hear a voice calling my name.

"Sookie, Sookie, Sookie!" I blink and see Pam looking scared as ever.

"Lover?"

"Eric."

"Lover, don't sit up yet," Eric says as I try to lift myself up, "what happened to you?" He was so worried. I could feel his sheer unadulterated panic the second before I opened my eyes.

"I'm okay. I promise, just a little dizzy is all." I try to sit up again and Eric helped me. Pam, Scarlet, Hiro, and Eric look at me like they are ready for me to keel over.

"Sookie, my friend, I was so worried! I came out of the shower and your eyes… they were fogged over and you were muttering so fast I couldn't understand you! I didn't know what to do." Tears began to prick the sides of Pam's eyes and I held out my hand for her to take. We sat together on her bed. It felt for a moment that she was my child. She reminded me of when Eric lost his memories that other life time ago. She was so fragile now because she has been through a lot these past couple days and just wanted to be held and taken care of.

The other vampires were still looking at me with worry in their eyes. "Lover, can you tell me what happened? Do you remember anything?"

I told them what I saw, and how Claude taught me to harness my light. Everyone but Eric looked completely floored by this new development. Eric decided that we should call Niall tonight and have him talk to us tomorrow, he said we would talk about what happened more after I am rested. It seemed Mr. High Handed was back with a vengeance. I didn't argue because I was seriously wiped out.

I didn't even realize how late it had gotten. It was nearly dawn already.

Eric and I stripped and climbed into bed. He wrapped his body around mine and kissed the back of my neck. "Are you sure you are alright?" He whispered softly, trying not to break the calm atmosphere that surrounded us. I grabbed the hand that was resting on my stomach and brought it to my lips.

"I'm fine now, I promise. I'm just really tired. That 'seeing' thing really kicked my butt." I stroked his arm soothingly but I can feel how worried he still is. "I promise, okay. I wouldn't lie to you."

"I know that, lover. Just the thought of losing you again… I can't bare it. I won't."

"I'm not going anywhere. A promise is a promise."

"Forever?"

"I would accept nothing less." I turned to face him and kissed him hard on the mouth. He growled softly and captured me in his iron grip.

"I hope you know that when you're turned. I will never let you go." His eyes are blazing with the truth in his words, "I will never release you."

"I would never let you. No matter how tired you get of me."

"I worry that it is you who will tire of me first, lover."

I gasp and playfully slap him on the shoulder. "I could never get tired of you, don't even think like that."

Eric rolled us over in a flash. His elbows are holding him not three inches from me and I can feel his cool breath hit my face. "Sookie Stackhouse, you are the most aggravating woman I have ever met in my entire existence." He spoke to me in Swedish. I huffed but he stopped me before I could interrupt. "Sometimes you make me want to drink… alcohol! But I have loved you for longer than I can tell you. I have loved the brave and loyal Sookie Stackhouse since my mother told me stories of you as a child. I loved you when you were Aude, belly swollen with our children. My children. I loved you when you slapped me cross the face and told me you'd prefer a fatal disease than to be close to me. I loved you every time you called me high handed, or an arrogant asshole. I have loved you my whole life, and my entire un-life. And I have no idea what I would do without you. I cannot live another night without you by my side. I want you in every way a man could want a woman. Will you please do me the honor of being my wife, my mate, my pledged, my bonded and any other way we can be bound to each other?" My eyes are blurry with tears and I choke back a soft sob. I put both of my hands on either sides of his cheeks.

"Eiríkr Norseman I would love nothing more than to be yours in every possible way. I love you my handsome warrior." I answer in his native tongue. His mouth crashed down on mine and I curled my fingers into his hair, and just like that all of my sleepiness evaporated by just the touch of his lips.

AN: One last chance to guess who the threat is. I gave you guys a huge hint in this one! All will be revealed next chapter! I'm so excited.

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