Luna felt Eric's hands move down from her shoulders and arms to her hips as she stood in the shower. She shuttered feeling his cool hands and her heated wet skin, she flinched slightly hearing his fangs come out and hissed as they sunk into her shoulder.
"Mmm, Eric." she moaned. "You could have asked first." His laughed vibrated her shoulder as he fed from her, soundly. "Eric, stop." Luna groaned, pulling away from him. He licked his lips as she turned to him.
"I'm sorry. I couldn't help myself." he said, dropping his head.
Feeling bad, Luna kissed him. Eric cupped her face in his hands, deepening the kiss. Luna wrapped her arms around his neck as he picked her up, holding her tight to him with his arms around her waist. An electric jolt went through Luna. Opening her eyes, they shook for a second before closing again. Her face twisted in pain, Eric watched concerned and curious. When she opened her eyes again they were a much brighter blue than their usual.
"What happened?" Eric asked.
Luna shook her head, getting back to her feet, shutting off the shower and stepping out. She wrapped at towel around herself and padded down to Eric's cubby to get the fresh clothing Jacob had brought for her from her house. She was still wrapped in the towel when Eric came in. "Luna, what was that?" he asked, sitting next to her.
"It happens sometimes." she said, pulling on a pair of socks.
"What is it?"
"Flashes." She told him, getting up and letting the towel to drop so she could dress. "Quick images of things. Sometimes they're too quick to remember, sometimes they come without interrupting what I'm doing. But mostly they do."
"What kinds of things do you see?" He asked intrigued.
"Random things, mostly."
"What did you see just then?" Eric asked, stand directly behind her.
"Random things, like when I did touching your father's crown." she answered going around him, stopping seeing Eric's face. She sighed, "I saw you and your father fighting the night they died." Eric's face went blank with sorrow remembering that fight, it was the last thing they said to each other. "Minus your stubbornness, Eric. You're father was very, extremely proud of you."
"How do you know!" Eric barked at her. "he never showed that too me!"
Luna shook her head at the Viking, "Things like people absorb energy." she explained. "Your father's crown absorbed his. I saw and felt that touching it, all of it even before you were born." Luna smiled at the joy that suddenly filled her thinking of that. "But its much, much more prominent at your birth. The birth of his first child, a son, no less. A son to teach everything he knows too. How to wield a sword. How to fight in battle and command the warriors. How to become king, and to his slight displeasure how to get the ladies." Eric listened to her words as if he depended on them, when he really did depend on them. "He was proud of you, Eric. But it was you that never saw that. You that never stopped trying to fight him on every little thing to see it in his eyes." A red tear tumbled down Eric's eye. She's right. He thought. "But you did see it." she added, staring at her hands.
"No, I didn't." Eric sniffed. "I failed them."
"No, Eric you didn't." Luna said, getting up and comforting him. "You killed the man that killed them and returned the crown to its rightful owner. You've never forgotten that you are Viking first, a Vampire second and everything third. You keep their memory alive here," she touched her finger to the spot over his heart. "Whether it works or not and you keep them alive here." she touched his temple. "That's not failing them."
Eric smiled at her, hugging her as tight as he could with his Vampire strength hurting her, it made Luna giggle happy. "Thank you, Luna." he whispered into her ear. Luna looked back up into his eyes.
"For what?" she asked.
"For changing me." he told her. "For making me as much human as I will ever be again. For showing me that its okay to have emotions, especially for a Vampire to love like I love you."
Luna blushed looking away from him, "Anytime, Eric. Anytime." she told him, kissing him.
THE END!