Hi all. Just a quick A/N.

Thanks to everyone who's reading. :) I promise I'll try to keep up with review replies, and update at least once every few days. If not I think FairyBlood will spank me. Not that I don't enjoy it...

But I digress...

You can thank Fairyblood for the title of this story as well. She's awesome like that.

There will be lots of lemons later in the story, so... Mature Content people. With that said, I'm all about the slow build in this one, so you won't see any bedroom acrobatics right away. Good things cum.. er... come to those who wait. :)

Of course I don't own these two... I wish I owned Eric... but Charlaine Harris got to him first and she owns all the SVM characters in this story.

Alrighty, on with the show...

Thump. Thump. Moan. Scream. Thump. Thump. Scream. Thump. Scream. Thump. Scream.

"You have got to be kidding me!" Sookie groaned out from under the pillow she had held over her ears in a useless attempt to block out the sounds of her neighbor's latest conquest.

" God. You're so huge. Harder, fuck me harder!"

Pulling the pillow from over her head Sookie squinted at the alarm clock and fell back with a sigh when she saw the time.

4 o'clock in the morning.

If this had been the first time she'd been woken this way she may have been more inclined to let it go. But oh no, this was a near nightly event. In the past she'd ignored it but tomorrow she was meeting her new boss, some hotshot heir with more money than sense.

Nervous would be an understatement for the way she was feeling. When she'd started working at The Book Nook she was fresh out of high school and in need of a way to pay tuition. 6 years later she was second only to the owner of the shop, Claudine.

Sookie frowned and rubbed her eyes, trying to massage the headache away. She supposed she should make that previous owner. Claudine's grandfather needed help running his multi-billion dollar cruise ship business so she sold the book shop.

Claudine had offered her the chance to buy her out but the only asset Sookie had was her late grandmother's house. Not only was she unable to imagine ever wanting to sell her family home, but her brother and his wife Crystal were living there until they could afford their own place.

With her hands tied she watched the shop she loved so much be signed over to some unknown, rich, snob who only wanted to play at being a business owner.

Knowing she was only hours away from meeting a man she knew she'd feel nothing but loathing for put Sookie on edge. And unfortunately for her neighbor, the edge was not a place she liked to be.

Pulling herself from bed, she stomped through her apartment and jerked the front door open. Without giving herself time to calm down she started banging her fist on her neighbors door. When he didn't answer immediately she started ringing the bell, alternating between that and knocking loudly.

Just as she was raising her fist to deliver another set the door flung open, sending her crashing into the apartment. From her position on the ground she saw two large feet come into view. Slowly she lifted her head up, up and up some more until she could see the icy blue fury in her neighbor's eyes.

It was almost enough to make her retreat, still on hands and knees. Then she saw the bed sheet draped carelessly around his hips, his erection pushing the material out from his body, and remembered why she had come here in the first place.

Sookie pushed up onto her feet and smoothed the thin material of her night gown with her hands. She suddenly felt self-conscious as she realized that her neighbor was more than likely getting an eyeful of everything she had to offer.

She crossed her arms over her chest and glared at her neighbor.

"Do you think you could keep it down? Some people have work in the morning." She tried to add as much frigid-bitch to her voice as humanly possible.

"What makes you think I don't have to work?" He followed his flippant remark with a smirk.

She'd love to kiss the smirk off his lips. Wait. Not kiss. Smack. Smack the smirk off his lips.

"If you had to work in the morning you'd be asleep. That's assuming you had an ounce of common sense. Which I suppose is debatable."

The jerk smiled. He actually had enough gall to flash her some mega-grin like she'd just told him Santa was real.

She rolled her eyes in exasperation and stepped back into the hallway, making a point of glaring at him one more time before going back to her apartment. Crawling back into bed, Sookie prayed for at least one good hour of sleep before the morning.

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Some mornings it felt like the entire world was conspiring against her, Sookie thought to herself as she gave a longing look at her favorite café as she drove by. She was already 15 minutes late, so her frozen mocha would have to wait until later.

Once she had gone back to bed she fell into a deep dreamless sleep. So deep she managed to miss her alarm clock going off. She had raced through her shower and dried her hair just enough to get by. Unfortunately during the night her cat Tina had felt it necessary to pull her outfit off the hanger and make a bed of it on the floor. The Book Nook was a casual attire work place but Sookie had felt the need to dress up for this first meeting. Now instead of feeling confident in something professional she was forced to wear her usual work outfit of jeans and a t-shirt.

Sookie pulled into the parking lot and stopped for a moment, taking a few deep breaths and calming herself. Walking into this meeting late and a wreck wouldn't do well to help her convince the new owner that she should remain the assistant manager.

After one last deep breath she left her car and made her way into The Book Nook. The store was closed this morning for the meeting so everything was still dark, only a few lights guiding the way to the back employee break room.

She paused outside the door, hearing a deep booming voice saying something that made everyone laugh. She knew that voice and couldn't place it, which really bothered her.

When there was a pause in the man's speaking she pushed the door open and stepped inside. For the first time in her life Sookie wanted to turn and run straight out of the shop.

Her eyes locked with his as she said the first thing that popped into her mind.

"You?"