Viva Las Vegas

Epilouge

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"So the baby is . . . okay?" Amelia asked sporting sex hair of her own later that night. She had faltered but she didn't think it was polite to ask if the baby her best friend was carrying was dead or undead as the case may be.

"Adele is fine apparently, according to herself she been sort of turned, in my womb with Eric's blood," Sookie reached out and squeezed Eric's hand, unable to stop the hormonal woman from taking control of her tear ducts. As one spilled over Eric caught it popping it in his mouth.

"Do you even know how weird you sound . . . it's so trippy," Amelia smiled, Eric growled, till Sookie giggled.

"I know right?" then Sookie sighed, "I can't even describe how I am feeling, the relief," the lump from earlier formed right back in Sookie's throat.

"I can imagine, well actually I can't . . . but you know... I am so happy for you, both of you," Amelia smiled, kissing Sookie's cheek. "Good to have you back Sook."

"Thanks Ames, now shut up before you have me in floods of tears again," Sookie smiled at the witch.

She turned to Eric kissing him deeply, knowing the future wasn't set in stone but it was what they chose to make it.

Epilogue

Sookie woke to a tight band around her heavy stomach which she assumed was Eric's arms. Gone was the 'celebrity bump' as Amelia and Pam had once dubbed it. It had been like one of those tiny neat little bumps that celebrities seem to always sport. Once Sookie had regained her health it had been replaced with 'super bump'. A baby bump of gargantuan proportions she often wondered if she had a village in there and not just the twins. But Godric and Adele assured her it was only them two.

As she reoriented herself she realised the heavy band was not Eric's arm after all. She had a moment of panic, before soothing, calming feelings washed over her from the bond she shared with Eric. "It's time my love," he spoke, a look so tender and full of awe had filled his eyes as he sat next to the bed, the book he had been reading to her still in his hand.

"I am not ready, oh God what if I am an awful parent? What if your maker eats our kids? Oh...oh..." breathless blind panic swept through her.

Eric grabbed her face forcing her eyes to look at him. "Sookie breathe breathe." He nodded his head slowly in time with her breaths. Another tight band tightened, soon she was breathing out her contraction. "You will be wonderful parent, Godric has pledged his protection to us. I haven't felt Appius in years. You will be safe; Godric and Adele will be safe. I kill anyone who dares to bring us harm."

Soon as one wave of panic had been settled another hit her. "What time is it?" she gasped.

"It is four hours till dawn, don't worry I will be with you every step of the way. I am not going to rest, just like we discussed."

"Okay, okay... It's really happening, it's really real, and we are having the twins."

"Yes my love," he chuckled. "This should be a 'cake walk' is that not the saying... I mean you made the Vampire Queen your little bitch with a bottle of water."

"Ugh, don't remind me. I think it was more of a case of hormonal woman gone mad." Sookie shook her head at the memory.

"You were magnificent my love," Eric's fangs had run down at the memory. Hadley; the one honourable thing she had done for her cousin was warn her that the Queen was not intending on letting her go that night.

They had been summoned to go before her. Eric was sure of his claim on Sookie having just completed their blood bond two nights previous to the summons. He was consumed with rage; that his Queen, yet again had tried to stab him in the back, when they were called in and before her.

The bond with Sookie was eerily silent, first a flash of anger then stillness. On the way into the Queens receiving chamber Sookie snagged a bottle of water of a table laid out for human visitors.

The Queen had just begun to address her Sheriff. Eric all the while was assessing the fastest way out with Sookie. Sky light, windows...

"Shut your pie hole!" Sookie seethed. At first, Eric though his ears after thousand years had deceived him.

"SOOKIE!" Eric yelled, as the Queen hissed.

"I am in no mood for this crap. Here's how this shit is going to go down. See all these lackeys... their gonna 'git'. Then me and you are gonna have a chat Princess to Queen," this had of course been done with full on ghetto hand gestures. The retelling of which made Sookie cringe every time- without fail!

The Queen's laugh, that sort of evil, hollow cackle that would normally be followed with by a bitch slap of epic proportions of someone who had the upper hand.

Sookie laughed herself, her own version of an evil cackle. "Ok-ay really didn't want to do this with an audience, but it's your funeral," As she said funeral, her face became a mask of granite. She pushed steely determination to Eric with healthy amounts of trust and a side order of pissed off telepath.

"You think a Fairy would walk into a Vampire strong hold without having the upper hand. A pregnant fairy? Y'all must know how territorial the Fae are at the best of times but that is nothing compared to how we feel when our young are threatened."

The Queen and her entourage stiffened in their places, the atmosphere of the room changing so quickly, it was almost like watching one of those stop motion films of clouds as they rapidly moved across the sky.

"Not a big shocker I am Fae? Niall says how de- do, by the way." Sookie's eyes had narrowed to slits, as she gazed at the Queen.

"Leave us," the Queen instructed. There was a mass exodus, leaving the Queen, Andre and the Bert's.

Sookie waited before she spoke again. "You know Niall has invented the cure for Vampirism...it's water soluble, clear, I'd say odourless but I am sure you'd smell something as all those years catch up, easily concealed ... like a water bottle for instants, disperses like a gas... I mean could you imagine what say five hundred years would look like on a human... If I was a betting girl I'd say it would be dusty. What do you think?" as Sookie spoke she gestured with the water bottle, Pausing a couple of times to look like she was going to lift lid off. The Vampires in the room, watching her every move like lions watching a Gazelle.

"You've made your point. What do you want?" the Queen livid at being out manoeuvred, by someone she had once thought of as a simpleton.

Sookie gestured to the Queen water bottle and all, "this is your business, this is my business." Sookie gestured to herself.

"So here the good news. I am happy with Eric. You know that loyal Sheriff you have up in area 5, the one that makes you a ton of cash and gives you the least problems, that one." Sookie's eye blazed angrily as she squeezed Eric's hand. Eric stood stock still caught between a nightmare and his greatest fantasy, his woman defending them, gaining the upper hand in this one sided verbal sparring match.

"I will work for you on monthly bases. And you get to be grateful that your Sheriff is loyal. We get to enjoy Louisiana's protection and you get to enjoy that the most magical family in world. While we are warm and cosy in your retinue and you keep out of our business- deal?"

"If I don't agree?" the Queen asked.

Sookie began laughing wild and crazy like, "listen I am up way past my bedtime, I was irritable by an hour into the drive down, I haven't seen my ankles in like two weeks, my tits are so huge they look like I could float across the Atlantic and they hurt like hell, trust me by this point you don't want to fucking try me."

"I am delighted to offer you the protection of Louisiana Miss Stackhouse," the Queen laughed, "I like you, you have balls."

"Why thank you I graciously accept your Majesty, Sheriff Northman will send the contracts. The Were guard with the red hair is 'ruffing' your donors and raping them, that's the funny taste in their blood. The guy in your cell's you have suspected of draining, has the neighbouring apartment to the real drainers, he is a V addict though. A Vampire named Waldo just glamoured a maid in the hall that leads to your armoury and Hadley is getting pissed that she is waiting for Waldo as he promised to take her to some Voodoo grave site tonight."

"I thought you couldn't read Vampires," the Queens eyes sharpened, though amusement played on her face.

"I can't, the snack Hadley's has with her has been briefed several times of Hadley's annoyance at being kept waiting. Oh and your cook for the donors is fellowship of the sun spy and regularly spits in the food amongst other stuff ewe! Remind me to never eat here."

"Oh wow oh..." Sookie gasped, "That was a biggy," she panted, pulling Eric out his memories.

"Dr Ludwig has just arrived she will have a look at you, everything is going to be okay." Eric breathed out with her, speaking mainly to himself. Trying his hardest not to freak the fuck out, but he had seen many women in his time die from child birth that was before the complications of twins.

"Who are you trying to convince yourself or me? How long huh?"

Eric looked confused, his eyebrows gesturing to what she meant.

"How long have you been taking the pain of my contractions into the bond?" she breathed out another huge contraction.

"You've not been sleeping well. I didn't want them to wake you, about four hours not long after you fell as sleep. Have I become that transparent to you Lover?"

"No, you're just that thoughtful," Sookie reached out a clammy palm to Eric's face.

"Ugrrrrh" Sookie bend over falling on her hands and knees on the bed, "Arrrrgh," she called pushing her hot face into the cold covers as she bore down.

Eric could smell blood and amniotic fluid, "Shit!" he didn't want to leave Sookie but he had to open the bedroom door for Doctor Ludwig, at Vampire speed he launched his self up the stairs opening the door the back down to his and Sookie's light tight bedroom.

"Doctor move it, I can see a head," Eric growled. Sookie was a mixture a panting and groaning by this stage, his cold palm found his way into her hot hand. She squeezed so hard that if he had been human she would have surly broken his hand. This secretly, pleased Eric that her daily dose of his blood was making his wife so strong.

Adele was first, deathly still till she let out a thunderous battle cry as Eric would tell it years later. The tale end of Sookie sob of relief was caught by a huge wave of a contraction Godric eager to be born. A few pushes later and he came out crying the instant he was reunited with his sister and in his mother's arms he settled.

"He likes the comforts of a woman already, my son," Eric spoke beaming with pride at his two children.

The mewing sound from the door increased. "What is that god forsaken sound? Did we get a cat nobody told me about?"

"It's Pam, the scent in here is driving her crazy, I've had to command her to stay put."

"Oh. How are you holding up? I would hate to have to stake you before we've even been married a full year, but I am afraid eating one of the babies is deal breaker for me," Sookie laughed. Dr Ludwig actually snorted.

"I am fine the Babies smell wonderful, you smell wonderful. But it's a smell that makes me want to kill to protect you and the children. I commanded Pam for her own safety, as well as the children."

"Does she want to eat them?" Sookie asked slightly alarmed.

Eric seemed to mull this over consulting the bond with his childe, "Mmm... more like bathe herself in the scent. Either way, not good ideas to let her in till you are cleaned up my love."

Dr Ludwig interrupted further discussions, "I need to check the babies over, then we need to clean you up," she said to Sookie.

But before anyone could do anything more, Eric fell to his knees, "ERIC," Sookie yelled in alarm, unable to decipher what she was feeling in the bond.

"Appius!" Pam screamed.

Sookie's eyes filled with tears, she clutched the babies closer to her.

"Open the door child," the most melodic voice Sookie had ever heard spoke. Hell she wanted to open the door to that voice. Relief, sweet, sweet relief swept through the bond. Godric? Sookie thought.

"Godric?" Eric asked.

"We have come to show our respects to you and your wife on the birth of your children," Godric spoke.

At Vampire speed Eric crossed the room, opening the door before Sookie could even utter the word 'No' Eric had let them in.

The Babies began fussing. Sookie having only met Godric, the once at the wedding that Queen Sophie Ann had hosted for Eric and Sookie a couple of months ago. She had liked him very much, but didn't know him enough to trust him. He hadn't stayed all that long he left with her cousin Claudine, much to the disapproval of Niall.

This was the first time Sookie had ever met Appius. She wished with her whole heart she was not covered in blood and exhausted from the labour and birth of her babies as their noses flared. She could see Eric using all his will power to suppress a growl.

Eric was kneeling in the centre of the room with his head bowed before his maker and makers maker. Sookie had never been more scared in her life. She had never seen her Viking like this- it scared her more than anything. Behind Godric was a giant of a man even taller that Eric, he must have stood over six seven in height. His face was chiselled and arrogant, like it could have appeared on a roman coin preserved for all time. But it was his eyes that sent the shiver down Sookie's spine. They were black dead holes that made her skin crawl. But she refused to look away first as they centred and bore into her, the pressure of his glamour pulsing against the walls of her shields only serve to steel her resolve.

It would be a cold day in hell when she gave this bastard an inch, so currently it was a stare off. Nobody said anything. Eye contact between Sookie and Appius only stopped when the babies began to glow. Suddenly the twins stood dressed in full battle gear aged about eighteen or nineteen beside their mother and their younger selves. This was the oldest they had ever been when they had visited, that gave Sookie hope at least they would be okay.

The arrogance in their stance put Appius to shame. Adele's fangs slid down. She was stunning; she had a ethereal beauty and her skin a luminescence that only added to her other worldly beauty. Her body light and lean both had their father height.

Godric (Jr) looked like he had been styled by GQ. His eyes sparkled with life and mischief. His shoulders broad and strong, his skin tone in total contrast to the pale china of his sisters a golden brown colour.

Appius, gaped showing his hand but Godric looked calm and relaxed like the appearance of future children were an everyday thing.

Appius looked gleeful, "they are magnificent," his voice rumbled, as he cast a jealous covetous eye to Sookie.

Adele, took herself first out of Sookie's arms, "We are safe with me mamma," next she reached for baby Gordic. "I thought they said all newborns were beautiful?" she spoke teasingly to her brother.

"Yes but there is always exceptions to every rule, you are definitely the ugliest baby I have ever seen," he teased her back. There joviality did nothing to lower the mounting tension in the room.

Godric reached for his mother, gathering her in an embrace they glowed. A feeling, of well-being, washed over Sookie. When they parted the bed was clean and she was in a clean night gown. Her body felt refreshed once more.

Sookie touched her sons face, "You're so handsome just like your father," she stroked his cheek. "Thank you," unable to convey the full measure of the gratitude she felt for her children in that minute as her eyes brimmed with tears.

"Eric did I ever tell you about Leonora?" Godric spoke.

"No, I don't believe you have?" Eric answered his face stoic, he move to stand beside his wife and children. Sookie immediately grasping his hand.

"She was the love of my life," sadness tinged his voice. Sookie gulped.

"What happened to her?" Adele bravely asked.

"I found her a year after my maker first released me she was fighting off two men and winning. But a third had snuck up on her pushed her to the ground. He was about to take her innocents when I broke his neck. A life for a life, she told me without fear. And that night she gave herself to me willingly knowing what I was. We were bonded soon after."

"You never mentioned her," Eric spoke.

"No, because she nearly destroyed me. Appius visit with your child, see his progenies for yourself. See the life you have helped to create." Godric chinned his child in his beautiful soothing melodic voice.

Sookie whole body vibrated with tension, her throat wouldn't work. If it hadn't been for her sons firm grip on her shoulders she would have been up out of the bed to face the man she feared the most.

Adele calmly took the children to see him, Eric's every muscle coiled beside her. 'Breathe' Godric whispered to his mother.

"Leonora gave me a son, it was the happiest day of my life," Godric spoke so softly, Sookie nearly gave herself whiplash looking to him.

"She was a child of magic?" Sookie gasped.

"Yes, her father was quarter daemon, her mother part Fae and her great, great, great grandmother a seer an oracle at Delphi."

"The Ancient Pythoness?" Sookie asked.

"Yes." Godric nodded. "You are too perceptive, child." He chuckled.

This must have also been news to Appius, as his head whipped up from cataloguing and through inspection the babies. There was no tenderness, just cold calculating counting of eyelashes, fingers and toes.

"What happened to your son, grandfather?" Godric asked his name sake.

"He was six years old, tall for his age, the strength of a god and handsome. He excelled at everything and could charm any woman and birds from the trees. My beloved Leonora bloomed with motherhood, she was so beautiful," Godric's eyes rimmed red there was such tenderness in his voice.

"My maker, she felt my happiness. She was a jealous creature by nature. She slew Leonora first. Then commanded me to my knees, she ripped open my shirt and placed a stake at my heart. I would have gladly died in their place, but she wanted my son. She bargained my life for his. My brave foolish boy, supplicated himself to her to save me, I begged him to run. She saw it as weakness, she deplored weakness. She tortured him for hours, before she sent him to the underworld and the waiting arms of his mother cutting his throat. He never cried -not once. "

Tears made a steady stream down Sookie's face. She batted at them uselessly as more only fought take their place. "Your maker?" Sookie croaked out.

"The Pythoness sent her guards they capture my maker, I was given the honour to avenge my family. In my grief, I made Appius. He looked like the man I had hoped my son would have turn into, strong and fierce. He was a joy to behold in those days on the battle field. The women they loved him. I watched him for many nights. I turned him as he lay dying, giving him the choice to be deaths companion. For I truly believed I was death."

Appius smiled, nodding not hearing the regret in his maker's voice that screamed so loudly at Sookie. Adele moving away, to sit beside Sookie passing the babies to her. Both women fussing over them to get them settled.

"I made a vow to your family, to your beautiful wife, to your extraordinary children" Godric spoke. "It is my gift to both of you to honour that vow." Godric and Adele rose simultaneously standing like centuries beside their parents.

Without warning Appius disintegrated before them. Godric, holding a bloody stake to his chest gasping. Sookie was in a state of shock. Eric breathed in quickly and deeply in short pants, Pam racing to catch him as he fell to the ground, feeling the ending of his maker.

"He would never, have left, yours alone. When I saw how you cared for Sookie, how the life filled your eyes Eric as you danced your first dance as man and wife at your wedding. I knew then Appius was nothing like my son never had been and never would be. You, Eric are everything I hoped he would become. After, the cruelty of your maker, the harshness of my unyielding grief and dissolution of life. You still trusted your heart enough to open it to love. I wish I could say I made a mistake when turned Appius, but it would be a lie because he brought you into my life, you taught me to live again with your joy of living. You gave me a second chance. I couldn't let him take your happiness."

"You ended him for me?" Eric spoke disbelief tinged his voice. Claudine appeared, next to Godric giving Sookie a silent wave before being swallowed in Godrics embrace, I love you she mouthed to him he smiled leaning into her hand.

Finally Godric turned to them, "I have waited many years for this day Eric, Adele and Godric have been visitors of mine for a long, long, time I have had much time to prepare for this day. Appius was an evil creature, I should never have told him of my Leonora nor my blooded son, his obsession was relentless and has caused much suffering. Now you and yours are safe and I have righted my wrong."

Fin

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