Part Two

Part Two

“WHAT!!!” I said. We had never had anyone else beyond the Queen and the Late Great Godric in our midst.

“The telepath and the shifter can be here. Sookie should be here to listen anyway,” said Eric.
I didn’t know how I felt about that. I knew Bill loved us immensely, but she was the love of his afterlife. We may be his sister wives in this world, but this was the one he wanted to spend the rest of her life loving. Could I stand being in the same room with her? I mean, I liked her on principle, but, would I be able to hold my jealousy inside.

“Your mind is running a mile a minute Aslinn, it makes me dizzy,” said Eric.

I got up with the sound of the dishwasher going off. I busily began to unload the dishwasher while everyone relaxed and ignored me and Bill, who had joined me. He watched me taking out the dishes and putting them in the cabinet. I sorted the silverware and cooking utensils. I closed the dishwasher and turned to look at him. I poured myself a glass of Eric Northman’s wine and sipped it. I hated the handsome blond and wished for a stake to plant between his beautiful shoulder blades. Bill came over and leaned against the counter.

“Are you angry darling?” he asked.
“No….yes….,” I said.
“You know I care about you and all your sister wives,” he said softly. “I love you, all my spirit wives.”
“In here, you do, but out there, you love her, and I always felt in my head, that what was out there was something else,” I said.
“But you like Sookie don’t you?” he asked.
“Yes, I like Sookie, but…” I said.
“You don’t want her in this world?” he asked. “With us?”
“Does she even know about us?” I asked.
“She does,” he said. “But like you, she sees this as some other world that she has no part in.”
“Now she will be in this world with us,” I said.
“I think you need her for this,” said Bill. “She and Sam can set up the buffet and run the drinks and coffee. Of course the Fellowship people will not drink, but you guys could have drinks.”
“I wish you could glamour her so she would forget,” I said.
“She will be okay, and so will you,” he said. “Eric will pose the assignment as just another Vampire job for him and I know you and the rest of my spirit wives can handle it. Especially if you can handle it, the others can handle it.”
“Okay,” I said.

We joined the group and Eric was closing his phone. “It has been arranged. Bill, Sookie wants more and more money from me. She wanted five thousand just for this little chore.”
“Did you agree?” asked Bill, sitting down. I sat down, glowering a little at the Viking.
“Of course, she has to repair her home,” said Eric. Bill just looked at him.
“So she and Sam will be our caterers and she will listen and Sam is just muscle?” asked Renee.
“Basically, yes,” said Eric.
“So what sort of information are we to get?” I asked.
“You will get only as much information as they will give you. Sookie however will pick up other things from them,” said Eric.

“Will Sookie be reading our minds too?” asked Fairy.
“Presumably, she will be able to read your minds, so Aslinn, you and all your little sister wives should keep themselves in check, so she will not be upset with you,” said the Viking.
“I can help with that,” said Aolani. “I know just what to do.”
“Thank you dearest,” said Eric.

After our meeting, I stayed behind and cleaned up. Kid and Jessica and Scarlett were on the computer. “Jess, when you finish that bottle, rinse it out and recycle it please.”
“Okay,” she said. “Sorry about that.”
“Nothing to it,” I looked over at Eric, playing bourre with Pam and Dude and GS and Nicky. Bill was playing chess with Renee. I went over and leaned against Bill, my hand on his shoulder. He leaned over kissed it. I gave him a smile. For this man, I would screw up my courage to face anyone.
I patted his shoulder and went over to Aolani, who was knee deep in Judika Illes Element Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells.
“Whatcha looking at?” I said.
“I found a spell that will do what we need for us to sit with Sookie and she not be able to read our minds,” she said. “There are other things we don’t want her to read either from our minds, as well,” she explained.
“Like what?” I asked.
“Like what happens in the first world, we know a lot by way of the books what the adventure will be like. It would be dangerous for her to know too much about the adventures, she may try to change the way things are supposed to play out,” she said.
“Tear a hole in the space time continuum?” I asked, a smile on my face.
“Sorta,” she said. “But this will work for us and I don’t need anything, I have everything we need to work the charm.”

“Very cool,” I said. I wondered over to the dining table. I sat down at the table across from the sheriff.
“Eric, you have to stop telling The Kid how wonderful it is to be a Vampire,” I said.

“But it is wonderful to be a Vampire Aslinn,” he said, smiling at me.
“Let me rephrase that,” I said. “Renee does not want her daughter to be a Vampire. She wants her to be a human and have all wonderful human experiences first then make an informed decision about being a Vampire.”

“Chris is very intelligent,” said Eric, pulling the cards to himself. He spread the hand in his large fingers and looked at his hand.
“Chris is still too young,” I said.
“Chris would have been counted a woman in my human time,” he said.
“Yeah, when the average age for human mortality was 20,” I said. “Chris is a young woman of this time.”
“You know Aslinn,” he said, folding his hand for a moment to look at me. “I think you are prejudiced against Vampires, though you say you like them.”
“Funny Eric,” I said. “That is why I hang out here 24-7.”
“Oh you like us enough to hang out, but you don’t really like Vampires,” he said, spreading his hand again.
“Maybe I just like some Vampires better than others,” I said. He had a lot of nerve.
“Ouch, that hurts,” he said, insincerely, beginning to play. “So, you have never really thought of being one of us?”
“Of course I have,” I said.
“Then why would you block Chris’s decision. If she wants to be Vampire, it should be her choice,” said the Vampire.
“Chris is 17. I am 42 and have seen a little of the world and had a few human experiences,” I said. “If I made this choice, I would be well informed and would know what I am giving up.” Eric looked at me, his mouth open a little, flabbergasted. He had no counter argument.

I liked it when I could get one up on a thousand year old Vampire.