Chapter 19 : Niall

"I need to know if he or any other faery has been here tonight." All that I could think was if that arrogant fae didn't lose that attitude, I would reach through the phone and wring his fucking neck.

The secretary laughed. "Are you insane? Why would any fae come near a vampire bar?"

My body stiffened. "I didn't say where I was did I?"

The secretary's silence was deafening.

"I need to speak to Niall."

There was a self-righteous tone to the secretary's voice when he decided to speak again. Since you cannot and will not speak to him, there is a message that I am to pass on to you.

You will see and speak to the Prince when it is time and not until then.

You must be patient. Now, if there is anything else that you need of the prince, he will gladly assist you but if you want to discuss his family matters, you will wait until he is ready. He sounded extremely happy to be talking down to me.

Was this faery giving me orders; a lowly faery secretary?

"Listen, you fucking phone answering faery, you will …"

Sounding even more amused than he did before, he decided to make matters worse.

"Mr. Northman! Do I perceive a hint of hostility, my dead friend? I hope not. It would be an atrocity; no an act if injustice, if your message to the prince should suddenly disappear.

I would hate for that to happen. It would be an absolute shame if something of that nature occurred." His voice was light and airy when he made his threat but I could tell that he meant it.

"Since it appears that you have nothing further to say, the prince will see you when it is time. Because I have to be polite to you, I must ask, will there be anything else? I really hope not."

I want your fucking head on a platter. "Nothing but this; be sure to give Niall my message. I will be waiting."

The voice laughed at me. "There is no doubt."

I hung up before I had the chance something that I would regret. If I had to humble myself down a bit, then that was what I was going to do.

I had to know what has happened to Sookie and why it has happened to her. But it would be the last time that I did this; bow down to a fucking faery; a faery secretary no less. I hate faeries.

They are sneaky and are always up to no good. At least I knew for sure that Niall had a hand in what has happened.

I know that he would not do anything to hurt her but as Sookie's husband, I had every right to know what was going on when he decided to take her away from me.

"Pam," I said as I sat at my desk.

Instantly, she was in my office. "Yes, Eric." She knew very well what I wanted. She was anxious to know what was going on and how it had happened.

"It was Niall."

With her fangs descended, she said, "Fucking faeries. Does Sookie know anything about what has happened to her?"

I shook my head as I answered her. "From what I can tell, no. For the last five years she's lived with 'Grandpa Niall'.

She and Jason haven't seen each other in quite some time but she can't remember why. Her Gran was not murdered but died of a heart attack.

After her grandmother died, Niall took care of her from that day forth. He died after she graduated from college. Pam, you wouldn't believe how her life has changed."

As Pam walked towards the couch, she motioned for me to continue speaking. "So, tell me." Pam sat on the couch as I filled her in on how much my wife has changed; emotionally and mentally.

When I was done, I leaned back in my chair and smiled. "I can't believe that you are finally speechless. After many decades together with me begging for you to shut-up, you do it when I don't want you to. Ye gods can be so unfair."

She gave me a haughty look. "Whatever Eric; do we really have time for your smart remarks?

No. Okay; let me get this right. One morning she just woke up and boom, her life was different. She grew up in Baton Rouge with grandpa and grandma.

She went to college and now has a career. She has never heard of Bon Temps or Merlotte's but out of the darkness, Fangtasia just suddenly appeared."

"That's right. And Pam, when I walked her to her car, the smell of the fae was everywhere. When I called Niall, the secretary practically told me that Niall was here. He had to have been the one to show her the way."

Pam looked at me thoughtfully. "I wonder how all of this came to be. Since we are the first vampires that she's ever met, Bill has never been in the picture." It was more of a statement than a question.

"Never," I said. "She will finally only belong to me. She will be mine and only mine in every sense of the word." That has been what I've wanted since the first day I'd met her.

"Do you think that these changes will change who she is?"

"No," I said without hesitation. If anything, they've made her stronger and more confident than she was before.

I don't know what Niall did but she is different ... but in a good way. The Sookie that I married would never have approached me and told me things about herself.

She came to me without fear or thought. She talked to me as if she has known me all of her life. She was telling me how comfortable she is with me. I've never been prouder of her.

"Is she still telepathic?"

"She will have to tell you." I told Sookie that I would not speak of her secret to anyone; that anyone included my child.