The waiting game.
If somebody wanted to write Sookie/Eric future-fic, where Sookie is in her late-fifties, still human, the elected Governor of Louisiana, and refuses to let Eric turn her (yet) because she's afraid that would destroy all the work that she's (that they've) done to promote a justice/political system that works for humans AND vampires AND shifters, despite all the haters - that would be really neat.
Or indeed, any story that pairs Eric with an older version of Sookie - not vamp!Sookie, not tragically-dead!Sookie, and not Sookie-with-superpowers-of-eternal-youth. Fluff never stray into that territory, but that's exactly the sort of realism I'm interested in.
ETA: LOOK WHAT orange_crushed has written!
Or indeed, any story that pairs Eric with an older version of Sookie - not vamp!Sookie, not tragically-dead!Sookie, and not Sookie-with-superpowers-of-eternal-youth. Fluff never stray into that territory, but that's exactly the sort of realism I'm interested in.
ETA: LOOK WHAT orange_crushed has written!