I don´t own Tanz Der Vampire, it belongs t Roman Polanski and Michael Kunze (I think)
My first fic, so be patient.
God, how much she hated those vampire novels and films. They were terrible! Specially that Twilight one. Sarah wasn´t a bookish person, but she became curious about this book, a romance involving a vampire and a human. And she read the four of them! By the time she was done with them, she became really angry. They were extremely offensive to her kind. And to her story. She should have listened to her husband, and not wasted their time with them. Yes, their time, because she made her Count Von Krolock read them with her, so they could hate Bella and Edward together.
Bella is so boring, this girl has no personality, the only thing that matters is to be with Edward, she has no dreams of her own! And the Edward character, he is no vampire. He can walk under sun light and he sparkles! He is always like "I hate being a vampire" and "I´m a monster", but why? He didn´t kill people that often, then guilty seems almost pointless. But she wasn´t going to remember the other pathetic details like a vampire baby, the animal blood diet, the day Edward abandoned Bella to die in the woods, a whole vampire army to kill a thin weak human girl…
Her Count was no prince charming, he was better. He offered her freedom, not love. And in a way he also wanted to be free from his darkness, even just for a while, even just by pretense. Of course he also wanted her blood. Their desires brought them together, but a better feeling was conceived from this encounter: love. They feel in love. And now, they were married about 132 years. What they had was real, not idealized love. At least she always thought that way until today.
Unlike her husband, Sarah wasn´t used to have unlife existential crisis. And hers had nothing to do with killing issues. This night she realized that all those vampire fictional stuff had something in common: the girl was always special in a supernatural way. Edward could read anyone´s thoughts except Bella´s, Sookie was a fairy, and the other female girls usually were the reincarnation of the dead and beloved wife. Sarah was just a peasant and perfect human girl until the Count appeared under her window.
Why did he loved her? Why did he invited her to that ball? Only for her blood? Did she remind him of someone he used to love? She never asked him. Maybe she was afraid of the answers.
He told her lots and lots of stories about midnight balls, Herbert´s childhood, his travels, the vampires he met… But he never spoke about the Countess Von Krolock. The former Countess. Once she tried to know about her, but her husband only said "You really don´t need to know, it´s a boring story."
And now she just finished watching Bram Stocker´s Dracula on TV, which had nothing to do with the book (then the title sounds a lie). Dracula loved Mina because she was Elizabetha reincarnation. Since Sarah was nothing special as a human, the horrible idea passed Sarah´s mind: was she the Countess reincarnation? Did she remind the Count of his dead wife? Either possibility displeased her. She wanted to be loved by herself.
She wanted to find out about his human past, but it was like he only considered that his life began once he was a vampire. So Sarah needed a walk.
Once she reached the nearest town she found a pink house, with the sign: Fortune Teller. That might be interesting.
Hope you enjoyed.