I'm not quite sure where this came from - but I found the archive and liked the TV show (even though it's years old) xx Please read and review xx

The first time Luke Rutherford (later Van Helsing) met Rupurt Galvin he hadn't liked him. To be fair it was an obscene hour in the morning and Galvin had been standing there offering him food from his own fridge. It was really very patronising.

He then started cooking omelettes and talking about French people, neither of which Luke found particularly important or indeed relevant. He just wanted to know who the strange man poking around his fridge was.

Apparently it was his godfather.

Luke also thought Galvin was weird and possibly crazy, considering how much he loved to talk about monsters and creatures in the corner of your eyes. Great. He had an insane criminal for a godfather (breaking and entering and all that - unless his mother had actually let him in, and she'd seemed as surprised as Luke had been to see him.)

And he still wouldn't let up about the 'freaks'.

It wasn't until later he actually started to realise that Galvin wasn't crazy. (Well maybe he was, but he wasn't insane about the monsters. Not these ones.) And Ruby had been dragged into it. (And so had Mina, who was both very attractive and blind.) Ruby had been kidnapped. (But they'd rescued her quickly enough and none of them had been particularly injured - not like they were on later missions.)

And Galvin was still annoying him to high hell - particularly on the subject of keeping his phone on. Sometimes he turned it off just to annoy Galvin (but most of the time he didn't - people could be in danger. He'd learnt that lesson quickly with Madge and Jamie and the angels.)

Generally though, Galvin got easier to get along with the longer you knew him.

He was still insane and still talked about smiting far more often than you should be; but he was still Luke's godfather and even if he'd missed the first seventeen years, he wasn't missing any more.

(Luke had even bought Galvin grapes when he was in hospital. He'd never done that before. He hoped he never would have to again.)

(He had to go to the hospital again - in their profession it was unavoidable. Next time he simply forgot about the grapes.)