After the light went out of Dorian's eyes, images began to flash before Vlad's eyes like a movie clip. His father and Vikas were in front of his parent's bed pouring gasoline over the bed, his mother, and an unknown man who were both strapped to the bed. His father struck a match and lit them on fire. As the two of them fled the vision faded out.

As he slowly returned to the present he saw Joss approaching from the side. He slowly rose from his crouched position; looking up at Joss as he did so. He gripped Joss by the arm that wielded the wooden stake that could end his life at any moment. Then from the shadows, a dark figure stepped out. He was tall with black hair and similar facial features to Vlad's. It was Thomas.

"Son whatever you plan on doing stop; let the slayer go." Thomas started stepping farther into the light. Vlad hesitated for a moment before shoving Joss away.

"Dad, what are you doing here?" He asked anger obvious in his voice, "You die on us, then you decide to just waltz back into the picture." He strode over towards the mister he had once called his father. Thomas couldn't find out that he knew that he and Vikas had killed his mother though, so he decided to force himself to be Thomas' son one last time. However, as Vlad beg a move towards him, Thomas turned around and, using his vampiric speed, slipped back into the shadows fleeing the scene before Vlad could even act.

"Vlad what's going on?" Joss demanded from him, "I thought your father was dead."

Vlad looked back at him for a second before he said anything back. "Apparently not." He looked back at Joss, hurt evident in his eyes, and grasped him by the shoulder, "Joss, you, Henry and I need to have a talk about what just happened... my father he-" Tears began to threaten Vlad's eyes and so he ran back to his aunts house in seek of some form of normality. He was greeted at the door by his uncle Otis.

"Something the matter Vlad, you seem troubled?" His uncle interrogated. Vlad thought about it before he decided that it would be best to keep his vision a secret from his uncle for a while.

"No, everything's fine just... never mind it's not important." He replied with a quiver in his voice. He could barely believe what his father and Vikas had done. They had torn his life apart by its seems only to be sown back up by the only family he had left, Nelly. She was his mother's best friend which by his standards made her family. Otis had joined the picture nearly three years after the fire and his presence and guidance had anchored him even better. Vlad sauntered off to his room to think. Just as he closed the door to his room, another vision struck him.

Thomas was grinning like a madman and holding Nelly's lifeless body; with Vikas standing off to the side sharing a similar grin while keeping Otis from fighting back. He could see himself screaming in protest and he shook the horrible vision from his head.

He turned to the window of his bedroom and opened it. He slipped back out into the night and headed over to the McMillan household. As if sensing Vlad's distress, Henry opened his window and sanded the area before seeing Vlad. Vlad climbed up into Henry's room and closed the window after his entrance.

"Is Joss here we need him?" He questioned his faithful drudge.

"No hold on I'll get him." Henry answered before asking, "is everything all right, what happened?"

"I'll tell you when Joss is here too." Vlad answered shortly. He sighed and sat down on Henry's bed as said teenager walked off to get his cousin. When they came into the room Vlad quickly explained what he did and the visions he had seen, tears streaming down his face as he got to the part about Nelly.

"I just can't allow him to kill her like that, I won't allow it!" He screamed as he began to sob violently.

"We can kill both of them or, I can stake them myself if you don't want too." Joss said trying to calm their friend.

"No he'll.. k-kill you or Otis w-will before we even have time to explain." The young vampire said between sobs, "don't you have an uncle who can take care of it for us, we can easily cover up our tracks we might not ever have to tell Otis?"

This time Henry answered, "yea uncle Abraham, but how will we convince him not to kill you?"

"I could use mind control we don't have time to explain our situation to him." Vlad rasped out as the sobs stopped. After discussing their plan further Vlad called his aunt and uncle telling him that he would be staying with the McMillans for the night.

The rest of the week the three of them waited anxiously for Abraham to come into town. When he did, he immediately lunged for Vlad but they were able to pull them apart and convince him that Vlad would never intentionally harm anyone. Thomas had already revealed that he was alive to his brother and Nelly. They had accepted him back after several days off eerie silence.

Finally, the boys decide to set they're plan to action. Thomas and Vikas suspected nothing of course. Otis and Nelly would never know anything was up they had gone out to dinner together and Vlad Henry and Joss were at The Crypt as to avoid suspicion.

The three of them were just leaving The Crypt when Otis contacted Vlad telepathically.

"Vladimir there's been a terrible accident, your father and Vikas were killed by a slayer!" His uncle exclaimed in Vlad's head. Vlad glanced at Henry and Joss. They automatically knew; Abraham had done what they'd asked of him. They drove to Vlad's house in silence, not knowing what to say. Otis was waiting for them at the door. He gave Joss an angry glare. Joss was a slayer like the monster that had killed his brother and friend.

"Otis, chill Joss didn't do this he was with us at The Crypt." Vlad reasoned to his uncle. Vlad, Joss, and Henry went inside with Otis to find a group of vampires looking over the dead bodies of Thomas and Vikas. The three of them looked up as soon as they heard the front door shut. Vlad forced himself to look upset to keep anyone from being suspicious.

One of them looked up at Vlad and said, "I'm greatly sorry for your loss, Vladimir."

Vlad didn't know what to say so he just bent his head down low and looked at the hole in his shoe. The three vampires who were standing by the bodies began to speak to each other in a hushed whisper. Vlad looked up from his shoes to meet Henry's gaze. Henry nodded encouragingly at him.

The conversation going on in the center of the room was getting louder, like they were arguing. The one who had spoken to Vlad earlier sighed and stated, "we are members of the council sent us to survey the situation and make a choice based on what have found." He stopped and looked back at his buddies then at the corpses before he turned back to Vlad and continued, "in light of resent events all charges against you will be dropped seeing as D'ablo has died and therefore, can't testify and, the murder of your father seems to be punishment enough on you."

The three of them began to walk away from the deceased and over to the front door. Vlad stared back down at the bodies lying on the ground as the shortest of the three turned and said, "there'll be anther group coming by to pick up the bodies for the pyre's." He turned back around and his group walk out the door.

Otis glanced up from where he stood silent tears streaming down his face and sobbed out, "I'm so sorry Vladimir I know this is hard on you he had just came back into your life and now he's dead, killed by a slayer."

Vlad lips started to tremble as he walked over to Otis and embraced him in a hug. It pained him to see his uncle like this and it was his fault he had asked Abraham to kill Thomas and Vikas. And now Otis had to deal with the loss of his brother and friend. Nelly came into the room minutes later crying as well the three teenagers comforted the couple that was about to get married soon after all, they were the cause of their distress. A few days later the funeral pyre's were held and Vlad shed tears not for Thomas or Vikas but because he was causing Otis to hurt.

Nelly and Otis wed almost a month later and finally received some happiness after all the bleak tragedies from before. Vlad, Henry, Snow, and the rest of the gang graduated from high school just as Otis was taking the position as the new principal of Bathory High School. Life slowly started returning to normal for the little town of Bathory.

After collage Vlad and Henry became actors making appearances in small movies and tv shows. Henry married October after they settled into their new lives as vampires; Vlad had turned them both along with his bride, Snow.

One early morning on a Saturday Henry woke up to a rather abrupt phone call from Vlad. Before he could even say hello and excited yell came out of the phone, "Henry I have great news how fast can you and October get over here at Otis and Nelly's?" Henry sighed and stretched then replied, "we'll be there in a minute."

With that Henry and October got dressed and, using their vampiric speed, ran to Otis and Nelly's house. When they got inside they found Vlad, Nelly, Otis, and Snow waiting for them with bright smiles on their was the one to speak. "you're probably wondering why you've been called here."

Vlad who was bursting with excitement finished Otis' words for him, "Nelly is pregnant!"