Chapter one: A celebration to remember,
Erin and Vlad turned to look at each other both with huge grins on their faces, they had done it they had defeated Sethius. Erin ran towards Vlad her arms open in a warming embrace, Vlad stumbled backwards as she squeezed the living daylight out of him. The count looked around the room noticing that it was school in approximately three minutes; he clapped his hands to his mouth and sucked his teeth causing thunder to strike downwards towards the pile of ash that had being sitting there for the past five minutes.
"Vladdy lets leave the celebrations till after *you* have tidied up!" The count roared. "I can't tidy up this mess because I have got school!" Vlad said irritate. "Renfield!" he screamed. "Coming master," sang Renfield gleefully, "Tidy this mess immediately," screeched the count.
Immediately Renfield got to work scrapping the rubble off the floor, Erin and Vlad looked towards the clock and raced up stairs to get ready for school. When Vlad reached his bedroom door he turned around to face Erin. "Erin are you sure you should go to school today, you look pretty tired plus and you know vampires can go without days of sleeping?" Vlad questioned her as her eyes drooped lower and lower. "Yes I'm fine Vlad I'm sure I can survive history just this once," she chortled sleepily. He grabbed Erin's wrists to pull her closer but she yelped in pain and jumped back. He loosened his grip around her wrists and stared at them. They were bloody and definitely swollen; he looked into her eyes with an apologetic look. "Erin what happened to your hands?" he said while cradling them in his cool hands. "It's nothing really, It was when Bertrand kidnapped me the rope sort of dug in and also to get out of the rope I must of twisted them a bit. I suppose the book didn't help either when it pricked me, Vlad don't worry it doesn't hurt they will be fine," she said while wincing in pain. "Erin sometimes you are such a bad liar, I am taking you to Renfield and you are to stay off school today!" he said with strength in his voice. "But!" Erin said defensively. "No butt's Erin you're staying off school today and I am taking you to Renfield!" he said with authority in his tone. "I will only stay off school if you stay too your just as tired but you won't admit it!" Erin fought back. "Okay whatever as long as you get some sleep and your wrists are better," Vlad said finally defeated.
Vlad dragged Erin down the stairs and she reluctantly followed hating every step, when Vlad had finally found Renfield Erin was nearly half asleep and it was only half eleven in the morning. Renfield told Erin to sit down on the kitchen work surface that was covered in grime and dirt. She shuffled about while Renfield washed his slimy hands. Renfield roughly grabbed Erin's hands towards himself; Erin winced with pain and Vlad gave him a warning stare. Renfield placed a frozen bag of peas onto her wrists. "We need to wait till the swelling goes down to see what bones she broke." Renfield said while he inspected a cockroach. "What bones I have broke!" Erin exclaimed while Renfield nodded silently. Vlad was just as shocked as Erin. "How bad do you think it actually is?" Vlad asked. "Um, it's hard to say around about three bones broken in the left and I think the right is dislocated. The left wrist going to need six weeks in plaster and the right need to be put back in to place as soon as possible but then it should be fine with just a bandage." He said while lifting the bag of peas off her hand. Erin looked as white as a sheet and Vlad looked like he could cry. He remembered when Robin had dislocated his wrist trying to fly out of a window like a Vampire; they had to put him to sleep even though Vlad knew he had an extremely high pain tolerance. This was going to hurt Erin even more as Renfield didn't have the equipment to put her to sleep also with three broken bones in her left wrist Vlad knew this was going to hurt a lot more. Renfield asked if he could start treating Erin and she agreed but only if Vlad would stay. He carefully injected some pain killers into Erin's arm because her wrists were to sore. Renfield made her lie down on the table because if she moved it could go terribly wrong. Vlad held her shoulders against the table as Renfield had requested and talked to her in a calm way trying not to show the fear in his voice, Renfield slowly pulled her right arm up to his height. She winced loudly taking deep gulps of air, Vlad hated every second that went by. Watching Erin in pain was horrible especially when your own tutor Bertrand had done it. Renfield yanked her wrist and there was a faint click and it was done but surprisingly there was no screaming, shouting or threatening. This was unusual but when he looked down at Erin he knew why, she was out cold, part of him said thank god because he knew she couldn't feel the pain but the other half was worried about her. Renfield checked her pulse to confirm that she was out cold but breathing. Renfield continued treating her as it would be less agony. Once he had wrapped her right hand in a big thick cotton bandage he turned to the left wrist. He applied the cold plaster to some mesh that went round her left hand slowly it built up to a surprisingly neat cast. Finally he rapped some red material to make it more durable and then put it in a sling as she couldn't have both her hands in a sling so the right dangled by her side with a heavy bandage on. Renfield left the kitchen to get back to work. Vlad looked down at Erin who was sleeping peacefully on the table. Her one arm in a cast and the other in a bandage, anger rage through him Bertrand was going to pay for what he had done to Erin.
Vlad scooped Erin up slowly not wanting to wake her and sped away to his room as fast as he could, when he reached his dark and gloomy room he placed Erin on the sofa. She wriggled in pain as he placed a hand on her fore head. For a minute he thought of waking her to see if she needed anything but then decided against it.
After what felt like hours Erin came round from her sleep, at first Erin smiled but then everything came back to her. She felt a rush of emotion through her head. Silent tear slipped down her face she tried to wipe them but both her arm were num. She was alone in Vlad's room, she felt scared on her own on the sofa she felt another gush of tears pour down her warm face. Suddenly the door handle turned and Erin tried to recoil into the sofa but she found she couldn't. Vlad was stood there in the door frame looking down at her.
Pity filled his eyes as he watched the young girl cry with all her might although she was crying silently. Vlad clicked his fingers and the door shut behind him as he rushed over to Erin, Embracing her into a hug of some sorts she let a sigh. "What happened?" she asked in a whisper.