The real world . . .

"Why is Amelia still in the dreamworld?" Vlad snapped.

"When Amelia is ready. She will wake up." Becca said for the 3rd time in the last 5 minutes.

"She's been there for 22 hours and 58 minutes." Vlad snapped again.

"Thee been keeping track?" Raymond asked.

"Of course I have I want to exactly how long she has been there for when wakes up." Vlad barked.

"I've heard of people you have been in the dreamworld for weeks and mouths and sometimes even a entire year." Emma explained.

"A year?" Vlad repeated.

"Amelia won't be there that long. Those were people with mental problems from whatever they went through." Raymond reassured Vlad.

"No. Please. Don't make me go through this again. Please. Please. PLEASE!" Amelia begged in her sleep.

"That shouldn't of happened." Becca commented.

"What does it mean?" Talitha asked.

"Nothing. She not sleeping, it's not a comma, it's the dreamworld. While she is their she shouldn't be able to speak." Emma explained.

"Well before went to the dreamworld there was evidence to prove she was the second most powerful vampire in the world." Ingrid pointed out.

"That's is a good point Ingrid." Talitha said, standing up for her boyfriend's sister. "She is a fourteen year old girl, she is in the dreamworld and she could also be going through some stage to get used to her new powers. I think that makes her situation a little different." she added.

"She still shouldn't be able to talk no matter what the circumstances." Raymoud argued.

"Can you just stop crowding around her!" Vlad snapped at everyone who instantly did as there leader told them.

Just under a hour later . . .

Suddenly, Amelia woke up. Vlad and Raymoud both whooshed towards her. While Emma and Becca whooshed behind the sofa and looked down at their sister.

"It hurts." Amelia told her siblings.

"Were?" Vlad asked.

"E-every w-where." she stuttered in clear pain.

"It might help if you help her to sit up." Becca suggested. Amelia slowly nodded at her brothers, who then carefully lifted up so she was sitting in the center of the sofa. They then sat either side of Amelia. Vlad on her right, Raymoud on her left.

"Amelia, can tell me were you were in the dreamworld?" Bertrand asked. Silence as Amelia stared at the floor.

"Amelia has just woke from the dreamworld Bertrand, now is not the time to pester her with questions." Vlad ordered running his fingers through Amelia's long thick hair. The hair came away in his hand so their was barely 3 cm left. The rest of Amelia's hair fell out and landed on the floor by Amelia feet. Everyone saw this and stared at her.

"What the blood and garlic?" the count asked taking an interest in her for the first time since Amelia first arrived at Gar Side.

"I cut it." Amelia explained.

"Why?" Becca asked.

"I just did." Amelia snapped.

"It happened in the dreamworld. Her hair will be it's normal length in a few days."

"Can you tell us where you were in the dreamworld?" Vlad asked, suddenly curious not caring what he had told Bertrand.

"No." she snapped again.

30 minutes before dawn . . .

Raymond was now sitting on the table, in front of the sofa were Amelia still sitting. Vlad was kneeling on the floor checking over Amelia to see how much her cuts, bruises and broken bones had healed. He did this every hour so he could record the progress in his mind. Every time, Vlad, studied Amelia's stab wound the most. Amelia's clothes were mostly torn anyway, so Vlad didn't need to touch her - only look. When Amelia had woke up, she was literally red, pink, blue and green with all her injures. Her clothes - that were meant to be black - were almost competently red with her own blood. Nearly every bone in her body was broken or badly bruised. Now she had no bruises, all of her cuts were almost back to the scars they were before, her stab wound was now a long pink line, and all her broken bones were now only sprained. All of a sudden 3 VHC members and Clark whooshed in. Vlad used vampire speed to stand up and face the four people who had just entered his home uninvited.

"You can't just walk in here whenever you like!" Vlad yelled.

"We're sorry your grandness, but the situation is important." a member of VHC explained.

"Amelia has just woken from the dreamworld. She won't tell where she was or what happened. SO JUST LEAVE!" Vlad ordered.

"Your grandness we can't." a second VHC member said. Vlad groaned in anger and annoyance.

"Will you get on with it." moaned Clark.

"Get on with what?" Daniel asked. The third VHC member, walked to Amelia and cuffed her hands together.

"What the hell are you doing?" all of Amelia's sibling yelled including Vlad and Ingrid and excluding Daniel.

"Amelia Southenra." he began as he forced her to her feet. She was silent. "I'm arresting you on suspicion of murdering your father Clark Southenra 4 years ago." he said holding Amelia still as she tried to struggle away. Clark smiling the whole time while Amelia yelled and screamed.

"No! Get off me! Get off me! I didn't do it!" Amelia yelled throughout the arrest.

"Get off her! She's done nothing wrong!" Vlad, Raymond, Emma, Becca and Talitha yelled, throughout Amelia's arrest.

"You don't have to say anything. But anything you say or do now may be used against you in court." the third VHC member yelled over everyone, holding Amelia by her shoulders and by her waist so she couldn't struggle anymore.

"What the blood and garlic is going on?" Vlad demanded.

"A couple of days ago Clark seemed very interested in reading Amelia's statement of the night he died." member one began.

"Him being her father we let him see. And he laughed. He then told us he would like to make his own statement." member two continued.

"So he wrote a statement and it said - in short - that his daughter Amelia Southenra murdered him for no reason in cold blood." member three finished.

"When her father died Amelia was ten. In fact it was her tenth birthday, how could anyone think a ten year old is capable of murder?" Vlad asked.

"Amelia Southenra. What do you plead?" member one asked, ignoring Vlad. Amelia was silently fiddling with the lock of her cuffs.

"What do you plead?" member two snapped. Amelia's hand was suddenly free. Amelia made it look like her hands were still cuffed together.

"Fuck you."Amelia snapped back, as she kicked member two in the nuts, bit the arm of member three, that was still around her shoulders. And when member three was in so much pain that he let her free, she released her hand properly and used the cuffs to hit member one around the face and Amelia sprinted to the door. She sprinted down the stairs as quickly as she could while trying to also release her other hand.

When Amelia was by the school entrance, she turned and produced a small ball of sunlight, that caused everyone to keep their distance. Ingrid tried to edge closer, so Amelia pointed her ball of sunlight towards Ingrid.

"Hey. I only came down to say that was a good set of moves you played up there sis." Ingrid said with sisterly encouragement.

"INGRID!" Vlad, Emma, Becca and Raymond yelled. Ingrid rolled her eyes and whooshed upstairs. Amelia even pointed the sunlight at Vlad when tried to get closer.

"Amelia. I just want to help you. I don't want to harm you. Just get rid of the sunlight." Vlad ordered Amelia, who almost instantly did as she was told. However, she threw a fireball at the ground, it very quickly became a line across the room and grew into a wall, Vlad used vampire speed to leap over the growing wall, so he was on the same side as Amelia.

"Go away!" Amelia yelled.

"Amelia please." Vlad begged, taking hold of Amelia's paper thin arm.

"Don't touch me!" Amelia snapped, pulling her arm away and trying to run to the door. Vlad caught her again.

"Amelia I know what you must be feeling scared, lonely and -" Vlad reassured, being cut off by Amelia.

"Don't you dare." Amelia cut off, clearly pissed off. "Don't you fucking dare say you know what I'm feeling. You have no idea what I've been through and no idea what I'm feeling, cause you're me. And you never will! So don't you stand there pretending to be the hero and claim that you know what I'm feeling. You don't." Amelia screamed, as she pulled away from Vlad again and ran out the door. Vlad followed.

"Amelia you're right I don't know what you're feeling." Vlad admitted. "But I know keeping is your emotions inside and not letting them is bad." he added. "Please, tell me were you were and what happened." Vlad asked.

"I - Nothing happened, I'm fine." Amelia insisted, even though it was obvious she wasn't fine at all.

"Fine?" Vlad asked. "You woke up with your clothes in rags, with cut bruises and STAB wounds all over you and you look like you barely weigh a single stone." he stated. "Does that sound fine to you?" he asked.

"Yes." Amelia said stupidity.

"Amelia!" Vlad snapped. "This is serious!" he snapped again. "Amelia, I just want my sister back." he explained softly. Amelia so badly wanted to run into his arms, but the fear of her father was so strong that Amelia believed 100% that it was easier to be hateful.

"But their is no sister for you to get back. Their was no sister for you to lose. Your not my brother. You never were and you never will, because your half breather!" she screamed. Vlad followed Amelia when she ran off again, however when they were by the gate he tried to catch her, his hand went in the sunlight of dawn. Vlad whooshed back inside in pain. Everyone had heard what Amelia said everyone who didn't already know stared at Vlad.

"Is it true?" they asked - expect Clark.

"I can get into Amelia's mind and see where she is." Vlad explained ignoring them. He made a large image, that covered the door, where everyone could see what Amelia saw and hear what Amelia heard. "Amelia come back. I only want to help." he pleased.

"Get out my head." Amelia snapped.

"Amelia just come home so-" Daniel began before he was cut off.

"Yes Amelia listen to Daniel." he ordered.

"If you had let me finish my sentence I was going to say 'so I can rip off her head.' " Daniel said coldly.

"Okay . . . Amelia don't listen to Daniel." Vlad said quickly.

"I said get out of my head." Amelia ordered.

"Amelia." Vlad said trying to calm Amelia down as he could tell she was getting mad.

"GET OUT!" she screamed.

"Amelia I want to help." Vlad explained.

"I don't need your help!" she yelled.

"Yes you do. Tell me where you were in the dreamworld and what happened." he ordered.

"Get out, get out." Amelia muttered with her eyes closed trying to concentrate.

"Amelia!" he snapped.

"It's a long story." Amelia moaned.

"Well we literally have all day so start now." The Count snapped.

"Dad shut up. Amelia talk." Vlad ordered getting irritated.

"I can't." Amelia admitted.

"Why?" Vlad asked.

"Dad." Amelia whispered, with fear in her voice. There was silence, for about a minute, as Amelia walked on.

"Please tell me what happened Amelia. Where were you." he said begging to be answered. Amelia groaned.

"Do you really want to know where I was." she yelled.

"Yes." Vlad snapped at Amelia's sudden anger.

"I was with my dad, for a year." she yelled again.

"What happened?" he asked calmly.

"At one point in that year I ran away." Amelia explained proudly.

"Well, tell me what happened, when you ran away." Vlad asked, even though he was thinking it would make more sense to start from the beginning.

"You know, I think I'll do one better and show you." Amelia said evilly. She was standing outside a massive supermarket, Amelia picked up a large stone and threw it at a window.

"What the blood and garlic are you doing?" Vlad yelled.

"Showing you what did when ran away!" she yelled back, as she walked through the broken window. She saw a security camera. Amelia threw a fire ball at it and smiled when she heard 'crackle pop' in the walls and ceiling, then grinned when all the camera's explode. Amelia's powers somehow now being very advanced, had only destroyed the power in the cameras and nowhere else. Amelia went to the music ale and put a song on called 'This little girl'. As soon as it started playing Amelia forced the headphones from the socket and 'This little girl' was playing around the entire supermarket.

"Amelia, stop this now! You were ten when you were with your father, how could you of done anything like this?" Vlad asked angrily.

"Yeah well . . ." Amelia started to say as she picked up a rucksack and forced the security tag off. " . . . When I was ten I walked in, took what I wanted and walked out." she confessed.

"Why?" Vlad continued to question as Amelia put food and a couple of sweets in the rucksack.

"How else was I supposed to survive on the streets of New York city?" Amelia asked back.

"New York? How the hell did you get to New York?" he asked.

"I flew." Amelia said as if she was explaining this to a 4 year old.

"You were ten." Vlad stated.

"You keep saying that. And actually I was nine." Amelia said as she checked the food in her rucksack for the most healthiest meats and the most unhealthiest sweets. "When I was NINE I had a few powers I shouldn't had. I can't fly now. I've tried dozens of times." Amelia said as if saying that was reassuring, as she danced a little to the song that was still playing.

"Okay so you shoplifted when you were ten? But your older now and understand that it's wrong, so why do it now?" he asked.

"When I was NINE I was shoplifting, because their was no other way for me to survive. But this time, with the vandalism as well as shoplifting, it's not not just survival." Amelia explained.

"Then what else is it?" Vlad asked getting tried of the questions.

"Fun." Amelia said as she ran to the till and kicked it opened.

"STOP!" someone ordered. Amelia looked up. It was a policeman, with two policewoman behind him.

"Drop, the bag and put your hands above your head." a policewoman ordered. Amelia hesitated.

"NOW!" A second policewoman yelled. Amelia did as she was told. However when Amelia's hands were above her head she clicked her fingered and all three police officers were hypnotized. Amelia waved her hands about to make sure they were completely unaware of what was going on.

"Cool." Amelia stated.

"No, Amelia this isn't cool!" Vlad snapped, as he saw all the money in the till (he can see and hear everything Amelia sees and hears remember?).

"Isn't it?" Amelia asked, as she took out all the notes from the till. Amelia picked up her rucksack and put the money inside.

"Amelia they may be hypnotized but they still saw you." Vlad commented.

"I know that." Amelia snapped. "But where is the fun if I simply make them forget about me?" Amelia asked, as she picked up two bottles of hair dye one black, the other brunet. She also took a load of make up. Amelia smiled evilly. Amelia faced the police officers. "I ran off out the door and went left." Amelia lied to them. She walked out the shop, turned right, clicked her fingers then ran across the road the moment she head them coming. When Amelia stopped, running she took a fiver from her bag and went in another shop and brought two liters of water, a brush - that had a small mirror and a comb with it -, scissors and a white towel. Since it was early and there wasn't many people on the streets, Amelia used her powers to levitate the water in front of her as she walked.

"Amelia what are you doing?" Vlad asked.

"You'll see." Amelia replied. She walked deep into a woods. Amelia used her powers to levitate the mirror and turned it into a full length mirror. Amelia struggled through the instructions on the black hair dye bottle, but eventually figured out what to do. She had to pour the two liquids together, then shake for a minute. Amelia did this then got out the scissors. Before the dreamworld Amelia's hair went all the way down her back, now it was about 6-7cms from her shoulders. Amelia used the scissors to trim the ends of her hair. Amelia then took off her top so the only clothing on her upper body was her bra, which since the dreamworld had become much to big. She put on the gloves that came with the hair hair dye, shock the bottle once more, flicked her hair over her and poured the hair dye on her head.

Amelia used her hands to scrub the dye into her hair. She covered her hair with the towel. After 30 minutes she got one of the two liter bottles of water and poured half of it on her head. Then there was a small packet that made the dye permanent and not wash out. This stayed in Amelia's hair for 3 minutes then used the rest of the liter bottle to wash it out. Amelia held the towel on her shoulders for anther ten minutes or so while her hair mostly dried. She used the towel to do the rest. She brushed her hair out and did a similar thing with the brunet hair dye to dye the ends of her hair. When she was done, Amelia's black done to the last ten centimeter or so, where it was a light brown.

"Now they won't recognize me." Amelia said to herself as she put her top back on.

The wall of fire Amelia had made had been there for hours and everyone was either sitting on the floors, stairs or tables. Vlad had no choice but to sit on the floor because he was trapped by the door. Daniel sat next to him on the other side of the wall.

Suddenly, the firewall burn out. Daniel leaped up and ran for the door, he was so quick that not even Vlad could stop him.

"Daniel! Come back!" Vlad yelled knowing it was hopeless.

"Looks like there is gonna be a fight." Ingrid mocked, knowing she was pissing off her brother.

"Shut up, Ingrid!" Vlad snapped.


Amelia is on the run - again. Next chapter will be up soon. Yes as Ingrid said, there will be a fight. Next chapter in a week or so.

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Bye,

MD,

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