Title: Seeing through the Clear Glass

Fanfic: Van Helsing

Summary: What if Anna hadn't died after all. What if her death had been faked and she is alive for Van Helsing to find.

I don't own anything in this fanfic, but the plot. I wish I owned Huge Jackman but I can only dream! lol

It was midnight and a thick fog had settled over a town in Salem. A person in a dark black jacket stayed in the shadows watching silently as a woman also dressed in black hurried down the square. She stopped to look both ways before heading down the ally. The woman had glowing green eyes and blond hair. She slipped into a door and vanished from sight, down the long corridor. That's when the man stepped out of the shadows and headed towards the door. He had dark hair and wore a black leather hat over his hand so low that it covered his face. He ran down the ally and slipped though the same door that was only like a crack in the wall. The door lead under the ally into a long tunnel. The man in black heard the foot steps, up a head and continued down the tunnel after the blond haired woman. Suddenly the tunnel stopped and it looked like their was no way to get through. He looked around but there was no doubt about it the woman had passed through that way. He ran his hand along the wall and to his surprise their was nothing there. It appeared to be a wall but on further inspection he found out that you could pass through into another room that was hidden by the fake wall. The woman gasped as the man appeared a few seconds into the room.

"Who are you?" She asked, as a look of panic crossed her face.

The man tilted his hat to the side reveling who he was.

"The legendary Van Helsing I presume," she said when she saw his face.

He pointed his cross bow at her saying, "Your coming with me."

"I do not have the time. Can't you see I have given up my ways."

"Then what's that?" He asked aiming his cross bow at her hand.

"What's what?" she asked as the thing in her hand disappeared.

"Don't be using your magic on me."

"It's sorcery and like I have said I am not engaged in such activities anymore. So I am not a threat. Please go out the way you came," she said lighting some of her paper work she had in the corner on fire.

He jumped back startled. "What are you doing that for?"

"Don't you understand, their after me!" She said, before she was hiding how she felt, now how scared she felt shown on her face. "You were instructed to find me and bring me in right, so I didn't cause any more trouble. But if I don't get out of here soon I'll be died anyway. I have to destroy all evidence that I was here."
"What are you taking about?" He asked.

"I have information, they don't want leaked out."

"What information?" He asked, putting his cross bow down.

"Someone important alive and they don't want anyone to know. There's some big plan," she said as she through some of her clothes and tools into a brown sack.

"Who's alive?" He asked.

"I don't know what her name is, I'll I know is that she is important. Can I trust you?"

"Yes," he answered.

"This is what she looks like." The woman thrusted the glass like object into his hands. "What- he started to say, but stopped as the glass changed in his hands. As he stared at it I gave him the feeling that he was staring into some kind of seeing, glass object. He could see grass and green lands, as the picture changed. The picture got darker and he saw the familiar place of Transylvania. The picture changed again and he saw a picture of London. Then in some kind of room inside one of the houses was a picture of a woman chained up to the wall. As she looked up he gasped in recognition. "Anna," he whispered. His voice was choked. He had been upset the day she had died and his heart had never truly healed, from that. He didn't know how it was possible that she was alive, but he was grateful just the same.

"Who's holding her?" He asked the blond sorceress.

"It's someone named- but she didn't get to finish her sentence. Her face turned pale and she fell forward. Van Helsing caught her before she fell.

"Maria!" He yelled to her, but she couldn't hear him, for she was already dead.

He now looked up to see a man standing in the door way. He had a brown mask over his face and what looked like a deep scar over his eye. He smiled tauntingly at Van Helsing and the sorceress, in his arms.

"I sure hope she wasn't a friend of yours."

That's when Van Helsing looked down and saw the small arrow that had been shot into Maria's arm. It had been dipped in some kind of wet substance. He smelled the tip. Sure enough it was poison. He looked back at the man who was now fleeing down the tunnel. The room he was in was now in gulfed in flames, so it was pointless for him to stay. Instead he ran back out through the fake wall to hunt down the assassin who killed Maria. Van Helsing was soon on his heals chasing him through the night. But as they rounded the corner the man with the brown mask seemed to have vanished.

Having not caught the man, Van Helsing returned disappointed to the spot where his friar friend was guarding the horses for him.

"Where's the sorceress?" He asked. "Weren't you instructed to bring her back?"

"She died and is now probably reduced to ashes, from the fire."

"What?" He asked. "You know on second thoughts, I don't want to know."

"Let's go," Van Helsing said. "I'll fill you in on what I found out as we head back." They got on their horses and rode back out of the town, into the cold night, that laid around them.

This is my first Van Helsing fanfic so please be nice on the reviews and please tell me what you think. Question: What is his Friar friend's name? I can't remember.

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