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After Victoria had persuaded Barnabas to leave Widows Hill, Julia breathed a sigh of relief. She had not been discovered. Julia knew that she would have to reveal herself to Barnabas eventually. But for now she needed to find something or someone to drink. Julia lifted her head from behind the rock and saw no one. Taking this as her moment to leave, she pushed herself off the ground and began to walk towards the path. The path could be found lying underneath the cliff face. An opening had been carved out in the stone, making it able for people to walk freely to the base of the cliff. The opening cast dark shadows along the floor, and as Julia entered the cave like creation, she became completely immersed in the shadows. That's when she heard it. The sounds of several men shouting orders at one another. Julia couldn't make out what they were saying to one another, and merely assumed that they were fishermen. Julia watched from the shadows as the men frantically waved their arms about, attempting to grab abandoned nets from the water. This was her chance; she was going to take it.

"Hello boys." She said as she walked out of the shadows. The men turned around and looked at her in confusion. One of the men walked forward slightly, he was rubbing his hands together, demonstrating his nerves.

"Julia Hoffman i-is that you? We thought you were dead. At least that's what we were told to believe, by that Angie person." The man said, Julia recognised him. He was one of the people who had begun work at the new Collins canning industry.

"Well you shouldn't believe everything you hear." Julia replied. It was with this last statement that she ran forward. She jumped on the man and tore a hole in his throat. She drank from him in a mere 3 seconds. Her ability to drain a bottle of whiskey in a minute or so seemed to have paid off. Barnabas could boast all he wants about his 5 second drinking skill; Julia was a lot stronger than he was.

The others began to ran, but she gave them little chance of escape. Pushing herself off the corpse, she grabbed two other men and drained the life out of them. Blood now soaked her dress and she was soon lifting the final fisherman off the ground and looking him straight in the eyes.

"Thanks for this by the way." Julia said before clasping her teeth on his neck and sucking the last remaining piece of life out of him. Julia felt more alive than ever and took this moment to begin her travels to her home.


Barnabas and Victoria had arrived at Collinwood in no time at all, and were there to see the final destruction of the house. There was nowhere for them to live. The building was falling down piece by piece as the fire took hold. Angelique had completely destroyed it. Elizabeth walked up to both vampires and told them that they would need to move to a temporary arrangement.

"There's a hotel nearby. I'm sure we could stay there." Victoria said as she watched the firemen douse the bright orange flames. Both Barnabas and Elizabeth nodded in approval and began to tell the other family members to follow them.

Julia reached the gates of Collinwood just in time to see the large family walking away from the house. She quickly hid behind the shrubbery and watched from a distance as Barnabas and the Collins family began the decent to Collinsport. Once they were at a safe distance Julia began to walk behind them in hushed steps. She became aware that they were moving to a temporary living space. She could see Barnabas and Victoria's hands clasped together. It took all the will power that Julia had to prevent herself from running and ripping the girls head off. Barnabas would be hers if it was the last thing she ever did. With this thought she carried on walking behind them, occasionally ducking behind trees and bushes to prevent her from being seen. She didn't know what she was going to do when she got to the hotel, she could hardly book a room next to theirs.


Upon their arrival at Collinsport's only hotel, Elizabeth arranged for the two children to share a bedroom with her. She then arranged for Barnabas to have a room by himself; to which he said he could share with Victoria. However Elizabeth insisted that that was not necessary and made further arrangements for Victoria and Willie to have separate rooms as well. Julia had not been able to sneak inside the building and could not hear anything about the room arrangements. She only saw Elizabeth depart with the two children towards a staircase. Willie quickly walked towards the elevator that was located next to the stairs. Barnabas and Victoria were the last to depart.

"Oh! Madam, your room can be found using the elevator over there. Sir your room is at the opposite end of the hotel." The woman at the front desk shouted. Victoria and Barnabas looked at each other in disappointment and bid each other farewell. From her vantage point Julia could see Barnabas moving to the staircase. Victoria wasn't there. This was her chance.

Julia watched as both Victoria and Barnabas disappeared. She walked through the doors of the hotel and began to walk towards the staircase.

"Uh, ma'am. You're not allowed up to the rooms without checking in; do you have a room key?" The girl asked. She was young, around nineteen. She had dark brown hair that she held up in a tight bun. It left her neck completely exposed. Julia smiled slightly.

"I have a room key." She said she did not move from her spot.

"May I see it?" The girl replied looking at Julia with an odd expression illuminating her face. Julia began to walk forward. She reached the front desk quickly and leaned forward so that her lips were inches away from the girl's ear.

"No." Julia pulled her head back, mimicking the same face that Barnabas had had when he had attempted to kill her. She drained the girl's body, leaving no trace of blood on her already covered dress. The girl's body dropped limply to the floor, where Julia left it. She would deal with the remains later. She was about to leave when she spotted a bottle of whiskey on the desk.

"Old habits die hard." She said as she lifted the bottle to her lips and began walking towards the staircase. This was going to be fun.


Julia found Barnabas' room quickly. It was by far the largest one, and it was only due to the hushed tones and the raw stench of blood that she realised it was his. She smiled to herself; finally she was going to get him alone. She couldn't wait to see his face. Julia dropped the empty bottle of whiskey that she had quickly drained, into a plant pot opposite his room. Walking forward she pushed at the door. It didn't move Barnabas had locked it from inside.

While trying to figure out how she was going to get in Julia noticed a small window located next to his room. The window led out onto a ledge and Julia could see the window that lead into Barnabas' room. She pushed the window open and allowed herself to push her body through the gap. Once she was on the ledge she managed to shimmy across until she reached the window to Barnabas' room. He'd left it wide open; she could see him sitting with his back to her looking into the open space. Julia placed her hands on the ledge above the window and swung her legs through, landing on her feet.

"Hello Barnabas, have you missed me?"

A/N – I hope you enjoyed this chapter. There won't be an update tomorrow as I'm visiting family. I will try to update on Sunday. Please review, thank you x