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Velfin: It definitely is a really good part in the movie... let's see if I can make something with it! ;)


Is this your silver stake?

Dracula screamed in pain, but only for a second. Then he just grabbed the thing Van Helsing had attacked him with and held it in front of the other man's face.

"Is this your silver stake?" he asked in a dangerously low tone.

"Actually no!" Gabriel Van Helsing replied at once with a really calm voice.

Dracula frowned. The heart beat of the other man was steady as it always seemed to be so he couldn't tell from this if he was saying the truth. Heck, he couldn't be saying the truth because the thing was there and there was no other person who could be the owner! Still the situation was very confusing.

"You really want me to believe that this thing isn't yours although I saw how you took it out of your coat and hit me with it?" Dracula asked astonished and also a little upset because the other man seemed to think that he was stupid or something.

"No", Van Helsing answered again still as calm as before "Well, Carl gave it to me so it used to be his but since he doesn't even want or expect me to give it back to him I am going to say that it is in fact mine."

Dracula's face turned red with anger as he shouted: "Just a second ago you said that it wasn't yours, now you say it's yours, so what is it?"

"I said, in fact, that it isn't my silver stake, which is true!" Gabriel shot back immediately "Because it is in fact my silver steak!"

There was a broad grin on his face as if he had just made the joke of his life. Thinking over it, it probably was the joke of his life.

"WHAT?" Dracula cried out disbelieving.

"A steak, a piece of meat, you know?" Gabriel explained as if it had really been a question.

"I know what a steak is!" Dracula spat "But why are you attacking me with one?"

"Because you would never ever have expected that!" Gabriel answered truthfully and in a tone as if he was saying something very logical.

"I wouldn't expect you to bring me sweets and flowers either, but I see none anywhere!" the Count said still rather mad.
At the same time he had to admit that the thought of Gabriel standing in front of him with flowers and sweets was kind of scary. So he still preferred the steak even though it still didn't make any sense to him.

Van Helsing thought about this for some time before he replied: "Well, possibly you wouldn't expect it, but how would flowers and sweets help me to destroy you?"

"How will a silver steak?" Dracula shot back "The stake would have been worth a try at least, although it wouldn't have worked as well."

"Either you try and eat the steak yourself and die of food-poisoning because of all the silver in it" Gabriel explained "Or the werewolf you are keeping as a pet will be coming after you because you are holding the steak and then it will eat you and the steak and you're dead and the werewolf will die because of the silver, too!"

The Count was speechless. "Wow! You really thought about this!"

"What did you expect? I am the great Van Helsing after all! I killed Mr. Hyde, saved the Queen, make witty remarks even thought I'm in life-threatening situations and manage to look incredibly good no matter what I'm doing!" Gabriel announced proudly.

Count Dracula had just started to panic because this time his enemy seemed to be a really intelligent man with really good plan, when Carl entered the room panting and trying to catch his breath very hard.

"Van Helsing" he shouted holding an object into the air "Is this your silver stake? You forgot to take it along!"