As I said this story will be finished in a day or two and I'm keeping good on my promise. Another chapter is here and I'm going to keep the ball rolling. Because I'm going to be posting so much today I'm going to keep my authors notes short. So please R&R thanks.

Rated M: for strong graphic violence, strong sexual content, and strong language.

Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. I own nothing to do with the series just own the plot of this story. I don't intend to make a profit from this.

Chapter Three

Laura was sitting on the couch her legs up in her chest. What kind of person could have done such a thing? Capture pictures of her and Carmilla in their most intimate moments. She shook a bit, thinking of how that could have happened. This person had been stalking them for a year now. They had seen everything they had done, and this person had been close to them all along. She looked up as Carmilla pulled down the final picture and threw it into the pile of pictures. She looked back down not looking at her anymore.

Carmilla was fuming, someone had been following her and Laura. She had a good idea who had been following her. It was Dracula, he was now threatening Laura. It was one thing to threaten her. It was something else entirely to threaten her girlfriend. She lost Estate because of Dracula and lost one other she loved thanks to her mother. No more, no one was going to take her love from her, never again. She grabbed all the pictures and walked out back. She moved over to a fire pit and threw them into it. Taking out some matches she lit them. Setting the pictures on fire the vampire looked down as they caught fire. Walking back into the house she walked into the bedroom. Reaching up she ripped down the wallpaper removing the words from the wall. Carrying it outside she threw it onto the fire pit.

Just then her phone rang. "Nirvana?" She questioned staring at the fire.

"Yeah, it's me" a voice said from the other end of the line.

"Tell me, do the Slayers or Were-Vamp have any line on Dracula?" She asked turning back towards the house.

"No, the last time he showed up on any radar, or at least a sighting," Nirvana said as the sound of papers flipping came through the phone. "A year ago, he was seen in Albania. Actually at Silas."

Carmilla stopped, her eyes closing her teeth bearing. She was ready to punch her fist through a wall but stopped. She looked to see Laura standing there in a doorway looking at her. "Thanks Nirvana" she said calming down.

"No problem Carmilla, if you need anything else don't hesitate to call" Nirvana said before the line went dead.

Carmilla put the phone back into her pocket. She looked over to Laura who was covering herself up as much as possible. Carmilla walked forward and wrapped her tightly in her arms. She listened to Laura cry softly as she nuzzled herself closely to her. The vampire looked at her as she stroked her hair softly. She kissed her head as they moved back to the couch.

"It's going to be okay" Carmilla said softly.

"There's someone following us, how will it be okay?" Laura asked looking up at her.

"Because I'm going to put an end to it" the vampire said stroking her head. "I'm not going to let you get hurt" she vowed looking out the window. She looked to Laura who still cried softly. "It's Dracula, he's trying to get at me again. He wants to hurt me once more like when he went after Estate" she explained looking to Laura who looked up at her.

"Why would he do this?" Laura asked looking up at her.

"Mind fuck. He's trying to get in our heads. We can't let him" Carmilla said looking at her.

"How?" Laura asked nuzzling closer to her.

"Well, he took pictures of us having sex. He mostly got pictures of my pale ass" Carmilla said smirking at her.

Laura looked at her and smirked a bit. She laughed a bit as she laid her head onto Carmilla's chest. She reached out and took the cold hand of the vampire's. She looked up and kissed her softly. She looked over to see her computer and slowly got up. Walking over she grabbed it and her webcam. She turned them on and looked at herself. She tried to smile but it was short lived.

"Hey everyone, so we're here at Carmilla's house outside of Seattle and we've had quite the welcome home. Come to find out Carmilla owns a club, who would have thought." She said smiling a bit before a frown appeared on her face. "Then when we got back to Carm's house we found... something of a nightmare. There were hundreds of pictures strung up throughout the house. Pictures of Carm and me. Pictures of us from all over the world. Including pictures of us in some very intimate moments."

"And to the mother fucker, you know who you are. It's been a long time coming. I'm going to make you suffer" Carmilla growled getting right up to the camera.

"Carmilla please" Laura said looking back at her.

"No, fuck that, they know who they are and once I get my hands on them I'm gonna kill them" Carmilla growled walking away.

"Sorry to my younger viewers" Laura said with a sigh. "We're just really stressed out because of this. For now we're going to look into it more. Until next time" Laura said deactivating the camera.

Pushing back from the computer she looked back to see Carmilla pacing around outside. Walking onto the back porch she looked as Carmilla came to a stop under a tree. She looked to see two handprints carved into it. Walking up she looked as Carmilla reached up and placed her hand over the smaller of the two hands.

"When I came to the states in the seventeen hundreds I brought this tree along with me. Not long after the revolution I took this tree west and planted it here. I claimed this land as mine and worked with the natives. Estate gave me this tree, we carved our hands into it" Carmilla explained looking at the hand print.

"Carmilla?" Laura asked walking up to her.

"I failed Estate, I killed her" Carmilla said slowly turning to face her. "I won't fail you."

Laura moved up to her and placed a hand on her cheek. Leaning forward she kissed her. "I know you won't" Laura said tipping her head to Carmilla's. "You proved that when you killed your mother. I trust you with my life" Laura said kissing her once more.

"I'm a monster, how can you trust me?" Carmilla said softly. Her whole world was threatened by the vampire who destroyed her life in the past. Now he was coming back for her. She looked into Laura's eyes a lone blood tear coming from her right eye.

"Because you proved that even you can be redeemed" Laura said wiping the blood tear away. Carmilla tipped her head to Laura's. Their eyes were closed as they stroked each other's cheeks. Together they made their way back into the house.

XX

Carmilla laid on her side, the moonlight shining through her bedroom window. She looked at the back of Laura's head. She hadn't been able to sleep and now her mind was swimming. Every little sound made her jump, thinking maybe Dracula might be coming for her. She looked over to see sitting on her nightstand was a dagger and a pistol. She didn't think it would kill him, but it would slow him down.

Slowly she removed herself from Laura's side and got up from the bed. Walking through the house she moved out onto the front porch. She looked out across the landscape, her eyes scanning for anything out of the ordinary. She did see a small herd of deer walking past the house. She walked down and looked as a doe walked over to her. Kneeling down she extended her hand out to the deer. It sniffed her hand before licking her it. Carmilla smiled as she reached up and stroked the deer's head gently. Looking back she saw Laura watching her. She motioned her to join.

Laura looked at her and slowly started moving towards her. The deer looked at her and backed up a bit. Laura stopped and watched as the deer looked around a bit. Carmilla motioned her to join her once more. Slowly she made it over to her side and deer the backed up a little bit more. Kneeling next to the vampire they looked at the deer as it slowly stepped back towards them. Carmilla took Laura's hand and gently guided it towards the deer. Laura smiled as she scratched the head of the deer. She looked over to Carmilla who was smiling. Slowly they leaned in and kissed each other, their hands slowly wrapping around one another.

XX

The sun rose in the morning lighting up the bedroom. Carmilla's eyes opened to the sounds of birds chirping. Getting up she stretched her nude figure letting the sun warm her a bit. She looked back to see Laura still asleep. She smiled as she leaned over and kissed her tenderly. Looking up her eyes widened when she saw sitting on a nightstand was another picture, one that hadn't been there before. She stared at the picture to see it was of her and Laura with the deer from the night before. Climbing out of bed she walked over and picked it up. Dracula was in the house last night. She looked around, her eyes looking at Laura. She sighed in relief as she rolled onto her back.

Why didn't he kill us? She thought as she looked back to the picture turning it over she looked to see writing on it. Her eyes narrowed before dropping the picture. Turning she got dressed. She looked back to Laura as she slept peacefully on the bed. Turning she walked out of the house leaving Carmilla in bed.

Written on the back of the picture was a set of directions. Directions to a factory not far from the house. Written under the directions was a phrase; The Answers You Seek Are Here.