'The only reason this is happening is because you promised not to, you know that,' Anna scolded him. She still could not believe this was happening, it had to be a dream.
'This is not happening my dear, and you know that, we are merely playing the other part in each other's dreams,' he replied, unphased by her tone and look. Out of all of her faces, this was his favourite, bar none.
'Then I'll get out,' she said and started to walk away. He let her, knowing she wouldn't be able to get out of the room. She had tried many times before to escape her dream, and it had never worked. Just as she reached the door, she dissappeared. He sighed sadly and did the same. He opened his eyes to the black of his coffin. He couldn't get out, it was already morning. This was the one part about visiting Anna in her dreams he regreted, he was stuck in his coffin for at least twenty-two hours. Many of his kind had said it was impossible for them to have dreams, and when he told them of his, the shook their heads as if he were a child.
Anna had the same problem. Hunters wern't supposed to have dreams, and certainly not about that whom they were hunting. She terribly wanted to tell her brother, but he would scold her, then laugh about it later. She was confined to only two people knowing, herself and Dracula. And seeing as she was never allowed to speak with him, she was confined to herself. She didn't like it, it felt like carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders.
At that moment Velkan walked in and smiled at her. He knew something was wrong, his smile said it all. He was already dressed, and was fully supplied with weapons.
'I heard you talking in your sleep again last night,' he implied immediately. She was aware of what he had heard, but she didn't want him to know, her decision then was to play along.
'I was talking? What did I say?' she asked timidly. She averted her gaze from him to her bedcovers, which had become amazingly interesting.
'You said something about this happening because I promised not to, and saying you'd leave, it makes me wonder what it was that you were dreaming,' he said, rather quickly, as if he had rehersed before he came in. He noticed she wasn't looking at him, and knew she was hiding something. She always looked away from him when she did have something to hide.
'That's interesting, I don't have an idea of what it could be about though, perhaps I was talking to you?' she offered, looking at him quickly and then returning her gaze to the bedcovers.
'It sounded as if you were talking to your dream man again, and I only want to know what he was doing that he shouldn't have been doing,' Velkan said coyly. He cared for his sister, but if Dracula was invading her dreams, he would not know what to do. His father was always the one who dealt with that, and with their father gone, he was lost in a lot of fields.
'Velkan, I don't know what you're talking about, I'm sorry,' she lied and looked at him. He searched her eyes and found nothing but sorrow, but he couldn't tell what for. He nodded and left the room, shutting the door behind him. "You just need to shut your mind to him, that's all, then he won't try to invade your dreams anymore," she scolded herself. She hated lying to Velkan, but she needed to do it. She got out of bed and got dressed. She walked down to the armory, expecting to find Velkan, but he wasn't there. She was glad and decided to go for a walk.
She let her feet carry her, too enveloped by her own thoughts, and when she came to terms with the world, she was at Castle Frankenstien. She shrugged and went inside. The inside was filled with cobwebs, but the dust that should have been undisturbed on the floor, wasn't. People, and many, by the looks of it, had been to the castle, recently. She quickly walked out, scared of who might be there, and rushed home to tell Velkan.
The sun was nearly down by the time she got home, and Velkan was in the armory, which Anna was greatful for.
'Velkan, someone has been taking up residence in Castle Frankenstien. I do not know who, but there were fresh footsteps in the dust,' she said hurriedly. Velkan's face showed worry immediately.
'Do you have any idea on how fresh they are?' he asked calmly. He did not want Anna to worry either, because when she worried, the entire village worried.
'At least today, why?' she asked, confused by his calm demineor. Usually Velkan showed more emotion than he was exhibiting now.
'I'll assemble a team and we will check it out in the morning,' he said, just as calmly. He walked out of the manor and went to the village.
An hour later he came back and Anna was sleeping. He carried her to her room and put her in her bed and retired to his room himself.
"Don't let him in, don't let him in. He doesn't need to be there, he doesn't need to be there," Anna thought to herself in her sleep. So far it seemed to be working. "It's just a dream, if he does come, it's okay, tell him to leave," she kept thinking of keeping Dracula out up 'till she reached a deep sleep. She kept waiting for him to emerg out of the shadows, but he never did. She smiled to herself, feeling accomplishment, then something moved. She walked over to the corner in question, and before she could get a good look at who it was, they attacked. Her arms covered her face, but the assialiant batted them away easily. Before the expected pain could come, she woke up in a cold sweat.
'It's just a dream, it is just a dream,' she told herself, and went back to a dreamless sleep.
Okay, short, but hey, it's dreams. And in the waking world, dreams are really only like, at most, 2 minutes, so I did my research. Anyway, this is basic insomnia. They have dreams one night, then they tell the dreams to go away, and they do. Don't believe me, well, too bad, cause I have slight insomnia, so blah. Anyway, leave a review, please, 'cause I know a lot more people are reading this than the three that reviewed, and Thank You all! Woo!
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