Vlad sighed as his limo pulled up to the adoption agency. After twenty years of being so utterly alone, he decided that it was time to finally have someone to fill his castle with. And not someone who would constantly be fighting him, like Daniel. Of course he still longed after Maddie, but with each passing day Daniel was becoming more powerful and through him, Maddie was slowly drifting out of his grasp.
After twenty years the things that I've desired more than anything are falling through my grasp…I never really got control over intangibility, in a sense…I can reach through walls but can't keep a solid grip on the things that are important to me…
As he entered the building one of the workers told him that they had just gotten a pair of twins, the two of whom were nearly inseparable. She asked him if he wouldn't mind finding room in his heart for two loves.
Vlad smiled, but it wasn't an evil, gloating smile. It was the smile of one who was at peace with the world.
"Of course I don't mind a pair of twins," he replied.
Maddie and Packers. His two loves. Two lucky kittens that he carried by the scruffs of their necks back into his limo, and that would find a home in a spacious castle in Wisconsin.