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A/N: Thanks to my new followers: TeamComrade11 and Knight-Rider-Of-The-Mad + thanks for your reviews.

I have found a potential Beta and she is going to read and correct so hang on and she will be my Beta. She will have to read (and correct) my earlier chapters first so... patience.

NobleAndAncientLineBlack: Yes I had an idea to have plenty of female OC's just for you ;) The trouble with more OC's is how I would like to portray them(sassy or childish or bloodthirsty and so on...) and background stories. Don't know exactly how to portray (her qualities) "the one" without being Mary-Sue-ish.

I had a few options about who it was with Charles but at last decided on a new OC.

Ah I saw my mistakes about using the same word too often. Most of the time I have written a sentence but then decides to change half of that sentence... and when I read that new sentence sometimes I miss. But don't worry I reread my chapters even after posting them so little changes of some words keep happening.

But I have found a Beta so hopefully she will keep me on track. Thanks for pointing it out!

I have been busy this week but don't worry I will hopefully at least update one chapter every two week.

~ Charles tells his story ~

LAST TIME:4th April 1947, London, England

Two years had gone by since I last saw Charles and I had spent that time studying at Brussels like I had planned. Nothing interesting had happened but I did become more knowable about different subjects but I missed Charles. When I was at his house and opened the door he wasn't alone...

NOW-NOW-NOW-NOW-NOW-NOW-NOW-NOW:

Standing next to Charles was a woman in her late 20's wearing a voluminous, halter-necked frock in white with blue flowers and a black sash around her waist.

"Nicholas there you are, how have you been?" Charles said while giving me a friendly pat on the shoulder before returning to stand next to the woman in the room. She had black hair hanging down to the middle of her back and was almost Charles height, just a bit shorter than him.

"I've been good," I replied and shot a look at Charles companion. "A bit lonely... how about you?"

"I have been terribly good, you see, I..."

"Are you not forgetting something?" The woman spoke in an accent, interrupting Charles while wrapping her arms around his one arm.

"Oh I'm sorry, this is Natalia Yolkov," Charles said while smiling at her. "And this my dear is Nicholas that I told you about."

"Nice meeting you."

"Charles has told me about you," she replied in her raspy voice "I believe you have met my brother Victor?"

"Victor... ah the Russian in the woods?" I asked while looking at her as she nodded.

"I was meeting Victor in Russia after my travels in France and he introduced us."

"Victor is your biological brother?" I asked. "If you don't mind me asking?" I added quickly not wanting to be on her bad side as she obviously meant a lot to Charles.

"It is a logical question given what we are," she said while smiling at Charles as she continued speaking. "Victor is my biological big brother and he is also the one that turned me. You see it was hard during the war and the winter in Russia is cold. I was lost on my way home as there was a storm but I couldn't find shelter. Long story but in short it seemed he had watched me and while he couldn't save me, he turned me."

"And I am quite happy for it my dear," Charles said while giving Natalia a hug as talking about how you got turned wasn't a happy memory.

"And you two are?" I asked wanting to know if they were friends or more.

"Come and I will tell you all about my two years away from you, young one." Charles replied, taking us into the joint office and library. Having a human moment Charles and Natalia sat together on the big leather sofa while I took a seat across from them on the leather armchair.

Charles told me how he traveled around in France for two months before he traveled to Russia and made contact with Victor. It took seven months before Victor trusted him and after having a surprise visit from some unfriendly vampires. It was only then that Victor revealed that he had a sister that was in the country visiting him and he introduced them to each other.

Charles revealed that he was struck by both her beauty and mind after their first conversation but Natalia wasn't easily swayed.

"Oh but I was," Natalia interrupted. "I didn't know if you were only a flirt or if you actually had real feelings for me."

Charles continued telling me how he tried spending time with Natalia alone without Victor being suspicious as she was his little sister and very protective over her. Victor quickly began noticing how close Charles was to his sister and confronted him. Charles told us how Victor began questioning him about his intentions about his sister and Charles finally told him the truth.

"I looked him in the eye and I said: "In all this time, there haven't been one vampire that has caught my affections as she has. I think... no I know I'm in love with her and I haven't stop falling for her." Of course that was when Victor started punching me." Charles told us.

"He did WHAT?!" Natalia shouted, interrupting him again. "You never told me!"

"We... I didn't want you to worry dear," Charles said looking sheepish. Wrapping his arm over her shoulder as she hummed at his answer.

"So what happened then?" I asked.

"Naturally I wanted to fight back but I held back my instincts," Charles replied quickly not wanting Natalia to worry even if this fight was a long time ago.

Charles continued his story about the past. It seemed that when Charles didn't fight back Victor finally backed off. ("Victor did nearly take my arm of before he stopped, I had quite the crack," Charles told me later when we were alone.) Victor accepted that he had feelings for Natalia but wasn't happy about this development at all. When Charles asked for permission to court her, Victor agreed but if Natalia only saw Charles as a friend, he would let her be.

Turns out that Natalia was more open with how she felt after Victor told her about how Charles asked permission for courting her. (They did however agree to not tell her about how Charles asked and the fight, as you can tell.)

Only after months of courting and seeing how happy Natalia was did Victor finally accept that Charles wasn't that bad for his sister.

Charles and Natalia didn't want to get married (yet) as they were happy finding their mate but Charles did propose and give her an engagement ring. (A silver ring with a large red ruby in the center of a sleek two rows of round diamonds. The center stone is surrounded by smaller diamonds.)

After being with Victor in Russia and after a week after Charles proposal they left Russia and Victor and started heading here, to London.

For seven months before our meeting they stayed in an isolated house, in the middle of a forest in Spain. Charles didn't give me any details about the house as he told me that they needed to repair it or possibly build a new house altogether while they both didn't look at me and acted really strange. Only then did I connect the dots and I didn't ask more questions about Spain or what they did in those seven months. It was like their mini-honeymoon and I so didn't want to know, 'cause it's Charles and that picture in my mind is just so wrong.

Instead I started telling them about my two years alone and what I did. Charles was amazed that I wanted to go to school and continue learning without killing the class in the process. Charles was more in to reading books and learn it by practicing.

4th October 1947, London, England

Spending six months with a very in love couple was very strange as I could hear them even when I wasn't in the same room. I soon learned that the best way to not hear them was to escape outside, far away from the house.

The house itself has been decorated in a different way as it needed a "female touch" or so Natalia said and we let her. (Because if she was happy = Charles happy = happy couple and no arguments = I'm happy.)

Natalia and I got along great, even when Charles wasn't around. If Charles was more my uncle, I would say that Natalia was more a big sister then my aunt. She was easy-going and emotional after you got to know her. Often when Natalia was out (shopping or "eating" mostly) and she saw orphans or poor families she gave away money or her jewelry (necklaces and bracelets) of the day to them. She had a very soft heart underneath all her sarcasm.

A/N: Happy about Charles and Natalia? I wanted to make Charles happy.

The next chapter is on its way (like 40% done) but I decided to publish this chapter now and see what you would want to see next or your thoughts.

As a side note: First I thought about making Natalia like a gold-digger: how she goes from vampire to vampire depending on what they could give her or just because she was bored and wanted to be in the honeymoon-stage where everything is perfect. Really shallow but I just couldn't do it in the end. So she became Victors sister instead.