Young Dracula Season 1 – Outtakes
Hi everyone, welcome to my seventh outtake. I just want to inform you that from now on I will be updating this fanfiction once every three days unless I get more free time. It's because originally I was going to write this fanfiction my Insignificant Characters fanfiction then my A Day from Hell one but I thought I could cope with them all at once. I was wrong and with exams only two months away I have to start revising on top of writing fanfiction and all my college work. Sorry.
This one is kind of a Vlad adapting to being a breather one, it's based during episode 4 after Robin has been claimed as The Count's heir. Vlad is at the Brannaghs with Chloe and gaining a better understanding of breather culture while telling Chloe about Vampire culture. I've made it so that Chloe is really trying to understand Vlad even though I'm not her biggest fan but still I hope my biases haven't reflected upon her. There is no Ingrid or the Count or Robin in this one.
I don't own Young Dracula.
Sympathy and Empathy – based in episode 4
Vlad sat on the sofa feeling rather comfortable on the outside but hurting like hell on the inside.
He had just had dinner with the other Brannaghs and had extremely enjoyed the steak and ale pie Mrs Brannagh had cook up, it was better than Renfield's food by a mile.
He was hurting though. The way his father had dismissed him like a nobody had hurt him deeply all the way to the core, yes, Vlad still saw the Count as his father, he couldn't help but shake the feeling that Ingrid was playing some trick and the fact that when he had told Chloe she agreed just made him feel worse.
He'd always thought his father would love him no matter what, but now Vlad had realised that was how a breather thought, not a vampire. Vampires only loved their own flesh and blood, the embodiment of their power not the individual themselves. The Count was cold and heartless and quite frankly even if he was his father and realised it Vlad was unsure as to whether he would forgive him ever again.
Knowing this Vlad also knew that it was this kind of discovery that often led to vampire children becoming evil and once that evil was released and encouraged enough it would take over completely. This would ultimately lead to an heir against a father with the father ending up as dust and the heir taking the throne…
Vlad knew this happened all the time, throughout vampire history, Counts and high ranking vampires were slain and in the old days three quarters of the time it was their heirs that did it, now the numbers had lowered but only because the slayers had become so strong…
Vlad's thoughts were interrupted by the sound of Chloe quietly opening the door to the living room, then shutting it and sitting next to Vlad her expression full of sympathy.
"Are you alright Vlad?" Chloe asked knowing it was a stupid question especially for her but she had to ask.
"I don't… know." Vlad admitted curling up into a ball on the sofa and Chloe put an arm around him carefully. A couple of weeks ago she was kind of shy of Vlad knowing he was a vampire but now she had gotten to know him she felt like he was a good person, a true friend.
"Thanks," Vlad muttered leaning to her slightly his lips trembling. Chloe tried her best to calm him but then decided Vlad needed a distraction, so she reached over grabbing the television remote and turned it on.
Vlad never had properly watched TV as the Count had barred him, but now he was free at least temporarily so Vlad looked and watched as Chloe flicked through the channels trying to find a documentary that would be educational.
Eventually she found one, it was about culture and how it had changed over the past 10 millennia give or take. It started with the cultures of prehistory – Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic times – all the way to the present day.
Vlad was surprise by the changes in culture and Chloe could see the surprise in his expression.
"You seem surprised," Chloe noticed.
"Dad always said that over the past millennia there has been no change for anyone, not even breathers, I wasn't expecting him to be wrong…" Vlad trailed off. Chloe now realised how much Vlad depended on his father on knowing about breathers before moving to Stokely, and the Count had just fed him lies in a pathetic attempt to make him hate breathers and want to drink their blood.
"Everyone changes over time, it's natural. You're the perfect example of that; look at you; only a month ago you were a young boys fearing your father and sister and hiding everything you wanted… Now I think you are stronger, you have put up a fight against your dad who you would never argue with before, you've come to understand us and you've began to show who you really are over hiding it." Chloe told him, Vlad smiled slightly glad that see saw the good in him over the bad.
"Vampires aren't meant to change mentally after the transformation, only physically. Dad still acts like it's the fifteenth century sometimes… vampires don't change neither does law nor tradition, it's been that way for thousands of years." Vlad told her quietly not wanting to be overheard. Chloe smiled slightly.
"Humans haven't changed that much really, law wise at least, our main laws do mainly stick to the principles given by the Ten Commandments and the ideals from democratic Athens. It's mostly technology that has changed us; we have become dependent on it, without it we would break down as a society in the West." Chloe smartly said. "Change happens when it is needed not wanted. Vampires don't want it and the fact they are immortal helps keep things in place; things will have to change for them eventually."
Vlad shrugged. "I've been telling Dad that for years. The slayers are getting stronger and it's only a matter of time before they try and wipe us all out and because of our lack of acceptance of technology and willingness to change we'll probably die out."
"Can't you do anything?" Chloe asked, really she didn't care if vampires died out, she cared if Vlad was killed after all he was her best friend vampire or not.
"No way," Vlad said shaking his head. "Law dictates that no one can oppose the Grand High Vampire or The Grand High Council either and they won't change a thing. The only person that could change things is…"
"Who?" Chloe asked.
"You've got to be quiet about this; I haven't even told Robin this is so much a secret…" Chloe nodded understanding that if she told Vlad would never trust her again and that she would end up dead. "The Chosen One; there is a prophecy telling of a powerful vampire who will take over Vampire kind, he or even she would be the only one who could overrule everyone irrespective of who they are but the Grand High Vampire has suppressed a lot of the knowledge of it; mostly out of fear; he knows well that when or if the Chosen One comes he won't have any power anymore because the Chosen One will be Grand High Vampire… As a matter of fact the Grand High Vampire will probably end up as a pile of ash anyway just for posing a threat. If it happens which I doubt, even if there is a 'Chosen One' he or she will be and evil vampire wanting to drain people dry and have no interest in change."
"The leadership sounds like a dictatorship to me," Chloe muttered.
"That's because it might as well be," Vlad admitted. "Don't you have the same thing?"
"No way, ours is based on democracy, people voting for who would be in charge," Chloe told him.
"Weird," Vlad muttered. "Probably a breather thing."
"A breather thing that is several thousand years old," Chloe corrected him. Vlad smiled slightly at her use of her intelligence. This is what Vlad liked about Chloe; she was normal but not at the same time and Vlad found her very interesting and easy to confide in. He was glad she was here right now, when he felt at his weakest and most vulnerable.
This is a longer chapter than usual; I know but let's say it's to make up for the next three days!
Do you like how I have Vlad's attitude towards the Chosen One, how ironic that he is in fact the Chosen One (subtle joke there)! Plus he is hopefully going to bring change!
I've sort of put my opinions on our way of life into what Chloe says so I don't mean it offensively it's just despite the fact I don't like Chloe I do agree with her on certain things and I think she would on things as well.
Thank you for reading and please review.
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