1-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-Samantha-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-

Father kept pacing the ceiling with a blank expression on his face. I watched from below while my brothers were outside of the castle searching for Mother. There werewolves were somewhere, but I didn't know exactly where. Right now my attention was focused on my father. His eyes held sadness, fury, and heartbreak within them, and I couldn't do anything to help him out. He paced, slowly as if thinking of some way to get her back. I stood in my rightful place, on the ground watching him.

"How could she have left me?" he finally asked. It had been a good few hours since he had uttered a word. We had all thought he had gone insane for some reason. He jumped down from the ceiling and onto the ballroom floor next to me. "I know what I did was wrong, but why did she have to leave me? Leave our family?" he asked again as he paced the ballroom floor. "All I wanted was her love, and she threw it all away!"

"She was probably scared father," I said in a soft voice. He only glanced at me. "It is a scary thing, to be turned into a vampire. And of course she's going to be furious. She's been going through changes that are unexplainable to a human. Don't take anything she said to heart she—"

"She called me a cold-hearted bastard Samantha," he sighed. He ran a hand through his hair and let out a hiss. "She will come back though..." he smiled slightly. It was his old smile, the menacing one that he was known for. The one Lucifer himself taught him. "She'll come back, but I'll give her the time she needs. Then I'll punish her when she gets back." I raised an eyebrow at my father, wondering what he was getting at. He then looked up at me. "I will—""

Two wolves ran through the doors of the ballroom, slowly turning back into their human forms. We stared at them in silence, waiting for what they had to say. They bowed, like always, and looked at us with their black eyes. "We have found the Frankenstein monster master," said one of them. I couldn't really remember names, especially werewolves names. "His is in the laboratory as we speak," smiled the other one. That seemed to brighten my father's mood. He slowly walked over to the window that looked out into the snowy night.

"Chain him and start reconstructing the equipment," my father ordered with a light voice. He turned to the werewolves. "You have earned a treat my dear servants. When you arrive from your order, you'll find a rather appitezing treat for you." The werewolves bowed and left us. "Samantha," began Father. "Why don't you go hunting for our werewolves? Bring them back some virgins. I'm sure they'll like that."

I smiled. "As you wish father." I bowed and left my father to his thoughts. Only he could get my mother back.

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-Van Helsing-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-

"Who are you?" she had asked. It had been three hours since we had found her. Dustin had told her about who he was and who I was, but that was it. In returned, she had told us her name. I could tell she was scared, not of us but of probably Dracula. When we had asked her about him, she kept silent.

"Why aren't you at the castle?" asked Dustin softly as we made our way towards the end of the forest. She had been silent for a long time, unnerving both me and my friend. "Is it because of what Dracula turned you into?"

She stopped walking, looking at us in awe. Her bright eyes held tears that looked as if they were just threatening to fall. "Yes..." she managed to say. "I can't believe I thought I loved him."

"Dracula has that effect on woman Anna," I said as we started on our way again. "What he did to you was immoral and bastardly. Do you know if he turned anyone else?"

"I don't think he did," she confessed. "His only interest seemed to be me, but there was his friend Phoenix. I'm not really sure if he was a vampire, but he did set off that aura." Dustin stumbled on a fallen branch, falling. Anna caught him just in time before another branch stuck in the ground would have impaled him. "Be more careful," she said softly as she stood him back up on his feet.

"Who's Phoenix?"

"Some man I met after getting sick those three days. I had seen the doctor from some things..."

"You mean when your hymen broke on its own?" offered Dustin. I rolled my eyes.

"Yes, that," glared Anna. "He said he was an old friend of Dracula, whatever that meant." I made a mental note to go to the church and ask about who this Phoenix was. I didn't like it at all that Dracula had a new friend I had never heard of.

"Are you thirsty?" I asked. She nodded. "We're almost to the car. I have some blood bags there that will help with the thirst."

"Where are we going?" she asked.

"We're going to a building on the outskirts of this town to develop a plan," I explained. I ducked my head to avoid getting hit with a branch that hung very low. "Dracula's ball is in two week so we have limited time." I looked up at the sky. The sun was starting to come up. It wouldn't effect Anna yet since she wasn't full vampire. "We won't have any threats til tonight." I stepped through the tree and ended up where my Mercedes was. It was black with a cross on the hood.

"Threats?"

"Dracula will have his children and wolves searching for you no doubt," explained Dustin. "We have to get you into a safe haven so that they won't have a chance of taking you away."

"Oh..."

"Don't worry," I assured her. "You'll be safe as long as you're with us. We may even be able to reverse the change." There was a small ounce of hope in her eyes. Then it was gone, she knew she was too far into the change since her father most likely taught her everything about women being bitten my the Dark Prince. "You'll be able to take your own with a werewolf no doubt, but probably not with his children. You're going to be weaker than them since you didn't drink Dracula's blood."

"I know..." she sighed as I opened the back door of the Mercedes for her. Dustin took the passenger and I took the driver's. When everyone was settle, I revved up the window and started my way towards the safe haven. Dustin handed Anna a bag of blood that had a straw in it.

"It'll help," he murmured when she looked at him with apprehension. She nodded, taking the bag and sipping from it. "When will the Masquerade ball be Anna?" he asked out of the blue. I knew it was soon.

"In two weeks," she said softly. "Why?"

"Because we're going to crash it," said Dustin bluntly. Unlike his grandfather, he looked for adventure like I did. "And guess who's coming with us?"

She looked at us with her mouth hung open.

Ello!

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