Believe me, Dracula will make his grand entrance into the story soon, but I have some more plot I need to reveal before so…in the next 3 chapters he'll come in. Give it time. Thanks for the reviews though!

Chapter 10: He's Just A Boy & She's Just A Girl; Can I Make It Anymore Obvious?

"Ugh…" Lana woke up and looked around. She saw Night sky, the crackling of a fire, and felt a whole bunch of pain in her back.

"You awake?"

She looked over to see Alex close to the fire, not to far from a tent that he must have posted.

"Yea, what the hell happened?" She said trying to slide up into a seating position.

"You hit the tree and blacked out."

"Yea but how did you manage to get rid of them?"

"Well you shot the blondie twice, so I just had to shoot her once more to scar them off. Seems there not
impenetrable to bullet's doused in holy water."

"Well that's good." She felt a shiver run through her. Her coat? Where was it?

"How's your back?"

"Hurts…uhm where's my coat?"

"Here." He held it up. "I had to stitch the rips in the back up." He tossed it to her.

"You can sow?"

"Yep. Had to learn; you'd be surprised how many times clothing rips fighting these demon things."

"Makes sense. I always wanted to learn but my mother died before she could teach me."

"I'm sorry."

"It's not a big deal…hey…did you…?"

"Yea I had to wrap up your lower back in gauze, I promise I didn't lift your shirt any higher than your stomach."

"Okay, I believe you. Thanks." Lana said staring at him. "Now with my cuts and stitched jacket maybe I'll look a
little more bad ass like you…haha."

"You think I look bad ass?"

"Uh…well kinda." She shrugged.

"Haha, I never thought of myself like that."

"You're Van Helsing. You're supposed to be bad ass."

"I guess." He said thinking about it for a moment. "Hey you want any?"

She watched him hold out a back of popcorn.

"Popcorn really?"

"Hey, it's easy to cook over a fire."

"Makes sense." Lana went to get up but instead she couldn't move without her back aching. "Agh…"

"Don't move. You'll just hurt your back more, you were pretty bruised." He said getting up to give her the bag.

"You know I shouldn't have even let you get hurt…" He said sitting back down.

"How could you stop that from happening?" Lana said before taking a handful of popcorn. "If anything it's my
fault; I should have shot Lilith when I saw her getting close."

"You shot Cari though…that was impressive. Plus it's my job."

"Why are you so hard on yourself?"

This caught Alex off guard. He opened his eyes slightly before looking down. "Look, my father always was so brave, when I was growing up, all he ever told me about were all my ancestors and how they repetitively destroyed the vampire and demon nation."

"Yea but I'm supposed to be the key to destroying them; I should be able to defend myself."

"This makes me even more worried; to make sure that you are safe. My father died trying to find you, and I can't do him wrong by screwing it all up."

" Oh. You know I'm really sorry he passed away at my expense." Lana said hunching over slightly in guilt.

"No, no. It was better that way; honestly I rather know that he died not you, because that would mean doom.
And… it's not your fault anyway. It's the vampires. They don't cherish what it means to be human; how precious life is…that's why they kill. They are pretty much immortal so loose all connection with death. If they get you, there is no way we could survive as a race."

"So it's not me, it's my power…"

"What?" He looked at her, confused.

"My whole life, everyone has always seen me for my money. Maybe we had so much because I am part of the Evelina family…but that's all people have ever taken me for. My possessions…I thought that just for a moment…that I was special beyond that…but now I see it's the same thing. People will only want to be close to me for my power…not for who I am."

"Lana, no I didn't mean it like that." He looked at her. Shit this girl really did have it bad. "I meant, I don't care how much money you have, or even that you have this holy power; I will never let anyone die by the hand of a vampire. I vowed that after my father died. I also failed when your mother died. You are more than just those things."

"You really think so?"

He just nodded.

"Well thanks."

"For what?"

"For everything." She said.

"So is that why you were so fed up with that Brandon guy?" He said leaning back against the tree beside her.

"Huh? Oh yea, that's all my life's ever been; Relationships with guys that think because I am rich, I'm spoiled too. Brandon just can't understand that no matter how much I push him away I don't like him.

"Well after you blasted him through a wall…"

"Hey!" Lana said throwing a piece of popcorn at him.

He covered his face and it fell onto his lap. "Thanks for the popcorn." He tossed it into his mouth giving her that cocky grin that he wore so well. He was pretty good looking. His hair was standing in different directions, dark almost black. His eyes were just as dark; a warm brown color, playing off of his tan skin. He was well built too…maybe she was starting to notice him the way Alexis did when she started ogling him.

"My pleasure." She said rolling her eyes back; if he wanted to play that sarcasm game she'd play it two-fold.
He looked at her. Her dark once curly hair ran in loose waves around her face. Her skin was pale, and her hair contrasted it in its dark chestnut brown color. Her eyes even though they so often rolled at him, were a green that stood out against her ivory skin. She wasn't too thin, and definitely had a few curves. Her smile kind of went lopsided when she teased him, and he didn't mind it one bit.

They both soon realized there had been an ongoing silence of stares between them and Lana instantly looked down.

"You know it doesn't always have to be like that?" He started.

"Like what?" She said squinting, her eyes in confusion.

"Having people always judging you the wrong way."

"Yea, and says who?"

"Says me." And with that he closed the space between them and kissed her. This time it wasn't a forceful let's-see-if-you're-power-will-wake-up-kiss, but something that told her that he actually meant what he said. She let him too. Her guard was down, and hell for once it didn't seem like it mattered. He bit her lip so delicately and she felt herself melt.

What felt like moments later, they both stopped and looked at each other. She couldn't help but feel a small smile come to her face. He couldn't help but notice the golden flecks in her green eyes that he hadn't noticed before.

Suddenly there was a silence between them that they both couldn't deny to notice.

"Uhm I hope you don't mind that we only have one tent…" He said putting his hand behind his head looking slightly bashful.

"Actually I don't mind." She said blushing a bit, as she shrugged.

"Good… I'll be on watch for most of the night anyways." He smiled at her before carrying her to the tent for a hopefully good nights sleep before more excitement in the morning.