Barnabas stood there not believing his eyes that Dr. Hoffman was back from the dead! He thought he had killed her a year earlier, and he and Willie had dumped her body into the Bay. But how could she be alive if he had killed her?
"How is it that you're still alive Dr. Hoffman?" Barnabas asked.
"It's because I've been reborn as a Water Vampire! I can live underwater and still rise to the surface and take the blood of humans to survive! You made me into this!" She told him as she revealed her fangs to him!
Brian and Alondra watched the exchange, and decided that they needed to help him. Brian grabbed his cane because of the silver on the Wolf's head that would hopefully help hold her back. Alondra tried to cast a spell, but for some reason could not. She tried several others, only for them not to work as well. This puzzled her and would have to figure this out later. She grabbed a fireplace poker and wrapped a piece of torn drape around it and set it on fire. She then joined in the battle against Dr. Hoffman.
Barnabas revealed his fangs now and started the battle to hopefully to either get Dr. Hoffman to help them, or to destroy her. It was fortunate that the rest of the family, including his beloved Josette, were not home now to see this. They circled each other before Julia made the first move. She went at Barnabas with her hands ready to strangle him, but he ducked at the last moment. It reminded him of his battle against Angelique, and he knew he had to win in order to stop the attacks both here and in Rockport!
Brian managed to get his cane close enough to Julia that she started to back away from the silver that was on it. She then felt the heat of the fire coming from the woman behind her and then saw Barnabas right in front of her with no possible way to escape! Barnabas then spoke to Julia.
"Dr. Hoffman, If I decide to let you live, will you be willing to help us find this young man's father?" Barnabas asked Julia.
"Let me live?! Are you kidding me? I'm not alive now! Who are you to decide who lives and who dies?! It's because of you I'm like this!" Julia told him.
"It's because you were suppose to cure me instead of using my blood to transfer into your body! That is why I thought you had betrayed me with your help! Or had you forgotten that?!" Barnabas reminded her with anger rising into his voice.
Julia had thought about this, and knew he was right. She retracted her fangs and nodded her head in defeat.
"What do I have to do?" She asked.
"Help us get into Angelique's house so we can find Brian Collins father. He maybe inside there against his will now even though Angelique is dead now." Barnabas told Julia.
"Alright, I'll help you. But what about my need for blood? What do I do for that now?" She asked.
"Elizabeth has made arrangement for animals that are too old to instead of them being slaughtered, to be brought here for Josette and I to feed on. Then they are disposed of by Willie and the people that brought them here." Barnabas said with a slight smile on his face.
"I have to return to the water before sunrise, otherwise I would die in sunlight." She told him.
"Fine. Now let's see what we can come up with." Barnabas said to everyone.
"There's one small problem now." Alondra said to everyone.
"What's that?" Brian asked.
"I can't use my powers for some reason." She told them.
No one had expected this now! Now they had gained Julia and her vampiric abilities, only to lose Alondra's supernatural abilities now. They needed a miracle, and it had to be soon!