The air thickens and time appears to have stopped when both men eyed one another down. Daniel smirk stretched wider across his face as his eyes dilated with adrenaline. He is finally going to fight the beast one on one. It excited him. He licks his lips as he chuckles sadistically. Dracula snarl as he bares his sharp teeth aggressively. His fury clouds his mind as his eyes took a red hue. Alice notices her lover quick change of nature and her grip on Dracula's shoulders tighten as her gaze fell over a furious vampire.

"Dracula please don't do anything-" But before she could finish Dracula effortlessly tosses Alice to his daughter. Mavis eyes widen as she quickly turns to her full figure form and caught Alice bridal style.

"DAD!" She calls out to him, but Dracula flew down to Daniel. His sharp nails unsheathed, his open grasp reaching out dangerously for Daniel as his eyes burned a brighter red.

"DRAC!" Alice yells but she fell on deaf ears. Daniel grins as he reaches into his leather jacket and pulls out a fist full of garlic powder. The British man threw it into Dracula's face when he was in his range. Count roar in pain as he covers his face with his hands. He clumsily landed on the ground a few feet away from Daniel who cackles tauntingly.

"Did you really think that I would face a monster unprepared?" He accused as he watches the vampire whimpers in discomfort. The garlic instantly burns his eyes and his skin. Count growls like a savage animal as he stops rubbing his burning eyes and looks at Daniel with rage. The vampire mentally cursed himself, he should have been more careful. Dracula's eyes are irritated and the skin around it is inflamed. His eyes waters from the stinging sensation, but his self-healing began to kick in. Dracula stood tall and confident as he stares down Daniel disgustingly.

"Your harmed Alice, you harmed my grandson and you have the audacity to come after her again. Now I will end you." Dracula threatens. The vampire king held out his right arm out and he uses his powers to pull Daniel into his awaiting grip.

"Gah!" The human man chokes out as Dracula wraps his long fingers around his neck. The vampire nails dig into his flesh, breaking the skin. Blood began to spill from the small cuts as Dracula's grip constricts. Daniel kicks his legs around as he gasped for air. The human man clutches snugly onto Dracula wrist, trying to make him let go. But he wouldn't budge. Dracula's aura darkens as he stares at the struggling man unbothered, unmoving. This man hurt his queen various time, he went after his grandson and he entered his home to destroy his family! This human is a burden! He's a coward! He will never forgive him for what he has done, and he will finish him. Dracula felt the hatred overwhelm his form as he flashes his long fangs at the human whom eyes widen in wholesome terror.

"You will atone for your crimes with your life." Count states emotionlessly. This frightened the man as his vision goes blurry and his lungs burn from the lack of oxygen. Daniel slowly stops fighting as his legs stops kicking and his arms dangles lifelessly by his side. Dracula did nothing but stare with hard cold black orbs.

"COUNT!" A voice shouts breaking Dracula focus. That voice. The vampire turns his gaze to a crying Alice as she was being held back by a petrified Mavis. His eyes…they are solid black.

"Dracula, please let him go." Alice pleads out desperately as she fought against Mavis's hold. The vampire princess never saw her dad in this state and she never felt the fear she felt now. A cold shiver crawls down her spine as she gazes at her father. Was her dad really planning to kill him? While she was lost in her thoughts, this gave Alice the chance to break free from her grip. Alice rushes over to Dracula and hugs him tightly from behind.

"This is not you, Count! Please snap out of it!" She begs. The short woman digs her nails into his cape as she tugs on it. This is not how things are supposed to end! She is supposed to have a happy healthy pregnancy with Dracula by her side. She is supposed to be a mother and hopefully a loving wife to this kind monster. Daniel was not part of her plans, he wasn't supposed to be here and ruin her family! Alice held him closer to her as she clutches her eyes.

Mavis watches the interaction from afar, but ready to save Alice if need be. Slowly the black in Dracula eyes began to fade away and his vibrant blue eyes appear. He blinks slowly as he gradually processes what was happening.

His orbs widen in fear as he carelessly drops Daniel on the hard forest ground. The human gasp loudly for air, he then starts to wheezes on the dirt urgently trying to inflate his lungs with much-needed air.

"What have I done?" Count asks to no one in particular as he looks at his blood coated nails in horror. Alice bright green eyes open when she heard the familiar Romanian voice. The short woman rush in front of Dracula, she moves his bloody right hand to his side and cups his cheeks with her right hand.

"You were not in control; it was not your fault." Alice quickly reassures him as she strokes his cheek with her thumb in hopes of soothing him. Dracula moves his gaze from his hand to the loving eyes of his queen. He leans his cheek further into her palms. Being around her, it brought him peace. He nods gently as he kisses her palms making her smile softly. Mavis slowly made her way over to Daniel; she kneels down in front of him to tend to his wounds.

"Hey guys, his cuts are deep. He needs to go to the hospital." Mavis remarks as she looks up at the couple. Dracula nods as he moves away from Alice and picks up Daniel.

"We have to take him to the hotel, there no human hospitals miles from here." And with that, he took off into the sky. Alice watches her lover with worried eyes. She hopes he ok.

"Come on Ali." Mavis says to her, the short woman nods and Mavis took her into her arms and followed after her dad.

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"There you go, sweetheart. Good as new!" The witch chirps happily as she finished tending to Alice's wounds. The dark skinned woman nods as she wraps herself with some warm blankets.

"How's the baby?" The worried awaiting mother asks as she rubs her tummy.

"Oh right! Well, the ba-"

"ALICE!" Johnny shouts as he kicks open the infirmary door. His light brown eyes saw his best friend and he sprints over to her. He lifts her off the bed and twirls her around.

"Are you ok? You had me worried! Oh, I'm never letting you out of my sight again!" Johnny spoke hastily making his words incoherent. The short woman smiles softly as she hugs her best friend. The nurse smiles as she sent Alice two thumbs up before leaving the room. Alice nods understanding she was talking about the baby.

"I and the baby are ok, Jonhjonh." She reassures the ginger-headed man. The pale skinned man sighs in relief as he sets her down carefully on the hardwood floor.

"What about…him?" he asks distastefully. Alice and Johnny turn to their left to look at Daniel who laid in one of the beds in the far end of the room. His neck is wrapped up in bandages and he hooked up to an IV sleeping quietly.

"He's alive, just by barely." Johnny looks down at his feet with mix feelings in his eyes.

"Well, even for what he did to you, Dennis and Winnie. He doesn't deserve to die." He drones out softly. Alice shrugs as she nods.

"Yeah. By the way, how are Dennis and Winnie?" at the mention of their name Johnny perks up.

"The little dude and dudette made a quick recovery, I'll go get them. Stay here!" Johnny says eagerly as he rushes to go get his son and Winnie. Alice giggles as she sat back on the bed while rubbing her tummy. Hopefully, things can go back to normal.

"I'm sorry." A weak voice states this instantly grabs Alice's attention. Alice turns her head to see Daniel sitting up on the bed as he removes his IV. Alice awkwardly adjusted her large round glasses as she shifts her green orbs elsewhere. She did not know what to say. It is not like she could say, "I forgive you for nearly killing me, my nephew and niece and me and my baby!" No, she would never forgive him. Daniel sighs in defeat as he slowly stands up; he uses the wall for support as he made his way to the balcony. The rusty bars squeak loudly and shift slightly forward when he adds his weight to the bars.

"I'm just so in love with you. And when you did not love me back…it made me crazy. I got obsessed with you, it got so bad that I lost my job, my home and my friends and family." Daniel says softly as he looks outside with heavy dead eyes. The moon shined dimly tonight. The Hispanic woman sat silently, listening to what he had to say.

"I…couldn't help myself….I need help and I want help. I know this not healthy, but I already lost everything and everyone…I might as well…" Daniel went quiet as he swallowed hard. His lifeless eyes cast away from the beautiful view of the forest down to the large dark pit that separates the hotel from the rest of the forest. Daniel's hands twitched and his heart slowed down as he imagined what planned to do.

The room was filled with the painfully loud squeaking. This made the green eye woman look up, her eyes widen in her fear as she saw Daniel trying to climb over the old loosen balcony bar. She immediately ran over to him and grabs his left hand.

"No! Killing yourself won't help! If you really need help, then I will!" Alice shouts out as she stops Daniel from committing suicide. Daniel slowly turns to her as he blinks.

"You would do that for me?" he asks emotionless as he stares back at her. Alice nods as she locked eyes with the man she once feared. But she couldn't just be a bystander, she had to help. Slowly but surely Daniel backs away from the loose old rail and offers a small smile. He turns back to the room and walks a few steps before stopping.

"You fool." The man whispers. Alice's eyes squint in confusion, but before she could do anything, he turns around and kicks her in the chest roughly with his heavy boots. Alice's back hit the rickety rail roughly, she gasps out in pain as she cried out in agony. She wraps her arms around her stomach as Daniel sent another blow to her chest. A sickening cracking was heard when he did so. The powerful impact caused the old rail to break behind it. The metal railing fell below into the dark pit, leaving nothing to prevent Alice from falling off the veranda. The short woman shifts her weight forward to fall on her knees. The brittle surface scrapes her knees leaving large gashes. Alice began to hack up a chunk of blood from her mouth. Every fiber of her aching and crying out. The young woman mind went blank as tries to breathe, but unknowingly to her Daniel kicks had broken a rib and it punctured her right lung. Every time she inhaled a sharp pain shutter through her. Alice glasses slid off her face and shatter against the cement, she did her best to keep her eyes open. She is trying to keep concussion; she is trying to hold on. Alice shakenly looks up at her attacker with pleading teary eyes as blood streaks down from both corners of her lips.

"Please…d-don't." she rasps out as tears slide down her cheeks. Daniel just stares down at her uncaring with a sick smirk on his lips. Alice took this as a chance to stand on her shaky knees and to get on her feet. The man towers over her, he felt powerful seeing her like this, and he felt like God. He has the opportunity to let her live or kill her. He has her life in the palm of his hands. The adrenaline courses through his vein and he wants to feed into it. What would he feel like if he killed her? Daniel smirks as he raises his foot and places her against her forehead. He was about to find out. Alice freezes in her spot as she whimpers.

Her heart hammers in her broken rib cage, her breathing stops and her hands shake anxiously wondering if he will actually push her off the platform. She didn't want to find out. Tears gather up slowly in the rim of her eyes as she lower lips trembles.

"Please." She begs as she cautiously stands. Daniel grinned wickedly; he removes his foot off her forehead slowly making Alice feel relieved.

"See you in hell." And with one final kick to the chest Alice was launched off the balcony and she was airborne. Time seem to sit still. Her world came to a halt as she flies off into the air. Alice's eyes widen in disbelief, her stomach twisted up as her heart skips a beat. No. This can't be happening! This is all a nightmare! This can't be happening! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! But she couldn't because this is happening. This is real. And her last memory will be of Daniel laughing manically as the gust of the wind picks up around her as she fell.

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Dracula sighs heavily as he made his way over to the infirmary room where Alice is at in deep thought. How was he supposed to face her? He almost killed a man, he almost took a life. Now Daniel was not innocent not in the slightest, but Dracula has no right to snatch a life. He kept repeating to himself he was not in control. But why was that? Dracula stops in front of the infirmary and turns the squeaky silver knob. Well, whatever it was he hoped to find out soon.

"Alice?" Count calls out softly as he opens the door. His blue eyes saw that hers and Daniel bed are empty. Dracula rushes into the room and saw the balcony doors open and saw a laughing Daniel. Count snarls as he zips over to him and grips him by the collar of his shirt.

"Where is Alice?!" He demands as he glares at the mad man. Daniel cackles harder as he smugly looks at the vampire completely unfazed.

"Oh, you just missed her. I just dropped her off." Daniel hinted as he shifts his gazes over to the broken rail. The vampire follows his line of sight and saw the missing support beams. He didn't….Dracula eyes snap to the ground and saw blood. No. Dracula sneers as he threw Daniel severely across the infirmary room, the human man smashed against the stone walls with a loud clash. Dracula nose dives off the terrace and towards Alice. Count enhances his sight to see Alice clearly. He could see that Alice's hair whip violently in the air, her eyes are closed and her arms around wrap tightly around her stomach. The vampire felt his chest squeeze hard, it was becoming too much from him to handle.

"ALICE!" he yells out for her but the wind blocked out any sound. Damn it. She too far, he could not use his powers to pull her to him. Drac pressed his arms tighter against his sides as his head pointed down straight. As he did so he picked up speed.

"ALICE!" He barks out. When he did, her watery green eyes open. A smile plastered itself against the young woman face as she yelled out his name, but he couldn't hear it. Alice smiles while she cries harder yelling out 'I love you' over and over again. Her tears flew off her face as she fell repeating her words in hope to reach his ears. Dracula used his mind reading powers to speak to her.

'I am going to save you, Alice, I promise.' He says to her. Dracula saw her give a weak smile.

'I know, you will Count. But...but just know…j-just know I love you with all my heart. I'm sorry if I was ever a burden' Dracula's eyes sting with his own tears building up but he refuses to let them fall. He growls softly as determination burned in his orbs. He will save her.

'Don't say that! You were never a burden!' he says back to her. Alice's voice spoke again in his head.

'Just know I don't regret anything! I don't regret going to the hotel, I don't regret meeting you, I don't regret our relationship and I don't regret this baby. You brought more adventure in my life in two months than I did abroad in 6 years. I love you forever, my spark.' At this point Dracula is crying; he felt the pain in chest crushing him. His shoulders felt heavier and heavier with each word she spoke.

'I don't regret you either Alice, I love you, but I'm not letting you go that easily!' Alice laughs softly as she watches the monster she loves so much dive after her. Apart of Alice knew, she might not survive this. Something told her this will be the last interact they will have. And if that was so, at least she got the chance to see him one last time. When Drac was close enough he reaches out his arms for her to use is powers to pull her to him. Alice saw his movement and slowly reaches her arms out, preparing to fling in his arms. But he miscalculated the fall. As Alice reach her arms out completely, her back slams against the dense surface of the earth.

"NO!" he cries out desperately. Dracula crash lands on the ground, he lifts up her body and bites down on her neck injecting her with the vampire venom. After a few seconds, he pulls his teeth out her neck. Blood began to spill from her newly open wound as her body lays limp in his arms. Unmoving. Alice's eyes are shut close and her mouth lightly open.

"Alice…sweetie, please. P-please wake up…" he begs as he gently shakes her, but no responses. He places his ear against her chest; he heard her heart pump once before it stops. He watches her intensely in the hope her eyes will spring open with life...but it is taking longer than it should. No. No. No. NO! Tears spills over from his eyes as Count kneels on the floor with Alice secured in his arms.

"A-Alice….Alice….ALICE!" he cries out deafeningly as he buries his face in his dead lover neck as he cries hysterically in the dark large pit. He held her close as his powerful cries of despair echo throughout the trench.

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Whoa, that was…intense….honestly I was avoiding this chapter because it is so sad.