A/N: Disclaimer in Chapter 1.

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Chapter 21: Confrontation

Vlad slowly turned, plastering a look of complete confusion on his face. "I'm sorry?"

Jonno and his posse took up an aggressive stance facing him.

"Drop the act Vlad." Jonno knew who it was.

He looked up and noticed his mistake, CCTV cameras. They must have seen him looking around.

Vlad decided he wasn't going to pretend any longer. "Took you long enough."

He lowered his head and Jonno could immediately see the vampire inhabiting his colleague's body. Vlad glared at Jonno through the young slayers' eyes.

"What do you want vampire?"

Vlad tipped his head, "Erin." It should have been obvious. Vlad looked around slowly and deliberately. "Nice place." He looked at Jonno directly, "Same layout as before though." Jonno bristled at Vlad's casual remark. They didn't think they'd have to worry about it, as none of them were likely to invite a vampire inside – or so they thought.

"At least its not full of bloodsuckers." Jonno spat back at him.

"Shame I've been invited in isn't it?" Vlad smiled at them.

"Shame I'm going to have to stake you." Jonno retorted.

Vlad tutted shaking his head slowly folding his arms over his chest, "You can't touch me, unless you want to kill the slayer. And even then you can't touch me. You'll kill the slayer but not me."

Jonno couldn't threaten him with sunlight, garlic, sonic devices or even staking while he was inside Lee's body. His true body was safe back at the school. Jonno wouldn't even be able to lock him away as he could easily escape at nightfall – baring any UV lights stopping him.

"The slayer would gladly die if it meant stopping you." Jonno told Vlad as a matter of fact.

A few slayers around Jonno looked startled by their leaders comments.

Vlad glanced around at the slayers. "I don't think its me who's the hated one anymore."

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Jonno and Vlad were locked in a staring contest for a few minutes.

Jonno felt a smile spread across his face, "We've got Erin."

"I know, I've seen her, seen what you did to her."

The slayers disgusted him, had Jonno really resorted to lying to Erin to get her to be his? Erin wasn't as gullible as Jonno seemed to think. If Jonno honestly thought their feelings for each other were a passing fancy, he was mistake; they'd shown each other how deep they were more than once.

Jonno looked startled for a moment, he hadn't expected Vlad to get that far, he'd just expected him to learn the layout of the base.

"You caused the power surge." Jonno finally realised and Vlad clapped sarcastically laughing. Jonno looked at him, defending his actions, "Without you she can be who she was."

"I wasn't the one who transformed her." He didn't bite her first.

"You did the damage long before she was bitten. When she turned against her friends, her family…"

Jonno was cut off. "What do you know about Erin's family or friends?" Vlad snarled his voice booming off the walls.

Jonno shook his head not liking the accusation. "Her file…"

"Her file is a piece of paper, you don't know anything about her."

Jonno didn't like being challenged over Erin, "And you do?" The vampire wouldn't know much about Erin, his kind was self-centred.

"I know everything about Erin. All the friends she was bullied by, the ones who only wanted her to do the work for them nothing else. The child who had to spend all her time at boarding school because she didn't want to kill people." Vlad smiled softly to himself, Erin was someone who had an open mind even when she was a child. "I know Erin as the breather, the slayer and the half fang." Vlad glared down at Jonno, "You don't know even one side of her."

Jonno matched his glare adding even more ice to it, he gestured to his arm. "Did you know she was capable of this?"

Vlad looked at the sling covered right arm of the slayer. Erin really had done a good job of injuring Jonno. He was glad in that moment he'd only been at the receiving end of one of her slaps – that was painful enough.

He did know Erin was capable of it, he'd seen her darkness before in the mirror. Jonno should have known what would happen if he pushed her too far. He just didn't think about it often, nothing ever tipped her over the edge to the point where she embraced it.

"Erin did a good job." Vlad gestured to his arm.

"You've been training her. She couldn't have done this before…"

"Only to use her powers." Vlad laughed, "I haven't taught her any combat skills."

Jonno looked dumbfounded at Vlad, Erin had beaten him using knowledge she had from being a slayer, it was more embarrassing than he could ever imagine.

"In time she'll be glad she's free of you."

Vlad let out a hollow laugh, "You mean you'll manipulate her to believe it, I know that you told her I was dead." He clicked his fingered and the staked disintegrated, splinters flying everywhere scratching a few of the slayer's faces. "And you say I'm evil? You're more like a vampire than you care to admit."

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Jonno charged forward, trying to tackle Vlad forgetting completely about his broken arm. Vlad saw it coming flicking out his hand sending Jonno flying sideways into the wall. The young slayer let out a grunt at the impact, sliding down to the floor.

Jonno slowly pulled himself up, brushing himself down before limping back to where he was standing before.

"I'm not just the most powerful vampire in this time, I'm the most powerful vampire of all time." Vlad told Jonno with a smirk, didn't Jonno remember Sethius?

Jonno coughed slightly before scoffing. "You haven't got the guts to do anything. Without Erin…"

"Erin by my side was the only thing keeping me from killing all of you, without her there's nothing stopping me." And Vlad suspected that he might be the person who held Erin's darkness at bay. It was strange how hers had only been released once they'd been separated.

The slayers shared a look, this was the opposite of what Jonno had told them, what Vlad had just said they'd already voiced their concerns about more than once. Jonno had just dismissed them as not having a clue what they were talking about. The vampire being here inside their HQ was proof enough that Jonno was wrong.

Jonno laughed, Vlad didn't have the strength. He wanted to prove that to his subordinates. "You wouldn't dare."

As if to stress a point, Vlad extended his arms and all the stakes flew towards him, he clicked his fingers and they rotated in the air flying towards the slayers. He stopped them just in front of the slayers throats; he didn't really want to waste too much blood.

A few of the slayers stepped back, the stakes sticking to them like they were on a piece of elastic.

Jonno gulped his Adams apple brushing against the sharp tip, grazing it slightly.

Vlad raised an eyebrow looking perfectly calm. "Enough proof?"

Jonno didn't want to believe him; he reached up his arm and grasped the stake. He pulled at it trying to move it. It didn't move even a fraction of an inch. Jonno puffed and panted as he tried to move the stake.

An idea flew into Vlad's head. As Jonno pulled on the stake Vlad released the control holding the stake in place, the stake flew down with the force Jonno used on it, landing in the middle of his stomach.

Jonno doubled over in agony and Vlad laughed. A few of the slayers chuckled along with him.

His group clearly enjoyed seeing him humiliated in front of them.

"You did that on purpose."

Vlad shrugged, "Yeah." A louder burst of chuckling from the slayers had Jonno turning glistening eyes towards them. A few shut up but were clearly biting their lips to stop from laughing out loud.

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Vlad extended his hand, squeezing it slightly and Jonno dropped to the floor, this was now the time for Jonno to listen to his demands. Jonno grasped at his throat with his free hand trying to pry invisible fingers from it.

"I want Erin back," He whispered lowering himself towards Jonno's ear. "You took her and you've turned me into this. If I don't get her back I'm going to wipe every single slayer from this earth."

"You wouldn't…" Jonno let out a gasp of pain as Vlad's hand clenched tighter.

"I'd do it now, I've seen what you've done to her and I'm never going to forgive you for that." He told him firmly. "Half of these slayers were against you," The slayers in question shared nervous looks, "In 'mercy'," He spat out the word like a bitter pill, "I'm going let you bring her back to Garside Grange before dawn tomorrow. If you've even touched her or don't turn up I'm going to drain every last one of you. And you…" He paused, "I'm going to give you the life you hate."

Jonno's eyes widened, Erin had said exactly the same words to him.

Vlad and Erin were perfectly matched; they clearly shared the same sense of 'justice', opinions and feelings.

"Do you think you could?" Jonno tried to sound confident but failed.

"Yeah." The coldness in Vlad's voice had the slayers trembling, they honestly believed he could and would do it if she weren't returned to him.

Vlad squeezed tighter for a fraction of a second before relinquishing his hold on Jonno completely. Jonno fell forward no longer struggling against Vlad's hold.

Vlad turned on him and strode towards the doors, the slayers wouldn't give him any more trouble, he knew he'd scared the living daylights out of them.

"Let him go." Jonno gasped out, none of the slayers were going to stop the Chosen One anyway. The all immediately jumped to one side as Vlad strode from the building.

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Jonno rubbed his throat, feeling an imaginary grip around it.

"If Vlad thinks I'm going to let him get away with that…"

"He's angry Jonno. You were just the same when your father died." And it hadn't changed. "Are you going to do what he wants?"

"I haven't got a choice." Jonno snapped at his mother, if he went against Vlad he faced a mutiny amongst his own and he honestly believed that Vlad was capable of doing what he said.

"As soon as she sees him she's going to be unstoppable."

Jonno nodded slowly, before an idea came to him his eyes sparkling. He changed his line of thought quickly. "We can't take her anywhere with her looking like that." Jonno told his mother sternly, gesturing towards Erin. "They'll notice her."

Mina shook her head, "A lot of people wear what she's wearing."

"If she's noticed it'll create a distraction for her to escape." Mina doubted Erin was going to escape, the girl looked too distraught to even attempt to do anything. Jonno held a green carrier bag out for his mother to see. "That why I've got this."

Jonno moved across the room until he stood in front of Erin's cage.

He knelt down sliding bag box between the bars; he wasn't going to chance stepping inside again. He threw the bag towards Erin.

Erin glanced at it before turning away, fixing her gaze on the far wall again, she wasn't interested.

At least not until Jonno spoke again.

"Get changed, if you want to see your ex mate's family again."

TBC

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