Sorry for not updating this story, but I had gotten a Star Wars Trilogy that I had to get out of my head! LOL! Anyway, this chapter is going to take place in the Winter time now, and will briefly explain what happened since the last chapter. Sorry about that, but with the other story that I had, plus being sick for a while, I just could not follow up with that. Anyway, hopefully everyone will enjoy this chapter and future chapters as well! Thanks for reading, and stay warm if you got hit with Blizzard 2016 like I did!

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January 24th, 1970

Dear Diary,

I know it's been a while since my last entry, so I'll do my best to fill in what's been going on. Came here to Collinsport, ME to investigate a vampire that had risen here, only to discover it was my father, Barnabas Collins! It was hard at first to get to know him and for him to know me and what happened to me since I was born.

I had told him that I was half vampire and half human which made me a Dhamphir which meant that I can be in daylight and have the same abilities as a vampire, but not their weakness's. After being here for a couple of days, Maverick shown up because of the vampire being here, and he thought that we were either going to take him or her to a safe place, or destroy the vampire.

While in Collinwood, I had discovered the Werewolf that had escaped me in 1897! It turned out to be one Quentin Collins! I was either to take him to one of the camps for his kind, or kill him! But after chasing him and finding him, he requested that before I destroy him, that I was to destroy his portrait that kept him alive and free of his curse. I just could not kill him, for the way he expressed his sorrow for the deaths that he caused in 1897 made me realize that I just could not do it. I know it went against everything that I was trained to do, but I just could not do it because like myself and my father, he was cursed as well.

I had made friends with the people that 'looked' after my father while he 'slept' during the day. One Dr. Julia Hoffman, and Willie Loomis. I saw that Dr. Hoffman was in love with my father, but he didn't see it that way before events made him realized that the two of them belonged together. Willie, like Maverick, turned out to be a good friend as well. The two of us hit it off after a day or so since we both like to joke around a bit, and that my father had 'changed' him from what he used to be.

I had met a waitress name Susie who works at the diner, and she had developed a crush on me that I didn't know about until one morning at breakfast at the diner, both Julia and Willie pointed out to me! I didn't know what to do since I was still grieving for the loss of Jill at the time. I know it's been over 15 years, but I couldn't see myself with anyone else until I am with Jill in the afterlife if I should die at someone's hand!

That brings me to Jeremiah Trask! He had found his way to Collinsport and had planned to kill me! It was going to be at the Collinsport Annual Cookout and Dance! I had planned everything since Roger Collins was being the cheap, callous, self-centered person that felt he had to get his own way since he was a Collins! I had put him in his place a few times since I had met him, and it was worth it! Anyway, at the dance on Saturday night, Trask had taken Susie hostage and had threaten to kill her unless I reveal myself to the entire town!

I did so willingly and demanded that Jeremiah release Susie! He refused, and before he could do anything, Willie drove his pickup and Maverick was in the bed of the truck and shot at Trask! Susie managed to get away, and I pulled out my sword as Trask did the same thing! He thought he could best me, but he forgot that I have been doing this for a long time! Just as I was about to deliver the killing blow, Jill appeared out of nowhere and told me that he would be dealt with by the spirits of both vampire and human that he had taken! They had both disappeared from which Jill had come from!

I had returned to Collinwood with the rest of the family and had to give the backup story on my life in case someone had found the truth out about me. They believed it, and thank goodness for that! Afterwards when Susie heard the story that I told everyone, she asked me to take her home. I was surprised that she would want me to do this, but I was glad though!

When we were back at her place, she told me about who and what she really was! She was born in Ancient Egypt with the name Anck-su-namun! She was a follower of Imhotep, and for a crime that he had committed, she was punished to be Immortal instead of a living Mummy like Imhotep was! Since she had told me that, I figured I better tell her the whole truth about myself! She took it in stride and held me for we felt like we were two lost souls that had to be together!

I left her and went back to the Old House, and told both Julia and Willie what happened! They both knew that what I had done was wrong, and my father wasn't going to be happy about it! I didn't care because it wasn't like he could punish me since I was well over 21! HA, HA! I explained why I had done this the next night, and he realized that I had done the right thing.

The next day, a new member of the family came to the Old House by the name of Adam Collins. He had explained that he was the creation of a Dr. Lang, and that he was supposed to drain my father's curse off of him. But since my father had gone to 1897 to prevent Quentin from haunting Collinwood, but not his curse, my father returned to present day as a vampire once again! Adam had told us that his fiancée, Dr. Roxanne Drew had done plastic surgery on his face and that he wanted my father to know the news that he and Roxanne have planned to get married! My father went to see them the next night, and they hashed things over and apologized to each other on how they had treated one another.

The next morning I was jogging down by the beach, and I remembered that there was a double of my father's body in one of the caves. I went inside to make sure that no one had discovered this, only to find out that it was missing! I went back to the Old House, and told everyone that was there about this, and that the body had to be found and fast! But before anything could be done, a Pr. Stokes had shown up with news that he knew who both my father and I really was! He had found proof that my father had not gone to England in 1795, and in fact was a vampire! He had found through contacts in England that there was no Barnabas Collins that had disembarked the ship once it had reached England for it was not on the ships manifest, or that of any other ship!

My father had 'woken' up later, and Pr. Stokes had confronted him with what he had discovered. He told my father that he could have told him, and that he would have kept his secret. My father knew then that he had another person that would help keep his secret, and would be of great help like Pr. Stokes had proven to be so far! My father apologized to him, for he wasn't sure at the time if Pr. Stokes should know the truth or not.

Then there's the double of my father! After a few weeks of the double feeding off of people in Rockport, I was finally able to destroy the vampire in a battle between the two of us! It was down by the shoreline, and it was nearly dawn! We had battled it out for most of the night, and we both had the scars to prove it! I was finally able to get a stake into the heart as the Sun was starting to rise, and he disappeared into a pile of dust! I had explained that this was the same vampire that had gotten my mother pregnant while the vampire held my father captive! Everyone believed this story and thank goodness that they did, otherwise if they knew that it was a double of my father, I don't know what would have happened then!

Now this brings both me and my father to our next phase of our lives. We're both thinking of asking the two women in our lives to marry us! I know it is just a short time ago that I had met Susie, but Jill did give her blessing on the night that she had taken Trask that I should live my life now, and that one day we would be together again, and be with the daughter that I had missed out on. But for now, Susie does belong at my side as my wife and that my father and Julia belong together as well! We're both nervous on asking them to marry us, because I know they would both jump at the chance, it's just things never work out like they do for me anyway. I just hope that my father and I can find the words to ask the women that we love to marry us. It's been a long time since I had asked Jill, and I'm acting like a 20 year old right now! HA, HA!

Hopefully I can find the right words to say to Susie, and that she would say yes to me! I'm also willing to give up working for the Vatican and the Vampire High Council to be with her as well! With all the money that I had earned and invested over the years, our great-great-great grandchildren would not have to worry about having to struggle to make ends meet to feed and take care of themselves for the rest of their lives!

Will end this for now, and will update more, and maybe fill it with what I had done before Susie and I get married!