A/N: Okay, so we're going to give my laptop another chance… *grumbles slightly* hopefully it won't be a useless piece of work that it has been for… well ever… anywho, I'm gonna get a good start on things and hopefully get through a bunch of stuff today. After fanfics I've got a bunch of homework but none due tomorrow thank goodness ^^; Sorry just organizing my thoughts.

Disclaimer: As cool as he is, I don't have any claim to Dracula

Spooked

Rebecca reeled back, startled beyond all belief, Vlad smirked a little bit, she should be afraid, that was a good reaction, that was how people should respond to him. Though he could practically feel Mina's disapproving glare on the back of his head. It just reminded him of the disapproving and sympathetic look his wife had given him all that time ago when he had told her what he'd done just to be able to save their people.

"Wh-what?" the brunette stammered, her hand over heart, Vlad sighed and thought of the one thing that would confirm what he was sure was running through the older sister's head. He let some of his instincts ride to the front of his mind, allowing them to rule his thoughts and then he lifted a lip, baring a single glossy white fang. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, burying the monstrous instincts again behind the mask of a perfect gentleman.

"What do you think?" he asked a second later when he was in perfect control again.

"You… you're…" Rebecca let out a tiny giggle, feeling not so in control of herself anymore, she looked back to Jessica again, who was still putzing around in the kitchen as though nothing had happened. "This can't be real…" Mina put a hand on her sister's arm, and the older of the two jumped, feeling nervous as instincts long buried in the human mind came to the front after being exposed to a predator that was very real and very dangerous.

"Rebecca, this is very real. Vlad, he-." The brunette blinked at the name and then met eyes with the former prince

"Wait. You're not just a vampire are you, Vlad, as in Vlad the impaler?" she said this accusingly. The vampire sighed

"That was a long time ago." He said, Rebecca took a step back, giving another weak laugh.

"Oh god, you… you are…" Vlad sat down, running a hand through his hair and trying to seem as unimposing as possible.

"Rebecca, it doesn't matter right now, what you need to know is that…" he didn't get to finish his sentence

"How on earth does it not matter?!" she said

"Rebecca, sit down." Mina said sternly, trying and failing to push her sister into a chair.

"Mina, how can you just be so casual about all of this?! He's… he could eat you!" Mina laughed a little

"He could but he won't. I'm too important to him, he came here to protect us." She turned to Vlad then, the vampire looking up at her and knowing what was coming

"Why was the Master here?" she asked and Vlad folded his hands together, trying to organize his thoughts and figure out where to begin.

"You know that I owe the Master, yes? It was part of the bargain struck when I accepted his powers." Mina nodded and then Rebecca stomped between the couple.

"Are we going to just ignore the fact that he's a vampire?!" she demanded "Not just any vampire either, but the most well known one of all time?!" Vlad stood up then and Mina peeked around her sister

"Please don't hypnotize my sister." She said sternly, Vlad grinned a little bit.

"I'm not going to, although that would make things easier," he turned his attention back to the brunette "Rebecca, I have no problem answering your questions but right now there's something that you and your sister need to understand, you need to know how much danger you're in right now."

"Because of you." Rebecca accused. Vlad sighed

"Yes, but that's beyond the point right now."

"How is that beyond the point?! If all of this is your fault, why did you get involved with my sister?" Vlad's eyes hardened for a second and then he let his shoulders drop, slightly defeated.

"Imagine for a moment that you met the love of your life, and it was your fault that they departed from this world, and then… years and years and years down the road, you see the very same soul that you fell for all that time ago, you would try to make them come back to you by any means necessary, and when that fails and they depart from this world once more… and the universe decides to give you yet another chance…" he looked over at Mina "You can't help yourself, you have to try again, you yearn for that love that you had… the opportunity to do it all over again… I won't let anything happen to you this time."

"Wait, wait," Rebecca was struggling to remember the stories she knew of this man, though the truthfulness of them was certainly up for debate. "Are you talking about reincarnation?" Vlad nodded, as though it were a simple thing, as though that didn't sound as crazy as Rebecca thought, she started laughing then, it was just too much for her, the idea that her sister was some reincarnation of some former lover of Vlad the Impaler was just way to crazy.

"I have to be dreaming…" she said, falling back on a chair, her legs starting to feel a bit like jello.

"This is no dream." Mina said gently to her sister

"It has to be…"

A/N: Poor Rebecca, I'm trying really hard to give her a reasonable reaction to the whole scenario that is playing out in front of her. It can't be easy to suddenly have all this unbelievable information laid on top of you with now warning…

Till next time,

-Winged Element