Mary and Simon escorted Jeri into the office. Simon sat her down while Mary
placed a wet washcloth on her neck. Jeri was in complete shock after she
saw the guard's death. Plus, the coffin freaked her out even more. Mary
stood behind her while Simon sat at the desk. He took a deep breath knowing
that this would be a while.
"Jeri, sweetheart," Simon slowly started. "You have witnessed the coffin of a creature we locked away years ago."
"Who?" Jeri asked her voice still stuttering from the shock.
"Dracula," Simon blurted out without hesitation. Jeri looked at Simon with a look of fright. However, it soon turned to a comedy, Jeri burst out laughing. Mary and Simon looked at each other knowing this would not be easy.
"Yeah right!" Jeri said laughing so hard she began to cry. "Dracula is in that coffin? Is this some kind of joke so you don't tell me what's really in there?"
"It is the truth," Simon continued. "In the year 2000, Dracula was freed. He was looking for your mother who had a blood bond with him. Her father, Abraham Van Helsing kidnapped Dracula in the year 1897." Soon, Jeri halted her laughing and listened to the story her father was telling. "He used Dracula's blood filtered through leeches to stay alive to guard over his coffin. I was his friend. But, a gang of thieves stole the coffin, thinking gold was in there and bought it to New Orleans. He killed them all and then started to search for your mother."
"Why would he want you?" Jeri asked her mother who sat quietly next to her while Simon continued.
"Since your grandfather used his blood to stay alive, he passed it onto your mother when she was born. He was planning on turning her into one of his own so they could be together forever."
"So what happened?" Jeri asked her laughing face soon turning to serious.
"At the end, Dracula killed your grandfather and got hold of your mother. He did turn her, but then he released her on his path to death. He was hanging from a wire and burned by the first light of dawn. His ashes are what's buried in that coffin. Your mother and myself are the keepers. We make sure he is never released into this world again so he doesn't get what he wants."
"And what's that?" Jeri asked beginning to grow a laughing face again.
"You," Simon pointed out. Mary and Simon both stared at Jeri whose eyes widen at her name. Why would Dracula want her? Does he want revenge on her parents for killing him again? She needed to know.
"Why would Dracula want me?" Jeri asked growing impatient, but quite drawn to the story.
"You have his blood in you just as your mother did," Simon explained. "We didn't think it would happen, but it did."
"What?!" Jeri yelled out wanting to know.
"His blood was passed from your mother to you and if Dracula is released he won't stop till he gets you." Jeri stood up speechless while Simon and Mary did the same to be even with her.
"You mean to say that I'm part of Dracula?" Jeri asked looking deep into their eyes.
"Yes, honey," Mary said. "I'm terribly sorry."
"And when we're you planning on telling me this wonderful story?!" Jeri was beyond angry at this point. She just found out that she was part of Dracula like her mother was in the year 2000 and that all the dreams she had of him and the voice she heard was all of Dracula's doings.
"We thought we'd never have to tell you," Mary said trying to calm her daughter down. "We thought that when you finished college and moved to LA you wouldn't have to worry about it." Mary tried to comfort her daughter, but Jeri pulled away.
"All these years, you've been lying to me of what was down there?" Jeri yelled out trying not to process it through her mind.
"We are sorry, dear," Simon said. "You must understand."
"I understand perfectly!" Jeri screamed. "I've been living a lie all these years! I can't believe you!"
"Honey?" Mary said before she was interrupted.
"Just, stay away from me!" Jeri said walking out of the office. She ran all the way up the stairs and into her room, slamming the door shut and locking it. Mary and Simon didn't bother following her. Mary looked at Simon angrily.
"She just needs to cope with it," Simon said. "She'll come down eventually."
"And if she never does?" Mary asked crossing her arms.
"Then, we'll at least know she'll be safe in there," Simon replied slightly laughing. However, he saw that Mary was not and quickly grew on a serious face again.
Jeri leaned against her door. She couldn't believe her parents lied to her all those years. She trusted them more than anything in the world. Full of rage, Jeri slammed her fist against the wall making a hole. It was the strength of Dracula in her blood that allowed her to do that.
While Jeri let out her anger in her room and Simon and Mary were drinking tea in the office, the coffin was alone in the darkness. The body of Dracula continued to form. His head was the final step. As it finished forming Dracula's eyes shot open and roared with his fangs and red eyes blaring inside the dark coffin. He couldn't wait to be released again.
Later in the night, Simon was sleeping and so was Jeri. Mary, however, quietly walked down the stairs and towards the vault. She pressed the button to open the gates and unlock the door. The new guards weren't coming till the next day so it was Mary's only chance. She walked down the stone steps walking past the skeleton heads and all the way to the door that opened to the coffin. She opened the doors and stared at the coffin. She walked around it a couple of times before talking to Dracula.
"You listen to me now, you bloodsucking bastard," Mary said. Dracula heard her voice and opened his eyes. He listened closely to what Mary had to say to him. "I know your figure has been rebuilt. But you listen here. You better leave my daughter alone! You hear me? If you even dare to harm her I will kill you, again!"
"Mary, Mary," Dracula softly said. However, Mary left before he could say anything else. She walked out of the vault closing it after she left. Dracula better have taken her threat seriously. If he didn't, Mary would personally kill him slowly and she wasn't afraid to do it either. Mary then lowered the gates and returned to bed.
"Jeri." Dracula's voice called to her in her sleep. Jeri moaned and moved around in her bed after hearing her name. "Release me, Jeri." Jeri opened her eyes and saw the face of Dracula staring directly back at her. "Come to me, Jeri." Jeri sat up screaming as he face disappeared into thin air.
"Jeri?" Simon yelled knocking on her door. "Are you all right?"
"Fine!" Jeri yelled out hoping her father would get the clue and walk away. After Simon left, Jeri sat up in bed rubbing her head. She finally took a deep breathe and went back to sleep.
The next day the two new guards arrived. While Mary and Simon explained the details of their job, Jeri hurried down the stairs and out the front door. She was planning on spending the day with her friends to get away from the whole "Dracula" thing.
Jeri, Chester, Jo Lynn, Kylie and Colleen spent most of the day at their favorite little café talking about memories and plans for the future. They drank coffees and espresso's till they were about to burst.
"So, Jer?" Chester asked taking a sip of his coffee. "How went your first couple days at home?" Jeri looked down to take a moment and think. However, she hated her first few days, especially with the whole Dracula story.
"Going good," Jeri replied lying to one of her best friends. However, she couldn't tell them what really went on. They would never believe her. For the next hour they continued to stay at the café. Around three o' clock they found themselves in a bookstore.
Chester, Kylie and Colleen were in the romance section while Jeri and Jo Lynn roamed their way through the horror aisle. Suddenly, Jeri stopped and noticed Bram Stokers "Dracula". She grabbed it and began skimming through the pages. Jo Lynn noticed what she was reading and looked over her shoulder.
"Why is it that in every book Dracula is so charming and handsome?" Jo Lynn asked.
"Got me," Jeri replied placing the book back. For the next few hours, everywhere Jeri and her friends went she saw a clue leading to Dracula in someway. She found Bram Stokers book, a teenage boy was wearing a shirt that read 'Count D Sucks', a picture of a wolf and bat was hanging in the clothes shop and finally a man that looked just like Dracula in her dreams walked by and continued to stare at Jeri till he was no longer in sight.
It was now eleven o' clock and Colleen offered that they go to the new nightclub "Dark Lord". Jeri was scared from the title of the club, but she decided to go anyway. Besides, she was out with her friends to have fun and not to think of Dracula, who was thinking of Jeri that very moment in his coffin.
Chapter Three coming soon!
"Jeri, sweetheart," Simon slowly started. "You have witnessed the coffin of a creature we locked away years ago."
"Who?" Jeri asked her voice still stuttering from the shock.
"Dracula," Simon blurted out without hesitation. Jeri looked at Simon with a look of fright. However, it soon turned to a comedy, Jeri burst out laughing. Mary and Simon looked at each other knowing this would not be easy.
"Yeah right!" Jeri said laughing so hard she began to cry. "Dracula is in that coffin? Is this some kind of joke so you don't tell me what's really in there?"
"It is the truth," Simon continued. "In the year 2000, Dracula was freed. He was looking for your mother who had a blood bond with him. Her father, Abraham Van Helsing kidnapped Dracula in the year 1897." Soon, Jeri halted her laughing and listened to the story her father was telling. "He used Dracula's blood filtered through leeches to stay alive to guard over his coffin. I was his friend. But, a gang of thieves stole the coffin, thinking gold was in there and bought it to New Orleans. He killed them all and then started to search for your mother."
"Why would he want you?" Jeri asked her mother who sat quietly next to her while Simon continued.
"Since your grandfather used his blood to stay alive, he passed it onto your mother when she was born. He was planning on turning her into one of his own so they could be together forever."
"So what happened?" Jeri asked her laughing face soon turning to serious.
"At the end, Dracula killed your grandfather and got hold of your mother. He did turn her, but then he released her on his path to death. He was hanging from a wire and burned by the first light of dawn. His ashes are what's buried in that coffin. Your mother and myself are the keepers. We make sure he is never released into this world again so he doesn't get what he wants."
"And what's that?" Jeri asked beginning to grow a laughing face again.
"You," Simon pointed out. Mary and Simon both stared at Jeri whose eyes widen at her name. Why would Dracula want her? Does he want revenge on her parents for killing him again? She needed to know.
"Why would Dracula want me?" Jeri asked growing impatient, but quite drawn to the story.
"You have his blood in you just as your mother did," Simon explained. "We didn't think it would happen, but it did."
"What?!" Jeri yelled out wanting to know.
"His blood was passed from your mother to you and if Dracula is released he won't stop till he gets you." Jeri stood up speechless while Simon and Mary did the same to be even with her.
"You mean to say that I'm part of Dracula?" Jeri asked looking deep into their eyes.
"Yes, honey," Mary said. "I'm terribly sorry."
"And when we're you planning on telling me this wonderful story?!" Jeri was beyond angry at this point. She just found out that she was part of Dracula like her mother was in the year 2000 and that all the dreams she had of him and the voice she heard was all of Dracula's doings.
"We thought we'd never have to tell you," Mary said trying to calm her daughter down. "We thought that when you finished college and moved to LA you wouldn't have to worry about it." Mary tried to comfort her daughter, but Jeri pulled away.
"All these years, you've been lying to me of what was down there?" Jeri yelled out trying not to process it through her mind.
"We are sorry, dear," Simon said. "You must understand."
"I understand perfectly!" Jeri screamed. "I've been living a lie all these years! I can't believe you!"
"Honey?" Mary said before she was interrupted.
"Just, stay away from me!" Jeri said walking out of the office. She ran all the way up the stairs and into her room, slamming the door shut and locking it. Mary and Simon didn't bother following her. Mary looked at Simon angrily.
"She just needs to cope with it," Simon said. "She'll come down eventually."
"And if she never does?" Mary asked crossing her arms.
"Then, we'll at least know she'll be safe in there," Simon replied slightly laughing. However, he saw that Mary was not and quickly grew on a serious face again.
Jeri leaned against her door. She couldn't believe her parents lied to her all those years. She trusted them more than anything in the world. Full of rage, Jeri slammed her fist against the wall making a hole. It was the strength of Dracula in her blood that allowed her to do that.
While Jeri let out her anger in her room and Simon and Mary were drinking tea in the office, the coffin was alone in the darkness. The body of Dracula continued to form. His head was the final step. As it finished forming Dracula's eyes shot open and roared with his fangs and red eyes blaring inside the dark coffin. He couldn't wait to be released again.
Later in the night, Simon was sleeping and so was Jeri. Mary, however, quietly walked down the stairs and towards the vault. She pressed the button to open the gates and unlock the door. The new guards weren't coming till the next day so it was Mary's only chance. She walked down the stone steps walking past the skeleton heads and all the way to the door that opened to the coffin. She opened the doors and stared at the coffin. She walked around it a couple of times before talking to Dracula.
"You listen to me now, you bloodsucking bastard," Mary said. Dracula heard her voice and opened his eyes. He listened closely to what Mary had to say to him. "I know your figure has been rebuilt. But you listen here. You better leave my daughter alone! You hear me? If you even dare to harm her I will kill you, again!"
"Mary, Mary," Dracula softly said. However, Mary left before he could say anything else. She walked out of the vault closing it after she left. Dracula better have taken her threat seriously. If he didn't, Mary would personally kill him slowly and she wasn't afraid to do it either. Mary then lowered the gates and returned to bed.
"Jeri." Dracula's voice called to her in her sleep. Jeri moaned and moved around in her bed after hearing her name. "Release me, Jeri." Jeri opened her eyes and saw the face of Dracula staring directly back at her. "Come to me, Jeri." Jeri sat up screaming as he face disappeared into thin air.
"Jeri?" Simon yelled knocking on her door. "Are you all right?"
"Fine!" Jeri yelled out hoping her father would get the clue and walk away. After Simon left, Jeri sat up in bed rubbing her head. She finally took a deep breathe and went back to sleep.
The next day the two new guards arrived. While Mary and Simon explained the details of their job, Jeri hurried down the stairs and out the front door. She was planning on spending the day with her friends to get away from the whole "Dracula" thing.
Jeri, Chester, Jo Lynn, Kylie and Colleen spent most of the day at their favorite little café talking about memories and plans for the future. They drank coffees and espresso's till they were about to burst.
"So, Jer?" Chester asked taking a sip of his coffee. "How went your first couple days at home?" Jeri looked down to take a moment and think. However, she hated her first few days, especially with the whole Dracula story.
"Going good," Jeri replied lying to one of her best friends. However, she couldn't tell them what really went on. They would never believe her. For the next hour they continued to stay at the café. Around three o' clock they found themselves in a bookstore.
Chester, Kylie and Colleen were in the romance section while Jeri and Jo Lynn roamed their way through the horror aisle. Suddenly, Jeri stopped and noticed Bram Stokers "Dracula". She grabbed it and began skimming through the pages. Jo Lynn noticed what she was reading and looked over her shoulder.
"Why is it that in every book Dracula is so charming and handsome?" Jo Lynn asked.
"Got me," Jeri replied placing the book back. For the next few hours, everywhere Jeri and her friends went she saw a clue leading to Dracula in someway. She found Bram Stokers book, a teenage boy was wearing a shirt that read 'Count D Sucks', a picture of a wolf and bat was hanging in the clothes shop and finally a man that looked just like Dracula in her dreams walked by and continued to stare at Jeri till he was no longer in sight.
It was now eleven o' clock and Colleen offered that they go to the new nightclub "Dark Lord". Jeri was scared from the title of the club, but she decided to go anyway. Besides, she was out with her friends to have fun and not to think of Dracula, who was thinking of Jeri that very moment in his coffin.
Chapter Three coming soon!