Author's Note: *Hides* Yes! I am an official slacker! But I got it out. Here's chapter eight for your reading pleasure. Now that we have that annoying chapter that we all hate, but has to be there for the plot's sake, we can get on to some good stuff! (Now if only I can stop slacking and actually write… Mission accepted.)

Disclaimer: Refer to previous chapters for the disclaimer. We've all seen them enough to get the idea that I do not own Gundam Wing, Sailor Moon, or Bram Stoker's Dracula.

A Tale Re-Told

Chapter Eight: It's Time to Leave Home, and Return to Another

Silence reigned in the hotel room where everyone, excluding Rei, sat. When Trowa had returned with no trace of Rei he had immediately called Heero. No less than ten minutes later Heero had appeared in the room where Trowa, Mina, and Usagi sat quietly. Soon after Heero had appeared, Quatre and Duo appeared.

None of them had expected such an act. All of them had thought that Wufei or his little minion to come after Mina, but none thought that they would take Rei instead. Of coarse it had been a possibility from the beginning. That's why Rei and Usagi had come with them in the first place. But, of coarse, that had only been a precaution.

Heero stared blankly out the window into the night sky. He blamed Trowa for not saving her. He blamed Usagi and Mina for letting her take one step out of the room without protection. But most of all he blamed himself for not being there for her. He had promised her that he would take care of her. He had promised himself that nothing would happen to her. A single tear formed in his eye and slowly crept down his cheek. He knew that he would probably never see Rei, alive, again.

He turned slowly to face the other's, his cold mask of indifference set in place. Heero looked at everyone in the room in turn. "It's not safe for any of us now," he looked at Mina who sat on the floor near Quatre's chair. His gaze then shifted to Usagi, who was leaning against Trowa's chest. Trowa's arms were wrapped protectively around the small girls waist. "He knows where we are now, and he will do anything to get what he wants."

"What are you saying Heero, do you think he's mad enough to come after the girls with us around!? That's ludicrous!" Duo stood up from his chair and walked over to his friend, "We know he's powerful, but do you honestly think that he can get past us?"

Heero stared at Duo, making the young man feel uneasy, "He can, and he will. We have to get out of here. Staying is not an option."

Mina looked up from the floor. She couldn't help but feel that Rei's disappearance was all her fault. If she hadn't met Rei… if she hadn't been born… none of this would have happened. "And where will we go?" she whispered, "He can find us, he can find me. No matter what we do or where we go he'll always be there."

Quatre looked up from the many papers he held in his hands, "She's right Heero. Where could we possibly go that he wouldn't think to look? He can sense her life force; it's like a drug to him."

Heero turned around again and faced the window, "We'll go somewhere where we have an advantage."

"And where, pray tell, is that?" Duo asked.

"Home, to London."

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Rei squinted as the door to her tiny room opened. Candlelight invaded the complete darkness that she had been stuck in for the past few hours. Two shadows fell in front of her. One was quite masculine, carrying an air or great mystery and passion around him. The other was very feminine, and flaunted it.

"This is her my master," Angel said, "She's one of Mina's close friends."

Rei kept her eyes on the floor. The masculine figure strode forward and placed too cold fingers underneath her chin, forcing her to look up and him.

"Well aren't you a pretty one, my dear," he said. The man's cold black eyes stared deep into her as if they could see her soul.

Rei shivered, his voice was beautifully dark and sensual, yet cold and demanding. "Who are you?"

The man grinned, "I am the prince of darkness, the immortal. I have been given many names over my incredibly long existence. But my birth name, not my birth as the father of vampires mind you, was Wufei."

"You! You're the one that's been trying to hurt my friend!" Rei glared at him, every ounce of the fear she felt only minutes ago was gone, replaced with a deep anger towards the man in front of her.

Wufei smiled, his gleaming white fangs peaked out from inside his mouth. He raised his hand to the side of Rei's face and caressed it slightly. "I would never hurt her," he said, "She means the world to me. As far as I am concerned, Mina is the very reason for my tortured existence."

"Then why are you trying to hurt her!?"

Wufei's hand slammed into the wall next to Rei's face, causing her to flinch. "Do you need me to say it so plainly!? I love her! We were meant for each other! She is my queen, and no one will keep her from me!"

Rei looked up into the face of her captor. For a moment she saw hundreds of emotion's flash through his eyes. "But you must know that this Mina is not the one from the past…"

Wufei's bitter laugh sounded through the room. "Or so you think, my dear. Everyone is reborn, sooner or later. She is the same girl that I fell for all those years ago," Wufei grabbed Rei's hair, causing her head to tilt back and expose her neck. "And so have you, but now I will end that. Tonight I shall give you a new life."

Tears began to spill over Rei's cheeks as she attempted to struggle out of Wufei's grasp. No matter what she tried she couldn't escape his hold. "Please… don't do this," she whispered.

Wufei's mouth came to rest on her neck; slowly he opened his mouth. "But you see, I must. If I have you, it will draw her to me." Without another word his bit down on Rei's neck.

Rei screamed in agony when she felt Wufei's fangs slide through the flesh in her neck. She had never been in so much pain. She could feel the very essence that was her life slip into the warm body pressed against hers. Finally, after what seemed like forever, she collapsed to the floor, dead.

Angel watched from the doorway in shock, "M-master?" she said, "Is she… dead?"

Wufei wiped the excess blood from his lips and looked down at the limp body in front of him. "No, she's not dead," he said, "Her body is dying. Soon she will be reborn and one of us, a vampire."

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A/N: Yes, yes, I know. It's shorter than my other chapters… but what the hey! If you poke me enough the next chapter might be out sooner…