A/N Okay, there is some sexual content (i.e. rape) and foul language in this chapter, but not enough that I saw fit to upgrade this to R. If you have sensitivities to stuff like that, then just skip to the end of the chapter where I'll tell you what happened. And yes, the title is a nod to El Tango de Roxanne from Moulin Rouge. The Duke (played by the same guy who played Dracula!) attempted to rape Satine while this song was playing, so I thought it fitting.

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THE SHOW DOES GO ON!

Chapter 9
Why Does My Heart Cry?

His eyes upon your face
His hand upon you hand
His lips caress your skin
It's more than I can stand...

Why does my heart cry?
Feelings I can't fight!
You're free to leave me
But just don't deceive me
And please, believe me when I say
I love you...

-El Tango de Roxanne, Moulin Rouge

"Vlad?" Analiese called faintly, watching the door to her cousin's room. She had just taken leave of Van Helsing, whose kiss was still burning on her lips and making her feel faint. She could hardly think straight, but she knew she had to talk to Vlad. She had promised him she would visit him in his room after she talked to Gabriel... She knocked once on his door. "Vlad? I'm coming in." She opened the door slowly. It was pitch black inside, almost unnaturally so. "Vlad?"
"I'm here." He said in a low, hoarse voice from somewhere in the darkness.
"Oh good, there's something I wanted to tell you." She said with relief. "Why don't you put on some lights?"
"Oh, but don't you like the atmosphere of the darkness?" He asked seductively. Somehow, his tone frightened her.
"No... actually, I don't. I can't see a thing." She said shakily, walking forward a little.
"Well, I don't like the darkness either." He said lightly. She could not tell where his voice was coming from exactly, but when he spoke again, it seemed to be coming from a different place. "You kept me in the dark."
"What...?" She found herself utterly lost now in the darkness of the room and of her confusion. "I don't know what you're saying-"
"You know very well what I mean you miserable bitch!" He shouted. Without warning, his strong hands were on her wrists and she was flung to the ground. She let out a sharp scream of terror, fighting back. In the instants that he had been there, he was gone and she climbed frantically to her feet.
"You've gone mad." Her voice broke slightly.
"No, I've gone to see the truth. You used me." He said icily.
"What are you talking about?!" She shouted as tears poured down her face. At last as she backed up, she found the door handle. Desperately she shook it, but to no avail. Hands closed hard about her waist. She tried to scream, but one clamped over her mouth.
"Oh, hush now Analiese. We don't need you going anywhere and we don't need you screaming." There was a grunt as she was flung away from the door and to the ground. Fighting back sobs, she tried to scramble to her feet. "Didn't you enjoy our dancing this evening, dear cousin? I could dance to the beat of your heart now..."
"Vlad..."
"Yes, I know, there's something you need to talk to me about." Someone grabbed her hair from behind and wrenched her head back. She could almost see his eyes, glimmering maliciously in the dark. "What is it?"
"Light the torches and I'll tell you." She said unevenly, breathing harshly.
"I don't trust you anymore in the light than I do in this bloody darkness!" He snarled, still holding her head back. "What do you need to tell me?" His answer was a broken sob and a wild attempt on her part to hit his arm. Still holding her by her hair, he jerked her roughly to her feet. "Answer me you damn whore!" He said shrilly, one arm around her waist to prevent her from going anywhere. With a small cry, she slammed her foot down on his and tried to run. Now he held her by both arms, slamming her up against the wall. "Answer me!" Her tears began to subside and she stared at his face- she could see it clearly now- with utter hatred.
"I love Gabriel." She said in a low, seething voice.
Those words, which should have made her feel like she was on top of the world, instead sent her spinning down into Hell as she was flung once more, this time into a wood post that held up the canopy over Dracula's four-poster bed. Wild with fear and pain, she clambered through the curtain and onto the bed, then began to crawl for the other side. If she leapt off, on the other side, she might leave Vlad confused enough so that she could seize a weapon off his wall and hack her way out of the room... through him if she had to. However, just as she was about to reach her goal, he seized her by the ankles and began to drag her backwards. With a muffled scream of rage, she clung onto the comforters, trying to claw her way out of his grasp. In the end what she succeeded in doing was pulling off the comforters as he pulled her forcefully to her feet.
"Why thank you, my dear, for undoing the bed!" He cried hoarsely, pulling her to him for a harsh, hard kiss, before throwing her onto the bed. As she tried to get up again, he pinned her down with his weight, his lips smashed against hers as his hands ripped at her gown. He bit down hard on her bottom lip. Pulling herself out of his grasp and ignoring the blood in her mouth, she sent a well-aimed punch flying into his face... but even that was not enough to deter him.
"You have a fire that she will one day possess, but even your fire cannot shine away my darkness!" He hissed. Soon after, he was upon her, with his tearing hands and harsh words. Then, out of sheer terror, she forced herself down into a thoughtless oblivion.
Vladislaus Dracula could not figure out what was wrong with himself. He was in a vampire's mindset. He still felt soulless, hollow, still like a bloodsucking creature of the night. He was the terror of Transylvania, he killed and violated without discretion. He took pleasure from such acts.
Why? Why was he in such terrible pain? Why did he feel the urge to cry as he saw her lying trembling before him and smelled the blood of her virginity as it slowly stained his sheets? Why did he feel so sick inside, like he had raped his own heart?
"Go." He said to her roughly. "Leave me." He watched as she gathered her tattered garments around her in silence, then stood looking around herself as though for something she had lost. There were shattered bits of her everywhere, he knew, things she could never reclaim. Look, there lay her love for him. And there, trampled into the rug, her courage. Here, on the bed, her fiery determination and her maidenhood. "GO!" He shouted suddenly, rising to his feet and unlocking and opening the door. As she ran out of it, he slammed it shut, sinking down to his knees. Now he knew why it hurt. He had hurt the one he loved. She was not the one who committed the crime, someone had driven her to it. As he spoke to the darkness he had created around himself, tears of anger washed down his face. "It is not you that I want."

A/N Wow, that came out a lot more violent than I expected it to be... but what can I say? I was sick while I was writing this, humor me! Anyways, for those who skipped to the bottom (if any) Dracula brutally raped Analiese, then sent her out of the room, realizing that it was not she he was after.

One more thing... what would yall think of a Carl/Gabriel story made up entirely of songfics? (i.e.: every chapter is a songfic) I've been playing around with it and I have some ideas... but I want to make sure everyone would like it. Please review!