Carl greeted his friends from the stables and waited for the pair to turn to him before he spoke. Their eyes showed pain and he watched as Anna fell sobbing into Gabriel's arms.

"Hey, it's Ok, they're safe now." He soothed, comforting her as he had done to Serena not so long ago. He stroked her hair and gently, unaware of Carl standing at the gate, who took it upon himself to leave at this moment, realising that the pair needed time alone.

Anna cried long and hard. For almost half an hour they stood in the stables while he held her tightly. He kept on hand on her head and moved the other to the base of her back, which he carelessly rubbed, not trying to calm her down, just to comfort her. He was also deeply upset about the children being miles away from home. They had stayed at the Vatican before, but always with them, and never under risk from so much danger.

"Look at me, Anna." He commanded softly. She lifted her head from his chest, and he looked deep into her teary eyes, locking their gaze as he spoke. "They know we love them, they know how much we care about their safety. I hate this as much as you do, but there is nothing else we can do. We have to get rid of him again, and we can't do that with the children so close to danger." She nodded sadly in agreement, before turning away and wiping her eyes as she walked back into the mansion, now free from the sound of laughing children.

"Are you all OK?" Scott asked worriedly, checking with his eyes for any injury on his siblings as soon as Dracula had left the room. He was scared, why shouldn't he be? But he refused to show it in front of the others. As Dad had told him once, they needed a strong big brother who they could depend on, not one who hid away in fright.

They all nodded. Alex went to the small window and clutched at the ledge. "Home." He whispered, the others walked over to him and gazed out of the window.

Sure enough, there was Vaseria. Standing lonely in the landscape before them, not more than a five minute walk away. Home.

"There's Momma and Daddy" Serena said quietly. Any other time she would have shouted, but she had heard Dracula say that any noise heard from outside would result in punishment.

So, instead, the four watched as their father took their mother in his embrace on the balcony outside their room. They knew she was crying from the way she had her head buried in her hands, and the way their father kept wiping his eyes made them believe he was also crying. "Why are they crying?" Alex asked, still whispering.

"They didn't want to leave us." Katie said quietly. The silence in the room grew as none of them stopped watching their parents.

"Then why did they?" Serena asked. Katie didn't answer, did the twins feel betrayed y their own mother and father? The thought played on her mind. Had they walked into a trap?

"Because they love us. They didn't know it was going to happen." Scott muttered, more to himself than the others.

A gust of wind hit them, and it carried the sound of Anna's crying. They could hear us if we shouted, thought Katie, We needed a signal, to let them know we're here. Then the thought hit her.

"Alex, give me your necklace." She said quickly, taking them all by surprise.

"Why?" He never took his necklace off. It was a holy cross, made of real diamonds that he was given when he was a baby.

"Because we can throw it. When the wind blows again, it will land right by them and they'll know we're up here!"

Scott looked amazed at his sister's plan. It might actually work. Slowly, Alex took of his necklace and took one last look at it before he placed it in Katie's hand. It was lucky she was a good thrower, thought Scott, otherwise it defiantly wouldn't work.

They all waited in silence as Katie threw the pendant and chain towards their parents. It dipped a bit, and Katie was terrified it wasn't going to land where they wanted it to land, but then a strong gust of wind caught it and took it the rest of the way, she sighed with relief.

Anna couldn't stop crying. She wanted her children back home where they belonged. There was comfort in Gabriel's embrace, knowing that she was not alone in both body and pain. She began to feel drowsy and relax more into his comforting chest and...

"Ouch!" She cried out. Something had just fallen from a great height onto her head. She looked around for what it was, although it was probably a stone dropped by a bird. Gabriel also looked on the floor. He spotted something glittering in the moonlight by Anna's foot. She crouched down and picked it up. She held it out for Gabriel to see, a small diamond-encrusted cross with edges of silver. One of a matching pair, one with gold given to Serena, and one with silver given to –

"Alex!" She breathed, looking around in the direction of the pendants fall. The couple found themselves looking up at Castle Frankenstein, at the tallest tower. There was a window up the top, it wasn't very large but she could see something blocking the light getting through it.

"It cannot be." Gabriel gasped as he followed her gaze. "No, no this can't be happening! They're at the Vatican."

It was then, at the exact moment that her husband lost all control over his emotions, that Anna realised that the 'something' blocking the window was in fact their children. Which meant only one thing.

Dracula had taken them. He must have known they would send the children to Rome for safety. She fell to her knees as a shrill scream escaped from the window. Followed by a large black bat that burst through it.

"Let me go!" Katie screamed as Dracula transformed into his bat form once again and dragged her through the window. She looked down and felt her head spin with the realisation that she was about one hundred feet in the air over a large patch of dangerous looking trees, and Dracula could let go at any second.

"I leave you alone for a few minutes and you already put my whole plan in danger." He roared down at her. Scott watched helplessly from the window with a scared pair of twins grasping him screaming.

"Please, put me down!" She begged, tears running down her face. She thought of her parents, her brothers and sister. Was she going to die at the hands of this monster?