Chapter Fourteen

When Poison came to, she found herself shackled to the wall in some sort of underground building. There were candles around the outer walls of the room except for the wall, which Poison was chained to. This completely lit up most of the room, although Poison had been chained to the only part of the wall that the light did not reach. Poison was standing against the wall, her feet chained to the bottom of the wall and her hands were chained above her head. Thankfully Poison wasn't very heavy so she was able to slump and let the chains hold her up.

Her body still ached from whatever Van Helsing had thrown at her, she felt like someone had smashed her bones with a hammer or another heavy object. She was glad to be in shadows as her head ached and when she looked at the light her eyes stung like she was being stabbed with needles. Suddenly Van Helsing walked into the room. Poison lifted her head slowly as she was only just regaining control over her body.

"What have you done to me?" she slurred to Van Helsing.

"It's a substance Carl invented, it numbs the body and then nocks out the victim. It can last up to two weeks on humans. But you've only been out for three days."

'Three days,' Poison thought to herself. 'Dracula should have come looking for me by now. Unless he was avoiding me, like I was he. Then again why would he bother after all I had done to him ' Poison sighed to herself.

"I'm going to die alone. Again..." Poison stopped it had happened again, she had said something out of her control, suddenly her vision became cloudy so she closed her eyes, when she opened them she was still chained up, but it wasn't in the same area. This room was much larger and there were many other people as well as Van Helsing staring at her.

"Mommy," cried a small voice, Poison turned her head to the left, her daughter had been chained up as well, and she was too far for Poison to reach her.

"Ebony," she cried to her daughter. Poison was willing to lose her own life and had been since the start of it all. But Ebony was an innocent in all of this; she was only two, just a child.

"You sick bastards. How can you do this to her, what has she done to you?" Poison screamed at the men.

Van Helsing walked towards Poison and put his hand under her chin, pulling her head up to face him. Poison struggled in her chains in anger.

"She is not supposed to exist, therefore we must right this wrong. In the name of God," he replied to her.

"You think God would want you to kill an innocent child." She screamed at him, "You are not God's men, you are doing the Devil's work."

Van Helsing walked up to her and slapped her hard across the face. Ebony began to cry louder. Poison gathered herself together, her cheek stung but she would not show weakness, she had to be strong for her daughter.

"You all will burn in Hell for this," Poison screamed to the men in the room.

"No, you, Vladislaus and your daughter shall burn in Hell. We shall be praised in Heaven."

Poison closed her eyes to blink away the tears that were beginning to fall; when she opened her eyes she was back in the smaller room with just Van Helsing. Suddenly Poison understood everything. Her memory had finally come back to her.

"You murdered us before, Gabriel. Now you plan to do it again," Poison called to him.

"It is my job to vanquish evil," he replied.

Poison laughed at him, thankfully the pain she had felt before was now gone.

"We were never evil. Just two innocent lovers trapped in your Hell."

"He broke the rules. He was not allowed to fall in love he had to stay celibate. He needed to be punished," Gabriel said walking up to Poison to look her straight in the face.

"If you had ever been in love, you would understand."

"No. He promised himself to God, he was not allowed to love anyone other than God."

Poison gave up, there was no reasoning with this man, and he was still as stubborn as he had been over four hundred years ago.

Poison rested against the wall trying to piece together her past. She remembered her life in which she met Dracula, but they both had been murdered in the end, along with their daughter, how was it possible that they were alive again now. Poison was also confused by the existence of Van Helsing; he was still human, how had he lived so long.

"Gabriel. What are you?" Poison asked.

"Excuse me?" he replied, seemingly confused by her question.

"Well you can't be a man, you would be over four hundred years old, and that is impossible."

"Ah. I see you think by finding out how I am still here you might remember how you are here."

"Well how come you can remember everything about our past, and I cannot?"

"I had to dig deep into my memory, I have only just recently pieced together everything. After seeing you and Dracula, something was jogged in my mind and it began to come back to me. Fortunately our horrible past will die with you and Dracula."

Poison stared hard at him, studying every feature on his face, then something happened and she found herself living out Gabriel's past. After, she looked up at Gabriel.

"Rejected by both Heaven and Hell. Oh Gabriel you failed both."

Van Helsing looked up at her, he seemed deeply sad at being reminded his past.

"I was murdered shortly after I killed you and Vladislaus, by whom I do not know. The Devil didn't want me because I had spent my life dedicated to God. But God didn't want me because I had committed the worst sin. I had betrayed my friend by murdering him. So I was cursed to live on Earth for as long as it took for someone or something to kill me. A punishment for my sins."

"What will happen to you when you die this time?" Poison asked feeling sorry for what Van Helsing had gone through, as he was only doing what he thought was right.

"My soul becomes nothing, I just disappear."

Gabriel turned away from Poison, she heard him sniffle and wipe his face. Poison was glad at that moment that she could not remember her past, as she was sure it would be as painful as Gabriel's had been. Unfortunately in hearing what had happened to Gabriel so many years ago, Poison began to remember the rest of her past.

Just a warning. I will not be updating for at least two weeks from now, as I have many different things going on that will keep me busy. Including the release of Van Helsing on Sept 8. 'Dose psycho little dance.'