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Driving Him Up The Walls

Vladislaus 1 was knackered. He had spent most of the evening being yelled at and bossed about by Blake. After he had found out that she had been quite literally thrown out by his father, he had spent the rest of the evening yelling at him and attempting to boss him about.

Now all he wanted to do was go to his coffin and sleep all the way through the day.

He entered his room and found one thing amiss. His coffin.

On the other side of the castle, Dracula was trying to squeeze into a coffin that had previously been owned by his eldest son.

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"NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!!!!!" Dracula yelled at Verona 136. "You do it like this!"

With that, he placed a foot on a wall and strode up it. He looked down at his daughter and beckoned her up to him.

Verona 136 was in tears. "Daddy!" she whined, "I can't do it!" She placed her own foot on the wall, took a wobbly step forward, and fell on her touché.

Dracula rolled his eyes and swooped down. He was only doing this to try and distracted his children from Alexia.

Ever since he had woke up the evening after the dinner party, it had been Alexia this and Alexia that:

"Daddy, when's that Alexia coming back?"

"You know that Alexia, Daddy? She was really nice. She taught us a cool song!"

Even some of the very young children who were only learning to speak were obsessed with her! Many of their first words had been:

"Alexia!"

It was driving Dracula up the walls. This was what had given him the idea of teaching his children how to walk up walls. It was in the ability of a vampire to walk up any surface, but the kids !!!

"You know daddy," muttered Verona 136, "Alexia was much nicer than you are."

Then Dracula tried something he'd never tried in his life or death.......he tried being nice! It was an act of desperate jealousy.

"There, there," he said soothingly, patting her head and cradling her in his arms, "I won't let you fall."

Her crying ceased to a small sniffle. He took her hand and led her up the wall, going as slowly as he could so she could keep up.

"Do you want to try it for yourself?" he said quietly in her ear when they were half way up. When she nodded he let go, "I'm right behind you. Go steady and grab onto me if you're going to fall."

The young Vampire took a few steps forward and Dracula followed. Verona 136 looked down and whispered, "Daddy, I'm scared."

"It's alright Sweetheart, I've got you."

"Hey Dad.....Vlady!" Vladislaus 13 jogged into the room and ran up the wall to meet them. Verona 136 stared at him.

"Can I go to Alexia's?"

Dracula froze and he saw darkness around the edges of his eyes. He tumbled twenty feet down.......he was out cold.

Vladislaus 13 picked up his little sister so she wouldn't fall and took her down. Then he had a quick look at his father. It was as he had expected, Dracula had fainted.

Vladislaus bent down and looked his sister straight it the eye, "Don't tell dad, but I'm going to Alexia's."

Meanwhile all the other baby Vampires that were watching and waiting for their turn, crowded around their father and began poking him to see if he was really.....truly....properly.....dead.

Then from the front of the crowd, Marishka 185 said, "And I thought I was bad!"

A.N We quite like this chapter.....it's different.....maybe it's them walking up the walls.....or maybe it's Dracula being nice. We have planned this chapter for a long time.........SO YOU'D BETTER LIKE IT!!!!"

Sweetdeath04 & Thorney