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Love In The Dark

Ch. 11

Cassandra opened her eyes to see a small brick building. It was defiantly old; she made a face at the disgusting smell that came from it. She looked around her feet to see a bunch of dead rats.

Alucard looked around at all of the dead rodents and then back at the small structure. He could sense the presence of a vampire inside. Both figures walked up to the door. Cassandra smirked, "should we knock?"

Alucard smirked back at her, "it's only polite."

Cassandra kicked down the door causing some dust to fly. She drew her gun and crept inside. There was a figure standing by a shattered window. He seemed to be wearing rags, and he had his back turned to Alucard and Cassandra. The wind blew some of the torn fabric, and he turned slowly to face them.

His face was sad, and when Cassandra saw it she gasped. She shook a bit, then she snarled. She bowed her head a bit trying to choke back the sudden tears, but they weren't tears of sadness. They were tears of anger.

"Father…"

The vampire looked at her. Alucard saw the vampire and recognized him immediately from the vision Cassandra had shown to him.

"Cassie?" The vampire asked.

Cassandra's eyes had gone purple again. She smiled a wicked smile. "Yes daddy?" The man backed up into the wall behind him at her appearance. She flipped the gun around in her hand, and made like she was going to hand it to him. Her fangs were showing all to well with her new smile. "Do you want to hold it? Do you want to hold the gun I used to shoot my mother?"

Alucard was surprised on how calm she sounded. Normally Alucard would've already killed the maggot vampire that stood in front of them, but he knew better than to interfere with someone else's revenge.

"Cassie… You didn't… did you?" He cried out.

She stopped smiling and glared at him, flipping the gun back to where it was aimed at him. "Well you sure as hell didn't!" She fired, but it only hit the wall by his head. "So… You decided to flee to London huh?" She fired again this time the bullet hit the wall just above his head.

The vampire shook with fear. Alucard smiled at this.

"What was the master plan? Were you going to hunt me down and kill me too?" She faked a look of surprise, "but wait, I wouldn't be able to shoot myself now would I." She shot again this time hitting his shoulder. "Cat got your tongue?"

He grabbed his shoulder, clenching his teeth in pain. "Cassie, what happened with you mother was an accident!"

"Oh, really?" she faked like she actually cared, and Alucard had to hold back his laughter. "Well… I'm sorry, here let me kiss it all better." She shot again this time hitting the hand that was covering his wound.

His pupils narrowed, and he looked at his daughter. She smiled evilly. He lunged after her, but she only stepped to her side, and rammed the handle of the gun into the back of his neck. He fell down on his stomach, and groaned.

His body stiffened when he heard the metallic click behind him, and felt the cold metal of Alucard's gun behind his head. He felt Cassandra's foot on his back and heard her gun as well. Cassandra's gun shook in her hands. She was aiming it at her father's head, and Alucard saw her gulp and her eyes begin to water.

Alucard's eyes widened with realization. 'She doesn't want to kill him!'

Cassandra's chest was heaving, when Alucard walked up to her. He placed his hand on her gun and lowered it from its aim. Her father would have to lay there temporarily forgotten. Alucard looked at her as she looked down at her feet. "Is this what your mother wanted?" he said coolly.

Cassandra suddenly jerked up and looked at Alucard with wide eyes. Her mouth opened, but then closed. She didn't know what to say. Her eyes shifted slightly so she didn't have to look at Alucard. His stare was making her uncomfortable. She sighed when she realized that he wanted an answer, "no…"

"Maybe…" Alucard turned to look at the helpless vampire. "Maybe it's not his time to die…"

Cassandra closed her eyes and frowned slightly. She opened her eyes and Alucard began to walk out of the hut, and she followed him. "Maybe… you're right…" She said, taking one last look at her fallen father.

---- Later That Week ----

Cassandra sat on her bed, thinking. There was a poem in that book she was reading. She'd related to it in to many ways…

LOVE IN THE DARK

I watched you in shock

The moon lingering over your head

I shook with fear

Fearing that you were dead.

You rose to your feet,

And pulled me into your bloody embrace

There was nothing let in you

But there was a look on your face.

I knew that look,

You didn't know it,

But inside I shook

I held you for one last time.

The light wouldn't touch you anymore,

I'd be alone in the day

But when night fell walk through the door

And together we'd lay.

Did you say that you loved me?

Did you say it in the dark?

I wish I could set you free,

But in the dark is where we will be.

She remembered it well. That particular page seemed a bit more rumpled than the others. She smiled, 'I guess I am my mother's daughter.' She got up, and walked to her balcony. She looked at the moon; it was bright, and full tonight.

"Beautiful night…" said the new figure beside her.

"Yes." She said in a cold tone. She pulled out her gun and aimed it at him. He only stared up at the moon, while she glared at him.

"Are you going to kill me?"

"Why not? You're just like all the rest…" her eyes were becoming foggy with tears.

He turned to her now, a blank expression on his face. His hair danced softly in the evening breeze. "Do you really believe that?" He faded away, leaving Cassandra to have her long awaited break down. She fell to her knees with her head looking up at the sky she whispered her response.

"No…"