I don't own Van Helsing

Chapter Seven

Van Helsing was pacing with the others watching him. He had just told them what Liz had said to him. After she spoke to him, he and Anna put Liz to bed and she was now sleeping soundly.

"What does that mean?" Carl asked.

"It means Dracula is back and he was trying to control Liz." Bri told him.

"But he never got that far before." Ali pointed out.

"Before?? What is going on?" Chase asked.

"Well, these people really are Anna and Gabriel Van Helsing and Carl." Bri started.

"I thought it was Anna Valerious."

"It was, till she married. Anyway, about six months ago, Carl, Anna and Van Helsing landed in the middle of central park and we found them." Ali said.

"That's when we discovered Dracula and his three brides came too. That night, we found Liz and then…." the group continued to tell Chase of their first adventure. After they were done, Ali asked the question they were all wondering.

"That night Liz was attacked, how did you get there so fast?"

"I was following them. I…I'm a…" Chase couldn't make the words come out.

"Oh just say it." Anna said.

"I'm a junior member of the Knights of the Holy Order. I knew they were vampires so I followed them there. That's what I was doing in Mexico." Chase said.

"You've got to be kidding." Bri said.

"I'm afraid I'm serious."

"I don't see what else could go wrong." Bri said.

Liz lay on her bed sound asleep. Anna had changed her shirt since the last one was torn. It was now a black shirt with sleeves that flared out at the wrists and a V-neck. Liz had her coat pulled over her as a makeshift blanket. Her breathing was slow and rhythmic as her dreamless sleep wore on. Liz's window opened and a dark figure stepped inside. It was Dev. He smiled as he saw the defenseless girl sleeping on the bed. This is just too easy. he thought.

Van Helsing stiffened a moment later.

"What is it?" Anna asked seeing him.

"There is evil in this house. I can sense it." he said. Ali and Bri looked at each other.

"Liz." Chase whispered.

Van Helsing whirled around and ran up the steps to the girl's room.

Dev threw the girl's coat off her as he heard a commotion down the stairs. He gathered the sleeping girl in his arms and jumped out the window.

Van Helsing got to the top of the stairs and flung open Liz's door. The room was empty and the windows were open.

"Damn it!" Van Helsing shouted in anger. Ali turned to Bri.

"Liz will not be happy when she wakes up."

Liz moaned as she woke up from deep night's sleep. She then discovered she was sleeping on hay and she was in a cell. Liz stood and brushed the hay off her as this all sunk in.

"Aw, crap." she moaned. "Now, how do I get out of here?" she asked herself. Liz spotted the keys on a table next to her cell.

"In plain sight, as always." she mumbled. It would be useless to try and get them. They were to far away. She would just have to wait for the opportune moment. She didn't have to wait long. Two men came by her cell and tied her hands.

"Would you two mind telling me where I am or do I have to guess?" Liz said as they each took an arm and lead her throughout the building. First was a large common room where everyone looked at her. A scene from Underworld flashed through her mind where Kraven and his goons did the same thing with Selene.

This is a vampire coven. Which means…Liz didn't have time to finish her thought because the them literally threw her in a windowless room. Liz stood and saw them close the door.

"Great. So far my life is just peachy." Liz mumbled to herself as she got her nail file from her back pocket and began work on the rope the held her. After a few minuets, Liz got through the last bit and the rope fell to the floor. The girl put the nail file away and rubbed her sore wrists.

"Hello Elizabeth."

Liz whirled around to see Dracula. Liz would have swore but she was to shocked to do anything.

"I was told you were the one courteous enough to give me your blood."

"It was forcefully taken I assure you. I wasn't even aware that the vampires got any." Liz replied sounding exactly like Van Helsing.

"Isn't the future wonderful? It's a corrupted place where money and getting to the top is all that matters."

"Only some people are that way. Most of us still hold onto our old beliefs." Liz replied inching toward the door. She saw it shut but she never heard it lock. "Why did you want me here?"

"I wanted to make you one of my own. You realize I still want a child." Dracula said and began to inch toward her.

"You are one sick perverted freak." Liz said her back hitting the door. It was locked.

"Don't be afraid, my dear. Soon you shall see things my way, one way or another."

"I'll take option three." Liz replied.

"And what is that?" stopping an inch before her.

"I do this." Liz said and jammed her wrist up his nose, breaking it. Dracula shrunk back. His nose had been injured and so had his pride. Liz kicked the door as hard as she could and found a guard standing outside the door. She quickly knocked him out with the handle of his gun and he fell to the floor. Liz took the gun with her as she sprinted out the back door.

A thick layer of snow covered the ground, slowing up the girl. Liz saw the frozen river and carefully slid onto it. There were patches of it that were frozen and others that weren't. Across the river, Liz saw guards in the moon light. She turned to go back but found Dracula, Dev and the rest of the coven waiting there.

"Don't even try to escape, my dear. There is no way you can. Now, come back and I promise you will be perfectly safe after you are my child." Dracula told her.

"Not to be repetitive, but I'd rather die." Liz shouted back at him.

"Now, my dear, let's be reasonable." Dracula said.

Liz franticly looked for a way out. It was hopeless, she was surrounded by vampires. C'mon! You aren't nicknamed Lycan for nothing. Liz thought. That was it. Liz smirked evilly and then glared at Dracula.

"Good-bye." she said and shot the thin ice below her. Liz held her breath as she quickly fell into the freezing water. The current swept her out to the ocean toward where there was less ice. After about a minuet of swimming with the current, Liz came up for air and went back down. Liz swam and swam and grew more exhausted and cold with every stroke. Liz finally came up on the shore of New York shivering and breathing hard. Then she blacked out.

Liz woke up in the hospital with a nurse beside her.

"Oh, thank god in heaven, doctor! She's awake." The nurse shouted. Liz blinked a few times as memories flooded her mind. Dracula, Dev, the river all came back.

The doctor came over and stood over her.

"How did I get here?" Liz asked.

"Someone found you on the shore and brought you in. You were suffering from severe heat loss. If we got you an hour later, you wouldn't have made it." the doctor said.

"Why were you in the water?" the doctor asked.

"Prank gone wrong." Liz lied.

"What is your name sweet heart?" the nurse asked.

"Elizabeth. Elizabeth Van."

"Well Miss Van, what is your parent's phone number?" the doctor asked.

"Will you call my friends instead?"

"It's an odd request but yes. Who are they?"

"Alison Rhoss and Brianna Ithilien."

After what happened to Liz, the group moved to Ali's house. They decided it would be safer. Everyone had been down in the dumps since Liz was taken three days ago, especially Chase, Van Helsing and Anna.

The phone rang and Ali picked it up.

"Hello?" she asked. "What? You're kidding!…Oh my gosh. Who is calling?…Where is she?…Alright, we'll be right there." Ali hung up and turned to the others.

"Liz is at the hospital. We have to go see her, but only Bri, Chase and I can go because you three would be recognized." the girl said nodding to Anna, Carl and Van Helsing.

Van Helsing was about to argue but the three teens were already out the door.

Liz heard a knock on her door and saw Ali, Bri and Chase.

"Guys." she said smiling pushing herself up.

"Oh Liz are you alright?" Ali asked sitting next to her.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I'm not hurt." Liz said as Chase and Bri sat by the bed.

"What happened?" Bri asked.

"Well," Liz said looking and around and hushed her voice. "I was kidnapped in the middle of the night and taken to a vampire coven like in Underworld. Well, Dracula is back. I saw him with my own eyes. He got this insane idea to make me his child. I couldn't let that happen so I escaped by taking on a guard and taking his gun. I ran out onto the frozen river but the vampires had surrounded me. I couldn't do anything but shoot the ice below me and swim for it. I lost a lot of heat and passed out on the beach. Someone found me and brought me here."

"Dracula has finally returned." Chase said.

"This is not good." Bri said.

"No Bri, it's fantastic." Ali said sarcastically leaning back on her chair. The chair fell over on the ground, Ali along with it. She quickly sat up and looked at everyone.

"That was deliberate." Ali said. Liz, Bri and chase burst out laughing.

"Ali you can't even stay balanced when you are sitting down. I have no idea how you walk!" Bri said. Ali grumbled as she sat the chair back up.

The group talked for a long while before the nurse sent them away. Liz told them she would get out the next day and the three went home.

Van Helsing was pacing in Ali's living room when Ali came in. Anna's and Carl's heads perked up as Van Helsing walked over to them.

"Well?" he asked.

"She's fine. She just lost a lot of heat in her escape. She'll be out tomorrow." Bri told him. Van Helsing grabbed his coat as he headed for the door.

"Where are you going?" Bri asked as Anna followed him.

"The hospital." he replied as Anna shut the door behind them.

Liz woke up from her nap to see two people sitting on her bed. It was late and visitors weren't allowed. That made her worried, till she saw who it was.

"Mom." Liz said sitting up and hugging Anna. Anna hugged her back as if someone would take Liz away and that would be the last time they saw each other.

"Dad." Liz said and hugged Van Helsing. Van Helsing held her so tight she couldn't breathe. Liz didn't care. For the first time in weeks, she felt completely safe.

"I'm alright. He didn't hurt me, dad." Liz whispered. Van Helsing gently kissed her forehead. He smiled as he helped Liz on with Anna's coat. Anna then hugged Liz again. Anna pulled away and was about to say something when an all to familiar voice was heard.

"I hate to break up the reunion but I would like my future daughter back." Dracula sat in the broken window in Liz's room.

Van Helsing put a protective around his daughter.

"Why Dracula? Why do you want her for your daughter? She already has a family." Van Helsing asked.

"Still asking questions Gabriel. You have to learn some answers are just 'because I can'." Dracula replied.

"Anna, take Liz and run." Van Helsing whispered to his wife. Liz adjusted herself so she could jump out of bed and run.

"There is no escaping me this time." Dracula said and men stepped out to block the door way.

Anna put both arms around Liz and held her protectively.

It was a trap, and we walked right into it!!! Van Helsing thought angrily. This was it. There was no getting out.

(A/N: Don't kill me, please don't kill me, please don't kill me, please DON'T KILL ME!!!!! I'll have the next one up soon. (Moment of silence) DON'T KILL ME!!!)