lil-blonde-pirate: lol glad you liked the fight chapter so much talk about enthusiasm lol I figured with anna's family they all fought so hard to kill Dracula that they should at least be there when he finally died tis only fair.

Lucy Wanabe: Yay a new reviewer!! Glad you like my story as for the Tony/Sarah ever kissing :blushes: lol don't know whether I will write that in plus Tony's already perplexed that I've written him into the story I think the teasing would be endless if I kiss him in it lol

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"It's just not possible!" Tony exclaimed for the third time. A collective groan went around the room, echoing back at the inhabitants. The library was unusually full, every available armchair and sofa taken up by a disgruntled teenager and a pile of dusty aging books.

Bob glanced up to see Tony pacing backwards and forwards in front of the large Transylvanian map, with a weary sigh he placed the large book he'd finished skimming through on the large pile at his feet.

He smiled at Amie who had fallen asleep curled up on the sofa and gave her a parting kiss before he wondered over to Tony.

"You know you've been pacing in front of it for over an hour." He pointed out.

Tony held his hands up in defeat. "It's just not possible! How can we go from here…" he pointed at the small illustration of Vaseria. "To here…" he walked the few feet to the edge of the map prodding the distant coastline. "Just by taking a five minute walk through a passageway?"

Bob shrugged "I don't know… same way we ended up in a parallel universe or wherever we are." He lent against the wall rubbing a hand over his tired eyes and yawning. "Why's it so important to you to know?"

"Ego?" questioned Marston sleepily; smirking at them over the top of a large leather bound volume.

"Actually I was thinking more along the lines of maybe helping us get home, it's a lot better than sitting flicking through books for hours on end." Tony answered stomping over to a free chair and dropping sulkily into it.

Marston sighed scratching absently at the bandage covering the Dwergi bite on his wrist; he frowned and brought it closer to his face sniffing it carefully. "Er…I think my bite's infected." He said worridly.

Jory glanced up from his stack of discarded sketches having given up on research at least an hour before. He held up his own heavily bandaged wrist. "Join the club." He said bitterly.

Chris looked from one to the other worriedly. "Is anyone else concerned that we all need pretty serious hospital treatment? Carls ok don't get me wrong but a couple of rabies shots and some stitches wouldn't be such a bad idea right now."

Bob sighed "Agreed, hence the overwhelming urge to get back to merry old England where we have NHS hospitals that have heard of anaesthetic."

Marston glanced at the ceiling his thoughts with his friend lying a still as death in a bed somewhere above his head. "What if she doesn't wake up?" he asked quietly.

"She will." Chris said quickly.

"But what if she doesn't?" asked Bob in a whisper not wanting to wake Amie. "Or worse what if she does and she tries to hurt herself again?"

Jory glared at him. "She's not some suicidal head case…is she?" he turned to look at Tony.

The dark haired boy shook his head firmly. "She did what she did because she had no choice…but I don't know what she'll be like when she wakes up…we still don't really know everything that happened to her."

Chris ran a nervous hand through his hair grimacing when his fingers brushed the bandaged gash in his skin. "Do you think she'll forgive us?" he asked quietly "You know for attacking her…"

Jory grinned "Well she's used to Tony throwing crosses at her everyday anyway so she won't have any problem with that."

"What about me hitting her with one?" asked Marston with interest.

Amie rolled over to look at him. "That one she may hurt you for." She said sleepily.

Bob grinned and kissed her sweetly. "Hey hunskull, what time is it?" she asked wearily, sitting up to snuggle against his chest.

Chris stood and glanced at the window, shuddering slightly as he saw the thin wisp of smoke still rising from the charred remains of the distant castle Frankenstein, the fires apparently finally calming down after a good 48 hours of almost constant assault on the cursed stone and mortar. The nearly full moon hovered eerily in the east beginning to fade indicating the coming of dawn.

"It's gotta be at least four am." He said stretching.

Jory stood picking up a lit candelabrum. "Well in that case I'm off to bed." He announced making his way to the door. His friends followed, extinguishing the many torches in the large library they trooped up the stairs pausing to look in on Sarah as they passed.

Amie pulled the covers further over the slumbering girl's body, wincing as she touched her feverish forehead. "Do you think she's in danger of slipping in to a coma? What could we do then?" she whispered looking fearfully at Bob who held her close.

Chris frowned "If she does I'm not letting Carl near her, wasn't it about this time they made mistakes and thought people who were in coma's were dead? They ended up burying a whole bunch of people alive…" he trailed off when everyone turned to stare at him in horror.

"Sorry, was thinking out loud." He muttered embarrassed.

Jory bent to add more wood to the dwindling flames in the hearth, while Tony pulled open the curtains.

"What are you doing that for?" whispered Marston.

Tony shrugged "If she wakes up during the day, I want the sun to be the first thing she sees." He whispered back.

Marston smiled at him; he walked over to the bed and looked down at his friend frowning slightly. "She's missing something…I don't know what…but something different."

Tony felt in his pocket and held out the green disk from her necklace. "That would be this, I found it on the hill top…it needs a new cord."

"Indeed."

They silently left her, lighting the large candelabra on the ceiling so she wouldn't have to lie alone in the dark.

Note: meh I don't know what to think of this chapter im seeing it as afiller while I get to Sarah waking up cuz it helps to see what the others are up to while shes getting all chummy with dream Dracula. So let me know what you think and how I could have done better lol