Author: Sparkling-Diva
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Romance/Drama/Minor humor
Pairing: Gabriel and Anna
Feedback: Please! Thanks!
Summary: What if Anna hadn't really died? Would the family live on for generations and generations more to come?
Warning: Major Spoilers! So beware…
Disclaimers: All characters and stuff belong to Stephen Sommers, Bram Stoker, Universal, and a bunch of other people that aren't me. Bah humbug!
Author's Note: Yeahy! New chapter! I'm starting to get back into the routine. In case for some who are wondering, there will be action soon but not exactly at the moment. Hope you enjoy this!
Weeks after Gabriel's arrival home, the children were in Carl's laboratory.
"Carl?"
"Yes, Emma?" he replied while looking into a liquid.
"What's that?"
"It's a very dangerous chemical."
"What does it do?" piped Abe.
"I still don't know."
"You mean to say that you created something without any purpose?"
"Pricesly," he said writing some notes.
"Uncle Carl?" asked Abe.
"Yes."
"You are a little strange."
"I know. Isn't it great?" he said patting him on the head.
"What's that?" Emma said pointing to a metal device that stood on the table.
"A microscope."
"What's it for?" Abe questioned.
"Too look at things that are very small and notice details as if they were bigger."
"Oh. Quite odd," Emma started before being interrupted.
"Oh dear!" Carl said looking at his pocket watch, "It's getting very late. You must get ready for bed. I'm a little busy tonight so if you want you may go to the library yourself and choose a story for your daddy to read to you."
"Okay," Emma said giving Carl a hug, "Goodnight, Carl!"
"Goodnight , my dear!"
"Good night," said Abe hugging him.
"And a good-night too."
The children then ran off to the library to choose their book.
"Found one yet?" asked Abe after a while.
"There's too many of them. I'm still looking."
"Well hurry up!"
"I'm trying."
Title after title, books of science, music, philosophy, and fantasy, kept coming.
Emma stopped when she noticed a certain title that stood out to her.
Transylvanian Vampires.
"Did you find one yet?"
"I sure did," said Emma climbing down some steps.
"Lemme see! Lemme see!" Abe said excitedly.
"Come here," Emma said as she placed it on a desk and patted to part of the chair that she was sitting on so he could join her. He did and looked down in shock.
"Tran-syl-va-nian Vamp-ires," he said spelling out lout nervously. "I don't think this is a story book."
"Yes it is. It should have storied of many different vampires from the area where we live," she said opening the novel.
"Look!" Abe said pointing at a bookmark.
"Somebody must have been reading this before," she said opening it to the page. Covering it was a torn piece of paper which appeared to be in Latin and had the symbol of a Dragon. On top of it was a ring also with a Latin inscription on it.
"Wow!" Abe said as Emma picked it up.
It was glowing.
"Let's see what else is here," she said moving the paper and ring to the side.
Both of their hearts jumped and skin shivered by the sight of the drawing in front of them.
"Oh my-."
He had a very sharp- looking figure and long black hair. His eyes were piercing black and a mischievous smile appeared on his lips.
"Who is this?" asked Abe.
Emma looked down and read aloud his name, "Count Vladislaus Draguila."
They both looked at each other in horror.
"DRACULA!"
"Children?" they head their mother call out.
"Oh-no!" said Emma.
"Emma? Abraham?"
"What should we do with this book?" said Abe.
"We'll take it with us as well as the paper and ring," she said quickly putting in her nightgown.
"Are you mad?" asked Abe holding Teddy and scratching his head.
"Are you not finding this interesting?"
"Ah! There you are." Anna said walking in. "Carl said I could find you here."
"Hello, mummy!" said Abe.
"Hi," Anna said suddenly noticing her daughter's strange reaction. "Emma, are you alright?"
"Uh-huh," she then thought for a second and said, "I'm just a little disappointed that I couldn't find a right story for the mood I'm in."
"Hmmm…." Anna pondered, "It sometimes happens….Why don't we have your father tell us about one of his adventures with Uncle Carl when they were younger?"
"Sounds great," Emma said getting up and clutching her stomach, "I'll go see daddy right now." She then bolted out the door to her bed room.
Anna blinked, "Abe Is Emma alright?"
"Why do you ask?
"She's acting a little bit odd."
"She's always been odd.
"True," Anna said laughing. "C'mon let's get you and Teddy to daddy so you won't be late for the story," Anna said picking him up.
Before they left, Anna swore that she heard someone whispering.
"Abe?" she asked.
"Yeah, mummy?"
"Did you say something?"
"No."
"That's odd…" she mumbled.
She gave the library one last look before walking away with Abe.
Later that night
Anna and Gabriel had just gone to their room after story time was over. Anna moved around strangely in the room and thought to herself.
I know that I heard something, she said.
"Anna?" asked Gabriel.
Anna didn't respond.
"Anna?" Gabriel asked standing beside her.
"Ummm…yes?" she asked a little surprised.
"Everything alright?" he wondered.
"Um….yes. Ummm…I mean no. Gabriel there is something I have been meaning to tell you about."
Gabriel nodded and led them to sit on the bed and took her hand.
"What is it?"
"Earlier tonight, when I was getting the kids at the library, I swore that I heard someone else possibly call my name or something in that room."
"You mean someone got into the house?" Gabriel asked wide-eyed.
"Yes….No…I'm not quite sure….I didn't tell you earlier because of the kids. Although, Abe was there when I heard it. I questioned him but he said that he had heard nothing of the sort."
"Surely there can't be anyone here."
"But I swear that I heard something Gabriel."
Gabriel nodded his head and walked to a night stand drawer. He opened it and pulled out a shiny, silver gun, and put it in his nightgown pocket.
"Gabriel-," Anna asked.
"Stay here. I'm going to check and see if there's anything there. If you hear anything like a gun shot, go get the kids and Carl and get out of here." He then began to move towards the door but Anna stood up and took a hold of his arm.
"Gabriel?"
"Yeah."
"I love you."
"I love you too."
He was about to leave when Anna took hold of him again and kissed him. It was somewhat long and very passionate. She finally let go of him and said, "Don't be late."
Gabriel grinned and said, "Don't worry. I won't."
He left leaving Anna to stand in the hallway after a while and wait.
Soon she heard running down the hallway and Gabriel yelling, "Run!"
She was about to when Gabriel got hold of her and brought her back into their room and pushed her on the bed. He then laid by her side and grinned, "Gotcha."
Anna wide-eyed stared back down at him. "You pathetic jerk!" She then tried to hit him but he caught onto her wrists. "Let me go."
"Listen, darlin'. There was nothing there. I checked high and low and there was nothing. Now, I didn't want to disappoint you. C'mon, my joke was somewhat funny, right?"
"Yeah," Anna said before chuckling. Then she stopped and looked serious and said, "NO!"
She then got up and walked into another room attached to theirs.
"Anna? Wait! What did I do?" Gabriel said continuing to laugh.
In the children's room.
Every child, minus one of the two, Emma, was fast asleep.
Emma rolled her head to see her younger brother fast asleep.
She smiled and thought to herself, He is so adorable.
She turned her head back and stared at the ceiling. All she could think about was the discoveries of the day. She had already hidden the book in her nightstand drawer when her parents and uncle left.
Now all she was left with was the ring.
She picked it up and held it above her.
It had a symbol of a dragon on it and had an inscription inside.
It seems to be in some foreign language. Latin, perhaps? Emma said to herself.
All of the sudden, the window opened and a gust of wind and leaves from outside came in.
Startled but proceeding with quick action, Emma got out of bed and closed the window shut. She looked out and saw another castle far away. It was abandoned and castle far away. It supposedly had belonged to Victor Frankenstein as she had been told.
Lightening blasted illuminating the sky in a bright dark blue as rainclouds moved in causing moist air.
Emma looked back to see that her brother was still asleep.
Good, she thought.
She then walked to her bed as the pitter-patter of raindrops were heard dropping against the window pane.
Once she was settled in under the covers, she sighed, and retrieved back out the ring.
Her eyes began to close and she swore she could hear someone whisper to her but there was no hope since soon she was in the land of sleep and dreams.