Chapter 10
He felt his fangs begin to grow, but quickly refused the command and smiled sweetly at Ava, bringing her up close to his body,
"You and I are so much alike my dear…" he smelled her hair and sighed deeply closing his eyes his smile widened.
"In what ways my dear Count?" she replied blankly looking dazed into his black eyes.
"In ways such as, we both have friends or to say I had a friend…but that is not the point…I believe you have a very close friend no?" his eyes flashed blue and his fangs peeked from under his top lip as he looked into her silver eyes.
"Yes…I do…" she whispered quietly waving her eyes down in guilt.
"Ahh, and I do, correct me if I am wrong, is not her name Katie?" he smirked as her eyes immediately shot to his wide and suspicious,
"How do you know her?" she demanded her eyes seemed to lit aflame.
His smirk widened, as he pulled up tight against his body whispering,
"Oh, she and I go way…back…want details?" he ran one hand across her face the other tightened on her hip.
Ava shuddered under his cold, hard grip and moaned in irritation,
"Quit seducing me for once and tell me how you know my best friend…"
He chuckled huskily in her ear and purred,
"She never told you? Who she REALLY is?" he brought his mouth dangerously close to her neck and smiled.
"Told me what? Stop speaking in riddles Count!" she sneered feeling helpless in his embrace.
"Oh, I truly don't know if I want to tell you, I love it when you are mad…" he teased his eyes glimmering with mischief.
"Well I don't!" she spat her eyes flashing white and her fangs bared.
Dracula stepped back from her a wide triumphant smirk on his intriguing face.
"Why me tell you when Kathryn can?"
Ava's mouth gaped open and she hissed,
"Kathryn? Who is Kathryn!" she clenched her gloved hands in anger and felt her fangs lengthen.
He turned from her, flashing one last charming smile at her fuming face and called out to the balcony coolly,
"Oh Kathryn, I do believe my dear you have much explaining to do…" A figure dressed in a dazzling blue ball gown approached the banister a scowl on her face.
"KATIE?" Ava cried dumbfounded.
Katie shot her gaze from Dracula to Ava sneering softly,
"I don't know why you even bothered to get to me through her…I guess I will never know…what I do know is that you have already drank from her, but you have not transferred enough blood to make her a full vampire."
In one instant Katie was from the banister and in front of Dracula an unpleasant smile on her pale face,
"Hello Vladislaus, I am afraid that we have the unfortunate surprise of meeting one another…again…" Ava noticed that Katie's teeth began to elognate and her skin grew whiter, her eyes flashed a violent purple.
Dracula once again looked back at Ava's shocked face and tutted amused,
"You never told her? What you really are? Kept it secret all these years how selfish…" he smiled cruelly at her and began to circle her taunting,
"You look amazing tonight, to bad your angry…I actually wanted to dance with you…"
Katie hissed through her elongated fangs and growled,
"Like I would want your dead hands on me…"
Dracula laughed a booming deep laugh and retorted,
"But why, my dear, I do believe that your hands are as well dead…"
Ava, all the while felt her anger reach bursting point and she, through gritted teeth seethed,
"Will someone in this room tell me what the hell you two are rambling about!" Kaite stopped following Dracula's circling form and looked Ava straight into the eyes,
"Ava, there is so much you don't know…I am…"
Ava threw her hands up in exasperation,
"No crap Katie!"
Dracula once again laughed loudly and vanished from Katie to Ava's side giving the other girl a nasty smirk.
"Listen to me Ava, now isn't the time or the place to discuss what I need to discuss with you…you see what he has done to you! He has poisoned you against me in a matter of seconds!" Katie's fangs shrank slightly but her eyes seemed to glow with sadness.
Ava spat at her feet and snarled,
"You lied to me…by not telling me anything at all! We are practically sisters! Does that mean nothing to you? Remember we made an oath? Never keep anything from each other? Oh! What a fool I was! You made a promise you never kept!" Ava's demonic fangs were long and horrid, her face ash white.
Katie began to retort when Ava cut into her sharply,
"No, not anymore Katie…or is it Kathryn? Oh, I wouldn't know…because I was never told who you really were!"
Dracula listened in respectful silence his eyes locked on Katie's hurt face,
"You see Kathryn, like it told you before, there is always a double knot to both ends of a story…" with that he thrust his arms around Ava and vanished.
At once, the ballroom disappeared, and Katie was left standing alone and deserted on the cold dark streets of Budapest tears of shame dripping down her cheeks.