Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't updated sooner...lol I've been SOOOO busy with school. I LOVE weekends!!!!! :p

Countess Paro: this story is set about a century after Dracula became...Dracula. (if no one noticed--I HOPE you all did--Tatiana's second cousin, Elisabet's daughter, is named Verona and that's not a coincidence, it's actually the Bride. So this story is set about 30 years before Dracula meets and turns/marries/whatever Verona). I hope that helped! :D

Charlie Quill: yes, I enjoy keeping you all in a state of suspense with my short chapters...lol no jk this is the last short one for a while, I will post the next one probably tomorrow...evil grin...PROBABLY...


Even when he had been alive, Dracula had never felt as wonderful as now. He remembered his life as full of dark things: anger with his strict father, who would not allow him to marry a Gypsy princess with no dowry (which he now thanked the old man for in his heart); the superstitions of the villagers; war with the neighboring countries; and a man called Gabriel Van Helsing, who had gained his not-lightly-given trust and then betrayed him to his death in the name of the God that Dracula had renounced long ago but now reaffirmed his faith in.

Now, Dracula was alive again, married to the most beautiful, wonderful woman he could have ever dreamed of, and about to become a father. He was amazed at God's capacity for mercy, and vowed that he would never let go of this, no matter what the cost.

In the evenings, Vladislaus and Tatiana Dracula would sit by the fire, Tatiana in her husband's arms as they both caressed the tiny life that grew inside her. If it was a girl, Tatiana wanted to name her after her grandmothers. Dracula found that he did not remember his mother's name. He vaguely remembered a pair of dark blue eyes in a swarthy face, and it came to him that she had been a Gypsy just like Estella, the woman who had caused such grief to him during his life. What had his mother's name been? Oh, yes, he remembered now. The same that had been given to his little sister. Had he really had a little sister? Yes, a slip of a thing with his same dark eyes and hair, but a sweet smile. "Anna," he said softly. "We will call her Eleanor Anna."

"And if it is a son?" Tatiana smiled up at him, and he kissed her forehead.

"We shall see."


Okay everyone, here's the link for my picture for this story (I'll post it in the next chapter as well, and at the end...perhaps every chapter...muahahahaha no jk):

www . geocities . com / peter (underscore) pan (underscore) 05 / myart . html

(it wouldn't let me write the link any other way, I hope I'm allowed to put links...I don't see why not but someone tell me please if I'm not supposed to)

Hope you guys enjoy it, and enjoy my other art too! I command you...lol have fun!

Oh, by the way, I rewatched Van Helsing and I found a bunch of instances where he looked like he was thinking about Tatiana (or at least the look didn't really fit that well with the movie)...yeah lol I do consider her to be a "real" person because like I said in fanfiction I try my best to make the story fit seamlessly with the movie and to explain odd things in the movie. So remind me and I will post those along with my picture (of the story) and another story that tells WHY Dracula was murdered in the first place (we never learn why, and by the way the story fits actual history into the Van Helsing story, it makes Van Helsing "real") (as if we don't all consider it real in the first place...lol) Enjoy!