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23. Sins and apologizes
Van Helsing took the whip. But before he scourged me he tied my arms on the wall. I couldn´t escape...
After the third punishment I felt weaker than ever. As he freed my arms again I sank to the floor. I wasn´t able to stand. His next words scared me: "If you want to survive you have to be free from sins. Otherwise I have to punish you again and that would mean death or at least infected wounds." He looked at my back: "If you survive this time..."
Then he helped me to stand up and walk to the bed. I lay down on my stomach. I didn´t want the sheets to get dirty.
"You can rest here for a while. Then I´ll take you and your friend back to the covent", said Van Helsing.
He left me alone. And I prayed to god that I would survive. I wasn´t scared of hell but of leaving Vladislaus again.
As I was able to walk again I paced around the room until Van Helsing came in: "I see you feel better. Come!"
We left the room and carried Elena´s unconscious form into the nunnery.
The abbess told us to bring her into the hospital of the convent. We laid her on the bed. "You will stay here until she´s awake. I will leave now." Without any more word he left. And I was happy that I mustn´t stay with him any longer. Elena took two hours to wake up. Finally she opened her eyes.
But as she saw me her eyes widened in shock. She grabbed the covers and crawled up into the left corner of her bed. Her body began to shake.
"It´s alright. Don´t be afraid. I won´t hurt you", I said slowly. I tried to reach her arm but she backed away in fear. I rose from the chair I was sitting on and went to the window.
Carefully I opened the drapes and let the sunlight float in. Suddenly Elena winced. I spun around and saw her pointing at me. "Your...neck..."
It seemed as if she tripped over her own words while speaking. After a few seconds I realized that she had seen the wounds wich covered my whole back and parts of my neck. "Oh, that´s nothing. I just cut myself..." - "No, you didn´t! If the vampire did it then stand for it!", Elena nearly yelled. I shook my head, walked over to her and sat down on her bed.
"He would never do such things to me. Someone else would... and did", I said. "Who?" - "Van Helsing. If you know him." She moved closer to me and eyed my wounds closely.
"Why?" - "Because I told him that it was me who bit you. So I saved Vladislaus... somehow."
"But... are you able to bite me? And drink my blood?", asked Elena and moved a few inches closer.
"You don´t have to make me bite you. Even if I wanted I would never do it." - "Are you a vampire? One of the undead?"
I rose from the bed and walked to the big mirror. "I´m not dead. I´m the daughter of death. And immortal." Elena stared at me in disbelief. "I know it´s hard to understand."
"Can you tell me more? I won´t tell anyone else." - "There´s not much to tell. At the beginning I needed blood like a vampire. But then I was with child and didn´t need blood for a year. The only thing I know is that I´m not human."
"For me you are human. And I still think that you love Dra... Vladislaus. However, I want to apologize. I was too harsh to you. I´m really sorry", said Elena.
Then she rose from the bed and walked a few steps. She tripped. As she was about to fall I quickly caught her. "Why did he bite me?", she asked. And she looked as if she meant it.
"You called me whore and bitch..." - "The word was slut", she interrupted me. "And you are proud of it? He bit you because you called me so!", I said.
Elena shook her head that a strand of hair fell in her face. "I´m sorry. I was just shocked that... you and Dracula are a couple."
"I wouldn´t call us a couple." - "But you said us and if you say us you mean that you feel for him." I rolled my eyes. "Elena, you are stranger than I thought", I said and ignored the heat I could feel on my forehead.
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