Chapter 7-
A/N: HEY!!!! Wow...seven chapters already! Throws out cookies, candy, Van Helsing, Dracula, Anna, Carl and Frankenstein plushies, posters of every movie ever made and 50 off the DVD when it comes out coupons (Don't we all wish!! Even me! ;). I would like to thank everyone who has been reviewing so far, even if it was just once , I would especially like to thank Lady Nessa and Artemis1860 for being there through my very first story and now this one. Thanks you guys! YOU RULE!!! Many thanks. To the rest of you who have reviewed.... THANK YOU!!!!! I also MUST thank Lady Sirnal for the greatest idea on the planet ;
Kate's P.O.V-
NO!! I killed him! I remember feeling his neck snap in my hands! He. Can't. Be. Here!!!
I felt my anger raise up to a level that I had not felt...since.... then. I gripped my Tojo and backed up a few steps, refusing to believe that he was standing there, I could feel his gaze taunting me, daring me to come closer. I leapt from the top of the steps, gripping the Tojo so tight that I could barely hear it spinning away, under the pulsing anger that had boiled up within my body at the site of that jerk. I threw my feet out and made contact with his chest, sending us flying back into the wall. I pinned him by his neck and held the spinning blade close to his throat. I felt a warm hand on my shoulder that brought me out of my blinded rage.
I returned to reality with a thud, realizing my hand was wet. I loosed my grip on the Tojo and looked at it. The squirter in the middle was filled with holy water that activated when I squeezed it. I looked back to see Anna, I backed off, shaking, stunned at my sudden burst of anger. I sat down on the stairs; Anna sat next to me and looked with concern in her eyes.
"What happened?" She said.
"I-I don't know.... Just seeing him again.... must have set me off." I put my head in my dry hand.
Normal P.O.V-
Van Helsing did not need to restrain the intruder for he was petrified. Libby and the others appeared at the top of the stairs. The dark haired girl let out an angered scream and bounded down the steps and smacked the ghost of Kyle Dragon a crossed the face just as James flipped on the overhead light. Libby's face went from that of a ticked off teen to one of utter horror and complete shock.
"Oops...." She whispered.
"Kyle" was reviled to be a shapshifter. He was holding his face with his hand and his eyes where scrunched up in a stinging pain.
"Who are you?" Demanded Van Helsing, now concerned and confused.
"Ow.... what in the seven levels of hell was that for lass?!" The young man said with a slightly Irish accented voice.
"Sorry....I thought you were someone else...." Libby said from the staircase, where she had retreated too, specifically behind Anna.
"Who are you?" Van Helsing repeated as everyone was making their way down the steps to get a closer look at this mysterious person.
"Me? Name's Watcher, mate." Watcher said as he moved out of the light shadows into the light and stood up.
Watcher was 6' 8" with golden red hair with natural jet black streaks that was short and spiked up at the top in a sort of short Mohawk, the rest of his hair was pulled back and tied off with a single black string. His skin was rather pale, contrasting sharply with his golden red black hair. Watcher's ears had a slight pointed ness to them that could not have been human. His pupils where a deep red, near black but with spots of yellow in them and his irises where of the sharpest most piercing and yet strangely comforting blue ever conceivable.
Watcher wore a loose long sleeved black jersey, his hands where covered by a thin bit of almost silky cloth that began at his wrist above his shirt, wrapped around the base of his thumb and ended at his knuckles. A deep red and black cloth that seemed to blend and dance together in front of ones eyes bound one of his wrists. His waist was adorned in a deep blue and silver leather belt that flashed just ever so briefly when he stood. Black loose and baggy jeans with red metallic chains placed in a criss-crossing manner behind his legs and just below his pockets. Black boots shown where his pants did not cover, screws could just be seen in the rubber part of the leather boots. As Watcher stood skull clips could be seen in a flash before they were covered in the black material for a second time. A piece of short black cloth, that stopped about mid back swished lightly as he moved. It blended in so well that it was near unnoticeable. He looked in his 20s but his eyes and expressions held volumes more knowledge then his years dictated.
"Ummm....Mr. Watcher?" Kate started out cautiously.
"Yeah, miss?" Watcher said, directing his gaze from Helsing to Kate.
"Sorry about nearly slashing you with the Tojo...." She said.
"Heh, no problem lass, you had got some serious issues with that Dragon brat." Watcher said, then twitched as if he just let something slip.
"How do you know about that?!" Carl said surprised. "You didn't tell anyone did you?"
"No...even if we did no one would believe us." Alice said, looking intently at Watcher.
"How do you know." Van Helsing growled, obviously suspicious.
"Umm....well, you see, mates....I, uh.....shit." Watcher stumbled about for an explanation.
"We're waiting, Watcher." Kevin said. Now the entirety of the group was surrounding the mysterious man in a half circle.
"I...umm....well...I suppose it wouldn't hurt to tell you now....that I let that bit loose."
"Tell us what?" Anna said.
"Incase you lot haven't noticed my eyes are messed up. And that I'm not your normal....guy." Watcher said, glancing around at each person, studying their face for any signs of hostility. "Well where I come from humans know that evil is real and some humans even married into demon families. I am one of em."
"And where would that be from?" Van Helsing said coldly, reaching for something hidden in his jacket.
"The year 2030." Watcher answered shortly.
"WHAT?!" Kate yelped.
"Aye lass. 2030, The Order was made known in a rather public and big incident." He said.
"What exactly are you?" Anna said, reaching for her sword, discreetly.
"Quarter angel, quarter vampire, quarter werewolf and quarter human." He caught everyone's creeped out looks and Van Helsing's movements. "But I'm safe, me being only a quarter an all. I don't change at the full moon, I change whenever I want. I don't drink blood, well I don't need to but even then its only condemned men or animals."
"Unholy.... there can be no such union between a vampire and an angel." Anna said.
"Hate to disappoint you but your looking at the product of one." Watcher said.
In a flash Van Helsing had uncorked a bottle of holy water and drenched the young man in it.
"GAH!!! COLD!" Watcher yelped out. He jumped up and danced in a weird little circle waving his hands about, finally after a few minuets he stopped and glared, small Mohawk dripping and sagging, at the monster hunter. The latter looked very surprised. "What on the bloody earth was that for??!!!???" He shouted. "Now I need a new shirt!"
"You are a vampire and a werewolf, how can we trust you?" Helsing replied, shaking off his surprise.
"I just told ya! I am only a quarter of each! I don't need to drink to live or change at the full moon. That water was way to cold too." Watcher got a funny look between a glare and something implacable.
"But how can we trust you?" Van Helsing asked again.
"I have been watching you since Kyle came around. If I wanted something I would have taken it by now."
Kate, who had remained mostly quite now spoke up.
"I think we should give him a chance....or at least a new shirt." She tried to smile but it didn't reach her eyes. She stood up and walked up the steps, pausing at the top. "One of my uncle's shirts he left here last month should fit you like a glove. I'll throw yours in the dryer later." With that she disappeared around the corner.
About a half an hour later Watcher was sitting on the floor in a white button up shirt, his hair had long since been redone back into his Mohawk and dried. Everyone was still a little suspicious of Watcher and all sat around him.
"Why did you reveal yourself?" Anna asked.
"I didn't, miss Anna, wasn't supposed to."
"What's that mean?" Alice asked.
"Everyone has a Watcher, like a guardian angel, only...they look out for you when the angels get called away."
"Angels don't get called away." Van Helsing said.
"You did."
Later, night-
"So then I suppose we aren't going to our time tonight then?" Carl said after being silent for the longest time. He was right behind Alice when he said this, making her yelp and fall off of the sofa.
"Did you disappear Carl?!" She said looking up at the friar from the floor.
"No...not that I am aware of."
Kevin rolled his eyes and flipped the channel on the T.V., Van Helsing and Anna where looking fascinated at the T.V., normally the teens simply went to Helsing's time. He stopped at a Coke commercial. Van Helsing's eyes went wide and he leaned forward, Anna stared in disbelief at the screen, Kevin blinked.
"Well...this is...new..."
There on the T.V. screen was a scantily clad Kate Beckensale walking around with a Coke can in her hand. A poppy tune was playing in the background. Everyone turned around and watched.
At that moment James walked in from the kitchen and stopped dead.
"HEY!!! Kate Beckensale's Coke commercial!!" He practically yelled and jumped onto his beanie chair, just as it ended. Van Helsing turned a very deep shade of crimson while Anna gave him the death-glare, Carl looked on in silent amusement, trying and failing to conceal a smile. Kevin bit his lip and looked at the two before diving off the couch. Kevin hit a bowl of pretzels that happened to be sitting on the floor, they where launched into the air; the salty snacks rained down on Van Helsing and on Anna. Though the majority landed on Helsing's head, the plastic bowl flipped through the air and landed upside down on the monster hunter's head with a thump. The entire room gave a collective blink-blink. Anna looked at her hunter and broke out into laughter.
Helsing took the bowl off his head; pretzels fell off of his head and into his lap.
"Ha, ha, ha.... very amusing." He said, attempting to look serious, but he too failed and smiled at his own plight.
After some time the laughing stopped and everyone began to clean up the pretzel mess. James grabbed all the cans and began to juggle the empty items, calling out for someone to toss more to him, Libby tossed several empty cans of Pick Black Mountain Dew to him and he caught them and juggled them into the kitchen. Kevin, Van Helsing and Anna where cleaning up the pretzels and Alice and Kate where gathering everyone's things for the trip back to Helsing's time. Just then the phone rang. Van Helsing and Anna looked around curiously.
"What is that ringing?" Carl asked.
"Phone." Kate said and picked it up. "HI!" She said loudly into the phone and smiled. For about a minuet she stood there saying things like uhuh and ok and yep. Finally she hung up the phone and leaned on the wall.
"Who was it Kate?" Libby asked.
"Jess...she called about the Halloween party." Kate replied.
"Yeah isn't that in two weeks?" Alice chimed in.
"No...it's in two days." Kate said annoyed.
"TWO DAYS!? How could we have forgotten about this?!" Libby yelped, wide eyed.
"I don't know but we need to get these guys costumes." Kate jerked her head in the direction of the friar, the monster hunter, Watcher and the gypsy princess.
"Off to the Halloween shop then?" Kevin said, getting back up.
"Where else would we get adult costumes?" Alice said, flicking Kevin's ear and dancing away from his poke.
"What is this Halloween shop?" Anna said. "Also what is Coke?"
"We'll explain it to you on the way." Libby said, grabbing the sleeve of Helsing's jacket. "But first we need to get you out of those cloths."
"What's wrong with them?" Carl said.
"Carl, you're dressed in robes, Helsing is in a coat and hat and Anna is in a corset. No one where's that stuff anymore." Alice said, walking around Helsing in a circle.
"But Kate where's a coat and hat." Van said, watching the girls apprehensively.
"I don't look like a famous actor." Kate replied, walking over to Carl, along with James. She stopped and looked at everyone, studying Carl the closest. "Your about my dad's size, some of his clothes should fit you ok. My mom's clothes should be ok on Anna...she just needs a shirt." With that the teens spilt off into their respective groups.
Alice and Libby lead Helsing into a side room and walked around him, studying him. He seemed rather uncomfortable.
"HEY! You have a really cool shirt and vest under here." Libby exclaimed, Alice shook her head at her friend's outburst.
"Could you take off the Jacket and vest?" Alice said.
"Do I have to?"
Meanwhile, James and Kate where in her parents room.
"I think he should have a suit." James said. "He is a man of science after all."
"Bah. No way, Carl would look ten times better in my dad's jean jacket with something simple but still cool under it....like a t-shirt and a pair of jeans." Kate said, she stood with her arms crossed and most of her weight on one foot; her eyebrow was arched and she was smiling at one corner of her mouth.
They where standing just beside her parent's walk in closet. Carl had ventured inside out of curiosity, while they where debating over what would look better.
"Oh come on! You know you got that from the Van Helsing: London Assignment DVD."
"So? He looked cool."
"Yeah but CARL looks exactly like DAVID WHEIM. Don't you think people will get suspicious?"
"Grrr....Jimmy, your not supposed to be the better arguer."
"Ha, ha!" James stuck his tongue out at his cousin and received a poke in the chest for it. The two had been so busy arguing that they did not notice that Carl had closed the door to the closet and changed inside, he was now standing just inside the frame.
"Umm...is this good?" The friar inquired.
Kevin was sitting cross-legged on the hall floor outside of the bathroom, waiting for Anna to come out, with her selection of clothing. Watcher was sitting on the opposite end of the hall, knees pulled up to his chest and his chin rested on them.
"What's the coming war?" Kevin suddenly asked.
"Huh? Oh...that....just a war between humans and demons....preordained by destiny, nothing can be done to stop it, trust me I have tried in at least five timelines..." Watcher replied looked up at the teen a crossed the hall from him.
"Do....we play a part in it?"
Watcher's lip twitched a bit and he took in a deep breath.
"Yes and no...."
"What do you mean?"
"Can't tell you."
"Why"
"Part of my job, apparently me reviling myself to you guys was no accident, I was supposed to."
"Huh?"
"Remember when I was out on the deck for a long time?"
"Yeah."
"I had received info from my boss, about tonight's events."
"Oh....what is it like in the future, after the war I mean."
"After the war?" Watcher's lip twitched again. "I am only going to say that....there is a lot of broken things to mend."
Just as Watcher finished his sentence Anna opened the door and walked out. Kevin's jaw dropped and he began to blink repeatedly. Watcher smiled widely.
"Is it good?"
Soon everyone was gathered in the living room. Van Helsing had lost his jacket, hat and vest, now dressed in his green shirt and his black pants, he stood with his arms crossed, looking down at the two girls before him.
"I feel naked with out my jacket..." He muttered. Alice and Libby smiled and held out a jean jacket, Helsing raised his eyebrow.
Anna was descending the steps, she was dressed in a white shirt and a pair of blue jeans, Watcher and Kevin followed close behind her. Helsing looked up and began to stare at his beloved.
"Anna, you look great." He said, walking over to her. She beamed up at him.
"So do you." She said.
"WHOOOO!!!" James came sliding down the railing of the stairs and skidded to a halt on the floor and took a deep bow before dropping to one knee and holding out his hands towards the steps. Kate came down and shook her head, but stopped about half way down and vaulted down the remainder of the steps, shrugged and smiled. Carl came walking down the steps, carefully. He was dressed in a white t-shirt, with a blue fleece vest over it, faded jeans covered his legs, his shoes from his friar robes remained.
"Whoa! You guys look great!" James said.
"Yeah! Check out Helsing and Anna!" Kate said leaning back and pointing to the couple with a smile.
"Meh! Look at the friar, he " Libby said glomping him with a smile, although she alarmed him greatly.
Now that the Helsing crew had become greatly less noticeable the group was able to make their way to the mall, down town.
A/N: SORRY FOR THE WAIT!!!! So I thought I would make this one extra long .