Chapter 13-

James's P.O.V-

I lay on the floor, unmoving; tears silently welling up in my eyes as the scene replayed it's self in my head over and over again.

Kate…Kate…my only cousin…my best friend…

I made an effort to push myself up from the floor, but as I did so my head began to swim and I hit the floor again with a thud, another shot of pain raced through my limbs; I was sure I had broken something. I lay there for a few seconds; just letting the tears fall from my eyes and onto the carpet. The carpet soon became wet with my tears, the pain stopped coursing through my body and I, once again, pushed myself up, only much slower this time. Bringing myself to my knees I brought my head up to see inside the now brightly lit room; the curtains having been cut to shreds by the shards of glass that now lay all around the window. A form sat, shoulders slumped in defeat, long curls of hair fell around her body, and with a jolt I realized just whom it was sitting in the glass.

"Anna?" I said my voice came out cracked and garbled.

I slowly rose to my feet and stumbled into the room, falling only once, landing just beside the huntress. I winced before pushing myself back up to look at her. She made no reaction to my sudden appearance; I looked at her face in confusion, I found that she had tears running down her face and streaming from her eyes. Her hands were clenched on the floor; to my utter horror I saw a crimson line running slowly from the middle of her clenched hands, down onto the hard wooden floors. I felt my pupils dilate in horror and fear.

"Anna! Anna! Snap out of it!" I yelled and grasp her shoulders and shook her lightly.

"Gabriel…I can't have lost you so soon" She whispered before a fresh batch of tears rolled down her face.

I snapped my head back to her face and then to the window; I shot up and swayed, stumbled and braced myself on the window. I threw my head outside of the window and looked down, the thick mist had began its nightly journey up from the river.

"Van Helsing! Van Helsing!! VAN HELSING?! KATE?!"

My legs gave out and I violently hit the windowsill, my teeth smacked together and I crumpled to the floor.

Anna's P.O.V-

I walked out of my manor, the loss of my brother still fresh in my mind, down to the village upon request that strangers had entered. As I approached I saw that they both had their backs turned; one was shorter than the other and in friar's robes, the other was in a long black coat and a hat. I narrowed my eyes, pushing all thoughts out of my brother out of my head and stepped up onto the well.

"Turn around."

They both turned around, I could now see that their faces were hidden by the shadows.

"Lets see you faces…"

The taller man turned around and looked up, still covering his face.

"Why?"

Distrust was in his gravelly voice, Dutch probably.

"We don't trust strangers in this town."

"The laws of men mean little to me."

"Gentlemen, you will now be disarmed."

The people of my village moved in and the taller man gripped his pistol.

"You can try."

The people of the village stopped.

"You refuse to obey our laws?"

"The laws of men mean little to me."

"Fine. Kill them."

Again the villagers moved in and the undertaker almost bubbled with joy.

"I'm here to help you."

"I don't need any help."

"Oh yeah"

The man whipped out a crossbow and I ducked.

Another memory flashed before my eyes.

The villager's cries of "He killed a vampire!" and "He killed a bride!" rang forth from their mouths.

"Vampire's only kill one or two people a month, now they will kill for revenge. So what name should I put on your coffin?"

I scowled, I now knew who had came to my village, and walked over.

"His name is Van Helsing."

Surprised mummers shot through the crowd.

A memory I often think of came to flash before my eyes.

"Do you have any family mister Van Helsing?"

He paused for a moment before slumping his shoulders.

"Perhaps, to have memories of those you loved and lost is harder than to have no memories at all."

He faced me and drew in a breath.

Yet another memory of Gabriel's and I first time together passed in front of meeting.

We were in the main hall of Castle Dracula; about to face our common immortal enemy, Gabriel caught me by the arm and pulled me back.

"If you're late…run like hell." His eyes were full of the love that he felt, that I felt, but neither of us would admit.

I turned to leave again with a silent nod, knowing what I must do and sending a silent pray to god to help us, but again he caught me and pulled me back.

"Don't be late…" It looked as though he was about to release me, but in one swift motion he pulled me into a passionate kiss, it was hard, yet soft and warm, full of love. I returned it with just as much passion as before. I never wanted that kiss to end, but I knew it had to, sometime, for we had a mission to accomplish. We pulled away and looked at one another for a moment before I ran off, I could feel Gabriel's eyes watching me.

I blinked back the tears that spilled out of my eyes, but it was pointless, more just came. I looked down at my hands, clutched in sadness and anger that I moved too slowly to do anything to help; blood ran down them, I opened up my palms, saw the glass that was not imbedded in my hands fall out in stained crimson shards. I felt nothing of the pain, just cold, suffocating numbness of sadness.

Libby's P.O.V-

I handed Carl a fresh rag and looked away; I was never one for watching things be pulled out of people.

"Brace yourself, now Kevin, this may hurt a little." I heard him say and I kept my eyes closed.

Kevin screamed as Carl quickly pulled the arrow that was stuck in his shoulder out.

"Libby, quickly, antiseptic." He said and I grabbed a bottle of clear liquid and handed it to him along with another fresh rag. In exchange, I got a bloody arrow tip. My eyes went wide and I tossed it next to the wooden arrow shaft before turning and letting out a great shudder.

Oh dear god…please let him be ok.

Alice's P.O.V-

I walked down the halls of the manor in search of Anna, James, Marc, Kate, Van Helsing and Rachel. Libby, Carl and I had taken Kevin to one of the rooms to get the arrow out of his shoulder; I couldn't take the sight of that much blood, so Carl sent me to find the others and bring back supplies as needed.

Were the hell did you guys get to?!

I thought as I rounded the corner to the scene of the battle; I checked everywhere but there for obvious reasons. I saw that the side paneling would have to be repaired, for there was dents from were Helsing and the others hit. I looked into the gas lamp lit room and gasped.

"Oh my god!!" I screamed, the window was gone, glass lay scattered around. I rushed into the room, glass crunching over my feet, I stopped in front of a person.

"Anna?! Oh my god, what happened?!" A groan from behind me made me turn on my heels and I saw Jimmy, on the floor holding his jaw and curled up into a ball. "Holy shit!! What happened?!"

Oh dear god…

I grabbed Anna's hands and winced at the glass imbedded in her palms, I needed to get them to Carl and fast. I put one of Anna's arms around my shoulders and slowly got up, she followed without a sound, I looked down at James.

"I'll be right back, Anna is bleeding…a lot…" I looked as the blood ran down her hands and I gave a shudder and looked away. "I'll sprint right back here, be ok."

A/N: Hello again! I'm all-better!! Oh don't worry, I have a plan for Van Helsing and Kate; they aren't lost; you just are going to have to wait a tiny bit. Just a bit, one chapter at most! If I get enough reviews, not even one; but it all depends how long it takes…I just need to get things straight in my head. So I hope you enjoyed this chapter.