Piper awoke around midday and got up to take a shower and get dressed. When she came back she saw that there was another plate of food. She sighed and shook her head.

Piper leaned against the window seal and closed her eyes

……….."Mom, Dad, hello is anyone home?"

"Piper, run, go get out of here now!"

Piper watched in horror, her father was now a vampire and attacking her mother. Piper fell to her knees crying.

"Mom, no!" She cried and ran to her room, she looked around and found her sword, Piper did the only thing that she could think of, she ran back out and slayed her father and then her mother, crying the whole time.

"Forgive me, I'm so sorry but this is the only way." She muttered tears streaming down her face.

"You're next Piper."

She turned around, there where freaks everywhere, she got anger and that is when her warrior instincts kicked in and she killed them all.

"You can't run forever Piper, we will find you and when we do, we will turn you and destroy humanity."

Pipers eyes snapped opened "NO!" she yelled and ran out of the room, Piper ran down the stairs and went for the door. Alucard was standing in front of it.

"Going somewhere kid?"

"I have to leave, you're all in danger if I stay here, they'll find me and destroy all of you, I have to go, I don't want to be the cause of someone else's death."

Alucard smiled.

"That's why I'm here, no one is going to die, if you leave one of them may find you and turn you, then there will be no hope for anyone kid."

Piper stared at him

"I'm not a kid."

"Then stop living in the past, if you're not a kid, then don't act like you did when you where one."

"What do you mean?"

"Stop running away."

"But, I didn't run away when I was a kid, I fought, I killed them, I killed them all."

"Then why run now?"

Piper stared at the vampire wondering how he could have such wisdom and be a monster.

"Not all vampires are the same, we are as different from each other as you humans are."

Piper looked at him. Alucard merely smiled and disappeared. Piper went to her room. 'What did he mean by that?' She thought to herself. She fell asleep on her bed, but this time no dreams of horror….she had dreams of something else, or someone rather….