A/N: I am glad everyone is enjoying how the story is turning out and I love all of the positive reviews I am getting from everyone. So anyway here we all are back with Sophia and Drake, lets see how she is doing!

Erik::stretches and yawns: this story is getting so dull that Dracula wont even waste his sarcasm on it.

Shush you deformed little twit! You'll scare away our readers!

Erik: :stares with mouth agape a single dramatic tear slides down one cheek:

your not being filmed you know...you drama phantom!

Erik: :runs away crying like little girl:

...now I feel bad...

Dracula: whew authoress I didn't know you were so cruel...I feel all warm and tingly inside...

shut up you...on with the next chapter while I go and make Erik stop crying

Dracula: Yea that will happen...hes such a pansy!

Drake stroked her forehead urging her wake up. He looked up when he heard his bedroom door creak open. He saw Nicolae walk in looking worried and paler than usual. He cast a weary gaze toward his pale friend.

"Drake, what happened?" Nicolae asked bustling over to the bed where Sophia lay with Drake looming over her, a pained look upon his handsome face.

"She was falling, but not from the balcony, it was like she was flown away from it and dropped, I dont know, I am waiting for her to wake up so she can tell me." He then laid a soft kiss on her forehead and went to sit in one of the chairs by the fireplace. Nicolae followed after running a protective fatherly hand over Sophia's forehead.

Drake sat down and ran a hand through his dark wavy locks, that were all disheveled from speeding through the air to catch Sophia.

"Why isn't she awake?" asked Nicolae worried for both Sophia and the current state his friend was in.

"I dont know why she isn't waking, I think that she just fainted out of fear. I made sure that she had no injuries to the head and made sure she was able to breath properly with that contraption these women ware..." Drake rubbed his hands over his face wearily.

"It seems friend that you are harboring more than the normal emotions that a man would have for a women who they just saved." Nicolae said with his fingertips touching and his finely etched eyebrow risen in a suspicious manner.

"What are you implying Nicolae?" Drake asked with a agitated edge to his voice.

"Oh nothing more than that I think you are falling in love with our dear Sophia..."

Drake rolled his shoulders and gulped loudly, "I am..."

Nicolae rose and kneeled in front of his friend a sparkling gleam in his purple gaze. "Drake, Sophia is a magnificent woman, I am so happy for you!" He patted him hard on the back, Drake shook him off and stood.

"I am not so happy about it, Sophia doesn't need a man like me, she needs someone stable...normal...a human man who could give her human children to love and cherish...all I can give her is the night." He sighed and leaned on one of the bed posts, staring at his beloved.

"Perhaps all she wants is the night...have you thought of that Drake? Have you thought for a minute that she might already love you?" Nicolae asked.

"She couldn't...no woman can ever love a beast..." Drake whispered slowly turning his pained gaze toward the now empty picture frame on his desk.

His memories began to get the best of him when he heard Sophia turning in the bed. She whispered ever so softly as he lashing batted open and then closed again. Drake rushed to her side and propped her head up with his hand, using his other to stroke her forehead.

"Drake...is that you?" she asked in a slight whisper.

"Yes my darling its me..." he said softly in her ear.

When Nicolae saw that Sophia was all right and Drake was by her side, thinking only of her exited the room silently. Drake looked behind him and saw that Nicolae had left and remembered what he had said about Sophia perhaps sharing Drakes feelings of love.

"Sophia..." she looked up at him with big green tired eyes and he lost all the nerve he had, he couldn't tell her. "Sophia, darling go back to sleep, it is morning and I want us to spend all tomorrow together, get your rest, we will talk when night comes again..." Drake stood and started towards the couch he slept on during the day, pulling his jacket and shirt off with an easy motion. He stopped when he heard Sophia's tiny whisper from the bed.

"Drake..." at the sound of his name he was at her side again, heedlessly tossing his shirt and jacket to the floor.

"Yes my sweet Sophia is there something you needed?"

"Stay with me...stay here with me...I dont want to be alone..." she drifted back to sleep not letting go of the hand he had offered.

"Anything my love..." he answered to the sleeping beauty before him. He climbed in next to her and burnt out the bedside candle. When he pulled the velvet cover over them he felt Sophia snuggled closer and rested her head on his chest.

He felt warm and wanted at that moment, and drifted into his daytime slumber with a smile on his lips.

Dracula: You so quoted "no woman could ever love a beast" from the narrator in Beauty and the Beast...is it that hard to use your own material?

yes...

Dracula: Loser...

You know it bizzz-atch!

Dracula: :facepalm: