A/N: Yes I know I haven't updated, and I cant promise anything but deep loathing for Ralph in this chapter, and also this is kind of the beginning of the end of the story, I mean there might be up to ten more chapters to say the least but this is the closing of the story, anyway.
Dracula: Yea okay whatever, but guys read the first sentence of this chapter! WTF! Honestly Authoress, your just letting the ASSUME the Dracula love fest? They want to read the juicy details not assume two effing weeks of sex!
Your such a classy guy Dracula..
Dracula: Dont insult me...anyway go ahead and read this crap see if I care, your all a bunch of ingrates and ill bred moro-...
Read and enjoy!
Sophia sat up in the crimson velvet ocean that was the bed she shared with Drake these past couple of weeks. She sighed heavily and got out of the bed watching him roll over in his child like state of slumbering bliss. He was such a joy in her life, he was beautiful in every way she thought originally he wasn't. He was kind and giving and loving and made he feel so full, both physically and emotionally.
She went behind her dressing curtain and washed up for the upcoming night, they had made love all during the day and rested some entangled in one anothers body. They were so helplessly one that you couldn't tell were she began and he ended, making their flesh a single flesh like their heart beat together in time.
When she finished getting washed and dressed she walked over to the door, she didn't want to wake Drake from his slumber; he needed it badly. She already heard the tell tale signs of Nicolae's presence in the hallway and decided to pay him a visit.
"Hello Nicolae," Sophia said as she walked over to his normal reading chair.
"Hello, it is good to see your darling face up with the moon!" he stood and offered his creaky wooden chair to her and she politely refused.
"Actually I was wondering if you cared to tell Drake that I am going out for a walk, you see its been such a long time since I've had time for myself and I am tired of being cooped up to this floor of the mansion alone." She blurted out all of her feelings before Nicolae could retort in hopes of making to good of an argument to say no to.
"I understand Sophia, but this place isn't safe for you, you are a doe walking through the den of a starving man, you see it just wouldn't be safe." he looked down unto her childish pout and automatically felt like a monster taking a small girls dreams away. He sighed heavily, "But if you must, go ahead, I will make sure nothing happens to you, and that you are unaware of me enough to have your alone time."
Sophia smiled hugely at the great sacrifice Nicolae was making in such a compromise. She stood on her tip toes and kissed the pale vampire fleetingly on the cheek and started down the stairs and out the door with Nicolae silently gliding behind her.
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Ralph got up from the table in his dining room noting the setting of the sun and the coming promise of darkness. The past two weeks had been a great toil on him as he collected the supplies to go on the hunt for his Sophia. But two weeks had taken a great strain on him, the date of his wedding had passed and he needed Sophia now more than ever, he was sick and tired of waiting for a time to take her.
Perhaps he would visit the place he had before, there was bound to be some kind of clues to support all that had happened and will happen in two weeks time. So after adoring himself in his best rideing jacket he went outside and into the fall air.
He mounted his white horse and set into the darkness of the forest, to try and get hold on what was his, Sophia.
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Sophia walked through the grassy terrain on the forest floor every once in awhile stopping to pick a pretty wildflower for an arrangement for the room she shared with her beloved.
She bent down to get a very pretty purple one when she heard the distant sound of hooves on the packed ground of the nearby path. Without thinking Sophia dropped her flowers and went sprinting towards the sound of the coming rider.
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Unbenouced to Sophia, Nicolae also heard the sound of the rider and he glided silently between the trees with a only the sound of sharp canine breathing to accompany him.
"Romulus shut that reeking trap of yours, and make yourself unseen, a rider comes and Sophia goes to meet him, do not intervene, I do not want to him to hurt her if he sees us with her." Nicolae whispered to the large looming form of a golden wolf who nodded with human understanding.
They both sat and watched shroud with comforting darkness as the rider halted in front of the scared and almost cowering Sophia.
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Ralph stopped his horse were he had stopped his carriage that fateful night a month or so ago. And then he noticed he wasn't alone, by the trees there stood a women, she was standing with her hands up in defence and her dark curls hanging about her face working as some kind of pathetic female shield.
"Madame, is there something wrong you seemed quite troubled?" he asked in his best voice.
She then stood erect and shook her long hair from her angelic face, her green eyes shining like emeralds. She was Sophia...
"Sophia!" Ralph yelped jumping from his horse unto the ground running to her. He swept her into a large hug not noticing she wasn't responding and was a limp as a corpse. "Oh darling oh my Sophia were have you been, come come I must take you home!"
Sophia jerked herself away at that and backed herself into a tree. "Go home? Back to your home?" she stuttered frightened of loosing her new found life and real home.
Ralph looked at her with a funny look. "Yes were else silly? Now get on the horse and we will call off all the men I was about to have raid the devils den in a weeks time! What a relieve I was truly loosing all hope if getting you back!"
"A raid? To kill Drake?" she whispered with a trembling hand over her full mouth.
"Listen to you babbling nonsense! Oh what those terrors must have put you through my love!" Ralph grabbed her wrist and tried to pull her to the steed.
"If I go with you the men wont attack them then?" she asked worried.
"Well they probably will still, we have to exterminate them somehow!" he laughed.
"NO! You cant! Dont please! If I go with you have to promise to call all of those men off!" she yelled going back the tree to brace her trembling body.
"What? Why? Why do you care for those demons so? Their monsters!" he yelled his frustration mounting.
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Nicolae put a threatening had over Romulus's human chest when he made the attempt to lunge at the von Heinchek man. "No dont! As long as he doesn't hurt her we dont become the uncivilized creatures he thinks we are and harm him with no reason but speculation."
Romulus shook with growing fury but sat back on his honches waiting for the chance to jump.
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"They arent monsters Ralph! they are people! Good people! They are misunderstood that is all!" she gasped as he walked towards her, and for the first time she actually feared the power behind the man before her.
"What are you getting at Sophia? That you would rather stay with them?" he asked his voice a dangerous whisper.
"Yes...," she confessed a singled tear escaping her. "Ralph they are good to me, and I can no longer marry you..."
"What?" he yelled grabbing her arms and shaking her.
"I cant! I love another, I love Drake, he is sweet and kind to me! He is everything I have ever wanted!" she gasped when she saw him raise his hand at her.
"YOU BELONG TO ME!" he yelled and smacked her down to the ground and walked back to his horse. " I will be back for you all and I will kill this Drake and take you with me!" he then galloped away into the darkness of the forest road.
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Nicolae and Romulus ran over to the crying girl and Romulus picked her up in one sweeping movement. "Take her back to Drake I will be right behind you, when you get there tell him everything, it seems we must prepare for a war..."
So Dracula what did you think?
Dracula: HIS! HIS! HOW COULD HE SAY THAT! She isn't his! She is my hot piece of ass! I'll fang that S.O.B. good if its the last thing I do!
Your so sweet...I just cant take it...I feel tears coming on...you fiend!
Dracula: Me a fiend? Why thank you! You shouldn't flatter me like that my ego might get to big for the room!
Yea like it isn't already, anyway read and review everyone!