A/N: Isnt a beautiful thing when fanfic finally letsa person update? sigh Yes anyway, i am SO sorry i didnt update sooner BUT the site wouldnt let me...well anyway here i am about to start my little war...cheers its about damn time! LOL, anyway i think the majority of you will appriate how a started the chapter off, i was quiet proud!

Dracula: You would...

shut up you!

Dracula: shrugs whatever...i have better things to do

Yea like clean the gutter! You've been promiseing me for weeks! Go fly up there and do it!

Dracula: Gag me with a spoon! Clean? No thanks!

WOW, do you wanna be a vallygirl?

Dracula: tears well up in eyes yes desperately!

uuuhh...wow...heres the update!

She ran down the pearl white marble floors with her equally white gown billowing behind her. She smiled hugely as the sunshine streamed through the floor to ceiling windows that glimpsed out to a summer garden and green pastures. she breathed deeply and threw her arms back in mock flight as her feet moved faster.

"Sophia...Sophia! Come back!" she heard the faint echo of a friendly male voice, a voice belonging to a young man, no more than fifteen. She glanced back to see a young boy running after her a few yards behind. His lean and lanky form clumsily ran after her, his long blonde hair falling about his face, his richly elegant suit forming to his every move. he was nothing but sunkissed and young, looking like the adolescent Apollo with a striking white smile and sparkling blue eyes. "Come back to me!" he laughed in her direction his voice shimmered in her ears like the sunlight did in her eyes.

She turned back to look ahead and ran faster, "You will never catch me Ralph!" she giggled hearing his gasps of protest and mixed laughter. She ran down the hall her tiny perfect white shoes tapping the hard floor and her lace gown caressed the floor and walls as she passed. but before she knew it she had reached the end of the hall, she stopped abruptly and looked back at the young smiling Ralph gaining on her. She put a hand on top of her veil to keep it on her head as she took a sharp left into a dark room as Ralph laughed "I'm gaining on you!"

She gasped aloud and stopped running, she was in a strangely dark room, full of crimson velvets and mahogany woods. She turned to look behind her to see if Ralph had caught up to her yet, but there was nothing but a set of double door, a crucifix hanging crooked above them. She turned back to face the room, and there stood a dark figure.

A strikingly beautiful man in a dark dress suit stood before, his large black cape moved eerily behind him like it was caught in a wind they both knew wasn't in the still aired room. She looked at his pale face with high and hallowed cheek bones, and calico colored eyes that stood out under the black and suspicious arch of his fine brow, all of his dark waves framed his beauty.

"Darling," he whispered, his deep velvety voice coursed through her veins like chocolate. She looked at him in all of his glory, his tall frame and the impression he radiated, like that of a king. She then looked back into his gorgeous eyes and walked towards him, her arms outstretched, willing to give him anything. "Drake..." she whispered, watching the sharp lines of his perfect face soften as he took her into his arms and began to take her mouth in his.

"Sophia?" said the voice of the golden boy from the white hallway of her memories. "What are you doing with him?" he asked, his voice deeper now and sounding betrayed. Sophia turned to face him, her back to the dark and tempting angel that stole her heart. "Ralph, I love him!" she whined, taking a step toward her old friend, the boy she grew up with, the boy she loved like a brother. Yet he was no longer a boy, he was a man, yet he still had the demeanor and insecurities of the young boy she knew and loved. He stood in front of her now, tears streaming down his handsome face, his tall and still lanky frame shaking from sheer misery.

"Ralph..." Sophia outstretched her hand and gripped her wedding dress with the other.

"Sophia..." she heard a thunderous and somehow very sad voice sound behind her. She looked back and saw his dark eyes wide, with tears shimmering in his stormy orbs. "Don't leave me like she did..." His whisper was lonely and tragic.

"Drake...I won't..." she began and walked towards him, her heart swelling with untamed love.

"Sophia, no! You cannot leave me to live without you!" Ralph shuddered and fell to the floor crying like a child.

Sophia stood between the two men, both looking at her with betrayed and lonely gazes, both wanting her, both loving her completely. She couldn't bare to leave either and yet knew she had to. Should she stay with the child of her past or the man she loved so much? Sophia glanced down at her hands and saw the tiny droplets of her own tears. "I don't know what to do..." She then felt a warm caress touch her tear streaked face. She closed her eyes and fell into the dark abyss.

Sophia's eyes shot open and she waited for her sight to adjust to the dark night of the room. "My love, you were crying," Drake whispered, pulling her closer to his naked body. "I had a bad dream," she whispered back. He nodded and ran his hand through her hair.

"You said his name in your sleep..." he said.

"I was dreaming about the both of you," she replied honestly.

"I guess that explains why you said mine too." He sat upright and pulled the bed curtain back. "You were dreaming of having to choose between the two of us, weren't you?"

"Yes," she whispered, sitting up and resting her head on his back, wrapping her arms around his waist.

"Who did you choose?" he asked, his voice quiet.

Sophia kissed his shoulder blade and sighed. She knew who she would choose, it was simple. "I choose you."

Drake smiled, got out of the bed and dressed himself in his proper gala like clothing and went to the armoire and looked inside for awhile. "Can you wear this today, for old times sake?" he pulled out a familiar looking gown, one she hadn't worn in a long, long time. It was her masquerade gown, it was pink and white and so innocent looking. So long ago it was when she wore it, a dress that Ralph had bought her, a thank you for accepting his hand in marriage. She nodded and stood to get the gown. She took it from him and then went behind the changing screen.

"Are you afraid for what is to come tonight..." he asked sitting in one of the crimson chairs and gazing into the fire he just lit.

"Yes and no, I haven't really come to terms with everything, its almost like my mind isn't allowing me to accept it." she sighed and walked out from behind the screen.

Drake turned to look at her and he saw her as he did that first night. She looked like a new flower, the happy promise of spring after a long winter. She was beautiful in the pale and simple ball gown, her curls cascading down her shoulders and back. He stood and she walked to him and he kissed her softly. "I love you more then anything..."

"I love you too." she whispered back.

At that they heard a bang on the bedroom door and then Nicolae rushed in with Romulus and Jessika behind him. "Their here..." Nicolae said his voice wavering.

Drake just nodded, "Jessika, you go into Nicolae's room and lock the door, only come out if one of us four come to get you, trust no one! Nicolae and Romulus, I need you guys to lead the fight, try and spook them, of we can get a few to run off from lack of confidence then we have an advantage," he then turned to the trembling Sophia. "You stay here, and keep safe.."

"No! I am going with you to help you, if they see me un harmed they may give you a chance!" Sophia looked into his loving eyes determined.

"All right then," he then turned back to the other three. "You know what to do, I will be down in a little while, I dont want to make a grand entrance on an angry mob, a partially frightened one is good though.." he smiled uneasily and gripped Nicolae and Romulus shoulders. "I love you both, you are my brothers." they nodded at that and left with Jessika.

He turned to Sophia once the door was closed and a single tear streaked his face, "I dont want them to take you, but if I have to.."

"I will be by your side no matter what, nothing will separate us my love." she walked over to him and kissed him tenderly as the sound of men shouting and yells of hatred echoed up the staircase.

Well i hope that it was worth the wait! Please review i love to hear what you guys think:DD