3. Discoveries
The man eyed her closely while circling her. As he stood in front of Lily again he placed his hand under her chin and made her look into his dark eyes. She knew that it must be the Count of whom the woman had told her.
"You are damn pretty," he said quitly and enjoyed her trembling under his touch, "I should make you my bride and not my servant. Pity that the inquisition pays me for witches."
"I´m no witch!", Lily protested. "Every woman tells me that. I must confess... that you seem a bit too pure to me. I think I´ll make you my servant. Do you think that you can make it?", the Count asked. Finally she pulled away from him and took one step away from him. "Of course I can! But don´t you think that it´s better for you if you burn me now and not later?"
Lily´s words made him smile while she noticed that something was very wrong.
"You are right. You are going to die anyway. But you don´t want your father to die instead of you, do you?", he asked evilly. "What shall that mean?", Lily asked back. The Count turned around and told one of the inquisition to open the door. And there they pushed her father into the room.
She couldn´t believe her eyes. Lily´s father´s hands were tied behind his back. They had caught him. "Father!", she cried and wanted to get to him but the Count grabbed her hand and held her back.
"Let me go! He needs me!", she said and tried to hold her tears back. "Let her go, Dracula! She hasn´t done anything wrong!" Her father tried to get his daughter freed.
So Dracula was his name. Lily looked at first at her father and then back at the one who held her. One single tear escaped her. Dracula wiped it away with his thumb. "Tears. I´m glad that I don´t have these useless feelings like sorrow and love anymore."
"How can a life without feelings be worth anything?", asked Lily and tried again to free herself from Dracula´s grasp. He looked at her as if he wanted to answer. But he didn´t and pretended not to hear her question. He turned back to her father: "She´s a witch. Like her mother once was. It won´t be that easy with killing her like with her useless mother."
"So you killed her! You bastard killed my mother!", Lily screamed as bitter tears ran down her cheeks. Dracula made her look at him: "If I was you I would show more respect!"
"But I have no respect! I hate you! I didn´t have the chance of knowing my mother! Damn it, you fucking bastard, can´t you just leave me and my family alone?", she sank to her knees and sobbed. The reaction she had expected from Dracula didn´t come. He only stood there and looked at her weeping form.
"Decide now! Do you prefer to watch your father die or do you want to live with me from now on?", he asked nearly yelling.
"No! Don´t believe him! He already killed everyone of our family! It doesn´t matter if he kills me now! Please don´t go with him!", her father yelled and took one step closer towards his daughter.
"If you don´t care about your life...", said Dracula and looked at the inquisition again, "Kill him!" Lily rose from the ground again. As she wanted to go to her father they grabbed him by his arms and pulled him outside. "I love you! Don´t let him hurt you!", he called his last words to Lily. She watched him disappear behind the door.
"And now to you!", Dracula looked at her strictly, "You will work from me! And don´t expect any kindness from me towards you!"
"I would never expect that you could be kind! Why did you do that! Why did you kill my whole family? Why don´t you even care about anyone? WHY!", yelled Lily.
For a few seconds he only stared at her until he said quitly: "You´ll have to learn to respect me and show obedience towards everyone who stands over you. I am the master here and if you don´t accept that..." - "What are you going to do then? Kill me? Do you believe that I´m afraid of death?", Lily shook her head, "Why do you think that your life that you spend alone is more worth than the life of any witch?"
"You are far too naive for your age. You can do what you want but don´t expect that anyone will stand for you. Noone loves a witch", said Dracula. It was easy to notice that this kind of conversation with him didn´t get Lily any further.
"Noone loves you. And noone ever will. You don´t even notice how alone you are. But someday you will need someone who loves you. Like everyone else does, too. Don´t forget my words. And don´t forget that everyone has a site wich is able to feel."
Dracula stared at her like a child. Lily wiped her tears away and went to the door. As she touched the doorknob he called to her: "We will meet again! Your life won´t be easy!"
She turned to him for one last time. Then she opened the door, walked through it and slammed it. Lily sat down beside the woman who spoke to her a few minutes ago. "And?" - "Servant", answered Lily. The woman smiled: "I´m Simone. So we will work together."...
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