12. One More Chance
"Could you enjoy last night?", Dracula asked as soon as Lily awoke. "Why shouldn´t I have?", she asked back and sat up right. Quickly he grabbed her hand and pulled her down again.
"Do you have to go so soon?", came another question. He smiled seductively.
"Actually yes. So please let me go!", said Lily and started struggling at his tight grip. She slapped him on the hand that held her and freed herself. She picked her towel up, wrapping it around her body.
But his hand found hers again. He looked like a child that was pleading his mother to buy him candy. It took Lily a while until she found out what "candy" he wanted.
Shaking her head she said: "I´m sorry, but I can´t stay any longer. Otherwise Cassandra will..."
"- I don´t care about Cassandra but for you. Please, stay", he pleaded. It seems as if she believes me. She´ll agree...´, Dracula thought.
"...Ok... but only fifteen minutes!", said Lily and climbed back into the bed. "But I haven´t forgiven you yet!"
"Forgiven for what?", he asked innocently. Somehow it disgusted her that he raped her best friend and let her die. And then she´d let him do this to her. And she enjoyed it! "Oh, you mean that! I´m sorry that I did this to your friend. I didn´t know that she would die because of ...that."
Lily was about to loose her patience. "So you think it was only sex, huh? My god, you raped her! If you don´t know it´s a word for having sex with someone when she isn´t willing! Don´t you understand, Dracula? You hurt her in the worst way that a man is able to do to a woman! You probably think that life a game is! And you don´t even care when one of the women dies when you raped her! I bet you can´t count all those women who had to share this fate?"
Dracula stared at her. He didn´t expect her to be so upset. And the worst thing was that she was right.
"I´m ... sorry", he whispered. This time his apologize didn´t sound like a lie. Lily turned her back to him. "You can´t punish me for what I am", he added.
She faked a laugh. "But why do you punish other people for what they are? It´s not my fault that I may look like a witch. I can only tell you that I´m none."
He thought about her words for a while before he decided to tell her something she didn´t know yet. "I don´t know what you are. But I know that you belong to the same kind that your mother once belonged to."
Lily turned around and lay now with her face towards him. "You knew her?"
Dracula nodded. "Yes. I´ve always wanted to make her my bride. I could sense her purity. She wasn´t willing. She already knew your father. Someday I noticed that she was pregnant. There was a fight and... I killed her."
"What? It´s your fault that I never had a mother!", Lily nearly yelled at him.
"It was an accident! I never meant to kill her. I was jealous because your father could have her and not me. That´s why I killed him, too."
Her eyes widened in shock. But before she could say anything he continued: "As your mother died you should have died with her. But you didn´t. You survived because I saved you out of your mother. I gave you your name Elisabeth because it was your mother´s name."
Lily couldn´t believe her ears. She didn´t know if she should kill him for killing her parents or kiss him for saving her from the woman he wanted although she wasn´t his child. She decided to do nothing.
The fifteen minutes turned into a whole day they spent together. But it was worth it all.
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