Hey! Here's my fic on Dracula, based on the characters of Dracula2000. I own nothing besides the characters I will eventually create. Please, review it!

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Chapter 1; Free

The silver coffin lay in the safe at Carfax, which was supposed to be well protected by Mary Van Helsing and her husband Simon Shepard. Is had been twenty years since Mary learned who she really was. And now, she was waiting for her dear Simon to die of a vicious lung cancer. She was obviously older but no one could tell she was almost fifty.

Let's get back to Carfax antiques. The vault was well protected with many sophisticate security systems. Though, it didn't stopped a simple bat to infiltrate the place. One of the sensor got crazy and while the bat was flying over the coffin, a silver spear emerge from the ceiling and killed it. All the creature inside the coffin needed, was a little amount of blood to regain some strength. The animal's blood dropped over it and was instantly sucked in the coffin. Now, all the creature needed, was to find a weak mind to help him getting out of this mess.

The security guard that was getting bored at his post before the vault, suddenly felt a cold wind surround him. Next thing he knew is that he was in front of a very dark figure, in the vault and half a second later, his throat was slit and he was dying.

Dracula had made him deactivated the security system. Now, he had to made his way out. Easy enough for him.

Mary and the lifeless hand of her husband, no tears, no emotion. Though, nothing could be enough to express her sorrow. As she laid his hand on the bed, her cell-phone rang and the man on the other line said that the creature was free. Without giving a second thought, she kissed her dead husband's forehead and ran out of the hospital room.

She wasn't young anymore and even if she looked like a 30 year old, she didn't felt like it at all. She knew what could have helped her to feel young, but she would never give away to her beast appetite. She would never drink blood. Not now, not ever.

As she went out of the building, she came face to face with the one she had once defeated. Him. Dracula, Judas, whatever his name was. Strangely, she wasn't afraid but, kind of relief by his presence.

-You are still the beautiful woman I remember, Mary. He said, his voice deep, and lifeless

He approached slowly to her. She didn't moved, not even to take the silver stake that was waiting in her pocket.

-You really want to die because of your…husband?

She closed her eyes and shed her first tears since she had found her father dead under Lucy's bed. She didn't want to fight against him. All she wanted, is to feel her Simon's arms around her, protecting her from pain and grief. She wanted to feel his warmth fill her heart once again. She needed him so much more than ever.

Dracula walked closer and closer to her. He had once loved her, for she was the closest creature of himself. He had desired her, longed for her with every fibre of his being. But the moment she betrayed him, killed his brides and shut him away in that confining coffin, all he had ever felt for her faded. She was nothing more now than another meal, a piece of meat. He knew the taste of her blood. It was rich, perfume with his own essence and was craving to taste it one last time.

-Do you want me to show you the way to your dead husband's arms? He asked in a murmur that gave her goose bumps

-Y-yes. She mumbled

He was a bit deceived. She wasn't the strong woman he had know. Maybe the blood from his veins had faded in hers.

As if he had wanted it to be his final attempt to seduce her, Dracula slowly reached his hand to her neck, caressing it almost tenderly. But he quickly get back to himself. Mary had betrayed him, deny his love for her. So, he bit down her flesh, hard.

Mary slowly tumbled down as life left her body, and soon, her breath became a memory.

Mary Van Helsing was dead.