Author's Note

I do not own Young Dracula.

Shoutout and big thank you to DZ2 for the favourite and follow!

As a heads up, this chapter covers series one, and there aren't any massive diversions from canon yet beyond Vlad and Ingrid's opinions on them. Some episodes I imagine would play out like they did on the show, but some would change and some (Slaytime Tv and Like Father like Son in particular) I imagine wouldn't happen in this AU because of the change in family dynamics, especially between Vlad and Ingrid.


Stokely was the most normal town Vlad had ever seen. Something in him really hoped they could make a new start here. Not just as a place to live, but as a family.

"I want the tower room!"

"I called dibs!"

"Well, I called dibs before you were born bat breath!"

He was even fighting with Ingrid like they used to, not the half-hearted sarcastic bickering routine they had fallen into.

His dad said he should have the top one, because he was his son and heir.

Vlad wondered if he would ever act like it.

Ingrid wanted the master bedroom, but the small room under Vlad's in the tower was much further from the crypt and much closer to Vlad's.

Yeah, she took the tower room.

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On the first evening a dim witted vampire loving breather boy climbed in Vlad's window and introduced himself as Robin Branagh. Ingrid was all for sending him home the fast way, but (after some careful consideration) Vlad insisted that they didn't do that. Instead he saw fit to befriend the boy. Ingrid couldn't for the life of her see why and resented the boy for a very long time. For so long now it had only been her and Vlad in their little family, and now she had to find space for someone else. Still, if it made Vlad happy, she supposed she could deal with it for now. Only until she could deal with it permanently of course. After he managed to escape being their dad's tea, Vlad snuck out to his house. The Count dragged him home and tossed him into the tower room from ten feet in the air.

Sometimes Ingrid wondered whether he just forgot how fragile they were before the change.

Sure, vampire kids were tougher than breather kids, but even they had a limit.

Vlad's was bruising across the left of his face, a sprained ankle, and bruised ribs. Ingrid lay next to him in his comfier than hers bed. "Vampires don't make friends with breathers for a reason bat breath."

"I know. But maybe I just want to be normal for once."

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Being normal apparently involved school, as someone reported them for not attending within six weeks of them living there.

And school apparently involved a very inept Slayer, because their lives just couldn't be easy.

A Slayer that at first thought Vlad's vampire loving friend Robin was an actual vampire and then tried to stake his dad.

Ingrid would have let him do it (it would have solved their Slayer problem quite nicely) but Vlad insisted on stepping in.

That boy always had been too soft hearted for a Dracula.

Sometimes Ingrid wondered if he had breather in him.

The vampire loving friend's little sister Chloe also found out about them being vampires (apparently they were forming a club) on the first day. It was kinda nice having another girl to talk to (even if she was a ten year old know it all with an annoying accent) but Ingrid would never admit it.

Vlad's friends did eventually have some worth when Robin saved her from having to marry some low life goat herder when she turned sixteen by pretending to be her boyfriend. On the same day Vlad had some sort of freak out thinking his fangs were starting to grow in - at twelve! - and Ingrid had to talk him down from that.

She decided not to tell him because it would only spook and terrify him further, but it did look his fangs were just beginning to come in, his teeth and gums looked much the same as hers did a few weeks ago. Ingrid kept an eye on it, but if it was happening, it was happening at a slower rate than her. Maybe because he was so young.

They both grew close to Robin and Chloe, perhaps closer than they ought to. Ingrid wondered sometimes, what would happen when they went through the transformation. As she said to Vlad once, there was a reason vampires and breathers didn't mix socially. Vlad of course was still hopelessly searching for a way to avoid becoming a vampire.

Robin and Chloe's parents accepted them with open arms (while their dad thought they were all food and one day they might think the same). It felt kind of nice to have someone who said she could talk to her bout girl problems (or any other kind) if she needed. She never did of course, she was still Ingrid Dracula, but it had been a long time since anyone cared.

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Only Chloe's quick thinking and Robin's chess playing skills saved them all from the wrath of an undead mummy with a grudge against their dad for having cheated in a chess match to decide who married their mother. The thought made Ingrid shudder. Their mum might be their mum - deceitful abandoning bitch that she was - but she was a vampiress of her own accord, not goods to be bought and sold!

Meanwhile, only the Slayer's own incompetence saved the Count from being ashed - much to Vlad and Ingrid's vague disappointment. Sometimes Vlad wondered if that man could slay a vampire if they chained one up in garlic and pegged it outside his caravan before the sun rose.

Maybe they ought to get their dad to help test the theory.

It seemed a little unfair to sentence Chandu to death by mummification - again - when their dad was the one who cheated in the first place, but the absolute last thing they needed was another undead evil creature of unknown intentions wandering around Stokely, so back in the crypt with him it was.

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Vlad's thirteenth birthday came (it seemed to have been no time since his twelfth and he was running out of time to find a way to avoid the transformation) and with it a visit from their mum's parents, who wanted Vlad to become a vampire early.

Vlad on his twelfth birthday would have been dead set against it.

Vlad on his thirteenth thought it through.

"If I had all my vampire powers, I could protect us," he said. "I could stand up to dad."

"Pull the other leg breather boy, it's got bells on. We both know you don't actually want your transformation now. You wouldn't be able to do all the dorky things you enjoy, like playing that stupid breather game or seeing Robin and Chloe."

In the end they destroyed the vial of blood needed for the ritual and never spoke of it again.

Vlad would become a vampire on his sixteenth birthday, just like she would, just like she would, just like their dad did centuries ago.

There was no stopping it.

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When the Count decided he was going to hold a Hunt Ball and find a new wife, they supported it one hundred percent. A new wife would mean someone else for him to fight with, someone else for him to belittle, someone else for him to demand go hunting peasants and sheep with him.

Of course, it had to go to hell. Their mum turned up, and then the Slayer got in dressed as a woman and nearly staked their dad. Nearly was the key word here, as the stake hit a flask in the Count's jacket, and again Vlad found himself wondering at the man's incompetence.

He was a little more surprised by the fact he cared their dad had nearly died. He'd always believed he could quite happily watch him turn to dust for the way he had treated him and Ingrid. Yet as he lay there on the floor there was still something in him screaming. Maybe it was just the vampire part of him that said family was everything.

"I wouldn't have cared if he really had staked him," Ingrid said that night. Vlad had no trouble believing it, and that scared him.


Author's Note.

So, admittedly a fairly slow and ordinary start there with no big splits from the show. If I haven't mentioned an episode, it either played out as canon or didn't happen. This chapter and the next were originally all one, but I decided to break them up, so that's why the slow start. The next chapter starts seeing changes, and after that come the bigger splits. I had thought I had these complete at five chapters plus the prologue, but I'm still adding and altering bits, and have now broken two of the chapters in half, so I'm not sure how long this will end up. I don't plan on it being really long though.