A/N: cut to: Katie and Anna!
Anna dragged yelling Katie away; trying herself not to cry at the amount of devotion Katie was showing to her friend, being carried up the stairs for Dracula to steal her innocence. Anna with her superior vampire strength managed to drag Katie into the library, locking the doors for only Katie to have the glimpse of Elizabeth and Dracula, entering into the tower bedroom. And Katie could do nothing but bang on the locked door while Anna stood watching, in utter guilt at what she had done. But she shouldn't, seeing she had been following Dracula's orders without shame for a hundred years. But now that she was letting a young women suffer the same fate she had, and let the other sit and cry while she knew her friend was getting raped. And she knew it, and nothing could stop him from doing anything.
"Why? Why us?! There are plenty of other fan girls that would want to be with him! But we don't! There is something he's not telling us…" Katie rambled while pacing the floor, in tears.
"I am sorry, but you two were picked for a reason, and for that reason you have been chosen to be his brides and give him live…" Anna stopped herself, already telling too much.
"What did you just say?" Katie stopped, staring long and hard at Anna's deep eyes.
"I should not have delved deep. I am not allowed to tell. I am sorry, but after your wedding night, you shall know the truth." Anna weakly replied, standing still in front of the door.
"After my wedding night? Will it then be too late? I must know! Why?" Katie stammered.
"I said, I cannot tell, nor can I allow you to escape the castle. I must do what our master tells me." Anna deeply regretted doing this, but if she didn't, then she would surly be punished.
"You were willing to help us before, and now you aren't! What is keeping you from helping us now? Please, don't let Dracula do this!" Katie said, now plopping herself in a velvet chair. She was in an obvious fit, a fit that she was missing out on something and helpless.
"I would help if I was in the right situation. Dracula now is sensing everything I do much more closely, and I would endanger my sanity along with you physically. There is nothing we can do for her, nothing at all for our saving. It is only her body, nothing more. She will live, and I know she will not succumb to this darkness I have locked myself into. You and I will help her tomorrow." Anna said motherly, sitting in the chair across from Katie. Katie had curled up, her head hidden behind her knees and hunched, tears welling in her eyes.
This is hopeless she thought. And she herself will suffer the same fate tomorrow night. All that was on her mind was what she was imagining Dracula doing to Elizabeth, and then what Dracula would do to her. And then, she was thinking of the purpose Dracula wanted from them. She herself, along with Elizabeth was not pretty looking enough to catch a suave, sophisticated vampire to choose them both as wives. There is another, far more sinister reason why, and she did not know at all. But, with the formulative thinking, Katie had an idea.
"I'll be looking…for some books…to calm myself." She said innocently, standing up and tried her best to convincingly enough look distressed while she disappeared behind an aisle of books. This was her chance to explore the library, searching for any doors out for her escape.
Finally, she found a little door, dusty and unused, by the horror section of the library. Carefully, looking around first for any sign of Anna, she turned the knob, little by little, and opened the door.
It was at first site, a dark room, lit by only the moonlight coming in from the barred open window at the end of the small room. And, what she did see, opening the door wide, was a long pole, and staked on it was a skeletal corpse.
Katie froze at the site of the skeleton remains, the clinging pieces of discolored flesh and around the eye sockets still their, along with the tatters of clothing and hair, it seemed to still be growing. But for the first minute of just staring at the dead corpse, her hand covering her mouth, there was nothing but the howling cold Transylvanian wind of the mountains. Until the skeleton moved its head to face her.
Katie let out an echoing scream, wide eyed and trembling as she fell backwards, screaming at the dead head that faced her. The door was shut by the hands of Anna, bending over traumatized Katie as she bawled and shivered on the floor, her eyes closed and her sobs filling the air. All she could see with her minds eye was the skeleton, looking at her with fiery eyes, undead eyes. She couldn't stop the crying, the utter fear and fright that was the only thing in her thoughts. So, curling up into a ball, not caring at the touch of Anna's cold hands lifting her up, Anna carried her out of the library and into her room, Anna's own room.
Anna laid her young charge on the red sheeted bed. The entire room was in gloom, the red walls and items almost black. Red was the color Dracula gave her, but Anna was not that lusty and wild anymore. Red now was not her color, and she was more suited to gray. Though she slept in Dracula's coffin or bed sometimes though now rarely, at times when Anna was in a tearful mood and need to be alone, she used the bed. Though she often woke up with Dracula on top of her.
But she banished her sadness and sad thoughts by comforting Katie, sniffling and recovering from the trauma. In Katie's thoughts, the skeleton remained, but along with the memory that she thought Elizabeth was getting raped upstairs. Katie immediately bolted up right, trying to get out of the bed and save Elizabeth in her frantic mind. She was stopped by the motherly arms of Anna, and was tucked into the quilts and held down.
"Elizabeth! No, you must let me help her! I can't let this happen to her! No!!" Katie was crying, the strong grip of Anna and the comforting whispers slowly calming her down.
"There is nothing you can do. It already by now might be too late. I'm sorry, but rest now, rest and dream away your troubles till tomorrow. Sleep…" Anna crooned, herself crying at this. This was how she felt, this fear and terror when she was little when her family was dying, and when she herself was taken and lost her virginity. And she could hardly bear it to watch and know this pain, but she couldn't help them. She never could. She had let her entire family down; she had never succeeded in helping her family's cause. And there was nothing in her power she had to stop Dracula once more.
Katie still struggled. Never in her entire life had she been in this situation, where one of the ultimate means of pain and torture was being delivered to her best friend. Not only that, but her mind kept flashing the image of the zombie. And she was weakening from her fruitless fidgets out of the arms of Anna. The warmth of the bed, the wrapping of the blankets and the arms, and Anna's voice slowing her breath and mind back was making her very sleepy. She was forgetting all until the morning, as at last with tears in her eyes, she closed them and they stayed closed.
Anna herself, with the day encroaching, fell asleep with the canopy drapes around her and Katie. And they waited for the telling of Elizabeth's fate, whether she had lost her virginity or not.
A/N: Oooohhh…what vill happen I vonder? :)