Rilka Green Rider: Absolutly. I totally understand where you're comming from. Anna is a warrior she's definetly going to be more agressive in the following chapters. In the first chapter my defense for Anna's reaction to the monster is that she was caught off guard, she was confused, injured and had absolutly no defense. (besides she did cower a bit when 2 of Dracula's wives cornered her in the movie. In the first few scenes of Van Helsing and her in the village right after meeting each other:P:P)
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The Return of Anna Chapter 4
"Velkan?" Anna whispered in disbelief.
The figure smiled. "Anna...my dear sister."
Anna's voice was soft. "Your dead."
"Dead?" Velkan laughed. "Anna, I'm right in front of you! I'm not dead!"
"But, Van Helsing told me you were dead!"
Velkan frowned. "Anna, I went away for a few days. We needed to buy some more weapons. Don't you remember?" He stepped forward, and embraced his sister. "I would never leave you alone in this world." he whispered in her ear.
Anna rested her head on her brothers shoulder. "Why would he lie to me?"
"Because he wants you on his side Anna. You are toying with the devil. Van Helsing wants us to be split apart! He wants it so that you and I will never be able to see each other again." Velken replied. "Anna, you must come with me, or we will never see each other!"
"That isn't true. " A voice interrupted.
Velken glared at Gabriel. "Isn't it?"
"I would give anything for Anna to have her brother back. For her to have some family to turn to!"
"Oh but she does. She has me, her brother."Velkan pulled Anna close to him.
Gabriel turned to Anna. "Anna, don't listen to him. I would never lie to you!"
Velken narrowed his eyes at Gabriel. "You don't even deserve to speak my sisters name!"
"She isn't your sister!"
Velken growled, and leaped at Gabriel, knocking him off his feet.
"Stop it! Both of you! You're acting like children!" Anna yelled, as she tried to pull her brother and Gabriel apart.
Her attempts were futile, Velkans face met Gabriels fist, before she manged to pry them apart.
Velkan glared. "I'll be back Anna. I will not allow this monster to get his claws into you." With that Velken ran out into the hallway and out a side door.
Anna ran to her window andwatched the vanishing form of her brother in the woods and balled her hands into fists. Angry tears rushed to her eyes.
"Anna..." Gabriel went to put his arm around her.
"Don't touch me!" she hissed, clearly very angry.
Gabriel withdrew his hand. "Anna, I promise, that is not your brother."
Anna looked at him, anger and sorrow, and frustration evident in her eyes. "Tell me, Mr. Van Helsing, if you had to choose between who to believe, your brother, or a man you do not even remember, who would you choose?"
Gabriel sighed. He didn't know, it was a hard decision.
Anna nodded, understanding his silence as she turned back towards the window, inhaling sharply as pain shot through her side.
Gabriel looked towards Anna's injuries and seen blood seeping out through one of the wounds.
Anna grimced as she seen the blood covering her shirt. "I must have some of the stitches, when I pulled you and Velken apart."
"Come on, I'll clean it and restitch it." Gabriel said.
Anna glared at him. "You lied to me, Mr Van Helsing." She stated simply. "You told me that Velkan was dead."
" He is dead, Anna." He put a hand on her shoulder. "I know you don't remember me, and from your standpoint, you have no reason to trust me." He paused for a moment. "But, I'm asking you to."
"Why" She asked. "Why trust you, over my own flesh and blood?"
"Because I care about you. Because I don't want to see you get hurt." Gabriel said softly Not Again.
"Could my brother not say the same about you?" Anna pointed out.
Gabriel was getting frustrated now. He knew that the gypsy princess was stubborn but she could be too stubborn sometimes for her own good. "For God's sake Anna, you obviously do not hear what I am saying to you. Velkan is dead! He was turned into a werewolf that I had to kill in order to save my life and yours."
She looked at him, contemplating his reactions to what she was saying. "What was I to you. Mr Van Helsing?"
Gabriles met Anna's gaze with his own eyes, as he said softly. "You were everything...and you still are."
A silence followed for a moment until Anna replied "We should stitch this wound. Theres a needle and string in the chest by my bed," She went and laid down on her bed lifting her shirt just enough that Van Helsing could close the gash without the shirt being in his way.
Gabriel nodded and retrieved the thread and needle, and started stitching the wounds.
"I wish I could remember." Anna said as she broke the silence. "It would my life a hell of a lot easier."
Gabriel sighed and finished stitching the wounds. "Anna, I told you earlier that you were evrything to me. I wasn't lying. I never had the chance to tell you before you di-before you went away." He didn't have the heart to tell her he was the reason her memory was gone; that he was the one who ended her young life.
Anna exhaled deeply, and closed her eyes. "I'm tired."
"Get some rest. I'll see you in the morning." Gabriel turned and opened the door to leave when Anna's tired voice broke the silence once more.
"Van Helsing. You said I went away. Where did I go?"
Gabriel's breath caught in his throat and he had to swollow the lump that was threatening to form. "You went to the sea, Anna."
"The sea..." she said softly "I don't remember being to the sea...I bet its beautiful."
"It is...good night, Anna." Gabriel left and shut the door behind him.
Anna laid in the dark room, waiting until she heard Gabriel's footsteps fade down the corrider. She smirked and crept out of her bed, silently, she dressed into some warm clothing, Gabriel had left out for the following morning and opened the window. She scanned the grounds for any sign of Gabriel but seen nothing, taking once last look back at her bedroom door she smirked and murmured
"Sorry Van Helsing...but when it comes to choosing between my brother or you, I choose my brother."
Without a sound shecrept from her bedroom and outside disapearing into the darkened forest just beyond her family's manor.
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