Valencia was in her room putting her pistols away when Carl came in.
"Hi Carl." Valencia said with out turning around and taking her trench coat off and hanging it in the closet.
"Val what's wrong?"
"Dad."
"What's wrong with Van Helsing?"
"He isn't ever gonna let me do what he does!"
"Something happen today?"
"Yeah."
"What?"
"Almost got bit by a vampire."
"Now see that's what your father is trying to prevent."
"I know but I could have gotten away from him if dad had just given me the chance."
"Or you could have been turned into one of those blood sucking demons. Val, you'll have your chance to prove yourself but not now."
Just then Carl hear Van Helsing's voice call for Valencia, "Go on. Go see what he wants."
"He's probably gonna yell at me some more." Valencia siad as she grabbed her trench coat and walked to the front door, with Carl behind her, where she saw her father, a fish man and a cute guy, about her age, that she thought she had seen before.
"You called me?" Valencia asked looking at her father and seeing all his weapons set out and he was cleaning them. She could only assume that this very good looking man had asked to see her for one reason or another, the way her father was acting. Which she preferred to her father yelling at her about her mistakes.
"Yes, this young man has asked to speak with you." Gabriel said as Valenica came outside and stood by him, and he noticed that Valencia couldn't take her eyes off of the man, "I'm sorry son, what did you say your name was?"
"Tomas." The man said, "My name is Tomas Valentine."
"And how exactly do you know Valencia?" Van Helsing asked.
"Dad!" Valencia said hitting her father in the arm, "I can speak for myself." Valencia looked at the man and her look seemed to ask the same question and so the man answered her.
"I saw you in the market place today.In fact I've seen you every time you go there. I was trying to work up the courage to talk to you today when you ran off."
"Were you standing by the apples?"
Tomas simply nodded his head and Valencia smiled and said shyly, "I noticed you too."
"Really?" Tomas asked with hope in his voice and surprise. He never would have thought in a million years that a girl like Valencia would have ever have noticed a guy like him but then again he wasn't the same man he used to be.
"Yeah and this isn't the first time I've seen you either. But now that you are here would you like to go for a walk?" Valencia asked but before Van Helsing could object Tomas nodded his head and the two walked passed the fish man and were off.
"You going to let those two leave like that?" The fish man asked when Valencia and Tomas were out of ear shot but still with in eye sight. He could tell that his new friend really didn't like the fact that his daughter was going for a stroll with a perfect stranger.
"Like hell I will." Van Helsing said as he gathered reloaded all his weapons and put them in their proper places in his trench coat and holsters.
"Van Helsing, he's just a boy. What harm can he do?" Carl asked not completly understanding for he did not have any children of his own but he did consider Valencia as his neice and felt that she would be perfectly fine with the young man but Van Helsing apperently didn't think so.
"He's a boy with hormones and he's alone with Valencia. I don't trust him!"
"Van Helsing, you must have been his age once." Carl said trying to get his friend to calm down and leave Valencia alone for now.
"I don't know Carl.You tell me. I don't remember." Van Helsing said as he finished gearing up and asked, "Are you two coming or not?"
As he walked away, the fishman and Carl looked at each other and then decided to follow Van Helsing.
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