Chapter 16

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Fifteen minutes later, Victor was answering the door to Kenric Van Helsing. He didn't know how to take the emotion on his father-in-law's face. It seemed like a mixture of concern, and happiness to visit his daughter.

"How are you doing, Victor?" He said with a weak smile.

"I'm fine, but Elizabeth and I have something to talk to you about."

Kenric nodded. He followed Victor to the living room where he sat on the couch as Victor swiftly walked to the kitchen. Kenric waited patiently as he heard the voices from the kitchen flow to the living area.

"Maybe this wasn't such a good idea." His daughter said to her husband.

"It's either now or never. You might want to do something that you won't regret later." Victor's reassuring voice brought a smile to Kenric's lips. He was a good man for her.

Soon, Victor re-entered the room, causing Kenric to stand and greet his family. He froze when Elizabeth entered the room. She was deathly pale, and Kenric could tell what had happened. He stood up straight and looked her over.

She was ashamed to look at her father. This man raised her to fight and kill Vampires, yet here she was, standing in front of him as a creature of the night.

"What happened?" Elizabeth's father asked.

"Don't blame her for this." Victor spoke, placing a hand on her shoulder."I don't blame her, or you." Kenric crossed his arms. "I know that you wouldn't do this to my daughter unless you had good reason."

Elizabeth kept her eyes averted from her father's. Lifting her shirt, she showed the scar. "Some Hunters broke in and stabbed me. Victor came shortly after they left and…"

"He turned you." Kenric finished. "But you would have had to be bitten beforehand for this one to turn you."

"He bit me once when we were in London, visiting Vlad Dracula." Elizabeth explained. "He did it to protect me from his father's blood-lust. The second time was when he ran out of blood."

Kenric listened intently as Elizabeth explained further.

"On rare occasion, a Vampire that goes without blood will go rogue and attack the first person that has what they need. I was just unlucky and became the target."

Victor provided his opinion. "I wouldn't have done it at all if I had the choice. But two out of the three situations would have meant her death."

Kenric sat back down and processed all the information he just gained. He thought it over for a while, leaving Elizabeth tense with worry. She bit her lower lip, waiting for him to talk.

"Well I can't say I'm surprised." His response caused Elizabeth and Victor to stare at him astonished. "I had a feeling something like this might happen. It was always a risk to have a Van Helsing marry a Dracula. But I knew that Elizabeth would be strong enough to handle the situations, and Victor would always be nearby whenever she needed help.

"Elizabeth, you're my daughter, and I still love you despite what has happened. That won't change, no matter what happens." He smiled at her.

She smiled back with relief. Practically running over, she hugged her father tightly, needing to feel the love he just said. He willingly embraced her back, tightly enveloping her in warmth.

"You're going to tell the family right?" she asked while still holding onto Kenric.

"Yes," he pulled away. "Leave everything to me. You have nothing to fear."

A few moments later, Victor and Elizabeth bid goodbye to the Van Helsing leader and closed the door behind them. The night darkened the rooms around them as Elizabeth slumped into the couch. Victor went and sat in the chair across from her.

"Do you have any siblings?" He asked. "I don't think I've ever heard you talk about them."

"What brought this on?" Her head popped up to look at him.

"Just watching you with your father, made me wonder." He responded honestly.

"You don't hear me talk about them because I don't have any living ones." She answered, letting her head fall back to the top of the couch.

"Oh."

"I'm the oldest in my family, and when I was six, my mother was expecting a little boy before getting murdered."

He paused. "I'm sorry."

"Okay, you really need to stop that." Elizabeth's head lifted up again. "You had no control over what Vlad Dracula has done, stop apologizing for his faults."

He hesitated once again. "One more question."

"I doubt that," Elizabeth said in a joking manner.

"Why did you send me a text message with your blood type," Victor questioned, "Why didn't you simply ask for help?"

His wife thought for a moment, "If I had simply asked help, the Hunters would have known you were coming and waited to attack you. They would have possibly used our deaths as leverage for their plans."

"What plans?"

"I don't know," she rubbed her chin, "I can't remember much, and they didn't say a lot. I do remember them saying something about Councilman Seftis, but I don't know what the head of the Vampire Hunter council would want with my death."

Elizabeth paused, wondering if she had the courage to ask a question that had been on her mind since she changed. Victor watched patiently as he saw how she debated it on her face. Her head dropped in defeat when she made up her mind.

"Victor," she spoke quietly, "Will you do me a favor, even though I don't deserve it?"

"Is everything alright?"

She nodded. "Yes, but I need you to teach me about your culture. I have to know everything about Vampires, now that I am one."

Victor adjusted his position to lean against his knees "Why the sudden change?"

"See," she laughed slightly, "it's not just one more question."

Victor smiled as he waited patiently for her to answer the question. He watched as Elizabeth took a few breaths to slow the laughter.

"I came to finally realize that I am living a new life and I can't just brood about it," she explained, "I can't take everything out on you when you are just trying to help. And even though I still don't like it, I want to change so that I can live in this life style."

"What would you like to know?"

"Your life, your reaction, how you adapted, who was the first Vampire." She listed. "Tell me everything."