Young Dracula Outtakes: Season 3

Me: Episode 2 was so brilliant... but I really want to see episode 3 of season 4 now!

Vlad: Well at least you have an idea of what's going to happen, I don't.

Erin: Or me.

Ingrid: Or me.

Me: *muttering* You're such a liar Ingrid.

Vlad: WHAT? Ingrid, what are you hiding?

Me: Opps, Ingrid, don't tell him! It'll spoil the next episode!

Ingrid: I wouldn't anyway. *smirks* It's going to be very amusing though.

Erin: Why do I doubt that? *frowns*

Me: Hear hear, I don't think all of it going to be funny.*sighs* Anyway, can I have the disclaimer please, before I spoil what may happen?

Vlad: C doesn't own me.

Ingrid: Or me.

Erin: Or me and Young Dracula.

Friendship – based during episode 4 of season 3

"Mmm," Erin knew Vlad was lying about the 'us' part.

"Still a vampire with a teddy bear?" Erin said amused, trying to get away from her feeling of isolation and Vlad nodded as if to say 'yeah, I'm so cool!'

"It's not as if I'm a wimp," Vlad defended himself. "It's just comforting, I only had Zoltan to comfort me, and he could be – and still is – annoying at times. Going to the breather way for being comforted just seemed so much better for me."

Erin giggled. "You do realise how strange it sounds – the Chosen One of vampires... loves breather things."

"And breathers themselves," Vlad added and Erin's jaw dropped in surprised. "Don't look so surprised, Erin," Vlad smirked. "Why do you think I choose to drink soy blood?"

Erin raised her eyebrows regaining her composure. "I didn't even know you drank soy blood." Erin muttered, she had been trying to avoid interactions with the Dracula's so she wouldn't be affected when they died, it seemed now she had to get to know them, if she had any chance of get finding a cure for Ryan.

Vlad chuckled. "It's because you've been isolating yourself away," Erin was surprised Vlad had noticed and he smiled kindly at her. "Don't worry about it, I understand why you've done it, you don't feel right with us yet. You'll get used to it." Vlad promised.

"Thanks," Erin smiled and sighed. "Still I feel... alone, my brother... Ryan, he's all I have."

Vlad looked at her with sympathy. "Look Erin, if you need someone to talk to, I'm here. I know sort of what you feel like, I had a breather life once too – a limited one but I did have one."

"What are you a psychiatrist?" Erin asked teasingly and Vlad laughed briefly.

"No," Vlad played along. "But, I am an expert in hypnosis."

Erin giggled briefly. "I don't think hypnosis will help much."

Vlad winked at her. "I wasn't even going to try," Vlad didn't add the fact he wouldn't dare try because he was worried that it may not work, not to mention the fact he didn't like manipulating people. "Do you fancy getting a snack and going to the throne room? It'll be more comfortable in there."

"Sure," Erin agreed and Vlad smiled leading the way.

"You had a breather life once then?" Erin asked.

Vlad threw a smile over his shoulder. "Like I said I had an 'abnormal' friend, I went to school, and so on, but it wasn't all normal, not when your father is the Prince of Darkness, then it is never easy."

Erin nodded in agreement. "I'll bet. If what I've seen so far is an indicate."

Vlad nodded. "I still go to school... but it's not the same, not without at least one friend there for me."

Erin gave him a sympathetic look. "Would you like me to come to school with you? I mean, I haven't been in a while, so I'm behind but it'll be nice to have a little normality in my life."

"I would like that," Vlad said. "I'll speak to Dad and Miss McCauley; they shouldn't have a problem with it."

"Thanks,"

Vlad sped off briefly and then returned with a bowl full of some red looking things – sweets Erin guessed; then opened the door to the throne room.

Erin looked around the poorly lit room. "Where do you keep the matches?"

Vlad just stuck his finger by the tip of the candle and it lit automatically.

"Does it hurt?" Erin wondered, she said looking at the candle like it had appeared out of thin air.

"What?" Vlad asked confused, distracted thinking about what it would be like to have Erin as a friend at school, then realised what she had said. "Oh, the fire thing," Vlad wagged his fingers like it was magic. "Nah,"

Vlad snapped his fingers on his free hand and all the candles automatically lit.

"When your fangs first come through," Vlad paused remembering his experience. "Well... you don't want to know about that."

"I do," Erin disagreed wanting to know what Ryan was going through or going to go through. "I need to be prepared."

Erin decided to just ask Vlad outright. "How bad is the change...? Really?"

"It's okay," Vlad shrugged, Vlad looked up at Erin and pointed at his jaw. "That's the worst of it... Vampire life is not all bad, speed things pretty cool, you can hypnotise people..."

Vlad never thought he would hear those words coming out of his mouth, but they were, he was actually complimenting the vampire life, a life he had never wanted.

"Does it work on everyone?" Erin asked curiously.

"Well... we can't hypnotise people we are in love with," Vlad looked at Erin wondering if he was falling in love with Erin, he's never been in love before. "But otherwise, yeah."

"Even other vampires?" Erin asked, and Vlad smirked remembering his first hypnotism and how much of an ultimate failure it was from his perspective – it meant he was a definitely a vampire.

"Yes," Vlad admitted. "The first person I hypnotised was my father... Vampires are tough but breathers are easy... hypnotising a vampire first made it easier for me to do later on..."

"Have you ever used your powers to get a girl?" Erin asked and saw the guilty look on Vlad's face.

"Maybe..." Vlad said mysteriously. "But never again. That would be wrong."

Vlad remembered the disaster with Delilah. "So... so wrong."

Erin smiled slightly going around the back of the sofa and Vlad found himself unable to take his eyes off her having to move so he could look at her.

"When will I start wanting to...?" Erin gulped mentally, at the thought of drinking blood. "You know..."

"Drink blood," Vlad finished as Erin sat down, understanding why she was reluctant to understand. "Once you're fully changed."

"How long have I got?" Erin wondered, wondering one how long she could keep up the facade and two how long her brother had left.

"With some people the change happens straight away and others their blood fights it," he looked at Erin in sympathy. "It can take months."

Erin sighed. "Do some people never change?" Hope lingering in Erin's voice.

"No," Vlad told her. "It happens eventually, once you're bitten there is no going back."

"I heard..." Erin started wondering if Vlad could tell her of a way to cure Ryan. "That if kill the clan of the vampire who infected you, you can be cured."

Vlad looked down, he had heard that too, it was a long lasting belief, the slayers had started. It never worked.

"Is that true?" Erin asked bringing Vlad out of his reverie.

"That's just a legend," Vlad informed her.

"But does it work?" Erin asked desperately.

"No," Vlad told her. "But it does stop people from trying," Vlad shook his head in irritation; it was annoying enough the slayers killing his kind never mind half fangs or their families.

Vlad looked at Erin realising what she was asking. "No! No, that wasn't your plan all along was it?"

Erin felt fierce guilt overwhelm her. "I don't... I don't mean to..."

"Yes, you do," Vlad turned to Erin, desperate to stop her for her sake and the vampires she was planning to slay sake as well. "You're planning to go after the vampire that bit you!"

Erin looked into Vlad's eyes and made a decision. "No, I'm not. Really, I'm not. Promise."

Erin couldn't help but say this, for some reason, she just couldn't bring herself to do it, not now, not after getting to know Vlad like this. She couldn't believe it, she was actually beginning to really like the Chosen One, the person she was meant to despise the most.

"Okay," Vlad said seeing in her eyes honesty. "Because violence is never the way."

"Says the vampire King," Erin joked.

"Chosen One, actually." Vlad corrected and they both smiled.

"Whatever," Erin continued to joke in a typical teenage tone.

Vlad then turned more serious opening himself to Erin in a way he usually wouldn't. "I didn't choose this job, it chose me, I didn't want to be a vampire."

Erin looked in Vlad in surprise, she had always assumed that Vlad had wanted to be a vampire, she'd heard most did.

"Really?"

"Really," Vlad told her his eyes on the fire thinking of all the times he rebelled against vampirism. "I fought against Dad at every turn; I was determined to be normal." Vlad shook his head. "It was all in vain. Everything, I tried to find a cure for vampirism, I looked up myths, legends, anything that could give me hope and it led to nothing. So here I am, now the highest vampire of them all, and the only one who never wanted to be in this position."

"So, you never found a cure," Erin stated, not asking.

"No," Vlad agreed. "But I learnt to live with it, so will you."

"You were born a vampire; this is all normal for you, sleeping in mouldy coffins, hiding in shadows..." Erin trailed off not wanting to snap at Vlad. It wasn't his fault she was in this position of lying.

"Running from slayers, no normal life, no friends, no sunshine." Vlad added. "It's okay," Vlad attempted at reassurance.

"You're Dad and sister don't seem to have a problem with the whole vampire thing..." Erin realised and Vlad smirked briefly before regaining his composure.

"They aren't me, Ingrid has been desperate to be vampire so she can be free and do as she pleases, she ended up evil because of Dad, and how he treated her. I on the other hand was treated as Dad's favourite and it made me realise... vampirism isn't all fun and games." Vlad sighed. "There's one underlying reason why though and... that's because they are power hungry maniacs."

Erin looked shocked at what Vlad said and Vlad looked at her.

"Don't worry," Vlad told her calmly, realising she was worried for him and what would happen if the Count heard him say that. "In the vampire world, that's a compliment. Dad's loving this whole Chosen One thing."

"I can see that," Erin said, despite her avoidance of the family she definitely could see that.

"I knew I was the Chosen One longer than I care to admit, everyone thinks I found out after the Grand High Vampire died. I didn't I found out before that." Vlad admitted.

"You didn't tell anyone," Erin realised.

Vlad shook his head. "Definitely not, imagine Dad's reaction, his own son and heir who he's spoilt since birth is the Chosen One. I got good enough treatment and I didn't want Dad isolating me from the breather world, not to mention I didn't actually believe it when I found out."

Erin blinked. "You didn't believe it?"

"No," Vlad said looking back into the flames. "I was – still am technically – a rubbish vampire, Robin told me that, and I agree. I thought that... maybe it would get me out of it."

"So you told no one," Erin concluded.

Vlad nodded. "Yeah, Dad would not only treat me differently but would have higher expectations and with the way I am, things would be worse... Dad was always so disappointed in me."

"He shouldn't have been," Erin told him honestly, knowing it was true. Vlad looked at her, she was the first person ever who seemed to agree with him over this, who actually looked up to him and not down on him. Erin seemed to understand, she saw him as himself, as Vladimir Dracula, not the Chosen One or anything else, she was accepting him for what he was... no wonder he was falling for her. That's what Vlad thought anyway.

Vlad looked down slightly embarrassed. "Thanks,"

Erin gave him a kind smile. "You're welcome."

"So, where were we before we got sidetracked and going on about me over you?" Vlad asked smiling back.

"I was asking about the transformation." Erin told him.

"Go ahead," Vlad leaned back. "Ask me anything."

Erin smiled briefly and they turned to more serious postures. "So, once you're bitten, you become a vampire, you crave human blood..."

"I'm never going to drink human blood," Vlad told her his voice full of determination. "I get craving... sometimes it's all I can think about." Suddenly the world shifted red for Vlad and felt the agonising thirst but blinked and returned his thoughts to Erin, it seemed to help a bit. The world returned to its normal colour without the blood tint. "But I'm determined to fight it."

"How?" Erin asked desperately. Vlad grinned.

"Soy blood." Vlad told her. "For vegetarian vampires."

"A vegetarian vampire?" Erin asked half amused half serious.

"Yeah..." Vlad said casually. "My uncle introduced it to me, he was on it... but when he saw dad again... it didn't last very long."

They both remained in silence for a while before Erin decided to conclude what had been told.

"So basically, there is no way out of it. You're family will reject you and eventually some slayer will hunt you down and stake you." Erin said her voice full of despair.

"You make it sound so negative," Vlad pointed out earning him a dark look and then decided to turn more serious. "I'm sorry... Erin, I'm sorry this has happened to you."

"I'm never going to see my brother again am I?" Erin realised panic rising in her.

"Maybe," Vlad said honestly and Erin began to be pessimistic.

"How can I?" Erin asked rhetorically. "After everything you've told me, vampires and breathers don't mix."

"That could change," Vlad said in a determined tone.

"How?" Erin asked.

Vlad sighed, deciding seeing as he'd opened himself to Erin a lot as it was why not go the whole way? "All my life, I've been living up to other people's expectations... it's about time I didn't do that anymore, I should be able to do what I want..."

Vlad thought of how he had managed to get his power and now here he was, the most powerful vampire in the world... he could do what he wanted, he would do what he wanted. "It's my life; I'm going to make this Chosen One thing work for me."

"How are you going to do that?" Erin wondered.

"When I get my full powers, I'm going to do things my way. They want me to lead vampires out of the shadows and take over the world... okay but nobody gets hurt." Vlad tacked the last bit on the end showing what he wanted.

"Nobody gets hurt?" Erin repeated in disbelief.

"I want vampires and breathers to live together in peace," Vlad said so determinedly, that Erin knew he would do it. "I want the bloodshed to end... Forever."

Erin couldn't help but let a smile stretch across her face.

Vlad looked at her. "What do you think?"

Erin grinned and Vlad grinned back, he knew what she thought just from that smile. "Best idea ever,"

"Really?" Vlad said slightly uncertain.

"Really," Erin agreed. "I'll help you," Erin promised rashly.

"You will?" Vlad asked.

Erin got up. "Sure, that's what friendship is all about isn't it." Vlad nodded.

Vlad got up. "Well, I'm glad you agree with me. And I'd love to have you as my friend."

Me: I think my hands just DIED!

Vlad: You shouldn't type so much then.

Me: I couldn't help it, Iwanted to write the outtake like this for ages!

Erin: Well it gives a better idea of what happens when we are having the 'flashbacks'.

Me: Exactly!

Ingrid: There was no me in this...

Me: Sorry Ingrid, but you were barely in the episode so I couldn't fit you in. I'll have you in the next one... anyway, thank you for reading and please review!

C

xx

PS: This took really long time to write; I literally had to rewatch all of Fangs for the Memories to get it right, not to mention make sure I quoted them correctly (I don't own the quotes by the way!), and added an appropriate bit, that's why this one has been a little longer. Next week I may have more free time, I'm going to try and get as much of this done by the 16th of November but please bear in mind I'm really busy so I'll go through periods of updating daily for a few days and then leave it a week.