Young Dracula Season 3: Outtakes

I'm not bothering with dialogue at the moment, being ill and all I don't want to infect anyone and with the cliff-hanger I can't really have those lot here at the moment.

I may going to go all Vlad/Erin here – sorry people who don't like that but I can't resist!

I don't own Young Dracula.

Deception – based during episode 5 of season 4

Vlad took a deep breath as he entered the room where Erin was being held. He had to try this just in case.

"Erin," Vlad looked to Erin seeing her tearstained face, she had some dark marks under her eyes, from mascara Vlad assumed.

Vlad went over, and gave her a brief smile. "It's going to be okay, I'm going to get you out of this."

"It's too late," Erin whispered back looking up at Vlad and blinked, rubbing the tears off her face.

"Ingrid's found out a way out of this," Vlad told her.

"Ingrid?" Erin said with disbelief. "Why would she help you?"

Vlad blinked seeing her point. "She says that we have to kiss." Vlad murmured.

"I have to kiss you," Erin said, not disgusted like any slayer would be, she actually didn't mind the idea, she just wasn't sure if it would work.

"Technically I have to kiss you," Vlad corrected.

"Are you using a desperate situation to get a cheap silk?" Erin teased, and Vlad smiled.

"It's ancient vampire law, a kiss from the Chosen One will protect you from the flames. Simple," Vlad explained and could see Erin didn't believe it, he felt it was a little too farfetched as well, but Plan B was already in place just in case anyway.

"Okay, let's just go for it," Erin decided. After all what harm would it do...

Erin had never considered kissing Vlad despite liking a lot more than she was supposed to, she had to admit she liked it but was glad that Vlad kept it brief, Vlad on the other hand had wanted to kiss Erin for quite a while now but decided it was a bad idea after all he didn't want to ruin their relationship. Turns out he was right; the kiss may just ruin their whole relationship.

Vlad began to lean away. "Your lips were warm,"

Erin then began to mentally curse herself.

"It can't be unless... unless you're a breather," Vlad murmured realisation on his face.

"I should have told you, I'm so sorry," Erin said honestly. Vlad stepped back and glanced at her seriously, he hadn't planned for this, he needed to know why, and hopefully Erin had good reason to keep this hidden otherwise it plan B might not be worth the effort.

"How did I not know?!" Vlad questioned rhetorically. "Why?"

"My brother has been bitten, and I need to find a cure for him. If I could find a cure anywhere it would be here with the Draculas." Erin admitted desperately her words flowing fast, as she told Vlad a truth she had wanted to tell him since he had opened out to her.

Vlad now understood she had deceived them; she had risked her life just to save her brother. "You could have been honest with me," Vlad said, slightly angry but slightly understandingly.

"I was scared," Erin admitted whispering, she had been scared and she was scared now, Vlad looking terrifying right now, she was sure he was going to kill her.

"I told you, I wanted humans and vampires to live together," Vlad realised the irony of it all. "I trusted you. You lied to me."

"But I didn't know you the way like I do now," Erin reminded him in one last desperate attempt and curled her finger around the bars trying to show her plea to him. "Anyway, you were trusting me with a secret. I would be trusting you with my life."

Vlad turned his back realising she was in a sense right, there was no comparison there; time to switch to Vlad's original plan, time to switch to plan B.

"You can't just leave me here to burn!" Erin yelled making Vlad twitch slightly he wished he could tell her what he was going to do but he had to keep up a facade if she was going to survive. "Vlad, help me! Please!"

That was the last thing Vlad heard from Erin before he left.

Now, Vlad had to keep up the facade, pretending to be someone he wasn't was never easy but if it saved Erin, it may just be worth the effort.

Vlad walked into the training room like he was in complete control and decided to put plan B into action.

He told Bertrand he was going to talk to Augustus to get another view on vampire law. He was partly telling the truth.

Vlad felt a surge of relief when Augustus said the following. "You are aware that the burn cannot happen, the council hasn't given permission for it to happen."

Vlad blinked trying to hide a smile. "Really? I wasn't aware of that Carpathian Feast's weren't allowed."

"It has to be that way, it is vampire law," Augustus warned Vlad.

"So there's no way around it?" Vlad checked feeling hope well inside him.

"None, rules are rules." Augustus told him, Vlad became to smirk when his father pulled him aside.

"Excuse me, I need to talk to my son urgently," the Count interrupted, not wanting his son to get distracted. "I just saved you from a fate worse than staking," the Count told Vlad waving over his shoulder with fake enthusiasm. "Augustus is such a bore."

Vlad smirked pretending to play along. "Enough to drive anyone to sleep." Vlad added and the Count rushed off laughing as he went.

Vlad sighed; this had to be the biggest deception he'd ever pulled off. Erin had asked if he'd ever used his powers to get a girl; and now here he was trying to use his power and influence to secretly save a girl.

Just one more thing to do to ensure his father didn't go against him ever again. He had to "prove" that he admired him more than he actually did; he had to lie through his fangs and give a long boring speech about something he didn't believe in.

This was going to be a tough. Vlad could feel it but Vlad knew once it was over, he's be able to keep secrets easier. It was good practice for when he needed to get high council on side.

Two updates in a day. This is like my last during one I know. I was going to go all romancy but I thought it would fit in, so I decided to go with what Vlad was thinking and plotting during the episode.

This one was inspired by the songs Walking in my Shoes and Suffer Well by Depeche Mode.

Thanks for reading and please review!

C

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