Another month, another chapter. Sorry for this to be so short and bad. I really don't like this chapter, but I guess you must add one of those too in this kind of story.

I even got off my ass and read the story of Dracula. Well, I know I've gotten a few things wrong in this story (not including the blue eyes, I did that on purpose). However, I'm not gonna change anyhing I've written this far. I hope vampirelovers forgive me for that.

Don't forget to review after reading.

Reunion before leaving

When the night finally fell Rose sneaked out of the room and house without anyone noticing. She had fifteen years experience of tiptoeing and was at the great wall, far from the gate in the matter of a few minutes.

"You have the grace of an experienced thief," a soft, bell-like voice said from the shadows.

"Who is there?" Rose asked with a threatening hiss.

"It is me, mother," Yuniko said as she stepped out of the darkness, drawing back the hood of her deep blue cloak. "I missed you."

Rose stared at the beautiful princess for a long moment, taking in the realization of how much of her daughter's life she had missed out. In the end she could not take it anymore, and fell to her knees at the princess's feet, crying with her face hidden in the princess's cloak.

"I am sorry," she whispered. "I am so sorry I left you. I should have stayed. I should have stayed and protected you."

Yuniko was not surprised by her mother's actions. Actually she had awaited them.

"You are not enough to protect me," the princess whispered softly, making her mother look up at her with watery eyes. "One human alone is not enough to protect me against the vampires. An army of ten thousand men are not enough. You would have been killed as well, just like Atemu."

Snow started to fall slowly and a soft breeze made the princess's long dress and cloak flatter slightly. Her eyes were dry from tears, but the sadness and bitter knowing of what would soon happen shone in them instead.

"Mother, what crime did you try to commit fifteen years ago?" Yuniko asked carefully softly.

Rose shivered slightly at the memory. "Something terrible happened when you were born," the still beautiful woman said slowly. "You have to believe me; I never wanted anything else but to protect you. But my idea was different from your father's. He stated you were safe where you were, caught inside the great wall. So one night, the same one I got banished, I tried to take you away, take you with me, far away from here. I thought… I thought I could give you a better life, a safer life outside the castle grounds, away from Scotland."

Yuniko's soft, warm hands grabbed the texture of her mother's dress tightly, but her face did not change.

"Yuniko?"

The princess shook her head slowly, not taking her eyes away from Rose's. "I was born to become the queen of Scotland. I could never turn away from this responsibility. I am not safe anywhere. The vampires are after me, and they can fly. Not even fire weapons can secure me my safety."

The former queen nodded as her tears still fell down her cheeks in slow, warm rivers. "I believed I could give you a life. But now, when I have lived outside the great wall, away from Scotland and my family… I am happy I failed my mission to take you away. I could not have given you the life I wished for you to live out there. I have suffered for my mistake… but please, I beg you, my daughter, take care of the two girls I brought. I can not live with myself if they are forced to live the life they have lived until now. They have dreamt of this place since they were born. Do not turn them down… take care of them."

"Brother said they are my sisters, half sisters, is that true?"

Rose blinked. She had been very rush when she had written that letter and given it to the man, someone who she had promised her free favours if he managed to sneak it into the castle, she had not paid much attention to what she wrote. The man had come back badly hurt and died at her chest, never managing to say what had happened to him or the letter.

"They are. I… I made my living… I sold my body to gain money to survive. It was the only thing I could do."

"So you have given birth to other men's children beside mine?" another voice said, causing the two women to flinch.

"Father," Yuniko whispered, her eyes narrowed and the grip of her mother's dress tightened.

"Can I talk to your mother for a moment, daughter. I give you my word I will not harm her."

The princess looked into her father's honest eyes. She could see some kind of longing in them, a feeling he had not felt in a long time.

"Of cause, father," she curtsied for him. "I wish you good night."

The princess was about to leave when she felt the familiar chill down her spine, they were here, but not for her. What was worse; she knew for whom they had come.

"They are here," she whispered to her father. "They will take her as soon as she leaves."

The king looked down at the pure white snow, which had turned blue in the darkness. He just nodded that he understood, and the princess left hastily, knowing she would never again see her mother.

"Dear… your majesty," Rose corrected herself, bowing her head low.

"Rise," Loutus said softly and Rose obeyed, just to be surprised by her former husband. He embraced her tightly, freeing all the love and care he held only for his former wife.

"My… my king?"

"I am so sorry," Loutus whispered with his face hidden in Rose's hair. "I was a fool. I really believed I could protect our children. I am so sorry."

Rose felt this was not the king of Scotland. This was the man she had once fallen in love with, the man she had married and whose children she had carried. This was the man she loved, and still did love. She returned the embrace and felt the still familiar warmth of her husband. Through the years she had been with countless men, but none of them could compare to the one she had once married.

"We were fools both of us. I could not have given her a life outside the great wall. In the end you and I were both as useless to protect our children."

Loutus nodded slightly. He knew. He knew so well, and now it was far too late. He could not even save this woman in his arms, the one he would go through Heaven and Hell for over and over again for just to be able to see her smile.

"I have missed you," he confessed lowly. "I have missed you so much only Yuniko and Atemu have been able to cheer me up, even if it was unconsciously. I have to confess… I never stopped loving you."

"You have no idea of how much I have regretted my choice," Rose sniffed quietly. "I just… I needed something to focus my mind on, I needed something to waste my love on, so I gave birth again. The two girls in my company, they are my daughters. And they are only my daughters, but both of them are splitting images of their fathers. I still remember both of their faces. But I beg you on my bare knees, do not hurt them. Do not send them away."

Loutus could only nod and promise as he dried his own tears with his former wife's hair. "You have to leave now. I can make you invisible for the guards so you can leave in the quiet. But… it will end your life."

Rose looked at him with fear in her eyes. She did not understand. "Why? Why should my leaving cost me my life?"

Loutus just shook his head and allowed his tears to fall. "Yuniko warned me. You are the next target of them, the vampires."

Rose stared terrified and then gripped the crucifix around her hip tightly. "That is why you have ordered everyone to carry this around. It is some kind of protection against the evil that is after our daughter?"

Once again Loutus just nodded. "I suppose your girls have been given a pearl."

"They have… I guess our little angel daughter figured out right away when we came here, that it was me?"

"I believe you are right. No one is able to fool her."

They stared at each other for a moment, both knowing that this night could end only in one way. Rose leant up and softly kissed the man she loved so dearly on the lips, one last time. Loutus returned the kiss softly, but in his heart he felt nothing but the pain of knowing he would lose her forever this time.

Using his magic to make him and his former queen and wife invisible for the guards' eyes he let Rose sneak out through a side door, which was used mostly by the animals, but closely guarded. He could see the dark shadow of a vampire over the snow, following Rose from above, before he turned and went back into the castle.

Yukino turned back to the hospital she and Mokuba had just left. She had a strange feeling of being watched.

"Mom? What's wrong?" Mokuba asked from where he stood at the car.

"Nothing, dear. Just… a strange feeling."

From the rooftop saddened eyes followed the beautiful woman's every move.

"You will live this time. I will not let you face the same fate once again. Never again. I will see to my daughter to destroy the last ones of us… forever."

Malin awoke with a jolt when something, or rather someone, fell over her heavily. She thought of screaming, but then noticed a wave of black and blue hair. It was the princess.

"Yuni? What are you doing? What has happened?"

"They have taken my mother," the princess whispered quietly.

"Your…? You mean that woman was actually your mother?"

"…Yes, she was my mother. And the two girls…"

"No," Malin whispered. "They are your sisters?"

The princess just nodded and smiled slightly in the darkness. "I met up with mother a moment ago, but father was there too… and a vampire."

Malin quickly set the pieces together. The queen had been banished, but somehow she had managed to sneak back into the castle with her two daughters, the princess's half sisters. If the king had caught them the former queen would have to leave right away or be killed on the spot. But from Yuniko's mentioning of the vampire it was the first alternative the king had chosen. The princess had just lost yet another family member to them.

"Oh Yuni… I am so sorry."

"… I know Malin… Me too."