Young Dracula Season 5: Outtakes

Right, back to Vlad and Talitha now because like I said I really think they are good together. Plus they are funny together in this episode, especially Talitha. Her 'stake out' reference made me laugh, even though that joke had been used before in Young Dracula.

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Treachery – based during episode 9 of season 5

Climbing down walls had not been part of the plan.

"So how are we going to get rid of Tolland?" Talitha asked as just after Vlad shut the door on Tolland. Talitha wasn't all that happy about Vlad going against her father and sneaking away from his 'bodyguard', but she wasn't surprised. At least he was taking her with him, and then she could protect him.

"Well, we just have to make out we are still talking, then he won't suspect anything," Vlad shrugged.

"You've already planned this," Talitha noticed, eyeing him suspiciously.

Vlad rolled his eyes. "Tal I always have a plan."

"Really," she laughed. "Like in Haiti, or when we got stuck in a snowdrift up that mountain…"

Vlad scowled briefly at her and climbed onto the sofa, reaching behind it pulling out a tape recorder with mic.

"Like I said, I always have a plan," he said. "And I am always prepared."

Talitha looked at him disbelievingly, smirking.

"Jonno gave me this, his dad used it to record his memoirs. Of course the tape on this one is blank… and we could get a voice recorder that's smaller and better than this one." Vlad paused. "But we don't have time for that, not if we are going to find the bounty hunter."

"Okay, so what do we do?" Talitha asked as Vlad put the tape recorder on the table.

"We just talk like we normally do. Let it record. Then press play and go."

Vlad peered out of his window. "I wish I had my powers," he muttered. "It didn't seem so much of a challenge to get out when you can fly."

Talitha, behind him, laughed. "Just get on with it."

Vlad threw a scowl over his shoulder at her making her grin even more. She had thought about using her powers on both of them, but thought it would be amusing to see the Chosen One climb down a wall, completely powerless. Of course, she wouldn't let him fall either though.

Once Vlad was out Talitha quickly flitted to the ground. She was surprised by how quick he managed to climb down. Maybe he was right, maybe people underestimated him. It seemed Vlad could handle himself without his powers. Then again if someone jumped him now he would be dust in a second, so no he couldn't protect himself.

"How did you learn to climb like that?" Talthia asked. "Surely you just use your powers normally."

Vlad brushed himself down and gave her a quick grin. "I used to climb up to Robin's room a lot when I was younger, before I transformed. Looks like I haven't lost the ability to climb since then."

Talitha began to lead to way thinking about Tolland up there guarding and empty room. "You know, the High Council aren't going to be happy when they find out about this."

"I don't care," Vlad said. "They don't care about me really. Half of them want me dead anyway."

"Including Ingrid?"

"Especially Ingrid," he said and sighed. "She thinks I don't know that she wants to kill me. But I've learnt she will never change. In fact my whole family will never change. Ingrid will always want more power, and the only way she can do that is through me – either killing me or tricking me. I know you thin her being on the council is a good thing because it means women can get on the council. I'm fine with that, it's just… I'm worried about how Ingrid is abusing her power. I did that once and I regret it. I warned her but she didn't take me seriously and she'll probably pay the price."

"What about Malik? He probably wants to kill you too, and he's next in line after you," she pointed out.

"Ingrid's working with him," Vlad said knowingly. "They were going to release Elizabeta."

Talitha looked alarmed at that. She had heard about Elizabeta from Vlad, and she knew she didn't stand a chance against a shapeshifter. And with Vlad's powers failing, it meant that there would be no way to stop her.

"Don't worry," he assured her. "I think something changed their minds. I'd like to know what really… it may be me, but I doubt it. They have never let me stop them before."

"So you think they are still working together," Talitha guessed and Vlad nodded.

"They have to be," he said. "Then once I'm out of the way it'll be one against the other."

"I wonder who would win," she wondered.

"Could be either, I guess." Vlad sighed. "I fought Malik once, he was pretty good but overconfident and he cheated. Ingrid is faster than him and a member of the High Council so by all rights she should win. Malik is sneaky though and may be able to fool Ingrid into doing something that will get her dusted."

"We'll just have to make sure that you don't get dusted then, won't we?" Talitha said looking at Vlad carefully. "Then neither of them will win."

Vlad nodded reluctantly. "Though I hate being heir, you're right… as always. I'm best as heir that way the others done fight and kill each other over it. I'd rather I'd be the one dusted than them."

Not going to happen Vlad, Talitha thought stubbornly. I'll take a stake to the heart before that happens.

They were beginning to approach the café, and Vlad took Talitha's hand. She jumped in surprise but let him hold her hand.

"I don't want us to get separated," Vlad told her and she nodded understandingly, giving him a smile.

"Alright," she replied. "I was going say we should stick together anyway, it'll improve her odds."

Vlad raised his eyebrows. "Looks like I'm not the only strategic one here."

Talitha shrugged and smiled.

"Vlad, you're an idiot," Talitha said as they left the café.

"You sound like Ingrid," he told her.

"Well she's right!" she said stubbornly. "What were you thinking? And where the blood and garlic did you get that stake?"

Vlad raised his eyebrows at her, Talitha never said 'blood and garlic' it was one of Vlad's sayings. She seemed to have picked up some of his sayings without even realising it.

"I just brought it, in case." Vlad shrugged.

"That doesn't answer my question!"

"Dad has a collection of slayer weapons from over the years," he said dismissively. "Trophies from all the slayers he has defeated. I took it."

"I never thought you'd be one to steal things," Talitha said.

"Dad won't mind, especially given my powers are failing. I can't be too careful, not with bounty hunters and Ingrid trying to kill me."

"You would stake Ingrid?"

"No," Vlad said immediately. "But I would threaten her. I almost dusted her once when I was taken over by my reflections."

Talitha remembered Vlad telling her that story, he had been rather reluctant to talk about it which was strange because usually he talked to her so easily. After that Talitha decided not to press him about it, because it was clearly a serious cause of why Vlad seemed to feel guilty a lot.

"I could ask where you got the fangcuffs," Vlad pointed out.

Talitha twitched guilty. "Like you said, you can't be too careful."

"But you can protect yourself," he said.

"I brought them in case we found them, then we could fangcuff them together and take them to the High Council." She told him. "Obviously that isn't happening anymore."

"No," Vlad agreed. "But I have the feeling we might to be seeing her again some point soon."

"Yeah, I have the same feeling." Talitha paused, worried that Vlad was going to do something stupid that would get him dusted.

The next one is a Vlad and Talitha one too, and it's not because of my fondness for them that I am doing them in the next one.

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