Since I don't want this to be a too long of a story I am making chapters longer

Ashlen was groaning from a headache from her faint while she was waking up. The last thing she could remember was that the wolf tackled her and she was imagining that the wolf was going to bite her. Now she appeared to be laying in her bed which made her curious to who put her there.

Rubbing her eyes, Ashlen lifted the front part from the floor and looked around her room. She instantly realized that, for the second time there was a few things were wrong with things in her room. For one thing the lights were turned off and her open door was closed. For another Ashlen was laying on top of her bed. For the last thing, her closet, which was against the same wall as her covered window, was open slightly; she always had it closed.

"What the hell is going on today?" Ashlen mumbled to herself, slowly getting off her bed and walked to her door of her room, leaving to enter the living room. As she was encountering the room of her destination Ashlen could hear the voice of May speaking in a baby toned voice.

When Ashlen walked into the room her whole body went into shock. The wolf that had practically attacked her who knows how long ago was being pet as if it were nothing but a puppy. May was giggling and using baby talk to the wolf as she was scratching it behind it's ears.

The first one to notice that Ashlen was in the room was the wolf itself. It looked at the girl and barked which got May to look up with a smile on her makeup covered face. May had ruby red lipstick on her already ruby lips, blush on her perfectly round cheeks and black eye shadow over brown eyes. (1) Her shoulder long dark blond hair had been curled at the ends.

"Ashlen, why didn't you tell me you had a new pet? He is so cute!" May Squealed in excitement, hugging the top part of what she thought was a dog. Ashlen frowned in disappointment as she slowly walked closer, unsure what the wolf might do to her.

"May, that is no dog; it's a wolf and it attacked me a little earlier. It is not my pet; it just got inside the house somehow." Ashlen stated and frowned as she looked at the wolf. All the wolf did was seem to look back for a moment before turning it's head back at the woman petting him.

"This cutie? No, you must be mistaking; this little guy wouldn't hurt a fly." May kept giggling, petting the top of the wolf's head. As if to back up May's reasoning, the wolf licked the hand that was petting him but Ashlen still found; she wasn't convinced of anything yet.

"I still don't trust him but you want him you can have him. He seems to like you anyways and he didn't seem to like the idea of me calling the animal control." May smiled happily and hugged the wolf to her chest while Ashlen walked back into her room after looking out her window. She must have been passed out for a few hours since the sun was now set and it was dark outside.

After the events of last night and earlier today, Ashlen almost forgot that she had a date for tonight. It had been a while since Ashlen's last date and that date ended in disaster. Just the thought of that man brought Ashlen to shutters; it was something she never wanted to happen ever again.

Henry Jones was the man some of Ashlen's friends set her up on a blind date with. They had met at a bowling ally since Ashlen had been nervous if they met at a bar things could turn out for the worst. Well things had started out well since as the man seemed like a caring sweet man but after a few hours into the date he started to change.

After the bowling game Henry had decided to walk Ashlen home like any generous date would. Ashlen had thought it was really sweet of the man and agreed to allow him to walk her home. Things went well until Ashlen got home and into her house.

Henry had pushed her into the living room roughly into the living room. Ashlen, confused and scared, was frozen from doing anything but came over that when Henry shoved his hand in her panties to finger her. Luckily there was a flower vase by the cough and Ashlen used it to smash over the man's head. She had called the police and the man had been taken to jail for five years for attempt of rape. (2)

Ashlen had been fifteen at that time and she hadn't had a date since for fear she would get attacked again. It was only a few nights ago that she agreed to go out only because her best friend Amber had told Ashlen it was her cousin. Ashlen trusted her friend so she trusted Amber when she said that her cousin was a good person.

So Ashlen took another shower before she changed into a knee long blue dress with matching dress saddles. Her hair was back in a high ponytail. This time Ashlen put on light pink lipstick so her lips suck out only a little more and applied a bit of blush she her cheeks shined a bit.

"Oh, that is right; you're going on your first date in five years. Good luck with that." Ashlen smiled at May, thanking her as she walked to the front closet to get her jacket. She never noticed that the wolf was following her all the way there.

Ashlen pulled on her jean jacket and pulled her keys out of the bowl on the side table by the door. She was about to open the door to leave when the wolf growled lightly behind her. Ashlen turned around and looked down at the wolf that was looking at her. The woman still had a feeling of nervousness in her gut as she looked at the animal she smiled and knelt down to be eye level with the animal.

"Do you think I am pretty?" She asked the wolf playfully. To her surprise the wolf actually raised a paw and put it on her knee as if answering her.

Ashlen shuttered slightly and stared into the wolf's green eyes. A part of her still imagined this wolf to be the man from the dream she had had which scared her even more than she was. Yet, at the same time, she had a strange earge to stretch out her hand and pet the wolf; her hand even seemed to be moving slowly towards the animal, as if she was testing dangerous waters.

The wolf blinked his eyes, impatient of waiting for the girl's hand to touch him. So, closing the distance between his head and her hand, he pushed his hand against her hand. The woman was momentarily startled as she stared at the wolf. Something obviously wasn't right about this.

"Ashlen, don't keep Billy wanting too long. It's not nice to show up late on a first date." May's sing song voice cut through Ashlen's thoughts and the looked blinked a few times before taking her hand away from the wolf.

The woman and the animal seemed to look at each other for a moment before the wolf took his paw off of Ashlen's knee and nudged her towards the door. It was as if he understood that Ashlen had to be somewhere soon and he didn't want her to be late. Blinking slightly, Ashlen stood up and turned around.

"Uh... right. Yeah I'm going." Still getting of the daze, Ashlen opened the door, only to have the wolf leap outside and run into the wooded area that surrounded the house.

"You let Fang run away!" May shouted as she ran to the door as if she had planed to stop the wolf. Instead she crossed her arms and stomped her foot childishly, causing Ashlen to roll her eyes.

'Fang? How original can you get?' she thought as she walked out the door, not even bothering to look at her old childhood friend.

"He is a wolf, May. He probably went out to hunt. Calm down and he will come back later." Ashlen sighed at the immaturity of the only slightly younger girl. She knew the saying that blonds were stupid so did that mean dark blonds were just mildly stupid? While for May it seemed true. (3)

~Time skip/at the night club~

Ashlen had arrived at the night club where her date was being set up twenty minutes ago and still her date was a no show. She was sitting on a stool at the bar, slowly sipping her glass of Cherry wine. A part of Ashlen began to think this was all a set up to make her look like an idiot and feel bad.

Amber had played some mean pranks on her before like slipping drugs in her drinks and then tapping her while she was drunk. Yet this would be the meanest thing Amber would have ever done so far.

"Um, excuse me? Are you Ashlen Cook?" A man asked from behind her asked, lightly taping her shoulder. Slightly startled at the sudden voice and touch, Ashlen spun around in her seat to meet the eyes of a cute looking man.

The man looked to be only a couple years older than she was and a few inches taller. He had shiny short red hair that came to above his ears but went longer in the back. His eyes were a nice brown eyes that seemed to shine with his smile. He had a few freckles on his face which was also free of any facial hair. Now for what the man was wearing resembled a librarian or book lover in Ashlen's eyes.

The man was wearing brown pants with matching runners with. His shirt looked red and over top of it was a brown and white sweater vest. He certainly looked like he was dressed more for the library than the Red Baboon night club but Ashlen didn't care; she already felt a good vibe off this man.

"Yes I am. You must be Billy Harp, Amber's cousin. It is so nice to see you." Ashlen smiled, relived she wasn't stood up, as the two shook hands. Billy returned the woman's smile as he took the seat beside her.

."So, why don't you tell me about yourself and I will talk about myself?" Billy asked as he ordered a whisky cocktail. Ashlen smiled a little shyly but agreed to his terms so she started to talk about herself.

~With Dracula~

After quickly getting a bite to eat, and destroying the body after, Dracula followed Ashlen to the night club to keep a close eye on her. While he watched her sit on the stool, waiting for her said date, the vampire just stood there in the corner of the room and watched her.

Dracula had been surprised when he first appeared in young Ashlen Cook's dream. To appear in dreams he normally had to use his power and it was normally just to leer (4) him a victim to drink from. The only other person that was able to have dreams, or visions as they some times were, where he would actually appear was Mary. Yet this Ashlen didn't have his blood in his veins so he had no idea what brought him to her; until he saw her face.

Dracula was overwhelmed with joy when he saw her look at him for the first time. He remembered seeing Mary for the first time in her dream and compared the two in his mind. Yes Mary was one thing and had his blood but this girl was something entirely different; she was special.

He his need for her grow stronger the more he was around her. He wanted to smell her, to hold her, to taste her and most of all wanted her love. The need was so much greater than it was with Mary that he actually took a man to the back ally and killed him out of blind jealousy when he saw the young woman in a night club with some random man.

"How dare he touch her when she is clearly mine to have. He will wish he never laid eyes on her." Dracula threatened lowly, throwing the dead and neck snapped body on the ground. This time he didn't bother to hide the body as he strolled out of the ally and into the streets.

The vampire was still hungry; he needed more blood. He wished with all is desire that he could feed off the man that was sitting next to his girl; his lust was for no one else. So, smirking slowly and evilly Dracula walked off into the night, licking his lips to clean what remained of his first course.

~Back with Ashlen and Billy~

Ashlen had been having a great time with Billy at the night club; he was a lot more fun than she thought at first glance. She had found out that the man was a twenty five year old children's doctor, loved to paint in his free time, loved Chinese food, lived alone and had a handful of pet fish. The man had also said that he no longer had no family; they died in the 9/11 incident while on business.

Billy had taken her to the dance floor and shown her his awesome dancing moves. Ashlen was having so much fun that she barley even noticed that a man in the corner of the room had been watching in jealousy.

"Hey now, I think you have had a little too much to drink." Billy laughed as he took away Ashlen's fourth glass of Cherry Wine. The woman pouted childishly, crossing her arms and hiccupping from being so drunk.

Ashlen had trusted this man enough to allow herself to get drunk without the fear of rape. It had been a long time since she had gotten this drunk as well that she didn't want Billy to ruin it for her. She gave him the sadist look she could but, since she was drunk, it didn't go as she planned and Billy laughed at her.

"Come on, Illy, just let me inish that on." Ashlen begged and only got Billy to laugh harder. Ashlen was so drunk that she was barely making any sense in her talking.

"Come on, Ashlen, I will drive you home. I need to head home to feed my fish anyways." Billy said as he helped the drunk woman to her feet and guided her to the door. Ashlen did reuse at first Billy got into the passenger seat of the car, strapped her in and got into the driver's seat where he started to drive away.

After a while Ashlen had gotten over her drunkness and started to talk to Billy as he drove her to her lake side house (5) The two had a nice long talk and it seemed the two were falling in love; either of them felt this strong for each other before.

"Holy shit!" Billy shouted as the car suddenly swerved across the road, scaring Ashlen. She was looking out her window franticly but couldn't see anything that would make Billy do that.

"What happened, Billy what is wrong?" She asked and started to worry when she noticed the man's face was pale. It was clear to Ashlen by the look on Billy's face that something had really scared him.

"There was a man all in black on the road. I could swear was a man standing on the road. But he... he turned into fog" His voice was shaky and uneasy. As he stopped the car. Ashlen looked into her face with worry, remembering that the vampire in her dreams turned into a mist fog before she woke up; but that was impossible.

"You think you saw a ghost?" She asked him slowly, unsure how to handle this. Billy slowly shook his head, gulping down his fear.

"No, he wasn't a ghost. It was something else." Billy said with his voice still shaking in fear. He kept staring out the front window as if he expected the man to come back.

"How right you are. I am, indeed, something else." The sudden man's voice got both Ashlen and Billy to scream as the man was suddenly standing right beside the car, looking in from the driver's seat window. Ashlen's eyes widen in surprise and covered her mouth to keep her gasp in as the man ripped open the door.

This was the same man from her dream from the last night but there were a few differences. First of all the man didn't look as sick anymore but his skin was still pale. Another was that his green eyes had a ring of red around them and that red was starting to spread across the whole eye. The man indeed looked a lot scarier from how he did in her dream.

But was this a dream as well or real? The other night that Ashlen dreamed about him it was so real that she could actually feel his touch against her skin. Ashlen was shaking in fear as she stared at the man but the man seemed more interested in glaring at Billy at the moment.

"You have something I want; something that doesn't belong to you. Hand her over to me and I may just let you live your pathetic life." The way his name sounded when it came from this demonic man made Billy just about wet his pants. His eyes widen wider in shocked fear when he realized it was Ashlen that he wanted.

"No, you can't have her! Can't you see you are scaring her? Why the hell would she ever go to you?" Billy shouted with as much defence and anger as he could but fear still showed in to. Ashlen was whimpering and shaking but like the dream she had the night before, she couldn't look away from the man.

The man in black took his eyes off the human man for a moment to look at the girl. The red in his eyes seemed to slowly fade as he gazed upon her face. Once again Ashlen felt hypnotized by his stare but it only lasted a minute before the man looked back at Billy. The two in the car shivered deeper when the man's lips twitched into an evil smile as he grabbed Billy's chin. His voice was spin chilling calm but lased with evil.

"You are wrong about that, doctor. She does indeed belong to me and she will begin to realize it soon. You are of no use to her so I shell rid her of you." and with that the man in black moved his hand from Billy's chin to his shoulders, yanking him out of the car and tarring into his throat with his fangs. All Ashlen could do was scream at the top of her lungs in the fear of it all.

"Ashlen, what's wrong? Wake up!" gasping deeply, Ashlen's eyes popped open to see that her car was parked outside her house and Billy was looking at her with concern. With little to no control Ashlen started to cry for a mix of reasons.

First of all Ashlen was very happy that what had just happened was just another dream and Billy was still alive. For another reason she was still so very scared; the dream had been so real and it was the same man as the night before. For the last reason more hope; she hoped that none of this was actually real; that there was no man... no, no vampire after her.

"Sorry, it was just a nightmare. Thank you for the fun time, Billy. I should get inside. Do you need money for a cab?" Ashlen asked as she was already digging in her purse for money. Billy lightly pressed his hands on Ashlen's hands and smiled.

"Don't bother, I have my own money. Thank you for a wonderful night, Ashlen. I hope I can see you again" He said as he gently gave the girl back her car keys before stepping out of the car. Ashlen looked at her keys for a moment, deep in thought before looking back at the man with a sweet smile.

"I want to see you again. I should thank Amber for setting us up." Ashlen laughed lightly and Billy joined her while agreeing.

"Good night, Ashlen." Billy kissed the woman's right check before turning around and walked off, back to the road that would lead him home. Sighing, Ashlen watched him until he was out of sight before going into her house.

"Is anyone home?" Ashlen called out but no one answered not even the wolf seemed to be here at the moment. Letting out another tired sigh, Ashlen dropped her keys into the bowl and went to her room where she instantly fell asleep once she it her bed and to her pleasure, into a dreamless sleep.

(1) OK, I am not a girly girl so I know almost nothing about makeup.

(2) OK, I don't really know how long you go to jail for rape, I just made it up

(3) Oi, I do not believe this.. Remember this is just a story. That also means there might be some racism as well later on. I mean no one no affiance.

(4) I have a feeling this is the wrong spelling but I couldn't find the right one with my spell check

(5) Sorry, I should have mentioned before Ashlen lived a bit out of town near a lake.

Bonus: You will never guess why Dracula feels attached to Ashlen ^_^ Heh, I think I am the first to think about it. You will understand when I actually write that part so don't think my character is a Mary-Sue. Also I am taking OC requests but be warned the OC might be killed or turned into a vampire or both