~Somewhere else~

It was three in the morning and forty three (1) Mary Heller was tossing and turning in her bed. Just like all the other times she tossed and turned, she was having another nightmare about Dracula. Even after she had locked him back in the vault she would have those dreams.

Normally they contained of the vampire trying to get her to let him free or just mocking her. Even if he had freed her from the curse Dracula still never left her alone. As a dream, the vampire couldn't do any actually hard to her but, sometimes, the dreams were so bad that Mary would take a sleeping pill that suppressed dreams to stop him. Yet, tonight, the dream was different; it didn't seem to have anything to do with her at all.

This time Mary was in some kind of bedroom that looked to belong to a woman. Mary knew that the room belonged to a woman because there was undergarments across the floor, the desk was full of makeup and the full room was full of pink, purple and yellow colors. Though Mary's attention was stuck on the bed as she held a hand over her mouth to hide her shock.

Sitting on the bed was two figures. One was Dracula like Mary had expected to see but the other was a girl she had never seen before. She was a dirty blond haired young woman, her hair curling down her back. The woman's glassy brown eyes stared up from the lap of the man she was sitting on. All this woman seemed to be wearing was a thin white nightgown. The last thing Mary noticed that was two small and still bleeding wounds on her neck while his mouth was covered in blood.

Mary couldn't tell if Dracula could see her standing there; it felt more like a movie rather than watching in person. Every other time she had have these dreams, or visions as they sometimes were, Dracula had always seen her; even when she was a small child he would notice her. At times it seemed as if Dracula thought their were his own dreams, his mind making up a lover, a person that could understand him to pass the time of his loneliness.

"Will you help me get her? Will you help me get what I seek? She fears me, I can see it in her face, so I need your help. She will trust you, it will be easy. All you have to do is leer her to me and she will be mine." Dracula was whispering in the woman's ear while she was twirling her fingers in his hair. Mary watched as the woman looked into the vampire's eyes with a smile she could only describe that was laced with lust.

"I will do anything for you, My lord. I am entirely in your power. I will help you with what you seek." the woman was giggling and her eye shown even if there was no light in the room. Mary took a few steps back, her mouth covered by her hand, until her back in the wall.

Dracula couldn't have been talking about her; Mary had no idea who this woman was nor had she ever remembered seeing her. The vampire had to be talking about someone different; a different woman that he was now hunting down. Yet, for all Mary knew she was the only one, beside her dead father, that had his blood in his veins. So who could he be after and why?

"Please, for once, just be a ordinary nightmare. Don't let this be real, please!" Mary began begging with herself as she watched the vampire start to fondle with the woman. Mary had enough, closing her eyes tightly, forcing herself awake as she reopened her eyes.

Panting and gasping, Mary was back in her own room, sitting up in her bed. Her hand was still covering her month as she shook in the fear. She was almost afraid to get out of her bed, that the vampire was in the corner of her room right now, with that newly made female vampire.

"Please, please let that just have been a nightmare; Judas was just mocking me again. He was just scaring me to get his revenge." The woman mumbled to herself, trying to convince herself this was true. Yet she knew in her heart she had to be sure; she had to check the computers to the vault.

As Mary slowly walked down the halls she kept replaying her dream in her mind. If Dracula, or rather Judas, wanted to mock her why would he do it by targeting a different woman? Perhaps it was because he thought Mary could do nothing to stop him, but it did not matter if he was leaving her alone now. If he was indeed loss again, he had to be hunted down.

The woman slowly made her way downstairs to where the vault was, the cameras being watched by three different guards, one who seemed to be dozing off. Mary had more guards meant for nighttime but the replacement for that one guard had called in sick

Ever since Mary had moved back to London with Simon, she had quiet her job at the music story and moved into the upper part of her father's antique shop. That way if anything was to go wrong she could get to the problem quicker than having to come from an actual house.

Mary had also added more security systems to the vault, including more traps and even a infra red heat scanner. Dracula wouldn't show up of normal cameras but, like a ghost would, he would have a cold body signature and that would show up. (2)

Yet that scanner camera was under password only. If these men knew what they were truly protecting Mary was sure they would quiet in a heart beat. The only one's that happened to know the truth was Simon, herself, father David Mary's childhood friend who found out the day Dracula burned at the cross and a woman named Jasmine Knights.

Jasmine Knights was a twenty one year old woman that worked for Mary for a couple years now. Mary had no idea that the woman came from a vampire hunting family; not until Jasmine saw the antique weapons in Mary's office. So Mary told Jasmine the truth about Dracula and the woman said if things got out of hand she would be the one to hunt down the vampire.

Besides Jasmine was also more expereanced in hunting vampires than Mary and Simon was. She had a bigger chance making it out a live than other of them. Also, if Dracula wanted revenge like he did with Mary' father, Mary knew she was in deep danger to face the vampire. Jasmine also happened to be Simon's work partner.

"Ms Heller, is everything alright?" the guard that had been looking at the monitor that showed the outside of the building looked away from it when he noticed that the woman had entered the room. The other two guards looked towards Mary for only a moment before continuing with their jobs.

"Can you all leave please? I need to check the privet cameras. In fact take the rest of the night off." all three guards looked at each other for a moment before looking back at their boss.

"Are you sure about that, Ms. Heller? We don't mind staying longer." the guard that had actually been falling asleep asked, his voice groggy while he rubbed his left eye. Mary forced on a smile as she waved her hand in dismissal.

"Yes, please go home and get some sleep. I can take care of everything." Not feeling like arguing with the woman that hired them, all three guard got up and left the building. Once the front door shut and locked, Mary rushed to the computer screens and logged onto the secret coffin vault camera.

Just as she had feared the coffin lid was open and it was empty. Not even the infra red heat scanner picked up the vampire's body heat. Mary scanned the whole room and each corner of the coffin room on the screen, seeing if she could spot the blue spot that would be the vampire but he was no where in sight.

In a panic, Mary picked up the desk phone, shakingly calling up Simon's cell phone number. To avoid confusion and annoyance, as some people would get from being woken up in the middle of the night, Mary and Simon had agreed to use his cell phone in case of emergencies.

"Mary, what's wrong? It is almost four in the morning." a sleepy Simon mumbled from the other end of the phone. It had been obvious that Mary had woken it up but his voice was also laced with worry.

"Simon, I think he got free. I am looking at the monitor right now; the coffin is opened but I can't see him anywhere in the room." Mary explained in a shaky voice, twirling the phone cord in her fingers. She heard a squeak of a bed on the other end of the phone and could guess that Simon was now walking around his room.

"Let me get dressed and I will be there as soon as I can." Mary could already hear the rustling sounds of Simon moving around in his room, dressing himself the best that he could. Mary nodded her head, even if she knew Simon couldn't see through the phone, as her eyes stayed glued to the monitor screen.

"Please hurry, Simon." Mary begged before hanging up the phone and played with her short hair nervously.

Mary knew that no one had broken in and freed Dracula like what happened to her father. If that were the case the alarm would have gone off long ago; or however long it was that the vampire had escaped. Also, besides being stolen, or kidnap the last time Dracula got blood from the careless robbers. This didn't seem to be the case this time so how Dracula gained enough strength escaped was beyond Mary's knowledge.

Even if she wished it with all her heart she knew that dream she had of him was real; she knew she had a vision. Yet what Mary didn't know was if it was happening right now or going to happen later on. She prayed it didn't happen yet; that there would still be time to stop Dracula and his plans.

To Mary it seemed to take hours when Simon finally arrived at the shop, when in reality it only took twenty minutes. It should have actually taken a little longer to get there but Simon couldn't waist anytime. He didn't bother to brush his hair of pick cloths that matched, nor seemed clean from the smell of the socks. Mary ignored that fact as she stood up and rushed over to him while Simon rushed to her, meeting in a tight hug.

Though they were not living together, Mary and Simon had been close ever since the events twenty years ago. They only feared getting too close because of everything that goes on in their life's. Simon was now a full-fledged vampire hunter when he wasn't working for Mary. He already had his life almost ended twenty times in the past years; once every year Simon meets a vampire that nearly wins the battle.

So, to spear the feeling they'd get if one of them died, they decided to just stay friends. Yes they would still mourn each other's deaths but it would be a lot worse if they were married. Although it didn't matter either way since they were seemingly in love with each other. Although, they both tried not to show it too much.

"Mary, everything is going to be OK. We hunted him down once and we can do it again." Simon soothed, holding her in his arms as she shook in the fear. He was confused for the woman as he felt her shake and clutched his chest.

The Mary he knew was a strong woman that took no crap from anyone. He hadn't seen her this scared since the night he went to her house and she was running out with Dracula, as a wolf, was chasing her. Yes, only he could make her this scared and it made him angry; he wanted to kill the bastard but he knew he couldn't. Besides he would most likely have some vampire body guards to protect him, he nearly died last time he battled the vampire, and a certain vampire hunter woman claimed Dracula as her target.

"You had another dream about him, didn't you?" To answer Simon's soft question Mary forced back the tears that wanted to come and looked up at Simon, nodding and forcing a small, sad smile.

"Yes but it wasn't about me; he is after somebody else now, or at least I think so." Mary said and started to explain what happened in her dream. Simon frowned as he listened and looked over to the monitor screens.

"I am going to have a look." He let go and walked over to the monitors, sitting on the chair Mary had been previously. As she was following him he saw that Mary was right; Dracula's coffin was open but he couldn't see the vampire's blue body heat anywhere.

"Let's rewind the tape and see just when he made his escape." Mary said as she reached over Simon, hitting some buttons until the screen was suddenly playing yesterday's recording. The tape said it was ten pm and the coffin lid was closed.

"So this means he has to escape either yesterday or sometime tonight." Simon observed as he kept a close eye on the tape. Mary nodded in agreement and the two kept on watching the screen.

When the scree played quarter to midnight Mary and Simon watched as the coffin lid opened and a blue blub of cold body heat was sitting in it. The two watched in shock as the vampire stepped out of the coffin unharmed and setting none of the traps off. Mary and Simon were more surprised when the vampire turned himself into vapour and slid through the cracks of the wall that had been remade.

"That's how he got out but how did he reform? The last time he got blood from the robbers that were killed over the coffin." Simon mussed with a worried look in his eyes. He looked at Mary to see she was frowning at the tape with a serious look in her eyes.

"We have to find him. We have to stop him. Simon, call up Jasmine. We will need her help with this." Mary said with all seriousness in her voice. Simon nodded his head sharply, grabbing the phone and dieling.

Jasmine might be a little upset about being woken up at five thirty in the morning but once she heard it was about Dracula, she would come for sure.

(1) In other stories I read with a twenty year time skip Mary ends up in her fifties. She looked to be in her early twenties in the movie so she would be in the forties now.

(2) This I think could be true. Ghost don't appear in mirrors ether (though there are cases people saw they appear in random pictures and such) so I think a infra red heat scanner would work.

(other) Sorry I cut it off where I did. I thought it would be good like that and Jasmine will come in the next chapter. Oh and some of this was made on a sucky note book laptop