The future Meats The Past

~Jonno~

2008

"Do you see anything suspicious Jonno?" Mr Van Hellsing asked his son for seventh time that day.

"Not yet dad," Jonno sighed, this was hopeless they have been watching that castle for months and nothing. He knew now that the Counts (or should I say the Dracula's) were vampires. The Van Hellsings have been watching the castle in case some innocent victim got caught in Count Draculas fangs, but the only movements inside that were Renfield going to the shops (whatever shopping means to Renfield) and Vlad and Ingrid walking to school.

A few hours earlier, Stokely School

"Hey Jonno," said Vladimir Dracula, as Jonno was moving away from his locker.

"What do you want…Vampire?" Jonno mumbled, trying to keep are good distance from the pre-teen vampire.

"I just want to say sorry about my dad kidnapping you." Jonno had to bite his tongue to keep himself from laughing. "I only want us to get along and hope one day we could be…you know…friends.

That time I laughed.

"I'll never be friends with a vampire."

"Dad," Jonno turned to his father, he asked a question that had been on his mind for a while "Why are you so obsessed with vampire in the first place?"

"Because it's our family tradition son," my dad says though I hear this phrase all the time, but it wasn't enough "The Van Hellsings have been slaying vampires for over a thousand years."

"But none of them was able to slay the Draculas?"

That time dad didn't say anything and it was just another day watching the castle and trying to get home and put on a Doctor Who DVD before mum gets too suspicious.

Night had come, the full moon was up and stars where shining, a nice warm breeze, a perfect night…for slaying vampires. Once he could hear his dad snoring he slowly crawled out of bed. He pulled on his jacket and took out his hidden stake from under the floor boards and using the skills his dad taught him he moved out the caravan without a sound.

He headed up the hill to the Dracula's castle. His feet crunching against the stone path hoping that the Count couldn't hear it. He was sure that that they were asleep he knew the Count was sometimes up during the day so he had to sleep sometime…he just hoped it was one of those nights.

He used the secret passage his dad showed him to get inside it so easy…maybe a little too easy. Jonno did not know his way around the castle so he would have to be careful and with any luck he would find the Count and stake him as quickly as you can say 'garlic' (Oh Jonno how stupid can you get!)

He moved silently though the dusty corridors using his hands to guide him though the darkness. Probably hoping to come across an electric light 'if only vampire's knew what electric was' thought Jonno bitterly until his hand reached door knob. Was it the Count's cambers, surly this castle must have many rooms though? But being the brave young idiotic Van Hellsing he was he creaked the door open and peered inside. To his surprise he found a small room, the room was dimly lit by a one candle like someone was expecting him, but Jonno didn't acknowledge that fact, he only saw his refection in the mirror.

But why would a vampire own a mirror they didn't have reflections?

He moved curiously towards the mirror, carefully pulling off the cobwebs that hung from its' frame. There was something about this mirror that drew him to it like magnet or a moth to a flame if that's the best wording for it. Was this the Dracula blood mirror?

Then suddenly he heard a crash from behind him, he turned around his stake at the ready and if you have been following this fanfic you should have some idea what happened next…You guessed it, two strong hands pulled him into the mirror.

~ Jonno~

2013

Jonno Van Hellsing had called in to talk to Vlad about his mother, Mina Van Hellsing, Mina had been witnessed slaying a half-fang vampire who looked suspiciously like Erin Noble, whether it was her or not I will let you Young Dracula fans decide, but the point is this half-fang hadn't done anything wrong, she was just passing over the way to Garside Grange but no one will ever know why now thanks to Mina. And as you guessed Vlad was not happy. A vampire had been killed with unjustness. Mina's trial was next week and Jonno was upset, it's not like his mum didn't deserve it he knew that much and hoped she did get some kind of punishment if it was to stop her bitter behaviour and turn her back into the sweet kind mother she was back in Stokely before his father died.

Witnessing Erin Van Hellsings death had made both the Van Hellsings bitter and revengeful towards Vladimir Dracula but two years ago Jonno had made peace with Vlad and organised a truce with the vampires and the slayers and now Vlad and Jonno were good friends even after Vlad mind wiped his mother (for the second time) he brought her back and the two friends were starting fresh.

Vlad and Jonno were sat on two chairs in the Blood Mirror Room it was the only quiet place at the moment. Renfield was cleaning in Vlads room (whatever word 'clean' means to Renfield), the half-fangs had been taking camp in the blood bank since last winter when their dump of a home had been flooded but that was months ago and the Count was occupying himself in the throne room talking some nonsense about some imposter pretending to him…Nonsense really explains why Wolfie was the only one listening and god knows what Ingrid was doing…

Anyway back to Jonno and Vlad

"I know this must be hard for you Jonno," said Vlad as sincerely as a vampire can get "but I wouldn't worry, the worse she can probably get is her licence taken off her or even as little as a warning."

"Yeah but it won't stop her," Jonno said bitterly looking down at the cup of tea in his hand "she will never completely agree to the truce."

"It doesn't matter; we still have plenty others on our side if you're mum doesn't like it she will have to quit."

"I know."

They sat in silence for a moment.

"I'm sorry Vlad, I know that I came here for company and that but can I be left alone please...you know to think?"

"Sure mate," said Vlad getting up from his chair and patting Jonno on the back "Just call me if you want anything, you know I'm always here for you."

Jonno smiled and nodded at Vlad thankful to have a friend like him, you know maybe if it wasn't for his dads slaying obsession Jonno thought that he and Vlad might have been friends sooner. Even though Vlad had mind wiped him and his family to forget about vampires causing Eric VanHellsings death and had also mind wiped his mum for a second time. There was no use blaming Vlad because in the end peace is what matted. He remembered that conversation with Vlad back in Stokely five years ago how he said he would never be friends with a vampire, how much can change in just five years.

He turned his gaze to the Blood mirror. If he smashed that mirror now all of Vlad's vampire powers would be gone and his family will be wiped out. In his training as a slayer he had smashed blood mirrors because a whole family of vampires had to be wiped out. It was so easy at the time now when he thought about it, it made him sick to know how easy it was to destroy a family in one simple act…He had known from his own experience what that felt like.

He walked up to the mirror running his hands over the stone face and horns of one of the devil monsters that proudly stood beside the mirror as if it's really guarding it. The stone was so detailed and fine almost as if it were real, he was sure any museum would pay millions for one of these. As he examined the creature he didn't notice the other coming up from behind him, he only noticed when it grabbed his shoulders and pushed him in to the mirror.

Jonno blinked a few times and looked to find himself in a very vampire-ish room. Was this some kind of vampire joke?

"Ok Ingrid you've got me!" he called out thinking it was one of Ingrid's tricks, no answer "Mr Count!" he called still no answer. Before he could call again he heard a ripping sound and the wall opposite spilt open and a young boy stumbled out.

The boy was armed with a stake in his hand and wore jacket of a slayer.

He had black curly hair…Like Jonnos

Tanned skin…Like Jonnos

Dark eyes…Like Jonnos

But he was younger maybe thirteen or so.

The two Jonnos stared at each other in amazement it seemed like ages before any of the Jonno's even blinked…someone had to say something.

"Errrr" Started the older and a lot stronger Jonno "hi" With that the younger one fell back and fainted.

The older Jonno couldn't say was surprised he wanted to faint himself then wake up in the mirror room thinking it was a bad dream but being realistic he didn't think that was going to happen. So doing something useful he picked up his younger self and plopped him down the on coach.

"Right!" He thought "time to find a way out of here."

There was no door in the room when he saw his younger self he came out though the wall but the wall was rock solid. Those creatures? Did they have something to do with it? No only Vlad can control them and he was out the room when this happened. He heard a moan behind him. It was his younger self waking up.

'Not now' Jonno thought, he didn't want to have a conversation with his younger self but he guessed he would never get out of here if he didn't 'Come on Jonno, let's get this over with.'

The younger Jonno sat up and rubbed his eyes. The older version sat down on the opposite coach trying his best to look calm and knowing what he was doing…which would be a lie.

The young Jonno seemed to forget where he was as he looked around the room in bewilderment.

"W-W-Where am I?" he managed to blurt out though his shocked state.

"It's ok, everything is going to be fine." The older Jonno reassured his younger self even though that wasn't the answer to the question.

"Where am I?" the younger asked again trying to sound demanding but the voice turned out to show a hint of fear. The younger version had seen to forget he was talking to his older self. Just shows how much Jonno's brain span had grown over the past five years.

"You don't need to be afraid" the older Jonno putting a smile on his face "We are alone here and our captors have left bottles of coke on the table and have made us this comfortable room so we are quite safe"…For now, but Jonno didn't say that out loud. It was true that two bottles of coke where placed on the glass table one for each boy.

"Here" said the older Jonno opening a bottle for the younger version, "you just fainted and you need some sugar in you."

But as he suspected the younger Jonno didn't take it. He looked at the bottle as if someone had poisoned it and that the man sitting opposite him was the one who was up to this.

"I want to go home" he said stubbornly.

"So do I" said the older "But I don't think that will happen if we don't talk."

"What are you talking about?"

"Where you anywhere near the Dracula blood mirror before you came here?"

"Yes, I was thinking off smash it."

The older Jonno flinched,

"Why would you do that?"

"Because the Dracula's are heartless blood suckers, they need to be destroyed."

"Have you ever seen any of the Draculas suck peoples blood?" The older Jonno planned to challenge his 13 year old self's beliefs, he knew what was coming next.

"I don't need to; you don't have to be a slayer or any supernatural monster to know that the Count is the most dangerous vampire around without him everyone will be happy!"

"But he has two kids, what do you think will happen to them."

"Well if I destroy the blood mirror all there family would be dust and they will have no powers, they can't go to their mother because the children can only get powers from their fathers side of the mirror so they would be disowned" The younger Jonno seemed rather pleased with his vast knowledge.

"You know a lot," The older commented "for someone who would take pleasure into seeing a brother and a sister orphaned, going into a care home unwanted"

"You make that sound as if it were a bad thing."

"It is a bad thing!" snapped the older Jonno "Vampires have feelings to, they can love and feel sorrow like us humans and if you smash that blood mirror you would be more of a monster than they are!"

The younger Jonno was taken aback by the sudden outburst of the man across from him. The older Jonno was taken aback too but he meant every word of it vampires where like humans they did have feelings and being friends with Vlad had shown him that. Vlad's love for Erin and how he made him happy only break his heart afterwards, Ingrid's love for Will, The Counts love for Miss McCauley and his children he hadn't had a properly thought about this until now and he knew that it would take years for his younger version to understand. Just then the walls from each side opened up as portal to their own time and the bells started to ring.

"I'm going," said the younger Jonno solemnly walk up to the portal.

"Wait!" Cried the older Jonno "You understand what I said about vampires?"

"We'll see" and with that he jumped into the portal and it closed behind him. The older Jonno in fear for the Draculas jumped into his own time portal 'I have to see if they are ok.'

Jonno fell on the hard floor of the mirror room. He looked behind him the mirror was just has he left it the creatures on each side of the mirror were as still as anything. Getting up from the floor Jonno called,

"VLAD!" 'I have to be completely sure that he is ok'

"Jonno?" the voice came before he saw Vlad zooming right in front of him with a concerned look on his face "are you ok, you look as pale as me."

"I'm ok."

Jonno didn't tell Vlad about the mirror it was too weird to describe and he knew Vlad had enough on his plate, besides it won't be long before it's Vlad's turn to go into the time mirror but we still have many more characters to go.

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