The future Meets The Past
Chloe Branagh
2008
"Pens?"
"Check…"
"Rubber"
"Check…"
"Paper"
"Check….."
"Robin stop moaning!" Chloe Branagh snapped at her grumpy, Goth, vampire-freak brother who wasn't checking the bag-pack at all instead playing on his DS. "Honestly Robin have you even looked bag-pack?"
"Yeah….." Still on the DS taking no notice of his little sister. Chloe dropped her check list and moved over to the bag-pack, there wasn't anything in it!
"Robin this trip is important, the Branaghs have been winning the best camping competition in decades and if you think it's going to be ruined by my vampire-obsessed brother you can think again!"
Robin laughed, "Clam down sis it's just a camping trip it's no big deal."
"Fine I will just ask Vlad to help me!"
And with that she stormed off to the castle.
"Thanks so much for helping me Vlad" said Chloe as she sat herself down in the Dracula throne room, hoping she wasn't going to be the main dinner, but the Count was nowhere in sight, nor was Ingrid for that matter. Only Zoltan chewing on a bone, Renfield busying in the kitchen and Vlad just being the helpful guy he is.
"No problem," answered Vlad "Always here to help a friend." Chloe smiled,
"Thanks, now let's check this list…oh no"
"What's up?"
"I forgot the list and bag pack at that, I was so angry at Robin that I forgot to collect my stuff, I'm so silly!" Chloe hadn't felt this stupid in her life.
"It's fine Chloe," said Vlad reassuringly, "I will just run to your house and collect the list and bag-pack you stay here."
"Wait!" Chloe stood up from her seat, "It was my fault, it's my job to go and get it"
"No way, you came all the way up here I couldn't ask you to go back"
"But what about your dad?" Chloe was said in apprehension "If he finds me he will have me for dinner!"
"He's sleeping" Vlad reassured his friend "He won't do anything anyway I will only be ten minutes."
"Ok" but Chloe didn't feel ok she knew something was bound to go wrong "but please hurry."
Vlad nodded and promised he will be as fast as he can and he sprinted of out the castle leaving Chloe alone in the throne room.
"Ok Chloe" she said to herself "Its only for few minutes, nothing's going to happen to you, not all your life is a television series it's not like the Count is just going to wake up and waltz though the door just as Vlad has left."
"RENFIElD!" Chloe swore her heart stopped beating for a moment, she knew that voice belonged to the one and only Count Dracula… Wow her life really is a Television series.
Chloe was in panic, she didn't fancy being alone with the Count or a vampire at that but luckily Chloe is a fast thinker. She remembered a secrets passage Vlad showed her a few weeks ago that leads under the castle.
She ran towards the old grandfather clock that was positioned at the back of the throne room she pulled the grandfather clock forwards which swung like a door and ran in the gap and closed the grandfather clock carefully behind her just in time for the Count to dramatically make himself home in the throne room. But Chloe didn't know that, the only thing on her mind was to keep as much distance between herself and Count Dracula as possible.
She was running down a long, dark tunnel she felt like a blind child running her right hand to feel the stone cold wall and her left hand outstretched in front of her in fear of banging into anything. And it was lucky she was or she would have bashed her head on a hard wooden door. She felt around for the boor handle and she pushed it open with a loud creak 'I sure hope no one heard that' and she squeezed herself though the door hoping it was a way out.
But instead to her dismay it just lead her in to a dark room with no windows, no other doors, nothing. She was about to turn back 'I'm sure Vlad would be back by now' but she stopped herself when her eyes caught a shape in the darkness.
'Just leave it alone Chloe.'
She took a step in the room.
'It's probably some thousand year old, historic family heirloom."
She was already walking towards to object.
'No good will come out of it."
As soon as she stood in front of the object it started to glow a tine silvery light.
'Am I being hypnotised?'
She was proven correct as if her feet had a mind of their own she stepped into the mirror.
2013
"Garlic"
"Check"
"Stack"
"Check"
"UV lights"
"Thanks for your help Chloe," Vlad smiled at his friend as they walked back to Garside "I don't think I would be able to touch that stuff."
"It's no problem," Chloe gave Vlad a smile back, "are you sure we are allowed to take this stuff, I mean Mina won't be too happy."
"It's serves her right, I can't risk the peace treaty, it's took me and Jonno almost three years to get where we are now and we've had too much trouble from Mina already." Chloe nodded if it took Vlad and Jonno so long to just come this far we don't want any more push backs.
"So what do we do with this stuff now burn it?"
"No," Vlad shook his head, "I don't think UV lights and fire mix well, we can't hide them anywhere in the school with vampires around, and so I've made a little room in the blood mirror"
"What, you made a room in a mirror?" Chloe was finding that quite hard to believe.
"I can control the mirror and can create as many rooms as I want, I just need someone to put them in for me." Vlad was looking at Chloe.
"Me!" Chloe said louder than she intended "Why? Do it yourself!"
"I can't. I have a class to teach and it will look suspicious if I go in the mirror room, my family know the power I have over the mirror, I can't them poking their noses in."
"And it's ok for me to look suspicious, and how do I do this anyway?"
"Seriously Chloe it's not like anyone will notice you and it's easy, I set it so only you can walk though, it will close once you get out."
"You sure?"
"Yeah, go on I trust you." Chloe shone her biggest smile, he was just too sweet.
So they parted ways, Vlad going to see his revamp class and Chloe going to the blood mirror room with the bag of Mina's stuff across her shoulder. She felt braver than she was when she was younger. The walk to the mirror room was no trouble at all Vlad gave her clear directions and no vampires passed her, no werewolves, not even Renfield. When she got there she was surprised how much the blood mirror had changed. She was sure the Blood mirror was a tall black thing with a rotting skull on top with cobwebs hanging down but this one was quite different. The mirror was clean, no skull on the top and the frame was a very nice colour it would be quite beautiful if it weren't for the two stone demons standing on either side. Chloe was sure they were not real but they made the mirror unapproachable especially to breathers like Chloe.
'Come on Chloe,' she said to herself 'you're not that wimpy girl you were five years ago.'
She took a deep breath ignoring the stone creatures and walked straight to the mirror as just as Vlad promised she walked right though the mirror. But if Chloe hadn't ignored the stone monsters that where on either side of the mirror she would have seen the stone demons wicked smiles cross their faces.
Chloe wondered if she was in the right place, this room was far too grand just to hide something in. Chloe expected something more like a closet than a living room. Chloe moved backwards hoping to come out the way she came but was surprised when her back hit the wall. Her eyes widened in panic.
"Vlad!" She called out; she tried again and again but nothing. Chloe sat herself down on one of the sofas and breathed deeply, 'Ok Chloe, don't panic, Vlad knows you're here, when he discovers I'm not back he will come here' But it didn't seem to be helping much.
When she thought this all couldn't get any weirder she jumped suddenly as the wall opposite her opened up and a pale blond girl wandered in as if she was in a trance but once the wall closed behind her she had to blink a few times and looked very confused.
"Where am I" She asked as soon as she saw the older Chloe on the sofa. They had changed a lot in both appearance and personality so they didn't really recognise each other.
"I don't know," answered the other Chloe "How did you get here?"
"It was weird," said the young Chloe mysteriously as she sat down on the other sofa, "I wanted to leave but I couldn't, it was like I was in a trance."
"Couldn't leave what?"
"The mirror, I know it sounds crazy but I went through a mirror." The young Chloe's eyes were wide with horror as she remembered what had happened.
"Well you're okay now." The older Chloe seeing the look of terror in the poor girls face leant over the table and took her hands "Nothing is going to happen to you."
The younger Chloe was strangely reassured by the young women's words, she felt safe in her presence even though she didn't know her name.
"How can you be so calm?" Asked the younger Chloe.
"Well" The older Chloe had to think about that. The truth was that she didn't feel calm at all in fact she was terrified but she had to keep her cool or the younger girl might panic and that's the last thing she wanted, "I suppose were not in any danger" Okaaay, that sounded lame….
And obviously the younger girl thought it too.
"Look," the older Chloe continued "we can't just panic that will get us nowhere, just let's just sit and wait to see what happens."
"Or how about we just find a way out?"
"I don't know, I can't see any doors, maybe there is a secret passage way," but the two girls couldn't find one. They looked around the sofa's, the table, the glowing candles, walls, and floorboards but it was pointless .
"If there's away in there must be a way out," cried the younger Chloe in frustration "It's scientifically impossible for there not to be."
"Never say anything's impossible." The older Chloe said without mentioning the vampires she was working with. She knew the Dracula's had something to do with this so did the younger Chloe but neither of them wanted to sound mad so they left it at that.
"I want to go home," said the younger Chloe. The older turned to see her younger self fight back the tears in her eyes "WHY CAN'T I BE A NORMAL GIRL!" With that the door leading to the year 2008 appeared and before the older Chloe could speak the younger Chloe rushed out the room though the blue portal before it closed behind her leaving the older girl in shock.
Just then the portal opened on the other side of the wall this was Chloe's way out, back to her own time in 2013 but the older Chloe left with the guilt that she never asked that young girls name.
Back in 2008 however Vlad had just come though the front door of the castle as he felt something run into him and they crashed to the floor.
"Chloe?" he asked as he saw his friend in a pile on the floor looking completely angry,
"WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG!"
That's right what took me so long LOL I have been very busy these few weeks so please forgive the wait.
I don't like Chloe very much, she wasn't even going to have a chapter but this came to my head and I suppose it was worth writing. I know probably a lot of people think it's out of Chloe's character to run off crying but she is a very week character and whenever she is in danger she's always with Vlad or Robin so probably makes a difference and if she came back in season 5 I would like her to be a lot tougher and rebellious than she was back then.
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