Romania. The castle. The dark Prince Vlad Dracula sat at the edge of the dining table, eating his breakfast. The room was big enough for him, living in the castle all by himself.

We cannot say where his parents lived and with whom they stayed. Everyday and everything is the same routine, the table is full of food and he enjoys his food silently.

He leaned on his chair, smirking. As he enjoyed the food, a door was open, he snarled. Arthur on his view. "My lord". he walks toward Vlad then bow to him.

Arthur was Vlad's adviser, kindly like Renfield in the present year. Everything Arthur knows, he must report to him immediately, his loyalty to the dark Prince is priceless.

"Is she awake?" ask Vlad. Arthur nodded his head. "Send her away. I don't need her anymore".

"My lord, she is looking for you".

Vlad laughed. That woman wasn't his wife, why should he listen to that whore. That woman was his toy, a sex slave. Not just her, he been sleep with every women in Transylvania he desired, then shove them away after fulfilled his sex satisfaction.

For fun of what Vlad thought about these women. They are fooled and foolish, desperately having him in bed.

"My lord?"

"I say.. LEAVE! I'm not interested".

"You can't do that, sired".

Vlad eyes sharply. "You are judging me, Arthur!" he shook head no. "Then do what I ask. Know your place, Arthur. You may leave this castle if you like, but death is upon you". he smirked.

"I do not wish to leave here, my lord. I know right my place".

Truly. Arthur loves this dark prince. Vlad saves him during the storm, his ship sinks in the middle of nowhere, far away from the land. There were no crews alive or on board the ship except Arthur.

Vlad saves him from death. Since that, Arthur has been loyal to Vlad. "It's just.. poor these women my lord".

"Why don't you marry one of them? That would be delightful having a marriage in my castle".

"I don't wish that on my lord. Forgive me if my words were offended. But my lord?" Vlad eyes on him. "Haven't you desired to have one in your life".

Arthur chuckles, knowing Vlad won't understand what he said. "A wife my lord".

"Why do I need a wife Arthur? I can't sleep with other women I like after marriage with the woman I don't love. I can taste their skin". snorting. "It would be foolish if I had a wife".

Arthur steps forward. "Heirs, Sired. I'm talking about the heirs". Vlad studied his face. "With heirs you have, it can carry on the legacy you have. By the future.. they will know who the dark prince are".

"Then my throne will pass on to my son when I get older". Arthur bowed his head in a smile. "My future blood will be born, and their future will live in fear".

Arthur nodded his head again. Vlad pushes the chair and starts pacing around the room. Thinking about Arthur suggested.

Yes.

He needs heirs, but first he needs a wife to conceive a child. Bear his child, but who will marry him?

Ruthlessness, armor, monster man like him. Romanian people knew who he was, they knew him a lot. Vlad wasn't a good or responsible man, they thought.

A woman came to the castle that night, with the confession that she carried the dark prince child. He shoved her away, telling her all she wanted was his fortune, not to love him.

She demands Vlad for his responsibility as the father of the child. He knew he wasn't the first man she ever slept with and the child wasn't his.

He asks Arthur to deal with her. But still.. She wants Vlad to take his responsibility.

Arthur makes her clear something about the Vlad Dracula she didn't know before she slept with him. Vlad will kill her if she demands something valuable, even a child, even if the child wasn't his. He will kill her with no mercy.

Arthur asks her to stay away from the dark prince and never near the castle again if she wants to live peacefully.

She went away thinking she understood, but the next thing he knew the same woman did the horrible thing, claiming to have Vlad's child and persuade the villagers to kill the dark prince and burn the castle down.

But Vlad had his own plans. He embarrassed the woman's family with abusive words.

She is not a good woman to defend.

The dark prince showed proof that the child she was carrying was not his child. The child she was carrying was the child of a shoemaker.

The villagers began to ridicule the woman's family until her father died of a heart attack because he could not bear the embarrassment of the villagers.

A week after the deaths of her mother and father, she then took her own life by jumping off the cliffs. Her body was found in a crevice in the rock, nobody claimed her body for a proper burial.

As for the shoemaker, he had the same faith as his lovers. Vlad ordered his men to kill him then buried his body deep inside the sea where his lover had died before, so that their souls will be together in the next afterlife.

Now we all know who the monster was. Their death wasn't the dark prince's fault.

"If you ask me an heirs, Arthur. I show you how to meet my future wife". he walk to the door. "Come on, Arthur. Let's find her but we cannot let them know what purpose we are in, we have to disguise yourself". he then left the room. Arthur nod, he had to follow the order.

Barnabas House. Josette Jean Marguerite, good humored, attractive, clearly nobody's fool, walks through a field of tall meadow grass.

She is reading a medical book and approaches Barnabas, a fairly run down 17th Century house with a small moat around it.

Josette jumps up onto a wall and crosses the moat by walking a wooden plank duck board, a reckless trick learnt in early childhood.

She walks past the back of the house where, through an open window to the library, we see her mother and father, Mr and Mrs Marguerite.

"I think it's good enough". said the mother. "We are farmers, it's for Josette boarding school money where she likes to go. We spend this money on hers so then she could be a doctor, a famous doctor in Romania". said the mother.

The family grew fresh vegetables and fruits. They will sell it on the market for living.

Josette entering. "Mama?" she turned in a smile. "I don't think.. I mean I should stay here helping you two in the market, selling those vegetables and fruits".

Mr. Marguerite approached her. "No my dear. You have to. Let papa and mama handle all this hard work, and you should study abroad so that you can pursue your ambitions as a doctor. Don't put our family burden on your shoulder Josette".

"Your papa was right Josette. Go. It's for your own good, we keep the money for you the only hope, our only child this is your dream. Mama and papa will not let our daughter's dream be crushed because of her poor parents. You mustn't say no, you go Josette''.

She cried, nodding understanding. The family hug embraced each other. Josette was the only hope they had.

"Before I go, let me help you in the market. We're gonna sell all these fruits and vegetables". She smiled.

Romania market, moment later. Marguerite's horse carriage entering the marketplace, the family brought the vegetables and fruit at the back to sell on the market.

The horse stops at usual place, Josette climbing down the carriage and begins doing her chores.

"I'm going to the library, everything is set inside the cart. Would you like me to do something papa?"

"No, my child. Go on". he smile, watches Josette running through the crowd market. "We'll be missing her someday, Beatrice".

The moment she left Vlad and Arthur arrived at the market, they did not reveal who they were.

The dark prince's eyes look around the marketplace, which amuses him that he never gets so close to his people, never gets close like this. Will they be afraid of him if he reveals himself?

"Sired? are you comfortable under this disguise".

"I'm fine Arthur get me a milk and a sandwich over there". he pointed at the shop. "It's delicious and fresh. You should try it out. I slipped out of the castle for his best sandwich. It's good to feed your hunger, you know what I mean Arthur".

"Yes, Sired. You waited here while I'm gone, don't do anything without your concern".

"Yes yes. Go".

Arthur walked to the shop, Vlad stood under one of the roof shops. Waiting. For the moment waiting, he heard the argument between the old man and woman.

He doesn't care about the argument but something attracts him to go there and see what argument they've been fighting for.

He slipped between the crowd. "Move!''

What he saw right now was the Marguerite's without Josette. And a second Vlad saw this beautiful woman run past him, he inhaled her scent, she smelled like blooming roses. Her dark waving hair he saw from the back of hers, she ran through the crowd.

"PAPA, MAMA!"

Consisted of a maroon long dress, with sleeves, worn over a kirtle, with a linen chemise or smock worn next to the skin. The wide, shallow scooped neckline was replaced by a V-neck, often cut low enough to reveal the decorated front of the kirtle beneath.

He stood there watching the scene. "You have a beautiful daughter of your own Marguerite. What about I let your family go with the exchange of your daughter".

"I will not let my daughter come with you Thomas! You can wreck all we have but not my daughter''. said Mr. Marguerite in his high note voice.

He hates when people try to touch his daughter. Thomas Lonut was the son of the owner of the marketplace, every month he would help his father collect the money from merchants.

But today he and his friends are trying to show something not kindly nice behavior. They came for wrecking, today is not for the collection, it was not the end of the month either.

"It wasn't the end of the month yet, Thomas, not even the early month. I paid through your father and you try to show them who you really are, look at what you've done. This is all I have to bear my family".

Vlad eyes on Thomas and his friends. "How can I sell this?"

"I don't know. Figure it out Marguerite. Unless you give your daughter".

"She is not for sale Thomas! I will report this to your father about what you have done".

He can see Josette trying to fight for her father, which impressed Vlad so much. Wonder how strong she is, he likes to know.

"Let me papa! This man had no manners to persuade, such a coward you are!"

"So you speak? thought you are mute or deaf". Thomas and his friends laugh. "So sweet of you". he walked toward her, touching her skin. "Beautiful".

With all the strength she has, she punches Thomas face with anger. Vlad was too stunned to see that coming, she then reached the wooden chair and hit on his head.

His friends help Thomas to fight her but Josette is the most strong among the men. Minutes later, all the men who try to fight her are laying on the ground without hurting her.

Vlad smirking. Impressive with her fighting skill. She pounced on top of Thomas, screaming at his face.

"Bloody, spoiled brat rat, evil cockroach. I will kill all of you if you dare touch my family!" she grip tight his collar neck. Her father lifted her up on top of Thomas.

"This is not our fight, sired". Arthur whispers at the back of Vlad. He looked over his shoulder. "I'll tell you who she is and we must go before someone sees us here".

Vlad still did not move his feet, he wanted to approach Josette.

"I'll take care of this, take the horse and you may return to the castle immediately. Go my lord".

He hears Vlad snarling. He wants to do something to keep the Marguerite safe from these people. He will show his ruthlessness that no one couldn't ever touch this Marguerite anymore.

Vlad then slipped through the crowd without looking back as he disappeared around the corner shop.

Arthur approaches the Marguerite. "What an extraordinary fighting skill Miss..?"

"Josette Jean Marguerite".

Grayson opened up his eyes. Half naked on his bed, he was asleep actually, a dream suddenly brought him back to where he had met his wife Josette in the market.

It was the best part of his life. He smiled as he remembered it, he turned to where his window stood. A window that he could see India bedroom directly from his room.

He rose up from bed and stood in front of the window. India was still in hospital, her room was dark and covered with a curtain behind her window.

Sometimes her mother Kim would clean her room without her in it. He missed India dearly, he missed seeing her in school, he missed seeing her smile.. his reincarnation wife.