The apartment. Let us see the clock hanging on the wall, it shows us at twelve-thirty in midnight.
Now we move and entering the room where a curving figure laid on the bed. Heavy sleeping. On that bed is India Natalie Greene who is unconscious, completely comfortable under this bed and cover.
She turns to her left, facing the balcony window. With her close eyes and sudden her comfortable sleep turning into a nightmare.
She began to sweat for no reason on a cold night. Let us take a look at why India's sweating so much in her heavy sleeping.
Inside her dream, she goes back into the castle which belongs to Vlad Dracula known as Alexander Grayson in future. In her present.
The evil place she had stood again, there was a tree right there. Nothing was special about that but her feet suddenly made her walk toward that, like it was telling her to come near the tree for a reason.
As she got closer to that tree there was a woman who was waiting for her, the same woman in her dream for so long and it was herself.
Her past life smiling down at her. India stood and confronted herself. "You again?"
"Surprise".
"So you talk then, Josette your name, what is all this. And wait how will you look like me as I don't know who you are. Are we related?"
Josette shook no, "We are not. Okay. Why am I here anyway".
"The truth".
"About what?"
Josette circling around India, she inhaled her scent, said. "You are me in my past life".
"I don't understand!"
"Your scent. Exactly as I use it too. We may be not related through blood but I am you and you I am".
India staring at her, she stopped circling as her eyes studied the tree. "I used to live here in this castle. You know it belongs to whom?"
"Should I know that?"
Josette nods and smiles, "It belongs to the evil itself. Vlad Dracula and I are his force wife".
"So? what it had to do with me". asked India to Josette. "It's your life not mine. Mine is perfectly fine until you came".
"I try to warn you. It will happen twice if you are not away from him. He will get what he wants like he did to me".
"Whatever! how did you die anyway".
Josette hand laid on the tree, said. "I kill myself".
"Pfft. What a stupid bitch of you!"
"So he will not have me. Not in the past nor never. My soul belongs to him, under his grip even after my death. I'm stuck with him".
India sighs out loud, "Whatever! Then what do you want? I can't help unless you tell me what is going on and on. You have been taunting me in my sleep since I was a little girl because you are always doing that".
"My family name is Marguerite. I am Josette Jean Marguerite. My family is a farmer in Romania. I'm sorry that I keep myself stuck in your head. I haven't told you why. But now here I am with you".
India shakes head not interested in Marguerite life story. "The man you know, Alexander Grayson, it wasn't the man you know".
"Please get a point woman! you are wasting my sleep time".
Josette rolled up her eyes, said. "Alexander Grayson is not the Alexander Grayson you knew. He is Vlad Dracula, my evil husband and this place, this castle is where you stood right now belongs to him.
"I was pregnant with his child before I kill myself by jumping out the tower while he went to war. When he came back to find I was already dead, he cursed God and swore to live eternity from the grave.
"Him. Alexander Grayson you know. It's him I try to warn you".
India takes a step back away from Josette. Now she knows why Grayson is always there for her no matter where or when she has gone. Luckily she was a quick learner of the situation.
"If I were you in the past, which means I am still married to him". Josette nod yes. "Even if I try to hide or run he will be there".
"Now you know why I came for you. Because of him. I can't rest in peace until his death!"
"We are the same woman from the past and future. I know why he gets closer to me because he thinks I was you, his wife. What do you mean by his death?"
Josette steps forward, "He is not human, India he is the dracula. Human cannot lived longer than that. He's been living for over centuries that's makes him".
"Oh my cheese! Billy was right. I mean Billy, Harker and people who believe that the dracula exists among us. It was him all along!"
Josette nodded again, India spoke back. "But he can walk into the sun. A dracula couldn't walk into the sun".
"Of course he can. It's a gift from his own curses and still he drinks human blood. You are lucky he didn't try to kill you because you are me".
India slapped her forehead, she began circling around the tree. Josette watches her sadly.
"I know something has gone wrong with him since we first met. He is my next door neighbor. My neighbor is a Vampire! Why didn't you tell me before, earlier when I was a little!"
Josette sighs, said. "Because you are the child. A child will not know about this, if I tell you back then will you understand".
"At least remind me that it could be better and I will remember that". There is silence. India spoke again. "No shit, my mom did invite him into our home".
India pacing around in fear, she screams so hard that no one will hear her inside her dream. Just her and Josette.
"This is insane! His picture is inside the history book and I didn't believe it was a real dracula known as my former teacher Alexander Grayson I know. Jeez! what should I do, Josette do tell me and I am not kill myself like you did. I am not stupid but you are".
Josette put her hand at her hips, unbelievable. She may be dead but an insult? seriously... right in front of her eyes from her future self.
"I beg your pardon, how dare you. I didn't have a choice back then, imagine your life being controlled by someone. Someone like the dark Prince he is!"
"Still I fight for my freedom. Yes. I will do that. I don't care what he is, I am not afraid".
"I once like you, India I fight him. I want to become a doctor and Vlad's ruins everything. Being a doctor is my dream".
India sighs again, "I study the same. I want to be a doctor too. What did he do?"
"Asked him. He will answer that. Ask him everything you wanted to know about his past life about mine. He will answer you if..."
India jolted from her dream, and back from reality. Panting as her eyes look around the room. She spotted the clock beside her bed, which showed her the time seven-thirty in the morning.
She laid flat again on bed. Her head is messing. This is the longest conversation she had with Josette for the first time about her past life, forced marriage, death, pregnancy and Alexander Grayson known as the dark prince of Romania.
And a dracula. Who he was living for centuries before she was born.
She tries to sleep back and it doesn't work like that. She is facing up with a blank mind. "What a nightmare!" She jumped off the bed and went to shower.
Today she will return home for a couple of weeks. Summer time, whatever. She will do her assignment at home and pack her bags before leaving. She walks to the hall as the doorbell rings, she swings the door open.
"Come on, this is so early!" Stood Tanya at the door with a smile. "I'm packing. I'm going home".
"Are you going home? Can we go too". said Tanya. "Harker really wants to meet your famous mom. We drive you there, Harker already got the car for us because Professor Van Helsing told him that you are".
"I didn't make any promise to Harker and my mom. Are you serious? Oh my god". she walks back to her room, Tanya follows right behind her.
"I was about to purchase my ticket online. If you guys want to come you should pack your bags too".
Tanya sat at the edge of the bed, said. "We already packed our bags last night. Harker told me exactly after Professor Van Helsing told him. So today this is a surprise for you and we are coming".
"Yeah right no wonder you look so like this".
"I prepared before it was too late. Okay. We barely know your mom so tell me".
India folded one of her shirts packed inside the bags. "Nothing special. She is who she is and her best job is a journalist. She is quite familiar, that is all I can say about my mom".
"You seriously barely know your own mother".
"She has barely spent much time with me since I got my first period. As an adult I should depend on myself if I want to survive".
Tanya walks to the kitchen, making them an iced chocolate. "She asked me to come home and find the truth".
"Who?"
"A woman in my dreams who looks like me. I am her past life, reincarnation perhaps, maybe".
India sighs harder, "Will you believe in rebirth after your death".
"Nope. What I believe after your death there is nothing you can do. The angel, Heaven and Hell are waiting to collect your soul and put you in one of those places. Believe me this is a serious shit question you asked me this morning".
She drank iced chocolate Tanya made for her. She said again, "Something is going on that I must find the answer before it is too late. Sounds stupid believe me it is part of my life too".
Harker bursting inside India's apartment, he smiled. "Are we going or not?"
"You got the car?" asked Tanya. He nodded, and she looked at India. "It just a dream, India nothing can harm you with that. You are a doctor of course Professor Van Helsing did teach you something about psychologies when you were there. That is the reason why we had to choose between reality and fake. So we chose reality to keep our life moving on and on''.
Harker looked at the girls. "What is going on?"
"Nothing. Girls matter. So you had a car, why don't we go now, it's a long way journey".
Kim was about to have her dinner when the door suddenly cracked open, she grabbed the fork and gently walked toward it but then she stopped as she heard a voice.
"Whoa mom! it's me put the fork down".
"Oh god! why didn't you tell me that you are coming home". shout Kim to her daughter.
"Thought Professor Van Helsing told you already". Kim shakes no. "In that case, mom, this is my university friend Tanya and..."
Before she could finish her word, Harker already shook Kim's hand violently and how happy and pleasant he was meeting Kim in person again.
Kim chuckled as she looked at her daughter. "Nice to meet you again".
"Jonathan of course and thank you for remembering me. You know as a journalist I really do want to ask you a question "how can you claim a dracula living among us".
Kim couldn't say a word. India gently pushed him. "Harker please we are starving alright. And mum we are totally hungry".
"No wonder I feel like cooking my daughter's favorite food today. Please have a seat, just put the beg down and let us eat dinner together. This way and oh welcome to my house Tanya and Harker".
The same night at the house next door. Renfield notices India is back, he turns to his master whom he sits at the armchair in front of the fireplace. His eyes were closed.
"She is here, Renfield. I can smell her from here".
"I was about to say so. Yes she is with some friends".
Grayson's eyes open, staring at the fire. "Friends? I can even smell my enemy's blood near her".
"Which one? there is a girl and boy with her".
Grayson again inhaled the scent then he let it go. He spoke. "Watson. Pietro".
"Watson?" asked Renfield. Grayson nods.
"Watson wasn't my enemy when we met. Until he and my Josette... married".
Renfield took a step toward Grayson, he stood. "So that boy reminds you of your past? Is he too reincarnation".
"We should visit them. And I know it is him and he is trying to get Josette away from me. Again!"
"And yet he doesn't know the past life he had with you. You shouldn't confront him like an enemy, try to be friendly. Even if it was him... you had no right to touch the boy nor even kill him".
Grayson growls a bit, his eyes to Renfield then smirking. "We pay a visit then".
