A/N: Hope you like it, I'm having a bit of trouble with the story's structure at the moment, might take me a while to post more chapters (but then again, I'm having trouble placing some chapters, that's right, I don't just write it by chapter, sometimes - mostly - I've written ahead, but have a bit of trouble organising them into chapters, so just bare with me, I might be able to get them in faster – unfortunately I have a few large gaps that I need to fill). Now don't ask me why I wrote this chapter; seriously I have no idea... =/

Dracula: I have to admit, that I think that, this is the strangest chapter, you have ever written.

Me: Yeah, probably...

Dracula and Anna – Listen To Your Heart

Chapter Two

Anna's Indecision

Rose was watching Igor, he hadn't been his normal self lately; it was as if something had dampened his mood. Rose was watching him from above, on the walkway, Lily beside her. Dracula and Anna hadn't come back yet from feeding; they wouldn't be too much longer though. They hadn't seen much of Anna when they had been in Budapest, she had been trying to figure out the past, and even though they had been back at the castle for a few months, she still didn't talk to them much, not even to Dracula. The last time she'd had a "proper" conversation with him had been when she'd found the photo albums, that was weeks ago. She still looked at them often - when she was alone, and everyone was too busy to bug her.

Igor wasn't even complaining like he usually did, for Igor not to complain, he had to be in a pretty down mood. He just went about his work without a word; he didn't even talk to (or kick) the Dwergi.

At that moment, the sound of a single pair of large wings flapping, was heard above, they were back, and most likely Anna would want to avoid them all again, she had become rather reclusive. Although, for the most part, she no longer avoided or ignored Dracula, she still spent a lot of time alone.

Anna had to fight not to laugh, her hand over her mouth. Igor looked very funny, sitting there in the murky water, this white foam puffed up on his head. He was so short that she couldn't see below his neck. Perhaps that was a good thing...

'It's not funny,' said Igor, he sounded rather upset, 'I hate this!' They were down in one of the lower rooms of the castle, were the servants bathed.

'Well,' said an amused voice with a thick accent, 'if you did it more often than I wouldn't have to do this.' Anna looked around the corner, only to see the last person she wanted to see at that moment, leaning against the wall. He was so close to Anna's hiding place that, she almost ran into him, standing there, just around the corner. She immediately moved back into her hiding place, but it was too late.

'Anna?' came the Count's soft voice, 'I know it's you, come out.' Anna remained where she was, hoping he'd just go away, but she'd never been that lucky in the past, so why would it change now...

'I don't do this at all!' shouted Igor angrily, not noticing Anna, or hearing what the Count had just said.

'Just shut up and get clean Igor, you smell so bad, even the Dwergi are repulsed by you,' he paused, then added, as if it was an after-thought, 'and so that tub can be scrubbed!' Anna was practically hugging that wall, hoping the Count wouldn't come around the corner, but that was exactly what he did. All of a sudden she saw his face right in front of her; maybe she shouldn't have hid so close to the corner?

'Anna, you've been avoiding me.' Anna shook her head in fear.

'No, I haven't...' but Dracula interrupted her.

'Don't be so foolish Anna; you know I'm more intelligent than that. I know you've been avoiding me, I don't suspect you. I know.' Anna knew that he was right, ever since that kiss in his office, and then those memory-dreams, or whatever they were, she had been avoiding him, or at least she'd been trying to. Not that it was working.

'So what if I have, you won't leave me alone.'

'I'm worried about you.'

'No you're not; you just want to get me into bed!' Anna kept her voice low, like she was shouting quietly, as if she was afraid that someone might overhear her. Dracula shook his head solemnly.

'You know that's not true Anna.'

'Well, I don't care,' those words hurt Dracula more than he thought it would, but he hid it deep down, 'I just want to be left alone!' she shouted, not caring anymore, as she ran past Dracula, hoping that he wouldn't stop her - to her surprise, he didn't. Igor freaked out as he saw her flee the room, thinking that it was a good thing that he was so short that you couldn't see below his neck; not knowing that Anna had thought the same thing not too long ago.

Anna hadn't wanted to get close to Dracula, but it was as if the whole world had fought against her resolve to evade him. Anna wondered if Dracula had read her mind that night, when she had decided to stop avoiding him. It's not like she was meaning to, she just had a lot on her mind, and needed time alone to think. At least she could keep telling herself that.

A/N: Ok, that was kind of silly, wasn't it? Should I just replace this with something else? It was a short chapter I know. Anyway, I'm still having a bit of trouble, so it might be a while before the next chapter comes out.

Oh, one more thing, the reviewer from part 1, named Victoria, when you write your email in, it doesn't show up, try putting (dot) for the dots and (at) for the at symbol, since the site doesn't support everything (like asterisks).