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"Vladdy! Get down here now!" My eyes fly open at the desperation in my fathers voice and I sit up with out realising where I am.
"Ow!" I moan as my head collides with the metal of my coffin.
I sigh and click my fingers before flitting down to dad. He stands by his throne shouting at Renfield.
"Dad what's wrong?" I ask cautiously.
"Good your here." He starts to say something and then decides on saying something else as he looks at me. "Did you drink the soy blood? You look better."
"Yes dad I did, thanks. What is it your worried about?"
"Oh yes, that. The vampire council have sent us a message. They've had a tip that the slayers know where we are and are making an attack on us and we need to get out. I'm sorry Vlad."
I want to scream and I open my mouth to protest but close it and nod instead. I need to learn to control myself. I've known it's been coming. We have been here long enough and they were bound to find us at some point. This time I do have a lot of guilt for killing the man even though it is only because it may have been my fault they are coming. If they thought the death was weird.
"Vlad?"
"Yeah?"
"I've thought it would come for a while now so I found us a place to live. We are going to live at a school called Garside Grange. You will have to start going back to classes which I think you'll enjoy. As your regent I want to keep you safe and away from prying eyes."
"Thank you dad... I'd say something snuggly and warm but I'm a vampire."
Dad chuckles. "That you are my lad."
I do worry though. I'm not sure I can control my self around breathers. I haven't been around a human that's a friend in a long time and I couldn't stop myself with the man.
"I'm not wearing school clothes." I tell dad trying to get my thought away and out of my head.
"I wouldn't want you to."
My head snaps up as I hear a car draw up slowly out side making the pebbles cruch and crumble and one look at dad's face tells me he can't hear it.
I smell the air even from here as they step out and my dad watches my eyes turn to coal as I catch the scent the men and women let off.
"Vlad?"
"Slayers blood."
I say it with so much venom and anger that dad knows not to doubt me and that I'm right.
I go into full leader mode.
"Get Renfield to collect and organise everything as quickly as he can, all the processions and blood that you want to take in to the hearse. We need as many things as he can fit in. Tell Ingrid to come see me and you need to get preparations ready for us to arrive at Garside tonight. Ingrid and I will handle the slayers. Just be ready to go."
He nods at me clearly trusting my judgment and liking my plan.
It doesn't take long for Ingrid to come.
"What do you want?"
"Has dad talked to you?" She nods back at me.
"Well then were going to get the slayers. Hypnotise or despose of them. It's to soon to worry about it, ready?" Somewhere in me I know its wrong but it's not about me right now, I can worry over it later.
"Always." She replies curtly.
I walk around the outskirts of the castle and depend on my hearing to guide me. I catch a slayer trying to look through an open window and I start to get closer to him.
A last look at the grounds tells me Ingrid's not here so I don't have to worry about her. I spin him around and somehow use my eyes to crush his weapons. I have no idea about this power but I love it.
"Please." He whimpers.
"Is that the best you can do?"
He seems to think I'm going to bite him but I don't have the time anyway. As long as he thinks I will it doesn't matter. How shall I kill him then? I wonder.
If I burn him a cloud of smoke would rise and alert the other slayers.
An idea bursts into my head and I feel proud of my self. Could I crush him like I did with the weapons? It will be horrible but it also may be the only way.
My eyes bore in to him and he starts to crumble, in a few seconds he is a pile of ash and hopefully the slayers will think at least they've killed one vampire tonight and then they may leave us alone for a while trying to figure out who was actually killed. I wonder how long it will take.
I hear scuffles and shouts from the other side of the castle and quickly turn into a bat and soar up into the air looking down at the problem.
(Ingrid's P.O.V)
The stupid incompetent slayers surround me and I scream, something a vampire should never do. This scream though is one for Vlad and I can only hope he hears.
He does, it seems, as I watch discretely from the corner of my eye Vlad descending where they can't see him.
I don't make it obvious and they're oblivious. Vlad's fangs come down in outrage at the scene he sees or that's what it looks like to me. I can never help caring about my brother although I do not show it.
Quicker than any other of our kind my little brother manoeuvres around the slayers and un ties me. In the next second he's snapped a slayers neck. The others watch completely dumbfounded as the slayer drops limp to the ground, so do I for that matter.
At the same time we all come out of the spell and jump in to action. I pounce on to the nearest one to me. I yearn to bite him but I don't have time to as another slayer tries to push me. A click comes from the neck of the man in my arms as the slayer crashes in to me. His stake misses me by a centimetre and as he swings back to try again a gush of wind fills the air and the man is sent crashing into the wall of the castle, obviously dead.
It was Vlad not wind that had done it and I wonder how he doesn't seem to care that he's just killed someone when he used to be so scared of hurting a fly. I guess every one has bad in them even Vlad, and his evil seems to be coming to the surface.
(Vlad's P.O.V)
Ingrid watches me in awe when the slayers are all down. I just feel anger to her at the moment, I've let the darkness in to help me and give me more power.
"Ingrid. They need to disappear what would you like to do? We can either just burn them or drain then burn them. Which one?"
Her eyes widen;
"Your going to let me bite them, with out arguing?"
I just nod. Who cares what she thinks of me right now?
I have to watch as she bites two witch leaves three, she walks over to the next one but then stops.
"Vlad I can't carry on, I've already had blood today and it's to much."
"Fine. Spread them out around the castle before burning them."
I try to hide the anger I feel towards her as best as I can. What kind of vampire that everyone knows is evil and she knows her self would give up blood that's given to you?
I take the three she hasn't killed. Being the strongest it will be easier.
I walk around the side of the school and drop one of the slayers planning to burn it but then I see and smell the blood. It's even more attractive than the mans blood and I fall to the floor next to the slayer. I reach a hand down to her neck and it comes back covered in blood.
I lean down in a trance and bite down on the victims neck. The flavour nearly knocks me off my knees and I feel glad I'm not standing or I probably would have fallen.
The taste is beautiful, better than type O by far. I realise this is type AB mixed with slayer blood and instantly I know its my favourite.
"Vlad? Vlad!" The accusational call comes when I'm nearly at the end of the meal.
I spin on my knees after draining the last few drops and I drop my finished dinner, setting it a lite. I growl at my sister who intruded on my meal.
I flit to her and wrap my hands around her neck and whisper in her ear.
"You tell a soul and you die do you hear me Ingrid?" She nods and i step back feeling content.
"Why Vlad?"
"Don't act like you don't do it daily. I only drink things that are already dead. What use to anyone is a corpse except a vampire?" The darkness goes away but I still believe it.
"What happened to my whimpy, breather loving brother?"
"He grew up Ingrid. I might as well finish these now. Would you like to be a real vampire and join me? Either that or you can go back to dad and tell him that it's done and I'm finishing the desposing of them. Lie if he asks how."
She nods again. "I think I will go to dad."
She flits off and I turn back to the other too.
These I finish quickly and then go back to the waiting hearse. The blood for both was B+, not very exciting.
When I step into the hearse I turn to dad. "Is everything packed?"
"Yes son."
"My things?"
"Renfield and I got them, I noticed you have chucked out all your old peasant clothes and now you only have a few things to wear. I could give you some of my old things form around your age?"
"Yes please dad. Those old clothes just make me angry now."
"That's my boy, but no more of that 'please' business. You are a Dracula."
It is a while until we get to Garside, Zoltan talks to me the whole way there and by the end I want To push him out the door. Not that I don't love Zoltan because I do he's always been by my side but he does go on a bit.
I can step out the car, it still is night but I have to get in to Garside quickly as I see the sun starting to rise.
On the outside the school looks like any other and is simply decorated by trees. It's inconspicuous as not many self respecting vampires would live here. But I guess we are on the run what else can we do? It's what I asked for any way. This is a place I can be relatively normal until I'm 18. Dads done it for me. Again.
We wonder inside to find everything clean and perfect and quite old. Dad takes me upstairs where a woman waits.
"Welcome to Garside Grange. I am Miss McCauley, the headmistress. You will be staying up here."
I turn to dad but he just looks wonderously at the headmistress. Looks like I have to do this my self.
"Thank you, we would like to be left now if you don't mind."
I try to sound as sincere as I can.
"Isn't there anything else you want to know, maybe about your school timetable?"
She won't leave I know she won't so I have to use another power I haven't tried yet. I feel nervous, not wanting to get it wrong and screw up. I've only ever done this when I was younger.
My eyes turn yellow and I know that basically means hypnotise power on. I look miss McCauley straight in the eyes and she's immediately transfixed.
"You are going to leave us alone so we can get settled in. You have somewhere to be. Tomorrow morning you will bring up our school things and any information That dad will need. That is all, you will not hang around."
I bite my lip hopefully and click my fingers as I've always been told to do. She jumps and a certain awareness comes back to her.
"Oh I forgot. I must be going. Places to be and all that."
She smiles, waves and leaves and dad still looks weird. I take a look at Ingrid but she shrugs having no idea what's going on.
"Dad. Dad!"
He comes back to earth but seems to look through me.
"Go to your rooms, Vlad has the second biggest, I have first of course. Get things ready and remember, your both back at school tomorrow.
I don't argue with him even though I want to know what's going on with him.
I put everything away and knowing I won't get to sleep I sort through my new clothes happily but there's only a certain amount of folding I can do before I get bored.
(Ingrid's P.O.V)
Again I find my self outside my brothers door.
I stand here trying to find out what to do, whether to just go back to my room or knock and maybe anger my brother again.
"Come in." His voice startles me but I manage to put my self together as I hear him click his fingers and the door opens. He stands by the window looking out at the sun that doesn't touch him from here. He wears the clothes he wore earlier and doesn't spare a look back at me as I walk in.
"You couldn't sleep either?" I ask.
"No. I've got to much on my mind and plus we've got to be downstairs in a few hours. There's no point now and I need to adjust to being awake in the day again."
I join him at the window and see that he grips the window pane so hard that pieces if wood start to chip and I can see the in dent of his hand. I gently pull his fingers from the wood and he lets me but as soon as I've done it he reaches his hand to his pocket not wanting the contact.
"Vlad I know you don't want to be here and I'm truly sorry..."
"Just tell me Ingrid." I watch him swallow like he's not sure weather to say something. "Did you tell the slayers where we were?"
"I wouldn't do that Vlad." I reassure him. "You must be happy that we are here though. They will never know."
"Oh I am but I'm not sure weather it's the best thing." He closes the curtains as the suns rays comes closer to us and I see all the candles flash on. I know Vlad's done it and I try not to act surprised that he did it without clicking his fingers.
"Why not?"
"I let everything go from my old life and now I'm walking straight back into it and then we will move again and I don't want to feel the pain. How am I supposed to be respected as a leader if I can't even cope with people leaving me. and they will in one way or another. Either they will die or betray me. I'm not stupid I know no one wants me as the leader."
"Then prove them wrong. I know you can do it."
"How can you. You don't know me any more." I know what he's implying and remembering
"Well if your going to act like that." I turn around and head towards the door feeling annoyed at his remark.
"Do you know I've always felt jealous of you Ingrid?"
That stops me in my tracks. "What!?" He can't. It not right.
"Yeah I have. Especially now. You know who you are Ingrid and you can except it. I'm scared all the time of what I'm turning in to. You don't trust the wrong people either. I envy how you aren't scared to be alone."
I chuckle dryly and scoff which makes him turn round for the first time. "You don't want to be like me I promise you. You have everything wrong Vlad. The best thing about not knowing who you are is that you get to find out. Your Vladimir dracula whoever you turn into will be your choice. The reason I don't trust the wrong people is because I don't trust anyone for it to be wrong. I've learned not to be scared of being alone. Other vampires will want you as their leader as long as you show them what you can do. Like you did tonight."
I don't lie and I honestly think he's done well. I believed in him tonight and he's shown me he's ready to take control. When he's in the moment he can do it. All he needs to do now is get the confidence to be like it all the time.
I let my self out when he doesn't say anything else but as soon as I'm out the door I hear a soft "thank you." From behind me.
The only thing left to do now is plan what to wear.
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