Regular Time – The Old House

Barnabas had awoken a little earlier than usual, and was surprised to see the sun was still up! It was really amazing that what Julia had come with him along with his son was actually working! He smiled at the thought of hopefully he would be able to be human again, and enjoy life like he did in 1795! Julia had warned him that there might be some side-effects for a while until his body got used to the inhaler.

As he was walking up the stairs, he felt a little dizzy, but he took it in stride since his curse was finally being lifted! He made his way to the Drawing Room, and smiled when he saw Julia there. He went over to her, and decided to give her a hug! Julia was shocked by this, but she then wrapped her arms around Barnabas as well! They smiled at each other for a bit before Julia spoke to him.

"Barnabas, there's something that I have to tell you." Julia said in a solemn voice.

"What's that Julia?" Barnabas asked while still smiling at her.

"It's like this Barnabas. Both Brian and Susie are missing." She told him flat out.

"What do you mean they are missing?" He wondered.

"Quentin and Elizabeth went looking for the two of them the morning after the snow storm, and Quentin found Susie's scarf in a room in the East Wing." She told him.

"That doesn't mean they are missing Julia. Maybe they are lost in one of the secret passages in Collinwood." Barnabas reassured Julia.

"I'm afraid that's not it. Quentin went back to that room just to check again. As he was leaving, he turned around and the room changed! It was bright and clean, not dark and dusty like it is now. And there was a different version of Roger complaining about how someone talked back to him, and that version of Elizabeth agreed with this person. Roger is thinking of doing and investigation on this person to make sure he is not after the Collins fortune." Julia told Barnabas.

Barnabas thought it over, and it did sound like his son just like when Brian first arrived here, and told Roger off several times! This had to be Brian doing this again in another time band! He thought of why both he and Susie just come back to their own time band by using the room again. Julia explained that it's possible that they could not take the chance of waiting for hours before the room changed again, and everyone in that time band would be wondering why they were in there for a long time!

Julia then told Barnabas that Brian doesn't have his inhaler with him, and that his vampiric side may start attacking people in the other time band! He, Julia, and Quentin were going to have to come up with a plan to get Brian and Susie back here before it was too late!

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Parallel Time – Collinwood

Quentin and Maggie Collins finally arrived home after a long and exhausting business trip overseas! They were both tired and hungry from the car ride from the airport, and were going to get something to eat after they went to see their son Daniel. They found Daniel in his room going over his homework assignment for that day. He smiled at his parents once he saw who it was that came into his room! They hugged each other while smiling at one another. Then Daniel said that he had something to tell them.

"Father, Mother it seems that we have another cousin here. He and his girlfriend are staying with cousins Barnabas and Julia." Daniel said with a smile on his face.

"And is this cousin of ours name?" Quentin asked.

"His name is Brian Collins. And his girlfriend is Susie Anck-sun. I think she's from Egypt with the last name she has." Daniel told his parents.

"Well it seems that we need to meet them. Perhaps tomorrow with the trip we had, and we hungry as well. Did you eat yet Daniel?" His mother asked him.

"Not yet because the new housekeeper that cousin Elizabeth hired isn't here right now, and Mrs. Johnson is about to make dinner." Daniel told his parents.

Both Quentin and Maggie made faces at the thought of Mrs. Johnson making dinner again! They had a long flight, and did not want to have to deal with upset stomachs now! Quentin decided that the three of them would go out for dinner and spend some quality time together. Maggie went to tell Mrs. Johnson not to set plates for them that they were going out. Mrs. Johnson made a sad face as she looked at the rolled Roast that she was making! As they were heading out the door, Angelique watched them leave, and vowed that they would be next on her list of people to die by her hand! She still had to find a way to see about getting the two strangers into helping her! If not, then she would kill them as well! She went about her business as in not being seen by anyone in the house because they thought she was out now! Soon she would have her revenge on not only Barnabas and Julia, but that of the entire Collins family!

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Collinsport General Hospital – Coroner's Office – 11:00pm

Dr. Rodgers still could not figure out how Rose McGowan had lost so much blood! The only marks that was on her were two puncture marks on her neck, but that would not be enough to let her bleed to death! The other thing that puzzled her was that there was no blood at the crime scene! She wondered about that as well since there should have been a lot of blood there at the scene of the crime!

Whoever had done this had to be something of a specialist to drain all of that blood from her without leaving a trace amount there! As she was looking at some tissue samples under the microscope, she noticed something strange! It looked like saliva from the area of the two marks, but she could not be sure until she ran some tests on this!

She looked up at the clock, and saw that it was late, and had realized that her assistant's had left already! She didn't pay attention that there was someone in the room with her! She turned around, and saw a good looking man standing there! She then realized that she had not been on a date for about a year since her boyfriend had dumped her for someone else! She smiled at the man as he opened his arms to her! For some reason she had to be with him! She moved towards him, and let him put his arms around her!

They smiled at one another before they started kissing one another! She knew she should not be doing this since she was still examining Rose McGowan's body, but for some reason, it felt right! The man then started to kiss her face, and slowly made his way to her neck! She was enjoying what was happening to her that she did not feel two teeth puncture her neck before it was too late! She was enjoying what was happening to her even though it meant her life was over! She thought to herself that this is how Rose McGowan must have felt before she died! Her life was taken from Dr. Rodgers before she knew it! The creature laid her body down on the floor, and made sure not to make the same mistakes it had done last night!

The creature poured acid on the neck of his victim to make it seemed that was how she died, and made sure to make the scene look like a burglary! The creature grabbed the files and samples that were there, and was going to make sure to destroy them! The creature doubled check everything to make sure that it was a robbery, and then left! The creature was going to enjoy what time it had here before it had to return to its place as the other half stayed in control! The creature left knowing that it will still feed until the other half got the inhaler, and started using that again! But for now, it was going to enjoy itself until it was time to go home again!