CHAPTER 17

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My name's Donna Noble, and I'm going to be the guest narrator today. The writer boy, Time Lord Prime, thought that I would be a good choice to narrate this title since I've become the new head honcho around here. I guess this is as good a chapter for me to narrate as any because it's the one where I get to know my new team members.

So I basically found out during that whole Daemon thing that the team had been turned into the Ileana Squad. All of our new members are connected to her in some way. I like Fang Girl, but it seems like she has a little too much influence on Martha or maybe Rose does since Rose is the one who brought in Katherine and Amanda.

Let's get started back at UNIT HQ where we left off last time. Mirror Girl aka Michelle is still on her date with Mark. The rest of the team is all there though. We locked up Wolf Girl aka Victoria to make sure that she didn't hurt herself or us. I really feel sorry for that poor kid, and I'm going to do my best to make sure that we find some way for her to have a normal life again. At least she seems to be gaining control of herself, but that may have been mostly because of Rose. Rose seems to have some kind of control over her. It must be some kind of wolf thing that I don't understand.

I looked at the new recruits and decided to get them to tell me about themselves a little more. Companies and schools do it all of the time to new people so I will too.

"So, people, I want all of the new people to tell the rest of us a little about themselves since Martha and I really don't know that much about some of you. How about you start first, Elisabeta?" I said to the blonde who I thought that Ileana said was her sister.

I found out that I was right a second later when Elisabeta said, "I'm Elisabeta Lupei, and I am the sister of Ileana. I was born over a hundred years ago in a small village in Romania called Strigoistadt. My sister and I led a normal life until our family was wiped out by Dracula. After that, we moved from relative to relative until we were old enough to have a life of our own. Then our lives changed forever when the Doctor and Daciana came to visit us and helped save us from Dracula's darkness."

I'd heard Carmilla call Rose Daciana so I was curious about this name that she had been given. I decided to ask Elisabeta about it now that she had called Rose that as well.

"Why did you call Rose Daciana, Elisabeta?" I asked her.

"It describes her better than her real name to me. It means 'Wolf' in Romanian. I call her that to honor her because she is the Great Wolf who helped to save us from the power of the Dragon. She is the reason that I walk among you today. I should have died a long time ago. I aged like a normal person until one day Daciana in another guise came to visit me on my death bed and made me young again and apparently immortal. I haven't aged for decades. I've been helping my sister with her investigations into the unknown in the last couple of decades. We've faced all kind of strange things together so I've gotten quite a bit of experience with weird situations," Elisabeta explained.

"Do you have any special magic powers granted by the good witch that we should know about?" I asked her.

Elisabeta smiled at my remark as she said, "Not that I know of except for one. I can't die. I've been killed several times during our investigations, and I always come back to life. Sometimes it takes a while though."

"So you're like Jack," I said to myself more than to her.

I tried to see if I could sense if she was a fixed point in time or not, but I could sense nothing unusual about her. Maybe it was just that I was so new at all this Time Lord stuff or maybe Rose was just that good now at leaving no trace of what she had done behind for anyone to pick up on.

I smiled at her and said, "Welcome to the team, Elisabeta. I'm glad to have you aboard."

"Thank you. I'm glad to be here. Someone has to keep Ileana out of trouble. I'm somewhat successful at that. I can't work miracles of course and keep her life completely trouble free. She's a magnet for danger," Elisabeta joked.

"Yeah and you're not? You've gotten into plenty of trouble yourself that I've had to rescue you from, little sister," Ileana said with a smile.

"Yeah, yeah," Elisabeta said with a snicker and an eye roll.

"Don't roll your eyes at me! You're making me out to be a big troublemaker, and you're coming out squeaky clean. We both know that you can be just as much a troublemaker as I am. We both rush in where angels fear to tread," Ileana said.

"You're more like her mother than her sister, aren't you?" I observed.

"Yeah I am. I had to raise her when our parents died," Ileana admitted.

I was still finding out new facts about Ileana even now. She was very secretive about her past and her personal life but from what I could see she was a very loving and caring person. The exact opposite of what you would think that a vampire would be like. Then again, she was a friend of Rose's so how could she not be as full of love as Rose is? Rose's friends tend to be just as kind and generous as she is, I've noticed. All of them except for Koschei, that is. I still don't know what the deal is there. Maybe there's another side to that guy that you never see; but somehow, I doubt it.

I moved on to Ileana's husband, Abraham, next. I still loved it that this guy was THE Van Helsing! You can't get much better than that. I mean he's the big kahuna, the head honcho. The man you go to when you absolutely positively have to wipe out vampires once and for all. Did I mention I'm a fan?

"Next up is you, Mr. Van Helsing. Tell us a little about yourself," I said in a shaky nervous voice.

I tried not to swoon. He was so handsome that I acted like a nervous school girl around him. Just keep telling yourself that he's married to a powerful vampire who would rip out your hearts in a second, Donna. It's weird to think of myself as having two hearts! I still haven't gotten used to that.

"I'm the man who the character of Van Helsing in the novel, Dracula, was largely based upon. I actually was the biggest nemesis of Dracula, and I fought with him on several occasions. I was an old man when I ran across Ileana, Elisabeta, the Doctor, and Rose back in 1890. All of us worked together with the woman that you know as Lily and another woman named Jenny and helped to stop Dracula as we kept him from taking over the world way back then. During that adventure, I fell in love with Ileana and knew that she was the one who I wanted to be my wife. Rose sensed that as well, and she somehow arranged it so that I was rejuvenated and made immortal just like Elisabeta. Rose felt guilty because she had kept Ileana's soul inside her body when she had turned into a vampire even though that was what she wanted. She gave her both of us as eternal companions to help make up for that. I've been fighting alongside my wife and my sister in law ever since against all of the various creatures of the night. I know a great deal about most of them and how to kill them. Our entire family is devoted to keeping vampires and others like them from overrunning humanity. We've had plenty of children and grandchildren together to accomplish that too. It's a family tradition. I guess you could say that we are to the supernatural what you, Rose, and the Doctor are to invading aliens and other menaces to time and space," Abraham said with a smile.

I tried not to melt at that smile, and I tried to ignore the stare of death that Ileana was sending my way. Don't get me wrong. I'd never mess with a married man, and certainly not the husband of a friend. I'm still human enough though that I still find myself looking a little against my better instincts. Did I just think of Ileana as a friend? When did that happen?

To clear my head, I moved on to someone else. I decided to try to find out about the two new people who I didn't know that much about at all.

"That leaves the two of you, Katherine and Amanda. Tell us about yourselves," I said.

"My name is Ecaterina Sala originally. I now call myself Katherine Thomas. I've decided to use Amanda's last name as my own to avoid questions. I was the daughter of a servant to the great Prince of Wallachia, Vlad Dracul. I spent my whole life not knowing who my father was. I only found out recently that Vlad Dracul was my father and that he had wanted it kept secret because he had been having an affair with my mother," Katherine said.

"Vlad Dracul? Wasn't that Dracula's father? That means that you're Dracula's sister!" I said in shock.

"Yes, I am. I had no idea about this until recently though. I grew up as Dracula's childhood friend. We played together, and we cared about each other very much as children. He knew even then that he was my brother, but he didn't tell me because our father had told him not to tell anyone. I wish that he had. We drifted apart when he took his father's place as the Prince of Wallachia and began to kill and torture others. He had changed because our father and brother had been killed by the nobles of the land. It turned him into a monster even before he became a vampire. After that he turned to the Scholomance, the secret school for those who wanted to learn the secrets of black magic. It was there that he somehow learned a spell that changed him into a vampire once he died at the hands of the Turks years later. After he came back as a vampire, he always protected me from being attacked by those under his control. I never knew why then of course. He still cared about me even after turning into a vampire, albeit in his own twisted way. One of his wives, Carmilla who you've just had the misfortune of meeting, decided to turn me into a vampire because she wrongly saw me as a romantic rival for Dracula's affections since he seemed to care so much about me. Dracula found out about this and performed a spell that let me keep my soul and enabled me to fight back against Carmilla's control once I turned into a vampire. I fled from her and lived on my own for centuries. I had little to no contact with anyone. I did meet and befriend Abraham once though, and he helped me when Carmilla wormed herself into my life once again," Katherine said.

"What a story! It sounds like something out of one of those old horror movies. I love those," I said.

"Movies?" Katherine asked confused.

"Yeah. The old horror movies, you know? You've never seen any of those vampire movies before? I find that hard to believe since you are one. Weren't you just a little curious as to how vampires are being portrayed?" I asked her.

"I don't even know what a movie is?' Katherine admitted.

"Katherine and Amanda are from the year 1890. They have no idea about what you're talking about," Ileana reminded me.

"Oh, yeah. Rose brought you here from the future to keep Dracula from bothering you. I remember now," I said with a slap to my forehead.

Katherine's little girl, Amanda, then started to tell the story as she said, "Carmilla killed my parents, and then she tried to kill me to keep a real estate agent that my father worked for from buying the castle that the wives were living at and revealing to the world that they were there. Katherine saved me, and then she started taking care of me because I had nowhere else to go. We eventually grew very close to each other, and I started calling her Mum. She is my mother in all the ways that count."

"You never felt any kind of bloodlust towards her though?" I asked Katherine.

"Once when Amanda hurt her knee, and it was bleeding a lot I did. As soon as I started even thinking about drinking her blood, I threw up violently. I haven't had any kind of blood lust towards her at all ever since. The thought of ever hurting Amanda just repulses me," Katherine said with a grimace.

I was glad of that. I hadn't exactly felt too good about having a vampire, even one who seemed kindly, raising a human child. The look that she on her face, when she remembered that incident with the blood lust, of utter repulsion and horror though helped set my mind at ease about that. This was a woman who loved the little girl so much that even the thought of hurting her made her sick to her stomach. That was music to my ears. She was the kind of vampire that I could get behind.

"Rose brought the two of us here because Dracula was dead set on killing Amanda. He even used his magic to temporarily take my soul and bury it deep inside of me so that the vampire side of me had control for a while. He was that sick that he wanted me to kill my own baby! I managed to fight back and take permanent control of myself once again though. That's when we decided to come here where Dracula is now permanently dead so that he could never bother us again," Katherine finished her story.

"So, the two of you really don't know anything about modern life? I'll have to see about changing that. I'll get Amanda into video games and Facebook in no time," I promised Katherine with a smile.

"Is that a good thing?" Katherine asked Ileana suspiciously.

"No, it is not. I'll have to keep Donna from corrupting Amanda I think," Ileana said to her while she grinned at me.

"Well, at least I feel like I know a little bit more about everyone here anywhere. So now that that's over with, I guess it's time to hear about our next case. What's it about, Martha?" I asked.

"We've had reports of Cheetah People attacking and kidnapping locals in the Perivale area. They actually had an attack there once ago decades ago," Martha said.

"Yeah, the Doctor and Ace were involved," I said.

Martha looked at me surprised, but then she shook her head and smiled. She just keeps forgetting that I have all of the Doctor's memories too, and I know exactly what he was up to in Perivale back in the 80's. I also remember the Cheetah People from his memories of them. I hope that it's not them because the Doctor didn't remember that occasion fondly. I also don't like the idea of them stealing people to convert into new recruits again either. It's what they do. They take people from other planets and turn them into new Cheetah People. They're a lot like vampires like that.

While we were about to be told more about our new case, Michelle was heading back to UNIT HQ from her date. The date had gone great by the way. I have a good feeling about those two. I'm so glad that Michelle found someone so quickly too.

She had decided to walk home that night. She couldn't use the mirrors to travel; or she would risk being attacked by Alina, who was still there in the mirror verse.

Walking back to UNIT didn't keep Michelle from being completely rid of Alina though. Michelle could hear her screaming to be released even now every time she passed by a reflective surface. Finally, Michelle stopped and looked at a puddle on the ground to see Alina's face there. She was going to have to talk to her and tell her what was what now. I know all of this because Michelle told me all about it later in case you're wondering.

Michelle said," Listen, it's not going to do you any good to keep screaming at me to let you go. I'm not going to. I won't let you hurt anyone ever again if I can help it."

"I'm starving in here. If I don't have blood soon, my body will shut down. I won't be able to do anything," Alina pleaded.

"I won't let you kill anyone," Michelle said firmly.

"Is that what you're going to do to me then? You're going to starve me into my final death?" Alina asked.

"I haven't decided what I'm going to do to you yet except that I'm leaving you in the mirror verse. I may put other enemies in there, and you could maybe help persuade them into telling us what we want to know by threatening them. Of course, I wouldn't tolerate you actually biting them though," Michelle said.

"You must be insane. Of course I would bite them. I have no intention of helping you to do anything. You're my captor. I don't help my captors!" Alina said defiant.

"It was just a thought. I suppose I can't blame you for not wanting to help me. Listen, I won't let you starve okay," Michelle said.

She saw a rabbit nearby, and she teleported it into the mirror verse. I do not approve of this by the way. When she told me about it later, I gagged. If it was up to me, I'd have just let Nasty Girl starve in there.

Alina quickly sucked the rabbit dry; and then said, "That's it then? That was barely enough to sate my thirst."

"Ungrateful, aren't you? Yes, that's all you're getting today. I'll give you another animal tomorrow," Michelle said.

"Why not just kill me?" Alina asked her honestly.

"I want to give you a chance to change. I want you to get a chance to be a better person like I was given once. If after a while I see that you're not changing, then I'll just destroy you. I have to be sure though first that you're not able to be saved. I have to try," Michelle said.

"You're a fool. I'm not capable of changing; and furthermore, I don't want to. You might as well kill me right now," Alina said with an evil laugh.

"We'll see," Michelle said, and then she continued to walk back home.

It seems like a big mistake I know. I guess that time will tell whether you and I are right or not. It always does. That's it for me for now. I may return here to this title to narrate again. I enjoyed it a lot I must say. What do you say, writer boy? Do I get another shot?

Most definitely, I enjoyed having you here. Besides if I didn't, you'd probably slap me.

Oi! Don't go telling them that! They might believe it! They don't know that you're just joking around.

Sorry, Donna. Donna's very sweet and nice, folks.

That's better. Well, until next time, good bye!

Next: Donna and her group head off to Perivale, Ace's hometown, to investigate the possible reappearance of the Cheetah People once again. I may have Donna return again sometime in the future to narrate, but in the next chapter you're stuck with me again. I'm sure that some of you are breathing a sigh of relief though. Ow! Sorry, Donna!

You ought to be, Dumbo!