Everyone started filling out of the hall, oblivious to the events that had just taken place. Vlad and Ingrid were the last to leave. They received multiple happy farewells from Ingrid's old 'friends' along with the new 'friends' Vlad had made. The feeling of walking through all these people, who'd been terrified of you about ten minutes ago, was an odd experience to say the least.

As they made their way through the crowd that had formed out side, Robin's hand grabbed Vlad by the arm. Stunned, Vlad turned around. His hands had risen in a defensive manor and he looked quite flustered. This made Robin and Ingrid laugh. Vlad's reaction when he was suprised hadn't changed much. "Thanks for not hypnotising me, again." Robin said rather quietly. "I wouldn't want to do that again to you." Replied Vlad apologetically. "We should stay in contact! Do you have a phone by any chance?" Robin asked. This would have been an odd question to ask anyone else, but considering that Count Dracula was Vlad's dad, Robin didn't see it as too strange. "Oh, yeah!" Vlad said as he pulled out a red iPhone XR from his back pocket, much to the suprise of Robin and Ingrid. "Since when did dad let you get a phone?" Asked Ingrid with a hint of jealously in her voice. "Since dad found out about your little computer set up." Teased Vlad. Ingrid's jaw dropped "What?!" She clearly hadn't caught on that Vlad was joking.

Once Robin and Vlad had exchanged phone numbers, they started to say their goodbyes. Much to their suprise, chloe ran up to Robin panicking. "Where the hell have you been for the hour?" She asked sternly. "With Vlad and Ingrid. Like you told me to.." replied Robin to Chloe, who he'd now identified to be drunk. Paul and Ian had over heard this conversation and came rushing towards them. They were very excited to see Ingrid, clearly. They once again chorused "Hi Ingrid!" Just a lot more drunk than they had been when they greeted her first time tonight. Vlad just chuckled as Ingrid said "Hey..." back, in a rather annoyed way. They did try to impress Ingrid, but she wasn't taking any of their drunken proposals of love seriously. Instead she stood there, enjoying their grovelling.

This reminded Vlad that he wasn't causing any drunken chaos. His headache had gone and he no longer needed in need of vomiting. It must've been a vampire thing. The alcohol must ware off pretty easily on them. This did start to concern him though, as his mind trailed off to a certain goth festival in 1996. How could his father had been that drunk to do such a thing if alcohol wore off easily on biters? He decided that it was because he was the Chosen One, alcohol didn't effect him as much. He desperately tried to convince himself that Ingrid was still tipsy to back this thought.


After a long chat, everyone had said their farewells and were on verge of leaving when Robin pulled Vlad into a tight hug. "I'll miss you mate. You know that?" Said Robin. "Yeah." Replied Vlad, still slightly taken aback. Then Chloe did the same thing, just non-verbally. She hugged him so tightly that if he were a breather, he'd be struggling for air. He slipped out of the tight embrace just in time to see the twins attempt the same thing with Ingrid. They obviously failed miserably, after practically being shooed away like stray dogs. Some things never changed.

Vlad and Ingrid departed the car park. Once they were out of sight they flitted to the alleyway Vlad had hidden their capes in, only to find them missing. Oh no! No capes meant no bat transformation. Well effective ones anyway. The siblings turned around in their panicked state to see their father looking down at them, two capes in his hands.

"Well, well children. I'm disappointed in you. Why didn't you tell me you were going to this school reunion?" the count stated. "How did you know about the reunion anyway?" asked Ingrid very angrily. "The invite on Vladimir's desk," answered their father. "Which reminds me Vladimir, your paperwork may be a little disturbed. A little mess that's all." said the count, that was obviously lying. Vlad just huffed. Typical that he or Renfield searched through his desk. For bats sake it was called his desk for a reason. Whilst Vlad had been inwardly cussing his father, Ingrid had been doing so outwardly. They were close on summoning lightning, when Vlad stepped between them. "Could you at least try to keep your anger in until we're home?" Vlad pleaded in a rather annoyed tone. Surprisingly, both went along with it.

The count handed them their capes and they took off. Ingrid and the count were set for Garside, planning on screaming at each other. On the other hand, Vlad had planned a little scenic route for himself.


As he and his siblings hopped in the car, Robin felt rather content with himself. He'd successfully found his old best mate. He'd successfully exchanged numbers with him. He'd also successfully help save a life. An ambulance had turned up to help Jonathan. Before running off, Robin had told Vlad to heal Jonathan, so his injuries weren't extreme. Robin didn't really know Vlad could do that, and neither did Vlad. He did so quite to the surprise of both of them, and Jonno was now in the hospital due to a broken arm and leg. He assumed it was because Vlad was the Chosen One.

Robin opted to naming the new number he'd received 'Vlad'. Whilst doing that, he spotted something woosh past the car window. It circled around again. The black blur flew past multiple times, until it grabbed the window of the passenger seat where Robin was sitting. It was a bat. The same one he'd seen flying into the alleyway before the reunion. It was then he realised it was Vlad. Robin mouthed supposedly the bat's name. 'Vlad?' The bat nodded, smiled, then flew off into the night sky. Wicked!


Hope you've enjoyed this story! I don't know if I'll add an extra chapter to this cause I like how this chapter ended. Mabey I will, but it'll be rather short, unless I miraculously manage to stretch it out.

I'll just act as if this is the last chapter so: Thank you to everyone who read this! I actually got to 500 reads today, like what?! I'm so grateful for the attention this fic got! Extra thanks to the reviewers!

As always, please review ~ Minty