I sit alone in my room still question my decision of sleeping with Dracula. I have to say of all the dumbest decisions in my life that is definitely at the top of my list. I hear a clock chime and see it is midnight. My decision has to be made.

I enter the ballroom on the arm of Dracula. The whole room is full of his brother's and sisters which I am guessing means other vampires. We approach the center of the room.

"Dear family and friend tonight I have invited you all to witness the turning of my new but original bride. Stolen from me long ago, Serenity bow to our guests." He says to the crowd then to me.

I bow to the crowd as he takes me in his arms. "I will not lie to you my dear this will hurt but only for a moment." He tells me.

I look about the room as he moves aside the hair that was guarding my neck when I hear something going on behind the main doors of the ball room, I am not the only one to hear it as Dracula turns his attention away from me and to the door.

"What's going on?" I ask him.

The doors open and there is no one there. "Keep still my dear." He tells me as he takes me in his hands and kisses me.

I can't help but feel this passion between us but then another part of me feel so wrong just having him touch me. He slowly back away from our kiss.

"Just go along with whatever I say." Dracula tells me as he puts something on my neck. "The time has come, I shall give my bride eternal life." He says as he bites down on my neck.

I don't feel anything sharp though as he uses his leg and kicks my feet out from under me and I fall to the floor and close my eyes.

"Within a matter of a few hours she will be up and ready to feed. Please allow us this time as our private time." He tells his guests as they all somehow disappear.

I open my eyes and see Dracula on top of me in bed. What the hell did I pass out again? He leans down and kisses me as I realize he is still dress as am I.

"Rest now my love, I will return and start our new generation of vampires." He tells me as he walks out the door.

I jump out of bed and put my cloak on and ride off into the town. Carl sits outside the church not really sure why at such a late hour but I stop the horse there.

"Where is Van Helsing?" I ask him as he slowly looks up at me.

"Inn room 2" he slowly replies to me.

I run into the hotel and make my way into room two to find Van Helsing asleep on the bed as I bring the light up. He slowly start to stir and looks at me.

"Nice dress, did you go through with the whole changing thing?" he asks me as he slowly sits up.

"He says you stole me from him and he I just can't believe he and I" I can barely finish my sentence while looking at him.

"Serenity I have been with you since Ancient Egypt, I can even tell you what you were called back then Natari. Does that spark anything?" he asks me.

To be honest yes the name does sound very familiar to me. I suddenly feel my neck and notice there are no marks or anything like that.

"He needs you alive to produce the children unlike the other brides." Van Helsing tells me.

I stand still as he stands up and comes to me. "That dress doesn't suit you at all" he tells me as he rips the dress. "You want to remember something true huh? I will gladly help you with that." He tells me as he pushes me on his bed.

"Wait what are you doing?" I ask him as he takes off his sweater.

"Tell me where he touched you and I will erase it from your memory. I will show you our memories if I can awaken them." He tells me as he kisses my neck.

This time for some reason my mind and my heart agree with each other and allow me to kiss him. "I will make you remember no matter what I have to do to you." He says.

As he continues like he said memories of my olds pasts and him and I being together in them start to flash through my head. He is so tender and kind with me. Another plus I am actually awake with him as well. My heart start to remember a love I once had for him.

The next morning I wake up in his arms with all of some of my memories restored. I open my eyes and can see the sun is out even if just for a moment. I look down and see his arms beside me. "Gabriel" I say softly though not to wake him.

I can feel the loving and warming heat coming from him. Then Carl with his wonderful timing busts in the door. "Oh well hello you two." He says.

I quickly pulls the blanket's up even high on me as Van Helsing slowly opens his eyes. "We were well ju-" Van Helsing start.

"Save if you two have been together over thousands of years I am sure this isn't the first time you were caught in the act." He tells us with an odd smile on his face. "Anyway Serenity I have good news for you, Dracula can't bite you its kind of like your blood is toxic to him. Quite possibly the only thing that could kill him for at least 100 years." He tells us as he sits on the chair.

"Carl that is good news but we aren't wearing anything under here and I think she want to get dressed." Van Helsing tells him.

"She better hurry and get back to the castle if the plan is going to work." Carl says as he walks out the door.

I wrap myself in the sheet and lift up my dress which is pretty much torn to shreds and give Van Helsing a "Really?" look. He just winks at me with a big smile then says "Faster the better".

I roll my eyes and am able save the top but I now need bottoms. "Any of my clothes here?" I ask him.

"Yeah over in that closet took them just in case." He tells me with a smile as he sits up in bed with the blanket still over his bottom half. "Remember me now?" he asks.

I go to the closet and put on a pair of black pants. "Yes I do actually, I'm sorry I didn't believe you but when he tells me stuff my head just goes blurry." I tell him.

"its something like a spell it has to do with his eyes. Stay strong till the time comes" he tells me as he puts his pants back on and come to my side. "I hate losing you, I don't want to do it again." He tells me as he leans in and gives me a passionate kiss.

I know what Van Helsing tells me is true or else all of my memories would not have flooded back into my head. I get back on my horse and ride back to the castle. This time I knew the truth and I would take Dracula down not only to avenge my family but to make sure he can never reproduce with anyone as long as I live.

I walk back inside just a the sun was rising, I walked into Draculas room lit by candles. There he lay actually in a bed. I don't know why but I was expecting him to be hanging like a bat or something. Maybe too many books I read about vampires when I was younger.

I walk over to the bed and look down on him. Is he sleeping or is this all just a trick and he knows I was gone? I see him start to stir and I back away slowly.

"Gabriel is that you?" he asks as he slowy sits up and looks into the darkness of the room. The candles did not light up much of the room except for around the bed.

"Have you come back to claim her as you own yet again?" he asks as he stands up and starts to walk twords me.

He finally reaches me and looks at me confused. "Serenity? Why do you have the scent of Van Helsing on you?" he asks me.

I stand still trying to think of a way to get me out of this situation. Why did I come in here without any weapons?

He grabs me by my neck and pulls me forward. "I can smell his scent all over you! Why were you with him?" he asks as he throws me across the room into a wall.

Ugh good thing I can't die or else that would have killed me. I stand back up and he comes to me again grabbing my neck and pushing me against the wall. "So he just had to have you before I did?! I should have taken you that night and made you never forget what it was like to make love to me." He tells me as he leans in to kiss me.

"That would require me to love you." I tell him as he stops and looks me up and down.

"Your past did and no matter what you say I will make you mine if I have to search the world for you as I have since the day you disappeared." He tells me as he forces his lips on mine.

I pull away and he laughs at me. I am just a toy for his amusement. "No one here to prevent me from taking you now." He says as his other hand starts to tare the top piece of the remaining dress.

I look and by some miracle there is a mirror above my head. I grabs it and quickly smash it over his head and he releases me from his grasp. I take off running praying that he would not capture me.

"Serenity!" I hear him yell from behind me. I take no time to stop but keep running until I hit a dead end and see him quickly approaching me.

"I have been good to you and did not defile you but nothing will stop me from that now!" he yells out as he grows closer and closer.

As I am about to give up hope I hear something odd "Serenity" I hear someone say my name. I look to my left and see a whispy almost smokey vision of who I can only assume to be my cousin since she looks like the portrait from the castle.

"Grab the torches holder" she tells me. I quickly do as she suggested and pull the torches hold and a door opens. I look back and she is gone. I run through the passage and follow it to a secrete exit of the castle.

I run through the forest not even bothering to grab a horse when I hear wings flapping above me. I look up and see him in his vampire form. He appears right in front of me in his human form. "You really think Gabriel can keep you hidden forever? Even if you did hide I would find you and take you far away." He tells me as he grabs my face. "You belong to me!" he yells at me.

"I do not belong to you Vladislaus!" I yell back at him wondering where that name came from.

He just smiled at me. "You remember my true name. To think I thought you had forgotten all about me." He tells me as he slams me into a tree.

As he held me against the tree. The memories of Dracula's time came flooding back. I was never Dracula's I was Gabriel's. Van Helsing was the one who saved me from being hung. Dracula was nothing but a liar.

"You liar!'' I yell at him. As I start kicking trying to free myself from his grasp.

"So you are remembering the truth, that makes things much more difficult." He says lowing me from the higher point of the tree. "What do you want me to tell you Serenity? It's true you were with Gabriel first but when I saw he had a beauty like you I became jealous as hell. I became infatuated with you. I had to threaten his life to make you come with me and make you mine in the past. Now since you still live I can have you all for myself." He says and he rips my top open.

I try everything within my power to make him stop and just when I am about to loose hope I hear a twig snap.

"Still won't let me be with her will you Gabriel?" Dracula says as Van Helsing walks forward with a steak in hand.

Dracula turns around and looks at him. "Have you not tried that way before? Nothing will kill me no matter what you do." He tells him.

"Put her down and you wont have to have another hole in that old body." Van Helsing says as he approaches us.

"Van Helsing, her blood." Carl reminds him.

"Another time Gabriel when my strength returns to me." Dracula says as he disappears and I fall to the ground.

Van Helsing comes over and helps me to my feet. I look up at him and see true worry was in his eyes. "Are you alright?" he asks me.

I lean forward on my own will and kiss him as Carl turns the other way.

"Come we must get to Rome and gather supplies and return with more help to vanquish him." Carl says as they break their kiss.

"You remember me?" Serenity asks Van Helsing. He smiles and lifts her chin.

"I never forgot you, why else would I have been searching for you all these years?" he says as we begin to walk into town.

~ROME~

Beneath the church we went to some kind of secret order. Weapons were everywhere even weapons I had never seen before. Then a man came up to us.

"Father Thomas this is-" Van Helsing began as the father interrupted us.

"Your still alive, we have records of you as far back as ancient Egypt well you and Van Helsing that is." The father tells me with a big smile on his face.

"May I read them?" I ask him.

"Oh of course, right down the hall first door on your left is the library the man in there will help you." Father Thomas says pointing down the hall and I walk down the hall.

"Father will she be able to comprehend all of it." Van Helsing asks.

"We only have three of her "Lives" recorded so I believe she will be fine." The father tells him as he leads them down another hall.

I was in there four hours pooring through book after book. I read about three of my past lives. One in Ancient Egypt, one in Dracula's time and the other was my life so far in this time. As I read through the pages I saw Van Helsing was all over the pages. He was my body guard in Ancient Egypt. Though we were not allowed to marry my past life loved him very much. No death was recorded for me then though. The story Van Helsing told me of my past in Dracula's time was true. I was married to Van Helsing and Dracula threatened that if I did not come with him he would kill my husband. I went but nothing recorded after that.

I shut the last book as Van Helsing enters the room. "Find what you wanted?" he asks as he sits down at the table with me.

"Yes, it's odd though having someone else tell you or your old memories." I tell him as I stack the books up.

"I know the feeling all too well." Van Helsing says as he sits his hat down and takes off his coat. "Anything about me in those books?" he asks.

I smile and nod my head. "Yes quite a bit actually." I tell him as we make eye contact.

"Did you really love my cousin?" I ask him breaking our eye contact. "I mean there had to have been other women over the years not just me." I tell him as I look down at the table.

"Anna was the only other one besides you. She helped cure me from a werewolf bite and in return I accidently took her life." He tells me.

I look up at him shocked. Did I really hear what I think I heard? "You killed Anna?" I ask him as I stand up from the table.

"It was an accident I swear Serenity please believe me" he tells me as he stands and starts to walk to me.

"When were you going to tell me? After you had me to yourself another night?" I ask him with anger in my voice.

"Serenity listen to me, it truly was an accident. She was giving me the sirum when I attacked her." He tries to tell me.

I put my hand over my mouth is shock. "You are a monster, you took her life like it was nothing?" I ask as I go to hit him.

He stops me and grabs my arm. "Serenity I never meant to hurt Anna, If I could take it back I would but I can't." he tells me as he holds me close to him. "Please forgive me Serenity." He begs as he holds his body close to mine.