~Present~

I sit there in my chair and watch Serenity as she sleep, I can still see the princess in her personality. She is definitely not one to take no for an answer. She was willing to risk her life for me then. Would she still do the same for me this life? A part of me knows that she would always stay by my side. I still don't see how she could sleep so long, it was only a blood draw.

Finally she starts to stir and her eyes open up. "Ugh needles and I are not good friends. Never have been and never will be." She says as she slowly sits up.

"Careful now, don't want you to fall off and get hurt." I say as I steady her in the bed. She looks over at me and give me a friendly smile.

"I can't believe I slept that long, it actually felt good to sleep and not worry about someone sucking your blood." She says as she starts to relax a bit more.

"I have to go and check on what Carl is doing. Are you stable enough to come with me?" I ask her as I stand from my chair.

"Go ahead I will be out in just a moment. Uh Van Helsing I need to find some new clothes too. Everyone can sees a little more than I want them to of my chest." She tells me with a little giggle.

"Well there are mostly men here but I will see what I can do. I'll wait in the hall for you." I tell her as I walk out the door.

He walked out the door and I slowly stand from the bed. I can't believe I passed out over just a little blood draw. Could I be anymore embarrassed? I wish I knew more about my past lives, I mean it's nice to see it on paper but I wish I could hear about it like first hand. I don't know if Van Helsing remembers all of it though, or if he would even want to talk about it.

I walk to the door and open it to see Van Helsing talking to one of the other friars. "Yes, I will go look in the lost and found and be right with you Van Helsing." The friar says then walks the other way.

"He is going to look in the lost and found to see if he can find you something else to wear." He tells me looking down at my chest.

"My eyes are not there Van Helsing." I say as I take him head and point it up to my eyes. "That's better."

"Forgive me, come we have to find Carl. He has to be down here somewhere." He tells me as I look about the room.

"Van Helsing I do have a question but I don't want to upset you with it." I say as he stops and turns to me.

"Ask me anything. If I can answer the question then I will." He says.

"Do you remember what I was like back in Ancient Egypt?" I ask him nervous he might get angry for bringing up the past.

"Yes, I remember you very well. Why do you ask?" he questions me.

"I wanted to know if I had changed since then you know? What was I like in my other life?" I ask him hoping he can fill in some of the holes.

"You were much like you are today, strong and brave willing to risk your life even to save someone you don't know at all." He says as he gets lost in his memories.

"To save someone like you?" I ask him curious to know.

"You did save me, you paid off my debt and kept me from losing anything." He says with a smile.

"If you don't want to tell me about the old me I understand." I tell him as he looks about.

"I will tell you but not now we need to find Carl and see what progress he has made." he tells me.

"Oh" I say as I look down with disappointment.

"You still know how to make that face." He tells me as he takes his hands and holds my face. "I will tell you all I can remember about our past possibly tonight but we need to see what Carl is up to now. I promise." He says and I smile back at him.

"I understand, lets go find Carl." I say as we make our way through the tunnels.

Finally in a small room off to the side we Carl and he is molding bullets. "What's all this?" Van Helsing asks.

"Ah I am glad that you ask, I mixed some of Serenity's blood in with the metal when I was molding the bullets. I just hope it does the trick." He says as he looks at one of the bullets.

"How many did you make?" I ask him as I look around the room.

"12 rounds, so six for each of you. We also have some arrows with your blood on them as well so if need be you could use them as well." Carl says showing them the arrows. "The only problem is that I don't know how much of your blood is required to stun him let alone kill him." He continued.

"Only one way to find out." Van Helsing said as he load his gun with six of the bullets.

"Make sure you have a clear shot when you use them. This might be our only chance especially is he collected his three other brides." Carl says as he hands Serenity the other six bullets.

"What do you mean? The more brides he has the more power?" I ask confused not hearing this before.

"Something like that, the power the brides draw all go to him so in a sense yes." Carl tells me in a roundabout way.

"We will leave first thing in the morning." Van Helsing says when there is a knock at the door and the friar from before enters.

"This was the best I could find for the girl. Like I said all of us are men." He says handing the clothes to Van Helsing and walking out of the room.

Van Helsing lays out a pair of pants and a vest. "I was wondering where that vest went." He says looking at it.

I pick up the clothes and put the vest on over my torn up top. "Well at least this covers a bit more." I say as I look down and examine the vest.

"Well I need to prepare a few other things. I will leave you two alone." Carl says as he walks out of the room.

"What do you remember about Egypt?" Van Helsing asks me.

My memories came flashing forward again. "I remember something about you and I in or near water and I helped you bathe. Oh I remember when we uh well you claimed me for the first time. I remember dying. My sister she stabbed me but I don't know why." I tell him trying to remember as much as I can.

"She was jealous you were to marry and Prince and she was not, you skipped ahead of her in line for the throne. I held you close to me, we confessed our love for each other. I was there when you took your last breath." He tells me as he starts to get tears in his eyes.

"It's all my fault Serenity, I couldn't live without you. I went out into the desert and made a deal with god. He accepted and I was given a special vial. I went to your viewing room and used the liquid in the bottle to not only bring you back from the dead but give you immortality." He tells me as he tries to move away from me.

"Why are you sorry? I would have done the same thing Gabriel. You were so kind and protective over me. Not only were you my friend you were my love." I tell him as I walk up to him.

"You would have? You remember how we were?" he asks me with hope in his voice.

"I remember bits and pieces but the more I am with you the faster the memories return." I tell him as he turned to me.

"I will never leave you again Serenity, our love has finally found each other again" he tells me as he takes me in his arms and kisses me.

I wake up the next morning next to Van Helsing. It felt right as we made love I had flashbacks of our love in Egypt. I smiled when I felt him kissing my neck. "You know since we are un married this is a sin." I tell him.

"What are you talking about we have been married for years, and I mean that." He says with a smile as he looks into my eyes.

"Let me rephrase that, in this lifetime." I correct myself with a laugh.

"Well lifetime that is different. Do you remember when we first met Dracula in his time?" he asks me.

"Not really, I understand that I was married to you and he threatened to kill you if I didn't go with him." I tell him.

"This is a story I will tell you on the way back to Transylvania. You will learn quickly of his tricks." Van Helsing tells me.

We get dressed and gather our belongings and make our way to the carriage. As Van Helsing says "This is how I remember it."