Okay, so first of all I am so so so so so so sorry that I haven't updated! :( It's been almost a year (Oh god, has it really been that long?). I've had multiple family issues, and some recent deaths and as this is my GCSE year I have also been filling my time with revision :/ and exams :(

I won't promise anything, but I'll try to update this story more regularly, it's almost finished, just 2 or 3 chapters left to go now! Then there may be a sequel, depending on what people want. I have some ideas in the making, but I'll only write it out if people wanted me to…

So, I hope you had a spooktacular Halloween filled with garlic and fangs!

On with chapter 16!

Vlad's P.O.V

"Where's Evelyn?" I demanded as soon as I burst through the great wooden doors, narrowly missing the sun just beginning to peep out from behind the clouds. "Where is she?"

"Vlad, what do you want me to do with the girl?" Bertrand enquired from behind me, roughly jerking Chloe's arm and, with an audible click, her arm popped out of its socket. She seemed stunned for a second, but then came the scream, the ear-splitting shriek of pain that echoed off the bare stone walls of the corridor.

"Be quiet" Bertrand said roughly, and momentarily I felt sorry for her. But then I remembered what she had done to Evelyn and told myself that I would never allow myself to feel sympathy for her ever again. My Chloe was gone, that clever, funny girl full of compassion was gone, and that feisty spark that made Chloe stand out had disappeared. Instead, bitterness had taken over her every being and consumed the old Chloe from the inside out, and she let it.

Chloe had reduced her screams to a soft whimpering, the tears rolled down her face as she scrunched it up in pain.

"Vlad, please…it hurts" Chloe moaned pitifully, hoping that I still held affections for her.

I turned my back on her, I couldn't stand to look at her any longer.

"Take her to the dungeons Bertrand, do whatever you want, I don't care, but for bat's sake, don't let her go"

Bertrand viciously yanked Chloe forward as he deliberately walked slowly to maximise the pain, it was events like this that reminded me just how vampiric Bertrand could be. But I didn't care anymore, I knew my dark side would be strong, but I never imagined it would be this strong, it seemed that now every thought I had was tainted with spite and evil, with one exception…Evelyn.

I guessed that they had taken Evelyn straight through to our bedroom and so I sped there as fast as I could, but I froze in the doorway.

She was just lying there, inside the confinement of her coffin, her face was pale, even for a vampire and her skin was covered with black veins. She was shaking and her flesh was sunken and clinging to her bones, her eyes remained shutting, but I could only imagine the shade of black they must have been.

"Vlad, do you have it?" Ingrid urged, and was in front of me with a flash.

"What?" I asked, slightly dazed.

"The antidote, I saw you get it. Please tell me you have it Vlad" Ingrid snapped, she seemed to be truly upset over Evelyn's condition and it reminded me of just how far things have come, gone were the days where Ingrid wouldn't even acknowledge that things called emotions existed, now I swear I saw the hint of a black tear forming in the corner of her eye as she glanced back towards Evelyn.

"Oh that, yeah, I have it" I said, handing it to Ingrid. I felt totally numb as I watched her dash towards Evelyn and handed the small bottle to Wrenfield. I felt like somebody had hit me in the chest, I couldn't breather properly; I was rooted to the spot. I couldn't move even if I tried. I had never felt this way before and it scared me, I felt like I had been stripped of my senses.

"VLAD!" Ingrid shouted, bringing me out of my reverie. "I said, come over here and hold Evelyn's arm down while we inject this stuff into her."

An overwhelming sense of panic flooded over me as I moved closer to Evelyn, I hated to see her like this, and this only increased my hatred for Chloe. That stupid little girl had nearly ruined everything for me; I could never find it in myself to forgive her, never.

I watched Wrenfield draw the clear liquid up into a syringe and discard the bottle on the side, he wrapped a dirty rag around her arm and tapped the inside of her elbow, finding a vein, a hard task when she hadn't fed in days.

"Wrenfield, you do know what you're doing don't you?" Ingrid asked as she looked at our dishevelled servant with his filthy hands and blood-encrusted needle.

"Well, er, mistress Ingrid, er…no, not really" Wrenfield stuttered "But on the plus side mistress Ingrid, I will know what to do for next time."

"Just get on with it" the count muttered from where he was leaning on my coffin

Wrenfield hesitantly held the needle over where he thought was a vein, and, screwing his face up he plunged the needle into her arm, earning no response from Evelyn. I watched as the transparent liquid entered Evelyn's vein, at first glance it seemed like nothing was happening, but if you looked closer you could clearly see that the antidote was slowly creeping through her vein, strange considering she had no moving blood anymore. As it travelled up her arm, the blackened veins and ashen skin gradually disappeared and her true skin colour was revealed, her arm was all clear now, and the antidote seemed to be spreading faster, speeding towards her long dead heart and up towards her sunken face, ridding her of those ugly black lines and revealing her true flesh. Even with her blood deprived body being in the state that it was, she had never looked more beautiful to me, in that moment I felt such a rush of love and pure adoration for that girl that I couldn't stop myself from leaning over and kissing her on the lips, the way I knew she loved. When I opened my eyes I felt something that I later identified as disappointment, part of me, however small and subconscious it was, had hoped beyond hope that it would work out like the breather fairytales I had read as a child and that true love's kiss would wake her from her slumber. But her eyes remained sealed shut, her body not moving an inch. If I ignored the discarded needle and the part of people in the room, I could almost imagine that she was sleeping, just sleeping, ready to wake up at any moment and complain that she was starving, or that I should have woken her up earlier. She would spring out of her coffin and wrap her pale arms around me, leaning into me on her tip-toes and kissing me slowly. She would wind her fingers into my hair and whisper that she loved me, and then drag me to the wardrobe to hold all her outfit options while she chose what to wear. If I closed my eyes I could still feel her lips on mine, taste her skin on my tongue. I couldn't lose her; she was my unlife, my everything. She was the reason for my existence and I couldn't imagine a life without her. I would rather turn to dust than be without my Evelyn; I loved her too much to live without her. She was my soul mate and I loved her with all my dead, unbeating heart. I needed her, she was the only one who could possibly keep me from being consumed totally by my dark side, and stop the power I held from going to my head, Evelyn brought out the best in me, she helped me keep my humanity and my sense of right and wrong. The lines between good and evil are easily blurred in the vampire world, staying true to what is right is a hard thing to do in the vampire world. Without Evie I would end up a mess, I would be everything I strived not to be, and everything my reflection strived to be.

"I'm sorry master Vlad, There's nothing else I can do" Wrenfield Muttered, stuttering slightly "We'll just have to wait and see if she wakes up."

"She will" I answered immediately, I couldn't even consider the possibility of a world with no Evelyn.

Wrenfield looked at me with an almost sympathetic expression

"But master Vlad, there is no telling what will happen if she wakes up. Her brain might be damaged from the lack of blood" Wrenfield carried on hesitantly, he knew how I could get when it came to Evelyn.

"No, no, we saved her, we gave her the antidote. She'll be fine. She will, just you wait and see." I declared, shaking my head, it wasn't going to happen, it couldn't. How cruel must the world be if they were going to give me back my Evelyn then take her away from me again. It was like the worst form of torture.

"Vlad, listen to him" Ingrid said to me softly, placing a hand on my arm.

"NO" I shouted, ripping my arm away from her, "You're all such pessimists. Evelyn will be fine, I know she will. She's strong, stronger than all of you put together!"

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Chloe's P.O.V

The pain! I had never felt such pain before in my life, it was unbearable, but I had to. The curly haired one threw me into a cell, making sure to tug on my wounded arm. I screamed out in pain, and he suddenly appeared in front of me, holding my lips together.

"Shhh little breather" he murmured quietly, his face pressed close to mine, he was the definition of a scary vampire. He was so cool and calm; he showed no emotion apart from the occasional glance of disgust. "I promise this won't hurt…much"

"What do you want from me?!" I moaned, the pain in my arm continuing to throb, no, not throb, more like somebody stabbing into my flesh, twisting the knife and drawing it out, only to do so again and again and again.

He smiled at me, but it wasn't a proper smile, it was more menacing than it should be, and far more disturbing.

"I want the truth" He growled "I want to know why you took Evelyn, and don't try to protest your innocence; we all know it's not the truth.

"And if I tell you? What then? How do I know you won't kill me?" I stammered nervously.

"You don't" I head him say as suddenly his fingers were wrapped around my wrist, his fangs glinting in the light.

Oh god, what have I done?

Sorry that it's such a short chapter, but this fic is nearly done and the next chapter should be pretty long as it contains Chloe's trial and basically wrapping up any loose ends but still leaving it open for a sequel! :)

Review! Tell me, should I write a sequel? Would you like me to?

Sorry once again about the massive gap of nearly a year! I'm a bad bad person :(