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Part 2
"So this guy is your long lost son?!" Igor followed Vlad down the halls. Thomas was in the foyer, looking happy and nervous.
"Yes." Vlad smiled. He was absolutely ecstatic.
"And it took the two of you seven hundred years to realize that you were both undead?" The hunchback had his arms crossed. This was ridiculous.
"So vat? I have Thomas back and that's all that matters." He was getting his scrap book, the one he had shown Mina. He wanted to show his son that he had kept the memory close for as long as he had been undead. He opened the cabinet and blew the dust that had recollected on his album off. "Excellent."
"But what will Mina think?" His servant followed him back to the living room.
"Be quiet, Igor." He sat down beside Thomas. Vlad turned to the man and smiled. "I'm beginning to see the resemblance."
The other vampire chuckled. "Pale skin and fangs don't count." Igor rolled his eyes. They had known about each other for, what, three hours? And they were already like two annoying peas in an annoying pod. "And hairstyle either."
"No, no it's the facial shape." Vlad Laughed.
He opened the album and Thomas gasped. "Grand mommy's drawings!" He flicked through the pages. "I saw so many of these vhen I vas growing up. I didn't keep any, though." The vampire frowned. "Vat happened to you? Ve vere all so worried for vat seemed like so long." When one became immortal time passed so much faster, if you didn't count the first ten years or so. Your years as a human were an insignificant base for it all.
"I might fill you in later," The count sighed. "You vouldn't believe how much I missed you. I vished I had seen you grow up." He wiped a bloody tear out of his eye.
Thomas suddenly looked disgusted. Vlad tilted his head, confused. "Sorry, Dad," The man held up his hands. "If I vas younger or liked humans better this may be different, but I grew up hard and alone." He crossed his arms. "I love you, am glad I found you, but I don't look on the past."
"Vat?" His father tilted his head. "I don't either!"
"Seems like it," Thomas shrugged. "But maybe it's just the impression you make."
Vlad shook his head. "Never mind. So, tell me, how have you done for yourself all these hundreds of years?" Of course he meant after being bitten.
"Like I said- hard and alone." The man took a drink from the glass of blood Igor had brought him. "My fiancé turned out to be a vampire and turned me so ve could be 'together forever.' I vas terrified after finding out vat had happened and ran avay from her. After that I only had my new senses to rely on. I got into my sense after the first kill and stuck vith it." He shrugged. "And I've been going from age twenty five."
"Twenty-one." Vlad smiled. "Oh, boy, you outlasted me by four years."
"Maybe I'm just better at surviving." His son poked him in the chest playfully. "Lots of moving, though. You appear to have been here for almost a hundred years." He looked around. "You must travel far for food every night.
"Actually no," Vlad pointed out. "I feed here most often at the house for young vomen; A different one every night and a few of the others around town."
"So you don't kill your prey?" Thomas looked surprised. "I never let one get avay."
"Oh, it's not letting them get avay." Vlad was a bit surprised that the other vampire never let a girl live, but he had been like that for plenty of years. Unfortunately the man didn't seem like the type to be picky and that meant no one, very seriously, ever got out of his grip alive. "I let the younger ones, you know, thirteen or fourteen, live. Before, fifteen through twenty didn't get avay but because of Mina I try not to kill anyone anymore. It's just self-control."
"Self- control isn't my problem." Thomas said defensively. "I just don't care if they live or die. Sure, I von't hurt a little kid on purpose, but everyone else is just there. In a few decades you von't even remember this Mina girl's name."
"That's not true." Vlad sighed. "She's really important to me."
"Good for you." Thomas raised an eyebrow. "But I still vant her sister."
"Ve'll see." His father fidgeted. Thomas was going to be difficult to handle. He looked out the window and saw the sky's deep purple starting to take on pink tones. Dawn was coming. "Do you not have a coffin to sleep in?"
"Awful things to carry around, really." The other vampire scoffed. "I sleep in my bat form. If you don't mind I could sleep on the ceiling of your chamber."
"That's perfectly fine." Vlad nodded.
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Lucy looked tired and rather drained, even two days after Thomas's attack. He had drunk far too much of her blood for the effects to be unnoticeable. Mina was taking notice to the attitude change. Maybe the other vampire the count had chased away had hurt her anyway. She took a bite from her pop tart and looked at her sister with concern. "Do you feel okay?"
"No, pipsqueak, I'm fine." The young woman put a hand on her forehead. "Just really tired lately." She sat down with a cup of coffee to try and bring her perk back for a date with Bobby tonight. "I've felt like this for the last two or so days." The girl stirred her spoon around in the glass. "And I had the weirdest dream that day too."
"You did?" Mina smiled. She liked dreams, because they were so confusing and fun. "What about?"
"It was so strange." Lucy looked up with a faint pained smile. "I dreamed there was this thin guy, kind of like your violin teacher, and he was really cute. But anyway, he was kissing my neck. It hurt, though, I loved it. Then your violin teacher DID come in and they started arguing, but then they both left." She looked back down sadly.
"Ridiculous." Mina sipped her milk. "Vlad doesn't like you and he never will, because you're so goofy."
Lucy frowned. She should have known Mina the Brat would have an insult waiting for her. She got up from the coffee table and grabbed her book bag. "Thanks anyway." When she shut the door a better look of concern came onto Mina's face. She'd have to ask the count about this new vampire tonight.
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Vlad and Thomas woke up at about the same time naturally- the moment the sun went down. The one on the ceiling transformed into a human but forgot he was upside down and, consequently, pin wheeled down on top of Vlad's coffin. "Sorry!" He got up as his father got up out of the box and scratched his head.
"You're good at that, aren't you?" He smiled.
"I don't usually do it." Thomas brushed back his hair. "Just a small faux pas."
Vlad laughed at him quietly. "Sure." He looked at his pocket watch. "Mina should be here soon. Maybe I could introduce you two?" The older vampire offered.
"That vould be fair." The other shrugged. "But don't tell her I vent and bit her sister."
"I von't." the count nodded. Neither wanted Mina to be mad at Thomas right off the bat, so they could bury that little fact. Igor came down the stairs with two glasses of blood tonight. It was difficult to bottle this stuff, so he hoped Thomas wouldn't poke around too long.
"Your evening drinks." He bowed to the two and hoped the new guest would not take it as an invitation to attack him. Instead the other vampire took the glass and gulped it down.
"Thank you, Igor." Thomas patted his father's servant on the head happily. "I vas starving."
"Ve can hunt later." Vlad was trying to put it off. If the man kept up with his 'I hate to leave a job half-finished' thing he might kill more girls around town and have to leave. "But I still vant you to meet my best friend."
Thomas took the time to look thoroughly disgusted at the softness again. He shook it off. "Alright, I'll meet her." There was a knock on the door upstairs and both left the pitch dark room to greet the little human girl. "But I don't think it's good for you to have such a bond vith a little girl. It's unhealthy."
The count sighed. "I know, it's shameful, I've even been put on a tribunal for it. The fact is I really, really like her."
Thomas wasn't going to be one to step in and get rid of Mina because he already cared about his father's feelings, but that didn't mean he wouldn't gripe. "Fine." He crossed his arms and mounted the staircase into a candle lit living room to say hello to Mina.
The little girl opened the door and ran inside. She was about to do the usual so far as greetings- tackling Vlad to the floor in a hug- but spotted Thomas first. She stopped and gave her friend a worried look. "Who's this?" She saw a bit of resemblance between the new fellow, who was obviously a vampire, and Vlad. "He looks kind of like you."
"Mina, I know it's short notice, but-" Vlad came over to put a hand on her little shoulder and motioned to his son. "This is my son Thomas!"
Mina gasped. "Really? He is?" She looked at her friend. Thomas actually looked older than Vlad, but just by a little. She saw a bit of resemblance between the new fellow, who was obviously a vampire, and Vlad. "He looks kind of like you."
"Yes!" The other vampire smiled at the little human girl. "It turns out ve vere both bitten. But, too long between each other to know the other vas alive."
"Almost alive." The Count shrugged. "So, meet Count Thomas Hide, Mina!"
"Count," Thomas chuckled. "I'd forgotten that title. Vell," He got on one knee to shake Mina's hand. "Hello to my father's little friend."
"Hi!" Mina took his large, cold hand. She looked at the count. "Ready to play? I brought coloring books!"
"Sure!" Vlad smiled and took one of the coloring books. He opened it up and took out a box of crayons from a toy chest Thomas hadn't even noticed.
Oh my god, he's worse than I thought. The other vampire swallowed and tugged at his collar. "Hey, dad, vhy don't ve go hunting now? I'm parched." The other two ignored him and he felt a tiny burning ember of jealousy. Plopping himself down on the couch, Thomas tried to tune out the sounds of their laughter.
While Mina and the vampire's father played, he wondered just what had gone wrong where. How did he come into contact with this little girl and why had so much sentiment kept him with her? He swallowed again. Vampires had varying metabolisms and, while Vlad only had to feed every few days, Thomas needed a good serving of blood every night. If he was going to stay with his father, he may have to learn to leave prey alive. He didn't want to do that, though. He despised humans when thought of as anything but food, and now his dad had befriended this child.
Pulling at his shirt collar, Thomas stood up. He'd make a kill in the next town tonight just for the sake of staying away from Lucy. The vampire was getting left out of Mina and the count's joy and laughter anyway. He changed into a bat and flew silently out a window. The flavor of Lucy's AB negative blood still lingered in his mouth and he wanted more of it. He wanted to drink until there wasn't any left. Until further notice, though, he would listen to his father.

Description
Part 2
"So this guy is your long lost son?!" Igor followed Vlad down the halls. Thomas was in the foyer, looking happy and nervous.
"Yes." Vlad smiled. He was absolutely ecstatic.
"And it took the two of you seven hundred years to realize that you were both undead?" The hunchback had his arms crossed. This was ridiculous.
"So vat? I have Thomas back and that's all that matters." He was getting his scrap book, the one he had shown Mina. He wanted to show his son that he had kept the memory close for as long as he had been undead. He opened the cabinet and blew the dust that had recollected on his album off. "Excellent."
"But what will Mina think?" His servant followed him back to the living room.
"Be quiet, Igor." He sat down beside Thomas. Vlad turned to the man and smiled. "I'm beginning to see the resemblance."
The other vampire chuckled. "Pale skin and fangs don't count." Igor rolled his eyes. They had known about each other for, what, three hours? And they were already like two annoying peas in an annoying pod. "And hairstyle either."
"No, no it's the facial shape." Vlad Laughed.
He opened the album and Thomas gasped. "Grand mommy's drawings!" He flicked through the pages. "I saw so many of these vhen I vas growing up. I didn't keep any, though." The vampire frowned. "Vat happened to you? Ve vere all so worried for vat seemed like so long." When one became immortal time passed so much faster, if you didn't count the first ten years or so. Your years as a human were an insignificant base for it all.
"I might fill you in later," The count sighed. "You vouldn't believe how much I missed you. I vished I had seen you grow up." He wiped a bloody tear out of his eye.
Thomas suddenly looked disgusted. Vlad tilted his head, confused. "Sorry, Dad," The man held up his hands. "If I vas younger or liked humans better this may be different, but I grew up hard and alone." He crossed his arms. "I love you, am glad I found you, but I don't look on the past."
"Vat?" His father tilted his head. "I don't either!"
"Seems like it," Thomas shrugged. "But maybe it's just the impression you make."
Vlad shook his head. "Never mind. So, tell me, how have you done for yourself all these hundreds of years?" Of course he meant after being bitten.
"Like I said- hard and alone." The man took a drink from the glass of blood Igor had brought him. "My fiancé turned out to be a vampire and turned me so ve could be 'together forever.' I vas terrified after finding out vat had happened and ran avay from her. After that I only had my new senses to rely on. I got into my sense after the first kill and stuck vith it." He shrugged. "And I've been going from age twenty five."
"Twenty-one." Vlad smiled. "Oh, boy, you outlasted me by four years."
"Maybe I'm just better at surviving." His son poked him in the chest playfully. "Lots of moving, though. You appear to have been here for almost a hundred years." He looked around. "You must travel far for food every night.
"Actually no," Vlad pointed out. "I feed here most often at the house for young vomen; A different one every night and a few of the others around town."
"So you don't kill your prey?" Thomas looked surprised. "I never let one get avay."
"Oh, it's not letting them get avay." Vlad was a bit surprised that the other vampire never let a girl live, but he had been like that for plenty of years. Unfortunately the man didn't seem like the type to be picky and that meant no one, very seriously, ever got out of his grip alive. "I let the younger ones, you know, thirteen or fourteen, live. Before, fifteen through twenty didn't get avay but because of Mina I try not to kill anyone anymore. It's just self-control."
"Self- control isn't my problem." Thomas said defensively. "I just don't care if they live or die. Sure, I von't hurt a little kid on purpose, but everyone else is just there. In a few decades you von't even remember this Mina girl's name."
"That's not true." Vlad sighed. "She's really important to me."
"Good for you." Thomas raised an eyebrow. "But I still vant her sister."
"Ve'll see." His father fidgeted. Thomas was going to be difficult to handle. He looked out the window and saw the sky's deep purple starting to take on pink tones. Dawn was coming. "Do you not have a coffin to sleep in?"
"Awful things to carry around, really." The other vampire scoffed. "I sleep in my bat form. If you don't mind I could sleep on the ceiling of your chamber."
"That's perfectly fine." Vlad nodded.
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Lucy looked tired and rather drained, even two days after Thomas's attack. He had drunk far too much of her blood for the effects to be unnoticeable. Mina was taking notice to the attitude change. Maybe the other vampire the count had chased away had hurt her anyway. She took a bite from her pop tart and looked at her sister with concern. "Do you feel okay?"
"No, pipsqueak, I'm fine." The young woman put a hand on her forehead. "Just really tired lately." She sat down with a cup of coffee to try and bring her perk back for a date with Bobby tonight. "I've felt like this for the last two or so days." The girl stirred her spoon around in the glass. "And I had the weirdest dream that day too."
"You did?" Mina smiled. She liked dreams, because they were so confusing and fun. "What about?"
"It was so strange." Lucy looked up with a faint pained smile. "I dreamed there was this thin guy, kind of like your violin teacher, and he was really cute. But anyway, he was kissing my neck. It hurt, though, I loved it. Then your violin teacher DID come in and they started arguing, but then they both left." She looked back down sadly.
"Ridiculous." Mina sipped her milk. "Vlad doesn't like you and he never will, because you're so goofy."
Lucy frowned. She should have known Mina the Brat would have an insult waiting for her. She got up from the coffee table and grabbed her book bag. "Thanks anyway." When she shut the door a better look of concern came onto Mina's face. She'd have to ask the count about this new vampire tonight.
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Vlad and Thomas woke up at about the same time naturally- the moment the sun went down. The one on the ceiling transformed into a human but forgot he was upside down and, consequently, pin wheeled down on top of Vlad's coffin. "Sorry!" He got up as his father got up out of the box and scratched his head.
"You're good at that, aren't you?" He smiled.
"I don't usually do it." Thomas brushed back his hair. "Just a small faux pas."
Vlad laughed at him quietly. "Sure." He looked at his pocket watch. "Mina should be here soon. Maybe I could introduce you two?" The older vampire offered.
"That vould be fair." The other shrugged. "But don't tell her I vent and bit her sister."
"I von't." the count nodded. Neither wanted Mina to be mad at Thomas right off the bat, so they could bury that little fact. Igor came down the stairs with two glasses of blood tonight. It was difficult to bottle this stuff, so he hoped Thomas wouldn't poke around too long.
"Your evening drinks." He bowed to the two and hoped the new guest would not take it as an invitation to attack him. Instead the other vampire took the glass and gulped it down.
"Thank you, Igor." Thomas patted his father's servant on the head happily. "I vas starving."
"Ve can hunt later." Vlad was trying to put it off. If the man kept up with his 'I hate to leave a job half-finished' thing he might kill more girls around town and have to leave. "But I still vant you to meet my best friend."
Thomas took the time to look thoroughly disgusted at the softness again. He shook it off. "Alright, I'll meet her." There was a knock on the door upstairs and both left the pitch dark room to greet the little human girl. "But I don't think it's good for you to have such a bond vith a little girl. It's unhealthy."
The count sighed. "I know, it's shameful, I've even been put on a tribunal for it. The fact is I really, really like her."
Thomas wasn't going to be one to step in and get rid of Mina because he already cared about his father's feelings, but that didn't mean he wouldn't gripe. "Fine." He crossed his arms and mounted the staircase into a candle lit living room to say hello to Mina.
The little girl opened the door and ran inside. She was about to do the usual so far as greetings- tackling Vlad to the floor in a hug- but spotted Thomas first. She stopped and gave her friend a worried look. "Who's this?" She saw a bit of resemblance between the new fellow, who was obviously a vampire, and Vlad. "He looks kind of like you."
"Mina, I know it's short notice, but-" Vlad came over to put a hand on her little shoulder and motioned to his son. "This is my son Thomas!"
Mina gasped. "Really? He is?" She looked at her friend. Thomas actually looked older than Vlad, but just by a little. She saw a bit of resemblance between the new fellow, who was obviously a vampire, and Vlad. "He looks kind of like you."
"Yes!" The other vampire smiled at the little human girl. "It turns out ve vere both bitten. But, too long between each other to know the other vas alive."
"Almost alive." The Count shrugged. "So, meet Count Thomas Hide, Mina!"
"Count," Thomas chuckled. "I'd forgotten that title. Vell," He got on one knee to shake Mina's hand. "Hello to my father's little friend."
"Hi!" Mina took his large, cold hand. She looked at the count. "Ready to play? I brought coloring books!"
"Sure!" Vlad smiled and took one of the coloring books. He opened it up and took out a box of crayons from a toy chest Thomas hadn't even noticed.
Oh my god, he's worse than I thought. The other vampire swallowed and tugged at his collar. "Hey, dad, vhy don't ve go hunting now? I'm parched." The other two ignored him and he felt a tiny burning ember of jealousy. Plopping himself down on the couch, Thomas tried to tune out the sounds of their laughter.
While Mina and the vampire's father played, he wondered just what had gone wrong where. How did he come into contact with this little girl and why had so much sentiment kept him with her? He swallowed again. Vampires had varying metabolisms and, while Vlad only had to feed every few days, Thomas needed a good serving of blood every night. If he was going to stay with his father, he may have to learn to leave prey alive. He didn't want to do that, though. He despised humans when thought of as anything but food, and now his dad had befriended this child.
Pulling at his shirt collar, Thomas stood up. He'd make a kill in the next town tonight just for the sake of staying away from Lucy. The vampire was getting left out of Mina and the count's joy and laughter anyway. He changed into a bat and flew silently out a window. The flavor of Lucy's AB negative blood still lingered in his mouth and he wanted more of it. He wanted to drink until there wasn't any left. Until further notice, though, he would listen to his father.