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said
while being half out of breath “mom is not the same as you
remember. I am hoping to God you can calm her down.”

    “ I love your family and will do my
best.” Both of the erupted into the house heading to the living
room where Marcos put his arm out to stop John for a moment” O.K,
John catch your breath. We can’t have her seeing us like this.”
John nodded to Marcos. Oddly John did not seem winded.

    “ Is that my baby’s Johnny out there I
here?” came from a sorrowful woman’s voice inside the doorway of
her room “come here sweetie. I miss you and my baby”

    The woman broke into an uncontrollable
weeping fit. She had her arms out for John to come and embrace her.
John sat at the edge of the bed and pulled her up to him allowing
her to kiss him on his head and he too began cry.” We are your
family and we need you to be a part of it even though she is
gone.”

    “ Mom, I know not what to say. I miss
her so bad and wish it had been me and not her.” John said with
great pain in his swollen and crackling voice.
    “ I know, you have always been good to
her. Nothing was your fault, baby.” “Mom I am going down to check
on dad”

    “ Alright, I am sure he needs some
slowing down.”

    She held John tightly in her arms slightly
rocking him like a small child.“Baby, you are not to blame. I lost
my daughter and do not want to lose you too.” John sat up pulling
himself away from her, trying to calm down.

    “ You won’t, mom, but I think I need to
leave for a while and get my head straight,” John said in a sobbing
voice “ I need time to figure out what is going on with my head and
to try and get rid of these nightmares.”

    Sandra sat for a moment looking at this boy
and started to caress his face with one hand “Baby, maybe you need
to get away and not have so many reminders, but where would you go?
You have no family to speak of.” “I think maybe Europe I keep
seeing Europe in my dreams, which are not nightmares.”

The Questioning
    In a cold drafty castle off of the Baltic
Sea were several people walking through a corridor as on dirty
blonde stood staring out the window at the blackened night, looking
out at the star covered sky. “Galechka, I have some questions for
you.” came from a tall European man’s voice with a slight lisp in
it. ”Not again, your questions are growing so tiresome,” she
responded in a cold and defiant voice. “Why oh why, did you save
that dirty human in the States? I did that was it and it is over!”
“It was a risky gamble you took that could have exposed us to the
humans. How could you do it for a human that you had never met and
certainly was not even your familiar?” Drakus said with a
commanding voice. “Why are you so troubled by this? I am not your
woman and this is not your coven!” The doors bursted open and there
stood Adela the leader of their coven. She glared at Drakus and
headed toward Galechka placing her hand on her shoulder and
whispered to Galechka “Is he ever going to understand that you are
not interest?” Galechka just laughed at the comment. ”Drakus, this
is my coven and I am the only one that can question anyone about
anything pertaining to this coven. Do you understand this?” Adela
said with a voice that was oddly beautiful but had a smoky sound to
it that was full of power. “But, but she placed us all in danger,
Adela.” He said in a more emasculated voice. As the two women
walked went to another room to talk alone.
    Adela was close upon two thousand years and
was one of the strongest still alive. She herself being one of the
few ancients left had acquired a lot of strength through the years.
You see a vampire gets stronger and gains other abilities the
longer they are alive. There are only three other ancients left on
Earth besides the ghost stories of a shadow group that the ancients
are afraid of and do not mention.

    “My dear I must also ask: what
compelled you to do such an act?” Adela asked as she