Dracula

II

Just like they said. It snowed, it snowed so bad that most places didn’t open up. The lockdown in the castle was cancel due to the snow. “ aceasta este cea mai rea furtună pe care o vedem în ultimii ani. toate magazinele și drumurile sunt închise.” The newsman said. “ nu există nici un suflet unul afar.” He finishes telling. Dax turns the TV off.

He lay on his bed, looking up at the pale blue ceiling. ‘If there’s no one out he make it to the castle’ He thought. All he has to do is wait until the snow to slow down or stop for a bit and make his way to the castle. He turns the TV back on to see the weatherman still talking about the storm. “zăpada trebuie să se oprească cândva la miezul nopții, dar a început înapoi aproximativ două dimineața.” The weatherman said. That would give Dax enough time to get there. “ cam la un kilometru de zăpadă de acum, dar mai mult pe drum.” The man finishes before it went over to sports. ‘Two feet of snow is not that bad’ Dax thought.

Dax packed a bag with everything he needs to spend the night. When the snow stopped he headed out to the castle. As he walked he realized that walking in two feet of snow plus ice under it was not the best thing in the world.

About of hour of walking Dax made it to the castle, just in time. The snow started once again. At first, he though the door would be locked, when he tried it, it open. Once inside he closes the door back up. He looked around before making a move to any rooms. He memorizes the layout of the castle. He knows what rooms you can get into and which ones won’t open for no reason once so ever.

He started walking around, first, it was what would have been the living room or sitting room. Soon he walked down a hall after hall until he made it in front of a door he knows that won’t open. Rumor says that this was Vlad and his lover Teo room, where they would so to spend time with one another. No one else, not even his wife was to go to this room. After their death, the door wouldn’t open up anymore.

As he was looking at the door he heard a noise to his left, like someone was walking the hall to him. When the footstep stop, he turn thinking it was a security guard. When he looked he was surprised to see that it wasn’t a security guard.

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Vlad woke to the sight of snow falling. The thought of Teo playing in the snow, making snowman made him smile. He got up out of his empty bed and head to the window. He watched as the snowfall slow and peacefully. Soon the snow picked up and Vlad moved away from the window. Today he was going to have a quiet day. No people no noise just like he likes it.

He walked the halls for a bit until he felt hungry coming on. It has been a week since he last feed on something. He grabbed his cloak and made his way outside. The snow has stopped for now. And by the looks of the sky, it was about eleven at night.

He made his way into the forest behind the castle. He listens, in hopes of hearing a deer or something that would keep his hungry down for more than a week. He walked, stop, listen for about a half an hour when he heard a deer nearby.

He moved to where he last heard it, in hopes that it was still there. He was in luck it was still there and the looks of it, it was an older buck. He moved slowly across the snow. When he buck put his head back down, Vlad made his move.

The buck he feasted on should last him more than a week. He cleaned up in a nearby stream and made his way back to his place. He can’t call it home anymore. For a home is filled with people, talk and laughter, now it's filled with what used to be and cobwebs.

Once he was close to the front door he notices footprints that the now falling snow had yet to cover. Someone was in his place. He followed the smell. First, it was in the sitting room then the kitchen area. Then down some halls. He followed it until he knows where the person was, in the hall of his lover room.

He made his way there once there he saw a boy no a man around his twenties and how the shadow of the moon reflects off him, he looked just like Teo. When the man turns to face him, it was Teo's face looking at him. “Teo,” Vlad said in more of a whisper.

The moment the name left his mouth the man passed out. Vlad walked over to the man and picked him up and took him to his room, where he laid him on his bed. Vlad looked at the man on the bed longer.

‘It can’t be Teo.’ Vlad thought. He was in heaven, Gabriel the Archangel was the one who told Vlad. He also told Vlad that Teo took his own life in hopes to find him in heaven, but when he got there he finds that he wasn’t there. That he made a vow and is now to walk the world. Teo had Gabriel to go to Vlad. ‘Teo wants you to know that he loves you deeply, even tho he can’t be with you anymore, he wants you to find someone to love. Don’t let your kind heart turn black.’

Vlad has never done any of that. He hasn’t found another and he keeps his heart close. But now that he looks at the man in his bed, his heart has other plans now. ‘Maybe Teo sent him to him’ Vlad thought. But could the ‘gift’ love a monster like him?

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Translates: 

aceasta este cea mai rea furtună pe care o vedem în ultimii ani- this is the worst storm we see in years

toate magazinele și drumurile sunt închise-all the shops and roads are closed

nu există nici un suflet unul afară-there not a soul one out

zăpada trebuie să se oprească cândva la miezul nopții, dar a început înapoi aproximativ două dimineața - the snow is to stop sometime around midnight, but started back up about two in the morning

cam la un kilometru de zăpadă de acum, dar mai mult pe drum- there about a two feet of snow as of right now, but more on the way