2- Back 'Home'

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"Who are you?" Katherine coldly asked the men in front of her as she held her pendant tightly.

"I'm Issac and Lord Dracula sent me to fetch for you."

Her eyes widen at her husband needing and wanting her back home. The last time he ever called her was years ago after he sent her the letter infuriated at her for killing the man responsible for their child's death and his pregnant wife. The last he heard of him was a month ago when Lisa was killed. She remembers hearing how he gave the villagers a year to plead for forgiveness, and she wondered if would have done that for her.

"What does my husband ask of me?" 

"Your presence." 

Katherine turns to Carmilla and the other woman who shake their heads. However, Katherine nods fetching for her hood.

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"I didn't know Dracula had another wife."

"Those who know him long know about me. I've been his wife for centuries." Katherine informs her remembering her wedding with him.

"That was till Lisa came of course."

Katherine holds back tears and Issac notices. She wasn't gonna cry for her husband's second wife because she was now somehow considered his second wife. The forgotten one.

When she got to the Castle her breath hitched. It had been years since she last was "home". She held her dress as she walked up the stairs and when Issac opened the doors she hesitated entering.

This was her home, and it now was the home where Dracula married another and had a son.

"Everything alright?" Issac asks concerned for the woman.

"I-I'm fine." 

Her voice breaks as she wipes a tear away. Issac pities the woman he had just met and known very few of. Never had his friend even mentioned her! As they walked a man with blue hair welcomed them.

"This is Trevor. Trevor this is-"

"Katherine Tepes, our Lord's first wife. A pleasure to meet a beautiful miss like you." Trevor bows taking Katherine's hand and kissing her knuckles.

"How do you-?"

"I've researched on you, my lady. I too have just found out about you, yet now I know why Dracula hid you for so long. A beauty like you is like no other." 

Trevor smirks firming up, and making a soft giggle leave Katherine's lips. Issac glares at Trevor who smiles at having lightened up the woman.

"Thank you, Trevor?"

Trevor nods showing Katherine the way to her husband. As she walked pictures of him and Lisa were displayed on the walls where her pictures were once displayed. She held her necklace as she remembered her little girl that was taken from her arms. Was this guilt she felt? Guilt for not telling her husband about their little girl who was killed?

"Here we are!" Trevor smiles and turns to the woman.

Issac looks at the door and back at a scared Katherine.

"You okay?"

"Y-Yes." Katherine nods stepping up to the door and knocking on it.

Both men leave and the door opens. Her husband stood firm and tall as ever as he looked down at his wife for the first time in years.

She wanted to kick, slap, and yell at him! But a part of her wanted to kiss him and hug him tightly.

"You called for me, my Lord?" Katherine asks her husband whose eyes widen.

Even though she couldn't do all the things she wanted to do to him, she still met with him coldness by calling him Lord. For many this was nothing. However, each time she saw or talked to him she always called for him by his name or as "my husband".

Dracula hadn't heard her voice in years! The last words he remembered her speaking to him were, "I love you, Dracula," after he and her had sex and he left.

"Katherine, yes I did. There's no need for formalities, old friend." His own eyes widen at having called her "old friend". How could he forget that she wasn't his friend?! She's his wife.

At this moment, the tears begin to spill down Katherine's cheeks and she turns walking away from him.

"I knew I was stupid for coming, Dracula! I came to do my honor as your wife even after your fucking betrayal only to be disrespected by you once again!" She cried out to him as she began to turn a corner only to be met with her husband's firm chest.

"Get out of my fucking way!" She slaps her husband catching her and him off guard.

He caresses his cheek turning to the woman and turns down at her.

"Forgive me." He bows angering her and earning another slap from her.

"Forgive me? FORGIVE ME?! That's all you're gonna say?!" 

"Katherine-"

"Don't you even dare use my name! You don't dare to call for me! You don't deserve to speak my name! That Trevor guy gives me more respect than you ever gave me in the centuries you and I have been married! Who knows I might marry him and get pregnant with his kid! Won't that be fun?!" She slaps her husband one last time. 

A scared Issac and Trevor watched from a corner fearing for Katherine's life. Ever since Lisa died every little thing angered Dracula, and getting slapped would have her killed!

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She sat across from him and didn't bother to glance at her husband.

"Now may I tell you why I asked for you?"

Katherine nods.

"Katherine, please speak to me. Right now, I need to hear you-"

"Hear me? You should have taken advantage the time you and I were together!"

Dracula sighs glancing up at her pendant. 

"Where did you get that pendant?" He asks wondering where she got that necklace. It was beautiful yet he knew he never gave her such a necklace. Yes. He gave her beautiful jewelry however that necklace was beyond beautiful.

"What do you care you, dick?!"

"Stop fighting for once!"

"I have every right to fight! I should hit you more and cut off your balls, Dracula!"

"I already apologized!"

"A 'forgive me' is no apology for someone whom you cheated on to get married and have a son after leaving pregnant with twins!" She yells out to her husband.

His eyes widen and Katherine looks away turning to Lisa's portrait hanging from the wall.

"I have children?" Joy laced in his voice. 

"Had."

Katherine tears up holding her necklace and getting up walking past her husband.

"The Belmont I killed was to blame." She finally confesses after years of hiding it from her husband.

She steps out of his office overhearing the breaking of furniture and his soft sobs.

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