DRACULA: A VERY SPECIAL FLAVOUR

Kindred Immortal - Part 2

Foreword; Some of this chapter uses passages from a previous story - The Immortal vows.

OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND, 2020

From the roof top, Count Dracula allowed himself be lead and confined to a cell, with only a small leather bunk to sit on for company. He smoothed hand over the wall, then went to the door and put his ear against it. There was a whole array of voices going on. Too many to individualize. He sighed and sat down onto the bunk and looked down to his shirt. Zoe's blood.

He thought back to recent events that brought him here;

Zoe Van Helsing and the baby were in the medical wing of the secret scientific facility known as the Society. It hadn't taken Dracula too long to find where she was. He arrived in a cloud of bats and stood on the flat roof of the warehouse like building in the Oxfordshire countryside.

The full bright moon that he adored so much, was shining down on him as he approached a skylight and peered through it. A security guard with a handgun was present in the corridor inside.

Was kind of place was this? The Johnny Harker Foundation was not this bad. And this was meant to be a place for scientific research.

He put his hand through the glass of the skylight and unlatched it. He then climbed through, conjuring up an invisible sound barrier around the guards earring.

The security guard was caught unawares as Dracula crawled across the ceiling and pounced on him and breaking his neck killing him.

He picked up the hand gun and examined it, then tossed it aside and strode up the clinical corridor to a pair of double doors. His super-sensitive earring found the cry of a baby. He broke the handle of the door and pushed it inward to see the medical wing. Zoe Van Helsing was on a trolley with her legs up in stirrups. Three people were present with her under the clinical lights, surgically masked individuals in white plastic aprons grasped the infant as it cried in a wrap.

Zoe looked tired, although he doubted it was natural. The woman had been probably drug induced.

With no sound at all, Dracula jumped to the ceiling and crawled along. He could see Zoe's tired eyes look up and recognise him. Dracula put a finger to his lips.

Then a door opened and a woman with auburn hair tied back and wearing a white lab coat came forth. Dracula sensed something about her, but couldn't pin-point it.

"Awwww the child...is it a boy?"

"Yes"

The woman smiled, "give him to me..."

The medic in the surgical mask handed over the baby to her. The woman's eyes looked down to him, "you surely are an enigma, aren't you?"

Zoe moved her head, "I want him..."

The woman who held the baby came to her side on the trolley, "he really is quite beautiful, does he get that from you or his unnatural father"

"Please...I want to hold my baby"

The woman's attitude grew harsh at her, "No...I can not permit it...I cannot take the chance of the boy attaching itself to you"

Dracula narrowed his eyes and looked at the woman. Who was she? She is familiar.

The woman smiled at Zoe, "we need to take samples of your blood Zoe...we need to know how a conception of this has taken place...and learn from it"