A Fall into Darkness

His Queen

Clark held Katherine close as she slept, the sun had been up for hours and he knew he should go to work but he couldn't bring himself to leave her and go to work. Clark reached over and answered the phone.
"Yes?"
"She still asleep?"
"Yes, why?"
"Want to let me in?"
"Yeah be right there." Clark answered, he ended the call and set the phone down. He kissed her forehead and stepped into the next room.
"Come in,  I'll make some coffee. Mom sent some baked goods over the other day if your interested." Clark said pointing to the plate.
"She still worried about you?"
"Yeah, it's going to be worse when I finally introduce her to Katherine. This will be an interesting introduction."
"That it will, I don't envy that conversation." Bruce said to him. Clark shook his head but handed him a cup of coffee.
"So what brings you by?"
"I checked the mansion her child owned. There is a problem."
"What would that be?"
"Her son and Erik had been busy."
"How busy?"
"In his mansion, chained to walls are humans, but when I was about to start setting them free, thousands of vampires came from the shadows. Katherine can only kill those she knows exist. Two of the older clans have joined to help hide them from her. But that isnt biggest problem."
"What is?"
"They know of a way to capture her and you. You need to becareful."
"I will. Thanks for the warning, if you see anything else let me know."
"I will." Bruce looked toward the bedroom at the same moment Clark did. They both headed for the bedroom and both stopped when seeing the men in the room. A strange sound was heard and a dart hit Bruce in the neck, he fell to the floor unconscious, Clark felt a sting on his neck before his world went black and he too fell to the floor.
"Be sure she has this in her system as well as him."
"What about the other one?"
"Wayne? Bring him along he might make a nice snack for the others."
Katherine moaned and opened her eyes, she felt weak and didn't understand why. She tried to get up and realized she was strapped down.
"Well I see our queen is awake. Good now her king won't be so alone." She heard a voice say, the table she was strapped to raised up until she was almost standing. Katherine turned her head and looked at Clark, he like her was strapped to a table, and like her he was gagged.
"You wish to rule over your people, then you will do so from a palace. Where all will have access to their queen and king."
Katherine suddenly realized they were moving, she wasn't sure if it was a boat or a plane but as if reading her mind the man answered.
"Oh we are on a boat, we are returning to your home country, to your very castle. You see your majesty,  we take you into the country this way no questions asked. I bet your wondering who I am."
Katherine just growled and pulled on the steps.
"You see I am of your very blood, changed before you destroyed Nikolas,  all that blood that was drained from you. You yourself created almost three hundred new vampires, and we created more, the clans in Metropolis and Gotham are small compared to us.  But we waited, it's been almost two years of planning since you found your king, and yes we know who he is. There is an entire village filled with vampires created by your bloodline. Now we do have humans that help us, and they are greatly rewarded. But it will be a long trip, you must rest now my queen." He said plunging a needle into her neck, Katherine's eyes closed and her body went limp. Clark again joined her in sleep.
"Keep them heavily sedated."
"Yes sir."
"Where is the human?"
"Locked in the hold."
"Be sure he is fed. Slip something in his food to make him sleep."
"He's refusing food."
"Then use the darts. The Dark Knight will be a grand addition to our dark family."
"He's the Batman?"
"Yes he is. Just be sure he lives. Go."
"Yes sir."