Reflection of a Vampire #21 (End of Part One)

 

THAT night, the first night that the mirror was gone, Rosalie had slept well that night although she dreamed again of Queen Riza. They met each other in the World of Souls which Rosalie could visit because of her ability or hidden power to separate her soul from her body even though she is still alive.

 

Queen Riza was sad at the same time glad.

 

“I am happy you followed my advice. I am sad because I cannot see you physically but I am glad because I know you are safe from the claw of Prince Suryabhan.”

 

“You mean, we only could see each other through my dreams?” Rosalie asked Queen Riza.

 

“Yes, I will miss you Eliazora. I like the time you are now living. I can have fun!” Queen Riza said. “Well, I have a remembrance from the time your living now.”

 

Rosalie saw Queen Riza the smartphone she had bought for her.

 

“It’s a nice thing. It’s like magic. I don’t know how long I could use this thing, but as long its possible, I will play with it.” Queen Riza said.

 

“How are you? Are you okay?” Rosalie asked Queen Riza.

 

“Well, he chained me again. He was angry what had happened, about the mirror. He blamed me. Also the two Martin, that handsome charming man, your ex was gone and also Agnes, the girl friend of your ex and Tim, the brother of Agnes.”

 

“I do not understand.” Rosalie could not understand what Queen Riza was talking.

 

“They were gone by the domain of Prince Suryabhan. I put them inside the mirror.”

Queen Riza said.

 

“How, when the mirror was taken away, there’s nobody, its only the mirror!” Rosalie wondered how Queen Riza, put inside the mirror, four big people.

 

“I change them into bed bugs and prisoned in a tiny hole in the frame of the mirror. Prince Suryabhan was angry about it and chained me.” Queen Riza told Rosalie why Prince Suryabhan chained her.

 

“And why did you do it?” Rosalie asked Queen Riza.

 

“I just want to help you, Eliazora. I am your sister. Sisters are helping each other.” Queen Riza said that she did what she had done to help Rosalie.

 

“What will happened to them?” Rosalie wanted to know what will happen to the four people Queen Riza transformed into bed bugs and imprisoned it at the small hole in the frame of the mirror.

 

“When you wake up in the morning you will know it.” Queen Riza replied.

 

WHEN Riza wake up in the morning, she stayed for a while lying on her bed. She do not have to work but her biorhythm just wake her up.

 

She picked up her phone and began to scroll. She searched news online and she was surprised to read that the garbage man and the driver of the garbage truck were arrested. It was the same garbage truck and the same garbage man that had loaded the broken mirror, Daniel and Roger thrown as requested by her.

 

They were arrested because when the emptied their truck some colleagues seen many chopped bodies. Police was notified and the same evening there was full investigation that run until morning and is still going on. The police must identified the victims.

 

Rosalie in herself, suspected already who were the victims. She went out her bed and went to the kitchen to make coffee for herself when she heard the doorbell. Rosalie looked at who was it and she saw it was Daniel.

 

“Good morning. I know you already wake-up and I thought I will give this to you. It’s croissants, I bought it on the way home from work, this is for you and this is for the children.” Daniel said to Rosalie and handed her the croissants.

 

“You are from your work?” Rosalie was surprised to know that Daniel worked at night.

 

“We were called for duty last night. Again a horrifying murders in the city. I will sleep few hours and then go to work again.” Daniel answered Rosalie.

 

“Okay, thank you for the croissant,” Rosalie thanks Daniel for the croissants.

 

“It’s alright Sweetie, I will come tonight and if you like it, I like to eat supper together with you this evening.” Daniel invited himself for a dine-date with Rosalie in her house.

 

“I like it, Honey. I see you this evening, I will prepare food for tonight.”

 

“No, it’s not necessary. I am thinking Japanese foods. I will buy it.” Daniel said.

 

“Oh, okay,”

 

“Can I have a goodbye kiss?” Daniel asked a kiss from Rosalie.

 

“No, Honey, what I have maybe is contagious. Wait when all this blisters go away from my body.”

 

Daniel nodded, smiled to Rosalie, “See you, Sweetie.”

 

The Forensic Department of the Police concluded that the horrific crime was done at the time when the mirror was loaded to the garbage truck. The victims were also fast identified. The charming handsome Martin; Martin, the ex-husband of Rosalie; Agnes, the girlfriend of Martin; and Tim, the brother of Agnes.

 

The crime was the talked of the town. Almost everyone talked about it. It was also mentioned about the suspicion on Rosalie but it was now proven that she could had not done it, Rosalie’s name was cleared. The police had no evidence to make her as a person of interest. She was not the criminal.

 

Now the police have to focus on the missing of more than fifteen young women. But the police don’t know where to start. Many witnesses were sure that the women entered the house of Rosalie and never came out again.

 

“Why these witnesses insisted that the missing women entered the house of Rosalie, if they entered where did they go?” Armand the team leader was puzzled.

 

“Maybe they wanted her to go away from the neighborhood.” One agent suggested one possibility.

 

“For what reason or reasons?” Armand asked.

 

“Well, she is Asian, and had the color brown.” One agent suggested discrimination.

  

The team looked at Daniel, they waited for his reaction.

 

“There’s no discrimination in the neighborhood. What you must say was that the people were fantast, they imagined things and see what they want to see. These missing young women entered the house of Rosalie and never came out, what happened to them? You all go there and see to yourself if you could come out again that house or stay there and disappear. The people just talked nonsense.” Daniel answered his colleagues.

 

The police could not solve the mystery of the missing women. The murder in the coffee shop which Agnes was the person of interest, was closed and consider solved because of the death of Agnes. The first victim that happened in the square, all pointed to his friend and to nobody else therefore the police dismissed his allegation that it’s a woman and the woman must be Rosalie, because it resembled her. The victim in the bicycle, investigation was still going on.

 

The death of four people in the garbage truck were also unsolved. Investigation was still going on and so of the missing women.

 

ROSALIE’S medication therapy of her hereditary disease continued. Because of Phlebotomy, and the same time with medications, Rosalie condition became better. Excess porphyrins was remove from her liver as she received also intravenous heme treatment. Gradually, blisters disappeared from her body, although she was still sensitive to sun exposure. She also must have a diet less iron and no alcohol. Her Phlebotomy treatment was completed and the doctors said to her, she was lucky that her disease was quickly diagnosed and treated. There’s a sign of remission.

 

Rosalie could not work yet as her work would constantly expose her to the sun. She thought to change job if the doctor would allowed her to return to work.

 

But Daniel had another planned. He asked Rosalie to marry him.

 

“Sweetie, marry me and just be my wife. It’s not necessary for you to work.”

 

“Daniel, the doctors says that my sickness maybe would come back, because it is in my blood. I don’t like to bother you in the future.” Rosalie was still worried about her disease.

 

“Let tomorrow for tomorrow. Now is important, please marry me.” Daniel suggested that Rosalie must not worried about tomorrow.

 

“Okay.” Rosalie said.

 

“Okay, does it means you will marry me?” Daniel was glad and excited.

 

Rosalie just smiled to Daniel. Daniel suddenly hugged Rosalie and they kissed. A passionate kiss of two people in love with each other.

 

Rosalie and Daniel made plans. Their wedding must be simple. And their honeymoon would be in the Philippines, but then Rosalie wanted that they must be married already before having a vacation to the Philippines. Daniel agreed.

 

Rosalie’s house must be sold after the wedding as she and Daniel agreed.

 

That night before the wedding day, Rosalie dreamed of Queen Riza.

 

“How are you?” Rosalie asked Queen Riza.

 

“He just freed me.” Queen Riza replied Rosalie at the same time telling her that she was just freed by Prince Suryabhan from being chained.

 

“He’d chained you for a long time?” Rosalie felt pity for Queen Riza.

 

“I’d sustained it. There’s nothing to do there, boring, there by you its more fun.” Queen Riza said.

 

“Tomorrow is my wedding day.” Rosalie told Queen Riza about her wedding.

 

“I know. Eliazora, I will not discourage you but please be careful. Daniel is a man in uniform if you know what I mean.” Queen Riza said to Rosalie. “Be happy, Eliazora, be happy, only as I said just be careful, and remember you know already you have powers, use your powers in time of need.”

 

WHEN Rosalie wake up in the morning, she thought about what Queen Riza said to her. She must be careful because Daniel was a man in uniform. In her previous life if it was true, her husband who murdered her was a man in uniform, that was what Queen Riza meant.

 

But then Rosalie also thought, she must not let the previous influence the present. Daniel was a different man in a different time. The wedding must go through. Also at present she was not Eliazora but Rosalie.

 

Rosalie and Daniel were married. The wedding was simple. Some Filipina friends of Rosalie stood as her family during the wedding.

 

The wedding was held in a small restaurant. Second marriage to both, Rosalie and Daniel were convinced that their marriage would last.

 

Before going to the Philippines for their honeymoon for six weeks, Rosalie and Daniel together they arranged the things of  Rosalie.

 

“Look Honey, I think I would give these to the children.” Rosalie was talking about a World Ball lamp.

 

“Yes, that would be very nice for them, they learn at the same time the map of many countries.” Daniel agreed that the lamp would be nice and useful to his children.

 

“Can I put this in their room?” Rosalie asked Daniel.

 

“Of course, you would be their second mother, this house is your house now.” Daniel replied to Rosalie.

 

Rosalie went to the room of Daniel’s children who were not home and stayed with their grandparents as to gave Daniel and Rosalie privacy on their first night as husband and wife.

 

Rosalie was just a moment in the room of the children. She rushed out the room, still in her hand the World Map Ball lamp. Rosalie was pale and had fear in her face.

 

“Rosalie, what happen?” then Daniel remembered something. He knew why Rosalie rushed out the room.

 

“Rosalie, come.” Daniel hold Rosalie and they walked back to the room. Then they both stand in front of the big mirror. They both have no reflection.

 

“This is a magic mirror. I’d bought it for the children.” Daniel said and he pushed a button at the side of the mirror. Rosalie saw then they have both reflection. “The children enjoyed as they frank theirs friend with this mirror.”

 

Rosalie was relieved. She had thought for a moment that the mirror would be a portal for Queen Riza and Prince Suryabhan again or that she became already a vampire as what she came to know, that vampires have no reflections.*The End* Remy Dorio