Hotel Transylvania: Dracula, Jonathan
Title: A Gift of Friendship
Author: Kat Lee
Fandom: Hotel Transylvania
Characters/Pairing: Dracula/Martha, Jonathan/Mavis
Rating: PG
Challenge: Sun
Word Count: 500
Summary:
Disclaimer: All characters belong to their rightful owners, not the author.
The sun rose, and all of Dracula's memories of human cruelty and lingering doubts over the human who stood between him and the giant ball of fire that he had not seen in almost a millenia came to a halt. He stared as the sun's golden rays lifted slowly over the horizon and filled his shimmering, dark eyes.
Jonathan and Mavis smiled as they watched Dracula. Jonathan had felt a warm tingle inside of him when he had given his cherished Mavis her first sunrise. He again felt a warmth spreading throughout his heart and soul, but this one was different. His heart belonged to Mavis. He couldn't imagine himself ever being attracted to her father, Count Dracula, but this was different. This wasn't about love or attraction. This was about friendship, kindness, and mercy.
As he watched Dracula's wide smile light up his face, he again heard his words echoing in his mind. He couldn't imagine enduring such cruelty as the ancient Vampire had suffered, as all monsters endured. To be hated because you were different was one thing. He'd been picked on his whole life for one reason or another. There were even those who chose to taunt him because he could sing and they couldn't.
But human beings, his people, did so much more to the monsters they feared. They attacked them. They hunted them down. They slaughtered them. They had killed Mavis' mother, taken his soul mate, his zing partner, from the Count for no other reason other than that she was a Vampire. Jonathan's own eyes shone with moisture.
"Jonathan," Mavis whispered, "are you crying?"
"No," he answered, a bit too hurriedly, and dashed at his unshed tears with the backs of his hands. Then he reached out, grabbed her hands, whispered, "Watch your dad," and pulled her to him.
"I am," she answered, her voice also low so as to not interrupt the Count's moment with the sun. "Thank you."
He squeezed her hand but didn't speak again. This little gesture of kindness could in no way make up for everything the monsters had lost, for all the harm and heartache they had suffered. A lifetime spent helping them could not do so, but he reaffirmed the vow he'd made then, when he'd first learned of Dracula's true story, as he watched his pale face glow with joy now. He could never give him back all that had been taken from him, but he would always be there for him, for his daughter, and for all the other monsters who had become closer friends to him than any human he'd ever known. He dabbed at his tears again and then quickly moved with the Draculas to the safe shadows where they must linger as the sunlight flooded the hotel's rooftop.
Dracula's smile turned onto the boy as he, too, made a silent promise. He'd do his best to never again look at him as a human but always only as his son-in-law, and his friend.
The End
Author: Kat Lee
Fandom: Hotel Transylvania
Characters/Pairing: Dracula/Martha, Jonathan/Mavis
Rating: PG
Challenge: Sun
Word Count: 500
Summary:
Disclaimer: All characters belong to their rightful owners, not the author.
The sun rose, and all of Dracula's memories of human cruelty and lingering doubts over the human who stood between him and the giant ball of fire that he had not seen in almost a millenia came to a halt. He stared as the sun's golden rays lifted slowly over the horizon and filled his shimmering, dark eyes.
Jonathan and Mavis smiled as they watched Dracula. Jonathan had felt a warm tingle inside of him when he had given his cherished Mavis her first sunrise. He again felt a warmth spreading throughout his heart and soul, but this one was different. His heart belonged to Mavis. He couldn't imagine himself ever being attracted to her father, Count Dracula, but this was different. This wasn't about love or attraction. This was about friendship, kindness, and mercy.
As he watched Dracula's wide smile light up his face, he again heard his words echoing in his mind. He couldn't imagine enduring such cruelty as the ancient Vampire had suffered, as all monsters endured. To be hated because you were different was one thing. He'd been picked on his whole life for one reason or another. There were even those who chose to taunt him because he could sing and they couldn't.
But human beings, his people, did so much more to the monsters they feared. They attacked them. They hunted them down. They slaughtered them. They had killed Mavis' mother, taken his soul mate, his zing partner, from the Count for no other reason other than that she was a Vampire. Jonathan's own eyes shone with moisture.
"Jonathan," Mavis whispered, "are you crying?"
"No," he answered, a bit too hurriedly, and dashed at his unshed tears with the backs of his hands. Then he reached out, grabbed her hands, whispered, "Watch your dad," and pulled her to him.
"I am," she answered, her voice also low so as to not interrupt the Count's moment with the sun. "Thank you."
He squeezed her hand but didn't speak again. This little gesture of kindness could in no way make up for everything the monsters had lost, for all the harm and heartache they had suffered. A lifetime spent helping them could not do so, but he reaffirmed the vow he'd made then, when he'd first learned of Dracula's true story, as he watched his pale face glow with joy now. He could never give him back all that had been taken from him, but he would always be there for him, for his daughter, and for all the other monsters who had become closer friends to him than any human he'd ever known. He dabbed at his tears again and then quickly moved with the Draculas to the safe shadows where they must linger as the sunlight flooded the hotel's rooftop.
Dracula's smile turned onto the boy as he, too, made a silent promise. He'd do his best to never again look at him as a human but always only as his son-in-law, and his friend.
The End