10 Years Later

   Angelique heard noises from hallway and soon fast steps that was coming towards her room.
Soon the door of her office was opened and Jonathan, her eldest son run into the room. Followed by his younger brother Isac and baby sister Jasmine.
 Her security guard came to the door. "I'm sorry Mrs.Collins.. They were too fast."
Angelique raised eyebrow, "Really?"
 Her children laughed and she stood up. "It's alright, leave us." She told to her guard.
 When door was closed, Angelique looked at her children.
Jonathan looked so much like Barnabas, she was hardly able to believe it was their son instead of younger copy of Barnabas.  Isac reminded a lot of his father as well, when Jasmine was her own mirror image from years past.
 "Where's your father?" She asked.
"Working." Jonathan sighed. "He told us to come to you."
"He's always working. You're always working.." Isac complained.
 Angelique smiled, "We're successful because we work."
"I know." All three said at once.
 Soon enough, Barnabas came into the room as well, kissing his wife before he lifted their daughter into his arms and looked at their sons. "Shall we go?"
"Go where?" Angelique asked.
"To hunt."Barnabas answered simply.
Angelique rolled her eyes. Barnabas had taught their children to become serial killers that definitely was never going to be suspected. They innocent children certainly was everything else but innocent.
She watched them go and took her handbag before turn off the lights and locked the door.
 On her way home, she go get bottle of wine and some candles.
Getting a bath ready and lighting up candles all around the bathroom, she recalled all those times in past when they had bathed together. She poured them glasses of wine and sit down to wait until she heard their children running in hallway to their rooms and Barnabas walking around the manor looking for her, finally opening the bathroom door.
 "Angelique.. What is this?"
"Shh!" Angelique gave him a glass of wine and kissed his lips softly. "Happy anniversary."
 "Ah.. Anniversary." Barnabas smiled, kissing her back gently before looking around the bathroom.
"I thought this would be nice.. It's been way too long since we bathed together." Angelique said, taking a sip from wine before let her clothes drop to the floor and go into bathtub.
"Are you going to leave me alone in here?" She asked teasingly.
Barnabas shake his head, "No. No I certainly will not." Quickly undressing he joined her to the bath.
 "Carolyn.. She will return tomorrow." He said carefully.
"Carolyn?" Angelique asked as if she wasn't sure she had heard him right.
"Yes. Victoria has got... Engaged, and she is moving with her fiancé. Carolyn and her.. Companion, are going to come to live in Collinsport." Barnabas informed her.
"You seem to know awfully a lot about them."
"Angelique, Carolyn is my family"
"I am your family!"
"Yes, of course.. But Carolyn is also. We must give them place to stay."
"Them?"
"Carolyn and her.. Boyfriend?"
Angelique laughed, "You're still not used to modern day language."
"And I never shall!"
"Don't be too sure Barnabas, we have eternity to live together."
 Barnabas looked down to the water. "Eternity..." He repeated in tormented voice.
"Yes Barnabas, eternity." Angelique said sharply.
 Barnabas sighed and nodded, "Of course.."
Angelique looked at him for while until placing their glasses down and kissed him, running her hands down his chest and sides, caressing his skin, causing him groan slightly in surprise before he slowly wrapped his arms around her, holding her close.
"I love you Barnabas.."
Those words made it quite impossible for him to resist her. Either it was in good or bad moments, those magical words made him forget everything else.
 Even Angelique had bad habit still get jealous too easily, and act over dramatically, he had to admit he was perfectly happy with her. And her passionate, unpredictable nature made their life everything else but boring.
 We was worried of that their children would get Angelique's temperament, but it was small worry compared to that their mother had so many other abilities that made him happy.
 "I love you too.. Angel." He whispered, his lips against her neck, kissing her skin.
Shivers go through her body, feeling his lips on her sensitive skin.
Angelique wasn't too sure how on earth they have managed to create 3 children already, even Barnabas was basically living dead, but she didn't care. Her dream had come true.
 The day when she was first called Mrs.Collins, she knew she had found that lost piece of herself that had never found its way back home. Losing Barnabas for two centuries had made her too cold, but she was definitely warming up already.
For a cold, living dead creature, Barnabas turned up the heat for her quite too well.
 Suddenly he froze.
"What?" Angelique pulled back, looking surprised. "What's wrong?"
"Josette!"Barnabas called, looking around.
Angelique growled, slapping his cheek angrily, her nails scratching few bruises on his face.
Barnabas hissed, rubbing his cheek until he pierced his fangs into her neck, causing her gasp in surprise and pain.
 She pushed him away, few cracks on her neck healing much faster than decade ago.
She pushed him against the bathtub, kissing him deeply, his arms soon wrapping around her.
Angelique broke the kiss and looked down to him, "How dare you say her name when it's our anniversary?"
Barnabas catch his breath, "I thought I sensed her.."
"Shh!" Angelique commanded, kissing him passionately...

  Next morning when David was preparing the lessons for Barnabas' and Angelique's children, the couple was still locked up in their own room. David knew better than even trying to go knock on their door. He had witnessed way too much for his liking already.
  "Where's mom and dad?" Isac asked when he came to kitchen.
"Sleeping." David said and kept reading the newspaper.
Isac sit down to eat his breakfast, soon getting company from his sister.
"Where's mom and dad?"
"Sleeping" Isac and David said.
Jasmine sighed and sit down to eat her breakfast.
Jonathan came to kitchen, looking around. "They're still sleeping?" He asked.
All three nodded.
"Great." Jonathan rolled his eyes and sit down.
 Knock on the door catch their all attention and David go to open.
"Can I help you?" He asked from blond, young woman with huge baby blue eyes.
"Yes, I am looking for Mr.Collins." She answered with gentle voice.
 "Which one?" David asked, feeling suddenly really dumb.
 The woman giggled, "Barnabas Collins. I am here for the housekeepers job. Help in house work."
David nodded, "Great, come on in."
"Thank you." She nodded and came in.
       Angelique kissed her husband and held back laughter to see him blink his eyes open to look at her tiredly.
"Good morning sleepy head"
Barnabas sighed, "Why must we awake now?"
"You wanted to have interviews for the housekeeper position today and it's already ten." Angelique reminded him and got up, taking simple and elegant black dress to wear.
 Barnabas watched her for while and got up with another heavy sigh, "Very well."
Angelique smiled, "Good boy"
Barnabas couldn't help but smile. "Good? And.. It was way too long time ago when I was a boy"
"Uh huh. Not too long for me to remember." Angelique said with playful wink  as she opened the door and walked through the hallway with him and downstairs.
She froze into her place as she saw who David was talking to.
Barnabas nearly pushed her down the stairs as he stopped right behind her and looked where she was looking at.
"Josette.."
Angelique took hold of his arm. "No! No.. It's not."
Barnabas pulled his arm free and go to greet this young woman, perfect copy of Josette.
 "Oh Mr.Collins, there you are. My great aunt in way back in history, used to live in Collinwood. She was-"
"Bride of Barnabas Collins." Barnabas finished.
She looked surprised but nodded, "Yes. She was. Josette DuPres."
Angelique watched the woman coldly. She knew exactly how far she was willing to go to get rid of that woman.
 Barnabas automatically gave the housekeeper job for this woman. He would not lose his beloved Josette yet again.
 "Angelique, come greet to our-" He looked around, finding his wife nowhere to be seen, he looked at David, "Where did she go?"
 "I don't know." David said and left back to kitchen.
Barnabas got bad feeling, he surely wasn't only one who had noticed how much this woman looked like Josette.
 "Excuse me for a minute. You may go to kitchen, David will introduce you to our children." He said to her and left to find Angelique.
 He took few steps away to go find her, when he heard the door opening and closing.
 Their new housekeeper was out.
He felt like stone had hit his heart.
"Angelique!" He growled, "Stop this!" Then he run after her.
 Widow's Hill.
Barnabas sighed heavily as he carefully followed the girl to the dangerous cliff and took hold of her arms.
"Do not jump.You are under the spell. Fight back Josette, fight back!"
 The girl turned around, looking at him emotionless expression on her face. "I hate you, Barnabas Collins."
Barnabas looked at her eyes wide, too shocked for while to realize that she had already fell.
"No! No! Josette!"
 "You shouldn't have try to betray me again Barnabas, I may have let her live." Angelique said, walking to him and placed her hand to his shoulder.
 Barnabas growled, taking hold of her wrist and pushed he away from him.
Angelique looked down to deathly rocks. "Barnabas, don't..."
 Barnabas looked down, Josette was gone once again. He had lost the love of his life so many times because of Angelique. Because of that cliff.
 He sighed heavily. "Goodbye Angelique."
Angelique looked at him eyes wide, "No! No! Barnabas I love you! I do, I love you!"
She cracked her chest to pull out her heart, "Barnabas... Take it.. Take my love."
Barnabas looked at her delicate heart. He had never wished to see it again. That heart was his heaven and hell. He sighed and took the heart, placing it back to her hollow chest before he pulled her into tight embrace.
 "I do love you Angelique.. With your worse and your best. You are.. My wife."