Old wounds dripping blood.

  Sharp knocks against the floor told clearly that Angelique was coming in hallway.
One of security guards grinned to Willie, "She ain't in good mood."
Willie, seemingly totally drunk, looked at the guard, "Is she ever?"
 The door opened and Angelique slammed it closed as she entered the room.
"Why are you here?"
"Just checking."
"Checking what?" Angelique hissed.
Willie looked around the room, "Fancy design. You lady, no doubt you have money"
Angelique run her nail down Willie's cheek, scratching blood dripping wound to his face and he winced.
"Ouch, ouch, ouch!! Hey lady! It hurts"
"Too damn good thing you still feel pain. You're going to get a lot more of it if you don't tell me why are you spying on my business." Angelique said, smiling sweetly.
  Willie, whose hands were tied behind his back, was obviously getting nervous.
 Angelique leaned down to whisper coldly to his ear, "Tell me what I want to know.. And you may be saved from Hell on earth"
 Instead of focusing on Angelique's threat, Willie seemed to be fascinated by her looks and femininity.
Angelique slapped his wounded cheek, causing him whimper.
"Last chance. My patience is running out."
"Lady, you ain't have a patience."
Angelique slapped him again, this time scratching few more wounds to his face.
Through Willies whimpering, Angelique leaned towards one of her security guard,
"I want the answer out of him, no matter how, no matter if he'll die afterwards, just get that answer out of him"
Her worker nodded and left to prepare another room for more affective methods to make man speak.
When there was no sign of answer, Angelique nodded to her workers. "Deal with it."
 Couple men nodded, taking hold of Willie's arms and pulled him away.
 Angelique could hear Willie crying out in pain several times before she turned around to leave and go to Collinwood, to find out by herself what her beloved Collins family was up to now.
  As she stopped in front of damaged manor, she heard Elizabeth yelling to David that he must hide.
Angelique smiled. "You couldn't have been more obvious, old woman."
Elizabeth stand still, waiting as she came closer.
"Angelique, now what gives us the pleasure of your visit?"
Angelique smiled wickedly. "My desire to kill the whole family."
Elizabeth got tense but stood still. "You'll never have Barnabas to yourself if you kill us now"
"What makes you think I still want him?"
"You wouldn't have gone through so much trouble if you didn't love him"
"It all was worth it.. To see him fall down on his knees, begging and crying, knowing that he has faced his end."
Elizabeth's eyes got wide. "You loved him!"
"Shh.. Mind the blood pressure old woman." Angelique pressed her hand to Elizabeth's chest, right over the heart. "Listen... The drums. It keeps drumming faster, and faster.. It gets harder, louder.. No, it's you. Your heart. It'll not be able to stand it much longer. Feel it Elizabeth! Feel it beating faster, harder.. Feel it bursting into the flames and explode within you!"
"No!.. Please! No! Help me!" Elizabeth screamed in panic, pain and fear dancing in her wide eyes.
Angelique smiled sweetly, "Don't fight back you fool, it will just get worse if you fight it"
"Please.. Save me.." Elizabeth said desperately.
"Never."
Angelique could see how fear in Elizabeth's eyes turned into pure pain.
Elizabeth tried one last time to get free, but Angelique was too strong, keeping her under the spell.
 At the same moment when Elizabeth fell on her knees, crying out in pain, soon laying on the ground lifeless, Barnabas came to them.
He stood there, watching in shock what just had happened. Then he run to Elizabeth's side, desperately trying to awake her.
"No, no, no.. You cannot be dead. Open your eyes Elizabeth, be so kind.. Open your eyes.."
Nothing happened.
 "You killed her!" He growled to Angelique.
"Good point my love. You shouldn't have try to betray me again."
"Betray you?! I did nothing!" Barnabas answered hatefully, taking tight hold of Angelique's neck.
"Why your drunken servant was spying on Angel Bay then?" She asked, hissing like a snake.
Barnabas blinked, totally confused, loosing his hold of her. "Willie was at your cannery?"
"Yes. Now tell me why and he may stay alive."
"Angelique... I have no idea why he was there.."
"Stop lying to me!"
"I am not lying.. " Barnabas sighed and looked at his dead relative. "May you rest in peace, cousin Elizabeth."
 He run his demonic finger on Elizabeth's cheek until he stand up, facing Angelique. "Stop this now, I beg you. Let my family go, you may do whatever you want for me."
"I want your love. If you're unable to give it, then blame yourself for destroying your own family."
"Angelique! You were so good, you got so much better.. Why you must do this again now?"
"To keep things in order my love. I rule this town now, and no one is going to come in my way. Not even you Barnabas. You either join me, or you lose everything."
Barnabas sighed, "Angelique, reconsider this. We need not open old wounds and-"
"Too late my love. Way too late." Angelique hissed and left back to her car. She heard Barnabas calling her name, but she didn't turn back.
Barnabas was left in his damaged manor, next to his murdered relative.
He sighed heavily and kneel back down to the side of Elizabeth. "Why you had to challenge Angelique so?" He asked from her lifeless face until he picked the corpse into his arms, carrying it farther away to bury her.
 The sight of his dead relative brought so vividly the memory of his dead parents into his mind, that he wouldn't fight back bloody tears that run down to his cheeks.
Only if had been smart enough centuries ago, none of his beloved family members would have suffer.
He let himself bath in his own misery for while until he came to accept cruel fact. No matter what he'd do, Angelique would be always one step ahead of him.
  Angelique's plan was now completed, and Barnabas would be begging her on his knees for rest of his eternal life. That she was going to make sure of.
 Once she got at her house, she took a coffin, placing a curse on it that would capture Barnabas for good, if he ever did even one more mistake towards her. She'd make sure that his prison was total Hell for him.
She sit down and thought about her plan. Now Elizabeth was no longer on her way, but she couldn't underestimate David again. His mother had way too strong affect on her powers.
It had been proven when they had their battle in Collinwood.
 And then there were Victoria and Carolyn. Those little bastards would come back after they notice Carolyn hasn't got back into normal human.
 If Angelique was in luck, Victoria would get killed by Carolyn. Then she had to only worry of Collins bastards, and her own beloved Barnabas.
 Soon her phone ring and she picked it up.
"What?"
"He passed out. We couldn't get any better answer from him but that he met a stranger." She heard her security guard say.
"Stranger?"
"Yes. Some thinks that stranger was the one who ordered this guy here."
"I figured that much out by myself!" Angelique hissed.
"I apologize Miss."
"Good, keep an eye on him. And all suspicious new people around. We will have to find that bastard who sent Collins family servant in my cannery."
"Yes Miss."
 Angelique put her phone away. "Well my beloved Barnabas, that got your punishment little milder."
It still didn't mean she didn't need perfect plan to capture Barnabas and destroy his family. And that was exactly what she was going to do.