First day at work

Barnabas woke up early in morning to hunt before long day ahead with no where to go, he found that Angelique was up already as well.
He sit up on their large bed and rubbed his eyes, pulling his morning jacket on before he walked to the door. His witchy wife was nowhere to be seen and he didn't want to wake up his children yet.
"Good morning" He heard Angelique's purring voice whispering to his ear and soon she wrapped her arms around him.
"Hm.. Morning. Why are you up so early? I woke up and you were not beside me. You know how I dislike awaking like that."
He felt her lips press against the skin of his neck, "I'm sorry my love.. I promise I'll make it up to you."
Barnabas turned around, loosely wrapping his arms around her middle.
"You did not answer the question."
Angelique sighed, "I have to get started with Angel Bay."
Barnabas raised his eyebrows, "Why can I not help you with it? You would not need to awake three a clock in morning to go do everything by yourself."
"Barnabas if you're going to keep me another lecture of your family's honor, you know I will only make you see how miserable Collins family is."
"You are a Collins, Angelique. You should value the name as well."
Angelique rolled her eyes, "I will see if there is something you could do." She leaned to kiss him and pulled back, "I already killed few rabbits so you and children will get breakfast. I will come home as soon as I get business started with."
Barnabas sighed heavily, looking down. "Thank you.. " He turned to go back to bedroom to continue sleeping, but he didn't make it far when he felt Angelique taking hold of his wrist.
He tried to hide his smirk of his successful try to make Angelique feel like she needed to do something to make him happy again.
"Is there something else I must remember?" He asked.
"No." Angelique shake her head and turned him to face her. "What if you'll just come with me to work? We can take children to back room of my office and they can play there."
Barnabas looked surprised, he had not dared to imagine Angelique would warm up to his will to work as well so soon.
"We would... Work together?" He asked.
Angelique smiled a bit, "Only if you promise to work by my rules."
Barnabas rubbed the back of his neck, "I have become rather familiar with your rules, it should not be a problem."
"Good. then you go awake the children and give them their blood while having your own, and I'll make carriage ready to take us there."
Barnabas nodded, "We shall be there soon."
 Angelique looked after him for while before she go out to get horses and carriages.
"Poor, sweet Barnabas... Believe everything so easily.." She thought aloud while getting carriages ready.
Soon enough her sleepy children came out with their father who had dressed up so well she couldn't help but smile.
"Hello handsome."She smiled and kissed Barnabas.
He smiled, looking at her rather simple but pretty dress that showed her natural curves better than many other dresses in that time did.
"You do look lovely as well."
Angelique laughed and got into carriages with her family, "Once Angel Bay starts working daily, we will gain the wealth more than Collins family business ever did."
Barnabas looked at her, narrowing his eyes, "Right now, Angel Bay will be family business as well. I consider it as we only change the name and few technical things. Job is practically the same."
Angelique didn't have a heart to tell him that Angel Bay will never work under Collins name, but only her own. She did had in mind to offer job for Barnabas to help her with paper works and to train the workers, but she didn't have any intention to make him one of the owners.
  When they got to the place, Barnabas got out of the carriages and looked shocked to see that huge, red building was already there and Collins cannery was burned.
"What on earth is this?!"
Angelique got out and go open the door to Angel Bay. "It's new beginning my love."
Barnabas kept staring at destroyed Collins cannery. "But.. Our family's hard work.. It's all gone.."
"This is new place to work hard, come along." Angelique said pulling him with her.
"When this was build?" He asked.
"I started building when I killed your parents. I ordered them to build new cannery in name of your parents will to make business larger. Well, when they died, it became useless for Collins business so I took it. And that burned little cannery you used to call work place, was destroyed by villagers when you came out to be a monster."
 "Your cruelty known no boundaries." Barnabas muttered.
"Everything is allowed in love and war." Angelique smiled sweetly. "There will soon come many people for interview to get a job. You help me choose best workers in town. And if you happen to find someone suitable for servant to Collinwood.. By all means."
Barnabas nodded just slightly to express his understatement.
"Children, you go there and entertain each other. If you need us, then call for us."
"Alright mother." Children mumbled one after another, going to back room.
Angelique looked at Barnabas, "My sweet darling, don't be so down. We are working together now."
Barnabas nodded again, "My parents.. Died for nothing."
"They died for your sake. Now Focus. We have job to do."
Barnabas looked at her, "Why won't you bring them back? For me. I swear I won't be such coward to hide us. I cannot! We have children! I would make them accept us."
Angelique folded her arms to her chest, looking at him sharply.
"Please?" He tried one last time.
"No."
"Angel, our children need their grandparents. My parents would love them."
Angelique laughed, "Of course, they'd be thrilled to have three monsters as their grandchildren."
"Please, I would make them understand."
Angelique rolled her eyes, "I will think about it, but I don't promise anything yet."
Barnabas smiled a bit, "I will make it worth it."
Angelique raised eyebrow but said nothing, sitting down next to him and took some papers, giving half of them to Barnabas.
        After good four hours, they had gathered many young, strong man to work for Angel Bay and the cannery started working during the same day.
"You certainly did not waste time." Barnabas admitted, watching people working.
"Time is money, and long time is a lot of money." Angelique smiled and kissed him. "Come now my love, we have parent-duties to take care of. There's whole new day tomorrow."
"Can we just leave them?"
"Yes. They know what the price is if they fail." Angelique nodded and go get her children.
 Barnabas looked after her. She sure did know how to make people fear her.
She came to take hold of his arm and pulled him with her, opening the door to back room just a little so they saw how their children played together.
"Aren't they adorable?" She whispered.
Barnabas smiled, "Indeed they are. Our perfect little ones."
They watched their children play for while until Angelique cleared her throat to get their attention.
"It's time to go home."
Their children followed them out of the cannery, complaining hunger.
"We will have dinner when we get home."
"There is only couple servants left." Barnabas said.
"So? I gave them orders this morning." Angelique said.
"When?!"
"While you were still sleeping."
Barnabas saw it best not to ask more. He had learned to accept that Angelique was able to get many things done at once. Perhaps it was the benefit of her witchcraft.

New beginning starts from past.

  "I don't want to time travel! Do I have to?" Jonathan complained.
"Shut it, we are all going back to the end of 1700 century." Angelique said sharply to her eldest son.
"Angel, don't be so harsh." Barnabas said, wrapping his arms around her from behind and dropped a kiss to her shoulder before he looked at his son. "But you indeed must accept that what your mother says is true. We are all returning to where we belong."
"And live up together all those centuries we lost." Angelique smiled, leaning back into his embrace.
Barnabas made slight sound of uneasiness to the thought of living forever, but he swallowed his pride to defend his will to be once again mortal, knowing Angelique won't take it well.
 Jonathan sighed and rolled his eyes, "Fine.."
Isac and Jasmine joined them shortly and Barnabas loose his hold of his wife even she didn't seem to move anywhere from him.
 "Alright, Angel Bay will keep working as it is, nothing changes the company, so all we need to worry now is that we all get into the end of 1700 century in one piece." Angelique smiled sweetly and lifted her daughter into her arms.
Barnabas nodded, taking hold of their sons hands. "Do not let go of my hand until I say so. Is that understood?" He asked.
"Yes father." Jonathan and Isac muttered.
 Angelique smiled and closed her eyes, focusing on casting the spell to her family to bring them all back in time...

 "Nothing is changed." Isac said.
Barnabas looked around, "Yes, a lot has changed." He smiled. Lights were replaced back with candles and all electric machines were gone.
Angelique placed their daughter down. "We're back." Her hair had grown back to long and dark.
"Mommy is pretty" Jasmine said.
Angelique smiled to her daughter, touching the girls cheek gently with her hand.
Barnabas let go of his sons and looked at Angelique, "How far back we are?"
Angelique raised eyebrow, "You mean is your precious Josette still alive or not?"
Their children rolled their eyes, they knew all too well not to mention Josette's name to their parents, knowing it always leads to arguments.
 Barnabas sighed, "What would it matter if she'd live? We are married!"
"It sure won't stop you from betraying me again!"
"Hush Angelique! You do not speak to me in that manner!"
Angelique narrowed her eyes, "Just try and stop me, blood sucker"
Barnabas growled, he hated it when Angelique called him like that, and she knew it very well.
"Children, you go and find your rooms" He ordered, not looking away from his wife's cold eyes.
 "Fine" All of them muttered, knowing better than trying to interrupt their parents arguments.
When children had gone up the stairs, leaving the couple alone, Barnabas took hold of Angelique's neck.
"You know how much I dislike when you talk to me like that."
"Go on, slaughtering me yet again things surely will get better!"
Barnabas growled, throwing her away from him.
"Oh no you don't." Angelique said, taking hold of his arm.
"Leave me be!" Barnabas snapped.
Angelique smiled, "Hmm. I don't want to." She turned him to face her and kissed him.
Barnabas should have seen that coming, but still she got to surprise him.
He gave up he fight he practically had lost already and kissed her back.
"I really wish you'd stop calling me like that." He muttered.
"Aw, my poor, sweet darling." Angelique purred, "I promise to try find some other way to express my anger next time."
"What if you tried not to get angry at all?"
"Could you be able to not make me angry?"
"I will certainly try."
Angelique smiled, "Then we're even" She slid her hand under his shirt to caress his chest, "No more fights my love."
"Hm.. No.. Of course not."
Angelique leaned to kiss him again before she looked around, leaving him long for her warm touches more but he seemed to accept it quite fast.
 "We better go see that our children are fine in their rooms without any electricity as they are so used to it."
"Of course, as you wish." Barnabas nodded a bit, climbing up the stairs after her.
They did not make it to their children's rooms before their children came to find them, all complaining of boredom and uselessness of the era without any fun.
Angelique looked at Barnabas who seemed to be hurt of his children's hard critic of his own time.
"Shut it!" Angelique hissed and all three got quiet, looking at their mother, knowing that tone of her voice meant that they better listen to her.
 "We can get back to our time later, but now we will stay here so get used it. Make yourself useful and go get candles to your rooms, place them somewhere safe place so you won't burn yourself. Me and your father will come soon light them up for you."
Barnabas watched his children go back to their rooms without any word to argue.
"Thank you." He said quietly, looking after the children.
Angelique placed her chin to his shoulder, "I know you loved your home as it is now. This time, manners, values... And I love you."
Small smile appeared to his lips of hearing her words, "You do make excellent wife Angel. I knew it all along."
Angelique laughed and tied her long hair, "Well we better go put the little monsters to sleep, and then I have a bath to prepare for my lord."
Barnabas lifted her up into his arms and kissed her neck, feeling her pulse and gently bite her skin with his fangs, "You will be joining me Mrs.Collins."
"Mm, as you wish my love." Angelique smiled. "Come on, parent duties first, then fun."
"They better fall asleep soon" Barnabas muttered, making Angelique laugh softly.
Lighting up candles to children's bedrooms and few candles to hallways, Barnabas decided to search for new servants following day.
"You do that, I have to get started with Angel Bay." Angelique nodded, pouring hot water to bathtub.
"Can I not work beside you? You know how this time is not females to lead" Barnabas complained.
Angelique looked at him sharply and he seemed to give up.
"You know how much my business means to me" She sighed.
"As much as mine meant to me! Until you destroyed it!" Barnabas growled.
Angelique placed her finger to his lips, "No fights."
Barnabas bite her finger gently with his fangs, "I'm starving.."
Angelique smiled, letting her dress drop to the floor, "I can imagine that you are."
"May I?" He asked, licking his lips, his eyes finding her pulse from her neck.
"Feed my love." She nodded, gasping softly of feeling his fangs sink into her neck.
She rubbed his back gently, letting him feed. She knew there would be few serious arguments coming about the leading of business.