Season 2 - Episode 54: Son of A...

## Synopsis

Bjorn, Henry, and Sammie rush to find Severin and find them they do - he is in a boathouse, tied to a chair, with a dead woman in front of them - the missing girl they were trying to find - with her heart ripped out of her chest. Severin looks up at them with burning red eyes and blood dripping down his face, fangs protruding from his mouth. He lunges at them and it takes a team effort to trap and contain him under their silver net until he calms down. Sammie uses magic to look at Severin's memories and find out what happened - she sees Raul kill the girl they found and force Severin to drink her blood. When confronted with this information, Severin admits he's a dhampir - half human, half vampire. Together, they try to decide how to take down Raul.

## Episode Description

Our heroes track down Severin to find out what happened to him... and maybe a little more.

## Key Events

* Bjorn, Henry, and Sammie arrive at the docks to find Severin, tied to a chair inside a boathouse. He is soaked in blood, eyes blazing red, and has two sharp fangs protruding from his mouth. He lunges at them and it takes a considerable effort to contain him and calm him down.
* Sammie peers into Severin's memories and sees that Raul brought him to the boathouse, tied him, and forced him to consume blood against his will.
* Severin finally tells them that he is not a vampire, he's a dhampir - half human, half vampire.

## Summary

Sammie pulls back to herself and tells them that Severin is somewhere near the docks, not too far from them. Bjorn, Henry, and Sammie get back into Bjorn's blood-soaked SUV and head that direction. They try to form a game plan on the way over - again taking stock of who has silver bullets or weapons and reminding themselves that Raul has a powerful hypnosis they'll have to try and avoid. Henry says they need to try and immobilize Raul and Sammie suggests the silver net they used to capture Bjorn when he was in his werewolf form. Bjorn turns the car around to head back to the hotel and grab the net before they make their way to the docks again.

They arrive at the marina. Sammie is sure this is the area. She closes her eyes again and focuses on trying to find Severin and leads them to a small boathouse. A man runs out of the boathouse looking terrified. Bjorn flips out his badge and asks the man what's going on. The man is terrified and splutters out something about a girl and calling the cops before he runs off.

Bjorn, Henry, and Sammie approach the boathouse. The building is small - it has a garage door at the front that is closed and a side door that is slightly ajar. All of the windows are boarded up so that no one can see inside. Bjorn cautiously approaches the side door, silver net over his shoulder and 9mm in the other. Bjorn tries to silently peer through the cracked door. It swings open with a loud creek and Bjorn looks down to see there are bloody footprints walking out of the doorway.

Bjorn, Henry, and Sammie rush into the boathouse, all with their weapons drawn. They spot Severin in the center of the room. He is tied to a chair, his head hanging limply over his chest and hair covering his face. In front of Severin, on the floor, is a young woman. She is very much dead with her heart ripped out. Bjorn realizes the girl is Selena Juarez, the one that went missing from the club.

Bjorn starts to search the room for other threats and Sammie runs up to start trying to free Severin. Before she cuts the ropes tying him, she decides to check him for injuries. As she gets closer, she notices that Severin's front is completely soaked in blood and he seems to be muttering under his breath. Sammie calls out to Severin, telling him she can cut him loose and heal him up. Severin groans and then says, "Sammie? ... Run."

Severin looks up at Sammie with blazing red eyes. Blood is dripping from his mouth and down his throat. Pointed teeth now jut from behind Severin's lips. Sammie jumps back but isn't quite fast enough, Bjorn grabs her and pulls her out of the way as Severin rips out of ropes holding him to the chair. He slashes at Sammie with a clawed hand and then falls to the ground. Bjorn and Sammie run out the door to the boathouse and Henry closes the door behind them. They all hear a *thump* as Severin slams into it. Bjorn and Sammie work together to get the net ready and Henry stands with his gun drawn as back up. Severin bursts through the door and Bjorn and Sammie throw the net. However, despite the net being made of silver, they all soon realize it isn't doing anything to Severin except make him more mad.

Sammie goes to Plan B and lunges forward to try and mind wipe Severin to knock him out as he frees himself from the net. She puts her hand on Severin's forehead and tries to mind wipe him... but nothing happens. Severin grabs Sammie's arm tightly. Bjorn pulls Sammie out of Severin's grasp and pushes Severin away. Severin falls and hits his head off the ground, looking dazed. He lays there, half conscious, long enough for Henry to throw a shield spell overtop of him, allowing Bjorn and Sammie to stretch out the net more securely, and then bring it down on top of him once the shield dissipates. Severin flinches awake when he feels the net come down on top of him. Bjorn tries to tell Severin to calm down, but he doesn't respond, trying to pull out from under the net.

Bjorn asks the others if they have any ideas on how to calm Severin down. Henry says they need to know what happened and those answers are going to be in Severin's mind. Sammie agrees she can try to look into his memories but asks if she gets bit by Severin, and if he's a vampire, if that's going to be a problem. Before Bjorn or Henry can answer, they realize Severin has stopped struggling under the net. Severin snarls at them that he's not a vampire and to let him out. Bjorn doesn't think that's a good idea. Severin says he won't hurt them and that the net stings. Sammie quickly apologizes to Severin before crouching down and putting her hand on his forehead to look in his memories and find out what happened since he disappeared.

Sammie finds herself coming to with Severin, tied to a chair. He can see a girl on the ground in front of him, already looking emaciated and half dead. He looks up to see Raul walking through the door of the boathouse holding a long knife. He stabs the knife into Severin's stomach and his thoughts turn to a blur of red and pain for a while before Raul grabs Severin by the chin and lifts his face up to look at him. Raul tells Severin that he looks a lot like his mother. He bends down to the girl at Severin's feet and plunges his hand into her chest, ripping her heart out with one motion. Raul grabs Severin by the hair and tilts his head back, forces his mouth open, and then squeezes the heart so the blood flows into Severin's mouth. Raul drops the heart at his feet and tells Severin to have fun with his new friends before he leaves him alone in the boathouse.

Sammie pulls back to herself and tells them to pull the net off Severin. She hears Severin call her a 'stupid American' but doesn't realize that it's actually his thoughts and he didn't say it aloud. When they remove the net, they see that Severin's skin now looks a bit burned where the net was touching him. However, all his other injuries - like his broken leg and stab wound to the stomach - seem to be completely healed. Sammie offers to heal him but Severin says that he's fine. Bjorn asks Sammie why they're freeing him and what happened. Sammie briefly explains that he was forced to consume blood against his will, but he's not sure why he had the reaction he did when he's apparently not a vampire. Sammie looks at Severin and finally realizes she is connected to his thoughts as she hears a string of curse words from him but his mouth doesn't move. Eventually she hears him say the more explicit version of 'screw it' before telling them all that he's a dhampir - he's half vampire, half human. Sammie, starting to put the pieces together, asks Severin if Raul is his dad. She again hears a long string of curse words before Severin admits, aloud, that he is.

Bjorn asks Sammie how she knew that, as Sammie hasn't shared any of the thoughts she's heard from Severin, and Sammie tries to pass it off as a lucky guess. Severin thinks to himself that she's not fooling anyone and Sammie shoots him a look. Severin frowns. He then walks to the water, saying he's going to go wash off. With Severin gone, Sammie explains to Bjorn and Henry everything she saw in Severin's memory with Raul as well as that Severin wants revenge against Raul for what he did to his mother.

Severin comes back out of the water to join them. They try to figure out what to do next. Their element of surprise with Raul is gone, so they decide to ambush him and get this over with before he kills someone else. Severin asks if they have the tools to do that and Bjorn tells him they have the silver net, a silver knife, and silver bullets between them all. Before they head out, Henry asks Sammie if she can heal him one more time. Sammie does so, but feels the injury effect her instead. She looks over at Severin and appraises his lack of injuries, asking if he can regenerate. Bjorn says that's pretty obvious and Severin says it's only if he drinks blood, he doesn't need blood but it helps boost his abilities.

Sammie then asks Severin if they need to worry about vampire bites turning them and Severin says they do from Raul - he's not a human vampire, he's one from the Rifts. He adds that some people call them master vampires and gives Bjorn a look. Bjorn knows that the term 'master vampire' is a term only Dragon Knights use and tries to play it off, asking Severin if that means Raul is more powerful than the typical vampire. Sammie can hear Severin go 'eh maybe not,' as he believes Bjorn's ruse and says it does make Raul more dangerous. Bjorn says it would be nice if they could get the drop on Raul, however he's probably expecting them to come after him now. Henry says that if they can confirm Raul is in the country club, they could attack him there. Sammie closes her eyes and tries to focus on the room in the country club Raul has been staying in.

The room is empty for a moment before Raul walks in looking very pleased with himself. He looks around the room and Sammie realizes everything is covered in blood. He opens the door and calls out into the hall, telling someone to fetch "Mr. Miller" as he'd like to have a talk with his daughter. Sammie realizes that Mr. Miller is the Mayor of Thornvale.

## List of Appearances

* Sammie Overbrook
* Bjorn Olafson
* Henry Marlowe
* Severin

## Trivia

In Susannah's "Deep Hollow" books she says that a master vampire could easily, single-handedly take down half a dozen Dragon Knights... so that's fun.