This is fascinating, I'd like to see you complete it. You've adopted a feeling that is gothic without being graphic that I find raises the hair more so than any slash and gore fic I've read. Additionally, the mysterious feeling you wanted to create is fully evident. You did an excellent job! I understand how a reluctant muse can be the death of a story, but I hope your muse gets her second wind for this one! You're an excellent writer and good original works that don't rely on hackneyed recycled plots are few and far between. I've marked this as a favorite!

I miss Carl...

very good:) i'm looking forward to the next chapter...

Very good :D Any chance we'll have an update soon?? Please?

You need to write more! This is an awesome story as for the place where the village is located you may want to try Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, European countries that are up north. Please update soon, i really enjoy it!

hm...interesting. Dumb question, why is there paperwork for resigning if technically the order doesn't exist?

Your plot is unique, although it seems to be following the whole "Failed Antidote" scheme concerning Van Helsing and his werewolf curse. Well, it is a werewolf story, which is unique in itself seeing as how nearly every author in the VH section seems to be a girl that's in love with Dracula and only writes about him and his love affairs. The girl part, I don't have a problem with, the redundancy of the same "Dracula comes back" or "Dracula finds love" stories, have a habit of making me groan with disdain sometimes.

Back to your story, though. I dig the interesting premise. Van Helsing has to deal with his curse and the fact that due to his curse, there's going to be a mysterious figure with a vested interest in him. Someone other than Dracula. Killing off Carl before he even has a line is gutsy. Gutsy is good by the way.

It was kind of sweet and sad about Van Helsing imagining Carl coming towards him instead of the boy...if, you know, I'm guessing right. Makes you wonder exactly what he had to do with Carl's death...then there's the fact that VH is being sent to capture someone who would be interested in killing him if he carries the werewolf curse. Coincidence? Could the Cardinal really want this to be more than just the final mission for Van Helsing...more like, his final act?

Bum-bum-bum. Good job on the rewrite of Chapter 1, if I'm correct, I think you added the part about Nigel's parents, nice way to flesh him out a bit. Your descriptions in Chapter 1 about the village and Nigel's trek through the forest ar great, but some of them are a tad redundant, well, only one that I noticed: "...soon the wind will carry not just cold wind..." I guess it's alright. How does Nigel know the difference between a twig snapping under a man's foot and a twig snapping under a werewolf's? I'm a homebody myself, so if a twig snaps, all I know is something stepped on it. Ah well..how would it be a familiar sound to Nigel anyway? I doubt Nigel has ran around in the forest when werewolves would be about, right?

Also, I don't think your supposed to have songs in you fics. At all. Not dissing you or anything, but just mentioning it. Whether you give credit or not, I don't think it's allowed.

You killed Carl...

Woah. This sounds very interesting. What was the hunter doing to the corpse? I'm hoping he's just cutting a body part off. But what part? Hm... I must find out.

And I hope you don't go too crazy with the original characters. They're a neccesity in some stories, but more than often authors get carried away with the original characters.

Update soon.

that was cool, i liked the idea, but I think that you need to read through this again, because some sentences didn't flow very well. apart from my incurable problem of annoying people with english related junk, i thought that was really cool. what did nigel see? i hope you post the second chapter soon!

Dissecting the Werewolf.