Previously
Fort Dawnguard
Aeliana: Isran! Move the team as soon as you know, we need to attack Volkihar Castle!
Isran: Let's stop for a word! Why are you so sure we're not walking straight into a trap?
Aeliana: Harkon is very weak, he no longer enjoys Molag Bal's support, in fact he has been stripped of his power.
Isran: Then we might have a chance. I heard you also killed the remaining members of the Volkihar clan in Riften. Not many people can stand on his side anymore.
Aeliana: Very few, although I still expect a tough fight. If your people are ready, we can go.
Isran: Okay, we'll pack up the gear and food, then we'll leave in the morning. We have a long way to go.
Aeliana: Where is Serana?
Isran: Upstairs, I feel like she's been waiting for you to come back.
Later
Serana: Leana! I thought you would come earlier, you were away longer than we had agreed.
Aeliana: Sorry, I was tied up.
Serana: Who? Haven't you met Sofia? She went after you.
Aeliana: It doesn't matter, and yes. She's not with us now, I sent her away, I don't want her to get in trouble.
Serana: Don't lie, I can tell you're worried about something.
Aeliana: The ground just slipped a little from under my feet, but I'll pull myself together.
Serana: I'm not asking you, but I have a feeling it's something to do with Mephala, isn't it?
Aeliana: Yes... Look, we'll discuss everything, but now we have to prepare for the journey and the fight. Are you ready to face your father and kill him?
Serana: My father died a long time ago, he's just some kind of imitation, and he's also weak. Of course, this won't make it the most uplifting act of my life, but I've resigned myself to it.
Aeliana: I understand. I'm sorry, I'm really not very well, but at the same time it can't be easy for you either...
Serana: Come with me.
Aeliana: Where?
Serana: Take a bath. The water here in the fortress is not the best, but there is a warm water pond down in the valley. We swim and clear our heads.
Aeliana: I don't think this is the best idea and...
Serana: No excuses, you're coming!
At the lake
Serana: This is going very well now. I could still feel the ash from Solstheim, almost absorbed into the skin.
Aeliana: More so than the claw marks of the victims as they scramble for their lives...
Serana: Leana, what about you? What happened in Whiterun?
Aeliana: All I can say is that Mephala keeps reminding me of what I agreed it. Even if I have to pay a big price for it.
Serana: This is not surprising, Molag Bal is no different. If you have any trauma, you can tell me, maybe that will make it easier for you.
Aeliana: I'll take the chance, but for now let's just relax. I don't want to think.
Serana: Okay. I know something that will make you feel better without words. Come here.
Agmaer: I can't be that lucky, I just wanted to spy on them while bathing...
Later
Now I'm leaving quickly before they notice...
Where did my clothes go? I must have thrown them here.
Serana: Peeping isn't nice, boy.
Agmaer: I wasn't peeping, I just wanted to catch a few fish for tomorrow's trip, right...?
Aeliana: You wanted to catch them with your cock, is that why it stands like a stone? Maybe you could do it for bait...
Agmaer: No-no, I... I better go now...
Serana: Shall we let him go? Or should we play a little?
Aeliana: Maybe. Have you ever been with a girl at all?
Agmaer: Yes. There was a breton girl in my village who...
Serana: Okay, okay, let's see what you can do.
In a hidden corner of the fortress
Serana: Is your blood that delicious?
Aeliana: Serana, don't!
Agmaer: What are you doing now? Shall we not finish?
Serana: Come on, it's just a boy, he's going to die in battle in the front line. Does it matter if you are now or then? I thought you wanted that too.
Aeliana: I don't want to kill any more innocents.
Serana: Does Mephala think that too? Remember that when...
Aeliana: I know, but we'll leave him alone.
Serana: Fine, so be it.
Agmaer: Are you really leaving me here?
Days later
Isran: Here we are. Everything is suspiciously quiet and deserted.
Serana: Only a few of them could stay here, they will wait until we enter the gate, and then they will ambush us. We could camp here for weeks, but they wouldn't come out even then, there are many sacrifices in there whose blood they can feed on. We have to make the first move.
Valerica: Not without me.
Serana: Mother! Are you still with us?
Valerica: I won't let my daughter face this monster without me. Leana, your intentions are still not entirely clear to me, but you have proven that you are with Serana, and without you we might not be here now. Thanks.
Aeliana: We started this together, we'll finish it together.
Isran: Let's go!
Inside
Isran: They can turn invisible, they can be anywhere. Everyone just be very careful.
Vampire: You bastards!
Serana: The time has come.
Valerica: Harkon can be in the church. Only the three of us go in there, everyone else stays here.
Isran: Are you sure you'll have enough? I can still handle it.
Serana: Brute force and some magic aren't enough here. My father is very dangerous even when he is weak, you would be taking an unnecessary risk.
Isran: Let it be if you say so.
Aeliana: Head inside!
In the church
Harkon: Well well... Mother and daughter struggle side by side to make sense of their hypocritical betrayal.
Valerica: The only one who turned traitor is you, Harkon!
Serana: What did you think, my father? You have become obsessed with this madness, this prophecy that we don't even understand. You killed other vampires, while you cast us aside, stigmatizing all our actions.
Harkon: I feel your mother's anger on you, Serana. She filled your head with what she believed to be real truths, while she didn't see the possibilities that I see. If the sun stopped shining in the sky, we could rise up, we would no longer have to live confined within limits. Those few sacrifices are nothing compared to what we would get in return, don't you understand?!
Valerica: You are completely crazy. No wonder Molag Bal turned away from you.
Harkon: We don't owe him anything anymore, if the prophecy is fulfilled, we can be our own masters and not his puppets.
Aeliana: Enough of the bullshit! Let's fight and find out if you are worthy of a merciful death!
Harkon: You will be the first one whose blood I take, because of you my family turned against me!
Serana: You did this! You're the only one who can blame!
Harkon: If you really think that, then you are completely lost. Perish all of you!
Valerica: ...and that's it.
Isran: Thank you Serana and Valerica. I know it must not have been easy to turn against your own blood. You have saved us, and perhaps all of Tamriel.
Serana: It was never given to us to be a complete happy family. He wasn't like that once, but he was blinded by power. I'm sorry, but it had to be this way...
Aeliana: What do you want to do now?
Valerica: I'm going back to my study. I want to finish the experiments I have been working on for years.
Serana: If you don't mind, I would stay with you. The least is that if you helped me, I will help you too, no matter how difficult the obstacles that life throws in front of us.
Aeliana: I'd love it if you'd come with me.
Dawnguard Soldier: Sir, you should see this. Down by the cells...
Isran: What did you find?
Serana: Elisha?!
Aeliana: Maybe you haven't been as useful to Harkon as you hoped?
Elisha: Shut up! Finish me quickly and then go.
Serana: Don't expect to get away with that! Isran! Put a shackle on her and peck her mouth out! We take it with us.
Aeliana: What are you doing, are you crazy?
Serana: No, only revenge is sweet...
Edited by D3vilizeR
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