Little Vampire Timeline

I  just worked this out today, and I'm pretty excited about it.

The events of The Little Vampire start on a Wednesday, or at the very least late Tuesday night, when Tony awakens from the latest in apparently a long string of nightmares. Here's the whole timeline:

Late Tues. Night/Early Wed. Morning: Tony awakens from nightmare, wakes parents, umpteenth time.

Wed.: Tony gets driven to school by Dottie, gets into fight, blurts out nightmares in class (agan, umpteenth time)

Wed. Night: Parents go to party, Rudolph lands in Tony's room, attacks Tony but then they become friends after saving each other's lives, Tony goes flying for the first time, babysitter worried sick, parents called, parents come home, Tony safe, Rudolph stays the night.

Thurs.: Tony gets into fight with McAshton boys (again), goes golfing with Dad

Thurs. Night: Tony finds Rudolph missing, laments, finds Rudolph comes back, manipulates hapless vampire into taking him flying again, tells about his dreams, learns the events actually did happen and could happen again, gets found out by Rudolph's family and chased off, gets attacked by Rookery, falls into crypt, shares vision with Rudolph's dad, is sent home but he and Rudolph take a detour to terrorize Tony's bullies

Fri.: Tony treats bullies like shit (has them carry his stuff, etc.), Bob's presentation interrupted, afternoon tea, Tony learns about crest

Fri. Night: Rookery baits caretaker, Gregory (older brother) bites caretaker, Rookery shines huge light in crypt and nearly kills all the vampires, Tony saves them, takes them to nearest barn, allows them to stay in his celler, helps them get settled in, Anna teaches Tony to whistle and gives him a dead rat

Sat.: Tony goes with dad to work, runs into Rookery and follows him and Lord McAshton around McAshton's place and the mausoleum, falls into empty grave, gets shut in there by Rookery while latter bullies lord into keeping quiet, Tony whistles, Rudolph and Anna wrap selves up in tin foil and head off to save the day, they find the real grave but not the stone, Tony has another vision, Rookery overhears revelation, Gregory makes Call, Anna goes to cliffs while Rudolph and Tony go back to Tony's place, tear up his floorboards, and find the amulet right when Rookery bursts down the door, Rookery kidaps Tony but runs into vampire cows, headed by Rudolph, off to save the day again, Tony escapes, they get the stone to the vampires, everybody happy, Rookery shows up riding a blimp and picks a fight, Tony's parents (brought there by the vampire parents via hypnosis) fight back and plunge him into the sea again, Tony makes wish, then stands sadly where all his friends used to be Also: Lord McAshton comes to Bob claiming Tony is a vampire, Bob tells the guy to buzz off, vampire caretaker attacks Lord McAshton, both disappear off the face of the earth

Some unspecified time later: Tony sees human vampires who don't recognize him, but he whistles and they do, life is all happy as he gets to catch up with his friends

And that's basically the when part of the setting. The entire plot takes place in less than a week, and when you think about it, this kid basically gets put through a wringer. He's on a hard core time crunch to find a magic stone the vampires have been looking for for three hundred years, he's being bullied, he's got serious daddy issues even though his mom is trying her best to mitigate that situation, he's just moved and they're still unpacking (so this can't have been happening for very long), not to mention the hell Rookery puts him through. It's a miracle the kid isn't psychologically damaged in some way from all this pressure. Maybe he is and we don't know about it. I don't know, but that's something to explore in another post, or possibly a page.