Jonathan Gainor (II)

Jonathan Gainor, called Jack, is the son of the sailor also named Jonathan Gainor. His father was killed by Elizabeth Bathory prior to his birth.

Jack Gainor was given a midshipman position in Elsa's Fleet and rose quickly to a captaincy in the early 19th century. During her voyage from Philadelphia to Europe, Elsa became close to jack. At the time she was using the alias Bethany Horton.

He married first to Patience Gainor. Upon her death, he married Elsa who was then acting as the daughter of Bethany Horton, Lisa.

Jack Gainor was fatally wounded in the final fight against Dracula. He crawled to one of Dracula's dying brides and took her blood. He rose again as a vampire.

His history until the 21st century is vague. We know that at some point he started training vampire hunters. In the twenty-teens, Jack, using the name John Bertellus, led an expedition of hunters to eradicate most of Una's line. The end result of that battle was Una as the sole survivor who quickly made the reporter who accompanied the expedition, Brooke, her blooddaughter. Brooke saved her boyfriend TJ by making him into a vampire immediately thereafter.

John Bertellus drained TJ, taking his purity of Venae. Now acting as a Third Blood Vampire, Bertellus started directly assaulting Elsa to seek vengeance for her betrayal. He was killed by Elsa in the final chapters of Blood Reprisal.