Chapter I
Seras POV
Seras. Seras Victoria.
Master's voice continued to echo throughout my mind and permeated through each and every cell within my body. It was calling out to me, telling me to, no, ordering me to search every possible surface on both Earth and Hell in order to find its source.
The voice was slowly driving me out of my mind. Every moment of everyday was like Master standing right beside me whispering my name, but whenever I turned around to try to catch a glimpse of him, he disappeared.
It had already been 3 months, 2 days, 5 hours, and 42 seconds since the day that Master disappeared and 2 months, 26 days, 2 hours, and 56 seconds since I finally understood that my Master was is more than a Master to me. Love wasn't the proper way to explain the sentiments that I have discovered within myself. If anything, it was more of an obsession.
It caused me to be on edge.
Honestly speaking, I have had a clean slate ever since becoming a draculina (meaning I haven't killed anyone who wasn't either a vampire or a ghoul). However, ever since the departure of my Master, I have been getting these sudden urges to feed off of the closest living human I could detect. I felt like a caffeine addict trying to find my next fix.
Seras.
A voice reverberated throughout my mind.
"Seras Victoria!"
"W-what?"
Sir Integra had set off a gun trying to catch my attention, and, being the vampire that I am, not responding to such stimuli was a first.
"I've been calling you for the past 5 minutes. Can you tell me what in the bloody hells has been going on in your mind?" Her eyebrows were creased with both worry and irritation.
"Sorry, Sir. It won't happen again."
"You bet it won't. Seras… What is happening?" Her tone started off harsh but quickly turned tender.
"With what, Sir?"
"You. Ever since Alucard left you have been spacing out."
Alucard. She got to call him by his name.
Stop it Seras. You aren't one to be jealous.
I tried to give my best attempt at a genuine smile.
"Not at all sir. I've been perfectly well since Master's departure."
Integra snorted.
"If you expect me to believe that then Hellsing truly is going to Hell."
I responded as surly as I could.
"Sorry, Sir, but I really am fine."
Integra stared at me for a long while. When she finally looked as if she had something to say, she held back once again. Her look then quickly morphed into one filled with determination and authority. Her next words sounded and rang through the silence of the entire room.
"Draculina, you are dismissed from duty as of today."
I couldn't keep up my normal front any longer and panicked.
"W-Wait, what?" I wasn't sure whether or not I heard her correctly.
"You heard me."
Her words forced me to register the meaning behind them.
"Yes, but why?! What have I done wrong?"
"Nothing-" She started.
I cut her off mid-sentence. I could feel my hysteria rising.
"Then why are you dismissing me?!"
"Because you have not let me finish my previous statement. I was going to say 'Nothing. Not yet'. Seras, you know as well as I do that since Alucard left, you have been on edge. You are in no shape to be around an environment such as this!"
"But Sir! I can control it! Don't just cast me aside when Master had also abandoned me!" I was ready to do whatever it took to be able to stay with the organization.
Her left eyebrow rose.
"I thought you said you knew he would return."
I casted my eyes down and fidgeted with the hem of my skirt.
"He will. My body tells me he will but lately I can't help but wonder if maybe he left because of me. Because of how much of a failure I have been as a fledgling..."
"Police girl," I cringed at the old nickname "I am not abandoning you and nor has your Master, as much of an asshole as he is. Relax, you will be dismissed for a time period of 20 years in order to strengthen yourself and learn how to control your insatiable bloodlust as of late. After that set amount of time has passed, you will return and you will be stronger."
Her tone left no room for any arguments or reasoning. I could only bite my tongue and resign myself to her command.
"Understood."