The Experiment

A/N: This is the prequel to The Gift. I wrote thisbased on a suggestion given to me by : Ravyne Darkfire -Xiro-. This time the focus is on the Hellsing Organization and how they try to deal with a little "experiment". If you have not already: I highly recommend that you read The Gift first.

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Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters except the scientist Dr. Roth and his assistant Kathy Herling both of whom I created for this fic.

3:30 AM: The bright lights cast a pure white glow through out the laboratory, causing the white marble walls and metal appliances to give off a hallow glow. Dr Roth was standing next to one of the metal tables, in his gloved hand he held a syringe, in he other a beaker of clear liquid. On the table before him sat a ripe but plain looking sun flower, it's yellow petals looked green in the strange lighting.

Dr. Roth was a short thin man, his age was 47 and it was beginning to show. With an Indian mother and an English father Dr. Roth was born and raised in London. At an early age he became interested with biology and studied it feverishly. After his graduation from high school his mother, a doctor, talked him into turning his attention to micro-biology. A subject that would be very helpful for a medical career. With this new subject at hand Dr. Roth quickly excelled and earned a PH.D. Upon graduating from collage he was hired by a pharmaceutical company, it was there that Roth was introduced to and captivated by nanotechnology and its medical applications. While working at the company Dr. Roth read every book, essay, article, and lecture about medical nanotechnology, until finally having worked for only one year at the company Dr. Roth returned to the University to take a full course for nanotechnology. Once again he took his studies very seriously, but graduated with a Masters degree.

After his second graduation, Dr. Roth shopped around for funding to start his own experiments. Unfortunately most grants were small and didn't last very long. Forced to jump from grant to grant Dr. Roth decided to go back into pharmaceuticals, that is until he was approached by the Hellsing Organization to be a full time employee. With the promise of a fully stocked laboratory, money, and the freedom to work on side experiments Dr. Roth jumped at the chance and signed on immediately. As of that day he had been working in lab for over two years, creating various biological and synthetic applications for the Hellsing Organization to use for their missions.

Tonight he was working on one of his side experiments. After learning that vampires existed, Dr. Roth became obsessed on discovering how they were able to stay virtually immortal. He was sure that in vampires he could discover the key to immortality. Tonight he was starting his latest experiment: He would inject a flower with vampiric fluid and see the effects it had on the flowers decay.

Carefully Dr. Roth filled the syringe with the clear liquid, pushed out the air bubbles and stabbed the needle into the stem. Once it was done Dr. Roth took the flower and placed it into a chemical chamber, which would simulate the decay felt over a span of two years. Turning it to the lowest amount he shut the lead doors and went to bed.

At 8 am that morning Dr. Roth's assistant Kathy Herling arrived at the Hellsing Laboratory. She was a young attractive woman in her late 20s, with long black hair and green eyes. Her figure was slim and well kept by a daily regimen of excise and a healthy diet. She also had a strip of freckles that ran across the ridge of her nose. She was recruited upon graduation from collage by the Hellsing Organization and promised a life time job, with financial security that couldn't be matched by anyone else.

Kathy enjoyed her work at the laboratory but hated any visits from Integra. Who was almost always accompanied by Alucard, who Kathy found terrifying. Knowing that seemed to bring the Vampire a good amount of joy and he would relentlessly torture Kathy by popping up behind her, talking to her with telepathy, and threatening to suck her blood. Each time Integra would assure Kathy that Alucard would not harm her in anyway and that she was not in danger. Yet every day Kathy would make sure she had garlic, wolf bane, and silver of some kind with her when she went to work. This morning was no different.

"Dr. Roth?" she called into the empty lab, "Dr. Roth, are you in here?" she asked louder. Receiving no reply Kathy set her back pack into a corner and put on her lab coat. She then quickly washed her hands and slipped on some green latex gloves. At that moment Dr. Roth pushed open the door and entered with a tray of hot coffee. "Good morning Doctor." said Kathy taking the tray, "Good Morning Kathrin. How are you feeling?" Dr Roth answered with a smile. Kathy shrugged "Fine, I guess." she took a cup and tried to carefully take a sip. Unfortunately she burned her lip instead.

"You guess?" asked the doctor, "Your not feeling sick are you?" he touched her forehead checking for a fever. Kathy shook her head, "No No, I'm fine, except for my lip now." she touched it gingerly and winced. "Well, glad to hear it," Dr Roth said stepping around her and walking deeper into the lab. "I wouldn't want you catch anything here, that would be a disaster." Suddenly a light ping was heard, coming from the chemical chamber.

"Ah its ready." Dr. Roth exclaimed happily from the back room "Kathrin could you please remove my experiment from the chamber."

"Sure thing doctor." Kathy went over to the chamber and unlocked the door. Steam billowed out, as foul fumes fill her nostrils. As the steam cleared Kathy saw a limp, pale green sun flower. Reaching into the chamber she grabbed the pot to picked it up, suddenly the flower came to life. It faced Kathy and opened its newly formed silver colored eyes and hissed. Kathy yelped let go of the pot and slammed the door shut. She started to hyper ventilate, and shudder. Dr. Roth entered the main lab and stared at her.

"Kathrin, what's wrong? Your all pale." he asked. Kathy pointed to the chamber with a trembling finger, "In-in-in t-t-t-here. The p-plant, the plant is alive." Dr. Roth looked confused, "Define alive?" he asked squinting, "Alive!" Kathy exploded "As in it attacked me!" she walked over to a chair, sat down, and wrapped her arms around her self. Dr. Roth was surprised "Kathrin, that plant can't attack you. Its only a sun flower." he said sympathetically. "The fumes must have caused a hallucination." he thought to himself, Kathy shook her head "No, maybe it was a sunflower but its not anymore. It really attacked me. Check for your self if you don't believe me."

Dr. Roth sighed, walked over to the chemical chamber, and threw open the door. Hiiiissssss!! "OH SHIT!" Dr. Roth yelled and slammed the door shut. Kathy looked at him satisfied "See, it's alive." "Yes, I can see that for my self thank you." Dr Roth rubbed the back of his neck, "This has never happened before." he mumbled. "How many times have you tried this experiment?" Kathy asked, "First time." Roth replied. "OK....and what did you do?" Dr. Roth looked at his assistant. "I injected the flower with vampiric fluid." he admitted.

Kathy's eyes widened "You did what!? Which vampire's?" Dr. Roth shrugged. "I don't know, I filled out a form and they sent me a few pouches." Kathy was shocked, she could never have imagined that vampiric plants would be another one of her worries for the work day but here it was. "Well what are you going to do?" She finally asked. Dr Roth bit his knuckle, "I'm going to have to call Integra and ask her to come over here. I'm pretty sure she would be interested in this discovery." he replied. "Integra? Here?" Kathy asked meekly, "Are you sure you can't take the plant to her?" Dr. Roth shook his head, "No thank you, I would rather not risk getting an injury. I'm sure she won't have any problem in coming here." he said reaching for the phone on the wall. Kathy sunk into her seat and moaned, "If Integra is coming then Alucard is coming, and if Alucard is coming, I'm going to be tormented without end." she thought unhappily.

To be continued...