The young girl laughed and ran around the courtyard Alucard watched this girl from the balcony aghast at how much the she had grown. He shook his head she wasn't a little girl anymore she was a young lady now. Almost the same age when he had first met Integra the young fiery young woman full of passion and resolve. There darkest secret was running around playing in the courtyard. The child nothing of this secret at all and Alucard would make sure it would stay that way forever. Neither did Integra's husband and her daughter and son. Integra wished to keep that way as much as Alucard wanted too. As long as the girl was seen as an outsider this life of blood and decay would never be hers. It would forever belong to Alucard and his servant the police girl. They believed the girl to be the niece of Walter. Though he'd never admit it to anyone it hurt him to see her like this. Having her have to endure the watchful scorning eyes of everyone around her mocking her.
"Master if you keep watching her its borderline stalking." A woman's voice filled with laughter stated beside him.
"Seras I swear you keep sneaking up on me and I'm going to have your duties redirected to taking care of the little kids." Alucard sneered glaring at the young woman.
"She's coming of age soon you know that her abilities have already begun to surface." Seras stated looking at the young woman, "I can't believe how fast she grew up. Its surprising and shocking isn't it?"
"I don't know what your talking about she's just like any of the other kids in this household." Alucard muttered hiding his emotions behind his blank face; "As to her abilities she'll be fine as long as we continue to monitor her is all."
"You act as though she's just an experiment." Seras stated glaring at her, "She's your-"
"She is nothing Police girl!" Alucard snapped angrily walking away from the balcony and the girl overlooking.
For a while Seras stood there watching her Master walk away she shook her head sighing, "She does mean something to you. As much as you hide it she means the world to you, and it hurts you so much to watch her grow up like this alone and desolate. "
The young girl looked up at the house that she'd been raised in since she was a child smiling she saw Seras a co-worker with her uncle. She could've sworn though that she'd seen Alucard with her though. She was a little scared of him she wasn't lying to anyone. Her uncle told her though that Alucard would never harm her. He'd make sure that if anything that he'd protect her more then anyone else in the building. She never did understand why he'd protect her more then any of the others. She knew little of what they fought but she did know that the enemy was fierce and dangerous.
Sighing she put it away from her thoughts and went into the house. She was tired of running around playing by herself maybe the other kids would let her play with her this time. It was a possibility if nothing. They never really did get along but she was polite and well mannered as she should be. As was expected of her.
Walking into the house she saw Sir Integra's kids playing in the drawing room. She ran up to them and smiling asked, "May I join you?"
The two of them stopped and looked at her with disgust. The boy with disdain in his voice stated, "We don't play with bastard children like you."
Her eyes widened at what he had called her. They had never called her that before it stung and hurt her. Just cause her parents had abandoned her didn't mean she was what they had called her. Casting her head down she felt tears brimming her eyes.
"Have I offended you servant girl?" he snapped grinning at her.
"Besides that aren't you supposed to go and clean the rooms or bathrooms more like it?" The girl snapped at her laughing at her joke.
Peter was the eldest boy though she was older then him he still saw himself as her higher no matter what. He was 13 years this spring in May. He looked exactly like his father brown hair and brown eyes tall and athletic he was the ideal heir to the organization. The youngest girl Sally was much like her mother stern but soft spoken. She only spoke when lesser people would speak to her or when her parents wished to know her opinion, which was often. They were both normal looking children while she the outcast in the household was odd different. She noticed with there normal brown and brown beautifully confident, completely unlike her.
"Of course sorry for the intrusion." She bowed out and walked away till she was out of sight she heard their laughter at her so she ran.
Running and running she ran to the one place in the whole building that made her remotely feel safe. She ran to the lower dungeons that Alucard had showed her when she was younger. She ran into the dungeon room that Alucard and Integra had first met each other. Instantly he said he had respected her. But she never knew that feeling. To be respected was to be wanted and she wasn't wanted at all.
"Why am I so different? Why can't I be like the others?" she whispered to herself crying softly, "I want so much to be normal to be looked at like the others. To be wanted."
She lay down on the cold cement stones. Sighing she fell asleep crying herself to sleep like normally she thought as she drifted of. She dreamt of happier times, a time where she was wanted where she knew her parents where she knew everything. Where nothing was hidden from her or kept secret where everything was just out front in the light shown to her. She knew deep down that she was nothing but a servant's niece and that's how it would stay forever. If she ever did leave here it would be to learn more to serve others. She was stuck as a servant girl forever in her life.
"I can't find her anywhere in the building!" Walter snapped at Seras exasperated with everything.
"Calm down Walter we'll find her its not the first time she's done this before." She stated rolling her eyes, "Last time we found her this time we'll find her. Alucard just as to focus on her energy and we'll find her just like the last time."
Alucard materialized through the wall shaking his head, "I can't find her at all. I can't even sense her aura in the building or anywhere in London."
"What?" Walter shouted, "No that can't be."
"Its cause her powers are coming to the surface she's wanting to hide from everyone so subconsciously she's using her powers to hide." Seras reasoned out, "She doesn't want us to find her. Something happened to make her upset, who was the last to see her?"
"The brats of Integra's." Alucard muttered.
"Be nice Master." Seras stated rolling her eyes, "Alright what did they say to her?"
"The same old that she's nothing but the riff raff of a servant." Alucard stated upset about everything that was happening, "Wait they said something else they called her a bastard child."
"Then there it is they've never called her that before." Seras stated, "She's never known a family before."
"But she has Walter." Alucard stating gesturing to him, "What more is there?"
"A real family Alucard! Not one that we've come up with so that she can feel safe you idiot!" Seras snapped, "Do you know what its like to have no family to be scorned and mocked? No cause you've always been respected no matter what. Not her. No not that young girl."
"I hadn't thought of it that way." Alucard muttered backing away from Seras.
"We'll have to do this the old fashion way, we'll have to go and find her," she stated sighing, "Walter you search the upper portions of the building. Alucard will search the grounds and I will search down here."
"But-" both Walter and Alucard started.
"No buts go just go now! We don't have time to do this." Seras snapped shouting at both of them, "Go! Good god men are annoying."
Both of them high tailed it out of there with the fury of a vampire woman yelling at them. It had to be a maternal thing they both thought as they went to searching for her.
Seras ran up and down opening doors slamming them shut looking everywhere for her she had to find her. No matter what they had to find her. If her powers were leaking into her subconscious then it was only soon that they would come out and bring nothing but trouble for her and anyone else. After watching this little girl grow she wouldn't let anything stop her from growing anymore.
It hit Seras after opening the door to the lower dungeons. She knew exactly where she was and it brought such relief to her. Running she ran to the one place in the whole building that she knew as the one place where the girl felt safe. Opening the door to the lower dungeon where Alucard himself had laid asleep for years and years. She saw a small body curled up where Alucard had been chained to the wall. She sensed her father and had been drawn here she thought tears brimming her eyes.
The figure stirred and looking up she saw Seras silhouette in the doorway the only source of light in the area. She smiled weakly laughing and crying a little, "I'm sorry Seras."
"No don't you be sorry we were all so worried about you especially Alucard!" Sears ran down the stairs grabbing her, "Rachel don't you ever do that again."
"You were able to find me last time quickly why did it take so long this time?" she whispered a little sleepy still.
"Cause Rachel your special and its starting to come out and out more now with you growing up." Seras brushed her long black hair back from her pale face seeing her blue eyes glistening with unshed tears looking at her, "I know what they said to you sweetie but there spoiled brats that don't matter at all so don't take there word. And don't you ever think that we don't want you."
"You always did know what to say to make things better." She whispered softly wiping at her eyes, "I am sorry though I shouldn't have over reacted to their words."
"Rachel its alright don't worry no harm done sweetie." Seras stated hugging the girl close, "As long as you're alright is all that matters."
From above they heard a crash and sounds of fighting. Seras pulled back and running to the door saw ghouls. She didn't know what was going on or how ghouls got into the building at all. Shutting the door she barred it closed. All they had to do was find a way to the others where she could Rachel to a safe area.
"Seras what's going on?" Rachel asked her voice quivering with fear.
"Silent Rachel our enemies our within our walls." Seras whispered softly kneeling beside Rachel.
"Police girl where are you?" Alucard's tempered voice snapped inside her head, "We need you up here fighting not cowering in the dungeons."
"I'm here trying to figure out what to do with Rachel Master." Seras snapped back at him.
"Rachel? She's down there with you? Is she all right? No harm as come to her has it?" Alucard frantically asked.
"She's fine scared but fine." Seras replied softly hearing his worry in his voice before he could cover it up, "I don't know what to do with her if I leave her here the ghouls down here will surely find her. If I take her with me then she will surely have no more innocence for sure after she sees what we do."
"Seras don't let her see them." Alucard whispered softly into her mind, "I couldn't bare it if she lost that innocent gleam in her eyes."
"Of course my Master I will do as you say." Seras answered back with.
Turning to look for Rachel she couldn't find the girl. It made no sense where was she. Looking up at the door she saw it wide-open light filtering in with ferocity. Rachel went outside of the room without her.
"Alucard she's gone she is still using her powers subconsciously again." Seras stated running down the hall looking for Rachel frantically killing any ghoul that came near her, "She's gone I can't find her!"
"I don't understand why she would do this." Alucard stated killing abstractedly, "She's never been much of one to stand up for herself or be heroic. Why now is she all of sudden wanting to be smack right in the middle of the fight."
"I don't know Master but if something happens to her I won't ever forgive those brats." Seras snapped her bloodlust her anger seething towards her vampire side of her.
Alucard went about searching for the freaks but searching as well for Rachel. He didn't want her to see any of this no matter what. He had to find her, but what if he didn't find her before one of the freaks got her? What if he was too late? What if by not telling her the truth he had in fact killed her?
That's when he saw it. Looking over the balcony he saw Rachel standing in the middle before the great doors of the house coated in blood. Instantly he ran to help her to get her away from the blood and the fighting. But as he was at the foot of the stairs she turned to look at him. Her eyes a flare with a hunger stronger then anything, what scared him the most was that her once beautifully blue clear eyes were no more. They were blood red as red as his.
"Rachel?" he whispered softly delicately.
She didn't reply to him she just grinned as a freak came up from the lower living areas running from Seras close behind him. She stopped when she saw Rachel standing there. Shaking her head she tried her hardest not to believe it. Her hands were so coated with blood that it was dripping of her fingers. Her eyes a flare with bloodlust the girl ran to encounter the freak. With stunning speed and accuracy she ripped his heart from his chest the blood coming from the superior vena cava pumping for life. The monster dropped to the floor.
"Rachel!" Seras screamed falling to her knees, "No Rachel."
Rachel's eyes fell onto Seras walking ever slowly towards her with the full intent of killing her. Alucard had seen this only once and that was cause it had been him. The day they had placed him under this never ending curse of servitude.
Alucard grabbed her bringing her back away from Seras. Rachel fought him and fought hard to get free, just as he had. It killed his heart to see her like this. He pinned her to the wall forcing her to lock eyes with him.
"Stop this Rachel let go of the blood lust now!" Alucard shouted at her, "You are the Master of the blood lust not the other way around! Control yourself!"
Rachel could hear Alucard's words she could hear Seras crying and hear in the next room the dripping of blood from a body. She couldn't stop this hearing. She wanted it to end but it wouldn't less she controlled it. But she didn't know how. She howled in agony her soul crying out to her to stop but her heart telling her to kill to destroy.
"Please Rachel." Walters voice came from the railing.
She heard them all whispering to her to control herself but she couldn't bring herself to stop it. She wanted to rip and kill have there blood drip from her hands as she watched the last specks of their lives fade away with them. But this wasn't her. She didn't want this. It was the other side of her. The side that wanted to be normal called to her screamed to her to stop this madness. Just as she was coming back to herself in a flash of black straps and strange circles that she didn't understand came about all over her. She stopped fighting Alucard and locked eyes with pleading him to help her out of this.
Her eyes switched from blood red to their normal blue. He saw the switch she had gotten control of her blood lust, "No Integra stop!" he screamed at her but he knew it was useless.
She had started the binding process that would keep Rachel here forever no matter what; she would never see the rest of the world now. He tried to stay connected to her to hold onto her. But the spell didn't allow that it threw him back. Sliding across the floor he skidded to a halt moments before hitting the stairs Seras running to help Rachel.
"No Seras!" Alucard screamed.
It was too late Seras had tried to grab Rachel from the black and white straps of binding it burned her hand turning it to a disgusting black. The smell of burned flesh and the screams of her pain sounded through the room. Seras would live through the pain to fight another day but he wondered would Rachel be able to serve her new Master now? In a far different way then any of them had ever thought. Instead of her bringing tea she's be bringing back a head for her Master.
"Damn it!" Alucard screamed beating his fist against the floor.
He could do nothing but watch as the spell worked its way around her soul sealing her forever in this pain. This betrayal almost he thought. None of them had ever told her the truth now the first thing she'll hear after she awakes will be her true story.
In Rachel's mind she was scared and terrified to death of what was happening. She screamed over and over her pain unyielding. She didn't understand what was going on. It felt as though every bit of her body was being branded. Her insides felt on fire as though there were a flame set inside that kept inside only cause her body wasn't opened. Finally in a searing white light she felt herself falling asleep. Her body fell to the ground tied in white and black almost belt looking things all over her body like a straightjacket.
Alucard walked tentatively up to her body kneeling down beside her. He brushed her long black hair from her face cupping her cheek in his hand he shut his eyes tightly. He picked her up gently turning around he looked up at Integra standing at the top of the stairs. Hiding behind his glasses he walked down to the lower living areas. Standing in the doorway he turned his head slightly to Integra.
"When she awakes she'll be fierce Integra strong enough to carve through here like water can through stone." Alucard stated his voice blank and neutral, "Then when she finds out that she is trapped she will make a new path Sir Integra."
"We'll see Alucard she is just another vampire servant." Her husband snapped standing beside his graceful wife.
"Jake I need not remind you who you are speaking too." Alucard snapped letting his glasses slip a little so he could see his blood red eye.
"Alucard!" Integra shouted, "That will be enough of your threats!"
"There'll never be finished Integra as long as you are alive this girl is alive and I am alive!" He shouted back with more ferocity then he had intended.
"Alucard you will take her to the lower dungeons, yes where you were kept she will sleep there and learn through her subconscious link to you." Integra stated a single tear falling from her crystal blue eye.
She was sorry for what she had done he knew that but he still couldn't forgive her and he wouldn't. As he brought Rachel's body down to the dungeons placing her down exactly where she'd been lying when Seras has found her. As he stood in the doorway he took one last look at her and letting one single blood red tear from his eyes was sorry that this had happened. Happened to his daughter, his and Integra's daughter.
Kilyn Bloodstone: Hello there seems I've been writing more and more lately isn't that fun? Ideas keep coming and coming to my head I guess.
Well this is just a taste I'm not sure if I'll continue it but so far I don't mind it all that much. I'd really like to hear what anyone has to say about this story through reviews anytime! Please and Thank You.
So I do not own anything from the creators of Hellsing and this is all but a fan fictional work nothing more nothing less.