In the Dead of Night

By: Keiko Kumagai

Disclaimer: Sadly, I don't own Hellsing or any of the characters...but a girl can dream, right?

Ah yes...my first Hellsing fanfic! Sorry if it's crappy, I have to tweak my writing a bit. Well, I hope this doesn't turn out badly!

Alucard-I hope it does...

Keiko-Awww...don't be so harsh!

Alucard-You tackled me a few weeks ago! This thing deserves to crash and burn!

Keiko-Oh, you're still sore about that?

Alucard-I can't just forget! You tackled me when you woke up!

Keiko-You said something nice to me! That doesn't happen often, if you haven't noticed yet!

Alucard-Well--

Keiko ON WITH THE STORY!

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Alucard and Integra have been talking lately. ALOT lately. Seras is sure it has something to do with her master, she's heard little bits and peices of their conversations, until her master found out she'd been a nosey little draculina and made a barrier around her room so she couldn't eavesdrop anymore. She heard things like "It's almost time", and "The Forbidden One".She sighed. Her master had been more nasty to her lately too. He insulted her, and criticized her actions more than ever!

'What's his problem! He's never acted like this towards me before!' She thought silently. Maybe it was something to do with the little talks he and his master shared? Then, there was physical pain. Everytime she did something wrong, he decked her for it. The worst was just a few minutes ago...

Flashback...

"You need to feel and take the pain of your mistakes, and learn to mind your own damn business!" He declared as he took another swing at her black and blue face. She had snuck into his room, and saw a book on the lone table in the middle of the room. She picked it up and looked at it in her hands. The title read In the Dead of Night and she picked it up, and flipped to the first page. It was written in some kind of strange language, and suddenly like there was a gust of wind, the book flipped its pages until it ended on a blank page.

Letters dripping in fresh blood began to cover the page, but in words she could understand. But she didn't have time to read them because a force had thrown her across the room into one of the cold stone walls. Her head was oozing warm,fresh crimson blood as she looked up to see an angry Alucard. He was pissed beyond words, and she knew she would pay dearly.

Thrusting his silk-gloved fist into her ribs once more, and feeling them break on impact, he frowned.

"You know I don't want to do this to you Police Girl, but you have to learn to let go of those useless human qualities, like sticking your nose where it doesn't belong" He said as she sunk to the ground and grabbed her middle. He slowly turned from her and walked away, boots echoing along the lonely walls.

End Flashback...

She clutched her ribs again, remembering how much pain that was. It was almost unbearable for her. She winced as she made a sudden movement that had made the searing, unbearable pain return. Tears had started to collect in her eyes, but she wouldn't let them fall, she couldn't let them fall. It would only give her master something to bug her about when she saw him again. She knew he was watching her. He was always watching her, and she didn't like it one bit!

'It's an invasion of my privacy! Bloody hell, I don't even have that anymore...'She thought sadly.

As she had expected, Alucard was watching. He was always watching his little fledgling, always keeping her from harm. He read her thoughts and grimaced.

'I don't want to hurt you like that again Police Girl. But I have to protect you from something dark, an evil even I am afraid of...'He thought. He would never admit it openly to anyone, but he deeply cared for this creature he called Police Girl. He often had dreams of them together, and vampires didn't usually dream. And those were some pretty steamy dreams! He had vowed to protect her, from anyone, and anything. Including the forbidden creature, the ONLY creature he feared. It had been set loose once before, and it cost nearly the entire world dearly. It had killed more than 2 billion people in a single night, and was uncontrollable. He tightened his jaw as he remembered that horrid night. Blood everywhere, limbs and organs scattered about the many towns and cities of the world. He looked around him, he had never seen such destruction in his many years as a human and newly found years as a child of the night. His eyes were wide, he couldn't believe the destruction! Who could have done this? He looked around him for any sign of life, but found none. Blood was dripping from his body, but it wasn't his blood. It was everyone elses blood! It dripped into his eyes, blurring his vision. He still had some remnants of human emotion, which made him feel like a disgusting, filthy beast. He knew who had done this...

"Alucard" He heard as the prickle-like feeling on his neck made itself known.

"Master..." he vanished into a thick cloud of mist and into Integra's office.

"Alucard, we need to talk about Seras Victoria...Walter found her all bloodied up. What did she do to make you punish her so?" his platinum-haired master asked. The brains behind the Hellsing Organization.

"She almost found out about the Forbidden One" he growled.

His master didn't show any sign of surprise, but he knew she was worried, he read it in her thoughts.

She just merely nodded her head and said "We'll deal with it after the mission."

"What are your orders, Master?" Alucard asked, wanting to know what unlucky scum would taste cold silver tonight.

TBC

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Yippee! The first chapter of my first Hellsing fic! Heck yes! Please review! It'll be greatly appreciated! Don't worry! Yummy, steamy, lemony-limeony chapters to come! WOOT!