I'm not sure if I need to explain the setting, since it's all scattered around the dialog. It's Alucard and an OC who... I dunno who it is, but might come back or not in future fics. I like to think about the Hellsing characters in completely different situations trying to keep them IC, and to do that I like to not make them interact with characters they interact normally. It's kind of a dare to myself.

This is written in a dialog kind of format, so there's little description. Specially of the OC. Because she's not really important.

DISCLAIMER: don't own crap... wished I owned Alucard, but the truth is, I would like him to own me better... :D.

I rested on the cold floor, a cigarette on my hand, my hair loose and spread all over the place. It's nice to be in the outsides of London. You can see all the stars and everything. Away from civilization.

I didn't feel like changing yet. I was on the tank top I always wear under my shirt, and the rest of my uniform, sans boots; knees bent, resting on my back, making smoke rings... well remembering how to do them... I kinda forgot.

Working with so many men, Seras the only other girl around... makes me a bit anxious.

I need to get laid.

And this job doesn't leave time to have much of a life, really. And some men here are hot as hell. But I haven't had any luck with any of the them. I've dated but no... sparks. Maybe I'm too picky. I think I'll die a virgin... I'm 23 for god's sakes!

"Just think about it this way... you don't have to 'die' in battle ... if I'm around..." A velvety voice caressed my ears. I sighed.

"Alucard I can't feed you tonight, I'm sorry... I'm very weak--"

"I did not come to be fed... " He said his voice finally having a form. He was standing beside me, looking down at my form resting on the floor. He was dressed in his complete attire, but his hat and glasses were missing.

"Then?"

"Well, Officer you are resting on common ground..."

"Huh?"

"This is not your space... " I understood. I was at the balcony on that floor. It was not my room or anything mine. So he was not actually looking for me.

" You're right... " I said and sat up, my hair falling down my back and tickling my shoulders in the process. "...still starving?"

" In theory, yes... thanks to your attentions no." He grinned.

" I'm glad... you do look better..."

The vampire had gotten in some serious trouble with Hellsing and was being starved. This I heard from Seras about a month ago and decided to help a little; she was so sad about this. Plus, it's kind of a deal. I feed him, so he kind of steals books from Hellsing's library for me and then puts them back when I'm done with them, gets me some of our boss's Chai or answer my vampire questions. Stupid stuff he can do because of his powers and knowledge.

" Nothing like food from the source..." He almost sing songed.

" Is it different from the person than from bags?"

" Of course..."

" How?"

" Mhhh..." He was silent and sulky for a moment. Then he smirked again "... as different as touching yourself and in your case a man doing it for you..."

" I get it..." he just HAS to rub this issue in my face, the idiot... I know he knows.

" By the way... if again you need a hand--"

" FUCK YOU!" I said my eyes wide. "I can't fucking believe you peek into my room like that!"

"Who said I did?"

"Then--." silence. "GRRR!" I fell for it, how stupid.

He chuckled.

"Idiot..." I felt his gloved hand on mine, softly taking the cigarette away from my hand. "...yeah sure go ahead..." I said sarcastically.

"These smell somewhat better than the ones Integra smokes..."

"Hellsing smokes cigars... those make me wanna throw up..."

He delicately takes it to his lips and inhales deeply. Softly the smoke comes out of his slightly parted lips.

"Nothing is as it used to be..." There was nostalgia in his tone.

"You smoked before I see"

"Yes I did... but not this... " He eyed it not too disapprovingly but not approvingly either.

"What then?"

"Pipă ..."

"Sounds like pipe in Spanish..."

"Pipe, yes..."

"That wasn't Spanish was it?"

"No."

"What then?"

"You are asking a lot of questions considering I am not getting blood tonight..." He smirked and took another drag.

"Forget it then..." I scoffed.

Silence.

"It almost... grows in you..." He let out the smoke slowly and softly.

"I think you're not giving it back... so... I'll take another one..." I took another one from my pack and lit it. "I used to smoke a lot when I was young..."

"You are young, milady."

"Ok younger..." Silence. "Damn, you ARE old..."

"That I am."

"But act like a 5 year old most of the time..."

"It is fun."

"Yeah... everything was better when I was 5... I didn't see so many things I see now..."

Silence.

"... ignorance is bliss..." I whispered.

"I wouldn't call that ignorance."

"Hmm?"

"Innocence is not ignorance, Officer..."

"Sometimes they mesh together... it all depends..."

"On what, may I ask?"

"When innocence brings you harm I consider it ignorance."

"That is a very valid point."

"Hmm..." I smiled sadly. "... it's sad what this world starts turning us into..."

"Hm..." he said contemptuously. "... your world..."

"We live in the same world Alucard..."

"But don't follow the same rules, milady..."

"Maybe..."

"One creates a unique world... it is all a matter of perception..."

"Yeah... I guess..."

"Yours is a world of creation... mine is one of destruction... yet we share the same world, as you said... and a cigarette..."

"Creation?"

"What are those colorful crafts you have on your shelves?"

"The candles and the clay stuff?" I smiled shyly. "...stuff I do in my off time..."

"I could tell..."

"I do this too... hemp weaving..." I showed him my anklet . "NOT hemp like the one you smoke and stuff... this is not smokable... " I cleared up. He seemed to be completely lost.

"You're creative..."

"Yeah I see your point... is there anything else you like besides killing and blood?"

"... not much..."

"Something c'mon..."

Silence.

" ...good wine..." He finally answered.

"Hmm..." Silence. "... what else?"

Silence. "Chopin..."

I sent him a very surprised look.

"Why the look?" He said with playful indignation.

"You like Chopin?"

"Bach and Mozart I listened to for years... until I went to one of his concertos..."

"You what!" My eyes almost fell out of my face. "Are you serious?"

"He was a young lad at the time... I was very impressed..."

"Wow..." I stood up and leaned against the balcony beside him. "...how cool is that..."

"Hmm... now that you bring it up... it has been a while since I touched a piano---"

"You play?" I said turning to him with a smile, surprised as hell.

"Monsters can play instruments too, milady... it just takes two hands, 10 fingers and practice..."

"And I bet you had a lot of time to do just that."

"Specially after a meal... or right before one... it was a good way of getting one, too..." He said that last thing with a sick grin.

"What a dog..." I scoffed looking away, out of the balcony. He was beside me but not against the railing as I was, so he was a bit behind me too. I felt a little tickle on my leg and jumped.

He chuckled.

"Keep those thingies to yourself!" I saw it tickling me before disappearing. His tendrils... they scare me.

"You can't be fun for more than 10 minutes..."

"And you can't hold a civil conversation without one sending you to hell... I think you like it..." I was a bit annooyed.

"Maybe I do..." +grin+

(raspberry)

"...and I am 5 years old?" He chimed.

"I have the right to be too..."

"Yes you do..."

"If you weren't a stupid vampire it'd kick you once in a while..."

"Why not do it?" He grinned almost swallowing his face.

"'Cause you will dodge or something and make me look stupid."

"Oh no, how can you think me capable of such thing?"

I glared at him.

"Stupidity is only within--oh?" My fist flew at him in a playful punch.

"Yessssssssss, I wanted to do that a long time ago..."

"You punched my arm?"

"Yes I did..." My hand kinda hurts, but I won't tell him ever.

"Such violence..."

"Blah..." I said and threw my finished cigarette away and rested my head on my arms. I looked at him as he silently looked around. He had finished his cigarette a while ago. "Call me crazy but I like feeding you..." I whispered softly, my head still into my arms.

"Hmm?"

"Even though... I am being food to you... it does make me feel... with power..."

"You like power?" He came closer and leaned on the balcony beside me.

"Who doesn't?..."

"Many I know..."

"Hmm..." Silence. "... it is nice to feel a creature as powerful as a vampire, in need of something I have... and crave for it in such ways..."

"So much for self-aggrandizing, milady?"

"Self-interest..." I smiled and he half grinned. "... we are not so different..." He told me once all monsters act in self-interest. To never expect selfless acts from one... including him.

"Maybe we aren't..." His eyes almost smiled mischievously at me. "... you want to experience real power?"

"What do you mean?"

"You marvel at what I can do... and you haven't seen even part of it..."

Silence.

"You too... could experience such power..." He whispered sensuously, leaning a bit toward me.

"You mean..."

"Yes..." He purred.

Silence.

"You have not experienced power... and never will... unless you become a true Nosferatu."

"That's an insane idea..." I said with a little chuckle, trying not to believe his offer.

"Maybe... but I can give you the opportunity."

Silence.

"I just need a yes..."

"... and what would happen if I do?"

"You would come with me."

"And be a slave too?" I whispered. I felt something cold travel down my body as I saw his face for the first time, after a year and a half of working for Hellsing, frown slightly. I raised my head, almost sprung. "I'm sorry I didn't--"

"You are right..."

"No, I'm sorry--"

"No need to apologize for the truth." He looked at his gloves and fixed them. "Your greed for power is not blind enough as to not realize your position; you are in fact... free..."

"Define free..." Silence.

Silence.

"We humans are violent creatures... we need violence... it is inborn in every animal... you can see it all around nature. You can get away with it because you are a monster... we, in the other hand, are supposed to be correct and civilized. So we make up excuses to be violent;... holy wars, political wars, or as we agreed one time; nationalities, flags, which are other forms of passive violence... this is why everything we've created is falling down in pieces. It can't hold the tremor of that repressed violence... so much for freedom, don't you think?"

I heard a soft agreeing chuckle from him.

"That whole monster/human thing is just ridiculous... you and I well know that monsters don't normally have fangs and drink blood... well not literally... they also wear tailored suits and carry suitcases and like coffee... is not a species thing. +sigh+ I am here because I need this job, nothing else... " I said looking away toward the sky. I finally said it out loud. I thought the whole thing was ridiculous.

"Hmm..."

Silence.

"... it's starting to dawn... shouldn't you be in your coffin?"

"Sometimes I go to sleep late..".

"Hmm... if you can't make it to the basement in time or whatever, you can crash in my room... it's fine with me... I know sunlight is deadly to you guys... and there's a lot of space under my bed..."

"Hmm?" He made an expression as if he couldn't believe his ears.

"What... well it's either that or you turn into ashes... I kinda don't mind if that's the outcome..."

He looked thoughtful; almost a mocking thoughtful pose.

"What..."

"I am thinking..." He said playfully.

"I can tell... what about?"

"Truth... or... a white lie..."

"Huh?"

"What if I told you sunlight doesn't affect me..."

"I'd say you're full of shit cause I read about it."

"Hmm..." He was still doing his thinking pose.

"You know what... I just felt a weird vibe from you so... I changed my mind, teleport or something you can do it without having to go out... sleep tight..." I said picking up my stuff and walked toward my room.

"So is the invitation off?"

"Yep." I said and closed the door.

I heard his chuckles rumble outside my room.

Shit, I have to wake up tomorrow at 1200 hrs to clean my guns... sucks.

I hope it didn't suck so bad... please review! So i can get better! Thanx!