This is just an interesting story that I had a dream about. Is it weird that I dream about Hellsing? Any way, I hope you enjoy it. This is what i felt would happen after Alucard was set free.
He felt it snap. The chains that had held him bound for so long suddenly disappeared like vapor in the morn. Integra was dead, of this he was certain. In the darkness of the dungeon he had been banished to, his lips curled up into a triumphant snarl. He was free, for the first time in two millennia, he was free. While he mourned the loss of the Iron Maiden , the sense, the need for revenge overwhelmed him. He sat up and flexed his hands for the first time in ten years. He remembered the day he had been banished here and could still see the silent apology in Integra's eyes as she fulfilled the new Kings request. Well, demand. The young king feared the vampire as he should and ordered Integra to seal him away. He hadn't hated her for it and knew that she had to do as she was told. But she had, in the end, given him the ultimate gift, Freedom. With no real heir, his bond was never transferred and he was out of slavery. A fleet of foot steps reached his ears and he grinned with anticipation of the kill.
Serena closed her eyes and winced when she heard the screams of the men below. As soon as Integra had died, the counsel of the twelve had ordered her to send men to kill Alucard. She had did as she was ordered but she already knew the outcome. Integra had informed her of his blood thirsty habits and his need for causing pain. Although Serena was Hellsing in name, she had none of the noble blood flowing through her.
"I can not transfer the bond from me to you," Integra said, "But the King and the Twelve will think I can and have done so already."
Integra had said this on her death bed and a few minutes after pronouncing this, she died at age 39 of heart complications. Serena heard his approach and stood perfectly still, gazing out the window at the moon. He entered the room and she could feel his hatred and smell the blood on his breath as he leaned over her. She did not spare him a glance.
"Integra informed me that you would come." She said softly.
"Then why are you still here? Do you not fear death little girl?" he rasped.
She shivered. He was every bit as evil as Integra had described him. He noticed the shiver and leaned in further.
"Are you going to kill me Alucard?" she asked, never looking away from the moon.
"If I said that I was?" he asked letting the question hang in the air.
"Then I would make one small request."
"Oh, what would that be?"
"That you allow me to say one last goodbye. I assume you'd want to say goodbye to her as well."
He knew who she was talking about and he could sense that the two had shared a bond of some sort. He rolled the request over in his mind for a minute and decided that there would be no harm to it. He was curious to see what the girl would say to a corpse.
"I suppose I could do that."
He backed away from her, giving her space to turn around. Her black hair framed her face as dark blue eyes gazed up at him. She smiled at him sweetly and the dimples on her cheeks showed. He was taken aback by her reaction of seeing him. Most would cower in fear and be whimpering, but she just smiled and stepped around him.
"This way." She said softly.
He followed her in silence down the hall ways. He stayed about a foot back so that he could observe her. She walked as softly as she spoke and was dressed in all black. The dress clung to her features but still managed to look decent. The black high heeled shoes didn't make a sound. Her long waist length hair swayed with every step she took. They traveled down endless hall ways but she didn't miss a beat. She guided through them effortlessly. They came to a stop at a room he recognized The hospital ward. The door creaked as she opened it and the smell of death instantly assaulted his nostrils. They walked on for a few seconds before stopping a solid metal door. She opened that one and walked to a table with a body covered by a sheet. With a reverence that surprised him, she pulled the sheet down to reveal the face of Integra. He stood at her side and stared down at the corpse. They said nothing for a while, but soon, she was talking in her soft voice and he couldn't help but listen.
"I had the privilege of calling her mother for close to six years. She found me and saved me on one of her missions. Vampires had turned the store I was working in into the house of the living dead. She saved me from being killed and took a bullet for me. After that I visited her in the hospital every day after school. I was 15 then. Shortly after that we kept in touch and she learned about the abuse I suffered at home by my parents hands. They would beat me any chance they got. She pulled some strings and got me out of there. By the time I was 16, she adopted me as her own daughter. In the beginning, I know she did it out of pity and the need to have an "heir". The old geezers would not leave her alone about it. But over the six years we where together, she grew to love me and I her. There was nothing that I wouldn't do for her and vice versa. When I was 18 she told me about you. About having to imprison you four years previously and her guilt in doing that. She confessed to me that in a way, she loved you, that is why she never got married and produced an heir the "proper way". She also told me that she had no intention of passing the bond that Hellsing used on you to me. She urged me to leave this place when she died. But I decided that id I was going to die; I would do so on my feet rather than living on my knees looking over my shoulder for you the rest of my life. She was certain that you would learn about me and come to kill me. "
She stopped her speech to look over at him. His eyes where fixed on the corpse before him.
"That is a very…Hellsing attitude." He finally said.
"I guess so." She said with a gentle smile.
"Death doesn't scare you?" he asked, taking a meaningful step towards her.
"No, I am dieing any way."
He paused at this and examined her again, this time with his other sense. He could smell it then, the death that clung to her like a second skin. She smiled at him again and fished out a lighter and a cigarette. He watched her light it up and inhale the toxins.
"My mother, my birth mother I should say, was a prostitute. I was a result of one of her nights on the "job", I was born with aids. It has been killing me slowly ever since I was born. It didn't help that she did drugs when and alcohol when I was in the womb either. That pain I am in every day is something I can scarcely put into words. Each step I take is like walking on daggers. My head feels like it is about to explode and there is nothing anyone can do about it. So no, I do not fear death. I welcome it actually. It would be a nice reprieve from the agony I am constantly in."
He regarded her with a critical eye. But he could hear the truth in her words. She really did welcome death.
"I loved her." She said softly, a single tear rolling down her face, "and now the only reason I have been hanging on for is gone. She was dieing and I couldn't do a damn thing about it!"
More tears rolled down her cheeks as she bent and kissed the corpses forehead. She flexed her hand and looked down at it as she took another drag off of her cigarette.
"Human bodies are so frail. We are easily riddled with cancer and diseases. We are pathetic actually."
"No," he said looking at her with softer eyes than before, "Not pathetic. It was humans that brought me down after all. You don't give your kind enough credit. Although there are advantages of being a vampire, I don't ever have to worry about dieses or my body growing older."
"Lucky you." She whispered.
Serena put out her cigarette and looked at him expectantly. She expects me to kill her now. I must admit, It would be a waste to make her another corpse to litter the earth with. He thought. Although she was not related by blood, he could still see that Integra lived on inside her adopted daughter. The eyes where not the same icy blue but they where, never the less, just as piercing. This girl held her self with the same grace and poise. And yet, at the same time, he could see the innocence in her that his fledgling Seras had. It was an intriguing combination. Her gaze never wavered as he stepped closer to her until they where toe to toe.
"Are you a virgin?" he asked coyly.
"Ah, the famous question." She said with a smile and a blush.
"One that you didn't answer, my dear."
"Yes, I am. Do you honestly think I could bear to pass my dieses on to another poor soul?"
"I suppose not."
"And I suppose you are giving me the same offer you made to Seras and even Integra?"
"Yes."
"What if I refuse?"
"You do not fear death, yet you fear becoming a vampire?" he asked with some disbelief.
"No, I am not afraid of it. I wouldn't mind it. 22 is very young to die at, I have hardly lived life. What I do not like out of the equation, it becoming a servant. That is something I'd rather not return to being. It's something I promised my self I would never again become, the servant to the whims of another. I had quite enough of that growing up thank you."
"And if I offered you freedom after you awoke?"
"Why….why would you do that? What would you profit from that?" she asked timidly.
"Maybe my 200 years of living with humans has rubbed off on me. To think that I would rather have a companion then another servant." He chuckled at that and cast a genuine smile.
"I have no guarantee that you will do as you say. It's a risky gamble."
"I always keep my word, what ever it may be." He said solemnly.
"I suppose history has shown that. But it has also shown you a liar. At the same time, I really have nothing to lose. Either way, I am going to die. May as well live even in death." She said.
"Is that a yes?"
"Your word?"
"You have my word."
"Then yes."
He grinned then and Serena was positive she had made the wrong decision. But he didn't pounce on her as she expected. Instead he gathered her in his arms and brushed his mouth against hers.
"I never did get your name." he whispered.
"Serena." She whispered.
"well Serena, you may want to close your eyes."
Her eyes closed and the last thing she felt before falling into darkness was his teeth piercing her neck.
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