Author's Note: As a fan of Hellsing I'm well aware that this isn't quite cannon, I took from both the first Hellsing anime and the manga to get the world I'm using. The twins (Mina and Gabriel) are Integra's, but as she never married they are from in vetro fertilization, she didn't just have a wild fling. My reason for this will be made evident at some point in the story. The story is written from various characters point of views, all denoted by ~name~. Bold text refers to thoughts, and text -like this- are telepathic conversations. As always I do not own Hellsing or any of its characters, I do however own my own the original characters, places, and plots. Please contact me before reposting or using any of this material.

"But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts. Benighted, walks under the mid-day sun, himself is his own dungeon…"

-Anonymous

~Gabriel Hellsing~

I knew it would come to this. It's been a fear that's haunted me since childhood; that my fragile little family would one day tear itself apart. The two of them had never gotten along, mother and Mina that is. They were so much alike they drove each other mad, both had the same goal, but they took different routes to get there. Neither would dare consider that the other might have found a more effective way to get something accomplished. But finally, after twenty-two years of conflict, my sister had taken all she could stand and had straight up left Hellsing. She no longer wanted to be in any way tied to the Hellsing Organization, she didn't want to see any of us anymore, though she had made an exception for mother's two pet vampyrs. She even went so far as to renounce her last name, and had taken a literal new one, Neveu. Gabrielle Delphina Neveu. To me it was a slap in the face. Sure, the two of us had never been close, but it was mother that she had all of the problems with, not me, but she still ignored my calls and didn't reply to my e-mails. It bothered mother too, I could tell, though she acted as though she didn't care. 'I am the leader of Hellsing, and if she can't take my orders, I don't want her here!' I think what really got Mum was the fact that Mina and Alucard got along so well. Where mother and he had the creepy master/servant relationship, Mina and Alucard were, for lack of a better term, friends. The two of them were always laughing when they were together, personally I couldn't understand their humor, so like everyone else I was left out in the dark as to what was so funny. But they understood each other, like two peas from the same pod. From day one, Mina and Alucard had gotten along; it was Alucard that even coined her nickname, Mina.

I should have been the one to give her a nickname; I'm her brother, her twin brother. But unlike most twins we hardly know each other, but like most sets of twins theirs one that's an extrovert, and one that's an introvert. Mina may not be a real extrovert but she does, and always has, had a curiosity that couldn't be satisfied. I don't so much remember her doing it, as I remember her getting in trouble for doing it. We weren't even five and Mina, having watched Seras and Alucard retire to the dungeons, decided to follow. Well everyone in the Hellsing manor thought something horrible had happened to her, that she might have wandered out onto the firing range or something equally as dangerous, so they were frantically searching everywhere looking for her. It was mother that found her, in the dungeons, getting her first chess lesson from the master vampyr himself, both equally annoyed that she dare interrupt. From pretty much that day on, if you were looking for Mina, the only place you needed to look was the dungeons. When she was fourteen she moved her room down there so she and Alucard could stay up as late as they liked doing whatever those two did, without fearing invoking mothers wrath for sneaking to bed at some ungodly hour. At one point mother had even forbid Mina from going to see Alucard, that only caused Mina to make a big show of going off into the dungeons, and her consequential grounding did no good for it never once stopped her from visiting the vampyr. Her relationship with Seras was much the same, though she always seemed to look up to her like she was an older sister. I on the other hand, didn't get along with the vampyrs as Mina did. Alucard never took the shine to me that he did to Mina, he always looked passed me as though I wasn't there, the way people do a pane of glass. And although Seras was nice enough to me, I never felt the need to form a 'friendship' with her. Though as I am to be the next head of Hellsing I suppose I should try to remedy the lack of relations with both of the vampyrs.

But I digress. As I said my sister had up and left Hellsing, and she had been gone nearly a year. She had moved to Paris, not that it was really that far away, but she was no longer in England and no longer living in land protected by the Hellsing Organization therefore she had virtually no chance to run into any of us. She had given me some contact information, strictly for emergency use. I had overheard a conversation between Alucard and Seras shortly after she had left and had learned that my sister was studying at a university in Paris, though I had yet to learn what sort of career she was pursing. Of course, money was of no consequence to her. We've both received a hefty allowance since we were children and, with Alucard's guidance, Mina had invested it and had reaped her initial investment, many, many, times over. Now I sit and kick myself for not becoming friends with the ancient vampyr. .

It was nearly Christmas, December 19th, and I couldn't help but to wonder what this Christmas would be like. It would be the first that I had never shared with my sister, and who would Mina share it with? Undoubtedly she had some sort of wild plans for New Year's, she had always been quite the party animal, much to mother's displeasure, but Christmas is to be celebrated with family, not alone. Part of me yearned to call her, to invite her, even if I knew she wouldn't come, and the other part told me to respect her decision to excommunicate herself from our family. It wasn't as though dealing with freaks was a normal occurrence for most people in England, and it was the manner in which she dealt with freaks that had caused her to leave the family in the first place. Maybe I should send the invite via Alucard, she was more prone to listen to him then to anyone else, though it probably would still not do any good, she was as stubborn as she was beautiful.