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Chapter 2

The girl, Seras Victoria, led Sebastian down a few more hallways before he stood before an older-looking woman with platinum blonde hair and a cigar dangling from her lip, whose aura just screamed 'ass-kicker'.

"This is Sir Integra Wingates Hellsing. She is my master, Alucard's, master. Please regard her respectfully," Seras whispered to him before clearing her throat to stand before Integra. The woman eyed the demon critically.

"Who is this?" she asked in the most commanding voice Sebastian had ever heard. It reminded him somewhat of the Marchioness Midford.

"My name is Sebastian Michaelis, my lady. I am the butler to Ciel Phantomhive. Though it is rather unusual to say, I woke up within your dungeons. I did not have the faintest idea of who you were until about five minutes ago, so please do not assume that I come here meaning either harm or trickery."

Integra leaned back in her chair looking miffed before turning to Seras.

"Where is Alucard?"

The girl dressed in her jumpsuit sighed, looking down dejectedly. "I couldn't find him anywhere, and his scent is completely gone." Her fangs flashed for a brief moment.

The butler smirked. "Ah, so you're a vampire."

Both the girl and woman turned to stare at the butler in shock. His smirk broadened. "Due to the circumstances, I find it necessary to relinquish a bit of information about myself: I am a demon contractually obligated to my master."

Integra, rather than fearing him as he had assumed she would, just looked at him angrily. "What the hell are you doing here, then?"

"As I had gathered, you are also contractually obligated, at least, to this 'Alucard' that I have been told of. There was a contract seal placed upon the door of my current chambers. When I looked at my own, it had been altered to completely match that which I found upon the door."

Integra set her cigar down after drawing out a long breath. "Step forward then, demon, and show it to me."

Sebastian took off his gloves as she had wished and showed his mark.

Integra stared at him for a long while. "Do you mean us any harm?" her questions had all been short and blunt, offering no time for dawdling or mockery.

"No," he answered firmly. "I only wish to find my own master." I can only suppose that she is not afraid of a demon when she obviously rules over two, or perhaps more, vampires, he thought with a slight amount of disappointment.

Integra stared at him icily. Her head was reeling with possibilities. Finally, she decided to confirm her suspicions. "Swear fealty to me."

His eyes widened. "What?"

"I want to see if the terms of your contract have changed, as your symbol so obviously has. The only way to find out if you now have to serve me is if you swear your allegiance to only me, thus exhausting any relations you might have had with your master."

Shockingly, Sebastian knelt on one knee and placed his hand over his heart. "I swear to serve only you, Sir Integra, with my mind, body, and soul." He had no control over his actions. When he finished, he quickly rose, and his eyes narrowed.

The woman now standing behind her desk looked utterly miffed. Sebastian's expression was no different. They both spoke at the same time. "What the hell happened?"

The vampire followed the tiny, awkward, and incompetent maid down the hallways. He regarded her without a care, instead fixating his gaze on the mansion he was being led through, staring around him in fascination. Just before they reached a set of double doors, the maid turned to him but did not look him in the eye, clearly afraid.

"My master Ciel Phantomhive is behind these doors. Please, sir, treat him with respect. And I will warn you: he is a child, so do mind your tongue as well…"

He glared at her. "What, you think I'm going to kill him or something?"

"Sir, I do not know who you are, and on my honor as a maid, I will not allow any harm to come to my Young Master."

Good. Ha, it's good to be a badass.

Alucard smirked, his lips twisting to reveal his shark-like teeth. The maid saw them as she was peering at the space above her glasses and shuddered. "Listen, human. I can easily kill every single person in this house faster than the blink of an eye. But I have no interest in causing any trouble… yet."

The maid's face went red as he rapped on the doors. He chuckled as she disappeared from his view. Good girl. Good little virgin girl, he thought as she scampered off.

"I'll be watching you, sir. The Phantomhive servants are a force to be reckoned with." Her glasses had been discarded and her piercing brown eyes drilled holes into his face. He chuckled with amusement.

"I'm sure you are," he murmured darkly as she disappeared from his view.

"Sebastian, is that you? Where were you this morning? This isn't like you: I still haven't gotten my breakfast and I can't very well have Bardroy blow up the kitchen trying to make it!" The vampire lord chuckled loudly. The kid both amused him because he sounded like Integra and infuriated him because of how spoiled he seemed.

"Kid, I'm not your butler and I sure as hell am not going to make you any breakfast. I only knocked because of that cute maid you have here. So: can I come in?"

There was a long pause. "Yes…" answered the hesitant voice from inside.

Alucard nearly fell over in laughter at the sight of a flustered looking teenage boy sitting in an earl's uniform with a messy eye patch over one eye. He smirked widely, and the boy spotted his teeth.

Ciel narrowed his eye "Who are you and where is my butler?"

He did a mock-bow. "My name's Alucard. I have no idea who your butler is, but I'm pretty sure I just woke up in his bedroom."

There was an even longer pause as they inspected one another. "…And what are you, if I should ask?"

Alucard dipped his head in approval. "A vampire. Did you know that you've got serious guts for a kid?"

Ciel deadpanned, and a small tick mark appeared over his forehead. He chose to ignore that last statement. "How did you come here? Why were you in Sebastian's room? Have you done something to my butler?" His eyes were narrowed and his heart was throbbing.

Alucard shook his head. "It's like I said: I don't know who your butler is. More than that, I don't know how I even got here…" The vampire seemed to pause as he thought of something, his crimson eyes fixating on the young boy's eye patch. Faster than the eye could travel, Alucard was before the very small boy.

Before Ciel could even move out of the way of gasp in surprise, the eye patch was ripped from his head, thus exposing the mark on his eye. Alucard's eyes widened. "I knew it," he murmured, staring at the kid's eye.

"What the bloody hell was that for?" Ciel seethed, grabbing his eye patch back from the vampire.

There was a pause before the vampire answered. "I think… you might be my new master…" he barely let out.