Author's Note - Okay guy's, this is the prequel chapter so to speak to The Princess of Hellsing and the Paladin Meet. I guess I should have thought about doing this one before I had Mina spill the beans to Anderson. This will explain why the great ferocious Alucard turned into a teddy bear. Thank you so much for the reviews. I'll probably drop this one after this chapter and work on my other Hellsing fics, like Walter's Prison if I get enough reviews. If you want me to put in a few more chapters for this humorous series just let me know, and I'll see what I can come up with. Now to the disclaimer - I do not own Hellsing or any of the other characters within this fic. All characters belong to their rightful owners. If I did own any of them, you would never see sexy Alucard again!(Runs away cackling.)
'Why couldn't Integra have stayed home,' Alucard thought irritatedly as the knocking on his coffin woke him from his sleep. He grumbled something under his breath about stupid french business partners, then opened the lid just an inch or two. His red eye, which glowed in an angry manner, flitted about for a moment before it landed on a tiny figure standing within arms reach. The little girl's face hid behind the dark curtain of her hair, but the tiny nervous blush on her cheeks was still visible in the darkness. One tiny fingernail picked at the corner of her lip as the other hand clung to a old hand-me-down teddy bear. She almost seemed to drown in the ankle-length blue nightgown. " What's wrong," the vampire mumbled out of the peek hole, trying to keep the irritation out of his groggy voice.
"Uumm... I... the booming noise... it-" A crackling blot of lightening lit up Integra's room for an instance, and a large, rolling wave of thunder stopped her in midsentence. She gave out a little mouse-like squeak as she jumped, then began to pant as the darkness came back to cover the room. Alucard refrained from rolling his eyes and sat up with a grunt, slowly throwing back the lid. This had been the second time this evening that the summer storm had frightened the latest heir to the Hellsing family - and therefore interrupted the No-Life King's much needed nap. Of course, if he hadn't been so nosy and followed Integra as far as the gateway to the plane to Paris - in the middle of the day mind you - he probably wouldn't need the nap in the first place...
He softly smoothed Mina's hair out of her face with a gloved hand and sighed. Her eyes were just faintly moist with embarrassment and panic,as she looked up at him in an apologetic manner. " It's just a storm. It's trying to make itself seem bigger by making alot of noise. It can't hurt you here." The five-year-old bit her bottom lip and nodded slightly. " I know your mother isn't here, but she had to take care of something important in Paris. You remember where I showed you where Paris was on the globe," he asked looking her in the eyes. She nodded again, and softly replied," Far away."
" No, shes not too far away. She can be here in a snap if she wants to. And she can't wait to see you when she comes home tomorrow, I know that much. Now crawl back in bed. Daddy still has a couple more hours before he can check with Walter and... whatnot..." Mina gave his fingers a quick squeeze, mummured "okay", and scampered back the smaller bed between his coffin and Integra's four poster bed. The vampire sighed as his little girl snuck under her covers and he fell back into his own satin sheets. With the lid lazily returned to its place, he shifted into a comfortable position and began to doze off... The beginning of dreams with blood and battles and gunshots... and delicious terrified screams... Dreams of Integra and the first time she had invited him to her room...
There was another shockwave of thunder and he grumbled in his sleep when a tiny whimper permeated his nap. The minutes passed by... ten... twenty... fifteen... Then another bolt of lightening seemed to strike the mansion lawn itself, and the thunder roared. It barely registered in his sleep-induced concious, but somehow a squeal and the sound of something of ripping barely clicked in his mind. ' Oh no...,' he thought as his eyes opened. He heard little whimpers as tiny feet scampered across the floor, stopped near his coffin. Followed by another, more impatient round of knocking. He groaned and sat up again. " What is it," he muttered looking down at her as he ran his fingers through his hair.
Mina, obviously trying to keep some of her pride and stop her bottom lip from trembling, held up the stuffed bear... or what was left of the poor decapitated thing. " I think I killed Sir Teddy," she whispered in a thick voice. Alucard's eyebrows knit over his eyes in a how-in-the-world manner as he took it from her hands and inspected the damage. Not only had ' Sir Teddy's' head popped off but his buttons eyes had somehow fallen to his chest, dangling by the long stitches that had held them to his face. " I was just giving him a- a- h-h-hug to make the scaries go away," she hiccupped, trying to hide it. Alucard let out a long sigh between tight lips, and set the bear on the other side of his coffin on the floor. " We'll... bury him or something when you mother gets home," he mumbled.
When he turned back to her,her face was down, once again veiled by her long hair. It wasn't very hard to tell with his hearing and by her posture that she was crying. It was only a little, but he could sense her control over the leaky dams was slipping. ' Oh boy. Not good,' he almost whined in his head. He picked her up and swung into the coffin and on his lap. " Ah, it's okay. I'm sure he's - doing better," he mumbled as he patted her back. " Playing with - other bears - in Bear heaven... or something like that." She hiccupped and looked up at him. That face! Her eyes were huge, bright and glistening with fat salty tears, her cheeks now a blotchy red. Her bottom lip was trembling worse than before as she sniffled, she was trying so hard not to look pitiful. But for him, it wasn't working. Usually such faces only made him want to puke. With her however, he wanted to squirm, desperately wanted to do something - anything! - to make that face completely disappear.
What he didn't expect was the oppurtunity to do just that. " I can't - sleep - w-w-without - Sir Teddy," she hiccupped again, keeping her eyes locked on his sorry softened face. His shoulders slumped. " Can you help me, Daddy," she asked in a soft little chirp.
" How," he replied.
" Can you... please... let me sleep with you..."
" Of course, thats fine. My coffin's comfortable enough."
" Can you... be my..."
" Be your what," he asked earnestly.
" Uuumm... can you... be...a teddy bear..."
Alucard blinked in surprise. "Huh..." She shifted against him impatiently, and continued. " You can turn into a doggie. Could you please turn into a teddy bear... for me" Alucard blinked again then groaned. ' Oh what have I done now!,' he mentally kicked himself. He looked at Mina then bit on the inside of his cheek as she gazed at him with earnest eyes. ' I have a bad feeling that I'm going to regret this...'
The next morning Walter couldn't take it anymore. Alucard hadn't checked with him the night before, nor done his rounds of patroling the estate as expected. This of course made the butler both irritated and a tad worried. He didn't think that something had gone wrong, but he was sure that something was off. After finishing his breakfast, Walter made his way up the stairs to Sir Integra's room. After a couple of flights, he approached the bedroom door cautiously. He never could be too careful, he knew that much. The butler slowly creaked open the door, and peered aroung the edge... So far so good. He might as well investigate.
Walter noticed right away when fully entering the room that Mina was not in her bed, nor anywhere in sight. Of course with only one place left to check, he carefully stepped towards the coffin. Walter knew that Alucard was very touchy about the great black box, and only rapped on its smooth surface slightly. There was no response. Gingerly, he slowly lifted the lid. When he had the coffin completely open, he chuckled silently. Inside lay Mina, her mouth wide open as she softly snored into her father's chest. But instead of his more human form, Alucard was now a six foot tall black and red teddy bear, with thick padded limbs and all. Walter cleared his throat, trying not to be too loud. One of Alucard's red eyes opened and glared at the former hitman. Looking down to see if Mina was still sleeping - and perhaps to see if she had drooled on his clothes - he looked up at the butler with tight lips. " Don't. Say. A word," he hissed, displaying a muzzle full of deadly fangs. Walter just snickered and nodded - he couldn't do much else, or he'd bust up laughing and wake the girl. " Have you picked up Integra yet," the giant teddy bear asked. Walter shook his head as his face continued to turn beet red, snickering still. " Well don't say anything to her either," Alucard growled in response. " And stop smiling like that! It's not that funny..."
Author's Note - Alright, that one's over with. Now to work on some more ideas - or rather come up with some more of them. Thanks for reading this and for all the reviews. If you like, go ahead and check out my account, I've got a couple of polls you might want to take. Once again, I apologize for the lack of question marks. If I had another program to type with I would use that one, but I don't. Anyway, please review, let me know if anything at all seems off, and feel free to toss out new ideas for Hellsing fics. I love working on them. P.S.- Sorry if this is a bit OOC, I tried to remain true to the characters.
