AN: Okay, I try to respond to all of my reviews. I apologize if I missed you for some reason, but I do try. The thing is Metroid criticized me for clogging up the end of my chapters with review replies and making them seem longer then they are. So I've started messaging my reviewers instead. The problem is that some of my reviewers are anonymous. So what I've decided to do is, respond through messages to anyone who has an account or an Email that I can see. If they don't I'll leave my response at the end of the next chapter. If you do have an account or I know your email and you would rather your response be posted at the end of the chapter than sent to you as a message, let me know and I will post it at the end. I'm just trying to make this as pleasant an experience as possible.

Chapter two: Survivor

The boy peeked through his hands and saw the well armed soldiers. He closed his eyes and trembled slightly. Seras felt for the boy. The first time she'd seen a ghoul attack, it had been a harrowing experience; and she was a trained police officer. She could only imagine how terrifying it must have been for the small boy.

Seras did her best to seem nonthreatening as she tried to coax the boy from his hiding spot. In the kindest voice she could manage she began to talk to the boy. "You can come out. No one's going to hurt you. You're safe now." The boy opened his eyes and looked at her. She smiled and was careful to hide her fangs as much as possible. Seras extended her hand. "That's right. Everything's okay now. It's over."

The boy took her hand, and she gently pulled him out of the pulpit. Once out, the young boy wrapped his arms around Seras's legs and hugged her tightly. Seras was a little bit surprised by the contact. She hadn't been expecting the boy to hug her. But she let him continue as she looked around the church.

The red eyed creature had made a terrible mess of things. The ghoul pieces were still alive. They were just unable to do anything. Each of them would have to be destroyed. The agents of Hellsing would end up using a lot more ammunition and time destroying each of the dismembered ghoul bodies then if the ghouls were still together and could be turned to dust by a couple of silver bullets in their hearts or heads. The inconvenience of the extra time and resources was somewhat compensated for by the fact that the Hellsing soldiers' wouldn't have to worry about the ghouls attacking them while they dispatched the foul creatures.

Seras looked back down at the boy who was still holding her legs. His grip had loosened somewhat, and Seras decided to try to find out a little bit more about him. She gently pulled his arms apart and squatted down, so that her eyes were level with his. "Do you have a name?" The boy just stared at her. He was obviously still in shock. Seras pointed at herself. "I'm Seras Victoria." She smiled again, but the boy still refused to speak.

Seras decided to remove the boy from the church. The sight of the still twitching bodies couldn't be helping the situation and neither could the smell. Maybe the boy would be more talkative once he was in a friendlier environment. Besides, the bodies still had to be dealt with, and she was worried that the repeated sounds of gunfire might further damage the young boy's psyche. She motioned one of her men forward. "I need you to take the boy back to the vehicles and wait there. The rest of us will be along once we've cleansed this church."

The soldier reached for the boy, but he pulled away. The soldier grabbed the boy's arm and attempted to pull him back. The soldier struggled with the boy. "Come on! We're leaving!" The boy spun around so that the soldier's arm was wrapped around him. The boy then grabbed the soldier's arm and bit down, hard. The soldier yelled and released his grasp on the boy. He held his arm while small streams of blood seeped in between his fingers. The boy pulled free and spit out the blood that had collected in his mouth, then he ran back to Seras's side.

The Draculina could smell the fresh blood. She had seen the boy spit some of it out, and she was painfully aware of the thick red liquid that was still escaping from the wound in one of her soldier's arms. Her mouth was beginning to water, her tongue starting to grow. However, she fought against her instincts, to feed on the blood of mankind. She was not some mindless undead. Like her master, Seras was a servant of God and the Hellsing organization. She would not be ruled by her temptations. Seras suppressed her darker nature and maintained control.

The soldier had recovered from his surprise. He aimed his gun at the boy. Seras stepped between them. "What do you think you're doing?"

"He bit me! The kid's a vampire, and I'm going to put him down like our mandate decrees."

Seras moved a step closer to the man. Her voice took on a hard edge. "He's not a vampire. A vampire would've never spit the blood out. He's just a terrified little boy who instinctively lashed out in the only way he could think of. Now put the gun away." The soldier hesitated. Seras nearly growled, "That's an order, soldier."

The soldier released his grip on the rifle and let it drop to his side, where it hung suspended by the shoulder strap. Seras said, "Good, now go get that arm bandaged up."

Seras turned back to the young boy. She would take him to safety herself. After all, her men shouldn't have any problems dealing with a bunch of dismembered body parts. She reached out her hand; and after a brief moment of uncertainty, the kid took it. Seras looked at the most senior of her soldiers. "I'm taking the boy to our vehicles. I'm going to trust you to ensure that this church is thoroughly cleansed."

The man snapped to attention and made a quick salute. "Yes, Mam."

Seras led the kid to where the Hellsing vehicles were parked. Integra was already waiting for her. "Where are your men?"

"There taking care of the last of the clean up operation."

"Any reason why you're not with them?"

"We found a survivor, and I thought that we needed to get him out of the town. All that's left of the ghouls are some dismembered body parts. I figured that the men could handle that themselves."

"I should hope so." Integra shifted her gaze from the Draculina to the boy. "This is the survivor?"

Although the Hellsing heir's eyes were upon the boy, the question was obviously directed at Seras. She replied, "Yes. We found him hiding in a church pulpit."

Integra scrutinized the boy with her eyes. "It's strange that an entire town would be turned to undead, yet one young boy would escape. What's his name?"

Interga's scrutinizing caused the boy to tightly grip one of Seras's legs as she answered, "I don't know. He hasn't spoken since we found him. I think he's suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome."

Integra asked, "Well if you don't know who he is, what do you suggest we do with him?"

Seras summoned up her courage and replied, "I think we should take him back to the mansion until we can find out who he is." Seras knew that Integra would not like the suggestion, and one look at her boss's face convinced Seras that she was right. However Seras had managed to establish some trust between her and the boy. She had seen how the boy reacted when the soldier tried to take him from her. Seras didn't want to put the young boy through anything else. If she wanted to be truthful with herself there was something else as well. She felt a connection to the boy, an instinctive drive to protect the helpless child.

(Well I hope you liked the second chapter. Please Review. Once again, I apologize if I've gotten any folklore wrong. If I have, please just tell me; and if I can change it without upsetting the story, I will. But PLEASE don't flame. Thanks.

Have a good day, and God bless.

Metropolis Kid.)

(To SakuU: Thanks for the review, especially since it was the first one that I got for this story. I'm glad that you're interested. I hope you enjoyed the second chapter and continue to enjoy the story. Since I'm building this story around Seras Victoria's Maternal instinct to help and protect the young boy, I wasn't really planing on parings. However, I'll try to throw a few hints at a SerasXAlucard relationship into the upcoming chapters.)