At first, she thought the vampire's request was a joke. She ordered him away, and after a little resistance, he left.

Then, when she woke the next morning and walked into her office, Integra found her laptop in pieces on the floor. She knew immediately Alucard deliberately destroyed it. Integra was floored. Phasing through walls was one thing. Reading thoughts, withholding information, sneaking around in dreams…even playing pranks on the maids now and again, and Integra herself had occasionally found herself the victim of his cruel humor and silver tongue. This was petty.

"Not just petty, childish," Alucard added, gleeful.

Integra was incredulous, her arms folded, her eyes wide at his stark, unrepentant admission. She had summoned Alucard back to her office to confront him and demand an explanation for his actions. She had expected him perhaps to deny his actions, but he couldn't wait to tell her what he had done.

"I broke it in half, first." Alucard picked up a broken, plastic shard from Integra desk where she had gathered the pieces. "Then I smashed the screen and keyboard. The case split apart then, exposing the motherboard. I could have stopped there, but I didn't want you to be able to recover any of the memory, so I smashed that, too." He smiled wide. "Yes. I think it's done for." He turned to Integra. "You must be pretty mad."

Integra just stared expressionlessly at her vampire. After a moment passed, she said, "Yeah. Yeah, I'm pretty mad."

His glowing red eyes shouldered. He growled, "So what are you going to do about it?"

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