Ren: Okay, so far I'm just doing this, so Van, come on!
Van: Aw, again, why don't you take Ashari on?
Lacutta: You don't think we could seriously put them on a date do you? Ren's too soft; make them go to the freaking museum.
Ren: You would make them go to some illegal drag races.
Lacutta: The girl wants excitement, what's more exciting then being chased by the cops?
Ren: My dad's a cop; we won't get to hang out anymore!
Disclaimer: We own no one but Van.
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"…So all we need to do is go find this Amari guy." Van finished. Seras stared at Van. "Sweet heart, Van, You we're babbling, far to fast for anyone to understand. Can you repeat everything you said?" Seras asked her. Van sighed and pulled her hair. "Serraasss! Look, all we have to do is drip some info from that jerk Calcifer and find his brother Amari. That must be Radu!" Seras took a sip of her blood pack and asked "So what was with the scar?" Van smiled.
"Well when we were younger, Radu thought it would be funny to climb a tree and scare Master. It worked, until he fell. I was the closest servant, so I jumped under him to soften his landing. Well I did, but he scared his cheek on a branch on the way down. I broke my leg, but no one cared except for the two princes. Master made sure I was cared for and instead of a servant; I was made into the librarian's assistant. Radu visited me every single day. He also taught me how to read and write. They were so kind, that's why I loved them, love them, so much."
Seras sniffed and wiped her eyes. Van smiled sadly and handed her a tissue. Seras hugged Van instead. "Oh Van, you have to be the bravest girl I've ever met!" Van sighed and leaned into Seras's hug. She smiled sadly and though 'Oh Miss Seras, if only you could truly know.'
Alucard listened through the wall. He smirked. "Stupid child, it was a leg and an arm." He leaned against the wall, and thought for a while. 'Radu, will you even remember me? He asked to no one. He exhaled and let a smirk out. "Stupid brats got me all wound up." He said to himself. "I'm not going to become all emo due to some kid's fantasy." He said. "But still…"
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"Yay!" Van yelled. "This is so fun! You sure you don't want to come up Seras?" Van yelled down at her 'adopted mother'. Seras, in a hammock reading a book shook her head. It was mid-night, and Seras thought taking Van into the forest could improve her attitude. Since she was jumping from tree to tree and jumping along branches, giggling like a nut-case, it was clear that it had. Seras put her book down as she saw Van pause on a branch and arched her back like a cat, Her long wild black hair wade even more animal like. Van lifted her nose and sniffed. 'Okay enough fantasizing Seras. But I wonder…' She blushed when she imagined Alucard in the same pose. Sure, Van was cute, but Alucard….nosebleed…
"Miss Seras, there's someone there!" Van's voice called. Seras froze, and went to Van's side in the tree. She hoped the gray masses of leaves could hide them. Seras pointed upward. Van nodded and began to climb higher, Seras right behind her. Van watched Seras as she climbed up beside her. They were a long way from the base. Van gulped as she saw three freaks come into view.
Seras bit her lip, and noticed Van was staring at them. "This Vamp has only three freaks, we could take him easily." She whispered to Seras. Seras nodded. "Can you take the freaks?" She asked. Van's reply made her laugh inside. "Cake." Seras smiled, Van was back.
"Their vamp is behind those trees, I'll join you in a while." Van said, then she let out a growl and charged at her prey. Seras saw the moon-light reflect off an object. Seras caught it, It was a steel dagger. Van flashed her a piece sigh before cutting up another freak. Seras saw a shadow, and flung the dagger at it. A black gloved hand caught it.
Seras gasped as Van went to her side. The shadow moved into the light. "When I went to see my idiot of a foster brother yesterday, he was babbling about vampires and this." The voice belong to a man, smooth and low. Van grabbed Seras's arm, shaking. Seras put an arm around the little vampire. "He told me he met two women and a man." He continued "he said one girl called him Radu. Now do me a favor, tell me who you are and if you're the vampires he saw."
Seras put Van behind her. "And if we don't?" She asked with a cold glare. Before she could even blink the man had her pinned against a tree, strangling her. Seras heard Van scream. She saw the girl rush at him, only to be flung to a tree, knocked out. Seras grabbed his hand. "V…Va…" She couldn't talk, couldn't see, couldn't breath.
Suddenly, his grip loosened and she saw a shine of metal. "It would be much appreciated if you would let my girls go." Alucard said. Seras smiled and gasped "…mast…er…" The man let her go and turned to Alucard. Seras saw that he had a hood on. Alucard glanced at her. "Seras get Van; get her back to the house." He said. The man let out a gasp, then said "I think we can work something out. I get that girl and the both of you can leave here alive."
Alucard grinned. "Don't make me laugh." Seras crawled towards Van. She grabbed the girl's arm and stood up. Alucard nodded at her. Seras nodded and sprinted into the forest, Van's hair bobbing up and down.
The man looked towards Alucard and in a blink of an eye, was gone. 'Damn, Seras!' Alucard thought.
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Seras ran as fast as she could towards the Hellsing mansion. 'gotta go faster, gotta go faster!' the vampire thought. She looked down at the girl in her arms. Van was almost in a sleep-like manner. Seras smiled to herself as the mansion came into view. "Walter, hey Walter!" She yelled as she saw a shape in the window. The man opened them and peered out. "Miss Victoria? Is that Van you have there?" Seras stopped and yelled. "Yeah! She needs help! There was this-"
Suddenly, she felt herself being thrown to the side. Van was in the arms of the hooded man. Alucard had caught her and was now glaring up at the man. "Give her back!" Seras yelled. The man chuckled, "I should be telling you that." He said "Farwell."
Van let out a small growl and scored the man across the face. The girl's eyes snapped open as she ran to Alucard's side. "Master! Master!" She yelled as she went to his side. Alucard grabbed the girl's arm and again she was put behind the elder vampires. Seras took the girl in her arms. For a split moment she felt a strange urge, a calling, being this child's parent and protecting her. Alucard glanced at them. 'feels pretty damn good, doesn't it Seras?' he asked her telepathically. Seras nodded.
The man's face seemed to have healed, because he turned around. Van tightened her hold on Seras's arm. She stretched out her nose and sniffed again. Seras pulled Van back when the little girl gasped. Van struggled out of Seras's grasp like a puppy wanting to be put down. She grabbed Alucard's hand. He looked at her with a 'not now, I'm about to kill this bitch' look.
"Master stop, this is him I'm sure of it!" She ran in front of Alucard and looked at the hooded man. He took a few steps to her. She only came to his shoulder. He put his hands on her shoulders, causing Alucard to tense. The man pulled the girl to him and hugged her. Seras's jaw fell open. Alucard straitened and lowered his jackal. Van looked up at the man and reached up with small tentative hands and grasped the hood.
She threw it off to revile the face underneath. The man had bluish-gray hair and blue eyes. Van stepped back, her hands on her face and nose. She was crying, tears streaming down her face. "Ra…Radu…It is you…" The man walked to her and again put his hand on his shoulders. He stroked her neck, brushing back her hair to revile bite marks.
"Van, still sweet, I see." He said. Then without warning he put his lips to Van's. Alucard and Seras in their little lonely corners, looked at each other as if asking 'are they seriously doing this like their in their own little romance film?' Van pulled away and hugged Radu. 'Yep'
Seras coughed. Alucard looked at her. "Seras go inform Integra, will you?" Seras nodded and went to the building. "Van!" He called. The girl snapped out of her trance and glanced at Alucard. She went to his side and said "Master, this is Radu." Alucard sighed. He looked at the man. "Is it true are you Radu?" He asked.
"I am Amari, the reincarnation of Radu. Don't think I have forgotten who I am, who she is, how we came to be." He said. "Then who am I? Have you forgotten me, dear brother?" Radu's eyes widened. "Brother? You're alive?" He asked. Alucard sighed, "Its Radu…" Van looked up at the older vampire. "How can you tell?" She asked. "Because he's as dense now as he was back then."
Van smiled and looked at Radu. "Why did you try to steal me?" She asked. Radu blushed "I thought you were being held captive…by other vampires…so I came to…save you…" He said. Alucard was so close to killing his brother for stupidity, until Van fell. Both men looked to see the girl laughing and rolling around the ground. Alucard lifted her up and ruffled her hair. Van smiled at Radu and said "That's so cute! Radu, you haven't changed a bit!"
Radu smiled back and looked at his brother. "Um…you're not going to kill me…are you?" Alucard put his hands on his hips. "I had second thoughts, but 1) you're my brother and 2) you make our pride and joy happy." He ruffled Van's hair again, a slight blush on his face. "So no, maybe later, but till then no."
Van skipped ahead as they walked back to the Hellsing mansion. "So who was that woman?" Radu asked. Alucard grinned "My Draculina and Van's adopted mother." Radu smiled at his brother. "So that's what you meant by our pride and joy." Alucard shrugged. "Thing's like this happen."
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Ren: again, fun.
Lacutta: eh…
Van: I loved it!
Ren: course you did.
Radu: Review or I'll kill you.
Ren: you kill my readers, I cut off your-
Van: look a birdie!
Radu: don't you just love her?