The entire room started to break down the house with applause. "Everything disappeared! How wonderful!" Pip screamed in the audience.
Walter and Anderson were astounded. He dared to make disappear both his fledgling and his master in front of everybody.
"That's strange" Walter said. "Alucard rarely uses his magic without purpose..."
"He's obviously plotting something!" added Anderson as he crushed a fist on the table.
A bit later Pip and Maxwell managed to convince them it was just a pure show, and that they would reappear sooner or later.
By the way the dinner started to be served by the numerous waiter and waitress that were hired for the reception.
A silver haired man came closer to their table. "Hello gentlemen, I'm Leon, I will be your waiter for the evening." he explained them with a wide smile on his face.
In the meantime, somewhere else in one of the several manor chambers, Integra was laying unconscious on a bed with Seras at her bedside.
"So, what shall we do now Master?" Seras asked, worry in her voice.
He stepped out from the shadows his usual grin missing from his face, he looked worried also.
"We can't step back now Seras." he gloomy added.
Seras eyes widened, she felt in his voice that the moment was near. "And what could it be?" she added trying to sound as much innocent she could.
"You know exactly what I am talking about..." he replied as he came behind her.
He laid his hands on her shoulders and started to massage her softly. Seras started to shed a few tears as her face became tenser and redder.
"Come on... We'll do it together..." He whispered to her as he embraced her in his arms.
Now squeezed against him "Master... I... I don't want to do this." she told sobbing.
"We can't step back I told you." he answered coldly. She stopped crying and rose up her head to stare at him.
Then she suddenly pushed him back and left the room. Now running alone through the corridors as fast as she could. Not sure about where she could go.
However, reaching the corner of the dark path she bumped herself into somebody. The man remained steady as a rock as he cushioned the chock. He retained her in his arms, not wanting her to fall.
"Will you ever be so clumsy?" he teased to the fledgling.
"What..? Who are you?" She started to ask, stunned by the chock.
She realized it was him when she caught the familiar scent of his skin.
At this moment, he could see a faint smile curling on her lips as she started to blush.
The eyes made contact. She poked her nose in his chest trying to hide her scarlet blushed face.
"How do you feel about all of this Police Girl?" he asked her kindly as raised her head, holding her chin with gloved hands.
She forced to look at him in the white of the eyes. "I... I feel like something is about to end." she muttered to him...
"It seems I have to do it the gentle way with you..." he said smiling at her.
He invited her to take his the elbow and they started to walk in the manor.
They somehow ended walking in the garden. This time a bloomy full moon was replacing the sun in the sky.
A few minutes later of wordless walking, they were now both sat on the top of a little hill; straight on the grass just under a magnificent tree. Both staring at the red moon.
"Did you know that... that's one of my illusions that is making the moon this way..." he said to break the silence. He took her hand and continued.
"Would you like to know how I feel?" smiling lightly, yet with a tint of sadness in his voice. He took at look at her and gave her a caress on the cheek.
"Seras, I feel the same way I felt when I first met you..." he told her with a natural and nearly hesitant voice.
This wasn't the answer she expected, which would be about that he really wanted to turn Integra, but it had sow doubt in her mind. In what would her Master push her tonight?
The last time he felt this way he had dragged her in the undead.
Her stare at him became tenser and tenser at every second. She tried to read her master's thoughts in the deep of his eyes with no success.
He moved his gaze away from her, looking back at the moon.
"Seras, I want you to be happy." he confessed point blank, nearly blushing.
"But I... I am happy with you Master." she whispered now tightening her grip at his hand.
"Perhaps for the moment you can be happy with me at Hellsing, but whenever Integra will die..." he said in a lover's tone.
"I don't care! I will cling to you in this basement as long as it takes." she nearly yelled at him.
"You aren't strong enough... Who knows how many years they will lock us down there without a single drop of blood."
Hearing these words she understood that once again her weakness was causing troubles. "Why am I always so weak..."
Catching her thoughts, he became expressionless. "Then there's is no other way Seras."
He approached his face from hers and stuck his lips against hers. She kissed him back, now melting in a dark embrace.
A dozen of seconds later, she startled and opened her eyes when she caught the taste of his blood.
She realized he had gashed his tongue to make his blood pour in her mouth.
Still kissing, now staring at each other eye in the eye, at a few centimeters of distance.
"Why are you doing this?"
"I am freeing you, so you won't have to get locked with me in this basement."
She tried to push him back with all her might but he kept kissing her.
"I don't want to leave you! Stop it!" she thought, now facing closed and crying eyes.
"No I won't. I won't because I love you more than you can imagine."
When she heard this thought she stopped struggling and kissed him back. Heat was pulsing through her body, like a fire was starting in her.
She closed eyes and lengthened the kiss until she would have drank enough be free of him, until she would become a true nosferatu.