Hellsing: Bloodsbane Romance

Author: Lovestar-Jewel-Mistic/JewelMistic AkA Jen

Pairing: AlucardXOC

A/N: And here it is, the official third chapter. (Seeing the first was a prologue.) I've been hearing that I'm doing a good job in writing this, specially from a dear friend of mine, which really helps in my motivation to see this story to the end. Anyway there is nothing else to say but enjoy :)

Disclaimer: Hellsing and all it's characters belong to Kohta Hirano obviously. The only thing I own is my own characters and the plot of this story.

Chapter 3

-The Present. Location: Scarlet's bed chamber at Bloodsbane Manor-

~Stay with me by Clint Mansell~

"She's sorry...I'm sorry."

Did he hear this correct, this girl was apologizing for someone else and herself? And if so for whom and what. Alucard started to laugh to hide the confusion and shock he was in, maybe not for her but for himself. He turned around to face Scarlet once more, who was still sitting on her bed with her crimson eyes still wide and staring at him, yet the fear she had mere moments ago had all disappeared.

Alucard grinned and shook his head, letting out a deep chuckle before he spoke.

"You are a confusing little girl, what would it be your apologizing for?" He asked, feigning amusement while deep inside he was actually more eager and curious to know what this girl meant. What she said next had shocked him the most in the short time he had come to know the existence of this lady.

"You are the man Irina was...is...in love with aren't you? The man that appears in my dreams for as long as I can remember?" Scarlet asked, as if Alucard knew the answers to her question while this was the first time the man had heard him. His grin dropped as well as the fake facade of being amused. Scarlet looked down at her hands before closing her eyes. She knew the possibility that he would still decide to kill her this evening, so she wanted to tell him what she wanted too for a very long time now. Even if he might not be the man she saw in her dreams, Irina's memories. "She's sorry. She's sorry for not seeing, for not noticing and most of all; she's sorry for the things she had done."

Alucard stood there in complete shock. It had already been a blow to him that Scarlet had a striking resemblance to Irina, as if they could be identical twins. But this new information had caught him even harder then the moment he'd first laid eyes on her. Even though her words got through to him and was very much clear, what he still didn't seam to understand was why she talked as if Irina was still alive to even have feelings for him. He gritted his teeth and turned to the wall, disappearing into the shadows before Scarlet could speak any more. Obviously she had hit a very touchy subject for him.

Scarlet let out a deep sigh of air, feeling as though she had held her breath during the entire conversation. She looked at the wall where Alucard disappeared. She touched her cheek and noticed tears had started to fall without her even noticing and from that point Scarlet felt absolutely alone, a feeling she had experienced before, but never this intense.

-Location: Hellsing HQ-

Alucard appeared in his own chambers the moment he got back, thinking that the other inhabitants of the Hellsing manor and his master especially, where none the wiser about his small trip out. Yet he was unaware that one person; Seras, had noticed that he suddenly had gone up and disappeared, yet hadn't made the trouble to follow him yet. If there is something she had learned while living and learning under Alucard's wing was that it payed off to be patient.

Tired, tho more so spiritually then physically, Alucard moved to his trusted chair and sat down after taking off his hat and glasses and placing them away, as if he had never left in the first place.

A soft knock came from his door and not a moment later Seras entered, a concerned look on her face.

"Master, is everything alright?" She asked, having decided not to confront him on his disappearance just yet, not until she had found more evidence. She took a few steps into the dark refuge of her master. "Because, ever since we returned from out mission you have been acting quite odd and I'm worried."

The moment Seras spoke those last words Alucard couldn't help but laugh, once again putting up a facade that everything was completely fine with him.

"How very like you to worry police girl." He spoke, his words soon followed by a chuckle. "To worry like that even if you're not human no more." He added to his words, a faint grin on his face. He knew it was basically wrong to mess with her like that, specially after Seras had proven herself numerous times that she was adapting to her life as vampire. But Alucard had the need to blow of some steam and taunting the police girl was the perfect way to do that. What he didn't expect was her reaction, which was different from the usual flustered way she would react.

"You know even though I'm no longer a human doesn't mean I have to act like a complete monster!" She shouted at her master, stomping her foot on the ground and clenching her fists by her sides. "There is nothing wrong with a little humanity! We can't all be like you!" Was the last thing she said before she stormed out, leaving a baffled Alucard behind.

Eventually his chambers was filled with laughter once more, his own. Never in the time that Seras has been here had she reacted so fiercely and it had helped the Nosferatu in forgetting his troubles for a moment. But afterwards, when the laughter died down and Alucard got back into reality, he could feel Seras her words stung a bit.

'There is nothing wrong with a little humanity!' We can't all be like you!'

Those words echoed in his mind, along with the words Scarlet spoke to him before he abruptly left. He looked down at his hands, which he had clasped together on his lap once more.

It seemed now that the initial shock, confusion and anger had subsided, he could think a bit more clearly. But all that remained to think about where the questions he still didn't had an answer too.

Why did Scarlet look so much like Irina? What did she know about Irina's life? But most of all; How was she able to recognize him? From the moment Alucard had fallen into the darkness and became what he is today, he had changed a lot. After all his name hadn't always been Alucard.

He let out a sigh and leaned his head back, looking up at the dark stone ceiling. Things had gotten quite hard for him ever since he met Scarlet and he had thought that killing her would return him back to his usual way of being. God how he was proven wrong when he couldn't even pull the trigger. Now that he thought more about it, the more he curious for answers he got. Thus for the second time that night, he left from his chambers and the manor.

Seras was on her way back to apologize for her outburst, when she sensed through the link they shared that Alucard had disappeared once more. This time she decided to follow her master, sensing he was heavily distracted to even notice her doing so. Of course Seras wasn't quite sure on where he disappeared off too, but she had a faint idea about where. And soon her idea was proven correct. Because Seras found herself in front of the Bloodsbane manor after a small hour of running. Even she had a feeling her master would go here, it didn't make her any less surprised. Just what was it that drew him here? She wondered as she started to walk around the manor. She jumped slightly and ducked into the nearest bush when she heard a voice speak, the voice of a young woman and Seras had to admit she sounded sweet and innocent.

"Have you decided you still want to kill me?" It asked. But what surprised Seras even more was that she heard the voice of her master reply.

"No..."

Slowly and silently as she could Seras sneaked closer, eventually coming at the edge of a beautiful flower garden. There stood Alucard and a few feet away from him, tending a rose bush, sat a young looking female wearing a red dress with hair as black as night, she could not see her face or the face of her master for that matter. Witnessing this Seras couldn't help but wonder one thing;

'What has brought you here master?'

A/N: We are getting some serious plot progress here aren't we? What will happen next? You'll just have to wait till the next chapter. Which probably won't take long to complete for I've been on quite a spree.