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Title: Lily
Chapter: 4- Restless Nights
Alucard was bored. Tragically bored. Unutterably and unreservedly bored. He was convinced that if he lived for another six centuries, he would be able to instantly recreate from memory this room. Closing his eyes, he visualized the heavy iron door, the spacious room dominated by the only furniture visible from the door, a tall-backed wooden chair upholstered in green, with a small table beside it. On that table, a glass half-filled with thick red liquid, and next to it a wine bottle of mostly drunk blood. His coffin was in the pitch black back left corner of the room, and the only other thing in the space was Alucard. Sitting in his chair, disgusted with existence.
Integra had thrown him out of her office twice already. Walter was working on some modifications on his Casull, and Alucard's self-interest was adamant in its refusal to pull anything that might interrupt the work on one of his favorite tools of destruction. He had to consider how having only one gun would affect his rate of slaughter, of course. The troops were all training somewhere else for the afternoon and the house staff were enjoying their day off, so it was no use scaring the piss out of them. Police Girl was asleep and dreaming about a floating fat man babbling about her gun. Alucard grimaced and decided he was definitely certain he never wanted to understand how that child's mind worked.
And then there was the newest addition to the Hellsing household. Earlier in the day she had been, for all intents and purposes, dead to the world, and he had been able to read her thoughts clearly; however, then she had been sleeping deeply and dreamlessly. About seven minutes ago, though, her mind had clamped shut like a steel vise and all Alucard could glean were shades of her strongly felt emotions. The girl was radiating anguish and heartbreak so strongly he could almost taste it from the other side of the dungeon. Suddenly, her energy spiked a bit and Alucard noticed that the Police Girl, who had been sleeping fitfully since Lily had started tossing and turning, jerked awake. Lily was still asleep however.
Quickly teleporting to the Police Girl's room, he pulled off the nonchalant entrance perfectly, in his opinion. Her coffin was still shut, but he could tell that she had once again smacked her head on the lid. Slowly, her coffin began to open.
Seras cursed and rubbed her forehead, having once again been startled awake and jerked to a sitting position, only to find that there wasn't room in her coffin for her to sit up so suddenly. Irritably, she searched for the button to raise the lid of her bed. Squinting into the darkness of her room, she squeaked and almost fell out of bed upon realizing there was a dark figure lounging in one of her chairs. However, upon further inspection, she noticed the careless way the figure's boots were propped up on her table and instantly recognized her Master.
Alucard realized that Seras had finally become aware of his presence, and said, "Why are you awake so early, Police Girl? Bad dreams?" Seras looked a bit startled and hesitantly said, "I don't know...I just woke up..." Alucard sensed her reluctance and probed further, "I asked you a straightforward question and I expect a straightforward answer, Police Girl. Now...Dreams?" Seras hesitated and said, "It was like vague flashes of pain and terror...I've had nightmares before, but none like this. It was more like I was watching someone else's nightmare from behind a screen...where I couldn't see clearly...but I could vaguely sense the feeling from the dream." At that, Alucard replied, "Go back to sleep, Police Girl. You just had a nightmare." Seras had always loved her Master's voice and let it lull her back to sleep, muttering an obedient, "Good day, Master."