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Maria opened her eyes and blinked a few times to clear them. A glance at her alarm clock told her it was five thirty. I slept all day? She wondered in amazement. It had been a long time since she had slept for over three hours in a day. The reverb must have been bad. She sat up and stretched, yawing widely. She made to put her hand down on the bed, but jerked it back up with a yelp. Quickly, she flipped on her light to reveal that Alucard was in her bed.

"WHAT THE HELL?!" she yelled.

He grumbled in his sleep and rolled away from her and continued sleeping. She promptly pushed him out of the bed. At least that was what she meant to do but as soon as she pushed him, he grabbed her and pulled her with him. They both ended up on the floor with Maria on top of him. He had his eyes open when she looked up at him and he was grinning.

"Normally the man's on top but if that's how you want it…"

"You…arrrrg!"

She pushed her self up and away from him uttering curses. He laughed at her and stood up to his full height.

"What are you doing here?" She growled pointing at him.

"You didn't want me to leave." At her puzzled look he continued, "You were screaming so I came in to check on you. You grabbed me and would cry every time I tried to leave, so I stayed."

"Bullocks!"

"I assure you it's not." He said.

She shook her head, not sure what to make of that and began to get ready for the day. After showering, pulling on some clothes and slapping on some make-up, she stepped into her room, fully intent on sitting on her bed and putting on her shoes. But you know who was still there.

"What do you want?" she grumped.

"I'm supposed to train you remember?" he said.

"And you have to wait in my room because?"

"Because I can." Was all he said.

She mumbled something unintelligible and sat down to get her shoes on. He watched her go through the process in silence. She winced when she tried to lean over to tie her shoes. He knelt in front of her and tied them for her. He grinned at her bewildered expression and offered her a hand to help her stand up.

"You're still hurting." He observed.

"Thank you for pointing that out captain obvious."

"Now, do you have to be that way?" he asked with a pretend pout.

She rolled her eyes, barely suppressing a smile. Ignoring his hand, she stood up and wavered a little, before walking to the door. He followed her out and actually walked up the stairs for a change. He silently took the lead and they were soon out in the outside shooting range. He then looked her over in a calculating manor before selecting a gun from the outside closet. He balanced the Glock in his hand for a minute before handing it to her. He then waved her forward and she stood where he told her to. He placed the gun in her hands and showed her how to hold it.

"You'll start with holding the gun in two hands, after you get used to the weight and the kick of the gun, we'll try it with one hand." He said.

The target she was supposed to hit was about a hundred feet away. She aimed like he told her and pulled the trigger. Her hands only bounced a little bit, but her mark was way off, she didn't even hit the target. Alucard shook his head. His hands went over her little ones as he directed and aimed the gun for her. He let go and told her to pull the trigger. This time she hit the target but was no where near the place she was supposed to hit. They spent about thirty minutes practicing before she finally hit the target in the center of the bulls eye. Her arms had grown tired of holding the gun and she was more than happy to set it down when he told her too.

"Now," he said with a grin, "Let's work on that little ability of yours shall we?"

"How can we do that? There is nothing to practice on." She said.

"Oh contraire, there are plenty of targets, look around."

There were several trees around but that was it. She then realized that he wanted her to blow up the trees.

"I don't think Sir Integra will be very happy if I destroy her property." She said.

"Hmm, true. Well then, only one thing to do, practice on me."

"Are you crazy?"

"There is still a debate on that subject. You can't kill me, so who better to practice on? Besides, you need to get faster at taking out a target. The better you get with one target, the better you will be with taking out multiple targets."

"You are nutty." she muttered.

"Pay close attention now." He said, before he attacked.

She stepped back quickly to avoid being hit by him. He continued on his rampage while she struggled to concentrate on the task at hand. She was backhanded in the jaw and sent flying. The world spun and she avoided being stomped on by an inch. He yelled at her to fight him, laughing like a child at Christmas. In a bout of anger, her essence flew into his body, seized his life force and ignited it, all with in the matter of seconds. He stopped, his eyes growing wide as he exploded. Chunks of his body flew ever where and Maria was worried she had over did it. But when bats began to swarm the area and his shape began to form again, she just sat against the wall and watched. It was an incredible thing to behold, and she couldn't take her eyes off of it. He began to cackle and she shuddered at the sound.

"Very good. However, I was holding back on you, your opponents will not. Be prepared to take a lot of punches if you continue to move so slowly." He said.

"I'll try to remember that." She muttered.

Her head was spinning, but the reverb didn't take her out as it had the night before. That didn't make sense because she had just unleashed an enormous amount of energy; she should be on her knees at this point. I must be building up immunity. She thought. She must have spoken out loud because Alucard looked at her questioningly.

"I never used my power more than once in a month span. Maybe by using it more I will build up a tolerance to the reverb effect." She said.

"That may very well be. Ahh, Integra is calling me, we should go."

Before she could protest, he grabbed her up and transported them to the office. Integra looked up expectantly.

"Maria, good. I have just received information on the group that attacked the orphanages. We maybe able to find them soon. Tomorrow night I will dispatch you and Alucard to take out this group. Seras will go with you as well. As for tonight, what you do is your choice." She waved them out of her office as a way of dismissal. Maria decided that she would go to the library as she need to rest and maybe there was a good book in there. Alucard followed her and she did her best to ignore him. Once inside, she looked around the room and walked from shelve to shelve. Alucard sat on the couch with his feet up on the table and watched her over his glasses. Finally she turned and said

"What?"

"What, what?"

"You know what!"

"Just looking, no harm in that." He said innocently.

"You're creeping me out."

"And why is that?"

"Just stop it."

"Make me."

At this point he had stood up and was looming over her. His black hair mingled with her hair which was a shade darker than his. She glared at him, her green eyes reflecting the light of the overhead light. She put two hands on his chest and pushed him back. He let her with an amused expression on his face. Being very uncomfortable, she asked him the first question that popped in her mind.

"Why do you wear those?"

He pulled his glasses off and held them out to her.

"Try them on and see."

He was still grinning as she took them gingerly and placed them on her face. She gasped in wonder and then jerked them off.

"What did you see?" he asked sitting down again.

"I saw…a glow that surrounded you…is that your chi or something?" she asked.

"Yes," he held out his hand for them and took them, "With these I am able to see the supernatural around me. While I can sense them just fine, sometimes it is hard to pinpoint were the source is."

"Where did you get them?" she asked.

"I created them. I willed them into existence." He said.

"Cool." She said with a tone of sincerity in her voice.

A scream broke through their conversation and both heard Integra's distressed cry.

"Alucard!"