Fan Fiction The Second Glass Revisited
The Second Glass: Revisited
Chapter Six
Authors Note: Welcome to The Second Glass Revisited. This is a more in depth look into the original story. I got the idea while watching Hellsing (duh) and after completing the first story and reading the feedback I have decided to rewrite the story.
Rating Note: M FOR LEMON. This story contains explicit sex scenes that are unsuitable for anyone underage. Read at your own risk.
Also I do not own Hellsing or any part of it. It belongs to Kouta Hirano. Enjoy.
The cup of tea sits forgotten at her elbow where it rests on her desk, empty blue eyes staring out into the suddenly barren darkness of her office.
"Sir Integra?" She lifts her head slowly to look at her closest friend, at least living anyway, and Walter meets her gaze with concern. "Are you all right, Sir Integra?"
"I'm fine Walter." She says softly, looking away back to the darkness. She hears his quiet harrumph of disbelief before he suddenly slides up to her side. He reaches down, tapping the teacup gently.
"I have come to know that if the tea goes untouched, there is most definitely something on your mind, Sir Integra." Walter says softly, his knowing gaze locked on her.
"How old am I Walter?" Integra asks, not looking up at him. She hears his chuckle.
"Not nearly old enough to be asking that question, and I am much too old to be answering you, Sir Integra." He hesitates. "Why do you ask?"
Integra suddenly raises, her dull countenance swiftly changing to rage.
"Damn you Alucard!" she yells at the empty room before turning and stalking toward the balcony. Walter follows, startled by her outburst.
The cool night air embraces her, cooling her rage. Walter waits silently behind her, waiting for her to speak.
"Did you know Walter? Of what my father asked of Alucard?" She asks. Walter nods.
"Indeed. He informed me of it shortly after."
"What do you think?"
"I believe that his decision is wisest, but I am just your humble butler Sir Integra, and will follow your orders to the letter." Integra turns back to him, studying him in the waning moonlight before heaving a sigh.
"I should have known I had lost him the minute he brought her back with him three years ago." Integra murmurs softly. She meets Walter's gaze; suddenly appearing the young girl she had been years ago. "I feel as if for the first time in my life, I have no idea what I'm going to do." Walter offers a smile and gestures toward the doorway.
"If I may suggest Sir Integra, a nights rest and a good breakfast tomorrow might be in order before we dwell on such things again." Integra chuckles slightly and follows his lead inside, her stride sharp on purposeful once again.
"Indeed Walter. Sounds like a wonderful idea."
...
Three weeks later Seras collapses onto her bed and sighs wearily, stretching and reveling in the feel of her mattress.
Two weeks in New Orleans to track down a group of ghouls during Mardi Gras. I swear I think I would rather take on Anderson and the Iscariot than do that again. Seras thinks to herself.
In her pocket her cellphone chirps and she pulls it out, studying the blinking screen a moment before groaning.
"Got to report in." She mumbles, reluctantly rising from her bed, promising herself a quick shower and long nap immediately afterward as she heads for the door.
Up on the roof Seras pauses, letting the night once again fill her senses before she dials the phone. It only rings once, as it has every time she's called over the last three weeks.
"Report in, Seras." Integra snaps across the phone.
"Just returned from a mission to New Orleans to destroy a group of ghouls. They were created by at least three vampires but were sloppy, vampires that created them were probably young. They were a bit tricky to track due to the massive amount of people there but my team worked perfectly. No incident involving the public and no deaths aside from the ghouls. Mission accomplished and if I may say I never want to have to do that again. Thank the maker that Mardi Gras only happens once a year." Seras says in a rush. Across the phone Integra chuckles.
"Glad to hear it, Seras. How is everything else progressing?" Seras leans against the wall beside the staircase, staring up at the moon.
"Well. The team is training well together and the twin's telepathic abilities are growing exponentially every night. Daniel is turning into a very competent second in command." Seras hesitates. "I do have my suspicions about Matt though. He is not progressing as well as the others and there is just something about him that strikes me wrong, something I can't place."
"If he becomes a problem Seras, you know what you need to do." Integra says sharply. Seras nods.
"Indeed Sir Integra."
"I'm ordering you to come back alive. Is that understood? The Iscariot organization is on the move and we have lost track of at least three of their Section 13 agents within the last week. Watch yourself." Integra demands. Seras smiles.
"Yes Sir!" she snaps back. An awareness sweeps over her and Seras's gaze scans the roof wearily. "I must go now. Something's approaching and I can't identify it from here."
"Seras wait." She pauses, thumb halfway to the disconnect button when another voice rings across the phone. Her heart slams in her chest and her breath catches as she hears his voice.
"Hello police girl."
"Master." His chuckle is music to her ears and she presses the phone closer to her ear, closing her eyes as she listens to his voice.
"Integra assures me that you are not being a weakling during your mission but I thought I would check in on you myself, just to make sure." Seras scowls at the phone.
"This is the first time you talk to me in a month and that's what you have to say to me?" She snaps. His laughter warms her heart and she can't help but smile.
A gunshot suddenly rings out, the sound deafening and pain slams into her chest, stealing her breath away and she moans, her hand lifting to her chest. She instantly feels blood soaking her glove and looks up to see a vampire across the rooftop, gun leveled at her and an animalistic grin on his face.
"Seras!" Alucard's voice snaps across the phone before it suddenly disintegrates in her hand, the second bullet impacting her shoulder. She stares at the remnants of her phone in her hand before scowling up at the vampire.
"You made me hang up on my master asshole. I will make sure you die slowly for that." Seras growls. The vampire's smile broadens and he steps down from the railing to the floor, thumb pulling back the hammer again.
"Not if I don't put a bullet in your brain first."
The vampire's eyes suddenly widen as Seras disappears, reappearing directly in front of him, a breath away. Her hand snatches his neck, squeezing hard enough to snap his throat as she jerks his head to the side. She can feel the bullet still burning in her chest as she pulls him against her.
"Like I said…slowly." She whispers against his skin before she buries her fangs in his throat. She makes sure to tear the skin, digging deep and the crimson flow swiftly soaks her shirt as she takes from him. He convulses in her arms, trying to push her away but she is unmoving, draining him nearly dry before releasing him. As the last of his blood flows from the wound she snaps his neck and throws his body from the roof, stepping up onto the railing as she watches his body fall.
Far below on the grass she sees her team dispatching the last two vampires, the twins taking out one while Daniel rips the heart out of another. Samuel stands guard near the door, Reece and Jess behind them.
Seras steps off the railing and lands gracefully on the grass, studying the corpses on the lawn.
"Who are they and how did they get here?" She demands. Daniel straightens over his kill and turns to her.
"They are from New Orleans, the three vampires that made the ghouls. They must have tracked us here, followed us back." Seras turns to Reece and Jess and the red head backs up a step.
"Dear god Seras are you all right? You're covered in blood." She looks down at her shirt and licks her lips.
"Fine. He got a lucky shot off, that's all." Amanda is immediately at her side, checking the wound, watching as the bullets work from her skin and the wound seals shut. She flashes Seras a quick smile and backs away. Seras is still staring at the corpse of the vampire that she had drained, brow furrowed as Daniel stops beside her.
"What is it?"
"If they so easily found us, than who else can? That and where is Matt?" Daniel frowns.
"He was already in the building when we left to hunt. He said he wanted to stay behind. He was already in his coffin by the time we were ready to leave." Seras's eyes narrow as she scans the forest around them.
...
The attack was a failure. All three vampires were taken out within five minutes.
It wasn't a failure per say. This can still work to our advantage. We still have you.
Indeed but for how long?
You would not think of betraying us.
Of course not, I value my un-life.
Indeed. Phase one complete, on to phase two. You know what to do.
Right.
...
Matt bolts out of the building, only his supernatural speed preventing him from bowling over Jess as he skids to a halt on the front lawn.
"I heard gunshots! What's happened? What did I miss?" He says in a rush. Samuel looks up from dragging a corpse across the yard toward the trees.
"The fourth vampire just bolted for the woods! Go track him down while we finish here!" Samuel exclaims, jerking his head toward the woods. Matt nods.
"Right! I'll handle it!" Seras catches his arm barely in time, shooting Samuel a look.
"Oh would you knock it off. There's no fourth vampire Matt, there was only three." Matt stares at her in surprise than turns to Samuel. The vampire gives Matt a wide grin and a wink and Matt growls, launching himself at Samuel. The other dodges and the game is on, tag racing around the clearing as Seras just shakes her head. Amanda laughs as Alex suddenly joins in, tacking Matt hard enough to send all three of them crashing into the trees.
Reece and Jess join Seras, Reece leaning down to whisper to her.
"I have another phone in my office you may use if you wish." Seras nods, meeting Amanda's gaze.
"Make sure they don't hurt each other to bad." Amanda laughs, flame red hair flying as she spins and disappears, running into the forest after the three tussling boys.
Seras excuses herself into the small council room off Reece's main office, shutting the door behind her. The phone sits in the middle of the table and Seras sits atop the table, dialing a fake number. After assuring herself there's no tap that she can pick up on she dials Integra's office.
"Seras? Are you all right?" Integra demands before the first ring is finished.
"Yes Sir Integra. He did get a few shots off but I'm already healed." She hears the quiet sigh of relief across the line and lets one out herself.
"Was it the Iscariot?" Integra asks quietly.
"I don't think so. Not unless the Iscariot has started hiring vampires to do their work." The silence on the other end of the line sends a shiver of dread through her. "What are you not telling me?" Seras asks quietly.
"There has been a massive decrease in vampire attacks in Ireland, yet very little activity we have been able to find from the Iscariot organization or Section 13." Seras sighs, her tired mind racing against the pull to sleep.
"So what you're trying to tell me is that the Iscariot organization is starting to employ vampires?"
"There is that chance, yes." Seras sighs again, glancing at her watch.
"I'll do some more investigating tomorrow night. For now I'm putting the building in lock down."
"Seras." Alucard's voice is much more reserved now as he comes on the line and Seras smiles.
"I'm not on speaker phone am I?" She asks softly. There's a brief pause.
"No."
"All right I'm going to say this so just humor me. You don't have to say anything, just listen. I miss you. A lot. I can't wait until the day that I can return to your side. Even as far away as I am, I never feel like I'm alone during the night because I know that you are by my side, if only in my heart. I know that sounds sappy as hell but it's the truth. I love you. Now if you want to hang up on me, go right ahead."
There is a long stretch of silence on the other end and Seras sighs, about to set down the phone when she hears the last two words she ever expected to hear.
"Me too." Seras's jaw drops and she stares at the wall as suddenly Integra's voice comes over the line.
"I have no idea what you just said to him Seras but you'll have to let me know someday. I have never seen him act like this before." Integra states over the phone. Seras frowns.
"Like what?"
"He gave me the phone and immediately went outside. He's just standing outside on the balcony staring at the sky." Seras smiles, picturing him in her mind, without his hat, jacket, and sunglasses, as she sees him and she chuckles.
"Maybe someday Sir Integra. I have to go now, it's getting closer to dawn and I have to rest. The wounds still haven't healed completely yet and I lost a bit of blood."
"Are you sure you're all right?" Integra asks, her voice softened with concern. Seras smiles.
"Yes Sir Integra. Good night."
"Good night Seras."
...
Integra sets the phone down and turns to contemplate Alucard. His lean form is lit by moonlight, his coat the only thing moving as a breeze crosses the open balcony. His back is to her so she cannot see his face but she can see by the slope of his shoulders, by the familiar posture of his body that he is relaxed.
Without a hesitation Alucard reaches up, Integra watching in surprise as Alucard removes his glasses, folding the arms and tucking them into a pocket. His hat is removed next, dangling from his hand a moment before it slips to the tiles.
Integra hears Walters's small sound of surprise as Alucard slips off his jacket, discarding it next to the hat and steps away, toward the ledge.
It is truly rare to see him like this. Integra thinks as she watches the dark form stop at the railing. Raven hair blows gently in the breeze, nearly down to his knees. He leans down, resting pale hands atop the railing. He does not move for the longest time and just as Integra makes up her mind to join him Alucard swings his body up and over the railing, disappearing into the night.