Seven

I stayed in the tub a little more than an hour. When I got out, I could barely stand up. I laughed as I swayed, probably looking drunk at the moment. I put on some clothes so I could blow dry my hair. When I had that done, I ran to Integra's room, seeing her take out a mass amount of curlers from her hair.

"Integra, I need a curling iron."

She blinked for a second then reached into the little cabinet under her mirror. She pulled out three. I ran up to her and grabbed all of them.

"Thanks!" She shook her head as I closed the door.

It took me about an hour to two hours to have it finished, but I did it. The bottom part of my hair were larger curls, while the top were small. I then placed bobby pins in it to make it look like an unfinished bun. It was quite big, as my hair went down to my ass. I then had the hair surrounding my face tightly curled, like a perm.

Alucard then phased behind me, making me nearly burn myself. "Don't do that!"

He laughed lightly. "Here, young master." He handed me my bag with shoes the dress, and a new bag.

"What's in here?"

"Just get dressed. Come back here when you're done." I looked at him, but still went and did what he asked. About ten minutes later, I came back wearing the dress and the heels, but not what Alucard got.

"Come over here." I stared at the cosmetics in front of him. I tried my hardest not to laugh, really, I did. The sight was just so comical.

He sighed. "Will, you please stop your laughing? We need to hurry."

I stopped, and when I did, Alucard swept the brush over my face, making it feel like it was every where at once. Then, it was just my cheeks, then my eyes. But my lips were slower. He grabbed my jaw lightly, swiping the lip stick against my lips slowly. A moment later he let go and I opened my eyes to see him nod.

"Good," He set it back on the counter. "Go to the foyer. Sir Integra is waiting for you there."

I nodded, getting up. I grabbed my red cloak, lifting the hood up over my hair carefully. It closed fully so you couldn't see the front. I walked out the door and saw Walter standing there. "There you are, follow me."

He walked to the magically hidden elevator, and we went down to the foyer. The wall opened and I saw Integra wearing a soft sea foam green dress, while Seras was wearing a purple dress. Standing next to her was Pip dressed formally.

"Come,"

We all followed, Pip and Seras got into a limo separate from the one Sir Integra and I got in. The cloak opened slightly in the front and Pip saw before he got in.

"What ze hell are you wearing?"

I looked down realizing he only saw skin. I opened up the cloak all the way to show him. He let out a low whistle making me blush.

"Pip, what are you looking- whoa." Seras stopped mid-question, staring. I closed the cloak before Walter or Integra noticed. Unfortunately, they saw Pip and Seras staring at me.

"What are you looking at?" Integra asked them.

Seras' eyes got big. "Have you seen Sarah-Rose's dress? It's beautiful."

Pip threw in his opinion. "Magnificent."

"Plain and purely sexy."

I spun around at the thought of someone whispering in my ear, but saw Alucard walking to us about thirty feet away. He grinned. "Wouldn't you say?"

I heard his voice, but his lips didn't move. I blushed the color of my cloak.

"Alucard, what did you tell her?" Integra was already annoyed with him.

"Why don't you show her the dress?" I glared at Alucard. His lips actually did move to form the words this time.

"Why, is it something big? It must be based on their comments."

Pip's and Seras' limo was already at the gate, turning. "Uh, yeah, uh, you'll see at the ball." I then got into the limo, with Integra sitting next to me. It was bigger because it had more leg room, even with two puffy dresses. Alucard phased into the seat facing me and Integra. His grin must have told Integra something.

"Sarah-Rose, what is under that cloak?"

Integra's eyes seemed to bring shame to me. "A dress, that Alucard approved of, remember that. But I can't show you in the car."

She seemed to glare at me, but looked out the window. A few minutes later, we arrived to the castle, beautiful was an understatement.

We all got out of the car, Alucard was the most graceful of us all. "Come, Young Master,"

Alucard had his arm out, and I grabbed it. His shadows engulfed us and goosebumps rose on my skin.

When I could see through the black mist, I saw we were surrounded by people, and that Integra had been on Alucard's opposite side. But no Walter.

The people around us went forward and talked to a butler, then turned and walked down the stairs.

Soon, Integra went down, and it was only Alucard and I.

"Come," He grabbed my hand, setting it on his arm. He then whispered to the butler.

"Miss Sarah-Rose Hellsing, daughter of Sir Integra Hellsing, escorted by her servant, Alucard Tepes."

I untied my cloak as the coat man came forward to take it. I could hear everyone stop breathing and look at my dress. Walter was standing next to Integra, and both looked like they were about to have a heart attack. But one face caught my attention. It was Meredith, standing next to what looked like a snotty 29-or-so blond. (Maxwell).

Alucard seemed to keep me from falling, and someone started clapping. I was going to shoot that person, until I realized it was the queen. Then, everyone followed suit.

I was so close to a tomato shade of red, that some people started laughing as they clapped.

Once we were on the floor, people I didn't know said hello, or nodded to me. But Alucard led me to the queen, who was sitting in her throne.

"Hello, Vampire, and Ms. Hellsing. It is very nice to met you." She seemed sincere, and wise.

"And you, your majesty." I curtsied. Alucard bowed.

"Hello, my queen. How are you this wonderful evening?" She nodded and seemed to blush if even in the slightest.

"Wonderful, thank you for asking. Oh," the queens face had a smile on it. "I see I am keeping you from your guest, please, do say hello to that sweet girl over there."

I turned and saw Meredith, so I somehow magically ran in heels over to her. We laughed. "Even though I saw you earlier today, I still overly missed you."

"I agree. Come on, I'll introduce you to my uncle and fiancé."

She pulled me along, and Alucard followed. "Sarah-Rose, I would like you to meet Enrico Maxwell. Enrico, this is my friend, Sarah-Rose."

The blond guy nodded. "How very nice to meet the young lady that helped inspire Meredith." His words were nice, but they had a coldness rapped in them.

"What do you mean?"

The man sighed, but not exactly in annoyance, yet it was. "She is writing a book, seemingly based on you." I turned to her with raised eyebrows.

"You're writing a book, about me?"

She nodded, a little guilty. "Only Enrico knows about it."

I was about to say something, but Alucard spoke. "Don't even think about it." I thought he was talking to me, but he was looking at Enrico. "You can't regenerate like her uncle does. By the way, where is he? I'm sure he would like to have a fight."

I looked up at Alucard, glaring. He looked down on me. "You know, that's not going to work in that dress."

He meant the glare, and my expression changed, my voice came out more seductive than I would have thought. "What won't work, Alucard?" I tilted my head to the side, and purred his name.

"That might work." He didn't move as I took a step closer.

"Then don't do anything without my permission."

He pursed his lips, but said nothing. I barely heard Enrico. "She has to act like a whore to control the vile scum of the earth. How sad."

I froze. "Meredith, because he's your fiancé, I won't let Alucard on him. But me on the other hand…" My sentence trailed off, and my eyes were cold when I looked at him. Meredith smacked him in the arm. She turned to me.

"Sorry he's being like that. He doesn't like Hellsing. There's Uncle Alex."

She smiled when a man about the same height as Alucard came up behind me. Alucard grinned. "Don't you dare," I warned.

"Sarah-Rose, meet my uncle, Alexander Anderson. Uncle Alex, this is Sarah-Rose."

He nodded. "Nice to meet ye, Ms. Hellsing."

"Thank you, nice to meet you, too." Enrico mumbled something under his breath, making Meredith smack him.

"Why can't you be more like my uncle? I mean, come on."

There was an uncomfortable silence, that was broken from Alucard laughing out of no where. "God Alucard, I knew you were old, but wow. Age even catches up to a vampire."

Everyone but Alucard laughed; he glared. Maxwell stopped himself from laughing more at my joke. "I was laughing about what the queen was thinking."

I looked at the queen and saw she was holding a MP3 that was similar to mine. It looked exactly like mine. When the song Misery Business came on, realized it was mine. But I let that slip. Me and Meredith sung the song. Another one of my songs came on, but we didn't pay attention. The men that we were standing next looked very uncomfortable. And Alucard was never uncomfortable.

"Come on, Alucard, let's go find Integra." I turned to Meredith. "I'll see you later, 'kay?"

She nodded. "Sure," Alucard followed me while we searched for Integra. He sighed a minute later.

"She's over there." He nodded to the right and I saw Integra with Walter talking to people I didn't know. It looked like a nun and another person. They both looked to be around twenty or so.

I caught the tail end of the conversation. "- we do the same exact thing you do. We just don't know why Iscariot hates us so much."

"That makes no sense! I do the same thing your vampire does. Except I don't use guns." I looked at the nun.

"Yes, but you hawe a split personality. He doesn't." I looked at the other person, who I couldn't distinguish from male or female.

"Yes he does. He is sometimes niceish, and sometimes he's a complete maniac."

They turned to me. Integra spoke. "No, not really. He has manners, but he isn't in his right mind."

"True, true." I agreed.

"I like the part how you call me a complete maniac." We all looked at Alucard. He was being serious.

"Yeah, uh, Integra, Alucard's scaring me."

Integra shook her head and sighed. "Alucard, behave. That's an order."

He sighed in frustration. "Yes, Master."

"That's all it takes?" I looked at Integra. She nodded. "I'll have to remember that. Now, what were you talking about?"

"This is Henikel and Yumiko. Yumiko has a split personality, so she is also known as Yumie. I'm correct, right?" Integra turned to them.

The nun nodded. "It's kind of weird, being nice one moment, then cutting someone's head off the next."

My eyes widened. Heinkel answered me. "Ve do the same exact thing you guys do basically."

I nodded. "Yeah… okay, so, when can we leave?"

Integra looked at me. "As soon as the queen say's it's okay. So, who have you met tonight?"

My eyes swept across the room. "Everyone. Including that stuck up Enrico."

Integra was taking a sip of her wine, and had to do everything in her power to not spit it back out. "What?"

"That Enrico guy. He's a stuck up arrogant jerk." I said.

Integra looked at me and started laughing. Alucard, Heinkel, and Yumiko all chuckled to themselves. "Sarah-Rose, that's one of the best things I've heard come out of your mouth." Alucard put his hand on my shoulder.

Once Integra stopped laughing and stood up straight, she nodded. "That, for once, I agree with you Alucard."

"You would think after twelve years you would agree with me sooner." Alucard said to her. His tone sounded seductive, and it hurt me somewhat.

Integra's steel blue eyes looked into Alucard's red ones. "I don't own you to agree with you."

"Sure you don't. Continue thinking that." Alucard smirked at her, and I walked off while they went at it, which I knew was going to happen. Yumiko seemed to be the only one who could see that it upset me.

I walked around and found Meredith, but she was making out with her soon to be husband, so I walked away from that.

Turning away from the sight, I literally bumped into Meredith's uncle.

"Hello again, young Hellsing. How are ye, lass?" I looked up at his tall form, then looked back down shrugging.

"Okay, I guess." I walked away, and Alexander Anderson followed.

"What's wrong, child? Has something happened?" Alex looked like he wanted to know.

"Nothing's wrong, Alexander. Nothing that bad." I looked at my feet as I said it.

"You can call me Alex, and from that tone, I'm going to guess something has happened. What is it?" Alex placed his giant hand on my shoulder.

I shook my head. "Just guy problems. I told you nothing's wrong." I said as I saw his face say he wish he hadn't asked. "That's why I went looking for Meredith, but she was kissing Enrico, so I decided against pulling their sucking faces apart."

I felt a chuckle go through Alex. "I could always rip them apart from each other."

I smiled slightly. "Why make Meredith go through my troubles? Enrico doesn't like me, so I really don't want her to go through guy troubles."

"Enrico doesn't like anybody, if you haven't realized that." Alex's voice was still laughing.

I nodded. "That seems true. But, he likes Meredith, apparently."

"That's true. Though, it is quite scary to see my student kiss my niece." He said.

"Yeah, I can imagine that being scary." I agreed. I looked towards Integra's group, but Alucard wasn't there. "Wonder where he went."

"What was that?" I looked up at Alex.

"Huh? Oh, thinking out loud. Hey, why don't you like Alucard?" I looked at him.

He sighed. "Just the way I was raised, I suppose. I was taught to destory creatures of Satan. Just doing what was drilled into my head."

I thought about that. "What about Seras? I mean, I don't really know her, but she's nice to me. I understand why you don't like Alucard, so what about Seras?" I repeated my question.

"I don't fight the girl, unless I have too. I have to say, I enjoy her more. She's still trying to hold on to her humanity, even though she is no longer human." He nodded.

I thought. "How do you know that?"

He nodded over to where Seras was. So that's where Alucard was. "Her eyes. They're still blue. If she didn't have any type of humanity and embraced her vampire self, her eyes would be red." The overly tall man growled when we walked past the windows. I looked towards him.

"Vampires. And lots of them." He turned to me. "Come, lass, we need to get you under more protection." He grabbed my wrist, pulling me away from the windows. I looked back and saw a pair of red eyes staring at me.

I screamed.

People reacted faster than I could read, which is pretty fast. Alex pulled something like a holy sword out of his coat, and it went through the window, and into the vampire's head. It started to fall, but the thing turned into dust. There was a dull thud, and everyone looked up. The chandler above us swayed. There were cracks going along the ceiling, and dust started falling. Oh, shit, that thing was going to fall on us.

Just as that thought came to me, the queen stood up. "Everyone, in a calmly matter, get down to the basement." To my amazement, it was more calmly than I thought. I nearly screamed a second time when Alucard phased behind me. Alex looked back at my yelp, then promptly let go of my wrist.

"Come on," Alucard grabbed one of my hands, pulling me towards him. He put his other arm around my waist, and phased us out of the building.

When I could see again, I couldn't see. It was all black, and I was on a bed or something.

"Stay here, and don't move." Alucard phased away from me, and I sighed, cuddling up against a pillow. I soon fell asleep out of boredom, a nightmare consisting of boiling red eyes.