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Chapter 7: Unrequited Love
In a blink of an eye, Seras was pinned to the wall. She was stunned. Alucard held both her wrists with just one hand above her head and his other hand holding Seras chin, holding her head up so they would be face to face. Their faces were only inches apart and Seras could feel his breath caress her face. She looked at him and saw his flaming orange eyes looking straight at her ocean blue ones. He grinned at her small cowering feature. Even if she has improved far beyond anyone's expectation, she was still no match to her master.
"M…m…master… Wh…what ar–", She gets cut off as his lips clash with hers. She tries pushing him away but the more she struggles, the more he presses himself to her. He was smothering her. She tried to scream at the back of her throat but she was too compelled not to. She couldn't even phase. Her master had locked her down, ordering her to seal her powers and she could not help but do as he says. She was now as helpless as a child. His hand now started to slowly slide down, roaming her figure. She started shedding bloody tears as she started to crumble and succumb to her master's will.
Alucard was enjoying himself. Having the woman he's always longed for under his full command, he felt very triumphant. As he was about to go further, he felt something wet touch the side of his cheeks. He opened his eyes to see his fledglings pleading face, beads of bloody tears running down her face. He stopped and stepped back, realizing his brash actions.
Seras fell to her knees, sobbing. She felt so violated. But her tears weren't out of anger or sadness but of confusion. She did feel violated, but it wasn't like she didn't like it, she just hesitated because she felt like she was cheating on her lover, Vincent. She was confused. After all this time she still had feelings for her master.
Alucard just stood there, looking at her with a shocked expression. He contemplated on what he had just done. Seeing her cry like that and crumble to her knees. He could see and feel that she was in pain. Two thoughts in his head were battling. One saying what he did was right. He is the master anyways and he can do what he wants. And the other saying that what he did only made her more unreachable. He'd hurt her and she would never see him the same again. Losing the tiniest bit of hope left for her to love him back.
He was so confused. All he could do was turn around and phase back to his room, leaving Seras still on her knees, crying.
After drying out her tear ducts from crying, Seras stood up and headed to her coffin. There she lay down. She closed the lid and continued her moping there.
***Evening***
Wallace goes down to the dungeons to deliver the vampires' blood packs. He decides to drop by Alucard's room first. He didn't want to go back and forth to Seras' room. He wants to spend more time with Seras. He knocks on the big metal door and receives a growl in response. He shrugs off the warning and enters anyways. He didn't like being pushed around by a stranger and certainly not by someone who used to (and still might) torture his beloved aunt.
The room was dark and eerie. He tried to call out for the 'Old Tick'. A nickname he came up for the ancient vampire. It was clear he didn't really like Alucard. He used to hear stories about how he'd torture people and annoy them to death just for fun, especially his aunt Seras. He even asked her once to teach him to block and shield his thoughts. He got it but couldn't maintain to hold them up. It was tiring for him. Instead, Seras extended her mind shield to him, protecting both their thoughts. It was an amazing skill. Seras could still read his thoughts though since they were both just under the same shield but he didn't mind. He has no secrets from Seras, but she still respects his privacy and never roams his mind unless necessary. And it was convenient too, for if either of them were in trouble, they'd know in an instant. The shield seems to have given them a bit of mind link. They would both know where the other would be and realize that there's trouble just because the mind link would suddenly fuzz up. He smiled at the thought.
As he neared Alucard's throne he felt a deep and dark aura emanating from the creature that sat on it. But it wasn't out of anger or rage or even bloodlust. It was sadness, despair, loneliness and disgust for oneself. Strangely, Wallace had developed an astonishing skill of reading one's emotions just by going near them. He could even tell if they were lying. When the others had found out before, they asked how it was possible. He just answered them honestly saying he had had this skill since he was still a child. That's why the moment he met Seras, he knew he could fully trust her.
He went nearer the creature and dropped a bucket of ice and blood packs on the side table beside the throne.
"So, I'll just leave these here, Master Alucard." He said to the slump vampire.
Alucard just groaned and waved the young lad away.
Wallace turned on his heels and stormed out, disgruntled. All because Alucard didn't even say 'Thank you.'
What a lousy Old Tick. He thought to himself.
Alucard then realized something right after the boy left. He couldn't hear the boy's thoughts. It was just blank. Surely he must've thought of something even ghouls had thoughts, except they were always about food and flesh and blood. But this kid, there was none.
What on earth is happening around here…? He asked himself.
***Meanwhile***
Wallace got in front of Seras' door in record time. He was way too excited with spending time with his very best friend and only family. He knocked and waited for Seras to grant him permission to enter. But there was no response.
Funny. He thought to himself. She would always come running to open the door whenever it was me. Did something happen…?
He tried turning the knob but it was lock. He thought she was out but he could feel her inside. They did have connected minds. He leaned his ear on her door and tried to listen for any movement. He heard two voices. One with a comical French accent and the other was... shaky.
He sent her a mental message to let him in at the same time asking her what was wrong.
Seras then ordered Pip to let Wallace in.
"Bon Sieur! Come on in little Wally!" Pip exploded while opening the door for Wallace. As soon as the door was open, Wallace burst in, sprinting like a bullet to Seras. Seras slowly looked up to see her nephew, but in a flash, Wallace had already had her in a tight embrace.
"Seras-chan… please… tell me… what's wrong? What happened?" Wallace felt her pain. She was so deeply hurt. It hurt him so much seeing her like this, and it hurt even more because he could feel it.
"Daijobu, Wallace- kun. It's nothing." Seras tried convincing him. But she knew he couldn't be fooled.
Wallace stopped the embrace and pulled himself off her. He held her shoulders with his hands, but he didn't look at her straight. He hid his eyes under his long bangs. A single tear fell.
"Seras-chan, watashi wa kiku shimasu. Seras-chan." He looks up at her, showing his watery emerald orbs, staring straight at her watery ocean blue ones.
Seras starts crying. Feeling guilty for the pain she was putting Wallace through.
"G-gomenasai… gomenasai Wallace-kun… mada mada dame desu…" She rests her head on his shoulder sobbing.
"Nee, Seras-chan… Do shimasita ka…?" he embraces her again and strokes her hair to calm her.
"Uh… I am zorry... but vat on earth ver you two talking about, huh?" Pip standing and watching the whole time couldn't understand a single word from their Japanese conversation.
"Nothing, Pip." Wallace said as he waved his hand.
"So, what's wrong Seras-chan?" He asked her again.
Seras looked up at him and sent him mental images of the recent event. When she was finished she returned to burying her face in his chest.
"That bastard…" he said it in a whisper but it was clear from his tone how enraged and disgusted he was. He continues stroking her hair until she eventually drifted to sleep out of exhaustion.
"So… vat can vwe do, Wallace? Vwe can't go against ze old creep. Vwe're juzt inzectz he can crush." Pip asked Wallace as he ghosted to them.
"Oh? On the contrary Pip-san, I believe I know a way to get back at that Old Tick." Wallace looked up at the French mercenary and grinned slyly.
***Morning***
Wallace went down to Alucard's room to start his little revenge plan. As he neared the big metal door, he tries to feel for the nosferatu's feelings or emotions; serene and a bit troubled. It was indeed obvious that Alucard was fast asleep, but also that he was having a nightmare.
I thought full vampires couldn't dream. Wallace thought to himself as he silently went in Alucard's room.
It was dark and cold like the last time he went there. He used night vision goggles to see through the dark. Once he had found Alucard's coffin, he went to work making sure that he was quiet and careful enough so as not to wake the old vampire.
It was almost lunch when he finished his 'surprise'. He packed up his stuff and left to make Integra's lunch leaving the clueless nosferatu to his slumber.
***Evening***
Alucard woke up still disgruntled. He still felt so bad about his actions towards Seras last night. He let out a sigh as he tried to drift into sleep again until Integra summoned him. He was so irritated. He didn't feel like missions or getting lectured tonight. Then Integra summoned him again, with a louder commanding voice now. He growled and tried to push his coffin's lid open but it wouldn't budge. He got more irritated and phased through it not knowing there was a layer of glue slopped all over the top of the lid. He phased thinking it was only the lid he had to go through, but as he got out, he was smothered in glue. He tried wiping the stuff off his eyes but he accidentally tripped over to the side of his coffin onto a pile of feathers on the floor. He kept rolling on the floor, wiping his eyes clueless to the amount of feathers sticking to him. When he could finally see again he noticed his feathery body. Getting more and more frustrated by the second, he stood up and stepped on a wire which triggered the bucket on top of his head to spill its content. He was now covered in pink paint. He roared out of frustration. Integra, who was now fuming with impatience, called to him again. He was about to phase out of the mess he was in, until his seals lit up, only meaning one thing. Integra had used the seals to force Alucard to do as she says and stop what he was doing or about to do, which was unfortunately tidying himself up.
His body started moving on its own forming a portal leading to Integra's office. He started walking to it, trying his best to stop his body. He looked like a drunken robot walking.
Oh! Shit! were his final thoughts as he entered the portal. Little did he know of the awaiting audience in Integra's office.
***Integra's office***
Integra, Seras, Wallace, Vincent and Pip were all in the room. Wallace had reported to Integra what Alucard had done to Seras so she had everyone called to talk about the matter. Seras had managed to go back to normal after all the comforting from her friends. As they continued making jokes to make Seras laugh, they all noticed the portal appearing on the floor. They all knew who it was. Seras curled into a ball on the sofa beside Vincent.
As Alucard appeared in front of them, there was a pause and then they all burst laughing like hell. Seras started crying again, not because she remembered the incident but because she couldn't breathe from laughing. Alucard couldn't do anything. The seals bounded him still like a statue.
In the midst of the laughter, there was a flash. They all looked to where it came from. It seems Integra had taken the opportunity to snag a shot. She grinned evilly holding her digital camera up. Alucard was about to say something when he turned to look at Seras. She was so happy. He thought the next time he would see her; she wouldn't want to look at him again. But there she was, laughing, being happy pointing at him. He felt good thinking he made her smile and laugh. He wanted to make her happy.
"Well, Alucard. I hope you learned you lesson." Integra was now serious. "You mess with Seras, we'll mess you up." She let out a chuckle pointing at the silly vampire.
"So, you were all in this?" Alucard said in a stern voice.
"No, just me and Wallace. If we had let Seras into the prank she would've never allowed it. She's not really one for childish games." Integra just kept smirking the whole time.
After almost an eternity of non – stop laughing, teasing and coughing (from too much laughing), Integra released the seals and Alucard was free to move again. Everyone was expecting him to pull out his guns and start shooting all over the place; instead he walked over to Seras and knelt before her. She was hugging her legs tight just like a scared little girl. He reached out his hand and caressed her face with the back of his hand that was still clean.
"If this makes you happy, then I'm fine with it." He said to her in a very charming way followed by a very warm smile. Seras couldn't help but blush beet red.
"Um…Thank you… Master…" She smiled back at him.
"That still doesn't mean she forgives you for such atrocity and harassment you've done!" Vincent snapped as he stood up balling his fists, looking at the pink count.
"And what, pray tell, must I do to acquire her forgiveness?" Alucard replied in a mocking tone.
"Die." Vincent's eyes turned crimson red as pulls out his black .45LC (Long Colt) Revolver and points it at Alucards forehead.
To think Alucard's first instinct would be to swat the gun off Vincent's hand or pull out his and point it at the young vampire as well. But instead he just sat there, waiting. Before Vincent was about to pull the trigger, Seras interrupted.
"Vincent! Stop that! You can't do that to my Master!" She screamed at him as she pushes his revolver to another direction.
"What?! You're defending this maniac after what he's done to you?!" Anger was clearly present in his tone.
"Yes I am! I've forgiven him! Why can't you?!" Seras shot up; she was now between her Master and her lover.
"Why can't I? Well, how can you?! How can you be so cool about it?!"
"Because I don't bear grudges, especially not at the people I care about! And because he's still my Master and I owe my life to him! Understand?" Seras' eyes were now glowing red. As much as Vincent wanted to protest, she was right. He understood how she felt for her master. How her loyalty couldn't be rendered. He was the same, for Seras wasn't only his lover, but also his master. Seras was a Sinclair and he was a Cross. It was and always has been his destiny to serve and protect her; he just never expected to fall in love with her.
"Yeah… whatever…" He sighs to calm himself down and puts his gun away.
"Thank you." Seras tiptoed just enough so she could give her boyfriend a small kiss on his cheek.
Later on, when everything was already settled, Alucard already clean, Vincent already made peace with Alucard, Integra now shifted into 'I-mean-business' mode.
"Okay. That's enough laughs for the night. I have an assignment for you three men and my son." Integra began.
"Eh? But what about me, my Lady?" Seras asked annoyed at why she wasn't getting a part of it.
"My dear, you're actually the most crucial person for this mission." Integra now had a Cheshire grin plastered on her face, it creeped the living hell out of everyone, especially a little blonde draculina.
"M-m-m-m-me….?!"
***END***
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