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"Hey Alucard, I have a question." Rue said as they watched the recovery efforts from their assault on the Major's lab.
"What is it?" Alucard asked with a hint of curiosity.
"Do you hate me? I could have ended your reborned life that day. You wouldn't have had to suffer the life of an immortal and watch the people you grow attached to die in front of you." Rue explained as she shifted her footing.
"I may have every right to but I don't. You showed me a life more than battle and war. You have shown me that there is more to life in this vast world. I can never hate you Rue. You are the light in the darkness we walk in." Alucard told her.
Rue blushed at the last part he told her making her face away from him.
"What is it? Is it something I said?" Alucard asked Rue.
"No, its just no one has ever said anything kind to me like that. You're the first even though you normally bug me to death." Rue sputtered out in embarrassment.
Alucard grabbed Rue by the shoulders and spun her around and planted a kiss on Rue's lips. She was completely shocked by his actions. Of the many years she had known Alucard, this was out of character for him.
"That is what I think of you." He told her sweetly.
Rue's expression turned from on of pure shock to tinder love and she kissed Alucard back.
"And that is what I think of you Alucard." Rue told him
Present
Rue was in her room staring at a thick old book that was sitting on her table. She smiled at is lifted the heavy book and stood there admiring it.
"My life's story, all in a book. Now only the remaining pages can filled by whoever now." Rue said to herself in a smile.
Judgment day for England has arrived, all three sides of the pyramid were gathering and soon her life will be judged in the manner the Lord decides.
Rue left the room with the book and went to Sir Integra's office while everyone was preparing for the battle.
Rue went into the said office and saw that it was empty like she was expecting it to be. She went behind the desk and opened one of the drawers and set the book in it.
"In case something happens, I want some one to read the words of my life." Rue said with a small smile as she shut the door.
When Rue stood up straight she heard the door open to see Seras.
"Oh your not Sir Integra. I was looking for Integra and can't find her. Do you know where she could be? I also can't find master as well." Seras said from the doorway.
"Your master has gone ahead into battle against the millennium and Sir Integra is getting things ready for the great battle that is about to happen." Rue replied with a smile.
"May I ask something?" Seras asked Rue.
"And what would that be?"
"Are you scared? Scared of the on coming battle that will happen in London?" Seras asked hesitantly.
"Each step I take I am fearful of the out come. Each word I say I am fearful of its interpretation. I am fearful everyday but I do not let it rule my actions and thoughts. Yes I am fearful of this coming battle but I also know that somehow humanity shall prevail in one way or another." Rue said walking up to Seras as she spoke.
"Rue…"
"Stay safe and live through this battle Seras." Rue said as she put a gentle hand on Seras' shoulder before leaving completely, "Tell Integra that I off to join the jolly good battle."
With that Rue left, for possibly the last in her life. She wasn't going into battle to just die. In all battle there was the possibility of dying. Such was life.
The invasion of the undead that the Major had and the Iscariot Knights had begun. The poor people of London, innocents in their own right, were caught in the middle.
Rue stoop atop of a Cathedral, watching the below her as if she was a specter. With her scythe in hand she was ready to do battle, but there was one particular person she was watching and waiting for. A person from her past.
Rue scanned the area with her hawk like vision and found the person she was looking for.
She leaned forward and let herself freefell to the ground. After fall for a minute she pushed off from the wall of the cathedral and propelled herself through the street.
Rue readied her scythe and tried to strike the person she was heading to, only to be parried.
"I wondered when you would come Rue." Lucian said with a devilish smile and he used his claws to hold Rue back.
"Lets end this Lucian. You and me, no one else. Battle to the death." Rue said with a smirk as she jumped back and recovered herself.
"I have been waiting for this." Lucian said with a smirk as he launched himself at Rue.
Rue blocked one hand of claws but the other got her side.
"Your hesitating Rue. What's so wrong?" Lucian said with a laugh.
"A lot of things." Rue bit back before she attacked again.
Rue swung the scythe horizontal and almost got Lucian before he dodged at the very last second.
"Damn it." Rue muttered to herself.
The lagged on between the two of them, Rue having a collection of claw marks on her from Lucian and not even a scratch of Lucian.
"It looks like you haven't fought for a long time. Tell me, why do you not want to fight." Lucian asked sinisterly.
"Because I don't want to use the cursed power within me. I loathe it. I just want to be normal and human and grow old and die peacefully. Instead I am cursed to live on this earth for as long as I breathe. The last time I truly felt was it was the time of the crusades. I released my power and many died from it. I will not make that mistake." Rue said before attack again.
"So you're going to die a pathetic death. Then I shall give it to you." Lucian said going at her.
As the two were about to collide Rue let go of her weapon and stopped mid attack and took the fatal she was about to receive.
The claws dug in to her like knives but she smiled and threw her arms around Lucian.
"Deep down your still the same little boy I knew and adored. I'm so sorry you felt as though I abandoned you. I stayed away and dropped all contact to keep you safe. But in the end I did more damage than good and I am sorry." Rue told Lucian as she held him.
"Why? Why did you take the hit? You could have dodged or something!" Lucian yelled at her.
"I am a softy, at least that is what Alucard tells me." Rue said with a smile.
"Rue." Lucian said on the verge of tears.
Lucian started to feel something hot against him and looked down to see Rue's Celtic pendant glowering.
"Rue what's happening?" Lucian asked.
"I don't know, it's never happened before." Rue replied weakly.
Rue's injuries start to heal and then her clothes changed from her normal attire to that of a red armor with silver trimming.
The scythe turned into a brilliant silver color.
"Rue, what are you?" Lucian asked shocked as Rue stood don her own and looked at herself.
"Isn't that the million dollar question." Rue replied as she felt her new pointed ears.
"Are you a fairy or something?" Lucian said hastily.
"I don't understand this and quiet frankly we don't have time to talk about this. For now I want you do something for me okay."
"What is it?" Lucian asked.
"I want you to leave this country and go live a life that is virtuous. I know you are a vampire and that is asking a lot but when the time comes, you will turn over a new leaf. I believe your sins will be forgiven. Now go. I will take care of things here." Rue told Lucian as she put her hand on his shoulder.
"I can't leave you here."
"I will be fine. I sense Alucard is here and soon the battle will be decided. Now go before he finds you." Rue told Lucian, "Live the life your parents would want you to live."
"Is this good bye?" Lucian asked softly.
"I don't know but you know how fate is at times, we eventually meet again in life. Now take care of yourself." Rue told him before launching herself into the blood red sky.
As she started to fall back to the blood soak streets of London, she saw where Alucard was.
She jumped from rooftop to rooftop. Before her eyes she saw and heard Sir Integra give the command for the release of Alucard's true form. So Rue stopped and stood on top of a stone cathedral and watched the events unfold before her eyes.
All of the souls from the she saved him from all those years ago emerged from started to fight both the Vatican knights and the army of undead from the Nazis.
Rue looked over and saw Alucard become Vlad once again. Rue dropped down the street below and cautiously walked toward him with her scythe, unsure of what his state of mind would be.
"My lord Trepes." Rue said softly behind him.
She stood there a few feet behind him waiting for a reaction.
He slowly turned around to her and saw Rue stand there before him, looking completely different than she normally does.
"I know that face." He said softly yet Rue heard him.
"My lord." Rue said as tears started to prick her green eyes.
Her scythe disappeared in thin air and she started walking to him, raising her right hand, as she got closer.
Once she stood right in front of the No Life King, she gently caressed his cheek with her hand.
"Welcome back my lord." Rue said as she control of her tears.
"Este bine să fie înapoi(It is good to be back)." Vlad said in Romanian to her before planting a kiss to her lips.
"You look the same from when we met for the first time." Rue said with a smile as she stared into his eyes.
"I wish I could say the some for you. Yet you look more beautiful than ever." He told her with a smile of his own.
She started to laugh softly until she notices Vlad looking past her.
Rue turns and sees Seras and Sir Integra approaching them.
"Sir Integra, Seras I am glad to see you are both safe." Rue to them as she fully faced them.
"Wow Rue you look totally different. Your ears are so pointy too." Seras said pointing to Rue.
"That they are Seras." Rue said with a smile.
Integra just stood there watching the light banter go back and forth between Rue and Seras.
"Have you taken care what you needed to take care of Rue?" Integra asked Rue coldly.
"Yes Sir Integra. All that is left is the Major to be truthful." Rue said as she tilted her head.
"So you have damned yourself as well little lady." A familiar voice said.
Rue looked at the source and saw Father Anderson.
"Truth be told I cursed god everyday for my forced immortality Priest. Whether I am damned or not is up to you interpretation. Also truth be told, I could careless. I live my own life with each step I take." Rue said rather angrily.
Rue's scythe appeared in her hand again.
"Sir Integra, Seras you must go now." Rue said as she stepped passed them.
"You better bloody return." Integra said with a smirk as she worked to the down airship that the Major would be waiting.
"Master?" Seras said questionly to her master.
"Go with her. I will stay here as well." Vlad told her.
Seras nodded and ran after Integra.
"This is long over due, I still have pay back to get from when you stabbed me with those damn bayonets." Rue said angrily as stood there with her scythe.
"Still sore about that? I thought you were of something holy and yet I see you are a creature of the damn." Anderson told her icily.
"How can you even judge her when she herself has no idea what she is." Alucard asked hotly as he returned to his usual form.
He laid a comforting hand her shoulder, making her look into her blood red eyes.
"She is damned for hanging around you vampire." Anderson said as she pulled a small box from his pocket.
Alucard and Rue watched him open it hold what looked like a wooden nail of sorts.
"Helena's Nail, said to have been one of the several nails used to crucify Jesus Christ." Anderson said as he brought the nail closer his chest.
"Don't be stupid Priest! Do you really want to become a monster like the two of us? Stay human and fight like a human!" Alucard yelled at the Priest.
But it was too late, Anderson stabbed himself with the nail and suddenly he was engulfed in thorny vines that lashed out at Alucard and Rue.
They both dodged, Rue used her scythe to cut the vines away from her while Alucard used his guns. Soon it wasn't enough until they were both engulfed by the holy vines.
As Rue started to lose consciousness, she kept hearing a young child's name. Soon she saw herself in a memory; it was Anderson's memory of the orphanage he runs in Italy, close to the Vatican and all the children he had saved.
"I will not let you give up life so cheaply you dumb ass, son of bitch priest." Rue said with a growl.
She soon felt her power surge and the vines started to loosen their grip on her. They suddenly snapped when she broke free with the help of her trusty scythe.
Rue jumped up on the vines and used them like a bridge to get to Anderson's body. She cut away the vines that came after her as she got closer and final she was close enough to pull the nail.
She grasped it firmly and pulled the nail out of him.
The vines disappeared slowly and Anderson returned to normal and fell to the ground.
"There are those waiting for you back home, do not waste this life by doing something stupid." Rue told him as she crushed the wooden artifact in hand.
She suddenly felt dizzy and started to fall back until two powerful strong arms grasped her and held her protectively.
"You have used too much energy my little kitten." Alucard told her as he held her.
Her appearance changed back to a more human look, her armor disappeared and her ear went back to normally somewhat. Just a slight pointiness to them that you can barely tell.
"Alucard." Rue said as her vision started to fail.
"Rest kitten, when you awaken once again, everything will be back as they should be." Alucard told her before placing a kiss on her forehead.
Rue soon fell into the world of darkness.
Author Notes:
So this is way over due and that is my fault. One more chapter is all that is left. I love how this story turned out and I love all the messages I got from Readers.
Until the last chapter.
