A/N: Wow, thanks for the reviews guys. I'm glad you guys like it. I noticed some of you had questions about if I'm going to add some other characters in the story and the part where Rose and Jack do there alone time in, you lil pervs hahaha jk, and I'm just going to tell you this once….wait and find out! Mwhahahahahahaha, I'm evil XD (jk). Hope you enjoy the chapter!
Integra's POV
"Walter, where is Alucard? Has he not return from the task yet?" I asked.
"No, Sir Integra he has not." Walter was serving my tea to me as we waited for Alucard to return from erasing the girl's mind, yet again.
"How long has it been since I sent him?"
"About over an hour ma'am." Walter placed the cup of tea next to my paper. I lit a cigar and took my usual routine of breathing in the smoke and exhaling it. Alucard came back from his little brawl with a vampire over an hour ago, before he was caught by the crew men. He stated that it could be the vampire we have been looking for but needs to catch her before assuming anything. Once he told me the report I was not pleased that the girl, what's her name, Seras Victoria was yet again at the scene. There was no choice but to erase her memories of the incident, we couldn't afford any witnesses.
"Sir Integra, I don't mean to be rude but I do have a message for you from Sir Penwood." Walter said uneasy.
I nodded, "Go on, Walter."
"Right." He cleared his voice, "Sir Penwood sent this message earlier today, I haven't been able to read it to you due to the meetings you were attending too, he has asked when shall Alucard's and your wedding date be so he knows when to help set it up with the necessities." Walter finished as he folded back up the paper.
"Bloody hell…" I whispered.
"Sir?"
"Walter, I will appreciate it if I may have a moment alone to gather up my thoughts." I said while gently nibbling on the tip of my cigar.
He bowed, "Of course, Sir Integra."
Walter closed the door as he left the room.
The wedding. I had nearly forgotten about the whole thing, no one has mentioned it in a few days. Even if I am allowed to keep my last name it still wouldn't feel right. I would be Dracul, not Hellsing. That's not the only reason I'd been moody lately, ok for months now. The thought of marriage never passed my mind while I was a girl or a teenager, not even as a young woman. Here I am, twenty three years old and I still don't want to get married. Even in some miraculous way I did plan one day getting married, Alucard wouldn't be my first choice. I did care for him, I think at some small point in time I loved him but that was until I saw who he really was. A monster, that's all. A man damned to wonder the pit of Hell for all time. Not feeling for anyone except himself.
At times, he does seem like he cares but I have no clue if that's a lie or not. He never is open with me and nor I bothered to open up to him. We are just two different people.
My father wanted me to marry Alucard so he knew I'd be safe and Alucard would have more of a reason to protect me. Honestly, it wasn't right, but it was my father's last wish and I must bide by it. Though…is it worth it? Spending the rest of my life with him? Of course I would since I'm his master but be with him like that? I will become an old woman while he remains as he is now. I just don't like the idea all too well.
No, I simply can't follow those orders. No matter how much my father wanted me too.
Walter had nearly busted the door down as he rushed into my office, "Sir Integra, you most come immediately!"
I quickly got up, put on my coat and ran with Walter to where he was taking me, "What is it? What happened?"
Walter looked grim, "Alucard is fighting with Father Anderson."
"Bloody hell!" Walter and I ran as fast as we could. We reached the end of two hallways leading up to a room that was surrounded by the Round Table and there guards. The room was used for our meetings, how in the hell did they get in there?
"Sir Integra, we tried to stop them but there was nothing we could do, they just started to fight each other till they pushed one another into the room for more space." One of the soldiers said.
I nodded and entered the room. The sight was hectic.
The room was completely trashed, the long wooden table we use was smashed in half and in pieces. The wall's paint was chipped and cracked everywhere. Even the bloody windows were all broken with glass everywhere, of course, there was blood spread across the floor as well.
Anderson was in a fighting position, ready to charge at Alucard. The bayonets he held firmly in his hands were dripping of blood, which was most likely Alucard's. His left lens in his glasses was cracked and his face was troubled with rage.
Alucard was completely different. I did feel sorry for the fool who had pissed him off because the look that he had was demented with blood lust. His eyes were widened, showing off his dark red eyes, with a psychotic grin stretched over his face and a revolver in his hand.
"Ye bloody heathen, today shall be the day I sent ye to the pits of Hell for all eternity!" Anderson charged towards Alucard.
"THEN YOU BETTER HURRY, JUDAS PRIEST!" Alucard roared as he charged to Anderson as well.
Anderson pulled out five bayonets in each hand throwing them simultaneously at Alucard. He raised his guns and shot each one into pieces.
"Sir Integra do you plan on stopping this?' Walter asked.
"No, lets see how the Iscariot deals with Alucard." I lit a cigar, "Also, we should let Alucard have his fun, I'm sure he's been deathly bored."
Anderson failed to get to close to Alucard.
"Is that all you got, Paladin?" Alucard laughed.
Anderson grinned and charged him again with more bayonets ready in his hands. The two clashed, Anderson trying to stab him through the heart or slash his body away. One of the bayonets stabbed into Alucard's arm and it looked like it actually stung him.
"Blessed blades?" Alucard said displeased.
"Aye, to deal with the likes of your kind!" Anderson spat.
Alucard dodged his attacks effortlessly. Quickly, Anderson pulled out another blade and stabbed Alucard in the jugular making blood gush out.
He grunted at the impact. Anderson raised his other hand and aimed for Alucard's head. It was blocked by Alucard's gun as both metal clattered together shoving the other aside. This left Alucard open for a brief moment. Anderson took the advantage. He pulled out countless of blades from his sleeve and threw them at Alucard. The impact sent him flying to the next wall as the blades sunk into his body and got stuck in the wall once his body touched it.
"Amen." Anderson said.
He grinned at his opening. He twirled the other blade in his hand and cut off Alucard's head. The disembodied head rolled across the floor with eyes staring at the ceiling.
Anderson lifted his head back and laughed hysterically, "That was all Hellsing's pet had? What a sad disappointment."
He put away his blades and walked towards us. The sounds of gasps was heard among the Round Table.
"My, my, what have you done to him." I said nonchalant.
"Isn't is quite obvious? I just decapitated your pet vampire, Protestant!" He chuckled.
"Cut off his head?" I gave him my own chuckle, "Well, that's step one, what about two through ten?"
"What?"
"You see, I would start running if I was you Iscariot because that vampire will come back any second now." I pointed at the decapitated head that was slowly melting onto the wooden floor.
"Have you gone completely insane?" He laughed.
"No…that's my job." A voice filled the air.
I tsked at Anderson, "Too late."
Black bats came from the window surrounding Alucard's body. Some of them screeched as they flew around us.
"Cut off his head? pierced his heart? He is not like any vampire you've ever known, your tricks won't kill him. A hundred years of the Hellsing family's knowledge created this achievement. The vampire, Alucard!" I smirked.
In front of us the bats formed a body and with it a head that stared at us with blood red eyes.
"How the hell did ye do that?" Anderson was now infuriated.
Alucard smirked as his wild black hair flowed around him, "Fuck you, that's how."
Alucard raised his gun and started firing. Anderson tried to dodge them but in the effort got hit in the arms and legs.
Alucard's eyes widened in excitement, his eyes turning more and more blood red as the Paladin ran to him. Anderson took out two more bayonets and stabbed them into Alucard's chest. He spat out blood and laughed. He raised his gun to Anderson's forehead and pulled the trigger. Anderson's body fell to the ground.
Alucard walked up to the corpse with not letting his face change from the psychotic grin, "Facing head on against a vampire, very foolish father."
"Alucard, what the hell gave you the right to attack the Iscariot." I asked him, not wanting to cause another scene in front of the Round Table members.
Before he could answer the corpse moved. "What the hell?" I heard people mumble from behind me.
Anderson's body slowly got up and attacked him. I didn't think Alucard's grin could grow any more than it had but I was proven wrong. At this point Alucard had passed the line of insanity.
"A regenerator." I heard Walter state.
"A what?" I asked dumbfounded, "Tell me once I calmed them both down." Walter nodded.
"Alucard I order you to stop!" I commanded.
Finally, before he shot Anderson in the head, he stopped. He looked at me with a distasteful look and slowly put his gun away. On the other hand, Anderson kept out his bayonets, ready incase he'd strike again.
"I'm sorry Anderson if he had started something with you." I said.
"He's the one that started it." Alucard said bluntly.
"I didn't ask for you to talk servant!" Anderson chuckled at what I said.
"What is it?" I ordered.
"He's just a damn dog." He mumbled. "I saw ye pet outside on the deck with a woman."
"It seems like Anderson has a little feelings for her possibly?" Alucard smirked.
"I do not, she is an innocent girl that cannot be tainted by the likes of ye!" Anderson raised his weapons.
"Hold on!" I intervened. "Alucard, was the girl the one I sent you for your mission."
He hesitated, "Yes."
I nodded and turned to Anderson, "The girl wasn't in danger, we sent Alucard to erase her memories because of her witnessing a fight that occurred earlier." Apparently, that is happening a lot lately.
Something I said amused Anderson, "Oh, I think he did a little bit more than what ye ordered."
Alucard raised his gun and aimed it at his head, "Watch what you say!"
"THAT'S ENOUGH!" I yelled.
They both looked at me, "Alucard I want you to go back to the room and wait for me there, now!" He slowly walked away and as he passed through the door the crowed moved out of his why with looks as if they'd soiled themselves. "Now Anderson, I apologize for the rudeness my servant has done, one of the soldiers will escort you back to your room." I turned and walked away.
Before I left through the door he called out with laughter, "Watch out for ye pet, Protestant, he has some secrets he's keeping from ye."
Walter's POV
Integra nearly yelled at Alucard for more then ten minutes once we entered our room. Saying that he was an idiot for attacking the Iscariot, specially when we were in the middle of a treaty between them. Also, other things concerning his attitude lately .
"Just hope that you haven't damaged what chance we had for a treaty! If it's all ruined the Round Table will have my head!" Integra said violently.
Alucard just sat there on the chair listening to Integra's lecture.
"Are you even listening?" She asked.
He looked up at her with emotionless eyes, "Yes, my master." The way Alucard said that made her anger rise through the roof. It dripped with hate and resentment, nothing like he ever said before.
"What is with you? How dare you talk to me in that tone!" She slammed her fist on the table.
Shockingly, Alucard rose from his chair, "Instead of pestering me of my attitude INTEGRA, check your's first. Walter and I had to put up with this nonsense for months now and to be honest I'm at a point where I just might fucking loose what plain sanity I have left!"
Please Alucard, don't bring me in this. The last thing I want is to end the night like this. I believe this old man has had enough dispute from these two in his life time.
"I am your master and you are my servant that's how it will remain!" She yelled back.
Alucard broke into an insane laughter, "Yes! You are right! I have no freedom, I am merely a servant being forced to obey his master's every whim even if I detest it to my very core! Your ancestor, my past master, Abraham Van Hellsing, made sure of that, always lecturing me as if it was a promise that even in his death he will always lurk around me, not resting till he knows I am in Hell burning and dancing for the Devil! And tonight I finally believed the senile old man, for he does haunt me where I go! For he had made sure that a monster like me could never gain anything for the rest of his damned unlife!"
Sir Integra and I just stood there in shock. Alucard never brought up HIS name, because the sound of that name set him of like a firework. Clearly we were witnessing was one of his, what we call, "episodes" of insanity.
"Are you happy, my master? Does my pain satisfy you? My grief? My utter loyalty to you? Do they set off that pleasure you get for making one beneath you, making yourself on top of the pyramid?" Alucard leaned in closely to her face, "Do you really believe your doing God's work? Thinking he is pleased with what you are doing. Have you ever felt like you were abandoned by HIM, my master?"
Sir Integra was furious with his accusations, but shockingly she let him continue.
"Oh, I have felt that, my master! In my human life I lead my army to their deaths! They fought for their GOD and sacrificed their lives for their GOD! And what do they get? Horrible deaths in which you can never imagine. You didn't watch as your men fell to the ground chocking to death in their own blood, them crying, no SCREAMING in agony as they prayed for their GOD to help them. We received nothing from HIM. They were, like I am now, a pawn used by their masters, obeying every order, believing every word that exit out of their mouths and never have what they want."
Alucard finally calmed down as he finished his speech. Bringing up his past wasn't his favorite topics to speak of, only if he was truly serious and troubled did he rarely speak it. Only to us of course…
Integra watched as he lowered his self back down on the chair and gazed absently at the ceiling.
"Then maybe, it should just be a master and servant relationship" She stated.
That got Alucard's head and mine to snap towards our master. "Sir Integra?" I asked confused.
She looked down at the mildly confused Alucard, "Raise, servant." Alucard didn't hesitate as he rose from his chair, "I, your master, Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing, allow you, Alucard, the No-Life-King, to be released."
WHAT! Alucard and I stared at her with stunned eyes.
Then she gently smiled, "From the marriage."
I fell to the ground.
Alucard looked at her blankly, gave a depressed smile and said, "Thank you, my master…"
I got up with support from another chair, wiping the nervous perspiration from my forehead with a handkerchief, "My god, Sir Integra, don't give this old man a heart attack, what a nasty trick."
She gently laughed, "Do you honestly believe I would have given this monster his total freedom?"
A moment their…yeah basically. "Well you did sound very, um, convincing." I laughed nervously.
Alucard just stared out into space the whole time Sir Integra joked a bit with me about my reaction. Not once did he look happy or, in the matter of fact, sad. Not the sadness of one learning there marriage was canceled but as if they had lost something entirely. For awhile I've known Alucard had no desire to marry his master so I know it wasn't that.
"Alucard, what is troubling you?" I had to ask.
He didn't answer.
"Isn't this want you wanted, vampire? I assumed we weren't on board with this marriage agreement yet you look like that?" She asked as she lit her cigar.
He got up, "It is nothing, my master." As he walked off I can hear a faint whisper escape under his breath, "It's just too late to care anymore…"
"What has gotten into him?" She wondered.
"I'll check." I insisted. Sir Integra nodded and added, "When you are Walter can you send Sir Penwood a message about the further information of my decision also about that Iscariot regenerator." I nodded and went to Alucard's room.
Usually I would find him sitting in his chair or laying in his last domain, but this time he just sat on top of the domain with slumped shoulders, and his black hair covering the right side of his face. His left eye was fixed on the floor, staring at the horrible patterned carpet. Not once have I seen him like this, I wasn't use to it.
I walked up to him and sat quietly next to him. Probably wasn't the best idea to sit right here, well on this but when I got no protest from it I relaxed. For minutes we didn't say anything, just sat in each other's company.
Finally I couldn't take the weird silence anymore and asked, "Usually, when someone finds out that their wedding has been canceled they sulk about it, but I'm not sure why it's different in your case."
He just gave me a hmm reply.
Ok, this isn't working out as I hoped. "What did you mean by it's just too late to care anymore?"
Again, I got nothing. I'm not getting anything out of him I guess. I got up to leave but then felt a grip tighten my forearm. Alucard didn't look up but just continued to stare at the floor, "She knows…"
"Who?"
He narrowed his eyes a bit, "Seras…she knows what I am."
I couldn't help but jump a little, "Didn't you erase her memory?"
He shook his head, "I was never planning on it."
"But Sir Integra."
"Didn't give pacific orders on what to exactly do with her." I stared at him, not understanding what he was getting at. He said in annoyance, "She simply said to take care of the problem, she meant to erase her mind, I just simply took it as something else."
"A lupole?" I raised a brow.
He chuckled darkly, "Yeah, you can say that. When I went to her I wasn't thinking, all I wanted was to be…I just wanted to be near her."
"Alucard, forgive me for bringing it up but…after Willhelmina." He stopped me mid-sentence and added, "Mina…it's Mina."
I nodded, "After Mina…I figured you wouldn't feel anything of this ever again, I thought your heart was hardened and blocked with ice. I was shocked you were engaged at all with Sir Integra, but I figured it was rather an order from Sir Arthur."
"It was, and I also thought I wouldn't feel like this again like what I felt for Mina. She too intrigued me greatly with her personality, her beauty, everything about her captivated me. It was like she bewitched me."
I sighed, "I don't know too much of the story, only what I've read an Sir Abraham's journal's."
"And of course the blasted book." He said.
"Yes, but so you do feel attached to Miss Victoria like you were with Mina?" I asked
He smirked, "Of all my luck, I have to be attracted to complicated women."
"I must say, I do agree with you, son." He chuckled.
"I kissed her…" He randomly said.
I coughed from my laugh, "You what?"
Alucard raised his eyebrow and smirked, "Too straight forward, huh?"
I smacked my hand to my forehead, "Really Alucard, you do this when you were still engaged with Sir Integra and you also managed to frighten the poor girl, really messed up."
"You sound like that pest that hangs around her." He said annoyed.
"Pardon?" I asked
He saw my expression and chuckled completely ignoring my question, "She didn't react due to the shock."
"Um…" We sat quietly, waiting for one of us to say something.
Alucard slowly frowned and looked once again at the floor, "I hate her, with every fiber of my body but then…" He didn't finish what he was going to say, instead just sat there and thought to himself.
On the other side of the door I could hear Integra calling for me. "You better go send that message to Penwood or Integra will get in one of her moods." He blankly said. Alucard got up and served himself the wine that rested on the table.
"How did…never mind that was a redundant question." My answer from him was him taping the side of his head with his finger.
"Very well, I'll shall take my leave."
"Walter?" He asked.
"Yes, Sir?"
"Have you changed my wine supply to ordinary wine?' He asked suspiciously.
"No, we made sure they were mixed with blood as well, there should be blood in there."
He smirked, "Someone got to them, that explains how Seras regained her memories..."
"The vampire messed with your wine?"
"Good-bye, Walter." He said as he took his sip and shooed me away with his hand.
A/N: Sorry, but not Seras in this chapter. Hoped you guys enjoyed it. Sadly, the next few days I'll be busy with projects so I won't have time for this till possibly later next week, but hopefully I do get sometimes during the week. R&R