Sanctuary to the Lost and Damned
Ch 10: Wolf-girl
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AN: Please Review. It gives me feedback and lets me how much interest there is in the story.
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Alucard spent the following days wondering how he would proceed with things being what they were.
His mind flew in many directions. First, he thought about the nature of the child itself. Alucard knew that he was a vampire and he knew that Abraham was human, so did that make the child a Dhampir? According to the combined knowledge of both Abraham and Alucard such a creature did not exist. Abraham had explained why such a child could not exist.
He had said that 'The dead can not produce life.'
Alucard rubbed his belly absentmindedly. He knew that the child, whatever it was, was indeed alive. The heart beat was proof enough of that.
His mind wondered to another topic: The possibility of aborting the pregnancy. For Alucard it was not so much of a matter of whether the child was a human, a vampire or something in between.
As a mortal he had killed tens of thousands of human beings. In his current life he had killed a handful of his own kind as well. Besides the vampire was sure by now that God had stopped counting.
The issue that the vampire had was whether or not keeping the child was cruel. He thought about the conditions that the child would live in. Alucard was starting to acknowledge that he was a slave in every way possible. He knew that historically children born from a slave were also slaves.
According to the books the vampire had borrowed from Abraham, he had another four months to go give-or-take. 'So', Alucard thought, 'I would continue to allow a living creature to grow inside a dead body, then I would sentence the child to a life of servitude.' He sighed.
'Abraham...' He thought, 'The baby is Abraham's. The child would be what they would call a bastard, a child born out-of wed-lock as they called it. But it was still Abraham's'
Alucard decided That Abraham should know about the child. He did not know how Abraham would react to the news. The man would probably want to examine him. He would need to wait until Abraham returned home from his trip first.
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Abraham Hellsing sat at his desk exhausted after a long trip to the Caribbean. He silently wished that he had been there on vacation instead of work. He was always working. But working had its benefits; it helped to keep his mind off his personal matters.
There was a knock at the door.
"Come in." Abraham was surprised to see the vampire use the door and not simply appear. "I did not call you." There was a long pause. Unknown to Abraham Alucard was trying to think of a way to begin the conversation. "Why are you here?" Abraham verbally nudged him.
"Sorry, Master," Alucard said after realizing that he had stood there for too long. "Master, I am here regarding the last time that we were alone."
Abraham's face went blank. Then the face became suddenly irritated. "I thought that I made myself clear, Alucard; I will not give you free reign of you powers."
"No, master; I was referring to the time after last."
Abraham thought for a moment longer. The man's face once again became irritated. "I will not bind anymore Vampires into my service."
"No master, I am referring to the time...after Ellen went to live with her parents..."
Alucard saw Abraham's face distort with confusion.
"We met then?"
Alucard's heart would have picked up if it still was beating. "Yes, master. We met. "
"And this has something to do with what was said?"
Alucard feared this. Although the thought was never present in his mind, he guessed that Abraham had drunk too much alcohol to remember the events of that night. The vampire stealthily searched the man's mind for the memory, hoping that perhaps the man was lying. He found nothing.
"What did we discuss?" The human questioned
Alucard fought back a voice in the back of his mind that told him to let sleeping dogs lie. As the man sat there at his desk, the vampire started to imagine all sorts of fates of the child. There was of course the fact that the man could perform an abortion. Although Alucard was fairly confident the man had never done such a procedure, he imaged that the man could just cut it out regardless. Then there was a fact that Abraham could regard the child as an experiment, given its heritage; He feared that he might give the child less respect than he gave him.
"Alucard!" Abraham snapped the Vampire out of his thoughts. "What did we discuss?"
Alucard had to think quickly. "We discussed the prospect of providing me with a coffin to sleep in. I suggested that since you did not wish to bring more vampires to help the mission, then having a coffin, would help to further improve my energy levels."
"I have already made modifications on you?"
"That is true master, however, the coffin, is still a wonderful tool for such an end."Alucard smiled as he waited for Abraham to reject the idea. The argument was after all thought up on the spot.
"Yes, your point is well taken Alucard. We will get you a coffin."
"Thank you, Master."Alucard moved his hand to his gut as he made a slight bow to Abraham. As he did this he felt the child move inside him, reminding him that it was there.
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Alucard was glad when the coffin was put in his room. The coffin offered him an amount of personal, safe space.
Under different circumstance he might have drifted off to sleep the moment the lid covered him, but for the longest time he just lie there with his hands resting on his belly. The movements were becoming more frequent with the baby.
It might have just been that the vampire was lonely, and having the child inside him gave him a sense of family. Perhaps it was some misplaced sense of mercy, but Alucard become attached to the child.
He decided that by this time it was far, far, too late to terminate the pregnancy, however He quickly acknowledged that the child was not something that he could keep after the birth. Soon the vampire would be forced to submit the child to someone else. He had read many English novels involving orphaned children. Some presented him with a grim possibility, while others had presented happy ending. Alucard knew that there was the risk of having his child grow-up in poor conditions for a child, but, he surmised that any life was better than the life of a slave.
Alucard spent many days and nights flipping through the pages of the borrowed books on pregnancy. He must have looked through them a dozen times.
Alucard had not been on as many missions as he would have liked, but this was mostly because Abraham own choosing to go on as many missions as possible, alone.
An observation Alucard had observed that human often chose to busy themselves to avoid having to face emotional pain. Abraham's sudden change in behaviors suggested to Alucard that the man was doing just that.
Just as he had drifted off to sleep, Alucard heard a tapping on his coffin. He pulled the illusion on to himself before opening his casket.
"Yes", he asked as pleasant as he could given he was just woken up from his sleep.
"Sir, Abraham Hellsing sends word for you to come to Hanover in Germany... He wants you to come quickly."
Alucard signed as he rose from his coffin. "Is there time to pack my coffin?"
"I'm afraid that there isn't sir." Alfred handed him a train ticket. "It leaves in 30 minutes."
The vampire took only a couple of packs of blood with him and some money with him.
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He sighted Maury as he exited the train. "Where is my master?" Alucard asked the captain.
"He's on the outskirts of this place." the captain though weary of the vampire had lost his fear of the creature.
"Follow me," The captain led him to a small abandoned building.
The building was full of equipment that had started to rust in many places. By the wall on his left side stood Abraham Hellsing arguing with what looked to be a German police officer.
Abraham's eyes focused on him for several seconds before continuing his arguments with the other man. Alucard watched as Abraham threw up his hands and walked towards them.
"Damn German police." Abraham huffed. "They say that we have no business being here."
"Forgive me master, but why are we here?"
"Oh, that's right," Abraham laughed a little it was the pleasant kind that Alucard did not mind. "Well a week ago we tracked a small pack of were wolves to this location, then as we are moving in on our hunt, they show up." Abraham gestured towards the German police offers. "They then tell us that we have no business being here."
"Shall I impale them master?" Alucard asked sounding bored.
"No..."
"What is it that you wish of me master, because that is precisely how I used to deal with opposition in my heyday."
"No, Alucard I want you to look around," Abraham leaned in a little. It was a little too close given their encounter almost 7months earlier. "I want you to use your powers to tell me what you can." Alucard nodded and started walking around the room.
Alucard was immediately attracted to a spot on the floor. It had been cleaned and bleached to the point which any human would walk passed without notice. But Alucard was not a human. He could sense that an amount of human blood had been there less than a week ago.
"What are you doing here." said a thick Irish accent of a woman. On the surfaced Alucard could see that she was a beautiful woman, but Alucard knew that she was more than that; he could also feel the undeniable fact that she was actually a werewolf.
He looked her in the eye. "Well hello there, Miss," He guessed that if he could see what see was then she would know already that he was not human.
"Shouldn't you be sleeping, creature of the night." she said in a hushed voice.
"I come out in the day when I find interesting sights. Like an Irish wolf-girl in Germany." He replied in a smooth hushed tone.
"Finding interesting sights will get you killed, even if you are immortal."
He was drawn to a particular spot on the floor several feet from his current spot. There was a white button. Not far were many drops of blood, werewolf blood. He squatted down to pick it up. There was a blond hair under the button. "What happened here" his eyes moved to the same spot.
She was oddly silent about this. He repeated himself.
"You should leave." She said in the same hushed voice. The woman then looked towards Alucard's abdomen. "You are expecting soon, if they find out about it, I will be forced to capture you. A containment cell is no place to raise a child. " Alucard became momentarily self-conscious as he covered his midsection up, despite his knowledge that she could see through his illusion.
"Do you really think that you could?" he retorted. Only one person had been able to defeat him as a No-Life King; Abraham and that was with the human using the secret arts.
"I know that you are in no shape to fight off an attack. We did take the father. Let me assure you that he put up quite a fight." She cautioned him.
Alucard heard the woman being called by the police. She left. But before going she dropped a small bit of paper on the floor.
Alucard quickly stepped on it and then waited for her to leave. Alucard made as though he were examining the ground and then picked up the paper.
He waited until He left the building before looking at it. It was an address in Ireland. There was also the source of a passage in the bible.
He put it into his pocket.
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The town in Ireland was quite busy in the early evening. The address led him directly to a small house on the outskirts. According to the locals it was the home of a priest who was currently making a spiritual journey to the holy land.
Since the passage came from the bible, Alucard searched the priest's home for the book. He opened it to the passage. There was a slip of paper between the fold.
Mendel was right; the son does receive the blessings and the curses of the father.
The vampire wondered what that meant. Who was this Mendel person? Alucard then spotted a small symbol below the priest's handwriting. It appeared to be a cross with its edges forced to assume a circular design.
He felt the child move again in his belly. He smiled. "Waking up are we." his thoughts returned to the wolf-girl's warning. 'Was his child really in danger because of the factor of being his?' he thought.
Alucard searched the house many times over before concluding that there was nothing else of interest there.
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Two Months Later….
Alucard searched Abraham's library for weeks until he found a journal article
The article explained how characteristics of 'parent' pea plants were passed on to the following generation.
'But what does this have to do with werewolves?' The Vampire wondered
The Vampire felt some pain in his belly.
He gasped, 'was he in labor?'
The vampire hurried to his room where he had gathered various things, among them a basket and several blankets.
The pain stopped. He had expected it to return, but it did not. (2) Fearing a late stage miscarriage, the Vampire felt for movement and listened for a heartbeat.
It was still there. He let out a deep sigh of relief. He had been doing that lately; he had been checking for signs of life in the child. He had had numerous daydreams which the child was still born, or in which he discovered that the child was the same monster that he was.
He laughed to himself. He knew that history had recorded his deeds as despicable. He wondered what people would say to see him now.
He knew that the child was already passed due, but he decided to visit Ireland again to the priest's house.
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He found the wolf-girl standing by the door.
"I've been waiting Vampire. What took you so long?"
"I have already been here once before, wolf-girl."
"I know; that is why I came. I was not able to talk to you with my superiors close by."
"Well, how do they say, I'm all ears."
"Making a living is getting tougher for those of us who can no longer claim to be human. I have been in the employment of a German aristocrat for many years now: Mostly, doing security work. My senses are keener than a human's, as are yours, so you understand what I am talking about.
A few months ago we were asked to coerce creatures like ourselves to join a project. I was told to cooperate with a young doctor. The man is vile. He has absolutely no respect for human life or otherwise. We have been recently asked to gather street children, for experiments the man has been conducting."
"What does this have to do with the priest?"
"The priest was bitten a number of years ago by a werewolf. He was asked to join the project. He did, until he discovered the true nature of the experiments. We were told that they were trying to find a way to reverse the effects of the condition; they are actually tying to create more."
"For what reason?"
"I was never told, but rumor has it that their goal is to exact revenge on the world for Germany's losing the war."
"Military. A bit is all it takes to make more. What does that have to do with breeding pea plants?"
She shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know. I had hoped to talk to him, alone, before they could get him. The slip of paper I gave you. It was the same one he gave me two weeks prior to our first meeting."
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Later that night Alucard lie in his coffin.
Mendel was right; the son does receive the blessings and the curses of the father
'What could that mean?'
His baby moved about in his belly. He hugged it. "It won't be too much longer little one."
'Then we will see,' he thought, 'what sort of life I will have given you.'
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END of Ch 10
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AN:
(2) – Some women have episodes of false labor.
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Preview of the next chapter: Lies and Consequences
Alucard realized as Abraham droned on that the baby was on the way to being born.
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