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Chapter 10
Maeve's head was spinning after the disaster with the woman, who she knew now as Sir Integra, Walter had led her to a small, strange room filled with holy relics and strange weapons she had never seen before. That was where he informed her. Vampires, ghouls, freaks, they were all real. All the demons and monsters in children's stories were all real. They had been what attacked in the Dorvin building, what had disembowelled her friends and co-workers in front of her. They had been what changed her life.
And this place was the home of the Hellsing organization. The people who fought against these monsters. They had been what saved her that day. If they hadn't have come she would have been in the same position as her now dismembered comrades.
She sat there through Walters explanations and cried. Not great heaving sobs but rolling, silent tears that fell as they pleased. When Walter had finished he came to her and kneeled in front of the bench she had been glued to since sitting there and took both of her hands in his. Then he reached up one of his hands and produced a handkerchief out of seemingly nowhere and began to wipe her eyes.
"Miss Townsend I know this must be hard for you to understand, but you must not let this stop your life. You must move on and become stronger with the knowledge you now possess, not let it hold you captive in your fear. And besides I don't think you have much to worry about because I believe you'll have a bit of a, guardian angel, so to speak, from now on".
Walter chuckled slightly and moved back up from his crouched position, slightly wincing when a few old joints protested at the movement. Maeve looked up from the now soiled hanky with red, swollen eyes, narrowed in confusion to look at the kind older man.
"Guardian angel?", she asked in a low almost inaudible voice. What the hell was he talking about? Since she had come here she had been attacked by ghouls, the likes of which she could never even imagine, brought here to this strange place, chased down by two strangers, reprimanded by a scary lady who seemed to hate her and then given information that would make her have to sleep with the light on and a shotgun in her hands for the rest of her life. God was certainly occupied at the moment because he sure as hell wasn't watching her.
"Oh yes my dear. Alucard has taken quite a shine to you. Trust me, having Alucard on your side is a very, very good thing".
It felt as though her heart had stopped. Alucard, The tall man. Red eyes. Black tendrils of hair waving his face. Red trench coat. Small attentive touches. Shivers down her spine.
"W-why would he want to p-protect me? Doesn't he have anything better to do?"
"Well when Alucard takes a shine to someone, which is not very often I might add, He likes to keep them around. And is someone were to threaten that person he would take careful measures to ensure that person would never do it again."
The malicious tone of the mans voice sent frightened shivers down Maeve's spine. Images of the terror she witnessed but with Alucard standing in the middle made her want to sob. Her hands began to shake subtly and she tried to wipe the horrific image from her mind and calm down. She was given the distraction when Walter walked to a table on the side of the room grabbing a small pile of cloth then walking back to her, handing over the small bundle to her. They were clothes, a shirt, some pants and her uniform sitting on the bottom of the pile.
"your clothes were not damaged but I had the feeling you wouldn't want to wear the uniform home so I borrowed some of Miss Victoria's clothes, you looked about the same size, though your bust is a slight bit smaller than Miss Victoria's", he chuckled," but these will do until you return to your home".
"Thank you very much", Said Maeve taking the clothing from Walter and smiling as he exited the room so that she could change.
Maeve pulled up the first piece of clothing which happened to be a long sleeved shirt in a dark purple. She pulled on the small strings of the back of the hospital gown she wore and let it fall to the floor, sliding down her arms and falling in a crumpled heap at her feet. Thankfully they had left her undergarments on her and she pulled the purple shirt on over her head, finding that the fabric at the bust line sagged on her from being stretched. She grabbed the pants, relieved that they were sweat pants and stepped into them carefully. From what she had seen from Miss Victoria she had quite the chest but not much to speak of in the way of hips, a department that Maeve was overstocked in.
As she was pulling up the sweats her mind managed to wander to Alucard. The thought of him wanting to protect her after knowing her for practically only an afternoon was mind boggling. No matter how ridiculous she thought it was it still gave her a mysterious warm feeling in the pit of her stomach, and a strange mixed feeling of déjà vu.
Maeve's head snapped towards the door when there was a knock.
"Miss Townsend are you finished?", asked Walter from the other side of the door.
Maeve looked down and blushed finding that while she was lost in her thoughts of Mr. tall dark and handsome, she had only pulled the sweats halfway up her legs and they were now resting at her knees. She quickly pulled them up the rest of the way and she could swear her body temperature must have risen 10 degrees and could feel her face burning. Then she grabbed her uniform from the table and raced over to the door, then stopped and calmly pulled open the door trying to make it look like she wasn't an idiot. Though Walters chuckling when she opened the door led her to believe that he heard her and made her face heat up just a little more.
"Are you ready to go home Miss Townsend?" Walter asked.
"Why yes Walter, I am", she smiled back at him.
As Walter led Maeve away down the hallway Maeve reached and arm to the back of her neck and scratched an itchy feeling spot, but the tingling didn't go away, so she just shrugged it off and continued down the hall.
Alucard chuckled from the shadows where he watched her. No matter what Integra said she would be with him. Last time he had let his love slip from his grasp but now he was blessed with another chance and this time she would not escape him. His chuckle filled the hallway and bounced of the walls, sending shivers down the spines of the soldiers who were unfortunate to hear it and Alucard melted back into the shadows.
