Sanctuary to the Lost and Damned

Ch 11: Lies and Consequences

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AN: Review are very welcome.

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April 1930...

"You called me, master."

Abraham sat on the couch. Abraham held a glass of wine in his one hand while the other flipped through a book. "I heard that you were seen around the edge of my property." He said causally.

As Alucard realized that he and Abraham were alone in the room, he moved to look at a portrait of some Hellsing relative. He did not care for the artwork; he was there because it was close to the door and farthest from Abraham.

"I often parole the boarders, nights when I am not fulfilling my duties to you." Alucard answered as casually as the human had asked the question.

Abraham gave him a look that told Alucard that he did not believe the Vampire was telling the truth.

It was a half-truth; Alucard did patrol the boarders at night, mostly out of boredom, though lately he had been leaving the property to scout out for safe-haven for the child which he was expecting.

Alucard's eyes fell to the glass of wine, more than a few times. The vampire became uneasy as he remembered what happened last time that he had seen his Master with alcohol in his hand. It had been almost 42 weeks ago, but to Alucard it felt like just last week. He had been hoping that he would not be alone with Abraham again, with alcohol a second time.

"I called you here," His master began, "to inform you that I am having a couple of guests stay here. They should be arriving tomorrow night. I'm sure that you will remember Jonathan Harker, and his wife Mina."

Alucard's eyes became dazed. 'Mina.' He had not seen the woman since her abandonment of him.

"And they are bringing their son, Quincey, with them." Abraham added.

"What do you require of me whilst they are here" The once-proud Count asked humbly.

"I will require you to stay in your room. You will tell no one that you are there. "

Wanting to see Mina again, Alucard opened his mouth to ask if he might attend to them, while in some sort of disguise, Perhaps a mask, but he felt a large amount of pain in his lower gut. Alucard hid his grimaces very well.

Abraham started to talk about some business with Lord Godalming. Alucard was not listening to the human; He was busy hiding the pain. Several minutes later another wave of pain hit him. In Abraham's medical books it had describes these waves of pain, as contractions.

Alucard realized as Abraham droned on that the baby was on the way to being born.

"Master!" Alucard shouted, "May I be permitted to return to my coffin." Alucard asked while clenching his teeth in an attempt to hide the agony.

Abraham looked like he wanted to say something but didn't. The Man nodded.

Alucard ran back to his room. He closed the door and wedged it, to prevent anyone coming in by accident.

He prepared the blessed edge knife and all his other equipment before the next contraction came.

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The child was born just as the sun had started to rise.

The baby boy, lie cradled in Alucard's arms. He ignored the blood that seemed to be everywhere. He looked at the child. He saw a lot of Abraham in the child's features. He wondered how much of himself was there, but it had been a while since he could remember what he had originally looked like.

The child felt so warm against his dead flesh. It saddened the Vampire to know that his touch was very cold to the child.

The child cried despite Alucard's cradling. Alucard looked down at the child. 'Is this a dhampir?' He wondered. When the boy cried Alucard looked inside the child's mouth; there did not seem to be any fangs, but Alucard knew that the infant would not get it's teeth for a while yet. He wondered if there would be fangs when these teeth did emerge.

The child stopped crying. He wondered if the child had inherited any supernatural powers. Alucard tried to use his ability to detect supernatural creatures to determine if the child was human enough to hide or if it was a monster like him. He considered that if it was indeed a monster, then he might need to kill it; Introducing more monsters into the world, meant that he would be contributing to the number of unfortunate souls already here. It also meant that it might be a threat in the future; if that were to happen, it would mean that he would need to kill it eventually anyway.

He found the idea of killing the child as something which bothered him immensely. It confused him to no end that he had killed thousands of people, all of which he had deemed expendable. Yet this child, the result of a night which he hoped to seal away in a dark corner of his memories, felt like something important. Of all the treasure that he had ever held in his possession, none of it felt as precious.

'That is because he is your son.' The voice in the back of his mind whispered to him.

The child was sired by a human, suggesting to Alucard that he at least half human, so he started to go through the list of things that a human child would need. The child would need food, human infant food: milk. Alucard frowned. He considered shifting into a female form to breastfeed, but he guessed, from his bloody tears that he had cried, that he would only produce blood from the breasts instead of milk. He was not truly a woman, or a man; he was a monster. He would not be able to provide anything of nourishment from his body for the child. He looked down at the child. "If I was a woman, a human woman," He said to the child, "I would have some ready for you in my breasts."

He vampire's mind turned to the option of the milk from the cow's. If not for the fact that his child was hungry and he held the child's welfare above everything else, he might have laughed at the ironic fact that same cows, which Alucard had stolen his blood from, while pregnant, were also providing the milk to his child.

Alucard left the infant in his room and returned quickly, with the milk and a bottle. The child had been crying; He hoped that no one had heard the child. The bottle and other baby supplies were not difficult to get. Most of these items had come from when Arthur Hellsing had been a baby. They were mostly collecting dust in an old storage room he had discovered before he realized that he was even pregnant.

Alucard sat cradling the baby in his one arm, while holding the bottle with other. The baby seemed to be very hungry. It closed its eyes as it drank the fluid which was currently at body temperature. As he watched the child, using his powers, he slowing became sure that the child was not vampire in the least bit.

This comforted him greatly, but a part of him was also disappointed. He wondered if that meant that there was nothing of him in the child. He wondered if by some oddity the child was purely Abraham's and he had been just a vessel for its induction to the world of the living.

The baby opened its blue eyes and looked directly at him. It was then that he saw Abraham's eyes in his child.

The milk seemed to satisfy the child's hunger, however it was not long after that which the child became very fussy. Alucard flipped through the medical books as he tried to find ways to help the baby with bumping.

Then the child needed to be changed. Alucard had never had an issue with any such body fluids or messes; however the sight of the yellow paste in the baby's cloth diapers were foul, even in Alucard's opinion.

Alucard laid the child in a laundry basket from one of the maids. The woman had brought the basket out to collect the laundry on the line before it got dark. Alucard felt no guilt of stealing the basket. Many things had been going missing the last few months, so he concluded that many would simply add these items to that list. The only thing which bothered him at the time was the simple fact that the sun was still bright at that time, but he had endured it for his child.

The more he thought the more the concept of parenthood seemed to him; He knew beyond a doubt that he would have done anything for his child.

As he held the child he let his mind reveal a wish that he might continue to hold the child until his baby boy could walk on his own.

He wished that he could do all the sorts of things that parents did with their children. He had never had any children. His wife had wanted them, but she had died before they had any. She had committed suicide after she received false information that he had died. He considered naming the child. What he didn't know. After some more thought he decided that naming the child would only making giving him up that much more painful.

There was a knock at the door. Alucard froze.

Alucard placed the child which had only just stopped crying into his coffin and closed the lid to conceal the child. He hoped that who ever was on the other side of the door had not heard. He then unwedge the door."Yes" the vampire saw Alfred at the door.

Alfred looked behind him. There was a confused look at his face. "I thought...Did you hear...Sir Hellsing sent me here to deliver your blood ration." The butler handed the jar of pig's blood.

"Thank you Alfred." Alucard had always liked the butler. The human had always been nice to him even though he knew who and what Alucard was.

After the butler left Alucard became very concerned that the man had heard his baby crying. The man seemed doubtful to Alucard which comforted him but still left a fear in his undead mind.

He took the child carefully out of the coffin. He hoped that his human child would not be in one for a great many years, hopefully after spent with a horde of friends and family.

In a different time his son would have been a prince, instead he was the bastard son of an enslaved monster. He supposed that if circumstances had been different these useless wishes of his might have been possible.

Alucard wished more than anything that he could keep the child, but fate and Abraham would be against him.

Alucard had left and returned to his rooms on a couple of occasions, each time being fearful that something would happen to his son while he was gone. His mind kept envisioning a scenario in which Abraham came to his room and discovers the child; this usually followed in Alucard's mind, with his son being a lab specimen.

Alucard waited until all the human's, except the night guards had gone to sleep, before taking his son away from the place where he was born to the only place he could think of might offer the child safety.

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2 Hours later...

As Alucard returned to the property, he made sure to be seen moving along Abraham's side of the property, so that he could say, if asked that he was paroling.

As Dawn approached, Alucard headed over to his room.

His room was not empty.

"Where have you been Alucard?" Alucard recognized the voice as belonging to the second man to have ever violated him.

Alucard wondered how long the human had been there for.

"I won't ask you Again, Slave."

"I was patrolling," Alucard explained the half-truth to his master, "As I do many nights, master."

Abraham snorted. "Is that so? What do you take me for? I have been asking my night guards to watch you at night. Many nights they have told me that they have seen you leaving my property."

Alucard said nothing.

"I have also heard a great many things about your doings. You have been disregarding my order for months now." The man yelled. "Did you think that I would not know that you have been stealing blood from the cattle, despite my order not to drink anything from which I did not provide? Did you think that I would not notice the missing analgesics from my medication stores? I can't help but wonder if you have been the reason for so many items going missing these past few months."

Alucard wanted to tell his human master that he had not been taking the majority of the item, only what was needed for his, no, their child, but he knew that he could not.

"You failed to mention your altercation with Mr. Winfield."Abram continued. "The man was found by his comrades in a grave. He claimed to have tripped, however, some other solders, remembered after several months seeing you leave with him. I know you well enough to know that you caused this."

"Master-"

"I woke her up. I woke the female vampire up to see if it really could come back in perfect health. We talked. Do you know what she told me? She told me that she warned you about the trap! Do you have any idea how dearly I missed those men. Why did you not warn me?" Abraham was now yelling at the vampire with a fury that Alucard was sure must have been brewing for a while now.

"Master, There was no time."

"No time! She told me that you have more than enough time to warn us. We checked the basement last. You might as well have set that trap yourself! yourself."

Alucard's mind tried to find some logic that would validate his argument that there was nothing that he could do. It had been a lie of course. He had wanted the man to die, but if he could convince the human otherwise he might be spared what ever punishment would come from this.

"The Harkers sent me a message after you left. They will not be coming till next week due to an urgent matter. I came down to make sure that you were following my orders. Where were you Alucard?"

Alucard looked down at the floor. The stone cold floor was at this time more compassionate than the human before him.

The vampire knew that he could not explain his actions truthfully as they would reveal the secret that he had been keeping. He knew above all else he wanted to protect his child from the cruel treatment of Abraham that child would probably receive.

Abraham put up his hand, "It does not matter, Alucard. You had disobeyed me too many times lately. You need to be put back in your place."

Alucard cringed at the thought of what Abraham would do to him as punishment.

"The punishment will be completely different from what you have ever been through." Abraham said as if reading the vampires' mind. It will be a complete absence of everything."

Do you recall how the three vampires whom you drained completely of blood dried up?"

Alucard nodded.

"With the exception of the woman, who returned to a hibernation state twice now? They have all been in such a state since you feed from them. They have been in that state for the last 18 years. I have been using them as part of an experiment to tell how long the state can be maintained. I know that your kind can survive for at least 18 years, so I decided that you will serve me in another way, regardless of your disobedience."

Alucard gasped. "You are going to drain my blood, master?"

"No, my slave, I am going to allow your own body to deplete its blood supply and thus dry up."

"For how long master."

Abraham glared at the disobedient slave. "As long as I please or until you die."

Alucard dropped all his pride. "Please master. Please forgive me."

"Is this a confession?" Abraham asked.

Alucard' mind flew. He thought that maybe if he apologized Abraham might reconsider. "Yes, master. I took some of your belongings; I have been leaving the property. Mr Winfield and I did have a disagreement; I did know about the trap ahead of time." Alucard dropped to his knees. "Please, Please forgive me master." He hoped that Abraham would show mercy or at least pity on him. He was wrong.

The human glared at him. "You are a monster. Monsters do not change. As I said before you have disobeyed me too many times. I have suspected you of these crimes for a few weeks now. I gave you the opportunity to confess. You did not. There are consequences for your actions; Now I have reached the end of my rope."

Abraham looked down at the pitiful sight of a vampire on the floor at his feet. His blue eyes pierced through the vampire as effectively as any wooden stake. The vampire held back tears as he knew that he would need to keep as much blood as he could for his hibernation ahead.

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Alucard's powers were under a complete restriction. He was placed in a dark straight jacket-like binding suit. In a cold cell the No-Life king rested in hibernation.

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END of Ch 11

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AN: I just realized that until now, I have not given any dates for the time-line.

I will try to provide some data on my next update.

I did not include the birth scene simply because the process is very messy and I did not think that anyone wants to read about that sort of thing...

After this point the story will move away from what most would consider the absolute time-line, but I will try to make everything still plausible and fit into the current canon. I will be using a mixture of the manga, the series and the Ova's and my own touch to formulate the plot.

Alucard seems to be the exception to the rule in the cannon that only virgins bitten by a vampire of the opposite sex can become a vampire. Unless there is some thing that I have yet to be made aware of. In the cannon he seems to have been raped by the sultan of the turks as a boy. I don't know if by some logic this didn't count...

This information seems to be in almost every story about Dracula. Before Alucard was a vampire he was a human by the name of Vlad. He fought against the turks in the crusades. He seems to have been about 40 when he was reborn as a vampire. He seems to have had a wife. It is possible that he and his wife never...um..consummated the union, but I can't picture Alucard as a 40 year-old virgin.

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Preview of the next chapter: Walter Dornez

A middle-aged man and a dark haired boy stood at a gate.

The boy turned to the man. "Father, is this place really the Hellsing mansion."

"Yes, Walter it is." The boy's piercing blue eyes lit up and a Cheshire smile appeared.

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