It had been almost two months since the Christmas fiasco and Jade was still really exhausted from that time. She had managed to finally get back Alucard's coffin from the undertaker. It was set back down in his room with a new crimson colored liner. Alucard seemed happy about it so she didn't think anything of it. She yawned and stretched behind her desk. She was going to be going to work tonight. She pushed back her chair and walked to her room. She took off her oversized pjs and pulled out a pair of baggy black pants with blue stitches, a black t-shirt with blue lettering saying 'Violence May Not Be The Best Option…But it's still an option', a pair of blue and black stripped socks, her black boots and her black trenchcoat. She had heard rumors of an older vampire that was appearing in different blood bars. She was curious as she adjusted her coat before walking into her office again. She closed her lap top and put it into her messenger bag. She slid the bag over her head and fluffed her hair a bit getting it from her face. Jade turned about to leave when she saw a very sleepy sleep pant clad vampire standing in the doorway. She walked toward him and tried to slip past him only to have his arm hit the other side of the doorway, "where are you going all dressed up such as you are?"

Jade smirked and ducked under his arm walking by him, "what does it matter? I will be back before dawn and I am sure you and Walter can amuse yourselves without killing one another. Now, I really must go."

Alucard smirked and followed her down the stairs, "and if I follow you?"

She knew he was baiting her so she would just ask him to go but she played dumb, "then you follow me, it isn't any concern to me. I have a lot of work to do and I can do it with or without you there."

Alucard tugged at his gloves straightening them as a blackish almost mist like tentacle brush up the back of her coat making it flutter back down, "and you take weapons with you because…?"

Jade rolled her eyes and crossed her arms turning, "I need not explain myself to you now leave me be or I might just shove a silver knife into your thigh."

"Oo, kinky, Master is not mad at me for not sleeping with her for the last two months now is she?" Alucard walked up next to her moving her hair from the left side of her neck and he breathed lightly into her ear, "all you had to do was come down to my room and I would be more than happy to itch that scratch for you."

Jade shuddered slightly and batted his hand away, "I do not need any itches scratched by you, now I really do have to leave. We can discuss this later tonight if you really wish to talk about it." She wasn't going to admit to him that she really did miss him in her bed or how she reached for him every morning only to find a cold bed. She turned again and walked back towards the door.

"Oh Master?"

"Yes, Alucard," She turned looking back to find an empty hall.

"Don't let the vampires bite," his maniacal laughter filled the empty hall as the lights dimmed and flickered.

Jade turned hissing slightly and walked out the door slamming it slightly. She really hated wanting him half as much as she did. He was her slave after all, wasn't he? She sometimes wondered if her roles changed while she wasn't looking. She would hate to admit how much she cared for him and he was the ass who still loved his dead wife who she wasn't no matter how much they looked like. She hissed at herself and sighed, "I need to get back to work and forget him for the moment. I can argue with him later." She looked around the simple looking town that looked almost dead except for the random clubs that pounded with noise. She looked over at her favorite of them all Le Nosferatu and she walked inside and dropped her bag in an empty seat at the bar as well as dropping her coat over her bag.

"Back again are ye, Lass?" the familiar looking barkeep put a bloody mary in front of her with extra blood, "that will be $3, Lass."

She pulled out a small roll of bills and handed him a twenty, "keep the change, you deserve it."

"Extra thanks then, Lass," He moved over and served the other customers but always returned back to where Jade was sitting as he liked her company and she smelled far better than most his customers.

She leaned her side against the bar and looked over the place. Her hair stuck to her cheek softly as she sipped her drink. She didn't even hear when she was walked up behind on. A pair of cool, almost cold, gloves went over her neck and cheeks. Her eyes fluttered closed a moment before she turned to see who the gloves belonged to. She looked almost shocked as she saw a tall, blue black haired woman with piercing violet eyes, "my, my aren't you a pet? I haven't see a cat girl in ages and with such an innocent look to her eyes. I am surprised to say the least."

Jade raised an eyebrow as she turned to look at her full on, "why is that such a surprise?"

"I thought at first you might be a vampire since you smell of a certain vamp I really must see again. Yet, you have blue eyes and not a trace of vampiric senses to you." Her right index finger traced over Jade's cheek brushing the hair from it, "now where is Vlad? I must settle a score with him."

Jade almost moved into her touch but leaned back and sipped her drink, "haven't seen him in a little while, what kind of score do you speak of?"

The woman sat down next to her and smiled softly, "curiosity killed the cat."

"Satisfaction brought him back," Jade said without missing a beat.

"Fair enough, Pet, let's just say he and I use to be a lot closer than one would imagine. We were shortly after that slut of a wife of his was thrown to her death. I only wish I could have personally done it. She was low letting herself be dirtied by those soldiers and not doing a thing to stop them." She threw her mid back length hair over her shoulder and turned back to Jade, "it must be karma that you look so remarkably like her. I almost confused you for her but that is impossible. She died a long time ago and there is no way he would turn her like he did me."

Jade shrugged, "I look like a lot of people, so she was a slut? That explains why he hasn't ever mentioned her."

The woman chuckled, "without a doubt. My name is Dayna, tis a pleasure to meet another lover of the great Vlad. He was so great that he let himself be controlled by that woman. I hope he got what he deserved, do tell him I am looking for him, Pet."

"I will be sure to, my name is Jade, I hope we see each other again, Dayna," Jade bowed her head before sipping her bloody mary again.

"Without a doubt," Dayna was gone just as soon as she appeared.

Jade put her hand to her heart as she shook her head. It was so weird, she almost felt like she was talking with Alucard when she spoke to that woman. Why was she attracted to her? She didn't like women yet that woman made her feel like she was with a man. She shook her head and went back to her bloody mary thinking of her new encounter. She wondered how she would ask Alucard about it. She sighed and moved the cold, wet glass to her forehead rolling it slowly. Jade was definitely getting a headache over all of this new information. She didn't seem to notice that several eyes were watching her every move. She stood up setting down the empty glass and slid on her coat and bag again. She needed to straighten her thoughts and a walk always seemed to help, "good night, till next time, Barkeep."

"See ye, Lass!" He replied happily and waved to her.

Jade stepped out into the cool night glad to be out of the cramped and hot bar. She walked slowly through the empty streets. She ignored random screams and loud laughter as she walked toward her home. Jade was too lost in thought to realize that three vampires and a werewolf were following her. She moved her ears to the side and sighed loudly, "I just don't know how I am going to face Alucard. I really wish he had come with me. Well, I suppose I don't because Dayna might have tried to kill him and I can't have that. I just wonder why she made me feel so warm inside." She crossed her arms and stopped in the field that led straight to her home. She sniffed the air finally noting the visitors. Jade let out a snarl and reached for her hidden weapons, "show yourselves!"

"Here kitty, kitty," a dark haired man whistled to her, followed by a dark haired female, a dark haired male and a blonde male.

"Real original," she rolled her eyes and held a silver knife in each hand. She moved into a low stance and smirked, "shall we dance?"

"As if you had a chance against all of us," The blonde replied before dashing at her. Jade smirked and leaped up as he sweep kicked her. She stabbed the knife into his chest making him dust. She looked up at the two other vampires and the dark haired man who turned furry quite quickly.

"Shit, I really didn't think I would be fighting a werewolf tonight, serves me right for not playing attention," she growled low as the other two crossed their arms letting the werewolf attack. Jade ducked his claws only to have him punch her in the right cheek. She rolled two feet before landing on her feet with only one knife in her hand and the other at his feet. She spit a line of blood to her right and snarled, "it isn't nice to hit women in the face."

He let out a growl laugh and moved his claws in a come on motion, "then the lil kitty will just have to teach me manners!"

Jade snarled and dashed at him only to stop short as a gunshot flew past her left ear nicking it, "who the hell!?" She turned seeing Alucard with a toothy grin, "you almost shot me, you ass!"

"Oops, didn't see you there," Alucard chuckled and smiled at the now two remaining enemies, the girl and the werewolf.

Jade snarled at him tightening her grip on the knife in her hand and standing upright flinging the blade which stuck with a dead slink into the female's head. She pulled out another blade and tossed it up, "next time you shoot at me, you will find this baby in your thigh."

"Promises, promises," Alucard moved up next to her licking her neck only to get a clawed slap across the face. He chuckled again as if it didn't faze him a bit. He looked at her lips were the blood was dripping from her right corner of her mouth. He turned his gaze to the werewolf, "hitting women is not a very nice thing to do. You should think about who's woman you are punching before you do it." His eyes narrowed as he emptied the clip into the werewolf right where he stood. The werewolf fell to the ground and clawing at his own chest trying to pry them from it. Alucard reached over pulling a blade from Jade's thigh and shoved it into the werewolf's throat stopping its movements immediately. He looked at Jade lifting his now bladeless hand to her chin. "You should have invited me to go with you," his tone playful as he leaned over licking the blood from the corner of her mouth. Jade jerked her chin from his hand and collected her blades from the ground. She yanked out the one in the werewolf's throat whipping it on the ground before sheathing it and walking towards the house without a single word to him. Her eyes told how angry she was at him. "Not speaking with me? What did I do this time?" He phased away appearing in her office sitting on her desk. Jade opened and slammed the front door.

She was angry he never told her about Dayna. She knew she shouldn't be jealous or angry but that woman was quite beautiful. Jade walked up the stairs to her office and walked in ignoring Alucard on her desk. She took off her bag and set it on her desk before yanking off her coat. She hung it up and yanked off her shirt revealing a very lacy and revealing saphire bra. Her pants had sagged slightly showing a just as lacy and revealing pair of saphire panties. She walked through the open bedroom door and tossed her shirt in the floor. She lifted one foot and untied her boot tossing it near the shirt. She switched feet and tossed that boot next to its mate. Jade unbuttoned her pants letting them fall to the ground. She stood in only bra, panties and socks before walking back into the office with a saphire nighty in hand, "I had a visitor today." She slid the nighty over her head and smoothed it out.

Alucard arched a brow as he felt himself tight inside over her little display, "would I know this visitor?"

Jade shrugged and walked behind the desk opening the bag and taking out her laptop, "she was quite a beauty, blue black hair, violet eyes, tall, model thin and very sexual." She closed the outer flap of the bag and opened her laptop. She started it up and looked over at Alucard her eyes filled with a mixture of hurt and anger, "her name is Dayna."

Alucard's eyes widened, "you think that her and I? There is no way in any Hell that I would put any part of my body near that walking death trap. She was after me when I met my wife. She was actually the person I went to war with, come to think of it. I haven't thought about that woman in ages."

A snarl could be heard from Jade as she slammed her hands down on the desk, "I need to know all the enemies you have ever had. I would hate to end up in a battle with one of your past flings."

"Master, you were not listening, I said her and I had nothi…," Alucard said as he laid back on the desk looking up at Jade.

"She says otherwise and she called your wife some colorful things, I think I might be more inclined to listen to her," Jade said with a smirk and leaned back in her chair.

"What did the bitch say about my wife?" Alucard's eyes narrowed behind his glasses.

"I thought it was just the past, what does it matter?" Jade said trying to be coy with him.

Alucard phased from his spot and slammed his hands on either armrest on her chair, "stop trying to be coy, it isn't flattering, what did she say?"

Jade looked unafraid as she stood her body pressing against his. She turned off her computer and walked under his arm toward her room, "what she and I said to one another is a private matter and you should go to bed before the sun comes up. I will not have you tired and grouchy during tomorrow's mission." She slammed the door behind her as she walked over to her bed and climbed in. Jade almost had the blankets pulled up when she felt her arms jerk above her head and pressure on her hips as Alucard appeared on top of her. His hair was down his back as his glasses slid from his face making a tink on the pillow next to her head.

He looked like he wasn't in a playful mood as he looked down at her his fangs longer and sharper than usual, "tell me or I will make you tell me."

Jade flattened her ears and jerked up against his hands her face inches from his, "are you going to torture your master? I am not afraid of you."

"You should be," his hands tightened on her wrists as he licked her bottom lip where it was cut. "I will not give up until you do."

Jade jerked her head away from him and onto the pillow, "get off and go to bed, good night." She closed her eyes turning her head away from him and toward the wall. Her eyes jerked open when she felt a sharp pain in her neck.

Alucard lifted his head from her neck one of his fangs dripping with blood, "why must you make things difficult, just tell me and I will leave you to a cold, empty bed."

"The sooner you leave the better, why don't you go ask her yourself if you want to know so badly," Jade snarled at him as she felt the blood move down her neck and into her bra and nighty.

"Simple, I can touch you all I want and I might catch something from her if I am within ten feet of her. She is a disgusting creature that is full of lies and deceit," He licked his fang clean and moved his face to within a few inches of hers. "I will get the answers I want with or without your cooperation." His hands moved till he was holding both wrists in one hand. He moved his free hand down the underside of her arm to cup one of her breast as he lowered his head licking her cheek.

Jade jerked her head away and pulled at her wrists, "get off of me and leave!" She was trying her best not to enjoy the way he was touching her. She put all her weight into it and knocked their heads together.

Alucard looked surprised as he saw blood creep from her hairline, "someone is feisty tonight, if you really want me to drink you blood that badly." He licked her forehead ignoring the slight pain in his own head were her forehead hit his cheekbone. He reached down grabbing the front of her nighty and was about to rip it with his sharp nails when he heard a whisper, "what was that? I didn't quite hear you."

"I said, I'll tell you, just don't rip anymore of my clothes," Jade sighed and looked up at him.

"See now how hard was that?" Alucard removed his hand from her wrists and petted her cheek gently.

Jade glared at him, "you shouldn't have exploited my lust the way you did, what would you have done if I hadn't stopped you?"

"I would have given you pleasure until I couldn't control myself anymore and I would have taken you to new heights of pleasure," Alucard smirked.

Jade sat up with him still in her lap and sighed rubbing her wrists, "you have a twisted sense of punishment." He smirked at her. She sighed, "since you were so bound to make me tell you, I suppose I should. She simply said, 'he and I use to be a lot closer than one would imagine. We were shortly after that slut of a wife of his was thrown to her death. I only wish I could have personally done it. She was low letting herself be dirtied by those soldiers and not doing a thing to stop them. It must be karma that you look so remarkably like her. I almost confused you for her but that is impossible. She died a long time ago and there is no way he would turn her like he did me.' That is her exact words."

Alucard shook his head, "there is no way I would even get close enough to her to turn her. She made me disgusted just by looking at her. You do look quite a bit like her but karma? I think not."

Jade huffed, "I must look a lot more like her than you let on or you wouldn't have said what you said when we were together in your room. I hate not even knowing what she looked like and having people tell me how much I looked like her." Jade pushed him from her lap and she stood up straightening her nighty.

Alucard stood up behind her as he still was dressed in only pj bottoms. He moved his hands over her middle just below her breasts and kissed her neck, "you are nothing like her, she was bitter."

Jade removed his hands from her middle as she stepped away, "then why did you call me her name? Why did you say you loved her and not me? It doesn't matter, I am just upset I suppose, I need sleep." She crawled back into bed and pulled the blankets up to her head as she had her back to him.

Alucard closed his eyes and took a few steps towards the door before letting his hand drop to his side. He looked over at her form and growled at himself before climbing from the foot of the bed to her, "I did love her, I loved her more than anything."

Jade looked up at him as his hands went to either side of her form, "do you love me?"

Alucard looked to the wall a moment before yanking the covers from her and kissing down her neck and chest.