Alacard rolled his eyes and moved away from the group to wander the room, masking himself into invisibility as he walked between the isles and racks. This was a very expensive shop in some areas, while other parts of it were still for the common people to shop in, buying slightly cheaper but still nice looking clothes, jewellery and shoes. It was quite quiet this evening, being late night opening, it wasn't busy.
Making his way over to a jewellery counter, he listened to the two girls talking as they worked on creating a new display tray for one of the glass cases, "well my mate Becka says that its amazing'!" Said one, quiet oblivious to the hidden vampire leaning on the glass counter next to her, the shop was quiet empty at this section.
"Really? But ain't you gotta drink like blood an stuff for the rest of your life?" She asked, slightly awed but clearly not taking it seriously as she placed earrings into the display foam.
"So what? Stayin' young and fit for ever? Becka says it's the best part! I'd kill someone every day to be young like that!" Snapped the other, jabbing the pins into the foam display to hold a necklace in place. The other girl shifted uneasily, "your not serious Rei-Ann! Is this because your ex said he wouldn't be wif a girl that's already got a kid from someone else?"
Rei-Ann slammed the empty boxes in a large tub to be used again later, anger filling her features as she turned to look at the other girl who was looking with concern in her eyes. "No! He said I was a loose slut, cuz I had a kid! I was fifteen and it seemed like a good idea, now I'm twenty-two and that little shit has ruined my life!" She growled, turning back to her task.
'Oh dear,' thought Alacard with a smirk as he watched the two girls some more, silence filling the air for a while. 'If this is what the children of today are like no wander everyone thinks being un-dead will be better. Does Master know?' He looked over to his small group, Seres was moving towards some changing rooms, a perverse grin filled his face as he made to move over there when the 'Rei-Ann' girl spoke up again.
"Anyway, I don't 'ave to worry bout that little brat no more!" She grinned to herself as she locked the cabinet, the new display safely inside. The other girl frowned at her, confusion and fear starting to fill her, "What you done Rei?"
"Well, this really sexy guy turned up at my flat this mornin', sayin' that Becka sent him to ask about being a Vampire. I asked what the payment was, an he looked round my flat at my stuff and then point at the boy." Alacard felt something in him go cold and brittle at the lady continued to speak, "he said he wouldn't mind taking the boy cuz he knew a client that liked little boys and that he'd be back later on with Becka to make me one."
"Oh my god! Rei-Ann!" Gasped the other girl in shock, tears filling her eyes as she backed away from the other girl. "He was your little boy! You used to love him!"
"Don't care!" Snapped Rei-Ann, "I can't wait till I can go to all those late night rave's, get wasted out of my head again an not worry bout a fing because nothing' can kill a vamp!"
"I'm calling the police!" Said the other girl firmly reaching for the phone, but the other girl grabbed her wrist a strange glint in her eye as her other hand reached for a pair of scissors. "You tell anyone what I told you, and I'll come hunting you first!"
Alacard had had enough by this point, red anger had been filling him as he listened to the selfish girl go on. Even when he had created vampires against there own will, he had never once been a bad parent to any of his fledglings! And he'd never harmed a child!
Appearing in front of the two of them, he walked threw the display desk and grabbed the appalling 'mother' round the throat and dragged her threw the wall, leaving the other girl to gasp and pass out on to the floor.
Rei-Ann was gasping for breath as he pushed her against the wall of the service corridor behind the shop, her eyes bulging as she clawed at his hand. "You think it's pleasing to boast and crow about killing your own child! You disgusting filth!"
He let go of her throat and she slid to the floor, glaring at him as she rubbed her sore neck, "and who the hell are you?" She rasped anger and her self-centeredness winning over self-preservation at the fact she had just been walked threw a wall by a large man in a swirling red coat and hat. Looking down at her in her smartly pressed work uniform, with her hair dyed blonde and large golden hoop-ed earrings, heavy layers of foundation caking her skin making her a shade of orange/terracotta.
Over the last few centuries he had managed to rid himself of any real hatred for humanity, they were just a large mass of stupidity with the occasional diamond in the rough, some of these being people like Walter, Master, and sweet Seres.
Yet this woman before him, who had given her own child to a perverted beast just so she could pursue her own desires -thinking nothing of the small person she had given away in the bargain- managed to rub every single nerve in him!
He glared at her then smirked to himself, "Stand Up." He commanded, his mind control making the task a simple and quicker act than she would have as she was still saying something about 'security' and how much he had hurt her. Her eyes widened in fear as her body moved under its own control, having nothing to do with her own thoughts.
"What-?!" She began but a flick of his gloved hand silenced her as he levitated her body slightly higher.
"You want to be a Vampire? Well… You'll only be a shadow of what you see before you. I am a True Vampire." There was a manic glint in his grin as be spoke, her eyes and mouth widening as fear began to pound in her body and mind, "you'll be a blood-sucking fake. Not able to regenerate, not able to fly, not able to command as I'm doing to you now. I've been fighting that filthy kind for nearly five years now and all I've seen is weakling after useless! Pathetic! Weakling!" With a snarl he latched on to her throat.
She tried to scream, tried to move but as she felt the teeth pierce her flesh, the pain making tears spring from her eyes, but it was nothing compared to the pain of her blood being drawn from her veins against her own will. "Does it hurt? Do you wish for the pain to end?" Purred Alacard' voice in her mind as her vision began to fade, "and here the mighty huntress was all ready to kill an stranger every night! You even threatened to do this to your friend… Shame really. I bet your son is doing a better job of being brave… I'll find him once I've finished with you…" There was a minuet gasp from the body of the woman as she tried once again to fight the creature at her neck, "it's a bit late to get all paternal!!" He roared in her mind.
As he was moving closer to the last pin the felt something nudge at the back of his mind, "That's enough Alacard." Whispered the voice of his Master, "I've been hear for a while. Leave her there, no one will believe her and the guilt of her child's death can haunt her for the rest of her life. Although, she might not live long if the FREAKS find out she doesn't want to join in any more."
"Yes my Master…" Purred Alacard as the woman in his arms slipped into unconsciousness, he had already gleaned all he could from her mind and his Master assured him that a search was already underway for this woman' son, 'Jonas Williams' along with the woman known as 'Becka' and her friends.
"Thank you my Master." Murmured Alacard as he made his way back into the shop to find his friends.
"It is no trouble Alacard, although I think you are finally going soft having lived with Seres and Maya. Even for such a sort time…" The thought ended in a quiet chuckle as for once Alacard rolled his eyes as someone else.
Standing behind Seres he smiled to himself as he ran a finger down her spine, making her jump and call out, turning around at Vampire speed with a hand raised, "Master!" She whined as he began to chuckle, "that wasn't funny!" She pouted.
He shook his head and took the large dress bag off of her and Maya, wandering why, even after she chose to be her own, did Seres insist on calling him Master?