The only characters I own are Alex, Sonny, Mel, Michael, William, various vamps that die, minor characters. Yes, I do have to lay claim to Marvin "the Martian" Marcellini. All others are not mine though I wish they were ;)

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"You are too weak to fight me," his gun was trained on me, "Drop the phone."

"Why are you doing this?"

"I don't know how the monsters got my codes to enter the estate but that won't stop my mission."

Fanaticism took hold of his mind.

I let go of the phone slowly. Cyst. He was the Vatican spy...maybe also Jacob's human puppet, "Why are you doing this? I haven't done anything to hurt you."

"You are marrying that monster. I must save your soul."

"I don't have a soul."

"You are human," he shut the door at his back, "You have a soul to rescue from damnation," the lock clicked.

I was locked in a room with a crazy Vatican spy with no shield nor ability to escape. I doubted I had the energy nor time to take the paper in the room to teleport away. Why was I in this place? What turn did I travel by mistake?

"I don't think there is a God. You can't save me," what could I do?

"You will be."

"The fiancée thing was to get vital information from me Sonny. Nothing more."

"Then why is the ring still on your finger?"

"Because Alucard is an ass and its easier to wear it instead of hear his snarky comments for the next month."

"Then you'll remove it."

I had to move my casted arm over so I could slip the ring from my finger. The IV was still in my good arm.

Slipping the ring off, I gently set it on the side table, "Is that better, Sonny?"

"He'll tempt you into Hell."

"I fear becoming a vamp, Sonny. Even at his hands. If he tried to turn me vamp, I'd kill him or force him to kill me," I snapped in anger, "Why are you avoiding the real threat to my soul? The Puppeteer?"

"We are dealing with him," he moved towards the IV bag, "You are being given the greatest gift we can bestow."

"What gift? To be a slave as Moses's people to the Egyptians?"

He lashed out. I tasted blood in my mouth once it was over, my face pointed towards my lap. The heat in my cheek and side of my mouth was burning as much as my shame at being unable to defend myself.

"Do not associate us with those scum."

"You are taking my right to live life as I wish away. Just like them. You are condemning me to damnation on this mortal coil. How can God forgive me if I meekly accept this?" I raised my eyes to his gaze, keeping my voice soft, "I must suffer the lost of virginity, childbirth and the disdain of men. Why add that my choices are taken away from me? Those simple pleasures of the soul that make this life worth living?"

"You will have many once you are one of us."

"I don't want to be one of you. I have lost my parents, my older and younger brothers. What have you ever done to protect and cherish me?" tears fell from my eyes, "What have you done to prove yourselves the true men of God?"

Sonny seemed to consider me, his fanaticism battling with the sense of right and wrong.

I wished Alucard was here. I couldn't last with Sonny. I was a simple human. A bullet would kill me a surely as a normal human.

I looked down at my lap, "I am laying here, wounded from fighting monsters. Yet you have no single scratch. I have suffered more than is worth living for. You would take my last reason for continuing on?"

I felt Seras' bundle of emotions coming down the hall, the focus changing instantly to alarm. Please, let whatever training Seras decided to take had her noticing that the door was shut when it shouldn't.

"God has plans for you. You will be given a sacred duty," Sonny stated his indecisiveness dissolving under his fanaticism.

"Then you are no better than the monsters that put me here. Those demons who disrespect human life," I glared at him, "You are not a man of God."

Seras phased through the wall, caught sight of Sonny. I kept my eyes on him, as I said the last words, "You are not the righteous man Jesus died for."

"You will serve then to make pure children."

In a flash he turned and shot Seras as she leapt to tackle him. She was launched back into the wall, spraying blood.

He took a step towards her, "I will eliminate the monsters in your life."

I yanked out the IV needle, wincing at the pain and the blood coming from the wound. I couldn't wait. He lined up his second shot. One to Seras' head.

I lunged from the bed, across to Sonny's back.

I put all my strength behind the needle as it slid into his shoulder. His arm went limp, dropping the gun as Seras collapsed to her side.

My ankles took my weight for a couple seconds then buckled, dumping me to the floor. Sonny roared above me in pain.

"Master!" Seras cried out, struggling to get to her hands and knees.

Sonny whirled to me, lashed out with a silver object. A knife?

I raised my good arm to protect my face and chest.

Pain exploded in my arm, searing and agonizing.

My shriek rang against the stone walls as Sonny pulled the weapon from my arm, raised it to deliver another blow.

His head exploded with a loud boom that left me deaf.

Alucard rushed to Seras as Mel and Michael burst through the door.

I watched in shock as their months moved but no sound echoed in my ears save an annoying ringing.

Mel pressed a hand over my wound. I screamed though I could only feel it in my jawbone. I tried to jerked my arm free as the burn increased.

My jaw was seized and I was looking into Alucard's eyes. A small measure of calm returned with some of my hearing.

"Get the Medic!" Mel barked, "Shit! She's bleeding badly. He must have hit an artery."

He tried to cover the wound again.

Fire raced through my arm. I kicked out, knocking him back before I could stop the action. It hurt too much.

Alucard gripped my arm with implacable strength, putting a hand on my shoulder, "Treat her quickly."

"Oh god, look at the wound."

I glanced down.

My flesh was..."No. Stop it!" I shouted, fear racing my heart.

The flesh was dissolving as if acid was eating at the edges of the raw meat, widening the gash rapidly.

"In the Queen's name," Integra's shocked voice drew my gaze.

She took one look at my face, the wound, then her eyes hardened, "Alucard amputate her arm."

I had a moment to think "What the fuck?" before my arm didn't hurt any more.

I didn't want to look down. I didn't want to see and be forced to acknowledge the truth. I closed my eyes. Don't look. Maybe my memories were a better place to be than this. If I didn't see it, it wasn't true. It was childish but if it kept me sane for a few moments longer I'd take it.

"Jesus. What the bloody hell did they do to her?"

I opened my eyes curiosity overriding my need to avoid the sight.

The limb from fingers upper arm was like a mannequin's with holes spreading almost from the bone outward to the skin.

That couldn't be my arm. It didn't look like it was made of flesh.

I was picked up, and carried backwards from the limb as it spilled goo across the floor.

Bone showed through the holes, white and clean of flesh, like a dog's chew toy. Then the strange holes appeared in the white surface.

If...if Alucard hadn't...I looked at my shoulder. Shadows covered the space where my arm should have connected to my torso.

"She's going into shock," was the last thing I heard.