Rating:Still a very mature story
Disclaimer:I do not own Hellsing or any of its characters.
Chapter Twenty Six
"You looked so full of disgust earlier when you talked about your little fledgling leaving you...but I wonder, were you really so disgusted? After all, you did make her your fledgling... what on earth possessed you to turn her into a vampire in the first place?" Integra asked him. "Are you jealous my master" he laughed coldly. "What did you say?" she hissed as her eyes glared at him coldly. "I said, are you jealous? Jealous that I chose Seras instead of you?" he taunted softly as he stared down into her eyes. "How could I be jealous of that? Who would want to become an undead worthless thing living off the blood of others?" she sneered, then turned her back on him and walked towards the door. "Yes, the undead are truly worthless...which is why I am currently enslaved to the Hellsing family for fucking all eternity!" he snarled angrily. Her footsteps came to a stop at the doorway as she looked back over her shoulder into his glowing red eyes. "I was not the one who enslaved you Alucard" "No, but out of all of my masters ..why is it that you hold my chain so tightly Integra?" She was silent for a moment then glanced away from him. "Because all dangerous weapons should be kept under lock and key... it's as simple as that" she said coldly then began to descend the wooden stairs. "Is that so?" he snarled angrily as he curled his hands into tight fists and stalked towards the edge of the roof. "I swear one day... I'll break free of you...as well as that fucking chain!" he growled, then jumped down to the cobbled street below. He took a few steps down the street and suddenly came to a stop when he saw Anderson's decapitated head laying a few feet away. A slow grin curved his lips as he walked towards it and pushed Anderson's face away from the road with his boot. "Well done, Seras" he whispered softly with a fanged smile.
He suddenly lost his smile and gasped as the severed head seemed to melt until all that was left was a bloody piece of paper. He quickly jerked his head around and stared up at the roof just as Integra emerged from the doorway. "Alucard? What is it?" she asked him as she ran towards him. Following his gaze, she gripped the jewled hilt of her sword and quickly slid it free of the scabbard. "I pierced your heart! I even cut off your god damned head! How is it that you're still alive Alucard?" Anderson shouted angrily. "Cut off his head? Pierced his heart? He is nothing like any vampire you've ever known. Your tricks won't kill him... You may be the fruit of the finest anti- vampire technology, but a hundred years of the Hellsing family's occult knowledge produced this achievement! Our crowned glory... the vampire Alucard!" Integra said as Alucard grinned up at Anderson and raised his arms out to his sides. A mass of black flapping bats suddenly flew angrily up towards the shocked Paladin's face. He swatted angrily at the flapping bats attacking his face as he glared down into Alucard's glowing eyes. "It looks as if I'll need to do more research to destroy you, abomination! The next time we meet... I'll gut your little whore like a fish!" he shouted angrily as he suddenly disappeared in a cloud of pages. "Well, it seems as if we'll have to do some research of our own... nobody calls me a whore and lives!" she snarled as she glanced away from the roof and started walking down the street towards the chopper.
"He doesn't mean you Integra, but..." Alucard snarled to himself as he stared down at the enchanted blade in her hand. "I've never seen this weapon before... It's been enchanted with forbidden magic I see" he mused softly. "That's right, too many creatures are running around saying they cannot be killed... this sword will prove them all wrong" she said as he gazed up at the sky and closed his eyes as dawn finally began to make itself known. "Worrying about your little pet?" Integra softy whispered beside him. "Do I look as if I'm worried?" he taunted her as he opened his eyes and stared down into her ice blue eyes. "No, you look as if you couldn't care less about her... but as you yourself said... looks, can be deceiving" she said softly as they finally reached the chopper and climbed inside. "Take us back to the manor, Captain." Integra ordered. As the chopper roared to life, Alucard looked down at his right glove and sighed deeply. "So, I gained three more seals during my fight with Anderson, hm?" he quietly thought to himself as he tilted his head back against the seat and curled his right hand into a tight fist. "And now Integra definitely suspects I'm not as callous towards Seras as I've let on" he snarled to himself, as he slowly hid his hand within the folds of his red trench coat and tilted his head back against the seat and closed his eyes...
Stripping off her blood stained clothes, Seras bent down and unzipped one of the bags Walter had left for her. Rummaging through the various aticles of clothing she finally found a pair of light pink pajama pants and a white tank top. Sliding the top over her head, she smoothed her hands down the soft fabric and stepped into the pants. Laying down on the bed, she closed her eyes and thought of Alucard's last flashback. "There are other ways to deal with criminals...this...this is monstrous Vlad! You're covered in her blood...and you don't even seem to care." "That's because I don't care!" he roared, "I revel in spilling the blood of my enemies...I even drink their blood on occasion..what do you think of me now wife?" he sneered darkly then started to walk towards her. "Only monsters drink blood do they not?" he whispered softly as he watched her green eyes slowly widen in horror as he lifted his gory hand to his mouth and slowly began to lick the crimson liquid from his middle finger. "Yes! You're nothing but a monster!" she hissed then whirled away from him and disappeared through the open doorway. As her footsteps faded down the darkened corridor, Vlad bowed his head and stared at his bloody hands as his wife's words echoed over and over inside his mind. "Monster...nothing but a monster" he whispered quietly..." "Oh, Alucard" Seras whispered sadly as she opened her eyes and stared blindly up at the web covered ceiling. "If you're a monster...then so am I" she said softly. "What you did was brutal yes, but what she did was even more so. I didn't see a monster, I've done things myself that would be considered monstrous." she said quietly as she lifted a hand to her face and smoothed back the hair from her forehead. "I...almost died tonight. For a while there...I didn't even care. That priest almost took my head...just like he did Alucard's. And I didn't even care. If it wasn't for that woman...I wonder why she saved me, anyway?" she whispered softly.
"Why did I save you? Because you were about to die of course." a sultry voice whispered from the shadows of the basement. Seras gasped sharply and jumped out of the bed as her eyes darkened to blood and her nails lengthened to claws. "Who are you? Why did you follow me? What do you want?" she snarled. The woman who had saved her life approached her and smiled. "My name is Morganna. I followed you because I wanted to and I want what I thinkyou want as well." "What the hell are you talking about?" Seras snapped as she glared into the woman's black eyes. "I would very much like to free your lover from Hellsing. Am I correct in assuming that you'd like to see this as well?" Seras gasped, "How do you-" "How do I know about that? Talk amongst us creatures of the night is this, you fuck with Hellsing's ultimate weapon? Well, let's just say you won't have the chance to fuck ever again. His sole purpose is to hunt and kill creatures of the night, be they vampires, ghouls...or werewolves. I have a friend who cares very deeply for your Alucard...and wants to see him free just as much as you do...You do want to see him free do you not?" "Of course I do! I'm trying my best to free him" Seras whispered angrily. "Do you know how to break the curse, then?" "Yes, I do" Seras told her as she inched her way towards one of the black bags on the floor. "I see. And just what exactly will break this spell?" The woman asked quietly from the shadows as the first ray of light peeked from the gray cast sky.
"I'm sorry but I just don't know you well enough to start spilling all of my secrets. Tell me who you really are...and who your friend is!" Seras whispered fiercely sounding anything but apologetic. "Ahhh" Morganna whispered as she tilted her head back and closed her eyes. "It seems as if the sun has risen...I must leave you now, my dear, so there's really no need to keep inching your way towards that bag. I shall be visiting you again soon. And to answer your questions...it would take far too long for me to tell you exactly who I am. As for whom my friend is...his name is Torian. Tell your Alucard that my friend would very much like to see him. Bring him to the rundown mansion on the outskirts of town at midnight. Oh, and...please don't be late, hm?" she whispered with a smile then lifted her hand in front of her and with a twirl of her wrist, vanished into thin air. Heaving a big sigh, Seras walked back towards the bed. "Damn, I really do need to learn that trick" she thought to herself as the suns approach sucked the energy from her body. Her lids suddenly became too heavy and she fought to keep them open. "Damn it! I can't fall asleep now! I still don't trust that woman!" she angrily thought to herself as she crumpled onto the bed and allowed her eyes to drift shut. She suddenly remembered what Alucard's wife called him so long ago, however and snapped open her eyes. "Oh, my god!" she gasped in shock as she silently mouthed his name with trembling lips...
Morganna suddenly appeared in the basement of the rundown mansion, as glowing golden eyes stared at her covertly from the darkness. She walked towards the far wall and threw herself down onto the black silk covered bed. A wolf's growl echoed in the basement and gained in volume. She quickly raised up and stared into a pair of glowing yellow eyes which were staring at her from the left side of the room. "Did you miss me while I was gone?" she softly whispered with a smile as a huge black wolf slowly emerged from the shadows and jumped up onto the bed beside her. "My love, please don't be angry with me. I did manage to find him after all. And I will complete my mission, very soon. Later tonight in fact." she whispered quietly as she rolled onto her side and reached out to gently play with the wolf's silky black ears. "Don't try to soften me up, Morganna! You know he would have killed you without a moment's hesitation! Hellsing has trained him to kill any creature that walks the night. That includes you and me!" a deep male voice snarled inside her mind. "It's been so long since I've seen him...he may not even recognize me now." he whispered quietly to her as the wolf's eyes narrowed into tiny slits. "Mmm, and why would I want to soften you up? I quite like it when you're...hard." she teased breathlessly as the wolf suddenly leaped on top of her and pinned her down to the bed. She laughed softly and raised her arms to gently stroke up and down the wolf's back. "And nothing happened...well not really." she said. The wolf growled once more and suddenly bared it's large white fangs at her. "Vlad wasn't in any condition to harm me, he had just been decapitated. And I think he would recognize you no matter how many years have passed." she whispered as the wolf suddenly tensed above her. "Decapitated? I see...and who did this to him?" he asked quietly inside her mind. "A blond haired priest. Don't worry I killed him before he could do the same to me." she said with an evil laugh. "He wanted to kill Vlad's lover as well."
The black wolf above her suddenly began to transform into a man. After the transformation was complete a very naked man pinned Morganna to the bed. Staring up into his scarred face, she lifted one hand to his blind eyes and gently caressed the scarred flesh surrounding them. "Ahh, so the rumors were true then?" he asked her urgently. "Yes, I've no doubt she's the woman rumored to have been changed by Vlad a while back. I'm certain they're lovers. She was cradling his severed head to her chest...and crying as if her heart were breaking. I should have captured her...which would have lead Vlad here. He would have surely come for her." "No, you did the right thing, my dear. It was a bad plan... this will work out so much better, anyway. You followed her, then?" he asked as the fingertips of one hand felt their way up her throat to gently caress her cheek. "Of course I followed her, Torian. She knows how to break the spell that binds Vlad to Hellsing!" she whispered as she gently nuzzled her face against the palm of his hand and lifted her own to the back of his. "I told her to bring Vlad here tonight. So you see I've completed my mission haven't I? Even though it worked out a little differently than what we had planned" she laughed softly as his caressing hand suddenly came to a halt upon her face. "Can it be? After all this time...he'll finally be...free? But how? What breaks the spell?" Torian asked as he blindly stared down into Morganna's face. "Oh, that. Well, she...wouldn't tell me" Morganna laughed nervously as she looked up into his face which broke into a fierce frown.
"But don't worry! I'm sure once we gain her trust she'll tell us everything...or better yet maybe Vlad will tell us tonight." she said softly as she raised up to press her lips against his in a gentle kiss. He allowed it for a moment and even moaned a little as her tongue gently tried to pry open his lips. "No, Morganna...enough" he told her softly as he pulled back from her kiss and lifted himself off of her. "You want me...I can feel it. Why do you always deny me?" she breathed as he transformed into a wolf and padded towards the door. "It's not you I deny, love...but myself." he said softly inside her mind as he padded up the stairs and left her all alone in the basement. "That makes no sense and you know it!" she told him angrily. "Damn it, why did I have to fall in love with a man who is celibate?" she grumbled sadly to the empty room as the effects of the rising sun finally caught up with her and demanded that she sleep till it had set once more...
Alucard walked into his room in the basement and angrily slammed the door closed behind him. He stalked towards his chair in the center of the room and reached for his wineglass sitting on the small table. He tightly grasped the delicate stem of the goblet which held the ruby liquid his body needed and raised it to his lips. As the blood slid down his throat, he imagined the blood was Seras' and drank deeply. After the glass was empty he set it back onto the table and sighed deeply. He raised his hands in front of him and looked down at the red symbols on the backs of his gloves. He tightened his fists with a snarl and angrily slung his arm out hurled the table towards the far wall. The shattering of glass and wood echoed around him as he stalked from one end of the room to the other. "It's just as I've always said...vampires are destined to walk alone through the night. I was such a fucking fool to ever consider anything else!" he hissed bitterly as he continued to pace back and forth. "And Integra knows that I'm not as unfeeling as I claim to be where Seras is concerned...I can see it in her fucking eyes!" he raged silently as he finally stopped his pacing and stopped in front of his coffin. "Perhaps I should tell Seras exactly who I am...that will send her running as far away from me as she can. It'll get her out of Integra's sights as well." he said quietly as he climbed into the coffin and lifted his hand to the lid to slowly enclose himself inside the darkness...
Instinctively knowing when the sun had set, Alucard snapped open his eyes and stared up into Seras's blue eyes. He lifted his hand to caress her face, but suddenly jerked it back and snarled as he climbed out of the coffin and slammed it shut. "What the fuck are you doing here?" he snarled angrily as he jerked her into his arms and shook her. "Do you know what Integra will do to you if she finds you here? Do you know what she will order me to do to you if she finds you here?" he whispered softly, though his eyes were glowing with a barely leashed rage. "Yes, I have an idea." Seras whispered as he released her and stalked away from her. "She would order me to..." he suddenly broke off his snarled words when Seras slowly wrapped her arms around his waist and leaned into his back. Hugging him gently she rubbed her cheek against the slightly scratchy material of his coat and closed her eyes. "Alucard...I almost lost you tonight. I won't let Integra keep me away from you!" "You'll do as I tell you, Seras! Stay the fuck away from me! I knew this would never work...but still I had hoped for the impossible. I am a slave to the Hellsing family...and I always will be!" he shouted as he reached down to pry her arms away from his waist. Seras tightened her hold and hugged him even tighter as she willed him to understand that she could never leave him again. "In your past life...were you a Prince?" she suddenly asked him as she felt his entire body freeze at her question. A blood tear seeped from the corner of her eye as he finally whispered, "Yes, I was." "And was your name... Vlad?" "Yes" he whispered again as his fangs sank deeply into his lower lip. "Are you... Prince Vlad Dracula? "Yes!" he suddenly exploded as his fists clenched tightly within his gloves and he angrily pulled himself away from her clinging arms. "Yes, I'm the most feared monster of all!" he snarled angrily as he whipped around and jerked her back into his arms. "Even now I can see fear bleeding into those beautiful blue eyes of yours. Does my name disgust you? Does it make you shiver in revulsion? Everything that's been said of me is true Seras... It's all fucking true! I've murdered men, women and children. I've murdered the innocent as well as the guilty! Do you want to know how I was captured by Abraham Van Hellsing in the first place? I thought myself in love with a woman!" He shouted angrily as his lips twisted into a self loathing grin.
"Love!" he sneered bitterly as he lowered his mouth to her lips. "She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen...until you." he rasped against her lips as he stared deeply into her eyes. "You're so fucking kind and loving" he said softly. "And you love me don't you?" he said quietly as he ran his fingers slowly down the side of her cheek. "She said she loved me as well." he snarled then pushed her away from him and stalked towards the wall. Staring at him through a haze of red tinted tears, Seras finally realized that words were not going to be enough to convince him of how she actually felt. She walked towards him and gently gripped his shoulders to turn him around to face her. But he stubbornly refused to look at her and placed his hands against the stone wall and bowed his head. "Your name doesn't disgust me. Although, you do make me shiver...but it was never in revulsion Alucard" she whispered softly. "I don't care what you did in the past...it was a different world back then, brutal and untamed. The only thing I truly care about is you and only you, not your past. Perhaps you were a different person back then, all I know is that the man standing in front of me...holds my heart within his hands." she whispered quietly while one hand slid up his chest to lay softly against his racing heart. "Tell me...Vlad, do I hold yours as well?" she quietly breathed as thick blood tears slid slowly down his pale cheeks. He stared down at her small hand as a blood tear dripped from his face, to the floor. He suddenly lowered one arm from the wall and gently covered her hand with his and squeezed gently...
Yes, that squeeze is all he'll allow himself to admit...at the moment. Thanks for reading :)
I hope this story is easier to read now, I hate that it took me so long it was excruciating to read in that shitty format I mean if you could call that a format lol. Anyways I'll be working on the next chapter in between my other writings :) I hate to say it'll be up soon cause I always feel bad when it doesn't happen lol. Thanks for continuing to leave nice reviews, they make me happy :D