Blinking hazy silver eyes open Ari squeaked staring into familiar hazel orbs inches away. Scowling she shoved him back or would have had her thumb, index finger and middle finger not been splinted and wrapped. Seeing her scowl Ryan moved away figuring he was too close. Trying to sit up the teen hissed when the gashes on her side pulled. "I think I need a vacation." Grinning Ryan snorted moving to sit in one of the puffy visitor chairs in the corner.
"You're already on vacation. I doubt Integra will let you take off again." Pulling a black berry from his jeans the redhead tossed it to her snickering as it hit her knee which jerked. "You may wanna call her she said Alucard was pacing the mansion, I don't think he's been to rest today and it's nearly 12 over there." Searching through his contacts with her left hand proved to be difficult but finding Integra's name she hit send.
Watching a nearly 600 hundred year old vampire pace was getting old especially since he had been doing it for nearly 15 hours. Barely keeping herself from jumping when her phone rang the knight sighed reading the caller ID. Pausing the Nosferatu gave his master a hopeful look. "Tell me Artemis is awake." Blinking when a feminine giggle echoed over the phone she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Yes Sir Integra I'm awake. If you don't mind can I speak to my mate please?" Passing the phone to her servant when he appeared next to her she made a mental note to not let Ari leave the country without Alucard present, the girl attracted danger like a light in darkness.
"How badly are you hurt?" Frowning at the question she glanced at the ginger. Ryan raised his hands in defense.
"I wasn't gonna be the bearer of bad news."
"Well my right hand is pretty much useless, I've got gashes on my side and I'm sore as hell but besides that I'll live." Baring his fangs the nightwalker silently vowed never to let his Mate travel so far away without proper protect again.
"When you feel the need to see your family again they will came here." Hearing a peep she looked down. Apparently the little silver and black serpent had hitched a ride to the hospital via her neck. The tiny feathered dragon was wrapped loosely around her throat, yawning it stared up at her with violet eyes before going back to sleep.
"Yes Alucard. I'll be sure to tell my mother that I'm sure she'll love that." Rolling his eyes at her sarcasm Ryan stood up fishing his cigarettes out of his pocket waving them so Ari knew where he was going. Nodding she covered the mouth piece. "If you see anyone tell them I'm still sleeping and get me a hot chocolate." Giving her a thumbs up on his way out the door the ginger shook his head.
"How did you manage to get hurt? The redhead refused to tell me anything, only that you were in surgery. He is lucky my master has a soft spot for him, and has ordered me not to kill him." Seeing a shadow move from the corner of her eye Ari jumped hissing as her side pulled before realizing it was only her hellhound.
"Well there was more than one gargoyle. Baskerville took 2 but the last one was still going after my family so I sorta …. Well." She paused wondering if he would be mad at her for putting herself in danger for her mother. "I jumped in front of my mom when the thing made a swipe at her, it got me." Knowing he was going to comment she paused as a deep growl bubbled from his chest.
"I do not care if your mother gets injured or not. You however are mine and will not recklessly throw yourself into harm's way for anyone." Rolling her eyes Ari smiled, this was his way of showing he cared after all. Alucard was more a creature of action rather than words and with her being half way around the world actions failed at the moment.
"Yes Alucard. Anyway after that I ran to my room to get my silver nail polish…" Retelling how she had killed the last creature and how her dragon had hatched she could practically see the grin spreading across his face. When the door to her hospital room clicked open she looked up as her mother, Ryan, Tim stepped in. Seeing the furious expression on her mother's face and the broken expression on Tim's she frowned chewing her bottom lip. "Alucard honey, I've got to go. But I'm fine so you better rest." Blinking at the phone in his hands the vampire set it down before looking at Integra.
"Honey is a good thing right?" Feeling her eye twitch the knight rubbed her forehead, why couldn't she have a normal vampire form this century?
Tim moved to her side taking her uninjured hand in his. "I'm so happy you're alright." Scowling she tugged her hand free sitting it in her lap daring him to reach for it again. "When that thing chased you back to your room I thought you were dead." Snorting the ginger handed her the hot chocolate she asked for taking his black berry back.
"It didn't cross your mind to actually go see if she was dead?" Turning to her oldest friend she cocked her head. Meeting her eyes Ryan nodded. "Yea your mom and Tim here wouldn't move until after I got there. Integra called me so I ran down the street to check on you. The only one back there was Ben and he was on the phone with 911. He had a pillow pressed against your side and a towel around your hand. Arz your hand was shredded. You just got outta surgery an hour ago." Looking down at her hand she winced, when she really thought about it she could feel something weird in her fingers probably holding the bones together.
"I take it you didn't tell Alucard how bad I really was, huh?" The redhead shuddered.
"Do you really think I wanna tell Dracula his girlfriend may never have normal use of her hand again and it's his fault? Hell no my work on Integra will have been for nothing and I'm so close." Sipping her cocoa she absorbed everything. Even if what he said was true she was still happy that he was getting somewhere with the knight. Hiding a smile behind the cup she mentally nodded to herself, at least the ginger could have a semi-normal relationship without almost dying on a monthly basis. Susan rolled her eyes.
"Stop over reacting the doctor said her hand would be stiff the first few months that's all." Holding a new i-phone up the blond frowned turning it so her daughter could see the screen. Alucard had picked her up from behind around her waist, effectively making her feet dangle over a foot off the ground. Laughing she had pecked him on his smooth cheek as his ever present smile stretched impossibly wide. Seems Ryan really had been watching them and decided to snap a picture on her phone. "Want to explain this picture?" Taking the phone from the out stretched hand Ari sighed.
"Not really but you're gonna make me anyway." Setting the phone in her lap she picked her cocoa back up off of the table beside her. "I was cooking and Alucard popped in. He does that almost every day, it's no big deal." Sighing Tim sit down.
"I dated you for 3 years and you never let me do stuff like that." Taking another drink of the hot chocolate Ari rolled her eyes.
"That's because you can't pick me up. Where's Ben anyway?" Hurt that she had completely disregarded his question the cherry blond slumped. Narrowing her eyes Susan planned on bringing this up when they were all at home again.
"He stayed at the house. Some lady from the Hellsing Organization offered to pay for replacement doors and windows. He stayed behind to make sure everything went okay." Raising her eyebrow Ari looked over at Ryan who nodded.
"You mean Sir Integra? She's my boss. So is this my new phone or what?" Her mother sighed nodding her head. Sometimes having an emotionally detached daughter was exhausting.
Just a filler chapter. Next chapter Arz's dad make an appearance and she find's Alucard gift which was a wonderful suggestion from Depsycho. I may have here go back to London too. Not sure yet.
