HELLSING CHRONICLES
Don't Let Them See You Cry
DianaPrince31
Disclaimer: I do not own Hellsing
Author's Note: Sorry I haven't uploaded much recently. I have actually been working on a Hellsing novella, which is loooong, and I have been working on an original novel or is it a short story or a combo of both written in the same style I write my fanfics? I have no clue, but that has been taking up time. I need to manage time better….ok enough of that onto the fic!
The meeting had gone badly and that was putting it mildly. The twelve-year-old girl couldn't get a word in and the old men had looked at her in anger and contempt. When her father was alive, the knights had treated her kindly because she was known as Miss Integra Hellsing, Sir Arthur Hellsing's daughter. But now that Arthur had died and named her his heir to the Hellsing Organization, that kindness was gone. She had hoped that they would have helped her into her new role, but apparently they had wanted her position to go to someone else, maybe even one of them. They did not want to hear the 'silly' ideas of a child nor take orders from one. They had made it clear when Sir Islands told her to sit, be quiet and listen while the adults were talking. The majority of the meeting was spent discussing ways to overturn Arthur's decision and finding someone more eligible to run the organization. When the tortuous meeting was finally adjourned, with tears in her eyes, Integra ran from the meeting room. This of course only got her more glares and head shakes. Walter could only look on sadly as his young boss ran miserably to her room.
While her head was buried in her pillows, Integra felt a presence besides her.
"Master, why are you crying?"
"I'm not crying!"
"Are you then vomiting out of your eyes?" Integra gave a small giggle and said; "That's nasty Alucard."
"Then you must have been crying then, Master."
The young girl frowned and said; "Those old fools are trying to find someone else to be in charge of the Hellsing Organization, even though father made me his heir!"
"Your father had chosen you to run this organization, no one else. They will not be able to do that, master."
"But they won't even listen to me."
"Then make them listen to you. Don't let them see you cry."
When the next meeting came, though she wore a look of determination on her face, Integra felt that her heart would fly out of her chest because it was beating so fast. She let the knights grumble for a few minutes about having a female child for a leader before saying; "My father chose me to run the organization and if you have a problem with his decision, you are most certainly welcome to leave." All the men looked at the girl in shock. "Now if we are finished behaving like immature children, we have a country to protect."
Ten Years Later
The screams of the living, the groans of the dying and gunfire reached her ears. The smell of blood and burning flesh was thick in the air. Many of the buildings were either burning or piles of rubble. Her butler had betrayed her, more than half of the Iscariot Organization was dead, only three Wild Geese members had survived the assault on her manor, she had lost an eye and Alucard was lost from existence. This could definitely be considered a bad day. As the sun began to shine on the destruction that was Britain, Integra watched as people staggered from under the broken bodies and destroyed buildings with dazed and frightened looks on their faces as they tried to comprehend the annihilation that had rained down on them. The commander's heart broke at the miserable sight; her beautiful London decimated and bought so low. As she was about to let it all go, she remembered what Alucard said to her long ago; "Don't let them see you cry." Integra smirked as she lit a cigar, that bastard always had to have the last word, didn't he?
Chapter End