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I'm back with the first fic of the challenge.

I hope you like this one and thank you for the warm welcome.

Without further or do, enjoy.

30 AU Challenge:

1 – Children AU

"Hey, Vlad!" Seras called cheerfully. "Wanna go and play hide and seek? I promise it's going to be lots of fun."

Vlad slowly pulled down his book to look at the little blond that has been hunting him in the past few weeks, annoyed green eyes meet happy blue once. He looked a few feet behind her to her friends who are waiting for her and gave with a strange look. He closed his book and sighed in irritation.

"How many times do I have to say it before it finally goes through your thick skull." He said as he stood up. "I don't' want to play your stupid games, I don't' want to eat with you and your stupid friends at lunchtime and I don't want to be your Friend!"

He finally yelled before leaving the classroom to search for a place to read and be alone. 'Probably the library.' Seras thought. Without the blond following him around and keep asking him if he wanted to be her friend. Seras's brow furrowed in frustration to have failed again, one of her friends, Emilia walked over with a sigh.

"We told you seras, Vlad doesn't like to be around anyone." She said with a knowing voice.

"Yeah, we tried before you to befriend him but he always ends up chasing us away." said Lucy looking a bit scared.

"Lucy was as persistent as you at first." said David as a grin spread over his face."But then he told her that if she didn't stop, he will let his big black dog eat her." Seras rolled her eyes at what her friend said.

"That can't be true-" her friend cut her off.

"Oh but it is Seras!" he said getting closer to her slowly. "We were returning home one day when we saw him in the park, we walked to him to say 'Hello' and ask if he wanted to play with us but then we saw this big black dog that almost reached his hight." He lifted his hand up to scare her but ended up being pulled away by Emilia

"We were so scared we ran away as fast as we can and never came close to him again." Emilia finished.

Seras was a new student at this school. Her parents moved away from their old home for the sake of her father's work. When she first came here she was scared that the other kids were going to treat her like an outcast and end up being bullied by them. To her delight she didn't become an outcast as she feared, Emilia came up to her, introduced herself and asked if they can be friends, which she gladly said yes to. She introduced her then to the rest of the group, who is Lucy and David. Unfortunately for Seras her other fear of being bullied still came true, for the other kids called her names like 'Freak' or 'Weirdo' for being friends with the outcast group. But Seras didn't care about what they said and kept being their friend. However, later Seras started to notice a boy with long dark hair and green eyes. He always sat in the far back of the class, and when it's lunchtime or recess he always sat by himself either reading or just sitting there by himself. so just like her friends approached her, she started approaching him saying hey and introduced herself, which was met with an immediate 'Leave me alone' and 'I don't care.' When her friends told her about how he always chases everyone away by threatening them, they thought that she will see sense and stop.

But they thought wrong.

"You guys go ahead, I'll meet you later." Not waiting for an answer she ran out of the classroom to seek the dark haired boy.

Now because she has been following him everywhere these past few weeks she knew all of his favorite spots and one of them are the library. She slowed down when she got close to the library's doors then slowly opened one of them to enter and was surprised by the silence, for a moment she thought she went deaf if it wasn't for the sounds of squeaking that came from her shoes. She smiled to the librarian, who returned it, the women then pointed to the right side of the library, that part was dark and only the older kids and teachers went there. This was not the first visit for Seras to the library so the nice lady knew who she was looking for. With a big grin on her face, Seras mouthed a 'Thank you' to the lady before walking away to the dark part. There on one of the tables with the many chairs she saw Vlad alone reading. The book was so big that it covered his head but Seras could tell that it was him from his dangling feet. She walked to him and pushed a chair closer, before climbing that chair and sat beside him. Vlad let out a deep groan before turning to seras with an angry frown.

"Listen here!" He whispered harshly, causing seras to flinch and lean back. "I don't want to be your friend, I don't need friends and I promise you that if you don't leave me alone I'll bring Baskerville and make him use you as a chew toy!"

"Is that the 'Blackbird'?"

Through his rambling seras glanced inside the book that he was reading, it had pictures of different military airplanes but one of them, she knew exactly what it is. Vlad froze and eyes widened at her, he leaned back on his sit and gave Seras a strange look.

"You know about airplanes?" he asked almost sounding…hopeful. Seras give an unsure hum before answering.

"No, I don't know about them." She answered truthfully.

"Oh…" Vlad said before turning back to his book with a disappointed look. Seras feeling bad at making him upset quickly continued.

"But my dad does!" she began. "My dad loves to collect airplane models, one day he showed me a picture of a big black plane like this one!" she pointed at the picture that she recognized.

"That's a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird," Vlad said.

"Yes, that's the name!" Seras smiled at him. "He told me that it can go so fast!" she said flattening her hand and making a fast plane motion in the air. Vlad rolled his eyes at her limited knowledge.

"It doesn't just 'Go fast'." He said emphasizing on what she said mockingly, earning him a glare from her, he grins then holds the book closer to both of them so she can see better.

"This military plane is an advanced long-range strategic reconnaissance aircraft that is capable of Mach 3 and an altitude of 85,000 feet!"

Vlad kept talking about the plane's features. Seras had a confused look, most of the time she had no idea what Vlad was saying or even meant, but then she saw his eyes sparkle with excitement, a thing she had never seen him show or even knew that he is able of such expression, so instead of saying that she doesn't understand, she asked about each plane in the book. What can this one do? Why is it so big? How fast can this one go? And with each question she asked, Vlad was more than happy to answer. Seras than realized that it's not that Vlad didn't like to be around others, he just likes different things that other kids their age wouldn't understand or care about, so she just sat there and tried her best to take in as much as she could, while Vlad has his fill of talking his heart out.

However, the time was quickly cut short when the bell for the next class rang, signaling the end of recess. With an annoyed groan, Vlad closed the book and put it back on the shelf.

"You can borrow the book you know." Seras said with a shrug, Vlad shock his head.

"No, if I took it with me Baskerville will use it as a chew toy and the librarian will get mad at me…again." he started walking away and Seras quickly cached up to walk beside him.

"Baskerville is your dog, right?" she asked, Vlad nodded. "Is he really big like David said?"

Vlad didn't answer her until they walked out of the library.

"He is, almost this big." He said measuring to his shoulder which was eye level to seras. She swallowed at the next question.

"Can…can he really use me as a chew toy?" Vlad looked her up and down before answering.

"Yes, but only if you were a danger to me but you aren't so don't worry. In fact, Baskerville is really a softy he likes to be petted a lot." Vlad looked down at his hand with a tired look. "Which really becomes tiring considering how big he is, but he will whine if I don't'."

"He is really demanding." Seras said laughing, Vlad grinned and laughed a little with her.

"Yeah, I guess he is."

The rest of the way to class was not as talkative but it was nice. Before going to class Seras stopped, making Vlad also stop and look at her confused, they'll be late for class if they don't hurry up.

"Are we friends now?" she finally asked, Vlad stood there for a while and looked at her with furrowed brows unsure of what to say.

"No…we are not." Seras frowned at that.

"O..oh." she really thought they bounded after that time they spent at the library, maybe she should give up as her friends said.

"But…" Vlad said getting Seras's attention. "We can be acquaintances that's kind of like friends…but not really close." Vlad had a small blush on his face as he rubbed the back of his neck and looked away.

"What I want to say is, that it would be nice to finally have someone to talk about my planes with."

With a big grin on her face, seras walked up to Vlad and stretched her hand to him.

"Then Vlad, would you like to be my acquaintance." Vlad sighed when he realized that Seras probably didn't understand what does an acquaintance mean. But seeing her big smile, he let it go and took her hand to shake.

"Yes, I'll like that."

I always head-canoned Alucard as a big Airplane nerd, Blame it on the Abridged Series!

I hope you liked this one and there will be more soon.

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