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30 AU Challenge:
5 – Imaginary friend AU
"Seras." A calm voice called making Seras groan tiredly. "Seras wake up already."
Knowing that the owner of that voice won't leave her alone Seras cracked open one of her eyes to stare up at her mother, who had woken her up from her sleep. Her skin was slightly tan, her long blond hair spilled beautifully to the side, her blue eyes that matched her own were filled with love as she stared down at her and her lips were curled up into a kind smile that made seras show a smile of her own.
"Come on my dear." Her mother said as she pulled away the blanket making Seras whine at the lake of warmth and protection from the sun. She turned around giving her back to the window to avoid the sunlight and wrapped her arms around herself for warmth. Her mother rolled her eyes at her daughter's action. "Oh don't be so dramatic and get up already."
"You know she won't leave until you do get up."
Said someone making seras open her eyes and see that it was Alucard.
A boy around her age if not older by a year or so. He had black hair that reached his shoulders, his skin was paler than Seras's that if anyone saw it they would think that he was extremely ill, and his eyes were deep green that stared at her in amusement as his grin widened. He was kneeling beside her bed, his head resting on his right hand, Seras glared at him.
"Five more minutes mom." She whined as she tried to take the cover back. "I'm too tired."
"No Seras." Her mother said firmly as she still didn't let go of the cover. "You will be late for school."
Her mother stood up and pulled the covers away completely, exposing Seras to the sudden cold and making her curl in a fetal position, which made her gasp and to Alucard laugh at her reaction.
"Honestly Seras, you are just like your father in the morning." Her mother then let go and started walking out of the room, having to prepare breakfast. "I'll come back later to check on you and if you are still asleep there will trouble young lady."
When the Door was finally closed, Seras got up and sat there on her bed for a moment rubbing the sleep away from her eyes. She felt Alucard climb on her bed and sat beside her.
"I really want to sleep more." Her jaw cracked open as she yawned.
"I did tell you to sleep early last night." Said Alucard with a chuckle. "But you wanted to stay up more."
"That because you were telling an exciting story and I couldn't sleep until I knew the end, so it's kind of your fault too that I'm tired." She said glaring at him but not hatefully but in a playful way.
Alucard grinned at that. Every night he would tell her a story that he knew Seras won't be able to fall asleep after until she knew the end of it and he used that knowledge to keep her up at night when no one can interrupt them or intrude on their conversations.
"I guess you are right." He said with a shrug, he then took a hold of her left hand and pulled it up to his lips as he kissed the back of her hand, he then gave seras a genuine smile. "Good morning seras."
"Good morning Alucard." She said giving a bigger smile.
Ever since she was a little this was their morning routine. With Alucard kissing the back of her hand the like men on the telly did to women they liked. She remembered when she first told him that she wanted someone to do that to her and Alucard granted her with by kissing the back of her hand every morning even after that little phase of her Alucard still kissed the back of her hand.
"Are you sure you have everything?" her mother asked.
"Yes!" Seras said with a nod. "I have my books, my notebooks, extra papers and pens, my eraser, my homework-"
"You actually forgot your homework." Alucard corrected her.
Seras's eyes widened at the realization that she forgot to put her homework back in her bag last night after doing it. She ran past her mother, who didn't look surprised at all, to her room. Seras returned after shoving her homework in her bag and zipped it shut.
"Now!... I have my homework." Alucard chuckled at her. Her mother, on the other hand, looked as if she was feeling uneasy.
"Seras…"She began. "Are you sure you can go to school alone, I can still walk you if you want."
"Tell her no." Alucard said quickly, Seras ignored him.
"Don't worry mommy, I'll be safe." She said giving her mother a reassuring smile.
Her mother smiled before kneeling down and giving her daughter a tight hug and kissed her forehead. After double checking that she really did have all of her stuff and lunch, Seras told her mother goodbye as she left her home. Alucard being beside her all this time. Their walk to the bus stop was quite, but after seras was sure no one was around she talked to Alucard.
"Why did you have to sound so mean when mom offered to walk us to school?" she asked her feet dangling from the bench that they sat in.
"Because I hate it when there are people around us." He said scowling. "if your mother was here with us now you wouldn't even look or talk to me, and I hate it!"
"I'm sorry, Alucard." Seras frowned at what he said, she didn't mean to upset him. Alucard looked at her with furrowed brows and sighed. He came closer making their shoulders touch then reached his hand up and patted her head.
"You don't have to apologize for anything Seras." Alucard's hand stopped playing with her hair when more people started to come to the bus stop. "I know, what will happen if people caught you talking to your 'Imaginary friend' again."
He got up from his seat but didn't leave seras standing right in front of her. Seras looked down at her lap ignoring everyone around her, Alucard held her hands through their entire wait and didn't let go even when the bus arrived. He kept holding her hand as they boarded the bus and sat in their usual seat. Seras kept looking out the window resisting the urge to turn her head around and talk to Alucard.
Seras rested her head on her hand, fighting the want to close her eyes and sleep over staying up through her math class.
"Ask to go to the bathroom..." Said Alucard who stood beside her desk with a grin on his face. "Then we can go anywhere else and escape the rest of this boring class."
Seras sighed getting tired from Alucard pushing her to rebel. She turned the pages of her notebook to a blank one and started writing down.
"I can't, if I did it again the teacher is going to call my parents this time and I will be in big trouble."
Alucard let out an annoyed sound but not to what Seras had said but to what she did.
"You know we can talk mentally." He whispered in her mind making her jump. "You don't have to write things down."
"Alucard!" He didn't speak through their mind link in a long time and to suddenly do it made her feel unusual. "You know why I can't, every time we talk through this I would have this weird look on my face-"
"Seras." The little blond woke from her daze and looked up. Her teacher looked at her worriedly. Seras looked around and saw that the entire class was looking at her making her blush in embarrassment.
"Are you alright?" her teacher asked.
"Y…yes, Mrs. Potts, I'm fine." She said with a smile.
"Are you sure?" she insisted. "I have called your name several times and you didn't answer me."
Seras wanted to just turn around and scold Alucard. She told him a hundred times that she didn't want to talk through their mind link because every time they do Seras's world seems to grow silence as she can only hear Alucard's voice and she would have this distant look where her eyes become blank. She used to do it a lot until one time at dinner with her family. When she woke from her trance, she found her dad standing beside her with his hand on both her cheeks making her look up to him and her mother was in the verge of crying out of fear. Since then she never spoke to Alucard mentally.
"I'm sorry." Seras said with a bashful smile. "I was just so sleepy" This made the whole class, laugh.
"Alright, alright! Quiet down!" Said the teacher clapping her hands to stop the laughter, then looked at Seras. "I know that no one likes math but do try and stay with us here or I will have to send you to the principal's office if you keep that up."
Seras just nodded her head to the teacher, showing that she was awake. Her teacher gave her one final look before turning back to the board. Seras looked around her and saw that the whole class stopped staring at her, but that's not what she was looking for. Alucard was gone. Seras sighed mental as she knew that he was probably somewhere in the school pouting that she wasn't paying him the attention that he wants.
"Are you going to eat alone again?" A girl asked Seras.
"Yeah, I'm sorry." She gave the girl a smile. "I just don't like to eat in front of others."
"Then how about recess we can still play together then?" The girl asked hopefully.
"I might end up just spending the recess doing my homework, so I won't have to do it at home." Before the girl could say anything seras took her lunch and started to walk away. "Thank you but I have to go now"
Before Seras could leave the room she heard the girl's group talk among themselves.
"Why do you bother asking her to join us?" asked a girl.
"Yeah, she always says 'no' anyway." Said another girl in an annoyed voice.
"I know…" said the girl who asked seras. "But she always looks so lonely."
"Either way I don't want her to join us, she is so weird."
A murmur of agreement broke among the group of girls. Seras ignored them all as she walked to where Alucard was. Taking the stairs Seras found her only true friend setting beside the locked doors of the roof waiting for her with a kind smile. The moment Seras sat down Alucard wrapped his arms around her pulling her into a tight hug that she didn't refuse. She clenched his arm as she leaned more into his embrace, trying her best to fight her tears.
"You don't need them." He said quietly, as he combed his small fingers through her hair. "I'll always be by your side, no matter what happens no matter what kind of person you'll become in the future, I'll always be here for you and only you."
And with that, a sudden wave of calmness washed over Seras. The hurt that she felt by the things that those girls said was gone and seras smiled. She always loved Alucard's hugs. He always made those bad feelings go away.
That night Seras told her parents that she would skip dinner because she wanted to sleep early for school. Her parents were against that and kept asking her if everything was alright or if she was feeling ill in any way. However, with a smile on her face, she assured them that she was fine and joked about how she almost fell asleep in math class making her father laugh and her mother to lecture her. In the end, they let her be and wished her a 'Goodnight'. Now she was here, laying on her bed with Alucard beside her, it was silence until seras broke it.
"Alucard." Seras began. "Why do I still have an 'Imaginary friend'?"
"Because back then no one could reach your high standards." He answered in a heartbeat. "That's why I'm here and still here."
"Alucard, why does everyone treat me differently?" Alucard's hand tightened over he own in anger but Seras didn't react.
"Because they are all idiots who can't recognize a gem even if it punched them in the face." Seras laughed at that recalling the time she punched that one boy in the nose for calling her a freak. Her laughter died as she asked the next question.
"How long should I pretend that you're not there anymore?"
Alucard didn't answer this time.
He remembered the first time he showed up to Seras and became her "Imaginary friend", she was 4 years old at the time so when she came up to her parents telling them about him they brushed it off thinking that it was a simple phase, that she'll grow out of it. Seras became 6 and she was still talking to him and doesn't have any other friends besides him, that made them afraid. They started taking Seras to a therapist, who told them that he was there because seras was probably lonely and to get rid of him they should try and make Seras meet new people, that maybe if she made some real friends the imaginary one would leave. They tried but all of their attempts have failed. Seras always tells her "New Friends" about him, which scares the other children away. They then attempted to trick their daughter by saying he told them that "He needed to leave and left.". But Seras always tells them that he was right there, that he didn't leave and that her parents are liars.
If Alucard was honest with himself, it was fun to him to see everyone frown every time they fail to make Seras stop "Imagining" him and that because they couldn't manage to keep one real friend for her he could have Seras all to himself. He already has to share her with her parents and it was too much. However, that amusement turned into deep fear and anger when he heard her parents talk one night about sending her away to be "Treated". He didn't like the sound of that and was close to tearing her parents apart for even thinking about taking his Mate away from him, but he refrained from doing so. That night He and seras agreed that she should never tell anyone about him or else people will think that she is insane and take her away to an awful place where she would never see her family again. And so in the very next day, Seras acted as if Alucard was never there, much to her parents relieve.
Now seras was 11 years old, who still doesn't have friends beside Alucard, is lying to her parents about having lots of friends at school and started to question many things including her own sanity and self.
"Not for long." Alucard cupped her cheek, then made her look up to him and smiled to her. "Why don't you go to sleep, you are very tired."
Seras didn't put up a fight this time, she gave her friend a warm smile before leaning in and kissing his cheek.
"Good night, Alucard." She closed her eyes and gave in to sleep, drifting away to dreamland. Alucard smiled down at her.
"Good night, my little queen." His voice became baritone and his eyes turned to red. His hand reached down to brush strands of hair away to have a better look of her face. "May all your dreams be filled with joy."
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