* Skipping years again, Mina is 12 now, she still doesn't see much of
Alucard and now she remembers the occurrences that led to the loss of her
first nanny.*
I remember her, Seras Victoria, the strange girl with the red eyes. I never asked why she had eyes like that, but then again when I knew her I was too young to notice. Seras and I aren't allowed to come near one another, her and that other man in the mansion. It has something to do with my kidnapping and retrieval from a frightening creature, though whether it was the man that took me or the two I was stuck with until my mother got me back I don't know. She had another man with her, tall and somewhat frightening, but who was he? He is not my father, I know that much, but he is something else, he's something to my mother.
My mother, she's gone so often now, leaving me alone in the mansion. To get rid of me when she is around she and Walter shipped me off to some day school with that annoying uniform. Now that Walter has died, it was Christmas last year, she took me out of it, keeps me at home so she can travel by herself, seeming to miss his company. I explore when I'm alone like this, I found that there are rooms under this mansion, like the dungeons almost as if this were something out of a medieval story book. It was in one such room that I found him, the mysterious man that my mother keeps from me.
I was dressed in the uniform from that school, I have no play clothes and the skirt made it easier to move in; the room was large and mostly empty, slightly resembling a long hallway more than a room. In the farthest corner of it was a throne like chair, with a man in it. He was dressed strangely; most of the outfit was red, with a goofy hat pulled down over his eyes. I stood in front of him, but it was after a few moments of this I found that he was asleep, in the middle of the day. Behind me, a door creaked and Seras came out.
"Mina! What are you doing down here, your mother will have a fit if she finds out."
"Then she won't will she?"
"Mina it isn't safe down here."
"Why?"
"She hasn't told you about us has she?"
"Told me what? Seras, I want to know why I can't see you anymore."
There was a noise behind me, Seras made a little squeaking noise and I turned to see that the man had awoken and was coming toward me.
"My my, Sir Integra, has the time gone backwards to the beginning of our relationship?"
"My name is Mina Fairbrook Hellsing, not Integra.and who are you?"
He laughed; I was shocked that he laughed. Removing his glasses and hat he bowed a little and smirked at Seras behind me.
"Alucard is what your family calls me, Miss Hellsing."
"Alucard? Isn't that just Dracula backwards? Strange name."
He looked at me then, perhaps he was surprised, I don't know really. There was something behind his eyes, pain or great loss, I don't know which.
"You are definitely her daughter. Why are you down here with the bats and the mice?"
"I see neither bats, nor rats and I was exploring the house. There are things I don't know and I intended to find them out for myself."
"Mina. Fairbrook. Hellsing. Get out of that basement this instant! Alucard, I want to see you."
I went up the stairs, Alucard following me, I wonder if he somehow knew that she was home. Before I was called, he had looked up, past me and the girl behind me, as though he knew something we didn't. My mother pointed us into her office, took her seat and glared at me. To him she frowned, seeming very annoyed.
"I told you to stay away from them; they are not the safest people to be around. Why did you disobey me?"
"Seras was my friend, besides I wasn't looking for them I was looking through the castle. There are rooms down there that I hear nothing about, how much of this mansion's history are you going to keep from me mother?"
"Do not take that tone with me!"
"Master Integra, the child was exploring."
"Alucard, do not defend her, you are not a lawyer, you are a vampire for heaven sakes. How do I know that you will not bite her?"
"She is a Hellsing, I neither can nor will bite her, you know that as well as I, master."
There was a tone to his voice; it made me jump slightly, though I think that had something to do with the fact that he had his hand on my shoulder too.
"Mother, I don't know anything about vampires or why you have Dracula in your control, but I want to know. If I am to take this organization from you, then I will have to learn about it. Tell me, please."
"Dracula..he is no longer known by that name, and do not encourage him."
"Encourage him? How is saying his real name encouragement? Why do you call him by the reversal of his name rather than the real thing?"
"Mina.that is a story for later, not now, if you want to know about your family than I will tell you, though I truly wish this could have been put off for a few more years. Now, go to your room and wait for me. Alucard, you remain."
I left as I was asked, but like the bad little girl I am, I waited outside the office in hopes of hearing some of their conversation.
"Alucard, how dare you come near her, I suppose it was you that called her down there?"
"No master, she came on her own accord, she woke me."
"God, I don't want to explain this history, there are things even I don't know..Why did you let her call you Dracula?"
"It is my name, she was smart enough to interpret it without my assistance, I told her I was called Alucard by your family, it was she that called me such. If she wants to know about her ancestors, I don't see why you think you must hide it from her."
"Enough! She is not your daughter; you cannot choose when these things are told to her!"
"Of course, but if I remember correctly, it was I that pulled her from you, you do not recall that night well do you?"
Silence, my mother was thinking I suppose, she remembered my birth, didn't she? I can think of a few things that my mind pictures, though if any of them are true, that I don't know.
"I don't recall it no, it is the morning after and you with her that remains in my mind, must you remind me of it constantly?"
"Constantly master, I have only done so one other time. The night I brought her back I believe."
"The night I took her responsibility from your childe, yes I can picture that conversation well. It was a mistake to have a child when you still act like one yourself."
I couldn't believe it, my mother didn't want me. That was why she was always leaving me, she didn't want a child in the first place, and I must have been an accident. I ran from them then, pushing away from the wall and going out into the night. I don't know if they heard me, I didn't care at that point. I was unwanted.
I don't know how far I ran, not too far because I was still on the Hellsing property when I finally collapsed. I was scared and hurt; my own mother didn't want me around. She could look all she wanted, but there was no way I was going back.
I remember her, Seras Victoria, the strange girl with the red eyes. I never asked why she had eyes like that, but then again when I knew her I was too young to notice. Seras and I aren't allowed to come near one another, her and that other man in the mansion. It has something to do with my kidnapping and retrieval from a frightening creature, though whether it was the man that took me or the two I was stuck with until my mother got me back I don't know. She had another man with her, tall and somewhat frightening, but who was he? He is not my father, I know that much, but he is something else, he's something to my mother.
My mother, she's gone so often now, leaving me alone in the mansion. To get rid of me when she is around she and Walter shipped me off to some day school with that annoying uniform. Now that Walter has died, it was Christmas last year, she took me out of it, keeps me at home so she can travel by herself, seeming to miss his company. I explore when I'm alone like this, I found that there are rooms under this mansion, like the dungeons almost as if this were something out of a medieval story book. It was in one such room that I found him, the mysterious man that my mother keeps from me.
I was dressed in the uniform from that school, I have no play clothes and the skirt made it easier to move in; the room was large and mostly empty, slightly resembling a long hallway more than a room. In the farthest corner of it was a throne like chair, with a man in it. He was dressed strangely; most of the outfit was red, with a goofy hat pulled down over his eyes. I stood in front of him, but it was after a few moments of this I found that he was asleep, in the middle of the day. Behind me, a door creaked and Seras came out.
"Mina! What are you doing down here, your mother will have a fit if she finds out."
"Then she won't will she?"
"Mina it isn't safe down here."
"Why?"
"She hasn't told you about us has she?"
"Told me what? Seras, I want to know why I can't see you anymore."
There was a noise behind me, Seras made a little squeaking noise and I turned to see that the man had awoken and was coming toward me.
"My my, Sir Integra, has the time gone backwards to the beginning of our relationship?"
"My name is Mina Fairbrook Hellsing, not Integra.and who are you?"
He laughed; I was shocked that he laughed. Removing his glasses and hat he bowed a little and smirked at Seras behind me.
"Alucard is what your family calls me, Miss Hellsing."
"Alucard? Isn't that just Dracula backwards? Strange name."
He looked at me then, perhaps he was surprised, I don't know really. There was something behind his eyes, pain or great loss, I don't know which.
"You are definitely her daughter. Why are you down here with the bats and the mice?"
"I see neither bats, nor rats and I was exploring the house. There are things I don't know and I intended to find them out for myself."
"Mina. Fairbrook. Hellsing. Get out of that basement this instant! Alucard, I want to see you."
I went up the stairs, Alucard following me, I wonder if he somehow knew that she was home. Before I was called, he had looked up, past me and the girl behind me, as though he knew something we didn't. My mother pointed us into her office, took her seat and glared at me. To him she frowned, seeming very annoyed.
"I told you to stay away from them; they are not the safest people to be around. Why did you disobey me?"
"Seras was my friend, besides I wasn't looking for them I was looking through the castle. There are rooms down there that I hear nothing about, how much of this mansion's history are you going to keep from me mother?"
"Do not take that tone with me!"
"Master Integra, the child was exploring."
"Alucard, do not defend her, you are not a lawyer, you are a vampire for heaven sakes. How do I know that you will not bite her?"
"She is a Hellsing, I neither can nor will bite her, you know that as well as I, master."
There was a tone to his voice; it made me jump slightly, though I think that had something to do with the fact that he had his hand on my shoulder too.
"Mother, I don't know anything about vampires or why you have Dracula in your control, but I want to know. If I am to take this organization from you, then I will have to learn about it. Tell me, please."
"Dracula..he is no longer known by that name, and do not encourage him."
"Encourage him? How is saying his real name encouragement? Why do you call him by the reversal of his name rather than the real thing?"
"Mina.that is a story for later, not now, if you want to know about your family than I will tell you, though I truly wish this could have been put off for a few more years. Now, go to your room and wait for me. Alucard, you remain."
I left as I was asked, but like the bad little girl I am, I waited outside the office in hopes of hearing some of their conversation.
"Alucard, how dare you come near her, I suppose it was you that called her down there?"
"No master, she came on her own accord, she woke me."
"God, I don't want to explain this history, there are things even I don't know..Why did you let her call you Dracula?"
"It is my name, she was smart enough to interpret it without my assistance, I told her I was called Alucard by your family, it was she that called me such. If she wants to know about her ancestors, I don't see why you think you must hide it from her."
"Enough! She is not your daughter; you cannot choose when these things are told to her!"
"Of course, but if I remember correctly, it was I that pulled her from you, you do not recall that night well do you?"
Silence, my mother was thinking I suppose, she remembered my birth, didn't she? I can think of a few things that my mind pictures, though if any of them are true, that I don't know.
"I don't recall it no, it is the morning after and you with her that remains in my mind, must you remind me of it constantly?"
"Constantly master, I have only done so one other time. The night I brought her back I believe."
"The night I took her responsibility from your childe, yes I can picture that conversation well. It was a mistake to have a child when you still act like one yourself."
I couldn't believe it, my mother didn't want me. That was why she was always leaving me, she didn't want a child in the first place, and I must have been an accident. I ran from them then, pushing away from the wall and going out into the night. I don't know if they heard me, I didn't care at that point. I was unwanted.
I don't know how far I ran, not too far because I was still on the Hellsing property when I finally collapsed. I was scared and hurt; my own mother didn't want me around. She could look all she wanted, but there was no way I was going back.