OMAKE:

'Night Encounters With the Undead Kind…'

A dead tired Integra stumbles to bed (it's 3:45 am!), only to find that some one is already in it. A sleeping, hat/sunglasses/overcoat and bootless Alcuard is sprawled on her king sized bed diagonally because of his height: if he slept like a normal human, his long legs would stick out over the mattress by several centimeters. Integra, too tired to scream at him to wake up and question his choice of resting spot and more importantly eject the unwelcomed 'bed crasher', uses her last remaining strength to roll Alucard over the edge of her bed. And she collapses on her bed fully clothed, falling asleep to the lovely and satisfying sound of the vampyre's body hitting the floor and his surprised grunt. Few moments later Integra's awakened when she feels Alucard slip beside her on the bed, his back to her. Her anger gave her enough strength to raise herself and slapped his arm to wake him up. Before she could (this time) scream at him to go away, he mumbles:

"That was mean Master. I was sleeping."

"I DON'T CARE!! WHY ARE YOU HERE?!!"

"It's Celes; I can't stand being around her constant whining!"

"Hmph, serves you right for offering immortality to those who are unsuited to it. But that doesn't answer my question of WHY ARE YOU SLEEPING ON MY BED?!"

He rolled over and got up on a sitting position to face her.

"BECAUSE I'M NOT GETTING ANY REST IN MY CHAMBERS DURING THE DAY SINCE HER SNORING IS ATROCIOUS, AND I AM SURE AS HELL NOT BUNKING WITH WALTER!!! Now will you stop the questions so we both can get some sleep?!"

Alucard and Integra glared at each other, then simultaneously turning their backs to the other and settled on opposite sides of the bed. Quite a sight these two made right now considering that they looked, sounded and acted like a normal couple after bickering in bed before lights out.

"Master I warn you, if you start snoring…"

"Shut up Alucard and consider your self fortuna--AAAHHGHH!! ALUCARD! YOUR FEET ARE FREEZING! GET AWAY FROM MY SIDE OF THE BED!!"

"FINE!! BUT YOU'D BETTER QUIT HOGGING THE SHEETS!!"

Later, after sounds of bodies shifting and tossing, and after several muttered curse words, there was a tense silence…

 "How about a kiss goodnight, Master Integra?"

*ka-chik*

"Heh heh heh, I guess that's a no then…"

As we leave the two here, let's hope that neither get any sleep and find a more productive way of spending the night together…