Seras got up off the floor, wiping her the remnants of her tears away with the back of her white glove. Wishing for mirror that would actually show her reflection, she peeled off both of the gloves and threw them under her bed, and collapsed onto her back on the coverlet.
"He isn't going to see me cry." she muttered under her breath as she turned onto her side. "So what if he says he can make me human again? I would have nothing then......no powers, no Master.....no Master.....no..Master." Closing her eyes, she smiled slightly.
"But then again, there would be cake and ice cream and fruit and soda and I can go out in the summer's day without smearing a gallon of sunscreen on.....but on the other hand, I would have no Master...and what if he kills me? If I become mortal he can kill me...well as a vampire he can still kill me but not so easily....blah, too many bloody thoughts in my head."
She fumbled for a magazine to keep her mind focused on, and groaned as she saw the secret bookmark she had placed on her favorite pages gone.She blushed at the the romantic story's ("We made love and the world
moved....right into the ocean!) facing picture of a blonde haired maiden clasped in the arms of a bronze skinned pirate staring adoringly into his paramour's face.
"He was looking through my maggys!" Seras cried, and tossed it to the other side of the room. She crossed her arms across her chest and leaned back into the pillow with a sour look on her face.Despite her attempts to completly erase it from her mind, she let out a snort of laughter at the image of Anderson with a pirate's regalia consisting of tight purple pants and a unbuttoned shirt and her in a scant clingy dress tied to the mast of the ship screaming her head off while the priest danced around on the ship singing about big breasted mermaids and drinking warm ale and the gentle rapes of snow white virgins and their horrible lives they had to lead like all those cheesy romance novels that were her secret joy.
Seras laughed louder and louder until the hallway rung with the bell like quality of her laugh.Pausing to catch her breath, she shrugged to herself.
"They do say laughter keeps the demons away.....but really...that idiot dressed in a pirate suit...HAH!"
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Integral narrowed her eyes and widened her bitter grin as the priest hopped into the room. Alucard raised an eyebrow, and snickered softly as Walter coughed to cover up a chuckle. It wasn't the fact that the priest was helpless in this current state; rather it was the pogostick like motion of his walk that amused them all the more.
"Did you want me Hellsing?" Alexander snapped, sending a cursory glare at the men nestled into their padded chairs with innocent smiles on their faces.
"That I did. It seems that your women-"
"HIS women!?" Heinkel growled.
"I'm sorry miss...THE women wish to not cooperate with us until they have your full approval of our agreement."
"Agreement?" he asked, glancing at Heinkel and Yumiko. "What agreement?"
"Oh, nothing much. Just your help in killing Enrico Maxwell, taking over Iscariot, your not trying to kill us at every chance you recieve-" she counted the plans on her fingers, ignoring the priest's aghast face.
"What!? I do not wish to work with Protestant swine, I do not wish to help Protestant swine.I do not wish to be even touched by a Protestant swine, especially the likes of a Hellsing! So take that paper and shove it up your arse, Protestant wench!"
"YEA!" Heinkel shouted, and lifted her gun up. Suddenly, Alucard leapt from his seat and grabbed Heinkel's hand roughly, slamming his body weight into her. They collapsed onto the floor, kicking and hitting, attempting to wrestle each other's guns out of their hands.Yumiko screamed, and ran to a corner of a room while Walter still sat, confused by either joining in the fight or comforting the nun as to not trigger her other side to come out and kill all of them.
"See what you have done!?" Integral growled at Anderson, who snarled and leapt across the desk at her. The women stepped away lightly, and whipped her pistol up.
"If you do not want the nun and priestess killed, you must help us! If there is anything you want, we shall comply with it! Listen to me Anderson....Iscariot and whatever you want is in your hands, and well as your victory over the man you trusted and who turned on you. He isn't any better than us" she said loudly to overcome the noise"and we shall do whatever you think is best. Name it, and I shall seek whatever means to get it."
Anderson froze,and the snarl melted into a smirk.
"Anything?" he said softly.
Integral nodded quickly, keeping the gun level and aimed.
"Anything."
"The girl."
"The what?"
"I want the police girl Sir Hellsing. If you turn her over to me and let me be around her twenty four seven, I will help you."
"You simply can't be serious." Integral said "Alucard is her Master and she belongs to him, not me."
"But he belongs to you!" he urged."He will do whatever you say, and all you have to do is say the word and she shall be mine for the short time we stay here!"
"And what, may I ask, are you going to do to the poor girl? Use her in a virgin sacrifice....or something more?"
"Not one hair upon her head shall be touched, and I do not want her body....there is too much for me to do and too many demands of Him to submit to what a body offers. I wish to simply show her what it would be like if she followed me and let me speak to her with His words.Nothing more, nothing less.....do you agree with my terms?"
Integral stood quietly for a second, and nodded reluctantly.
"SILENCE!!!!"
Heinkel, dirty and bloodied, looked up from her hands that were strangling Alucard and stared at the priest. Yumiko wiped away her tears and straightened up.
"I have agreed to the pact between the three Iscariot aganets and the organization Hellsing. There will be no more
fighting, nor will there be any blood shedding!' He turned around, and quickly signed the paper. When he finished, he twisted around to offer the pen to Heinkel.
"But.....but...."
"Heinkel, do I have to repeat myself?" he said coldly.
The priestess stumbled up, and swayed over to the desk, leaning against it heavily as her bloodied hand grasped the pen from his hand and clumsily wrote her name.Yumiko followed by Walter, then Integral. Alucard stood back, his hands clenched into fists at his sides with a slightly curled lip.
"This is highly unlike you Master."
"It is the necessary means to sucess Alucard. You must come along these once or twice on your life."
"I refuse to sign, and do not even try to make me. I wish not to touch a pen touched with her blood." he pointed at Heinkel, and smiled. "Thought it was very sweet, it had a very metallic aftertaste..of course blood is slightly metallic, but yours was loaded with the bitter taste of it. I suggest more cream in your coffee, richens the blood it does...and try to make it thicker, the thiness of it nearly made me gag."
Integral frowned, and waved her hand at the people cluttered around her desk.
"You are all dismissed from this office for now. Anderson, if you wish to stay you can. I must talk to Alucard about your bargain, and I might need your reasoning...if you have any."
The priest smiled gleefully at the snarling vampire, not even noticing the subtle insult Integral had just given him.He crossed his leg over his stump, and rubbed his palms together in delight.
She was going to be his.His and hers brought together as one, spice and tears joining to form the very essence of worship.
He had only the time, Bible and swords on his side. All three he would teach her to fear greatly without reserve and admire....like he would eventually make her feel toward him.
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Heinkel limped away as Yumiko clasped her hands together and watched in strained concern for her friend.Shaking her head, Yumiko walked down the halls of the mansion, pausing every so once ina while to admire a small painting or statue resting on a end table.
"Very pretty are they not?"
She jumped, and smiled weakly at Walter.
"Very much so sir."
The butler nodded and leaned forward to dust at a random figure,Yumiko silently watching him.
"Do you think that this will all work out sir?"
Walter paused, and contemplated her meek question. He shrugged, and reached up to dust a corner of a landscape painting.
"Maybe so. I place my trust in Sir Hellsing, Alucard as well. Your comrades, however, seem not as eager...well, that priest does show a quam at least. Your friend seems very particular about who she trusts."
Yumiko nodded slightly, and drew her hair away from her face.
"Heinkel never really trusted everyone. She believes in those silly sayings...what is it......"Live fast, die young-"
"And leave a good looking corpse." Walter finished slyly.
The nun giggled and nodded again, eagerly this time.
"That's the one! She lives by that I'm afraid. I am always worried she is going to get in a bit of trouble way over her head."
"She would fit very well with Alucard if he was mortal."
"They certainly are arrogant in their work and outlook.I can only hope that one day, they will truly find out that mere chivalry is the answer.What day that is, I do not know."
"The day that they do get in something way over their heads. Miss Yumiko, if you wish, I could make you some tea?"
"Oh no no no sir! You are already doing something else.If anything, let me make the tea and we can continue our chat, and maybe I can help around the mansion as well."
"It is not normally my way to let a lady do labour, but if you wish to, I want lemon with my cup. The samovar is the in left cabinet, on the far right of the kitchen."
"I shall be back in a second or two sir."
"Walter Miss Takagi....call me Walter."
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She walked along beside him as he dusted along the many winding halls. Holding both cups, she would hand his to him whenever he wish, sving him the trouble he so often had balancing it equally with the duster.
"How long have you been with Hellsing?" she asked, desperate for small talk.
"Oh I have been here so long I can not even remember how many years have passed!" he exclaimed."But I came here at the age of fourteen, due to my extreme talent with handling the wires. Hellsing then was short of officers and I happened to be a good friend of Sir Hellsing.I fought alongside Alucard in the second world war, leading to victory in Endgland against ther germans. I have been here ever since, and have taken care of Sir Inetgral Hellsing since birth."
Her eyes widened in disbelief and slight awe.
"That's amazing! Only fourteen and fighting in war!"
"I was fortunate. There were many good lads younger than I was who didn't make it,and deserved to.....and yourself?"
"Hm?"
"How long have you been with the Iscariot Organization?"
"Not as grand as yours I'm afraid" she said with a smile "Fifteen years. I was raised in orphanage, but the caretakers soon found out about my spilt personality.They wanted to kill me because of the possible danger I represented to society but Father Percy, God bless, of the Iscariot organization took me in and gave me to Father Anderson at the age of five.There, I recieved my training and expertise of swords and weaponry from him, as well my inspiration to become a nun. I was introduced to Heinkel at ten and we've been inseparable ever since. Like me, Heinkel was a 'special' child who had a possible future, just not with normal people.I haven't started working professionally until I was fifteen. By then, Father Percy had died and Father Maxwell had take over." She shrugged. "That's about it."
"Quite a story....tell me, how exactly is this other side of you released?"
"Oh dear!" she reddened, and bit her lip. "It's....it's....a secret I wish to keep." She looked up shyly at him. "Do you mind?"
"Not at all." he said gently, and sipped his tea.
Letting out a sigh of relief, she still hurried alongside him.
"You really should take a break...it's not like the dust is going to gather all together and dance on the head of Sir Hellsing while she smokes her cigar."
"It's nothing at all. Rather, it's something to do besides sitting around." He looked up and down the hall, and leaned in closer. "Plus, it helps me avoid the whole nutty lot."
Yumiko let out a laugh, and took the duster away.
"If that is the case, then I shall do some dusting too!"
Walter shook his head as he watched the nun skip around fluttering the feathers of the duster, raising more and more mites.
"Crazy Catholics."
"He isn't going to see me cry." she muttered under her breath as she turned onto her side. "So what if he says he can make me human again? I would have nothing then......no powers, no Master.....no Master.....no..Master." Closing her eyes, she smiled slightly.
"But then again, there would be cake and ice cream and fruit and soda and I can go out in the summer's day without smearing a gallon of sunscreen on.....but on the other hand, I would have no Master...and what if he kills me? If I become mortal he can kill me...well as a vampire he can still kill me but not so easily....blah, too many bloody thoughts in my head."
She fumbled for a magazine to keep her mind focused on, and groaned as she saw the secret bookmark she had placed on her favorite pages gone.She blushed at the the romantic story's ("We made love and the world
moved....right into the ocean!) facing picture of a blonde haired maiden clasped in the arms of a bronze skinned pirate staring adoringly into his paramour's face.
"He was looking through my maggys!" Seras cried, and tossed it to the other side of the room. She crossed her arms across her chest and leaned back into the pillow with a sour look on her face.Despite her attempts to completly erase it from her mind, she let out a snort of laughter at the image of Anderson with a pirate's regalia consisting of tight purple pants and a unbuttoned shirt and her in a scant clingy dress tied to the mast of the ship screaming her head off while the priest danced around on the ship singing about big breasted mermaids and drinking warm ale and the gentle rapes of snow white virgins and their horrible lives they had to lead like all those cheesy romance novels that were her secret joy.
Seras laughed louder and louder until the hallway rung with the bell like quality of her laugh.Pausing to catch her breath, she shrugged to herself.
"They do say laughter keeps the demons away.....but really...that idiot dressed in a pirate suit...HAH!"
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Integral narrowed her eyes and widened her bitter grin as the priest hopped into the room. Alucard raised an eyebrow, and snickered softly as Walter coughed to cover up a chuckle. It wasn't the fact that the priest was helpless in this current state; rather it was the pogostick like motion of his walk that amused them all the more.
"Did you want me Hellsing?" Alexander snapped, sending a cursory glare at the men nestled into their padded chairs with innocent smiles on their faces.
"That I did. It seems that your women-"
"HIS women!?" Heinkel growled.
"I'm sorry miss...THE women wish to not cooperate with us until they have your full approval of our agreement."
"Agreement?" he asked, glancing at Heinkel and Yumiko. "What agreement?"
"Oh, nothing much. Just your help in killing Enrico Maxwell, taking over Iscariot, your not trying to kill us at every chance you recieve-" she counted the plans on her fingers, ignoring the priest's aghast face.
"What!? I do not wish to work with Protestant swine, I do not wish to help Protestant swine.I do not wish to be even touched by a Protestant swine, especially the likes of a Hellsing! So take that paper and shove it up your arse, Protestant wench!"
"YEA!" Heinkel shouted, and lifted her gun up. Suddenly, Alucard leapt from his seat and grabbed Heinkel's hand roughly, slamming his body weight into her. They collapsed onto the floor, kicking and hitting, attempting to wrestle each other's guns out of their hands.Yumiko screamed, and ran to a corner of a room while Walter still sat, confused by either joining in the fight or comforting the nun as to not trigger her other side to come out and kill all of them.
"See what you have done!?" Integral growled at Anderson, who snarled and leapt across the desk at her. The women stepped away lightly, and whipped her pistol up.
"If you do not want the nun and priestess killed, you must help us! If there is anything you want, we shall comply with it! Listen to me Anderson....Iscariot and whatever you want is in your hands, and well as your victory over the man you trusted and who turned on you. He isn't any better than us" she said loudly to overcome the noise"and we shall do whatever you think is best. Name it, and I shall seek whatever means to get it."
Anderson froze,and the snarl melted into a smirk.
"Anything?" he said softly.
Integral nodded quickly, keeping the gun level and aimed.
"Anything."
"The girl."
"The what?"
"I want the police girl Sir Hellsing. If you turn her over to me and let me be around her twenty four seven, I will help you."
"You simply can't be serious." Integral said "Alucard is her Master and she belongs to him, not me."
"But he belongs to you!" he urged."He will do whatever you say, and all you have to do is say the word and she shall be mine for the short time we stay here!"
"And what, may I ask, are you going to do to the poor girl? Use her in a virgin sacrifice....or something more?"
"Not one hair upon her head shall be touched, and I do not want her body....there is too much for me to do and too many demands of Him to submit to what a body offers. I wish to simply show her what it would be like if she followed me and let me speak to her with His words.Nothing more, nothing less.....do you agree with my terms?"
Integral stood quietly for a second, and nodded reluctantly.
"SILENCE!!!!"
Heinkel, dirty and bloodied, looked up from her hands that were strangling Alucard and stared at the priest. Yumiko wiped away her tears and straightened up.
"I have agreed to the pact between the three Iscariot aganets and the organization Hellsing. There will be no more
fighting, nor will there be any blood shedding!' He turned around, and quickly signed the paper. When he finished, he twisted around to offer the pen to Heinkel.
"But.....but...."
"Heinkel, do I have to repeat myself?" he said coldly.
The priestess stumbled up, and swayed over to the desk, leaning against it heavily as her bloodied hand grasped the pen from his hand and clumsily wrote her name.Yumiko followed by Walter, then Integral. Alucard stood back, his hands clenched into fists at his sides with a slightly curled lip.
"This is highly unlike you Master."
"It is the necessary means to sucess Alucard. You must come along these once or twice on your life."
"I refuse to sign, and do not even try to make me. I wish not to touch a pen touched with her blood." he pointed at Heinkel, and smiled. "Thought it was very sweet, it had a very metallic aftertaste..of course blood is slightly metallic, but yours was loaded with the bitter taste of it. I suggest more cream in your coffee, richens the blood it does...and try to make it thicker, the thiness of it nearly made me gag."
Integral frowned, and waved her hand at the people cluttered around her desk.
"You are all dismissed from this office for now. Anderson, if you wish to stay you can. I must talk to Alucard about your bargain, and I might need your reasoning...if you have any."
The priest smiled gleefully at the snarling vampire, not even noticing the subtle insult Integral had just given him.He crossed his leg over his stump, and rubbed his palms together in delight.
She was going to be his.His and hers brought together as one, spice and tears joining to form the very essence of worship.
He had only the time, Bible and swords on his side. All three he would teach her to fear greatly without reserve and admire....like he would eventually make her feel toward him.
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Heinkel limped away as Yumiko clasped her hands together and watched in strained concern for her friend.Shaking her head, Yumiko walked down the halls of the mansion, pausing every so once ina while to admire a small painting or statue resting on a end table.
"Very pretty are they not?"
She jumped, and smiled weakly at Walter.
"Very much so sir."
The butler nodded and leaned forward to dust at a random figure,Yumiko silently watching him.
"Do you think that this will all work out sir?"
Walter paused, and contemplated her meek question. He shrugged, and reached up to dust a corner of a landscape painting.
"Maybe so. I place my trust in Sir Hellsing, Alucard as well. Your comrades, however, seem not as eager...well, that priest does show a quam at least. Your friend seems very particular about who she trusts."
Yumiko nodded slightly, and drew her hair away from her face.
"Heinkel never really trusted everyone. She believes in those silly sayings...what is it......"Live fast, die young-"
"And leave a good looking corpse." Walter finished slyly.
The nun giggled and nodded again, eagerly this time.
"That's the one! She lives by that I'm afraid. I am always worried she is going to get in a bit of trouble way over her head."
"She would fit very well with Alucard if he was mortal."
"They certainly are arrogant in their work and outlook.I can only hope that one day, they will truly find out that mere chivalry is the answer.What day that is, I do not know."
"The day that they do get in something way over their heads. Miss Yumiko, if you wish, I could make you some tea?"
"Oh no no no sir! You are already doing something else.If anything, let me make the tea and we can continue our chat, and maybe I can help around the mansion as well."
"It is not normally my way to let a lady do labour, but if you wish to, I want lemon with my cup. The samovar is the in left cabinet, on the far right of the kitchen."
"I shall be back in a second or two sir."
"Walter Miss Takagi....call me Walter."
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She walked along beside him as he dusted along the many winding halls. Holding both cups, she would hand his to him whenever he wish, sving him the trouble he so often had balancing it equally with the duster.
"How long have you been with Hellsing?" she asked, desperate for small talk.
"Oh I have been here so long I can not even remember how many years have passed!" he exclaimed."But I came here at the age of fourteen, due to my extreme talent with handling the wires. Hellsing then was short of officers and I happened to be a good friend of Sir Hellsing.I fought alongside Alucard in the second world war, leading to victory in Endgland against ther germans. I have been here ever since, and have taken care of Sir Inetgral Hellsing since birth."
Her eyes widened in disbelief and slight awe.
"That's amazing! Only fourteen and fighting in war!"
"I was fortunate. There were many good lads younger than I was who didn't make it,and deserved to.....and yourself?"
"Hm?"
"How long have you been with the Iscariot Organization?"
"Not as grand as yours I'm afraid" she said with a smile "Fifteen years. I was raised in orphanage, but the caretakers soon found out about my spilt personality.They wanted to kill me because of the possible danger I represented to society but Father Percy, God bless, of the Iscariot organization took me in and gave me to Father Anderson at the age of five.There, I recieved my training and expertise of swords and weaponry from him, as well my inspiration to become a nun. I was introduced to Heinkel at ten and we've been inseparable ever since. Like me, Heinkel was a 'special' child who had a possible future, just not with normal people.I haven't started working professionally until I was fifteen. By then, Father Percy had died and Father Maxwell had take over." She shrugged. "That's about it."
"Quite a story....tell me, how exactly is this other side of you released?"
"Oh dear!" she reddened, and bit her lip. "It's....it's....a secret I wish to keep." She looked up shyly at him. "Do you mind?"
"Not at all." he said gently, and sipped his tea.
Letting out a sigh of relief, she still hurried alongside him.
"You really should take a break...it's not like the dust is going to gather all together and dance on the head of Sir Hellsing while she smokes her cigar."
"It's nothing at all. Rather, it's something to do besides sitting around." He looked up and down the hall, and leaned in closer. "Plus, it helps me avoid the whole nutty lot."
Yumiko let out a laugh, and took the duster away.
"If that is the case, then I shall do some dusting too!"
Walter shook his head as he watched the nun skip around fluttering the feathers of the duster, raising more and more mites.
"Crazy Catholics."
