Note: o_O I know this one if kind of short, but I actually liked this one a little better than I had thought I would. Anyway. If I messed up on the French near the end for "goodnight" tell me, please! Oh.. And I didn't know the French word for prostitute.. so.. _ You'll find out.
Chapter 3: A Hunter Like You
"No! You've got to cover me!"
"I am covering you! Just fire already, Miss Victoria!"
"I am--firing!" A missile shot goes off, exploding in front of her. Debris flies everywhere, smoking drifting in the air like a ghost.
"More! To the side!"
Seras swings the cannon around, aiming it in mere seconds before firing off another missile shot that explodes in the air. Blood streaks the ground in a smearing formation.
"Where's Alucard?!"
Seras squints one red eye, firing the cannon off once more. "I don't keep tabs on my master's whereabouts.."
A bullet whizzes past the commander's head, something gurgling and falling behind him. Seras and the commander turn, eyes wide.
"Master!"
Alucard's boots thud as he steps from the smoke. "You both need to watch your back."
"Yes, sir," says the commander.
"Ah! Master behind you--" Seras is cut short by Alucard's gunfire. He cackles madly, grin about his lips, hand behind his head aiming his gun. His glasses shimmer in the moonlight.
"Police Girl, help me," he cackles wildly, trying to coax Seras into reeking chaos about the place around them.
She stands, cannon jacked up, firing off rounds in every direction. Sometimes she'd accidentally fire a missile where Alucard would be phasing, but he would easily cackle and dissolve before it would touch his flesh.
Finally, after multiple shoot-outs, there was nothing left of the ghouls but smoke and dust. Alucard phases beside Seras and the commander, a very wide smile on his lips.
"Well done, Police Girl," he says.
"Phew.."
"Targets silenced," repeats the commander into the microphone of his radio. He nods to Seras and Alucard and reports to the other men.
"I think you're ready to join me, Police Girl."
"Join you, master?" asks Seras, peering up to him.
"Yes.. join me in my walk back to the manor." He grins from beneath the brim of his hat.
"..Really, master?" She was curious.
His red orbs glow over his glasses. "Really, Police Girl. Follow me, the night is young.. and, well, you are too. I can't say anything for myself." He cackles, spinning on his heel, coat billowing out behind him.
Blinking half-moon lashes, Seras turns and follows her master, catching up with him after a few moments. "You walk home all the time, master?"
Alucard nods softly. "Yes, most of the time."
"Oh.."
Alucard glances over at Seras, his perception hidden from her due to his glasses. He smiles simply to himself, actually amused that he had ever asked her-- her --of all people, to join him on the side of darkness. Why? What did he know-- What did he see? --in Seras that he thought would prove useful as time passed? The police girl did amuse him when they had first met. She had shot him almost without hesitation, which he saw as a good sign of a hidden, confident ability.
He kept that in mind, knowing that she was headed for the church in which his target would be located. And, sure enough, when he got there she was there as well. When it came down to shooting her, he knew that she would be useful if he had to result in saving her life. So, it was something of amusement that he saw in her. He was old, and needed a spark in his life. That is where Seras came into play.
Although she was a bit stubborn and slow at responding sometimes, he enjoyed her company. Unlike the respective bond he felt with his own master, Alucard had produced an emotion of pleasant comfort with Seras. He almost had a love-hate relationship with her. He was the type of person who acted like an aggravating bastard to show the emotion of love appeal. But, when he thought on the matter too hard, he realized that he didn't know the actually reason why he had asked Seras to join him.
"Master, don't run into that wall," says Seras softly.
Thoughts back on reality, Alucard sidesteps automatically, really being no where near a wall. He grunts his disapproval. "I didn't like that joke, Police Girl," he sneers.
She giggles softly. "Sorry, master. I just wanted to get you to stop daydreaming."
"I wasn't daydreaming," he lies. "I was merely toned out and into other unfathomable matters."
Seras only smiles slightly to herself. She could tell Alucard was looking at her, even though his eyes held the same straight formation ahead of them. She turns her head to the left just as a bout of giggles come on.
Silly, Police Girl. You think I do not know what you're thinking.
"Master!" she squeals. "Stop probing my mind!"
A soft laugh.
A small tingling resounds in her head, then fades into a flash of warmth, then nothing.
"Thank you," Seras says softly.
"You know, you amuse me the most--"
Both of them stop suddenly. Their heads turn, four orbs of crimson, lightly glowing, peering into the darkened streets ahead of them. A shadow moves-- most would say that it darted, but it was much to graceful for such a word. The figure shifts forward, stopping in a puddle of streetlight in front of them.
"I didn't mean to startle you," he says seductively, brushing a small bit of raven-colored hair from his eyes. The ends were tinted, but what color, neither Seras nor Alucard could tell. But his eyes.. Stained. Red.
Crimson.
His eyes glowed with a hue of pink, even in the streetlight.
Alucard and Seras exchange a small glance then look back to the man.
"Hmph," grunts Alucard, brushing past him. He could already tell that this man was a vampire, but he wasn't sure if Seras knew. Look at the eyes, Police girl, he thinks to himself.
Seras, a little jumpy, starts up after her master, only to be suddenly blocked by the mysterious figure.
"My, my, such pretty eyes you have," he says.
Alucard stops, attempting to hold himself back from jerking around and putting a bullet in the other man's skull. He couldn't show his true emotions to Seras.. He needed to act firm, to show her that she needed to be independent.
Seras gives some soft blinks. "Thank you.." she says, quite embarrassed. She tries to detour him again, but he won't allow her.
"Such beauty. Are you a French street-girl?"
"Why.. no," Seras replies, a flush spreading along her neck and cheeks. She was starting to become worried; cornered. Did she really appear to be a slut? Is that what everyone thought? That she was Alucard's mistress? Her eyes widen only slightly, mouth opened a small portion.
Alucard turns quickly at the insult, and the man feels a slight surge of energy run through him. A wide grin cracks along his once smooth features. "Oh, please pardon my behavior then, miss. I did not mean it in such a way.. But your master is very lucky to have you," he says softly to Seras, eyes locked onto her face, smirk about his lips. "And his master," he says again, passing Seras and walking on, "is so lucky to have a hunter like him.."
Both Alucard and Seras are shocked at the hidden irony of his words. Alucard looks on, mouth opened to speak, but only to thin air, for the other man had vanished into the darkness.
"Master.." Seras speaks softly, beside Alucard now. "It's not what you think.. really."
"Suspicious little fuck."
"..Master.."
"Come, Police Girl. Dawn's own death gains on our heels. We must return to the manor."
Seras looks behind her, not know she was staring into the eyes of the strange man, who was still there. She looks toward the ground, then heads after her master in a hurried pace.
A feral grin turns the man's lips upward. He lets loose a wild cackle, that forever fades into the night.
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"Good girl," Alucard says, smirking; although he meant for it to be a smile of pride.
Seras gives a small grin, happy to have pleased her master, and to have gotten a full stomach in the process.
"Goodnight, master." Seras yawns, stretching her arms over her head and throwing herself at her coffin-like bed.
"Yes. Bon matin," says Alucard, heading for the door.
Seras blinks, confused, as her bed lowers. "Bon-- what, master?!" she calls quickly.
"I said, good morning, Seras."
"Good what?!" The police girl calls, just as her lid closes tightly.
Alucard cackles in hysterics, shaking his head and for once opening the door and exiting.
