Two more chapters, and you know what? I'm al ready starting to miss this
fic. (I know, I know, how pathetic is that?) I'd like to finish Nomine
before starting the sequel/continuation of Disgrace, so if you think it
should continue, please let me know if you'd rather see it as its own
separate fic (but I keep the same writing style) or just to start it at the
end of this first segment at chapter 39 or whatever it happens to be.
It's Harker's last turn for series one of Disgrace. Have fun with this chapter. ^_^
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August 6
To the right honorable members of the Hellsing Family,
As many of you know, I, Harker Miles van Hellsing, married Integral Wingates Hellsing in a private ceremony months prior for the need to be legally wed since dearest Integral was with child, and the heir of Hellsing cannot be born out of wedlock.
In polite conversation between family members, some of you may have heard that the pregnancy has been especially difficult on Integral, leaving her bedridden and weak through most of her last few months of gestation. During this time, I have been the interim leader of our family's Organization, commanding the troops against the armies of the undead and unnatural beings that plague England and her neighboring lands.
Alas, dearest Integral went in to labor to deliver our child last night, and though my daughter Devries Fairbrook van Hellsing was born healthy, her mother did not fare as well. Integral began to suffer from seizures as soon as Devries had entered this world, and try as they might, the doctors were not able to stabilize my wife's condition, and Integral slipped out of consciousness and drew her final breath around 3:20 AM, being pronounced dead just two minutes later.
The funeral for Integral Wingates van Hellsing will be in two days time, and upon my beloved's request, this will be a closed casket affair, and she will be buried alongside her father in the family cemetery. All of the family is invited to attend this sad affair. We will also hold a Christening ceremony for my daughter after the funeral, and again, all are invited to attend.
Do not worry for Devries' health and well being, loving family. Besides Walter, who has been a faithful servant to both my wife and me through the years we spent at Hellsing manor and has pledged his service to my daughter as well, I have two women secured to help raise Devries into a respectable young lady. The first is Lillith Edwards, a secretary to the Organization that wishes to be Devries teacher in worldly matters. Lillith is quite educated in her own right, having attended Oxford, and will provide quality instruction in foreign relations and other such things that Devries will need to become my heir. The other is her nanny Diana Jenkins, a kindly woman that Integral and I chose to help us raise the child anyway. Diana recently lost her child thanks to an automobile accident, so she will also be able to feed my daughter in the natural way, and will be just as devoted to my daughter as she could have been to her own, for the maternal instinct every female possesses is only strengthened by the longing to have a child of their own, especially if the child in their watch is in no way related to them whatsoever.
Because of my wife's untimely death, no heir to the Hellsing Organization had been named. If I am to use the standard method to choose an heir as Integral's predecessors have done, it would make little Devries the head of the Hellsing Organization.
Seeing as how my daughter is less than a day old, I do not wish to impose such a burden on her young mind, I will take over for Devries as the head of the Hellsing Organization until I see that she is capable of running such an organization on her own.
If any member of the Hellsing family opposes this action, please come speak with me. I will be glad to show you family trees that do point to me as being the next successor, for I am Integral's closest living relative, as well as her child's father.
Also, I will be branching the Hellsing Organization to include policing Holland and Belgium as well as the United Kingdom. Therefore, I will be spending my time setting up offices in Amsterdam for our new recruits. By the year's end, I would like to have homes and offices set up not only in London and Amsterdam, but also in Haarlem and Brussels so that we may better serve our family, honor, and countries.
Please write to me, dear family, if you have any problems with my plans for the future of Hellsing.
Truly yours,
Harker M. van Hellsing
It's Harker's last turn for series one of Disgrace. Have fun with this chapter. ^_^
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August 6
To the right honorable members of the Hellsing Family,
As many of you know, I, Harker Miles van Hellsing, married Integral Wingates Hellsing in a private ceremony months prior for the need to be legally wed since dearest Integral was with child, and the heir of Hellsing cannot be born out of wedlock.
In polite conversation between family members, some of you may have heard that the pregnancy has been especially difficult on Integral, leaving her bedridden and weak through most of her last few months of gestation. During this time, I have been the interim leader of our family's Organization, commanding the troops against the armies of the undead and unnatural beings that plague England and her neighboring lands.
Alas, dearest Integral went in to labor to deliver our child last night, and though my daughter Devries Fairbrook van Hellsing was born healthy, her mother did not fare as well. Integral began to suffer from seizures as soon as Devries had entered this world, and try as they might, the doctors were not able to stabilize my wife's condition, and Integral slipped out of consciousness and drew her final breath around 3:20 AM, being pronounced dead just two minutes later.
The funeral for Integral Wingates van Hellsing will be in two days time, and upon my beloved's request, this will be a closed casket affair, and she will be buried alongside her father in the family cemetery. All of the family is invited to attend this sad affair. We will also hold a Christening ceremony for my daughter after the funeral, and again, all are invited to attend.
Do not worry for Devries' health and well being, loving family. Besides Walter, who has been a faithful servant to both my wife and me through the years we spent at Hellsing manor and has pledged his service to my daughter as well, I have two women secured to help raise Devries into a respectable young lady. The first is Lillith Edwards, a secretary to the Organization that wishes to be Devries teacher in worldly matters. Lillith is quite educated in her own right, having attended Oxford, and will provide quality instruction in foreign relations and other such things that Devries will need to become my heir. The other is her nanny Diana Jenkins, a kindly woman that Integral and I chose to help us raise the child anyway. Diana recently lost her child thanks to an automobile accident, so she will also be able to feed my daughter in the natural way, and will be just as devoted to my daughter as she could have been to her own, for the maternal instinct every female possesses is only strengthened by the longing to have a child of their own, especially if the child in their watch is in no way related to them whatsoever.
Because of my wife's untimely death, no heir to the Hellsing Organization had been named. If I am to use the standard method to choose an heir as Integral's predecessors have done, it would make little Devries the head of the Hellsing Organization.
Seeing as how my daughter is less than a day old, I do not wish to impose such a burden on her young mind, I will take over for Devries as the head of the Hellsing Organization until I see that she is capable of running such an organization on her own.
If any member of the Hellsing family opposes this action, please come speak with me. I will be glad to show you family trees that do point to me as being the next successor, for I am Integral's closest living relative, as well as her child's father.
Also, I will be branching the Hellsing Organization to include policing Holland and Belgium as well as the United Kingdom. Therefore, I will be spending my time setting up offices in Amsterdam for our new recruits. By the year's end, I would like to have homes and offices set up not only in London and Amsterdam, but also in Haarlem and Brussels so that we may better serve our family, honor, and countries.
Please write to me, dear family, if you have any problems with my plans for the future of Hellsing.
Truly yours,
Harker M. van Hellsing