Chapter 3
Alucard walked stealthily through the castle and entered his chambers, quietly shutting the door. He placed Seras down, and sat next to her on his coffin-shaped bed. He eyed her in a way with evil intent.
"You are still very much human..."
Seras looked up at him, and found him physically closer to him than she found normal...for him, at least. She didn't mind. "I realize that...and I can't say that it's hard not to change...but I will also say that I am quite different from what I was before..."
"Hmmmm..." He looked at her, then averted his gaze and looked away. "Things change, times, people, we live on..."
She nodded. "I believe I've changed at least a little bit in all of those...but I still can't help feeling partially human..." She stood up from her chair and walked over to him, which was but only two steps, trying to get his attention as he looked away.
He looked back up at her through slightly widened eyes. "Seras...it's not too safe to know a little of something, but not the whole thing...these super freaks are dangerous..." He looked at her with more intensity. "...even to me."
Seras' eyes showed understanding; she knew what he was talking about.
"I know...I know something bad will probably happen to me when we're fighting to rid of them..." She blinked slowly as her voice cracked unexpectedly. "I just have to accept that, and work harder to make myself stronger..."
The whole time his eyes never left her, even when his grin broadened, and when he rose from his bed-standing right in front of her. He eyed her.
"My master will have trouble...you are stronger than she..." He made his trademark insane grin and said in a joking voice, "The worst that can happen is you ending up with my head again..."
However, Seras cringed at that being said, it resurrecting memories. He tried to hide this sudden body movement as best as she could, and watched him rise and stand over her. "How would I be stronger than her? I wouldn't have thought that I would be stronger than your master, who has been in the organization longer than I have..."
Alucard grinned greatly at his servant's ignorance. "Hmmm...Integra knows more of the categories, been around longer in human years, but as a vampire...she is fresh, vivid, foolish...you are more experienced than her with that." And he grinned side long to look at her.
Her eyes glazed over momentarily, and she brushed the hair out of her eyes, then looked up at him and smirked with a fang. "Well...that's good to know..."
"Is it?!?!" He smirked widely and made an insane little laugh in his throat. "You...I...we still have to protect her..."
Seras looked up at him as he got a laugh in. She also noticed his stammering, as if he was looking for something to say. His eyes met hers momentarily, a look of longing in them. "Come, Police Girl...it is time to sleep...there shall be no more attacks tonight."
She looked down, her bangs covering her eyes and shadowing part of her face. "Hai, master..." She reached back and unfastened her halconnen from her back, as it was a huge obstruction, and got heavy on her back after awhile.
Alucard watched her do this, deciding to walk her to her own room.
"...She did not want to play..." He looked slightly saddened as he looked at Seras, and they left the room.