Chapter 16
Alucard accepted the kiss, however, he smelled her more in instinct than anything else as he held her. He broke away from her slowly.
"It's odd...vampires feeling human emotions...awkward..." He said, while rubbing his hand up and down her neck for comfort.
"Wh---nani?" She slowly stared up at him, feeling his gloved hand on her neck. Alucard looked down at her with a weird expression: one of confusion and passion at the same time, but one of sorrow as well.
"It's been...too long..." He continued staring at her, and sighed.
A wildfire danced in Seras' eyes, clearly seen. "A-ah..." She still held the sides of his face and blinked slowly, the look in her eyes never leaving. "...Well, master, you can break that record...and start again..."
His eyes studied hers, seeing in the depths that she was into him, and would do literally anything for him. He brought her closer to him, and hugged onto her breasts.
"Records are lost over time..." He kept her pressed against him. "I do not know..."
She stuttered a bit at his sudden close proximity. "M-master..." She barely squeaked. "You are still confused..." She stated, rather than asking, her hands leaving his face and came to rest on top of either one of his shoulders. He looked up at her as best as he could from his position with deep red eyes that were barely able to focus, and shook his head but only a little.
"No..."
She stared at those eyes. "'No,' master?" She smiled, almost evilly, down at him with her face inches away. "So you aren't confused anymore..."
He turned his head away, looking away from her in the darkness. "No...I'm decaying, Seras...my power fading...could you still be with me like that, I wonder..."
She sighed and studied him carefully. "Master...Alucard...nothing can happen to you."
His face grew saddened. "I am not young, Seras...my body is further along in the death cycle...I can feel it happening..." As he spoke, her hands traveled up, and found their place tight around his neck again.
"You've been around for a long time, that much I know...you can't just go like that..."
Alucard looked at her arms, left and right, and did likewise to her, bringing her closer to him by wrapping his arms tighter around her middle and her shoulders. His face was but mere inches from hers.
"Seras...it's not that simple...my body is constantly deteriorating, though I am not gone yet...and the pain, a kind that I hope you never have to go through...makes me wish to take comfort..."
She glanced up at him, her face full of wonder. "'Wish to take comfort,' master?"
"I do not want to hurt you, Seras..." His hand moved, holding the left side of her face with it, a look of sorrow, bitter, love, and something else in his eyes. Seras brought her right hand up slowly, as if hesitant, and slid it up and rested it on top of the hand of his that rested on the side of her face.
"Master...how would you hurt me? ...And even if you did or tried...I wouldn't let you...because then you wouldn't be you..."
He looked at her, still in wonder. "Seras...there is so much that you still do not know...and I will try not to, but sometimes...I do go crazy...you know me."
Seras sighed and shut her eyelids halfway; making her seem sleepy, but yet...she definitely was not.
"Master...you know...I will learn eventually…" Her eyes slanted towards where his hand lay momentarily, afterwards her eyes going back to locking onto his, and in one move, she gripped his hand, and leaned her head up, her nose bumping into his...
Alucard never fell a step behind, and swifting the smell of her blood and the lushness at his boundaries, he took his arm and moved it to the back of her head, supporting and tilting it back a little bit as he kissed her cheek, running down to her exposed neck and opened his jaw powerfully in a biting position. His eyes almost bled a blood red of the thirst of their kind.
Seras smiled, her face looking as if she were drunk, but she recalled on the night at the chapel...
"Just like...before..." And he went down the remaining half inch, biting down, and drinking some. As he did so, he brought his other arm and held onto her from her back, some blood trickling down her neck.
As if he finally realized what he was doing, his eyes turn back to normal as if he had just woken up. He pulled his head back, his arms still wrapped around her, hence, and he checked her, afraid that this would happen...
She was still moving, and he buried his face into her neck in comfort, quickly and efficiently licking away the trail of blood on her neck.
"Seras...I am sorry..."