Chapter 28
Alucard took his left hand that rested on her neck, lifting her head gently and moving it sideways so that their eyes could meet. He sighed a little as he looked into eyes that mirrored his own.
"I know...Seras...it is hard..." He noticed her depressed expression, his lip curled up mysteriously on one side. "...What...is there something better you would like to do...?" His voice was deep, slightly sarcastic. Seras replied, a wide grin included with her fangs spread teasingly across her face.
"Hmmmm...What could you mean, eh?" She looked as if she knew, but being her stubborn self...
He was comforted by his playfulness, cackling insanely. "...Mwahahaha...you of anyone would know what we could do..." She widened her eyes childishly, baring her sharp teeth.
"Whaaaat? I know nothing!" She couldn't help herself, and snickered. There was a look of amusement on his face.
"Hehe...we both know what you want..." He hugged her again, having partially slipped out of each other's arms. "...But I cannot..."
Seras simmered down her grin to a small smile, and she put either one of her hands on the sides of his face, as she felt the time was right. "I know you can't, and that's okay."
He tried not to think as he tightened his grip, practically snuggling her. His face was sad as he looked at her.
"...Is it...Seras...?...It hurts...not physically...not being able to...you know..."
Seras placed his forehead on his, like he did to her before, realizing her façade was going to drop and crumble soon.
"Actually...It hurts me, too..."
His closest hand to her neck slid up to touch that exposed skin there, but gently. "I am sorry, Seras...I do not like to see you hurt...and it was my fault that you are this way..." Suddenly, her eyebrows furrowed, her voice filled with irritation.
"Master...it's not your fault..." She sighed, letting out that little bit of annoyance, softening her voice again. "...Like I said, and I'll say again...it's better...than nothing...much better...ne, master?"
Hurting inside as much as he was on the outside, he hugged her more for being so understanding in their situation. This created a violent inner turmoil for him, frustration in knowing that he couldn't...and sometimes having to be reminded. There was so much he wanted to do, but he could not.
He was silent, keeping a close hold on her.
"...I guess...you are right, Seras..."
A silly grin spread across her face, as she came inches from his. "I knooooooow..." She flashed her trademark grin. Alucard looked a little befuddled at her expression, his eyebrows rising as he grinned and chuckled at her.
"Haven't changed, Seras...still the half-vampire I know best...mwahahaha..." His eyes shone. "Am hungry...how about some blood?" Seras rolled her eyes, thinking.
"Hmmm...Sounds good."
He looked behind himself at the table with nothing on it but his white gloves, realizing that Seras didn't keep blood in her room. He facefaulted.
"No matter..." His hand rose, a glove reappearing onto that hand and the sigil started to glow a blood red that matched his eyes. Out of seemingly nowhere came a bottle of blood into his once-empty palm. He laughed, grinning evilly.
"Gloves: never leave home without them..."
"Hehe...I don't even take mine off!" She held up her hands, which had been gloved for the past three days...not purposely, of course. He grinned at that, though he wished that she had, and he tried to sit himself up and leaned his back against the wall. With Seras' arms hooked around his middle, he poured some blood into two glasses, Seras staring at the cup he was readying for her.
"Hmmm...You want a cup...hehe...Seras?"
"Hmmmmmmmmmmmm...Okay," She unhooked one arm from around his middle and took the glass in her hand, sipping a little out of it. Alucard watched her, and then took a swig for himself out of his own cup.
His legs lied dead and outstretched on the bed, and his back rested against the wall. His burns showed brighter as he drank his cup and looked up.
"Ahhh..." He sighed as the blood rushed to his head. "...My wounds should have healed by now...they still hurt..." Seras drank a bit more, taking a bigger sip and brought it away.
"You should rest, master...maybe that would help," She took another swig after she spoke. His eyes dropped from looking up, his eyes, and this time, completely red. He grinned, taking one free arm that did not hold his cup to put around her and pull her closer.
"Rest in the night...? Never..." He said sarcastically, then paused, and started speaking a little less insanely. "I've already tried...if I could heal, I would have..."
"Hmmm..." She drank the rest that was in her cup and finished it, leaning her head on his side, staring blankly at the opposite wall. He tried to drink the rest, he really did, but for some reason he couldn't and he extended his arm to drop the cup to the floor. As the cup clinked on the floor and rolled a little, his arm that was around her already slid down to her waist and held it fitting there. He stared at the wall with her, restricting himself from biting, as his eyes were still insane red.
"...Hmm...mwahahaha...I am restless and yet my body does not allow me to be..."
Seras met his eyes from the corners of hers and she grinned mischievously. "'Does not allow you' tooooo...do...THIS," In one move, she flipped herself around and sat on in lap, straddling it as her legs were on either side of his. She faced him rather, and she put her arms around his neck and grinned wide with her fangs. "Hehehehe..."
Alucard stared at her, his blood red eyes glinting with malice, and he wrapped both of his arms around her back. He grinned and spoke sarcastically at her playfulness.
"Or you mean this...BRING IT...mwahahaha..." He fell over forward skillfully, forgetting the sharp jolts of pain he was receiving, flipping her over so that she was now on the bottom. With her arms around his neck, he leaned over her. Her eyes blinked and her pupils dilated, a fake 'innocent' look passing through her face.
"'Bring it'? Ohhh...Hehehehe..." She cackled. "Neeee...you don't see so weak anymore...hehe..." She grinned, keeping her hold around his neck and tightening it.
"...he he...I am still weak to what I was..." He looked at her in an amused way. "Mwahahaha...pain is pleasure, isn't that what Incognito said...Hehehehe..."
She rolled her eyes upwards, thinking; recalling.
"Hmmmm...yep, I think so...but in my state of utter distress I could not recall..." She said in a joking voice, and rolled her eyes back to him again.
Alucard tried rolling his eyes too, to mimic Seras. "What state of utter distress might that be?!?!" He tightened his hold a little. "Mwahahaha..."
Seras narrowed her eyes, her voice dark and dripping with sarcasm.
"Wellllll...kinda getting shot in the stomach...and holding your disembodied head...maybe master, that would flip me out a little...especially since it was some time ago!" She sighed.
"Aw...does a little bit of my blood on your hands scare you?...Hmmm...Seras?"
She raised her eyebrows. "Nooo...not really, but your disembodied head is kind of unsettling."
He looked at her seriously for a moment.
"A little disembodiment is a good thing...you should be able to do that, in time...but for now..." He grinned evilly.
"...For now, I'd like to keep my head on...at least...for NOW..." She laughed a little bit, finishing the sentence for him. Alucard cackled.
"...Oh...Seras...so much you will learn..." His eyes widened in playfulness. "Mwahahaha...like for now...let's try to keep your head on...who knows what may happen," He scotched up on her a little bit more, now being able to see her eye-to-eye. He put his head by her neck again, a favored spot of his. Seras eyed him.
"What exactly do you mean by that...?"
His raised his head again, looking at her playfully as if daring her. Running his left hand through her hair from the back, his eyes teared blood, but his grin stayed anyways. Her head tiled up a little bit more as his hand went behind her head.
"Hmmm...He he he...you know what I mean by that, Seras," His face moved in closer to hers as he stared, smiling at her but miliinches from her face. Her so-called innocent expression broke.
"Well...you're right about that..."