Seras raised an eyebrow, and then she nodded with her eyes closed as if deep in thought.
She realized...that he was right.
"Um-hmm..." She cracked her eyes open, just now noticing that her arms were resting on his sides just as when she put him down on the bed. She never took them away yet. Alucard's expression switched back to his normal, calm mode, eye still fairly bright with weariness.
"Well, I do thank you Seras...I would still be curled up in a ball if you didn't come in...And I would still be indecent without clothing..." He eyed his long red coat and his mushroom hat still on the table and mindlessly, as if on autopilot, his arms rested on Seras' sides just like she did to him.
She stood up and took her hands away, only to have her left rest on his nearest shoulder and the right to muss up his hair on the top of his head; palm flat down on his crown.
"You're very much welcome."
He looked up to see her hand on his head, grinning evilly. His voice was filled with sarcasm, cracking his wise-ass jokes again. He must have been breaking out of his slump.
"Oh, I forgot how much you get wrapped up in fussing over my hair..." With some well-sought power left in him, the ends of his hair wrapped loosely and gently are Seras to pull her closer; not in any intention to hurt her...though he was skittish on how she would react to this.
"Mwahahaha..."
As she was pulled closer, her knees buckled against the mattress as they came in contact with it and she ended up, one way or another, sitting on her knees on the bed facing the wall, sitting there staring dumbfounded and confused, both of her hands on his shoulders for support; his arms still as the were on her sides.
"Nani?" She blinked, wondering how she could have possibly caught herself like that, but shrugged it off to no matter. "Hmmm..."
Alucard looked down at his hair, musing how it was still unmanageable, and he looked sidelong at her.
"Having fun yet, Seras?" He pulled his hair back to its regular shoulder length, straining himself until it was back to normal.
"Ahh...Much better..." He lost all energy to sit up anymore, and fell onto his back and stared at the lid of the coffin, totally forgetting about his hold on Seras.
Seras had forgotten about it too. She watched him fall backward first, then felt herself being jerked forward and tugged with him. She eeped in surprise as she had stupidly forgot he was holding onto her, and fell ton top of him-hard.
"Oof..." She shook her head and then looked toward him, afterwards following his eyes up at the coffin top, staring at the spot she thought he was staring at. She wondered what he was looking at...or thinking of...
His eyes traveled back to Seras; they were slightly glazed but still all right, and he smiled.
"-And you thought you lost your balance...I fell over..." He glanced warily at Seras, hesitantly moving his right hand from her side and more onto her back. She looked back at him, her eyes slightly wide.
"Hmmm...So I see." She grinned forcefully almost, and then looked at him seriously, cocking her head to one side.
"Master..." She was quiet, then continued in a strange voice that sounded very unlike her own. "Are you cold NOW?" She cackled, as if trying desperately to lighten up the subject as recent matters still hung over her head like a dark cloud. Alucard responded just as she thought; him being insane and, well, a man with intentions.
"...YES...MASTER IS COLD..." He cackled loudly, screeching in his sarcastic, high-pitched voice again and grasped Seras in the tightest bear hug she'd ever experience, squishing her into his tie.
She sweatdropped, slowly, contemplating, then put her arms around his middle comfortably, saying in a muffled voice.
"Better?"
Overcome with sleepiness and drowsiness, he hardly realized what he was doing...in light of all that had happened.
Looking at her warmly through exhausted eyes, he moved both of his arms farther down to rest comfortably on her hips boldly. He closed his eyes.
"Hmm...Better."
She wasn't any better than he was. Though in the back of her mind...she still remembered. She was still cautious.
She grinned, moving her head to the side so her face wasn't mushed into his tie as much.
"Master wants something." She simply stated like it was nothing.
He looked at her jokingly. "Hmmm...Master always wants something..." He pulled her face closer to him. "But this would be an odd position...mwahahaha..."
However, Seras narrowed her eyes and cocked her head to the side, wondering.
"Awfully quick, aren't you, master?"
"...I haven't been around for 508 years of nothing..." He tempted fate and pulled her even closer to the point of their faces being inches away. "...But you like me quick, eh, Seras?"
"Hmm..." She grinned evilly, a fang showing. "I guess I can say that I do."
He was really pulling the strings of fate as he rested his head on her neck, moving his left slowly and unsurely to her chest, definitely not being able to bring himself to groping; that'd be too much for right now. His right hand rested on the curve of her lower back.
His innards were starting to act up on him again from last time; his body and mind weak, as ever they would be easily taken control of again. He winced; a little worried, which was not a common trait in master Alucard.
"...Seras...Do you think that...it is safe to...proceed?"
She stared at him, wondering if it was indeed safe.
"I don't know...If you don't think you can handle it...right now..."
His left hand immediately went back to its original position on her hips; breathing out a sigh of relief. Though he loves Seras...with these still unfamiliar humanlike emotions that he had not felt for so long...he wasn't even sure if he had enough energy just for what he was currently doing.
He moved he his head back from resting on the neat curve of her neck to look at her better. The way the faint light hit his eyes created a boyishly light appearance as he grinned at her, making him seem so much younger (and that would take a lot, going by his age).
"Hmmm...I would have to agree with you on that, Seras...but that doesn't leave out...this..." It hurt, but he quickly leaned his face towards hers and kissed her swiftly on the lips, catching her way off-guard.
She blinked as he jerked his head back.
"Never could resist me, hm...?" She shook her head, as if to answer her own question.
He looked at her merrily. "Mwahahaha...Who can't resist who, Seras?...We already established that you can't keep your hands off me..."
She nodded as if she were serious. "Uh-hm...True." She whipped her face into his suddenly, narrowing her eyes dangerously. "Now you."
He looked at her for a moment, taking in the amusement of it all, while he debated his choice of words. The answer was plain.
His eyes focused on her seriously, lovingly, and he ran a few fingers through her bangs to the hair on the back of her head. He decided to suck up his pride and just say it.
"...You have me there...I could never resist you, Seras..."
"I knew it! Hmm...How did I know?" She joked around with him. Alucard, amused immensely by this outburst of childlike behaviour, grinned, and rolled over to his side taking Seras with him, making Seras' back to the wall. He looked down at her now.
"Having fun yet?"
Seras jumped a little bit, still just a tiny bit jittery in the back of her mind...How could one not be? She tried to relax herself, breathing out even though there was no point in breathing at all, and she thought for a moment.
She decided to crack a lame, clichéd joke like her master did to her...almost every time he had the chance.
"...You know, master, you remind me of chocolate: hard on the outside, soft on the inside." She laughed inside her head at how uncanny they fit together and made sense. It was also a little bit of reminiscing of her human years as well: being able to eat...
No. She had to stop thinking about that...that part of her life was gone.
Alucard looked at her with widened eyes, and laughed heartily at the spot of randomness she just blurted out.
"So Seras...You want to eat me now?"
AN: Lame, yes, VERY...but I had to do it ^_______^...Ya see?! They ARE freakin jackrabbits!!! *grumbles* But hey—it's all good right? He he he…Hentai minds at work! Don't worry...there's more discussion...on what happened...(they didn't just totally forget it! Jeez...lol)