Seras laughed, not really expecting that kind of response from her master. In the back of her mind, something jumped, triggering her thoughts and took control of her body. She suddenly jerked back, losing control of her mind for a split second and her eyes glazed over completely as she was rudely interrupted by images...
She shook her head and slowly got control over herself; lowering her arms down, finding herself a little farther back away from her master than she was previously.
"...G-gomen nasai.."
He noticed Seras' change, but thought really not much of it, and he tried to bring her back again. But she stared at her hands that she had in front of her face, studying the material of the gloves, feeling him try and pull her closer.
"Ne..." She wanted to ask him something, but she couldn't...so she shook herself off; though she was still a bit shaky. She looked up at him. "Nandemonai."
At this point he definitely noticed something wrong with her; the way Seras looked and the way she shook her head, as if to halt her own thoughts. His eyes concentrated on her.
"...Hmm...What is it, Seras...?" He moved his hand to her face to make sure she wouldn't turn her head away; making her look back at him.
Her face twitched, her eyes looking a glossy red. "...Master...I just don't want you...going out of control like that again..."
Alucard looked at her; not like he wasn't expecting this or anything, but that he didn't want to admit to it. It was a part of him, and he knew that was why he could never fully go and do what...well...they would both like.
His face turned expressionless. He knew all too well that anything was possible in the sense of his darker side.
"Hmmm...I know, it isn't like this hasn't occurred to me...I can still feel it...losing myself, trying to kill you...but because of you, I know it's motives...I know how far I can go without going too insane..." He looked awfully sullen.
"At least you know now...ne, master? And at least...I know now, too."
He half grinned, trying to make the appearance of being all right with it...but it still painted him to no extent.
"...Even knowing won't save you if it happens again...In my deterioration, he is getting stronger...I have a feeling that if my deterioration won't get me, he will...I'm growing weaker daily, but as long as I am here, I will not let him harm you...As my servant, as my love, I would kill myself before allowing that to happen..." Quite an impressive speech.
Seras rolled over, lying on her stomach and leaned her head on her folded arms. She closed her eyes.
"You are strong...I know you can control him if you really try, and now that you know what brings him out..." She trailed off and sighed, cracking open her eye slightly to look at him. "...We should rest...You are weak, remember?"
Alucard watched her from the corner of his eyes, and sighed slightly as he realized she had a point (but he was still a little disheartened with himself).
"The thing is, Seras, if he is getting stronger, then we wouldn't even have to be doing anything for him to come out..." He looked the other way towards the wall. "Rest would do some good..." He closed his eyes halfway. She turned her head to the side, just looking at him. "You may feel a little better, master..." She did the same.
He could feel her eyes on him, so he had to turn; he grinned slightly at her then closed his eyes. To be honest, he felt glad that she was there, even though in his weak state anything could happen; still in a slight depression over the experience of feeling his own blood yearn to eat her...
His eyes closed, his voice sounded barely like his own. "...I do not know about feeling better, but at least, I will be rested." Seras decided to take the chance and she outstretched her arms, inviting him to her again...wondering...
And he felt the movement on the bed as she shifted herself; he didn't even have to open his eyes to know what she was doing. But he opened them anyway to the size of slits and looked at her for a moment...pondering if he could...
...But it was too inviting for him, so he moved over and allowed her arms to wrap firmly around him, while he did the same around her waist, getting himself comfortable as he found himself getting tired...
"Hmmm...Very comfortable."
Seras couldn't help but grinning. Her eyes closed as she rested her head near his collarbone-or rather, his shirt collar. "I'm a little tired, too..." Well actually...she was really tired.
He held his head up, resting his chin on the top of her head, feeling just a tiny bit better...which is a big step for him.
"...Sleep..." He rested there comfortably, happily, until he slowly drifted to sleep, though he could still talk to Seras through their connection. She opened up her eyes quickly as his tie fell in her face, flopping over and smacking her in the cheek.
"EH?!" Snapped her out of her doze, it did. She could hear her master's voice in her head.
"He he he...Does my tie frighten you...Seras?" And his sleeping body did not budge. She growled and took a hand away from him to push the bothersome tie away from her face, and then put her arm back.
"Only when it does...that..." There was an edge to her voice.
"Hmmm...But it always does that, Seras...You could always take it off...I do not care...I'm asleep." His voice was unusually perky, strange...
Seras blinked, however. "Good idea..." She took her hands away, both of them, and undid the knot at the top, pulling the long tie out of the folded collar and threw it behind her on the mattress.
"Much better...Now nothing can hit me in the face."
"Hmm..." He almost purred in her head, and she raised an eyebrow, then closed her eyes; slowly falling asleep.
At the break of the next evening, Alucard opened his eyes, albeit groggily, but otherwise fine. It took him a moment to remember where he was and smiled as he saw Seras right there in front of him as he looked down. Yes, she was a heavy sleeper, not to mention a late one...but she is so...what's the word? Beautiful when she was asleep.
That was something he wasn't used to calling people-and sincerely meaning it.
He bent his head to rest on top of Seras' and stayed like that for a few minutes before deciding to wake her up. And being in a slightly silly mood, he opened his eyes, a weird grin spreading across his face.
"Cock a doodle-doo, Seras! Mwahahaha..." He said in a particularly strange singsong voice, making Seras' eyes pop out of her head as she stared at the material of his shirt. She sweatdropped.
"You always manage to scare the crap out of me every evening..."
He grinned crazily; the light of the moon, as the coffin lid was up by this time, highlighted some of Seras' hair and features.
"Hmmm...That's because you are so easy to scare in the evening." He said, with a hint of sarcasm lined in the bright red of his eyes.
"Ohh...well," She moved slightly to stretch her arms. "I'll have earplugs next time, master." She grinned, too, as if it were her little sinister plan she was making behind his back.
"Hmmm...Earplugs have no affect on what I could do...mwahahaha..."
She raised an eyebrow. "What? ...Take them out...?"
He snickered, amused by the quick response. "...No, I mean do THIS...hehehe..." In one sweeping motion, while was still holding her, he started to shake her a little. Her eyes went dizzy as she gritted her teeth, clearly not liking to be shaken.
"...Then I slowly make your life a living hell...more than it already is, however." She slowly took her arms away from him and raised them up as if she were attacking him, and she slapped them onto his arms, her eyes wide with the 'look of death.'
"You can try, Seras, but my life is already hell..." He dissolved his arms into blackness, her hands going right through them now so his would be free of her death grip. He materialized them outside of her arms and grabbed them by the wrists with nothing more than the playfully amused look on his face.
"Well...I know that...I'll just make it tenfold." She cackled in her throat.
Alucard pulled her wrists back gently as he could, which in turn pulled herself closer to him; her face a mere ten mili-inches from her's.
"Make it tenfold, eh, Seras?!" He grinned evilly. "...How do you expect to do that...?" He stared directly at her in a transfixing gaze. She narrowed her eyes and thought; she was silent.
"Ohhh...You just wait..." She didn't want to say and ruin the fun. He brought her closer to him by sliding his arms around her waist, his wrists flicked out as his hands held her own wrists back.
"Hmmm...Do I have to, or are you going to ruin my life now?" His head wheeled with insanity for what it could be...
She looked down at him as she was 'held hostage' by him.
"'Ruin your life'? I can do that, too..."
He knew she had seen him in his black mode; he didn't think anything she could do could make things worse...
"It would be a hard thing to do, Seras..." He said, she still unbeknownst to what he was thinking of, and he craned his head of her neck, eyes flickering. "...Especially when I have a taste like this..."
She gave in. "You're right...I'll let you off this time."
He held her, knowing eventually they would have to get up. He had a feeling that something was going to happen, but was unsure...He looked over his shoulder and out the window at the full moon.
It was still silver, but it was rimmed with a red color; he grinned and looked back to her, his red eyes glinting at her.
"...Seras...Tonight will be amusing..."
She had a questioning look on her face, looking over his shoulder to see out the window he looked out of.
"Amusing? What do you think is going to happen?"
He released his hold a little so that he could look at her face-to-face.
"Hmmm...The moon is changing red...meaning: bloodshed. There will be a battle or a new attack...Integra probably already knows and should be calling us down to her office momentarily..." He added with sarcasm. "...As long as she doesn't question what happened last time we should be fine...mwahahaha...Like that would happen, nosy master..."
She sat up somewhat. "...And if she doest question, master?"
He loosened his grip as she sat up, his head following her eyes. His eyes dulled as he replied.
"Hmmm...Well, I did show her my sunburns at the time..." He grinned at Seras. "...We can always say you jumped me...mwahahaha."
She rolled her eyes. "Mm-hmm. And then that would be the last of you that I see..."
Alucard looked at her kind of sad, but still with some hope. He shook his head. "Hmmm...Maybe not, Seras...if you recall, I am her master as well...She is the head and her family owns me, but I made her, and I would allow you to stay...If not, there is really no way to keep me from you, I disappear on her too much for her to follow..."
She cocked her head, her eyebrows raised as she looked at the opposite wall in thought.
"Hmmm...You've got a point." She slowly slid out of the bed, sitting on the edge and absentmindedly fixed her thigh-high black stockings. Alucard put his hands behind his head in a lazy fashion as he sprawled out on his back, and heard a knock on the door.
"Hmmm...Yes, Walter...?" He said, not really thinking about it much. Walter pushed open the door and saw Seras and Alucard, Seras sitting, and Alucard lying on his back. He bowed politely and started to speak.
"...Miss Hellsing would like to have a word with the both of you." He stood up. "She will be awaiting you in her office." He turned and walked out. Alucard looked at the closed door.
"Thanks, Walter..." He turned to Seras. "...I had a feeling this would happen..."
She sighed and bowed her head. "This could be good or bad...or both." She scratched her head, her eyes closed as she thought. "Hmmm..."
Alucard slowly moved to the side of the bed where he sat up, surveying the ground and sighed.
"Hmmm...Well, with Integra, anything is possible."
Seras sighed a yep and stood up, looking down to look herself over, making sure she was presentable. Alucard got up after she did, having a little trouble steadying himself as his legs were not really used to walking right away. He hobbled over to the table and took up his hat and glasses and slipped on his coat as if it were nothing, donning his head with the gigantic mushroom hat and slipping the glasses onto his nose as he motioned Seras to the door with him. His face was expressionless like usual with wonder at his master's invite, but his red eyes looked back at Seras, reading her mind momentarily.
"Hmmm...You look fine, Seras...Now let's see what my master wants." He led the way out of the room, she stepped out behind him and shut the door, looking back at her machinery...then deciding to leave it behind this time. If she'd need it, she'd come back for it.
"Hai..."
His legs back to normal, his pace quickened up as he passed down the hallway, wanting to get this over with quicker. His coat trailed behind him, and each time he passed a window, the moon seemed to become redder and redder.
He grimaced, debating what assignment they would have, and saw his master's door and walked in without knocking. He left the door open for Seras, as she shut the door politely behind her after she entered, trying to retain her composture, then strode across the room and stood like she usually did in front of her desk, just listening and waiting quietly.
Integra was sitting at the end of the room in her normal position, apparently looking at papers. She took her glasses off, rubbed her bleary eyes, and put them back on to see Alucard and Seras now standing there silent. Alucard moved closer to Integra's desk to get orders.
"...You called, my master..."