Lady Integra's cold, pale red eyes stared at Seras from behind her glasses for a moment, as if about to say something, but didn't. She looked back to Alucard, who was practically towering above her. Her lips tightened somewhat in annoyance.
"Alucard...Quit wasting time! The order is on my back to kill these super FREAKS, and what are you doing about it?!" She rose from her seat, her hands gripping the desk hard as she quivered with rage. Alucard merely looked at her, quite amused as seeing his master as flustered and angry as she was didn't happen too often. He grinned slightly, as if daring her to do her worst; his deep red eyes stared at her.
"Hmmmm...What am I doing about it? Mwahahaha..." He continued seriously, as he saw her annoyance growing rapidly. "...These super FREAKS are stronger than any of us could have expected, master...and in my current status of continuously being blown up and almost killed, I could not take them all on alone..." He glanced sidelong at Seras.
"...I have been training Seras so that she could be strong enough to help."
Seras heard his side-comment and nodded twice, confirming the statement; but her nervousness about Integra's clear annoyance toward them both kept her to stay silent as a mouse.
Integra stared at Alucard, a stare that would intimidate a normal person, but Alucard was immune to it. Still extremely flustered, she tried to calm down and succeeded only a little.
"...Training, Alucard. I do not call what you two have been up to 'training.' Walter has already told me that you went black again..."
Alucard put his hand to his chin, his eyes deep red, talking with amusement.
"...Ah, I see...Master..." Now with sarcasm, "...For now on I am never going to tell Walter anything...Mwahahaha..." Integral slammed her fist on the desk.
"THIS IS NO LAUGHING MATTER, ALUCARD! It is your job to search and destroy these abominations." She shot a glance of pure hatred at Seras.
At this, Seras' face and eyes grew hard and emotionless as she stared back at Integra, saying nothing; she had no right to speak right now It was, so far, between her and her master.
Alucard put his hand down from his chin and made a gesture with both of his arms, still calm as anything as his master grew angrier and angrier.
"I know...I goofed on that, Master Integra, but things happen...We were training before that...that bastard of a priest's son Alkanon...If Seras and I can barely take him on, where would we be against the super FREAKS?"
Integra still stood, bent over her desk, but now with a renewed considering look as her pale eyes focused on Alucard as she walked around her desk to talk to him face-to-face, directly.
"...If that is the case..." Her voice sounded a little depressed. "...Then you two should be training." She eyed him and noticed Alucard's large grin.
"...NOT THAT KIND OF TRAINING!" She growled at him. "...You two are now on probation for your earlier deeds; it is not the behaviour of master and servant." She turned as if to dismiss.
"...And Alucard, you are to report to me everything in her progress nightly. That is all."
Alucard looked from her to Seras.
"...Order accepted, my master." He turned toward Seras now, gesturing silently for them to leave. Seras looked from Alucard to Integra, her eyes a little distant like they were before, but her eyes lingered longer on Integra at most and she muttered lowly, almost making her sound dead.
"...Hai." She broke her eyes away from Integra, turning heel to leave, walking out of the open door that Alucard held open for her.
With one last glance back at Integra, who was staring at them coldly, Alucard could have sworn that she had a tear in her eye, but left before he could question and get in even more trouble with her.
He walked down the hall with Seras, catching up to her in no time, his coat fluttering behind him and his hat stayed motionless atop his head. He glanced sideways at Seras, who was still distant, rather moody.
"...Do not worry, Seras...She may have a bad bark, but no bite...mwahahaha..." He scoffed, apparently not too happy with the situation. "Probation, ha, don't make me laugh...As if she could do anything about it or us for that matter."
Seras stared in front of her, as if she were mesmerized. "I feel like I've stolen something from her…"
Alucard stopped short and grabbed her by her shoulders, forcing her to look at him. His eyes concentrated on her, and his face told that he was concerned but still light hearted.
"This is not of your fault, Seras, you have taken nothing away from her...You cannot take something away that was never there to begin with." He lightened up in his old, careless ways. "...Besides, I made you, I made the decision..."
"...But you made me choose, too..."
"...Yes, but...If anything you have done was only to help, you have caused her no harm, and helped her when she was weak during the years of Incognito. If there's a fault, then it should be on me, not you..."
Seras averted her eyes. "Hmmm...I guess you're right, then...I hope she isn't too sore at me, though..." She remembered her ice-cold eyes as she stared Seras down in the office. It was not the look of happiness that she received, much the opposite, rather.
Alucard kept his hands on her shoulders, still glaring at her, then moved his right hand under her chin and turned it to face him.
"Look, Seras...Don't worry about my master...She has always been one to overdo things a bit...besides..." He moved closer to her and grinned. "...You are the one I love, not her..."
Her eyes widened at the last comment he made. "Demo...You don't like her...even a little bit?" She asked, awe-struck, and he smiled.
"She is my master..." He shook his head a little and returned to her. "...Her family owns me, as long as she is alive, or undead rather, I have to serve her...whether I think her methods are good or bad is irrelevant, as is what I think of her in general..."
She looked up at him lazily, her eyes not focusing correctly. "O-oh...I see..." That was the only thing she could think of to say...and he understood her distance. He dropped his arms from her and stared at the floor space between their feet; he hid his eyes from Seras, speaking deeply.
"...I made Integra a vampire...why? ...Because she is stronger this way...even though she may be a bitch sometimes..." Now he looked up at Seras. "She has to be strong so that I do not have to save her ass all the time...so that I can focus on other things first, like the enemy for starters..."
Her head snapped up, her voice harsh with surprise. "Master! How can you speak of her in that way...?" She looked at him in the eyes, her eyes losing the stony appearance. His grin faded lightly.
"...I'm sorry, Seras...You have to understand, her and her family kept me hostage for over 200 years...I was released by the bloodshed of her own family...she has had it rough, so I can understand her fury, but there is no reason to be rude about it..."
Her eyes lowered for the third time, deflating herself as she noticed her mistake again.
"Gomen...I guess it's really none of my business."
He reached up a hand and put it on her head, ruffling up her hair a bit, similar to a noogie.
"Hmm...It is and it isn't, but don't worry about it...We're technically an organization so we should know some things about each other, so quit being sorry...and come on, we have to teach you something or she will really be down our throats in the morning..." He added his usual sarcastic side-comment. "...Unless you want her down your throat...mwahahaha..."
She whipped her head up, scowling as he mussed up her hair, then a look of shock spread across her face.
"OI!" She punched him in the arm. "What are you getting at?!" She started walking down the hall with him. He looked sideways at her, grinning.
"Hmm...Nothing...nothing..."
Seras growled. "Yer evil, y'know that? EVIL." She stressed the word evil, making it sound like there was something else behind it's original meaning...
He cackled and turned his head to look at her while they reached the double doors to exit. "You think I need a police girl to tell me that, Seras..." He opened the doors in front of him as they exited. She watched the doors open and jogged through before they closed behind her, a look of mild interest on her face.
"Y'might..." She urked as she remembered something. "I forgot my stuff..." She sweatdropped, hoping she wouldn't need it. Alucard looked at her, still amused.
His eyes returned back to focus as he remembered what he was really there for at the moment.
"Hmmm...Don't worry about it, Seras...For what you will be trying to learn tonight, it would only be a burden..." He grinned from the corner of his mouth as she looked at him curiously.
"Ahh...hmm, okay..."
He grabbed her hand when she wasn't looking and walked a little farther from the castle to an area where there were few trees. He stopped and turned to look at her once more; the moon was almost red, so he knew his time was limited.
With His red eyes still deep and face emotionless, as if he had practiced this many times, he started to speak.
"Okay, Seras, this is far enough...you are now going to learn how to disappear, in other words, become the wind or at least move as fast as it.….any questions, Seras?"
She thought for a moment, finding this vaguely similar to flying; having to do with the wind.
"Not yet, master..." She finished, hesitantly.
AN: Thus begins the conflict (triangle) between Alucard, Seras, and Integral ^_^…hmm..she is quite moody, don't you agree? Hehehe...