"So what was that about 'sleeping in'?"
Alucard shook his head to clear his thoughts, hearing Seras' faraway voice; he snapped back before going any further.
Backing up from her neck he turned his face to stare at her.
"Well, we wouldn't be sleeping, would we...?" Seras got the picture.
"Hmm...Probation really sucks." She surprised even herself at her sudden remark. Alucard was taken aback as well.
He knew he couldn't go any more, even if he wanted to; so things were fine now. He sighed slightly and fell onto the collar of Seras' uniform, giving him a perfect view of her neck if he wished it, but he looked towards Seras' eyes instead. The hand of his that was on her neck moved down with the other on her back.
"That it does, Seras...but, even if we weren't on probation, she would have found out somehow. So does it matter? She'll probably yell at us for this, too...mwahahaha..." He said in a somewhat serious tone, but still a shrill higher than normal. She rolled her eyes.
"I wonder...how much yelling is she capable of, hm?"
He looked at her, his eyes focusing on her highlights. The moonlight came down on her to give her that somewhat glassy appearance, almost fragile.
"Well, it's not her yelling I would be worried about...I have seen nothing yet to compare to her belittling..."
"Hmmm..." She looked up, then around the room. "I see..."
Alucard instinctively looked back to her neck, and not wanting to do anything he would regret later, he smushed his face into her Hellsing badge and saw no more.
"Even as a kid she was fierce; she didn't care who you were, she would just shoot first and ask questions later...The true pride of Hellsing blood runs through her veins, not much can compete to that." He looked up, tilting his head, to see Seras. "...But I will try...What's the worst she can do to me, kill me? I'm already dead..."
Seras' face lightened up considerable at his last comment.
"That DOES make sense..." Her face twitched to a side-grin, a fang poking out. Alucard sat up abruptly and looked at Seras levelly; he noticed her question before she even had a chance to ask it.
"...If we are dead...and now Integra's dead...She could probably figure things worse than death." He said darkly. "Mwahahaha...It doesn't matter...There is nothing she can do to me, and I wont let her to do anything to you." Half-believing himself, a little shudder went through him at the thought of what his master had done in the past...
Seras sat up too, running her fingers through her hair, then slid over somewhat graciously around Alucard to the edge of the bed. She sat up and stretched with her arms over her head.
"Well...we have to do SOMETHING constructive for her tonight, at least...so you have something to report to her about..." She chuckled weakly, her arms cracking as she stretched them up high.
Alucard turned himself around and sat on the edge next to her, his eyes becoming paler and out of focus as he pondered over what to teach her, as his master was pushing them both to their limits.
"Hmmm..." He rested his head on his hand as he thought more; looking directly at Seras he tried to focus. "Well, I do not think I should teach you anything heavy tonight...It usually takes two nights to fully recover from after-affects."
She was caught off-guard by a yawn and blinked. For the first time she paid some attention to her joints in her knees and everywhere else, finding them a little flimsy.
"I see what you mean." Since she was lying down before, she hadn't really noticed much.
Resting his arms on his legs as he hunched over, he looked back over to his right and glanced at her, considering her, and admiring her; which was a rarity. He chuckled a little.
"Still yawning when you don't even breathe, Seras? Hehehehe..." A slight grin appeared on his face again, not like it was anything new. "I know what we can do tonight."
Seras stopped mid-yawn and laughed, remembering so. Sometimes she slipped and forgot little things like that...
"What do you have in mind?"
"Something not too draining...come..." He stood up and offered a hand in which she took.
"We're going for a walk."
She eyed him skeptically, craning her neck to see him.
"Knowing you...It's going to be a little more than just a walk."
They walked to the door and exited, his eyes, as he glanced at her, telling her that she wouldn't need any of her machinery tonight.
"...And what could you mean by that, Seras?" His eyebrow rose, covered by the shadows his hat was casting off. "...I only thought of a walk, what other things were you thinking of?" As usual, he had his mind in the gutter.
She turned her head, looking down the hall as they left, then looked straight again. It was as if she were on the lookout...
"Well usually something crazy happens...but maybe this time I'm wrong, eh?"
His eyes followed her's from a side-glance, a hint of a smile.
"Crazy things always happen with vampires around, or zombies for that matter...or sword-happy priests...mwahahaha..."
"Exactly what I meant..."
They found the entrance hall and continued out the doorway. The night was of a nice, summer type; warm with a cool breeze at frequent intervals, enough to make one shiver slightly. Alucard took a quick glance up, with a smirk he noticed the moon was waning; no longer full, but close to it as it was full only the one night.
"Things are only unusual because of the Hellsing organization that we work for...if it was not here, we would never have faced all those zombies and FREAK vampires...but that is not to mean that they wouldn't still have existed." He allowed his eyes to glance around the trees, starting to walk to his right, making sure Seras was still by his side...
Seras concentrated on her one step, then the other, testing out her joints and working them a little.
"Uhm-hmm..." She replied a strangely sounding 'okay' as she cracked her other wrist attached to the hand that Alucard was not holding. And he looked down at her through his red-tinged glasses, which he threw on from nowhere. He was unsure of what she meant.
He walked a little further to a nearby clearing where they stopped and stood for a second. In an almost monotone voice with a slight edge on the end of it, he spoke with a small grin.
"...Yes, Seras?" He was unsure if her 'um'-sounding thing was a question or not.
"Hm?" She looked up, noticing they had stopped and he asked her something. "Oh...no it's nothing...just humming at myself..." Her hand shifted more comfortably in his; he looked at her longingly for a split second, but keeping himself in check, he grinned in acknowledgement.
"Hum...Well, I guess here is as good a spot as the next." He glanced around and saw a bunch of trees, spotting a particularly good one for sitting.
"Tonight's training is actually pretty easy," He let go of her and let her sit as she pleased, while he leaned against the tree, looking like a bum. "Tonight's training will be to home in on your senses."
Seras jumped up with a little bit of energy and enthusiasm and sat on a rather comfortable branch; her hands rested on either side of her on the branch.
"Sounds good..." She nodded, as if in approval, and looked down.
He glanced up in amusement; not exactly expecting her to be up there, but it didn't matter much to him. His mouth formed a slight grin as her face silhouetted the almost full moon.
"Hmm...Fine...I will be up in a moment." He jumped as well, his coat catching a slight gust as he slowly ascended. Hovering next to her branch, which protruded from the tree in a slightly odd angle, he looked through the leaves at her.
"Good...Now to start. To help you later on, we have to find what animal you are associated with for your later transformations; besides a bat, as all vampires as associated with them...As you have seen, I am a dog..." He glanced at her, his mind working too well as her face started to show inclinations of cracking a joke.
"Not that type of dog, Seras..."
She snickered. "How did you know..."
"...You're my servant, Seras...I should know you well enough by now; You're still no toy, but predictable...he he he..."