I'm sorry it's taken me so long to update but my computer is never free, someone almost always on it. I still don't own Hellsing so please don't sue me.

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Winston was in a nasty mood and so was Alucard. It had taken Winston three hours to figure out how to turn into fog, which was about half the time it had taken Ceres on her first try but about twice the time Alucard had expected it to take Winston. Precious time had been lost according to Alucard and there wouldn't be time for any other lessons he may have had planed.

Winston was still in the dark as to why they were going to this abandoned medical center. The word freak didn't have the same meaning to him as it did to everyone else at Hellsing. He simply assumed they would be killing regular vampires. He was sort of excited and scared all at once. Ceres could read him like a book.

Ceres was starting to like Winston even though his origins confused the hell out of her. He was a nice boy and when she looked at him she saw herself when she has first become death. He still retained those human like qualities that made him so innocent; yet, he was on the cusp of learning how to control powers that could break any human to their knees.

The three lone figures stood with their shadows silhouetted in the street lamps. Alucard turned to both his children and smiled. He pulled out the machine pistol and tossed it at Winston catching him off guard. Winston hadn't expected to catch the thing Alucard threw at him; yet, somehow he did.

Winston looked at the weapon casually but his heart was racing. He knew why Alucard had given it to him but he assumed he'd just be watching.

"There are ten bullets in that clip. Use them wisely because I didn't bring another. Ceres."

"Yes Master," she replied, relieved Alucard was again using her name.

"You will go in through the back and Winston will go in through the front."

"And what about you Master?" she questioned.

"I'm going to deal with the heart of the matter."

Alucard's figure disappeared into the darkness. Suddenly Winston was filled with mind numbing terror. He would be completely and utterly alone. When he turned his head to the right to look for the female vampire she was already gone. Alucard had done this on purpose. Winston felt foolish for expecting that creature to have a heart. It didn't matter what their relationship to each other was because to Alucard anything to do with killing vampires was business and Alucard was training Winston to kill vampires. Well it didn't matter, Winston told himself, because he refused to be Alucard's little pet project. Whatever the hell mess he'd gotten himself into he'd live through it and next time he'd know better than to ever trust that bastard even if Alucard was his father.

Winston walked up to the front doors his heart pounding against his cheat so hard and fast he could barely breath. Not that breathing mattered he supposed. When he looked at the old doors he realized the automated sliders were clearly dead bolted and worse yet a steal mesh had been placed around them so no one could break in through the glass in the doors. He really didn't have any idea how he was supposed to enter. He could try turning into fog but that had taken him hours.

Winston was getting seriously angry with Alucard for all his demented little mind games. Not one damn lesson and that bastard vampire seemed to view him as completely combat ready and able. "Alucard," he screamed it in his mind over and over again furiously kicking at the door.

Then an intruding voice could be heard in the back of his head. "Don't call on me. I don't have time for this Winston use your brain" Winston jumped back slightly and looked around him. "For God's sake I'm speaking to you telepathically boy don't stand around looking for me like an idiot."

"Don't call me and idiot," Winston interjected. "You're the one who left me here with no way to get in."

Winston's childlike manner was infuriating Alucard. "I told you, use you head there is a lot you are capable of."

With that statement Alucard had finished his conversation with the boy. Winston was a bright child so Alucard had expected a better performance from him. Still perhaps Alucard was being to hard on him. His opinion was probably skewed by his own small affections for the child.

Alucard sighed and pulled out his Jackal preparing to take out some freak trash. He still had the element of surprise on his side at that moment but it was a fleeting moment.

Suddenly the fire of a bullet could be heard through out the freak- infested building. It served as the perfect signal to send all the chipped freaks crawling out of the woodworks.

"God damn it," Alucard said to himself. "That boy has no tact."

When Ceres heard the first shot ring she ran to her Master like any doting daughter wanting to protect Alucard.

Winston sat out side pleased with himself. "That's one," he said "just nine more lives to go." he grabbed the broken chain link that had held the steal mesh in place. He was now able to push most of it back. A good deal of the glass was already broken from the bullet so Winston took advantage of fact by increasing the size of the hole. With that taken care of he was finally able to get in by simply unlocking the door and sliding it open.

When he stepped inside any medical centers lobby greeted him. There was a waiting room with chairs scattered about and a front desk for patients to check in. Nothing seemed irregular but he could sense the presence of something else in the building and it wasn't Ceres or his father.

Winston held his gun out with both hands. His arms were shaking terribly and in truth he wouldn't have been able to shoot a none moving target the size of a bear but he tried not to think about that fact. He just wanted to get upstairs and find Alucard possibly with the intention of shooting him.

Alucard smiled a demonic grin as the freaks surrounded him. He began to take them out one by one easily. He had hoped to have bypassed most of the riffraff and get straight to the source but Winston's crud problem solving skills had screwed up his plans. The whole evening was quite a disappointment.

When Alucard had told Winston to use his head he had expected the boy to use his vampiric powers to rip off the mesh and to open the lock with his mind or travel through the walls. For that matter anything other than using human vandal like thinking would have been good. Still it had been Winston choice and now he only had nine bullets left.

Alucard could sense Ceres' entrance into the room. She called out to him as she always did. "Master I'm here Master." The freaks surrounded him everywhere but there was far more dust in the air than Alucard's own blood. Alucard was in his element.

"Ceres please deal with this refuse I'm going to go get Dr. Caldwell."

"Yes Master." Ceres reply was obedient but enthusiastic. She was always happy to serve Alucard in any situation.

Alucard began to fire his Jackal heavily on one side cutting a path through crowd of freaks. He was heading toward a hallway. Ceres held his back as he did so making her way toward the center taking his place.

Winston shuffled through the halls until he found an elevator. He noticed that it was clearly in service so pulled one of his shaking hands away from his gun pushing the elevator button in one jerky movement. He gulped vigilantly. Suddenly his sensitive ears picked up something so he turned quickly to the direction on the noise but nothing was there. Then at the back of his neck he could hear the gentle clank of the elevator doors sliding open. He turned to them happily. It was the first time he had been greeted by actual light.

Funny Winston thought to himself, he had been able to see better in the darkness. He stepped into the elevator, which seemed to be playing some jazzy tune from an era long before he had ever been on the earth.

Winston stepped in to the elevator and pushed the third floor. The doors slowly closed in front of him and the elevator began to move up. For the first time Winston relaxed. He held his gun down at his side with one hand and closed his eyes leaning his head against the elevator wall.

Then abruptly a heavy thud could be heard on top ceiling and Winston felt the whole elevator shake. He opened his eyes to flickering lights. Panicking, he pressed the emergency service button but he felt foolish when he remembered that the building had been abandoned. Then suddenly the doors slid open to a grinning face.

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Wow I have so much to do. I mean I haven't even gotten to the whole Alexander/ Maxwell meeting with Integral and she still doesn't know about Winston's religious practices. You guys have only met Jacquelyn once and Winston hasn't started school yet. Sigh this fic is never going to end. I'm kicking around an original fic I might do at fan press too. Don't worry I've invested to much into this not to finish it but I've got a lot on my plate.