A/N: I do not own Hellsing. Challenge fiction of AXS. Pardon me should I do anything out of the ordinary. Or perhaps not. Rating might go up for Alucard's being a pervert. Part 3 of 5. Read & review!

[Alucard's thoughts] are in italics.

"Something fun…" mused Seras. She actually hadn't thought of what she wanted to do with Alucard once he was done.

"What do you want to do?" she asked innocently.

The look upon mini-Alucard's face was…indescribable. Suffice it to say that it was one of insane glee.

He threw himself at her chest, but Seras, thinking he wanted more blood, bent over to retrieve the bottle. He overshot his distance and was launched the length of the hallway. He landed with a grunt and slid on his face for a few feet before crashing into the wall.

Seras heard the noise and went out into the hallway.

"Ooooh!" she squealed. "Hide and seek! I love that game! Great idea! I'll hide first! No peeking!" and she was off.

Alucard blinked.

"No peeking!" came Seras' voice from somewhere behind him. "Count to a hundred, and no using powers! You have to find me without going through walls or reading minds!"

Alucard's face was again indescribable. But this time it was in an expression of exasperation. Faced with the too-perky, too-bubbly and yet too-busty fledgling that was Seras, he had no other choice. She wouldn't let him near her if he didn't 'play along'.

He sighed and put his face against the wall.

"One…two…three…"

"Ninety-nine…one hundred!" he proclaimed victoriously. No one answered him.

A short grunt of disgust escaped him, then he plodded off like some deranged two-year old to find Seras.

True to the game, he did not use any of his powers…except to climb the stairs, which were now almost as tall as he was.

So, he floated upwards to the next floor.

Seras was not hiding in the first room. Nor was she in the next one. Alucard, puzzled, opened every door on the first floor of the mansion, but did not find her.

"She couldn't have gone very far, I counted fairly quickly…" he said aloud to no one in particular. "Perhaps she's gone downstairs."

So he followed his hunch to the basement rooms. Sure enough, he found Seras hiding in a closet at the bottom of the stairs. She had closed her eyes and Alucard presumed she'd fallen asleep.

[All right!]

Cautiously he poked his head in the door, opening it. It creaked but Seras made no movement. He let out an unnecessary breath of relief and pushed the door open all the way. There was still no movement from the ex-police officer. He crooked an eye. Perhaps she wasn't feeling well? Leaning in to get a better look, he heard her giggle.

She sat up abruptly and grabbed the tiny vampire in her arms. "Gotcha! You found me!"

"Hurk!" said Alucard, who was having the air squeezed out of him like an accordion.

"Oh, no!" Seras wailed, and looked down at her captive. "Did that hurt?"

"No." Alucard wheezed.

"Good!" she brightened, and put him down. He shook his head, trying to clear it, and put a hand on the wall, trying to steady himself as he forced air back into his lungs.

"Well, that was fun!" Seras chirped. "What shall we do next?"

"Let's do something I want to do." said Alucard.

"Go to the zoo?" asked Seras, mock-puzzled.

"I said, something I want to do!"

"Eat up the glue? Buy a new shoe? Catch the flu?" she said, poking Alucard in the nose.

"Arrrghhh!" Alucard screamed. "Stop -- saying -- that!"

Seras stopped abruptly. Her mouth twitched, then began to shudder. Her eyes grew very big and shined with unshed tears. She sniffed.

[Oh no]. Thought Alucard. [It's meltdown time.]

"Uh, I didn't mean it that way." Alucard said quickly. "I just meant that it was getting on my nerves…" but his plea fell on deaf ears. Seras was crying loudly, tears pouring like twin fountains up and out of her eyes. Alucard put a hand gently to his forehead, massaging it.

Luckily, Seras stopped crying in about two minutes. She looked at Alucard plaintively.

"That was mean, Master…" she said.

"I didn't mean it to be mean, but it was annoying, what you were doing." Alucard huffed.

"Oh." Seras blinked. "I'm sorry."

Alucard lifted an eyebrow. [She's sorry?] "Well, it's all right now."

"That's good." Seras wiped her eyes. "C'mere and gimmie a hug, Master."

[All right!]

Watch for part four!