Reprieve-Order 5-Old Job

Seras awoke bright and early; she wanted to catch the sunrise before her first day of work. Walking on the roof in some jogging cloths she watched as the sun began to bath the city in light. The sight brought tears to her eyes, clear human tears.

The oranges in different shades were the first to come up; the sight was amazing to her. Seras thought that the next time she would see the sun would be her last when she was a vampire. The colors continued to change their tones until a faint red came across. Red, her masters...Alucard's favorite color, the color of blood and the color she had grown to love and hate.

Seras couldn't shake the thoughts from her mind. Deep down she missed his insane grin, his laugh, his... 'snap out of it!' Seras shouted mentally to her self.

Could she really be regretting taking the serum? No, she was human again despite what Alucard thought of them. If she was nothing to him than so be it, she had made her choice perfectly clear to him the other night.

Heading back to her loft she got ready in her new D-11 uniform. At first it felt odd getting into the uniform/jumpsuit. She was so used to her Hellsing uniform that this almost felt like betraying her team by putting this uniform on. Slapping her self lightly to get a grip she reminded herself she wouldn't have to see the horrors of the undead anymore, that what she saw in the past year was enough to make crime areas look ordinary. Quickly gathering her things she, at the last minute threw the handguns that Sir Integra had given to her as a parting gift into her bag. Heading out the door she got into her new carpool and headed off to D-11 HQ.

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From the shadows, a pair of red eyes watched the van drive away from the loft. The lone figure still couldn't shake off the past few events. It just felt so unreal to the no life king. Was it that his fledgling had rejected him and returned to the humans? Or was it what he felt for her now that she was gone that was clouding his mind?

A part of him still demanded that he wait for her, and turn her regardless of what she wanted and keep her from killing herself until the vampire side of her won out again. Another part wanted to respect her wishes, he had been cruel to her, what did he expect from someone that reminded him of himself? "Hell, she left me off easy; I would have killed myself if I acted like that..." Alucard said quietly to himself.

Opening a portal, Alucard returned to his room and prepared for his mission.

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Seras couldn't believe that she actually missed doing paperwork. How much had she nearly forgotten of her old life that was either dull or ordinary that she now cherished? Walking up to her chief she handed him the report. "All done commander, is there anything else sir?"

Paging threw the documents he glanced up at her; the profile he had on her simply stated she was originally with D-11, was transferred to the shadowy Hellsing organization and recently requested a return to D-11. He had heard many things about Hellsing, not too many could be called good or decent about the strange military style police that were employed by that organization. "No, that will be all for now officer Victoria, why don't you go on break."

"Thank you, sir." Seras said as she quickly turned and left the office headed for a café down the street. She had eaten there many times before last year and looked forward to their tea and other foods.

Quickly ordering her food she sat down in a corner, not noticing the gathering darkness on the walls. As she read a magazine and sipped some of her tea she didn't notice the man clad in red that had materializes inside the same booth as her. "Is this all that you wanted, police girl?"

Seras froze; she had defiantly heard that, not in her mind but really heard it. Slowly she put the magazine down to see Alucard sitting opposite of her. "I thought I told you I never wanted to see you again, vampire."

"You said never to come into your loft again, and this is a public place no need for us to be hostile towards each other." Alucard said, a grin forming on his face.

"How did you, have you been following me?" Seras demanded, idly going for her Hellsing gun that Walter had thankfully armed with silver bullets.

"We are forever linked, police girl, the serum may have returned you to being human but I can still sense generally where you are. It's just a matter of looking for you for a bit."

"What do you want with me dam it, I'm not your "fledgling" anymore."

"Alright, did you ever stop to think that maybe the way I treated you was for your best? You would surely have fallen to one of those pathetic imitations of what we are."

"What YOU are Alucard, I'm human, not a blood sucker."

"That hurt, police girl, but you still haven't answered my question."

"Fine, ill answer your if you answer mine first. Did YOU, ever stop to think that maybe I was frightened and that you simply needed to show some compassion, even if it was just a little, to me and I would have stayed with you? I would have stayed dam it!" Several café patrons shot strange glances at the couple in the booth apparently having an argument.

Lowering her voice again Seras looked straight into Alucard's eyes. It might have been a stupid move on her part, but she had to show the vampire she wouldn't back down from him. "Did it even cross your mind that I wanted you to teach me what it was like to be a vampire?"

"I, I don't know what to say, Seras." Was all that Alucard could muster, he started to remember his master, and how she took great care in training him. He felt like he had betrayed his vampire master by failing to show the same care to Seras.

"Well that's not good enough; I've got to get back to work. Stop following me or next time ill put a silver bullet in your head."

"You know that won't kill me police girl." Alucard said grimly.

Leaning over to his ear, as Seras whispered, Alucard could smell her scent. It was intoxicating to him, more powerful than the strongest blood lust he had ever had. Every fiber in his body restrained from jumping up and biting her neck. "If it wont kill you, it will at least prove that I never want to see you in my life again, vampire."

Getting up Seras turned and headed out the door, leaving Alucard paralyzed in his own desire for his fledgling back. Quickly snapping out of it Alucard faded away back into his room. Sitting in his large chair he could still recall the sweet scent of Seras' body. Slowly he drifted into a fitful sleep filled with nightmares of finding Seras dead by the hands of another vampire, growing old with another human, and the worse one of them all, running into her again at an ancient age before she died in his hands while he would be forced to remain alive to live without her.

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As soon as Seras was out of the café she let out the breath she was holding in. she still couldn't shake these thoughts that she was sure Alucard was flooding into her mind. But didn't Walter say that link would be severed? Even Alucard admitted he had to search a bit before he found her, ruling out any chance of him being able to send.... 'NO! These thoughts are not mine! They can't be!'

Gathering herself Seras fought back the tear's, she would never let that monster have any form of any control over her again. Heading back to the HQ she was going to plunge head long into her work to take her mind off things.