1Chapter 6
Lying in the medical room Seras stared at the stump of her leg. Over the past few days she had been trying to will the regeneration of her leg. She had some success, but it was hardly noticeable. She was about to try again when she felt the presence of her master coming near. Sighing she gave up and waited for him to enter the room in whatever bazaar, perfectly normal way for him to enter.
So of course she was shocked when she saw him come threw the door. Along side him, being supported by a silver staff was the man that had tried to kill her master a few months ago. He was limping heavily and Seras noticed a tied bandage around his leg. "Master?" Seras asked, giving the man in the black trench coat a questioning look. Alucard assured her there was nothing to fear.
The man looked her over in great detail until he finally settled on her face. His eyes seemed to penetrate deep into her soul. The expression on his face wasn't threatening, as it was when they first met. But there was something about his blue eyes, something ancient and wise. Like someone had taken the eyes of an old man and placed them in this young body.
"Given the chance, young one, if you were given the choice to return to a life of mortality, a life of fear, uncertainty, where your body would age, grow old and die, all the things that come with being a mortal, would you take it? Your master has told me why you chose to be a vampire so just tell me here and now, yes or no." the man with the blue eyes said.
Seras considered the man and what he asked. Thoughts of her father and friends that she left behind came flooding to her. She hated what she had become, preying on the living to survive. Though she kept telling herself she was working for a greater good, she still wanted her old life, ignorant of the secret war that was being fought for centuries. But then there was her master, he had saved her from another vampire and took her in, made her his child and protected her. Would he understand if she said yes to the man?
Why was this man asking her such a question though? What right gave him to ask such a thing? But then again, she had asked herself this question so many times. Wouldn't anyone else have asked such a thing to her if they knew what had happened to her?
Sighing she gave him her answer. "There is nothing that I know that can return me to my old life, but if given the choice, I would, I would choose becoming human again. Even if my master felt it was the wrong choice to make." Seras said, whispering the last part.
DS/
David sighed; she indeed was an innocent. Thrown into something she thought were tales and legends, into something that she thought was evil and forbidden.
"Sadly, I can not make you mortal again, but you are no child of darkness and because of that, I will repair the pain and damage I caused." David said soothingly. Pulling the sheets aside, exposing the stump of a leg he looked carefully at the damage.
Taking his trench coat off and rolling up his sleeve, David placed his hand on the exposed flesh of her leg. "Don't take this the wrong way, Seras." closing his eyes he tightened his grip on the leg. At first he felt nothing, and then he began to fell it, the pulse of her body. Slowly he began to match his with hers. He felt everything about her being, concentrating harder he begin to look for the reason that her leg had not healed. He knew exactly what it was though he just needed to find where it had embedded itself.
Squeezing harder he felt the pain he was inflecting on her on his leg. There it is.
DS/
Seras watched the man hold her leg firmly, a little pain had started at the back of her mind as he squeezed. She watched his arm intently for some reason. Suddenly it seemed to thin itself, Like the color was leaving and going up his arm. The color continued to leave his arm. The arteries and veins in his arm began to appear, more so, they appeared to glow red and blue.
Looking up at his face she saw streams of blood leave his eyes. The streams fell down his cheeks and met at his chin but didn't drip to the floor. The blood seemed to just meet there and not flow anywhere else. Looking back down to his arm only the arteries and veins seemed to remain.
DS/
Slowly he felt the single speck of energy in her body that did not belong drag itself towards his arm. The energy found who was calling it. Slowly it climbed out of the flesh of the being it inhabited and entered the new flesh that willed it to enter itself.
David felt the energy enter into his arm and craw up to his face. Forcing the energy to the streams of blood he felt it exit and flow into the stream, enter the pool at his chin and sit there. Slowly David released his grip on the girl's leg. With his eyes still closed he brought the staff to his chin. Opening his eyes he felt the pool finally drip from his chin onto the staff. Looking down at the droplets of blood he saw them bubble, and then enter the staff.
Looking once again at the girl, he could see that her leg was already regenerating, as it should be. She was fast asleep after the "operation" he had just performed on her. Looking at his arm it was returning to normal. Looking at Alucard, a smile not that dissimilar to what he wore was on his face. "It's done, now what."
DS/
Watching from a camera, Integra silently weighed her options. Finally she reached into her mind and found the link between herself and Alucard. 'Bring him to me...'
DS/
Standing in the huge office of Integra Hellsing any other man might feel a little intimidated, but not David. David knew what was going to be asked of him before Alucard even mentioned anything. Who wouldn't want such an asset in their ranks? Looking at the person at the desk he tried to decide her innocence or not.
"What is your name?" the question came out cold, uncaring. The type of question and tone that someone would ask after they already made up there choice. Deciding to respond in kind, David replied.
"Pick a Decade." David responded.
"What?" Integra looked confused at the reply she received. But then she quickly understood what he meant. "Your current one name."
"That would be David." David responded, silently enjoying the annoyed face that crept on her face. Suddenly he felt Alucard trying to probe his mind. 'Oh yeah, I forgot about that.'David mentally sent to Alucard before closing his mind to him and placing his barriers up.
The sudden erection of the mental block pushed Alucard back violently against the wall. Turning to face Alucard he growled. "Next time, I won't be so lenient on you."
"What the hell was that about!" demanded Integra. Taken aback when an invisible force pushed Alucard violently into the wall, leaving a large dent where he connected with the wall.
"Your, servant, decided it would be fun to try to pry into my mind, I would advise that you don't allow anyone else to try that. Next time the results will be more... unpleasant for the recipient." David said, not taking his eyes off Alucard as he watched him pull himself out of the wall and dust himself off.
"What in God's name are you?" Integra hissed, reaching for the gun hidden under her desk.
David considered the question before making his answer. "I am a dunpeal, an immortal, a being born between a human and a vampire. I have some of strengths of a vampire, but because of my genetic heritage, in some instances, I'm stronger. But in others, I'm weaker."
At the reply, Integra pulled her gun and fired at the abomination. Time slowed again for David. He watched the bullets fly towards his head, looking up he saw the person that fired them smile and the event about to happen.
DS/
Integra fired three bullets. She watched as they flew to the head of the abomination, but then exchanged her smile for a puzzled look, the man still stood there. Moving his jaw around he spat out the bullets back onto her desk.
Solemnly he spoke. "I understand you would want to keep the bloodlines pure, that you see me as an abomination to mankind. That such a creation is the ultimate betrayal of the person that bore me and gave me life. A bit of a double standard, you keep two vampires and yet your mission is to kill them all. You want to kill me fine, do after I have my revenge."
"What revenge?" she demanded, a face of disgust was on her face. This thing was worse than Alucard and such beings should be killed without hesitation.
"I know the name of the demon the ordered the death of my family, one way or another, I'm going to kill him for the murder of my family." David said; anger had built in his voice as he remembered his families last moments.
"Sounds like I should thank this vampire for killing more of your filth." Integra smirked.
Lowering his voice to a growl he hissed out his reply to the woman who dared to slander his family. "My children never received my fathers' powers from me. They were pure humans; you think that I would give them such a curse willingly? As far as I'm concerned, you're guilty and if you were a vampire, I wouldn't hesitate in killing you." Walking closer David slammed his fists on her desk, leaving deep impressions in the wood, he continued.
"I know that you want the secret of the silver dust, I know how to make it as well as other weapons that I use that cause mass destruction on a vampire. You want it? Then help me in my revenge, do that, and not only will you have it, but my life as well." David's imposing form seemed to tower over her.
Integra could see she had it a nerve in him. Silently she weighed her options, help this abomination in killing more vampires and in turn end his life and give her the tools that would allow her to keep her queen and country safe. It was a win, win situation.
"Fine, Walter, show him a room."
DS/
Three days later.
Seras wondered the hallways in the mansion looking for something to do. About six hours ago the doctors had released her from the infirmary and told her to walk around the property to allow her leg to get some exercise. Her master had told her of the past few days events and that David had agreed to live with them. She walked around the quarter's area hoping to see him. She wanted to ask him so many questions.
Seras tried to scan for him but was only met by her master's idol presence. Silently she whispered in her mind his name. 'Yes young one?'
She was taken aback; she didn't even think that he would be able to hear her thoughts or even reply. 'Um, where are you?' Seras replied, not sure what else to say err think.
'I'm in my room, why?' David replied.
Continuing to walk in the quarter area she began to open doors that might be his room hoping to drop in on him. 'I have a few questions id like to ask you in person... can we talk?'No reply. 'David?'
'Room one seventeen, the door is open so come in when you reach It.' finally the reply came. Walking back down the hallway she finally found the door with the number of David's room. She thought about entering like David said she could but her manors stopped her and she knocked anyways.
"I said you could come in when you got here Seras, there is no need for formality between us." came David's voice. Entering Seras asked somewhat of a childish question.
"What if you were in the shower or changing?" David chuckled at the question.
"I can sense when someone is coming close by and their intent, if that ever happens next time you come by, ill have enough time to change."
David was sitting in a chair on the far side of the room wearing jeans and a black t-shirt. His black trench coat, gloves and boots were thrown about the room. "Please, take a seat." David gestured to a chair in the far corner, suddenly it flew towards the table that he sat by.
"How did you do that?" Seras asked as she sat down. Again, David chuckled at the question.
"Didn't Alucard tell you? I'm dunpeal, I have some vampiric abilities." David said. "So, what's on your mind, young one?"
"Well my first question is why. Why did you heal me?" Seras asked.
"Despite what you have been told, Seras, you're not evil. You care too much and would rather harm come to you than to others. You're more human than most humans can even hope to be despite what Alucard did to you." David said looking at her, God she looked so similar to his daughter.
"Okay, may I ask why you went after my master? Granted he isn't going to be considered for anything for helping humanity anytime soon. But still, what did he do to you?" Seras asked, she hoped that it wouldn't be too personal of a question for him to answer.
David sighed at the question and looked to the ceiling. "Your master and I, have a long and painful history together. There was actually a time that.... the reason I hate him is because he allowed someone that I held close to my heart die. Sense then I haven't forgiven him for that. As much as I want to, I can't kill him; the same person that he let die made me promise that I wouldn't kill him."
Seras was silent. She knew that her master was evil, but she always thought that there was a reason to it, now she wasn't so sure. She decided to ask another question, hopeful that it wouldn't hurt David to answer like the last one did.
"David, where did you learn to fight like the way that you do? I know you're a dunpeal, but not even my master can fight the way you do."
David chuckled at the question. "My master, well actually my mentor taught me. His name is Berne. After Alucard let the person I held close to my heart die, I left the county, I was sick of my life there, well, not entirely, but that's beside the point. I was wondering the county side in a land I had recently entered. Suddenly a terrible snowstorm came from nowhere. I found a cave and took shelter in there. Suddenly an avalanche accrued and I was trapped. Hoping for another way out I went deeper into the cave system. That's where I met master Berne... At first he tried to kill me, but then found me amusing at my attempts to fight him." David pulled the staff from its place at his side and looked at it as he continued.
"Later he realized what I was and who my father was. He told me that no matter what; I would always be considered a half-breed unless I could prove myself. That's when he began to train me. He was, is the perfect warrior. He was the one that taught me my values, when I finally left his teachings I was ready to return to my father and my country. But when I returned, Sir Integra's family had come and gone. I didn't know it at the time though so I left."
"I wondered the world a few times over, soon I became known as the vampiric assassin. I killed only vampires, but not all, not all are evil. One time I met one that was much like you, Seras, a rich vampiric noble wanted her dead because she would not be part of his court or some other reason. I spared her and went after the noble. After that, I lost myself in the world's history."
Seras was amazed; this man had done so much killing in his life but refused to kill an innocent, human or vampire. She was about to ask another question when her master came threw the walls. "Having fun?" Alucard smirked.
"What do you want?" David replied plainly without getting up or reacting to Alucard's method of entry into his room.
"We have a new mission, head to Integra's office for the briefing police girl." Alucard said, ignoring David's question. Looking at her master and then David, she left the room and went down to the office for her assignment.
"Take it I'm not invited to this little pow wow." David said as he stood up and walked about his room seemingly disinterested.
"Integra doesn't trust you enough yet. Should she do otherwise?" Alucard replied.
"It's entirely up to her; I personally could care less what she thinks. When was the last time a human stopped what you wanted to do? By the way, have you told Seras yet about our history?"
"She doesn't need to know, not yet anyway. If Integra found out, she would kill you without hesitation." Alucard replied. David simply laughed, amused at the idea of the Hellsing actually being able to kill him.
"She tried already remember?"
editors note: I know this chapter seems to go against what David did a few chapters ago, one would think he would be like Anderson, but I wanted him to be very complex and have a caring side as well as a very dark side. This was revealed when he healed Seras.