Chapter 5: A Hole of Truths

Seras awoke to the sound of alarms going off all over the manor. It seemed to be around eleven in the morning, so she rose wearily. She heard shouts from above, then quickly changed into her clothes.

Grabbing her small hand gun, she ran upstairs, to see Integra yelling at an officer, then commanding another to take the former one's job. Seras looked around for the problem, and spotted it immediately. There was a large hole in the wall. She stared at it for a moment, then ran over to where Sir Integra was when the blonde saw her and yelled for her.

"Where have you been Capt. Victoria?" she demanded, glaring at the girl through her glasses.

"Sorry Sir. I was asleep." She replied blushing at having been asleep while the manor had been attacked.

"Now, now Police Girl, you really need to stop wearing ear plugs to bed." Came a cold and slightly humorous voice from nearby. Alucard stood a few feet behind Seras, and when she turned, sent her one of his sadistic smiles.

"Master…" Seras said looking at him for a moment, then back at Integra. "It won't happen again." She said quickly, regaining her calm expression after having been baited by her Master.

"Very well, Capt. Victoria, go with Unit 3. They are heading to a possible location where the attackers might be. Alucard," Integra said glaring at him, "Make yourself useful and go to this address." She muttered, handing him a sheet of paper. She was clearly annoyed, and Alucard couldn't help but make her even madder.

"Why of course your Majesty." He said bowing, a wicked grin spreading across his features.

Integra was in no mood for his antics, so instead of yelling at him, she grabbed at a surprised Seras and shot at him, emptying the round. "Now go you pain in the ass, and if you show your face here again until you've completed your mission, they won't be regular bullets next time." She said, then abruptly turned and left, going to see how the wall crew was faring, leaving a startled fledgling, and an amused master behind.

Seras turned to shoot him a glare as she marched past him to where Unit 3 was loading up.

"Be careful Police Girl." Alucard said quietly enough so that only vampiric ears could hear it as she walked past him. She spun around suddenly, but he was no longer there.

Why would he say something like that? She thought to herself, thinking as the van rumbled on towards their destination.

Seras sighed as they made their sweep of the abandon building. They had destroyed one ghoul, but that was it. She was tired, being up at this 'late' hour. She sat down on the bumper of the van as she watched the soldiers in Unit 3 report to the team leader.

"I wonder…" she said thinking back to the wall incident. Had it been the vampires who were after her? The thought scared her, they had gotten that close to the house in broad daylight to blow up a wall? Was it a warning? Or maybe it had been some random attack by other vampires trying to destroy Hellsing, and not about her after all.

She was still in thought when the team leader approached her. "Capt. Victoria." He said, looking down at her distant gaze.

"Huh?" she said snapping out of her questioning state. "Yes sir?" she asked standing.

"There's a call from HQ. We're done here. The rest of the day is free for you." The man said, then turned and walked away.

Lucky for her, she had been dressed in civilian clothing, so now she could do some things she had been meaning to for the last few days. Yawning tiredly, she started off down the street, her red eyes hidden by a baseball cap that she had snagged on her way from her room.

She finally reached the place she had been waiting so long to go see. Her parents old home, where she had lived after their death's, and where her answers would hopefully be answered.

She walked up the steps to the apartment, and made her way to the second floor. She pulled out a key from her pocket, and put it into the door's lock, turning it with a small click. It had been a long time since she had been here, nearly a year. She sighed, taking off her hat, and placing it on the table by the door. She took off her jacket as well, and flung it onto the dusty couch.

She took a look in her old bedroom for a few moments, then headed to where her parent's was. Upon entering it, she searched through the closet, pulling out a photo album. "Let's see." She said, bringing it back out into the living room and sitting down on the couch. She opened the darkened, dusty cover, and started flipping through the pages. She noticed one peculiar thing with all the pictures. Her parents were absent in all the ones taken at night. Why? They only had her, and friends of theirs.

"Why?" she asked, finishing her look through the album. She stood, and went back into the closet, looking for anything. She was fumbling through some of the boxes in the back when she noticed a nearly invisible latch in the back of the closet. "What's this?" she asked pulling the small door open. Inside were several guns. She pulled out one, then checked the bullets. "What!" she exclaimed, when she touched it and it burned her finger. "But how, I mean why, but how is this possible." Her mind was flooded with ideas, but the one that stuck out most was that of the relation with the vampire that had attacked her.

"No." she whispered, then stood abruptly, nearly running from the room, grabbing her coat and hat. She slammed the door shut as she ran down the stairs. "It's not possible is it?" she asked as she walked down the street towards the manor, her head lowered in thought. She didn't even realize how late it had gotten until she noticed the sun was setting. "What am I going to do?" she asked herself, as she walked up the steps of the Hellsing manor.

Inside, Integra was still yelling at people, and didn't notice the deeply in thought young vampire until the two nearly collided.

"Sorry Sir Integra." Seras said looking up for a moment, then down again.

"What's wrong Capt. Victoria?" Integra asked looking at the thoughtful vampire.

"Oh nothing Sir." Seras said, quickly walking past her, and down into the basement.

"Just like Alucard, doesn't even wait to be dismissed." Integra muttered, until she turned to yell at a repair worker.

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