Long live all of my fans! My net was down, so I had time to completely finish the book YAH! It's not exactly how I'd imagined it, but I didn't want it to go to long. So, here you go, hope you enjoy it, and send me reviews I love to hear from you!

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Hellsing Ideas or Characters.

Sorry about the end, and for the next chapter. I just wanted to do a little laugh! I know Alucard isn't the one to go to the mall… Please no flames!

Love In The Dark

Ch. 8

Cassandra woke up groggy the next evening. She knew that she had overdone it again. She turned over on her side, because her body still told her that it was tired. She was about to doze off again, but suddenly realized that she was not in her bed! There were walls on her sides, and a lid over her head. She was in a coffin!

Cassandra quickly kicked open the lid, and jumped out. She looked around the room and saw Alucard sleeping in a chair at the opposite corner. 'He…' her eyes widened a bit with a new found respect for Alucard. 'He let me sleep here when he had no where else to sleep.' Cassandra shook her head, and slowly crept toward the door.

She turned the handle slowly, but it still made a creaking sound. "You're welcome…" Alucard's voice drifted from his location. Cassandra sighed, and turned back to look him in the eye. She saw her diary on the table, and wanted to get it, but she didn't want to walk that close to Alucard.

She turned back around and walked out the door not saying anything.

Later that evening she was walking back up to her room from the gym, when she heard voices coming from Integra's office. They sounded like angry voices, and so she became curious. She sneaked closer to the office, and found that it was cracked open a bit.

Inside she saw her aunt sitting in her chair, and Alucard standing in front of her.

"You mean to tell me that there is nothing in her past that you could find out!"

Alucard diverted his eyes from his master sensing that she was extremely pissed. "That is precisely what I'm saying."

Integra's eyes narrowed. "Would you lie to me? She's tried to kill you twice, why are you protecting her? She is my family not yours!"

Alucard faced his master slightly angered. "If she wants to tell you, then she will. Who she reveals her past to is none of my concern!"

Integra glared at him and then went on with her paper work, obviously trying to ignore him.

Behind the door Cassandra's eyes widened. He had defied his master's order out of respect for her decision to keep it a secret. She knew the real question that Integra wanted to ask, but she didn't want to answer it.

"Did my sister become a vampire?"

Did Integra really believe that her sister would stoop to the level of becoming a bloodsucking demon herself? No, falling in love with one, and becoming one are two different things. Her mother may have been a fool for that, but she still kept most of her values.

Cassandra sighed and finished her journey to her room. "Alucard…" she sighed, knowing fully well that he had heard her. Integra was cold, and Cassandra wondered if anyone would be able to melt the ice around her heart. It was precisely the reason Cassandra didn't want her aunt to know that she was half vampire.

Even if Integra's own family had become vampires, would she still kill them? This is what worried Cassandra most when she decided to make up a different story about the death of her parents. Cassandra sighed realizing that she had exhausted herself with too many thoughts at once.

Alucard watched Cassandra slowly make her way down the hall to her room. He would have followed her, but he knew that they were in an uncomfortable situation right now. He waited until she was out of sight, before he made his way down to the courtyard. 'She's different. She's undead and yet her heart still beats within her chest…. Humanity still lies within her soul.' He mused as he walked through the door to the grounds of the Hellsing manor.

He suddenly felt pain, not like he'd been hurt or anything. But it was more like sympathy for the woman. She had killed her own mother, and not because she wanted to protect herself, but because her mother didn't want to be what she had become. And now Cassandra was caring the weight of wanting revenge from her father. She thought of her father as a coward, because he was unable to do what she did, even though she had difficulty doing it herself.

He wanted to set her mind at ease, but in the current situation he knew that he couldn't do that. She had made up her mind, and she didn't seem like she was willing to change it.

Cassandra sat on the edge of her bed thinking about her aunt. 'She knows, so what's stopping her from coming in here and killing me? Maybe she does have feeling somewhere in her…' She tried to think about things that would keep her mind off of Alucard, but her thoughts kept drifting back to him for some reason. "What was he like, when he was human?" she asked herself silently, hoping to feel his familiar cold chill, but it did not come.

It was no concern of Cassandra's what he did with his time, but she couldn't help but wondering what he was doing just then. 'It's no matter…. I'll kill him with the rest. He is no different.' She told herself as she laid back on her pillows to find refuge from her mind in sleep.

Integra looked at the papers in front of her, but she wasn't really seeing them. Her mind was to busy with other, more pressing, problems. She couldn't believe that her sister's own daughter was a half-breed. Cassandra looked like a normal human to most, but there were times when she emitted a cold air similar to that of Alucard's. And her eyes changed colors, not to red of course, but to violet. The colors red and blue make purple, right? That was the only explanation.

As the Hellsing family leader she was sworn to kill all vampires, but when the time came, could she really kill the only blood family that she had left. Integra snarled at herself for becoming so distracted. She didn't even know how she was to handle Alucard and Ceres when that time came. All she knew was that she didn't have time to think about those things right now.

Cassandra opened her eyes around noon the next day. She knew that it wasn't healthy to sleep so much, but since she had come to London her sleeping habits had to change. She was awake half the day, and then half the night. Sighing, Cassandra got up and got dressed. She looked at the calendar and stared at it in bewilderment for a moment. "Oh… It's my birthday…."

Integra woke up with a piece of paper stuck to her face. She had done it again, fallen asleep on her desk. She yawned and ran her fingers through her hair. There came a knock on the door, and Walter walked in. Caring lunch he approached her.

He set the tray down in front of her. "Thank you Walter."

"Sir?" He stood at her side while she ate.

Integra raised an eyebrow, and motioned for him to continue since her mouth was full of a triangle sandwich. "You're niece has requested… to… um…."

Integra looked up at him and swallowed what was left of her sandwich. "Walter, what is it that she wants?" Walter looked frightened, and tried to speak again.

"Well… she says that it could wait until later this evening… but…"

"Well spit it out!" She was becoming frustrated with him now.

Walter closed his eyes, "she wants to borrow the car."

Integra dropped her fork. "She what?" Walter knew better than to answer her, because she had already heard him well the first time. Her niece wanted to borrow her car… Integra's mouth hung open slightly, and she blinked her eyes a bit to make sure that she wasn't dreaming.

"MY CAR?!?!" She yelled out so loud that everyone in the building heard her.

The sun was setting and Cassandra once again found herself in the familiar bench in the garden. It was nice to watch the sun set behind the gates of the Hellsing manor. She enjoyed the spectacle, even though she was the only vampire ever able to do so. Once it had sneak it's way out of sight she smiled, because the air became cold once again.

"Good evening…" Alucard's hushed voice came from the shadows.

"Likewise." She said turning to face him. "I…um…never did thank you for…"

If it had been possible Alucard might of blushed, but he didn't. Instead he sat down next to her in his previous spot. "Don't mention it… Seriously."

Cassandra chuckled a bit at his joke. So… now she could finally begin her birthday celebration. "Hey Alucard?"

"Yah?" He glanced at her behind his glasses.

"Do you want to do something?" She stood up, taking a pair of keys from her back pocket. Alucard just looked at her in confusion. She was a strange girl.

"Like what?" He tested. He looked at the keys in her hand, and knew instantly that they were Integra's car keys.

Cassandra gave a sneaky innocents smile. "Something! I don't care what I just want to get out of this stinking rat hole!" She grabbed his arm and pulled him to his feet. Normally Alucard would refuse, but he didn't, and he didn't even know why.

"It would be a lot easier if we just materialized wherever it is we are going…" He said as she pulled him toward his master's prized car.

"I know, but it wouldn't be as fun, now would it?" Alucard didn't want to get in, but she was persistent. She jumped into the driver's side, and inserted the keys into the ignition. The engine instantly roared to life, and Alucard only sighed. The gates opened, and Cassandra pulled out into the street.

"Alucard?" She asked testing.

"What?" He looked at her from one side of his eye, not even bothering to turn his head.

"Has Integra talked to you? I mean about us…"

----Alucard Flashback----

"I believe it would be beneficial to the family if you and Cassandra became a separate unit. You both seem to have equal strength, I would suggest that you and her play nice, because I'm making you partners."

----End Of Flashback----

"Yah…" He trailed of looking out the window into the alleyways to see freaks lurking in the dark. He could sense her smile from behind the wheel, as she made a sharp left turn. "Where is it we are going?"

"Sorry Alucard, but any partner of mine, isn't dressing like that. Besides, if you want to get close to these modern day vampires you have to look like one." She pulled into a large parking lot, and found a spot closest to the huge building.

Alucard looked up with utter disbelief.

"The mall?"