Van Hellsing's accent is difficult to read, but from what I understand his English was very hard to understand in the original novel (which is why he wrote so few letters). Grit your teeth and dive in, chickies. He's a frustrating one to understand. You'll also notice a cross of dialect and language. Particularily when he says 'Oi vey', as well as other little words. I always figured Hellsing knew more than just Dutch and English, and language sort of spilled from all corners in his mind. Brilliant chap, that.
Some people see Dracula as the liberator of women. I see him as their ultimate downfall. As terrifying as his brides maybe, there is still something about them that seperates them apart from everyone else: Their souls are damned. Dracula knows it, and he chooses to damn the souls not of men but of women. To me, that is the greatest chain anyone could be bound with - damnation. It's a cruel punishment, and Dracula seems to love sharing his pain with women who don't know any better.
Shadow of the Underdark: Gods man, I thought that chapter was horrid. Hell, I was SO uncreative in the entire thing. But if you liked it, then that just flatters me all the more )
Mykona: I dinno about you, but I care little for the emotional crap and everything about the sexuality of their relationship. Teehee.
Sola: Yeah. I know /
not so blind mieko: I actually wrote that part thinking "Oh.. I am SO ORIGINAL!" and then it wasn't until later I realized "Dude. I just ripped off of Kill Bill. DAMMIT!" but it was so ingrained into Integral's character and the chapter I just COULDN'T take it out. I'd be committing a greater injustice by doing so.
Kay-sama: Poor Integral needs MORE than a therapist...
Thess: I work to please you all with my sick twisted mind.
Zachiel: I only know the Anime Alucard. Not so much likey the Manga one. I'm more for serious tone, not comedy.
Kay-Sama: Dumb knights...
Glory: Maggots can be a pretty damn powerful mental image.
Mystic: I do love dialogue. Oh, how I do love dialogue.
Megami: Working on it!!!
Karen516: And I always look forward to writing them
Chimerablue5: It just gets better
Kyrilliz: She survives with lots of advil
pick.pocket.puck: Thank you!!!
Vegeta7423: 'Feel Lucky' is my better fic. But there are others who write TEN times better than me as far as AxI goes. You just have to search. They are my in-spo-ra-tion.
I had a vacation, and now I'm back. Wow, lots of stuff happened while I was gone. First and foremost, there is this 'Greatest Hellsing Fanfic' group in this fan-fiction section and all my stories are there. Wow. That surprised me.
I also noticed Integral & Alucard relationship fic is pretty sparse now. Instead, there's a lot of Seras fandom going on. Man, I remember back in the day when everyone HATED Seras. She was whiny, she was annoying, she hung off of Alucard, etc. I didn't mind her, wasn't my favorite character, but I didn't mind her. Still, it's funny how things have changed in less than FIVE MONTHS. P
Here's the story.
Such a lovely color for you
Call it aftermath, she's turning blue
While I just sit and stare at you"
- A Perfect Circle, "Blue"
"Vell... Isn't vis a delight, ya?"
Pain... throbbing... pain... throbbing...
"Come on now girl. I don't have all day long to vait for yoo."
One eye squinted open, scanning the outside world... glancing... noticing... but the shapes were blurred, fuzzed, confused, jumbled. The other soon followed, eyelids unleveled, eyes crossed, face twisted in perplexity. That's when the real pain settled in, this awful slice across her breast, belly, inner thigh.
"Ves ves, that's it. Quite a hit yoo vecieved, hmm? Vight across your veproduction organs, I dare say.."
"What... who are you...? Where am I...? ALUCARD!"
"Oh, vor goodness sake. Is dis what my descendants have become? Vord save us!!! Oi vey... depending on a vampire! Vhat a disgrace!!!"
Fingers splayed across the floor, naked digits rolling over the smooth tiles, blindly searching for a pair of glasses.
"Don't bother, girl. They've been destroyed. Besides, yoo need to learn to stop depending on those things. God, girl. Virst a vampire and now your glasses! Vhen are yoo going to learn to depend on vhat's veally important? Your own instincts?"
"Who the hell are you?" Integral growled, rolling onto her back and wincing as her abdominal muscles flexed with the adjustment of weight.
The voice chuckled, deep with mirth and disgust. "Oh girl, not very bright. I told yoo. Must I give yoo more clues? All vight than. Who else in your family has an outrageous Dutch accent?"
"Oh dear god... it isn't possible... ALUCARD! THE JOKE IS OVER! WHERE ARE YOU, DAMMIT?!" Integral shouted, wincing as the pain seared through her body. "God... DAMMIT. Alucard. Fuck. I am too OLD for this. Where the hell are you?"
"Come come now, girl. Stop this vuckus. I'm here to give yoo some advice. Because, lord knows, yoo need it."
Integral growled, rolling onto her stomach as her face twisted in pain. She proceeded to crawl across the floor - trailing blood behind her as she yelled curses and obscenities towards no one. "ALUCARD! SHOW YOURSELF! Oh... God..." Integral sobbed, the agony unbearable... pausing to catch her breath
The stranger spun about on his heel and took a casual gait in Integral's direction. He calmly stood between her and her aimless destination, kneeling as he flicked a length of her bangs back fondly. "Veady to listen now?"
"You can't possibly... be Abraham Van Hellsing," Integral gasped between breaths, teeth grit in pain
"Oh, I most certainly am, girl," He mused. "But to say I am ze TRUE Van Hellsing.. vell... zat may not be so true."
"What do you mean?"
Abraham took a moment to cross his legs on the floor some comfortable distance away from his descendent. "Vell... I believe I am just a vigment of your illustrious imagination."
"Pardon?"
"Yoo got hit pretty badly, if yoo didn't notice," Abraham laughed, gnarled hands clasped around his heels as he rocked back and forth like a child. "Vat monster charged right into yoo... sliced from ze neck down, yoo vere. And vhat vere yoo doing...? Oh... vhat's right... calling on ze vampire's name."
Integral blushed, turning away from Abraham Hellsing.
"Zen you vent unconscious... and vere yoo are now!!! But iz zat monster dead? Or iz it devouring yoo now as ve have this delightful recapture of memory? Vell.. ve don't know now, do ve? All ve can count on iz a blood sucking human parasite... another monster who has all ze intentions of killing you as well... to save yoo."
Abraham clacked his tongue with shame, "I thought I better raised my children."
"What are you talking about, old man? You were never there," Integral growled, using this sudden turn around to justify her means by equally shaming her ascendant. "Your affairs with other women were notorious. Gina Rolland? Queen Victoria? Mina Harker?"
"Now now now, girl. Just because I vas never there doesn't give yoo ze right to vuin everything I created," Abraham shook his head, fingers combing past the bald spot on his head and across what hair remained. "Dracula vas never meant to be released... he vas never meant to be anything but a means of further research and better understanding of his kind so ve could zee their extinction vonce and for all. But no no no... that dumb grandson of mine whom my child had ze nerve to NAME after me has to go and vuin it all!!! Advising yoo to seek ze help of zat... zat... monster! Gods, you should've died zat day. You should have died, and ze organization could've gone to your uncle as it was meant to."
Integral's blood boiled, her lips twisted and features flustered at her ancestor's biting words.
Hellsing merely continued, unbothered by the tension he was causing. "And now... Dracula iz mocking me. Mocking me by controlling yoo. Every time yoo call his name... every time you beg vor his help... every single moment you valk into a meeting with ze Knights of ze Round vith that damned abomination by your side just so yoo can earn a slice of respect. Vespect, only because yoo claim yoo hold ze leash to zat maggot filled dog. Yoo didn't earn zat vespect. Yoo didn't earn a damn thing, girl."
"...What the hell do you expect me to do? Sit back and let them mock our institution? Give the reigns of power to someone not of the lineage? What the FUCK do you expect me to do, you goddamn spirit?" Integral spat, forcing herself to sit up and stare directly into the face of her accuser.
"Ah.. Zo yoo do have a little Hellsing spirit in yoo. Vell, I suggest yoo start veering some pants."
"...Pants?"
"Ves... ves...! Pants."
"...Pants?"
"I say pants, voo say pants. Ve are both speaking English here."
"Why?"
"Because ze skirts are giving some of your men a bit of a peeky peeky, and zat is not ze message I vant my great grand daughter sending. Yoo fail to understand zat yoo live in a male dominated society. As long as yoo have ze vagina, yoo will never be taken seriously. So vear some pants!"
Integral blushed at the advice. She looked down, observing the massive gash over her belly and lower regions, wincing at what she saw.
"And take care of zat. By yourself. Don't have Valter or Dracula attend yoo. Yoo need to start growing up without them. In ze end, yoo should be taking care of yourself. Only when you are desperate, should you need Valter's assistance. And never should you need zat goddamn parasite's help."
"I need him..." Integral muttered, fingering the wound over her left breast.
"Says who? Hold your own gun. Shoot. Yoo do not need him. He iz a mockery of us all. He will be our downfall." Van Hellsing paused, rubbing the soft spot between his eyes. "...Zo... This must be Dracula's greatest punishment, now zat I think about it. Serving a human. Hell, not just serving a human, but serving a girl!"
"What do you mean?" Integral inquired absent mindedly, intrigued by her own split flesh - tearing off her shirt and caring less for her indecency. This was after all a dream, right?
"Dracula always detested vomen. So veak... so inferior... so easy to seduce... corrupt... ruin," Abraham muttered, his eyes casually wandering over Integral's exposed breasts then to his hands. "He used to tell me how he ruined ze chastity of countless virgins, spiked his nightly whores around his courtyard as décor, and hunted prostitutes down for sport. If I vecall, he didn't even vespect his own wife. Vell, vhen he had one. She soon committed suicide from ze insanity zat consumed her."
"He must be lonely, not having a companion to call his own," Integral mused aloud.
"What, yoo pity ze bastard? After all those lives he ruined?"
"I can't help it. He raised me."
"Corrupted yoo," Van Hellsing corrected.
"I hate him. I hate him I hate him I hate him. I love him. I love him, I hate him, I love him, I hate him."
"Has he seduced yoo yet girl?"
Integral paused, unsure of how her answer would affect this conversation and whether or not it was even Hellsing's business, "...Yes."
"And?"
"I kicked him in the face and put a bullet between his eyes."
Digging deeper, Abraham supported his chin with his knees, "Did he vape you?"
"No. He stopped. He didn't want my body... He just wanted to taste the bullet. He's always bored. Always bored."
"Has he tasted your blood?"
"Yes."
Abraham seemed alarmed, body taut as his next question spilled without hesitation, "Does he drink it?"
"He has to. Or else he goes insane," Integral's voice quivered with previous memories of Alucard's madness.
"So he is addicted to your blood. Zis is not good...," Hands clasped and knotted against Abraham's forehead as he shook a heavy head. "..If yoo have a child... yoo vill no longer be able to control his bloodlust. If yoo do not, Hellsing is dead."
Abraham narrowed his eyes, looking up into the ceiling of nothing as perversions entered his mind. "He will try to make yoo one of his kind... Ah, Dracula. Yoo have me at Check Mate now. Goddamn yoo, yoo bastard."
"What?" Integral asked, confused.
"Don't yoo see? He has plotted this all along. He needs yoo to keep sane. Since ze very first time he tasted yoo, he knew," Abraham said, shaking a tired finger into the air as he ground his teeth. "He knew zat your female, chaste blood would be his veakness and power. Ze moment he tasted yoo, he knew. He knew.
Van Hellsing collected himself, his mind turning into a different direction as he spoke off topic, "Vhat are yoo sworn to do as a Hellsing, girl?"
Still confused, Integral cleared her throat and answered, "...To continue the line of work you established a century ago."
"Vich iz?"
"To destroy all evil in the name of God."
Abraham closed his eyes, and pressed his forehead to his knees. "Ve are doomed, girl. Ve are doomed. Ah.. Dracula.. yoo have won.. yoo bastard."
Integral's brows furrowed, "For heaven's sake, old man, what are you talking about?"
"Don't yoo see? Yoo cannot have a child. Yoo must remain a virgin, or else your blood becomes tainted and yoo vil not be able to control his bloodlust," Van Hellsing wrung his hands through his hair, tearing out chunks in his frustration. "And yoo are only mortal, yoo vil die without an heir. Evil is immortal, girl. It is everlasting, and now we can no longer fight it... it will continue under zat goddamn Dracula's reign."
"How do you know?!" Integral snapped in disbelief. "You don't know this for certain."
"Ah, girl... do yoo vant to prove me wrong? Something tells me yoo in fact do not. Yoo are too afraid."
Integral grit her teeth and fisted her hands, "I fear nothing."
"Yoo are afraid. Yoo are afraid of him... but don't be so ashamed. It iz only natural to vear him. He iz evil incarnate, iz he not?"
"I do not fear evil. You cannot defeat what you fear. I fear nothing."
Abraham's brow raised with those words, nodding as he replied in a collected tone, "Zo... yoo vould be villing to do anything to carry out your duties? To show yoo vear nothing?"
"Yes."
"Then there iz a way to save our institution."
"How?"
"Yoo have to be one of them."
"One of what?" Integral inquired, following Abraham's erratic behavior with her eyes.
"A nosferatu, girl. Yoo have no choice. It iz the only vay yoo can control Dracula and continue ze Hellsing legacy. Now now, don't give me zat look. Yes, it goes against everyzing I believe in, but what choice iz there?"
"Truly my ancestors would not say such things..." Integral hissed under her breath, alarmed. "It is forbidden! My soul would be damned! Hellsing's reputation would be tarnished!"
"So selfish girl. Care only for your soul and not for ze good of ze entire vorld!"
"Away from me, you crazed spirit!!!" Integral gasped, pushing her limp body in the opposite direction of the specter.
"You vill soon zee. Oh, Dracula.. Brilliant, brilliant! He vill ask. He vill ask yoo to drink his blood. He vill ask, and at that time... yoo vill consider."
"NEVER!"
"Yoo are so veak without him... so veak. Ze power of a No Life King vunning through your veins would cause him to stir. You vould no longer depend on anyone except yourself. It vill be in your weakest moment yoo vill consider becoming this thing, and it vill be then he shall offer it. And yoo vill not refuse."
Integral snarled, "And go against my honor? Her Majesty? Our institution? I would risk all this for my own pride?"
"Yes," Van Hellsing answered simply, clasping his hands together.
"Never... NEVER! ALUCARD? DO YOU HEAR ME! SHOW YOURSELF!"
"Sir Hellsing..?"
"..Alucard?"
"Yes, master..?"
Darkness... that is all there was... darkness... Abraham Van Hellsing merely smiled before the sea of nothing swallowed him and everything around him. Integral hesitated as she fell into the inky substance of non-existence, Alucard's cruel voice hissing into the dead air.
"Ms. Hellsing? Ms. Hellsing?"
One eye opened, blurred and unfocused...
"Ms. Hellsing? Oh dear, please do wake up."
The other eye soon followed... she was dizzy, tired, drained. Her body was limp and numb. Why couldn't she feel anything below her collarbone? Why was everything in strange colors? Where was she?
"Oh thank God. Ms. Hellsing, thank God you are all right."
"...Walter..?"
"Yes, yes. Yes it is me. Oh God, do you need anything?"
"...Where am I...?"
There was a mirthful laugh, and soon a soft reply. "The hospital, my dear. You took a nasty hit with whatever that thing was. It has been detained. We are pretty certain it was a lab subject gone awry. Some sort of zombie, I dare say. But not of the human kind. We rescued you before it was too late, removed the tainted blood from your body. Oh, but you are all right now."
"Thank you, Walter..."
Her loyal servant merely smiled gently. "Is there anything I can do for you?"
"Yes, actually.."
Walter's brow furrowed in curiosity, inclining his head. "Such as?"
"Please... find me a pair of pants."
"You caused that dream, didn't you?"
"Ten years, and you ask me this question? Surely, Master, you jest.."
"It was you, wasn't it?"
"Well, surely you didn't think your conscience could create such an accurate portrayal of a dead man you had never met, now did you?"
"I have another question.."
"What, Master?"
"Why did you take the police girl?"
"Master.... Why ask such a pointless question?"
"Pointless actions often incite pointless questions."
"Heh..."
"Why?"
"I was bored."
"Bored?"
"Yes, Bored. If you didn't notice, I don't care for women. At all. Such funny creatures... easy to seduce... easy to ruin."
"You speak to me as if your audience wasn't a woman."
"I like to hope I killed the female in you a long time ago. Such a petty weakness, femininity. It incites love, emotion, care, connections, everything that causes the ruin of humanity."
"I'm not following, Alucard."
"Hatred, loathing, pain, anger... these things are merely the side effects of sadness, desire, and connection. Women ruined us since the beginning when Eve foolishly thought she was doing good by not wanting to offend the snake by taking his advice and sharing the poisoned apple with her husband so he would not go hungry."
"You hate women."
"To the point of damning my soul. God is a woman, you know. That is why we deal with so much pain and torment, because she's too damn afraid to come down and punish us all. Too damn in love with her children. And for that, we are suffering."
"You must be lonely."
"Hehehe... Master... how easily you confuse boredom for loneliness..."
"Only as easily as you confuse yourself for not being human."
Author's Notes: This one was fun. I had writer's block for the past two frickin' months. I didn't know how the hell to do this chapter. Then, just tonight, I watched 'Dead and Loving It.' It came to me. 'Dude, wouldn't be cool if Van Hellsing actually had a conversation with Integral? God, what would he SAY to her?!' And there you have it.
The little bit about Hellsing having an affair with the queen and mina harker is probably going to give me some negative feedback. Well, I don't really care. I wanted to expand my powers as a writer. So what if Harker is notorious for being 'Good'? Who's to say what happened all those years after Dracula died? And the Queen..? I always wondered why the Royal Family invested so deeply into the Hellsing Organization. Well yeah Hellsing helped during the Nazi invasion (no doubt by supplying a good deal of military equipment and training). But whose to say there wasn't something else going on as well, hmm?
This is also a plot device that will play later into this fan-fic.