Here With Me

Dreaming of you

"Hey Integra can you take me a bath?"

Alucard said as he walked in covered in the blood of the people he just killed. Integra was only fourteen and wouldn't look at him. She couldn't. It made her shudder when she saw him in blood. She looked away and growled.

"It's MASTER INTEGRA to you, and shut up Alucard, you are old enough to take yourself a damn ba...WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"

Integra shot her gaze toward Alucard as he slowly began to take off his coat. He looked down at the buttons he was undoing then at Integra. She was blushing. She noticed he looked at her and she turned away. Alucard stood there for a moment then grained a devilish grin upon his face, his trade mark grin.

"Lady Hellsing, my, my, my, I didn't think you would ever think of something such as myself stripping in front of you...that is not proper etiquette."

"ALUCARD!"

And with that a book went at his head. Alucard ducked and it hit the wall. Alucard clapped as he moved the strands of white hair from his face. He smiled and threw his coat to the floor. Integra stood and reached for her paper holder and threw it at him. She was fourteen but she packed a punch.

"Yea Alucard how bout I bathe you and rub extra hard on a certain area! Yea I'd like to see you find it after that. You big baby!"

Alucard burst into laughter. Another book flew at him. Integra growled and dove into her drawer looking for anything to throw at him. Anything that would hurt him so badly he would cry for his endless demise. She found a silver cross and jammed it in his face. Alucard stopped dead right were he was and stared at it. He fell to the floor yelling. Integra stopped she looked at him. She laughed at him for a moment.

"Quite playing."

She said. But he continued on acting like he was dieing.

"Alucard...you can stop now..."

She was now kneeling beside him with a worried look plastered on her face.

"Alucard..."

"RAH!"

Alucard scared her. She screamed and fell back her legs slamming her knees closed as she did so. Her skirt went up for a second then fell. She heaved in a breath then sat up. She grabbed the crossed and slapped him with it so hard it left an imprint.

"ALUCARD! HOW DARE YOU! YOU STUPID BASTARD OF A MAN! YOU...YOU...YOU INGRATE I...LEAVE!"

SLAP! She slapped him with it again. Alucard could not stop laughing as he crawled his way out the door. Integra sat down and crossed her legs before her. She allowed her eyes to fall into thin lines as she swore sweat fell form her brow. She lied back giving out a large sigh. What was she going to do with that damned man? She was so proper mannered, such a sweet person, then he came and he ruined it all. HE MADE HER MAD! He did everything wrong. It was him. Him. He was a bad pet.

Integra stopped thinking as she brought herself up. Maybe he wasn't so bad. He was pretty stupid, so funny to laugh at in her head. Of course to everyone else she didn't laugh. She didn't smile, she only had two emotions. Her regular look and a pissed off one she got when Alucard poked his nose around. She stood up when before she knew it the ground beneath her was taken from her. She was floating in blackness.

"Alucard!'

She called out his name. She didn't call it out because she thought it was his doing. She called it out so he'd save her. But there was no Alucard. It was only her and the darkness. Before her feet could settle on the unsettle ground she fell through. Her skirt was no longer a school skirt but her regular uniform. Her hair and everything was regular, back to her present day and now.

"Alucard!"

Integra gasped as she sat up in bed. She looked over her shoulder. The sky was getting dark with the sun barely over the horizon. She looked at herself, she was normal. It was all a dream? Was that really all? It felt more like a memory then a dream. She did remember it happening but not like that quiet exactly. She sighed. She reached for her glasses. Once on she moved the cover. When she looked at the bed she nearly jumped. There was a lump lying there beside her curled up with the covers way above head.

"Huh?"

She heard come from the lump as it moved. Integra looked at herself once more. She was wearing her pajamas with her bra and panties still on. That was a good sign no? She reached over and slowly tapped the lump while reaching under her pillow for her gun. Before she could grab the spot, a long pale arm came up from below the covers to twirl the gun on a finger.

"ALUCARD?"

She screamed.

"Huh?"

The sleepy voice came once more. She stopped. He said huh when she first looked at him. It dawned on her she called out his name as she awoke. She covered her mouth and jumped off the bed. She took the pillow and slammed it on him hard again and again and again.

It was now Alucard's turn to jump out of the bed. He looked at her shocked then ducked behind the shade of the bed. The sun was setting with still thin rays of it moving about. He hid there staying not wanting to move, but then again not wanting to be shot by Integra. She growled as she walked over. She heard the door open and looked. Walter ran in holding a gun thinking Integra was in danger for screaming. She grabbed the gun the thrusted it at Alucard but he already merged with the shadows. She called out his name threatening to fire at any moving shadow.

Integra sat on the bed. The window was open and the hot summer hair came in. She looked at the moon it was a beautiful sight, nearly a full moon. She couldn't really tell the difference. It looked full to her. She smiled and lied back. Why was he in her bed? She asked for time and then she fell asleep. Yet he was still in her bed. That was the odd part. The fact that he was still there. She sighed and rolled over. She slept for most of the day after her little fight with Alucard about him having affections for her.

He had Affections for her. That was still hard to believe. Her pet, her friend, had a crush on her. Or was it the other way around. She rolled over trying to get comfortable thinking. She, no matter how hard she tried, thought about Alucard. She slimed thinking about him. That was a bad thing. She quickly slapped herself in the face trying not to think of silly things. She had a duty to up hold to. She would tell the queen she would go to the ball and meet with whomever the queen saw fit. That was the end of it...she wished...

Integra threw herself another way again. She couldn't take it any more. She stopped and took another breath her pet, her Alucard, her Alucard for her, what to do with him. He was hers and no else's. She thought about how well she had him tamed, how well she taught him, how well he taught her. She never really looked at it but whenever he did something, she learned from it. She learned for sure never to give him a bath again. She was going to once but...after his shirt went off she ran off like a scared child and couldn't look at him straight for four weeks. She smiled. Memories were golden.

Memories. She loved her memories, especially the ones about Alucard. It was no much easier when she was child, now it was hard. Now she had to put on a front: walls. She had walls that no one could cross. No one but Alucard. He'd wonder into her dreams and toy with her like he did when she was younger. When she was younger. Alucard never aged, it was impossible. He was the undead. She commanded him and in some way was beginning to mold him into something. Or was it the other way around?

Every command to destroy, every soul he took, he took for her. Was she really the monster? Those vampire's, the killers of humanity, blood drinkers of the night, they killed off humans...and she killed off vampires. She was no better then them. She sat there, or even out on the field, with every command, every death she was no better. She was becoming a monster. Even if it wasn't killing off humans she still killed, in the name of god or not SHE STILL KILLED!

Integra sat up once more. She was shaking and she began to cough. It was a steady cough at first then it drove her into a fit. Her blood spat out into her hand. She took in a deep breath. She was dying. She could not stop that and if god help her she was dying without an heir. Hellsing would forever be lost to her. Alucard would go on, and she would be forgotten.

"Not so master."

Integra looked up. Alucard sat kneeling by her bed, hands laced before him, elbows propped him up and head leaning against his fingers. He stared at her; his big red eyes just stared at her. His hat still had not reappeared with his coat. She stared at him, shocked at first then she noticed she stopped coughing.

"Why are you here, I told you I need time."

"You need rest. I should have never brought this upon you. My silly antics, my stupidity toward things, it's my fault. I am the one driving you to an early grave, and yet you still won't allow me to atone for my sin."

Integra stopped. He was blaming this on himself? Why? What could have made him think it was his fault. She then realized whenever he got her pissed, whenever he got her mad, she was chewing on her cigar. The tobacco leaked into her mouth. She could feel it in her throat even if she hadn't smoked in two days it was there. She returned her gaze to him. He was blaming himself. Now she felt worse. She just needed a smoke. Whenever he got her mad she smoked, whenever any got her mad she smoked so he shouldn't be the one with the burden. If anything he should blame her. She knew her limits yet she exceeded them.

'Not so master?' why on earth did he say that? What was not so...HE READ HER MIND! Integra had to stop herself before her rage breached the surface and she was to strangle him. She stopped and just flinched. She thought about it. She would be forgotten and he butted in. He did not agree that she would be forgotten?

"You read my thoughts."

'You were talking out loud. I only came in here because I smelt you blood."

Alucard said. Integra stopped. He didn't read her thoughts then. Why on earth would she speak out loud? She took it she was such in a deep thought that she did. She moved her hand to push a strand out of her face but Alucard bet her to it. He pressed the hair behind her ear and stared up at her. He smiled. He was so cute without that big red hat and the over sized coat. She couldn't help but to smile at him.

"Shall I keep the maiden company, now that you are unarmed and won't shoot me?"

Alucard smirked and ruined the moment. She waited. Why had he been in her room earlier that day? She asked him. He didn't smile, he didn't change anything about his face, and with honesty in his eyes simply said when he laid her to rest she grabbed him and wouldn't let go. He didn't intend of falling asleep, but in the end he did.

Integra gave a small smile and scooted over. She lied down and stared at Alucard waiting for him. He gave a huge grin that lost its emphasis and died into a nice lovingly smile. He climbed slowly into bed beside her lying on his back. Integra sat there. Should she do something? She could still remember the times when she was child that Alucard would climb into bed with her and she would try her hardest not to snuggle against him because she thought the bad dreams would go away with just him in the room, but they didn't so she ended up waking in his arms anyways.

"Do you remember when I would climb into your coffin?'

Integra asked. Alucard now looked at her. He smiled thinking about those times. He nodded his hair brushing against his face covering one eye.

"Yea I remember. I would wake up to you barking orders in the middle of the night for me to allow you into my secret room. Then you'd get yourself in my coffin without me asking you to. You were such a brat then and you still are now."

Integra growled at him. He smiled warmly at her and cautiously rolled over so he was on his side as well and closer to her. It was funny really how she ended up crawling into his arms as they slept.

"Ow! Damn it! OW!"

Integra cursed as she held her arm. She stood there in the corner of a building. She was still very young. Maybe not that many days into fifteen. She sat holding her arm. She had been shot clean slice on the side of her arm once more. The burning pain hurt her but she would not cry, and she would not call for help. One of the solider told her to stay were she was so she did. She didn't want to die after all.

Integra stood up. She had twisted her ankle and still tried to walk. With her good arm she used the wall a crutch. She knew she was dead. She had used the last round on a bunch of ghouls that attacked her. She only had one bullet left. Great she was surely done for. Integra flinched again as a pain shot threw her arm. It was bleeding still, like mad. She gathered all her strength as she pushed open the huge metal door. Her eyes opened wide, she drew her gun and fired as something black shot at her.

"Master!"

Alucard laughed as he bent over on one knee and looked at her. There was a bullet hole threw the middle of his forehead. Of course it didn't bother him none. He have that retarded insane smiled he always had to her. His smile became an 'aw' as he looked at her bruises, her cuts, and her sprint ankle. She sighed as she fell to the ground. She couldn't hold it in. She felt the tears coming she just didn't see them.

"Stop that."

She heard Alucard say. She looked up at him, her glasses nearly falling off her nose.

"There is no reason to cry. Oh but I guess you think Hellsings cry don't' you?"

"I AM NOT GOING TO CRY! ALUCARD HELP ME UP AND GET ME OUT OF HERE!"

Alucard smiled and picked her up. He held her in one arm. It curved under her butt so she was leaning against him. He looked down at her and raised a hand slowly to her face. She stared at him the entire time. With a gloved hand he slowly brushed away the tear drop that finally fell."

"Gladly."

Sadly no stars after that dream because it was the end of the chapter. What will Integra do she is running low on time. Who knows? Maybe she'll walk up to the queen throw holy water on her and light her a flame. Dunno only wish.

Damien.