Hellsing:
Amen
by Notan Rappa
Chapter 8: Found Walter...Now What?
Alucard took a step closer to the still figure of Walter. Walter
muttered something that would have been too quiet for a human to hear
as more than a groan.
"Go...away.
Stay...back, I'm...warning...you." Alucard frowned.
'What have they done to you, Walter?' he thought. He
lifted Walter's head and stared straight into his eyes. Five
seconds later Alucard shook his head, blinking furiously, wanting to
get out of Walter's mind as fast as possible. "Why would someone
do this?"
Later, back at the Hellsing mansion...
Seras was at the indoor shooting range, seeing
as it was light outside. She had been inspired to new heights of
practice by Integra's words. The other men at the shooting
range had all reacted to her arrival. Some got up and left as
fast as they could, others had stayed, but clearly felt
uncomfortable. Seras paid them no mind. She finished up with
her target, and then went for a walk. One of the men from the
shooting range ran up to her.
"Miss
Victoria!" he shouted. Seras turned around. Looking
into his eyes, she saw no fear, simply a nagging worry. "Have
you seen my friend Gary? He's gone missing, and...well, some of
the men think that you...you know...but I don't believe it for one
second."
'So that's what all this
fear from the men is about.' Seras thought. "No, I
haven't seen your friend Mr..."
"Jason.
You can call me Jason."
"Jason.
If I do see him, you'll be the first to know."
"Thank you." Looking much relieved, Jason turned back to the shooting range. Seras felt something inside her longing for his fresh warm blood. But as time went on, her ability to resist the urge to feed for even a few moments more increased. Seras knew that anymore strange disappearances like the one with Gary would draw even more unwanted suspicion. She turned and ran until she couldn't take the hunger anymore. She killed and drained the first living thing she saw, which happened to be a cat.
Minutes later, in Integra's cell...
Integra sat bolt upright, pistol at the ready, when Alucard came in through the ceiling. Alucard smiled.
"Are you going to shoot me?"
"Hmph." Integra snorted as she lowered the
pistol. "I might." Then her vision settled on the
figure Alucard was holding. "Walter!" She got up from
the couch and Alucard placed Walter down on it gently. They
both looked at him in silence for a moment. "Is he all
right?"
"Physically he should recover.
I have faith in his mental fortitude as well, though the damage
to his mind was rather extensive."
"What
do you mean? How is his mind damaged? How extensive are
we talking?"
"Someone forced their way
into his mind and messed up the pieces. He then left a piece of
his own mind in Walter's. So now, Walter's mind is a
non-navigable mass of messed up goop which is trying to reconstruct
itself. As to how bad the damage is, let's just say that even
I don't want to be in there right now."
"Why?"
"It's so bad right now that
if I got lost in it, I would never find my way out again."
"Walter..." The worries of Walter, the stress
of running an organization from a jail cell, the anger over the red
tape, and just the everyday emotional strain in general, all came to
a head. Integra did something that she hadn't done since she
was very little. She sat down and began to cry.
End
Chapter 8
