Order 24: Knights of the Round Part 1
By: SleepyNinja
Disclaimer: Don't own Hellsing and not making a dime. I'm not even making any pennies off of this whatsoever. The entire idea goes out to the creator of the show itself, not me.
A/N: Insert random whoring for review here.
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It made no sense. No sense at all. Matter of fact, it was completely ridiculous! Absurd! Seras Victoria mused this over in her head for a few more moments. She was still firmly lodged on the couch between Jack's arms. She felt him reposition the bottom arm and settle back into the cushion.
With the small distraction over with Seras turned back to her little conundrum. Why the hell should she feel safe and secure in this position? If anything happened she was the one who would have to save him. It could barely be called a close match! She was much stronger than what had occurred in the empty room. They were just toying with each other, but her toying was much… better.
She gave a mental sigh and gave up. It didn't really matter. She should just enjoy it while it lasted. No doubt that something was bound to come up sooner or later.
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Against all probability nothing had happened. Absolutely nothing! The room was deathly silent, and nothing was going to break it if the current trend continued. She wondered if Jack was asleep. Maybe she should poke one of his hands a few times. Nah, she had a better idea.
She closed her eyes and concentrated. She could make out small flashes of Jack's surface thoughts as she scanned his mind. Small mental adjustment here and there, and Jack's consciousness was now like an open book.
Well, he was awake. But what was he thinking about? She looked deeper and an image started to appear. Moving from a bunch of fuzzy lights to sharper clearer items, everything started to come together.
From this position you could stare directly into the neon lights and flashing displays that were propped onto the side of buildings. Tilting your head downwards you could see part of the street a few stories below. The window was tinted, possibly one way glass.
Seras paid attention to the neon signs. Everything was in kanji, which looked like little more than a bunch of doodles, so this was probably from Jack's time in Japan. She head a voice say something from the right side and Jack answered. What the heck were they saying?
Of course! This was in Japan so they were probably speaking Japanese. Seras dug deeper into Jack's head so the memory flashed to her in English.
"I'm busy Owens, not stupid. What's her name?" The voice said. It wasn't loud, but it commanded attention.
"I fail to see how you could be so busy not to have asked the other dozen times I've stood here." Jack turned his head slightly towards the voice.
Its apparent owner was a Japanese man, dressed in a black business suit and his hair parted in the middle. The office was dark so she didn't get a good look at his face. It didn't look like he was all that tall, at least from the angle Jack was looking from. "Well this was the first one that didn't involve massive property damage or over thirty dead. A trend that I would much like to continue."
"I'm sure." Jack turned his attention back out the window.
"You've changed the subject."
"I suppose I have."
"I'm waiting."
"Seras…" he muttered. "Seras Victoria."
"Still in Britain I take it?"
"Yes."
"What's she like?"
"Inquisitive tonight aren't we?"
"I have nothing better to do. And you've changed the subject again."
"Such a nice girl…"
"She a monster too?"
Jack turned around and pulled down his left collar, revealing two pale scars. "What do you think?"
"Interesting. I thought you'd be the one to turn her."
Jack turned back to his original position and shook his head. "No…Dammit Anno what the Hell am I doing here?"
"Well you seem to be standing there."
"That's not what I mean."
"If I spent half as much time wondering why people do what they do as I do paperwork, I'd be sitting on top of the mountain with Master Hirano. Speaking of which, we'd better get you back before he gets impatient."
The memory started to blur and shift. What else did Jack do there? He hadn't said much about it. Well, she was in his head already, might as well. A few pokes and prods and subtle suggestions later, it seemed as if she was getting somewhere. Without warning Jack's mind seemed to just shut down.
Seras looked in deeper, only to get blasted with an overload of memories, thoughts, sounds, and emotion. She was so startled that she fell off the couch and hit the ground with a thump.
She looked back up and saw Jack shaking his right arm back to life. He sat up and raised an eyebrow. She quietly moved from the floor to a set on the couch, and placed her hands in her lap.
"I take it that was you snooping around my mind?" he said with a grin.
"Maybe."
"If you want to know something just ask."
"Noted."
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Integra shuffled the papers around on her desk. "Butler, if this is a joke it is in very poor taste." Integra said.
"I assure you it isn't. All evidence pulled from various sources indicates that it's them."
"I thought you and Alucard took care of this 60 years ago."
"It seems a few cockroaches escaped."
"And multiplied like rabbits."
"Allusions to the animal kingdom aside this is a serious problem."
"I'm well aware." She pulled a cigar out of a drawer from her desk and chomped down on the end. "Assemble the Round Table."
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A/N: Yeah so it's late. First two weeks of January were basically goofing off, then I started to work again, then the flu comes up and takes me out for the rest of the month, and well, the Eagles lost, and there was booze involved. Regular updates resume March 10th. Until then I'm going to try to get rid of the rest of this cold, and probably play RE4. I know you'll understand.
A/N: Meh, here's where a few of the chapter names came from.
Second chapter, Not Bomb, comes from Hellsing. It was stamped onto a letter somewhere in the anime, and when I noticed it I had to put it in there somewhere, after a stopped laughing anyway.
Chapter Nine, Reunion Tour, is the title of a sublevel in the original Halo.
Sixteen, incase you didn't notice it earlier in authors notes, it's a song on the 2nd OST.
