A/N: This is the second chapter to Remant...I really appreciate everyone who reviews it makes me feel responsible for your entertainment...unlike a lot of people I will actually try to update as frequently as possible...(cuz I know the chapters can be rather short...I personally HATE short chapters) But yea ...

Disclaimer: (I'm sick and I don't want to...but I suppose I have to) FOR BUDDHA'S SAKE I DO NOT...I REPEAT...I DO NOT OWN HELLSING!

Chapter 2: Alpha

Flashback (years before)

Tears.

Salty streams of hot moisture dripping from the young one's eyes.

"Father...why did you have to die and leave me alone?" A small plea from a somber child.

"Integra?"

"Go away!" She pleaded. "Just...go away."

The small girl pushed her head into her knees hugging herself tightly.

"You swore, master."

Her head bobbed for a moment in an "I-know-gesture".

"Then why do you sulk?"

Salty water dripped from her bare knees soaking her leggings. She suddenly felt surrounding pressure and she shivered.

She looked up momentarily. "Alucard...is that what you said your name was?"

"Yes, master, Alucard is what the Hell bound call me. The No Life King."

She didn't even notice that the pressure she was feeling was his arms wrapped around her small form. He had such long arms. They almost looked as if they could wrap twice around her.

"Poor master." He murmured as he laid his head upon hers.

"Are you mocking me...?" She asked pushing the tears from her eyes.

"Do you think I would mock you, Sir Integra?"

"Sir?" Her eyes filled with curiosity and partial anger.

"Oh yes!" He explained. "You are but a man now, a true Hellsing, you are courageous and laugh at the bloodshed of battle, you are the "TRUE" Sir Hellsing."

Her eyes grew wide and she began to laugh.

Alucard grinned. Fangs emitting as he chuckled. Though the sudden friendly atmosphere was abruptly smothered by more tears.

A sullen face looked down upon the young girl whose sobbing became slightly less bearable.

"Alucard..." She sniffled. "How much longer will you stay with me?"

It was the first time...the first and maybe the last she had ever seen him genuinely smile. A smile that seemed to clutter her heart. An expression that embraced her even without physical contact.

"My dear Sir Integra, I shall be here with you whence forth until you pass through the fogged neverlands and perhaps even after."

"Will you? Do you promise that to me, Alucard...do you?"

His smile faded and his arms tightened around her.

"It will never be a promise, it is a known fact."

She looked at him with curiousity and sadness, though in her eyes he saw she was genuine and filled with self reassurance.

"I am Integra Hellsing of the Hellsing Corporation." Integra finally said proudly.

"Why yes. Yes Sir Integra, you are."