Seras pressed her heart to the barrel of the gun and stared defiantly in the red sunglasses of her master. He smirked down at her and cocked the weapon fully, and her eyes caught the slight tightening of his hand around the trigger. But that didn't make her back down, even if she did become a bit more apprehensive about she was about to do. Whatever thoughts Seras Victoria might have been rational enough to have at that point were forced out of her fear-riddled mind as she prepared herself to openly and tactlessly go against her masters will. His looming form, both physical and psychological, were becoming too much for her to handle, and his taunts were doing nothing to help her.

And the way he was smirking at her! Right when she was about to commit the equivalent of suicide, and he had the audacity to smirk! She was about to do something so drastic that it made her visibly twitch, and he just stood there with that smug, all-knowing sneer of his! Not happening.

Seras drew herself up to her full height, one not very impressive against his or Integra's, but impressive enough for a girl, and leant against the gun harder, pressing it closer to her heart. Her skin pebbled at the touch of colder metal to her cold skin, and she inadvertently twitched so that it wasn't pushing so hard against her pale skin.

"I'm not doing this, Master," she said evenly, though her voice came out hushed and gravelly. "I'm not going to be scared of you any more." Alucard's eyebrows rose, but she continued before he could say anything, "I'm sick of always being taunted and sneered at, I'm sick of being told to drink when I just can't and I'm sick of you always thinking that I'm ever going to be what you want me to be." She glared up at him, hating the way his grin grew bigger with every one of her words. "I'm not going to be like you. I'm not going to like taking someone else's life to maintain my own. I'm not going to do it."

All was silent for a few seconds after her outburst, a penetrating lack of sound that felt as if it might make her head burst from the sheer lack of anything happening. She wished again that she was still alive so that she might at least have her breathing to break the impossible depth of quiet crushing in on her, even as she continued to glare up at the man in front of her.

The silence was broken though by the very same figure. Alucard. He wasn't speaking but, rather, chuckling. The sound started as a deep rumbling in his chest, vibrating the clothes he wore until he could stand it no longer and his face split in a feral grin as he all out laughed at her. His laughter grew more maniacal by the second and soon they were turning into screams of absolute mirth. Seras twitched at the sound of it, wincing as it rose increasingly loud, echoing off the metal walls of the freezer.

"Excellent!" he managed between gasps of laughter. "Absolutely fabulous!" he spread his arms out wide, gun still in hand, and continued his laughter, the sound of it sinister in the solid black wall of silence still trying to press in on them. Still laughing, he said "But Police Girl, how do you think you'll manage that if I'm still your master?" a sibilant hiss drawing out the last letters of 'Master'. His laughter died down and he straightened up, suddenly deadly serious, his face set stone-like and pale in the drawing black. "What I want, Police Girl, you will give."

A/N: This is really short for such a long wait on it. Sorry about that. I've had a bit of a block. Not happy. I'll start writing the next chapter straight away. (I don't have too many assignments! YAY!) Also, I'd like to pitch in right now that there are two LiveJournal links in my bio now: my personal journal (scarredperfect)(which is friends-only, though I'll add anyone)and then the one for my fics! (jinnatarys)(public) Woo!
Thank you to everyone who reviewed that last chappie. Really, I don't know what to say to you all, it's overwhelming. I've been away for a bit on my property (it has no electricity -.-)and my comp crashed fora bit more (something about virtual memory... S) And there have been so many responses. I'm greatful to you all... Yes, even the person who gave me a bad review on LJ. Creative criticism is always welcome... But I'm not going to change my fic just because you don't like it.

Other than that, there's not much else to say!
Snake Bites,
Jinn.

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