Seras stared at the monster in front of her, the one with the face compiled completely of hard, angled lines. The face of a monster that looked at her now, face set with gravity; though his glowing red eyes shone with a thoughtful gaze, waiting for her to react.

She drew in a breath she did not need, and stared right back at him, steeling all her strength and courage inside her. "You won't be my master anymore then, if it means my freedom from you and the life you gave me," she said simply. "I've hated almost every day of … of…. of whatever this is, every day since you killed me. I don't want to hate living anymore." She continued to look into his thoughtful eyes calmly, waiting for some kind of reaction, some sudden outburst as retaliation to her quiet defiance.

All she got was a smirk as her master began to circle her slowly, stalking her silently as he looked her up and down. She followed him with her eyes, her head spinning around as far as it could before she turned her whole body to follow his movements, their eyes locked with each other's. She was about to say something else to break the silence before she noticed something. Something like a weight had settled on her chest and mind, a sort of heavy cloth that willed her mind to relax. A small voice in the back of her head told her to fight it, told her to resist. And God was she trying, but her master's eyes kept her own captive.

Her eyes began to droop slightly, her legs feeling heavy as she continued to follow her circling masters eyes. She shook her head slightly to try and clear the fog in her mind, but she found that she could barely even do that much, not unless she wanted to break eye contact with her master…

Her master…

Her… "Master…" Did she just say that out loud?

Alucard's smirk grew. "Yes Seras, I'm your master. Come to me now. Don't be scared." He held out his hand to her, the one not holding his gun. "Come to me, Seras."

"Yes… my master…" she said softly, reaching out her own hand.

But something was wrong. That voice was still screaming at her, louder and more urgent now. Her head began to ache with the conflicting urges, trying to decide between which she should obey. What was happening to her? Where was she? She couldn't remember anything that had happened in the last couple of days. Why was there a voice in her head screaming out against her going to her master? He was her master, her creator. She couldn't disobey him, she shouldn't, and as far as she was aware, he was saving her from something… Wasn't he?

She was too confused. She could barely string two thoughts together. Alucard, her master, was he her enemy, or was he an ally? Who was the other voice?

…. Who cared? Her master was here, that should be good enough for her. And he wasn't ignoring her. She would be so lucky that she ever got this much attention from him back at Hellsing.

… Hellsing. She shouldn't care about that. Hellsing wasn't what mattered. Her master was. She should be proud to be his fledgling; she should willingly obey him and drink the blood his generosity supplied for her.

Blood.

Thick, wet and sweet.

No bitter and gross. Disgusting to even look at, let alone drink. Drinking it would make her a monster.

A monster.

Monster… Monster… Monster, monster, monster, monster, monster, monster, MONSTER. Her master was a monster, a monster and nothing more! He wasn't here to save her, he was here to kill her!

Her eyes widened and her hand fell to her side as she ripped her eyes away from her masters. Monster! He was a monster! What had he been doing! Had he been controlling her mind! She glared hard at the ground. The bastard! Why hadn't she noticed earlier! The fucking bastard!

She said it. "You fucking bastard," she lifted her eyes to his again, glaring with all her strength at him. "You goddamn monster," she hissed. "How dare you?" she screeched, stumbling back against the wall again.

His low chuckling began again, though any kindness in his thoughtful gaze from before had disappeared completely. The sound echoed again and made her head throb harder, and she swore she could feel her skin pulsing with the pain it caused her.

With one hand she twined her fingers in her hair and pressed her hand to the aching flesh, vainly attempting to relieve some of the pain, her eyes screwed half shut. She could feel the pressure of her masters mind on hers again, heavy and laden with malice as the pain doubled. She growled as her knees gave way and she landed on the soft, rusting floor again, one hand thrust out under her to catch herself as the other one gripped her head harder.

The sounds of footsteps alerted her and she barely had time to blink before her master's gloved hand was under her chin, raising her watering eyes to his with an iron grip. He was still smirking at her, eyes twinkling in the last fading rays of the sun outside. He lifted her up to his eye level and drew her face close to his, his canines clearly visible under his curling lip. Then his face disappeared, replaced by thick scraggly hair as he bent his face down to her neck. A sharp fang grazed the skin, brushing it with the sharpest point.

"Do you know what you are to me?" he asked suddenly, pulling back slightly to look up at her stunned face.

She nodded her head. "I'm nothing to you," she snarled, not meeting his eyes.

There were a few seconds silence as he continued to stare up at her with his crimson eyes. He laughed once and dropped her back to the ground, letting her land on all fours in front of him. He looked down at her disdainfully and turned away from her, pocketing his still withdrawn weapon in his coat and heading for the door.

Seras watched from the ground with a glare.

He wasn't going to leave her like that again. She wasn't going to let him, not this time.

Before having even given it suitable thought, she launched herself off the floor and ran at him, jumping at the last second and latching onto his back. Beneath her, Alucard stumbled and growled, twisting his head around to glare at the woman attached to his back and raising his hand, ready to pull her off his being.

Taking advantage of the exposed skin, Seras lunged forward as much as possible and clamped her mouth around his throat, biting down savagely and sucking.

Hard.

She felt his blood fill her mouth and instinctively swallowed, the vampire inside her welcoming the fluid into her body eagerly.

Her master froze where he was, shocked and relishing the feel of another's bite, for only a second before he remembered just who was biting him. With a snarl he wrapped his hand around his fledglings throat and ripped her mouth away from him. Red blood, his blood, spilled down from the hole she had caused and ran down his immaculate suit, staining white red, red brown and black an even darker shade.

She thrashed around in his hold, her hands around his wrist as she tried to free herself from his grasp. Her legs lashed out and struck at his middle. He winced, but did not let her go. She growled and glared at him, blood staining the skin around her reddened lips. She twisted and turned still. Finally, she gave up on trying to do injury with her legs, reared her head back and bit down into his hand, her fangs piercing the soft white cloth and burying themselves in his flesh.

Alucard snarled and threw her away from his being. She was prepared for it this time and landed on her hands and feet with a cat-like grace. It was her turn to smirk at him and she did it with a triumphant glint in her eyes and launched herself at him once more. He disappeared in a cloud of bats and swarmed around her in a screeching mass of black.

But she wasn't paying attention to him anymore. She was staring wide-eyed at nothing.

Something inside her was moving.

Something wasn't right.

A/N: Holay craaap dood. XD Wow. I'm happy with this chappie. ... Really happy. Who woulda thought?
Khehehehehehehehehehehehe.
I hope I wasn't too OOC with Alucard. I'm kind iffy about how he behaves in this. Tell me what you think, yeah? Please? I really think he's out of it. X-X

Reviews:
Spank you muchly for all the reviews peopleses! I'm happy chappie now. And did I say I was really sorry about the length (or lack therof) of the last chapter? I'M SO SORRY! Goddamn writers block. But hey! It was a freakin' flood this weekend with ideas and inspiration for this.
blacktears, AttackingHentaiChibisLoveFluff, Aomee, and Sailore Water Dragon: Spank you to the muchly! I hope you liked this chappie (to AttackingHentai-can't-be-bothered-to-write-the-rest-of-your-name-'cause-it's-so-god-damn-long: I hope this will... umm... raise you from the dead...? 6.o)
Katsumi-Chan: Hizie! Anderson should be in in the next coupla chapters... depending on how long they are x.x ... Yeah. ... Anyway, I really think you should have kept up your fic! It was awesome! --cries-- Come on! Put it up again, please?--puppy eyes-- But your new one sounds groovy too. Fledgling, eh? --imagination goes running wild-- Sounds good to me!
Shadow-Sensei and The Sinner of Anger: I know it was short... GAH! --dies-- Sorry about that. I hope you like this one though.

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