"Talking"
'Thinking'
StressedIt had been three days since the incident with Anderson. Pip flexed his injured arm and smiled. He removed his shirt and the bandage. He found the wound healed. A scar wasn't even present to remind him that it was once there. Pulling his shirt back on he walked over to his bed and sat down. He picked up the book he had seen earlier today and decided to buy it. He had been feeling stranger lately.
'Vampires for Dummies," he mumbled.
Pip wasn't one to read often; in fact, the only material he read was the instructions for assembling his guns. Sighing he flipped to the index and looked up Nosferatu. Flipping to page sixty-three, he grinned in triumph. He could now work guns and books. Reading the page his eyebrow raised in question.
"Seras doesn't seek a good fuck," Pip mumbled as he read the book.
He rolled his eye and flipped through the book. Naturally, he knew vampires couldn't travel across oceans or rivers. The book also explained that a vampire must feed or else it would become weakened. Pip grinned as he read about the herbs and plants a vampire couldn't use. Some of this stuff was straight out bullshit. He knew for a fact that garlic couldn't stop Alucard. Pip had thrown garlic at the older vampire and received numerous death threats. Seras had claimed the garlic stank to no end.
"Captain Pip," Seras sang as she hung upside down and halfway in the ceiling.
He naturally looked to his door and found no one. Pip shrugged his shoulders and went back to reading the book. He felt pressure on his bed and quickly turned around
"Holy shit!" He yelled as he jumped away. Two red eyes stared at him in humor and confusion.
"Never seen a dead girl before?" Sera playfully asked as she sat down.
"Next time knock," Pip growled as he hid the book behind his back.
"Why? You doing something dirty?" Seras asked.
"Not all ze time," Pip answered with a smirk.
Seras sighed and leaned to the left trying to look at the hand behind his back. He held the book in the middle of his back. Seras raised an eyebrow in curiosity.
"What are you hiding?" Seras asked as she stood up.
Pip stood straight and tried to act bigger then her. Seras grinned and levitated to his height. His smirk wavered but he stood his ground. She levitated higher and tried to look over his shoulder. He moved out of her sight and nervously laughed.
"This wouldn't interest you," Pip firmly said. Seras smirked and floated back to the ground.
"Are you violated easily?" Seras questioned as she grinned.
"No…why?" Pip suspiciously asked.
"I learned a new trick," Seras proudly stated.
Quickly lowering her hand to his stomach she grinned. He stared at her in confusion before his eyes widened in shock. A black portal swirled on his stomach and she reached through and pulled his book through him. The portal closed and he worriedly felt his body.
"Vampires for Dummies," Seras read in an accusing voice.
"How did you? When did you learn that?" Pip asked as he felt his stomach.
"It was just a very good guess, I figured if I could go through walls, why not humans," Seras answered.
"You went through my body on a hunch?" Pip almost growled. Seras opened the book and nodded her head.
"What if you pulled out an organ?" Pip growled.
"I could put it back," Seras sheepishly offered.
"You can't go around stuffing organs back in," Pip angrily warned.
"I'd only do it to you captain," Seras teased as she sat back down.
Pip sighed in failure and sat down beside her. Seras quickly looked through the book in interest. Closing the book, she handed it back to him. She pinched the bridge of her nose and closed her eyes. Pip raised an eyebrow at her actions.
"Why did you get a book on vampires?" Seras asked, trying to hold back the laughter.
"I wanted to know more on your race," Pip answered. The laughter vanished, instantly replaced with butterflies.
"Why didn't you ask master?" Sera questioned.
"His idea of information is first hand accounts," Pip dryly said.
"Why not use the Hellsing Library?" Seras asked.
"Hellsing has a library?" Pip asked in surprise.
"Of course, there are even reports on vampires written by the first Hellsing," Seras informed.
"I'll have to stop by," Pip mumbled to himself.
"I'll take you now," Seras offered as she stood.
Pip thought of his schedule and figured he had some free time. He stood up and Seras eagerly grabbed his hand. He felt a shock pass through him as he watched the black portal open in his door. Protesting, he was pulled into the portal with him. He squeezed her hand tighter as weightlessness traveled through him. Seras let go of his hand and he opened his eye to see all the books.
"That was…weird," Pip stated as he regained balance.
"You'll get used to it," Seras stated as she walked off.
'Why did she make that seem permanent?' Pip wondered as he followed her.
He walked along one of the book aisles and found titles on Dracula and werewolves. Ignoring those, he walked along to find Seras with a book in her hands. The book was open and she was reading it in strict concentration. Moonlight shone in on her adding to the dim lights. Pip walked behind her and found the chapter title on Master and Servants.
"Into bondage," Pip teased.
He was startled to find that there was no response from her. Shrugging he picked up a random book. Red eyes glared at him as he stepped back. Alucard stepped through the bookcase and grabbed the book away from Seras. Surprise filled her crimson eyes as she glared at the perpetrator. Her glower turned to surprise as she stared up at her master. He looked over the book before he snorted.
"If you want a pet buy a fish," Alucard stated.
"I was just reading Master," Seras honestly said.
"You don't need any knowledge on vampires and their human servants," Alucard warned.
"I want to know about what I am," Seras firmly growled. Pip looked between the two wondering what the hell was going on.
"Are you saying your master hasn't taught you well?" Alucard challenged. Pip then realized a power struggle was going on. Seras hesitated before she stood tall and glared defiantly at him.
"All you have taught me is that I am no longer human," Seras answered.
"So you turn to books written by pathetic humans," Alucard asked as he looked to Pip.
"The pathetic human that wrote the book is the one that captured you," Seras whispered.
Seras grimaced as she felt the rage pour off him. He flashed his fangs at her and grabbed her by the shirt. He pulled her to him and made sure the threat was clear.
"Remember who the master is," Alucard warned.
"Yes…master," Seras bit out. Alucard grinned at the submission before he tossed her back. She hit the bookcase and a few books fell around her.
"You are weak, you still cling to your humanity," Alucard said in disgust.
"I am not a monster," Seras declared.
Alucard laughed and appeared behind Pip. He held the human by the braid and exposed his neck. Alucard put a nail to his pulse and traced it.
"Can you resist the call of the sweet blood?" Alucard taunted.
"Yes," Seras calmly said. She wouldn't put it pass him to kill Pip.
"Very good Seras, don't underestimate the enemy's will to kill," Alucard praised.
"Let him go," Seras cautiously said. Alucard nicked Pip's neck and a drop of blood beaded at the spot.
"Can you smell it?" Alucard asked.
"Yes," Seras said.
"I know you haven't fed since the train…doesn't he smell good," Alucard taunted.
"Yes," Seras honestly said. Pip nervously gulped and watched Seras carefully. He trusted her, but he didn't trust the bloodlust.
"Doesn't he smell like…food…like prey?" Alucard purred. Seras closed her eyes and inhaled the air. The sweet smell of worry and food filled her lungs.
"Yes," Seras whispered.
"Then feed on him, they are plenty of humans out there," Alucard suggested.
Her fangs elongated and her pupils narrowed. Pip stood there in the older vampire's grasp. If she attacked, he would attack Alucard as a first resort before Seras. She took a hesitant step toward them. Alucard's grin widened as he urged her on. A few more steps brought her to them. Pip readied himself to attack Alucard. Before he could do anything Seras pinned Pip to her body. He struggled and she growled at him. Alucard's eyes took on his crazed look as he watched. Pip felt her tongue lick his neck with a soft growl.
"Just one bite," Alucard urged in ecstasy.
"Seras," Pip whispered to her.
The fangs brushed against his throat and he braced for the bite. Her lips lightly sucked on his neck. He closed his eye and then opened it in realization. A thought crossed his mind as he remembered something from the book. Her tongue made circles on his neck. His hand searched for her thigh and he began to massage the thigh he found. She moaned against his neck and sucked harder, her grip loosened and he turned around. His lips found hers and he began to kiss her.
"Pip," she whispered as they pulled away.
'Bloodlust can be turned to lust,' Pip noted in his mind.
Alucard growled and pulled them apart. He threw the human down the book aisle and grabbed Seras by her neck. He banged her against the bookcase and held her up to his eyelevel. Crimson clashed with crimson as they both glared at each other.
"What do you have against the captain?" Seras demanded as his grip tightened.
"He is human and I will not have a failure as a fledgling," Alucard growled as he dropped her.
"We all were human once," Seras whispered as she hit the floor.
"You are no longer human, you must embrace the monster before it embraces you," Alucard warned as he vanished into the shadows.
Seras sighed and rubbed her sore neck. She was happy she could no longer bruise. Standing to her feet she ran over to where Pip was tossed. He was leaning against a bookcase while rubbing the back of his head.
"He's a rabid dog, no?" Pip asked as he looked at Seras.
Seras nodded not trusting her Master to still be around. She helped Pip up and circled him. He watched as she studied him closely, he was like a rubber. He could bounce back from anything, but he could still be broken. Sighing in relief she wrapped her arms around him and gently squeezed him to her. He also sighed and hugged her back.
"You have to be careful around master," Seras whispered as she leaned her head against his chest.
"I'll always come back to you," Pip promised.
"I wish it were true," Seras painfully said. He was human and would leave her. She couldn't make him a vampire; he wasn't a virgin.
"You don't believe me?" Pip asked as he raised her face to his.
"It's hard to have faith in something that's impossible," Seras honestly said.
"Well my little Draculina, I'll make the impossible possible," Pip seriously said.
Seras gave a ghost of a smile to satisfy him for the moment. She pulled away and walked back down the book aisle. Pip followed her and watched as she levitated to the top shelves and put the fallen books back. Seras picked up the book from before and stuffed it inside her jacket for later.
'I keep him somehow,' Seras promised herself.
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