Integra woke up. They had absolutely insisted she sleep in the hospital ward the first night with her concussions severe as it was. So no matter how much she threatened their jobs, they wouldn't let her go back to her quarters. She started walking out of the sickbay noticing that a large amount of the men were gone.
"Sir Integra, we had to move most of the critically injured solders to the nearby hospital, doctors or not... We aren't a massive triage operation and recovery facility." The doctor's face looked long and drawn but his eyes showed how haggard he truly was.
Integra could only say two words, "how many?"
The doctor looked down, "I'm not certain on the numbers yet but... Not as many as I would have thought. I think the vampires stopped the attack before they could implement their plan."
Integra nodded sadly, before walking out of the ward completely. She walked upstairs once more and into her office where no one awaited her, no one was there to comfort her. Only silence and paperwork... She sat at her desk all of this was almost too much... She wanted to cry out, scream at the injustice of it all. She wanted to cry for the dead and for her loss and for the invasion of the house and for Alucard's desertion and for... herself and the hole that was growing within her. A hole filled with rage and hate and sorrow, a hole that would kill her as sure as a bullet to the head but she bore it and did not cry out for that was her duty, her honor and her service to the queen, and that's what it meant to be a Hellsing. So she did the only thing she could, she was going to declare war on the vampire filth.
Viktor smiled, his laughter echoing through the corridors of the underground palace. Raza was next to him, her arms wrapped around him. "This is working out perfectly." He told her. "Alucard is now the true killer he once was, so beautiful. And dear old' Integral Wingates Hellsing is all alone, in that big house… She herself is injured. My god, this is great. How much of a threat could she be now? Without her savior to protect her?" He laughed, throwing his head back. "Tonight! This operation will be finalized! OUR SUFFERING WILL END!" He yelled. "WE WILL LIVE FOREVER IN PEACE! THE WORLD SHALL KNOW WE EXIST, AND THE HUMAN RACE SHALL FEAR US!"
Integra stood and walked out of her office. She stood overlooking the rest of the main floor; things were returning to normal, the entire cleanup had been completed probably overnight. She walked down from the second floor and could see that the only thing that hadn't been repaired, was the wall that Alucard had been put through. She cursed silently, Ferguson was attempting to put up a decent defense but it was impossible. He was bringing in people from all over within, MI-5 D-11 and everywhere else to try and have temporarily have defense. The thing was they had no ideas what they might fight.
She continued on down the hallway and into the firing range and picked up a large caliber pistol and began firing blowing large holes in the paper targets.
Alucard smiled as he awoke hours later and stood, freeing himself gently from Seras without waking her. His shirt and pants phased back on and he sat down watching Seras's sleeping form. So beautiful. He smiled and sat waiting for her to watch but perfectly content to sit there all night.
Seras stirred and moaned slightly, bringing the white sheet up over her. Her hands slid to the warmth of the bed, from where Alucard had torn himself from… She smiled, her skin radiantly glowing with happiness. She had never felt so happy, so carefree. She turned to her side, her eyes slowly opening and falling upon Alucard. She smiled to him, her fangs slipping from her pink lip. "Hello." She laughed, her hair a mess but she was still a beauty.
She raised herself from the warm comforts of the bed, and wrapped the white sheets around her. She got up, and went over to Alucard, sitting in his lap. She wrapped her arms around his neck, looking to his eyes. She laid her head on his shoulder and took a deep breath. "What, now?"
Alucard smiled, "Anything you want, my queen. I would like to investigate some things tonight but we don't have to do it now." He was amazing it was almost as if she glowed with a radiant light and her scent was intoxicating to him more than the blood that his body desired. "Its completely up to you." He smiled and kissed her again savoring the feeling.
She smiled and kissed his cheek. "I will do anything that you want. You are my King…" She laughed, curling herself up in his lap. She was still a little tired, but yet excited. She had him; she had him all to herself. And no one was going to take that from her. They wouldn't dare try.
She gave a happy sigh and pulled herself from his lap. She dropped the white sheets covering her body and grabbed her clothes. She teasingly slipped them on slowly, and jumped back on the bed after she was done. She looked to him with a smirk and held her head up with her hand. "What did you want to? Investigate?" She asked seductively.
Alucard's smile faded and he said, "I am not sure but there is a possibility that were being manipulated and I really don't like being manipulated. It should only take a matter of an hour or two." He heard something then that aroused his attention. "Then again maybe not."
He went to the door and punched straight through it at a low level. He smiled as he grabbed onto someone's neck. He opened the door and there was a human with some gear for surveillance including a parabolic microphone and an optic scope that was designed to fit under doorways and other equipment.
Alucard gave a growl that would make any human in his situation piss their pants, which he promptly did. Alucard smiled showing off his fangs, "so do you mind telling me what your doing here? Oh, and how long you've been here? Also, who sent you here."
The man started to stutter, "I-I… I can't... He'll kill me."
Alucard laughed. "I'll kill you if you don't tell me!"
The man nodded hastily, "I was sent to watch and make sure you didn't have thoughts of going back to that bitch, Integra! I know now you're not. I saw that show last night... I know you wont."
This angered Alucard greatly and he lifted the pathetic worm off his feet into the air and slammed him into the ceiling two or three times. "You pathetic worm! Who sent you and why did they need to make sure I wouldn't be going back?"
The man staggered out a final sentence before falling into unconciousness: "Integra will die tonight!"
Alucard's face went wide shocked by the words that he had spoken. "Look Seras, breakfast." He threw the man to the floor and sat down thinking on what to do possibilities flew through his mind faster than they had in recent memory.
Seras laughed at Alucard's words. "I never eat breakfast." She laughed again, and laid down on her back, looking up to the ceiling, thinking about a few things. "Alucard?" She queried, her voice a bit of worry in it. "What if…? What if this was all planned by someone? The ghouls, just shooting the men… Not killing them? Maybe… Maybe, they knew." She closed her eyes. "Goddamnit, I fell for it so goddamn easily." She clenched her fists and picked up the human, throwing him through the wall. "Bastard." She growled. "You were right, Alucard. I don't know whose behind this, but…" She paused. "Everything, everything that has happened in the past few weeks has been a part of it. And we were blinded until now. Goddamnit!" She yelled, picking the human up once again, and throwing him through the wall again.
Alucard stood, face somber before he picked up the large dresser snapped it in half and threw it at the human. "I don't care who it is... There's only one course of action now no matter what happens we won't let them manipulate us... I'm going back... I'll save integra and make them pay for their arrogance!" Alucard turned, trying to control the fury within him. He finally calmed down somewhat and said, "I'm going alone. I wont have you go through punishment, the worse she can do is try to rebind me and I wont allow that... You stay here ill be back," and with that he stepped out the broken door and closed it behind him. He began to walk towards the elevator, concidering the truth of what she would do to him. Probably far worse things than binding... She would seal him and lock him away for Melenia.
Seras stood, ripping the door off its hinges following him. "No…" She told him. "No, I won't let you go alone. I have you now, and I will not loose you. Understand?" She told him, her eyes tearing. "I don't care about punishment. Discipline is needed, Alucard. I won't let you go there alone, and I won't let you face her alone… Or anyone else for that matter!" She looked into his eyes. "I don't care what she does to me! But, I won't let her do anything to you… Even worse, I won't let her die." She lowered her head, putting her hands to her cheeks. She wiped the tears from her eyes. "I won't let you go alone… I don't care what you say."
Alucard smiled sadly and just slightly noticable only to those that knew him. "If you go... Oh, you stupid little policegirl...Alright, come then and well protect each other." He smiled gently wiping her tears away. He grabbed her hand and walked with her to the elevator.
Integra finally had the doctors off of her as well as the bandages. Most of the troops that weren't critically wounded were back on duty they were back up to 75 of the fighting force. A good estimate especially since walter was still in the hospital. She sat back, lighting a cigar and perching it between her lips as she considered what to do now about Alucard, his handy work and that of Seras was all over her desk. A club of 79 people were found dead Monday morning. There were no ghouls which was Alucard's style... He was now truly free on the world a thought she shuddered at. The only satisfaction she got from the entire thing was that Alucard must be finally happy, but she would not reveal that to anyone.
She closed the folders and tried to tidy up her desk when the very last thing she ever thought would happen, happened. Alucard stepped through the wall with hat, sunglasses, and red coat as if nothing had ever happened, but then the illusion was broken as Seras stepped through the wall as well. Something looked different about her but Integra couldn't quite place it.
That didn't matter as she went for her gun in the drawer but was interrupted when Alucard spoke, "Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing, you shouldn't do that. We're not her to kill you or anyone here, were actually here to protect you. We were all deceived it seems. There's appearantly a master vampire out there planning the whole thing, manipulating us all and I truly hate being manipulated, so we're here to do you one last thing: to save your life. My guess is that he thinks he can waltz right in here and kill you but he'll have one hell of a surprise." Alucard stood silently waiting for her reply.
Integra didn't know whether to shoot them both out of sheer anger as she figured Seras was now almost if not as powerful as Alucard. So she decided on a middle course, she stood from her desk and approached Alucard with a look of steel and fire in her eyes. She smiled and then slapped Alucard hard across the face, sending him back a step or two. She looked to Seras, who had a concerned look on her face and swiped her legs out from under her, making her fall to the floor. She then calmly sat back at her desk, "thats for leaving... We'll deal with the rest later.. Now what's the plan?"
Seras hit the floor, her head hitting hard. She growled, placing her hand on the back of her head and raising herself up. She looked over to Alucard and then to Integra, fury now burning in her eyes. She quickly suppressed it and took a step back. "They are coming here, tonight." She said. "This bastard has to be almost as powerful as Alucard." She looked over to him. "He has more than a thousand fledgings."
Alucard smiled meniacallly. "I have a plan that will appeal to him, send all your soldiers out to major venues as there will probably be attacks there anyway and leave just you me and Seras here. We'll challenge him two on two he will obviously think however mistaken he is that he will win. We'll destroy him and whoever he brings with and that will be that." He smiled knowing that first of all they wouldn't be expecting him, so they would bring a minimal contingant of people. Once everyone else started their attacks, they would just waltz right in, and they would but, they would waltz right into the range of Alucard's new gun.
Integra nodded and began to work still uncertain on how to deal with the rest.
Seras looked to him and nodded. She looked back to Integral, her eyes fixated on her. She sighed heavily and turned to Alucard. "What do you want me to do, Alucard?" She looked into his eyes, after loading her handgun. She smiled brightly.
Alucard considered it for a moment before saying, "go look out for them. Don't let them see you when you see them come back here. They'll be confused at an empty mansion and come right to us... Oh, and grab our guns Walter made for us, if they bring any ghouls that light attachment should work well or any of the other ones. He sure is inventive." He turned to Integra, "So how is Walter doing?"
This produced a sigh from Integra as she hung up the phone. "He's slipped into a coma and there not sure if he'll pull out of it." She frowned hoping Alucard's plan would work. She would have more confidence if he hadn't broken their connection as well as the seal's. She waited until Seras left then stood and approached.
Alucard once more and did something that surprised them both.
She hugged him, "that's for coming back." She then removed herself from Alucard. "Why did you break the link? It didn't happen when you removed your seals either... Were you afraid that I'd find you and bind you? What… What did I do to chase you away? I did give you respect as much as my position allowed! So why did you leave? And why now have you come back? Will you just kill this vampire and leave again? Answer me, damnit!" Integra felt tears welling up in her eyes but chocked them back. She would not give Alucard the satisfaction of seeing her cry.
Alucard was confused, did she have feelings for him? Why was she so hurt, was it because she felt betrayed? That was too simple an answer. For the first time in a long time, he had lost his voice and he turned his back to her and walked out of the room into an empty mansion. He needed time to think about this, "Why do things always have to be so complicated?" He asked to no one, and Integra sat at her desk feeling as if she were dead.
Seras turned away, holstering her handgun. She walked through the halls, which haunted her. She went to the top and leaned against the windowsill, hiding in the darkness of the attic. She gripped the butt of the gun firmly, placing her fingers on the trigger slowly. She looked back out of the window, seeing the Sun slowly fade away. Night was steadfast approaching, the stars already peeking through the horizon. She sighed heavily, and let her eyes scan over the landscape, searching for any movement.
She wondered what would happen, wondered what how Integral would react. She didn't even want to think of it. She didn't care how much punishment she took for what she's done, she just wanted to be near Alucard. Suddenly, her senses went wild. They're getting closer. She told Alucard.
Alucard smiled as he recieved the message. He started to walk up the stairs and waited on the floor just beneath Integra as planned. He picked up a phone and dialed her extention. "They're here," was all that was said and as Alucard put the phone down and sent a message to Seras. "Get ready report here with our weapons. We'll scare the shit out of them." He laughed at the thought of the look on the vampires face right before he blew it away.
"Alrighty," she laughed, grabbing the cases by her feet and rushing down the stairs. Excitement was racing through her. She threw the case to Alucard, hers already out and ready. "Let's go." She smiled, walking to the front doors, waiting for them to attack.
Alucard laughed and loaded a cartridge of high explosive shells into the gun and turned to Seras. "This should provide them. Oh, what do these humans call it? Shock and awe?" He laughed meniacally and it echoed through the empty manner. He waited at the door for them to come bursting in he didn't have to wait long as both doors blew open and the lead vampire stepped in and just about screamed in shock.
"Aw, what's the matter thought you could manipulate us this easily? Nope, we allowed you to think you had done so only to lure you out of hiding, you pathetic waste of the undead!" With that, he fired three bullets at the small group.
Seras laughed, throwing up her two handguns and shooting each and every bastard she saw. An evil smile was creeping up her cheeks as she did so, taking a step towards the dusting bodies. She sighed, noticing that many of them were backing away, making a path. "You idiots!" She yelled, reloading as quickly as she possibly could.
Viktor looked to Alucard and Seras. "Well, what a pleasure? I am glad you are here, then. So, then I can kill all of you!" He said, throwing his hands towards them.
Seras flew back to the wall, hitting the ground hard. She threw herself up, and looked to him with a smirk. "It'll take more than that, bastard." She said, getting out the gun that Walter had given her, and fired a couple rounds into Viktor's chest.
He didn't even flinch, he didn't even move. He just stood there with a smile creeping up his lips. "Stupid bitch." He said, throwing her against the wall again.
She spit out some blood and smiled, reloading all of her guns. "You'll die… No matter what I have to do." She laughed maniacally, throwing back her head. Her eyes grew wide, scaring some of the vampires behind him. They started to back away and run, still looking into her eyes. "It looks like your army is getting shorter, so is your lifeline." She laughed again, clenching her fingers around the butt of her gun, placing her fingers on the trigger.
Alucard laughed as he was slammed into the wall but stopped as he saw Seras spitting up blood. "I do believe its time to get serious. I think a two-on-two match would be best get all the little morons out of the way! Haha, and for the moment, save them. Until I kill you and then them!" He fired 3 more times and waited for his response as he led him down the hall into a big room where they could truly fight.
Viktor laughed. "Alucard, I do believe you are right. It is time for you to face your destiny… You're fate."
He laughed, Raza coming up from behind him. "Hello, dear." She said, before pouncing on Seras.
Viktor smiled and dodged the three bullets with ease. "You need to be faster than that, Alucard, to defeat me. Depending only on the technology of humans, is not how to truly fight… Now it is?" He chuckled, following Alucard.
Alucard smiled and the weapon disappeared. "You're so right! But it is a easy way to destroy your pathetic little underlings! But we can do battle as true vampires." Alucard seemed to dissapear and his form was replaced by that of his ultimate form. "This will be a battle to remember." He launched himself at the other vampire ripping his legs off waiting for him to transform as well.
Viktor disappeared, but his laughter still remained. "Oh, Alucard. You are right. What a battle this will be, a night for all humans to remember." His voice became heavier, deep and dark. A red light elluminated from his body as he appeared only feet away from Alucard. "DOMINAE ORAGOA TSUAMEIDUESE!" He yelled, the mansion started to shake as he did so. His body became shadows, his eyes blasting a red light towards Alucard. "You and I are true vampires." His voice was sly, determined. "You and I, Alucard. Are much of the same." He threw his hands out, his dark hair falling from his form turning into black whips that crackled around him.
"You will be destroyed, and so will your bitch and that whore!" He screamed, charging for him his eyes still glaring. "YOU WILL DIE GODDAMNIT!" He screamed, throwing the whips around Alucard's wrists, and pulling them to the side. He smiled as he heard the cracks of his shoulders being pulled out of place, and threw them to the ground, as he tore them off.
Alucard laughed as he regenerated instantaniously, "why are you getting so angry? Your insults and threats are pathetic and it is you who will die!" His hellhounds came then and chomped away at Victor taking large chunks away from his shadowy substance. He then launched at him again tearing at him ferociously. He wondered how Seras was doing.
Integra could hear explosions laughing and various other noises she sat with guns at the ready behind her desk. "Don't die on me Alucard."
Seras glared at Raza as she threw her off of her. "Bitch! Get off, and stay off!" She yelled, throwing her through one of the walls. "You're going to help me remodel, Raza." Seras told her, picking her up and slamming her through as many walls as she possibly could.
Raza screamed and kicked Seras in the face, throwing her to the ground. "You're gonna pay for that!" Raza screamed at her, ripping her head up by her hair and placing the barrel of the gun to her temple. "Say Goodnight."
Seras growled, "goodnight." She said, throwing her arms behind her and wrapping them around Raza's neck. She had to move quickly, or she would have a whole through her head. She threw Raza down to the floor, grabbing her arm and twisting it. She smiled hearing the crackling of her broken shoulder and painful screams as she grabbed the gun from her shaking fingers.
Raza growled loudly and kicked her leg behind her, hitting Seras on the back of the head. Raza turned and slammed Seras' head into the ground constantly as hard as she possibly could, over and over again. Seras closed her eyes and with desperation, grabbed the gun she had dropped and pointed it over her shoulder. Raza looked to her, then to the barrel of the gun.
"Goodnight." Seras mumbled, pulling the trigger. Blood was pouring from her temple, and from her, now, broken nose. "Bitch." She said, her head throbbing. She pushed herself up, wobbling a bit. She wandered up the stairs, to Integral's office. She laughed slightly, wiping the blood from her face. She opened the door and barricaded it. She looked to Integral and winked. "Almost done." She laughed.
Viktor screamed as the hellhounds ripped chunks from his flesh. He screamed, sending the whips flying towards Alucard once more. "YOU FUCKING BASTARD!" He yelled, throwing aside his pain and weakness from being ripped to shreds from his hellish dogs. He gripped Alucard tightly around the neck, raising him into the air and slamming him back down on into the concrete floor with all of his might, as he reformed into human form.
He growled, throwing him to the ground one last time and ripping him back up, throwing him to the walls. He drew his gun and threw him into the air, shooting him as he did so. "ARE YOU DEAD, YET? ARE YOU DEAD, YET?" He asked, a psychotic tone in his voice.
Alucard took the punishment easily, and reformed into a semi human form straight jacket and a few extra eyes. His laughter filled the room as he began to speak, "Is that all you've got? Maybe your not as strong as I thought you were, maybe your just dog chow." He said as the dogs once again came forth taking chuncks from him dematerializing him almost and leaving only his bloodied stump. His chest and head the only things that remained. "Are you killed so easily, I thought this was going to be a true fight." Alucard said as he drew the gun from nowhere and loaded it with pure silver slugs. "Goodbye" Alucard said as he pulled the trigger. He turned and began to walk away.
Integra saw the slightly injured Seras and stood, "Let me ask you something, Seras, do you love him?"
Seras paused and looked to her, plainly. "My body warms to his touch, I can barely breath when he's near me. From the moment, I laid my eyes on him I was captivated… When I was human, my heart beat rapidly, giving me a strange feeling I didn't know before. I never had the pleasure of feeling it. I would die for him, I would do anything for him… I love him, with every inch of my being. I can't even explain how much… It's indescribable. Yes… I love him." She looked into Integra's eyes.
Alucard was walking up the stairs and stopped just outside the door as he heard Integra and Seras talking. He smiled at what he heard as he phased through the door. "Oh, I'm not interrupting anything, am I?" He smiled as he sat on Integra's desk.
Integra was fuming but it wasn't time, "No, of course not if the vampires are dead then what do we do about you two?"
Seras sighed and looked to her, raising her brow. "I don't know." She looked over to Alucard, and closed her eyes. Her head was throbbing, though her wounds were healed. "Wasn't that a big headache…?" She laughed.
Integra said, "are you going to stay, or are you going to leave? I won't stop you if you want to leave. If you stay there will be changes, you will both be bound of course the rest will be decided. Again, its however your choice? If you do decide to leave, the next time any of our troops spot you, they will attack you just as any other vampire and you will have no protection from Paladin Alexander. I have things to attend to. Get out. If you decide to stay report back in 3 hours if not, well... This will be a final goodbye." She said before turning around and waiting for them to leave. Alucard phased through the wall and appeared in his old room and sat down waiting for Seras.
Seras sighed and phased after Alucard. She sat down across from him, still holding her head, rubbing her temples slightly. "I will do whatever you wish, Alucard. I, frankly, don't wish to be bound, but…" She paused, "I will do anything you wish me to. I will only stay, if you are."
Alucard sat slack-faced and did nothing more for a long time. It was these times that he felt his true age, even though he could make himself look as old or young as he wanted to be. He finally looked to Seras hat and sunglasses gone as he willed them to be. He looked into her crimson eyes and said, "No Seras… This can not be only my decision it has to be ours. I don't like being bound either and I like the power and freedom I have now but... I long ago swore to protect Integra, this promise does not bind you and I don't think it should. Though it is a promise not easily broken it can be so. I ... I truly do not know what I should do." He looked down again, thoughts running through his mind.
She stood and stepped towards him, putting her hand underneath of his chin and raising it from his chest. "Do whatever you heart tells you. My heart is torn both ways as well… But, I just want us to be together. I don't care if I am bound as long as I am with you," she smiled slightly. "And without Integral howling at us." She laughed and ran her fingers through his hair. "Do what you think is right, and I will be right there… Right with you."
Alucard nodded and had made up his mind. "I will re establish my connection with Integra at some level and if she's ever in life threatening danger she will be able to contact me. Therefore I wont be breaking my word and we wont be bound to this place and free to walk the night of our own will." Satisfied of his solution, he stood and phased through the wall and reappeared in front of Integra, who was smoking a cigarette and looking towards the wall he came through.
Alucard smiled slightly, "Here's what we decided, I will reestablish the mind link with you that way you can contact me when you're in danger and I can protect you as I swore too, but we will leave. We will not be bound and we will only return to help you." He waited for Integra's response.
Integra pondered what he just said and finally realized what he was doing and understood only too well. She stood and nodded, "Agreed, but try to keep the body count down please?"
Alucard nodded as she extended her arm to him and rolled up her sleeve waiting for him to take the blood necessary to set up the connection.
He didn't make her wait long and approached the arm proffered to him and bit down slight at first drawing the slightest amount of blood from her and then more and more soon Integra felt a weakness go to her knees and she ripped the arm away from Alucard, who was grinning meniacally with fangs reddened by the recent blood. He approached her again and bit down on his own wrist cutting it and blood started to come from it, he held it to her mouth and she drank the necessary amount.
He could feel the connection re-establish and smiled as she released him. He knew that as much as she denied it, his blood to her tasted better than the finest wine she'd ever tasted. She stepped back once more and looked at her wrist now healed by the temporary powers given to her through the blood exchange.
She smiled, "Goodbye, Alucard."
Alucard bowed and said, "Goodbye Integra," before disappearing into the shadows and reappearing into his old room. "It is done. Let's go," as all he said before disappearing once more and reappeared back into the hotel room. The door had meraculessly been repaired or replaced, either didn't matter. He laid down on the bed, relaxing and waiting for Seras.
Seras nodded and opened a portal, appearing beside the bed. "Alucard." She said, laying beside him, wrapping her arms around him her head still throbbing. "Goodnight…"
