Alex groaned softly as he opened his eyes. He wasn't in his hometown anymore but his surroundings didn't look familiar at all.
The room he was in looked like a cross of a hospital room and a medieval dungeon, it was reasonably clean and even had a few items in it normally associated with hospitals, most notably an IV but the heavy archaic iron door and lack of windows made it seemed more like a prison than a hospital room. The door opened and an elderly man walked in, dressed in a butlers uniform and wearing a monocle. Seeing him was enough to convince Alex that he wasn't in Yorkshire anymore. The man took one look at Alex and stuck his out of the door.
"Miss Seras, your friend has awakened." He called down the hallway.
"Err, excuse me but where exactly am I and what happened?"
"I'm sorry young sir but I'm under strict orders not to tell you. It is the one who turned you that must carry out that task"
"Turned me? What the hell happened to me?" Alex asked the man but he'd already walked out of the room Seras came in. She looked both very guilty but happy at the same time.
A few minutes before
Hellsings doctor came out of the dungeon medical room.
"Well, how is the boy?" Seras asked the doctor, she'd already guessed what he was going to say.
"He's fine all things considering, sometimes I wonder how on earth anyone manages to kill you vampires" the doctor told her as he left, leaving Allucard, Walter, Seras and Interga in the adjacent chamber.
"Vampire. Did you hear that police girl, not boy, vampire, all thanks to you." Allucard said coldly.
"What else could I have done, he was going to die and it was my fault" Integra's calm demeanour vanished and she backhanded Seras across her face, knocking her into the wall.
"Left him to die. Did you even ask him if he wanted to become one of you? I didn't think so. At least Allucard gave you a choice."
"Oh yeah, death or undeath, I was just spoilt for choice" Seras said sarcasticly, rubbing her cheek. She couldn't believe she was talking to Sir Integra this way. Apparantly Sir Integra though the same thing and drew back her hand to strike Seras again. Allucard grabbed it.
"I take it you have something to say on this my servant?"
"I will say this, when I turned the police girl she could barely move. That boy was able to walk out of the village where I had to carry you" he said, glancing at Seras.
"As impressive a feat as that is Allucard it doesn't change anything. The boy is now a vampire and I have absolutely no idea what should be done with him." Integra said as she sat down and lit a cigar. After taking a long drag she turned to look at Walter.
"Do you have any suggestions Walter?"
"What miss Seras said has some truth, there was no other option aside from leaving the boy to die and it most certainly wasn't his fault the was in that situation. And what you said holds some truth as well, she did not inform him of the tremendous burden of becoming a vampire and that was very wrong of her. But the question is not weather she was right to do it but what should be done next."
"You're right as always Walter." She said solemly
"We can't just turn him loose, he wouldn't last a day, not with people like Iscariot out there" Allucard said
"Yes, and sending him as part of our Vatican envoy would be useless as well, he's far too young and they would most likely either corrupt or kill him" Walter added
As the older members argued Seras remembered what he'd been wearing that night. His school uniform. A school uniform, a uniform just like hers or any other member of Hellsing. She tried to get the others attention. After a few tries her master finally decided to pay attention to her (he'd heard her the first time but as he was still angry at her didn't bother to take any notice).
"What is it police girl? Do you have a solution to this little problem of yours?" she glared at him for a moment but carried on.
"I know what he's been through, he's a teenager, just like I was and just like all of you once were. At one time" She added, glancing at Allucard, she doubted he'd ever had to experience things like modern teenagers had when he was Alex's age.
"Do proceed" Walter said, adjusting his monocle.
"Think if it like this? He was in school before all this and he has a hell of a lot more stuff to learn now. Why not let Hellsing be his new school?" Integra looked sceptical
"We hunt vampires here. We are not a boarding school."
"I don't know master, the boy showed impressive resolve when he walked out of that village, I think he would struggle but he could survive here. Besides I'm sure his teacher would be able to get him through it"
"I knew you'd agree master" Seras said, relieved she seemed to be off the hook. Allucard chuckled softly
"Me? I never said it would be me who would teach him. You are the reason he is like he is now. You turned him. He is your charge and responsibility" Seras looked like she'd just been told to jump off a cliff.
"WHAT! I CAN'T TEACH HIM. I DON'T EVEN KNOW EVERYTHING MYSELF YET!" She yelled.
"That is why it is such a good idea, you will be able to learn together" Allucard said, he was either unaware of Sera's displeasure or he simply didn't care. From the look on his face Walter guessed it was the second one.
"I think it is the perfect solution to this little problem. It is your fault he is like this so you will help him adapt to his new lifestyle"
"Besides, he may become a better vampire than you so I win either way" Allucard muttered, a little too loudly as Seras heard him.
"WHADYA YA MEAN YOU WIN EITHER WAY! I'M NOT THAT BAD YA POMPOUS FANGED JERK!" Seras ranted as Allucard turned into smoke and sank through the floor.
"You have your orders Seras, the boy is now your responsibility now." Integra said as she left and Walter went to check on the boy.
"He does have a name. Alex" she muttered to herself as she entered the room when Walter gave her the all clear, trying to figure out how to break the news to the boy, how to tell him he'd was now a creature of the night, not even by his own choice, but by hers.
Present time
"Good to see you've recovered." Seras said as she sat down in a char next to Alex's bed.
"Forget recovery, what on earth was that old guy going on about when he said 'the one who turned me'. What exactly did you do to me last night?"
"Tell me kid, what do you know about vampires?" she asked him before telling him what happened to him and what he now was. That he was bound to the night by her choice. And she hated herself for making it.
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