Alex washed his face in the bathroom in his quarters on the first floor in the Hellsing mansion. He got claustrophobic so didn't ant a room in the basement. Luckily Seras had been able to persuade Interga to have the windows painted black, so that the suns light couldn't get in. The seventeen years old looked at himself in the waters reflection. He mostly looked the same as he did before becoming a vampire. He was still around 5"10 and his hair was still brown and cut short and gelled up at the front, although it seemed to stand up on its own now, his skin was a little paler but the only real thing that had changed were his eyes, they'd changed from their normal dark brown to blood red.
"I guess I got off lightly, all things considering," he said to himself as he changed into the clothes that had been laid out for him. Wearing the urban camouflage fatigues that he'd been left he left his room, heading down to the target range outside the Hellsing mansion, reflecting on what had happened over the last few days.
Two days ago
"I'm…I'm a what?"
"A vampire, a Midian if you want the formal term."
"A vampire?"
"Yeah a vampire, you know, fangs, capes, drinking blood and all that"
"How do I know this isn't a sick joke?" she handed him a mirror and sure enough when he looked into it, there wasn't a reflection looking back at him. He brought his hand to his mouth and felt his fangs. Finally realising the truth he buried his head in his hands.
"This isn't fair, I never wanted to be a monster" Seras reached out to rest her hand on his shoulder.
"I'm sorry, I'm really, really sorry" he pulled away from her like she'd burned him with a hot iron and glared at her.
"Why'd you have to do this to me? Why didn't you just leave me to die? You didn't even ask me if I wanted this. You decided for me"
"Look. I get that you didn't want this and I've already told you I'm sorry, what else can I do?"
"What do I do now? What's left for me now Seras?" she looked right into his eyes.
"I know it's my fault that you're in this situation but you're in it now so you might as well make the best of it. Hellsing's not that bad a place to live and it's always looking for new vampire hunters and with a little training you'd be fit right in"
"Is there any other reason you want me to stick around?"
"Well, Miss Integra did say I'm responsible for you so if anything happens to you it's my ass on the line" she said, wondering just what would happen to her if she let Alex go off on his own and get killed. The ideas that found her way into her head weren't encouraging.
"Well, since you put it that way I guess I could give it a shot. I wouldn't want you getting in trouble now would I?" he said sarcastically, climbing off the bed.
"Come on kid, let's go see Miss Interga and get you set up with a room" Seras said, leading him out of the dungeon ward.
Present timeAfter a few minutes, getting lost a few times and asking several different Hellsing staff (including Integra) for direction he finally made it out onto the training ground, bathed in the light of the new moon. About three hundred yards away there were about two-dozen targets arranged in a long line. Seras was stood by a long wooden table, piled high with different weapons, among them two 45 magnums, a long bow, shurikens, a laser guided rifle and a two different sized crossbows.
"If you're going to hunt vampires you need to find out which weapon suits you the best, try to hit the targets using each weapon on the table." Alex looked over at the assortment of weaponry.
"How come there's all these old weapons mixed in with the new ones?" Seras scratched the back of her head, at a loss for what to say.
"I'm sort of new to this whole teacher thing, d'you think ya could cut me some slack?" she asked him as he picked up the two magnums.
"Just great. And I thought my old French teacher was lousy" he said as he fired the weapons, most of the shots went wide of their intended target.
"Wasn't it your French teacher that was the vampire?" Sera asked him as he picked up and fired a desert eagle, he missed completely.
"Point taken" Alex told her as he lifted the long bow and drew it back. He fired and it struck one of the targets a foot off the bull's-eye.
"Don't you miss the people who she killed, what about your parents?" he fired again, the arrow went wide.
"My parents died when I was little, my older sister looked after me and put me through school" he said quietly, focusing on aiming the shurikens, he threw them and they all bounced off the target.
"Where's your sister now?"
"She joined the army last I heard. That was three years ago. I've been looking after myself since"
"Don't you miss anyone from your old town?" Alex had gone through most of the weapons by this point, the crossbow was the only one left.
"Yes, Lindsey, my girlfriend, she was one of the ghouls you took down outside the church. I saw her body when you helped me walk out."
"I…I didn't" Alex fired the crossbow and turned to look at Seras.
"Don't. In the state she was in you did the kindest thing you could. I guess I should thank you for that much" he said to her, not looking at the result of his shot, Seras did and saw he'd hit the bulls-eye dead on.
"It looks like we've found your weapon. What do you think?" he hefted the crossbow.
"It's not bad now that I think about it. Actually I think I kind of like it. Thank you Miss Seras" she smiled faintly, showing her fangs.
"Enough with the miss stuff, I hated having to call Allucard master, just call me Seras"
"Fine but only if you call me Alex and not 'school boy' or whatever else the other lot have started calling me"
"Deal" they shook on it and resumed their training practice.
From the shadows nearby Allucard was watching their progress
"The police girl and the school boy. I think life at Hellsing may get a lot more interesting" he said quietly to himself while observing Alex's progress. The boy seemed to have potential but weather that was a blessing or a curse was yet to be seen.
To be continued, please review (Yes, I know the last few chapters have been a little dull but the plot will pick up in the next few I promise)