Disclaimer, I don't own Hellsing.
Also this fic is set sometime during the magna, after Millennium's attack but in this fic Walters still with Hellsing.
25 Brooks street, the White chapel area of LondonTuesday 24th October
8:10 PM
As the ghouls shambled forwards, clutching their crude weapons Allucard raised the jackal and held down the trigger, sending a storm of bullets thudding into the leftovers of vampire's meals. A few seconds later the floor of the derelict house was awash with blood that poured from the wounds of the ghouls, some being reduced to bloody mounds of flesh. He went to the door that led to the kitchen and kicked it in with one blow, revealing a room full of ghouls, he turned to look out of the window.
"Police girl, a little fire support if you please," he told her telepathically. In the building across the street Seras loaded the Harkonnen cannon, took aim and fired. Alucard leapt behind an upturned table as the incendiary round broke through the kitchens window. There was a bright flash, a rush of heat and then the scent of burned human flesh assaulted Allucards senses as he stepped into the room, crunching charred flesh and blackened bones underfoot. After checking the corpses he noticed they all seemed to be immigrants, from the clothing they looked to be from Eastern Europe or Russia.
"Looks like the vampire has eluded us." After these words left his mouth there was a crash as the door to the kitchens pantry was smashed into splinters as the vampire burst out of it.
"LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE SCREWED PAL!" the vampire roared as he lunged at Allucard who simply reached behind him, grabbed the vampires arm and threw him over his head, the blood sucked landed in a heap.
"No, if anyone is screwed here 'pal' it's you" Allucard said, aiming the Jackal at the luckless vampire. The vampire didn't want to take a bullet to the temple so he threw a chair at Allucard, the Nosferatu smashed the chair into toothpicks with the stock of his pistol but the vampire had already smashed through a nearby window and was running flat out down the moonlit street. As he reached the corner of the house he saw Allucard climbing out of the window.
"Too slow Hellsing dog, catchya later" suddenly a crossbow quarrel embedded itself in the vampires neck, severing his spinal cord and destroying his voice box. As the vampire fell to the floor he saw Alex, dressed in his urban camouflage fatigues and re-loading his crossbow.
"Somehow I doubt it," he said to him as Allucard reached the vampire, drawing Joshua.
"Actually. I think I'd prefer to do this the old fashioned way" he said, holstering the weapon and driving his hand into the vampires chest, ripping his heart clean out. Alex stared in horror.
"Why did you do that? Wasn't shooting him good enough?" Allucard took off his glasses and smiled manically.
"I'm just doing my job, does it bother you that much if I love it?" Alex just stared at Allucard, revolted by the vampire.
"Actually it does"
"Well too bad, this is what happens when you hunt vampires. Deal with it. If you can't then you shouldn't have become one of us in the first place" Alex finished loading his crossbow.
"I didn't decide to become one of you, remember?" he muttered as he shot Allucard a disgusted look then bent down to examine the body. Aside from a massive gaping hole in his chest and the quarrel sticking out of his throat the vampire had sustained few injuries. He was dressed in dark brown trousers, a white shirt and a heavy coat, like most Eastern European immigrants. One thing that caught his attention was a badge that was stitched onto the shoulder of the vampire's coat. A yellow hammer and sickle on a red background, he ripped it off and held it up, studying it. Allucard walked over and calmly snatched the patch from Alex, holding it up to inspect it himself.
"Hrmm, interesting" Alex snatched it back off him.
"It looks like a communist symbol, I did the Soviet Union for part of my history GCSE" Alucard glared angrily at Alex, balling his gloved hand into a fist.
"Uncouth little…" Seras spotted what her erstwhile master was going to do and rushed over.
"Soviet Union? That broke up years ago didn't it?" she asked Alex who nodded.
"Yes but a lot of it's stuff was sold on so it's not impossible that this vampire simply bought or stole this coat so it might not even have anything to do with him." He said as he handed the patch to Seras. Allucard took it from her.
"I will report this to Integra, Millennium showed us we can't afford to take any chances." He said as he turned into a swarm of bats and flew away into the darkness.
"Is he always… I mean is he like that all the…" Alex trailed off, Seras nodded
"Yes but you get used to it, all vampires have rushes of bloodlust. Even me"
"All vampires, even me?"
"Yes, even you"
"No, I'd never…"
"I didn't think I would either but I did. I crushed a ghouls head, caved it in like an eggshell" Alex looked revolted, more so than when he watched Alucard yank out the vampires heart. Seras saw his expression and put her arm around him.
"Come on, don't worry about it, and let's get back to the mansion. There's something there waiting for you"
"What?" she suddenly let go and took off, running in the direction of the Hellsing mansion.
"If you can keep up you might find out" she called over her shoulder, laughing he chased after her, his worries about becoming like Alucard forgotten. At least for the moment.
Up on a nearby roof a swarm of bats came together and Alucard appeared, watching the progress of the two young vampires as they raced back to the mansion.
"Watch your fledgling police girl, he is your student, nothing more" he said solemnly to himself before turning back into a swarm of bats and heading back to the mansion.
Seras raced towards the mansions main gate only to see a blur dart in front of her and pass through milliseconds before she crossed the threshold. As she reached the door leading into the mansion Alex stood their, leaning on the door, not looking the least bit tired from the run.
"I win so tell me what's waiting for me?" he asked her.
"Go up…to your room…and see." She replied, panting from the effort of their race.
"How…come…you're not tired? You just ran a mile" she asked him.
"I used to be big on sports, rugby, football, athletics. I don't mean to sound arrogant but I've simply got far better stamina than you" Alex replied before going inside the mansion and heading up to his room, not waiting for Seras to recover so she could tag along.
Once he reached his quarters he saw the main room (his quarters consist of three rooms, a bathroom, main room/bedroom and a small spare room) was full of shipping crates and Walter was standing by the one closest to the door, form the perspiration on his face it looked like he'd brought up all the crates on his own. Alex walked over to one and prised off the lid. He reached inside and pulled out a small crystal trophy, one he'd gotten in swimming a few years before.
"These. These are all my things from my home back in Yorkshire." Walter nodded
"Yes. Miss Seras had most of your possessions shipped from your home before it was demolished along with the rest of the town."
"Why was the town demolished?"
"I assume it was to provide a cover story for why all the inhabitants suddenly died. I believe the official story will say there was a natural gas explosion from a ruptured line."
"What about me?"
"I think you will be listed as one of the fatalities in the explosion. Of course they won't find your body for obvious reasons so the explosion will probably have been at your school or the normal authorities will just assume your body was burned to ashes." He turned to go.
"Forgive me but I have other duties to attend to. I will leave you to get on with your unpacking" Walter said as he bowed slightly and left the room, leaving the young vampire to get on with unpacking
A few floors down in Integra's office the hunters and senior staff of Hellsing were discussing the patches discovery and what it could mean. Integra looked down at the patch on her office table.
"So, the boy says this is a Soviet Union insignia?" she asked Alucard and Seras
"Yes, he seemed to know a lot about it" Seras added.
"He knows nothing, he's just a child" Alucard said, scowling.
"What do you have against him my servant? He seems to be right, now that I think of it. I remember seeing similar symbols when the Soviet envoys would meet with the committee back in the cold war."
"I dislike those who judge me while I am carrying out your orders master"
"You did rip that vampires heart out right in front of him. Even I thought that was going a little too far." Seras said
"It is your responsibility to make sure he is ready for anything he comes across. You are the one who turned him so it is your responsibility"
"But that's not fair!" Seras moaned
"Neither was turning him but you went ahead and did it anyway" Alucard replied sharply. Before anyone could say anything else Integra raised her hand.
"Cease this now. BOTH of you!" she snapped sharply, Alucard fell silent as did Seras.
"Allucard, you must remember the boy has been a Midian for less than a year and has not even slain his first vampire yet, his reaction was only to be expected." She turned to look at Seras
"Seras, I understand you still have much to learn but he is your responsibility and you must face he consequences of your actions" she then picked up the insignia.
"As for this I will see that it is checked against the organisations database. I assume you can handle this Walter"
"Of course miss Integra" he replied, taking the patch and leaving. Alucard gave Seras a distasteful look before phasing through the floor. Assuming the meeting was now over Seras bowed slightly and quickly left Sir Integra's office. As she walked solemnly through the hallways of the mansion she contemplated her current situation. How on earth was she supposed to teach Alex? She barely knew the basics herself and she barely knew anything about him.
'Why me? Of all the Hellsing personal that could've been sent into the village they h ad to pick me. Groan I could really use a night out' she stopped in the middle of the hallway.
"OF COURSE! THAT'S A GREAT IDEA" she shouted before running off to her quarters.
"Poor girl, must be midian dementia" one of the maids said to another, who nodded in agreement.
Alex Harkons quartersHellsing mansion
10:06 PM
Up in his quarters Alex placed his last shirt onto a coat hanger and slid it into his wardrobe. He'd finally finished unpacking and looked around to admire his handiwork. It was a little bigger than his old one but otherwise it looked just like his old room, complete with the oak bookcase that had been shipped from Yorkshire and was filled with all his books. Suddenly there was a knock at the door and he went to answer it. When he opened it there stood Seras, dressed in a pair of blue jeans and a plain yellow t-shirt.
"Er…what do you want?"
"I was wondering, did you ever go out with your friends while you were still human?"
"Well duh, I was in high school after all, why'd you ask?"
"I figured after seeing what happened today you deserved a break, wanna come out with me tonight?"
"I didn't think Hellsing personal were allowed to go out," he said smiling slyly
"We aren't. Interested?" she asked him, smiling back
"Sure thing, just give me about half an hour to get ready, this ought to be interesting"
"O.K, I'll be back in half an hour," she said and Alex shut the door. He quickly went over to the wardrobe and began going through his clothes, trying to figure out what to wear. He heard the door open and someone come in; he turned around and saw it was Hellsing's angel of death, Walter.
"I do hope I'm not interrupting anything but I believe you missed supper," he said, placing a tray on the bed.
"After all, you'll need your strength if you're out dancing all night won't you?" he added, smiling faintly. Alex gulped.
"How…how did you…"
"Come now, I was young once as well, I am no stranger to breaking curfews. And it is most surprising what you can hear while cleaning a door.
"You were listing outside weren't you?" Alex said accusingly, Walter nodded.
"Are you going to tell Sir Integra?"
"No"
"Why?"
"I know what it is like to be in this organization while you are still young and I know it can be very unpleasant at times" he lifted the lid off the tray to reveal not food but a small handheld crossbow.
"What is that?" Alex asked him.
"The 636 repeater 'Saladin', it has a small motor built into the stock that will draw the string back automatically after its released, it fires blessed silver arrows made from a melted down Glastonbury cross, strong enough to cause serious damage and the retractable barbed heads make the little buggers very hard for vampires to yank out." He said, picking it up and handing it to Alex who held it out at arms length and admired the detail.
"It's very impressive but why do I need it?"
"Protection, there are many enemies of Hellsing out there and word will have spread of you by now."
"Thank you Mr Dornez"
"Please, call me Walter" he replied.
"O.K, thank you Walter" the angel of death bowed and quickly left.
Thirty minute later Seras returned to Alex's room.
"Ready?"
"Of course"
"Then let's hit the town"
To be continued.
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(In chapter 6 – Alex and Seras meet a girl at the dance club but is it just coincidence that her last name is Anderson?)