Hey, I'm back.

So sorry it's taken me so long to update. I had to get my wisdom teeth pulled, then I had to move back to my (military boarding) school and get settled. Then my teacher decided to be mean and launched a research paper, so I have had very little time to write (but ah, the glory of Spanish class!).

Thank you to all my readers, I love you all.

Special Thanks to: DarkHuntressNoyze

Anyway, yeah, I don't own Hellsing. (Elizabeth is mine though, so paws off.)

Read on fellow fans!

Elizabeth opened her eyes long before sunrise, she could not sleep. She got up and pulled out her normal black suit and tie. She went down to the study and began working on paperwork, the masses and masses of paperwork. She read everything before signing it and was halfway done with the pile when she heard Walter come in.

"Good morning Miss Elizabeth," he said, "You're up rather early. Would you like some tea and breakfast?"

"Yes," Elizabeth replied, "Thank you Walter." Elizabeth ran her hand through her hair, she was glad for her mothers training. "Could you also bring me the reports from the night shift?"

"Certainly," he replied. He felt a shiver run down his spine for the second time, Integra had always asked for the reports in that exact phrase. He shook his head a left, Elizabeth would need food soon or she'd work herself to death, just like Integra.

"Alucard," Elizabeth called, he phased through the floor, appearing in her office.

"Yes, my Master," he drawled, bowing comically.

"What exactly did you do for my mother," she asked, still going through paperwork.

"I killed things," he answered, "I kill FREAKS and other creatures, annoying Vatican trespassers and usurping teenagers." Elizabeth gave him a look over her glasses.

"I'll ignore that last comment," she said, patience showing in her voice. 'Dear Lord, help me through this.' Alucard read her thoughts like a book, she could never be Hellsing, she would crumble at the first meeting of the knights, she was weak, not like his Iron Maiden, not like Integra. "I don't care if you kill me in twenty years but you could at least have some courtesy, though I doubt I can get it from a dried up old corpse who's in love with a dead woman and will kill innocents to avenge her." Alucard froze, no one insulted him like that, no one had the guts. No one called the No Life King a dried up old corpse and lived, well, no one but Elizabeth Integra Hellsing. Elizabeth looked at him. "I bite back." Alucard's fury rose, he transformed into the hellhound and bounded at Elizabeth.

"I'm going to kill you," Elizabeth heard the thought in her head.

She waited till the last moment before yelling, "Stop!" The hellhound, bound to Elizabeth, dodged the desk and almost went through the window.

"Miss Elizabeth," Walter said as if nothing was different, handing her a stack of papers from the night to be read. "The queen in on line 1." Elizabeth picked up the phone.

"Your Majesty," she said, solemnly.

"Miss Elizabeth," the queen said, "I would like you to come down to the palace. I will knight you immediately."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Elizabeth hung up the phone and turned to Walter. "I'm going to the palace, Alucard, you're coming with me." They both nodded and turned. They were waiting in the limo when Elizabeth got in, a trench coat over her suit. "Let's go, Walter."

"Yes Miss Elizabeth," Walter said. Elizabeth pored over the reports from the night shift, Alucard looked bored.

"Am I here for a purpose?" He drawled, cleaning his pistol.

"To keep my company," Elizabeth said, not missing a beat. "Walter, we have some vampires and ghouls in Sussex, I'll take care of those after this."

"Yes Miss Integra," Walter said, "Would you like Alucard to accompany you?"

"No," she said, "He'll only slow me down." Alucard looked at her, indignified at being called slow.

"I would like him to go," Walter said, "I hate it when you go out alone."

"Fine Walter," Elizabeth said, "Go the back way, it's faster." Walter turned and came up to the palace. Elizabeth got out. "Both of you stay here, I'll be back soon." Elizabeth walked alone up the huge steps to the palace and into the audience chamber. The queen was already there with her guard and a saber. Elizabeth walked right up to her and knelt. "Your Majesty."

"Elizabeth," she said, "I feel your loss and as it is to you it is to England. We have lost one of our greatest protectors in your mother. Are you prepared to take up her office as a Knight of the Round and protect England at all cost?"

"I am," Elizabeth replied. The queen took her sword and tapped each of her shoulders.

"Rise," she said, "Sir Hellsing." Elizabeth stood, towering over the queen with her height. Elizabeth bowed and left the room. She walked quickly down the stairs and got back in the car.

"Drive," she ordered. Elizabeth did not feel any different, but Alucard looked at her differently. Almost like he knew her. She looked out the window and took her silver pistol from the compartment next to her. "I'll take care of Sussex now."

"Yes," Walter said, almost melancholy, "Sir Hellsing." Elizabeth checked the pistol and put it in her hostler.

'Damn, I need a cigarette,' she thought, 'I can wait till after the job.'

Alucard marveled at the young knight before him, she looked so much like Integra in the dark. He sighed, she was not Integra, she never could be. No one could replace his Iron Maiden; he still remembered the vision of Integra holding him as he cried. He had to stop his rand from stroking her hair, like spun fire. His Integra's hair was spun gold. He sighed as Sussex came closer and closer. It would be dawn in an hour.

"Go home Walter," Elizabeth said as she got out, "I'll get back alone." She closed the door and Alucard got out the other side. "I'll take care of this. I don't care what you do, just don't get in my way." Alucard followed Elizabeth inside the house; she just walked in, without a pistol drawn. He transformed into the hellhound and walked behind her, inconspicuous. Once in the door he turned into mist.

"It's fucking freezing," one vampire said, they were in the back of the house. A male and female FREAK.

"You know," the she-freak said seductively, "We could always…I hear something." Elizabeth heard the sound of guns being drawn and smiled. She walked right back, not bothering to be quiet.

"Freaks," she said, "You guys smell." She noticed a ghoul next to her. "Didn't your mother tell you not to leave your food lying around?" She pulled her pistol out and shot the ghoul in the head, then took out the one behind her without looking. Elizabeth faced the two freaks alone. They pulled the triggers on their guns and emptied a clip as Elizabeth, none hit her. She moved faster then the wind, spinning and dodging. She extended her right hand and a spurt of flame came out of it, torching one of the freaks before he could move. The girl ran for it, but never got to the door. A cyclone came out of nowhere and she was lifted off the ground, Alucard looked on in confusion. Another spurt of flame destroyed the freak, who could not recover from old wounds. Elizabeth stood back up from her crouching position.

"What is hell was that?" Alucard asked. Elizabeth shook out a cigarette and put it between her lips. She lifted a thumb to the cigarette and a spurt of fire came from her gloved hand, lighting it.

"What was what?" She looked completely confused. Then raised her hand and it burst into flame. "This?"

"Yes, that!" Alucard was surprised.

"I'm an elemental," Elizabeth explained, extinguishing her hand, "I can control the elements." Alucard stared for a moment; he then grabbed her coat and hauled her through a dark portal back to the estate.

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