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Alucard slit the last Freak's throat and James blew a head away. He sighed and retrieved his knives from the several corpses that had fallen to them. He sheathed them and took in the situation. Jimmy had been wounded and Linda was a little creeped out, this was her first misson, but they were fine and there were no casualties. He smiled and walked over to Alucard.

"Are we prepared to withdraw?" He asked. Alucard looked up at the moon and his frame stiffened.

"Something's wrong," Alucard said, "We have to get back, now. Everyone to the truck!" Alucard had barely waited until Jim was loaded before ordering the driver to step on it. The three hour trip back to Hellsing took only two hours and five minutes in heavy traffic. The truck stopped and the group looked at the bashed in gates of Hellsing and the smoldering aera before the house. James got out of the truck and stood next to Alucard. Alucard felt his heart drop. There were so many bodies, and any one of them could be covering Elizabeth's.

"Elizabeth!" He yelled, charging into the carnage. James was fast behind him. Alucard looked under every body, looking for any spark of her fiery hair that would give him a clue to her location.

"Alucard!" He heard Walter call. "Alucard, over here!" Alucard appeared next to Walter the next second.

"What happened here?" He asked. "Where is Elizabeth?"

"She's over by the door," Walter said. Alucard moved, but Walter halted him. "Wait, it was the Vatican. Anderson lead troops here to attack, it was one thousand against almost one hundred and fifty. We won, but we have a significant amount of losses. Captain Lucas died trying to protect Elizabeth."

"Is she all right?" Alucard growled. Walter looked down, the wires that covered his hands were covered in blood as was his suit. He sighed and clenched his gloved fists.

"Come with me," Walter said. He began walking towards the house and Alucard followed him until he saw a figure leaning against a wall in dark clothing with a medic standing next to her. Alucard ran there before Walter could stop him and the sight he saw nearly broke him right there. Elizabeth was not leaning against the wall, she was pinned to it. Alucard drew closer, slowly now, and the medic knelt to look in his field pack, he saw the true extent of her injuries and knew that there was no way to save her. Pinning her to the wall were at least nine of Anderson's bayonets. The medic closed his case and walked over to Walter and Alucard.

"There's nothing I can do," he said, "One of the blades has severed her spinal chord and both of her lungs are punctured. If it were just one I could do something, but beyond making her more comfortable there is nothing to be done."

"There has to be something," Walter said.

"Yes," James said, "Have you tried everything?"

"I've given her some morphine," the medic said, "But treatment like this is beyond anyone's skill. If I tried to save her I'd kill her because of the damage to her spinal chord and lungs, and the pain would be unimaginable. I've given her enough to dull the pain so she'll go in peace."

"Are you telling me," Walter said, "That they won? Elizabeth is going to die?"

"I'm afraid so," he replied. "The bayonets are keeping her alive, removing them will open her wounds. She's conscious if you want to be with her, as soon as she's not we can take them out and move her back to her rooms." Walter nodded as Alucard drew closer.

"Hey," Elizabeth said, she smiled a little. "Did Walter tell you? I beat Anderson."

"I thought he couldn't die," Alucard said, "How'd you manage that little feat?"

"She got him wounded enough to capture him," Walter replied, "Then she ordered him taken to a special chamber. I'll show you later, you'll probably get a kick out of killing Anderson again and again."

"I'll need to kill something," Alucard replied.

"Just leave enough for me," James said, "They need help with the wounded." He knelt before Elizabeth. "I just would like you to know, that being with you has been the best time of my life." James lifted a hand and caressed her cheek gently, running a thumb over her cheekbone. He smiled and kissed her hand before running off to help move those who were wounded downstairs to the medical bay.

"Is there anything you would like to say?" Alucard asked Walter.

"I'm going to stay with her," Walter replied, taking her left hand, "She may need another shot of morphine." Alucard smiled.

"Well," Alucard said to Elizabeth, "You did pretty good, you just mistook your torso for target practice." Elizabeth laughed a little and a small trickle of blood ran from her mouth.

"Heh," she coughed for a moment, "You should have seen it. They were scared of me, when I walked out here with my forces behind me. I felt like there was nothing in the world that could hurt me." Alucard brushed a few stray hairs out of her face with a gloved hand and smiled at her.

"I'm sure they were scared shitless," he said with a smile. Elizabeth looked at him through her blue eyes, he was not leering or smirking, he was giving a real smile.

"It looks like you'll get your freedom sooner then we thought," Elizabeth said, shuddering, more blood trickled out of her mouth. "Please, don't waste it."

"You're not going to lock me away?" Alucard asked. Walter turned and silent tears began to pour down his face. Elizabeth was about to make the choice Integra could never have made herself, the choice she wanted to make.

"No," Elizabeth said, "Maybe this is the way it was supposed to be. The Hellsing blood will die with me, and the imprisoning seal with it." Alucard looked at the gloves on his hands and saw the red markings begin to fade. He looked up and saw the light begin to leave Elizabeth's eyes.

"Elizabeth?" Alucard asked. Her head had fallen foreword and her eyes were closed. "Elizabeth!" Walter turned and put a hand to her throat, there was the weakest pulse he had ever felt and it would give out in a few moments.

"Alucard," Walter said, his voice breaking, Elizabeth was gone. Walter cleared his throat and looked at the vampire, the countenance on his coworker stopping him cold. In Alucard's face was an emotion he had never seen before, fear. Walter involuntarily stepped back, Alucard was afraid of loosing Elizabeth.

"No," Alucard said, his voice was low. He could not believe that she was dead, he would not.

"Alucard," Walter said again, "Bite her." Alucard looked at Walter like he was crazy. "Hurry before it's to late! Bite her!" Alucard looked from Walter to Elizabeth, he could sense the slightest flutter of her heart and the last of the Hellsing blood moving through her veins. Alucard took two of the blades in his hands and began to pull each one from her body. Eight grueling wounds later Elizabeth was in his arms and her neck was exposed. "It's the only way," Walter said, "Please, save her." Alucard looked at the girl in his arms, so like her mother and so different. Alucard realized now that he had failed Integra, it had been his job to keep her from dieing, he was not going to fail this time. Alucard opened his mouth and his fangs grew as they always did just before a kill, he gently leaned foreword and sank his fangs into her neck. As he drank of the rich blood he had smelled for so long, the last beat of Elizabeth's heart thudded and she came into full unconsciousness.

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