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Chapter 9: Hunger

"This is deep...There is very little that I can do for her now..." A man in a lab coat said to the night nurse. They had stopped the bleeding from Samanthas back. They stitched her up, and it looked to them that she would have to pull through of her own accord. Her body would have to do the rest...

Alucard had not left the room all night. He stood in a dark corner and watched as the doctors and nurses did what they could. "She'll make it...she has to..." He kept telling himself. He knew that this could very well be just another human who, in the end would leave him...unless... "No...I will not..." Alucard scolded himself, knowing that she would have to make the choice for herself. He had tried to read her mind while the doctors worked on her, but she was stubborn.

He could not understand...her mind was so deep. He couldn't find his way through the labyrinth that were her thoughts. She had reinforced her mind so many times, that even he thought he would go insane. 'I'll just have to see...' He thought to himself. Then a thought came to him. 'What if she was not just human...? What if she has...' Alucard laughed softly...He knew something wasn't right with her from the beginning...Light had begun to creep up and he needed to go. "Alucard...don't worry about me...I'll make it through..." He heard her voice inside his head.

Alucard couldn't help but smile. She was a stubborn one...a stubborn one with a secret that he doubted even she knew. He disappeared, knowing that come nightfall she would be alright.

'Later that day'

"How does it look, doctor?" Integra asked. He shook his head and smiled. "I can't believe it, but she gets better by the minute...It's as if her will to live is literally healing the wound..." He was baffled by the amount of healing. "It almost borders on the supernatural..." He added sighing. "Really?...Thats good. I will be back later on...Take care of her..." Integra said wheeling herself out of the room.

"Walter...?" Integra asked as he served her tea. "Yes, Sir Integra?" Walter replied, wondering what was on her mind. "The doctor says that the girl is healing very well...in fact he said it almost bordered on the Supernatural...You don't think that Alucard..." She trailed off, not wanting to continue her line of thought. Walter knew where she was going and tried to comfort her. "You would know better than me...but I don't see him doing this...at least not this way...Alucard lives by his own code of honor...as unintelligible as it is..." He smiled and added. "At least he would have told you...right?"

"Thank you, Walter. I know..." Integra was a little relieved. At least she thought she was...but the thought kept plaguing her. 'What if Alucard had intervened...?' She didn't want to think about it.

'Later that night'

Night had fallen bringing with it a cloudless sky and no moon. Alucard was back in the infirmary. He didn't know why. It wasnt that he hated humans...although he did have trouble understanding them...no...it was that he had such an unnaturally long life that all of the humans he had known died sooner or later. He forced himself to stay away from humans...until Integra's father found and captured him. For twenty years he stayed in that cell...not knowing...not living, but not dead either.

"I have protected Integra, ever since..." Alucard said to himself. Suddenly a stir in the room made him come out of his thoughts. He looked up at the bed and saw that Samanthas eyes were open. He smirked and walked to her.

"It's about time..." He whispered to her. She blinked and saw him. She smiled and winced and found that she was incredibly sore, and stiff. "What happened?" She asked more to herself than anything. Suddenly she remembered as the thoughts came flooding into her...The ghouls, the guns, Alucard and finally pain. "I should have been dead...how?" She stated amazed. "A lesser human would surely have perished...you are not an ordinary human, though." She looked up into Alucard's face questioningly. "You are special..." He trailed off...knowing that he would have to tell her what she was...