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Chapter 10: Born into Darkness

"What makes me so special?" Samantha asked wincing. The pain in her back was almost debilitating even though it had almost healed completely. "You are human...but..." Alucard told her, without knowing how exactly to finish the thought. "But...? But what?" Samantha looked at him, her eyes were full of wonder.

"I don't know why I didn't notice this before...but it came to me while you were healing...you must have had a parent that was...shall we say...different." He chuckled. "What do you mean...different?" Samantha raised an eyebrow becoming increasinglyimpatient. "One of your parents was a vampire...you have the blood of a vampire in you..." He said finally answering her question. "What? How? I didn't know..." Samantha was speechless. How could she have vampire blood within in her veins...it just didnt make sense.

"My parents died in a car crash when I was twelve...If one of them was a vampire...wouldn't they still be alive...?" She looked up at Alucard waiting. 'It doesn't make sense...' She thought to herself. "Maybe they didn't die in a car crash..." Alucard replied not knowing what to make of it himself...This was the first time he had ever met a human that was born part vampire, and it intrigued him. "Alucard..." Was all Samantha could say. She was trying to wrack her brain to find information...She didn't know how this could have happened.

Suddenly they heard a noise and looked towards the door. They saw Integra wheeling herself into the room... "Alucard...I must speak with you..." She said keeping her eyes on Samantha. "Of course, Master." Alucard looked at Samantha one last time and followed Integra out of the room.

'With Alucard and Integra'

"Did you interfere? Did you make her one of you?" Integra asked straight forward. She didn't want to beat around the bush with this. "No..." Came his simple reply. "Then how..." Integra was interrupted by Alucard putting his hands up. "The girl is much more than human..." Alucard answered knowing that this was going to be a long night. "What do you mean, Alucard, and you better give me a straight answer this time." Integra hissed at him. She didn't have the patience tonight for his cryptic ways.

"Exactly what I mean...She is much more than human because one of her parents was a Vampire. I can feel the blood coursing through her body..." Alucard chuckled. "She's?...Wait...how...She didn't even know?" Integra finally understood what this meant. "She was born into darkness?" Shecontinued deep in thought. 'This is unprecedented.' She thought to herself.

"How could she have been unaware of this..." Integra said not asking him, but herself. "All I know is that she didn't know and is now in a deep state of denial." Alucard smiled and laughed...at least he thought that this was funny. "Denial? Why? Did you tell her?" She blinked and looked seriously into his face. "Somebody had to tell her...It might as well have been me..." He said in a low tone of voice. "Why didnt you consult me first?"

Integra felt like strangling him. "You could have done some serious damage...you know that right? She could go mad with information like this..." Integra said rolling her eyes...He was impossible to deal with...

"Let me talk to her...you can come but you must not say anything..." Integra began wheeling herself back into Samantha's room. "Did you know about this?" Samantha asked Integra uncertainly. "No...I did not...Alucard has just informed me...What do you think about this?" She wanted to make sure that Samantha wouldn't crack. "I don't really know...but some things have been answered about my past. I hardly ever saw my father...my mother would always tell me that he was working and that he wouldn't be back until late at night...and my mother never told me what exactly he did for work..." Samantha recalled all the times that she asked her mother where her father wasand she would always make up some excuse. 'No wonder...' She added to herself.

"Well, I'm glad to see that you are not taking this as hard as I thought...this could be very damaging to some people...You have healed quite nicely...This question is...what do you want to do now?" Integra asked as light hearted as she could... Samantha just stared at her hands...she was fidgeting with them without realizing it. "What should I do? What would you normally do about something like this...?" Samantha was also curious about what would happen next... 'Would they kill her? Would they let her stay?' It was all very confusing and she didn't know if she could handle being tossed onto the street...

"We-..." Alucard was about to say something, but was stopped when Integra raised her hand... "I just need to think, Alucard..." Integra didn't know what to do either...She was very confused and wondered what her father would have done... "This has never happened...and I don't know what to do..." She scolded herself for finally not being able to come up with anything. "Alucard...do you have any thoughts?" Her head was down and he knew that he was the last person she wanted to ask their opinion. "I thought I wasn't allowed to say anything..." Alucard knew that this would anger her further, but didn't care.

"Dammit Alucard! Just tell me..." Integra rolled her eyes and knew he was only doing it to piss her off. "Well I think that she should stay...and perhaps...if she wants..." He stopped there. Suddenly becoming excited by the thought...Alucard looked over to Samantha and tried once again to read her thoughts...but as before they were guarded and it seemed to be getting worse. "If I want what...?" Samantha piped in finally. "If she makes the decision for herself maybe I could...you know, 'finish the job'..." All he could do was chuckle...maybe he wouldn't be alone after all...