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Chapter Four!

"I'm floating… Yes, and I'm floating. It's just so…warm. I don't think… don't think that I should ever….. ever… ever leave…"

"Seras"

Squeezing her eyes closed as tight as possible, Seras Victoria mentally swat away at the voice that was pestering her to wake. Truly she didn't want to leave this place. Floating through the warm, dark nothingness that was… wherever she was, Seras found it to be fairly safe, as though someone was watching over her.

However, the Police Girl did have the feeling that whether or not she liked it, she was going to have to wake up. Slowly she allowed her eyes to open, still trying to see through the fuzziness of… the fuzz. And the first thing she saw, were the red, red eyes of her Master, Alucard.

"M…Master? Did I fall asleep?"

" Yes, in fact, you did. And while I wouldn't necessarily mind carrying you, you are on my lap."

" Wait… I'm… You say… Oh my…" Instantly she jumped up, her face redder than a tomato. Her eyes remained trained on the floor, not feeling that she could trust herself to look at her Master. From across her seat, Alucard chuckled under his breath.

"Walter is dropping off the bags. We should be getting to the front gate in a moment." Before Seras could apologize some more, Walter opened the nearby door and 'ahemed' to get their attention.

"I've dropped off the bags, and you're flight is in about thirty minutes. I think you both should enter the airport…"

"Yes! Yes, of course Walter!" Seras, still jumpy and embarrassed, quickly hopped out of the already open door, followed by the much smoother Alucard, dressed in his awesome suit. Still, Seras barely had time to gawk at Alucard before she turned her entire gawking attention towards the airport.

"Seras, you may want to enter the airport any time now. Or we could just look at it for the rest of the day…" She turned quickly, smiling and blushing.

"Sorry M-Alucard. I've just… I've never SEEN an airport. It's huge!" She turned again to face Walter this time. Her face radiated happiness.

" Thanks for taking us Walter!" Quickly, Seras leaned forward and hugged a very surprised Walter.

"Ribs… Crushing…"

"Oh… sorry…" Now finished, she turned her excited-ness over towards her Master. She was bouncing lightly on her tennis shoe clad feet before really looking at his outfit again.

"Alucard, I'm not dressed like that! I'm just wearing jeans…" And so she was. Her clothing choice wasn't quite so eloquent when it came to choices. For this flight, she had chosen dark blue jeans and a simple black t-shirt and jean jacket. Nothing too fancy, and it was around this time when she was beginning to wonder if she should have worn something else. She had put on some black eye-liner… Or maybe she could find something else really fast…

A pair of soft gloved hands on her shoulders brought her attention back to the real world. Looking up into Alucard's eyes, she was instantly calmed. That really was a nifty trick of his. She allowed herself to take a deep breath in, and slowly let it out.

" Hurry Seras. We're going to miss the plane."

" Fly safely Alucard and Ms. Victoria, I should be getting back to Sir Integra…" As Seras started to enter the airport, Alucard turned and flashed a wide grin at Walter, as though he had been reading his mind.

"You shouldn't worry too much Walter. Things may not be quite what they seem…" With another 'Alucard brand' grin, Alucard turned on his heel and moved his way smoothly to follow the Police Girl.

For a moment, Walter just sat in his seat, thinking about what he had said. Could he, perhaps, have thought the wrong thing about Sir Integra and Pip?

"Absolutely not." Now smoldering and a bit annoyed, Walter shifted the car into drive and made his way out of the airport drop-off gate and into the fairly light traffic, only barely going over the speed limit.

The moment that Seras stepped inside of the terminal, her mouth dropped open and her eyes widened to the size of dinner plates. Never before had she been somewhere quite so… shiny!

Stepping up behind her in his properly shiny shoes, Alucard placed his hand on her shoulder.

" Well, Seras, what do you think?"

"M-Alucard… It's so amazing!" Instantly she was looking around excitedly, eager to see everything before leaving again. Chuckling at her enthusiasm, Alucard placed his hand on her shoulder and gently guided her to the metal detectors. Once in line, he was annoyed to see that it seemed to be a fairly long line. Thinking that perhaps he could scare the people out of the way, he turned towards Seras to ask her opinion.

Seras seemed as though she could really care less about how long the line was. Already she was animatedly speaking to another woman who seemed about her age. Apparently, the other girl had flown before and was speaking to Seras about what to expect. Alucard sighed audibly and decided that, while he would prefer not to wait, he would, just this once, for the Police Girl.

After waiting for about fifteen minutes, he was beginning to wonder if that had been such a good idea. The two women hadn't stopped talking since they had gone into the line, and if Alucard had to hear one more thing about how much it is to watch someone use a barf bag, he himself was going to barf.

Finally it seemed that salvation had been delivered to him. The girl in front of them left to make her journey through the metal detectors and Seras' attention was now back onto him. He refrained from grinning, however, as he explained that she had to take everything metal out of her pockets to walk though the detector.

" But Mas-Alucard… what about your…"

" Never mind Seras, don't worry about it. I have a feeling that we won't have to worry about it." Seras beamed at him before taking out some change and placing it into a small box. Because she hadn't known about carry-ons (boy that would have helped when she had been packing before), she was able to go one without having to wait for her bag. Still beaming, the Police Girl stepped through the large rectangular portal and beamed even brighter when no lights or alarms, or sounds went off.

" See Ma-Alucard! I did it!" Alucard chuckled again at her inexperience with the entire affair and wondered if it would always be this interesting to travel anywhere with her.

Alucard repeated the procedure and despite having brought Casul in his coat, the alarms didn't go off. Perhaps it had something to do with the tiny tendril of hair creeping into the system…

With that finally finished, the two made their way to the gate, gate 34B, Seras still gawking at all of the stores and people with babies.

Everything seemed to be going smoothly, yet something told him to be weary. Something was amiss in this place, and despite his efforts, whatever it was did not make itself known.

Eventually the two made it to the gate as passengers from group A were boarding. Alucard was surprised to find that there weren't all that many people were going there. It did make sense though when he thought about it. When people went on vacation, the least likely place most of them would think to go would be to Pennsylvania, much less in the winter. He wondered why, for it was beautiful in the winter.

"Ma-Alucard… I think they want our tickets…" Luckily for them, Walter had made sure that they would be some of the first people on, for Alucard wanted Seras to have a window seat for her first flight. Instantly the elder vampire produced two tickets with their names on them.

" Thank you sir! Have a wonderful flight!" Seras grinned as she entered the tunnel that would lead them to the plane.

Several moments later, Alucard was wondering what had happened. Seras had been fine as she had sat down, but when the plane started to move and as they entered take-off, she had begun hyperventilating.

" Seras. What's wrong."

" I'm not sure… But my stomach feels as though it's sinking and I… I think I'm scared…" She sank down into her seat, her eyes squeezed tight. Alucard found himself having to suppress a chuckle. She had been so exited to fly, and now here she was, cowering at the turbulence the plane was having as it began it's ascent.

Before long, the beginning turbulence was gone, now replaced with fairly smooth flying.

" You can look now Seras. And if you feel like it, though I don't necessarily mind, you can un-bury yourself from my coat." Seras' eyes opened and, true to what her Master had said, she saw red, for she was buried in Alucard's coat, clutching at his shirt. Luckily for them, the flight was fairly empty and so there wasn't anyone else sitting with them.

She flushed slightly and pulled herself out, forcing herself to unclench her hands from the surprisingly soft material.

" Sorry Master…"

" Look out the window." Gulping, Seras turned her head and stared wide-eyed out the window.

" Oh wow!" Momentarily her fear was forgotten as she eagerly pressed her face to the window, watching the landscape float by underneath them. And then, all in a flash, the fear was back as she shrank back down into her seat.

" Seras?"

She answered in a whimper. "Alucard… I feel terrified right now. I don't know…" As she said that, the overhead seatbelt sign dimmed off and the pilot announced that it was now officially safe to take off the seatbelts.

Before Seras could even begin to fumble again with the seatbelt (it had been quite funny to watch her try to close it at first, until her Master had helped her), Alucard had unbuckled his belt, lifted up the armrest, and undone her own belt.

" Have you flown before Master…" He grinned at her and motioned for her to stand up. Seras complied and Alucard slid his tall figure to lean up against the window, stretching out his legs, and propping his body against the side of the plane, ending up in a sitting position.

" Are you kicking me out of my seat?" He chuckled and clasped her ungloved hand in his and pulled her back over to the seat, bringing her down so that she sat between his legs, both facing the isle. Even though Alucard was sitting down, he legs went right into the isle. Little Seras, being so… little… her legs hardly reached into the isle, juuuuust barely.

Anyhow, and there they both sat, and for a moment, nobody said anything, Seras still feeling embarrassed. While she didn't know her Master all that much, she still wasn't sure what was going on, but damn did she like it.

"Alucard… Um… Uh…" Whatever she was trying to say was lost as he long arms wrapped around her stomach and his mouth came to her neck. She could hear him smelling her neck and she shivered, trying not to make him angry by doing something stupid.

" You smell delicious, Seras."

" I.. I can't really tell…" However, she could tell that he smelled good. Something… warm and inviting, with a hint of cigar smoke. She, too, breathed deeply, allowing his own scent to encompass her. Her eyes closed, and her body relaxed as his hair gently fell onto her neck… so soft…

Seras may not have been relishing the whole 'flight' to Pennsylvania. But all those thoughts were thrown right out the window. At that moment, nothing made her happier than to sit here, smelling her Master, and just sleeping…

An hour or so later, the nice cart lady came down the isle… and had to stop due to the pair of legs blocking her path.

"Uh… Sir? Would you like something to drink."

"No, and if you wake up this woman, I'll make you rock her back to sleep." Without another word, the nice lady pulled the cart back the way she had come from. And Alucard, satisfied that they wouldn't be bothered for a while, buried his face in Seras' hair and allowed himself to drift off to sleep. It was going to a long flight…

A/N: Wow. Another chapter finished. Somehow, I don't think this one was good. That's why it's taking so long to put up; I wanted to check and re-check everything a few times. You know, I had an odd dream the other day… I dreamt that Alucard and Seras (with Alucard singing) were doing a lovely rendition of the Numa Numa song. It was quite funny. Anyhow, I hope to also put up a Samurai Champloo fic soon; I hope that for once it'll actually work out. Oh well, I hope you all like it! Please R&R, for reviews (and constructive criticisms) make me very happy. Much love from this end, -.-.