Chapter XIII

Author's Note: I'm so sorry for not updating in such a long time. College stuff were piling up and I'm not going to lie, they still are. But today I went over the reviews and I thought to myself "Damn, I really am lucky to have such great readers!" so I figured I'd suck it up and quickly present you guys with the next chapter. Beware, it's not edited. Also! Please continue to review. It is the gas to my almost dried up engine.

Third Person POV

Seras returned to her room without another word to the man she once greatly admired. She couldn't bring herself to believe that he had truly killed her one and only Childe.

Izaiah had stood by her all the years that Alucard was missing and had become as much part of her as her limbs and her undead heart. She didn't know what she would do now that her true companion was gone.

She suddenly felt a presence behind her.

Seras-

Her 'Master's' voice resonated behind her, but all she thought was that she didn't want to have to be his Childe anymore.

Seras. I need to talk to you.

Seras contemplated turning around to try and rip his throat out but decided that such an action would be pointless. She had already beheaded him while they were on the roof and yet he still came back to life. Nothing would kill him now. She was sure. Instead, she ended up opting for silence, no longer wanting to recognize his presence in her life. She had already made up her mind that if she couldn't physically kill Alucard, she would mentally delete his existence from hers.

Alucard moved closer to her. His hand was about to touch her shoulder when she turned around and walked by him as if he didn't exist.

She hadn't even bothered to dematerialize.

He growled, "You will answer when I speak to you."

Seras continued to walk without acknowledging him.

He grabbed onto her shoulders and trapped her between his body and the wall. Still she did not show any signs of response to anything he was doing.

He stared at her for a moment before he let her go. He knew that talking to her would be a lost cause for the rest of the day, perhaps even week, and decided to approach her again at a later time so that she could have some time to calm down and come to terms with what had been done on the roof of the Hellsing estate.

"Seras" a voice called to her through the daze of sleep.

"Seras, you awake?"

She opened her eyes and saw something she thought she would never see again.

"I-Izaiah?"

He didn't respond but he smiled back gently with a tenderness that only Izaiah had ever showed her. She reached her arms up and wrapped them around his neck, tears gathering in her eyes and a sincere smile curling on her face.

"You're alive. You're alive. I can feel you and you're truly right here right now."

She pulled him down into her coffin and closed the lid.

Her right hand reached up to cup his left cheek while her left hand moved to his hair and stroked through it. She said nothing after that but continued to stare at him until she felt sleep trying to reclaim her.

When she was sure she could no longer keep her eyes open, she wrapped her arms around his waist and snuggled closer to his body.

"Goodnight, Izaiah."

His eyes softened and he smiled once again before placing a kiss on top of her hair.

"Goodnight, my queen."

When Seras woke up the next morning she was still wrapped within the body of who she thought was her Childe but, as her senses gradually returned to their sharpened state, she realized who was truly in her bed and felt her blood run cold with pure rage.

How dare he… how dare he kill my Childe and still have the audacity to come into my bed pretending to be my lost partner.

She seethed internally at her own predicament but decided to do as she had done the night before. She was going to delete Alucard's existence completely from her mind and knew the perfect way to do it.

She moved within his arms to break free of them and felt Alucard awaken instantly but she continued as if all she was trying to do was untangle herself from her 'blanket'.

Alucard was not pleased, but, before he could say or do anything, Seras dematerialized from the coffin as if the 'blanket' she was trapped in truly did not matter.

Seras decidedly went to the Hellsing library to search up a multitude of ways she could get away from Alucard. She had been searching for 3 hours before she finally found a book written on how to destroy Master and Childe relationships among vampires.

Most of the methods listed were ways that she had already known about and were not helpful in helping her achieve her goal, but there had been one that both depressed and elated her like no other.

The final and last way to break a Master and Childe bond without having to drink the Sire's blood includes a long and arduous ritual. The Childe, in this case, would have to go through great pains, but after the ritual is complete even the memories of his or her Master would be completely erased. Few have opted for this method and all those who have tried have ended up wanting to undo what they have done so it is advised that this method should NOT be used unless there is no other choice (i.e the death of the Master).

The first step of the ritual includes drawing a phrase in the ground. This phrase will later hold great importance to the child as it is the phrase that will unlock the Childe's powers whenever there is a need for it. The phrase will form itself after the Childe drains 5/6 of his or her own blood. The Childe will then engrave the words of the phrase onto their own hearts to mark the permanence of the ritual and will only awaken 30 years after the ritual is performed.

However, it should truly be noted that the ritual is highly discouraged becau—

Seras did not want to keep reading, already making up her mind to use the ritual written in the book. She planned to set up the ritual and go through with it within the next 4 hours.