Chapter VI

A/N: greetings! But your overlord has done it again! Wa-ha! And, as an added bonus, I even threw in a family tree that I slaved over for you. hope you like it! R&R!

Chapter VI

Alucard watched her from the shadows for the next two months while he was in the Hellsing Manor. In the evening while she slept, he looked up information on her background. It didn't take him more than a week to find her family tree, and it was just as he thought it would be.

Brook Summers—Pierce Harker Alfred Murray—Levina Sanders

1841-1889 1843-1892 1832-1872

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Jonathan Harker—Wilhelmina Murray

1870-1923 1872-1942

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Morgan Harker Thomas Harker—Victoria Smith

1891-1966 1895-1959 1900-1957

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Samantha Jameson—Jonathan Harker II

1912-1995

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Cordelia Waters-- Thomas Harker Jr

1932-1993 1934-1998

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Tanya Richardson --Anthony Harker

1972-2005

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Elizabeth Kathryn Harker

1992-

She was descended from the woman he had loved, Wilhelmina Murray, whom he had been so close to making his forever. Now all the familiarities he saw in her still child-like face made sense to him. He also understood why his world had been turned upside-down by her presence. Oh, how beautiful she would be when she grew into a woman.

He pushed the papers aside and sat back in his chair. So many things to arrange for her training. How to best go about it? She was so fragile and young, he couldn't simply throw her around the way he did Seras. One thing was for certain, he would not loose her again.

He moved upwards into her room to make sure he was alright before he reported to Integra and made his requests. Elizabeth was already asleep, her hair spread out on the pillow beneath her. Even in the dark, the usually coffee-cream skin was pale in her sleep. He smiled. She looked even more beautiful with the pale skin, almost as pale as his own. He would revel when the day came when he could make that beautiful color permanent.

He withdrew when she stirred, and he made his way to his master's office. Integra was waiting for him.

"Good evening, my Master." He greeted her, bowing as he did so.

"Alucard." Integra replied, watching him. "What is it? There are no missions tonight. You may go about your business."

"Yes, Master." He said, but didn't move. "I have a request for you on behalf of Lady Elizabeth."

"Oh?" Integra asked. "I trust you haven't been frightening her? Just what is it that the two of you want from me?"

"She would like me to train her in combat."

Integra looked at him in disbelief. Then she stood up to look out the window behind her desk.

"And what, pray tell, would you be teaching her about combat?"

Alucard smiled. If she was asking that, then it wasn't entirely out of the question.

"How to fight a vampire or various other freak in combat." He said simply. "As the future head of Hellsing, I felt she should have the best in training, and am offering to take her under my wing."

There was silence for a few moments, then Integra turned around.

"Very well. You have two months to set up whatever you feel is necessary." She moved to the door, then turned back, pointing a warning finger at him. "But there is to be no biting her."

Alucard smiled. Oh, no. Of course not. Not yet.

He bowed again and left, returning to Elizabeth's room. He would watch over her, be her friend while she needed only that. And when she needed more….he would be there for that as well. Not even Hellsing would keep her from him again.