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Disclaimer: I don't own Hellsing. I don't own much of nothing. So please don't sue me. I don't have much more than a penny. This story is about all I have to give. So please lemme live! (yeah. My rhyming sucks).

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Chapter Six: die Ruhe vor dem Sturm

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"Damn it, Seras! Just what the hell came over you?! What were you thinking!?" Integra shouted, each word punctuated with anger and precision as she slammed both hands down on her desk, "I put those soldiers under your command for you to do a simple investigation mission, not to murder them!"

The room vibrated from her strong and powerful voice. Walter, who was standing by next to his mistress, wouldn't let it show but inwardly he cringed. He knew all too well when the head of the Hellsing Organization was truly furious. It was a rare thing for Integra to get to that level, but this time it's gone beyond what he's seen before and he knew why. Integra had come to genuinely trust in the draculina, in spite of what she really was, viewed Seras as a potential good friend, and not just a loyal member of the proud Hellsing family and what they stood for.

"Those soldiers were new recruits at that and you cut them before we could see what they could have been!" Integra growled, gritting her teeth as she hissed through them, "You're fling with whatever thrill that came up suddenly has caused more trouble than I'll ever need. I have a feeling that secretly you that longed to kill and indulge in deaths. You are Alucard's fledgling after all, so of course you'd take after him. Isn't that right, Seras?"

"No, Sir, that's not tr-" The young draculina began, her voice just slightly frantic but was immediately cut off.

"You will not interrupt me when I am talking!" The head of the Hellsing Organization bit back, her eyes narrowing, "You have done this and by your own hands, rendering you being at fault! You lost control of yourself, so there is no one else to blame but you. I had considered overlooking your condition, thinking it would be temporarily brief and would not get in the line of work, but I see I was wrong."

Seras immediately fell silent, having an impulse to lower her head and train her eyes to the floor, but in the past when she entered the Organization, she had been scolded to stop that quickly else she would show weakness and submission. She stowed the downed feelings and kept her focus, but clenched her fists.

It wasn't just guilt that was weighing more heavily now, but contempt was creeping in. Integra was a strong woman indeed, but sometimes she can seem a bit too hard, so Seras viewed in her own eyes. Her words were hitting home and Seras, as much as she knew she shouldn't, could feel herself tighten as she had begun to get on the defense. She hadn't been spared in the police force on this sort of thing, yet this time around, it was getting to a point; a point where Seras was starting to draw the line.

Her lips suddenly gave a tug at the corners on one side and they pulled back some ways; a grin beginning to be born and her eyes narrowed, but just slightly; barely noticeable. Seras' muscles also began to relax and her fingers unwound from the fist. These mixed feelings didn't really give her any reason to pay much attention to them or to sort out much truthful reason, but she felt oddly amused by them in a strange way.

"To add, you again failed to report to me, again, when I specifically told you that there will be no exceptions! Alucard may be your master, but you answer to me just the same as he does and everyone else who works for Hellsing." Integra continued, lowering her voice a little in volume but not in harshness as her steel blue eyes took a long hard look at the other female in the office, "And on top of that, you became a full vampire without my knowing..."

Seras had indeed changed. Her soft colored dandelion hair was now a very light tint that almost looked like the platinum blonde which Integra possessed, only more pale and towards the whiter side with two considerable streaks of dim red strands on both sides of her head. The Hellsing uniform she wore changed to a deep maroon color and her vibrant blue eyes were now back instead of the crimson that she acquired when the Police girl was turned.

Sir Integra blinked then, realizing the draculina's expression of a sneer and she glared coldly, raising her voice again, her rage building, "Wipe that smirk off your face!"

Seras started, clearly not expecting that to come out and her lips fell in a small form of shock and her eyes widened slightly. She then furrowed her brows in confusion as she thought, '...I was smirking at Sir Integra? Why would I do that...?'

"That's it, Seras! I don't know what's really wrong with you, but your display of disrespect right now and your current behavior is unacceptable! I gave you more than a fair amount of chances to correct this yourself, but it was futile in the end."

The young vampiress had to glance down at that with a slight wince. Walter reflected her action with one of his own grimaces, only it wasn't so obvious. Integra was truly outraged.

Integra gave a frustrated and heavy sigh, standing back up and straightened her posture, one hand on the table and the other at her side to clench out of view, voice becoming calm yet firm, "For your actions, Seras Victoria, I hereby relieve you of command and sentence you to spend as many hours as it takes in the Hellsing's psychiatric therapy to get over this problem."

Seras stared wide eyed at her, "What...?"

Walter watched quietly, but he felt his feelings stir inside; ones of a fatherly compassion. This was bound to happen if Seras couldn't do this by herself and quickly, that much was obvious. Yet he kept his thoughts to himself.

"You're also released from any other missions. I won't stand for an unstable soldier in my Organization that will jeopardize our cause. The investigation this night, even if it's unaccomplished, you are not to go with the next units I will be sending out to finish. I will put you on inactive duty with pay. Is that clear, Seras Victoria?"

"But, Sir, you don't understand! I-I'm fine now, really! Now that I'm a full vampire, I don't have that other personality anymore, so I-!"

"I said" Integra cut her short then, her voice hardened just a little with the emphasis, "...is that clear, Seras Victoria?"

Seras' breath hitched slightly and her foot took a small step forward, "Sir Integra, please!"

"Is that clear, Seras Victoria?!"

The once former fledgling winced, putting her hand down that had came up a little with her movement and desperation, to her side and closed it into a fist. Her jaw became tight with anger and disbelief, and it showed itself to etch deep within her blue eyes. She then spoke up in response after Integra's voice had finished reverberating off the walls, her voice tight and a little hitched, "Yes, sir...Sir Integra...I understand..."

A crash of thunder rolled over the drenched Hellsing manor above after a bright successful flash that illuminated the figure of the mature, tall and powerful Integra. The pouring rain had stopped momentarily ever since Seras had entered the office but now the clouds opened up and let everything it had fall down hard.

"Then you are dismissed, Seras Victoria."

Integra raised a brow when Seras didn't move from her position and they both continued to stare each other down. There was something in the draculina's eye that made her muscles tense in a strangely familiar way that not only intimidated her, but also provoked Integra at the same time. She had felt this way before and she shouted without another thought, "Dismissed, Seras Victoria!"

Seras snapped out of the stare, blinking again in shock but quickly saluted then and pivoted on her heel, making her way in a straight line to the door and went out, not bothering to glance back.

Integra balled her hands tightly together, her eyes closed as the rage burning inside of her was slowly coming to a boil, "Alucard!!!"

"My, my, master, you seem awfully irritated tonight." The smooth sultry deep tone flowed out as the vampire in red stepped out from the wall. He had his usual grin, but it seemed more of a mockery and in a satisfied sense; very much differently than any of what Walter or Integra had seen before in all their years of knowing Alucard, "I wonder what could be the problem? I was enjoying the wonderful sensations of being bitten after such a long, long time."

"I don't want to hear about your disgustingly erotic-like incident with Seras. I'd much rather like to shoot your head off with maximum blessed bullets. What's the problem? You know damn well just what the problem is!" Now Integra knew what that look in Seras' eyes were. They looked the same as Alucard and that did not sit well with her at all, "You knew all along how bad Seras was and yet you held that information back! Not only do I have fourteen dead soldiers and fourteen different families to deal with, but now I have practically another you annoying me!"

Alucard arched a brow slowly at her, the smirk disappearing, "Another me?"

"Don't play dumb. You told me once that on some occasions, when a vampire is fairly new have the tendency to take on some traits, memories, or both of the ones they bite because of their inexperience. In Seras' case, she's just like you. She's not afraid of anything, or is starting to show signs of that as she's beginning to disrespect me. Her body languages are saying that loud and clear, especially her eyes and her aggression sky rocketed!" Integra narrowed her eyes, "Care to tell me just why you took such a drastic measure as to have Seras become a full vampire?"

"Hmph..." He walked closer to the desk, a serious look setting in as he looked at her with complete attention in his red eyes. Alucard knew when his master meant real business, "Alright, then, master, I will tell you everything so that you will understand. To start, you already know that the Police girl was in her transition. There have been considerable interruptions between my link with her, and from what I know about transitions this is unusual. I took a look into her mind when I was able and saw that there had been a radical change in her mind setting."

Integra raised a brow, sitting back down in her seat and put her hands together on top of her desk, listening intently. It was a rare thing for the No Life King to become like this, "Mind setting?"

"Each person, whether monster or human, has a mind setting that reflects what they're every desire is, whether it's hidden or not, thoughts, emotions, fears, memories, experiences...everything of what truly makes them who they are. The brain is a peculiar tool and always tries to make logical sense of all that mess and sorts each and every one of them into representational symbols from animals to colors into a single scene, depending on an unconscious preference of that person. For instance, one may have a mind setting with a lake which can either mean calmness, transcendent, clarity, depth, or the lack of keeping a solid ground or form."

Alucard gave a pause, as if to breathe before continuing, "For the Police girl, she had a simple mind setting with some complexity, but colored a bit wildly to represent her instability and suppressed memories as well as other things that any normal human would have. Since recently, her behavior had dramatically changed, as it can be obviously seen. Inside, her mind setting had suddenly become dark, darker than the night, and a barrier had been placed between me and the Police girl. That's when I felt it; a strong, formidable and odd presence just beyond that barrier."

"Were you able to see what that presence was?" Integra inquired.

"No, but there was enough evidence for me to know that another personality had established itself."

The faithful Hellsing retainer lifted his head and blinked, "Miss Victoria has another personality?"

Alucard glanced at him, "It's not fully developed, but it has grown rapidly for it to be a threat." Then he looked back at Integra with a slight snicker, "So is the impression I am getting."

Integra ignored the look, reaching for her box of cigars, "Has anything been done about it?"

"The Police girl is aware of it at some level. She's formed a complicated labyrinth as a form of defense and it would shift every so moments while continuing to hide from the being, not wanting to face it like the reality of what she is now. The Police girl refuses to confront almost anything, and I've grown tired of it. With her weakness and the accelerating progress of the personality proved too much and so I intervened."

"In other words, you persuaded Seras to drink your blood." She put the cigar in her mouth and lighted it by herself, waving Walter off from doing it for her.

Alucard's lips widened a little more, "Of course. My blood should be more than able to dispose of the problem."

Integra gave a long sigh to exhale the smoke, "Why does that not make me feel better..." Her steel blue eyes met the Nosferatus' gaze, her expression passive as she studied him for some moments, "Is that everything?"

"Indeed it is, my master. I've told you all that I knew so far."

"You better be right, Alucard. Seras is now a full vampire and doesn't have much a tie with you anymore as a fledgling to a master, so assurance of her loyalty to Hellsing is questionable. Her new behavior, which was obviously inherited from you, says quite a lot about it and poses as another problem." Integra tapped a finger on the desk, "You said your blood 'should' take care of this, and that seems like there's a flaw with a possibility that Seras could still have that personality."

Alucard scoffed aloud, yet said nothing as the woman sustained what she had to say, "For now, you will proceed with missions normally again. I'll have Walter watch Seras this time. I can't afford to spare you further now that Freak activities are picking back up."

Walter turned his head slightly in her direction and bowed his upper torso a little to acknowledge her order.

"And, Alucard," Integra began again, seeing the familiar glint of glee beginning to seep back into the vampire's eyes and the whiteness of his teeth, "Seras has proven herself to be worthy as an Organization member and is a great asset against those that threaten lives, this country, the queen, and God. I'm willing to allow a little more time to be made for her, but if no good comes out of it or it gets worse, I will have your head for this. And I don't care if you can regenerate it back. Not only will I do that, but I'll also seal you away and I will put a stop to Seras."

Alucard bristled just slightly, but barely let it show yet his eyes became hard, darkening over as he figured out what Integra was really saying to him. He knew loud and clear and more than ever that she was dead serious. A sudden strange weight and feeling made a slow appearance on his chest then.

The woman let out a long sigh but it sounded like hissing through her teeth, speaking around the cigar as she closed her blue steel eyes and sounded almost distant, "Even if it means hunting her down..."

A crash of thunder resounded over head, making it seem like the manor was shaking with the power of resonance and one of nature's undeniable forces that added to the growing tension to all those that knew just what was really going on. The sky lit up in a small series of random flashes and the rain continued to fall, soaking the grounds into a wet mud hole.

Integra opened her eyes at the tall Nosferatu, "As much as Seras would probably need your guidance more than ever, Alucard, you will have to refrain yourself from encountering her so much. You've done enough now I will step in."

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The light haired and blue eyed Seras Victoria sighed out loud as she sat down heavily with a flop on the cherry wood long bench. It shifted just slightly under the sudden weight and made a tap against the cold marble floor, causing an echo to flutter into the extensive spaciousness of the special structure she was in, and this special structure was a church.

Candles were alit all around with a looming chandelier that also held little flames on its level to illuminate. Portraits and oil paintings of saints and angels, scenes from the bible and of people in prayer or looking above hung about the stone pillars that supported the ceiling. The ceiling had its whole surface covered with depictions of heaven, the clouds in beige and cream soft colors in a still floating with angels and birds weaving in and in flight. There were three tall stained glass windows at the head of the church where the altar was set and one to the right was of the Virgin Mary and the one to the left, her husband Joseph, and the middle was of their son, Jesus. A cross of silver rose up between the altar and the windows and it seemed to glow in the soft lighting.

Seras just passively looked at everything with a neutral, almost tiresome look on her face. Her mind was on other things then.

It's been about almost two weeks now since she's been put into inactive mode, and since then it seemed like she was truly all alone. She never saw her units, any units, and despite the large number of living bodies, none of the Hellsing soldiers. Seras practically saw no one, even though she was kept to the manor as she was instructed. The only social interaction she had was a worried Walter who visits and checks on her when he can and to bring her food, which she had no trouble partaking in now, and her therapist. Alucard had seemingly ceased to exist from her life. There was no hide nor hair or a sliver of his dark powers of him.

'...well...it's not like I was trained to sharpen these vampire skills to find him. He didn't even bother to take any time out much for me anyway, so why should he bother with me now?' Seras scoffed as she thought to herself a little bitterly, 'Typical No Life King.'

Her sleeping patterns have returned to normal and she no longer had the other voice taunting her. There was nothing except the quietness of her thoughts and feelings and no one else's. It seemed everything was just like it was before with no trace or scar, and her psychiatric therapist helped with that.

The therapist was kind, open, and friendly but firm as well. He made that very clear the first day with an air about him that one would eventually give in. His name was William Barnet. The man was a slightly aged person going into the middle years of fifty, a bit stout with a bald spot atop his head and white whisker of a moustache to match what hair he had left. Seras quickly felt close to him since he reminded her very much of Peter Fergusson, her former commander and one whom she highly respects still.

Their session together was to spend about two hours every other day late in the evening. At first, Seras would have some outbursts and then episodes of silence, despite her inner feelings of reminiscent, because there were still many ends left open in her mind even though it was just Seras now and that also Alucard's persona had indeed been taken into her from his blood. Things eventually smoothed out into the third day and progress was being made, even it is a little as she still refused to talk about the important things like her past and current feelings or those dark dreams and the menacing voice that plagued her not too long ago.

Seras sighed softly and leaned her head back, closing her eyes with her hands laying slack in her lap, '...I'll have to talk about it eventually though if I'm to go back to work...I need to work...I just need to get back...I hate just sitting around and doing nothing. I'm tired of it. It's boring.'

Today, Barnet suddenly made a decision out of the blue that they should go out of the Hellsing manor and get a change of scenery, despite Integra's severe opposition, but she eventually gave in after some persuasion from the therapist and a certain agreement. Seras didn't know anything other than that Barnet had a hard time convincing the head-strong woman due to the shouting Seras could hear with her keen hearing and that was all.

The draculina had an inkling feeling though that the reason why Barnet chose a church was for her to lightly regress back in her mind to where her current problems started with her new life as this was a similar setting to the Cheddar incident. He probably wanted her to regain what thoughts she was thinking about, emotions, everything and anything that happened that night and to sort through them.

'...speaking of Dr. Barnet, where could he be, I wonder?' Seras thought to herself.

Not really catching herself, her mind suddenly shifted slowly and her body became relaxed as she slipped into a reverie. It drifted back to that one certain stormy night where she most certainly won't forget. Her hazy mind began to recall the sensations she felt, the silken gloved hands sliding over her frame, caressing so tenderly yet intense and demanding for obedience at the same time, a haunting, deep voice whispering to her...but nothing could amount to the overwhelming experience when Seras had taken that dramatic action of biting through flesh, and then sharing in the unworldly delight of fresh blood uninhibited by time or cold.

Her spine made a slight arch with her mouth slightly a gaped; her fangs beginning to grow as the feeling of hunger began to set in, remembering the extreme desire to eat after depriving herself for so long. The ball of excite began to form at the pit of her stomach again, almost re-living that time.

Seras blue eyes suddenly snapped open and she bolted to a stand on her feet in a flash. Now she felt cold; alarmingly cold. The hairs at the back of her neck began to bristle and a shiver ran down her back and spread throughout her body, causing her to tremble and her muscles tense up.

Something was wrong. She hadn't felt like this for such a long time, but it was always the same when it was about to happen. Only this time...this time it was stronger, more fearful than ever. Her former master wasn't there with her. No one was there who can help her. All of Alucard's behavior seemed to have disappeared on her now just what it would really count.

The large white ivory doors of the church creaked disturbingly slow as they swung open behind her, the echo of the noise sounding like cackling demons of doom in her mind. A rumble of another distant storm made itself known. There was a flash of lightning that highlighted a giant silhouette, creating a shadow and two glints of silver that Seras knew all too well, making her breath catch in her throat and a faint cry escape from her mouth.

"Well, well, well...what do we hae 'ere, I wond'r...a young wee lass, ye be..."

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Chapter Six: The calm before the storm

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zOMG! Like, noooo way. I'm actually done with this chapter! And after so long, too...like...uh...it's just only...you know...waaaaay over due...crap...although I'm finally starting to get my story into gear! Now it's up the hill we go!

Anyways, not much of an excuse of my being late. I just got side tracked, and I get side tracked a lot and very easily. For one, an MMORPG called Maple Story had a Halloween event going on and I spent many hours on it, so that distracted me. Then came preparing my Halloween costume and I was Alucard (of course most people thought I was Carman Sandiego and one guessed I was a Spanish Inquisition). Gosh darnit was it hot in that getup...and then came some chores and house hold care taking to do. And then recently it's a Thanksgiving event on Maple, so that pushed this chapter back one more day.

Uh...moving on:

To SacredYoukai-san: I was trying for the reader to some how dislike the voice and I found it a little difficult for some reason, but your comment made me feel better. Thankies.

To Baku-san: did this chapter help? It gave a more fuller clarity on Seras' head case. Well...not really a head case. Just a problem I suppose.

To Emerald-san: yesh. Voices in head can be mean. You should listen to them sometimes, lol.

To EliteVegito-san: I have been writing before, actually. I still remember how to access my old account, but there's not much sense to go into it since I won't update any of my stories in there or do anything with it. But I had about maybe over 3 years of a hiatus, so I'm not sure if I'd be a better writer or not if I hadn't stopped.

Urggg...butt and back hurts...butt and back hurts lots and I'm achy from sitting down so long. Now I can get to sleep since I finished this. Story-content wise is almost nine pages (not that anyone cares what exactly the page numbers are, right? Lol)...again? I think it was again. Can't remember too well.

Thanks for all your reviews!! I really appreciate it and you guys actually help me out with making my story better. And despite how it's been a bit of a while, I haven't forgotten any of you for a single day.

Review please! Thanks!