Seras opened her eyes expecting her own room back at her own home, instead she realised as her vision swam into focus that she was in no place she'd call home. Seras lifted her head from the fine fluffy white pillow with her mouth slack and eyes half open, she blinked and reached a hand from under the covers and rubbed her eyes. But it did not make her sight any better; Seras noticed the now fine looking room she was in. The walls were wooden with expensive looking glass lamps and mirrors. On the other side of the room was a large beige curtain, draped over the window blocking most of the light into the room. But a thin line of light from a gap in the curtains was lay across her vast bed, made for two. But she lay alone.

At that thought she remembered last night….she instantly brushed her lips with her fingers. What was going on? She was so confused. After being invisible for so long growing up, this new attention was unnerving. Being around that…monster…she felt under his spell. Like she was totally hypnotised. Seras shook her head and pulled the covers back, she threw her legs over the side and stood up. Her tiredness still showing even though she had woken up naturally. She stood with her back bent and her hair hung over her face. Her eyes went to her clothes that lay discarded the night before. The telltale clothes of a member of the Iscariot order, she remembered all the order wearing the same gear, and assumed it was uniform, not mere clothes.

Seras shrugged and tried to keep the…vampire…out of her mind, perhaps if she didn't even think his name she would be ok…

"Aah Seras there you are!" A familiar voice called to her as Seras sat on a table on her own, she was in an enormous wooden room. Which reminded her of a church for obvious reasons, the pew like seats lined across the vast cloth covered tables, the huge awe-inspiring pillars with great stained glass windows down the room, their bright primary colours throwing coloured light into the large room. The dim chatter far behind her didn't faze Seras as she sat in silence in a sort of self-exile from the others. Seras sat with her back to the large room, and sat in a corner facing the wall, while she hung her head slightly letting her hair fall over her eyes she sat with her small bowl of porridge. As she stared at the only dark part of the room…thinking of him…she was awoken from her daydream by a familiar voice. "Seras, there you are. Why aren't you eating with everyone else?" Alex stood towering over her, but with a great smile on his face, as if he had never betrayed her at all. Seras swung her head around and looked at her uncle with her widened eyes.

"Oh, I just….wanted to be alone." Seras told him truthfully. But Andeson stared at her puzzled.

"You won't find any answers in the shadows lassie." Seras' silver cross hanging from her neck suddenly felt heavier, as if she wanted to remove it from her being. But she shook her mind away from such thoughts, and turned her attention back to her uncle. Her uncle reached out and gripped her arm, forcing her to leave her half-eaten breakfast behind Anderson half-dragged her off to where the crowd of similarly dressed section thirteen members were. As Anderson approached they all nodded their respect before he left Seras and joined them, sitting down in the middle of the table.

'Thanks a lot…' Seras thought, as he left her standing. But then Anderson wasn't finished. "May I introduce…my niece. Seras Victoria." He waved his hand as he gestured to her. Seras had never felt so many eyes on her at once. But then all of a sudden a sweet voice spoke out beside her.

"Oh you mean lot, we must show respect to the niece of the one and only Anderson." Seras swung around to see a girl about the same age and size as her with long black hair and large glasses, she was dressed in a nun outfit and had a big warm smile on her face. "-How are you Seras? I bet you can't wait to start today. Oh, by the way my names Yumiko." She smiled so sweetly Seras couldn't help but smile back. Yumiko began to sit down on a chair before her, another woman was behind her. So quiet that Seras hadn't noticed her. She had very short blonde hair, and her smile was not so sweet at all. Her sunglasses hid most of her face, but did speak.

"The names Heinkel. Yumie's partner." Seras caught Yumiko flinch at the name… "I never knew Anderson had any family." She spoke quieter as she also sat down. Yumiko looked back up to Seras and nodded toward the empty seat next to her.

"Oh.." Seras muttered lightly, but Yumiko only chuckled as Seras realised. The others hardly battered an eyelid.

After her second load of breakfast with the team, Seras was really starting to like this Yumiko, she seemed too nice to be here. But she guessed, so did she. Heinkel seemed really quiet during the whole affair, but Seras guessed that was just the way she was. But all of a sudden everyone stopped what they were doing, even Anderson stopped chatting with the men beside him to look up at who had entered the room.

A priest and a scientist looking man with geeky looking glasses on entered the room from the far left, they calmly walked up to the table where they were all sitting. Seras wondered what on earth was going on. When the priest spoke. What Seras took for a man, was in fact a woman! Her blonde ponytail hanging down behind her. Her silver cross reflecting the light.

"Seras Victoria?" The woman spoke, she clearly did not know what Seras looked like, as her eyes scanned the room.

"Here!" Seras quickly stood up. Then wished she hadn't, as she felt like she was back in school saying her name for the register. But the woman said nothing to her directly, she whispered something to the man next to her.

"Right, just a small procedure needed before your first training session." Seras missed the harsh look sent to her uncle by Yumiko and even a glance at by Heinkel. "Please come with us." Unsure Seras decided to follow, she was led away from the small band and out of the room.

Seras wondered where they were going when the three of them were walking through the shadowed corridors toward a door at the end.

"Please do not be afraid, Seras." The lab coated man spoke. Well Seras naturally began to worry at such a comment.

"W-Why should I be?" She stuttered out. But the priest looked sharply at the man, with a look that could kill.

"Pay no attention to him, there is no reason to be afraid, it's just the first session of your future…career." She carefully spoke; Seras raised an eyebrow at this, what was going on? But the man opened the door to a room that looked just like a normal Doctor's room, with bright coloured posters you just couldn't help but glance at, at the side of the room was a medical bed with white sheets, and next to it was a desk outfitted with a computer. The scene surprisingly relaxed her; she wasn't sure what she was expecting, but definitely not an ordinary looking Doctor/Nurse's room. Seras strolled in first, showing of her confidence, the woman and what Seras now presumed as a Doctor came in last, closing the door as he did.

"Now Seras," He clapped his hands together as he spoke. "You'll soon become very familiar with this room, your just here for a normal check up, and your first treatment." Seras' ears perked up at this remark.

"Treatment?" But the Doctor shook off her question.

"Just routine, your uncle was the exact same way." Seras wished her uncle was here right now, this just seemed wrong to her somehow. Didn't she get a choice?

"What if I don't want it?" She asked, trying to worm her way out of whatever stuff they were trying to give her.

"Then there is no way you can be like your uncle." The priest suddenly said. Seras assumed she was trying to use her uncle to calm her down, so the drug was so she could work here as an agent? Did all the people have to take this drug?

"……..well what does it do?" She tentatively asked.

"It means that you will actually be able to fight the undead and supernatural with your own hands, you will no longer be powerless against them. It is God's gift to us. His agents of divine punishment." Seras began to think this was weird and all mumbo jumbo. It must be some kind of drug to merely help the agent against undead, which she was fine with. It might make her feel better and more powerful. She couldn't help but smile.

Seras sat down on the bed, the sheets crinkled underneath, as the Doctor pulled a chair over from the desk and sat down on it. He had equipment already set out on the desk beside him; he first picked up a pad and paper.

"Right please just fill out your stats here. Your height and weight and stuff." He said, as if he had said those words far too many times, he gave Seras the pad and pen and she quickly scrawled down her information. Then he fixed the familiar blood pressure measure on her arm, Seras felt like this was just another check up.

After a couple more tests he then lightly picked up a syringe.

"Right, I'm just gonna need an initial blood sample." The man pulled Seras' right arm near him, "Right handed right?" Seras nodded. She then felt the cool liquid of the numbing agent being rubbed onto her arm, after a couple of minutes she wondered how long he needed to do this for, when suddenly he stopped and pulled the syringe closer to her skin. "Clench your fist for me." Seras did as she was told to. She clenched her right hand tight and held it as the Doctor found her vein and quickly pushed in a needle. She just felt an odd prick, then nothing, although Seras couldn't tear her eyes away from the sight of her blood entering the small syringe.

Almost as quickly as it had begun the syringe was full and placing a small piece of cotton wool over the hole he gently pulled out the syringe. "Place your fingers hard over this." Seras placed two fingers over the wound and held down, "Keep it there for a few minutes." As Seras held her fingers over the soft wool the man brought the syringe around and placed it in the middle of his desk.

Then the man just sat there, quickly scrawling onto a piece of paper, writing that Seras couldn't see.

Soon the man turned back to her and pulled off the wool to check the wound, before placing a small plaster over the wound.

"Please wait outside while I test this." He ordered, as he looked back toward the small tube of blood on his desk. Seras wondered how he was going to test it, but shrugged and got up from the bed. The woman was instantly by her side, she had been sat down at the side all this time, she smiled at her motherly. And led her to the door with a small tray of biscuits and a cup of orange juice.

Outside Seras sat down on a chair that reminded her of a high school, or a waiting room chair, it was hard plastic that seemed to be a copy of too many chairs she has seen to count. A little table was next to her with the tray placed on top, the woman had gone back into the room leaving Seras outside. She nibbled the biscuit and drank the juice, inspecting the plaster on her wound, and rubbing it gently. Feeling the plastic beneath her fingertips.

Soon enough the two of them exited the room, the Doctor had a smile plastered on his face. Seras shoved the last of her biscuit in her mouth and looked up.

"Good news! You are all clear and can start your training today…" Seras was surprised at how quickly that was done…she remembered when she donated blood once, that the tests can take weeks to get back to you. Not minutes. "Now just one last thing before you head off." The Doc pulled out another injection, testing it with a quick squirt he felt Seras' left arm for a vein and then plunged the needle in. Before pushing the clear liquid in, Seras felt a slight burning sensation running up her arm as the fluid entered her blood stream, clenching her teeth to not show pain she nodded. The Doctor removed the needle and placed a second plaster on her arm. Before nodding politely her way and then striding off back to the safe recluse of his office.

The woman gave her a quick glance over before offering Seras her hand. Feeling suddenly lightheaded Seras took the offered hand; she stood up but then wished she had not. As the feeling got worse and the room spun.

"Wha-what did you do!" Seras shouted accusingly. Dribble forming at the side of her mouth as her head started to droop forward, her legs failed her and the priest woman caught her, with Seras' head on her chest. The woman's arms cupped under Seras' arms, holding her up and supporting her weight. Seras felt her body go numb, and her eyes started to droop.

Alucard's eyes shot open as a burning pain filled his mind….the same kind of pain from the holy blessed blades of that filth paladin. Panic raced through his mind as he disappeared from his coffin-resting place and re-appeared from the shadows in his room. With a mad look in his eyes from the searing pain growing ever worse in his mind, he struggled to figure out why this was happening….his trusted gun, the jackel appeared as if it was also made of shadow into his hand.

His eyes began to water, filling his vision with red. The pain was not his, but the link he had begun to form with his Seras. The one he wanted back.

Seras' eyes shot back open when a blinding pain filled her vision! What was happening?! Strength filled her legs once more and she pushed off from the woman holding her, Seras stumbled back holding her hands to her head in pain. Wanting to shout but no sound escaped her throat. With more strength then she thought she had she charged forward and gripped the woman fiercely around the neck. Forcing her back to the wall. The woman priest's expression changed to that of pure fear. Seras felt herself snarl at the woman, as her grip tightened on her neck.

"Let go of her!" A firm voice, the Doctor yelled out from behind. Seras turned her head slightly and felt her own body hiss at him. She raised her free arm to him, clawing at him like a wild animal. The Doctor raised something…a gun! He held it shaking in his hands, Seras' grip just tightened as the woman struggled against her overpowering grip. Seras' could not force herself to let go, this power felt so good! Was she going insane?!

But the Doctor did not falter, a loud shot rang out as Seras felt something jab her neck painfully. She reached up and withdrew a dart. It's red feathered end quivering slightly, Seras growled and dropped the offensive item. Another shot. The dart stuck out of her arm, a slight wave of light headedness and dizziness, Seras let go and made to go after the Doctor, another shot pieced the silent corridor.

Seras landed on the ground, she flopped onto the floor unable to move but still just about conscious.

"Are you ok?" The woman coughed,

"She-she…." The woman sounded horse, "…nearly str-" But she could not finish. As Seras fell into a troublesome sleep.

Alucard reached through the troubled and wavering link he had with Seras. His only way of contacting her, where was she? He couldn't…still couldn't tell, but Alucard hid his frustration, he let his consciousness seek out the troubled mind of Seras.

"Shhhh, I am here, with you."

Seras awoke lightly, her eyes drifted open into a dark room. No lights pieced the blackness of the night. She felt dazed, as if drugged, she would not be able to move. But she did manage to hear voices, they were as if far away, but she saw there silhouetted figures in the dark.

"What happened….why…?" A voice, she knew it.

"I'm not sure, seemed like some sort of inner mechinism….or a reaction. Like we just activated a program virus….I'm baffled." The voice of the Doctor…she was sure of it.

"But…you say she acted like…a vampire." This made Seras more alert…a vampire? Now she recognised that voice, it was Anderson. He was here?

"Yes, her red eyes were very noticeable, as well as her change in behaviour. She was monster. I did not foresee this type of reaction…you sure you want to continue?" The Doctor asked with worry lacing his voice.

"….tch, damn him…" Anderson muttered. "Yes, it's like a battle of good verses evil is happening right before us. I don't know about you. But I plan on winning this fight."