Blood Sweeter than Wine,

Chapter 7

I was sitting in Integra's office when Walter walked in that afternoon, the funeral had been that morning and it had been as I imagined sad. Alucard stood next to me and Serus behind us, I stood behind Integra who has been a little more than depressed, we saluted the fallen and it was then that work had to be done. "I went over everything from the attack yesterday, out of the ninety six agents that we have employed here only ten and a half survived, eight of them were on vacation at the time of the attack, only you and myself survived."

"Alucard and Serus were excluded." Integra said

"And where does the half come in?" I asked looking at him

"Alucard and Serus are not technically alive so I left them out and the half comes from the half human that Camellia is."

I gave him a bored look "Oh is that the butler making a funny? Cute, har har."

Walter and Integra laughed at my expression. It had been the first time that Integra actually laughed. "What about Millennium?"

Walter took out a piece of paper and read it to her. "currently we have ubtained every scrap of information, with some help from the conference I got help from M15 and M16, we scoured the library and found nothing. In America, France and Japan were supernatural study groups we even tracked down a star wars fan club in Los Angeles…"

I was buckled over laughing, I couldn't quit "Wait…Wait…why star Wars?"

"The millennium Falcon."

I started laughing again Walter went on "I did however find the meaning."

"What of it?"

"The span of a Thousand years."

Integra was sitting deep in thought "There was a persuaded glory of an empire that would last a thousand years it raised a war, a century ago with Hitler Germany."

Walter and I were surprised and we focused… "The third reich." I said quietly.

"Exactly, keep looking Walter, leave no stone unturned."

"Yes sire, oh and about our forces we cant afford to recruit directly from the army?"

"Reason?"

"Because it is unnatural, but I did hire some new recruits, The wild Geese."

"Oh dear lord." I said "Here we go."

They are mercenaries, they have a high price however, most of them are criminals of some kind, ."

I smirked "And we aren't? You forget one of the vamps you got in your basement was a killer at one time and I wasn't exactly the most innocent babe of the patch."

"They are also Military experts, now they are under contract, as long as we pay them we won't be betrayed."

I got up and stretched from my spot, as comfortable that I was in the chair I knew that I had something that I had to do "Integra tell me something? Are you going to be hearing from Maxwell."

"We will have a meeting with him soon. Why Camellia, do you want to do with me?"

I smiled "As your best friend I think it would be a pretty good idea."

She smirked and looked at me "I guess I can't be more glad that you are by my side than anything, thank you Camellia."

I nodded "No problem Integra, you have done so much for me, I kind of owe ya one."

"You owe me nothing just one thing."

"Yes?"

"What is it like? Never getting old, never being able to die?"

"Some days it is the best thing ever, and some days it is the biggest bitch ever, I am sure it would be better if you had someone to share immortality with, but what do I know, I am just a half breed, a question like that is more of a question for Alucard."

I walked out of the office and down to the elevator down to the basement, I walked down to where my chamber was but Serus door open, she was sitting up in bed and was deep in thought "Hey?"

Serus looked up at me "Oh Camellia, hi."

"You seem deep in thought my dear, are you alright?"

"I was just thinking about yesterday, what happened to me?"

I sighed and took a seat next to her "Serus, sometimes the will to be a vampire is stronger than the will to be human, I know that you don't like to hear that, but your not drinking blood, and when you don't that vampire will is stronger than anything else and you kill. I know that perfectly well."

"You do?"

"Yes, I am a half vampire but I do need blood every so often to live, it only comes around when I am week or wounded, or even before I fight, but I still need it."

"Why does my master take blood from you…I mean I know that sometime the medical blood isn't enough but…why?"

That was honestly an awkward question…one I couldn't really answer "I don't really know, sometimes I think it is just for the blood, I am like a blood bank somehow and I don't know why…Alucard and I have been friends for a long time, I guess he has some kind of trust, maybe…"

"You're going to have to tell me the story sooner or later."

"I will tell you in time, right now, rest, we have some new recruits coming and they want us present for this, well you and I…not Alucard."

I watched her sink back into the coffin and go back to sleep, that was when I left, I heard the slight movement from Alucard's chamber and took it upon myself to see if he was okay. I opened the door into pitch black. I adjusted my sight to see him in a deep slumber, he looked peaceful, he may have been a little bit better if he had actually been asleep in his coffin or something, but I guess the throne that he had was just as good to him. I smiled at his peaceful form shook my head picking up some of the blood packets and throwing them in the trashcan, "My prince you cease to amaze me."

And with that word I walked out to leave him alone.

That evening I heard voices in the ball room, Serus ran into me at the stair case "Are thy here?"

I nodded "Yep, come on lets go show these assholes what monsters are."

We walked up to hear them "What is this Bernadette, are we gonna raid a police station or is this some rich asshole that wants his own army."

"No Gentlemen, this is a new thing, we are hunting monsters." A strong French accent entered my ear drums "This is nice, he is French." I cracked the door open 'Kinda cute too." Serus sat straight and moved so that she could see, he had long blond hair in a braid around his neck, one eye and dressed for combat.

"What?" The men laughed causing me to smile "The idiots are so clueless right now."

"It's true, the enemy are ghouls that were human and vampires that don't age." Integra walked into the room and Serus and I bolted to the wall "Holy water, crucifix, stabbing them with a stake to the heart, and cutting its head off this is what we do. For more information please refer to Bram stoker."

I laughed causing everyone to look at me "Awesome reference Integra." I said Integra smiled "Thank you Camellia."

"Vampires? They don't exist." Bernadette said cocky.

"We happen to have two and a half vampires in this establishment."

I gave my friend a bored look "Okay the half-breed jokes are getting old."

They turned to us again and Bernadette got cocky again. "You two are vampires?"

I shifted to the side "I am a half-breed but Serus here happens to be full."

She was leaned against the wall she looked uncomfortable, that was when I moved to the side next to Integra "Maybe we should have called Alucard for this one."

"He would have killed them all."

"…True."

Bernadette looked at Serus "You're a vampire."

"Y—Yes I am."

The men started to laugh "I think they are laughing at me sir." She said

"then do something to make them stop." She said coldly.

I smiled And Serus came up with a plan "Come on."

Bernadette laughed again "If this girl is a vampire then I am Frankenstein's monster." He come up on her but she just simply flicked him in the head, causing him to fly backwards "Ouch." I said Serus wasn't done there all she did was click him a couple of times more and he went lying "Captain?"

"She just flicked me in the head and I fell to the floor. Your telling me that you are a vampire,."

"Damn right she is." The deep familiar voice echoed through the hallway and before I knew it Alucard was coming through the wall "The police girl may be the lowed of the low but she is still a vampire."

Integra and I looked at him "I am truly sorry sir." Walter said bolting into the room "I did try to stop him."

"They were going to find out about him sooner or later." I said "but then again maybe I better try to make sure that he doesn't kill them all."

"Good idea." Integra said

"These men are going to be protecting me when I sleep, and protecting my master while I am sleeping how pitiful."

I walked over to him "Just don't kill them that is all we have." Bernadette looked at us in shock and surprise. "You guys are vampires no way!"

"Oh I do have something for you sir." Walter said

"Yes."

Walter handed her a letter and her face turned grime "Division XIII the Iscariot organization, Enrico Maxwell."

It seemed I had gotten my wish after all they asked for my presence as well. Alucard looked at me but didn't say anything I knew however what he was thinking. I was going to be fallowed that day.