Blood Sweater than wine

Chapter 8

I stood next to Integra in the museum of the imperial art, Integra was silent, I looked at Walter "What time are they supposed to be there?"

"Three."

'And what time is it?"

"Three." Walter said

The letter stated that Integra and I were supposed to meet Maxwell at the museum at three, Integra looked at me and thanked me again for going with her in this time, I nodded "However they are late, what if we fell under another trap?"

"We won't, The Vatican being the sneaky ones that we are wont do anything like that in broad daylight. And they are on enemy ground we have the protection." Walter said to both of us, a sudden obnoxious sound of a rat echoed through the imperial Hallway "Wow the imperial war museum simply magnificent this is the first time I have seen such a lovely place."

Integra and I turned to look at them "Oh, it appears we are a bit late."

Maxwell was a sniveling priest with long blonde hair, to be honest just the look of him made me sneer "Good afternoon, I am so sorry to keep you waiting ladies…"

"Don't approach further." Integra said.

I stepped in front of her for her protection, holy man or not if he threatened her he threatened me. "Well I certainly don't feel very welcomed here."

"As you shouldn't Maxwell, What business does Iscariot have with us?"

Maxwell ignored me "I am Commander Enrico Maxwell of XIII of Iscariot."

"We know who you are." I snapped

"And who would you be?"

"Self introductions are not necessary, we all know each other."

"I wish to start no conflict here." Maxwell said

"You have already started a conflict! You have broken the treaty when you sent father Anderson into the field and attacked my men, you have not only attacked my organization but have killed two of my soldiers and I was almost killed as well, do not tell me you were not aware of it." Integra might have been loud all the time but this time she was pissed off, I mean she was ready for war, I was still standing in between them, I was ready to attack on Integra's order.

"So what? What makes you think that you can come on Ireland's borders and take yourself on the thrown, I don't care if you have two casualties or two million, I would not have dealt with you if it wasn't an order from the Vatican. As far as the half breed is concerned with being here she is just the spawn of a vampire whore and a human man! So shut up and listen you filthy English sow!"

I didn't have time to attack him before I was stopped not by anyone but by the air itself "You dare call my master a sow and camellia a whore? And expect to get away with it?"

I felt like I was being held back and I knew that Alucard was doing it somehow, "I heard your sniveling whine from a mile away, Iscariots are all the same…Rome certainly has changed little."

I snickered and the force against me was dropped "Ah the Vampire Alucard, the Hellsing pet, this is the first time I have seen you in person." Maxwell turned and looked at me, he noticed the two bite marks on my neck from the night before "And Camellia, how could I forget you, You must be Alucard's little whore."

I felt the anger build again but I didn't say anything, even if I wanted to I didn't have time Alucard took his gun from behind his coat and aimed it at him "How dare you! I don't think you will be leaving London alive, I will kill you bastard."

"Oh I am paralyzed with fright, very well I am afraid that we are no longer talking business, shall we settle this in a different matter." He snapped his fingers and his voice was loud and he called "ANDERSON!"

At the end of the hallway the door opened and Integra and Walter were in shock I jumped back near Alucard and stopped him "Shit!"

I looked at Anderson and he lost his nerve, and he started to recite a prayer, "Dammit!" I said looking at Alucard "Please not here, I don't care where you go but not here."

Alucard looked down at me and simply ignored the comment, "I will take out Anderson then I will take out Maxwell."

"No Alucard stop please."

Maxwell seemed to have lost control of his minion "All that is needed is your presence No Anderson!"

Alucard too his guns out and aimed it "Time for you to die Judas priest."

"Alright demon let's go!"

I couldn't stop him and I got out of the way "Why…why do we bring him?"

Just as I thought we couldn't be saved Serus came by in a tourist outfit with some seniors right behind her "All tourists please fallow me through the art gallery."

I was so thankful until the old men started asking questions, I walked up to Alucard "Are you really sure that you want to go along with this today?"

"No, the magic is gone."

Everything died down Alucard dropped his weapon "Are you alright?"

I sighed and nodded "Yes, now I am anyway."

"Well I am going to go back to sleep."

I watched as he turned around and walked down the hallway, Integra and I sighed, Anderson looked at Maxwell "This is a lovely museum maybe next time I will bring the children."

Maxwell gave him a confused and exasperated look "O-kay."

'this makes a poor meeting place, we don't we sit down, let me say that this is important."

"Fine, speaking from a swine to a pig." Integra said "Camellia, why don't you and Walter walk around the museum."

I looked at Walter "Mind taking a lady around for an adventure"

"It would be a pleasure."

We watched Maxwell and Integra leave and we let out a sigh of exhaustion, Walter offered me his arm and I took it. We walked over and sat on one of the benches "Been one hell of a week."

"Yes it has."

Walter bought two to-go cups of hot tea and handed one of them to me, I smiled and thanked him. something had been on my mind all morning and I felt like I could talk to Walter about it. "Walter, do you remember when I first came to the Hellsing organization?"

Walter looked at me with a surprised look "Yes, Integra's father knew your father before he died; he thought that you would be useful for the upcoming trip."

"You were eighteen?"

"Yes, and I was a crazy child as well."

"You weren't so bad…when you look at Alucard, you were the mellow one."

He looked at me "You are right. Why do you ask?"

"I was just remembering when I met you and Alucard for the first time, of course I didn't become part of Hellsing until Integra but I do remember the first time my eyes set on Alucard. What I thought."

"It seems that you and Alucard are more in tune to each other than you both like to admit."

"What do you mean?"

"It seems he has taken a bit of liking to your eyes."

"I am only his blood bank nothing more. "

"I don't think so. That is a little harsh coming from you don't you think?"

"When evidence comes out that he doesn't think of me that way then let me know, I am his blood bank, I give him blood he sleeps next to me for a couple hours then he goes back to being who he is."

"He refers to you as the flower of Romania."

"That is because my name means flower, in Romanian ."

"I also remember you telling me at one time when you saw him as a child he gave you a lily."

I paused…silenced, I still had the lily "That was before my mother went missing."

"I think it is about time, how old are you?"

I laughed and looked at Walter "Older than you old man…I just stopped aging at twenty."

Walter laughed, "I just simply look at him with you and I can see how much he really cares, and I think he does."

"He doesn't act that way with me, I think the most I have seen been protecting me was with Anderson."

"If he saw you in danger he would protect you."

What we didn't know at the moment was that we were being watched by some unknown person "That is her, the half breed."

"Yes, my how she looks like her mother."

"She will make a wonderful experiment…Just like her mother did."

That night when everyone got the Serus took the newbie's out for training, Integra went to sleep, I couldn't sleep, and most of the time, nighttime is when I slept, we had to go to brazil to look for the people that was behind this Millennium thing, plus the things that Walter and I talked about that day were getting to me a little bit. Finally the shots being fired at the targets woke me up and I got off my bed and walked up the stairs. Walter and Alucard were talking about something when I got to the doorway "I never thought I would live to see the day that we would fight the Nazi's again."

"Getting Old sounds dreadful."

"To an Englishman it is a wonderful thing."

It became silence and I made my presence known from the shadows "What are you doing awake?" Alucard asked

I looked at him for a moment "I couldn't sleep; this trip to Brazil is making me anxious."

"I thought you loved to travel."

"I do but you have to remember, I am travelling with newbie's that know nothing about hunting vampires, plus I have to worry about protecting you and your coffin, and Serus."

"If anyone is going to be worrying about anyone its going to be me worrying about you."

"Oh really? Why is that?"

He didn't answer he looked at Walter "I would understand your reasoning between the police girl and the newbies."

Just then Serus came running in yelling Sexual harrasement "They are singing songs about sex!"