Blood Sweeter Than Wine

Chapter 9

"I cant believe that anyone talked me into this." I mumbled in my head looking at the outfit that I was wearing a white collared shirt and a knew length black skirt with black heels, I was used to wearing a dress shirt, I was used to dressing nice but this was over kill, I hated heels, I wanted to be in my tennis shoes and jeans not a skirt I had my hair down and I wore make-up, I wore my hair always up and a little eyeliner at best. "This is shit!" I yelled. "Camellia come on it cant be that bad." Integra called for me,

"Oh I bet it can be." I replied back to her, but I have to anyway."

I walked out of my room and up to the great room where Integra and Walter were waiting "I look weird."

"You look nice." Integra said

"I look like a secretary. I would look cool if I had my weapons at least."

"Alucard has them."

"Speaking of which where is he?" I asked.

"That is what I was going to tell you sir, we found a way to transport Miss Victoria." Walter said answering my question for Integra.

"Really? How."

The doors to the ball room opened and we found out what Alucard had planned, he was sitting on Serus coffin "Good morning everyone." He said rather chipper. He had one leg crossed over the other and was sitting rather comfortably on a coffin that wasn't his, I smiled, his hair was hanging down past his shoulder blades he wore a black suit and a rather interesting tie. He looked up at me "My you look rather lovely today Camellia."

"Thank you." I said blushing a bit "You look rather handsome yourself."

Integra stared at the coffin "How are we going to get this through customs at the airport?"

"Easy they wont, that stuff's getting on a smuggling ship." Alucard said

"What?" She gave me a glance and I protected myself "I thought you knew that."

"Why in the world would I know that?"

"True." I said

Serus banged on the coffin "Let me OUUUT!"

"Serus its okay honey you cant come out though, we are getting on a plane and your going to die if you get out, just go to sleep." I said

"Are you insane…"

She continued to cry out while Pip (Bernadette) told Integra the news "We always use this smuggling ship, as long as they are paid we can trust them."

"ANd our stuff wont get searched?" I asked.

"No, They have a "Don't ask don't tell policy."

"Good policy."

Alucard looked at Serus coffin "Silence."

In a minute the coffin went quieter than a church mouse causing me to smile. "Well Alucard you are certainly dressed different, I thought Vampires hated the sun."

"I cant get on a plane looking like that., and I will be walking around in public you know. As for the sun, it isn't fatal to me, I just simply hate it."

Integra looked at me "And what is your excuse you can dress normal."

"She is going to be my escort she isn't going dressed like she usually dresses."

I glared at him "We thought it would be a good idea if we looked like rich tourists of some kind and he suggested we act like a couple, although I feel ridicules."

"You look beautiful." Alucard said

Integra smiled at him and looked at me but I didn't say anything "Well as for my orders they are simple…Search and destroy."

"Yes master."

I looked at Integra "Be careful." She said."

"I will call when we get there." I said.

Alucard and I walked into the airport and got on the plane, Pip fallowed close behind us playing our body guard, we had two watching over Serus. "You two don't act like Vampires." He stated "You two act different."

"Different?" I asked "is there a certain way that vampires are supposed to act? And while we are on that subject, how should a half breed act?"

"Well I always thought about the blood thing and the no sunlight." He said.

"Some Vampires can't go into the sun, Alucard can and because of my human side I can."

"Which side is human?"

Alucard was quiet, I got nervous "My father and mother both were human, my mother was bitten when she was pregnant with me causing the vampire venom to go into the system and be mixed with my blood, causing the half vampire."

Alucard shifted again next to me "I choose if I want to age or not, I stopped when I was twenty, I don't need blood, my eyes are gold with red specks, they turn red when I am fighting, umm oh I cant turn into mist or a bat, although that would be cool. But I look human I guess, my skin isn't pale, so on."

"What about you, your not drinking blood are you?" Pip asked

Alucard looked at his glass "No, this is just simple red wine." He handed to me "Take a sip, it is delicious."

I smiled and took the glass from him, I swished it in my glass and took a slight sip, it did taste good "I have to admit my dear that your blood is better than this, the flower of Romania."

I looked at him and blushed again "That is the first time you have called me that in a long time Alucard."

Pip shifted uncomfortably and everything went silent.

I took out my book, it was going to be a long flight and I knew this would be a perfect time. However in the middle of the flight, I conked out asleep.

My dream was different than the one that I normally had, It was of my mother, she sat on a bench looking over the lake at my father's home she sat, her black hair in a bun long blue Victorian dress, it was her favorite one, my father had bought if for her on his trip to France the year before, she sat holding something in her hand, I approached closely and looked over my mother's shoulder "Mom?"

She looked at me her eyes were happy somehow "You have made me proud my daughter. Do not let them win."

I wanted to hug my mother again and she knew that, she held out her arms for me and I went to hug her again, but in my arms she turned into ash and blew away from me, causing me to cry. "You are nothing but a weak half breed…" something whispered in the wind.

A strand of my hair was tucked behind my ear "Camellia.." The voice whispered in my ear, I twisted my neck around and slowly opened my eyes to look at Alucard "Yes?"

"We're here."

I had been laying on his shoulder when we arrived "I am sorry I didn't realize I was sleeping on you."

"It's alright my dear, you were sleeping so well I didn't want to wake you."

I sat up and rubbed my eyes running my fingers quickly through my hair I grabbed my back for the airplane and through it over my shoulders, I looked at pip "You wanna see the best acting that money can buy?"

He nodded

"Watch this." I took Alucard's arm and we walked together out of the plane, "When will the ship get here?"

"Not long, I believe it will get here this afternoon."

"We should stop and get some coffee before going to the hotel, I have to stay awake until then."

He smiled "Pip, go and get her some coffee."

"Please." I said "Use your manners." I said looking at him he just shrugged.

The boat came into port that afternoon and Pip was in charge of getting everything there. Alucard and I climbed into a taxi "Montecarlo Hotel please." I said

"What a lovely couple you are here on your honeymoon?"

"Yes we are." Alucard replied

"What a lovely couple." The driver said again driving "So where are you from?"

"London." Alucard spoke while I sat "we thought that Brazil would look beautiful this time of year."

"Oh it is, and if you don't mind my saying you are looking pale."

"It is only the jet lag, I am sure after a drink and some rest I will be fine."

I shifted causing him to smile "Don't worry darling everything will be fine."

I leaned over "Do you think that Serus is alright?"

"I am sure she is fine, if her lungs have not given out on her from her screaming, from what I was told she was screaming the whole way there."

"I told her she couldn't be allowed in the sun, she could burn she is still capable of burning to death."

"And you think that she would listen to that?"

I gave him a bored look "I want a divorce." I said jokingly

He laughed in reply "No."

He reached over and kissed my forehead "Your tired too, I can sense it."

I nodded, he had never really done anything like that before, but I ignored it and put it off as an act "What were you dreaming about so intensely." He asked me.

I didn't want to tell him because I knew how he would feel about it, I looked down into my hands "My mother."