So I didn't actually put this up later that day, but this chapter turned into something longer and different then I had thought it would. Nina has become more interesting in my mind, and by the next chapter you should have a rather good feel for her too.
I make no promises about when the next chapter will come out, I should really work on my other fanfictions, but it will come out. Before the end of the month I'm sure.
Lakara Valentine, thank you for the review. I'm glad you like the story, and I'm glad you think I'm doing Alucard justice. I'll try to keep up the good work.
Also thank you to those of you just lurking around and reading this. Feel free to drop me a line and review. Even if I don't like what you have to say I won't blatantly ignore you.
(Disclaimer: I own nothing of Hellsing.)
"Something bad is going to happen," Nina breathed, as she stretched, her hands reaching upward and her back arching…
"It's just a party!" Lily insisted harshly to her older sister as they sat on the school bus. Lily couldn't help but glare at her grungy sister who was dismissing what could have been the hottest underground party ever. Lily was willing to get her in but Nina was just brushing it off.
Nina just frowned as she settled back into her seat, cracking open an eye to glance at her younger sister. Lily's hair was a startling color of bleach blonde that (as much as Nina hated to admit) did make her blue eyes stand out. Her shorts put playboy bunnies to shame, and her tank didn't cover her stomach all the way. It was so different from Nina's own jeans and T-shirt. "When the school calls telling dad about your dress-code violation you're going to be in enough trouble. You want to go to an illegal party too? I'm not messing with this."
"But…" Lily breathed realizing that her sister was right. She knew she couldn't go inside the house to get changed for the party. She needed Nina to get her clothes. "But, I'll tell you where it is so you can come, if you go in and get me my outfit. Please Nina!"
"No, Lily, you're too young to go running around like this," Nina insisted as the bus stuttered to a halt at their stop. "I'm not getting your clothes so you can to go to a rave, and I'm not going myself."
Lily waited until they were off the bus and walking towards their house before she said, "Nina, I'm your sister. You know what daddy is going to do when he gets a hold of me, especially if they interrupted him with that call. Can't you just do this one thing for me before I get in trouble?" When it looked like Nina might still say no Lily dragged up possibly the biggest bribe she knew, "Then we can go to the park like we use to do with mommy, and wait until we can go to the rave."
Nina stopped and glared over her shoulder at her sister. For a second she wanted to curse at the girl, but Lily was her sister. Feeding her to the dogs (dog) was cruel, even worse then what Lily was trying. "I'm going to go in and get your clothes, but I swear to heaven I'll punch you myself if you ever try that again." Nina paused as her sister stopped next to her, looking slightly worried. "You cannot bribe me with memories you can't even remember."
Lily watched as her sister started walking again. She waited for a few steps before she started following after her. Nina could act so much like their dad sometimes…
Nina groaned and tried to roll away from the vague memory… She didn't want to remember it…
Something bad did happen…
"Nina I'm sorry!" Lily cried trying to keep up with her sister as Nina stormed down the street. Nina had retrieved the clothes that Lily had left on her bed, but with a price. "I'm sorry!"
Nina stopped and turned on her sister, some hair in her face was sticky with blood. "Sorry?!" She questioned in a near growl. "You're not sorry! You wanted to go to this party! You wanted to wear clothes too school that you knew you'd get in trouble for! All you ever do is think about yourself, you selfish brat!"
Lily's eyes started to tear up as she watched blood trail down from a cut above her sister's eyebrow. "I'm sorry," Lily apologized again. "I'm so sorry, I didn't mean for you to get hurt. I'm sorry."
Nina frowned at her sister, watched as tears welled up in Lily's eyes. Really, Nina wanted nothing more than to continue yelling at her younger sister, tell Lily that she was only crying because she had been caught. She didn't, though. No, Nina just sighed and said, "It's fine…" what she didn't say was that when they got home that their father would be pissed at them both. She hadn't snuck out the window for her health after all. Still, when Lily just hiccupped Nina asked, defeated, "Where is the party, and when is it?"
Nina turned over again…
That wasn't the worst of it, and she knew it. She couldn't even feel the petty cut anymore… Actually, Nina noticed that she didn't seem to be in any pain right now…
What should have worried her were the memories that wouldn't surface. Nina didn't go looking for them though. She didn't want to find them. She had learned well enough that if she forgot it, then it was best left that way. Nina didn't go looking for the past anymore.
Like how she should have just left the reason that she hid under beds alone…
"So it's your heartbeat I've been hearing," A deep velvet voice chuckled, amused…
Nina just wanted to hear that voice again, her death with his thick laugh. She wanted to see those haunting red eyes too. He was enough to easily let the gap between her fight with Lily and meeting him go.
And in hopes that she'd find the man those things belonged to Nina opened her eyes.
"Master," Nina murmured contently when she did find that man. She didn't know why she addressed him that way, but she did. He grinned turning his attention to her when she did, so to Nina it seemed like he approved of the title.
"Mmh, good you're awake," He hummed as he stood from the table he was sitting at and moved towards the bed Nina was laying on. Slightly shaggy black hair just barely got in the way of his red eyes, but his smirk was as clear as day. As for his suit it bore no sign that Nina had bled on it, but otherwise he looked just the same as she remembered. That comforted Nina, even if it was just the slightest bit. He helped her forget what she didn't want to remember, and even the fact that she didn't know where she was didn't seem to bother her so much.
Nina nodded then, agreeing that she was awake and didn't mind being so, before she moved into a sitting position as she looked up at him. She wanted to say something, maybe ask why she felt different now that she was becoming aware of her body. However, much to her displeasure someone came bursting into the room…
"Nina!"
Her sister… Lily…
Before Nina could gather herself enough to move away she found Lily in front of her, instead of the man, holding her shoulders as she started talking at full speed, "Nina! This isn't fair, I don't see why I have to be a maid and you don't. I don't really believe that you've been turned into a vampire either! They're lying right?!" Lily even started to get a little hysterical towards the end and Nina couldn't help but stare, her brain only registering things at half speed it seemed.
Lily stood before her in something that appeared to be a very nice maid's outfit. Really it almost looked like the kind that girls cosplayed in when the anime con rolled through town, only not as slutty some of them got. It was black with white trim, it went to her knees came slightly off her shoulders. She even wore a little half apron with a pocket on the front of it. The pocket had gloves hanging out of it, and Nina, not fully grasping what had been said to her, didn't understand any of what she saw.
"Why are you dressed that way?" Nina asked, looking back towards her younger sister's face. She could hear the man chuckle and the sound of the chair moving before he sat back down.
"Didn't you hear me?!" Lily asked, distressed. "They say you were turned into a vampire, but that's not possible because your eyes aren't red like that other guy, and you look just fine. AND! They made me into a maid! Can you believe this, they said you weren't going home and that if I didn't want to go back to daddy then I had to stay here and be a maid!"
"You've lost it," Nina said pushing her sister lightly away from her. (What she couldn't understand though was why her sister staggered back so far…) Still Nina just went on to say, "Surely Master is just playing with you. He seems the type."
"Master?" Lily asked coming back closer to her sister. "Who are you talking about Nina?"
Nina stopped suddenly realizing that she did sound strange, that this whole situation seemed stranger then she was treating it. She was ignoring something important, and she could feel it now. Then when Lily asked who she was talking about again Nina pointed around her insisting, slightly exasperated, "Him."
Lily turned, and for the first time, really noticed the man lounging back in a chair, his feet propped up on the small table in the room. "Mr. Alucard? He…" Lily paused, before she moved closer to the man with red eyes shrieking, "What did you do to my sister!?"
"You've been told already," Alucard said giving her an amused smirk as he moved his feet off the table. It was not every day that a fifteen-year-old yelled at him, after all, and to be honest it was quite funny. It was especially so when she cowered back from the sight of his fangs, seemingly remembering who (or more likely what) she was talking to. "I've told you, Walter told you, even Integra spared some time to tell you."
"But it's not possible," Lily insisted before she looked over her shoulder at Nina for a second. Nina, though quiet, looked like she was trying to work something out, her fingers prodding at a random spot on her stomach. Even at the sight though Lily looked back at Alucard saying more timidly, "There… It doesn't… It doesn't look like there's anything wrong with her."
Alucard's eyes had drifted over to the teen on the bed too, and he did not like the panic that seemed to be rising in her… He did not intend to let it go like her sister was…
"There's nothing wrong with her," Alucard said, his smile slipping as he stood up, "However she hasn't been told how she's changed since she was last awake, and so instead of making her panic, maybe you could kindly leave my room and let me explain things to her."
"I thought this was Nina's room…" Lily blurted out, without really meaning to as she quickly glanced back at Nina and then back at Alucard. Lily tried to back up a little, but she just ended up bumping into the bed. In the end she just barely managed to stay standing, which unfortunately put her face to face (so to speak) with Alucard who did not look amused in the slightest anymore.
No, he seemed to have effortlessly changed into something more dangerous. Like flipping a switch he no longer looked pleased, he looked furious.
"My basement, my fledgling, by extension my room," Alucard growled, baring his fangs slightly at the younger girl when he noticed Nina back into the corner the bed was against. She held her head as if it hurt, and she shook it adamantly as she whispered to herself, though it was really just incoherent babbling. "Now, unless you want to be added to the list in a very unsavory way I suggest you go upstairs and help Walter."
Lily didn't dare spare much of a glance back at Nina once Alucard moved enough for her rush out of the room to find Walter and do as she was told. Alucard scared her, and she didn't really want to leave her sister with him, but she knew she couldn't do anything…
Alucard watched Lily leave; shutting the door behind her like it would stop him from following her if he had the mind to. Still she was gone and he could move on to more pressing matters like Nina. She had stopped shaking her head, but in turn the rest of her shook and shivered. Worse yet, Nina had clawed herself in the stomach. More precisely the spot she had been touching earlier. Blood dampened the spot around a hole in the shirt Walter had put her in, and blood covered the tip of her pointer-finger like she had dipped it in red paint…
"There's no need to recreate old wounds," Alucard hummed at the girl as he moved back towards the bed. Then when she didn't react he crawled, cat like and lazy, so he was basically sitting on Nina's lap before he purred, getting her attention, "After all, you'll be getting so many more I'm sure."
Nina's eyes looked unfocused and scared, but she still looked at him. "I don't understand…" She muttered. And she didn't. She didn't understand anything that was happening. Then her eyes drifted from Alucard to over his shoulder as she asked, "Where'd Lily go? Daddy's going to be mad…"
That's when Alucard frowned. He appeared thoughtful for a moment, before he seemed to settle on something…
Alucard gently took Nina's hand and bought her blood-stained finger into his mouth. She looked at him confused, seemingly none the wiser about what Alucard had really just done before he released it again. She put her hand back around her, so she could hug her stomach with both arms unaware of what she had done to herself, but aware that it hurt for some reason. Then Alucard merely told her, "There's no reason to worry about Daddy, I'm going to raise you now."
In his own way, Alucard was sure that he would certainly do a better job teaching her to be a vampire then her father had taught her to be human…
"But Lily…" Nina tried to insist as she looked back at Alucard. "But Master, daddy will be mad at Lily then. Lily might not remember to hide in the closet… She doesn't always remember even though it's the last thing Mommy taught her"
Alucard knew that Nina wasn't acting like she normally would. While he was biting her and traipsing around in her unconscious mind he knew she could be stronger than this. He knew that she had just receded into herself, leaving the little girl talking to him now from her eighteen year old body. Thankful that she didn't know how to change form yet, and knowing that Nina would very well come out of this state, Alucard merely assured her, "Lily's all grown up now, she's got to take care of herself."
"But I'm older…" Nina breathed as she suddenly became tired by just watching Alucard. She felt so tired as Alucard's eyes seemed to become the only thing left in her world…
Alucard just smiled at her, he would have to tell her what she was later… For now he merely said, before sending her the rest of the way into sleep, "Yes, but you're not done growing yet…"