Thank you all for your reviews, for giving me reasons to write, and the optimism to continue to do so. Thanks to Elalona and shyro13 for pointing out a bad mistake I made in my last chapter, I went back and fixed it.

And on to chapter which some of Alucard's purpose will be revealed.

A fair warning in advance that this chapter is a little bit more, naughty than my former ones.

Pairing: Alucard/Seras
POV Characters: none, General pov
Genres: Horror/Romance/Alternate universe
Rating: T+ (Sexual references and non-explict sexuality)

Chapter 3: A taste of the forbidden

"Come on lady Victoria, I'll show you your room, I'm sure you'll like it!" Seras followed the tanned blonde as she led her through the long maze of hallways towards the room Alucard, the lord of the castle had reserved for her. 'She's fast' Seras noted to herself as she even with her athletic speed was having trouble to keep up with her. Hell, Seras could keep up with her horse most of the time, this girl was something different. Sighing in exasperation Seras ran faster to gain as much ground to the girl as she could, zooming past the lit torches and almost crashing into a tall iron suit of armour that stood guard around a corner.

"Here we are!" Kim smiled triumphantly at having won the "race" to the young knight's room, and for a moment Seras thought she saw a trace of yellow in her eyes but as she blinked her own it was no longer there, blinking a few more times and unable to see proof of what she thought to have seen she put it down on her imagination. As Kim opened the door for Seras to cast a look into the room she would be sleeping in her mouth fell open in amazement, the room she woke up in was nothing in comparison to this one. The chamber was definitely well furnished and everything from the sofa to the bed to the large bath tub was decorated with small golden trims. The white walls were spotless as if they were being cleaned all the time. Only a queen would be able to afford such a room.

"And? Like what you see?" Kim inquired as she peered into the room to look at the amazed face of the small girl that merely nodded as she walked through the wide space, her brightly shining eyes gliding over the luxury items like a child's would in a candy shop. Taking off her jewellery which consisted of a few silver rings and a set of silver crosses, putting them in the small mahogany jewel-box on the desk that stood right next to the door, allowing whoever would be using it to keep an eye on the door at all times. "I actually prefer silver over gold but.. wow.. I never saw anything this beautiful in my life." Seras looked towards Kim, whose face had scrunched up when she mentioned her preference.

"I'm sorry! I did not mean for that to sound insulting! Really I don't think anything could look better if it were decorated with silver instead of gold, it's.. perfect, almost like a dream." She smiled at Kim who smiled back, trying to hide the little unease she had for no apparent reason. "It's Alright, lady Seras." Kim finally spoke as her discomfort had passed, "It wasn't that.. I merely remembered I'm on cleaning duty today. Sleep well!" And with that she slowly backed out of the room and gently closed the door.

The entire trip to her own room went pretty uneventful, every once in a while a servant would look behind her to make sure the young knight was not somewhere around. Kim could distinctly remember the girl's comforting smile and it warmed her up, even though a part of her would always feel uncomfortable in the presence of someone so close to the light she quickly grew to like her. Her presence quickly went from timid to comforting, probably when Seras figured Kim was not her enemy. She had acted almost like, pack.. No Maybe even a friend.

"I see the two of you are getting along quite well." A voice from behind Kim stated as she walked down the barely lit hallway to her room. She turned around to face the source of the voice and made a deep bow. "My lord, are you sure you want to go through with this? She is too pure and innocent. I can hardly stand to touch her without her inner light burning my skin. From your description the lady you wanted us to bring you was pure and noble but definitely not innocent!" Alucard smirked at his servant's point, indeed he had at first not planned for her to be the one.

"This girl is better don't you think? It will be a true challenge trying to break her, to subdue the light inside her into giving in to my will." Alucard chuckled at the thought. "Yes it will be glorious.... Wouldn't you agree, Pup?" The frustration this nickname brought out caused Kim's nails to lengthen into claws and her blue eyes to take on a yellow glow, she however controlled her anger knowing who she was talking to. "With all due respect my lord I would ask you to wait before you execute your plans, As it looks right now I am not sure she can cope with it. Besides," She added through gritted teeth " you promised me that you would not call me a puppy any more." Alucard merely chuckled at the girl's frustration.

"As long as you remain this timid I will keep calling you 'pup', it fits your personality... If I did not know better I would think you were trying to protect the paladin." Alucard gave the girl a knowing grin. To which she averted her gaze to the wall. "Do whatever you wish count, I always stood by the sidelines and I won't change that now, just, try not to hurt her too much, the light within her is strong but I could just feel the torment her heart is already suffering. You will end up killing the girl before you can claim her!" If anything, Alucard's smirk only widened at the thought his spy was so fast to grow to like this girl, A Paladin on top of that!

"Your faith in my abilities is flattering, puppy. I will take your words into consideration, Now go and see if you can find the other woman, I might need her for my plan." Alucard ordered Kim before walking past her into the direction his special guest's room as if she did not even exist. The girl growing more agitated with her lord every second. "Ass-hole." She muttered lowly so he would not hear, "I hope she purifies you!" She yelled after Alucard who rewarded her with a loud insane cackling that made her hairs stand up.

Meanwhile, the girl in question was already asleep, the sleep was dreamless, which was fine by her, ever since her parents got murdered she would only be plagued by nightmares every single time she closed her eyes. All too soon she woke up, the moon still high in the sky, she noticed two things however, one that she was unable to move and two that she was still asleep.. Right there! She could see her own sleeping form on the bed as she looked down on it from above.

'What is going on?' She thought to herself. Just then the castle lord walked into her room, From where she had not seen 'what is he doing here.. The door was locked!' she thought as he neared her sleeping form. His voice came in whispers as he sat down on the edge of the bed but she found herself understanding every word. "Beautiful." he whispered caressing her sleeping face causing her body to lean in to his touch. Seras watched from her vantage wondering what he was doing in her room and why he came there in the first place, touching her as if that was the most normal thing in the world. She could feel his hand to her cheek even though she was apparently not even in her body, and it felt strangely soothing.

Soon Alucard seemed to grow bored of just touching her face and to Seras' dismay he pulled the blankets off her bed revealing her naked body to his hungry eyes. She quietly damned herself for sleeping in the nude no matter how tired she was, she would have sworn she put on a blue nightie before going to bed! His hand trailed down her shoulder and again she could feel the light touch of his skin over hers. 'Oh no, don't you dare going there!' she began but she was cut off when Alucard pressed one hand on her exposed breast and kneaded it none too gently. The feeling made her want to gasp, and she found her body to do just that, although to her frustration it sounded more like a pleasured moan than a gasp of shock.

"Perfect, absolutely perfect." He whispered before turning into the direction from which she was watching the scene. "You really kept your body in great shape for me." Hate surged through her when he trailed his hand even further down to her most sacred spot, another shock of pleasure going through her as he touched her where no one, including herself had ever gone with any other intention than to cleanse it, and her fury towards him only increased when her body once again let out a pleased moan. "And you're a virgin." He smirked in her direction again. "I'm pleased to know I will be your first." God no, he could not be thinking about that! He pulled his fingers back and licked them, taunting her,

"Is it painful to just watch me knowing you can't do anything? Young paladin?" He lowered himself to her and she felt something warm brushing her lips before she felt something slide into her mouth, slithering through it like a snake, she was unable to see what he was doing but when she tasted something salty realization hit her like a ton of bricks. 'No! the bastard stole my first kiss!' She wanted to collapse and cry but then she felt something wet on her throat and she again looked at what he was doing to her body. Bright red eyes staring into hers as his face sported the scariest of smirks she had ever seen as he licked her neck. 'Bastard vampire, I shall destroy you for this, I swear' she promised herself. Alucard only chuckled, obviously catching her thoughts.

Next she felt something puncture the skin of her throat and the thick red lines she could see running down her neck confirmed her worst fear, he was drinking off her! "Please! Don't! Get off me you bastard, I don't want to be one of your kind!" She screamed, her eyes snapping open as she bolted up. One hand quickly grasping her neck feeling the sting. No wounds? She looked down, no blood either, and she was wearing her nightie. She did not feel different, and certainly not like a vampire, she sighed feeling relief flood over her.

"Just another nightmare, The castle lord is a good man, a pervert, but a caring man never the less." Seras assured herself, her breathing slowly returning to normal allowing her to search for hints to her nightmare being anything else than just that, a scary dream. "Ugh that treacherous body of mine!" she called out when she noticed something that embarrassed her even though there was no one to see it, the fact that it was there was enough. Despite the fact it was all in her head Alucard had managed to give her one first thing, her first wet dream. Blushing like mad and cursing her body for getting aroused by such vile thoughts Seras allowed sleep to claim her again.

In a different, much darker room of the castle, Alucard sat on a large throne, hands folded together as he relived the last moments with the young paladin. His face bearing a pleased expression as he picked up his wine glass off the mahogany table and brought it to his mouth, still deep in thought. As soon as the red liquid in his glass touched his lips his handsome face took on a scowl which was immediately noticed "Judging from the look on your face I assume the wine you like so much just doesn't taste the same any more now does it?" A voice came from a large wolf with glowing yellow eyes which was slowly advancing on the castle lord.

"So it appears Kim.... the girl's taste was... addictive." He spoke before taking a sip of his blood wine, finding it severely lacking in flavour now he had tasted the paladin's rich blood. The wolf smiled as it's body began to twist into a grotesque mass of fur and skin before settling in the form of the castle lord's spy. "I could have told you that from her smell alone, I can see why you don't want your servants near her, many would be unable to resist her scent, like that time two days ago." Alucard hardly paid attention to Kim's words, his mind still with the moment of the feeding, it almost caused Alucard to shudder. He had been on the brink of mounting Seras and ruining his chance to have her as his for eternity.

"Her blood was the sweetest I ever got the pleasure of tasting, and the way her divine energies burned me as I drank." He cast a lecherous gin at his spy. "It made me hard for her." Alucard had to push back a purring sound as he described the delicacy that was Seras' life liquid. "So, I guess I should go and announce a meeting? Time to introduce everyone to our new 'countess'?" Kim spoke with a happy smile as she tested the way the word countess would roll off her lips. She had expected her new mistress to be even more cold and uncaring than the count himself. Having someone as gentle and caring as Seras in charge would probably help raising the morale of everyone.

"No, not yet." The count spoke in a serious tone making Kim look up in surprise, was there a chance she.. "The light within the little paladin was stronger than I initially expected." A grin formed on his face as he spoke. "She is interesting, definitely interesting. Not only did she refuse my gift she actually fought against it, and won. Seems I have to play with her a little more, sooner or later her light will surrender to me." He ended his sentence with a loud cackling laugh.

Kim could not help but feeling a sense of dread. Not for herself but for the little paladin who she had so easily befriended.

It took a little longer to post this chapter as I had to multiple times go back to former chapters and edit them. I also had to ask my friends for advice after having a lot of errors pointed out in a review by "The Violet Muffin". Don't say I never listen to my reviewers!

Well then, this chapter is up, I hope I did not offend people with this one.. Please tell me if I did.. Or did not.

On the points mentioned in some reviews I was wondering about them and took notice of each of those and after some discussing with a great person I like to consider a friend, Namely "Metropolis kid", we sort of agreed I would change the points that really mattered, One of which like the "Abundance of wealth" he commented "I wouldn't worry about too much gold. Heck Vlad had a solid gold cup put by a public fountain for his commoners to use. (Granted he did it more to show off how much law and order he'd brought to the kingdom- since no one would dare to steal the cup, but still...) " I tend to adhere to his advice, so if there's anything I did not address yet it is likely that it is final, unless it has not been commented on before.