Alucard walked into his and Seras's room. Seras sat in a chair, slurping on her second blood pack. Alucard eyes his own two packets greedily and grabbed it. He leaned against the table in front of Seras. In just a couple of gulps, both packets were finished. He eyed the packet in Seras's hand . She sighed and gave it to him. "So... how long have you and Karmiina known each other?" Seras asked casually. "Since I was five." "Really? How did you two meet?" Seras asked now very interested. She had never met anyone from Alucard's past (not counting the people in Hellsing of course), let alone his childhood. Alucard chuckled at his fledgling's big, curious, baby blue eyes, and kitten like face. "When I was little, there was no one I could talk to, or play with. My younger was an infant and my two older brothers never had time for me. No one did. I was left alone quite often. One day, while I was bored, I decided to sneak away. I wore peasant's clothing that I got my servant to give me, and climbed over the wall that separated me from the rest of the world. As I walked along, I found that here was a mob gathered around in the middle of the market. I heard screams and decided to investigate. I pushed through the crowd and found a shopkeeper beating a little girl, no older than I, for stealing some food from his shop. After the man stopped giving his blows, and the mob lost interest and left, I helped the poor creature back to the wall that surrounded my home. I helped her over, and snuck her into my chambers. I told my mother and she highly disapproved, but agreed to letting her stay. My father was harder to convince, but my mother managed somehow, to convince him." Alucard seemed to be so off in his own world at this point, that Seras didn't dare even move, in case she disturbed him out of his trance. "I had found myself a playmate. From that moment on, Karmiina and I spent every waking moment together." Seras decided to interrupt here, "Master, did you ever find Karmiina attractive?" Seras blushed as soon as she heard herself speak those words sheepishly, "No, not when we wre growing up. She seemed simple and plain, no matter how many expensive clothes we put her in. After I came back from the Turks' country," Alucard made a face, as if he just had an extremly sour lemon, as he said, "the Turks' country." He continued after he twisted his face back to normal, "I had forgotten that my dearest friend was still there. I became cruel." Alucard smirked at that last remark, and was about to get on with his story, when, "You were more than cruel, Vlad, you were pure evil, hurting those poor innocents," Karmiina said standing in the doorway. "Once you remembered that I existed, and tried to meet me, I hid from you as much as possible, which wasn't hard, because that castle was big enough to hide all of Wallachia inside. I only met you after you stopped chasing me and used your authority to meet me." Alucard walked over to his dearest friend, "And that's when I saw what a beautiful blossom you had bloomed into." he said, playing with a strand of Karmiina's hair, his face very close hers. Seras blushed and looked away. She heard Alucard chuckle from behind her. When she turned, both Alucard and Karmiina were gone.