So I just realized I had a lot more people than I thought read my story. Heh... Thank you.
I hope you like this chapter. Sorry to everyone who I made wait so long... . I have a bad problem with putting things off and picking them up again after a huge amount of time.
I feel like this story is nearing the end. Not this chapter but maybe the next.
Enjoy! Tell me if this one gets too cheesy/mushy. :3
"The effects of the blood will wear off eventually. You only have one night's time."
Integra stopped walking with him and Alucard continued, taking the path to the garden labyrinth.
"I didn't give you much, enough to save your life," he said as he disappeared behind the massive green hedges. His boots echoed off the cobblestones.
Again she thought of the blood rushing through her. Being pumped though her still beating heart. The blood of how many humans? She shivered. Yet a strange feeling of closeness overtook her.
"Why...?" she whispered to herself, "I should have died...". Her mind raced through all the possible explanations as to why he had done this to her. Or for her. She looked down at her body again. It was like she had stepped back through her own timeline. The blood given to her gave her some life back, if only just for a fleeting moment. She felt stronger, looked younger, and her mind felt sharper. 'Enough to save your life', she repeated in her head. What was that supposed to mean. Had he shown compassion? Was this a way of loyalty? Or was this something else entirely? There was surely no malicious intent, nor a way to spite her or terrify or hurt her. She was still his master and he would not do that. Was he playing games with her? Integra shook her head. She was being ridiculous.
Was this simply what he wanted? She had not ordered it. He had acted on his own free will.
...and he had saved her.
She saw that he was no longer with her and she was alone at the entrance of the garden labyrinth. She entered.
Integra walked briskly. Her bare feet made the softest sounds on the cobblestones of the labyrinth. The giant hedges towered over her, making her feel more lost than she knew she was. She quickly came to the middle section of the maze. It was a small courtyard with flowers, fountains, and a small pond in the middle. She walked slowly up to the water and glanced down. She looked ethereal. The moon cast a strange light around her that seemed to make her skin glow.
"Integra." Alucards voice spoke behind her. Integra jumped at the sound, not knowing he had appeared. She turned around to face him. He looked somber.
"Integra, what do you see when you look at me? What do you think of me?" he asked pressingly.
She was taken aback. He had never asked a question such as that before. But being together for so long, in a relationship that was almost one hundred percent work she didn't realize how little she knew about him. She knew what he was but nothing about him.
She glanced back at the Hellsing estate. All she knew in her life was work and that was all he was to her for the longest time. A servant.
A pang of guilt reached her stomache. No, she thought, she shouldn't know anything about him. She was his master, he wasn't even human. But in her heart she desperately wanted to...
"I see... I think..." she began, "...I don't know. I don't know who you are."
"Do you want to know?" he asked, as he took a step toward her. "Do you want to know what forever is like?"
She took a step back, her heel caught on the concrete edge of the pond. She started to fall back and before she touched the water she was in his arms, her hair faintly touching the moonlit surface.
She looked into his blazing red eyes. How many times had she thought about that question. Why had she never wanted forever? Was it to save her soul? In the quickly passing days she grew fearful of what may become of forever. Was she really ready to leave him?
And what if she truely wanted to save her soul from vampirism? What if it was already lost from the horrors she had ordered...
"You have until day break, Integra." he said as he lifted her back to her feet.
His solemn expression suddenly changed to a look of amusement. "You should see yourself." he said with a slight smile.
He took a few steps back. "My lady," he spoke as he bowed deeply while extending his arms out to his right side, "your carriage awaits."
She took his hand and a sudden haze engulfed them both.