Ludifer: Hey! Thanx for catching my mistake so I could fix it! Anyway, I think you can back off the edge of your seat now! You'll get your wish very soon about Seras:)

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Demmie: Hey girl! I surprised you, didn't I, with two updates like that with two different stories, huh? I love a good, berserker, psycho Alucard as much as anyone! I'm not sure how much longer before he's "unleashed" on the brothers. I'm hoping to make it pretty lengthy, violent and probably really gory (so Ludifer, I know, will like it!) and I hope you will too! Btw, when you're done with Alucard, could you send him back over to me? ;)

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Disclaimer: See chapter 1. Aidan and Eres are products of my imagination and belong to me...for now!

WARNING: THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS A LOT OF FLUFF AND A LEMON!!!! OR AT LEAST A PSEUDO LEMON!!! YOU MAKE YOUR OWN CONCLUSION SINCE I DIDN'T GO TO EXPLICIT WITH IT. If there are those of you who'd like a more detailed lemon or something like it then let me know and I'll see what I can work out. Thanx:)

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Chapter 12: The Elusive Obtained

Rising slowly from the debris and dust, Aidan angrily pushed the destroyed material off of him and it hit the floor. Infuriated that his prey had escaped, Aidan was prepared to go after them when he heard a calmer voice speaking to him telepathically.

"My brother, what is wrong?"

Aidan answered Eres. "Seras is gone. The Hellsing hunter, Alucard was here along with two other vampires and they took her. There was nothing I could do." Aidan felt like such a failure at losing the one woman that qualified as their perfect queen! They'd get her back and make the hunter and everyone else at Hellsing pay for their sins.

"Aidan, calm yourself. We can speak about this when I return. But for now, I'm bringing a tasty treat for you. We'll take care of our enemies. Don't worry about them. In good time, they'll pay."

Aidan heard his brother's laughter and joined in with him. The one verbal laugh coming from Aidan became higher pitched and resembled the severely insane! It was enough to make a person run the opposite direction of him. "I'll wait, my brother. I'm anxiously awaiting the delectable morsel you're bringing to me." Aidan sat down on a chunk of the cement wall patiently waiting on Eres to come home.

Seras lay in her bed still nested in the infirmary. Taylor and Finn were sitting with her, laughing, talking and having a good time. Despite the merriment she was currently having, she missed Alucard. She didn't know why he wasn't here and her cousins were. On the inside, she was lonely and crying out to her absentee lover. Where was he? Making her cousins happy, Seras had put on a happy face; not allowing them to see what was inside her heart. Only one person could do that and he wasn't present and accounted for and no one wanted to say why at first.

Guessing the reason behind her long silence outside of her laughter, Taylor stated, "He's in a meeting with Integra and will be here soon."

Shaking her head, Seras blew out a breath that she didn't realize she'd been holding. "You know me too well, Taylor, too well!" Gazing at him, she blessed the older brother with a weak smile. "I'm that transparent, aren't I?"

Finn took her hand. "Yeah. But look at it this way... you may be transparent, but at least you're better looking than glass!"

"Whatever, Finn. You're so full of shit." That's one thing she could always count on Finn for...to make her laugh. He had this irritating ability to pull a laugh out of her anytime he wanted. It was his particular talent.

The young blond listened as her cousins talked amongst theirselves and she would glance at the clock on the wall, look at them, check out the vitals reading on her bedside machine and iv. liquids constantly dripping different aqueous solutions into the tubing strapped to her arm. Seras had grown so impatient that she repeated this process several times until Taylor sat on the other side of her bed.

"Seras, stop! You're making us crazy! He'll be here shortly and that's a promise!" The blond male ran his hand through his hair. Taylor seemed to be listening to a voice giving instructions as he bobbed his head while he listened. "Damn. Seras, we've gotta go. Integra's calling us for a meeting too." Standing up, he ruffled her hair and said, "Now, behave and don't do anything we wouldn't do. Okay?"

Sarcastically she spit out,"Well, that leaves me wide open, doesn't it?"

Finn rose after her comment asking, "Do you really think we'd be condescending, sexist pigs towards you?"

Blue eyes sparkling, she popped back, "Do you really want me to answer that? You'd be eating more shit than you're dishing out!" The small woman giggled as Finn pretended to be affronted by her insults, even though he knew she was kidding. "Finn, you're too much!"

"Got that right! Always have been."

Gesturing to the door, she said, "Will you just go? You two have a meeting and if you stay too much longer, you'll have to get a shovel for all the bull you're dropping in here!" Crossing her arms, Seras tried to look intimidating, but with her small size she didn't think it was working.

Both males, leaned over her planting a kiss on her forehead. Taylor stared at her, worry written all over his face. "Take care of yourself. And if you need us, we're only a yell or scream away." She nodded not wanting to say anything for fear she might cry and look like a sentimental idiot in front of her relatives. Taylor left and Finn just stood at the door momentarily and staring at her long and hard. It made her wonder why. Did he think something was going to happen and he was committing her face to memory? Who knew?

Seras blinked and Finn was gone. The loneliness that had been kept at bay by their company came crashing down. She closed her tired eyes holding back the tears that wanted so badly to fall. Pulling her covers almost all the way to her chin, she sat up long enough to plump her pillow and fall back onto it while getting comfortable. Her eyelids, so heavy, closed exhausted with the many waking hours she'd been forced to endure with those infernal questions put forth to her by Integra and several others.

Breathing deeply several times, her body began it's relaxation very slowly. Little by little, coherence and consciousness were being lost to the darkness as she fell into a dream.

Seras was sitting all alone in a tropical garden surrounded by every kind of flower and tree imaginable. Wearing a red spaghetti strap dress with heels, she wondered where her outfit came from because she'd never wear that in real life. The many, exotic colors sparked her attention and admiration. Standing up from her seat on a bench, she took a stroll. The further she walked she was aware of the sounds of water splashing...it sounded like waterfall nearby. Excitedly, her feet's pace quickened. She wanted to see this waterfall because they'd always been a favorite of hers when it came to relaxation. As the water hit the rocks and water below, she'd always pictured her troubles and everything else falling away with the water. More times than not-it worked!

Stepping through a small grove of coconut trees, her object of searching was found! The waterfall was gorgeous! Only about fifty feet high, it still seemed impressive to her despite her small stature. Contentedly, the blond stared at the water and closed her eyes. She'd been standing there for several minutes when the call of nature's music was too much to ignore. Slowly, she swayed gently from one side to the other. Everything so peaceful, Seras couldn't help but pay tribute to the beauty around her.

Suddenly, a pair of arms wrapped solidly around her lithe frame. Temporarily frightened, she looked around to see her captor. Relief instantly caused her to relax. Alucard held her loosely, standing right behind her, body to body with no air between them.

Turning around in his arms, she tried to say something, only he placed his index finger lightly on her lips. "Not just yet", he whispered. She just nodded and completely understood how he felt. The both of them just wanted to enjoy the magnificence surrounding them before spoiling it with words.

After what seemed like hours later, Alucard gently kissed her waiting lips. She was just like this hidden getaway, unspoiled by human nature, beautiful and calming when he lost control of himself; he could count on her to lead him back from the jagged edge he walked on.

Seras responded easily to his touches and ministrations. She was beginning to believe that he wasn't going to do anything to her and that would be such a damned shame. A gorgeous place, the best company ever and it would be a really bad thing not to take advantage of this.

Reaching up, she caressed his face and ran her fingers through his shoulder length black hair. She compared it's texture to silk in her hands. The entire time she'd been admiring his hair, Alucard had been letting his hands roam all over her body. Light, teasing touches that were turning her on and getting her hot. Leaning in, she took control over Alucard's mouth throwing away all semblance of control, and kissing his lips with heated passion.

Alucard's mouth regretfully left hers, blazing a burning trail to her neck so slowly. He wanted her to go up in flames and burn just as he does...a bonfire flaming brightly in the night. Barely licking and nipping over her pulse point, he felt her jump slightly in anticipation. Smirking, he would thoroughly enjoying seducing her to a puddle of flesh and then starting all over again. There'd be nothing else like it that was for sure!

Seras had undone the buttons on his coat and languidly slid the red garment from his shoulders and down his arms. Looking in his eyes, she removed his cravat and moved to make short work of his white shirt. Her hands quickly undid all the buttons and she removed his shirt with the same speed as his coat. In other words, slow and seductive enough to drive him insane. She grinned with pride at his small moan.

The blond vixen in his arms ran her hands studiously over his pectoral muscles admiring their perfect shape and strength. Surprising him, she kissed the juncture at his throat, and in repayment for her earlier torture, she deliberately drug her tongue at a snail's pace down his throat and chest. Barely exerting enough pressure, Seras taunted him with her seduction. It was his turn now. He no longer wanted to wait.

Kissing her hard and fast, he easily prodded her to open her mouth and give him access. Readily, she did without question. Raising his hands he laid them on her shoulders. Thoroughly teasing her mouth, mind and body, Alucard slid his tongue across her swollen lips and jawbone. Then he worked his way down her neck, stopping only to pay a little attention to her earlobe, which he tenderly licked and sucked while she bit her lip and groaned.

Raspily, he whispered, "Like that, do you?"

"Uh-huh", came her dazed reply. She didn't want him to stop. She wanted this to go on forever. If she had to do it as a vampire to be by his side and experience this for all time...she didn't care. She'd do anything to be with him and make it happen. Seras wasn't aware, but Alucard heard all of her thoughts and they turned him on even more just knowing she'd do anything for him.

Continuing his seductive torment, Alucard increased the pressure of his kisses on her neck while he pushed the straps of her dress from her shoulders revealing the perfection that was Seras. He stopped long enough to rear back preparing for the fatal, final kiss. He was about to bite down and invite her in to his world...

And someone shook her awake calling her name. "Seras? Seras, are you alright?" The worried and yet teasing voice belonged to the man, or vampire, of her dreams. "Were you having a fantasy or what?"

Paranoid, the blond rubbed her eyes and scooted her body to sit up in her bed. "No. Just a really good dream. That's all." Clearing the sleep from her eyes and voice, she turned her eyes on his imposing figure; making her sleep blurred eyes clear their field of vision.

The expression on his face said that he didn't believe her. "Well, whatever you were having, you were having it loud enough to scare the doctor and several nurses! They thought you might be having some kind of fit. After all, we heard moans, groans and we saw a few hand gestures, so we weren't sure what to think!"

Her eyes widened as she choked on air that she inhaled wrong. "We? Who's we?" Worriedly, Seras wondered who had been in here. Racking her brain, she hoped she didn't do anything that would give her away or make her a pervert in their eyes. She pleaded with Alucard to tell her who'd been present for the show and eventually he relented.

Red eyes gleaming he rattled off the list. "Integra, Joseph, Taylor, Finn, three nurses...and me!" He wiggled his dark eyebrows, reveling teasingly in her comedic pain. At least it was comedic to the ancient vampire who laughed at everyone, misery or no misery. "Just what was going on in that dream, Seras? Did it have anything to do with yours truly?" Winking at the petite blond, Alucard was determined to drag it out of her one way or another.

Defiantly, she stared him down. "If you wanna know, that bad, what was in my dream, then you can read my mind. I don't care. Not like it was very important anyway." Seras was attempting to bluff him and get him to leave her and her dream alone. If he were to touch her and find out the context of that dream... he'd really become one very determined vampire in finding out if her dream would come true.

Grinning sadistically, he leaned forward; crowding her personal space. "I think I'll take you up on that offer", he replied darkly. Catching her gaze, he locked eyes with her. Mesmerizing her strong will, he induced a hypnotic state and causing her to abandon all thoughts of fighting him. "Relax, Seras, you know I'll not hurt you." Diving into her mentality, he was surprised at what he witnessed.

The images and words seen and uttered did things to his supposedly dead soul. The thought that she would go through a vampire's bite, to live with him throughout all eternity, gave him hope for their future. He wanted to take her right here and now but he wanted to give her a little more time to recover. The ancient and powerful vampire smiled at the peaceful expression on her face. He'd longed to see her like this since the very first night they met. Her innocence had called to him; her song had seduced his heart and soul, pulling him in a direction that hadn't been traveled for centuries.

He whispered to her, "Wake, Seras."

Her blue eyes snapped open and she looked at him fearfully. I wonder what he's thinking? Was I too forward in my dream? Red color crept up her face displaying her embarrassment. Her eyes glanced around the room and she found it hard to meet his eyes. But the blond also felt slight disappointment that her fantasy wasn't going to happen anytime soon.

"Soon, Seras, soon."

Seras' head shot up at his words. Was he really considering what his words intimating? If he did, would it be as seductive and hypnotic as her fantasy? If only she could plan the whole thing in it's entirety! Flirting with danger she echoed his sentiments. "Looking forward to it."

Sitting on her bed, Alucard gently held her close to him as his mouth and tongue plundered her own. She felt as if she was melting away to nothing. The heat in her body was spreading to other parts not generally acknowledged. Those same parts were begging for attention but for now would be denied. Damn. Talk about being left to hang!

Her lover pulled back and confessed he had to leave already. There was a mission for the night that demanded his attention and Integra wouldn't take no for an answer. "I'll be back later, I promise. Why don't you rest until then?"

"Might as well. I don't have anything else to do with you gone." Seras was aware of effect she was producing when she stuck out her bottom lip and pouted.

Playfully, Alucard leaned back in and lightly nipped her lip causing her to laugh at his gesture. Staring at her face, he comprehended that she would one day make an excellent No Life Queen. There's no telling the length of time it would require for her to adjust to the violence and blood that came with that particular title. "I must go, Seras. Rest well."

"Don't go too psycho without me there. I just love a good gore fest!" She winked at him. "Save some for me, won't you?"

Her comments were again stirring feelings and certain parts of his anatomy that were best left alone for the time being. Bidding his farewell, Alucard opened his typical void to get ready for his mission.

Alone again,Seras wondered what the future would hold. She wanted to be with Alucard so bad! She wanted to feel his bite while under his alluring spell. Curling up on her side, she let herself relax and she fell deep into sleep within minutes.

Bodies of freaks lay scattered everywhere. Hellsing's hunter had done his job a little too well. Almost. Two more jumped at him. Temporarily out of bullets, Alucard shoved his hand through the middle of one of the freak's chest cavity. Grabbing hold of his bloody prize, the hunter ripped it from it's flesh, muscle and bone container. The organ oozed and dripped blood as Alucard held it out and incinerated it.

The second freak launched itself at him. Alucard kicked the low life vampire away from him, and threw a silver bladed knife hitting him in the left leg. Then he pulled out three additional blades from his coat and proceeded to nail down his other leg and two arms. Walking up to the creature, menace flowing like wine, "Say your prayers, freak. God will forgive you, but I won't!" Then Alucard spoke the Hellsing motto with utter confidence and he harshly yanked out one of the blades in his legs. Placing the cold silver against his skin, the flesh began to smoke. Pushing harder, Alucard dug deeper with the knife, cutting in a pattern.

Alucard removed the flesh, muscle and bone that he'd cut through and removed the heart from it's usual resting place. Gripping it tightly, the No Life King squeezed the bleeding organ until it squished completely spraying bits of muscle tissue and blood all over the hunter and the surrounding area. Alucard set both bodies aflame to hide evidence of their existence and to keep them from getting back up.

The deeds done, he burned all the bodies then threw his hands up towards the heavens. Chuckling psychotically, the vampire enjoyed the results of his handiwork. With his mission over, he headed back to Hellsing Manor to deliver his report to Integra.

Two months later:

Alucard was standing in Integra's office discussing the odd disappearance of Eres and Aidan. Even though the brother's couldn't be found, a strange message had been found on the Hellsing grounds late last night. The letter had read, 'We've not forgotten, nor will we forgive. She'll be ours as long as we live. You'll never get a moment's rest when we begin our final attack. Don't turn your back or close your eyes. The moment you do, we'll be there and all you possess will be ours! Prepare yourself, hunter!'

Alucard studied the note for any extra clues but found none. "So there lying low for now?"

Integra looked at him over the wire framed glasses encircling her pale, icy eyes. "It looks that way for now." She already knew the lines of what he was thinking and she had to ask. She just had to verify what he was considering. "Alucard, what are your intentions toward Seras?" Staring directly at his red eyes, she refused to back down regarding the human girl.

"I love and care for her deeply. I'll protect her with my life, if that's what you're inquiring." He really didn't want to get into this with his master. Frankly, the vampire didn't think it was any of her concern.

Swallowing the lump in her throat, Integra prepared herself for the worst over her next question. "Are you going to turn her?"

Amused, he smirked at her. "Why? Would you like the offer extended to you?"

"Hell no! I'll keep my body and blood the way it is thank you. I am a Hellsing, Alucard. We'd never exchange our humanity for that. But, regardless, thanks anyway, if you were making an offer." She lit a cigar and took two puffs and reiterated her previous question.

He appeared distracted for a moment, but then he replied, "Yes. If that's what she wants and if it would serve better to protect her, then yes. If she'd accept, I long to ask her to join me, be by my side, for all eternity. I have reason to believe that she expects it and that she would answer in the affirmative."

"Alucard, if the situation and person in danger were anyone else; anyone I didn't know then you must know I'd protest and refuse to allow it. But, if this is what the two of you truly desire then I won't stop you." She glanced up at the tall vampire, his face unreadable and passive. He was the brother she'd never had. The older, protective brother that always watched out for her in his own twisted way.

"Master, may I be excused for the night? I have something I'd like to accomplish before the night has ended."

"Your dismissed." She watched him walk away and called his name to tell him something else. "Alucard?" His steps halted and he turned back to face her. "Don't do anything I wouldn't do!"

"That would be hard wouldn't it? Especially since you don't ever "do" anything!" The vampire taunted her over her teasing phrase causing her to send him a hardened look of indignation. Never let it be said that he didn't know when to exit or how to create an exit, so he faded away into the shadows his teasing laughter left behind to haunt her.

Seras was sitting alone in Alucard's room waiting for him to appear. She noticed that he'd made an extra improvement since her last visit. He'd had a large four poster bed brought in and had it made up with crimson silk sheets and comforter. Several huge pillows lay propped up against the headboard in preparation for being used; just waiting for the right moment to caress someone's skin.

Suddenly, something wet swept across the back of her neck scaring her and making her jump. Turning around, she saw that it was only Alucard and she punched his arm for scaring the wits out of her. She hugged him and tilted her head up for him to kiss her. And he bent down gently taunting her mouth with his lips.

During their brief kiss, something had changed. Seras felt different. Looking down, she saw that her outfit of a tee shirt, jeans and tennis shoes had been exchanged for... oh, shit!, she thought. He'd dressed her with a red spaghetti strap dress. Just like the one in her dream. Excitement pounded in her veins. Would tonight be the night? She hoped so. She was tired of waiting already.

Watching as Alucard waved his left hand, a candelabra with six branches appeared on the table. Picking her up gently, he carried her over to the bed and lay her down. With a thought, his hat, coat, socks and boots were gone. "I'll leave the rest to you." His low voice dropped to an even lower pitch. It's sound so full and rich, already beginning the easy task of seducing her.

Scooting back against the pillows that felt like heaven to touch, Seras leaned back as Alucard straddled her waist. She reached up to slowly, tortuously free each button from it's prison. After the last button had been undone, she wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him down to her so she could taste him. At the same time, she pushed the shirt off his broad shoulders exposing his well sculptured chest and stomach. Little by little, she inched her fingertips down his chest to his stomach and then moved them to the button on his pants. Popping it free, she pulled down his zipper and was going to free the rest of him, but Alucard stopped her. "No just yet, my sweet Seras."

He chuckled at her groan and protestations. Cupping her chin with his right hand, he said, "Good things, Seras, come to those who are patient. Just a little longer. That's all I ask. Now, do you trust me?"

"With all my heart and soul."

"Good. Just relax." Passion taking control over his intentions, he started out tender and gentle, but the pressure increased as his kisses sped up exerting dominance. Slowly, he pushed one strap off of her delicate and fragile looking shoulder, then he pulled the other strap from the other shoulder; pushing the dress down to her waist baring her perfect breasts. He had the dress completely removed before she even knew it.

He tasted and teased every inch available to him. Seras had grown so hot, he could feel her mentally screaming for him to take her. With a thought the rest of his clothes vanished. Moving into her slowly, the pace increased little by little, driving them both insane. Moments later, as she began to spasm, her moans had become like orgasmic screams and Alucard joined in on the vocal cacophony.

At the height of his orgasm, he kissed her again and asked her,"Seras, if you want, I'll take you now and make you as I am. We'd be as one in the truest sense. But I won't do this without your consent." Anxiously, he watched her face as he continued to move inside of her.

Smiling in her sweat induced fantasy brought to life, breathlessly, she answered, "Whatever it takes, Alucard, then do it. I want to be with you forever, whatever it takes. I want to have your children, fight alongside you and when the time comes... I want to die beside you. Please..."

The rest of her sentence died off as a result of her highly emotional state. His crimson eyes lit up at her confession. Nodding to affirm what she'd said, he repeated, "Relax, Seras, just relax. The only pain you'll feel is the initial bite and then everything else will be bliss. I promise."

She nodded her understanding and he kissed her lips gently. From her lips, he kissed and licked a trail from there to her jaw, continuing to her ear; nipping, tugging and lightly sucking with his mouth. Slowly, the vampire made love to her mouth, ears and neck before taking the last plunge. He'd wanted to prepare her and have her as relaxed as possible before he took that last irreversible step. He felt that she was now ready.

Nibbling her pulse point, before she could react, he bit down with enough pressure to break the skin. Seras gasped from the pain inflicted and then her body released her tension. Seras felt such powerful emotions wash over her, this part of the seduction burrowing deep into her soul so she'd never forget what she'd experienced tonight. The longer her lover drew blood from her neck, the weaker she felt. She whispered, "Alucard, I'm afraid. Alucard?"

Her panic choked him. Using his mind to converse with hers, he said, "Seras, I'm here with you. We live or die together. Have no fear. I love you."

His words echoed in her mind. The only ones that truly comforted her that told her he was with her and that he loved her. Her weakness...he was her weakness. She'd give up everything for him if it was asked of her and she wouldn't think twice. He was where she belonged and that's where she'd stay. Her blue eyes grew weary, her eyelids so heavy from the weakness induced by Alucard's unrelenting draining. But it was what she wanted. Her arms fell away from his body, the weakness and heaviness so acute.

Soon, she heard him whispering to her and placing something against her mouth. A thick, copper tasting liquid passed her lips and seeped down her throat. Voluntarily, she gulped it down until she was stopped by Alucard. He kissed her forehead and then her pale lips that were growing colder. He thanked her for her bravery in seeing it through and for trusting him.

"Soon, Seras, you will awake a new creature with the possibilities to learn many new things beyond the human scope. Your strength will be so much more. Eventually, you'll be as I am and you will be able to be so much more." Cradling her against his chest, he whispered, "Welcome to my world, Seras."

Seras faintly smiled because she'd made him so happy, but he'd returned the favor. She was now a part of him, forever linked to him and linked with him. Tiredly, she shut her eyes preparing for the long rest for her body to recover from the demands placed upon it this night. Within seconds she'd slipped into her world of dreams, hoping to see Alucard there with her.

Holding tight to his newly made bride, Alucard could breathe a sigh of relief. She wouldn't easily be taken from his life now. He'd make sure of that! Closing his eyes, he snuggled up closer to her and fell into sleep, for once, foregoing dreams filled with darkness and violence to slumber in a world that was only Seras.

A/N: As a reward for all the awesome reviews I've received, I decided to go ahead and put out a fresh chap and I hope you guys like it okay.. i know there was a lot of fluff and stuff, but the violent stuff's coming... ;)