A Second ChanceChapter Three

She hangs with her feet pointing downward towards the floor, she brings her hands to the blades that are holding her to the Hellsing mansion wall, but they do not move. She looks down to Alucard who is staring her down, the flames of fury are clear in his vampire eyes. He steps to her, his boots making tapping sounds against the century's old marble floor. He brings his right hand to the same side blade and digs it deeper into the woman's body. Alucard flashes his signature smile of delight as the mysterious woman moans from the pain.

"How do you know Integra?"

Alucard's voice is filled with rage and frustration as it deepens with each word that passes from his lips. He stands firm and strong as he takes his right hand from the blade to her chin.

"What is your connection to my Countess?"

"Is this an interrogation, Alucard? I know of your interrogation of Tubalcain Alhambra but that was when you were a monster. You are a man now. You are a man who has fought very hard to be what you are today. I doubt that you would throw all that away because of me; especially since you fought hard to become a man for not only yourself but Integra as well."

Alucard looks away from the mystery woman, flashes of memories of the thirty years of fighting the trapped souls within him came to his mind.

"If you know me so well, you should know what I do to people who do not give me the answers I want to hear. I may not be willing devour your soul for the truth but make no mistake, freak, I will come up with another ways to get the answers I need from you."

"Bring me down."

"Why do you believe that you're in a position to negotiations?"

The woman rolls her eyes showing her frustration. She pulls at her blades once more but to no avail as she realizes that she is in deep. She brings her hands back to her sides to hang and looks back to Alucard.

"My name is Jade. You were right about me being an American. I was born in Brooklyn New York…"

"I didn't ask for your life story! I just want your connection to Integra! I could just as easily get the answers through your blood but it won't be as fun."

Alucard takes his right index finger a blade and lets his glove soak with the blood that flows freely from it. He brings that finger to his lips and licks the blood off of its tip.

"All right! About fifty years ago, I was a cop in the NYPD when I was shot during a robbery. I awoke in a white room to someone slapping my face and screaming at me. I jumped up and found I had only a few memories of some scientists conducting tests on me. Before I could get me full bearing on my surrounding, the woman pulls me up from the bed I was laying on. The woman was your beloved Integra."

Alucard's eyes widen and he shakes his head.

"No… Integra died fifty years ago. I was there when the building exploded."

"Yes but was there a body recovered?"

Alucard does not ask the question as he wonders why he was such a fool all those years.

"It's all right, Alucard. No one blames you for believing their lies."

"Continue with your story…"

"Take me down from here."

Jade plays with the blades that dig pass her lungs. Alucard brings his hands to them and pulls them both releasing Jade. She falls to the floor and her landing creates an echoing sound. Alucard grabs her arm and pulls her to her feet.

"Continue…"

Alucard points the Jackal to Jade's forehead.

"I was wondering when the guns were going to make an appearance. Integra already had a plan for escape before I even woke up but she needed me to help her. She was next to go under their experiments as I. She gave me some of her blood and I had strength beyond belief. It felt…"

"I know what Integra's blood can do to a vampire. What happened next?"

"Okay… A few minutes later, a guard came into the room. I killed him and we took his weapons."

Jade has flashbacks to the moment when she was pretending to sleep as Integra struggled with the guard. Jade opened her eyes with Integra's signal of a yell of "now". She brought her arms to the guard's neck and with her new vampire strength, she broke his neck. The body fell to the floor and Integra looked down to it.

"He's a vampire," Integra said as she pointed to the body.

"What?"

"Look."

Jade looked down to the body and noticed the fangs.

"You must kill him completely."

"What? How? I'm not a vampire hunter!"

"Take your hand and as hard as you can, drive it to through his chest. Take his heart and crush it."

Jade stared at Integra with confusion.

"Do it before he wakes up," Integra yelled as she shook at Jade. Jade nodded to Integra and positioned herself over the body. She moved her opened hand and drove into the vampire's chest. She felt the cold heart and wrapped her fingers around it. She pulled it and didn't stop until it was out of his chest. She holds the heart to Integra.

"Will this work?"

"Yes, that will kill him."

Jade slammed her fingers closed against the heart crushing it into dust.

"That rush of my first vampire kill," Jade says to Alucard in the present as her wounds are still slowly healing.

"I guess you know what that's like. She got us out of the room and we got far enough to know where the front door was but…"

"What?"

"When we got there, they were waiting…"

Jade and Integra walked in the white bright halls of what looked to be a lab.

"What is your name," Integra asked.

"Jade Campbell, and you?"

"Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing."

"Wait, what?"

Jade stopped and grabbed Integra by her forearm. The women were facing each other.

"I know you. I have heard stories of your heroics in Britain during the Millennium incident. I thought you were myth."

"I glad to see my reputation precedes me."

"It's an honor."

Jade stopped and extended her hand to Integra. Integra took and they shook. They continued to walk out through the halls.

"I don't want to get on your nerves but there's a rumor that you have Dracula wrapped around your little finger."

"You can say that."

"There are even more rumors."

"Like what?"

"There are wild sex stories of you two that would make the girls in any red light district blush."

Integra rolled her eyes and walked ahead of Jade.

"O, come on. It's just a rumor. But there is another rumor and I guess this one is true. You're a virgin," Jade said as she caught up to Integra.

"Yes, I am."

Jade laughed.

"What?"

"I am just surprised. How did you get Dracula under your spell if you're a virgin?"

"He goes by the name Alucard. He was my family's secret weapon."

"Was?"

"He's become much more now. I am surprised that he is not here but whoever these people are, they know what they are doing."

"Yeah, last thing I remember is looking down the business end of a SW1911."

"You know your guns."

"I should. I'm patrol with the NYPD. What's the last thing you remember?"

"Going to a business meeting at a new building."

"Vampire business?"

"Yes, vampire business."

"You thinking what I'm thinking, Sir Integra?"

"Everyone you knows us thinks we're dead. That still doesn't explain why Alucard isn't here."

Integra and Jade stopped at the end of the hall. Jade looked around the corner as Integra kept a sharp eye down the hall.

"Two vampire guards… There's some kind of glowing paper on the doors."

Integra looked around the corner.

"It's a border spell from the Catholics."

"What does that mean?"

Integra looked to Jade and said, "It means that anything unholy cannot pass."

"You mean I can't leave?"

"Yes…"

"Shit!"

Jade went down to her knees and rested her head against the wall behind her. Integra brought herself to her knees.

"I'll come back for you. I promised."

Jade looked up at Integra with a bloody tear rolling her cheek.

"Can I meet Dracula?"

Integra smiled and placed her hand on Jade's shoulder.

"Yes, you'll meet him. Just be strong until I return."

"All right," Jade says as she wiped the tear away.

"You ready?"

"Yes, Sir Integra."

They got to their feet and ready their stolen weapons. Jade turned the corner and shot at both of the guards; each fell to the floor. Integra and Jade rushed to the steel tall doors. Integra pushed them opened and saw darkness of the night.

As Integra took her first step towards freedom, shots were fired behind her. Jade covered Integra with her body as they fell to the floor passing through the spell border. Jade screamed with the pain from the burn of the border. Integra took her gun and shot down the hall hitting the two Nazi soldiers.

"It can't be the Millennium group again. We destroy them long ago."

"Well they're back."

"Are you all right, Jade?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. The burn is healing up. Hey, I'm through the border."

"That's impossible."

Jade got up and helped Integra, who was holding her side, to her feet.

"Did I hurt you, Sir Integra?"

Jade moved Integra's hand to see what was wrong. Integra's usual dress of a business suit had a bullet hole and was strained with her blood.

"You're shot!"

"It is just a flesh wound."

"Let me take a closer look."

"No," said Integra as she pulled away.

"We haven't got much time."

Jade stared at Integra with her new purple vampire eyes but didn't argue with her. She instead nodded at Integra. She turned around and grabbed Integra's hand.

"Don't forget. You're a vampire so don't run so fast."

"Aww, do you want me to carry you?"

"Don't be such a smartass!"

"It's better than being a dumbass."

"Shut up, Jade and let's just go."

They began to run out the lab as Jade made sure to keep pace with Integra. After a few minutes of running through a wooden area however, Jade noticed that Integra began to slow down. She looked at Integra and realized that her face had lost all color. Jade stopped and Integra collapsed in her arms.

"Come on, Integra. We have to go."

Jade shook Integra but she doesn't move. Jade listened closer to Integra and realized that her heart wasn't beating. She laid her down on the ground. Jade interlaced her hands together and pressed against her chest. She opened Integra's mouth and tried to blow air into her lungs when she realized that she was a vampire. She had no breath.

"Damn it! Integra, wake up! Integra!"

"They're over there! Let's move!"

Jade looked up to the lab to see a few guards running towards her way. She looked down to Integra.

"Thank you, Integra."

Jade got up to her feet and began to run.

"You left her there," Alucard yells with all his might. The volume of his voice breaks the glass of the office.

"I know! It is a regret that I have had to bear for the last fifty years! I got to a hospital for help and that is when a representative of a group called The American Vampire Hunter Organization. They enlisted me to go back to the lab and destroy the place. So I did for Integra's memory.

The Organization set up a task force to back me up. Our orders were to kill all in Nazi or enemies and to gather any of the test subjects so that the Organization could help revise the experiments. So I went back and to my surprise..."

"O my God, Integra!"

Jade ran to an operating table where Integra laid. Jade shook Integra but she doesn't move. Jade moved Integra's upper lip to reveal vampire fangs.

"No! No! Damn it!"

Jade slammed her hands against the edge of the operating.

"I'm so sorry… I'm so sorry. I shouldn't have left you here. Integra, please forgive me. I thought you were gone."

Jade straightened herself over Integra. She took her blades that were specially made for her and held it over Integra's chest. She closed her eyes and began to thrust down to Integra's heart when she heard a voice behind her.

"Don't, Jade!"

A man from the task force walked into the room and to Jade. He placed a hand on her shoulder.

"We were ordered to get all the test subjects."

"Pete, I should have never left her," Jade said as she lowered her blades.

"I know but the Organization will find a way to fix this."

"I hope so."

Jade looks to Alucard who has his back to her. He looks up to the moon as he questions everything he has heard. He turns to Jade. With her wounds finally healed, Jade stands strong before Alucard once again. She stares into Alucard's eyes with intensity in hers but then she turns away from him. She jumps out the window near her.

"Silly girl!"

Alucard steps forwards when suddenly he feels a rush of memories to his mind. Within this flashes of memories, Jade stares into a compact mirror as she sits in a private jet.

"Alucard, please listen to me. My task force is watching me. There is a lot more to the truth than you realized. The American Vampire Hunter Organization is not trying to revise what the Millennium group had done to us but to improve on it. Their goal is create the ultimate controllable vampire hunter; you're American equal. Integra has been going under this experiment for the last fifty years. They plan to implant a clip in order to control the hunter after they are finished with the experiments. I had no clue until recently when I broke into their labs myself. I saw their files and what their plans."

Alucard sees Jade breaking into a lab. She types on the computer and looks through some files.

"They needed your blood because you are what they call patient zero. You were not turned by another vampire so your DNA is somehow better than a normally turned vampire. Integra needs your help."