A Second ChanceChapter Six
Integra walks down the hall to her bedroom when she stops and looks back at the shadow. She smiles and flips her hair off her shoulder. She puts her hands back in her pockets and turns to the shadow as a pair of eyes opens within them.
"Alucard, you're becoming a stalker."
The shadows begin to shrink and form the outline of Alucard's body. He stands tall in front of her and smiles. He wraps an arm around her waist and pulls her closer to him.
"I can't help it, Countess. I have been without you for the last fifty years. The last of Millennium group took you away from me and the American kept you from me. I just wanted to be close to you like I should have been all those years ago."
Alucard brings his lips to hers and places a kiss on them. Integra pulls away and smiles at him.
"Yes, I know you what to spend all your time with me but it's late and I am tired. I want to sleep."
"Well, I was thinking that maybe you would want some company," says Alucard as he raises an eyebrow. He runs his hand down her back and rest on her bottom as he brings his other hand to her cheek.
"Alucard, you dirty minded bastard," yells Integra as she pushes Alucard off of her.
"Come on, Countess. Hasn't this experience taught that you seize the moment? Take what you want?"
Integra rolls her eye and walks to her bedroom door. She holds the knob as Alucard looks after her. They both look down the hall as they hear footsteps coming towards them.
"Good night Sir Integra. Master isn't bothering you, is he," asks Seras as she stops between Integra and Alucard.
"Nothing I can't handle. Where are you going right now?"
"I'm going to check on Jade. I kind of walked out now her early."
"Why," asks Integra.
"Well, it's rather embarrassing..."
'Seras, move on. Can't you see that Integra and I were in the middle of something?'
Alucard speaks to Seras through their mind connect and points his thumb to the end of the hall.
"I'm sorry, Integra but it seems that I am being rushed. I will see you in the morning. Good night!"
Seras waves to Integra and walks down the hall. She can hear Integra tell Alucard that he was rude to her but continues to the end of the hall. She walks down the stairs and to the kitchen. She opens the refrigerator and pulls out a blood pack and a bowl of fruit salad. She takes the items with her out the kitchen and down another hall. She opens the blood pack with her teeth and begins to drink.
She walks to the second level of the mansion and down the hall. She stops at a slightly opened door and she pushes it fully open. She walks in.
"Jade, I am sorry about earlier. I shouldn't have just rushed out the room like I did but…"
Seras looks to the bed but doesn't find Jade. She walks to the front of the bed and sees the laptop still running. She places the bowl of fruit salad on the foot of the bed and begins to walk out of the room when she hears a faint moan across the room. She turns and looks around to see Jade's fingertips peeking from the far side of the bed. Seras runs to Jade who is lying on the floor on her stomach. Her eyes are partly open and she is grasping a flash driver.
"Jade?! What happened?"
Seras turns Jade to her back to discover parts of Jade's face missing and blood now flows freely from the wound.
"Jade, hold on! It'll be all right!"
Seras picks up Jade and runs out the room.
"Alucard, would you let me alone. I am very tired. I want to sleep knowing that no one will be watching me," says Integra as she sits on her king sized bed.
"All I'm asking is that I watch you sleep," says Alucard as he stands in front of her.
"You're beginning to whine."
"At least I didn't ask you what's really on my mind."
"Which is?"
Alucard raises his eyebrow to her and laughs slightly.
"Get out you idiot!"
Integra jumps up and pushes Alucard towards her door. Alucard lands on the door with a hard crash cracking the door.
"You see what you did. You and your dirty mind!"
"What? I know that I'm not the only one that has thought of it."
Alucard pulls Integra to him and she crashes against his chest. She laughs with her and he lowers himself to her and lays a kiss on her lips. She allows him to wrap his arms around her. She moans softly under the kiss and grasps his jacket. Integra pulls away from Alucard and looks up at him.
Integra begins to bring her hands to her cheeks when her eye widens. She opens her mouth and the screams of cry rushes. She arches her back and tilts her head as her screams continues. Alucard holds her as he is confused of what is happening to her. Then he sees the skin of her face stretch from her skill and break away leaving blood in its wake. Integra's screams of pain cease and she collapses on Alucard. Alucard brings his arm under her knees and lifts her.
"Integra?!"
Alucard cradles Integra in his arms as he shakes her gentle to wake her but she doesn't responds to his actions. He opens the door and runs out the room. He runs down the hall and to a infirmary where Seras has Jade laying on a bed. She is holding Jade's as she is screaming in pain.
"Master, what's happening?"
"I don't know!"
Alucard takes Integra to another bed where he lays her down. As he does, Integra begins to scream and arch her body as the wound on her face begins to expand. Alucard stands back in shock as Integra stops screaming and rests on the bed once more. Alucard walks to Seras and Jade and realizes that Jade has the same wound. He opens his mouth to speak when Jade grabs him as hard as she can.
"The experiments with your blood are failing," says Jade out of breath.
"What? Why," Alucard questions as he lowers himself to Jade.
"It may be because of Schrödinger's abilities…"
Jade stops as she tries to breath. Alucard hears from Integra's direction a groan. He turns around and sees Integra turn on her side to him. Her eye is open and is looking directly at him. The words of the Major floods her mind as Schrödinger's name echoes in her ear.
"'As long as he recognizes himself, he is everywhere and nowhere… He cannot recognize himself any longer. And in this case… what will happen...' We are now becoming imaginary numbers!"
Integra finishes her sentence as more pain overwhelms her. Alucard gets up and rushes to Integra. He holds her hand as she tries to handle the pain. She rests back onto the bed and looks to Alucard.
"But how could the two of you be affected by Schrödinger's abilities. I am here. I recognize myself…"
"But your DNA was forcedly removed. I don't believe that the scientists accounted for that…"
Jade breaths in deeply between her words as the pain push at every part of her body.
"Is there any way to revise this," asks Integra. Jade looks at Integra and hesitates to answer the question.
"There has to be something we can do," Alucard yells towards Jade and turns back to Integra. He gently runs his fingers against her forehead and hair. He has a bloody tear runs his cheeks as he reflects back to the years that he lived without her. This time with her has been a tease to him and he holds Integra's hand tighter.
"There might be something… Here…"
Jade lifts her hand high with the flash drive in it. She hands it over to Seras.
"The scientists believed that they can use Schrödinger's abilities as a form of time travel. One of the scientists believed that time could be treated as a place. They believe if they find Schrödinger's abilities gene, they could experiment with it in Organization's soldiers."
Alucard gets up and walks to Jade as Seras walks to a computer in the far right of the room. She places the drive into the computer.
"What did they find," asks Alucard.
"Not much. It was still a theory."
Alucard turns to Integra who is going through a joint of pain. She reaches to him.
"No, Alucard. No, Count. Don't do it! You don't know what could happen!"
"I can save you, Countess. I can make sure that none of this happens."
Alucard closes his eyes and remembers the building that Integra walked in fifty years ago. He hears Integra's scream for him to stop but he doesn't listen. He brings himself into the memory and everything around him disappears.
"Alucard? What the hell are you doing here?"
Alucard opens his eyes and sees he is in a pale white hallway with marvel floor. He turns around to see Integra in her usual dress but she is wrinkled and is wearing her glasses. Alucard smiles at her.
"What are you smiling at?"