It's hard to watch Queen of the Damned and Hellboy and write at the same time :-/
I cut this chapter in half since it was taking so long to write.
enjoy.

Breakfast of Champions

Katherine woke up as the sun crept through the crack in her curtains. The ray made a perfect road of light across the room and up the bed onto her face. She blinked the sleep out of her eyes and looked around.

"So it wasn't just a crazy dream," she stretched lazily and smiled.

She kicked off the coverers and rolled onto the floor. She considered making the bed but decided it would be homier if she didn't. She went over to the window and drew the curtains back expecting a breath taking view. No such luck, she could only see the roofs tops of the rest of the mansion and the tops of trees. The sky looked pretty though. She stood for starring for a few moments and then a deep rumble caught her attention. It was her stomach. She had not eaten dinner the night before. The clock on the bed side table revealed that it was only nine o'clock. Cat assumed everyone was already up since they ran the organization and that was most likely a full time job. Sir Integra looked like someone who never slept past seven anyway. Even on the weekend.

Cat dug through her bags looking for something comfortable to wear. Her plans were to wander around the mansion all day and hope she did not get lost. If she did she was sure one of the many doors would have a room she could just stay in if no one came along to find her. She smiled at the thought of being lost in someone's house. Though it was bigger than any house she had ever seen before, it was still only a house. She began to put on her shoes then stopped to think if she even needed them. She wouldn't wear shoes in her own house, but then again she would probably be walking a lot so shoes might help. She brushed her hair and took a quick look in the mirror to be sure she was presentable in the off chance that she saw anyone in the halls.

Cat opened the door and peeked into the hall to make sure no one was around. She was pretty sure Walter had brought her from the right so she closed her door and began a quick pace in that direction. She tried relying on some kind of hidden instinct to tell her which way was correct but she quickly found she had none. She resorted to guessing and leisurely traveled down halls twisting and turning throughout the mansion. She finally came to a flight of stares and decided to take them down to a lower floor where the kitchen most likely was. After about ten minutes she found another flight going down so she was finally on the ground floor. Five minutes later she found the entrance to the mansion and took the hall Walter had taken the previous night. This hall was lined with windows looking out onto the front grounds of the mansion. Cat could see the iron fence they had come through and watched as cars passed by on the road and people walked by on the sidewalk. Katherine was positive none of them had any idea about what was inside the mansion. Maybe they even thought it was vacant. The hall stretched on for about forty feet and then Cat spotted the blessed double swinging doors. She delightfully pushed through them to find a splendidly furnished kitchen. She had always loved cooking but in her aunts house the oven had been very old and never heated to the right temperature. This kitchen had multiple ovens set into the wall and stacked on top of each other. There was numerous gas powered stove tops lining one side of the kitchen and many fridges and cabinets on the other side. In the middle was a marble topped island with beautiful copper pots hanging above it and the best part, a magnetic tower with a cornucopia of Henkel blades stuck to it. Cat squealed in delight. It was like a wonderful dream and she never wanted to wake up.

"Thank the lord I don't have to!" she immediately set to work looking through the fridges and cabinets and helping herself to all the pots, pans, and utensils. She made herself a huge breakfast and sat down at the counter and enjoyed it slowly.

Meanwhile across the mansion Integra had been up since six. She did not want to give Katherine a job she would not be able to do well, but she did not know what Katherine was good at. She called Walter in to help her think something up.

"Walter what is it that teenage girls like doing for work?" she placed an elbow on her desk and rested her chin on her hand. She had been thinking hard and it was beginning to wear her out.

"Well Sir, I believe they don't like to do anything. Most of them go out shopping or watch television all day and talk on the phone with friends," Walter set up Integra's tea tray on her desk and straightened some paper for her.

"We must find some job for her. I can not have a child running around here idly," she pinched her eyebrows together and squinted.

Alucard materialized into the room, "The girl seems to be very comfortable in the kitchen."

"What ever is she doing in there?" Walter asked

"She has been in there for the past hour cooking her breakfast," Alucard picked some lint off his shoulder and yawned. It was very late for a vampire to still be awake.

"Well that's perfect. Walter you will teach her how to cook nutritious meals for the soldiers three times a day and how her how to do the inventory and order more supplies. She should be able to handle it it's an easy job," with that settled she began to shuffle with papers again.

Walter let out a little sigh. Cooking three times a day for the Hellsing army was anything but easy. "Should I begin to train her immediately, Sir?"

"No, let her wander around the house for today. She needs to learn to navigate herself here so we don't have to send a search party for her all the time," Integra remembered getting lost once when she was very small. Afterwards she took it upon herself to know every part of the mansion. "I hope she can handle the Wild Geese. I don't think I could handle any teenager breakdowns."

"She did handle Alucard rather well," Walter reminded her.

"Yes, that she did," Integra lifted her head to look at Alucard, but he had already disappeared.