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The White Dress

Alucard trailed behind Cat as she shuffled through the clothing racks.

"What color do you think I should get?

"I don't know."

"What style do you think I should get?"

"I don't know."

"Do you think I should get a short one or a longer one?"

"I don't know and I don't care," Alucard sat down in a chair in front of the dressing rooms. A girl came out to look at herself in the mirror and quickly ran back in upon seeing him.

"Please. The sooner you help me the sooner we can go," Cat started pulling dresses off the rack to try on. She held them up for Alucard to look at but he just put his head in his hand and began rubbing his temples. She went into the dressing room and tried the first dress on. It was a black one with little red lace flowered eyelets sewn around the bottom and thick shoulder straps.

Cat stepped out of the dressing room and twirled, "What do you think?"

Alucard glanced up from snoozing, "Are you planning to attend that boy's funeral?"

Cat's eyes widened in shock and she whisked herself back to the other side of the curtain. She ripped the black dress off quickly and threw it on the floor. She had hoped he would not ever mention what had happened but things usually did not go her way. She sat down on a stool and sighed. She had watched a boy be killed. She had not done anything to stop it either. She had not even wanted to do anything to stop it. She had wanted to see him be killed, it was what she had in mind the second she called for Alucard. What kind of person was she becoming? All because she had gone looking for her aunt, if she had just gone to bed none of it would have ever happened. She rubbed at her eyes to keep the tears from forming. She heard the jingle of the curtain rings and looked up.

"What are you doing?!" Cat brought her knees up to cover her chest and wrapped her arms around her thighs.

"You were taking too long," Alucard just stood and looked at her like it was perfectly normal to walk into a girl's dressing room.

"Well get out! I'll be out in a second!" she threw a hanger at him and he rolled his eyes and went back to sit down.

"This had been the worst day since this mess started," she thought to herself, "and its barley even been three."

She tried on two blue dresses and Alucard informed her she was too pale. She then tried on a red one and he told her she should get it if she wanted to be dragged down more alleys. She tried on a pale pink one and he reminded her she was not seven.

"Well what would you pick then? Just go find something so we can get out of here," Cat sat down in Alucard's chair as he got up to search the shop for something suitable. She did not get her hopes up that he would come back with anything remotely good. After five minutes he came back carrying a white dress.

"Here," he tossed it at her and sat down.

Cat went back into the dressing room and slipped the dress on. Unlike the others this one had a zipper on the back instead of the side. She struggled for about two minutes and finally managed to twist her arms behind her and get the zipper up. She stepped outside and looked in the mirror.

The dress looked beautiful. It was very simple but still lovelier than any she had tried on. It came just to her knees and delicate black lace was sewn around the bottom. It had an empires waste and around it was tied a black silk ribbon with a bow right in the middle. The straps were about an inch thick and fit snuggly over her shoulders and the neckline was a V pattern but not so much that she lost her modesty. All together the dress fit her personality perfectly.

"It's perfect," she stood staring at herself.

"Good," Alucard plucked the tag off the dress and handed to a passing sales clerk, "She'll take it." He went into the dressed room and stuffed her clothes into one of the shopping bags and handed her the money, "Don't bother changing just wear it out."

"Alright alright we can go. I'm sorry it took so long, but you know it would have gone a lot faster if you had just picked one out in the first place."

"I've called the driver he'll be arriving shortly. I'll wait outside," Alucard left the shop quickly and Cat watched as he paced outside. She went up to the counter to pay.

"Is that you're dad? He has good taste," the sales women took Cat's money and put it in the register.

"Oh no, he isn't my dad," she took her receipt as she started at Alucard outside.

"Oh, you're brother? He can't be your boyfriend! Is he?" the sales women grinned widely.

Cat laughed, "No he isn't my boyfriend. I guess he really isn't anything." She smiled at the sales women and left the shop.

As soon as she was outside Alucard immediately started striding back down the sidewalk towards the place the stressful afternoon had started. Cat had to practically jog to keep up with him but she did not mind. She was as ready to go home as he was. The day had been long and tiring and she just wanted to lie down and take a nap. After a couple of minutes Cat caught site of the car. The driver saw them coming and opened the trunk so Alucard could put in Cat's new clothes. Cat crawled into the back seat and wait for Alucard to finish stuffing her things into the trunk.

The driver turned around in his seat, "Find everything you needed Miss?"

"I certainly did. And then some," Cat giggled as the driver gave her a big toothy grin.

Alucard got into the car and slammed the door, "Drive."

The driver pulled away from Oxford St. and got on the main road that led back to Hellsing headquarters. It was now 5 o'clock and he sun was beginning to cast longer shadows. Cat wondered if Alucard would bother going to sleep. Maybe there would be no missions and he could relax for a night. The car swayed gently back and forth as it when over the rocky road and soon Cat had dozed off.

Thirty minutes later the car arrived in the Hellsing drive way.

"Maybe you should just carry her to the house Sir, she does look very peaceful," the driver looked at a sleeping Cat and wondered if the vampire would oblige.

"I'm not her mother," Alucard gave Cat a rude shove, "Wake up girl, we're back."

Cat flinched and bumped her head on the car window. She rubbed the sleep out of her eyes and peered around confused about where she was for a moment.

"Oh, back here. I see," she thanked the driver and sluggishly got out of the car. She went around to the trunk where Alucard was loading bags onto his arms and grabbed a few. She turned back towards the house without saying anything and walked solemnly up the steps to the door.

Just as she got to the door Walter opened it and welcomed her in.

"Did you have a good trip Miss Cat?" He stood holding the door waiting for Alucard.

"Yes, I got everything I needed," she stood for a moment and looked at the floor.

"Alucard wasn't any trouble was he?" Walter slyly looked at Alucard as he entered the house.

"No, he was fine. Do you mind if I don't cook tonight Walter?" she still stared at the floor.

"No that's quite fine I've already started dinner anyway. Is there something wrong Katherine you look a bit ill," Walter looked at Alucard questioningly.

"No I'm fine. I'm just tired. I'm going to go to bed. Goodnight," she turned around and walked zombie like up the stairs.

"Well that's odd. She's always so peppy. Did anything happen today that we should know about?" Walter closed the front door and looked at Alucard.

"No Walter. Nothing you should know about. I'm going to report in and go to bed as well. You'll take care of these wont you old boy?" Alucard set the shopping bags down at the front door.

"Yes just leave them there. You're sure nothing happened?" Walter was concerned.

"Nothing spectacular. Just the average Sunday outing," Alucard started off towards Integra's office.

"I'm afraid nothing involving you is average, Alucard," Walter said to himself as he headed back towards the kitchen.

Alucard knocked on Integra's office door and then entered. She was sitting at her desk like usual and shuffling through papers.

"Everything went smoothly I hope?" she looked up and him.

"As smooth as can be expected," he smiled at her a nodded.

"I know that look. What did you do?" she sat back in her chair and crossed her arms.

"Nothing, you can ask the girl yourself. I was polite and followed her wherever she wanted to go. There were the thirty minutes she left me sleeping in a chair in a department store though. Who knows what happened to her while she was alone," Alucard picked at a piece of lint on his sleeve.

"I got a strange report about two boys claiming to be attacked this afternoon by a monstrous man, you wouldn't happen to know anything about that would you?" Integra pulled a cigar out of her desk drawer and lit it. She pulled the smoke into her lungs and exhaled.

"Now that you mention it I may have seen a boy running from the scene of a crime and another out cold. I couldn't tell you what happened to the third one though. It seems to have slipped my mind," Alucard brushed his sleeve off and stood up straight.

Integra looked at him for a moment, "You are dismissed for now. No problems tonight just go get some sleep. I can't handle any more moodiness," she snuffed out her cigar and continued on with her paper work.

Alucard left the office and walked thoughtfully down the hall. He wondered if Integra would ask Cat about the shopping trip but decided that it was more than likely she would not. Integra was never interested in those kinds of things and she had no real need to know about what had happened to the boys. She had never minded if Alucard went out and drained a less than perfect citizen or two. As long as things did not get out of control and no ghouls were created.

As Alucard thoughtfully walked he found himself passing by Katherine's bedroom. The light was still on so he put is head through the door to see what she was up to.

Cat had fallen asleep on the bed with her clothes and the light both on. While she was in the car she had dreamt that her parents were still alive and she was living at home with them. The dream had seemed so real and she never wanted to wake up from it. She had not even known she was asleep though and so when things turned bad she was quite frightened.

In her dream her and her parents had been taking an afternoon stroll. It had been a lovely warm day but without warning the clouds started to roll in and the sky turned dark. She gripped her mothers hand but it felt thin and wispy like it was going to fly away. She looked at her mother and father and they were turning thin and wispy as well. She yelled for them to stay but they turned and ran away from her. As she chased after them she saw boys come out of the bushes and chase after her. She cried and cried for her mother and father to wait for her but they just kept running and laughing with each other like nothing was going on. Cat turned to see how close the boys were to her and when she turned back her parents had gained a great lead. She tried to run faster but she felt like the earth was clawing at her shoes. Eventually she could not see her parents any more and it was only her and the boys left. She tried to flee from them but they soon caught up and tried to drag her into the never ending bushes. Rain started to fall and she heard lightening and thunder crack and rumble. She cried for help but the only sound that came out was that of the wind. The boys laughed and jeered at her as she lay in a muddy puddle on the ground. Then she heard one of them scream. She looked up to see a giant shadow looming over her and the boys. The shadow had teeth and it locked them around the back of the boy's neck and shook him like a rag doll. Part of the shadow reached out like a fat tree branch and split at the end. It grew teeth on both sides and narrow red eyes popped out all over it. It snatched up the second boy a chomped half his body down. The other half fell with a sickening splat onto the ground. The third boy tried to run but another tree branch toothed shadow shot out from the back of the thing and wrapped around him. It repeatedly smashed him into the ground until he was only a bloody mangled piece of meat then it fed him to the eyed shadow. The first boy had stopped screaming now and the shadow quickly engulfed him. It started to laugh, a laugh so very familiar but Cat could not place where she had heard it before. She cried out to be left alone but the monster had only laughed more. The shadow monster slowly began to take a solid shape. Cat watched in terror as the tree branch monsters became arms and the toothed blob at the top became a man's head and face. Cat cringed as he smiled at her. She yelled over the thunder and lightening and asked for the man's name. She saw his lips move but she could not understand what he was saying. He reached his hand out to her and she reached to take it. She felt a moment of comfort. The monster had saved her and now he would take her away from this awful place and take care of her. As she took his hand she saw her parents behind him. They seemed to be running towards her with their arms out stretched but they were not getting any closer. They yelled for her to run away, to run to them so she would be safe. The man lifted her up high and she could better see the fear on her parent's faces. They called out to stay away from him but the last word was always blocked out by the thunder. She told them she could not understand them and she could not hear over the thunder. Suddenly there was complete silence as the man held her high in the air. She heard her mother yell louder than the thunder had ever been. Her words echoed through Katherine's head and they seemed to boom out of her mouth to the entire world. Stay away from Alucard. This is what they said, and as she heard them Katherine looked down into her saviors eyes. They were no longer eyes though, only black holes full of fire. A pit of darkness lined with teeth opened up in the man's face and Katherine was plunged towards it. Her scream filled the world and a crack formed in the ground her parents stood on. They fell into it and flames burst forth from the crack. As Katherine screamed the man laughed very hard and very loud and soon her voice was drowned out by his lustful joy.

Then just before she was plunged into darkness the same voice woke her up. She was sitting in a car outside a beautiful house and for a moment she had no idea how she had gotten there. She looked around and hid her terror as she saw the same man that had been in her dream. The man that had saved her but had also started to kill her. Here he was, saving her again, this time from himself.

She had been very shaken as the memories of the past few days slowly crept back into her head. She did not know what to make of her dream and so decided to make nothing of it. She would ignore it and pretend it had not happened. It was only a dream after all. It probably meant nothing. She had lain in her bed for a while thinking about Alucard's name.

"Alucard," she had spoken it out loud and again a faded memory flashed through her mind, but it was thin and wispy and she could not hold onto it. A thin and wispy memory, the very thing her parents were now becoming.

She had fallen asleep shortly after this and now Alucard stood looking at her there. He pulled her thoughts out of her head and surveyed the dream she had had. He did not find it strange to find nightmares about himself in someone's mind. It had been a very usual topic in the mind of Integra Hellsing when she was much younger, but soon these dream passed as they never became a reality. Katherine's dream was much more vivid and accurate than any he had seen before and she seemed much more shaken up then most people would after a simple nightmare. In the morning he was sure it would be as if nothing had ever happened. He reached to the side of the wall and flicked the bedroom light out and closed the door.

He continued his walk down the hallway and when he reached the end he let himself drop down the three floors into his room. Walter had left a blood pack in an ice bucket and though he was already gorged with blood like a fat mosquito he drank it up quickly and crawled into his coffin. He laid there thinking about the day for a while and then slowly drifted into unconsciousness.

He rarely dreamt about anything but this night he dreamt of an ocean of blood. The crimson waves lapped at the shore and the moon hung low in the sky with a hue to match the water. He surveyed the empty shore. A long ways down the beach a small dot came into view. He waited as the dot came closer and closer.

A girl in a white dress walked the shores alone.

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