A special thanks to Haissan for the idea that led to this chapter. Keep throwing ideas at me guys or I'm done for.

Seras Victoria

Cat daringly hoped down the last step of the stair case. Luckily it was the floor she hit this time and not a few extra steps. She walked over to the general area of Alucard's coffin and started waving her hands around in the air until she came to the solid wood that always felt cold like metal. She gave a couple taps with her knuckles and when he did not answer she boldly shoved the lid aside. She was in a hurry today and if he had cared she was sure he would have not let it slid to the side so easily.

"Alucard it's time to get up I need to ask you some things. I've sat in the library as long as I can and there aren't any books that can tell me what I want to know," she shook the blood bags so they sloshed around.

She cringed when she felt something ice cold wrap around her wrist and then snatch the bags away. He had done this before, but it always frightened her anyway. She knew it was not his hand, but some sort of shadow or tentacle. She tried to hide the fact that it disturbed her that he had a form that was not human, but it was not hidden well enough. She could only hide so many things from him in her mind and most of them were very menial. She was proud though that she could hide anything at all.

"What is it you are so curious about that you must come in here and wake me up early?" she heard him snap his fingers and a light above them came on just bright enough so she could see his face.

"It isn't early at all it's nearly four. Walter told me something very interesting while I was reading a book about vampire creation, but that's my second question. My first is that I'd like to know if you know whether a vampire has a soul or not," she sat down in his chair next to the coffin.

"Do you think they have a soul?" he tore the end off the blood pack tube and started slurping at it.

"I think they do. One of the opinions was that they do, but it's a different kind, you know like its worse or something," Cat sat and waited for the real answer.

"If you think that then why do you need to ask me?" Alucard squeezed the rest of the blood into his mouth and opened up the other bag.

"Because! I want to know if there's a real answer! I don't want some silly opinion I made up to make myself feel better I want to know the truth," she fidgeted in the chair. She thought that it would be an easy question and answer, either yes or no, but now she was realizing it was silly to think that. She should have known better by now.

"I don't know any more than you do. If you like to think that they do then go ahead. You can call it a soul or a spirit or whatever you want. Knowing does not change what a vampire is. A blood thirsty heathen that would suck you dry without a single thought as to what kind of person you are or who would miss you. Shouldn't a soul make you think of those things before you kill someone?" he lounged back in his coffin and watched the orb of light drift back and forth.

Cat watched the shadows it casted for a while in a trance. They took many different shapes, some frightening and some lovely. Finally, with a sigh she snapped back to the debate, "No, that's a conscience, a soul is what animates you so I guess you have one. I think it makes you cross to be told you have one."

He grunted, "I know what your other question is, but why don't you ask it anyway."

Cat pursed her lips and scowled, "I was reading about how vampires were made and I wondered out loud if you had ever made one and Walter came up behind me and said you had and that her name was Seras Victoria and I wanted to know if you would tell me about her."

Alucard sat quietly for a while and Cat thought that maybe he had decided not to say anything about her or maybe it was a touchy subject. She was about to get up when she heard the slurp and gurgle of the blood pack running dry and Alucard sigh deeply, "Ahh, Seras Victoria, I had almost forgotten."

Cat knew that he was lying when he said he had almost forgotten. It could not have been that long ago and to a vampire an entire human life is just a blink of an eye. "Will you tell me about her?" she settled back into the chair and waited.

"There is not much to tell. She was a girl much like you who found herself in the wrong place at the wrong time. I had to kill her in order to kill the vampire I was hunting and I gave her a choice. Either die now or come with me. She chose to become a vampire and that is the whole story. Tomorrow it will be exactly ten years since she was turned. I will tell you something, but you must not mention it to anyone. It would ruin all the fun if you did," he sat back up in his coffin and looked at Cat.

"Okay," she did not feel the need to promise.

"She sent a letter to Pip about a week ago telling him that she would be coming to visit. She told him not to tell anyone in fear she would be told not to come. Integra was not exactly happy that I have her her freedom and she left, but I did not feel a need for her to be here any longer. She had other things in other places she could be doing on her own. She is still very much like a human, she recognizes the day she died every year and I suppose she feels that ten years is something special that should be celebrated or mourned with old friends. Who really knows how a vampire thinks," he got up from the coffin and stepped lightly onto the floor.

"When is she going to get here?" Cat stood up too, ready to follow him around the whole night and ask anything else she could think of about the girl vampire.

"By the end of tonight she will be here, perhaps around three or four. She still has trouble traveling over the ocean," he began leaving the basement and Cat followed.

"What should we do until she gets here? Should we decorate? Are you going to have something for her when she arrives? You must be excited if it has been ten whole years," Cat skipped up the stairs behind him.

"I don't care what you do while you wait. I have work that needs taking care of," he whooshed out the double doors and down the hall so quick that Cat had to run.

"You really aren't going to get ready for her?!" Cat continued to run after him.

"No, there is nothing to get ready for," he kept up the speedy pace and when Cat looked down to keep from tripping she realized he was not even bothering to touch his feet to the ground.

"Would you stop going so fast I'm trying to talk to you!" she ran faster and tried to grab the back of his coat as it floated behind him. She missed it by an inch and fell onto the marble floor as he turned sharply up the stairs. She heard him laugh and this encouraged her even more. She sprang up as fast as she could and charged up the stairs. She watched as he turned the corner and saw him float through a wall to get away from her. She hastily turned down a different hall that would bring her to Integra's office faster. She huffed and puffed down the hall and thought to herself that she would need to start training with Pip and the Geese again because she was much too out of breath for only running a short way. If she could not even catch Alucard what was she good for?

She turned down the last hallway and saw he was almost to Integra's office doors. They were already standing propped opened to allow the warm air from the furnace to circulate better. She pushed herself to run even faster and flew down the hall making as little noise as she could. She knew even if she was completely silent he would be able to hear her, but his mind must have been some where else because he did not turn around even when she was right upon him. Just as he began to swoop around the corner into the room his coat fluttered out behind him. She took her chance and dove through the air, grabbing a tight hold of it and not bothering to keep herself from falling to the floor.

Alucard was taken by surprise by the sudden weight and stumbled backwards. He would have kept his footing, but good luck on Cat's side and bad luck on his had left her lying directly behind him still clinging to his coat. He tripped over her body and upon falling on the floor there was an extremely loud burst of laughter from inside the office.

Cat struggled to get up to see who the second wails of laughter were coming from, for she could hear more than just Integra, but could not because Alucard had sat up and pressed his legs down over her so she could not move.

"Let me up I want to see who it is!" she writhed and squirmed, but there was no use tiring herself out so she gave up quickly and sighed.

"Might I ask what the purpose of doing that was? You had only to follow me into the office if you needed to say something that badly," he did not shout at her, but she could hear the icy rage in his voice.

"There was no purpose it was the principle Alucard. If you had not run away from me and just let me talk to you on your way here then I would not have done it. Now will you let me up? Please?" she looked at him and stuck her lip out comically.

He sat and glared at her for a moment longer until the mysterious person in the office interrupted him, "Let her up Master, Integra has been telling me about her and I want to meet her."

Integra laughed at this, "You needn't call him that any more you know. He is no more your master than he is mine."

"Oh, I know, but it would just feel strange saying Alucard," Cat heard the legs of the chair squeak on the floor as the girl got up.

"Common Alucard! Sitting on the floor is just making you look more pathetic! Get OFF!" Cat started to wriggle again and felt Alucard lift his legs a bit so she pushed herself up onto her hands and knees. As soon as she had he let them drop back down again, shoving her flat onto the floor. She cried out as her chin knocked onto the carpet and she heard her teeth click together. Before she could turned her head and yell at him he phased through her and the floor and was gone. She shivered from the unpleasant cold for a moment then pushed herself off the ground and brushed her clothes off, trying to act like nothing had happened.

When she looked up from readjusting herself there were two large red eyes perfectly level with hers. She stuck her hand out without thinking towards the hand that had reached towards hers and shook it.

"It's nice to meet you. I'm Seras Victoria."

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