I can not for the life of me think of things for Seras to say or do that would seem like her and not just some random person. I hope you enjoy this chapter anyway.

Rose-Red

Cat silently shook Seras' hand for a moment until she could find her voice, "I'm Katherine." She had been slightly shocked to see Seras in the office. She had recognized her at once, but she had not been exactly prepared to meet the vampire girl. Alucard was really the only vampire she had ever met. She did not count the man who had grabbed her the very first night and the other who had tried to kill her on her first mission. Seras did not seem anything like any vampire she had ever seen or heard of. She looked completely normal except for the red eyes. She wore regular clothes that Cat fancied would fit her and there was nothing extraordinary looking about her.

"You two finally meet," Integra stood and looked at each of the girls in turn. They were not similar in appearance, but they were remarkably similar in presence. "Why don't you both go and get to know each other. Maybe you can find Alucard and catch up with him as well if he's done pouting. I'm sure Ferguson would like to see you too Seras."

"Um, alright," Seras glanced at Cat then turned to leave the room.

Cat looked at Integra for a moment then shrugged and followed Seras out the door and down the hall. She walked slightly behind her in silence for a while until she got very bored and had to speak up, "Where are you headed?"

"I was going to say hello to Walter first and then I suppose I should go to see Ferguson. Do you know if he would be busy?" she kept her eyes forward as she spoke.

"He's probably on the field with the soldiers training. Not much has been going on lately. Has much been going on in South America? What do you do there," Cat was determined to become friends with Seras even if she did feel awkward around her. It could not be that all vampires were stand offish like Alucard.

"Well I mostly did police work there. I stayed at one department for five years than left and went to a different one far away for the next five years. You see, because I don't age, people start to become suspicious so I have to move around," Seras felt herself begin to relax.

"That's interesting. Too bad South America doesn't have something like Hellsing. That would be convenient," Cat skipped along feeling bored in the mostly one sided conversation.

"Yes, it is too bad. There aren't many monsters in South America though. Not ones that come around humans much anyway. I dealt with dangerous criminals that were notorious for slaughtering as many people as it took to get what they wanted. They thought I was just really lucky when it came to not getting shot. They didn't know I was dodging the bullets," she chuckled at this.

"Hmm," Cat had run out of things to say. She continued to walk with Seras though she was not sure why. After turning a few corners and still not finding Walter Cat got sick of it, "Well…I'll let you go see your friends. I'm going to go find Alucard."

"Do you want me to locate him first and tell you where he is?" Seras stopped, ready to find where Alucard was in the house.

"No that's alright, I can find him," she gave a feeble wave and turned back down the hall and left. She walked a little quicker than she usually would just in case Seras thought of something to say that would hinder her escape.

Seras stood and watched the girl go, "It's such a bother to not be able to read her mind. I can't read human emotions any more without prying inside. I wonder if it was something I said."

Cat made straight for the library at an almost jogging pace. She was not completely sure that Alucard would be there, but it seemed the most likely place since it was odd for him to go back into bed once he was up. She checked behind her multiple times on her way there. She was not sure if she was checking to make sure Seras was not following her or if she was checking to see if Alucard was creeping up on her for revenge or for some other reason, but she just felt the need to keep looking.

When she got to the library she opened the door as quietly as she could and slid inside. She peaked out the door one last time to be sure no one was around then shut it softly. When she turned around Alucard was sitting on one of the sofas staring at her. He narrowed his eyes for just a moment, and then went back to the book he was looking through.

Cat walked over to him like nothing had happened and sat down beside him, "Do you know where Walter is?"

"He's in the kitchen," Alucard looked at her nearly beaming.

"Don't smile like that! It's terrifying. Why is Seras headed towards the back of the house if she says she's going to find Walter? Shouldn't she know that he's in the kitchen?" Cat could not think of a reason for Seras to lie. Maybe she was not able to locate people as well as she seemed to think she could.

"She is going to see someone else first that she obviously wants to be kept secret," Alucard lifted the arm closest to Cat and tapped her cheek with the back of his hand.

"I don't get it. Who is she going to see?" she looked at him curiously.

"Pip," he looked back at his book and flipped through some pages.

"Why is that a secret? Pip was here back then right?" she squirmed in her seat. She hated not knowing something that someone else did.

"You are not old enough yet to understand things like this. When you are old enough it will come to you and you won't need to ask," he snapped the book shut and tossed it onto the coffee table where it made a very loud smack.

"Wha…oh, you could have told me that. You forget that sixteen for a human is nearly an adult," Cat thought about the new information she had just received. "But EW! He's so much older than her! Pip is nearly forty!"

"Yes, now he is, but when she was changed he was twenty eight. And what does age matter to you humans anyway? I thought you were all about love and happiness?" Alucard looked down at her.

"Not me, I'm all about what is sensible and acceptable. You should know that already," she scowled at him.

"Yes, well one day you will not care what is acceptable and you will do what you please. I should think that you would do what ever you please now and grow into society, but you have taken to the rules of society too early and now must grow out of them. You've started at the wrong end of things and are going backwards," he stood up and sauntered to the other side of the library where he stopped in front of the wall of books that reached the ceiling. He reached his arm up as high as it would go and let it stretch into a tentacle that slithered the rest of the way up the wall and curled itself around a thick short book. He brought it back with him and sat down on the couch again, "Do you remember this book?" he handed the heavy book to Cat.

Cat looked at the cover of the book, "Grimm's Complete Fairytales? No, I don't, should I?"

"I read this to you once when you were very small, before your parents died," he stared hard at her face, waiting for a reaction.

"The whole thing! It's so long though!" she flipped the book opened to look at the stories inside.

"No, not the whole thing. Does that not interest you that I read you fairytales as a child?" he frowned, disappointed.

"You mean to say, 'does that not surprise you', which is does not, but of course it interests me. Why has Integra never told me this?" she flipped to the contents page and scrolled down it.

"She thought that it would shock you too much. It was before your parents were killed so she thinks you blocked out any memories you had before then. I don't see what it would matter if you remembered things before then, it isn't as though they were dramatic things. Integra baby sat for you and was terrible at it. She left Walter and I to do most of the work," he took the book out of her hand and started flipping through it.

"She thought that you would be more capable at childcare than her? That does not sound very promising. So is that the time I met you that you've acted so secretive about? That is a bit of a let down. I suppose I was silly to think it amazing that I had met you before that night down town. My parents worked with you; of course I would have met you before. It seems unavoidable now," and then she thought to herself, "Though the dream of the park seems so real, I do wonder…"

"This was your favorite," Alucard interrupted her and put the book in her lap.

"Snow-White and Rose-Red? Why was that my favorite?" she started to read it to see if the memory would return.

"How should I know? You imagined yourself as Rose Red because she was the more outgoing of the two and because she married the King's son that was not in the story and had not been a bear," Alucard twisted his neck around and Cat heard it crack loudly.

"I do not remember any of it at all," she sighed sadly and put the book on the table.

"Never mind, I have told you about it so you have no real need to remember now," he picked up a different book off the table (there seemed to be so many) and started flipping through it.

"Yes, but I should like to remember it. I'm sure my memories of it are much more interesting than the way you've told it," she slumped over on the couch cushions and yawned.

"Seras will be on her way here soon. She has finished saying hello to Walter and Ferguson. She is under the impression that you are not fond of her," Alucard laughed at this. He enjoyed confrontation.

"That is not so. Why would she think it?" Cat peaked up from the pillow to see if she had opened the library doors yet. They were safely closed so she continued, "I was only bored by her. She said hardly a thing and I tried to make a conversation. It isn't any fun when it's so one sided."

"Perhaps she feels threatened by you?" Alucard threw down his book and picked up yet another.

"Do you mean that like you don't know? Or do you mean it like it's an honest fact and you find it amusing?" she sat herself back up again and drew closer to him to stare in his face and watch for mischief.

"It matters not either way, you will go to bed soon and I will have to spend a night catching up with everything that has gone on for the past ten years," he stood up from the couch and stretched.

"Can't you just read it all out of her head?" Cat stood up with him and stretched too.

"Yes, but I should think she will want to talk it all out like you always do," he started towards the library door.

"Yes, but you can't see every thing that goes on in my head and I suspect that she can't see anything at all the way she was acting. Tell me that I'm right," she bounced after him merrily.

"You are right. Now go busy yourself with something else and go to bed very late if you can," he pulled opened the library door and pushed her out.

"Why?" she turned around and looked at him before he closed the door.

"Because something is coming and we will need you tomorrow night," he snapped the door shut and she stood staring at it for a moment.

"Something's coming?" she opened the door again, but he was no longer in the library, "I wonder what."

As He said, something's coming, so in the next chapter or maybe the one after that things will be more exciting, I hope. I have been feeling very un-creative in my writing and my photography lately. Nothing seems to be inspiring me.

Review and try to inspire me if you would.