This is a short chapter...and it is the last chapter. Please enjoy and review.

The Final Battle

Cat felt the cold rush of air and the burning sensation that always accompanied travel with Alucard. She held her breath and kept her eyes shut, trying to think of something more pleasant, but the ride was over as soon as it began and she felt her feet touch down on solid ground. She opened he eyes and looked around her. It was dark out, but she could see that they were on the roof to some office building or a parking garage. Things were exploding around them and the battle was raging full force already. She stepped closer to Alucard and watched the fairy adults fly around fighting with British soldiers. She could spot some Hellsing soldiers mixed in and even some of the Wild Geese running frantically around yelling. If you took away the scene of battle it would look like they were having fun.

"Are you ready to fight them?" Alucard looked down at her and grinned.

"No, I most certainly am not ready and I'd like to leave!" Cat looked up at him wide-eyed and fearful. The attack was worse than she thought it was going to be and she could understand now why Integra had wanted her to stay home. This was no place for a sixteen year old girl.

"Oh, you should have thought of that before you came. I have work to do now," he chuckled and started to step away from her.

"You can't just leave me standing here! I'll get killed!" Cat stepped after him and stretched out her arm to try and take hold of his sleeve.

"You will be fine. I can keep an eye on you while I work," he danced out of her reach and briskly walked away with his guns held in the air.

"Alucard! ALUCARD!" she screamed after him, but he did not turn around. She stood in the middle of the roof like a scared child trying to look small. How could he leave her like this? Was he trying to kill her?

As soon as she thought this one of the fairy adults came flying towards her laughing manically. She panicked for a brief moment and then remembered she had her guns. She drew one as fast as a gunslinger and shot, but the monster simply flitted out of the way of the bullet and kept coming.

"Alucard! You know they're too fast for me to shoot! I'm not inhuman like you, you bloody creation!" she turned and ran as fast as she could towards the other side of the roof.

"Oh, but don't you want to be my sweet Viviana?"

Cat stopped short just before the roof ended and turned around. She heard Alucard's gun fire and saw the fairy go slack in the air, but it still remained flying at her. In the brief seconds that she was still standing she scanned the roof for the source of the cold voice. She found it, standing by the exit doors that led to the buildings interior. He was smiling and then at the very last second his face changed and she watched him jolt forward and yell, "Katherine! Move out of the way!"

She looked back at the fairy about to collide with her and the back at Alucard. He could easily grab her. She did not have anything to worry about. He was moving towards her even while she was thinking this over. But, then, out of no where there was another fairy. It was shooting towards him and then it was colliding with him and she could see blood spraying everywhere. Always so much blood.

She moved her foot to step out of the way, but it was too late. The dead fairy collided into her shoulder and she was thrown backwards. She waited for her back to hit the roof and for the wind to be knocked out of her like it had been so many times before, but she felt no roof underneath her. She was falling and she was letting out a blood curdling scream and she was waiting for someone to catch her, but no one did.

As she fell she thought about what was happening. Alucard was busy with the fairy that had just attacked him. He could not have planned this. But, inside of her there was a sick little voice saying that he did. He planned for her to die tonight and now all of the research she had done about vampire souls came together. It was all clear now. He had called her Viviana. That had been his sister and he had said they were similar. Now as she fell she realized that vampire souls existed and like vampires they never died. They roamed the earth for eternity until they could find a vessel that could be changed into a vampire so they could live again. She was that vessel and her whole life leading up to this very point as she fell off of a five story building had only been a means of reuniting two siblings. She had been used and the thought of it only made hitting the ground hurt that much worse………………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….…………………………………….……………………………………………

There was whispering and yelling. Peoples voices all around her talking. Some were urgent, some were angry, some she could not make out. Where was she? She could not remember how she had gotten there. She could not remember who she was. The panic of forgetting ones self swept over her and she felt her eyes begin to prickle. Tears? Yes, they were tears. Her eyes were shut, but she could feel the warm familiar wetness of them. She was in a bed. Things began to make sense though everything was so fuzzy. She hurt. Every part of her body was in pain. She could feel hands touching her. Hands with gloves and some without gloves. There were sharp pains every now and then. Needles. She was in a hospital or a doctors office. Something had happened to her. She shut out all the noise and tried to think. A cold night an awful fight. She had fallen. She remembered now. She had fallen off of a roof and no one had caught her. She thought it over again. More specifically he had not caught her. She remembered who she was now and what had happened came flooding back to her. Was she dead now? Was this just a dream? Dead people did not dream. She strained her ears and listened to the voices. There was the nurse reading off the stats. There was the doctors talking to each other and making suggestions. There was a more familiar voice. It was angry and almost yelling through all of the other hushed and fuzzy voices. She recognized it easily.

"How could you do this to her! How could you be so stupid you disgusting monster! You knew what my orders were! You knew exactly why I didn't want her to go and you took her anyway! You kidnapped her you disgusting beast! I know what you were planning to do! Why can't you just settle with the fact that you can not have her! She is not yours Alucard!"

She had wanted to be his for so long, but it was different now. He had tricked her and now she was lying on a hard bed dying.

"I told you what happened. You can not blame this on me," Alucard folded his arms and looked away.

"You're damn bloody wrong I can't blame it on you! It is completely and entirely your fault! I've got the right mind to dispose of you right now!" she reached for her small gun and pointed it at him.

"Integra please try to calm down," Alex reached towards her and touched her shoulder.

"Yes, go ahead and shoot me human! Try to dispose of me with your pathetic hand gun!" Alucard spread his arms out wide and pushed his chest out towards her.

"Oh, this may not get rid of you, you vile loathsome beast, but I know exactly how to kill you and I would just love to right now!" she squeezed the handle of the gun harder and slid her finger over the trigger.

One of the doctors turned around, "Ma'am, I'll ask you to not fire that in here, the oxygen machines you see."

She looked at the doctor maliciously and he turned around with a shrug. His job was to save lives not cater to them.

"Integra why don't you just go outside and cool off a little bit. I'm sure the doctors could concentrate better if they had a little peace," Alex spoke softly, but he made the mild suggestion sound like an order.

She glared at Alucard who boldly glared back at her, "You are to stay away from her. Do you understand me monster?"

"The only thing I understand is that you are a human and I could so easily kill you all and have my way with that pathetic creature lying on the table," he smirked.

"Get in the basement! I do not want to see you again until I call for you! THAT IS AN ORDER!" she screamed at the top of her lungs and her voice cracked.

Alucard did not say anything else. He simply melted down through the floor and was gone.

Things became fuzzy again. The room was quieter now and she could hear the beeping of the machines. The muffed voices of doctors still surrounded her and everything was still dark. She wanted to go to sleep. She was so very tired. As she started to drift away she could hear the voices grow more urgent and the machines started to beep faster. She was on the very edge of sleep just like she had been on the edge of the roof top. She wanted badly to just be able to fall, but something was tugging on her. There was a light in the darkness and it spoke to her.

"You will not die Katherine Deschain. I still need you."

The voice was beautiful and soft. Cat felt like she was smiling though she could not really tell. She heard the beeping of the machines become steadier.

"Sleep now. We will soon meet again."

THE END