Sanctuary to the Lost and Damned
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Chapter 4: Lord Godalming
Alucard did not know how long he sat there on the stone floor looking at the smearing of his new name on the stone surface. He was somewhat relieved when the oil ran out. He reasoned that he could have simply moved it, but he did not. He wondered for the longest time why he did not. He considered that perhaps he craved a new name, a new beginning.
The door opened. Dim light flooded in. He hissed as he moved away from it. Despite what the villagers had come to believe light was not deadly to him, simply abhorrent for him. He had developed a hate of light. Though he could not recall where or when it had began, but it was deep set in his behaviour patterns.
Hellsing stepped into the dark room with a new lamp in hand. "Hello Alucard." He said. Alucard said nothing to the new name he had been assigned. Then another man stepped into the room. "Here he is" said Hellsing to a tall stranger with curly hair. The man came to face Alucard. The man screamed. "Good Lord, It's you!"Alucard quickly saw that the stranger was some one he knew. It was Arthur Holmwood.
"Hello Mr Holmwood. Did you miss me?" Alucard said pleasantly as the man clung to the wall behind him.
"Abraham! I thought that you killed him? Why is this creature still alive?"
"Arthur. This is Alucard, he is an old foe that on the way to being reborn. Aren't you Alucard." Hellsing glared toward Alucard.
"Of course 'master'," he forced out the last part.
"He is not going to hurt either of us. In fact why don't you pat him Arthur? Come here Alucard."
Alucard obeyed Hellsing, moving if if not under control of his own body. Holmwood froze realizing that there were no chains holding the creature.
"What you let him out of his chains?!" the hairs on the back of Holmwood's neck stood up.
Alucard came as if not under control of his own body.
When Alucard was mere inches away he could feel the scared man's breath on him."go ahead pat him."
Holmwood extended his hand and started to pat Alucard like he did his cat. "You made me cancel meeting my fiancé's parents to do this."
"Engaged again?" Alucard asked, "I wonder, does she taste as good as dear Lucy did." Holmwood gasped.
Hellsing backhand him again and he fell to the ground. Hellsing prepared to kick the creature, but reminded himself that Holmwood was there and decided to down-play the occurrence. He smiled. "His bark is worse than his bite."
"Bite?" Holmwood was more frightened than ever.
It occurred too late how Holmwood would misunderstood the word bite, since Lucy had been bitten by Alucard when he was known as Dracula, which was only a short time ago.
"I mean that he to bound to me. Since, I have forbid him to harm any human being without a direct order, He is harmless." Hellsing looked at Alucard. "Obey my every order. That is the most important rule. The second is that he must never purposely harm a human being." Hellsing brought his attention to Holmwood. "you are here because I want your support for the development of a new organization."
"Tell me what this organization would do. So far all I have done is patted a vampire. "
"I plan to have a full magazine of trained men doing what we did that night."
The man was stunned. "You want to do that all the time? "
Hellsing momentarily ignored the other man as he spoke to the vampire. "I was going to let you walk free, but your, misconduct means that you will wear these." Hellsing pulled a set of silver handcuffs.
"Yes, Mr Holmwood, I plan to wipe out these evil infestations so that no one will need to ever go through what people such as us have experienced."
Alucard wanted to counter this with something, but feared that he would get retribution for it. He hung his head in shame. He could no longer defend himself from verbal attacks.
"It's Lord Godalming,"
"Hm"
"Since my father passed on. You keep calling me Mr. Holmwood. You and I are friends; I would prefer that you use my given name, but formally I am Lord Godalming."
"Yes, I know Arthur, but old habits die hard." Hellsing sent a glare to his conquered vampire. And started to walk out of the cell into the light that Alucard hated so much. Hellsing ignored Alucard's hissing of displeasure as he ordered the creature of the night into broad daylight. "I was rather hoping", he begun to Lord Godalming, "that you might introduce me to her majesty and support my request which I'm sure that you know needs her seal of approval."
"I'm not sure that I can bring myself to believe what you are doing. What you plan to do."
"No. I suppose not. Keeping a vampire. Planing to go after more. I imagine that you think that I should be meeting with Dr. John Seward instead of you. "He stopped and put his right hand on Arthur's shoulder. " That my friend is why I am going to show you the potential of Alucard."
Alucard brought his head up to eye level, not meeting any eyes though and discovered that both men were looking at him. Lord Godalming's face held the appearance of curiosity, while Hellsing's face showed a confident, almost sadistic smile.
Alucard noticed that they were in front of a building that looked like an old fixed- up barn.
Despite the sun shining down on him, the sun that he hated so very much., the vampire found himself wishing that he would not have to enter the building, even if it meant staying in the sun all day, because he knew that whatever lie inside was not something that he wanted to be a part of.
END of Chapter 3
AN: I know that it is short, but it felt right to end it here.
Oh, I should also tell you that the story will skip periods of time as it spans many years.
Preview of the next chapter: Blood Cannibalism
"Did you kill them Alucard!"
Alucard turned away. " I don't know."
