Sanctuary to the Lost and Damned
Ch 6 : Request
Abraham was married to a woman, Ellen Grey. She was a tall blonde woman with tendency to look down on almost everyone.
Alucard stood at the base of his master's bed as the man woke up.
"Good morning, Master."
"Alucard! What are you doing here? " He looked beside himself. "Where is my wife?"
"I''m here because Alfred, is ill. Since I am also your servant I have brought your breakfast up." He
smiled. "as for your wife, she is eating breakfast in the garden with Mrs. Smyth. Shall I fetch her?"
"No, you shall not. she is my wife not a stick." Alucard laughed inward as the image of the very thin woman came into his mind. Though he had never said anything the woman had always reminded his of a twig.
"Am I not your dog, master?" He tiled his head in a questioning manner.
Hellsing did not answer him. The man threw off the covers and turned to sit on the bedside. The vampire put his tray of food on the night stand beside the bed.
"Master," The vampire begun, "I have a request to make."
"Another one?" Hellsing said looking up at the vampire. Hellsing took his orange juice off the tray.
"Well master, as I explained last week, it is easier to hunt supernatural creatures if I am provided with a weapon. Has my Master come to a decision in regards to that, yet?"
"No, I have not. What is this new request." the man finished the juice and picked up a slice of French toast.
"Well master, I was thinking that I might be able to better serve you if I were given control of my powers."
"Get out." Hellsing did not look at him.
"Yes, Master." Alucard had expected that answer, but he had not expected it to come so quickly. He bowed to the human before leaving.
Late that night Abraham Hellsing called Alucard to his study. He held a glass of wine in his left hand.
"You called, my master."
"Yes Alucard. I have come to a decision regarding your request a weapon." Abraham took a sip of his wine then swirled the liquid around in the glass. Alucard waited silently at his side for an answer. "I'm going to allow it."
Alucard grinned showing his fangs. "Thank you, Master."
"Something else it regards werewolves-"
"Sorry master, but I think that you should know that there are little feet at the door."
Abraham Hellsing turns to the door to see the door open a bit. "Come in." He called. Emerging from behind the large oak doors was a blond, blue eyed boy of 6 years. He had tears falling down his eyes.
"What are you doing up Arthur?" He called to his son.
"The monsters are back, Father."
"The monsters..." he groaned to himself. "Where is Molly." molly had been the boy's nanny ever since Aurthur was born. Abraham had usually left matters of children up to her.
"I don't know. She isn't in the servant's quarters."
"Then go get your mother."
"I can't find her either." the boy started to produce a high pitched wail as the crying began. "I can't find anyone."
Abraham groaned. "Just go back to bed, Arthur."
"I can't," he cried, "if I do then the monster will get me."there was fear in the boy's eyes. The little boy started to cry again.
"Arthur, I have told you this before. There are no such things as monsters."
Alucard worked hard to hold back a laugh at the conversation the child and his master were have. His master knew that monsters were real; he had one three feet from him.
"Will you scare it away?" The child pleaded to his father.
"There are no monsters. I have told you this. I can not scare away something that does not exist." Alucard watched on with amusement as Abraham, a man of the adult world tried to reason with the boy, who lived in a children,s world where anything that can be imagined can be real: It was reason vs imagination
The boy saw Alucard. "Who is he?"
There was a discomfort in the air. "This is Alucard. He is my servant." Abraham smiled at the boy.
"Like Alfred?"
"Yes, but he is more than that; Alucard is my special servant." Abraham did not want to explain to his son that he had a slave in his house. "He comes with me to work often to help me there."
"Like Molly helps me everyday."
"That's right son." Abraham smiled.
"Then can he scare away the monster?"
Abraham froze at this. "well um..." Abraham did not want to explain Alucard's nature to his son.
Alucard smiled as he knelt down to the boy. "I will scare away all of your monsters." Although Alucard had not meant for the boy to see his teeth and eyes; the boy had.
The boy's eyes grew large."whoa." The boy smiled. "I bet that you can scare away any monster."
The Vampire showed off his pearl white fangs. 'This kid was smart,' He thought,.'Even if he did not realize it he was wanting an actual monster to defeat a lesser, imagined, yes, but still a lesser monster.' His grin grew, "I bet I can too."
Abraham was still struggling with the concept. The vampire did not suppose that the man had meant for the boy to meet Alucard so soon in his life. Perhaps he feared that the boy would want to know about Alucard, particularly why he had red eyes and fangs when he has never seen anyone else with them.
"Master, I am bound to protect you and by your wish your family as well. I will someday need to scare away his monsters anyway. " the Vampire said referring to the role that Arthur would one day take when he heads the organization.
"Very well. We will discuss matters tomorrow."
Alucard did the full inspection of Arthur's room checking particular places such as under the bed and in the closet twice over.
The boy sat down down on the bed. "Are you a monster, Mr Alucard?"
Alucard grinned, "Yes, I am."
"Really!" The boy jumped around so excited.
"My, you are an odd boy."
"Why is that?" the boy asked, with his head tilted.
"You are scared to have a monster in your room, yet you invited me in."
"Yes, but you are my father's personal monster though.
"I suppose that I am."
"Some boys told me that my father is a monster hunter. Is that true."
Alucard did not know if answering these questions was a violation of the rules. He then reminded himself that those rules had only applied to the man's wife; Abraham had never told him not to tell his son. "Yes, It is true."
"Really!" the boy was not bouncing around. "What kinds of monsters does he hunt? Is there a wall with their heads on display. Anthony's father has a room like that."
Alucard laughed. "Do you want to know something, young master? One day I will be your personal Monster as well."
"Really!" the boy continued to jump around.
"Really, but I don't think that your father wants everyone to know about all these things."
"Oh, so I can't tell my friends?"
"No, young master, I don't think so." Alucard had this feeling that this sharing of information would find it's way back to the wrong people. He felt as though this would all come back at him.
Alucard stood in Hellsing's bed room waiting for Hellsing to wake from his sleep.
Hellsing was immediately staled by Alucard standing there.
"What are you doing there?"
"Why, master, I brought you breakfast."
"Is Alfred sick again?"
"No master. I thought that I might bring this up to you." The vampire saw the man look bedside him for Ellen. "Your wife is out with an old friend." The vampire sat the tray on the night stand.
"What do you want Alucard?" The man asked when the vampire continued to stand at the foot of his bed.
"Well, master, the affair with the werewolves, was more difficult than I had anticipated. It would have been a bit smoother if I had some help."
"You know that I am a busy man; I can not be expected to go with you on every hunt. Besides I provided you with a team of 12."
"I was referring to the prospects of bringing more of my kind to the battlefield." Alucard had lived for many years now without having other vampires for company. Back in his home land, at his estate, he had had three female vampires, whom the villagers had referred to as the brides of Dracula. Here he had no one.
Hellsing laughed. "Feeling a bit lonely are we, Alucard."
The vampire bowed. "I could better serve you if there were more like me. It would make infiltration and hunting easier. "
"I know you well enough, Alucard to know that this isn't about me, it is about you. This is all to make you happy."
"Well, master, a happy employee is a productive one."
"You are not an employee, Alucard: you are a slave. My slave."
"But master, it would not have to be many. Two, or three woulds suffice. You could bind them to you and your family as you have done me." Alucard pleaded.
"I said no! Alucard." The man glared at the vampire, "You seem to have forgotten your place. Perhaps-"
There was a knock at the door. "come in." called Abraham steading his voice.
Alfred appeared. "Good morning sir. I hope that you do not mind, but your vampire asked to bring up your breakfast this morning."
"No. it is quite alright. Was there something?"
"Oh yes, right sir. There is a man from the Vatican wanting to speak with you."
"Tell him that I am on my way." Alfred bowed before stepping back closing the door in front of him.
"Damn Vatican," he muttered, "He's probably from Section 13." Alucard heard some more muttering from Hellsing mostly about this Section 13 from the Vatican being bastards and such.
Alucard had never heard of this Section 13, but Hellsing's wolds about them suggested that they were his rivals.
Alucard's mind drifted to his thoughts about the Vatican as Hellsing starting to dress into his formal clothing.
It occurred to Alucard that this was the first time that he had ever seen his master in a state of undress. He watched the man put on wool socks as he sat on the bed side in this underclothes.
Alucard's mind then took him back to an age when his body looked much like Abraham's. The last time that he had seen his old body's true form he had been younger than the man at the bed side. Alucard had watched the wrinkles increase in Abraham's face through his time in captivity. As much as immortality held a certainly of youthful appearance, he found himself desiring to see some change in his current body as he had seen in Abraham's.
Before leaving to greet the man from the Vatican Abraham turned to Alucard. "I will deal with your insubordination."
Alucard cringed at the prospect of future pain.
As soon as Hellsing had left. Alucard caught a glimpse of a mirror.
He had grown a feeling of disgust about his physical body, which had led him to cloak his body. This had resulted often in himself being unable to see his form in the mirror. He made himself visible in the mirror.
He looked at himself for the first time in nearly 200 years. Despite his youthfully appearance, he knew that the form was only a mask.
He sighed as he sat down on his master's bed as he made himself invisible to the mirror again.
End of Ch 6
Preview of the next chapter: Seal Torture
"You told him what you are?" He barked at Alucard.
"You never specified that I could not." Alucard answered back.
