Sanctuary to the Lost and Damned

Chapter 18: New Mission

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AN: please review.

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A large werewolf lay in bed. He was dreaming that he was in an old meadow, when he slowly became aware of a pair of lips on his. He then felt a draft in his nether region. He then felt a hand on his...His eyes snap open. He then pushes the woman off his bed.

"Oww." she said as she hit the floor. She looked up at him from the floor.

'Silent Hans' looked his master's daughter in the eye. It was a cold look. He had previously held no malice toward her. In fact it was among the werewolf's virtues that he should not hold the sins of the father to the son, or in this case, daughter.

She could see the look in his eyes only because of the moon light shining through the old window of the dark cabin. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean...I just wanted to..." she stammered.

'Silent Hans' got up from his bed and put back on all of the clothing that she had removed. He then turned his attention to Schrödinger's bunk. It was empty. The werewolf wondered where his companion had gone to. The werewolf pulled his tattered trench coat on. He gave the girl on the floor on last look before leaving the small cabin to the outside weather.

He knew what she had wanted to do. He wouldn't allow such a thing to happen. Not that she wasn't attractive, she was. That problem lay in his decision not to do that sort of thing.

'How dare her!' He thought. 'How dare she do that to me while I slept!' It angered him that she would do something so disrespectful to him. He may be kept by her father, but that did not mean that he was her toy.

He had given his word to God! To God, that he would not engage in such behavior. He wasn't going to let some rich girl destroy that. She would not make him break that sacred promise.

He spotted Schrödinger by the mess. He wondered what he was doing there.

The werewolf had in his hand some coins. "Hello, Hans!" he said excitedly. "How did your talk with the young mistress go? The way that she sounded, it must have been important." the other werewolf gasped. "Was it party business? It was wasn't it?"Schrödinger felt a bit jealous as he thought about how much more use Hans was to the master than he was; about how much more the master trusted him, or seemed to. "Look what she gave me." Schrödinger showed 'Silent Hans' the money that she had given him in exchange to be left alone with Schrödinger's roommate. He seemed very excited. It had been a long time since he had had so much money.

'Silent Hans' did not believe that Schrödinger knew what she had planned, but he still felt that he could have strangled Schrödinger. As the moments tick on he became to believe without a doubt that He could have killed the other werewolf there where he stood.

Schrödinger saw the larger one's angry look. "Is something wrong?"

'Silent Hans' just left Schrödinger with his 30 pieces of silver as he wondered off to nowhere in particular. (1)

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Alucard lied in his coffin as he had done many day in the past and expected that he would many days in the future wondering about the events of the past few weeks.

He just returned from his journey to Ireland, Germany and many other countries. He had been looking for the Wolf-girl, but he had not any luck with the search. He had meant to meet with the were-wolf after giving birth, but Abraham had had different plans for him. He had wondered many times if the werewolf had gone looking for him as he had done.

He wondered if organization such as the section 13 or Hellsing had gotten to her in the 9 years that he had been in hibernation. He knew that she was one of the last of her kind. 'Did that mean that I have just witnessed the end of a race of creatures much like my own?' He wondered.

He hoped his master would be pleased that he had finished the novel by Stoker. He had found the book a disappointment though. He recalled Arthur telling him that many human used the book as their primary source on vampires. After going through the book, he noticed quickly that it did not say that the sun would harm him. 'So why did those men think that it would', he wondered. (2)

Something had concerned Alucard as he had read the book. Less of it was familiar than he felt it should have been. Many of the characters seemed much more foreign to him than they should have been. He could not recall how he had come to desire a property in England in the first place. Even worse, much worse was the fact that Alucard found that he had no recollection of Jonathan Harker's stay in his castle. Reading the writing on the novel from Mr. Harker's point of view seemed very distant. The man mentioned three female vampires. Though Alucard could briefly recall these three fledglings, he didn't have a clue how they had ended up in his castle, under his command.

After thing about this he could only conclude one thing: the complete binding restrictions which were placed on him had also sealed away much of his memories of the past. He did not know if this was Abraham's intention or merely a side effect. The more he tried to remember the more gaps in his memory he discovered. He could remember his early childhood and some bits here and there as Vlad the impaler and later as Dracula. He could remember his capture, but not his defeat. Among His strongest memories included all the things that Abraham had done to him: The torture, the insults, and his rape. He wondered why all the things that he had forgotten, he could not forget these things.

The remaining memories were not all negative. One thing that he did remember clearly was his pregnancy and his baby. He remembered that the baby had meant more to him than anything had ever. He could remember finding it a safe haven but he could not recall where it had been. He could not recall when he had given birth or if he had named the baby boy. But he could remember the most basic of feeling he had towards the child. He loved the child. That was odd in itself that he should love anything but he did. He loved his son; the boy was somewhere out there. The vampire had hoped that his son would have found a home with parents that loved both him and each other.

His mind thought about finding the child and bringing him there to live with him. He wondered if Arthur would allow it. But then that small voice in his mind reminded him of his thoughts the day the child was born. Being the son of a monster would be horrible news for an adult and devastating for a child. His child would still be a child, so it made the idea fall apart.

Was he really so selfish that he would crush that child's chance at a normal life just to satisfy his own desire to have the boy with him? He had told himself years ago that the child would be better not to know him. Not knowing that he was born to a man-shaped monster who had masqueraded as a human female just long enough to conceive him. Not knowing how his biological father had treated Alucard like shit under his shoe. Not knowing that he had been born to a slave; that he might still qualify as slave if he ever returned.

Even if Alucard were to bring the boy back if by some chance he found the child, the boy would almost certainly have moved backward with their progress. The boy had been a bastard; an illegitimate child. According to the law the boy was entitled to nothing that had once been Abraham's. All that had already been divided up between his two legitimate sons, from what Alucard understood. Then there was the matter of the request from proof. The vampire could not prove paternity. (3)

The vampire decided that it was for the best after all that he not searches for the boy. 'The boy', he thought, 'would probably be already training to take over for his adoptive father.'(4) He had decided that the boy had by then found a home and it would be wrong to disrupt the family.

The vampire wondered how things might have been different. He wondered if he had told Abraham if the human would have accepted the boy, despite the child's 'mother' being a vampire. He wondered if the man out of some sense of honor would have taken care of the child, while denying it any of his love. He did not expect that Abraham would have ever loved it. The conversation they had had once before told Alucard this, as he recalled how Abraham had felt about a human and vampire reproducing together. He had called such a child a 'supernatural mutt'. He wondered if it was as he had thought from nearly the beginning, if the man would had aborted the child regardless of what stage the pregnancy was in.

His thoughts moved to Arthur. The man was kinder to him than Abraham had ever been. He had allowed Alucard to journey without him.

Alucard had been summoned to the drawing room on third floor. The vampire had started to phase through the ceiling when he discovered that Arthur was not yet finished with his night-company. Alucard was relived to discover that the single man had a sexual outlet, which hopefully meant that he would not demand such service from him.

The vampire had decided that he would wait in the library as he waited for his new master to finish with his night-guest. To Alucard's surprise and annoyance there was a young boy already sitting in there? The boy had seemed very alarmed at his ability to phase through solid objects, as most human would be.

Alucard started at the boy for a moment wondering if he was Richard, Arthur's younger brother, from Abraham's second marriage. 'No,' he decided. That boy is much too old to be Richard. A servant, he had wondered.

The vampire also considered that perhaps he was the son of one of Arthur's friends.

Alucard examined the boy. The vampire had a feeling There was something about this boy which was different from the other humans. He didn't know what it was.

Alucard could have sat down next to the boy, and asked these questions, but decided that the boy, would find his action possibly hostile and what would be worst was the likely prospect of having the boy inquire about how he phased through the wall. He did not want to frighten the boy unnecessarily, especially since he did not know who he was.

Alucard continued on as he headed off to the music room. He phased through the doors on the way out not caring if he had alarmed the boy more.

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Alucard waited a while for his master to bid his guest good-bye. Were Alucard a much younger creature he might have wondered what was taking them so long.

Arthur examined Alucard new look. Sir Islands had spoken to him about some rumors which had started to fly around about him having a certain sexual fetish. This was the result of his guests seeing Alucard's attire and hearing the vampire refer to Arthur as 'master'.

He noticed immediately that the vampire seemed to favor red. The Human thought that perhaps it reminded the creature of blood. He had honestly expected the creature to wear complete black.

"Hello, Alucard."

"Good evening Master." The vampire answered. The vampire read the man's thoughts. The creature did not know what brought about his chose of clothing. Alucard had considered many looks. But for reason unknown to him he settled on a look that seemed like something from a distant memory.

He wore clothing one would expect to see a man wearing in the Victorian era. He wore a charcoal suit, and an intricately knotted red bowtie. He wore leather riding-boots and a red fedora hat with a wide brim. He thought that this combination made his look both acceptable and presentable, but then he had added a long red trench coat to perfect his new look.

"I see that you have dressed a little better." Alucard recalled what his master had said last time they had met.

Arthur had eyed the vampire's tight binding suit. "We need to do something about your dress code. You need to look more appropriate. You need to be better dressed."

Alucard had felt that it was better what that he had not had to approach his master to ask for it.

He had asked Abraham for the option of closing his own clothing. Though the idea had been shot down by Abraham. He had been in the past ordered to wear the Hellsing uniform, despite that fact that neither he nor the other soldiers like seeing it on him.

"There was something important which you wanted to discuss with me." the vampire addressed Arthur.

"Yes, Alucard; I have been going through my father's notes and he reports that one many occasions he had to... disciple you for your disobedience. I want you to know that I will try to be fair with what I expect from you, but I will not tolerate direct disobedience and I will punish you for it. Am I clear Alucard?"

"Yes, Master." The vampire nodded. He had expected this talk to come much sooner. It still guessed that based on his experience with his current master, that the man would be less cruel.

"There was something else though, Alucard." Arthur pulled out a sheet of paper. "Lord Wellington, wrote me a letter less than a week ago telling me of some suspicious behavior on the part of one of his stable men, observed by many others including himself. He wrote me this letter asking for help."

"You are having me hunt down this one vampire?" Alucard sounded somewhat offended.

"Well, Alucard when I spoke with the lord on the telephone, he told me that since the time that he wrote the letter more of his employees having been acting strangely. This suggests that there may be more by now."

"Are you sending me alone for this mission? Before I was locked away," the vampire said trying to hide the bitter tone, "I wrote in a report that I was capable of doing these hunting trips without assistance."

Arthur sighed. "I have read the report, Alucard. If it were just the one vampire I might have sent just you. The Lord has been forced to leave his home along with most of his servant who have become neither ghoul nor vampire. I am the head of the family and with it the Hellsing Organization, so I have been forced to turn my attention to the nearby town, where I'm sure the creatures will have turned their hungry eyes by now."

"My old master took back the gun which he gave me. I will need it along with a few magazines of blessed silver bullets." Alucard turned to face Arthur. "When do we leave?"

"At dusk, tomorrow." He saw Alucard smile. "Alucard, if you do well, then you will find something which should be familiar in your room when you return."

Arthur had given him his very first mission under him. The vampire smiled. He had not been active in battle for more than nine years and Alucard was looking forward to the night of carnage.

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END of Ch 18

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AN:

(1)- Schrödinger was not given 30 pieces of silver. This is meant as a metaphor. In the bible Judas betrays Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.

(2) – The misconception that vampires could be destroyed by the sunlight was created from a 1921 film called 'Nosferatu'. It is reasonable to believe that the soldiers might have seen the film.

This is not part of traditional vampire lore. It is somewhat like the water's 'destroying properties' to the Wicked Witch of the West in the 'Wizard of Oz'. If a witch could truly be killed with water, the witch hunters of the inquisition back centuries ago would only have required a pail of water as both test and execution method.

According to the ancient lore vampires gain their strength from the nighttime (along with blood) and that while in the day time, the vampires were in a weakened state. Some lore says that their powers are lessened, while others say that the powers are non-existent. This is probably one reason why vampires, in stories and movies are attacked in the day time while they are resting.

In the manga, it is suggested that only fledglings may have such an intolerance to light. Perhaps because they are not yet, true undead.

In the manga Alucard tells Sir Integra that the sun is not his enemy, he just hates it.

(3) – A paternity test was not yet available at this time in the story. There was no way at that time to match a child to the father, for sure.

(4) – Traditionally a boy would help his father at work until he became old enough to go into the same job as his father. If one's father was a butcher, he would become a butcher as well.

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Preview of the next chapter: Vampire?

"Perhaps I should wait until one of my female fledglings returns so that she can turn you." The vampire ran his hand seductively through Walter's raven black hair. "Then you and I can play for all eternality."

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