A/N:Oh wow! I got sooo many REVIEWS! Yaaaaaaaaaaaay! thank u soooo much! I swear I'll try to update but its kinda hard, y'know? I see a lot of u good folks like the matchmaker plan and my character, Nick. I wanted to create a story where Seras and Alucard fall in love while playing the parents to an orphan. It's just one of my many ideas and I'm really glad you all like it. Nick isn't based on anyone.
I just wanted to make up a kid. The name Nicholas is one of my favorite male names. Another form of Nicholas is Nikolai, like the name of the famous Romanian communist dictator, Nikolai Chauchesku. I don't like him, I like the name I know a great site with lots of cool and unusual names and their meaning. use this site if u have a lil trouble naming ur OC's. Thanks again for sooo many reviews!.
Disclaimer: I do not own Hellsing. I own Nicholas and the plot to this fic, so sue someone else.
It was painful, loud, agonizing. It made every one's blood freeze. The sudden scream made them shake with fear. What could produce such a horrible sound? It echoed through the halls, shattering the glass windows, making maids, soldiers and butlers double over, holding their heads.
Down in the bowels of the Hellsing Mansion, Alucard was just about to close his eyes and drift of to sleep when he heard the scream.
"Seras...?" Was the only thing he said before he disappeared in a blink of an eye. He arrived on the rooftop only a second later finding the source of the terrifying scream.
His eyes grew wide and he practically ran to the other side where Seras was. She couldn't stop screaming. The morning sun was now way up and slowly eating away the flesh of her body, there was no shade on the roof and Seras was totally paralyzed.
Alucard quickly scooped up his burnt fledging, the smell of burnt, rotting flesh hit his sensitive nose and he almost gagged. She was already half-naked, the clothes were burned off her body along with large chunks of her skin and flesh. Alucard could clearly see the whiteness of bone on her arms and cheeks. Alucard took off his coat and wrapped it around her small fragile body.
Seras continued to squirm and writhe frantically in his arms, not knowing where, who or what she was, nor what was happening. All she knew was that she couldn't bear this pain and that putrid smell of something burning. If he stayed out there any longer, Seras would suffer a very painful death. He teleported to his room without hesitation.
When he arrived in his room, Alucard laid her carefully on the cool sheets on his bed and tried to calm her down. She was moaning, jerking and screaming. It wasn't hard to imagine in what kind of pain she was in. When she did manage to calm down, Alucard leaned over her to inspect the damage more closely.
A part of the chin, jaw and right cheek were now ugly, red, raw and burnt tissue. The neck and most of the collar-bone along with her whole hands wee a bleeding mess of muscle, raw skin and white bone.
It was the same with the rest of her body since the clothes she had on were burnt as much as she was. So basically she was naked, not including Alucard's large red coat currently enveloping her.
The thing that bothered him the most was the fact that Seras's body had taken the most damage it could and it wasn't regenerating as quickly as it would. And though he would not admit it, he was scared.
Then a thought struck him. If he called Walter now, it would take mostly an hour before the old man, Integra and some of the soldiers and medical team would come and fix this problem.
In this situation, time was extremely crucial, so in order to save time he would have to heal her himself. At least just enough to save her from dying. But the question remained; how was he going to accomplish that?
In realization his eyes grew dark, a frown adorned his serious face. "Vampire saliva heals." He murmured to himself. It was no longer a question of will/will not, he just had to do it.
If Seras found out though...Well sometimes she had the ability to scare everyone shit-less when she got pissed. That was one of the many reasons he teased her so much.
Alucard glanced at Seras's pained face as she continued to whimper. Sighing, he slowly leaned in closer to her face till he was inches above it. Since he didn't have a better idea than this, Alucard decided to just get it over with.
Slowly, his lips made contact with her face. He started at the top of her forehead, placing soft kisses on the broken and damaged skin. Alucard continued his gentle kisses all the way down to her cheeks and chin until he got to her lips.
It was that same urge that made him kiss her last time in that storage room. It made his body uncontrollable and commanded his lips to connect with hers and they obeyed.
The kiss was soft and delicate, not at all in character for him. what surprised the Nosferatu the most was when he felt Seras slightly kiss back.
It was a bitter-sweet moment for him because her other wounds needed attention. Unfortunately and despite his own protests in his mind, Alucard withdrew his mouth from hers and continued placing sweet kisses down her whole neck and collar-bone, healing every inch of her skin as he went lower, and lower, and...Well, he had no choice.
After the most critical wounds were healed, Alucard left Seras and appeared in Integra's office, briefly ordering her and Walter to come down to his quarters to help Seras heal then he disappeared as quickly as he appeared without a word.
Alucard watched over the whole team of medical doctors wrapping Seras's frail body in bandages. She looked mummified.
"Alucard, may I ask you something?" Walter asked in a quiet voice as he tended to the rest of Seras'sburns. The old vampire hovered over him like a possessive ghost.The wise retainer didn't wait for Alucard to answer.
"Victoria's burns are rather serious but I can't help but notice that most of them are healed." Integra glanced over at Alucard and lifted her brow and Walter just couldn't resit the urge to smirk slyly. Alucard averted his cold gaze to one of the doctors holding a bandage roll.
"I healed only the most serious of wounds."
"How?"
"That is none of your concern." Was the threatening reply. Integra stared icily at her servant.
"Alucard, watch yourself." She warned.
"Why should I?" He hissed. Alucard was very peeved. The well-being of his fledging rested in the hands of these clumsy humans and he was supposed to submit to Integra just because he refused to answer?
"Because I order you too!"
"You think you have that much power to order me around like some low-life slave! You are becoming a little too full of yourself." Alucard spat out, baring his teeth. Integra widened her eyes. she was completely outraged. "How dare you say such things! I promise you servant, one more word out of you and it's back to those dungeons!"
"If you put me back there then Seras will surely die. Do you want Nicholas to live without a mother like I did! "
Integra fell silent. Alucard was glaring deadly at the frosty blond with enough hatred to burn a hole right through her. Integra didn't want to think of her servant's painful past because in some sense she never cared. She adored Nicholas with all her heart but he loved Seras more like his own mother.
It was true that without Alucard, Seras would die eventually, the blood running through her veins depended on Alucard's pulse. Once it ceases to flow, the blood in Seras's body would stop and the young Police Girl would practically turn to dust. Integra didn't want that to happen, just for the sake of Nicholas.
She turned her icy glare to Walter. "Is her condition better, Walter?"
Walter took in a deep breath and adjusted his monocle then looked at Integra with his fatherly smile. "Her condition is much better now that she was properly tended to." Here he paused and side-glanced at Alucard. The red-clad vampire turned his head at the same time he saw the retainer's eyes fall upon him. Walter continued. "Miss Victoria's wounds will take some time to heal. Her vampire immune system is failing to regenerate her whole body and it will be a slow process. She will be mostly unable to go on missions or do any hard labor."
"Hmm...Then Alucard will go on double missions." Integra sighed, already massaging
"Who will take care of Nicholas?"
"You and Seras will--"
"Pardon my interrupting you Integra, but if I recall correctly you forbid me to help Alucard and Seras in any way possible."
"But--" Integra began but Walter stopped her.
"And I happen to know that the activity level for FREAKS and other undead is practically low, enough for only the soldiers to take care of. I can assist as well."
"I do not want--" Integra started again but Walter beat her to it again. All the tall blond did was glare at her wise friend. She hated it when someone interrupted her.
"Oh but I do." He finished in a strange voice. Integra stared at the old butler and wondered why he was insisting so much that Alucard stayed with Nicholas. They both stared at each other for a moment till Integra figured out why. The sly old fox was giving her hints.
"Oh alright. I feel too tired to argue now so I'll agree for now." She mumbled and both left the room.
Alucard did not notice the obvious hints Walter had given Integra nor did he see them take their leave. The doctors had already long gone and the room was empty and silent except for the soft sound of breathing. Alucard was in his dark corner, sitting in his chair, deep in thought.
What would've happened if he had come a few seconds too late? What would he do if he had lost his fledging? All these strange questions swam around in his head, making him dizzy and confused. Why were these questions important to him? He never cared for Seras that way. And he considered Nicholas a bastard child, not worthy of calling him 'father'. The only reason he put up with him is because Seras wanted him to.
But why?
"Father?"
Alucard's head snapped up from it's brooding position and he glared at the intruder who dared enter his room. Even if it was only Nicholas. The little boy cringed at the cold look his foster parent had given him. Had he made Father mad? Was it because he wanted him to hug Mommy a lot? Nicholas didn't know why Alucard looked so angry, so disturbed, but the 5-year old was stubborn and curious.
"Father, where's Mommy?" He asked with the worried curiosity every child had, and walked slowly towards Alucard.
Despite Alucard's heartless personality, his crimson eyes grew slightly wide at the boy's question.
He didn't know?
At the elder vampire's reaction, Nick faltered and stopped his advance towards him. Alucard didn't move. Nick was close to Alucard's coffin where Seras was resting, still in a terrible physical state, but Nicholas wasn't informed about his mothers condition. so when he took another step fowards, the coffin came in view and Alucard just closed his eyes and listened to the hysterics of the child he had cared for in the last five years.
"MOMMY!"
Alucard didn't even want to see the child's tears, he didn't evenknow if they were bloody like his or normal human tears which he so longed for. Nicholas gulped and hiccupped and weeped. why did mommy look so scary? where did her pretty white skin go? Seras was in a so-called Nosferatu coma, she will be asleep until her body fully heals and that depends on how long it will take; two weeks, a week, a month or a few years even.
Unable to stand the sobbing of the kid, Alucard stood up in a rush, grabbed the child roughly by the shoulders and hugged him tightly to his chest. Anything just to get him to shut up.
A/N: I'll update next time. It'll start getting interesting. Next chap. is about Nick's real dad and stuff.
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