A/N: Here it is. Oh and thanks to the reviewer who corrected my Russian. I apologize for getting the words wrong, my language is a bit similar so I just assumed the words I used were thye same too. I have now corrected my mistakes, thanks again for pointing it out. And thanks to the rest of my reviewers for giving me lots of positive comments on the story, I really appericiate it!!
oh and in this chapter, Seras and Alucard attend a..... -dramatic voice- PTA MEETING!!!! O_o..... Dum dum duuuummmm! Lol...
Enjoy!
Disclaimer: What again? Aren't you ppl ever tired of hearing the same thing? No? Too bad cuz I AM. You very well know I don't own Hellsing!
"You're a dhampir. Half-human, half-vampire." Those words rang in his mind driving him crazy. He couldn't even believe he was back inside the mansion, back in Integra's office with Alucard, Seras, Integra and Walter present.
"So, you're not my real parents." Nick hissed through gritted teeth. Seras hung her head. She felt so guilty now. "No, we're not."
"Does that mean everything you've ever taught me, everything you've ever told me...Was a lie?"
"Well, n-not ev-everything. I still love you as my son."
"And you?" He asked Alucard with a glare capable of turning a mortal man into a pile of ash. The red-clad vampire just smirked. "I've always considered you a bastard child. But I cannot deny seeing a very similar resemblence of me as a youth in you."
"And did you all think I wouldn't find out?! Why would you keep something like this a secret!?"
Seras jumped at his icy tone. It hurt her heart so much to that much anger in his voice and that she could no longer give him the motherly comfort he needed now. "No Nicholas. We just didn't know if we should tell you. You were so happy believing what we told you."
She slowly walked towards him, her arms outstrtched to embrace him. When Seras got close enough to brush her fingers against his soaked shirt, a incredibley powerful force blew her backwards into the other wall. Nicholas stood rooted to the spot. The shock wore offf and he rushed to her side. He stopped asking if he hurt her when she repeatedly reassured him she was fine.
Nick suddenly moved away from Seras as though she was about to poison him. Why had he come back again?
Oh yeah. Prissy and her folks. After he walked her home, they invited him to stay for supper and to show good manners, he stayed. What he experianced there was astonishing. Priscilla had four other brothers and a young little sister.
Her mother was a dedicated housewife and a rather tall, gangly woman, proud and strickt with a rather twisted sense of humor. While they were dining, the O'Malley family laughed and joked and talked about everything. The brothers screamed with laughter and had mini-food fights, the youngest sister wouldn't stop chattering about how great she felt at school.
All these things made Nicholas remember how it was at the Hellsing Manor with Alucard, Seras, Integra and Walter. He had decided to demand every question he had to be answered and no one would refuse him such a demand. So Nicholas quietly finished his meals, said his goodbyes to the O'Malley family and ran through the heavy rain all the way back to the Hellsing mansion.
And there he was. And he just knockd Seras off her feet without moving a muscle. Wow. Of course in his mind and heart, she was still his mother and Nick felt so horrible at what he did. He rushed to her side and fussed aound her until she managed to convince him that she was fine.
Seras, once she got up, put her hands on Nick's strong shoulders and gazed deeply into his eyes. "Nicholas,I'm sorry we didn't tell you but it was for your protection."
"Protection?"
"Yes, Nicholas. When you were five a group of FREAKS attacked the mansion, harmed my master and tried to kill you." Alucard spoke slowly as he continued to gaze at the pictures of Integra's ancestors. "I've known since you were a few months old that you were a halfling but decided to choose when to tell you." He turned on his heel, his face so serious it creeped out everyone in the room.
"Nicholas do you know what dhampirs are?"
Nick shook his head 'no'. Alucard grinned wolfishly.
"Dhampirs are the best vampire hunters of all time. They have some human traits and all the traits of a vampire, only enhanced and just maybe, slightly better. They also inherit a few extra powers from the vampire father. It depends on how powerful the vampire father is. If he is an 'S' class vampire like me, then you'll be twice more powerful than him and that can send any vampire alpha male mad."
"How do I know how powerful my father is then?"
"You don't get it, do you boy?" In a swift movement Alucard as in front of Alucard, nose to nose with him, menacing, towering, scary. "I am your father and Seras is your mother. The vampire world and culture is different from the human world. The being that bears her young usually leaves them to some merciful other. Your human mother gave you up in order to save you from the father, which by logic means that the vampire male is a powerful one, if he fears you enough to kill you. Those who take care of the offspring are the parents and the child knows of no one else."
"But--"
"No buts. We brought you up therefore we are yourparents, unfortunately. End of discussion." He said curtly and Seras could swear she heard him snarl when he turned his back to Nick again. The boy stood there, taking all this in. seras couldn't blame him if he hated her and Alucard, afterall they did lie to him about his species. Integra had watch this little drama silently until she looked at the desk clock on her stack of papers. Her eyes widened but quickly returned to their normal, piercing, size when she cleared her throat just as Nicholas opened his mouth to ask the vampires a question.
"I believe it is way past your bedtime, young man." She informed him in a rather buisness-like voice. He gaped at her. "But Aunt Integra, both you and they have been lying to me for the past 17 years and you're sending me to bed!? Now!??" He exclaimed in disbelief.
His excuse did not phase the fearless Hellsing blonde. She merely pushed up her glasses and peered at her so-called 'nephew' through her specticals. Her eyes then glanced at Seras as if silently saying 'He's your child, you do it' to her.
"Nicholas..." Seras began timidly. Nick whipped around and faced his mother again, curious. "Sir Integra does have a point, you know." he stated calmly and watched her son's face turned slightly rd from anger. She shrugged and gave him a sheepish smile. "It is a school night."
Nicholas gave her a sceptical look. "You're using that as an excuse?" He drawled rudely. Alucard had had enough by now. In a split second he had him agaist the wall, holding the boy by his throat. "Do as your mother says, Nicholas." Alucard snarled dangerously. "Or else."
This threat seemed to have much less effect then the vampire wanted but as soon as he let go, Nichloas shot both Seras and Alucard a dirty look and left the room. The moment he had closed the door, Seras turned to Alucard, her red eyes buring like fire. "Was that act of violence really needed, Master?"
"You should stop mothering him. He is too spoilt for his age." He said simply. It was a good thing Integra had decided to leave as well, followed of course, by Walter, leaving the two vampires alone in the large office.
"I am not and was not mothering him!" Seras retorted with an angered huff. The thing that irritated her the most about this man is that now he stood in front of her, talking to her with his back turned and oh, how she hated that!
"Was too."
"Was not! Master, I didn't want to anger him any further and then you go and ruffle his feathers even more! Let the child breathe!"
"He is no longer a child Seras. You need to see that." Again, Alucard replied, completely calm and unbothered by the evening's events. Seras was having trouble sustaining the urge to throw something at the tall vampire, to throttle him until he turned blue, to make him feel so much pain that even he would not find enjoyable.
Even at this moment, she wanted him dead. All the anger she had supressed ever since that night she was badly burned and had blurted out her feelings for him, have now come to the surface. Her anger bubbled and frothed, ready and eager to be released upon this being that had caused so much of it and she felt she was about to burst with so much rage storming around inside her. So preoccupied with her emotions, Seras hadn't noticed that Alucard had started advancing on her.
so focused was she, on her seething anger and the many ways to torture her Master, she did not see that feral grin widely spread across his face. And when she had noticed the closeness between them, his lips were already on hers before she could react. How long has it been since she felt his lips on hers? Felt that pleasent tingle sliding up and down her spine and made her toes curl with pleasure?
Was she going to let him take advantage of her again? Prove that she really is nothing but a toy?
This time her heart shut out her mind. Maybe it was time for her to enjoy the chance she has now. It has been too long since they had kissed, Alucard and her. "Since Christmas, actually" Her mind replied, sounding rather unhappy with the circumstances. Seras couldn't surpress the smile as she finally began to respond to Alucard's surprise snog.
"Took you long enough." Alucard snickered in her mind as he started to turn the innocent kiss into a more passionete one, nipping at her bottom lip, his hands slowly wandering her body and entangling in her hair.
"Shut up." Seras growled back at him and mirrored his actions. It seemed like hours as they stood in each other's embrace, kissing like long lost lovers finally reunited. Then Alucard finally pulled away from her, stroking her cheek as he gazed at her, the mischevious gint in his eyes was very clear at this point. Seras gave him a pout and moved his hand from her cheek as if it burned.
"Why did you do that?"
"Kiss you?" He gave a cold laugh. "You looked so irresistable as you were plotting the many ways to torture and kill me. Not to mention that angry face you made was adorable."
Seras gave him a cold, icy, glare proving that his answer was obviously not satisfactory. Alucard chuckled and stroked her cheek again. "I am a man after all, Seras. I'll give in to my desires every once and a while."
"Man or not, that gives you no right to to this!" Seras prodded him in the chest with every word she said. This seemed to amuse the elder vampire even more.
"Didn't you say you loved me? Isn't this what humans do to their loved ones?"
"Fuck you, Master." She hissed and vanished from the room.
Alucard shrugged, feeling oddly empty. Like that time in the storage room when he had decided to play a little with her feelings. It was the same feeling, empty, lonely maybe? He didn't like these occurances at all.
First the baby then these odd feelings, then Seras getting burnt, Nicholas being hit by puberty, him running away then coming back, telling that stupid child the truth and Seras acting the way she did. It greatly confused the No-Life-King and he was not accostomed to the feeling at all. Stifling a yawn, he phased into his chambers. It will be dawn soon and he wanted to get some rest before the next evening rolled by. He had an uneasy feeling about tomorrow anyway.
The next day, Integra was at her desk as usual, doing her own Integra thing when the phone rang. This alone shocked her because rarely anyone called siince the vampire attacks have ceased a bit. Nevetheless she picked up the reciever and answered the call with a barking 'Hello'. Walter had entered the room just as she had done this and stood silently at the front of her desk, waiting for her to finish.
As he stood there patiently, Walter noticed something strange. Integra's ice-blue eyes had bulged out slightly and she seemed to be in a tiny state of shock and, maybe, anger. He assumed this was from whoever was calling and just knew that from now on, Integra shall be in a very bad mood. As predicted, she slammed the phone reciever down violently and immediatley took out a cigar and in one swift motion, lit it and inhaled deeply.
"If I may ask, who was that on the telephone, Sir Integra?"
"Bloody school." She replied with a snarl and let out a long billow of smoke followed by another inhale.
"Has Nicholas done something wrong?"
"No."
"Then what is it, Sir?"
Integra looked at him with large eyes, suddenly crushing the lit cigar in her hand. She pursed her lips tightly and spoke through clenched teeth. "They want Alucard and Seras to attend this year's annual PTA meeting, since they are his parents."
Now Walter understood. "Oh my." He said finally. "Well, I can go instead of them if you wish?" He offered. Integra smiled faintly and patted his hand. "That isnt nesesarry, Walter. They emphasized that I should send the boy's parents. No substitutes."
"When is the meeting then?"
"Thankfully, it is in the evening, so we have no worries of them being exposed but that's not why I am so against them going." She sighed at glanced at Walter out of the corner of her eye.
"Alucard" They both said at the same time and Integra groaned and Walter let out a heavy sigh. But Walter made one last attempt to find the bright side in this situation, however dim it may be.
"I think he won't do much damage sir."
"How so?"
"Seras is with him. He seems to be less destructive when he is around her, this could be a good thing for them."
"Hmm." Integra hummed and tapped her fingers lightly on the desk. "You think this PTA meeting will make Alucard realise he has feelings for her?"
"Anything is possible with Alucard, sir."
Silence follwed. Integra left her desk and walked over to the large window, gazing out of it with a far away look in her eyes. Walter could practically see the gears and wheels in her head turning and churning thoughts, plans and possibilites. He cleared his throat politely, set the tea tray with the tea on her desk and went to stand beside her.
"Shall I tell them?"
She did not answer but only nodded. He waited a few more minutes to let Integra collect her thoughts before she gave him the address of the school and the appointed time of the meeting. With a deep bow, Walter gracefully exited th room and did as he was told. He made two notes with the school address and time, explaining in one note why they had to go but he did not do the same with the other. Walter then proceeded to go down into the basement where the two vampires lived. Knowing them to still be in their sleep, Walter crept inside Alucard's room.
Seras and Alucard still slept in the same room, much to Seras's dismay, because Nicholas had gown very fond of his room and so he refused to be moved to the upper-level of the mansion so Seras could have her old room back. Such attempts were very futile and so with a heavy heart and an angry glare at Alucard who stood smirking in triumph, Seras agreed to stay in Alucard's room.
But her bad luck hasn't struck out yet. Seeing as the only coffin in her Master's room was his own, Seras demanded that atleas, she would have her own coffin. That too was denied. The Hellsing budget was very low, even if it was one of the most powerful families in England.
Integra has been recruiting large numbers of troops and soldiers and this meant more artillery, more training, more barracks to built and more food to be prepared. So this was the reason Seras could not atleast have her own coffin.
This of course was a lie. It had been the plan from the start to get those tow stubborn vampires together so when Seras made these requests, Integra had lied to her in the face. It was for the greater good.
Walter entered Alucard's room stealthily and couldn't resist peeking into their open coffin. He tiptoed to the coffin and leaned over it to take a peek. There was Seras, entagled in white silk sheets, her hair spread messily over the pillow and her small pink mouth slightly opened, her eyes shut tight as if she did not want to wake up ever again.
Walter glanced to the next person in the coffin and stifled a laugh. Whenever Walter had come into Alucard's room, the great vampire would be awake and waiting for him, sitting on his throne-chair like a stuck up king. The old retainer had rarely caught him sleeping.
Alucard, too, was entangled in the silk sheets. However, it seemed he was hugging Seras. His arm was over her waist and she was pulled against his bare chest, cuddled against it actually and curled up in a little ball. Alucard's fine, black and silky hair was spread out and messed about on the pillow as well.
With Seras curled up and cuddled against him, Walter saw that Alucard's head was lowered near the top of the blonde's head and supporting his own was his long, muscular arm. Walter could take a wild guess at why they were both entangled in the sheets like that. He could clearly picture in his mind how Seras had tried to sleep flat against the coffin wall but Alucard pulled her towards him. They fought and struggled and Seras had eventually fallen asleep in Alucard's arm from exhaustion.
No matter how it happened, the two vampires embraced like that made the old man's heart melt. Quickly tearing himself away from the coffin, Walter did what he was supposed to do. He left the detailed note on Seras's closet and the not-so detailed one on Alucard's table, then he left the room.
The night rolled in, sleepy as most of the residents in London. It was 8 'o' clock when the two vampires woke up. First Alucard woke, seeing the postition he was in and scooted away from Seras to avoid her freaking out. It was not very pleasent and it made Alucard's ears seriously bleed while Seas screamed at him to keep his filthy hands to himself. So every time he woke up, he'd make sure there was no evidence of Sers ever being in his embrace during her sleep.
A few minutes later, Seras woke up too, feeling bitterly cold. It was always strange to her how during her dreams, she vaguely felt being warmed and strong, safe arms holding her. She glanced at Alucard as he went to get his breakfast and knew how absurd it would be of her to think that the pleasent warmth and safe arms were Alucard's.
Seras dressed quickly and maually, glancing over her shoulders every second to keep an eye on her Master. Without glancing at him once she finished dressing, she passed him and took the blood pack violently from the cold bucket, slurped al its contents and threw it into the trash bin forcefully. Then she noticed a small note on the door of her closet. With equal vigor, she snatched it from the door and read it. A moment later Seras staggered to the chair beside Alucard, not even caring she was close too him the shock was too much.
Alucard, meanwhile, watched her little tantrum from the start, chuckling here and there at her tantics and childish behaviour. Obviously she was still angry at him for kissing her. Not that she put up a fight. The Nosferatu watched her snatch the note, read it and stagger to the chair, this made him laugh outloud.
"Oooh, I wouldn't be laughing if I were you, Master...." Seras said meekly, trying to look serious but obviously the effect was too comical for Alucard to stomach.
"And why not, Police Girl? You are so fun to tease, who wouldn't laugh at you and your silly behaviour?" He replied with a snigger. Seras shot him a glare and spotted the same kind of note behind the bucket. With a mean, gleeful smile, she grabbed it and thrust it into Alucard's taunting face. He read the note, totally impassive. Seras's face fell in defeat.
"A PTA meeting? Oh what fun." He said drolly, flicking the note aside. Seras read hers again and her eyes nearly jumped out of their sockets. She stood up in a rush and begain running around the room in a strange panic, going in and out of the closet, throwing out all the clothes she owned. This sort of puzzled Alucard. He appeared behind her kneeling form, her back turned to him. He bent down to her level while she rummaged through the drawers of her dresser, all of the drawers opend with clothes hanging out from the sides.
"Police Girl, what are you doing?" He said into her ear. Seras, in her frenzied state, had forgotten that Alucard even exsisted so when she heard his smooth voice in her ear, a shiver ran up her spine like an electric jolt and that jolt made her jump. And when Seras jumped, she hit her head on the drawer above, causing it to splinter and break, sending a thosand wood splinters throughout the whole room.
"Shit! Ow ow ow...." Seras gave her Master another freezing glare as she held her head. "What'd you do that for Master!?"
"Me?" Alucard asked with a chuckle. " I didn't do anything, I merely asked you a simple question."
Seras didn't answer since it was, unfortunately true. She continued rummaging, thinking their conversation was over. But Alucard thought otherwise.
"Besides, it isn't my fault you're such a clutz, Police Girl. I'm very surprised you've managed as a vampire till now."
This mere sentence made Seras's ears turn red, her cheeks burned and her blood boiled. She turned around and advanced on him, her finger pointed at him accusingly.
"I managed because I have the will to go on!" Seras hissed, making Alucard (although willingly) retreat back a few steps and jabbed her finger into his muscular chest with every word she sapt out at him. "I managed because I refuse to die!"
"You manage because you carry my blood Police Girl." Alucard interjected with a large taunting grin. He loved her angry face, it was too much.
"I manage because I want to! And I am not a clutz! I was never a clutz nor shall I ever be one! It's always you that's scaring the shit out of me and it's always around you that I'm so clumsy! I am not like that by narture!" Seras had forced him against the wall without even noticing how she had pressed against him in her anger and it infuriated her even more when she saw Alucard's grin turn from taunting into something rather distrubing. But still she did not make the connection. She continued to accuse and rant on him as much as she could, pressing her body even more into his, standing on her toes just to reach his face.
Then Alucard's lips suddenly kissed her own. It was a light kiss, something you wouldn't expect from a vampire as sadistic and firey as Alucard. It shut Seras up immediatley and as suddenly as his lips were on hers, Alucard moved away from her, gently pushed her aside and went to sit on the bed, his arms behind his head and his feet crossed by the ankles. He looked downright pleased with himself.
"I repeat my question Police Girl. What are you doing?"
"The meeting is at 8:30. It's 8:15 now and I wanted to make...a....good.." Seras had seemed to be in a daze but her senses were returning and she looked so repulsed. "What the bllody hell was that?! Why did you kiss me again!?"
"I told you last time. You are adorable when you're so angry. I couldn't resist."
"Since when could you not resist when I'm angry? I've been angry before and you've never done that." Now she just seemed curious. Alucard's grin grew more wide and sinister.
"Because, then, I didn't have an interest in you."
"And suddenly now you do have an interest in me?"
"The clock is ticking, Police Girl. We'll be late if you don't get dressed." He chimed, wagging his fing like the second hand of a clock. "Tick tock tick tock." Alucard sang. This sent her in a panicked rush again.
Valentina pulled back her long, silky hair in a high ponytail and adorned thin, black-rimmed glasses. The grey silk blouse and black buisness skirt contrasted nicely with her white skin, red lips and dark hair. The silk blouse seemed to match the shine of her beautiful hair.
As an extra precaution, she put on dark green contact lenses to conceal her red irises. Dmitri rolled in the bed behind her and woke up grooggily to find his mate dressed like a buisness woman. The dark skirt showed off her perfect calves and the blouse rivaled with her shiny hair and showed the appropriate amount of cleavlage to get the mind thinking but not too much to make a man act carelessly.
"Where are you going, Vayla?" He asked with a impolite yawn, showing his razor sharp teeth and two blood-stained canines. Valentina scoffed, flicked her hair back and grabbed her briefcase. "I'm going to work, Dmitri. Have you forgotten you have found me such a disgraceful job as a history teacher at a school?" She spat in disgust.
Dmitri chuckled at her displeasure with her job. "But Vayla, is a private school. Lots of aristocratic blood running around the halls and inside classrooms." He smacked his lips at the thought but Valentina still did not find the reassurance he intended. "Yes, yes! Aristocratic blood, sure! I still haven't tasted this blood!"
Now Dmitri got out of bed and walked up to Valentina, her back turned to him. His strong ars slid around her waist and he lovingly nipped and licked a weack spot on her neck, knowing she was supressing a soft moan.
Instead she let out a huff and crossed her arms stubbornly. This did not stop him however. "Valentina, calm down. You know the plan. One of my sources tells me that Hellsing brat is in that school. I put you there so that you can scout him out. Remeber?"
She muttered something in Russian and by Dmitri's sudden reaction, it wasn't something pleasent. He stopped kissing her neck but he did not withdraw his arms from her waist. "You may think whatever you want, but once that boy is dead, we go back to our palace in Moscow and continue living our lives like before, alright?"
Valentina was still pouting but she nodded slowly then left without another word. Dmtri sighed and crawled back into the bed. What a troublesome woman, now she decides to grow a backbone. Just as Dmitri got very comfortable under the covers, his children burst through the doors, Dementia and the twin sisters started jumping on the bed with glee while his son silently stood at the foot of the bed, snickering at his father.
"Andrey Konstantin Kiril Alexandrovich!" Dmitri barked at his son who jumped, looking surprised. "Get your sisters off this bed and take them hunting!" He had to shout because the girls were making so much noise with their laughing and giggling. Andrey saw that he was not in any danger and continued laughing at the pained faces his father made as his sisters jumped all over him and the grand bed. Again, his father shot him a dirty look and Andrey's mirth ceased. He did as he was told, removed the girls from Father's bed and left the room. Tired, even though it was night, Dmitri fell asleep again.
Seras and Alucard sat in a classroom full of parents and their children. She glanced uncertainly at Alucard then at Nicholas who sat beside her, bored and distracted. Both men were silent. Seras watched all the other parents talk cheerfully with their kids and husbands, although she noticed a good amount of them leering hungrily at her. She moved her eyes to the ceiling and glared at it. Men.
Suddenly, two well-groomed boys in their school uniforms called Nicholas over and he left. Alucard had left a while after, walking around the classroom out of mere boredome. Seras felt abandoned. But the feeling didn't last long. Three young women came bounding over to her, all grinning from ear to ear.
"Oh hello!" Asked a red-head sitting on the desk in front of Seras. "New, arent ya?"
Seras blinked and gave the red-head a sheepish smile. "Sorta." The red-head glanced at Alucard, who had wandered around the classroom.
"That fella yurs?" She didn't wait for Seras to answer. "Yeehaw, wait to go, gurly! Got yurself quite an eyecatcher there"
"Umm..." Seras stared at the red-head with bewildered eyes. "I do?"
"Oh come on Eden! Leave the poor girl alone." Said the cheerful blonde left of Seras. The little vampiress stared from one woman to the other. Then the raven-haired woman on the right side of the red-head rolled her eyes. "Must you scare the poor girl to death? She don't need you to pine after her man as well!" She said in a teasing voice. Eden, the red-head, laughed and waggled her brows. "Hell, I'm nothin' compared to Miss Alex."
"Sorry, Miss who?" Seras asked suddenly, she had been listening to their chatter before they mentioned this 'Miss Alex' person. The raven-haired girl answered. "Why, she's the homeroom teacher. Quite a stunner ain't she, Beth?" She asked the blonde and the latter nodded with a sly grin.
"That's why I insist on going alone to these PTA meetings. To think my Harold would lay eyes on her, well, my blissful marriage would be gone in a flash!"
"What? I'm sure this Miss Alex wouldn't steal your husband." Seras said firmly, though she did not even believe herself. Beth, Eden and the raven-haired woman, Seras thought her name was Angela, stared at her, grinning like wolves that had spotted a stray lamb. Eden leaned closer to Seras and spoke in a low voice. "I've heard...Rumors."
"Rumors?"
"Aye girly, rumors" Said Angela, looking suddenly very grave and serious. She pointed to a middle-aged woman at the back. Seras thought the woman looked like a strict and typical English nanny. "See that one over there?" The vampiress nodded slowly. curious now. "That's Anita Andrews. She wasn't always like that, strict and boring, unsociable."
"Oh, Anita had wonderful black hair, the black could rival Angela's!" Beth sighed and giggled when Angela sniffed and started examining her hair."She defiantly was a true English beauty then! So sad she looks that way now."
Eden ignored Beth's comment and continued the story. "Her husband was a very good-looking man, loved only Anita. Their boy, Edward the III, is over their with your tycoon. The sandy-haired boy on the left." Eden pointed out the boy and continued. "Well, Mr. George Andrews came to the PTA meeting one evening, met lovely Miss Alex and ever since then, poor Anita and George have been having loads of rows and major fights. Eventually he divorced Anita and admitted to having an affair with Miss Alex!"
"Of course, lovely Miss Alex denied ever meeting the man, but we all saw her flirting with the man in the hallway right after the second PTA meeting." Beth added, nodding seriously and looked disgusted at the memory. Seras gulped.
"So if I were you, I'd keep an eye on Red over there. Or you'll end up like poor Anita." Eden warned, but Beth scolded Eden for being so scary. "Don't frighten the girl, Eden! Honestly, have you no tact?" She patted Seras's shoulder reasuringly. "Of course we all knew Gearge had the case of wandering eyes, it was bound to happen." She smiled and patted her shoulder again. "Don't worry, dear. If your husband loves you, he won't go after a sleezy tart like Miss Alex."
Seras turned even more pale and this seemed to worry Beth. "He does love you right?"
"Now who's scaring her? You can't ask a complete stranger if her husband loves her or not! Now you're the one with no tact Beth!"
"Am not!"
And the three ladies started happily bickering. The door opened and Seras couldn't decide if she was thankful that the other husbands leered at the teacher or angered by it. Eden, Beth and Angela stopped their cheerful chattering, their smiled turned into frowns and they left Seras's side to sit beside their husbands and children. Nicholas and Alucard returned to their seats as well.
She looked at Nicholas again, then at Alucard and pursed her lips tightly, crossed her arms and made an angry pout. Even those two stared at the teacher like love-struck puppies. Now she knew what those women meant.
Bloody Men!
The teacher, she had to admit against her will, was very attractive. Her long sleek hair pulled up in a high ponytail, her blouse and skirt revealed and hid just the right ammount of skin to get the mind going. Seras could tell that this woman used her beauty to get whatever she wanted.
"Probably a spoilt and bratty bitch, that one is." She grumbled quietly. Again, her eyes flitted to Alucard who had given his undivided attention to this pretty woman, then back to Nicholas, who had done the same. Scoffing, she smacked both of them on the head. "Get a grip will you? Or do I have to go get bibs for both of you?! Honestly!"
"Jealous much, Police Girl?"
"Am not!"
You so are too, Mom."
"What? Since when are you on his side?!"
"Awww Mom, I'm only teasing you." Nick said with a large, angelic grin. He even ruffled Seras's blonde hair. "You look so cute when you're mad."
Seras didn't dare look at Alucard at this point. She knew he was grinning from ear to ear in a 'Told you' kind of way.
"Like Father like son." Alucard said gleefully. Seras sank in her chair. "Unfortunately." She had mumbled low enough just for Alucard to hear. This made him laugh madly. But the laugh didn't last as long as it used to and Seras figured without guessing that the pretty teacher had started speaking.
It was a welcome speech for the parents who haven't attended before and an update report for the ones who have. The whole meeting lasted only about an hour and it wasn't even that special. Seras was grateful it was over, the thought of seeing that woman a second longer---
"Mr. and Mrs. Wingates?" The smooth, husky voice of that pretty teacher called out to them as they were about to leave. Nick glanced at Seras and Seras glanced at Alucard who then turned to the teacher. It was a strange chain reaction.
"May I speak with you? It won't take long."
"I hope it won't." Seras mumbled again. She had been doing that through the whole meeting. The young teacher acted like she didn't notice Seras hostility towards her and held out her hand. Seras accepted and the two women shook hands politely. The young vampiress looked into the teacher's eyes and was slightly shocked at how dark her green irises were, like something evil lurked behind them, predator ready to strike. Like Alucard's eyes.
"Umm..." Seras glanced at Alucard and Nick beside her, she felt like panicking, this woman was frightening. The said person however, smiled cheerfully at Seras and the two men. "I am Valentina Alexandrovich, Nichola's homeroom teacher." She sounded Russian and probably was, judging by her last name. Alucard tilted his head, looking slightly amused and intruiged.
"Alexandrovich? Isn't that the last bloodline of the Romanov royal family?"
Valentina quickly looked at Alucard, her eyes showed a hint of fear. Then she laughed, although it was a nervous one. "Me? Royal? Niet. Is very comman last name in Russia."
"Ah." Alucard replied with a small, feroucious smile. "I see." He took two steps towards Valentina and stood very close to her, their bodies almost touching. Now Alucard grinned, his eyes roved hungrily up and down the teacher's body. "Are you sure you are not of royal blood? You are more beautiful then the Empress Yekaterina II Alekseyevna." He said, sighing quietly. Valentina stood there blushing but excited from Alucard's flattery. "More beautiful than Catherine The Great? You really think so?"
"Alu--!!" Seras started to shout but quickly decided to call her flirty Master a different name. "Jonathan Wingates!" She screeched, stomping over to him and Valentina. She had no idea what he was doing or why. And it infuriated her that Master would just start flirting with a woman he only met an hour ago!
Frikin' men and their stupid private parts!
Alucard chuckled at the ironic name, but just to humor his infuriated fledging, he backed away from Valentina, who seemed dazed and breathless. Nick was in too much of a shock to move at all, so he wasn't much help. Seras glared at Alucard as he slowly backed away from Valentina. "Bloody frikin' hell! What were you thinking, flirting with this tart in front of me?!! Are you mad!!??" Seras shouted at him and the shouts echoed through the empty hall. The noise must've snapped Valentina out of her daze. She blushed
"I'm sorry. Well, nice to ...meet you." Valentina faltered, glancing briefly at Seras's angry face. This wasn't supposed to happen, what was she going to say to Dmitri when she went back to the hotel? She had nearly given herself away. And this boy, this boy looked exactly like his human mother but he had Dmitri's eyes. Yes, this had to be the brat he was lookin for. Maybe Dmitri will overlook her mistake because of this. Valentina hoped so, as she disappeared around a corner and moved away from the two vampires and Nicholas.
When Valentina had left, Seras turned angrilly to Alucard and did something that surprised them both. She had slapped him on the cheek, the sound bouncing off the walls, echoing down the hall. Alucard stood sill, his left cheek burned slightly, he raised his hand to touch it and felt the stinging warmth through his gloved fingers.
"How dare you flirt with that woman! In front of Nicholas!" Seras shouted hotly, expecting him to yell back, reprimend her or something. She had stepped out of line, she knew that. Still Alucard did nothing to punish Seras's rash behaviour. The petite vampire found this slightly odd. But she took her chance.
"Have you no consideration for the people around you? No thought of others?!" Tears started to flow, slowly and silently down her cheeks leaving watery red marks on her white skin. She pounded Alucard in the chest with her fists, crying. Did he not understand how much her heart hurt when she saw him with another? Didn't she once tell him of her feelings for him?
Her strikes against his chest grew weaker and faint until she stopped completely, leaning against him. Alucard, as if controlled by some higher power, gently wrapped his arms around her back, holding her shaking body against him. Something did feel strange, something in his chest felt painful, it was pain he did not enjoy. He looked over his shoulder and saw that Nich was leaning on the door frame, far away from them and had his back turned to give them privacy. Smart kid.
"Why me of people and immortals alike?" She whispered, barely audible even to Alucard. "Why me?" Seras didn't care that she was in her Master's embrace, crying against his chest. She didn't care if he had heard her sorrowful question or that Nicholas was witnessing her breakdown. She didn't care that she was blowing the whole flirting thing out of porportion and that it was late and a school night. All Seras has ever wanted to do was make sure that Alucard would always be her Master, and no one else's.
Alucard had only once held a crying person in his arms and he only did it to shut him up. But what does he do now? The great immortal couldn't lie to himself any longer. Maybe that pain in his chest, the bitterness, the emptiness, maybe that meant something. Could he go on with his eternal exsistance pretending that wasn't there? technically he could, but would he?
TO be continued
End of part 1
A/N: I am terribly sorry for the long time it took for me to update! Really and truly I apologize but the doc i had on kept getting erased, I had to write this chap alone about 10 times. I swear I'll update next time. Kisses!