A/N: All I can say is enjoy. apologies and explanation is at the end of the chap.
Seras wept in Alucard's arms for a long time and her master just held her there in the middle of the dark school hallway, confused and baffled and not very happy. But what could he do? He could not explain to her that this home room teacher was in fact an immortal, that his flirting was part of seeing her reaction.
"So that's what female jealousy looks like." Alucard thought with a chuckle. Ever since she had confessed her feelings for him, the usually sadistic and barking mad vampire had been feeling and acting strangely.
Even Walter had noticed it.
He was less destructive around her, he had this need to shield and protect her from everything. He wouldn't let her go anywhere without him as a chaperone and he has been feeling extreme rage towards every male that dared talked to his fledging.
His fledging.
His fledging.
His Seras.
No matter how many times and in different ways he said it, it still sounded odd but strangely...Right.
Alucard shook his head. Seras had stopped crying and only sniffled here and there. She unglued herself from her master's chest, looking angry and ashamed at how she even allowed herself to touch him, let alone act like a crybaby in his embrace.
It was midnight and the PTA meeting ended at 9:30pm. She's been crying in his arms for the past two and a half hours. How embarrassing!
Two and a half hours before...
"Andrey, get Dementia and go back to the school. Follow his scent, get me that boy!" Dmitri had barked at his two offspring in Russian, watching them vanish through a black void.
It was a start. Valentina had come back with the news and he had decided to take immediate action.
Soon he will start attacking everything that boy had touched. He will show no mercy. Now his children will only make his presence known. If the humans and that half-witted son of his were smart, they would fear his arrival, as they should.
If they were smart enough.
Nicholas had moved away from the vampire couple to let them vent it out. He didn't want to be a part of it. He still couldn't believe Father had flirted with Miss Alex, his teacher.
Even if they weren't his real parents, weren't they, well, together? Maybe Father had a good explanation for this stunt of his. Mother had stopped crying, Father looked uncomfortable and he obviously didn't know what to do now that her emotional faucets had turned off.
"Come on Father, let's go home." Even though Nick had promised himself he would call them by their names, he decided against it. He thought that if Seras had risked her life, Alucard his patience and Integra her good will, heart of steel and not to mention her reputation for him, then they deserve their family titles after all.
Alucard sort of glided over to Nick with Seras following behind him. She looked awful, her eyes were puffy and there was so much blood on her face from her tears.
"Why don't you try opening a portal to Hellsing?" Alucard suggested with a smirk. It was about time to start honing the boy's powers and the master vampire wanted first dibbs at training another ripe vampire with potential.
"Say what?" But Nick didn't really understand what he meant. Did Father want him to open up a portal? For transportation? Him? He really is barking mad.
"I do not like repeating myself, boy. Open the portal."
"How?" Asked Nick, still a little puzzled, and oh, he hated it when Father called him 'boy'!
"Concentrate. Imagine Integra's office, her sitting at the desk, the walls with her ancestors' portraits, the checkered floor and the hard oak doors." The vampire instructed.
Seras watched both men and wondered why Alucard decided Nicholas was ready enough to use his powers. Neither of them knew how powerful he could be nor what his powers were. What if he did something wrong?
"Alright." Nicholas screwed his eyes shut tightly and tried to concentrate. He felt no different. Maybe he didn't have any powers or he wasn't ready.
"Now imagine stepping forwards and appearing in front of Integra in her office."
The young teenager did as he was told and tried to imagine all these things. A little speck of black appeared before them. "Harder. Concentrate harder. Every detail."
Eventually the tiny black speck grew to the size of a human hand then the size of a torso and tall and wide enough for Nicholas to step through. The teen opened his eyes and a wide smile stretched across his face.
"Wicked!" He shouted and stepped through the portal without a second thought. Alucard and Seras followed a second later, through Alucard's own portal. An hour after the Hellsing vampires and foster son disappeared, Andrey and Dementia had arrived in the school hall.
Dementia recognised the scent. It was that half-ling again. "My half-ling." She thought with a gleeful smirk. She told her brother of this news. "I know this scent. " She had hissed gleefully in Russian. "It's fresh, he was here!"
Her brother nodded. Dementia was the best at hunting, it was her one sole pleasure. If she said that stupid dhampir was here then Andrey believed her.
"Good. Follow it." He said with a low, grumbling cackle and they both disappeared.
Now the hunt began.
Nick arrived first at the Hellsing manor. He really did appear in Integra's office. But he didn't appear near the doors, like Alucard and Seras usually do. He appeared sprawled out on her desk, sending the papers flying everywhere.
"Nicholas! What in bloody Hell..!!!" Integra shrieked when Nick had just popped out of thin air onto her desk. "Hello Auntie. How've you been?" He said with a sheepish grin and saluted her mockingly.
"Do not mock me! You forget who I am, young man!" Integra spat out, looking very mean with her icy glare but Nick was laughing so much he couldn't hold it in.
It was that infectuous laugh that got everyone laughing after one starts. It infected Integra too. Her mouth twitched and soon she too was chuckling at her ridiculous nephew. Alucard and Seras arrived a moment later in Integra's office and witnessed the abnormal scene.
"Is Sir Integra.....Laughing?" Seras asked herself out loud, baffled and stared at the two with wide, deer-caught-in-the-headlights, eyes. How odd.
"Well, seems like the Iron Maiden has a sense of humour after all." Alucard snickered loudly enough for Integra and Nick to hear. It did the job. Nick coughed and got off the desk and Integra stopped laughing and started to tidy up her papers, whilst giving Alucard an icy I'll-kill-you-if-you-say-another-word glare.
"Master, can you hook up that strange-looking box that shows pictures? A computer, I think you call it."
"And what do you need my computer for, Alucard?"
"I would like to show you some paintings of the Romanov royal family."
The request was strange. Alucard never really cared for art that much, even if he was about half a century old. Integra couldn't really get a handle on these recent events. Even as she turned on her computer and searched the paintings, Integra eyed her pet vampire sceptically. The images popped up on the screen and she enlarged them.
"Care to explain this sudden interest in Russian royalty Alucard?" Integra drawled with one raised brow. Her pet vampire chose to ignore the question, a brave choice even for him. Seras sulked in the corner, still angry at herself for crying in her Master's arms and at him for making her cry.
She watched as he studied the computer screen before calling her over. At first, Seras considered disobeying him just out of spite, but one look at his face had her almost rushing to his side.
What had caused his beautiful face to become so distorted with seriousness, maybe even worry? No, not worry. Something else, something she couldn't place.
"Police Girl, tell me what you see in this painting here." Alucard pointed to one of the images "And here." Then he pointed to another. Seras stared at the images, unsure and tense because of her closeness to him.
Both paintings were renaissance paintings. Both were painted in the same grand ballroom, elegantly decorated with colourful figures twirling in front of a throne. The light cast from the chandelier was golden and brown-ish, painted so vividly that she was almost convinced the painting was alive. Her eyes flickered to the throne, to the two people, a man and woman sitting there, so snobbish and proud with their noses high, backs straight, shoulders thrown back, chest puffed out importantly.
That woman, she was absolutely sure she had seen her before. Quickly, her eyes darted to the other indicated painting on the screen. Same style, maybe a different angle of the room, same throne, same man and woman sitting there, even more stuck up, even more high and mighty than the lovely dancing couples in front of them.
"That man and woman are in both paintings. So what?" She asked, not getting his point. Alucard suddenly smirked at her innocent and somewhat irritated question. "This painting," he started to say, pointing to the first painting. "Was painted a hundred years earlier then than one." He pointed then to the other one.
Seras stared slightly wide-eyed at the images. A hundred years apart?
"But they both look the same in both of them! How...?" She trailed off, her mind suddenly blank. Integra followed the discussion with interest. She'd already noticed the similarity and knew what Alucard was aiming at.
"Can't you guess Police Girl?" Alucard said with a chuckle. He watched as her nose wrinkled and her forehead slightly crease as she thought hard. It didn't take too long for her figure it out. "Vampires?"
"Correct, Police Girl." He said with false pride. Seras sniffed defensively. "Now look carefully at the woman." He instructed again and the petite vampire reluctantly obeyed and observed the said woman. She looked really familiar. Where had she seen her before? It bugged her.
Seras didn't notice Alucard calling Nicholas over to examine the picture. Nick had gone into the other corner of the office, not wanting to interrupt out of good manners. Nick had appeared beside his mother. One look at the images on the computer screen made his lovely blue eyes grow very large and his skin go deathly white. Seras noticed the sudden change.
"Nicholas, what's wrong?"
"That woman. She looks just like....Just like..." He stuttered, pointing at the screen with such a confused, surprised expression. "She looks just like Miss Alex!"
Realization suddenly dawned upon her, she knew where she had seen this woman before. This beautiful, dark-haired Russian beauty had flirted with her Master. Her Master. So this woman, this absolutely attractive, seductive, husband-Master-snatching Miss Alex was a vampire.
That's why her eyes made Seras so uneasy. Those green eyes looked so evil, so calculating and so dangerous, she wasn't surprised she had labelled the teacher as inhuman before. Miss Alex was inhuman and Seras was too wrapped up in her own pitiful emotions about her stupid, idiotic master, that she had failed to noticed.
She had failed. She had failed her Master and Sir integra and Hellsng. Failed.
"Idiot." She hissed reproachfully to herself. "No wonder Master thinks I'm so naive, I never notice anything of vital importance and always screw everything up."
Integra whispered something in Nicholas's ear and the young boy left the room quickly without a word. Seras was too busy beating herself up at the mistake of letting Miss Alex slip through her fingers. Her Master's velvet voice brought her back to the present. She hadn't realized he started talking.
"This is her mate Dmitri." Alucard began to explain, pointing to the extremely handsome man beside that horrid witch. The petite vampire blinked at the man in the painting. She was taken aback at the sheer beauty of the man's face, a beauty that even rivalled Alucard's own attractiveness. The arched eyebrows, the sculpted cheekbones, the deep eyes. His shoulders were broad and strong, his figure graceful and lethal, masculine. She could tell from his icy, proud glare that he was powerful. Nevertheless, it was all so hypnotizing to her.
"We should find them."
"Why?"
"Because of Nicholas's nightmares."
A/N: Agonizingly sorry for such slow updates, not exactly how I had planned. Really, truly and extremely sorry, no valid excuses. Well, um does writer's block count? O_o Ah well... there's a battle chap next but I'm just tweeking it a bit. Don't worry, I'll have it posted today. Oh, question. I need an opinion. Should I, could I throw in Anderson and Maxwell ect. ect. in this story and any ideas how? Just a thought I've been toying with for a while now......Well let me know.