Misiunea Unei Regine
*Ketti and Lithi put on their tinfoil hats.*
Reading our miiiiinds..! The aliens are coming!
Chapter lengths may vary. See? I told you I'd update something, JuJu. Even if I'm still a bazillion updates behind. IT'S STILL SOMETHING.
Seras found out less than an hour later what it was like to have a-hole teachers again. Her homeroom teacher seemed nice enough, but that class barely lasted twenty five minutes. Her Trig teacher must have had Baskerville claw his way up his ass and die, and her History teacher was well meaning, but spoke in such a monotonous drone that one could not help but drift off in thought, and as for her History book, they had everything wrong! She took note of the excessive amounts of information they had on Vlad Tepes, or Vlad the Impaler in this one book and scoffed at almost everything that was completely off.
Now, people might wonder where Seras would even get this information when she hadn't even known her Master was the Dracula until just before he vanished, but what most people didn't know was that Dracula also had a documentary of his own life, from his own point of view. She realized her Master would probably kill her if he found she'd read from his 'diary'.
Her English teacher was a bit of a hoe, showing off every bit of skin she could and leering at all the students suggestively. Lunch was very uneventful, as she sat alone under one of the many large trees in the courtyard. The Library was jam packed full of books, one whole row dedicated to her Sire. She vaguely wondered why there was so much about Vampires at this school, but figured it was because of the War everyone wanted to learn as much about Vampires as possible, to protect themselves.
Now it was her last class of the day, Chemistry, and she was having a hard time concentrating on what the teacher was saying, because she was too busy studying her face. She looked very familiar. And then it hit her, this was one of the officers she worked with before she was assigned to D-11! Her brown eyes widened, and as the teacher's eyes finally met her's, she quickly averted her eyes to the window outside which she had been conveniently sat next to.
She wondered crazily if the teacher would recognize her, despite the thirty odd years difference between then and now. Or maybe it'd be assumed she was her own daughter. The thought threatened to make her laugh, and she pushed it away.
Class passed achingly slowly, and when the last bell rang Seras realized she hadn't heard a single word. Crap.
"Miss Hellsing? A word if you will." The teacher (former Officer Kelley) called as the other girls filed out of the room. Seras gulped and forced a fake smile to her lips as she shoved the textbook and binder into her backpack, and walked obligingly up to the desk. "Yes, Mrs. Kelley?"
Cornelia Kelley eyed her askance, "It's Ms, Seras." She corrected, almost absently, and Seras caught the flicker of a thought that she'd wanted to say 'It's Nelia, Ser.' like the old days. Crap, she did recognize her. "And to answer your unasked question, you're not in trouble. I just wanted to ask you a few questions if you don't mind." Seras' smile faltered at the edges, but she laughed sheepishly and nodded, "Sure, I don't mind."
Ms. Kelley straightened at her desk and tipped her head slightly forward to peer over the rim of her glasses at the (eternally) young blonde - and Seras was eerily reminded of her Sire - a carefully bland look on her face. "Seras isn't that common of a name, is it? I used to know a Seras... You look incredibly alike." There was a flash in the teacher's green eyes that Seras didn't like. Pursing her lips for a split second, Seras' eyes began to glow behind her contacts and she raised a hand to her face to blink them out - too quick for human eyes to truly see - and when she looked up they were a burning crimson. Her free hand lifted towards Ms. Kelley's face, and the scream froze in the teacher's throat as Seras' gaze ensnared her like a deer caught in headlights. "It's nothing." Seras cooed, her voice pitched low and hypnotic, "Just a coincidence. There's no need to worry." Cornelia Kelley looked as though she wanted tp protest, and her lids fluttered, but did not blink. And then she nodded. "No need to worry." She echoed, voice blank. Seras grinned, and her fangs gleamed in the light shining through the windows, "Good."
She replaced the contacts (grimacing at the discomfort) and Ms. Kelley blinked, before shaking her head, and waving Seras off on her way.
'Evil Love Beam' a success, Seras escaped the classroom, a smug smile on her face and a distinctive chuckling reverberating through her mind. Well, she survived her first day of school, and she was no closer to guessing the source of the vampiric threat. Well, these things take time...
'I want a nap.' Seras whined internally, shading her eyes against the sunlight filtering through the window at the end of the hall. The contacts also acted as sunglasses in a way, so she was happy enough to wear them. 'But hiding in my room isn't very conductive to the mission...' Groaning to herself, she stood at the crossroads of the stairs leading to the dorms, or down to the rec rooms.
Seras cast a wary glance both ways and decided that she had done enough today, and skipped off to her dorm, ignoring the odd glances the other students threw her.
She dropped into bed with a groan, making sure the curtain was secure, and got herself good and damned comfortable. "Sunlight is for the birds." She grumbled, yawning.
'Police Girl.' Her Master's voice cooed sickeningly sweet in her head and she scrunched up her face in distaste.
'What?'
She could hear the smirk in his voice as he whispered in her mind, 'Aren't you supposed to be gathering intel? Hmm?'
Seras was tired, damnit.
'My Master does not approve of laying down on the job.' He continued slyly, and she made a face at him, fully aware he couldn't see it, but he'd know she was doing it nonetheless. So much for the 'I'm a grown up now' approach. Thirty years of him being gone made very little difference in how much he teased her (though he used her name more often, at least).
'I can't tell whether he's disappointed or happy that he didn't get on the mission.' Seras grumbled, dragging herself out of the door and ignoring her roommate's suspicious stare.
The Draculina casually moved through the throngs of students, settling under a lonesome tree, next to a group of girls sitting under the tree opposite of her. She sat there for an hour or so, listening in on the girls and people randomly walking by until it was rather dark outside and she could consider her mission on temporary hold.
'The only thing I learned was that Brenda cheated on Trish with Brad and they found out he was gay.' Seras really thought an undercover mission would be much more fun then this, but so far it was sucking, literally.
As she passed by the rather cliché and ominous forest, she had to pause to catch a glimpse of a dark figure moving along the trees. Seras narrowed her brown eyes to catch another glimpse but saw nothing more and took off for 'home sweet home'.
"What were you doing out so late?" Her roomie asked, glaring at her sullenly from her desk where she was finishing the last of her homework.
Seras eyed her askance, and couldn't help the lift of her blonde brow, "Just hanging around outside. Fresh air and all that." She answered smoothly, having done her worksheets while listening to the inane conversations of the others. She was dearly tempted to just crawl in bed and let manners be damned.
She could feel the presence of her Sire lingering in her head, and had to fight the urge to roll her eyes. God, what was with him? Sighing, she sat down at her own desk and dropped her backpack to the floor with a light thump.
"We're not supposed to wander around the grounds after dark." Whatsherface replied primly, and turned snootily away from Seras to organize her papers.
"...Why not?" Seras found herself asking, honestly curious. This might be a lead!
Her roommate gave her an odd look. "You mean you haven't seen that big, dark, forest out there, right next to our dorms?"
Seras looked embarrassed, shuffling her feet. She had forgotten about it for a moment, but now that she was really thinking about it, it was quite scary. Probably even more so for humans. She decided to act clueless, though and tilted her head to the side with a curious look, "Why would anyone be afraid of that forest?"
It seemed her so far luck had run out, as her roomie gave her another incredulous glare and stomped off to her bed, not answering the question.
The Draculina stood still, watching the girl with hidden narrow eyes. This girl probably knew something she wasn't supposed to know, but for now she'd sleep and ask her Master for what she should do in the morning. Maybe somehow get a prick of the girl's blood, which should be enough information.
Seras crawled into her bed with a sigh and made sure she was extra hidden before she phased down into her coffin, pleased with the feeling of the red velvet on her tired body. Being awake during day-time was a royal pain. (Much like her Sire)
As she faded off into a deep sleep, she could feel a warmth emanating to her left that made her grinned toothily.