A/N

a couple of things

first i'd like to thank everyone who followed/faved/viewed/reviewed ect bc it motivates me to keep writing

i forgot to clarify but Victoria was in the Royal Army Medical Corps "a specialist corps in the British Army which provides medical services to all British Army personnel and their families in war and in peace" (taken from wikipedia) they don't use weapons except for self defense.

final thing: Alucard may be abit OOC

thanks for reading, enjoy

"...Victoria", it's a whisper

'Someones calling me' she thought, the monotone words echoing in her mind.

"Victoria!", it's a woman's voice

'I can't see' she tried to open her eyes, no success. 'Where am I' she tried to ask but the words stayed internal. The woman felt a pounding in her head mimicking a heartbeat.

"VICTORIA!"...

"Don't yell, I'm here", she whispered her horse voice finally working, and eyes complying shortly after, slowly fluttering open they were met with sky blue ones.

Seras' eyebrows were knitted together with concern and she knelt next to Victorias previously paralysed body, "Are you okay" she asked frantically, "can you move? What happened? How long have you been here" she blurted out at once

Victoria groaned trying to process the incoming information, "what is this 21 questions" she mumbled. The woman slowly sat up and turned to Seras, "what are you doing here?" She asked.

The blonde still had concern on her face, "oh, I live here" she quipped,

the artist laughed dryly, "that's not what I meant" she said softly.

Seras nodded understandingly, "Integra sent me to check on you, Walter said you hadn't returned to your room yet" she said softly, still checking over the artist for damage, "your dinners ready by the way" she said absently.

Victoria inclined her head slightly, 'wouldn't have thought they'd notice' she mused. She turned her attention towards Seras who still had a grim expression adorning her face, "Seras yeah?" She asked before the fledgling nodded silently, the artist put on her best sincere expression, "I'm ok, okay?" she said assertively.

Seras held a doubting stare, Victoria stood up and offered her hand to help the woman up, "really" she affirmed. However as soon as she stood up she felt her head pounding again and her chest growing tight, clenching her fist she gave a reassuring smile to Seras who continued to stare.

Seras eyes widened "you shouldn't get up so quickly" she squeaked,

Victoria huffed at her statement, "Seras..." she began warningly,

the blonde sighed and took her outstretched hand being pulled to her feet, 'wow she's strong' the woman thought.

'God she's light' Victoria thought as she pulled her up with ease.

XxX

After much resistance both physically and verbally, Seras had convinced her to go to the mansion hospital. Victoria was being dragged by the blonde towards a large room, "Seras seriously, I'm fine" she groaned.

"Well too bad, your going" she huffed continuing to pull the woman along with her until they finally arrived at the door. She whacked on the door hurriedly and tapped her foot impatiently waiting for an answer, after several minutes a disheavled balding man in a labcoat opened the door and glared at both woman.

"Seras can't the bandage change wait until the morning, for god sake do you know the time?" He growled,

Her eyebrow twitched in annoyance, "it's for her" she said pointing to Victoria, "and let us in or I'll tell Integra your sleeping in patient beds again" she huffed.

The man sighed and opened the door for the two women, grumbling he walked over to an examination table he motioned for Victoria to sit down. He pulled on latex gloves and walked over to Victoria sitting on the table, her legs swinging over the edge childishly, "now" he smiled, "I need you to remove your shirt". She looked up at him quizzically before complying, it'd been ages since she'd seen a doctor and wasn't sure of the clinical methods nowadays. As she undid the first button Seras rushed to her quickly pulling her hands away from her shirt and placing them on her lap, "he's joking Victoria" she deadpanned.

"Oooh" Victoria realized, it didn't bother her much as it usually would, 'maybe something is wrong' she thought absently.

After talking with the doctor, finding out what happened from Seras, and alot of unnecessary poking and prodding, it was concluded that she'd been out for three hours, and there was no apparent causes as to why, and there was no guarantee it wouldn't happen again.

Seras addressed her, "what happened when you blacked out?" She asked softly,

The woman hesitated, trying to remember what happened, "well before I blacked out, I saw a woman smiling and then crying. After that I passed out, and it was just a dreamless nights sleep I guess" she concluded.

"Anything else?" The fledgling asked, trying to find out if her suspicion was correct,

"She was talking in a European language, Russian or German maybe, her eyes were red and her hair was my color maybe" she said lowly, fiddling with a strand of her long dark hair. "And she had red tears or something?" She said confused.

The blondes eyes widened, Seras' remembered her master talking about things like this, but it was rare, 'I need to speak to master about this later' she thought concerned.

Meanwhile Victoria was deep in thought, 'why is she being so nice to me? She barely knows me',

The fledgling turned to the doctor who was cleaning his nails with a toothpick from a half eaten sandwich on the bench, "disgusting" she murmured.

He turned from his activity, "you say something sweetie?" He said condescendingly,

Her eyes narrowed "No, give her something for her headache" she demanded.

"Wait what" Victoria snapped out of her daze, "how did you..?" She whispered,

Seras's blue eyes locked with hers, she giggled before answering her, "see?, you weren't okay then" she said smartly.

Victoria climbed off the table and stood infront of her shorter form, "impressive, I can see why Integra speaks fondly of you" she laughed

Seras laughed along with her before understanding what she said, "wait wha-"

The artist snickered, "you seem really nice ya'know, we should hangout sometime yeah?" She mentioned causally while adjusting her disheveled clothing.

Seras was caught off guard by her comment, she felt her face redden and she shuffled her feet nervously. The woman smiled slightly, "I'd like that".

XxX

After Seras escorted the artist back to her room she rushed off to meet her master, hoping that he was in a good mood, so as he wouldn't ruin hers. Descending down the stone stairs to the basement levels, she hurried past her room to the end of the hall where Alucards room was. Before knocking on the solid metal door, the fledgling took several unnecessary calming breaths, although she had no need for oxygen her human habits stayed with her. She tried her best to compose herself and calm herself down, she was more than aware of her new masters ability to sense fear and prey upon it.

Knocking on the metal door the woman heard the sound resound within the room, it was several seconds before there was a reply, although not audible. "Enter" a voice resounded within her mind, she jumped still unaccustomed to the telepathy Alucard was fond of.

The blonde slowly pushed open the door and slid inside the room shutting the door behind her, seeing the vampire sitting in his throne she felt her nerves rattle. She shuffled over to where he sat and stood infront of his form her head lowered submissively, "um master, remember what you said the other day?" She asked nervously, her voice rattling.

"I said many things police girl" he growled lowly, eyeing Seras predatorily. The vampire was In a horrible mood ever since he awoke from his dream.

Seras' voice hitched in her throat 'guess he's not in a good mood' she thought, "I meant about vampires reincarnating or something..." She trailed off,

Alucard sighed loudly "You should listen more carefully, I hate repeating myself" he said irritably.

XxXYesterday eveningXxX

"Police girl, do you know what happens to powerful vampires?" Alucard asked,

Seras froze, "um, they kill heaps of things?" she said unsure,

Alucard made a sound resembling agreement, "I meant after they die" he clarified.

She shook her head, "they bleed loads?"

"Your not even trying now" he hissed. Composing himself he continued, "a highly powerful vampire has the chance to return when they are reincarnated within a human body, if that human was to be turned into a vampire, the reincarnated spirit within them would return to full power" he explained patiently.

The blondes jaw dropped in disbelief, she had a million questions, "seriously? Would that happen to you, or me? Do they get their memories back after they return? Do they-" she stopped as Alucard cut her off with a hush.

"It will most likely happen to me, although I have no plans to die" he chuckled darkly, "once you awaken as a true Nosferatu, the opportunity will arise". He decided to answer her second question, "yes, their memories or most of them will return".

Seras shifted uncomfortably, "um, why are you telling me this?" She asked nervously. Most of their lessons consisted of her failing at apparently a simple vampire skills and being scolded, a physiology lesion was unusual.

Alucard considered this, as he was just as unsure as her. "Because it might motivate you to awaken your potential" he said impatiently, although he couldn't lie in saying he had other motives.

Seras hung her head in shame, "yes master" she said dully, before perking up with another question, "oh, how do you know that someone's a reincarnate vampire", she asked.

A valid question Alucard thought, deciding to humor her he replied "the human will experience flashbacks of the vampires memories once they come into contact with someone from the past" he said finally.

Seras noted his comment "got it" she said excitedly, this topic interested her immensely.

XxXPresentXxX

Alucard had begun thinking about her ever since Victoria came to the mansion, the artist reminded him of Katja so much it was unbearable. He regretted telling Seras of a vampires potential to rencarnate, and it was in a single sentence it came back to haunt him.

Seras tugged in the corner of her skirt nervously, "sorry master, but the Victoria woman, was talking about seeing a woman in flashback, she was also a vampire, red eyes and everything" she exclaimed excited. She waited several seconds for Alucard to respond, but there was nothing he was dead silent, "master? Did you hea..." She was cut off abruptly,

"What did she look like" he whispered,

Seras hesitated, the aura Alucard emitted changed immediately, "well she said that she had red eyes, dark hair like hers and was crying" she listed off repeating what she was told.

"What else!?" he growled,

The fledgling flinched at his tone, "uh Victoria said she was European or something... not British though" she added.

Alucard's eyes widened, 'no it couldn't be, the chances are impossible.' "Police girl, we're done here, lessons continue tomorrow" he said finally.

"Uh, alright" she said confused, "see you tomorrow then" she said slightly hurt that her master would blow her off like that.

Alucard paid no attention and barely noticed her leaving. It was only after she died and he absorbed her memory was he able to see what really happened that day, and how she was justified in her actions, he could apologise. He never understood his attraction to Victoria from the first day, and how he unintentionally found any means justifiable to tolerate her, even if it meant comparing her to a mentor for Seras. The vampire now understood so much but at the same time almost nothing at all. 'She needs to be turned, I can finally tell her' he stood up and made his way towards Victoria's room.'

XxX

Victoria lay asleep in her bed, a variety of pencils and erasers littered the covers around her form, she had fallen asleep while drawing again. Alucard silently entered the room, and strode over to the bed once again, he observed her sleeping form but in a new light.

He had a memory of back when Katja was still alive, she was asleep in their bed, the lit fireplace illuminating the room and her form, he remembered climbing into the same bed and wrapping his warm body around her cold undead one, at that he felt a pang of heartache. The memory faded from his mind and he was pulled back into reality, while Victoria's form resembled Katja's they wern't the same, he stood in a cold room rather than the warm cozy one in his memory. And if he was to climb into bed next to her she would surely scream and cause a scene, and that wouldn't go well with Integra.

The vampire strode closer to the bed and sat on it's edge careful not to disturb the sleeping figure, he gazed at her face and saw how peaceful she looked when she wasn't yelling or glaring at him. Victorias dark hair was sprawled around her figure and her pink lips were slightly parted and he could hear the slow light breaths escaping from them. He glanced over at the tray containing her dinner, not much of it had been touched, he felt a twitch of frustration 'stupid wom-' he cut off his thought, remembering who he was referring to. As his eyes traveled around the covers the vampire spotted an overturned sketchbook sitting loosely in Victoria's hand, with little effort he pulled it free and peered at the page it was open to, a rough sketch of Katja, she was smiling and all her features were surprisingly accurate from what little he could remember, it looked to be completed and had been signed. 'She drew this from a vision' he thought impressively. Looking over at her form he longed to be with her again, or rather Katja. Alucard tore out the page from the book and put it inside his coat.

He left the room glancing over at Victoria still fast asleep, "Katja I'll see you again".

not entirely happy how this chapter came out, next one will be better.

also sorry for all the gaping plot holes in the story, and the change.