Sorry again for the long wait, but I was extremely sick, again ;-; and this chapter took forever to write. This is the longest chapter in this story (almost 7000 words), but this is most likely a one off, I can't see myself doing this again.

BUT, please enjoy and thank-you for reading :V

"DAMMIT LET ME GO!" Victoria shouted thrashing against the arms that attempted to hold her back,

"THE HELL'S WRONG WITH YOU?!" One of the men barked dogging her flailing arms, "WE HAVE A PLAN!"

"FUCK THE PLAN MY FRIEND IS IN THERE!" She growled ripping herself out of the arms and rushing forward, "ALEX! ALE-" she called.

Heath who had previously been silent the entire time camped his gloved hand over her mouth and ripped her backwards, "stop it!" He hissed under his breath. Looking around to the other men he was met with a relieved look, looking back to the club he paled, "its too quiet, no music or talkin' or anythin" he remarked.

"LET ME IN!" Victoria's muffled screams pleaded, attempting to pull away,

Heath sighed but kept his hand over her mouth, "they're already inside" he announced, "it's too late, our previous defense plan has to be turned to offensive".

The woman's eyes widened and she begun trying to tear herself free more violently, "I HAVE TO FIND HER!" She begged.

The surrounding geese lowered their heads in silence and glanced at one another, before Heath quickly spoke up, "I'm sure she's fine, from what you've told me she's smart, I'm sure as soon as the shit hit the fan she got out" he replied reassuringly. 'she helped me so now i'm helping her' he reminded himself.

The artists body went limp and she gently pulled away from his grip, "y-yeah" she stuttered unsurely, "she's okay, she's okay" she repeated in denial.

Unconvinced by her new confidence he reluctantly backed away, "alright, but think about the whole squad, don't be reckless" he barked sternly.

"Yes yes, fine, whatever" she hissed glancing towards the door anxiously, "can we go now?"

Heath sighed and eyed the door, the eerie silence in the air made him even more uneasy, a dark suspicion crept into his mind that the massacre may be over and they'd be walking into a room of corpses. "Fine, Johnson, you lead" he commanded gesturing to the man beside him.

Johnson paled and nodded before reluctantly heading towards the door, Victoria felt like she was sweating bullets and despite her clear orders she followed close behind. He carefully pushed open the heavy wooden door, causing the hot metallic air to rush out.

XxX

Slowly and cautiously the men filed into the large entrance room, however as soon as the door snapped shut behind them they were immersed in almost complete darkness. "Shit!" Jhonson spat, "bastards shot out the lights".

Victoria could hear her heat beat rapidly in her ears, and she wrapped her clammy hand around the charm on her bag tightly. 'Oh god she's dead!' She thought anxiously, 'it's too late it's my fault'.

"Come on" Heath whispered calmly, "I see a light source up ahead, let's move forward".

The men groaned quietly and reluctantly followed, occasionally bumping into each other and muttering curses. As the light source grew brighter, so did the faint sound of talking, Victoria tried to make out the sounds but there was no way she would be able to hear over the blood rushing through her ears. The only sounds that resonated within the room were the rustling of the solders gear and scuffling of the woman's feet. As she dragged her feet across the carpet nervously, her boot was caught on something soft, Letting out a short sharp shriek she quickly jumped backwards and knocked into the solider behind her.

"Oi!" He hissed, "whatta'ya doing girl?!"

"Th-there's something on the floor, it's a-a body " she huffed prodding the soft item on the floor.

"Bullshit, keep goin'" he growled pushing her forward violently,

"A-a body" she muttered, 'is it Alex?' She paled, 'no! Not it's not her, get those thoughts out of your head!' She reassured. Carefully shuffling around the object, 'she's fine, she's smart, she'll get out of this'.

Before long the group had swarmed around the door cautiously, Heath carefully peaked into the crack and looked around, "I can't see shit" he cursed, "we're going in blind" he explained reluctantly.

"The dance floor, that's where all the people are" Victoria mumbled,

"Yes, stay sharp" he whispered, "Victoria stay here until we have all gone in, the take cover behind anything close to the door".

She nodded frantically, anxious to see what lay beyond the door, Heath slowly pushed open the door "alright men, let's go!"

XxX

Victoria watched as each soldier filed into the room obediently, the shaking in her hands had returned and she clung onto the charm tighter. After what seemed like an eternity, the door was pushed open completely, Heath calmly walked back through and lent against the frame casually, "well...it's clear" he sighed.

"Really?" Victoria sighed in relief, "okay let me in" she demanded trying to see past him,

"Uh, clear of enemies...not bodies" be explained reluctantly, "it's a massacre".

Her dark eyes widened and she hurriedly pushed past him with little resistance, quickly glancing around the room she could see the mangled corpses of many staff and citizens. Walls had been covered in sprays of dark red blood while the heads of people lay nearby in piles. Mauled corpses were almost organised into piles and many had died with a pained horrified expression of their face. Ignoring the bodies, she scrambled around the floor looking for the signature blue hair, but the mountains of bodies, made it impossible to find her. "Where is she?" Victoria mumbled, "WHERE IS SHE YOU BASTARDS!" She cried bringing her foot down on the tiled floor, not noticing the crunch of the porcelain below her.

"Shut up Idiot!" Johnson growled, "for all we know they could still be here!"

"I don't care!" Victoria snarled, "they have her, I know they do! Come out cowards!"

"This bitch is crazy" one of the soldiers snorted, causing the nodding of several other Geese. However their laughter was cut short, when the soldiers grin quickly turned to a frown, and blood poured from his lips. Within seconds he fell to the floor in a heap, a large bloody hole in his chest apparent.

"Ah" the voice sighed as he held the weakly beating heart in his hand, "that's no way to talk about my bride".

The men immediately turned around in horror, while Victoria remained frozen, 'I know that voice' she recalled, slowly she turned her head to see Scott's face plastered with a grin.

XxX

Integra set down the delicate china cup and eyed it's contents with disdain, "too sweet?" Walter offered.

"No...too bitter" she sighed pushing the cup away and instead opting for a cigar, "tell me Walter, do you think I did the right thing?"

The butler sighed and set down the heavy teapot, "with Victoria? Is it my place to say?" He replied.

"I'm asking for your opinion" she stated, "I'm not sure she is ready" the blonde admitted. "We also know millennium has an interest in her".

"You can't keep her locked away like a canary" Walter sighed, "it's inhumane, you said yourself it was a simple mission" he reminded.

"You can never be certain with vampires" she admitted, "or with Katja"

XxX

Victoria felt as if she had experienced the single moment for an eternity, or as if it were a dream, she felt as if the ground below her had turned to water and she fell to her knees. "W-why, what?...you?" She sputtered out.

"Yes...me!" He chirped throwing the organ aside lazily, however before he could continue the quickly the soldiers raised their weapons and within seconds bullets were being fired into his body. Victoria watched as the led passed through his frame, and tore chunks of flesh from his body, her mouth hung wide open and she swore her eyes couldn't get wider. Eventually the firing stopped and the mass of mangled flesh fell to the floor in a heap. The soldiers hesitantly put their weapons away and several prodded the corpse with their boots, "it's dead, let's move on" Johnson remarked coldly.

Instead Victoria wrapped her arms around her legs and buried her head into her chest, "why? Why him? Who?" She mumbled her thoughts in a mess.

"Pull yourself together woman!" A solder barked, "weren't you in the military?"

Instead of answering she curled into a tighter ball, she could see the geese standing over the their comrade's corpse mournfully. Her dark eyes darted around the room frantically, the dim dance floor lights lengthened every shadow and a dreaded feeling sunk in. "it's not dead" she mumbled feeling her chest tighten further, "he's not dead" she whispered madly glancing to where the corpse once lay. "Not dead, not dead, not dead" she chanted looking around the room frantically for where Scott had moved too. Suddenly a horrible scream ripped through the silence and Heath's body fell to the ground in a heap, his head locked in a petrified expression rolled down the few stairs and stopped mere feet from Victoria's trembling form.

She locked eyes with his glazed over ones, and slowly raised her head in horror to see the redhead cackling madly and attempting to tear into the Geese with a large knife. If she could cream she would, but she was paralyzed with fear, even her breath hitched in her throat. Meanwhile many of the Geese skilfully attempted to doge his attacks while madly firing into the vampire, however a majority of their shots missed, too scared to hold their guns straight.

"Fuck why won't it die!" Johnson cursed,

Scott cackled and took another swipe at him, tearing a large chunk out of his arm causing him to drop his weapon. "Millennium has upgraded, we won't be so easily killed!" He snorted. Before Johnson could protest Scott held the knife to his throat and shielded himself with the man's body, and begun to edge his way towards the center of the dance floor where Victoria sat in panic.

"Aw, she's in shock" he tisked, eyeing the woman with sympathy. "Like our handiwork my dear?" He cooed,

"I-I...where's Alex?" She mumbled avoiding his blood red eyes.

"Hmmm, let's see.." He muttered, "ah! The loud, rude, blue haired woman? With my partner most likely!" He chirped.

"Is she ok?" Victoria asked desperately, "can I see her?"

"Hmm, I don't know, I don't get to decide what happens with her!" He grinned, exposing the long canines.

Victoria eyed him with disgust, 'vampirism doesn't suit him' she thought bitterly. "Take me to her!" She demanded.

"And why...would I do that?" He asked snidely, "you don't need her now, you have me!" Scott beamed. Johnson continued to struggle but he quickly silenced him by pressing the knife into his throat, causing a small stream of blood to pour. "That's better" he sighed. "I hate it when they struggle" he chuckled.

"Your a monster" Victoria spat slowly standing up, but her weak knees betrayed her and she quickly fell back down. Looking at her hands she could see them shaking violently, the smell of blood and death in the air nauseated her.

"Oh? And your boyfriend the vampire Alucard isn't? From what I've heard he's killed whole armies!" Scott barked.

Victoria breath hitched in her throat and her head felt light, "armies?" She sputtered,

"Several of them, he loves killing" he chirped, "but, you know what, I can see why" he snickered before quickly dragging the blade across Johnson's neck swiftly. The geese collectively gasped as the man fell to the floor holding his neck and writhing in agony, slowly drowning in blood. "It makes you feel powerful" he admitted.

Quickly the three remaining Geese begun fumbling with their ammo attempting to reload their guns, in shock at just losing their leaders. "Don't bother" Scott announced, "you won't be able to kill me with lead, I just want the girl, you are all free to go".

The geese looked at each other with doubt, "we can go if you have her?"

Before they could reply Victoria cut in, "you aren't seriously considering it!?" She squeaked,

One of the men bravely stood forward, although it was obvious he was terrified, "it's three lives or one" he reasoned. "We have already lost half our squad, Integra would want us to save more lives".

The artist couldn't believe what she was hearing, suddenly Alucard's earlier words echoed through her head, 'don't rely on your team, they can and will let you down' she recalled. "He was right" she mumbled.

"So..what will it be?" Scott huffed, "I'm getting impatient",

The soldiers took mere minutes to decide, "sorry Victoria, but...we can't...he won't hurt you...we'll send help" one replied meekly.

"Are you serious!" She barked, watching as they quickly filed out the door, "COME BACK ASSHOLES!" She hissed. Quickly she clambered to her feet and found most of the shakiness had subsided, clumsily she ran towards the door only to find it slam shut just as it was in arms reach.

"A deal is a deal" Scott purred, "your mine now"

XxX

"Hurry up!" One of the geese growled, "we need to contact base!"

"I'm trying Dane!" He huffed fumbling with the radio, pulling the device from the dash he hurriedly spoke into the receiver, "Sir? Sir Integra?! We need backup!" He called desperately.

After several seconds of tense silence she responded, "what for? You know there are no other Geese available".

Ignoring her response Dane continued, "we made a deal, Victorias still inside" he panted, "the vampire wouldn't die, bullets didn't work" he stammered.

"What the hell do you mean!?" She growled, "you left a squad member inside, alone with the vampire!" She hissed in disgust.

"He said we could go, he just wanted her" Dane argued, "we said we would get backup!"

And audible sigh could be heard from her end aswell as a discussion between her and Walter, "regardless, expect a punishment, I'm sending silver ammunition and Alucard now".

"Thank y-" Dane sighed, before he could say more the radio turned to static, signalling the end of the call.

XxX

"Through here love" Scott purred gently guiding Victoria into the adjacent bar room, "sit down" he instructed pulling out a chair.

Victoria ignored his gesture and pulled out her own further away, "what do you want" she spat.

Ignoring her action he smiled cheerfully, "you! Obviously" he chuckled, "that's why I'm here at this disgusting hole",

"It was nice before you ruined it" she growled reaching over the bar and grabbing a bottle of rum, "who changed you? Millennium?"

"Well you see, I was approached with a interesting offer, Millennium offered me this gift in exchange for a service" he explained, "but I was also promised that I could take you back to our base, where you would become my eternal bride!"

"Disgusting" she muttered pulling out the cork from the bottle and taking a swig, attempting to calm her nerves. "Your being played, no way they would give you a offer weighed in your favor" she spat.

"Really? Your drinking at a time like this?" He asked in disgust before brushing it off casually and continuing, "oh and there is another part of this deal, however I cannot tell you".

"I don't care" Victoria replied shortly, "when Alucard gets here your going to be nothing but a chunky bloodstain on the walls".

Scott shook his head slowly, "Hm, still relying on that psychopath-"

"Like your to talk!" She spat, "killing all these innocent people"

"Well, it actually was mostly Jake, turns out he had a lot of pent up rage" he shrugged.

'Jake? Where have I heard that name before?' She thought, taking several deep breaths she took another swig of the drink and slammed it on the counter. Looking around she saw only two doors, both leading into the maze of rooms, 'I can't run, he'll catch me easily' she cursed. Realizing she had tuned out she glanced over to see him talking about his plans.

'Okay I have to think of a plan while he's distracted' she noted, racking her brains she struggled to think of anything, 'kill him' the voice reappeared.

'How? bullets did nothing' she recalled, sighing she begun playing with the charm on her bag, 'is he no better than Scott?'

"Are you listening dear?" Scott called with annoyance in his tone,

Victoria snapped out of her thoughts, 'shit I need to distract him longer', "uh yeah, very interesting, but I don't understand, can you go into more depth?"

"Of course! Glad to hear your finally accepting me!" He beamed before beginning to babble again.

Victoria sighed and closed her eyes, trying to focus her thoughts, 'I'm trapped like a rabbit in a fox pen, I could run into the other rooms but then there's Jake... who is he?' She thought anxiously. 'What if I try to fight him? No...I'd defiantly lose. Or I could wait until the backup gets here, but what if it doesn't, what if there is no backup' she thought hopelessly.

"I must admit, your attitude change is surprising" Scott interjected suddenly, "and to think I actually thought you didn't like me" he laughed. "It was Alucard wasn't it, he made you do those things".

'Hes in complete denial, it's pathetic' she noted. "Ah, yes, it was all him" she lied.

"Well you don't have to worry about him now that you've got me" Scott smiled,

Ignoring his comment Victoria scowled, the lies spilling from her mouth felt wrong, looking down at the dream-catcher charm guilt sat in her stomach. It was then she noticed the notable cut on her finger, sighing she dug through her medical bag, until cool smooth metal brushed against her fingertips. Making sure Scott wasn't looking she slowly pulled the item to the surface of the bag, letting out a small gasp she admired the weapon, a long silver dagger.

'Who the hell put this in here?' She thought confused, shifting the contents around more she eventually found a note, "just in case, -Integra" she whispered aloud, "when the hell-?. 'Why not a gun?' She thought, '...oh wait... right, the failed tests'.

Looking over she could hear Scott beginning to end his speech, 'now or never' she thought nervously. Hiding the weapon in her pocket she shakily walked over to the man leaning on the bar for support,

"What is it my love?" He asked softly.

The tenderness and affection in his voice sickened Victoria, and a part of her couldn't wait to kill him. "You know, all this time, all this talk of marriage, but I'm still a mortal" she stated, "is your promise of vampirism still...valid?" She whispered.

"Oh, uh, yes! Of course!" He beamed obviously giddy with excitement, "can't wait to start our un-life together huh?"

'This conversation is nauseating' she noted, "yes, but hurry up, we don't want my former comrades coming back while we are still here".

"Ah yes, okay" Scott sputtered, "I'll just uh.." He muttered pushing her hair to the side exposing her neck.

Victoria noticed his unusually bloodshot eyes, the same ones Alucard and Seras had when they don't feed, she also noticed the lack of ghouls. 'They aren't biting or drinking blood' she noted in astonishment.

Slowly he inched his body closer to hers a placed a pale hand on the side of her neck before opening his mouth exposing the fangs once again. Victoria regulated her breathing and waited until he was as close as possible, slowly she reached around and gripped the leather dagger handle tightly. Shortly after she felt his fangs graze her skin, 'hesitation' she noted, 'he doesn't know what to do'. Quickly she brought her arm up and pushed the dagger into his chest with all her strength, immediately Scott let out a horrible shriek and scampered away from the woman.

"Wh-what did you!? WHY!?" He screamed attempting to dislodge the item from his chest,

Victoria felt her mind cloud over and her conscious be pushed aside, feeling great pleasure in the sight of his screaming and writhing on the ground in pain, with a sadistic grin she walked over and knelt by his writhing form.

"do you know what the funniest thing is?" She asked softly, "you are the worst vampire I've ever seen, you were a failure in both your life and un-life. You put this race to shame, and are by far Millenniums worst mistake" she grinned.

He attempted to talk but instead a horrible dark mixture of old blood poured from his mouth, as he looked into her eyes the familiar dark Iris's had turned to a blood red. "You were right about killing" she sung standing up and pushing the dagger further into his chest with her boot, "it is exhilarating!" She cackled.

Scott looked into her eyes in shock, "I thought you lo-"

"What? Loved you? No, we've always hated you see, but you were too easy to fool. It was almost boring" Victoria laughed, "but, you have provided this form with...some...entertainment, I must thank you for that".

"Who are you?" He sputtered,

"I...no...we are something you can never be, a hunter, a killer, a vampire, a worthwhile being. You were a waste of space, we simply create more" she grinned eerily. "Now, I'm afraid this act must draw to a close, there is another vampire we must kill, and save the woman too I suppose" she noted. As she strode out of the room her boot brushed the side of a handgun and it clattered towards the dying vampire, he quickly reached for the weapon but was stopped when Victoria brought her foot down on his arm painfully. He let out a gargled yelp and released his grip, Victoria cautiously bent down and retrieved the weapon, looking into it's clip she scowled at the two remaining bullets.

"Ple-please" Scott begged, "it hurts",

"Oh yes, I know it does" Victoria replied examining the weapon, "hmmm...let's see... One bullet to shoot your bits off, and another to widen the hole in your chest" she cackled cocking the weapon and pointing it towards him.

His eyes widened and he weakly attempted to wriggle out of the shots range, "no no no" he gasped.

"Well you wanted death didn't you? I'm sure it'll hurry it up by a few minutes, in case silver poisoning isn't enough" she reasoned, "I mean, you do deserve this after all". The redhead shook his head more vigorously and a disappointed expression crossed the woman's face, her red eyes glazed over for a few minutes before she lowered the weapon reluctantly. "Your lucky I have somewhere else to be" she barked. Giving a sinister grin she glanced at the dying man walking out of the room, leaving him to writhe in agony.

XxX

Integra quickly tore the phone from the receiver and dialed the number, after several minutes of ringing the other end picked up. "Alucard, there's been a incident, we need you back here immediately!" She rambled frantically.

"I've only just finished, I was planning to sight see" he replied casually, "quite a slave driver you are".

"Now is not the time for jokes vampire!" She hissed, "Victoria's mission has taken a turn for the worst, her team has abandoned her and she's now a hostage" the woman explained.

The vampire was silent for several seconds, an audible exhale was heard, "is she not capable of getting out of the situation?"

"These are new vampires, lead bullets have no impact, a single one has killed half the squad, she could be dead" Integra listed,

"Im leaving now" he stated bluntly, "don't send anyone else until I get there".

"Fine" Integra snapped, "hurry up" she barked before slamming down the phone. Nearby Walter poured another cup of tea and hesitantly slid the cup in front of her,

"I was wrong" she confessed. "She wasn't ready",

"There was no way you could have known" Walter reasoned, "they won't kill her, they will just capture her".

Integra nodded and took a small sip of the liquid, before sighing and staring into his amber depths pensively, "Then it's the death of us".

XxX

Victoria's thoughts were a mess, as she blindly navigated the halls the sound of static reasoned on her ears, "make it stop" she growled shaking her head, "make it stop please".

"I cannot" a voice other from her own replied, "only you can",

"No I can't, am I going mad?" Victoria mumbled.

"Possibly" it replied, "but you will need to be".

"Make it stop" she repeated weakly, "make it stop".

XxX

Alucard stared at the phone with a blank expression, his conflicting thoughts were becoming more apparent now. 'She is fine, she can defeat a lowly bloodsucker' he reasoned, 'but she is injured, and weak' he countered.

"Master?" Seras cut in suddenly, "what did Sir Integra say?"

"There's been an incident, Victoria is a hostage" he explained bluntly,

Seras's blue eyes widened and she quickly jumped up from the sofa, "we'll we have to go!" She chirped.

"No" Alucard growled, "there are still ghouls here that need to be taken care of, you will stay here with Bernadette, and I will go" he stated.

"Wait what, I'm staying here?" She muttered is disbelief, "my first solo mission?",

Ignoring her comments he quickly placed his weapons back in his coat and stood up stiffly, "report to me when you are done" he commanded, "we are relying on you, do the job properly".

Seras was at a loss for words, irritably blowing the stray strands of blond hair out of her eyes she glared at the vampire. "Your just leaving me here alone then?" She huffed,

"I would have thought you and Bernadette would appreciate the alone time" he remarked slyly.

Seras's skin slowly flushed red, not from embarrassment, but from anger. 'Why does he always have to abandon me?' She asked herself. Hanging her head low she nodded slowly, "Yes master, I will finish the mission" she mumbled. Alucard nodded in reply before leaving the room silently. Seras breathed an unnecessary sigh of relief before Pip stumbled into the room,

"What was zhat about?" He yawned rubbing his eyes.

"Victoria's mission has failed and he's gone to retrieve her" the fledgling sighed, "he's left us".

"Oh uh I'm sure she'll be okay" he offered awkwardly, "she's strong".

Seras felt her eyes water and throat burn, the words from her mouth were shaky and unsure, "yeah...she'll be fine".

XxX

Victoria stopped her wobbly gait as she reached a door, from behind she could make out the sound of heavy raspy breathing. Resisting the urge to throw the door off it hinges she gently pushed it open, she recognized this room, the staff lounge. Only a single fluorescent light continued to flicker obnoxiously and light up the small room, from the small crack in the door her red eye darted around the room, until it paused on the couch. The light continued to flicker inconsistently but she was able to make out a figure laying down, the warm air was heavy with the scent of blood and a familiar perfume. She felt the heavy fog lift her mind and she was now more aware of her surrounds, as of she had awaken from a dream.

"It's her" she whispered, "is she alone?" Victoria pushed the door open further and held the gun tightly in her hand.

Cautiously and calmly the woman walked forward, "Alex is that you?" she asked meekly. The artist's eyes widened to saucers and she quickly rushed to tend to the woman on the couch, under the fluorescent flickering light she could make out the familiar blue hair mixed with a crimson liquid.

XxX

Alucard stared up at the neon sign curiously, 'I've been here before' he noted, pushing open the club door he was immediately met with the strong scent of blood and immediately noticed the corpses littering the floor. Grunting in annoyance he didn't bother to step over the bodies as he made his way further into the building, eventually meeting with Scott. Alucard stood over the dying vampire and pulled out his Jackal, glancing down at the dagger in his stomach he pulled out the item and examined it with concern, 'silver, how symbolic' he noted.

"Please" the redhead begged, "it hurts",

"I'm sure" the vampire replied boredly, "first, tell me where Victoria is".

"N-no she's not Victoria anymore, she's a monster... Red eyes and cruel" he sputtered causing more blood to pour from his lips. "I just wanted her, she betrayed me".

Alucard scowled and finally realized why he noticed her different aura, 'Katja did this' he noted, 'she's almost awake then'. "You've served your purpose, I'll reward you with your wish then" he grunted before firing a single round into the mans skull. Stepping over yet another corpse he continued into the building, 'I could be too late'.

XxX

Victoria couldn't speak, or scream, or cry. It was as if the air had been sucked out of her lungs, and all that was left was led. The trembling returned as she slowly moved the woman's hair to the side to expose two deep angry puncture wounds in the woman's neck.

To everyone's surprise a weak voice broke the silence, "Victoria" it rasped.

"Alex! Alex oh my god! Your still alive!" She cried happily brushing the woman's hair out of her face affectionately, "don't worry you'll be okay" she reassured.

"Hey Vicky?" She muttered slowly opening her tired eyes,

"Yes, Alex?" Victoria replied softly wiping away her slow stream of tears.

Alex looked at her with confusion before weakly lifting her hand to her neck, "My neck 'urts" she winced moving her head, "he attacked me".

Taking a deep breath she examined her wounds and concluded that there was no way she'd survive much longer, the nearest hospital being over a half hour away. Taking in a deep shuttering breath, she'd seen this kind of blood loss before and knew there was no way she'd survive.

"How about everything else?" Victoria asked meekly observing her paler and cold skin, not to mention her blue cracked lips.

"body feels light" she replied softly, "but...I 'ave a headache...I'm dyin' aren't I? Aye...Blood loss",

"Oh no" the artist sighed, rubbing her teary eyes, "no no no".

"Hey Victoria?" Alex cut in her chanting, "...remember that time, in tha' military where we were in that tent, for like three days, helpin' people day 'nd night "

Victoria wiped her eyes on her sleeve and nodded softly, "uh huh".

"Remember that ... no matter how hard we tried... All of 'em but five died" she sniffed, "'nd remember how we were with 'em every moment up until they kicked tha' bucket?"

"Yeah" Victoria nodded remembering the event,

"'nd I cried like a baby after each one of 'em died, but ya' never did, ya' just drank until ya' passed out?" She laughed softly, "convinced it was yer' fault".

"Yeah I remember" Victoria sighed taking Alex's cold stiff hand in her own,

"well...when I go...please cry...but, don't drink okay?" Alex hiccuped tears falling down her cheeks, "I always hated what it did to ya', it's okay ta' be sad".

Before Victoria could say another word tears fell from her eyes and her occasional sniffing turned to ugly sobbing and hiccuping, "y-your not g-gonna die okay" She cried.

"nah we both know it... It's okay, I'm not scared anymore..." she smiled meekly struggling to maintain conscientiousness, "...I'm going ta' miss ya' Victoria, 'nd you'll miss me... but don't let it ruin yer' life alright, live enough for the both of us?" She requested closing her eyes.

Victoria squeezed her hand tightly and shook it roughly, "No Alex wake up!" She begged,

A thoughtful frown pulled at her facial features and she weakly squeezed back, "...no...I'm tired...let me sleep" she whispered before falling silent.

She felt the woman's hand relax and several minutes of waiting and rough shaking later Victoria realized that she had eventually succumbed to her wounds. She fell to the ground and let out strangled gasps, her chest feeling as if it was going to collapse on itself, with wide teary eyes she begun clawing at her skin trying to wake up from the nightmare.

"Please wake up Alex, don't leave me alone" she whispered hoarsely rocking slightly, "don't leave me, don't leave, come back..."

XxX

Victoria remained beside her for what seemed like hours, she was sure that she should have run out tears by now. Suddenly from behind her she heard heavy footsteps accompanied by soft sniffling and crying. Victoria froze and slowly turned around to see who was crying along with her.

"I tried to turn her!" He explained, "but she kept screaming and thrashing so I thought if I took more she would stop!" He hiccuped.

After several minutes of silence she wiped her tears and felt them replaced with anger, "y-you did this?" She mumbled, "why! Why did you kill her!" She barked standing over the man.

The man burst into tears and buried his head in his hands, "I-I didn't mean it!" He bawled, "she kept fighting an-and I thought it would make her stop!"

Ignoring his infuriating comment she finally realized who he was, "You-you're Jake, you worked with her" Victoria stated blankly,

ignoring her comment he continued to cry hopelessly, "everyone kept getting in my way, I only want her!" He protested. "Why do they have to be so difficult!"

"YOU KILLED ALL THESE PEOPLE? FOR NO REASON. YOU KILLED HER FOR NO REASON!" Victoria howled in anger feeling her mind cloud over like it did before.

The woman felt her eyes burn and a snarl pull at her lip, "YOU STUPID MAN! YOUR FUCKING PURSUIT FOR HER KILLED HER! YOU STUPID MEN AND YOUR STUPID PURSUIT FOR WOMAN!" She screeched before pulling out the gun from her pocket and pointed it at the man. "I would kill you with my bear hands if this vessel wasn't so weak!" She hissed.

"And I would deserve it" Jake sniffed, "I was too rough. I didn't want to hurt everyone but they got in my way".

"Well right now your in our way!" Victoria growled,

"I didn't mean it!" He protested.

"I DONT CARE, YOU KILLED HER YOU WHIMPERING LITTLE RAT!" She screamed before a single gunshot pierced the air and Jake fell to his knees, clutching his thigh,

"Ugh! You actually fucking shot me!" He cursed.

'ugh fucking eyesight' Victoria mentally cursed before re-chambering the gun and pointing it back to him, "we'll get it right this time!" She huffed.

Suddenly with surprising agility Jake was on his feet and quickly dried his eyes, "I may have made this mistake but I won't let you actually kill me!" He mumbled.

"Shut up! You need to die! You need to pay for what you've done!" Victoria snarled, "you don't deserve to cry over her!"

Scowling at her comments he carefully avoided the barrel of her gun, darting around the room before kicking down the emergency exit, "she belonged with me!" He cried before grabbing several long shards of broken glass and throwing them at the woman. Victoria dodged most of the shards easily but a couple had found their way into her arm and left side and were deeply embedded. Falling over in a painful heap she desperately tried to control the bleeding while from the corner of her eye she saw the man grin triumphantly as he disappeared through the doorway.

"NO YOU DONT!" She growled propping herself up and attempting to line up her shot, however it was evident after the round went off that she missed and she had no choice but to let him run off into the distance.

She watched as his form slowly disappeared into the distance and she collapsed back onto the floor in defeat, breathing heavily she noticed the fog once again left her mind and she was pulled back into reality. She desperately tried to reach for her medical bag and stop the bleeding before she faced the same fate as Alex. Her best friend's death so fresh in her mind called back tears and she made no effort to stop them. Ripping open the bag she finally located the compression bandages and wrapped the around the shards and wounds, knowing her shaking hands wouldn't allow stitches. "Im the worst medic ever, I didn't save anyone" she growled hoarsely.

XxX

Alucard felt the vampire leave the building, and could sense him moving further away on foot. However, he could also smell the spilling of fresh blood, and decided Victoria was his absolute priority, he'd find the vampire later. Pushing open the ajar staff room door he quickly rushed to Victoria's side,

"Who did this?" He growled.

Victoria kept her teeth gritted and propped herself up slightly on her elbows, "Millennium, made them vampires" she panted still holding the wound. "They, were looking for us" she grunted.

Alucard ground his teeth together and glanced out the open door, "I will go kill him" he snarled standing up tensely.

Victoria weakly raised her arm and grasped onto the hem of his coat, "no idiot" she winced, "I need a hospital...and...I need you to revive Alex" she begged, "do the thing you did to me".

Alucard walked over to the woman on the couch and examined her carefully, before looking at Victoria with a expression resembling guilt. "I cannot, she has been dead too long" he admitted, "I'm sorry".

Tears once again fell from the woman's eyes, she attempted to meet his crimson ones in a glare, but all she saw were the eyes of her attacker. Looking away quickly she stifled a sob with her bloody hand, "no...no I was relying on this!" She remarked desperately. "She can't be dead, she can't be" Victoria wept. And it was at that moment, all the recent depressing events flashed before her eyes and accumulated into a wave that threatened to pull her under. Slowly she brushed her hand over the shard in her stomach,"I can't, I can't live without her" she sniffed before violently pulling it out, causing blood to slowly pool around the wound again.

Alucard had been previously distracted examining Alex, smelt the fresh blood and whipped around to see Victoria fall limp and the shard to clatter to the floor. "You idiot!" He cursed rushing to her side. "Why!?" He growled pressing the bandage back onto the wound.

Victoria lazily swatted away his hand but avoided looking at his shocked face, "I'm tired" she admitted, "I give up, let me go".

"No!" He snarled pressing harder, "not again!"

"Let it go okay, I failed, I'm okay with this" she muttered pushing his hand aside and wrapping hers in it's embrace. "It's my time, I don't want to be around to see London fall into war, I want to be rejoined with Alex" she admitted closing her eyes peacefully.

"No...no..no" he repeated growing desperate, "don't leave me again...",

"Careful red, your showing emotion" she laughed softly letting tears spill down her checks.

Alucard suddenly pulled her cold body onto his lap and stroked her bloody matted hair gently, "don't you dare" he growled. "Don't be selfish!"

Victoria frowned and closed her eyes, "let me go red... it's my time" she sighed. "Tell everyone..I'm sorry... And I love them" she sniffed, feeling her body go cold. She tried to clear her mind, and not to worry what happens next, 'what does happen next?' She thought, still feeling the comfortable stroking of her hair. 'I die I guess' she concluded. However after several minutes just as she begun to lose consciousness she felt a sharp pressure pierce her neck,

'he's desperate' she thought amused, 'perhaps this isn't the end'

And that's the end!...just kidding

this chapter is insanely dramatic, let me know if it was too much, I feel I may have gone overboard haha