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Alucard's POV:
I blasted the freak down, puzzled. This was an easy mission, something even Police Girl could handle, but Integra had insisted the person to do it was me. I hadn't seen Flora's hand in all this, but Walter looked rather smug. I wondered what mischief they were all planning. I slowly entered the house, but stopped when I heard Police Girl and Flora chattering in the kitchen. I stood, listening. "Come ON Seras, there isn't any blood in it." Flora said impatiently, tapping her foot. Police Girl shifted carefully. "Well...if you say so." she said hesitantly, reaching out for something. I phased in silently, seeing Flora sitting on the counter and Police Girl gingery holding a cookie. I grinned, waiting to see her cough it up. She nibbled on it, and my grin slowly faded as she ate the whole thing without any ill effects. "You're right, this tastes awesome!" she chirped, hugging Flora carefully. Flora grinned.
"I told you, when I make cookies, people like them. Even you guys with all your dead taste buds think they're cool." She said proudly, and I raised my eyebrows. I reached for one of the cookies, but Flora slapped my hand away. "You don't get any because you're all mean and weird." she informed me, pointedly turning away. I frowned. 'Police Girl, hypnotize her, IF you can.' Police Girl, munching on her cookies, glared at me. 'No! I want my cookies and you'll probably eat them all!' I growled in annoyance. 'Do it NOW.' Police Girl shook her head stubbornly. I phased around Flora, grabbing her chin and forcing her to look into my eyes. She blinked, confused, and tried to jerk away, but I had already caught her. I let her go, walking back towards the cookie pan and grabbing one.
Police Girl waved a hand in front of Flora's face. "Master! You didn't!" she wailed, and I grinned. Flora stared straight ahead, unblinking. She had been a little harder to hypnotize than most weak minded humans, but humans are humans and I captured her easily. I bit off a large portion, and blinked. Flora had cleverly mixed blood in instead of a normal liquid, thus causing these cookies to be both edible and, quite frankly, tasty. I ate the rest of it and watched as Police Girl snapped her fingers in front of Flora's face, trying to wake her up. "Flora." I said, and she turned. "Wake up." She blinked, eyes focusing, and scowled at me. "You ate one, you jerk!" She hissed, and I grinned at her. "I have no idea what you mean..." I said innocently, leaning back and putting my hands behind my head. She growled, clenching her fists. I smirked at her tauntingly, and she made a rude gesture in my direction before walking out.
Flora's POV:
Walter had told me Alucard was likely to get one of the cookies even if I said he couldn't, and I planned accordingly. I had told Seras to only eat the ones with the chocolate speckles and leave the others alone. The plain ones had tiny grains of blessed silver in them, which even Alucard would hate. Luckily, as I was playing around with Vocaloid, she phased in and told me she had watched him eat several of the spiked cookies, and that she hadn't touched them. "What's in the plain ones?" she asked curiously, and I beamed at her. "The less other people know the less evidence he has against me." I said slyly, winking at her. She giggled and phased away, and I waited patiently for Alucard to feel the effects. Sadly, he seemed immune, so I finally went to sleep, hoping he wouldn't wake me up if it finally did affect him. Unfortunately, I started a nightmare.
It was one of my reoccurring ones, where I was at home in my bed and there was a horrible thunderstorm, so big that when the lightning cracked it shook my bed. A raven hopped through my parted curtains, and I suddenly was so afraid, I couldn't move. It croaked something at me, and there was this horrible mocking laughter that despite my terror I grabbed it and wrung its neck. I got even more afraid and called for mom, but when she came in she told me it was just a bad dream. I tried pointing out the raven's body to her, but she just kept repeating it was all just a bad dream. She started to leave, and I begged her to stay with me, feeling something horrible would happen if she left, but she just laughed at me. She left, and there was this barrage of thunder, so big I was literally being shaken, and this flash of lightning mixed with the crow's mocking lighter.
I jerked upright in bed, panting hard and fighting the urge to scream. My eyes darted around this unfamiliar room, but I relaxed slightly when I remembered that I was at Hellsing. Suddenly a silhouette was outlined against my bed lamp and I jerked away, and I almost did scream, but a hand clamped over my mouth. "It's just me." Alucard said neutrally, and I relaxed again.
Alucard's POV:
I was wandering the halls, scaring the soldiers a little, when I felt Flora's emotions suddenly spike into terror. I phased quickly to her room, only to see her bolt upright in bed, panting hard. Her eyes suddenly flicked to me and I held a hand over her mouth to silence her scream. "It's just me." I said, and she relaxed. "Why are you here?" she said nervously, shifting and glancing around the room. "Your emotions from your nightmare. Such fear could also mean being attacked or kidnapped." I said bluntly, hoping to be gone. "Oh, okay." she sniffled, and then blushed. "Could you...stay here with me? I'm scared to be alone again." she said meekly, avoiding looking at me. "I will stay." I said carelessly, sitting down at the foot of her bed. She nodded her gratitude and lay back down, yanking the covers up to her chin. I watched her, wondering what her nightmare had been to give her so much terror. She twitched and mewled, tossing and turning, and I felt her fear begin to spike again. I raised an eyebrow, wondering exactly how often this child got a good night's rest. About ten minutes later, she jerked upright again, and a whimper escaped her as she hugged herself, shaking.
Without thinking I edged forward, wrapping an arm over her shoulders. She flinched, looking up at me, and then looked back down. I started to remove my arm, but then she sobbed and wrapped her arms around my neck. I blinked, letting her cry on my shoulder, wondering why on earth she took such comfort from a creature such as myself. I carefully crossed my arms over her back, resting my hands lightly on her shoulders, as she sobbed harder, obviously traumatized by whatever she had been dreaming about. I started rocking her gently, murmuring things I thought might comfort her, even rubbing her back gently. Her sobs slowly stopped, and I glanced down, hoping she was done crying. No such luck, tears were still streaming down her cheeks. She was pressed so close to me I could actually FEEL her weak human heart pounding in her chest, which was oddly soothing. My shoulder was starting to get damp, and I sighed, knowing that at least it was cotton, which would be less abrasive on her sore eyes.
"S-sorry..." she whimpered, obviously hearing the sigh, jerking back. I gently grabbed the back of her head, pushing it back down to my shoulder. "You may cry as long as you need to, young master." I told her, rubbing the back of her neck slowly, before letting go and moving to her back again. She sniffled, but didn't try to stop me. She was mostly done crying though, and only needed a little time to center herself. I rocked her, waiting for her to finally be able to fall asleep again. Her heartbeat slowed, it was more relaxed, gently throbbing in her chest, like she was sleeping. I gently pulled her away, seeing that she had indeed fallen asleep on my shoulder. I laid her back down, pulling the covers up as she muttered sleepily "You smell good..."
I froze, and then forced myself to finish, before quickly phasing away. Her words echoed in my head. 'You smell good, you smell good, you smell good, you...' I shook my head rapidly. She does not matter to me in that fashion. I told myself, ignoring an ache in my chest that spurted as I said that. She was almost asleep; she couldn't have known what she was saying. The silver in the cookies I ate had shown me she could be quite ruthless in her revenge, as I was forced to endure a searing pain in my chest before I finally figured out what she did and acted accordingly. There was no way she felt anything for me.