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Flora's POV:
"Someone kill me, someone kill me, someone kill me now…" Jay muttered as I looked up from my desk, seeing her glaring at her paper as she threw the pencil on it and folded her arms grumpily. "Drawing troubles?" I asked hesitantly, and she sighed heavily, gently bouncing her head against the back of her chair. "Bingo. Why are we drawing if we're supposed to be in a ceramics class? You know I can't draw bubkiss." She snapped, making an offensive gesture at the paper before leaning down to pet Baskerville, who was sitting on my feet. "You get it, don't cha Baskerville?" He merely stared at her and tentatively wagged his tail, not understanding what the human was saying. "Stupid dog." she grumbled, kicking up her legs on the desk as I mutely examined her drawing.
'Okay…maybe it is a little bad.' I thought sheepishly to myself, seeing the many erased marks and wonky lines. "Uh, maybe you could like do it in cartoon style?" I asked, and she paused before leaning back down and starting to scribble rapidly. "So, how are you and King Fanger?" she asked absently, and I blinked. "Uh…just fine." I said sheepishly, and she nodded. "He gonna do anything for your birthday?" she murmured, lining up her ruler and nodding to herself a few times before drawing a short line. I blinked, my hands freezing on the paper. She heard the absence of my scribbles, looking up from her drawing to stare at me curiously.
"You both forgot, didn't you?"
"Uh…I…uh…"
"Joy. Houston, we have a problem."
"Yeah…"
***Time Skip***
I watched as Jay ran around the course with the Wild Geese, grinning to herself as she started outpacing the others and climbed up the wooden barrier, belly-crawling through a barbed-wire trap. Alucard was stroking my hair, letting me lean into his chest as he held me in his lap. 'So what'd you get me for my birthday?' I asked curiously, and he chuckled, leaning down to gently kiss the top of my head. 'I'm not telling you little one. Enthusiastic, isn't she?' I blinked, looking at my filthy best friend as she followed the others to the gun range. 'Yeah…she always is. I can't believe Integra let her hire on with Pip and the others.' He shrugged effortlessly, starting to gently comb out my hair and nuzzle it every so often. 'Legally Integra has no right to stop her. She's "a legal adult" and can make her own choices. You forget, in my time boys and girls got married when they were not that much younger than you or her, and they went to war even younger.' He reminded me, and I nodded, sighing a little as he wrapped an arm around my waist and tugged me up to rest higher in his lap, leaning against his shoulder as he stroked my hair. It was nice just being alone with him, talking in our minds. I really liked it.
'Come.' He suddenly tightened his grip as the world blurred around us, and I closed my eyes and held my breath before we solidified, and I was gently set down on my feet and turned to face him. We were in his huge room, and I shifted nervously, seeing his sad look. "We're going to have to teach you to fight." he said softly, and I blinked in surprise. "Why are you sad about-" I started to say, but he laid a finger on my lips. "Shhh. I can't be the one to actually do that." he said, and I blinked again. "Why not?" I asked, tilting my head, and he gave me a sad smile, ruffling my hair. "For one thing, I'd go too easy on you. Neither of us wants to hurt each other, do we?" he asked, and I rapidly shook my head. "Exactly. I need you to be able to defend yourself in the best way possible, and I can't teach you to fight like that because I would always be holding back and you would always flinch before trying to hit me. So then, Integra ordered me to find someone who can teach you to fight vampires that was not me or Seras."
I pouted, folding my arms. "But she was my next choice…" I whined, and he chuckled. "I know sweet, but she's not adjusted to her vamperic strength completely quite yet; she could lose herself and hurt you badly by accident. Walter is the one Integra chose, if I remember correctly." He said, picking me up and giving me a quick nuzzle before phasing me to what I recognized as the training room for the mercs and dropping me with a kiss and a smirk before he was gone again, leaving me all alone with the family butler. "So then mam, I believe you've started on knife fighting?" he asked, stepping towards me and tugging a little on the cuff of some black gloves I hadn't seen him wearing normally. I nodded assent and he nodded, unsheathing one in his pocket and handing it to me as I looked at it curiously.
Long, sharp, and slightly heavy, shining silver with my name engraved along its length and a series of floral chains carved into the hilt in a twining pattern, a large rose carved into the pommel (bottom of the hilt). "Walter, this is beautiful!" I said after I had examined it, looking up at him with shining eyes as he smiled and bowed. "Only the best for the members of Hellsing. Now mam, we need to work on your instinctual reactions, simply dodging an attack won't qualify for this type of work. Begin." He said, and I looked up, eeping and swinging the blade up to meet the shining glow of some kind of filament, eyes wide. "Good. Again."
Integra's POV:
"So, how is she doing?" I asked, and Alucard smirked widely. "My pet is doing wonderfully. Walter's training her with his wires, same as the other one, and she's becoming almost as good with a knife as you are with a pistol." He said proudly, his grin widening as his red eyes gleamed excitedly. "Mmm. Which reminds me, how did her friend take the question?" His grin did not fade, and to my surprise it grew. He was going to split his face with it soon. "She said yes, on the condition and I quote "that I get to use the shiny wires like he does". She's getting to be almost as good with them as he was in the war." He said absently, and I nodded. Flora would need a capable human servant, one that'd stick by her side no matter what like Walter had done by me, and was more than capable of cutting their way through swarms of the undead and human enemies. Jay would fit that description nicely, and I had seen the school reports and pictures of the boys that had tried to mug them. She was just the right mix of insanely reckless and coldly calculating for this sort of job.
Flora's POV:
I watched as Jay nervously straightened her uniform, smiling a little. "I look good, right?" she asked uncertainly, turning to give me the full view and tucking her hair behind her ears as I studied her. She was wearing all black, a white undershirt buttoned fully up as she fidgeted her feet, covered in shiny workboots that led to clean black pants, a black vest covering her torso and a black glove on one hand, the other gloveless with the matching glove stashed in her pocket. "You look very responsible." I said after a moment, cupping my chin in my hand, and she breathed out a huge sigh of relief, nervously tying her hair back with a pony tail Walter gave her. "You sure? This is our first job, it's a teamwork thing and if either of us is off the mark than the Vatican people will blame the other one. I don't want to reflect poorly on you guys." She said rapidly, pacing around the confines of my room as I sighed and closed my suitcase with a snap. "We'll do fine, and you look amazing. I look good too right?"
She stopped pacing, glancing over her shoulder at me. I was wearing a white blouse with some fawn dress pants, my shoes some kind of mix between office shoes and combat boots, a light brown with no embellishment. I had a dark brown trench to go over it all, with a sheath for my knife on my belt, right across my hip. "You look badass." She said sagely, and I muffled a giggle as I jerked the suitcase upright, starting to walk out. "Oy, hold on." She said indignantly, grabbing her own and quickly walking beside me, taking the handle of the suitcase away. "I'm the butler, I do the carrying and the fetching and the luggage-ing. You do the talking and the walking and the negotiating." She reminded me, gently pushing me out the door and lugging both our suitcases behind her, strapping them into the trunk of the Hellsing limo and snapping her fingers at me. "Well, what're you waiting for? Go say bye to King Fanger." She said, and I blinked, then gave her a grateful glance and scampered back into the mansion, heading for the basement levels.
I was stopped however, encircled by a pair of cold arms and lifted up, my sky-blue eyes meeting stern red ones. "Where are you going sweet? You need to go to Italy with your friend." He said gently, and I caught the pulse and eddy of his annoyance and anger at not being the one with me. I quickly laid my head over his heart, and his anger instantly subsided, annoyance becoming fond wistfulness as he stroked at my hair. "You be careful." He reminded me, and I nuzzled into his shirt, silently acknowledging his worry and trying to sooth it as he continued to slowly pet my hair. "I'll miss you." I said, my voice muffled against his soft white shirt as he sighed and lifted my chin up with one finger. "I know sweet. Goodbye kiss and then off you go." He said softly, his crimson eyes warm and loving as he leaned down to give me a gentle peck, which I returned, wrapping my arms tightly around his neck as both our eyes closed, his tongue sliding inside my mouth to gently stroke at it, making me smile against his lips and return the favor.
It slowly got more heated, and suddenly I found myself pressed up against the wall as he dominated over me, his hands on either side of my head as I squeezed his neck in a chokehold, lifting myself up against him, kissing back just as passionately as he was kissing me. It finally ended as I was gasping for breath, my cheeks pink from both the kiss and my need to breathe, still pressed up against him as he chuckled and softly pecked my cheek, making me blush as his fangs nicked the skin and he dabbed up the blood with his slightly cool tongue, smirking at me the whole time. He pulled away, before leaning back in and gently nuzzling me as I hugged his lean chest, not wanting to let go and leave him, to go so far away to Italy with him here, alone. "Shhh, its okay…" He murmured, shifting position to hold me safely in his arms, my feet leaving the floor as I squeaked and clung to his shoulders. He held me up for a moment, then sighed and put me down, gently nudging me to the doorway.
"That impatient friend of yours is waiting. Go and be careful." He whispered, his hand squeezing mine before I was suddenly out in the light, away from Alucard and walking toward the car, trying to stop tears as I slid in and buckled myself, somehow feeling lost as the wheels crunched under me, the engine rumbling and pulling me away from what I cared about most as Jay gripped the wheel, not talking at all as she looked at me out of the corner of her eye. I sniffled, a tear plunking into my lap, and she sighed noisily, hand reaching for the radio. "Here. Vocaloid. I managed to adjust my IPod so that we can plug it into the radio." She said softly, turning the electronic on and sitting back as one of my favorite songs started playing, an English dub.
"There's a building hidden in the dark,
Long abandoned in which no one talks;
Down the hall in to the farthest room
Children gather in this ghostly tomb
And smile, for they were waiting here
Especially just to play with you.
All the happy faces, such happy faces!
They know you'll join them soon."
I looked out the window, curling up a little in the seat despite the driving rules and wrapping my arms around my legs, staring out the darkened glass silently as Jay drove, noticing and respecting my privacy and need to just be quiet right now.
"Circle you, circle you,
Stay with us and play forever.
Circle you, circle you,
Close the door and leave us never.
'Till we see the rising sun,
This is only the beginning.
Circle you, circle you,
Aren't we having lots of fun?"
I could feel it, a slight, endless tugging on my heart that urged me to say I forgot something, drive back and jump into Alucard's arms, let him hold me and simply love me, cuddle and kiss and just be around me, somehow, somewhere. I needed him. I missed him. I…I loved him.
"There's a home within the forest clear,
Hiding secrets that no one can hear.
Shred the broken body from the mind;
Immortality through death's design
While laughter and the children's hands,
They come together in the room,
"It is time," they said, "close your eyes," they said,
"And we'll all play Circle You!"
It took about fifteen minutes normally to get to the London airport Integra normally used, and Jay was heading there. And then there would be the four or five days it took to get to Italy, have the meetings, and get back. Four or five days until I could see my vampire again.
"Circle you, circle you,
Can you feel time creeping closer?
Circle you, circle you,
I'm so sorry; your turn's over.
'Till we see the rising sun,
They take heads from off our shoulders.
Circle you, circle you,
Aren't we having lots of fun?"
I realized I was making a little whimpering sound, cutting myself off as I saw Jay relax a little out of the corner of my eye, her tight grip on the wheel relaxing and realized with a slight sense of shame I had been making it for a while, probably worrying her a lot.
"Your skull, it may be fractured and
Your arms are severed to the bone.
The children undying, they smile through their crying,
In a game that never ends."
I slowly uncurled myself, making her look to me and grin a little as I tentatively smiled back, trying to ease the tugging in my heart by the warm thought he wasn't really gone, just not around. My mind and his were still connected, safe.
"Circle you, circle you,
You can't run so stay awhile!
Circle you, circle you,
They won't hear your screams for miles.
Let's play 'til the morning light
Play until they come to get us.
Circle you, circle you,
We'll have fun tonight…"
(Circle you Circle you by Vocaloid, English Dub by rockleetist)
The song ended, and there was a moment of silence as Jay paused the radio. "Well boss? I have many songs of the most awesome and holy Vocaloid upon my little i-device. Pick something." She said cheerfully, and I frowned in thought as I bit my lip, thinking. So many songs I knew that she probably had, but I didn't see any that met my current mood. She saw the indecision, letting go of the steering wheel with one hand and starting to rapidly type on her electronic. I giggled as I saw the label she found, and she shrugged off-handedly. "Sadness and Sorrow and other gloomy stuff. I didn't even know it allowed you to have that many characters in the label." I said curiously, and she shrugged absently. "I'm awesome. I can do that." She said primly, and I rolled my eyes. "You mean you hacked it." She shrugged again, a mischievous smirk curving her lips as she pressed play and looked at the road again.
"A time ago in a sorrowful place
The lonely prisoner fell for a girl
Through the barrier he could see her
And his heat would beat, Heart would beat
For her…"
I jolted in surprise as the lyrics came on, looking at her askance. "Prisoner?" I asked curiously, and she shrugged. "I have my gloomy moments, and I like the dissonance." She said with a shrug, and I nodded, looking out the windshield as the car ate up the miles.
"All my freedom has been taken away
Locked away while fearing the pain
All I can see when I look at you, is the
Big difference, Big difference
I took a chance and wrote a letter
Folding it into a paper plane
Simply hoping that it flies through the air, and it
Reaches you, Reaches you."
Unlike the copy of Circle You she had, this was in the original Japanese, but I had watched this (and many others) so many times I didn't even need the English subs, I knew them by heart.
"Ah, if only I could get away
From this cold and dark filled place.
It's all a lie.
I feel it inside
Every time I see you all of my worries disappear
I believe all the good things out there could just be true
Please come near, I just want to have a decent talk with you
Maybe then you could see how much this distance hurts my heart."
I smiled, a tear slipping down my face as I realized how close this was to what I was currently experiencing, and realized this was probably intentional. Jay could be noisy and sometimes a little mean in her humor, but she could really drive a subtle point home when she wanted to.
"I'm watching you from here, hoping you will turn
Happiness that leaves, its waiting for tomorrow
Days and months eventually pass, the dark begins to fade
The paper planes you sent me then, were my
Everything, everything
Though one day you came to me, more distant then you usually are
Telling me you were going away and it was
Goodbye, goodbye."
I shivered, pulling my trench closer and swallowing thickly as I remembered the agony of the Queen's decision, my legs throbbing along with the joints in my arms and the curves of my ribs, remembering the car accident that I had barely healed from.
"Oh, living with this agony, pain that burst out from inside
These tears, won't stop
I've never cried so much
Every time I see you I just can't help but to smile
Despite any sort of fate the future has in store for me
All those days that passed and I still do not even have your name
I can't help but to imagine a bright future where you are."
I smiled again, snuggling into the comfortable leather of the seat as I remember Alucard's smile, a warm shiver going through my body as I thought of him, my heart giving a gentle pulse of content.
"I can't call out to you, I can't follow you
I can't get out of here, I can't do anything now!
Finally, it seems my turn has come
After all this time I spent with you
Has left me with no regrets at all
But then my mind begins to scream
It says I want to live some more
I'm no longer full of those confused feelings
My heart knows what I want from this world
I wanna see you, wanna see you
Once more, once more."
I gave a firm nod as Jay smirked and nodded to me, her eyes locked on the road as she sensed me recovering from my slight depression and filling with determination to get this job done and return to the man I loved.
"If we could, I wish we'd go back to the time we once shared
Those days, I remember them like a sudden flash of light
Emotions spread out and written into so many words
Was the only thing that kept me going through the darkest times.
Far away, I imagine a patch of dirty weeds
Where a flower bloomed so beautifully standing out from all
Even though you and I lived in two different worlds
I still tried to take a chance and reach out to you."
I closed my eyes as I heard the lines, wondering what Alucard's flower would be. A black rose, like the one he had given me when our only form of communication were written words and scribbled lines?
"I can feel my heart beat change as the last moment draws near
Cant you just let me talk to her one last final time?
This chamber filled with darkness is where my life will end
My screams echo loudly yet no one else can hear
There's hurting in my chest, I can hardly breathe
I just want to know, one simple little thing
Just your na…me"
(Prisoner by Kagamine Len, Vocaloid)
'I miss you…' I thought longingly, and I felt the warm brush of his mind against my own, bringing with it the sensation of sticky red wetness, dark black emptiness, and raging insanity, but it was all sheathed from me in an emotionless case of clear glass he used to keep me safe in these encounters. I knew that under the glass was what he was really like, and I knew it should frighten me, but somehow it never did. 'And I miss you too sweet. Don't worry; you'll be home before either of us know it. Just focus on enjoying yourself and do the Hellsing name proud.' He encouraged me, and his mind faded away again as I gave a slight sigh, slumping back into the seat as my best friend and butler drove us on into the bright day.
I highly recommend you all watch the songs she has listed, they are very good. Just YouTube
Circle You Circle You English dub and click the one by rockleetist
Prisoner Vocaloid and click the one yellow and black drawing of a boy being pinned down. (its explained in the song alright?)
Thank you and please review the story.