I figured I would get the next chapter up to get the story moving some more for you guys. Especially since the first chapter received such an awesome reception! Thank you so much for your reviews and for following this story! It's so kind of you! I hope that you enjoy this next chapter just as much as the first one!


2: Explanations


Sniggers hovered in the air of the back of the truck as they made their way back to headquarters. As usual, Seras sat the furthest away from everybody else, only this time, two children clung to her arms, burying their faces against her as they had instantly fallen asleep as soon as they had gathered in the truck. Seras' face twitched every now and again, gritting her teeth as she tried to stop herself from scratching the smiles off every soldiers' face.

The two little terrors hadn't once let go of her, and the draculina was beginning to feel even more annoyed and suffocated. She tried to think of ways they could have mistaken her for their mother, but she was coming up blank. The best she could eventually come up with was that maybe she just looked like their mother, and that was why they were mistaken. After all, Luna had told her that she looked silly, much to Seras' chagrin.

Silly how? She didn't look silly. Did she?

Seras glanced down at her hands that were folded in her lap, once again trying her best to ignore the soldiers and the children sleeping soundly against her. Her thoughts travelled to the strange reactions she would likely get upon her return to base. Would they all laugh at her like the soldiers had done? Would Integra want the girls disposed of? For some reason, that thought really didn't sit well with her. After all, they were just children. They were born vampires; they never asked for this. Did Sir Integra know anything about vampire children?

The draculina couldn't help but sigh as she realised just how little she knew about her own kind. Sure, she was still just a fledgling and had not been a vampire for that long, but she knew next to nothing about the creature she had become. Master wasn't exactly the best of teachers. In fact, they rarely had much to do with each other, only occasionally accompanying each other on missions. Then their interactions would mainly consist of his teasing and Seras trying to please him as much as possible but to no avail. She was a useless vampire. Obviously that was why her master never bothered with her. No wonder he wanted her to drink his blood so badly that one time back in Ireland.

"Awww, isn't that cute; a monster and her demon spawn," one of the rookie soldiers mocked, snapping Seras out of her daydreaming.

Seras merely hissed in response, too tired and stressed to bother arguing back. Plus, she didn't want to wake Lily and Luna up. With them asleep, she could finally have some peace and quiet to think things through properly. She felt guilty that they had trusted her and followed her without question. Especially when she could very well be leading them to their imprisonment and death. But… they wouldn't be killed… right? Maybe Integra would just send her on a mission to locate their real parents and reunite them? That's all Seras could hope for anyway.

The truck then began to slow down, signalling their arrival back on Hellsing grounds. Seras' eyes tightened and she unknowingly held her breath, wishing that the journey could have lasted a little longer so she could have collected her thoughts better. She wasn't even sure what she was going to say. How was she going to explain this? She had no explanation. Would Integra even believe her? The soldiers seemed to be having trouble doing so.

As the truck came to a halt inside a darkened garage, the two girls began to stir next to her, blinking sleepily as they looked around, clinging to Seras' arms even tighter. Lily was obviously frightened, while Luna hid her fear well, merely looking apprehensive, but Seras could sense otherwise for some reason. It felt so strange to be able to read them so well when she had only just met them.

However, she had little time to ponder this new information when the soldiers began exiting the truck and going about their usual business. Seras stood, Luna clinging to her back while Lily slid down and held the draculina's hand as she hid behind her. The young vampire finally breathed again, inhaling deeply before stepping down from the back of the truck, meeting the grey, worried eyes of Walter as he waited for them. Seras held her breath again, terrified of the butler's reaction.

Immediately, the butler's eyes began scanning the girls that clung to the draculina. She could see his hands twitch, no doubt around his wires in case anything got out of hand. But his eyes also held some level of amusement, especially when catching the fed up expression on Seras' face. She felt like a climbing frame rather than a vampire right now. It was so humiliating, and Seras was just glad that her master wasn't here to see this. She would never hear the end of it otherwise.

"Good evening, Miss Victoria. I see you have made some new friends," the butler greeted her.

Seras rolled her eyes.

"Is that Mr. Voice Man?" Lily whispered as she tugged on Seras' hand to get her attention.

"Yes, my dear, but you may call me Walter." He bowed to her, and his soft tone seemed to make her feel a bit more at ease as she peered around Seras' leg to get a better look at him. Luna remained silent as she watched everything from over Seras' shoulder, her red eyes narrowing suspiciously at everything before she buried her face further into Seras' neck.

"And is this your sister?" Walter asked as he took notice of the movement from behind Seras' blonde hair.

Lily nodded shyly.

Walter crouched down so that he was more level with Lily who appeared to relax even more, though she still clung to Seras' leg. However she had no doubt taken an immediate liking to the Hellsing family butler. Everybody else did, including Seras. He was the most kind and understanding person she had ever met, and she couldn't help but look up to him as a father figure of sorts. He was certainly making Seras feel more at ease right now, taking control of the situation and trying to get to the bottom of what was going on for her.

"Who's the eldest?" he asked playfully.

"Me!" Luna yelled proudly from Seras' shoulder.

"We're twins," Lily corrected, glaring up at her sister.

"But I was born first! So I'm the eldest!" Luna stuck her tongue out, causing Walter to chuckle now that he could finally get a better look at the other vampire child.

"And just how old are you?" Walter continued to question them.

"Ten," they both answered at the same time.

Both Seras and Walter froze with shock. Ten? That couldn't be right! They both looked like toddlers. Granted they were intelligent and well-spoken toddlers, but they looked like toddlers nevertheless. The two of them were so tiny, barely reaching Seras' knees in height, and she wasn't exactly the tallest of people out there. Walter completely towered over them, and they looked like her master could easily squish them under his boot.

"T-ten?" Seras stuttered, unable to wrap her head around all of this.

Luna giggled. "Mummy, you have that funny expression on your face again." Her little hand closed Seras' mouth for her.

"So Miss Victoria is your mother?" Walter asked the million dollar question with a twinkle of amusement in his eyes. Seras glared at him in response, but he ignored her.

The two girls nodded.

"Well then, you three had better follow me as there is someone who would like to meet you," Walter explained as he began leading them out of the garage and towards the main Hellsing manor house.

Seras gulped, but wordlessly followed. Luna slid down her back and grabbed hold of her other hand, seeming more at ease as they walked beside her. Despite how weird it felt, Seras couldn't bring herself to snatch her hands out of their grasp. They were practically babies after all… weird ten-year-old babies… But still, she wanted to help them feel as safe as possible. Her mind went back to the mutilated body of the freak vampire, wondering if that would be the fate of everyone if they should become upset. Seras certainly didn't fancy her chances.

The Hellsing grounds were relatively quiet as the evening shifts began. Most soldiers would be back in their barracks by now, and there was only the odd servant milling about and completing random chores. They cowered back slightly when they caught sight of Seras just like they always did, however, their eyes held a small level of interest as they noted the two little infants walking besides her. That interest then quickly turned to fear when they caught sight of their red eyes though.

They finally approached the all too familiar office door of Sir Integra, and Seras' fear finally began to consume her once again. In fact, she was probably more scared than the children right now. If she was still human, her heart would likely be beating in a frenzy right now. Instead, her chest merely constricted tightly as if a snake had trapped her within its coils. Hopefully any moment, Seras would wake up, and all of this would have just been one really strange nightmare.

No such luck though.

Walter knocked on the door before a familiar stern voice greeted them.

"Enter."

Walter opened the door, ushering the other three inside before Seras could think of some kind of escape. Sir Integra had always been slightly intimidating, but right now the draculina was absolutely terrified of her. How would she react to all of this? Would she think that Seras had orchestrated this whole thing and would have her executed? Would she harm the two girls? Panicking, Seras knew that she couldn't bring herself to let that happen, and instinctively, she pulled the two girls slightly more behind her.

"I understand that you have found something rather unusual, Police Girl," Integra began, taking a drag from her cigar. She remained seated as the full moon glowed behind her, creating an angelic aura around her form. Stacks of papers littered the desk as always, however they had now been long forgotten as her icy blue eyes bore directly into Seras, freezing her in place. "Do share your report."

Seras swallowed. "Umm… well… you see, Sir, I was guarding the perimeter just like you asked when the soldiers inside began calling for back-up. I went to investigate only to find them dead, along with the freak, and that's when I found these two." She gestured down to the two little vampires who were watching Sir Integra curiously.

The Hellsing leader finally seemed to take notice of them, and her eyes widened slightly, though she managed to maintain the majority of her poker face. The two girls clung even tighter to Seras again, and she couldn't help but rub soothing circles into their tiny hands in the hopes that they wouldn't go berserk and give Integra even more of a reason to have them destroyed.

After a long few moments of silence, Integra placed her cigar down in an ashtray before leaning forward and clasping her hands together in front of her so she could rest her chin on them. Her wide eyes narrowed once again, presenting the ever familiar cold and professional expression. Seras fought off the urge to shiver.

"Are they full-blooded vampires?" Integra asked.

"It would appear so, Sir." Walter bowed in respect as he answered. "But so far they appear to have posed no threat. They are very intelligent and appear to have a high degree of self-control."

"What makes you say that?" Integra continued to question.

"When I met them in the garage, I purposefully cut my hand with my wires to see how they would react."

Seras gasped upon learning this. She supposed she was too busy holding her breath in fear to have noticed. Otherwise Seras was sure that she would have been the most likely one to lose all control in that situation. Poor Walter trusted her and thought that she had been drinking her blood… The draculina cringed at her own stupidity and risky behaviour. Yet she just couldn't bring herself to drink properly. It felt weird and wrong. The medical blood tasted disgusting and cold, and no amount of encouragement or bullying from her master was going to change her opinion on that.

Just to be sure, Seras made sure she was properly holding her breath, now fully aware of the scent of blood in the air from her previous gasp of shock. This was certainly a trick that she used to her advantage in her starved state. Seras never thought she would be grateful for the ability to hold her breath indefinitely.

"They did not fall into a bloodlust, nor did they try to drink from me," Walter continued to explain.

"That's because mummy told us not to kill any humans," Luna spoke up, though she sounded slightly annoyed.

Integra's eyes then travelled back to Luna, and her blue eyes once again widened, and for the first time ever, the Protestant knight appeared to have been rendered speechless. Seras probably would have laughed if she wasn't just as freaked out about the situation.

"Officer Victoria, explain!" Integra ordered, her voice sounding higher than usual.

Seras yelped and took an automatic step back. "I-I don't know, Sir! They seem confused and think that I'm their mother!"

"And are you?"

"What?!" Seras shrieked. "Of course not! How would that even be possible?!"

Integra narrowed her eyes. "You tell me."

All Seras could do was splutter wordlessly.

"After all," Integra continued probing, "there is a resemblance there that cannot be denied."

"What?!" Seras yelped again, her eyes scanning over the faces of the two girls before they returned back to her master's master. "No there isn't!"

Integra sighed, pinching the bridge of her nose. "Either way, we have a huge problem on our hands. Until now, I appear to have been ignorant of the existence of vampire children. Yet here they both stand. This is completely unprecedented."

"You're telling me," Seras mumbled.

"Where did they come from?" Integra demanded as Luna finally let go of Seras' hand to have a little explore of the office. All three adults kept their eyes on her while they continued debating. Lily remained where she was, occasionally looking around with interest but did not wander from Seras' side like Luna had done.

"I'm not sure, Sir," Seras explained. "I just found them in the warehouse."

"Did they not provide an explanation?"

"They did, but it made little sense. Something about a nest and a witch and some potions."

Integra growled and snatched a stapler from Luna who had just wasted a staple by injecting it into the expensive wood of the desk. Luna frowned, but remained silent, easily jumping up onto the desk despite her small stature and began playing with a newton's cradle, filling the room with annoying clicking sounds. Integra twitched, but tried to ignore it.

"Who turned them?"

"It appears no one did, Sir," Walter responded. "They claim to have been born vampires."

"But that's impossible!" Integra yelled impatiently as she finally snatched the newton's cradle away from Luna as well. "I swear you're as annoying as a certain other vampire I know."

"You smell like a cremated corpse," was all Luna casually responded with, turning her attention towards an expensive looking pen.

Seras pressed her lips together, trying her best to contain her laughter upon seeing the expression on Integra's face. If looks could kill. For the second time in one night, Integra had been rendered speechless, and even Walter seemed to be supressing his own amusement at what had just transpired. The draculina couldn't deny that Luna had a point. Under her natural and mouth-watering virgin scent, you could also smell the rotten flesh within her lungs from years of smoking. Seras had never said anything though. She didn't fancy having an ashtray thrown at her.

"Anyway," Walter quickly interrupted when he noticed his master's hand twitch towards the gun in her desk drawer, "I have heard rumours and legends in the past of vampire offspring, but I have never encountered any myself, nor do I know anybody who has."

"Tell me everything you know," Integra ordered.

Walter cleared his throat. "I'm afraid that I do not know much, Sir. According to the legends that I did hear, they're supposed to be very rare and that if you come across one, you're guaranteed to die. That is all I know. I had always assumed they were just a myth."

"Has Alucard ever mentioned anything about them?"

"No, Sir. Perhaps we should contact him," Walter suggested.

Integra sighed. "He's currently on Lindisfarne; there won't be any signal."

"Perhaps Seras could do it?"

"Huh? Why me?"

"You are his fledgling," Walter explained.

"So?"

"So your minds are linked. Or have you never noticed?" Integra smirked slightly before swatting Luna's hand away as she poked at one of the badges on her jacket.

"Who's Alucard?" Luna then asked, but her question was ignored.

Seras flushed. "I just thought that was all on him. And as his master, can't you just summon him? Besides, is it wise to get him involved right now? What if he hurts them? What if he scares them and they run away or something?"

Integra looked thoughtful. "Perhaps you may have a point."

"You could always try asking us," Luna butted in smugly.

"Very well then, Miss Luna, please do tell us everything you know. Where are you from?" Walter inquired politely.

Luna furrowed her eyebrows. "I don't know."

"Very helpful." Integra rolled her eyes.

"I'm afraid I don't understand how you do not know where you are from?" Walter continued, and Seras found herself leaning forward in interest.

Luna shrugged. "We've never really seen what it looks like. Mummy will know where we're from, right mummy?" She turned to Seras.

"Errr…?"

"Of course she will once she gets her memory back that is," she then added.

"Police Girl –" Integra turned back towards her "– are you quite sure you have never seen these children before? They seem so certain that you are their mother."

"I'm telling you, I'm not," Seras hissed back before Integra raised an eyebrow at her. "Sir," she added quickly and apologetically.

"How could you never have seen what it looks like?" Walter continued his questions, trying to steer the conversation away from the apparently awkward subject of their parentage.

"We don't leave the nest," Lily's quiet voice explained.

"I see. Why ever not?"

"We're not allowed," Luna took over once again.

Seras frowned in confusion at all of this. It sounded like wherever they had come from, they were nothing more than prisoners. It all sounded incredibly sad. It had the draculina second guessing whether she wanted to find their parents and send them back. What sort of a life would she be sending them back to? She had never really stopped to consider that. Maybe they had run away? Maybe they had somehow imprinted themselves on Seras in a desperate hope for someone to take them in, like a stray cat appearing on the doorstep of a family home.

"If you're not allowed, then how did you end up here?" Integra spoke up again.

"Luna dared me to step outside," Lily answered, looking back up at Seras nervously.

"I told you, it was a joke!" Luna snapped.

"You said you were going to cut the head off my doll!" Lily began crying. "And now we're away from home in a strange place and mummy has lost her memory! I just want to go home. I want to go back to the nest!"

Integra blinked in confusion. Walter shot Lily a sympathetic look while Seras froze, not knowing what to do. Luna's gaze finally faltered and she sighed as she made her way towards her sister, wrapping her arms around her as she appeared to be fighting back her own tears. It was rather sweet but also heart-breaking at the same time. Seras wanted to comfort them, but she didn't know how. She'd never really had much experience with children. When she was living in the orphanage, she kept mostly to herself, not that it was ever really a problem thanks to most of the other children being scared of her.

"What is this nest you keep referring to?" Walter asked as gently as possible.

"You know… a nest. It's where we live and have to stay." Luna then looked up at Seras with pleading eyes as she continued to cuddle her sister. "Please mummy, you have to remember!"

"Why do you keep insisting that she's your mother?" Integra interjected.

"Because she is!" Lily wailed, her face red and blotchy from crying. Blood tears stained her cheeks as her little body trembled.

"But how do you know?"

"We can sense it. We can smell it," Luna explained in frustration. "I don't know how it all works. We just know. Even though she looks a bit different, we can still tell."

"What do you mean a bit different?" Seras squeaked out. Integra was right. They definitely sounded so sure that there was no denying they truly believed her to be their mother. Vampire senses were powerful, but was it possible for them to be wrong? They were young after all. There was no way the young vampire was their mother. They claimed to be ten-years-old, yet that would mean that Seras would have been around eleven when she had given birth to them which obviously didn't happen.

"Well…" Luna appeared to be trying to find the right words to explain. "You seem weaker. And your eyes are blue and you're dressed weird."

Both Seras and Integra continued to look confused while Walter's eyes seemed to widen as he thought of something.

"Is… is it possible that these two have somehow time travelled?"

"That's impossible!" Integra iterated again.

"Pardon me, Sir, but when you think about it, it all makes sense."

"Explain," Integra commanded.

"Of course, Sir." Walter bowed before he began. "The two children appear out of nowhere and claim that Seras is their mother. They were born vampires, yet Seras is merely twenty-one in human years and three-years-old in vampire years. So yes, you're quite right in that it would be impossible for her to have had vampire children within her current lifetime. But that does not mean this is not within the realm of possibility in the future when she becomes a fully-fledged vampire. The girls mentioned some potions, so perhaps that explains everything. They found a potion that sent them back in time without them realising it."

Everyone remained silent.

"I have never heard of such a thing," Integra sighed out, once again taking another drag of her cigar as she rubbed her temple with her other hand, no doubt getting a headache from the stress and confusion of it all.

"Witches are powerful creatures," Walter explained. "I believe at the moment, we cannot rule anything out."

"Perhaps you're right," Integra agreed. "It's the best explanation we have so far."

Seras raised her hand. "Umm… that still doesn't explain how I had children in the future." She almost choked on her words but forced herself to continue. "You said there were rumours that vampire children existed, but how is that possible when I… well… you know… my body isn't exactly human anymore and…"

"You no longer menstruate," Integra continued for her with a smirk.

"Yes, Sir." Seras flushed.

"What's that?" Lily asked Luna in a whisper who merely shrugged in response.

"I'm afraid I do not know, Miss Victoria," Walter sighed out as he cleaned his monocle before placing it back over his eye.

"So now I'm presented with the age-old question of where vampire babies come from," Seras groaned before adding sarcastically, "Great!"

"Well don't look at me," Luna replied, holding her hands up. "You always said you would tell us when we're older."

Seras spluttered while Walter and Integra couldn't contain their chuckles of amusement.

"There is still another question we have yet to ponder though," Integra spoke up again once her chuckles had died down.

"What's that?" Seras asked, wishing the ground would just swallow her up.

"If you're their mother, then who's the father?"

Seras sighed. "Most likely someone I haven't met yet."

Walter turned back towards the two girls. "Could you tell us the identity of your father, please?"

"His name is Vlad," Lily replied.

"Vlad?" Seras frowned, her nose scrunching up as she did so. "Doesn't ring a bell. I don't know anybody called Vlad."

The draculina then turned back towards Walter and Integra who both had the strangest expressions that Seras had ever seen. Their features were contorted with disbelief, confusion, denial, amusement, fear and even more disbelief. It created a rather unnerving cocktail that instantly told Seras that they knew something that she didn't.

"I'm afraid you do," Walter finally whispered out, further increasing Seras' confusion.

"But it can't be…" Integra's cigar hung loosely from her lips in a comedic fashion. Her eyes darted towards the two girls, mainly coming to rest on Luna who grinned at the funny expression Integra was pulling. This only caused Integra to widen her eyes even more, the cigar falling limply from her mouth.

"What?!" Seras shrieked, terrified.

"Police Girl," Integra responded slowly and in disbelief, "it looks like Alucard is their father."

A loud thud then echoed around the room as Seras promptly fainted.


Oh dear, poor Seras. She just can't seem to catch a break lol. Thank you so much for reading my story so far, and please feel free to leave your opinions in a review. It lets me know how I'm doing and whether people are enjoying the story or not. See you again soon!