Hellsing Fan Fiction ❯ Hellsing Goes American ❯ History Lesson ( Chapter 14 )
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By: ani_cat_candy 
We learn more about Cat and see another bit of Alucard's memories. WARNING: kinda' a sad chapter
Anime/Manga: Hellsing Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Psychological / Horror / Drama / Comedy / Romance | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 02.07.2009 | Pages: 2 | Words: 4.8K | Visits: 278 | Status: Work In Progress
We learn more about Cat and see another bit of Alucard's memories. WARNING: kinda' a sad chapter
Anime/Manga: Hellsing Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Psychological / Horror / Drama / Comedy / Romance | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 02.07.2009 | Pages: 2 | Words: 4.8K | Visits: 278 | Status: Work In Progress
Hellsing Goes American
Chapter 14: History Lesson
Candy spun around in her office chair a few more times, her hand hurt from all the stupid paperwork! She had finally found her bloomers after two hours of searching and was thankful no one was around.. they were sitting on the counter in the bathroom right next to the sink! Yea, that made her feel really smart. Thankfully, that poisonous gas hadn't gotten into her closet or bathroom so none of her cloths smelled like that crap.. Poor babies, though. They had to have all of their cloths washed along with their wigs and furniture! She spun the chair again.
It was mid November.. Hey! Shouldn't they be putting up Christmas stuff soon? Candy loves Christmas.. Besides it being a fun holliday that you get to celebrate all month long (well, her family always did anyways), it was the one time of year that she could listen to the other three Trans Siberian Orchestra CDs without people looking at her like she was nuts.. Well, more so than usual, anyways. She jumped up out of her chair and dashed out of the office (after getting her head to stop spining.. It didn't seem to realize that the chair had stoped). She ran back up to her room and dug her iPod out of her purse before going over to another bag and diging out a Hello Kitty ball.
She stuck them both in the big pocket on her apron.. It was white with ruffles on the straps that went over the shoulders and crossed in back and around the heart-shaped bib (the upper part) that doubled as a pocket, the skirt was plain so as not to over-do it. She looked like a super cute (instead of slutty) French maid as she also wore a white lacy head piece, the same black dress (it's sleeveless btw) from before and some chunky black Mary-janes and white knee-high stockings. She didn't bother with any makeup and just left her hair down.
Now she just needed to find Walter and see what they normally did for Christmas.. She'll work out the details and changes later. With that, she bounded down the hallways to find the old buttler and bug the living crap out of him with Chrismas stuffs.
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Alucard laughed as the Freak tried to kill him with nothing more than a normal gun. Candy had given the soldiers the night off and let him go out to play. "FUCK!" The stupid kid, now Freak threw the gun down and tried to escape. Too slow! He didn't even bother pulling out his gun, just shoved his hand streight through his chest and watched as he became nothing more than a pile of dust. He looked around a bit. Fluff Ball would have had fun here, the kids had slaughtered a rather large group of men that had been heading home from a night of drinking and the ally was drenched in blood.
That reminded him though.. about earlier in her room when she had 'punished' him. How the hell could she have tore him up so badly? He decided to walk home as he tried to think of anything that might explain... After a good hour and a half of walking he was just a few blocks from the manor and still didn't have any ideas.. That is until something in a shop window caught his eye. He smiled as he saw the 'open' sign still lit up.
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"What 'cha do~in'?" Seras just about jumped out of her skin, the notebook she was writing in now had a big weird line going across the notes. Candy laughed as Seras clutched her chest and tried to calm her heart.. or something like that. "That's not very nice." Seras pouted as she put the notebook away. "Sorry. Couldn't help myself." She looked as cute and innocent as she could... "...Oh, it's alright.." HAH! NO ONE CAN SAY NO TO THE AMAZING, SUPER AWESOME, ONE OF A KIND, HEART-WRENCHINGLY SWEET, GIVE-ME-WHAT-I-WANT-OR-I'LL-CRY-PUPPY-EYES!!! NO ONE!!!! Alucard could be heard laughing in his room all the way at the other end of the hall. She squee'd and ran down the hall. That's who she came down here to see! Seras just shruged it off and went back to what she was doing before she had scared the daylights out of her.
She didn't bother knocking, just ran in and tackled him in a big hug, knocking him to the floor. She was extreamely hyper tonight and had no idea why. "Okaeinasai, Alucard-sama!" He huged her back, "English please?" "Welcome home!" He couldn't help but smile. A real smile for once. No one had welcomed him home with such sencerity sense she was alive. "Thanks.." He burried his face in her hair as he held her close. Why the hell did she have to always remind him of her? He wanted to forget. He wanted to get rid of those memories, they were far too painfull. He would rather be beaten and tortured for a hundred years streight than feel this again. But he just couldn't let her go. His arms refused to do as he wanted and continued to hold her. He needed to let her go, he didn't want her to see him like this.
Candy calmed down immediately after he thanked her.. It was barely noticeable, but his voice had quivered a bit when he said it. And that hug she knew all too well.. He was lonely. She didn't bother saying anything, just held him tighter. Sometimes all you need is a hug.. And a simple hug can mean so much, it can do what words can't in mending a heart. If he wanted to talk, she'd listen, but she wouldn't force him. She knew how much worse that could make things.. She's been in and out of the hospital for as long as she could remember and it was always the same. The doctors and nurses would ask her to tell them how she was feeling refusing to touch her unless absolutely nesacery and wouldn't let up on her until she would break down and cry and yell at them to leave. She hated talking. She could never get the words to come out right and people always looked at her like she's retarded when she would speak.. maybe that's why she created Cat and Candy, so people would look strangely at them and not her...
She would be in there for weeks or months at a time, always in a privet room, which had it's good points.. But she was never alowed to leave the room or have any visitors come closer than a few yards from the bed. She looked forward to the first Sunday of every month, when a group would come from the Catholic church to volunteer at the hospital. There was one priest that would fly down every month from the Vatacan in Rome just to help out at the hospital and he always made sure to visit her. He was the only one who would ever ignore the doctors and would give her plenty of hugs! He was her best and only friend until her Nephew was born.. She still kept in touch with him, sending and receving letters at least once a month. He was the only person that never asked her to talk, he waited until she was ready to talk on her own, and she could never thank him enough for that.
Candy was pulled from her thoughts as she felt something wet roll down her arm.. blood. She wasn't sure how she knew it was blood, but she did. He was crying.. She hated to see people cry, it usually made her cry too, but she would try her hardest not to. She pulled him closer, running a hand through his long pretty hair, trying to sooth him is some way. "I'm sorry.." a couple more bloody tears hit her shoulder and ran down her arm before he pulled back just enough he could rest his forehead on her shoulder, his hair hideing any of his face from her. "You must think I'm so.. pathetic.." The bloody tears were now hitting her collar bone and runing down her chest. "No I don't." She kissed the side of his head before resting her cheek on it. "You're one of the most amazing people I've ever met." He scoffed at that and pulled away completely, turning away, with his head down so his hair kept his face hidden.
Candy was trying hard to keep the tears from welling up in her eyes... He looked really down.. "Alucard-sama.." He stoped, just about to get in his coffin to hide for a while. "If you want to talk, I'll always be here to listen.. But, I understand if you don't want to.." She stood up and gave him a hug from behind, "I hope you get to feeling better soon.. Tomorow will be better.." She gave him a warm smile before leaving and closing the door quietly behind her. She made her way quickly back up to her room, hopeing she wouldn't run into anyone. She didn't like crying in front of people, and seeing him so down just broke her heart.
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She hadn't done anything he had expected.. She didn't make a fuss about any of it, didn't beg him to tell her what was wrong, didn't try to tell him that it'll be alright or that she knew how he felt... He hated it when women did that, it was so anoying. 'Tomorow will be better', her words echoed through his mind, he sure as hell hoped so. As he shifted a bit to get more comfortable, he noticed her scent still lingered inside his coffin. He laughed humorlessly. Damn, now he really wouldn't be able to stop thinking about her.
He closed his eyes as his mind refused to let him sleep, reminding him of the similarities between them.. He was the only one she allowed to see the real her, and it seemed the same way with his Fluff Ball.. Neither were afraid of the things that should have frightend them.. They both made him feel alive again, young again. Something no one else has ever been able to do, it only took them one glance in his direction to get his heart to start beating again.. They both were completely honest with him, one of the tings he liked most... But she had been afraid of him at one point while Candy seemed to trust him completely from the moment they met..
He was finally able to drift off to sleep, only to dream of that night again.
He had just come back into the small cottage from killing the pathetic filth that had scared and chased the beautiful young lady when he found himself being huged by said lady. What a sweet girl, Fate must have been jealous and sent those bastards after her. He sat her back down in the chair and wraped the blanket around her shoulders once more. However, when he went to pull a leaf out of her hair, he was burnt.. She was wearing silver earings.. She jumped back and nearly fell, but he caught her, unintentionally frightening her more. Why did women always have to scream like that?
He let her go as soon as he thought she wouldn't fall again and went into the next room. If she didn't want him to be near her that was fine with him, he would find somehing to entertain himself with. What the hell? She's scared, but she still follows him? Humans were so confusing. He leaned against a wall and looked out the window at the lake. It was a nice little area, he wondered why he had found this house abandoned.. Lightning flashed in the distance followed shortly by a loud crack of thunder. This was why he had stoped on his way home, he had smelled the rain comeing.
The girl jumped as another crash of thunder sounded. The lightning must have hit close by as it had shook the entire house. "Um.. My name's Mina..." She squeeked and jumped at another flash of lightning and bang of thunder. Humans could be quite amusing at times. "I.. um.. I'm sorry for my.. uh.. reaction just a moment ago.. I just..ah.." "I understand. Your village was just atacked and you chased by monsters, now you're traped with yet another one. It is to be expected for a young lady such as yourself to be frightend." She had inched her way over to him each time she saw lightning or heard the thunder, so when it sounded again, she unconciously clung to him in fear. She was more afraid of the storm than she was of him.. What a silly little thing..
As the night stretched on they got to know eachother a bit better, especially once she got into the wine. The sun would be rising soon, he noted as he looked out the window. The storm continued to rage on, the sun would not be able to pierce through the clouds today, although it may very well flood. Who cares? He'd rather be wet than in that damn sun light. He looked back down at the pretty bundle in his arms. She had fallen asleep on him not too long ago, silly little Human...
She was something else. He'd honestly never met a woman such as her before. She had actually admitted to him, after her second glass of wine, that she had enjoyed the sight of all that blood when the village was attacked, even when her friend, whom she was here visiting, was slaughtered she felt very little remorse. She had only became frightend once they had found where she had been hideing. She was wild, sadistic, and just so much fun. She made him feel good, better than he had felt in centuries. He could have swore, when he looked into those bright chocolate eyes of hers, that he felt his old black heart beat again.
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Candy sat in her bed with some pretty stationary in her lap, useing a notebook for suport as she wrote a letter to her old friend. She used a loopy cursif handwriting that tended to look more like calligraphy. She giggled a bit as she thought about how sloppy her friend's handwriting was, it always took her a while to figure out what it said. She decided to listen to some music while she wrote and pulled the iPod and Hello Kitty ball from her apron. She plugged the kitty ball into the headphone-thing before selecting her classical playlist and setting it down on the nightstand next to the kitty ball that she had opend up (it's a set of small speakers that look like Kitty's head, for those who havn't seen them). She smiled and relaxed a bit as The Palonia Quartet (a string quartet group - 2 violins, a viola and cello) began to play Andante Cantabile by Tchaikovsky, a pretty song with a bit of an erie tone in the middle section as the two violins play together, it reminded her of that creepy church music from old horror movies.. that was her favorite part of the song.. too bad she couldn't reproduce that sound on her violin, she'd need someone else to play with her... Oh well.. Time to write that letter!
Father,
I apologise for not writing to you sooner, things have been quite hectic lately. I've just learnd that I was adopted, although no one has given me much information on thet yet, and I've inherited my real familie's organization. I was taken to London just about a week ago and have settled into my new home. I've made a new friend! He works for the organization, his name is Alucard and he's really nice. Perhaps you could come visit and meet him sometime. If you're not too buisy, that is. Oh! I also have my own buttler now. I think he needs to take a nap more often, he's grouchy.
I really hope I don't make you worry, as Alucard is taking very good care of me and protecting me. I just need to tell someone and I know I can trust you. The reason I've inherited this organization is because I'm the last blood-relative of this family (or so I'm told) as all the others have been assassinated. I had a bad feeling the other day and had asked to stay with Alucard in his room for a bit. Good thing I did, as that evening he had gone upstairs (his room is in the basement) to find the whole mansion filled with some kind of poisonous gas. It was kind of scary. Also that morning my breakfast was weird, like someone had put something in it... I didn't eat it of coarse, I had some cookies instead. <3
Well, besides that and the huge stacks of paperwork I have to go through every day, it's really nice here. Oh, there's also a girl that works here, Seras Victoria, she's really funny. Alucard is her boss and I guess she used to work for the police, he is always trying to annoy her, calling her 'Police Girl' instead of by her name... It's pretty funny really. But, for some reason he got really down this morning (he works at night mstly so morning is more like evening for him)... I wish there was something I could do to cheer him up, but I'm just going to give him some time and plenty of hugs. If he wants to talk about it, he knows I'll be here to listen... I know I've told you a million times, but I will say it again, because there really is no way to thank you enough for all of those hugs and for not trying to make me talk while I was in the hospital. You really are the greatest friend anyone could hope for.
I hope to hear from you soon!
Love Always,
Candy
She folded up the pretty, flowery paper and placed it in a matching envalope before writing the address on it and seeling it up. Sure she could send him an email instead, but she prefered writing it by hand. It just seemed more personal that way. She took the letter to her office and placed it in the pile of things to be mailed out after putting a stamp on it. Tomorow will be better, she reminded herself as she headed back to her room for some sleep. Tomorow will be better.
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Or not. She sat at her desk as Walter was freaking out about getting a call that someone from the Vatican was comeing. He wouldn't shut his big mouth long enough for her to tell him that she had wrote to a friend there. She smiled when she heard a car pull up in the front drive. He's here! She jumped up and ran down to the front door to greet him, almost knocking over the cranky old buttler. Just as she reached the top of the stairs her friend and another priest came storming in. They didn't look too happy..
"Well, well, look who's come to play!" Alucard came up through the floor, pointing his gun at her friend who just seemed to get even more pissed. "You filthy monster! I swear if you have laid one finger on my little angel I will make your life so miserable, Hell will look like a vacation resort!" Whoa! She's never seen him this mad before.. hes face was red as a tomato. "Little angel? Who...?" He looked up at his Master then the priest, pointing a thumb back at her, "Fluff Ball?" He was genuinly confused as she bounced down the stairs and toward the fuming priest. "What's wrong? Do you two know eachother?" She was pulled into a big protective hug, "Ay, we know eachother, angel. And I want you to stay away from that filthy beast!" "Why?" "BECAUSE HE'S A VAMPIRE! A DAMND MONSTER!" he held her by the shoulders and shook her a bit in anger making her give a small squeek, her eyes watering up. She couldn't stand when people yelled.. Especially those she considered close, weather at her or not..
She heard a growl just before she was yanked back away from her friend and held tightly by her pet. "Enough! You're scaring her!" "BULL SHIT! GET YOUR HANDS OFF HER, YOU'RE THE ONE SHE'S SCARD OF!" He didn't even seem to notice she had burried her face into Alucard's jacket and was holding onto him for dear life as she cried. "Stop yelling." "DON'T YOU DARE TELL ME WHAT TO DO, VAMPIRE! I'LL SEND YOU STRAIGHT TO HELL, YOU-"
"ENOUGH! Please, stop yelling, Father.. please.." The 'monster' placed a kiss atop her head as she began to cry even harder. Now she knew why the buttler was so upset.. He could have told her that before, but NO, all he did was say over and over again "Whay are they comeing here? Why now? What could they want this time?" He could have told her that Alucard and Father Anderson had a problem with eachother.. Honestly, how hard would that have been? "Damn Monster.. Wha'd you do to her!? Why'd you go 'n make her cry!?!" Alucard's eye twitched.. He was starting to really hate this guy...
Candy flinched as his voice raised again. She was so glad Alucard wasn't raising his voice too. "I didn't do shit." "ENOUGH OF YOUR LIES, VAMPIRE! GET AWAY FROM HER!!" She mumbled out a quick apology before pulling out of his arms and dashing down to the basement, away from all the yelling. They both looked at the stairwell confused (Alucard not so much confused as worried) as she disapeard, most likely heading to his room to hide. Maxwell sighed, "Could someone please tell me what's going on? And what in God's name was the emergency we had to come here for, Anderson?" This was going to be a long night.
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Candy almost tripped down the stairs when she accedentally bumped into Seras, "I'm so sorry!" She blurted out as she continued toward the one place she really felt safe anymore, unable to stop her voice from hitching due to the tears that soaked her face. She vaguely wondered what her friend's coffin was made of as she curled up inside it. She didn't have much trouble closing it.. Damn it! Why the hell couldn't she be normal like everyone else? Why was she the one that always had to come down with rare illnesses that made her feel so strange every time she was released from the hospital? Why was she always able to see, hear and smell things that no one else could? She had thought that perhaps she was just insane or imagineing it, but now she was older and understood more she wondered if perhaps it was a side effect of her meds or all the surgeries she's had to go through..
She knew it was weird, to feel so safe and comfortable inside a coffin, but she's always been that way. She enjoyed sleeping in small spaces others would consider cramped. She couldn't stand the sunlight, she didn't know why really, she would always tell her teachers that it was because she didn't tan, she burned, and quickly. It wasn't a lie, but it wasn't the whole truth either.. She'd always had a facination with blood, and even thought it tasted good.. Now that she thought about it, it was kind of strange. She always had these strange problems and illnesses that she would have to go to the hospital for, but she had never once had any normal illnesses. Chickenpox, cold, flu, nothing.
Damn it! There was too much room in the coffin without her friend in there with her... Father Anderson had always been so kind and gentle. What made him hate Alucard-sama so much? Why would he call him a monster? So he wasn't Human, big deal. He was still a person, wasn't he? And she didn't remember it saying anywhere in the Bible, not off the top of her head anyways, that anything that wasn't Human was to be condemed for that fact alone.. She couldn't recall anywhere that it mentioned Humans.. It always said man, which to her meant a person... Besides, wasn't he the one who always told her that it's not what's on the outside, but inside that matters?
It didn't take too long for her to cry herself to sleep, something she rarely did any more, although it was quite common when she was in the hospital..
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After she had left, Anderson calmed down some, though he was still pissed. Alucard sat and listend as Walter talked with the priests about what was going on, he really wasn't told anything, just that she was the last one and that she had been found, so he didn't have much to add to the conversation. Turned out that Fluff Ball's biological mother was Anderson's little sister, although for some reason they didn't want her to know that. They eventually came to an agreement and the priests left. Anderson wanted to stay so he could visit with Candy, but, thankfully for Alucard, Maxwell reminded him that they had been in the middle of some very important buisness when he received the letter from her.
It was almost six in the morning when Alucard managed to get back to his room. Damn that buttler was chatty tonight! He didn't remember closing his coffin when he'd got up last night, but shruged it off as he got ready for bed. He opend the lid to find his Fluff Ball curled up into a little ball at one end of the coffin.. She woke slowly as light from the room flooded in.. He couldn't help but feel bad for her, her eyes were all red from crying. "I'm sorry for wakeing you, Master.. Are you alright?" She noded, " 'm hung'y..." she sat up and rubbed her eyes as he laughed and helped her up. "What would my master like to eat?" She wraped her legs around him and laid her head down on his shoulder as he held her and petted her hair. "mmm..." She was too sleepy to think..
He patently waited for her answer as she nuzzled his neck sleepily. He was begining to think she'd fallen back asleep when a sharp pain sudenly shot through his neck...
AN: Cliffy! Evil hih? =^____^= <3 So? What do you think will happen? Who do you think is trying to kill her and why?
Alucard: "I think it's Walter!"
Seras: "Why do you say that, Master?"
Alucard: "Because he's old, grouchy, and has been acting weird."
Seras: "O~h... Oh! I think it's the vengefull ghost of Sir Integra!"
Alucard: laughs
Seras: "What?"
Walter: "Perhaps it's someone from the Vatican?"
Integra: upset about the vengefull ghost comment "Or maybe it's you, Officer Victoria."
All: look at Cat expectantly
Cat: "Nope! Not going to say! Y'all will just have to wait and see!"
All except Alucard: walk away grumbling
Alucard: ^___^ hands Cat some money and looks at her expectantly
Cat: =0__0= "SWEET! Spending money!" runs off laughing
Alucard: -__-U "Damn.. that was my last twenty..." goes to his room to sulk
Chapter 14: History Lesson
Candy spun around in her office chair a few more times, her hand hurt from all the stupid paperwork! She had finally found her bloomers after two hours of searching and was thankful no one was around.. they were sitting on the counter in the bathroom right next to the sink! Yea, that made her feel really smart. Thankfully, that poisonous gas hadn't gotten into her closet or bathroom so none of her cloths smelled like that crap.. Poor babies, though. They had to have all of their cloths washed along with their wigs and furniture! She spun the chair again.
It was mid November.. Hey! Shouldn't they be putting up Christmas stuff soon? Candy loves Christmas.. Besides it being a fun holliday that you get to celebrate all month long (well, her family always did anyways), it was the one time of year that she could listen to the other three Trans Siberian Orchestra CDs without people looking at her like she was nuts.. Well, more so than usual, anyways. She jumped up out of her chair and dashed out of the office (after getting her head to stop spining.. It didn't seem to realize that the chair had stoped). She ran back up to her room and dug her iPod out of her purse before going over to another bag and diging out a Hello Kitty ball.
She stuck them both in the big pocket on her apron.. It was white with ruffles on the straps that went over the shoulders and crossed in back and around the heart-shaped bib (the upper part) that doubled as a pocket, the skirt was plain so as not to over-do it. She looked like a super cute (instead of slutty) French maid as she also wore a white lacy head piece, the same black dress (it's sleeveless btw) from before and some chunky black Mary-janes and white knee-high stockings. She didn't bother with any makeup and just left her hair down.
Now she just needed to find Walter and see what they normally did for Christmas.. She'll work out the details and changes later. With that, she bounded down the hallways to find the old buttler and bug the living crap out of him with Chrismas stuffs.
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Alucard laughed as the Freak tried to kill him with nothing more than a normal gun. Candy had given the soldiers the night off and let him go out to play. "FUCK!" The stupid kid, now Freak threw the gun down and tried to escape. Too slow! He didn't even bother pulling out his gun, just shoved his hand streight through his chest and watched as he became nothing more than a pile of dust. He looked around a bit. Fluff Ball would have had fun here, the kids had slaughtered a rather large group of men that had been heading home from a night of drinking and the ally was drenched in blood.
That reminded him though.. about earlier in her room when she had 'punished' him. How the hell could she have tore him up so badly? He decided to walk home as he tried to think of anything that might explain... After a good hour and a half of walking he was just a few blocks from the manor and still didn't have any ideas.. That is until something in a shop window caught his eye. He smiled as he saw the 'open' sign still lit up.
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"What 'cha do~in'?" Seras just about jumped out of her skin, the notebook she was writing in now had a big weird line going across the notes. Candy laughed as Seras clutched her chest and tried to calm her heart.. or something like that. "That's not very nice." Seras pouted as she put the notebook away. "Sorry. Couldn't help myself." She looked as cute and innocent as she could... "...Oh, it's alright.." HAH! NO ONE CAN SAY NO TO THE AMAZING, SUPER AWESOME, ONE OF A KIND, HEART-WRENCHINGLY SWEET, GIVE-ME-WHAT-I-WANT-OR-I'LL-CRY-PUPPY-EYES!!! NO ONE!!!! Alucard could be heard laughing in his room all the way at the other end of the hall. She squee'd and ran down the hall. That's who she came down here to see! Seras just shruged it off and went back to what she was doing before she had scared the daylights out of her.
She didn't bother knocking, just ran in and tackled him in a big hug, knocking him to the floor. She was extreamely hyper tonight and had no idea why. "Okaeinasai, Alucard-sama!" He huged her back, "English please?" "Welcome home!" He couldn't help but smile. A real smile for once. No one had welcomed him home with such sencerity sense she was alive. "Thanks.." He burried his face in her hair as he held her close. Why the hell did she have to always remind him of her? He wanted to forget. He wanted to get rid of those memories, they were far too painfull. He would rather be beaten and tortured for a hundred years streight than feel this again. But he just couldn't let her go. His arms refused to do as he wanted and continued to hold her. He needed to let her go, he didn't want her to see him like this.
Candy calmed down immediately after he thanked her.. It was barely noticeable, but his voice had quivered a bit when he said it. And that hug she knew all too well.. He was lonely. She didn't bother saying anything, just held him tighter. Sometimes all you need is a hug.. And a simple hug can mean so much, it can do what words can't in mending a heart. If he wanted to talk, she'd listen, but she wouldn't force him. She knew how much worse that could make things.. She's been in and out of the hospital for as long as she could remember and it was always the same. The doctors and nurses would ask her to tell them how she was feeling refusing to touch her unless absolutely nesacery and wouldn't let up on her until she would break down and cry and yell at them to leave. She hated talking. She could never get the words to come out right and people always looked at her like she's retarded when she would speak.. maybe that's why she created Cat and Candy, so people would look strangely at them and not her...
She would be in there for weeks or months at a time, always in a privet room, which had it's good points.. But she was never alowed to leave the room or have any visitors come closer than a few yards from the bed. She looked forward to the first Sunday of every month, when a group would come from the Catholic church to volunteer at the hospital. There was one priest that would fly down every month from the Vatacan in Rome just to help out at the hospital and he always made sure to visit her. He was the only one who would ever ignore the doctors and would give her plenty of hugs! He was her best and only friend until her Nephew was born.. She still kept in touch with him, sending and receving letters at least once a month. He was the only person that never asked her to talk, he waited until she was ready to talk on her own, and she could never thank him enough for that.
Candy was pulled from her thoughts as she felt something wet roll down her arm.. blood. She wasn't sure how she knew it was blood, but she did. He was crying.. She hated to see people cry, it usually made her cry too, but she would try her hardest not to. She pulled him closer, running a hand through his long pretty hair, trying to sooth him is some way. "I'm sorry.." a couple more bloody tears hit her shoulder and ran down her arm before he pulled back just enough he could rest his forehead on her shoulder, his hair hideing any of his face from her. "You must think I'm so.. pathetic.." The bloody tears were now hitting her collar bone and runing down her chest. "No I don't." She kissed the side of his head before resting her cheek on it. "You're one of the most amazing people I've ever met." He scoffed at that and pulled away completely, turning away, with his head down so his hair kept his face hidden.
Candy was trying hard to keep the tears from welling up in her eyes... He looked really down.. "Alucard-sama.." He stoped, just about to get in his coffin to hide for a while. "If you want to talk, I'll always be here to listen.. But, I understand if you don't want to.." She stood up and gave him a hug from behind, "I hope you get to feeling better soon.. Tomorow will be better.." She gave him a warm smile before leaving and closing the door quietly behind her. She made her way quickly back up to her room, hopeing she wouldn't run into anyone. She didn't like crying in front of people, and seeing him so down just broke her heart.
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She hadn't done anything he had expected.. She didn't make a fuss about any of it, didn't beg him to tell her what was wrong, didn't try to tell him that it'll be alright or that she knew how he felt... He hated it when women did that, it was so anoying. 'Tomorow will be better', her words echoed through his mind, he sure as hell hoped so. As he shifted a bit to get more comfortable, he noticed her scent still lingered inside his coffin. He laughed humorlessly. Damn, now he really wouldn't be able to stop thinking about her.
He closed his eyes as his mind refused to let him sleep, reminding him of the similarities between them.. He was the only one she allowed to see the real her, and it seemed the same way with his Fluff Ball.. Neither were afraid of the things that should have frightend them.. They both made him feel alive again, young again. Something no one else has ever been able to do, it only took them one glance in his direction to get his heart to start beating again.. They both were completely honest with him, one of the tings he liked most... But she had been afraid of him at one point while Candy seemed to trust him completely from the moment they met..
He was finally able to drift off to sleep, only to dream of that night again.
He had just come back into the small cottage from killing the pathetic filth that had scared and chased the beautiful young lady when he found himself being huged by said lady. What a sweet girl, Fate must have been jealous and sent those bastards after her. He sat her back down in the chair and wraped the blanket around her shoulders once more. However, when he went to pull a leaf out of her hair, he was burnt.. She was wearing silver earings.. She jumped back and nearly fell, but he caught her, unintentionally frightening her more. Why did women always have to scream like that?
He let her go as soon as he thought she wouldn't fall again and went into the next room. If she didn't want him to be near her that was fine with him, he would find somehing to entertain himself with. What the hell? She's scared, but she still follows him? Humans were so confusing. He leaned against a wall and looked out the window at the lake. It was a nice little area, he wondered why he had found this house abandoned.. Lightning flashed in the distance followed shortly by a loud crack of thunder. This was why he had stoped on his way home, he had smelled the rain comeing.
The girl jumped as another crash of thunder sounded. The lightning must have hit close by as it had shook the entire house. "Um.. My name's Mina..." She squeeked and jumped at another flash of lightning and bang of thunder. Humans could be quite amusing at times. "I.. um.. I'm sorry for my.. uh.. reaction just a moment ago.. I just..ah.." "I understand. Your village was just atacked and you chased by monsters, now you're traped with yet another one. It is to be expected for a young lady such as yourself to be frightend." She had inched her way over to him each time she saw lightning or heard the thunder, so when it sounded again, she unconciously clung to him in fear. She was more afraid of the storm than she was of him.. What a silly little thing..
As the night stretched on they got to know eachother a bit better, especially once she got into the wine. The sun would be rising soon, he noted as he looked out the window. The storm continued to rage on, the sun would not be able to pierce through the clouds today, although it may very well flood. Who cares? He'd rather be wet than in that damn sun light. He looked back down at the pretty bundle in his arms. She had fallen asleep on him not too long ago, silly little Human...
She was something else. He'd honestly never met a woman such as her before. She had actually admitted to him, after her second glass of wine, that she had enjoyed the sight of all that blood when the village was attacked, even when her friend, whom she was here visiting, was slaughtered she felt very little remorse. She had only became frightend once they had found where she had been hideing. She was wild, sadistic, and just so much fun. She made him feel good, better than he had felt in centuries. He could have swore, when he looked into those bright chocolate eyes of hers, that he felt his old black heart beat again.
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Candy sat in her bed with some pretty stationary in her lap, useing a notebook for suport as she wrote a letter to her old friend. She used a loopy cursif handwriting that tended to look more like calligraphy. She giggled a bit as she thought about how sloppy her friend's handwriting was, it always took her a while to figure out what it said. She decided to listen to some music while she wrote and pulled the iPod and Hello Kitty ball from her apron. She plugged the kitty ball into the headphone-thing before selecting her classical playlist and setting it down on the nightstand next to the kitty ball that she had opend up (it's a set of small speakers that look like Kitty's head, for those who havn't seen them). She smiled and relaxed a bit as The Palonia Quartet (a string quartet group - 2 violins, a viola and cello) began to play Andante Cantabile by Tchaikovsky, a pretty song with a bit of an erie tone in the middle section as the two violins play together, it reminded her of that creepy church music from old horror movies.. that was her favorite part of the song.. too bad she couldn't reproduce that sound on her violin, she'd need someone else to play with her... Oh well.. Time to write that letter!
Father,
I apologise for not writing to you sooner, things have been quite hectic lately. I've just learnd that I was adopted, although no one has given me much information on thet yet, and I've inherited my real familie's organization. I was taken to London just about a week ago and have settled into my new home. I've made a new friend! He works for the organization, his name is Alucard and he's really nice. Perhaps you could come visit and meet him sometime. If you're not too buisy, that is. Oh! I also have my own buttler now. I think he needs to take a nap more often, he's grouchy.
I really hope I don't make you worry, as Alucard is taking very good care of me and protecting me. I just need to tell someone and I know I can trust you. The reason I've inherited this organization is because I'm the last blood-relative of this family (or so I'm told) as all the others have been assassinated. I had a bad feeling the other day and had asked to stay with Alucard in his room for a bit. Good thing I did, as that evening he had gone upstairs (his room is in the basement) to find the whole mansion filled with some kind of poisonous gas. It was kind of scary. Also that morning my breakfast was weird, like someone had put something in it... I didn't eat it of coarse, I had some cookies instead. <3
Well, besides that and the huge stacks of paperwork I have to go through every day, it's really nice here. Oh, there's also a girl that works here, Seras Victoria, she's really funny. Alucard is her boss and I guess she used to work for the police, he is always trying to annoy her, calling her 'Police Girl' instead of by her name... It's pretty funny really. But, for some reason he got really down this morning (he works at night mstly so morning is more like evening for him)... I wish there was something I could do to cheer him up, but I'm just going to give him some time and plenty of hugs. If he wants to talk about it, he knows I'll be here to listen... I know I've told you a million times, but I will say it again, because there really is no way to thank you enough for all of those hugs and for not trying to make me talk while I was in the hospital. You really are the greatest friend anyone could hope for.
I hope to hear from you soon!
Love Always,
Candy
She folded up the pretty, flowery paper and placed it in a matching envalope before writing the address on it and seeling it up. Sure she could send him an email instead, but she prefered writing it by hand. It just seemed more personal that way. She took the letter to her office and placed it in the pile of things to be mailed out after putting a stamp on it. Tomorow will be better, she reminded herself as she headed back to her room for some sleep. Tomorow will be better.
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Or not. She sat at her desk as Walter was freaking out about getting a call that someone from the Vatican was comeing. He wouldn't shut his big mouth long enough for her to tell him that she had wrote to a friend there. She smiled when she heard a car pull up in the front drive. He's here! She jumped up and ran down to the front door to greet him, almost knocking over the cranky old buttler. Just as she reached the top of the stairs her friend and another priest came storming in. They didn't look too happy..
"Well, well, look who's come to play!" Alucard came up through the floor, pointing his gun at her friend who just seemed to get even more pissed. "You filthy monster! I swear if you have laid one finger on my little angel I will make your life so miserable, Hell will look like a vacation resort!" Whoa! She's never seen him this mad before.. hes face was red as a tomato. "Little angel? Who...?" He looked up at his Master then the priest, pointing a thumb back at her, "Fluff Ball?" He was genuinly confused as she bounced down the stairs and toward the fuming priest. "What's wrong? Do you two know eachother?" She was pulled into a big protective hug, "Ay, we know eachother, angel. And I want you to stay away from that filthy beast!" "Why?" "BECAUSE HE'S A VAMPIRE! A DAMND MONSTER!" he held her by the shoulders and shook her a bit in anger making her give a small squeek, her eyes watering up. She couldn't stand when people yelled.. Especially those she considered close, weather at her or not..
She heard a growl just before she was yanked back away from her friend and held tightly by her pet. "Enough! You're scaring her!" "BULL SHIT! GET YOUR HANDS OFF HER, YOU'RE THE ONE SHE'S SCARD OF!" He didn't even seem to notice she had burried her face into Alucard's jacket and was holding onto him for dear life as she cried. "Stop yelling." "DON'T YOU DARE TELL ME WHAT TO DO, VAMPIRE! I'LL SEND YOU STRAIGHT TO HELL, YOU-"
"ENOUGH! Please, stop yelling, Father.. please.." The 'monster' placed a kiss atop her head as she began to cry even harder. Now she knew why the buttler was so upset.. He could have told her that before, but NO, all he did was say over and over again "Whay are they comeing here? Why now? What could they want this time?" He could have told her that Alucard and Father Anderson had a problem with eachother.. Honestly, how hard would that have been? "Damn Monster.. Wha'd you do to her!? Why'd you go 'n make her cry!?!" Alucard's eye twitched.. He was starting to really hate this guy...
Candy flinched as his voice raised again. She was so glad Alucard wasn't raising his voice too. "I didn't do shit." "ENOUGH OF YOUR LIES, VAMPIRE! GET AWAY FROM HER!!" She mumbled out a quick apology before pulling out of his arms and dashing down to the basement, away from all the yelling. They both looked at the stairwell confused (Alucard not so much confused as worried) as she disapeard, most likely heading to his room to hide. Maxwell sighed, "Could someone please tell me what's going on? And what in God's name was the emergency we had to come here for, Anderson?" This was going to be a long night.
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Candy almost tripped down the stairs when she accedentally bumped into Seras, "I'm so sorry!" She blurted out as she continued toward the one place she really felt safe anymore, unable to stop her voice from hitching due to the tears that soaked her face. She vaguely wondered what her friend's coffin was made of as she curled up inside it. She didn't have much trouble closing it.. Damn it! Why the hell couldn't she be normal like everyone else? Why was she the one that always had to come down with rare illnesses that made her feel so strange every time she was released from the hospital? Why was she always able to see, hear and smell things that no one else could? She had thought that perhaps she was just insane or imagineing it, but now she was older and understood more she wondered if perhaps it was a side effect of her meds or all the surgeries she's had to go through..
She knew it was weird, to feel so safe and comfortable inside a coffin, but she's always been that way. She enjoyed sleeping in small spaces others would consider cramped. She couldn't stand the sunlight, she didn't know why really, she would always tell her teachers that it was because she didn't tan, she burned, and quickly. It wasn't a lie, but it wasn't the whole truth either.. She'd always had a facination with blood, and even thought it tasted good.. Now that she thought about it, it was kind of strange. She always had these strange problems and illnesses that she would have to go to the hospital for, but she had never once had any normal illnesses. Chickenpox, cold, flu, nothing.
Damn it! There was too much room in the coffin without her friend in there with her... Father Anderson had always been so kind and gentle. What made him hate Alucard-sama so much? Why would he call him a monster? So he wasn't Human, big deal. He was still a person, wasn't he? And she didn't remember it saying anywhere in the Bible, not off the top of her head anyways, that anything that wasn't Human was to be condemed for that fact alone.. She couldn't recall anywhere that it mentioned Humans.. It always said man, which to her meant a person... Besides, wasn't he the one who always told her that it's not what's on the outside, but inside that matters?
It didn't take too long for her to cry herself to sleep, something she rarely did any more, although it was quite common when she was in the hospital..
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After she had left, Anderson calmed down some, though he was still pissed. Alucard sat and listend as Walter talked with the priests about what was going on, he really wasn't told anything, just that she was the last one and that she had been found, so he didn't have much to add to the conversation. Turned out that Fluff Ball's biological mother was Anderson's little sister, although for some reason they didn't want her to know that. They eventually came to an agreement and the priests left. Anderson wanted to stay so he could visit with Candy, but, thankfully for Alucard, Maxwell reminded him that they had been in the middle of some very important buisness when he received the letter from her.
It was almost six in the morning when Alucard managed to get back to his room. Damn that buttler was chatty tonight! He didn't remember closing his coffin when he'd got up last night, but shruged it off as he got ready for bed. He opend the lid to find his Fluff Ball curled up into a little ball at one end of the coffin.. She woke slowly as light from the room flooded in.. He couldn't help but feel bad for her, her eyes were all red from crying. "I'm sorry for wakeing you, Master.. Are you alright?" She noded, " 'm hung'y..." she sat up and rubbed her eyes as he laughed and helped her up. "What would my master like to eat?" She wraped her legs around him and laid her head down on his shoulder as he held her and petted her hair. "mmm..." She was too sleepy to think..
He patently waited for her answer as she nuzzled his neck sleepily. He was begining to think she'd fallen back asleep when a sharp pain sudenly shot through his neck...
AN: Cliffy! Evil hih? =^____^= <3 So? What do you think will happen? Who do you think is trying to kill her and why?
Alucard: "I think it's Walter!"
Seras: "Why do you say that, Master?"
Alucard: "Because he's old, grouchy, and has been acting weird."
Seras: "O~h... Oh! I think it's the vengefull ghost of Sir Integra!"
Alucard: laughs
Seras: "What?"
Walter: "Perhaps it's someone from the Vatican?"
Integra: upset about the vengefull ghost comment "Or maybe it's you, Officer Victoria."
All: look at Cat expectantly
Cat: "Nope! Not going to say! Y'all will just have to wait and see!"
All except Alucard: walk away grumbling
Alucard: ^___^ hands Cat some money and looks at her expectantly
Cat: =0__0= "SWEET! Spending money!" runs off laughing
Alucard: -__-U "Damn.. that was my last twenty..." goes to his room to sulk