Hellsing Fan Fiction ❯ Through The Looking Glass ❯ Fear of the Dark ( Chapter 4 )

DISCLAIMER: I do NOT in any way profit from this story, nor do the characters belong to me. All creative rights belong to Kouta Hirano, but since I'm using manga elements, they belong to Kohta Hirona as spelled on the manga cover. Anything in my story that has happened in real life is purely a coincidence.

 

 

A/N: So I decided to post rather quickly. I really like this story compared to the other one…And you might notice I like to add historical figures in my stories a lot… I must say, my summary still irritates me… must change summary! Ugh, I'm not sure what to write for it.

 

Also, Jmai was kind enough to send me a beta version of this chapter, hopefully it's alright now. Thank you very much for helping me with! As well as someone else. :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After the weird encounter with the man in red, nothing exciting happened. Walter kept his mouth shut and would suddenly change the subject. Nothing would come out of Walter even if she gave him truth serum. Seras decided it was time to talk to Integra about the man, was he a ghost? No matter what he was she would know no matter what… What could she say? She felt strangely close to him. Hopefully Sir Integra was easy to get information out of.

 

 

Now here she stood in front of her relative's office, the huge wooden doors always made her feel like she was going on stage naked…or something.

 

 

Gathering up all her courage, Seras managed a small knock on the heavy door. At first there was no answer and she wondered if Integra had heard her at all, until she heard Integra's firm voice speak. “Come in.” Seras made sure Walter wouldn't be inside when she arrived. She told him that the commander had a question for him. Okay, so it was a white lie but she didn't want him there. He might've already said something to Integra about it and it would feel awkward having him there.

 

 

The door was sort of hard to open; it was very heavy and made of thick wood, so she struggled opening it.

 

 

Integra was sitting at her desk like she usually was, reading over some old looking document, it was russet from age and ripping in parts…Though it looked like someone had taped pieces of it back on. The older woman set the paper down and looked at her kin in a cool manner. “Yes, Agent Victoria?” Her voice was calm.

 

 

How lovely, she called her an agent rather than Seras, not that it bothered her much…It was always either `Miss Victoria or Agent Victoria'. Seras learned from her father how to keep any anger or irritation out of her facial features, so she just smiled nervously at her boss.

 

 

“Well, Sir, I was wondering about something…Yesterday when I went to take a walk…? Well I saw a man out there. He was Caucasian, tall about six two and very pale…” Yes even talking to her flesh and blood she still sounded like an average constable, somehow she couldn't talk normally around this woman…maybe it was because she'd only known her for about a week, and she called her `agent'.

 

 

Integra raised an elegant brow at the young woman, “Agent Victoria, we have plenty of men on these grounds. What do you mean?”

 

 

“I know sir, but he was different… His clothes were quite old, Victorian maybe. And he didn't have a code of arms on so he wasn't one of our men…though he was wearing gloves with some sort of insignia on them…” Seras paused and looked at her own white gloves, trying to remember the details of the weird symbol she saw. “Well, what I'm trying to say sir, is, do you know who that could be?”

 

 

Integra sighed, and not because Seras was getting on her nerves but because she didn't want Seras to know about Alucard just yet…But the bloodsucker decided he wanted her to know about him now, which was strange because he didn't really fancy showing himself so suddenly to other soldiers or even maids. He liked to scare them to death first. Oh yes, she would be talking with her servant today.

 

 

“Look Seras, I think you may have mistaken one of our men with someone else. The rain was very heavy yesterday and from Walter told me you didn't get much sleep the night before…Rest assured, no man in red will roam these grounds without my knowing.” Integra really didn't like lying to the poor girl, but she would tell Seras when the time was right, perhaps when she knew for sure what Seras' bloodline was.

 

 

Seras tried her best not to grind her teeth in aggravation, how did Walter know she didn't sleep well the night before?! There was more going on then anyone would let on, including her family…But at least Integra used her first name.

 

 

“I must've been seeing things, sorry sir for interrupting your work.” Seras smiled as she said this; no it wasn't a forced smile…Seras admired Integra. The Hellsing heir gave a rare smile to Seras and waved her hand, “You are dismissed, Agent Victoria.”

 

 

Seras saluted and left the intimidating woman alone with her work as quickly as she could. No point in trying to coax something out of the woman when she could hide herself very well. That was, if she was hiding anything.

 

 

Next best person to ask would be the commander; maybe he knew something about the mysterious man. 

 

 

 

 

 

Integra knew full well of whom the girl was speaking of, but it was best to keep it under wraps for now. Using the link between her and her servant, Integra called him to her. He would be awake even at this hour, and even if he wasn't she didn't care. She told him not to play around with the girl and he had disobeyed an order…though that wasn't unusual, but it still managed to piss her off and he knew it.

 

 

A large black portal appeared on the wall to her left, his usual spot.

  

 

“Yes master?” She saw his little smirk and she was not in the mood for his games today.

 

 

“Alucard, the girl told me that a man in red came to her yesterday.” She paused to regard his reaction.

 

 

“I wonder who that could be,” he stated rather than asked, since they both knew who it was.

 

 

“You and I both know who it was, Alucard! You disobeyed a direct order, I do not wish for her to go to the press with information about you or this organization!” Her patience had snapped with his last remark.

 

 

“I thought she was family master, you don't trust her yet…? Maybe it's because you found something that made you believe she may not be family after all?” Alucard asked smoothly, he was starring at her with amusement in his ruby eyes. 

 

 

Of course he hit the nail on the head. She didn't know what was more irritating, his stupid grin or the fact that he already knew. “How do you know that, servant?”

 

 

“Her blood is different from your bloodline, different smell… I can't really place it, but I remember someone who had that exact type of blood.” Alucard looked deep in thought, though his smirk remained.

 

 

“Why didn't you say anything earlier?” Integra felt a headache coming on.

 

 

“Didn't think of it.” His grin grew larger.

 

 

“It is your duty to tell me, if you know anything else I demand you tell me now…and I don't want you going near her again, is that understood, Alucard?” Integra matched his grin with an icy glare. With the look in his eyes, he told her he knew nothing else as of yet.

 

 

“Perfectly…Is that all, master?” He turned to leave but stopped short when he sensed she was about to speak again. “Alucard, are you asking for a punishment?”

 

 

“Are you offering, master?” Alucard raised a brow at her, Integra's glared intensified.

 

 

Alucard chuckled and left the room.

 

 

With yet another sigh, she went back to work. Looking through her family tree again, for some reason hoping for some sort of mistake…She was going to need some aspirin, again.

  

 

 

 

 

It seemed like the construction vehicles were back to work, everything was very noisy outside, but Seras could hear the soldiers trying to yell over the machines work.

 

 

“I SAID, DID YOU DO `ER?!” One of the soldiers yelled, “WHAT?!” The other yelled. “I SAID-” The man stopped when he noticed Seras.

 

 

Seras glared at the two men, how could they talk about such things? They both starred at her, the one who had such the indecent thing cowered slightly, with an embarrassed look on his face. The other just glared right back before realizing who she was and then found the floor much more interesting.

 

 

Seras never had men act like that around her, men never shied away from her…it was always the opposite actually. She could get used to this. Unfortunately scaring men

wasn't on her to do list right now, she needed to talk to Pip…Seras never thought she'd be looking for him before.

 

 

Ah, there he was…Also yelling, but in French. When she'd finally made her way to him, he turned and smiled pleasantly at her, then to her chest and down the rest of her body.

 

 

Seras cleared her throat, “Pip sir, could we go some where and talk privately?” Right as she asked this, the noise stopped momentarily and every guy heard what she said. Whistlers were heard all around and a quite a few things were yelled such as, `You go sir!' or `I knew she `ad a thing for `im!' She groaned, just her luck for the machines to stop right as she said that, she felt her cheeks heating up from embarrassment.

 

 

“My pleasure, girl.” Pip grinned at her and led the way back towards the mansion, which wasn't far.

 

 

As soon as they stepped in Pip turned around to face her, “I knew you couldn't resist me for long.”

 

 

“Um, right. That's not what this is about, sir…but I don't want to talk about it here…There's another level that leads to the basement, I discovered right before I went to get you, we can talk there. No one seems to want to go down there.” Seras rambled quickly, and started towards the corridor which led to the basement.

 

 

Pip watched her rear for a moment, but realized she was going to leave him behind so he ran to catch up with her. “You walk fast, girl.”

 

 

The basement was very dark, and the only lights that were on were actually candles, and they admitted a blue glow…and fog covered the cobble stone ground. The corridor descended into darkness only five meters away.

 

 

The first thing that entered her mind when she first arrived was Bram Stoker's Dracula. Funny thing was that was the first thing Pip thought of, except he thought Frankenstein…He couldn't remember which had the vampire in it at the moment.

 

 

“Uh, are ya sure zis iz an okay place to talk?” Pip didn't sound scared, just slightly nervous.

 

 

“As far as I know, it's fine. There didn't seem to be anyone or anything down here, but we'll stay in this hallway. It's as far as I've gotten.” Seras pulled out a small flash light so she could see his face.

 

 

“Well, what iz it zat you wanted to know?” Pip covered his face as she flashed the light into his eye, “Oi, get zat outta my face!” Seras smiled slightly, “Sorry.”

 

 

“Anyways, I won't go into details, but have you seen a guy dressed in all red around here, he has this really big crimson hat too?” She saw Pip stiffen a little; he didn't notice her narrowing her blue eyes at him. `Great he's going to make some stupid excuse too.' She thought with dismay.

 

 

“Never seen anyone like zat around `ere before, sorry.” He said with a shrug while averting his gaze towards the end of the corridor. “Maybe you're seeing zings, girl. `Ave you gotten any rest?” He suddenly looked at her again, some what faking his concern.

 

 

`Why the bloody hell is everyone concerned with my sleeping habits?!' She wanted to yell at him, but that would get her no where and his genuine smile changed her mind. She closed her eyes for a moment and counted to ten, then opened them again and grinned at him.

 

 

“Yeah, maybe that's it, no rest. I mean you did see me walking around the other night and all.” Seras lightly laughed…maybe she was going insane…? But it only happened one time, and she remembered from the movies that people who were insane saw the same thing more than once.

 

 

“Sorry for bringing you all the way down here, sir,” Seras said, pretending to be ashamed.

 

 

“It'z fine, girl. I don't mind `aving a pretty lady drag me off into dark places. Maybe we could do it more often, without the question asking…” Pip beamed at her, Seras just rolled her eyes. “Well, I got men to train. Talk to you later, hopefully?”

 

 

“Yeah, sure.” Seras heard a noise from behind her, but tried not to pay attention to it. `Probably a rat anyways…Ew rats!' Seras screamed inside her mind, trying not to let the fear show on her face. The commander must've not heard it or thought the same thing; he just smiled and left her…again in the dark.

 

 

Somehow she was always ending up alone in the dark, and now her flash light was dying… `Wonderful…wait, I thought I just put batteries in…Stupid batteries!'

 

 

Seras took off down the hall, hoping she could make it in time before her light went out. However, she was running low on luck as well. And soon her light went dead; there she was with nothing but the blue flamed candles to help her out…which really didn't do much.

 

 

She would admit to no one that she was scared of the dark, but in all honesty she was terrified by it…ever since… No, she wouldn't think of that now. It felt like a panic attack was about to come on, and suddenly the rather massive corridor seemed to be shrinking. Seras started to hyperventilate, and she felt dizzy. Then she passed out, she never noticed the man walking towards her…

 

 

 

 

“Walter, have you ever heard the name Catherine Eddowes…?” Integra didn't look up from her papers.

 

 

“Why yes, I believe I have… Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't she a victim of `Jack the Ripper'?” Walter rubbed his chin thoughtfully.

 

 

“Yes, she was.” Integra continued to look over her paperwork.

 

 

“What does she have to do with anything, sir?” Walter removed his monocle and rubbed the glass with a handkerchief.

 

 

“I don't know yet…I just found her name in one of my family's journals.” Integra finally looked up at her butler, “I'm not sure what it has to do with anything yet...But I suppose we'll find out soon enough.” Integra took off her glasses as well and set them on her desk, she started to rub her temples, willing the headache to go away…which wasn't working.

 

 

“Walter, could you get me some more aspirin?” Integra closed her eyes and leaned back in her chair, she needed a five minute break.

 

 

“Yes sir, I'll be back with it.” Walter left quickly.

 

 

 

 

 

On his little adventure to get Integra her meds, Walter saw Alucard walking through the halls. “Lord Alucard, you weren't scouting for blood again, were you?”

 

 

Alucard stopped to regard Walter with a slight glare, “That was a one time deal, and it was because you forgot to get it to me…Wasn't my fault the maids were terrified by me,” Alucard said smoothly, a slight smile playing on his lips making his old friend smile as well.

 

 

“I suppose they do scare easily don't they.” Walter laughed lightly, “I must be getting Integra her aspirin…Would it kill you to not patronize her so often, Alucard?” Walter watched the midian turn his back and start to walk away. `I suppose I won't be getting an answer then, no matter.' Walter thought as he turned back towards the kitchen…which was on the way to Seras' room…Where was she anyways? He hadn't seen her most of the day, not since she seemed to have lied to him about Mr. Bernadette wanting something.

 

 

Walter suddenly turned around again, but when he did turn around Alucard was gone from sight. “I'll ask him later,” He whispered to himself and continued his small mission to retrieve the medication.

 

 

 

 

A/N: I seem to be suffering from sleepiness at the moment… Isn't Alucard's basement so romantic? I mean, the creepy candles and the fog covered floors? Lol, anyways, I'm gonna head off to bed now, nye nye.