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Oh My Alucard	By : Fish_and_Chips Category: Hellsing > Het - Male/Female Views: 5648 -:- Recommendations : 2 -:- Currently Reading : 1
Disclaimer: No profit is being made with this story and I do not own Hellsing, it belongs to Kouta Hirano

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Joshua Sloan

The nurse thanked Ruby and hurried back out; while the rest of the doctors, nurses and emergency team barked orders and wheeled the other injured family members into the operating room, Ruby transformed into her emergency casualty mode that hadn't been able to resurface for some time and hurried over to where her patient should be while reception had to deal with the enquiring police for the moment. She pulled back the long, pink plastic curtain to reveal a teenage boy sitting up on the bed, covered in blood.

He was staring wordlessly at her, his cheek smudged with what looked like a flap of flesh and blood. He had light brown hair and green eyes and a small spray of freckles over his cheeks. His expression was sunken in, sullen, and his chest looked torn. It looked like claw marks. Even his clothes didn't make any sense anymore; they were nothing but black rags and tatters; what was left of his denims were soaked in blood. Ruby wondered what would be the right thing to say at this situation as she walked up to him. She never had excellent bedside manner; it was something she was still striving to improve. She stopped in front of him and grabbed a stool to sit on before taking out her supplies from the nearby equipment trolley.

"How are you feeling?" She asked.

He said nothing except shoot her a wary glare.

"I'm Ruby, what's your name?"

He stared at her but remained silent.

She swallowed down, believing this was a bad time to make conversation. Although she wanted to make him at least feel a little better, she decided to get down to work. "This might hurt." She murmured, as she unscrewed the cap to the disinfectant. She reached over to his arm – he pulled back immediately.

"Leave me alone." He snapped.

Ruby blinked. "I'm here to help you. You can trust me."

"I don't need your help." The boy barked angrily, before he winced as he tried to raise his arm at her.

Ruby reached over and this time, the boy didn't attempt to shove her away, "I promise you I won't hurt you." She lifted his arm gently and cut open the sleeve of his jacket with a pair of scissors to see a long, bleeding gash. Ruby looked back up to see that the boy was still watching her curiously, as if wondering what she might do next. He watched her clean up the blood and dab at the fleshy wound, flinching slightly. "If I hurt you, tell me, and I'll stop, okay?"

The boy blinked at her for a few seconds, then nodded sheepishly. "…Okay." He mumbled.

She smiled up at him and he tensed up all over, swallowing down, then he quickly averted his gaze away from her, frowning, letting her smother away at his arm front and back with the disinfectant. She cleaned the wound again before she began to squeeze some ointment out of a tube. It was pink and smelt odd; but it was to help the healing process. The next thing she'd have to do was wrap the cuts up in bandages and then the boy should be fine. "You doing okay, kid?"

"Don't call me that!" He suddenly roared at her, to her surprise. However, he seemed ashamed of his own outburst and threw his gaze to his lap numbly. "…I hate it when people call me that."

"Then what's your name?"

He looked back up. "My… name?"

"Yeah."

He hesitated, but then said, "Harker."

"Harker?"

"Yes." The boy quipped back, "You got a problem with that?"

She backed off immediately. "Er…No, not at all..." Whoa. This kid has some serious attitude. Oh well, he's in shock. …But…He seemed a little bit too calm to be in shock. Then again, everyone had different ways of dealing with shock. "That's weird." Ruby murmured, as she continued cleaning, wiping away at the blood. The more she cleaned, the more the cut disappeared. "The cut is – "

Harker suddenly pulled away from her and she was left with an earbudful of pink ointment that was still to be slathered over his cut. "That's enough. I'm okay now." He replied hastily, pulling his hood back over his head. He was not as shaken as she thought he was at all; his voice was collected, steady, precise.

"Eh? But you're – "

"I'm fine." He muttered, and he turned away from her to inspect the hospital surroundings, "I'm fine. I need to get out of here."

"What? But your family…"

Harker turned away, "Whatever." He grunted. "People die easily. I got used to it."

Ruby blinked. This boy sure was strange.

He continued mumbling something incoherently under his breath, closing his eyes for a brief second and wiped with the sleeve of his jacket, before re-opening them. Was he crying? He turned to face her directly, "…And I don't want another person to suffer because of me, so leave me alone."

Ruby stared at the boy. Why did he talk like that? No, scratch that. What on earth was he saying? "You can't leave now, Harker."

"Oh yeah? Just watch me."

She tried to stop him, "At least let me patch you up; you still have - "

"No."

"Harker, there are policemen out there who'll want to ask you a few questions, they're not going to let you walk out of here - "

"No!" He yelled, squeezing his eyes shut, "Leave me alone!"

"Harker, I want to help."

"Go away! There's nothing you can do for me!"

Ruby pondered. She wondered if it was legal to wrestle with a boy who was unwilling to get proper treatment, but when she finally managed to lift up his shirt even though he yelled and shrieked, her jaw dropped. There was blood, but aside from that, nothing.

No marks.

No wounds.

No cuts.

She stared in shock, and Harker frowned furiously and turned away from her, pulling down his shirt. His face was abnormally red. "…I told you to leave me alone…" He grunted, before he hopped off the bed and kicked away at the trolley that was in his way. "Stupid."

He had just called her Stupid. Ruby's mouth hung open somewhat, "…Harker, you're…"

"It's nothing. I wasn't really hurt or anything, I – " He paused, his facial expression scrunching up as his fist clenched, turning white as a sheet. "I don't owe you any explanations!"

"You're a vampire."

Harker spun round swiftly, gaping at her in disbelief. "You - "

This time, he was interrupted by loud screaming coming from outside. Ruby sat up in her stool, and she moved to pull back the curtain. Harker tried to stop her. "No, wait, don't!" Too late. Ruby stared at the dark figure in the lobby who aimed his gun at her. "NO!" Harker yelled, and within a matter of seconds, Ruby was tackled to the floor just as a loud gunshot resonated through the quiet hospital.

She blinked numbly as she flew backwards, her arms flailing. The boy had grabbed her and landed on top of her and she gasped when she saw the ceiling, her back on the floor. He had just saved her… Gasping, Ruby's shaking hands went up to him and she felt her fingers come in contact with something wet and sticky. "B-Blood…" She stammered out stupidly, watching her fingertips become tainted with the red liquid. Harker's dull green eyes were still open, and he blinked sluggishly at her.

"What part of 'No' do you not understand? You…idiot." He grunted, wincing slightly.

"Harker?"

"…Run…" He croaked out, squeezing his eyes shut.

"W-What's going on?" She squeaked. First, her old hospital, and now this new one? This… this is getting ridiculous!

"Just run…"

Ruby shook her head. She wasn't going to let the boy get hurt; she pulled back the curtain just as she got a good glimpse of the attacker; it was a young man with a black mask strapped over his mouth and nose obscuring his features except from long white hair and startling light red eyes. The mask was strange; a thick, churning tube protruded from the mouthpiece which went over one shoulder, affixed somewhere on his back. The man himself was adorned in a black, leather trenchcoat and military-style boots, and Ruby's eyes widened as he came closer, stepping on the dead bodies of the policemen who were littered all on the floor, crushing their limp bodies under his heavy boots.

This man… He was after the boy? Ruby panicked and scrabbled up, lifting Harker from under the arms and went to the other side of the curtain, which didn't face the lobby, and took him round to the back.

"Damn it…He's chased me all the way here…"

"Chased?"

"He's after me…Just let me go…"

"I-I'm not leaving you!" She tried to sound brave and strong, but failed miserably as she stammered. Nevertheless, she tried to lift him up and began to hobble out with the boy hanging over her shoulders.

At the precise moment, the man in the mask raised his gun and fired. It emitted a quirky, 'zzzp' noise and she realised the hitman had fitted the gun with a silencer on the end of the nozzle. Ruby gasped and flung herself away, still with Harker in her arms, barely dodging the bullet; it scraped her left arm and she winced in pain, but she desperately continued her course to find a place of shelter. Sheesh, why do these things keep happening to me? She thought bitterly to herself as blood poured from her wound.

At the moment, Harker's eyes turned from green to a deep crimson red by the sight of Ruby's blood. He gave out a grunt and shook his head furiously, trying to stop himself.

She didn't notice. Breathing heavily, Ruby rushed towards one of the staff-only areas and opened the door using her keycard dangling from her neck. She kicked open the door and dropped the boy on the ground for the time being before slamming the door back shut behind her and locked it, stepping away. Her arm was stinging and trembling from the aftershock of the bullet ripping through her arm, but she heard Harker groan in pain and immediately ran to his side. "… Are you okay?" She exclaimed worryingly, trying to stop the blood flow by blocking the wound with a bundle of bandages.

"Get away from me…" He moaned, "You're… bleeding…"

Ruby turned to her arm. The wound was indeed, still bleeding. "This is nothing. It's you I'm worried about." She didn't know if it was a good thing that the rest of the casualty ward had been unoccupied except from the now-dead policemen and a few members of staff who were also now-dead.

"I'm fine." He grunted, before he reached behind himself and stuck his fingers into his flesh; he found the bullet, which he began to slowly pull out of himself. He yelped and let the pain take over, succumbing, and he slumped against the wall, his eyes closed. "You should be worrying about yourself, kid." He croaked out.

She stared. Kid…? She glanced to the bullet on the floor and flicked it away for the time being, having an ominous feeling from it. She turned back to the boy and moved him slightly off the wall so she could bandage his wound properly. "Why is that man after you?"

"He's not a man; he's a vampire."

"A vampire? Who is he? A hitman?"

"I… think I heard his name was…Luther. He came with others; the ones who killed my family."

"Family?"

Harker nodded. "…The Harker's. They…They're not my real family; they took me in, and…they looked after me." He said, "They thought I was dead, but I pretended to be."

Too many things were happening at once; too many questions raced through her head. She didn't even know where to begin. "…Why?" was her first, surprisingly enough.

"I ran away from my home. My real home. The Harker's…they hunted vampires, too. But when they found me, they knew that I wasn't like other vampires." He explained, "I've… never drunk from a human before."

"…How old are you?"

He seemed reluctant, but then he mumbled out, "I forgot. But I'm older than you, so stop being so patronising. I don't need an over-sized punk like you to look after me."

Ruby didn't like where this was going. "But how old are you meant to be?"

"15, I think."

It was slowly falling into place, and her eyes widened as soon as she pieced it altogether. "…Are you…?" Ruby began, but she paused. What if I'm wrong? But the feeling was so strong. Her instincts practically screamed at her. It's HIM. Victor's Sloan's son! She swallowed down and said, "Joshua?"

There was a silence as he stared at her mutely.

"You're Joshua, aren't you?" She said, "…Joshua Sloan."

"How do you know my name?"

Ruby paled. She didn't know what to say. Harker… no, sorry, Joshua, didn't seem to have any idea about his dad and what his dad had done. She swallowed down. "I…I heard about you." Ruby stammered out.

His eyes narrowed. "And why would you know about me?" He suddenly grabbed Ruby by the front, his fangs elongating as he hissed out, "Who the hell are you? Tell me!"

Needless to say, she was intimidated. "I-I've seen your father!"

"…My…dad?"

At that point, his grip on her loosened and Ruby paled and began stuttering and stammering incoherently. "His name was Victor, right?"

Joshua turned away from her, "…Someone told me was killed by a vampire named Alucard." He mumbled, "But I don't believe it! My dad is a good man!"

She began sweating as dread began to accumulate in the pit of her stomach. Oh no! It's worse than I thought! "Er…Um…I…your dad, he…erm…" How was she going to tell him this? She whirled away from him and stood back up. This was not the time to be discussing Victor Sloan. There was a vampire after Joshua. Lifting herself off the ground, she hurried to the emergency phone and pressed down on the emergency contact number.

"What are you doing?" Joshua barked, "Tell me about my father!"

"Shh!" Ruby waited patiently with the phone pressed against her ear. She felt bad for being unable to deal with Joshua properly at the moment

Someone picked up the phone. "Hello, your name please?"

"Ruby. Ruby Ashcroft."

"Department?"

"…Er…I'm…I'm just a trainee, I rotate between departments."

"Could you give me your specific department though, please?"

"Uh…Physiotherapy."

"And can you give me the name of your supervisor."

"Look, this is really important, I don't have time to – "

"Miss, please co-operate, we need your details before we can forward you. Now tell me your supervisor or Resident Doctor, please."

"Uh…Uh…Martin Flayer... I…I think, I just started today and they're still going through the matriculation – I – oh god, can you hurry up, please?"

From the ground, Joshua stood back up and hobbled over to her, "What are you doing?"

Ruby turned back to him, "I'm trying to raise the alarm. I didn't realise it was such a lengthy process." Then she turned back to the receiver. "Hello? Hello? Are you still there?"

"I'm sorry, Miss Ashcroft, I have no record of you in our database, I'm sorry, but whatever it is you are trying to report, I can't forward it to – "

"OH FOR GOODNESS SAKE YOU STUPID ASSHOLE THERE'S THIS VAM – I MEAN, MADMAN IN CASUALTY WHO'S GOING TO KILL US ALL AND – " Before she could even finish the sentence, the door flew open and a tall figure stormed in, kicking over a few trolleys and gurneys in his way. Ruby stared in horror; it was the man in the mask – Luther. She dropped the phone, letting it swing by the cord and shoved Joshua further behind her back, hiding the boy away. "S-S-Stay back!" Ruby yelled, trying to sound threatening by raising her voice a few octaves higher. "Stay away from us!"

The man said nothing but studied her face for a few seconds, his red eyes gazing intently at her. For a split second, she believed he was contemplating, until he lifted his gun at her face and pulled the trigger; Ruby squeezed her eyes shut to brace for the impact, but to her astonishment, a tall figure crashed in through the window at the precise moment and pushed her away to the side.

Ruby stared up in shock at the newcomer. "A-Alucard!" She exclaimed with relief. However, the vampire said nothing except get off her to stand, facing Luther while Joshua stared up wide-eyed at him.

"…A…lucard?" Joshua croaked out.

Alucard paid him no attention for the time being. "Harming my bride?" He sneered as he stood opposite this mysterious assailant in front of Ruby protectively, "You have just made yourself an adversary."

Luther stared at him silently. The only audible response was heavy, ragged breathing behind the mask.

"I will…" Alucard murmured as he pulled out the Casull, "…make you squeal like a pig."

Luther said nothing and moved to an offensive stance before leaping off the floor and into the room, the tails of his black leather trenchcoat billowing behind him. He lunged forwards, and tackled Alucard; the two slammed through the wall and hurtled out of the hospital building itself. Ruby shielded herself from the fraying glass and debris, before quickly getting back up.

"Alucard!" She ran to the broken wall to stare out into darkness, shaking slightly. They were at the ground floor but when she looked up, she saw the vampires scaling the walls of the hospital – but they were not crawling as she thought, but rather, running on the horizontal wall how one would move around on the ground normally. Like bugs. Her jaw dropped at the sight; they were clearly defying gravity! How could anyone stand on a wall like that?

Alucard fired shots from the Casull at Luther, who dodged with a backflip before crawling up onto a random window ledge and into the room swiftly, his trenchcoat tails slipping inside behind him. Loud screams were subsequently heard coming from inside, before Alucard pursued, a maniacal grin on his face.

Ruby shook her head. "Déjà vu…" She mumbled, before she made a dash to the exit to follow the fight…although she wasn't sure this was the right thing to do.

Wait! She had forgotten something… or rather, someone.

"…Joshua?"

He was gone.

Ruby growled. "Just great. Yeah this is just what I need, for that kid to run off…" She brushed a hand through her hair and hastily exited the tarnished emergency room and into the main hospital layout, watching the new crowd of startled patients and staff members gathering around at reception, questioning about the loud noises they'd heard outside.

She snuck out and into the staircase, just in time to hear shots being fired above and a loud, horrible screeching noise. Stunned by the noise, Ruby backed away, clamping her hands over her ears, her eardrums felt like they were on fire. When the banshee-like scream was over, she removed her hands and glanced around, before continuing on her way to the next floor.

She pulled open the door and peered in just to see a hail of bullets burst through the window, shattering the glass. She screamed and dodged by leaping a foot back, just in time to see a black shadow flitting over the window, followed by Alucard's swishing red cloak. She could hear more bullets being fired outside.

"…They're going further up…" She muttered under her breath. A few feet ahead of her, she saw Joshua making his way towards the rooftops. "Joshua!" She yelled, when she spotted him.

He turned round and gave her a look but nonetheless, ignored her call before running to a random window himself. He took a flying leap, diving through the window and broke through the glass, before crawling out on all fours, much like how Luther did before. Ruby's jaw dropped. Crawling vampires…that certainly was new… She disappeared back into the fire exit and began jogging up to the rooftops, taking two steps at a time.

No, no, no! I know what he's going to do… he's going to try and kill Alucard!

There was another horrendous screech although it sounded much further. Despite this, Ruby flinched again by the ear-splitting sound and had to grab onto the rail for support. Once the scream was over once more, the sounds of gunshots could be heard and she knew Alucard was apprehending Luther by now.

As soon as she arrived at the rooftops, she threw open the door and –

…

The vampire called Luther was fast. It weaved in and out of the hospital, climbing through random windows as quick as the speed of light before exiting through more windows to re-emerge back outside the hospital, making his way up and up. Aside from supreme agility, it also had a shrieking attack which didn't exactly faze him but sent humans writhing in pain; the ones with weaker constitution would find their ears practically bleeding. Alucard emptied a few more rounds into the vampire once he got a clear shot as it emerged from a window, and Luther's body convulsed under the shower of bullets embedding into him.

He lost his footing but nevertheless remained rooted to the walls of the hospital, before it protruded out his gun and began shooting at Alucard, emitting the horrid, but muffled, screeching noise at him behind the mask.

That is becoming irritating now, Alucard thought to himself as a bullet slammed into his jaw, tearing his lower jaw off his face, leaving it to hang, his tongue dangling. I shall finish this quickly.

Upon that thought, Alucard's lips tugged into a crazy smirk once Luther's rounds were depleted. "Dog… You are nothing but a mere dog," He snarled, as he took a step closer, "You're just like the rest of them." He fired more rounds but the vampire dodged; Alucard grinned and swerved his glance to the roof. There. He would trap it there. The vampire was too damned fast. It was like a black blur half the time. He should get it cornered somewhere. Alucard emptied some more bullets without further ado, and as he predicted, the vampire began swiftly crawling towards the rooftop for more coverage.

He landed on the rooftop just in time for the door to slam open and Ruby came stumbling in, sweating and flushing. "Alucard…" She panted, wheezing and coughing, as she stopped to rest. "Thank goodness I found you, where's – "

A shadow dropped down beside her and– "Ahhh!" Ruby screamed when Luther grabbed her from behind and held a knife up to her neck.

"…" Luther still did not speak, however. Instead, he glowered silently at the vampire, his pale red eyes flashing behind his long white bangs. He pressed down on the knife, and Ruby whimpered slightly.

"Why won't you speak?" Alucard demanded.

"…" Luther only emitted a guttural noise behind his mask in response. It sounded like a snake hissing.

Alucard raised an eyebrow. Perhaps the vampire named Luther couldn't speak at all. Luther merely narrowed his eyes at him as he took a step forwards; Luther backed away, still with Ruby in his grip. Slowly, they circled each other before Alucard slowly lifted up his hands… "Releasing control restriction at level 3…level 2…level 1…Situation A. Cromwell approval is now in effect," He murmured, in a strange, hypnotic-like trance, "Commencing limited power release until the current target is in complete silence…"

Luther stepped back slightly, still with Ruby in his grip as eyes began to surround them. Ruby was hit with another sense of déjà vu; hadn't Alucard did the same thing to her before? But this time… something felt different. The black miasma withered away and the face of a large…dog…thing began to manifest from Alucard's body.

Luther's eyes widened when a hellhound came hurtling out, latching onto his hand with the knife close to Ruby. She screamed, expecting the knife to plunge into her neck for sure due to the close proximity, and she was also sure the dog attacking Luther would make him stab her definitely, but to her surprise, the dog ripped away at Luther's hand before he could and Ruby squeezed her eyes shut when she was released. She collapsed to the ground and quickly wriggled away to a safe corner.

Backing away from the snarling hell hounds, Luther leapt backwards to evade only for another entity to seize him from behind – he whipped around and immediately fired his gun at Alucard only to realise it had only been an illusion. Behind him, a pair of jaws snatched around his waist and the hellhound tossed his helpless body over the scaffolding to the left of the rooftops right where a sharp metal pipe end was sticking out and –

Ruby heard the unmistakeable squelch of flesh and shakily opened one eye to see that Alucard had impaled him using the edge of the pipe, the vampire still wriggling around like a maggot. The gun dropped from his hand, clattering to the foor. Eventually, Luther stopped moving and simply lay draped over the scaffolding with his head down, the pipe sticking out from his stomach, dripping with blood.

Alucard stood in front of him, staring intently at the impaled, unmoving body. His hellhound lurked around, as if awaiting an order. Yes, he would devour him, but then -

A piercing scream tore through the air.

It was Ruby. She was screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming, having unintentionally witnessed the entire scene. He automatically turned round and approached her, still engulfed in the black miasma. Ruby stared up at him.

What was in front of her was an older version of Alucard.

Yes, many questions bombarded her mind. Why was he here? When did he even arrive here at Pembury? What about the words Sir Irons had said? And why did he look...different? He appeared older, his cheeks hollow and his skin was stretched, grey and dull. His frame was thin and emaciated, evidenced by the tight straitjacket-like appendage he was wearing, exposing his stick-like arms and thin body. An eyeball blinked at her in the middle of his chest and she scrambled back, eyeing him warily.

"…What…are you?" She managed to croak out, only to be responded with his cackling laughter as he threw his head back to the night sky. …Is this…Alucard's true form…? Is this what he really looks like?

He stopped laughing then, and stared at her in return for a long time, until - "Yes…indeed…What am I…?" He quietly repeated her question, before he held his long and thin, spindly arms out, "…This is what I am."

And then…he held out his hand to her.

She recognised the gloved hand. But she wasn't sure if she wanted to take it. The answer came when she saw a shadow creep behind Alucard and her eyes widened - the first thing she did was shove herself in front of him.

BANG!

A bullet slammed into her left shoulder and Alucard whipped round with snarl but the recoil sent her doubling backwards; he caught her and Ruby grabbed onto his arm, stopping him amidst his retaliation. She shook her head and turned to the assailant.

"Joshua!"

Alucard saw a young boy stumbling backwards, his eyes wide at the sight. No! He wasn't aiming for her. Why the hell did she jump in front of that goddamned vampire? "I-I didn't mean to – " He stopped halfway, throwing Luther's gun to the floor before leaping off the edge of the rooftops, disappearing into the darkness.

Ruby tried to follow him but Alucard held her back. "Joshua, come back!"

"Joshua?" Alucard growled under his breath, "Victor Sloan's son?"

"It-It's okay…He wasn't trying to kill me. He knows you killed his dad. He wants revenge." She winced, her hand flew to her wound and she drew her hand back, her fingers smothered in the red, goopy liquid. "Ahh…owww…okay, I need to get this checked out…"

Alucard's eyes widened at the sight.

His chest suddenly hurt.

His body felt like it was on fire.

He opened his mouth, his tongue darting forwards, as if having a mind of its own, wanting to taste. He saw the blood drip from her fingernails, and onto the floor as she fussed over her skin wound.

Sweet, sweet blood…

On the floor.

Wasted.

He shuddered and quickly turned away from Ruby. The smell was…endearing…like…honey…no, even better…he had no idea what it was… or what it could be…what it would taste like, but he…knew he desperately wanted -

"…Go…"

He could feel his fangs emerging as he stood, tensing up all over. His eyes began to roll to the back of his head; this time, he wasn't in control.

Ruby blinked up at him nervously. "A-Alucard?"

He was jerking in his spot, twitching, convulsing. At the same time, he was emitting a sound akin to snarling. He growled, his chest rumbling, almost as if he couldn't help himself. "…Get away from me…as fast as…you can…" He grated out, with increasing difficulty in trying to get words out right. He clamped his hands over his face, his fingers clawing down as his mouth widened with uncontrollable glee as his fangs began to extend and extend over his bottom lip, "Before I…I…"

He did not finish his sentence, for he had blacked out.
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