Midian Evolution | By : Savaial Category: Hellsing > Het - Male/Female Views: 35437 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 2 |
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“Seras.”
I woke at the sound of my name. Master still slept, but he apparently dreamed of me. “Seras,” he murmured again. “I know.”
“Know what?” I whispered, crouching over his prone, lax body.
His eyes opened, but I knew he still slept. He had no comprehension of me or the room. “I know what it means to be human; you are teaching me.” Eyes closing again, my master fell back into deepest sleep.
I put myself beside him again and pulled the blanket up over us.
Master really worried me, sometimes.
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“We have a lead.” Integra handed my master a slim file. “Neo-Thelema member Paul Jhonas.”
Alucard opened the file and stared at the picture of a nearly bald, blue eyed man. I recognized him as one of the Nazi werewolves at Boleskine House. “I’ve seen him,” Alucard confirmed.
“So have I.” Integra ground out her cigar with an angry snap of her wrist. “He was one of the plumbers who installed Seras’ bathroom.”
“A likely candidate for the regenerist serum,” Alucard said. “What do you wish us to do, my master?”
“Find him. Separate him from his disgusting friends, bring him here and lock him in the most miserable room we have.” Integra circled a day on her calendar before meeting our watchful gazes. “I want information on this group before we kill him. You’ll have to be quick, because we’re leaving the day after tomorrow.”
“For Istanbul,” I added. “Right?”
“Correct.” Integra half smiled. “Assuming I can make your master behave himself with the Ottomans.”
Alucard favored Integra with a thin smile of his own. “You can trust me, Master.”
“What about Angel Dust Anderson?” I asked. “We can’t leave him here, can we?”
“No.” Integra shrugged. “We’ll take him with us. I don’t like the idea of having my honeymoon ruined by a vitriolic priest, but there we have it.”
“Lovely.” Alucard grinned a full, toothy grin.
“So, we find this Paul Jhonas, bring him here, question him, then kill him,” I summed up quickly.
“Yes.” Integra lit an actual cigarette and kicked back in her chair. “I suggest starting with his last known address.”
Alucard bowed. “My master, Seras and I will bring him to you this very night.” He grabbed me by the hand and tugged me from the room.
“I know how to find this scum,” Alucard fairly snarled once we entered his private room. He strode to Anderson, who looked at him woozily. “Recognize this man, priest?” he asked.
Anderson frowned at the picture. “Paul Jhonas,” he said after a few seconds. “Lost his cassock four years ago fer twiddlin’ an altar boy.” His eyes went up to my angry master. “What’s he got to do with annaethin’?”
“He’s the one who left regenerist serum as a gift for my sotia,” Alucard said. “Where do I find him?”
Anderson gave him a calculating, cagey look. “Ya want him, demon, I’ll take ya to him.”
“No, I want him alive, for torture,” Alucard replied, tossing the file onto his little table.
Anderson’s eyes began to gleam the coldest green. “What else?” he asked. “He’s in these werewolf attacks, too, isn’t he?”
“Apparently.” Alucard returned Anderson’s measuring look. “Why did Maxwell allow your de-frocking, priest?”
Anderson didn’t say anything for a full minute or more, just looked to the side and thought. Finally, he shook his head. His shoulders slumped a little. “I dinnae know, demon, unless ‘twas over my refusal to make Regenerators out of the orphanage boys.” He met my master’s eyes again, but seemed reluctant. “I know where Jhonas got the serum; the labs were burgled three weeks ago.”
“So, there’s more of this stuff floating round?” I asked, suddenly very worried. Master, what if they’re saving it to use against us? What if we have to dodge this serum every time we go after Neo-Thelema?
What indeed? I see no way around it, Seras.
“Aye,” Anderson answered me. “There’s about thirteen doses of the serum missing.”
Anderson and Walter should be immune, master mused.
He’ll never work with us!
Won’t he? Time teaches that an enemy can become an ally. Alucard reached down and unchained Anderson from the wall. “You’ll come with us, priest.” I felt him seizing control of Anderson, this time without sexual coercion but a rigid mental hold so tight I could almost see it.
Anderson gagged as he shook his head. Slowly, he climbed to his feet. “Why dinnae ye grab onto my mind all those other times, devil? If it’s so easy.”
“Where’s the sport in that?” Master grinned.
Master commanded Anderson to think of the last place he’d known Paul Jhonas. We faded out of Hellsing Manor, once again on the hunt.
I recognized our surroundings almost immediately. This was the village Master had taken Anderson from; I spied the familiar main avenue at once. The priest gazed toward a distant church. Eyes cold, he took his glasses off and wiped them on his shirt cuff. “I’ve never been able ta prove Jhonas has a bolt-hole here. I’ve searched and found nothing. But, I feel his taint in that holy place.”
Master shot a look toward his prisoner, a look of deep curiosity. “You want to get him, Alexander?” he asked, his voice smooth and temping. “Seras and I can make that happen.”
“How?” Anderson scoffed. “Ye canna even go in there, vampire.”
“You’d be surprised where I can go,” Alucard murmured in reply.
“Once ye’ve renounced the Holy Spirit, ye canna go inside a church,” Anderson insisted. “Consecrated ground isnae for the likes o’ you.”
“That can’t be right.” I had to get into this discussion. “The vampire that attacked me in Cheddar Village, he cornered me inside a church.”
Anderson swung his attention to me. “I thought you were his childe,” he countered, poking his thumb toward my master.
“I am.” I grinned up at the thoughtful priest. “Master killed the freak priest.”
“And still turned ye inta what ye are?” Anderson looked toward Alucard sourly. “Ah knew it. Vampire whimsy. The older ye get, the more impulsive.”
“I bow to your superior knowledge.” Alucard slid a clip into his new gun, then checked the clip in his other. “Now, we’ll go inside the church. I’m eager for sport.”
We moved inside. Once in the inner foyer, Master drifted to the left. I noticed Anderson did the same, as if they both could sense the general direction they would find Jhonas. I saw Anderson also watching my master for signs of discomfort, but Master seemed just as natural as he always did.
I’d been born as a vampire inside a church; it didn’t bother me to be in here at all. In fact, it felt kind of nice. I sensed the residual faith, the hope, the sticky dreams and prayers that people generated.
A tremor moved through me. From far below came a sense of displacement, of wrongness. Master?
I felt it, too, Master said. “Anderson?” he asked quietly.
“Aye,” Anderson said, and though he hadn’t heard the mental communication between us, he knew what Alucard asked. “The reliquary,” he said. “I’ll lay odds that’s where the devil hides.”
“Gun out, Seras,” Alucard ordered softly. “Try not to shoot up the church, but don’t hesitate to make a good shot. I don’t want regenerist serum near us.”
“There’s no need ta hide,” Anderson said lowly. “Jhonas is a stinkin’ coward. That’s why he chose little, defenseless boys to violate.” The ex-priest’s fingers twitched like he’d draw a bayonet, but he couldn’t, not with Master controlling him. “I’d like to cut him inta tiny, twitchin’ pieces.”
You and the ex-priest share something, after all, my master mused, leading us toward the rear of the church. A connection you might use to bring him closer to our darkness.
Yes, Master, I thought to him. Why don’t you want me to shoot up the church?
Because it will make it that much harder for Anderson to respect us. Have no fear; I’m not going soft on God’s little shacks.
You really want him working for us, don’t you? I had to admit, Anderson would be a formidable ally.
He didn’t answer, but I hadn’t expected him to, because I hadn’t really meant my words as a question. I looked over at Anderson, struck anew by how large the man was. I thought we had the same color hair, which struck me funny. I grinned up at him, and he eyed me askance before turning his head to fully view me.
Not like that, Seras, Alucard said, chuckling. Now he’s just going to wonder what you’re up to.
We entered a dark hallway, followed it to the end, and began descending down dusty stone steps. No one came back here often, that seemed certain.
“Stop,” Anderson said softly. He closed his eyes. A shiver tore through him. I heard him make a slight gagging sound. “Abomination…”
Master looked up, prompting me to also look. Above our heads was a crudely drawn symbol, followed by a swastika. I smelled old blood, spray paint and something else.
Anderson leaned on the wall, pressing his cheek to the stone. His hands spread out, fingers gripping. A shockwave of nausea shot through me, carried by light and the absence of sound. As I watched, the two symbols began to bleed. Unseen force made our space pulsate as Anderson began to mutter.
Holy power is interesting, isn’t it? Master asked me in a very pleasant, patient tone. Does it make you feel sick?
Faintly, I answered. Maybe not as much as it could. You told me I didn’t get sick, remember?
Yes.
The symbols dripped to nothing. Anderson sighed. “He’ll really know we’re here, now,” he said. “There’s no need ta be quiet.”
“He can’t get out somewhere?” I asked.
“No. There’s no way out but past us, and I’m sure not lettin’ the animal past me.” Anderson straightened and took turns glaring at us. “Are we goin?”
As if Anderson had summoned him, Paul Jhonas burst up the staircase. Screaming, he attempted running past. I dodged at a flash of movement, and something splashed the wall behind me. In a half second I was tearing at my top, terrified I had regenerist serum on my clothes. I heard Master and Anderson shouting, Jhonas screaming even louder, and then, deathly quiet.
Since I’d not had the attention to spare, I’d missed seeing who got the dropping blow on our quarry. I didn’t really care; all I cared was that we had him, and that I’d gotten my top off.
Not that I liked standing around in my bra.
“Some sort of armor will be needed,” Master mused aloud, looking at the dampened wall.
Anderson picked up my shirt and held it before me. “It isna wet, wee vampire lass.”
“I’m not taking chances.” I folded my arms.
Master grinned. He grabbed Jhonas by the hair, though Jhonas didn’t have much. “Shall we go?”
Anderson seemed to look at my master a very long time. Slowly, he took off his long cassock and handed it to me without even meeting my eyes.
Dumb as I could be at times, I still saw the symbolism wrapped within the gesture. Anderson was a proper man, and he didn’t care for my being even partly exposed. Still, this was the symbol of his priesthood he gave to me. It was an unparalleled concession, especially for him.
“Can ye even put it on?” he asked softly, and his voice sounded utterly lost.
I took the warm wool from him and donned it, hoping Master didn’t get offended that I accepted it. It nearly hung to the ground on me. I buttoned the top of it and murmured a quiet ‘thank you’. I didn’t feel repelled by the thing.
Now I really want to violate you, Sotie. You look like a creature ripe for defiling in that holy robe. Master walked by us, dragging Jhonas. “Come along, Seras, Anderson,” he intoned.
I rolled my sleeves up and followed, Anderson at my heels.
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