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I don't own Hellsing, and I'm not making any money from this.

Syn desperately needed a babysitter.

Thus far, she hadn't encountered any problems with finding someone to watch Mihnea. She preferred a hands-on approach with him and liked to keep the baby near her as much as possible. A swing and playpen were set up in her office to keep him entertained while she was working. If he wasn't with her, Alucard had him. And if both of them were busy, Seras or Edmund were usually free to take up babysitting duty for a while. But the fact of the matter was that there were times when everyone was off doing something at the same time, and Syn didn't like the idea of her son being looked after by someone she knew nothing about. Mihnea needed a nursemaid – someone trustworthy who could spend time learning his quirks and build a relationship with him so the baby could feel secure and safe.

When she brought up the issue with Integra, the knight had no objections to it. She even made a point of saying that it would be in the redhead's best interests to choose someone from the household staff for the job. Everyone who had been working at Hellsing for any length of time was aware of the presence of vampires in the manor, and could wrap their brains around the notion of blood being used as food. Since Walter was the one who oversaw all of the house-staff, he helped her put together a list of potential candidates. Most were older women who had past experience working as governesses. But the one Syn found herself liking the most was the youngest girl on the list.

Rebecca Braisinger was about Seras' age, 19 or so, with chestnut hair and bright hazel eyes. As the eldest of six children, she had plenty of experience assisting with the raising of her younger brothers and sisters. She was a serious minded girl who always completed her duties perfectly and on time – but there was a playful streak in her that was ideal for keeping a young child engaged and entertained. The deciding factor for Syn was that Rebecca had no qualms with picking the baby up the moment she saw him. And from the happy baby noises he made when she talked to him, it seemed Mihnea actually liked her. The boy tended to act distrustful and quiet with anyone other than his 'family'. The redhead wondered if perhaps he was more intelligent and perceptive than one would expect a baby to be. It was possible he remembered being surrounded by people who had hurt him, then locked him away in an isolation tank. Syn wasn't really sure about all that, but the fact that he opened up and seemed to trust Rebecca got the girl the job on the spot.

She figured she may as well give the girl a test run and see how she did for the day. Alucard was promised magic lessons, and it was better to get started now rather than waiting. It was really a massive experiment, if she were honest with herself. Pouring through Jonas' 'restricted' books and Victor's papers on the experiments performed on the master vampire had given Syn and idea. It was entirely theoretical and something no one had ever done before. Hell, it might not even work, but she was determined to try. If they were successful, Syn would be able to legitimately claim to have invented a new form of necromancy.

The No Life King seemed to suffer from an odd mixture of being intrigued and not knowing what to think about the whole thing.

"You believe that my immunity to your blood has given me the ability to eat souls?" he asked her.

"No, I believe it may have given you the ability to use souls." she corrected.

One of his brows rose in interest. "Explain."

Syn pulled her legs into a more comfortable cross-legged position on their bed down in the dungeons. They could have had this conversation in the other room, but Alucard's throne was the only chair, and she didn't really want to have a serious discussion while sitting on the floor or in his lap.

"Blood is the source of life. If someone's brain stops working they can still live, and if their heart stops beating, they can be brought back. But no one can survive being drained of blood. The essence of the soul is carried within it, so technically, any creature who drains someone to the point of death absorbs their soul. They just can't do anything with it."

"And what, little goddess, makes you think I'm any different?"

She sniffed. What kind of stupid question was that? "Because you are different." she said firmly. "Before VanHelsing captured you, you were a normal, albeit extremely powerful, vampire. There is no way you could be considered 'normal' now. There was something about developing an immunity to Victor's blood that made you damn near invincible. You could have absorbed some kind of obscure Nahual trait no one knew about, or it might have been something completely different. But somehow, being exposed to his blood and surviving it unlocked the barrier to using the souls held within you."

It was kind of weird, but nice to have a serious conversation with the vampire and him actually pay attention and not act like an ass the whole time. Maybe it was because he was learning something about himself, or maybe he was genuinely interested in what she had to say. Or it could have just been that she was talking to him for long stretches of time without raising her voice or calling him names. That could have been it too. He watched as she took a drag from her clove cigarette and tapped the ashes off into an ashtray she had set in front of her.

"You had better not be smoking those things around my son." he told her.

Syn rolled her eyes. "Oh please. I'm not stupid, Alucard. I don't smoke around the baby."

"Good." he sniffed, then went back to the subject at hand. "How do you know about this? I'm well acquainted with everything that was written about me, and I don't recall anything about using souls."

That was a little harder to explain – and it was something she was still trying to wrap her brain around. She took a deep breath to make an attempt.

"When I died, Jonas told me to study and learn the books he kept hidden from me because I'd be able to use them now. I... can't explain why, but there are things in them I've read before and never understood that make perfect sense now. It's been easier to learn your powers, and I even felt Mihnea before you found him. I didn't know what it meant at the time, but I felt it." she paused, thinking. "I think... something about dying changed me. There's... something there that wasn't before."

"Perhaps the shock of experiencing death has honed your intuition." he commented, looking her over. "Your aura is different."

She quirked a brow. "Well anyway, you can call it intuition, or a sixth sense, or whatever, but something's changed, and I'm trying to pay attention to it. There's nothing implicitly written about any of this, but I've been putting pieces from different sources together, and I have a very strong... feeling that I'm onto something important."

Alucard studied her for a moment. "I believe you." he said at last. He gestured for her to continue. "Go on."

She took another pull from her cigarette. "I think you've become invincible because you're using the souls of the people you've killed as a shield. Every time you have an injury that should kill you, one of those accessory souls is killed off instead. And if you don't realize you're doing it, it's probably become an automatic, unconscious response."

That got his full attention. Apparently, he had never heard anything of the sort before, and he hadn't thought of it himself. "You're planning on using this in some new way?" he questioned expectantly.

"I think it would be worth our while to do some experimentation to see if these souls of yours can be summoned out with necromancy." she replied, then cocked her head to the side. "How many people have you killed since becoming a vampire, by the way?"

He slowly arched a brow. "Millions." he told her. "And if such a thing were possible, I would have figured out how to do it by now."

Syn made a face at him. "Well yeah, except you wouldn't have been able to do it until recently, and you can't do it on your own. You need me."

There was another spark of interest on his face. "Why not until recently?"

"Because it wasn't until this year that I showed up." she replied. "The only reason I was promised to you is because VanHelsing and Victor thought that there would never be a female Nahual. I'm the first there's ever been. And I'm pretty sure that even if the possibility crossed their minds, they never would have thought you would mate with me and drink from me on a regular basis. Any new abilities you gained from exposure to Victor's blood will get stronger the more of mine you take."

"That still doesn't explain why I would need you to summon these 'accessory souls'." he pointed out.

One of her brows went up. "You don't want to admit you might actually need me for something?"

He gave her a look. I never implied I didn't, little goddess. He said mentally. I'm asking for an explanation of why.

Huh. So he would admit that he needed her. Interesting. She took a breath.

"There are a couple of reasons." she said out loud. "First of all, a person's gender gives them certain magical traits. Women give, men take. Women sustain, and men destroy. Women provide and nurture, while men guard and protect." When she saw the change of expression on his face, she moved to cut him off before he could make a snarky comment. "And don't give me that bullshit about you being able to change into a woman if you want. You were born with a penis, so you're a man."

Alucard chuckled at her. "I believe there are some people in this world who would disagree with you about that."

The redhead sighed. "Okay, fine, there are some physically male people who have feminine brains and have a legitimate excuse to change gender. You just do it for the shock value. Can we move on now?"

The vampire pouted at her. "I actually like being female every now and then. The new perspective is quite educational."

Syn wanted to bang her head against the headboard. Why did he have to do things like this? She was beginning to wonder if he got off on it.

"Anyway," she said, trying to get back to the point. "Necromancy is the art of giving life to something that's dead. Life can only be created by a fusion of male and female aspects. You need both, or it wont work. Secondly, I'm alive, and you are technically dead. Life begets life, and death begets death. You can't raise the living energy required for reanimation on your own. You'll have to push the energy you raise into me so it can be transmuted into the proper form, then I'll give it back to you."

Alucard gave her a wide smirk, then pulled his knees up to rest his chin on them – like he was a little boy listening to a wonderful story he had never heard or something.

"Oh, this is fascinating." he purred. "I like this idea of pushing things into you."

Don't start. She warned.

Why? We have a nursemaid now, so there wont be any interruptions to keep me from finishing.

Damn it, he wasn't going to let off of it. Syn decided to nip this in the bud the best way she knew how.

"Alucard." she said, allowing her voice to drop and become more seductive. "If you don't behave yourself, I'll have to punish you."

That got his full attention. The vampire's knees dropped and he slid toward her with a heated look in his eyes.

"Is that so?" he said, still purring. "And just what will you do to me?"

The redhead gave him a coy look. "I think I'll start by tying you to the bed." she said, then smiled at his appreciative growl. "Then I'll leave you there, curl up inside your coffin, and lock you out of it. You'll have to sleep all by yourself."

Alucard did not like sleeping without her right next to him, and he hated the notion of being locked out of his coffin for any reason. He went still and narrowed his eyes at her.

"You wouldn't."

"I most certainly would." she countered, then pointed for him to get off of her and go back to where he was sitting before. "Now behave."

Since it was a threat she could actually follow through with, he listened to her. Once he was unhappily back where he started, Syn cleared her throat.

"Since normal necromancy is animating a body with or without a soul, we're going into uncharted territory. We'll have to play around and see if we can create bodies for the souls with blood and shadows. If we can make it work, you could, theoretically, pull as many souls out of yourself as you wanted. When they're done doing whatever you want them to do, you reabsorb them." She paused, coming to the part that she didn't really know what to do about.

Alucard noticed her hesitation and frowned. "What are you not saying, Syn?"

"Um... Because all of this is new and was never considered by Abraham and the others who bound you, there is a possibility it could... subvert the seals."

"Subvert the seals." he repeated, looking at her seriously now. "You mean break them?"

"Not exactly." she said, trying to find the best way to explain. "The seals themselves would remain intact, but..." she paused again. "It is possible you could break them. You'd need my help to do it, but it's possible. There is no way to really know how this big of an energy release will affect you. It might do nothing, and it might mess with your mind and make you go a little crazy. Because our souls are connected, you should be able to hold onto mine and use it as an anchor. If I need to, I can reach through and knock you back to your senses. But I am not helping you break the seals unless I hear from your master that she wants to set you free. I know we're a mated pair, and I know I have certain obligations to you first, but that's somethin..."

Alucard surprised her by reaching out and putting a finger over her lips to shush her.

"I will not betray my master, and I will not break the seals and make her my enemy." he told her. He removed his finger and looked at her seriously. "You told Integra of the possibility of this?"

"I did." Syn replied. "She said it would be fine to experiment if I could promise her that I wouldn't help you break the seals if you lost your mind."

He slowly arched a brow. "Do you think you could resist if I forced you?"

"Alucard, I was tortured and killed because I refused to beg your brother for mercy." she told him. "I may have my weaknesses, but when it comes to things that are important, I can stand up to anything. Even you, if I have to. You could try to force me and I would die before I broke."

The vampire's eyes seemed to light up – not in a perverted way, but with... something else. Maybe it was fondness.

"You're beautiful when you get stubborn." he told her.

Syn blinked at him. "I'm serious, Alucard. I am not..."

Her words were cut off when he grabbed a handful of her hair and jerked her forward to kiss her. Hard. The redhead thought her lips might be bruised when he finally pulled away.

This is where you are more powerful, and I will trust you. Teach me.

That was the kind of thing she couldn't really argue with.
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