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Eternal Hearts Book Five: Blood of Our Blood	By : alucardsangel1973 Category: Hellsing > General Views: 9433 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
- 5
- 6
- 7
Ok, I know this chapter is rather serious, but be patient and there will be more action and even some humor along with the drama as the story progresses. Also, you'll notice in the flashback Alucard has to his human days the name for his wife I use is the one from the movie Bram Stoker's Dracula{in that movie the name of Dracula's wife is Elizabeta}(the one that starred Gary Oldman. It's one of my favorite Dracula movies and references to it have been used a couple of times throughout the series.

Chapter 5

It was an hour before sunrise.
Things in the Hellsing mansion had long since wound down with the
exception of Integra's outburst. Pickman stopped by Zoey's room
only to find her sound asleep. He decided to leave her be and
make up their cancelled date the next day. All was quiet except
for the late night staff making their rounds throughout the
house. Integra and Kenneth were asleep in their room. They had to
take advantage of peaceful nights while they could. Once the baby
came along, there would be a lot of late nights between the two
of them.

Alucard sat in his room
mulling over the situation. His eyes began to grow heavy as he
found himself drifting back into memories of his human past many
centuries ago. He saw himself back in his native land of Romania
dressed in armour. His hair was long going almost to his waist. A
thick mustache and beard covered his normally clean shaven
features. A beautiful young woman stood beside him dressed in a
regal gown. Long black hair cascaded down her shoulders in
elegant curls. She wore a worried expression upon her lovely
face.

"Beloved, you almost
never smile anymore. You carry such heavy burdens upon your
shoulders when it is I who should bear them."

"I cannot help myself
Vlad. Every time you ride from this castle, I am frightened it
will be the last time I ever see you. I fear the day I will be
told of your death in battle. If anything were to happen to
you..."

"Elizabeta, you
cannot lose faith. You must understand I fight for the good of
our people and our country. I fight for you and the children we
will have in the future. And when those children are born,
Romania must be free of the Sultan's oppression."

"I know Vlad. But
sometimes the odds seem so impossible. The Sultan's armies are
numerous, plus the nobels that side with him make things even
worse."

"The Sultan has
numbers, but I have the hearts of the Romanian people on my side.
I have the strength of her sons and their swords. I have the
might of God in my favor, and above all else, I have you. My
beloved wife, have faith in our lord. He will bring us victory
against the wicked enemies who threaten this country. And when
all is said and done, those same wicked souls will know the
terrible judgement they have brought down upon themselves."

As soon as he spoke he
captured the lips of his bride in a passionate kiss. They looked
at each other for a moment. "And when this war is done, you
and I shall begin the next generation of the Dragon. This I swear
to you my love."

The vision faded as Alucard
suddenly snapped back into the present world. He felt something
against his cheek. He touched his hand and looked down. A drop of
scarlet now stained his white gloved fingers. A single bloody
tear rolled down stopped only by the hand that caught it. He
shook his head trying to bring his mind fully back into the
present.

He said nothing as he rose
from his chair and left his chamber. He phased into Seras's room
where she was still resting. With sunrise not far off she would
sleep through the day. His presence there would not disturb her.
He walked over to her coffin-bed and just gazed at her slumbering
form. He looked at her flat belly and gently laid his hand
against it. He felt no movement. Strangely it did not bother him
that he felt no movement from the child. He knew it was still
there. It was, like its mother, deep in slumber.

"When she sleeps, the
child sleeps. When she is awake, the child is awake." He
said to himself. For the rest of the time he was there he was
silent. Though he might never have expressed it openly, deep down
he always had one regret about becoming a vampire. He had lost
all hope of passing his legacy onto a true heir of his blood.
While he'd had many dark fledgelings in the five hundred years
he'd existed, he never considered any of them his true children.
They were merely humans made into vampires through his blood. And
the only one he ever held most sacred was the young woman lying
before him.

"A child...our
child." He said softly.

He vanished from Seras's room
leaving her to sleep through the day. He materialized back in his
own chamber and opened his coffin. It was time for him to rest as
well. It took him a little while to sucumb to the trance the day
put upon him. His mind was full of questions and anxious thoughts
about the future. The only thing that was certain to him was that
the next several months were going to be very busy.

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Stewart stopped by Zoey's room
the next morning. She had just finished getting dressed when she
heard a knock at the door. She hurried to her door and opened it.
"Stewart. I'm so sorry about last night. I tried to stay
awake but I completely zonked out." She said apologetically.

"It's all right Zoey.
Recruits kept me pretty busy last night so I was wiped out
myself. Zoey, you ok? You look like something's wrong."
Stewart asked.

"Well, I'm not sure if
it's something bad or good." Zoey answered.

"I don't follow."
Stewart replied confused.

"Seras came to see me
last night. She told me something that was quite frankly
astonishing." Zoey said.

"What was that?"
Stewart asked.

"She's pregnant."
Zoey answered.

"Bloody hell."
Stewart replied in shock. "But that can't be possible. Seras
is like Alucard. She's undead. Undead people can't make
babies...can they?"

"That's what I thought.
But somehow appearently Seras got pregnant." Zoey replied.

"Good lord...Alucard and
Seras having a kid? Good thing Sir Integra isn't too far along in
her own pregnancy. She'd have gone into labor for sure."
Stewart said.

"Well she wasn't too
happy to hear the news from what Alucard told Seras and I. She
must have really screamed his head off." Zoey replied.

"Wouldn't be the first
time. I wouldn't worry too much about Alucard. He likes it when
she yells at him." Stewart said with a shrug.

"Look, I got the day off
so why don't you and I go grab something to eat? That should make
up for last night."

"All right. I'd like
that."

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In another part of London:

"You're sure of this? The
blood was the only thing used of the slaughtered cattle?"
Asked a gentleman.

"Look sir, all I can tell
you is we were instructed to save the blood only, not the meat.
Bloody hell if I know what it was gonna be used for. We were
offered a handsome sum for the blood and nothing else. I've
probably gone and said too much already. What's it to you
anyway?" A burly man demanded.

"My associate, his name
is Eric shipped those cows off without my knowledge or
permission. They had an experimental hormone that could be
potentionally dangerous to the public if any part of those cows
are consumed. My partner tried to have me killed because I had a
sense of ethics and he didn't. Now I'm afraid his greed may very
well cause problems for this entire city if not the whole
country." Simon explained.

"He told me the cows were
sterile and too old to be of any use to him. He didn't say
nothing bout no experiments being performed on them. You have any
idea what this is gonna do to my business if what you say is
true?" The owner asked.

"Sir, I don't know what
repurcussions this may have but any shipments you had made I
would advise that you get them stopped any way you can."
Simon insisted.

"I can't. Most of the
meat's already been sent out."

"Oh no. This is not good.
I've no idea what the hormone may do to humans who consume it.
Eric and I had planned upon marketing this treatment to sterile
couples who otherwise would have no hope of having children. I
didn't realize until it was too late that Eric was in this for
the profit, not for the good of others." Simon said.

"Yah, well if you see
this Eric character, tell him I'm gonna be suing his ass for
every penny its worth if I get in trouble for this." The
owner said angrily and stomped off.

"Dear lord...what have
you done Eric? What have you done?" Simon asked himself as
he walked out of the slaughter house with a most concerned look
on his face.

As soon as he left a woman
walked up to him. His eyes widened when he realized who it was.
He gulped nervously when she approached him.

"Miss Le Fay." He
said.

"Simon..."

"Miss Le Fay, something
terrible has happened. Eric...I fear has let greed take him over
and forsaken the purpose of the experiments he and I were
performing. And a great many people may come to harm because of
it." Simon explained.

"I know where the blood
was taken. You're going to come with me. We must both pray that
ill has not come of this. I should have known better than to
trust such a powerful thing with people."

"Megan, I know it's
partly my fault that this happened. I didn't realize what Eric
was planning. But I swear to you I had only good
intentions." Simon pleaded.

"Simon, many people have
only the best of intentions, but for whatever reason it ends up
like most gifts given to mankind...his own benifit. Now come with
me. My driver is waiting for us."

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Back at the Hellsing mansion:

"I've never seen anything
like this and I've studied medicine and medical theory for twenty
years now." Said doctor Travalion. He continued observing
the blood sample under his microscope.

"You're saying that this
could be what caused Seras to become pregnant?" Integra
questioned.

"I can't be completely
certain, but I think so. I've studied a blood sample taken from a
cow from another slaughter house upon your request. That sample
was absolutely normal. This sample though has me absolutely
boggled. You say it was only after Seras started consuming the
blood from the cattle from this slaughter house that she began
feeling strange." The doctor answered.

"Then I believe it would
be safe to assume the blood taken from the cows of this
particular establishment have been given something in order to
facilitate fertility. And for whatever reason this anomoly has
made it possible for Seras to concieve a child with Alucard. The
question remains how could Alucard have sired a child? He's
undead like she is. The only thing I can surmise is the tainted
blood must have affected him too." Integra replied.

"So far I've detected no
abnomalities in any of the blood sent by the Red Cross. It was
only the blood from this particular slaughter house that is in
question." The doctor explained.

"Then we've isolated
where the tainted blood came from. Now we have to figure out what
the blood was tainted with and make sure this doesn't happen
again. From now on all blood rations will be screened for any
abnormalities before they are given to Alucard and Seras."
Integra ordered.

"Yes Sir."

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Integra returned to her office
where Walter was waiting for her. "Is there something you
require Walter?" She asked.

"I just wanted to see if
there had been any update on the situation with Miss
Victoria." Walter replied.

"It seems that the cattle
blood given to Alucard and Seras was tainted with something.
We've traced the tainted blood to the slaughter house we secured
it from during the blood shortage. But as to what it is that has
tainted the blood is yet to be figured out. Doctor Travalion has
been studying the sample, and he is baffled as to what it could
be. While we don't know what it is, we most certainly have found
out what it can do. A fertility treatment that can cause vampires
to become fertile is not a very settling thought, Walter. If our
enemies were to get a hold of this..." Integra paused.

"I don't even want to
think about the repercussions. We have to make sure no more of
this, whatever it is gets out. It can be a potential threat to
the populace even if vampires don't get their hands on it. We've
no idea what effect it may have on humans." She continued.

"I agree Sir Integra.
What measures are to be taken?" Walter asked.

"The blood can be traced
back to a paticular establishment. It is quite possible they may
not have known about the cattle being tainted. Nevertheless, I'm
going to make sure they take better measures to keep such things
away from the public, not to mention Alucard and Seras."
Integra answered.

"That would most
certainly be the proper recourse to take Sir." Walter
replied.

"I still can't believe
Seras is pregnant. How in the world are we going to deal with
this? How will Alucard and more importantly Seras deal with it?
We're equiped to monitor human pregnancies. But I don't think
anything in the history of medicine ever prepared Doctor
Travalion for a pregnant vampire."

"We must deal with it Sir
as we deal with most events in Hellsing, as each day comes."
Walter said.

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That night Integra summoned
Alucard to meet with her in her office. The red clad vampire
appeared before her as she instructed. She looked up to meet his
crimson eyes.

"I know I was very harsh
on you last night Alucard. I still cannot understand how Seras
has become pregnant, but I understand that we must now deal with
this sudden developement. One reason I summoned you here was
to...was to..."

"Yeeesssss..."
Alucard replied in a condecending tone. He knew what was about to
take place and knew Integra didn't really like the thought of it.

"I...apologize for
screaming at you." She said silently.

"I'm sorry, but I didn't
quite hear that. Could you repeat it?" Alucard asked
feigning innocense.

"I apologize for
screaming at you last night." Integra repeated with a slight
growl.

"Could you say that one
more time? It's not often I hear it at all and..."

"Keep it up, and I will
be apologizing to Walter for making him scrape your internal
organs off the rug." Integra snarled.

"Very well. What was the
other reason for summoning me master?"

Integra quickly composed
herself to continue her explanation. "We have some
information upon the situation at hand with Seras. Doctor
Travalion has studied the blood sample taken from the slaughter
house cattle. He's found some abnormality within it but has yet
to determine what it is. Samples from other establishments have
been taken and studied and no such abnormality was found. Only in
the blood we recieved was this present."

"And you believe this is
what caused Seras to concieve?"

"I think so. Though I
still don't understand how she could have concieved with you.
You're an undead being like she is and should not be capable of
sexual reproduction. I can only determine that the blood affected
you as well."

"You seem to forget
something master. The experiments your forefathers performed upon
me. They used occult magic and they may have inadverently caused
me to be able to sire children. That along with the tainted blood
has effectively given Seras and I a child."

"I honestly don't know
how you and Seras are going to deal with this Alucard. But can
you honestly tell me that you are prepared to be a father if
Seras is able to carry to term and give birth?" Integra
asked.

Alucard was silent for a
moment. He looked away pondering the question.

"Alucard?" Integra
asked again.

"I was ready to be a
father when I was human. My wife and I planned on beginning a
family after the war with the Turks ended. After all, I was a
prince and it was only natural for me to want heirs to continue
the family line. I always felt my children would be my source of
immortality in this world. They would be the part of me that was
left behind after I was gone. Not long after my wife and I made
those plans, she was dead."

Integra could feel a sense of
sadness in her vampire servant as he spoke. He'd lost so much in
his long existance, and this was one more thing to add to the
list.

"I am sorry."
Integra replied quietly.

"Ironic it is that five
hundred years after my 'death' that now I may be given a chance
to have with Seras what I could not have when I was human."

"I will need to speak
with Seras. If she is worried then you can assure her that I will
not be angry with her. She didn't have any more knowledge in this
than you did. But arrangements do need to be made."

"As you wish
master."

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Seras was finishing off the
second blood ration for the evening. Walter had left three in her
pale. She would have to drink more blood than normal to sustain
both herself and child now growing inside of her. She looked down
at her belly and placed her hand against it. "What's
going to happen to me?" She thought with a sense of
apprehension.

She sat down on her bed with a
worried look on her face. Becoming a vampire wasn't half as
frightening as the prospect of becoming a mother and a vampire
mother at that. Would the pregnancy go smoothly? Would the
demanding hunger of the child take its toll on Seras? If it got
to the point where her existance was threatened, would Alucard
sacrifice the child to save her?

"God, will I even make a
good mother? Am I even fit to be a mother?" Seras asked
herself.

"We'll know in another
eight months." A voice said. Seras looked up to find Alucard
standing inside the doorway to her room. He walked over and knelt
in front of her.

"I know you are scared. I
too have known fear. I learned it in the sultan's dungeons. I've
been both reciever and giver where fear is concerned. I have used
it and have had it used against me. I know all too well what it
can do." He said.

"I am scared Alucard. I
don't understand how this could happen." Seras sighed.

"Integra has been
informed by the doctor that the cattle blood we drank was tainted
with something. No one knows what it is, but it has somehow
caused you to concieve. It is plausible that it affected me as
well, though it is also possible that if you had remained human
you could still have concieved. The experiments performed upon me
by Integra's ancestors may very well have given me back the power
to sire children." Alucard replied.

"You mean, you can get
human females pregnant?" Seras asked.

"I don't know. Before I
was captured I never stayed around long enough to know if a human
female I mated with concieved. Most of the women I was with were
made into vampires so if they had concieved the child would not
have survived. It was only after my capture and the experiments
done to me that it may have been possible." Alucard
answered.

"Do you want this
baby?" Seras questioned.

"Yes, I do. I want this
chance, the chance I never had as a human." Alucard
answered.

"You do?"

"Seras, this child is a
part of us. It is you and I. It will be an extrodinary offspring
with our strength and power. I have never doubted you as my mate,
and I do not doubt you will be a good mother to our child. I was
Hellsing's greatest achievement. This child shall be ours."

to be continued...
- 5
- 6
- 7
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Eternal Hearts Book Five: Blood of Our Blood