Beyond †he Darkness (Hellsing)

Paris of the south (21)

The drive home from the Bergeron job was oddly quiet. Angelica backed the Dodge Challenger, got out, and then began to remove all her equipment. As Angel took her armored vest off, she wobbled over to a workbench. Her hands shook so bad she couldn't continue. Alucard was an ass, but he also knew the reality of the night would hit eventually. He was surprised it had taken so long. He walked quietly to her and sat down.

"Draga mea, you were very brave tonight..."

"No really All Father, I finally realized how close I almost died from a jealous poltergeist," Angel wiped a tear from her right eye. "It just hit me again how I am alive and my fellow co-workers, who were also my friends, are dead..."

"Hmm, it's time for you to get undressed, hot shower and food, then we will go from there."

"I noticed you put undress on the first order of business," Angel sighed. "Alucard, why? You can catch anyone, man or woman."

"You really can't logically see why I would find you attractive? Remove the fact that I am the First One. What would attract a vampire to you?"

"Nothing as I would be dead..."

"Hmm, try again..." the youthful looking Vampire King responded.

"I can regen or the hardened skin from receiving a bite," Angelica replied. "Wouldn't that make them want to destroy me more?"

"Yes, yet it had me intrigued and wanting to play with my food," his long fingers slowly ran through her ebony hair.

"The ability to produce fire?" Angelica scoffed. "All of this would seem more the reason to just stamp me out."

"What does a vampire seek most of all, once blood is consumed?" Alucard hummed.

"The common folk would say sex and female company," she paused when the Shadow King began to frown. "But it would be power. My past two years of working for SPARK have proven that I am becoming more powerful, with new abilities... but you don't need any of that?"

"I, of all vampires, may not need it but will still seek out a source of power...vampires do love unusual pets."

"Well, I don't want to be a pet to anything...that includes you," Angelica huffed. "I'm off to take that much needed shower."

Shadow King harassed a sleeping staff member to get Angel some food. Then Alucard phased into Angelica's bedroom, with the food, only to find the young woman had showered, then promptly fallen asleep half under the sheets but completely naked.

The First Vampire dismissed his clothes and slipped under the covers. His nails traced the tattoo lines while his long tongue occasionally would lick a spot on her back. Alucard wants more than claws skimming and tongue licking. Blood droplets seeping up, from the lines of the dark ink, is what he desired. The oldest vampire was smug in his thoughts, that he wouldn't lose control, to a human, but tonight proved him wrong. Alucard sighed with a hint of anger, and more than a little bit of frustration, he phased through the floor to his coffin in the basement bedroom.

The time difference, new location and difference in the donated blood, had Alucard off. He had not slept on the flight over then the job tonight, he needed to rest in his coffin for a few hours.

Angelica awoke to drool in the corner of her mouth and her phone ringing loudly, on her nightstand. Her hand fumbled for the phone, and the other patted the bed for that obnoxious Vampire King. Alucard wasn't in bed with her.

Her mouth finally remembered to say words, "Hell-o? Black speaking..."

"Morning Miss Black, this Tobias Renfield. Bubba told us to give you a call if we had a vampire problem..."