Sands of Time (Hellsing•AU)

Death Cards (6)

~Time Skip: modern times~

(historical note:♠️Death Cardstrue death cards are ace of spades were used in Vietnam but Coppola created death cards for his movie, Apocalypse Now. The cards, exact replicas, are sold by Soldier of Fortune. Look it up, this is no shit!)

"Jack Phillip Castle! Why am I at your club tonight?" Lillia growled. "I know David is out of town and dealing with legal shit but I should be at his home, waiting!!"

"Lilly you need to have some fun for a night, stoic tomorrow..." Jack replied, now in a serious tone.

The blonde had a slight golden tan to her skin, with faint blue tribal tattoo lines, that made it look like she had upper arm bands. If one looked closely, she had blue line tattoo work on her lower back. The tattoos looked like Celtic and Pictish tattoos, with two Pictish wolves.

If there were any more tattoos, the rest of her clothes hid them.

Lillia was dressed in an Oxblood crop top and black denim shorts. She had punk style garters holding up leggings. The garters had an ankh, on the strap, that went around the thigh. She finished the outfit, with oxblood colored boots over the knee, Doc Martin style boots.

The strange part, besides the tattoos, was her jewelry.

She wore an intricate gold Egyptian necklace, probably from the twenties. It had the Netjer, Sekhmet. It had an eye of Ra one (right)side and the eye of Horus(left side). The neck links were the Shen symbol. This necklace was custom made, so that it could be worn with a traditional style torque, with wolf heads on the ends.

Lillia wore a similar style bracelet with bear heads, on her right arm and a bracelet, with boar heads on the other. They appeared to be made of bronze and steel.

(Author's note; look up what a torque necklace or bracelet is. It's a type of thick braided or twisted metal that ends with animal heads.)

One final adornment was one long braid on each side that ended with a hair bead.

One was a Unicorn and the other a dragon. The braids were dyed a turquoise green, that made her deep green eyes, stand out. Her braids made her look to have pointed ears. Jack always wondered, about Lily's pointed ears but knew there was a gene, that created "Darwin points"

(Author's note: I have slight Darwin points, both my daughters and now my grandson. He has prominent points and red hair-perhaps he is a changeling?)

Lilly sighed loudly and rolled her eyes. She knew exactly why, but wanted to hear it, from Jack. With his standard shit-eating smile, he handed her a special horn cup, filled to the top with alcohol that made Lillia's mouth water!

Oh by the Neteru!!

It was none other than mead.

(Author's note: fermented honey, have a mead brewer two hours away from us.)

Jack had a secret provider for the drink, as he liked to flirt with death. You see, Jack knew about immortals, after all Lilly had once told him, about them. Jack kinda suspected, that she was some kind, of immortal being, herself. He would get special customers, every so often and he supplied, speciality drinks. He didn't ask and his special customers, didn't show their abilities.

"So Lilly, we are having the greatest songs from the 50's to the present, on. Can you do your famous Apocalypse Now Death card performance?" Jack pulled a deck of Colonel Kilgore death cards out and slid them across the bar to Lilly.

She had hoped the band had not practiced the two songs. Of course the cover band, Ice and Metal was friends with Jack. They looked like, the 80's metal band Jack had, escaped from. That is when the guitarist named Paul, explained that they have even practiced, the two songs that went with the performance.

"Fine," she said muttering under her breath.

She stepped on the small stage and nodded her head to start the first song.

"WAR, HUH, YEA
WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING....."
"OH WAR I DESPISE
CAUSE IT MEANS DESTRUCTION OF INNOCENT LIVES....."
"It AIN'T NOTHING BUT A HEARTBREAKER
(WAR) FRIEND ONLY TO THE UNDERTAKER...."-EDWIN STAR (1969)( counter culture song )

(Author's note: look the song lyrics up if interested in more or the song)

The audience was talking in hushed tones, as Lilly (her friends call her Lilly instead of Lillia) pulled the Colonel Kilgore Air Cav deck, of cards out and cleared her throat to explain the meaning and describe, the scene from the movie. As she scanned the room, to figure who to throw the cards at, she felt and smelled him first.

He looked so much different, from the last time, she saw him. Lillia would have not recognized him, by his looks. He was clean shaven, with an uneven shock, of black hair. She was puzzled by his clothes. He was dressed in red, no big surprise but the suit and overcoat were quite outdated, for the time. She silently groaned inside, what a hideous and floppy hat.

What had happened to her former love?

He had such long beautiful hair and the facial hair should have been there. It was then, she saw the magical symbols on his gloves. Lilly knew how the Hellsing Organization turned, the No LIfe King, into a chained dog. They had done several binding spells and appeared to be able, to dampen his power, to a level they could handle him. It saddened her.

She hated him, for breaking her heart but she never would have wanted, this to happen to him.

"I'm not bitter. I'm not mad. There are just so many memories I want to forget"
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