Sands of Time (Hellsing•AU)

The Ball (43)

Ylva looked in the full length mirror and turned. She looked pretty enough. The blonde heard a knock on the door and she walked to open it. John was standing at the door and looked like he had aged twenty years.

"John it isn't your fault. You didn't know and I promised David I wouldn't let him die alone. I didn't realize Vlad was still alive, er undead and moving around. I knew him when he was human. I fled him when he was changed to the No Life King. I was living in London in this manor when he came to ...do what he did... "

"Wasn't he killed by Hellsing?"

"No, the grandfather did experiments and binding magic on him. The family most likely tortured him and now he hunts the supernatural but takes the most joy from killing his own kind. Correction,  descended offspring..."  She cleared her throat, "There is more than one type of vampire. Vlad is Nosferatu, cursed by a God. He is the oldest surviving cursed and all Nosferatu spawn a line from him. There is another type, a vampire by birth ...that would be me."

She let out a long sigh out and turned to John, her eyes glowed an eerie green and she showed him her mouthful of sharp pointed teeth, like a shark. She flexed her fingers then he saw a long thin talon like nails.

"I'm sorry you finally had to see me in this form. It's not the form I even like to stay in remotely. I prefer the company of mortals and I hate my own kind. I am the one that failed you John. My love for Vlad is the reason there is Nosferatu. I had killed all cursed vampires before him but I couldn't kill him and great evil was left on the earth by me ."

  Ylva walked to the cut glass door and opened it.

"What a beautiful summer day, I wish the day would never end...so I don't have to face Alucard," She closed her eyes and turned back with tears in her eyes.

John was standing behind her and took her in his arms. "If Alucard or Vlad or whatever is in the darkness then you are sunlight. You have never, in my short lifetime, done anything to warrant my hate. You are beautiful beyond words...don't give up on us mere mortals. We need you on our side."

She dried her tears, "John, would you like to travel like an immortal? I will portal us in but you might be a bit dizzy when you come out of the portal..."

She spun her hand and the portal was created vertically so they could just walk through.  John was hand in hand with her.

"Lilly how do you know the portal won't drop us from the ceiling or put us in a toilet partially? " John asked, looking a bit disoriented.

"It's a gift John," she laughed. "It's actually called 2,000 years of practice."

John paused then asked,"So how old are you supposed to be for your looks?"

"A dirty old man with a sixteen year old girl, I figure. I have never had a period so I think that's about when my body stopped aging..."

He didn't need to know she had a different way of cycling then a human female. The Vikens said she looked to be sixteen.

"Figures I have always liked my young women..."

"And, you're a voyeur aren't you, among other things?" she said with a smile.

She had never seen John blush before on such topics. "I went to see two beautiful people perform a sacred act, of passion only to see the true form, of a monster violating your beautiful form."

"Do not remember the last part, Alucard was fucking with your mind. Only remember that light and darkness creating yin and yang, in the universe. Take the show for what you wished to see, the sacred..." She kissed him on the cheek.