Of blood and boxes
Jimbo 480
I don't own hellsing...yeah..that's about it.
Seras was pacing relentlessly up and down the hall outside her master's door. Every so often she'd stop outside and raise her hand as if to knock. She'd
stand there for a while, and soon begin to bounce up and down due to her restless and movement-oriented nature. Then, she'd start to pace again. She'd
been doing this for about four hours and nobody had walked past her yet.

Slowly but surely she was getting discouraged. She'd originally come out to tell her master she was sorry for disobeying him and, in turn, getting blown to pieces.
She knew she didn't really need to apologize, but she did need to speak to him. Well, she sorta needed to talk to him; it was more of a simple want to see him.

"I've got to admit, He's the most attractive monster I've ever seen." she grinned slightly as her eyes glazed over and she thought of walking in on him while he was
changing or something. She quickly dismissed the thought when the concept arose in her thoughts of her doing the same thing to frankenstein or the creature from
the black lagoon.

"Come on! It's not like he actually changes or anything!" she then began to wonder about why he always smelt so nice.

It's not like its important or anything…she thought. JESUS! I'm gonna just do it and get it over with...… she stormed over to the door and knocked on it
rather more forcefully than she meant to.

I really must get used to being this strong…she thought as the door opened and she absentmindedly walked in.

The lair of Alucard was nothing like what she expected it to be. Instead of the standard cement or brick she encountered a large room of black marble. She slowly
walked to the relative center of the room and looked around. On one side there was a 12/12 octagonal frame with a bed which was covered with red velvet sheets.
On the far side there was an enormous iron coffin with a huge silver cross on the front of it. The room was adorned with various weapons, most of them guns. Some
of them looked to be from the early 1800s.

Alucard was on her right in his usual precarious sitting position. "Welcome to my abode police girl." Alucard said with his low, melodic voice. It was accompanied
by his usual sadistic grin.

"oh…uhm…hello!" she said with a big smile

I must sound bloody retarded she thought to herself. "I uhm…I just came in to apologize...for...uhm…running ahead when you told me not to at the tower."

"Oh…okay. You are forgiven, anything else?" Alucard was reading a book on medieval torture and had just gotten to the chapter where it talked about exactly what
happened to one when they were hanged. He found it disturbingly interesting that one's eyes burst out of their sockets when the pressure was great enough and
was anxiously awaiting the chapter on torture.

"not really…..I was just wondering. Uhm….." go girl! Don't back down now, this is your big chance!!! Seras had wanted to ask him out to dinner for sometime
now but had never managed to muster enough courage.

"if…if you'd like to come to dinner with me this evening?"

nothing.

Seras waited anxiously for a moment to see what he would say. She was absolutely horrified. I sound like a goddamn schoolgirl!! She thought with obvious
distaste.

Alucard looked up from his book and smiled even wider than usual. "Certainly! It's been quite a while since had dinner with anyone. But, how, precisely do you
intend to take me out to dinner?"

"I have a few ideas….." she said.

"well then, let us be off!" Alucard stood up and extended his elbow which was graciously taken by Seras. They walked out into the hall and up the long staircase
that led down to their rooms. They crossed the Hellsing castle and attracted some rather odd looks on the way.