The door slammed behind Alexander Anderson with those two words. He stood in the hallway holding his shoes and looking at the closed door with an air of bemused upset.
"What's wrong Father Anderson?" Anderson looked down at the Police Girl, who had appeared at his elbow without his noticing.
She'd changed since the end of the war. The petite blonde didn't flinch at all when he glared at her and bared his teeth.
"There's nothing wrong an' it'd be none of yer business if something was wrong."
"Oh Father, but there is. It's a sin to lie." Both looked up, where Alucard was dangling upside down half in and half out of the ceiling.
"Mind yer tongue, vampire, or I'll cut it out!" At that moment the door opened and a pair of socks came flying out to hit him in the chest before slamming closed again.
Alucard's laugh filled the hallway and Anderson's face flamed so red that Seras would have worried that the man was going to have an aneurysm if she hadn't known how hard to kill he really was.
"What the Judas Priest doesn't want you to know is that he has just been permanently evicted from our Lady's private… quarters."
Seras looked up at Anderson, wide-eyed, "What did you do to deserve that?" She cocked her head slightly as though listening to someone before asking with something close to awe, "What did you do to deserve being allowed in there to start with?"
"Integral has always liked men who serve her well, Seras Victoria."
"Stop it, vampire, or I swear we will war," Anderson snarled at the amused vampire hanging above them.
"Wouldn't that hurt your chances of making it up to Integral?" Alucard mocked, almost cackling with glee even when a bayonet struck him in the head. He pulled it loose and dropped it with a clatter on the floor. "Tell her, Alexander, or I will."
"I'm not telling her anything. It's nothing either of ye need to know or to talk about." Anderson tucked his socks into his shoes and strode away.
He could hear Alucard's voice murmur behind him, but not the words. He knew though, what the vampire had said when Seras' laugh rang out, soon drowned by her master's.
He couldn't help it. Anderson had tried, but no matter what he did, after time spent alone with Integral doing… After time alone with her, he always hated himself as a traitor to his vows, to his values, to everything he had once believed in.
She'd given him an ultimatum – no more moping, no more acting as though sex with her was a soul-destroying act, no more self-recriminations afterwards.
He'd tried. It hadn't been enough.
Anderson heard the laughing cut off abruptly and couldn't help but turn around to see what had happened. He watched with disbelief and rage as Alucard descended from the ceiling and walked through the now-open door to Integral's chambers.
The sound of the door sliding gently closed was gunshot loud.