tampered | Log: Complete

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Log: Complete

When: March 4, evening
Rating: Everyone
Characters: The Captain [

wolfsmercy], Major [

warconductor], Alucard [

thekingofpain], Girlycard [

tinyvampiregod], Integral [

steeldame], Vladislaus Dracula [

rekindled_heart], Schrödinger [

cutecatenvoy], Red [

smiledlikeknife], Seras [

draculinaseras] and Vlad Dracula [

sinfulpride]
Summary: Dracula is not amused by the abrupt rerouting of his journey to England.
Log:

When the Demeter came to rest at Whitby, there was not a living soul above or below deck. Dracula had seen to that detail with ruthless efficiency. No one would know how he had come into England. No one would know that the men who had brought him had seen a monster. Perhaps, in another era, the living would have believed the fantastic tale woven in the ship's log, but the world was changing, and England's officials were inclined to approach mysteries in a pragmatic and scientific fashion. They were fools ... but their foolishness suited his endeavors.

Still, there was one more difficulty to overcome before he entered England. All members of the ship's crew had been accounted for in the log. No passengers had been listed. A survivor in the form of a man would be remarked upon and detained, but Dracula had no intention of coming ashore on two legs. Unhindered by the violence of the ship's final drive to shore, he moved above deck. He had taken the form of a large, black wolf. In the chaos of the storm, he would easily be mistaken for a dumb brute if he was seen.

The Demeter shuddered as she ran aground. Dracula leapt from the bow. His claws found purchase in the slick sand, but he skidded to a halt not two strides onto the beach and spun around.

There was no wrecked ship in his wake. The sea was calm, free of fog and gale and frothing waves. Dracula ground his teeth together in consternation as he slowly swung about. Everything was different. There was no village, no cliff, no churchyard. It was as though, in the instant he had left the deck of the Demeter, the world he had meant to enter had been swept away and replaced by another.

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The vampire leapt down and faced Dracula head on, reaching into his jacket, he took out a placket of blood and tossed it to the other vampire.

"Hungry? Bite in."

Dracula let the package fall. He would not be fed leftovers like some stray dog skulking at the kitchen door.

"Ingrate," He snerked as Baskerville smashed into Dracula from behind, attempting to knock the other vampire out.

Alucard's strength was greater than Dracula's, and so too was his familiar's. This time, when the count fell, he remained where he was, insensate.

After placing her gun in her holster, Integral approached him carefully, knelt and reached out for one of his arms to lift him and both rose together. She had her silver cross guarding her neck at least.

He was heavy, but she had a strength and reflexes above average. Integral was a Hellsing and would carry on her mission.

"Tell me if he even moves a single muscle, Alucard."

Integral Hellsing began to drag Dracula away.

"Yes, Master," Alucard replied, stalking close behind her, if the other vampire moved, he would have Baskerville attack.

"My, my, Sir Integral, such a heavy load..."

Leaving the little vampire, the Major and his cat-eared boy, Vladislaus took to following both Alucard and his Master; at a decent distance, of course.

He wanted to see what this -other- Dracula looked like...

"Her load to carry, step back," Alucard replied with a smirk, moonlight glinting off his gun and fangs.

"I have every intention of letting her, Alucard..." Vladislaus smirked back, arms folded neatly behind his back.

Integral lifted a brow, wondering if this was the other. He looked shorter than she had expected. But, then, she was a very tall woman.

"I suggest you to listen to what Alucard says," Integral commented with rich English accent. "It could cause a paradox if you touch any of your counterparts. I'm making certain this one doesn't get destroyed by my foes."

So, the vampire was the damsel and she was the hunter in shinning armor, more or less. Integral was a noble knight, the imagery fit.

"Of course, Sir Integral, we don't want that, now do we..." Vladislaus drifted closer to the two, looking down at the other who claimed his name.

"And from whence did he come in our lifetime...I heard him denouncing 'dearest' Mina..."

That was a good point. But if there were alternative Millennium, this Dracula could belong to a future Hellsing she did not know. Every Integral Hellsing should have her own Dracula, she concluded.

"I'm not taking any chances when involves the survival of my people," pointed out Integral sharply. Alucard was hers and she was not allowing to put in peril his existence.

It was selfish, she knew, how much she could spare to others and himself if she just put him out of misery. But ... she could not think her life without him.

She lost Walter, her father, her uncle, her mother, Penwood and her men countless of times, but Alucard was her anchor.

Alucard half smiled to that, he enjoyed Integral's protectiveness and the feeling behind them. That he was hers.

"And no matter what I thought then, I am glad events followed as they did," He murmured from her side.

Giving a skewed look over his shoulder at Vladislaus, the vampire bared one fang in a smirk.

"I would imagine not, Sir Integral..." Not when it includes her pet.

He glanced Alucard's way. That's what he seemed to him...a pet. A sex pet, even, since his counterpart so readily made their relatioship clear. More powerful than he, thanks to the Hellsing organization, but...commanded so readily by this woman. Vladislaus looked back at her. She was deserving, of course...there was no doubt about it there...

Still...he could never answer to her.

He looked down at the other. Did he answer to an Integral as well..? A Van Helsing?

Integral offered Alucard a smile, even if she tensed to the private murmur. She was affectionate when need be but intimate in contact or whispering as some common lover, she was not. Too stern and chaste, too much the Iron Virgin of the Knights.

"That is the duty of every General and leader. I would do the same for any of my subordinates. Undead or alive," Integral remarked. Alucard was precious, but she would do the same for Seras if she was in danger. "The City must be exceptionally dull that you decided to follow us."

"Or he exceptionally curious," The vampire replied. Or alone. A Dracula usually had others around him. By force or persuasian.

"Quite dull." Oh, how he lied through his teeth. But there was no need to spell out his engagements for the night...beauty to uncover...

"Correct, Alucard. I do feel as though I should see what is to become of him..." He looked again at the still Dracula she dragged. "And what he has seen of his life..."

Surely they would recognise the unsubtle sarcasm of her dull statement.

"If you must," Integral started with a confident, business-like voice she's so used to acquire. "I could detail the process to you." The knight made a pause, then continued. "We will have him reach safely Alucard's lost domain to recover himself." She shot a glance at Alucard, knowing he would protest. "He has no means to reach his caskets here. Until we know for certain he has no connection with Alucard, he will be under observation."

The muscles in his jaw tightened imperceptibly. He despised the idea of that filthy creature resting in his last domain. "And if he is in my coffin, Integral, then where shall I sleep?"

"A plain pine box...?" He smirked Alucard's way. "I'm certain your Sir Integral has a place for you, Alucard..."

"He's terribly sentimental with that box. If you touch it, he'll behead you for certain," Integral commented, pausing a second to glare at the shorter Dracula for the remark. She was going to send Alucard into another chamber, but his wording made it more difficult.

"You, Alucard," the knight started, renewing her walk, feeling her shoulder stiffen already from carrying the cold weight of Dracula. "Will remain in my room, provided you understand the meaning of sleep with proper nightclothes and acquire a sense of space. That is," she made her voice more acid, "Pick a bloody side and don't roll by accident into mine."

She smirked next. "However, since our hours of sleep differ, I doubt we will be sharing the bed together." He slept through the day while she during his favorite hours of night. "Is the arrangement clear enough or should I repeat myself?"

"Perfectly clear, my Master," Alucard replied, a hint of smirk at his lips. Just for this, he would adjust his sleeping hours to match Integral's. And, of course, he would accidentaly roll onto her side. Even if to touch her shoulder with his own.

He thought of his own casket, cased in ice...the only real attatchment with it was that it had been a collective gift...from his brides...

Vladislaus smirked at the banter between them. If he knew himself...or any type of himself...there was a good chance the man would do something exactly like that..purely because she brought it up.

"Very well, Sir Integral, since you intend to keep him...may I intrude upon you for a time to watch his recovery?"

Integral held Alucard's gaze for a second, then looked away, into the clearing of the forest and the City beyond. "Very well, Alucard."

Tilting her head, Integral nodded. "As long you remember to avoid psychical contact and announcing your presence before appearing. We don't live alone. Seras Victoria, Alucard's fledgling and my subordinate shares our home. She's easy to shock. And, there is D..." Her expression softened slightly. "But he has been roaming outside for days. He would attack you if he sees you entering by ungentlemanly means."

"Or if he thinks you a threat to Sir Hellsing," Alucard added, wondering, himself, where the boy had gone off to. He had not been on the network as of late, but he was not feeling any strong emotions.

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