The Countess Regrets

Alcina's countenance paled even more than she already was! "I'm sorry Master, I won't!" It wasn't the fear of dying, because if she learnt anything in the last few days, it was that she could no longer die... It was the fear of angering him!

She feared angering him and disappointing him more than death itself!

Just like he appeared, Baskerville disappeared together with Alucard's presence...

'Finish the job by yourself, you should be more than capable now. Once you're finished with the plan go back to China and find me... Your initial training is over.' She heard his voice back to normal but it still didn't make her feel any relief.

'Please forgive me! It wasn't my intention, I- I only thought you might have wanted to see her!' She answered back frantically but didn't receive an answer... Alucard was gone.

The Countess of Transilvania could only sigh in dejection and look at the familiar before her... Sasha Ivanova, an outrageously beautiful girl that bore a resemblance with one of the most important women in her master's memories... Katharina Siegel.

By now her horrendous appearance had disappeared, and before her stood a stunningly beautiful girl of eleven years...

Sasha was a Ukrainian girl, the daughter of a Ukrainian politician and a common mother.

Sadly for her... Her father owed the Mafia a favour... She, and her mother... Would be taken by the mafia as a 'secure' of her father's payment, she naturally wasn't told any of this...

During the first few months, she was able to see her mother leave the room and return in a haggard state, always telling her 'everything will be alright, your father will come for us...' this continued for months... Her mother's condition was always worse and worse whenever she came back...

Until one day, she didn't come back...

'We have your mother in a cell, and if you don't do whatever we say, we will torture her, do you understand little bitch!' Were the words she was told... By that man... And what happened to her afterwards was beyond anything that could be described.

At the end of the day... The little girl suffered the same fate as her mother, also thinking her father would one day come back and save her and her mother.

But only Alcina knew, now that the whole building lay inhabited by these scumbags and most members dwelled internally in her river... Leaving only the girls and boys that survived.

That her father tried to escape the next day after handing them over and was captured by the group and murdered at the airport the same day.

That her mother died after being thoroughly raped and tortured one day by one of her father's political rivals and the main cause of their demise and despair... The same one that had been raping her mother since then... And the same son of a bitch, that left her half dead the last day after torturing her the whole night...

Gustav Petrov.

...

And like this girl there were hundreds... Some are still alive in the building, but most of them are buried under the ground, thousands...

Alcina was not a saint, but she had a weakness with girls because they reminded her of her three daughters. And the moment she saw this girl, she thought that maybe her master would appreciate having her around...

But she was wrong.

Unlike her, who desperately wanted to hold whatever resemblance to the past she had, such as her identity, her castle, her daughters...

Alucard was different, thousands of years taught him to forsake whatever wisp of his past remained in exchange for sanity, the capacity to persist in the torture that was being immortal.

Forsaking Katharina, forsaking Wallacia, forsaking his castle, forsaking Seras... And right before coming to this world... Forsaking Integra and Hellsing...

Would he ever forsake her and Catherine? She didn't know and didn't want to know. It was too soon.

...

She crouched down slightly, and her massive body hugged the little girl. Her body was cold, it was obvious... She wasn't alive... It was just Alcina's shadow presenting itself as the little girl.

And she would never come back... because Alcina Dimitrescu arrived a few minutes too late.