Title: Family Matters

Author: DhampyrX2

Genre: X-over

Series: Impure Souls

Rating: PG-13, just to be safe

Summary: I have writer's block for my other stories. So, in a classic fashion, I've started yet another series instead of plodding through what's already begun. Anyway, this is a typical fare. Xander has hidden family. Xander discovers them. Xander's life gets turned upside down in a way that will hopefully help everyone evolve a bit.

Timeframe: After Graduation, but before the College crap starts.

Disclaimer: I don't own these characters. Don't sue me, I'm poor.

In a dark and dank cell in the Tower of London, a stately platinum blonde young woman in a sharp light blue and white suit sits smoking a cigarillo. Her glasses sit upon her desk, next to a bottle of red wine, and a bowl of fruit and cheese. Suddenly, from behind her, a creature decked out in a red trenchcoat and matching hat that covered his turn of the century style black suit walks in through the wall as if the stone were water. A mad grin lit his face, flashing a set of intimidating fangs, which were a fair accompaniment to the insane look in his red eyes. For once, he left his orange tinted John Lennon style shades behind.

Just as it looked as if the madman, or perhaps mad demon, was going to attack her, the woman let out a small sigh and asked, "What is your report, Alucard?"

The disturbing figure, now identified as Alucard, stood a bit straighter, abandoning his predatory pose, and adopted a mocking grin as he stepped around to face the woman. "All is as well as can be expected, Master. Walter will be released from the hospital with the next two weeks. We have a total of fifty troops still alive, thirty of which are still combat ready, mostly because they were on leave in the standard rotations, or were coming back from scouting missions abroad. Another fifteen are still trying to track down the FREAK chip manufacturing sites. Of course, the Police Girl and I are at full strength and await your instructions."

Sir Integra Fairbrook Windgates Hellsing nodded in satisfaction at her servant's report. "Well, that's better than I expected, at least. Not that the Hellsing Organization can do much with me still locked away in this wretched hole."

"Indeed, my Master. Of course, if you accept my offer, these stone walls and steel doors will mean little to you. You could leave at your leisure." Alucard replied with a deepening smile.

"We've discussed bringing that up, vampire." Integra snapped coldly.

Alucard's face lost its smile as he replied, "And I will continue to offer it until you accept it, Master. What possible reason can you have to trust these idiot boyars that leave you here to rot after they've discovered the true traitor among the Round Table?"

"It is my duty as a Knight of the Round Table, and a servant to the Queen, Alucard." Integra responded icily.

The vampire's face grew angry as he snapped, "I know what it means to leave a loyal servant to rot, Integra. It was done enough to me as a mortal to recognize the signs. And it was later compounded by you father. Do not assume I speak only for my desires in this! They will leave you here to die!"

The platinum haired beauty stared at her vampire with calm blue eyes as she responded, "It's hardly like you to bring up your mortal past, or to grow so easily agitated, Alucard. You generally forget you have a past."

"Matters have brought certain parallels that I find...uncomfortable, Master. I've left enough in the care of foolish mortals to know they destroy what they can not order into subservience. I have no desire for you to fall to such an ignoble fate. You are the first Hellsing since Abraham himself to truly gain my respect beyond these seals." Alucard replied solemnly.

"Are you certain you're not remembering a different mortal betrayed by /her/ own people?" Integra inquired.

"What happened to Lisa was totally different." Alucard replied defensively. It was the first time in years she had spoken so frankly about his life and past before his time as her family's servant. The No Life King was finding his tongue uncharacteristically loosened as a result.

"Indeed. They will not leave me here forever, Alucard. You know that." Integra said evenly.

"I lost such faith in the majority of your species a long time ago, Master. Long before I was true nosferatu, really." he replied in an equally even timbre.

A silence born of long familiarity settled between them after that. Finally, after a while, Integra asked, "Was there anything else you I should be notified of?"

Alucard, who had settled into a silence any in the Hellsing group but Integra and Walter would have thought him incapable of, looked up as he responded, "You cousin has left the Boca del Infierno on what Americans refer to as a 'road trip'."

"Oh? And where is Alexander going?" she asked in mild surprise.

"To see the country, supposedly. Of course, with the mix of the blood in his veins, I'd wager he was off to unparalleled trouble over anything else." the vampire replied with the return to his mad grin.

"I'd wager you're right. If not his Hellsing blood, then the Belmont blood from his mother's side would see to that." Integra responded with a raised brow.

"Or the blood he's inherited from Adrian being his great grandfather." Alucard responded with a wicked smirk.

"You of course have to bring up his relation to your line as well, I suppose?" Integra inquired sardonically.

"As much as it shames me to admit my son was so easily swayed by the doe eyes and overly endowed breasts of Sonja Belmont, it is no reason to deny Alexander's right as an heir to the Tepes line. Really, as he stands now, he's the only suitable legal heir to the throne of Wallachia." Alucard responded proudly.

"You held that title for centuries as a mideon, Alucard. I'd wager you'd have to sacrifice it in a true death before it would even pass to Adrian, much less his descendants." Integra replied sarcastically.

"True enough. And the people do still pray for my return in times of strife. I guess I did leave quite an impression upon them. It just wouldn't be the same for them to be ruled without a proper Castlevania sitting atop the hillside." the No Life King said with a look of nostalgic happiness.

Integra snorted in mild contempt as she responded, "Yes, I'm sure they would feel displaced without armies of night time horrors terrorizing them as you punished them and the rest of humanity for your bride's wrongful execution, until another Belmont sealed you away for a few decades."

"I never claimed I didn't over react a bit. My own subjects didn't deserve such treatment." he replied, leaving the implied 'but the rest of humanity could go rot' unsaid.

Integra glared at the ancestral 'pet' of her family line as she acidly chided, "You are truly contemptible sometimes."

"I know." the vampire responded proudly.

"Alucard..." Integra growled in agitation.

The No Life King let out a little sigh as he commented, "Yes, Master. Still the departure of the boy raises some issues."

"You mean besides being one of the last Belmonts to actually hunt the darkness, even as the taint of your blood prevents him from accessing the relics?" she inquired archly.

"More to the fact that he will be without the little support the Slayer and her Watcher could provide. If he encounters anything beyond the revenant demons he's encountered that laughingly call themselves vampires, he could be in real danger." Alucard replied uneasily.

"It seems odd for you to care for a Belmont. Much less one that was sired by my traitorous uncle. You always took pride in claiming his blood was festering and vile. Blood unworthy to be called Hellsing." Integra said with a raised brow.

"I loathe traitors. Traitors to their own family they had sworn to protect most of all. Your Uncle was more garbage than the ghouls and FREAKS I exterminate for you. That does not change anything about the boy, though. He was as betrayed and abandoned in his time of need as you were. He is still Hellsing and Belmont, and acts as such. That is to be respected. More importantly, he is family, and I do not abandon my get." Alucard explained haughtily, allowing a bit of the man he was ages ago slip into his tone.

"Then what would you suggest, Alucard?" Integra asked, knowing he was building to something with all of this.

"I would ask to send the Police Girl to watch over him for a time." the vampire answered.

"And why would I do that? Seras Victoria is one of the few assets, other than yourself, that we have on hand to protect all of England." Integra commented.

"An asset wasted here during your imprisonment. We lack the network to search out our enemies right now. With you incarcerated, and Walter infirmed, there is precious little structure for the remains of your troops. They will certainly not listen to the Police Girl or I. Why shouldn't she get in some time being useful to another Hellsing heir in need? Besides, she would most likely be able to convince him to come here for a time." the vampire replied with a deeper grin.

"Counting on him inheriting his great grandfather's weakness for large chests and doe eyes, are you?" Integra replied archly.

"Perhaps just a bit." Alucard conceded. "But, if we can get him here, we can finally train him properly in his heritage. The other remaining Belmonts have lingered and atrophied into complacent blue bloods with no belief in their heritage, or desire to fight the dark. Alexander is the only worthy one of the whole lot of them. But, he needs guidance. His schooling was dismal, and his test scores were embarrassing. He's been without any of the structure and aid that helped you reach you potential. At the very least, we can correct that, and get him to embrace modern equipment in his life that the Watchers are too stupid to invest in." he added animatedly.

"I can see you still have a bit of an obsession with bringing the best to your family, whether they want it or not." Integra teased in a deadpan.

"Adrian was given every opportunity. Jessica and that drunken louse she married to hide her shame at her affair with your uncle left Alexander to struggle alone. I want to correct that. I may be a monster, but I'm not one to leave children alone and neglected." Alucard replied icily.

Integra, knowing his past both as a vampire and a human, had to agree. Alucard would never do to his own descendants what was done to him. "True. And you make valid points. Wait for Walter to be released from the hospital, and then work out the details with him and Officer Victoria. Beyond that, your orders here remain unchanged. Search and Destroy."

"Thank you, my Master. And hear and happily obey." Alucard replied with a mocking bow. After a pause, he added, "Now are you certain you're not ready to join me in unlife, Master." in an innocent tone.

The relative peace of the conversation was broken by his question. "Get out! I've told you that I will not betray my heritage! And any choice I ever make will be made without your wheedling!" Integra snapped.

"Just a reminder, my Master." Alucard teased with a mad grin, as he faded out of site, his cackling laughter echoing throughout the cell.

"Damnable vampire." Integra groused angrily to herself.

Alucard reappeared in the Hellsing manor an hour later to find his fledgling servant, Seras Victoria, waiting in the foyer for him. She was dressed in her mini-skirt with matching blue top police style uniform, and her strawberry blonde hair was its usual slightly disorganized mess.

Her doe like red eyes were alight with curiosity as Seras inquired, "How is Sir Integra faring, Master?"

"She is as well as her imprisonment can allow her to be, Police Girl." the elder vampire replied evenly. "Have you eaten?" he asked after a pause.

"Not yet, Master." the fledgling replied shyly, looking at her feet.

"We've discussed this many times, Police Girl. You need to feed to retain your strength. If you do not drink the medical blood the staff provides you, I will make you take it more directly." Alucard warned.

"I know, Master. I just...it still makes me queasy to think about drinking blood like that." Seras responded in a sad whisper.

The No Life King let out a put upon sigh as he commented, "You had reached such heights during the battle, girl. Do not discard your progress."

"Yes, Master. If you like, we could feed now. Like a...well...family dinner?" she offered.

Alucard's face split into a wide grin as he replied, "That sounds fine, Police Girl."

Seras' face lit up with a brilliant smile as she and her Master headed to the kitchen to fetch some bagged medical blood to drink.

"You know, Seras, it's funny you should mention family." Alucard commented as they walked.

"Oh?" Seras responded, knowing something serious was afoot. Her Master rarely called her by her real name.

"Yes, my own Master has just allowed me to arrange a bit of a mission for you concerning some family related to this house." Alucard replied with a smile.

"What kind of mission, Master?" she asked, her face giving the elder vampire the impression of a curious kitten.

"A cousin of hers, a young man who is descended from another clan of successful vampire hunters as well, is traveling alone through America right now. She would like it if you were to persuade him to visit us here in England." Alucard elaborated.

"Oh. Why me, Master?" Seras asked after mulling that thought over for a few seconds.

"You are progressing well, and can help him if he encounters any problems in his travels. You're also more...people friendly than I am, and I am needed here to hold the fort until my Master's release." Alucard answered.

"Well, I suppose that if Sir Integra wants it done, I have to go along with it. When do I leave?" she asked.

"Not until Walter is back to arrange the details. The boy, Alexander, will be fine for a couple of weeks. He comes from good stock, and is resourceful." Alucard said with a secret grin.

"Alright. Is there anything else I should know?" Seras asked as they reached the kitchen and removed their meals from the refrigerator.

"Well, there is one thing..." Alucard began to say with a smile.

Anyone that passed the Hellsing manor that night, would have heard a startled shriek, followed by what sounded like a young lady with a cockney accent shouting, "HE'S YOUR WHAT?!?"

END PART 1