Kana: Yay, another OC story. You people seem to like those; well, some like them immensely, some hate them horribly. You're a tosser if you see the letters O and C together and instantly hate my guts. But if you give it a chance and hate my guts anyway, I'll respect you for trying it out :D

Summary: Willow is a newly-turned fledgling, and she's smart enough to know that any vampire in England is considered a threat to the Hellsing organization. As the saying goes, if you can't beat them, join them. But will they accept her?

Notes on the Holy Scripture: I never put romance into my OC stories, unless it's between an OC and another OC, or a canon character and another canon character. Though I do believe that there are some EPIC writers who can do this, I can't, because to me…it's weird. Just…weird.

This is set before Millennium, but after Seras. There will be Millennium though, because if I didn't put them in here, my own Nazi would hate my ass (COUGHeventhoughshewantsMajor'sassCOUGH).

Warnings: Um…language…violence…sexual suggestions (cause if Alucard didn't incorporate something relating to 'loins', he wouldn't be Alucard)…some gore (see above). Basically everything you would get in a Hellsing OVA. Or an episode of House, because you KNOW House is just Alucard in disguise (except for the need to slaughter everything).

Disclaimer: I own only Willow. Nothing related to Hellsing is mine. Whoever wants to sue me now can kiss my lazy arse.

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Making Lemonade

Prologue: Making Friends

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I knew I was in enemy territory the minute the guard's scent wafted over to my hiding place. I felt my body tense, my bare feet kneading the soft ground in preparation to run. It would be very simple, just drag one of the little ones off and see what being supreme was truly about.

Oh God. I had started to think like them.

Repressing these cannibalistic thoughts, I stood up straight for the first time in days. Hunger was crawling and tearing at my insides, making it hard for me to think straight. But it felt good to be out of that horrible crouch, the only position that made it hard for the delicious scent of blood to make it to my nose.

I knew I looked like a horror. My face was thin and pale, with dark circles under my new red eyes. If I didn't have a black scarf over the bottom half of my face to protect me from the smell of humans, my lips would have been slim and bloodless. My shirt had once been a gift from my mother, a lovely sea-green button-up shirt that was loose and perfect for grandmas – or those who were practical and modest. But now it was stained with mud and blood, and my black slacks had long lost the perfect crease that I loved and were now torn to my knees.

Looking up warily at the gentle light of dusk, I stepped out from my hiding place in the shrubs that lined the fence of the Hellsing Manor and walked calmly over to a pair of guards, who were standing in front of the gothic entrance gate.

"I wish an audience with -," I began, but in the dim light my eyes had started to glow, making the guards' training kick in.

"Vampire!" one of them snarled, raising a gun to me and firing.

My dead heart ached, a feeling that I connected with fear and disappointment. The bullet was coming in slow, and I dodged it easily. I could have batted it out of the way, but then it might have ricocheted and hit someone else. That would have been a shitty first impression.

"I do not want a fight!" I said hurriedly, before anyone else thought it fun to use me as a bull's eye. I spread my arms out in greeting. "I wish only to speak with Sir Hellsing!"

My speech and lack of aggression made the guards eye me suspiciously. I could tell that I had blindsided them a little, and for some reason that made me feel superior.

I am not superior, I told myself. I am a horrible abomination whose only examples are monsters. I am a monster.

Thinking this made my face unconsciously screw up in anger, and the guards were instantly on edge again. But I was unarmed and hadn't done anything that suggested that I was going to eat them, so they looked like they might just decide to let me live and take me to Sir Hellsing.

Until one of the guards nudged the other one and said, "Go get Alucard. He'll know what to do with her."

Ah fuck. I had hoped to avoid Alucard by sleeping near the borders of the Hellsing estate and coming early, knowing that a badass vampire like him wouldn't be up before the pitch blackness of true night set in. And now they were going to wake him up just because I was too stupid to think of a better way to get an audience with Sir Hellsing. And he was going to kill me just because -.

"I'm already here."

I shrieked as a chilling, resonant voice came from right behind me. Out of pure fear I took both my weak arms, planted my hands on the offender's chest, and shoved. The power left in my arms could have toppled five grown men, lifted a school bus, or splintered a wall.

The person didn't even wobble.

With dread rising in my chest, I stared up at the menacing, authority-drenched form of Alucard. He wore red the way other vampires favored black, as flamboyant as they come with his tell-tale hat on his head of charcoal hair and his glasses winking in the dying sun. And he was smirking at me, his lips going from ear to ear, showing me a mouthful of fangs.

Don't scream, don't scream, don't scream, I thought in desperation. Don't cry either. I whimpered, attempting to shrink and become a smaller target, praying that if he decided to kill me, he would do it quickly.

"Such a rude little thing you are," Alucard said in dark amusement. "No greeting towards someone who is obviously your better."

My vocal cords weren't working, but I managed to choke out a 'hello' that sounded more like a mouse trying to speak. This seemed funny to Alucard, and he started to chuckle. It was a bad chuckle. The kind that the murderer gives to their victim right before they start the torture. The wind made his long coat flutter, and I caught a glimpse of his infamous guns, the Casull and the Jackal. I had heard about them from the vampire coven that had tried to 'educate' me during my first night, and they were rumored to be able to blow a hole through anything.

"What are you doing, scaring my master's guards?" Alucard asked, walking closer to me and circling around me, his body inches from mine.

"I wish an audience with Sir Hellsing," I whispered, so quietly that the human guards couldn't hear it. But Alucard caught it as if I was screaming. It was something that I had practiced over and over, until it sounded as innocent as can be.

Alucard let out a bark of a laugh. He sneered at me. "Why should I believe you? Perhaps you're only interested in killing my master?"

"I…I wish an audience with Sir Hellsing." Great. That had become my mantra, and now, as my brain reverted into its primal form, it was the only thing I was able to say.

"Yes, I heard that before." Alucard snickered at me, stepping back once he thought I was thoroughly frightened into doing nothing that would upset him. He turned towards the two guards and gruffly said, "I will be taking her to the audience she so greatly desires. Make sure you don't let your guard down just because this one vampire is smarter than the others."

Grabbing my upper arm none-too-gently, Alucard began to lead me into the estate. I had told myself that if I was able to convince the guards that I was harmless, I would enjoy the view of the Hellsing Manor. But now I was concentrating on not throwing up, so all I could see was Sir Hellsing's grass.

It was nice grass.

"Why do you wear that scarf?" Alucard asked, looking down at me from under his glasses. His eyes were calculating, with slits for pupils.

"So I don't lose control of myself," I squeaked, having trouble keeping up with his massive strides. The guy could probably cover the distance of a football field if he really put his mind to it.

"You should have fed before you tried that stunt." Alucard tugged me harder when I fell behind. "The hunger in your eyes made me act; though I would have enjoyed tearing you apart afterwards." His fingers were tightening painfully around my arm.

Ignoring the bloodlust in his voice, I started to jog so that he wouldn't drag me along anymore. "I have not fed from a human since I was turned."

Alucard laughed, throwing back his head. Unfortunately, this did little to slow down his ridiculous pace. "How pathetic. You've retained a sense of good and evil."

We were nearing the manor at an amazing rate, and I knew it was because he was practically running. My long brown hair was whipping behind me as Alucard led me on an exhausting race, in which I was hauled behind. But I dared not complain or slow down, in fact, I barely increased my breathing.

He was testing me. And I was determined to pass.

Just as we neared the front doors – and another few guards – Alucard instantly stopped and stood ramrod straight, which was something that I could not do, vampire or otherwise. So I bumped into him, fell backwards, and landed on my behind with a little squeak.

When I looked up, pain pulsing through my abused spine, Alucard was looking down on me, in more ways than one.

"Get up," he snapped.

And I did, standing at attention with my hands shaking. If I had been human, I would have been sweating and my heart would have been hammering.

Once I was on my feet, Alucard grabbed me again, and this time it was not in the sternness that it had once been. He leaned down to me, letting his breath waft over my face as he snarled in warning.

"If you do anything that makes me think that you are a threat to my master, I will personally make sure that you regret it with every fiber of your being before I slaughter you mercilessly."

Staring up at him, I saw my doom in Alucard's eyes.

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Yes, I know I'm starting another story without finishing the other two I was writing, but I'm finding it hard to write those. My characterization of Alucard was WAY off in my previous ones, and I'm working on making it a little better in Fidelity and Patriarch. So I decided that working on an OC fic – which is quite relaxing and easy to write – would help me.

Lets forgive me and review :D