Toltiir winced from the rear, but as Bast didn't see that, she just asked "And Pray (pardon the term) what does that mean?"
Jesus made a grand sweeping gesture. "Look and see.."
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The two in the office were total contrasts. To everything else, and to each other.
Take the lady at the desk, the one you can just TELL has been in charge for good reason for a long time, and who has the Air of Command to her.
Pale blonde to the point of near-white hair without it seeming old at all, a face of sheer loveliness that bears and one watching would tell ALWAYS bore a fierce, uncompromising intensity to it. This is not a soft womanly type of woman by any road, and even the deepest idiot would know it on sight, even if she didn't dress in the most severe blue business suit available. The only accent to it all was her cigar and the Cross she wore on her tie.
The other one was so opposite to her, in so many ways. Swarthy to her English lightness, Male beyond belief to her unflaunted but undeniable womanhood, Garish trenchcoat and hat to her severe but sensible business suit. Even his sole accoutrements, Mystic emblems upon each glove and his oft-broken deep yellow sunglasses, seem to scream of opposition and completetion of a Ying and Yang completely outside the average dull lives around them.
At the moment, she's yeling at him. Seems they're both used to it.
"Damnation, how COULD you do something so depraved? I just get back from that be-DAMNed cell, and I have to hear from you about THIS!?!" She was about ready to break her desk, despite looking like she just finished healing from a rough stretch of road.
"Master.. This was some 6 or so years ago, back when you decided I should not be friendly with you." "..I was curious as to why, and when I asked Walter, he said you did not want to encourage me to take personal liberties, that you wished to ensure the bloodline of your family." This was a bit drawn out, as if he was unused to being given so long to speak to her (this is definitely the case, and he's not a long-term conversationalist in any event)
The woman snarled a bit, then held herself back from just blasting him with choice words, visibly. "All right, I'll ask, monster, what does this have to do with the incident?"
The Redclad man(?) almost shrugged, then thought and decided that was worth a answer, though he DID *Smirk* in so answering. "Is it not obvious, ..Master? I merely had to confirm if such attentions, were they to occur, which I doubt you'd have allowed, would cause a.. unfortunate complication to the Line."
The Man continued, "Remember *Master* that I serve truly, but serve the whole of the Family thru my Master, contaminating that lineage is unthinkable to me.. So I investigated, in a country not under the Organisation's purview, when I was out on that special mission pursuing the rogue who had fled to Japan."
Heaving a sigh of forced tension eviction, she spoke carefully, a sure sign she would not tolerate evasion. "Report."
He answered crisply, you get the feeling they've danced this dance before. "It is altogether possible that I could have.. muddied the lineage issue, unless I usedprotection. The evidence that this could happen is currently in Japan, and about to be thrown into a pit of cats, hence my bringing this up.. ..My Master."
She turned up a surprised face, eyebrow twitching up a bit per second. "You care about this.. this 'result'?"
"Yes, my Master. I erased her memory of my actions, for her own peace of mind, but the.. Results, as you put it, ended up in a situation you'd never tolerate in any human's life. I wish to reclaim him, and bring his mother here, where she can live a better life than being married to.. that.. can possibly provide."
Before the blonde lady could speak again, she screamed in agony, then sat up, unharmed, the other letting her sit up on her own. Her voice was shaky. "wh-what in God's name.." She was then interrupted, a thing not often permitted. "Not God's. a mockery of a ancient Art, and if I am not unleashed, it will be done until he is maddened."
She sighed, in a rather familiar funk to those knowing of her history. "Is there no way he can have a normal childhood?" The other chuckled, not in amusement, but in a polite denial. "None whatsoever, and in just a few years his life would warp beyond recognition regardless. You Orders?" She set her face into a harsh mask, barking it out. "GO, and find that which you are responsible for, bring them here, and if opposed.. Seek and Destroy any that bar the way!"
The pale smirk of Alucard widened even further. "As you wish it, Integra-Sama." He stepped back into the wall itself, melting into it smoothly until he was gone.
Bast Facefaulted.
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(Posted Sat, 19 Apr 2003 06:30)
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